Hollywood productions and industry events have been halted amid the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles.
“The past two days have brought unprecedented risk to life and property from multiple area wildfires, while also placing extreme demands on public safety personnel,” nonprofit Film LA wrote in a Wednesday, January 8, production alert. “With deepest appreciation for the efforts of local firefighters, police and paramedics at this difficult time, we advise the production community that personnel resources ordinarily available to support film production may not be available during the local State of Emergency.”
The statement added, “The L.A. County Fire Department has specifically instructed that all permits issued for filming in the communities of Altadena, La Crescenta, La Canada/Flintridge and Unincorporated Pasadena are withdrawn. Other permit revocations are possible.”
Many stars have had to evacuate their homes, including Mandy Moore, Spencer Pratt, Cameron Mathison and more. Several of their respective properties had even been destroyed by the blaze.
“I love you, Altadena. Grateful for my family and pets getting out last night before it was too late (and endless gratitude to friends for taking us in and bringing us clothes and blankets),” Moore, 40, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday. “Honestly, I’m in shock and feeling numb for all so many have lost, including my family. My children’s school is gone. Our favorite restaurants, leveled. So many friends and loved ones have lost everything too. Our community is broken but we will be here to rebuild together.”
Keep scrolling to see how Hollywood has been affected by the wildfires:
Scripted Series
Many TV shows that film on soundstages in Los Angeles have temporarily shut down production, including Grey’s Anatomy, Hacks, Happy’s Place, Suits LA, Loot, NCIS, The Neighborhood, Abbott Elementary, Doctor Odyssey, All American and The Pitt.
Game Shows and Talk Shows
The Price Is Right, as well as late-night series After Midnight and Jimmy Kimmel Live! have also been put on pause.
The Critics Choice Awards — slated to take place on Sunday, January 12 — have been postponed.
“This unfolding tragedy has already had a profound impact on our community. All our thoughts and prayers are with those battling the devastating fires and with all who have been affected,” CCA CEO Joey Berlin said in a statement. The Critics Choice Awards will now air live on January 26.
The BAFTA Tea Party was also slated to take place on Sunday, but will similarly be pushed back to an unknown date.
On Wednesday, the WGA West a WGA East announced in a statement that the Writers Guild Awards nominations announcement was also postponed due to the ongoing wildfires.
“With Los Angeles under a state of emergency due to multiple wildfires, we will be delaying the announcement of nominees until Monday, January 13, 2025,” a statement to Us read.
Late on Wednesday, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the Oscar nominations announcement has been pushed back from Friday, January 17, to Sunday, January 19.
Film Premieres and Screenings
Special West Coast premieres and screenings for movies like Unstoppable (starring Jennifer Lopez), Wolf Man, The Pitt, The Last Showgirl and A Complete Unknown have been canceled.
Kylie Kelce has offered insight into her pregnancy with her and husband Jason Kelce’s fourth baby.
The couple, who have been married since 2018, announced in November 2024 that they are expecting their fourth daughter. (They previously welcomed Wyatt, Ellie and Bennett in 2019, 2021 and 2023, respectively.)
“I got it pretty easy, I’m not gonna lie,” Jason told E! News that same month. “There’s another girl, so the clothes are all going to be hand-me-downs or already bought. The crib is already situated. So, we’re pretty set. Kylie is definitely preparing more than I am because she’s actually growing a human being.”
By January 2025, Kylie’s baby bump had officially “popped.”
“This week, baby girl has definitely popped, so there’s no more hiding her,” Kylie said on her “Not Gonna Lie” podcast. “Stretchy pants are in full force — as is commentary from friends, family and, of course, perfect strangers.”
Keep scrolling to read all of Kylie’s most relatable quotes about her pregnancy with baby No. 4:
Strong Kelce Genes
Any time that Kylie or Jason posts a pic of one of their eldest three daughters, commenters are in awe of how much the girls look like Jason or his brother, Travis Kelce.
“We are so lucky that my husband makes cute girls. When you look at Wyatt’s baby pictures and Jason’s baby pictures side-by-side, it looks like we have cloned him,” Kylie said on a December 2024 episode of her podcast. “I complained a lot when Wyatt arrived. It looked like I had nothing to do with it. If I had not pushed her out myself, I would not believe that I had any part in making her.”
With baby No. 4, Kylie knows that the “jury’s still out” when it comes to who the new little one will look like.
“Trust me, I am trying desperately to make a child that has any, any resemblance to me,” Kylie quipped.
Choosing a Name
Kylie answered a fan question on another podcast episode about whether she and Jason had already chosen a name.
“Even if I did have a name picked out, I’d probably keep that one in the family,” she said in December 2024. “What I will say: We don’t have a name picked out, so you’re not missing out on anything.”
“Jason was always like, ‘I’ll do whatever you wanna do,’ and I was always in the camp of I wanted four with room for one pleasant surprise,” she told episode guest Charissa Thompson. “We got to three and I was like, ‘Three’s cool. This feels good.’ Then we got out of the rough baby sleeping and all that, and I was like, ‘You know what, I like even numbers, let’s do it.’”
She added, “I think it might get shut down after this one. We’re gonna have this next kid and I’m gonna be like, ‘Don’t even look at me. Eyes at the floor. Don’t look at me.’”
“For the people, my friends, who are hearing this, I don’t need a wellness check, although I have told you before that is what it would take if I ever said I was getting a minivan,” she joked. “Here’s the problem. I’m about to have four car seats, four, in one car. We’re gonna do a little three-year commitment, guys. We’re gonna do three years. We’re gonna grind it out, and then we’re gonna pretend it never happened. ‘Kay? And for those of you who are minivan lovers, like my husband, and think that I’m gonna get a minivan and then I’m gonna stick with the minivan — well, we’ll just have to wait and see.”
She’s ‘Popped’
During a January 8, 2025, podcast episode teaser, Kylie laid out helpful tips when addressing women who are expecting and after proclaiming that her own belly had “popped.”
“First, and this is a big one, don’t comment on her size,” she said. “This includes comments like, ‘You’re huge,’ ‘How much weight have you gained?’ ‘Are you sure it’s not twins?’ I still can’t believe that people think that women who are building a human being want to hear anything about their size. News flash: They don’t. Cut that s— out.”
The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Jennifer Aydin is clarifying her recent social media beef with Jersey Mike’s.
“Hindsight is 20/20, but I did not think it was going to go that way,” Aydin, 47, exclusively told Us Weekly on Wednesday, January 8. “Not at all.”
Earlier this month, Aydin claimed in a social media video that she waited for “what felt like forever” to receive service from an airport Jersey Mike’s. One of the employees then shared her response in a TikTok video, referring to Aydin as a “stupid bitch” and alleging that the reality TV star backed up the entire line of customers.
While speaking with Us, Aydin asserted that she “was not rude” to any of the food chain’s staff.
