The 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards saw several former TV show and movie costars reunite.

Kristen Bell shared the small screen with many of her former castmates while hosting the Sunday, February 23, awards ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles. In addition to sharing the stage with her Nobody Wants This costar Adam Brody, she and his wife, Leighton Meester, shared a surprise Gossip Girl reunion.

“Hey everyone! Gossip Girl here. One of my sources LEMEE86 sends me this,” Bell, 44, stated in her iconic Gossip Girl voice. “Spotted at table eight, Jeff Goldblum has a wicked appetite. And a peek behind the curtain reveals he likes his green eggs with ham. And look who it is, not-so-lonely boy Timothée Chalamet sitting next to a hot steak, medium rare, au poivre with a side of…”

Noticing that all the gossip items mentioned food, Bell turned to Meester, 38, who was sitting next to her eating a roll. “Leighton, none of this gossip. It’s just all about food,” Bell stated, to which Meester replied “I’m sorry. I’m just really hungry.”

Before presenting the cast of Conclave, Bell quipped, “The popes in Conclave were better at gossiping than us. I think we should pass the torch.” Meester agreed, stating, “Amen.”

Bell wrapped up the pair’s skit by declaring the stars of Conclave as “Gossip Girl 2.0.”

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Wins or no wins, the cast of Wicked were feeling as wonderful as the Wizard of Oz himself at the 2025 SAG Awards.

Most of the principal stars of the movie musical adaptation stepped out to celebrate the film’s success at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall red carpet in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 23. Wicked led this year’s film nominations with a total of five, including Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture.

Cynthia Erivo scored a nod for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for her role as Elphaba, while her costar Ariana Grande was up for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for her role as Glinda. Jonathan Bailey, who played Fiyero, rounded out the cast’s nominations in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role category.

While many of the cast and director Jon M. Chu celebrated the film during Sunday’s ceremony, Wicked ultimately ended the night with a total of zero wins. The film lost Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture to the cast of Conclave Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture to The Fall Guy. Erivo, Grande and Bailey — the latter of whom did not attend — lost in their acting categories to the likes of Demi Moore, Zoe Saldaña and Kieran Culkin, respectively.

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Wicked, which hit theaters in November 2024, is an adaptation of the long-running 2003 Broadway musical; the show itself was based on the 1995 book of the same name by Gregory Maguire, which serves as an imagined prequel to L. Frank Baum‘s The Wizard of Oz and the classic 1939 film.

Wicked tells the backstory of green-skinned Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and Galinda, the future Glinda the Good Witch, during their time as students at Shiz University. After starting as rival roommates, the two turn into unlikely friends as Elphaba’s magical abilities catch the attention of The Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum).

While Wicked follows the events of the stage show’s first act, the upcoming sequel, Wicked: For Good, will follow Act 2. Like the original show, the story is expected to pick up with Elphaba helping the persecuted animals of Oz in secret after fleeing the Emerald City. Glinda, meanwhile, finds herself on the opposing side of her best friend as she becomes a figurehead for The Wizard.

“Wicked 2 is definitely a lot darker in a lot of ways,” Marissa Bode, who plays Elphaba’s younger sister, Nessarose, exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this year. “So, I’m excited for that aspect of it.”

She added, “There’s a time jump for sure, and I’m excited to see visually – because I haven’t really seen any of the footage yet – how the characters have changed for good or maybe not for good.”

Erivo, 38, previously defended splitting Wicked into two parts for the big screen. “What’s wonderful about the show is that you get an insight into why this woman becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, but you have only three hours to do it in. With us, you have two movies,” she told Entertainment Weekly in February 2024. “In this first movie, you get to really get to know [Elphaba] as a young lady and what pushes her to the thing that we get to know. The story gets to be opened. You really get to experience magic, and we can do that.”

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Erivo also said doing two movies instead of one allowed for Elphaba and Glinda’s relationship to be explored more than it is on Broadway. “We’ve expanded on their relationship as friends. That’s a really important special thing that you have in the show, but here you really get to go with them in that,” she explained. “We’ve got something really special.”

Wicked will begin streaming on Peacock Friday, March 21. Wicked: For Good hits theaters on Friday, November 21.

Adam Brody and Leighton Meester continued to turn awards season events into fancy date nights at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards.

The couple stepped out in style on the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall red carpet in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 23. Brody, 45, looked like a leading man in a chic dark brown suit, black tie, white dress shirt and loafers. Meester, 38, showed off her stellar style in an intricate, lacy forest green gown with sequined accents by Elie Saab.

In addition to wearing her new ginger locks in long waves, Meester completed her look with Santoni heels, natural glam makeup, Mikimoto pearl earrings and a matching green neck scarf. While posing for photographers, the Gossip Girl alum could be seen giggling after her husband gave her a sweet kiss on the head.

Meester joined her husband to celebrate his SAG nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on Netflix’s Nobody Wants This. The show scored a total of two nominations, including Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series for Kristen Bell, who served as the host of Sunday’s awards ceremony.

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The rom-com series, which premiered in September 2024, follows Joanne (Bell), an agnostic sex podcaster, who falls for a single “hot rabbi”, Noah (Brody). While navigating their feelings for each other, their families and drastically different lifestyles challenge whether a romantic relationship between the pair will work out or not.

After Meester previously expressed interest in appearing on the show, Netflix officially announced that the Gossip Girl alum would be joining the cast for season 2. She will portray Bell’s “middle school nemesis who Joanne crosses paths with as an adult,” per the streamer’s Thursday, February 20, social media announcement. (Miles Fowler was also announced to be joining the show’s second season in another guest star role.)

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The couple’s SAG Awards appearance is the latest in their recent awards show date night. Just days before losing their home in the January L.A. wildfires, the couple dazzled on the 2025 Golden Globes red carpet. Nobody Wants This was up for a total of a total of three awards — including Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for Brody — but walked away with zero wins.

Meester channeled her inner Blair Waldorf in a stunning light green gown, which she paired with diamond jewelry and silver sequined heels. Brody