Jennifer and her husband, Bill Aydin, had been traveling with their five kids for the holidays.
“We’re a big group. I’m a family of seven,” Jennifer recalled. “I have a sister with my goddaughter. She’s a widow [and] her and my goddaughter come with us everywhere we go. So, we travel [with] nine people or a lot of people. We met up with my cousin who’s another family of six. … We’re 15 people, not to mention the other two families that were meeting up with us at the airport.”
After Jennifer and Bill, 51, corralled their crew through TSA security, they decided to separate in order to quickly get their children food before boarding a four-hour flight.
“He took all the kids, went to another stand that had a table, ordered food. It was about 5:30 in the morning,” she said. “Jersey Mike’s did not open until 5:30 and my cousin and I got on the line pretty much around 5:45 a.m. and there were not that many people on the line. Again, it was a little slow moving, but we weren’t going to complain.”
Jennifer and her cousin, Susie, got in the line at the same time, but Susie eventually stepped out to check out a neighboring kiosk.
“She didn’t come back on the line with me because it already started accumulating. So, she decided to wait for me at the front of the register until it was my turn,” Jennifer told Us. “When it got to be my turn, obviously, I let her go in front of me and I think that people thought I was letting her cut. I didn’t let her cut and she ordered four sandwiches. I only ordered one. I only had one that my kids wanted to split. That was my task. I’m in mom mode trying to just get my kids food.”
After Susie ordered, Jennifer and the woman standing behind her also placed their respective orders. The other woman was allegedly helped before Jennifer, despite the Bravo personality saying she arrived at the line first.
“We’ve already been waiting. We’re at an airport, we have a flight to catch. We’ve already been through TSA, I’m a big group, everything took [time], so, obviously, tensions are high,” she stressed. “Again, I don’t want to complain. I get it. Everybody’s like, ‘It’s New Year’s, whatever.’ They fulfilled the woman behind me’s sandwich [order] first, and I reminded the employee. I’m like, ‘Hey, did you do my Italian?’ And she was like, ‘You have to wait your turn.’ I said, ‘Oh, but you did hers before mine and I was before her.’ So, obviously she realized that [and] ignored me. I didn’t want to make a big thing about it.”
By the time the employees were working on Jennifer’s sandwich, Bill arrived to add to the order.
“They’re working on my one sandwich that I ordered. It’s a foot-long Italian and Bill said one of our kids wanted a plain tuna mini with nothing on it,” Jennifer said. “So I said to the employee, ‘OK, sweetie, I’m going to need another mini tuna.’ She goes, ‘Oh no, you have to get to the back of the line.’ And I said, but you just fulfilled that woman’s sandwich before me and I didn’t even say anything and none of this is on camera — by the way. So she looks up and I guess she realized I was right and she goes, ‘Well, then the guy behind you has to say it’s OK.’”
Jennifer hadn’t noticed the man who was now waiting behind her, who apparently said, “I mean, it’s kind of ridiculous … that [she was] adding another sandwich.”
“Tensions are high. I know I’m going to get blamed for something and I’m going to keep my cool,” Jennifer stressed. “The whole point of me recording — I know it backfired — was to show that I was not snapping. I’m just recording the window. At that point, the guy is not even in my thing.”
The man then claimed to be a law professor and allegedly threatened to sue Jennifer for “all [her] fake diamonds” if she posted the video of him.
“I am literally so shocked and disgusted by this man’s behavior,” Jennifer said, noting that she gets “triggered by bad behavior.”
She continued, “I realize that I did not tackle this correctly, but, in the moment, I was just so shocked and appalled by this really unwarranted, aggressive behavior. Then, I put the camera on him.”
She added, “In my angst, I was telling him because I wanted him to know that you just can’t be rude to people like that. You don’t know who you’re being rude to and I’m going to put you on blast. … I was just, like, livid that this person [was] talking to me that way. I want you to know that in the moment, I was not rude to the Jersey Mike’s staff at all. I was trying to be polite.”
One of the Jersey Mike’s employees then allegedly threatened not to finish Jennifer’s order that was currently in process.
“In the video, they were still working on my sandwich. It’s not like I had paid. I didn’t check out,” she said. “So for them to tell me to wait to the end of the line or that I had to ask this guy’s permission — that just really started an altercation. They shouldn’t have done that and that’s just customer service. I’m realizing now that I can’t say, ‘I’m a celebrity.’ People are very angry. … I will no longer say I’m a celebrity since people are so angry about it. But, obviously, this wouldn’t have gone so viral as it did if I wasn’t a public figure.”
Jennifer also apologized for her pointed remarks about the staff, noting she “was not a celebrity in that moment” but simply an “angry mom.”
“I wanted to put it on blast to show how rude they were to me. I didn’t go about it the right way. I acknowledge that, but I was not rude to the staff in the moment,” Jennifer reiterated, noting she only proclaimed her celebrity status after another restaurantgoer recognized her and loudly pointed it out. “I feel like we’ve all been there. I’m learning now that I have to realize that I’m a public figure and that everything that I say or do will be scrutinized and I actually have to lead by example.”
She continued, “It was wrong for me to go in my stories and then bash their bad customer service. I’m learning now that I’m not allowed to complain. It’s not entitled. This is not privilege. I’m a paying customer.”
Jennifer also “one hundred percent” regrets posting the video rant in the first place.
“I realized that I should have done it in a different manner and it could have landed a little differently,” she stated. “And I’m learning now not to do things in the heat of the moment, because I was not furious as a celebrity. … I was a paying customer that didn’t get the sandwich for her kid.”
In addition, Jennifer “felt [she] was owed an apology” from Jersey Mike’s and the allegedly “rude and dismissive” man in line behind her, but doesn’t plan to reach out.
“I’m not going to,” she said, “They’re constantly blasting me. … I will apologize for calling [the worker] an 80-year-old woman and doing all that, but that’s where it ends. They’re monetizing this, which I’m very happy for. At last some good will come to them from this.”
In 2003, writerMike White collaborated with Jack Black and directorRichard Linklater on the musical comedy School of Rock that later spawned a Nickelodeon series and a Tony-nominated musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Inthe original movie, struggling singer Dewey Finn (Black) goes undercover as a substitute teacher for a local prep school in order to earn some quick cash to pay his rent. He pretends to be his best friend and former bandmate, Ned Schneebly (White), and discovers that his students all have gifted musical talents. He teams up with the children to form a band, intent on entering a Battle of the Bands competition to bag its cash prize.
White originally penned the script after living next to Black in Los Angeles, wanting to show off his comedic chops.
“He was starting to get a lot of heat as an actor and he would occasionally give me scripts that had been submitted to him to star in,” White recalled to Viacom in October 2018. “They were invariably these flat comedies or he was, like, theJohn Belushi guy who gets drunk and falls through a sliding glass door or something. I’m reading these scripts and I was like, ‘I could do better than this.’”
The White Lotus creator continued, “Obviously, music is a big passion of [Black’s]; he has his band Tenacious D. I had the idea of him leading a band of little kids — somehow it just seemed like a funny visual.”
Scroll below to find out what the School of Rock cast has been up to since the movie’s debut:
Spencer Pratt feels “so thankful for all the years and memories” in his family house before it was torched in the ongoing Pacific Palisades wildfire.
“The one positive sign I saw as our house burned down was our son’s bed burned in the shape of a heart,” Pratt, 41, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, January 8, sharing Ring camera footage of the nursery.
He continued, “A sign of how much love was in this house so thankful for all the years and memories there with our family.”
Pratt and wife Heidi Montag share sons Gunner, 6, and Ryker, 13 months. In the smoke-laden image, it appears that a blaze was aflame in the middle of a toddler bed. The home of Pratt’s parents was also affected by the fire.
“My parent’s house gone,” he wrote via Instagram Stories later on Wednesday, sharing a photo of the rubble. Pratt added seven crying emojis to his upload.
Spencer’s sister, Stephanie Pratt, first confirmed that his house had burned down several hours earlier.
“I don’t know if it’s a good thing I’m in London or I need to get back to L.A. I can’t think straight. What do I do? Honestly looking for advice. I’m frozen in shock,” Stephanie, 38, wrote via Instagram late on Tuesday, January 7. “How horrible for my sweet little nephews to watch their house disappear like this. They must be so scared and confused.”
She added, “I guess the silver lining for me is if my house goes it’s only my stuff —not years of family memories like everyone else in the palisades . Help me, what’s my next move?”
Over on her Instagram Story, Stephanie noted that she was “beyond heartbroken” for her brother and their family. (Spencer and Montag, 38, have been married since 2008.)
“Just spoke to my dad — he tried to save my brother’s house but the wind was so strong. There was nothing he could do,” Stephanie added. “Even the fire station in the Palisades has burned down. The Pacific Palisades is completely on fire. No one is there.”
Stephanie further noted that the siblings’ parents had also “evacuated safely” before watching their house burn down via security camera footage.
“I don’t even want to look at mine,” she wrote. “My dad told me the market down the street from my house is on fire. We are such a tight community — I’m at a loss for words knowing so many friends have lost their homes today and so quickly. I hate that I’m so far away. Thinking about flying home so I can hug my family.”
As of Wednesday afternoon, Stephanie had not heard whether her house was still standing.
“The whole town is flat,” she captioned a crying selfie on her Stories. “It’s burning 2 football fields every six seconds. Zero percent contained.”
“I’ve always just tried to give my kids a bit of guidance if they seem to need it — but that was mainly when they were younger. Now that they are older, they’re guiding me,” McCartney, a father of five, said in a January 2023 interview on his website. “They don’t need so much guidance these days but if there’s ever a problem, I’m very happy to be the guy they come to.”
He added at the time, “You’re just there to help, and I suppose, have fun with — we do have a lot of fun. Now they’re older, we can have a drink together.”
However, it hasn’t all been rosy memories for the kids. Julian, the eldest son of the late Lennon, told The Guardian in January 2025 that he and his mother had “nothing to do with the Beatles” after John left. (Julian is the son of John and first wife Cynthia. John also shares son Sean with second wife Yoko Ono.)
Keep scrolling to revisit what the Beatles’ children have said about their upbringings:
Julian Lennon
“I’m not part of the inner circle — I never have been,” Julian told The Guardian in January 2025. “I visited him on the odd occasion. But we were very much on the outside.”
While John died in 1980, Julian is grateful for a relationship with his half-brother, Sean.
“I’m thankful that Sean and I get on like a house on fire — we’re best buddies, and he tells me what he can, but things are pretty secret on the Beatles front,” he told the British newspaper. “[It feels] extraordinarily strange, but I’m not upset about it. I’d rather be excited and impressed by what they did and continue to do.”
“It was ‘Hey Jules’ at first, but that didn’t quite sit well rhythmically,” Julian claimed to Esquire in December 2023. “‘Hey Jude’ was a better interpretation. Paul wrote it to console Mum, and also to console me. … It’s a beautiful sentiment, no question about that, and I’m very thankful — but I’ve also been driven up the wall by it. I love the fact that [Paul] wrote a song about me and for Mum, but depending on what side of the bed one woke up on and where you’re hearing it, it can be a good or a slightly frustrating thing. But in my heart of hearts, there’s not a bad word I could say about it.”
Sean Ono Lennon
Julian’s sibling has also been candid about his father’s legacy.
“There’s so many things I’ve always admired about my dad,” Sean told BeatRoute Media in October 2020. “He never stayed the same. I think that’s really incredible. If you look at the difference between Abbey Road and [the John and Ono collaboration] Two Virgins, it’s such a stark transformation. He was always looking to revise and improve his worldview and his thinking. I think that is true creativity, and it’s true intelligence as well.”
Sean was only 5 years old when John was murdered outside their family home in New York City.
Mary is Paul’s eldest daughter with ex-wife Linda.
“Having grown up on tour, I was comfortable around musicians. My childhood gave me a curiosity for the behind-the-scenes moments: what happens before the main event,” she told The Guardianin 2023. “I love to see the practice that people go through to become the best in their field. It’s something I observed from my dad. He has always been so supportive of my career and is the first person I show around a [photography] exhibition. He’s always genuinely interested.”
Mary went on to direct Paul in the 2022 band documentary If These Walls Could Sing.
“Each year, I am blessed to have you as my father and it gets harder and harder to put into words truly how much you mean to me,” Stella wrote via TikTok in June 2024. “I hold you so close to my heart that I feel you are with me each moment of each day, in my soul and inspiring me to be the best human I can be. You have always been 100 percent true to yourself, persistent in changing the planet for good, creating from the heart and making a true mark in the course of history.”
She added, “Thank you for being a dad to the core, being real and giving the best hugs a baby could ever experience.”
Years earlier in 2019, Stella said on the Today show that Paul plays with her four children “a lot.”
“He’s a great grandpa,” she quipped. “He’s also a rock star, so it’s hard to pin him down, but when he’s around, he’s great.”
“I considered [going into another field] but never seriously. I thought about it,” he told the Journal of Roots Musicin 2013. “This is when you’re in college, you think, ‘What am I gonna master in?’ I thought about animation. I always wanted to separate myself from music at the time, I thought about doing sculpture and art. I don’t think a lot of people know what they want to do when they’re that age. I always wanted to do music, but I wanted to separate it from education. … I’ve always generally been pretty kind of focusing on my own thing, just embracing amazing musicians.”
According to James, he and his dad ultimately “drifted apart a little bit” after Linda died of cancer in 1998.
“That was typical. She was like the glue in the family,” he mused, adding Paul often “leaves me to my own thing.”
James added, “[He] wants me to be focused on my own path, rather than relying too much on him. When we work together, it’s fun, you know, it’s a great experience, like it would be for anyone working with [their] dad.”
Zak Starkey
Zak is one of the sons of Starr, also growing up with legendary Who drummer Keith Moon.
“Keith was like an uncle, really. He was one of my dad’s best friends,” Starkey told Modern Drummer in 2006. “When my brother, sister, and I used to stay with my dad there, we would occasionally spend a few days at Keith’s house. Keith was the babysitter. We would just hang out and talk about anything, really — girls, surfing, bands, drums. He was a really fantastic guy to hang out with. He wasn’t crazy in any way, except for that look in his eye. I was hanging out with my hero.”
Dhani Harrison
Dhani is the only child of George and second wife Olivia. He provided familial insight in his father’s 2011 Living in the Material World documentary.
“My earliest memory of my dad is probably of him somewhere in a garden covered in dirt, somewhere hot, a tropical garden, in jeans, khakis covered in dirt, just continuously planting trees,” Dhani recalled. “I think that’s what I thought he did for the first seven years of my life. I was completely unaware that he had anything to do with music.”
One day, Dhani’s school peers chased him home while singing “Yellow Submarine” — to his confusion.
“I didn’t understand why. It just seemed surreal: ‘Why are they singing that song to me?’” Dhani recalled. “I came home and I freaked out on my dad, ‘Why didn’t you tell me you were in the Beatles?’ And he said, ‘Oh, sorry. Probably should have told you that.’”
After George’s death in 2001, Dhani has made sure to honor his dad’s memory and even remastered several of George’s tracks.
“I’ve got three [dogs] in this house now, so we basically have five children,” the Duke of Sussex gushed duringan October 2022 conference call with WellChild Awards recipients. “I’ve got a black Labrador called Pula, a rescue beagle called Guy and we’ve gotanother rescue beagle called Mia. Between the three of them, they drudged around chasing the squirrels every day, butthey are also emotional support dogs when they’re behaving.”
Meghan —who married Harry in 2018 — previously adopted Guy beforeher royal wedding. Shortly after the nuptials, the couple — who share sonArchie, born in 2019, and daughterLilibet, born in 2021 — adopted Pula together. Mia (full name Mamma Mia) completed their brood in August 2022.
Nearly three years later, Meghan announced that Guy had died.
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“I have cried too many tears to count — the type of tears that make you get in the shower with the absurd hope that the running water on your face will somehow make you not feel them, or pretend they’re not there,” Meghan wrote via her newly launched Instagram account on Tuesday, January 7. “But they are. And that’s OK too.”
She added, “Thank you for so many years of unconditional love, my sweet Guy. You filled my life in ways you’ll never know.”
In a tribute to Guy, Meghan uploaded a slew of personal images with the canine. In one shot, Harry, 40, and Archie twinned in beanies while taking Guy (and other dogs Pula and Mamma Mia) for a walk in front of a horse pasture.
In a second image, Meghan and Lili lounged with the three pups on picnic blankets in a backyard.
Meghan adopted rescue pooch Guy in 2015 when she was living in Canada filming Suits.
“I swooped him up … and fell in love,” she gushed on Tuesday. “They referred to him as ‘the little guy’ because he was so small and frail, so I named him ‘Guy.’ And he was the best guy any girl could have asked for.”
Meghan added, “He was with me at Suits, when I got engaged, (and then married), when I became a mom. He was with me for everything: the quiet, the chaos, the calm, the comfort.”
Meghan brought Guy with her when she moved to England upon her marriage to Harry — and back to California when the couple left their senior royal posts in 2020. They later expanded their brood with pups Pula and Mia.
“I’ve got three [dogs] in this house now, so we basically have five children,” Harry previously said during an October 2022 WellChild Awards conference call. “I’ve got a black Labrador called Pula, a rescue beagle called Guy and we’ve got another rescue beagle called Mia. Between the three of them, they drudged around chasing the squirrels every day, but they are also emotional support dogs when they’re behaving.”
Harry also appeared in Meghan’s post with several photos of the Duke of Sussex cuddling and petting Guy.
Allison Holker’s This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light memoir has sparked varying reactions from the dance community and late husband Stephen “tWitch” Boss’ family.
Ahead of the book’s publication, Holker, 36, spoke to People in an interview published on Tuesday, January 7, claiming that she learned Boss had struggled with addiction, childhood sexual abuse and more in journal entries she read after his death. (Boss died by suicide in December 2022 at the age of 40.)
After the interview, several of Boss’ friends and relatives were frustrated that Holker chose to detail his apparent struggles in her memoir and a magazine interview. Holker, for her part, has said that her intention is to shine a light on addiction and mental health battles to help others.
“Just trying to help people feel safe to ask for help and support,” she wrote via Instagram comment on Tuesday, responding to one critical online comment.
Holker also reposted several positive fan comments on her Instagram Story. One read, “@allisonholker is such a brave woman. These last couple of years have been painful for anyone who was a fan of Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss. I was heartbroken when I heard what happened. She is an example of how perseverance can pay off.”
Another fan praised Holker for “opening up the way [she did,]” adding, “You always take everything with so much grace, power and positivity. Nobody does it like you.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Holker’s team for comment.
Holker later shared what she said was her “only intention” in writing about Boss in her memoir.
“I want to be clear that my only intention in writing the book is to share my own story as well as part of my life with Stephen,” she wrote via Instagram Story on Wednesday, January 8. “Just like you, I never really knew what happened and even as I am trying to put the pieces together, I will never really know. If you decide to read the book, hopefully, you’ll see my intention is to celebrate the love and life I shared with Stephen and our three beautiful children and also the more complex aspects of both of our lives.”
She added, “I hope that by sharing our full story, maybe I can help someone else who might see themselves in or a loved one in Stephen. In sharing, I hope that maybe they can catch some of the red flags that I missed before it’s too late.”
According to Holker, she’s spoken with multiple advocates since Boss’ death to “better educate” herself on mental health issues. She further revealed that all the proceeds from her memoir are going to fund “a mental health-focused foundation [she] started in Stephen’s honor, Move With Kindness.”
“My hope is that we don’t need to lose another, husband, brother, father or friend to suicide,” she concluded. “I believe that if Stephen were able to choose, he would choose to have his story told if it meant saving even one life. Much love to all those who have supported our family these many years.”
Keep scrolling to see how Boss’ friends and family — as well as the dance community as a whole — reacted to the memoir revelations:
Courtney Platt
Platt appeared on season 4 of So You Think You Can Dance alongside Boss and returned as an All-Star for season 7 alongside Boss and Holker. Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, Platt said that she had been there for all of Holker and Boss’ biggest relationship milestones.
“This is by far the most tacky, classless, opportunistic act I have ever seen in my entire life,” Platt alleged. “We all had to sign some weird NDA to attend his funeral (even his own mother who you’ve treated like garbage this entire time and let’s just remember you wouldn’t have even had a husband if it wasn’t for her) not to share anything or ruin his name as if that was on anyone’s mind in the first place and here you go and write a book with all the dirty laundry smearing his name and attempting to dim the bright loyal, loving, light that was your husband, my friend.”
She added, “Whether any of it is true or not is actually beside the point. This is how you protect the ‘Boss name’ you so quickly dropped on your social media platforms 48 hours after he passed? His legacy? This is how you protect his children from any further humiliation, hurt and despair? This is what you want them to remember about him? You have moved on, you’re living your life, you’re on every carpet you can get on, every celebrity row you can sit in, every magazine you can be in and you needed to do this? Get a journal, a therapist, a friend … but publishing a book shamelessly sharing the pages of your husband’s journal? People magazine? What a joke.”
Platt further implored: “Let my friend Rest in Peace not your PR.”
Comfort Fedoke
Fedoke, another SYTYCD alum who mostly recently served as a mentor on season 18 alongside Holker, reshared Platt’s message onto her Instagram Stories.
“Lies and Fairytales,” Fedoke wrote. “Stephen said this to me in my dreams when he passed: Nothing is what it seems. [Courtney,] I am right behind you. I’m done with this girl. You are an evil woman and completely disgusting. How dare you try to destroy my brother’s name.”
Chelsie Hightower
Hightower — a SYTYCD and Dancing With the Stars alum — noted in a Tuesday Instagram Story post that she’d known Holker “since I was an early teen” and was disappointed by the memoir claims.
“Seeing her choose to share such deeply personal details about tWitch’s struggles feels so disappointing and inappropriate,” she wrote. “Twitch was an incredibly kind and loving man, who always looked out for others, making everyone feel included and valued, myself included. He deserves to be remembered for the light he brought into this world, not reduced to his struggles.”
Hightower further noted that Platt’s comments “speak to the heart of this situation.”
Boss’ brother has reposted several critical comments on his Instagram Story.
“No lies told,” he wrote, linking to Platt’s post.
Elle Noir
“She won’t let our family see the kids,” Boss’ cousin claimed via X. “He wasn’t an addict. He smoked weed and was actively trying to quit. He wasn’t some junkie. … All she claims is ‘Weed and mushrooms and some pills’ but doesn’t specify the pills. And weed and shrooms. I get we may have different opinions on it but she’s framing it like he did METH or something like bffr.”
Jenna Dewan
Dewan, a friend of Holker, praised Holker’s authenticity in an Instagram Story post, which Holker uploaded on her page.
“Love u @allisonholker,” Dewan wrote. “Sharing this will help others know to reach out for help.”
Pro dancer Polanco, who appeared in the Step Up franchise with Boss, is trying to hold onto the positive memories of Boss.
“We miss our boy,” she wrote via Instagram comment. “Everyone who knew him, let’s keep his amazing memory alive by talking about how amazing he actually was. I just remember every time he was in NYC he would want to know where to go for the underground house and hip-hop parties. He was a real one.”
She added, “Always willing to learn more. I wasn’t super close to him but jam I miss his smile, his talent and his overall presence in general. What a beautiful guy .”
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Aubrey Plaza has broken her silence after her husband, Jeff Baena, died at the age of 47.
“This is an unimaginable tragedy,” Plaza’s rep said in a statement on behalf of the actress and her family to Us Weekly on Monday, January 6. “We are deeply grateful to everyone who has offered support. Please respect our privacy during this time.”
“A lot of things happened during COVID for me. Yes, we got married. Big deal,” Plaza recalled during a December 2021 appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. “We got a little bored one night. We got married and I’ll tell you how: Onehourmarriage.com. That’s real, look it up.”
She added, “We were in the lockdown. Things got a little crazy, especially in my house. My husband got really into tie-dying and when I say tie-dying, I mean 50 shirts a day.”
At the time, Plaza wanted to “do something” special for their tenth anniversary and came up with an impromptu ceremony in their backyard.
“I created a very quick love altar in our yard. Facts of our love, little stones, smoke, fire. Things of that nature,” the Parks and Recreation alum recalled at the time. “Then the man from Alhambra showed up in a Hawaiian shirt with a briefcase [to perform the ceremony]. … I can’t remember a lot of it, it was fuzzy. But I’m pretty sure it’s legal.”
The next year, Plaza was able to use her wedding as inspiration for her White Lotus character. (She played Harper on season 2, a character who was also married.)
“This character is me,” Plaza quipped to GQ in November 2022. “It’s probably the first project that I’ve ever done that I’m like, whoa, this is really close to home. … I don’t have kids. I’ve been with my husband for 12 years. I relate to being in a relationship that has peaks and valleys, and going through a rough patch and comparing yourself to another couple that seems perfect.”
Plaza and Baena had often kept their relationship private save for their professional collaborations in Life After Death, The Little Hours and Spin Me Round.
“She’s awesome. I’d be working with her if she wasn’t my wife, but luckily she is my wife,” Baena told Reel Talker in August 2022. “The opportunity to do something creative [together] where we’re both fulfilled — how rare is that?”
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Only Murders in the Building had been nominated in four categories, including Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy. The three lead actors — Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez— were also honored with individual nominations. OMITB lost Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy to Hacks.
Martin, 79, and Short, 74, were nominated against one another for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series, Comedy alongside Adam Brody (Nobody Wants This), Ted Danson (AMan on the Inside), Jason Segel (Shrinking) and Jeremy Allen White (The Bear). White, 33, took home the honor despite an absence at the ceremony.
Gomez, 32, was honored in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Comedy category against Kristen Bell (Nobody Wants This), Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary), Ayo Edebiri (The Bear), Kathryn Hahn (Agatha All Along) and Jean Smart (Hacks). When Gomez lost to Smart, 73, she was seen enthusiastically applauding from her seat.
Gomez was also a double nominee who was honored in the Best Supporting Female Actor, Film category for her role in Emilia Pérez. The Rare Beauty founder was up against costar Zoe Saldaña, Wicked’s Ariana Grande, The Brutalist star Felicity Jones, The Substance standout Margaret Qualley and Conclave’s Isabella Rossellini. (Saldaña, 46, took home the trophy in her debut Globes win.)
“I don’t even know what to write,” Gomez gushed via Instagram Story last month. “I’m so proud of @zoesaldana and I am so grateful and honored @goldenglobes.”
She continued in a follow-up upload, “@karsiagascon mi amor I am so proud and grateful to know you! Congratulations to Jacques, [Clément Ducol] and Camille. … So proud of my @onlymurdershulu family .”
Gomez was previously nominated for a Golden Globe for her OMITB role of Mabel Mora during the 2023 and 2024 ceremonies. Martin and Short have also consistently earned nominations since the Hulu series premiered in 2021. While OMITB has been nominated for 16 total Globes, the show had yet to win a single trophy ahead of Sunday’s ceremony.
Despite OMITB’s lack of wins, it remains a standout series for its star-studded crop of actors.
“It is truly a no-hazing set. It is absolutely and completely supportive, generous and kind,” Kumal Nanjiani, who joined during season 4 last year, exclusively told Us Weekly in November 2024. “It’s just a very, very joyful set.”
He gushed, “What we get to do should be joyful. It’s hard work but that doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be joy with it. And [they] really understand that. [Steve and Martin] have been doing it so long, I’m sure they’ve been on all kinds of sets and they’ve decided if they are on a set, everyone is going to feel safe and joyful. And that’s what they do.”
After it was announced that Stan, 42, won the trophy for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, Wallis, 38, leaped to her feet to congratulate her beau with a kiss.
In Stan’s acceptance speech, he also closed out his remarks with a sweet tribute to Wallis.
“Annabelle, I love you,” Stan gushed as she gave him a standing ovation.
Stan won the comedic Globe for his role in A Different Man, in which he plays a character with facial difference. He was also double nominee on Sunday and is up for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for his role as Donald Trump in The Apprentice.
“Our ignorance and discomfort around disability and disfigurement has to end now. We have to normalize it and continue to expose ourselves to it and our children and encourage acceptance,” Stan further said in his acceptance speech. “One way we can do that is by continuing to champion stories that are inclusive. This was not an easy movie to make — neither is The Apprentice.”
He added, “These are tough subject matters, but these films are real and they’re necessary and we can’t be afraid and look away. … This is for my mom, who left Romania in search of a better life and gave me everything — and for my stepfather, Tony, who took on a single mom and a grown-up kid. Thank you for being a real man. Golden Globes, I love you.”
Stan and Wallis were first linked in May 2022 when they were spotted at Robert Pattinson’s birthday party. Weeks later, they were seen cozying up on a vacation to Greece. Neither Stan nor Wallis had publicly addressed their relationship until Sunday, which serves as their red carpet debut.
Walking the carpet together, Stan wrapped his arm around Wallis as they posed for the cameras. He wore a tailored black suit with white trim, while Wallis opted for a sparkly, pink column gown.
Wallis last dated Chris Pine until their split in 2022. Stan, for his part, has previously been linked to the likes of Alejandra Onieva, Jennifer Morrison, Dianna Aaron and Leighton Meester. The Gossip Girl alum, 38, was also present at the 2025 Golden Globes, attending alongside her husband, Adam Brody, who was nominated for Nobody Wants This.
Jolie, 49, is nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama thanks to her role in Maria and stunned on the red carpet in a glitzy silver Alexander McQueen gown with matching jewelry and stilettos. She was joined by 19-year-old daughter Zahara, who was a vision in white.
“Z is here. She’s hiding over there ‘cause you’re live,” Jolie quipped to Variety, noting her daughter approved of the red carpet look. (Jolie and ex-husband Brad Pitt, who recently finalized their divorce, share Zahara and five other children.)
Thornton, 69, meanwhile, skipped the red carpet before he was pictured in the Beverly Hilton ballroom alongside wife Connie Angland. While Thornton opted for a classic black tuxedo, Angland, 60, donned a white gown with a black ribbon cascading off each shoulder. (Thornton and Angland have been married since 2014.)
Before Jolie married Pitt, she was married to Thornton between May 2000 and May 2003. (It was Jolie’s second marriage; she was married to Johnny Lee Miller from 1996 to 2000.)
Jolie and Thornton went public with their whirlwind romance in June 2000 shortly before they tied the knot. Their relationship famously made headlines after Jolie got “Billy Bob” tattooed on her arm and they started wearing vials of each other’s blood on chains around their necks.
“The necklaces were a very simple thing,” Thornton explained during a June 2018 appearance on the “HFPA In Conversation” podcast. “‘Hey, let’s poke our finger with a pin and smear a little on there, and when we’re away from each other, we’ll wear the necklace.’ That was that easy, but by the time it came out in the press, it sounded like we were wearing a bucket of blood around our necks.”
Jolie, for her part, eventually removed the ink amid the divorce.
Since then, Thornton has been candid about what went wrong in their relationship.
“I never felt good enough for [Angelina],” Thornton previously told GQ in 2016. “I’m real uncomfortable around rich and important people. I like how I am.”
“We’ve been friends for years and years and years,” he told Us in September 2019. “So we keep up with each other. She’s not in town a lot, so we don’t see each other much, but we talk.”
Jolie also remains on good terms with Thornton’s family and his children. Thornton shares sons Harry and William with ex-wife Pietra Dawn Cherniak, daughter Amanda with ex-wife Melissa Lee Gatlin and daughter Bella with Angland.
“To this day, she still sends me Christmas gifts every year and stuff like that,” Harry, now 30, told Entertainment Tonight in January 2022. “I don’t talk to her on the phone every day but every now and then we talk. She was so cool!”
He added at the time, “She took [my siblings and I] camping every week and she rented, like, an RV one time, and we went on a full camping trip. She was just so fun for us back when we were, like, younger. Like, she was a lot of fun.”
“We’re very supportive of each other. I’m very lucky to have a family member who’s in the business. She understands what it’s like and what you’re going through,” Elle exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2018. “Of course, we talk about [our] movies and, ‘Oh, what are you about to go do?’ And that’s exciting, but there’s other things to talk about.”
Elle further explained that her big sibling knows her personality better than anybody else. “My sister would probably describe me as a free-spirited person,” she told Us. “In the grocery store going down the aisles when I was a kid, I would be dancing and running and kind of carefree. … I bounce off the energy around me.”
Nikki Glaser couldn’t resist shading some stars in her 2025 Golden Globes opening monologue.
“I am not here to roast you tonight, and how could I? You are all so famous, so talented, so powerful,” Glaser, 40, began after taking the stage on Sunday, January 5,. “I mean you could really do anything.”
While poking fun at some honorees at Los Angeles’ Beverly Hilton Hotel, she made more savage digs at celebrities who weren’t present.
“So, tonight, we celebrate the best of film and hold space for television,” she said. “Yes, Wicked, Queer, Nightbitch: These are not just words Ben Affleck yells after he orgasms. These are some of the incredible movies nominated tonight.”
Glaser continued, “Zendaya is here. Zendaya, you were incredible in Dune [2]. Oh, my God, I woke up for all of your scenes. You were so good. And Challengers, girl? It was so good. I mean, that movie was more sexually charged than Diddy’s credit card.”
She added, “Oh, I’m upset too. The afterparty’s not going to be good this year. But, we have to move on. A Stanley Tucci freak-off just doesn’t have the same ring to it. No baby oil this year, just lots of olive oil.”
Diddy, 55, was arrested for sex trafficking and more charges in September 2024. He pleaded not guilty and has denied all allegations. He was remanded to prison until his trial later this year despite appealing for bail four times.
During another monologue moment, Glaser called nominee Adrien Brody a “two-time Holocaust survivor” based on his roles in WWII-era films The Pianist and The Brutalist. (Brody, 51, won an Oscar for The Pianist and is garnering buzz for The Brutalist.
She also referenced any “future criminals” in the crowd, seemingly another reference to Diddy. “I really think this is going to be a very memorable night, and maybe not in the way that you think,” Glaser added. “I predict five years from now when you’re watching old clips of this on YouTube, you’ll see someone in one of the crowd shots and you’ll be like, ‘Oh, my God, that was before they caught that guy!’ We could be making history tonight and we don’t even know with who. He knows, you know, or she! It could be a woman. … It won’t be. It never is. Kind of like Best Director.”
On a positive note, Glaser marveled at double nominee Selena Gomez bringing her fiancé, music producer Benny Blanco, as her date. “Benny Blanco is here because of the genie who granted him that wish,” the comedian added. “Man, lucky guy!”
It is Glaser’s first time emceeing the Globes, taking over the reins from fellow comedian Jo Koy.
“I am absolutely thrilled to be hosting the Golden Globes. It’s one of my favorite nights of television and now I get a front-row seat (actually, I think I have to host from the stage),” Glaser said in a statement shared in August 2024. “The Golden Globes is not only a huge night for TV and film but also for comedy. It’s one of the few times that show business not only allows but encourages itself to be lovingly mocked (at least I hope so).”
She added at the time, “It’s an exciting, yet challenging gig because it’s live, unpredictable and in front of Hollywood’s biggest stars, who also might be getting wasted while seated next to their recent exes.”
Late last month, Glaser predicted that she was “gonna nail” her hosting responsibilities.
“Maybe I won’t nail it in some people’s eyes, but I will have nailed it in my eyes because I have set up a system leading up to it that I couldn’t possibly work harder on it,” the FBoy Island host told CBS Sunday Morningson December 29, 2024. “I thrive on anxiety. I like feeling like, ‘Oh, what’s gonna happen?’ I like that feeling. I kill it when I’m anxious.”
Glaser also hoped that none of her Globes jokes would be mean-spirited.
“I think my new challenge is, I wanna be known for being a nice celebrity,” Glaser added. “I just wanna be someone that people go, ‘Oh, she’s really great to work with. She was really nice to us,’ and not in an inauthentic way. … I wanna spread honesty.”
Last year’s ceremony went viral after Koy, 53, made an apparent dig at attendee Taylor Swift.
“The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? At the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear,” he said during the January 2024 broadcast, referring to the 35-year-old pop star often being shown on the Jumbotron during boyfriend Travis Kelce’s football games.
Glaser, for her part, is a noted fan of Swift’s and even attended the singer’s Eras Tour more than 20 times. Ahead of Sunday’s ceremony, she told Varietythat she didn’t plan on mentioning Swift during the broadcast.
LaPaglia, 25, walked the red carpet solo on Sunday, January 5, in a low-cut gown with a darker hue. She previously attended the 2024 broadcast with Bryan, 28, and her then-friend Grace O’Malley. The “BFFs” podcaster and O’Malley, 26, posed on the red carpet together before meeting up with Bryan, 28, inside.
LaPaglia started dating “Something in the Orange” singer Bryan in 2023. After he announced their allegedly amicable split in October 2024, LaPaglia said on her “BFFs” podcast that she was blindsided by his decision and also claimed that Bryan disapproved of her Golden Globes outfit. (LaPaglia wore a sheer gown that featured a dramatic leg slit.)
“He said he didn’t want to date someone that presents themselves that way,” LaPaglia claimed on her podcast in November 2024. “He ruined my night. Everything good, anything good I did for me, he made sure to ruin it for me.”
LaPaglia had also accused Bryan of emotional abuse and stealing her pet cat. She further claimed that he initially asked her to sign a $12 million non-disclosure agreement in exchange for not speaking out about him, but she declined to comply.
Bryan has never publicly responded to her accusations after initially announcing the breakup.
“Addressing something: Brianna and me have broken up with eachother [sic] and I respect and love her with every ounce of my heart,” Bryan wrote via Instagram Story in October 2024. “She has loved me unconditionally for a very long time and for that I’ll always thank her.”
struggled through some pretty severe things. I thought it would be beneficial for both of us to go out different ways. I am not perfect and never will be. … If you have it in your heart, mine too. With everything I am and to anyone I let down, I am sorry. I try my best in everything. I failed people that love me and mostly myself.”
LaPaglia, meanwhile, has been candid about navigating the split — from moving out of Bryan’s home to dying her hair darker — on social media.
“We have exciting news. I think I’ve gained 11 pounds. I know, I know,” she said in a TikTok video last month. “And it’s great and it’s awesome because I have an appetite again, I’m eating. I’m like, bitch, you haven’t eaten for a year but maybe relax a little bit.”
According to LaPaglia, she allegedly “lost a lot of weight” following the breakup drama.
“It was a toxic, awful, horrible situation and I was mentally going through something bad but I couldn’t eat and I became skin and bones,” she said. “So, I started force feeding myself s—-y food. Like, I’ve been eating pasta, fast food — anything that will make me gain weight.”
The 82nd annual Golden Globes airs live Sunday, January 5, 2025, on CBS at 8 p.m. ET. The ceremony will also be streamed live on Paramount+.
Camila Cabello is seemingly ringing in the new year with a brand-new love interest.
Cabello, 27, was spotted packing on the PDA with Henry Junior Chalhoub during a beach getaway in St. Bart’s. The pair were seen holding hands while splashing around a body of water before eventually sharing a passionate smooch.
Cabello and Chalhoub, 28, have been romantically linked since November 2024 after reports surfaced speculating that they met at an Elie Saab afterparty in Saudi Arabia. Neither the singer nor Chalhoub have publicly addressed or confirmed their rumored romance.
Chalhoub is the billionaire heir to his family’s eponymous Chalhoub Group based out of Dubai. The firm is described as “a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East with a portfolio of 8 owned brands and over 300 international brands” on its website.
Prior to his apparent romance with Cabello, Chalhoub briefly dated supermodel Joan Smalls in 2021. Cabello, for her part, last famously dated fellow singer Shawn Mendes in 2023.
Cabello and Mendes, 26, initially were together from 2019 to 2021. After their split, she briefly dated Lox Club founder Austin Kevitch, but things fizzled by February 2023. Two months later, Cabello was seen packing on the PDA with Mendes at Coachella.
Cabello and Mendes’ reunion was short-lived, however, with a source confirming to Us Weekly in June 2023 that they called it quits again.
“Camila was the one who ultimately decided to end things,” the insider told Us. “A lot of their old problems started coming back after spending so much time together.”
Cabello and Mendes have since remained on amicable terms.
“I just think that we really know each other,” he said during a November 2024 interview with Apple Music 1. “We haven’t been the closest over the last couple of years, but I think we really know each other. We’ve spent a lot of time together. We really know each other’s hearts. So even when all of the sound and all the noise is happening, we can see through each other’s both pretty easily, and it’s just nice to have that.”
Cabello has also been open about moving on from her ex-boyfriend.
“I was in a really public relationship and as a woman you’re like, ‘I don’t want this couple thing to be my new identity,’” she told Complex in a June 2024 profile, going on to reflect on their “Havana” and “Señorita” duets.
Cabello continued, “I think there’s always a worry when a song becomes so massive that it’s going to be bigger than you. I obviously love that they were so massive and successful. But it does get people attached to you in a certain light.”
“My guilty pleasure is Too Hot to Handle on Netflix,” Garfield, 41, said in his Friday, January 3, profile for W magazine. “F—, it’s really good. Sorry, this is like my pitch for people who haven’t seen Too Hot to Handle.”
He continued, “So, they get to the island and they’re like, ‘Woo!’ in their swimming costumes. … Then, like a day goes by and they have a party, maybe a couple of them will make out, maybe there’ll be some fellatio, I don’t know, like, it’s up to them. And then it’s revealed to them they are in fact on Too Hot to Handle.”
Garfield goes on to explain that there is a “prize pot of money” that contestants — described by host Desiree Burch as sex-crazed singles who aren’t interested in securing anything remotely resembling a long-term relationship — only win “if [they] don’t f— each other.”
“It’s run by this Alexa kind of robot figure [named Lana], and she says like, ‘You’ve all been selected because you are terrified of intimacy and you are terrified of making true emotional connections. You will be here for a week, and if you do anything physically with each other that is not born out of a true emotional connection, you will be fined,’”
Garfield explained, putting on his best robotic Lana voice. “Suddenly, it’s like all these really horny [and] maybe sex-addicted people are having to not do anything sexual unless they are given permission by Alana.”
According to Garfield, it becomes an “amazing thing” when each couple begins to actually open up.
“It’s beautiful,” he mused. “And you see these people start to reveal their traumas and start to reveal that they haven’t trusted men because of a trauma in their family life or in a previous relationship. Guys who are just bro’d out that they can’t access their hearts because of the hurt [they’ve felt] and suddenly they’re softening and they’re vulnerable and, of course, they’re terrified of doing it.”
Garfield added, “Then, of course, everyone around them is very encouraging and it becomes a very beautiful thing.”
Netflix has aired six seasons of the dating show since its April 2020 debut. A handful of couples who have appeared on the prorgam are still together, including season 2’s Emily Miller and Cam Holmes, who welcomed son Reggie in 2024.
Bri Balram and Demari Davis, for their part, won season 6, which aired in August 2024.
“We actually have not got paid yet,” Balram,” 26, told Us Weekly exclusively at the time. “They didn’t want us to go, like, elope and spend the money, so we haven’t got paid yet.”
It is not known whether Balram and Davis, 27, have received their prize money yet, but they are still a couple.
Ariana Grandesays she’s “still clean” when it comes to using injectables like Botox and Juvederm.
In her Rising Star acceptance speech at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Friday, January 3, Grande, 31, joked about her youthful glow by crediting her “good friends Botox and Juvederm.”
She has since clarified that her comments were made in jest.
“Oh, my joke! My bit,” Grande quipped toEntertainment Tonight on Friday after the ceremony. “I’m still clean, but when I start going again, I’ll let you know. I mean it. I really want to be transparent as a beauty founder.”
“Being exposed to so many voices at a young age, and especially when people have things to say about your appearance at a young age, it’s really hard to know what’s worth hearing or not,” she told Vogue in September 2023. “When you’re 17, you don’t really know that yet.”
She added at the time, “Over the years, I used makeup as a disguise or something to hide behind with more and more hair and more thicker eyeliner — that can be so beautiful at times and I still do have love for it and appreciation for it. But I think as I get older, I don’t love that being the intention behind it anymore.”
Grande posited that her beauty journey used to be about “hiding.”
“I want to see my well-earned cry lines and smile lines,” the Golden Globe nominee stressed to Vogue. “I hope my smile lines get deeper and deeper and I laugh more and more and I just think aging can be such a beautiful thing.”
Aubrey Plaza’s marriage to the late Jeff Baena allegedly rubbed some of her most devout, intense fans the wrong way.
“Oh my god. Jeff got death threats in his DMs,” Plaza, 40, told Cosmopolitan in a 2022 profile, referring to several of her bisexual fans mourning her singlehood on social media. “I think so. People project so much stuff onto marriage, but it wasn’t some big statement I’m trying to make where I want everybody to react to it.”
Plaza and Baena had been together from 2011 until his sudden and untimely death in January 2025. To celebrate their 10th dating anniversary, the pair tied the knot in 2020 during lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic.
“A lot of things happened during COVID for me. Yes, we got married. Big deal,” Plaza recalled during a December 2021 appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. “We got a little bored one night. We got married and I’ll tell you how: Onehourmarriage.com. That’s real, look it up.”
She added at the time, “We were in the lockdown. Things got a little crazy, especially in my house. My husband got really into tie-dying and when I say tie-dying, I mean 50 shirts a day.”
Plaza and Baena wed at home in what she described as a witchy affair.
“I created a very quick love altar in our yard. Facts of our love, little stones, smoke, fire. Things of that nature,” she told host Ellen DeGeneres. “Then the man from Alhambra showed up in a Hawaiian shirt with a briefcase [to perform the ceremony]. … I can’t remember a lot of it, it was fuzzy. But I’m pretty sure it’s legal.”
While speaking with Cosmo, Plaza further detailed the spooky ceremony and her penchant for bewitching content.
“I’ve always loved Halloween. There was always a witchy vibe in Delaware where I grew up and my mom was always witchy. I don’t know how to explain it. It runs in our blood,” she quipped. “I have Basque blood — like a lot of witches who were burned at the stake in the European witch trials. My mom always made me believe in magic. Not, like, rabbit-out-of-a-hat magic — she was just always operating on another wavelength.”
She added, “Also, in middle school, I’d go with friends into the woods and do weird spells and stuff. Somewhere along the way, I got really into herbs and mushrooms and oils and more pagan-y things. It became less ‘I’m doing a spell to harness the power of the wind’ and more ‘I’m using these herbs medicinally’ or something.”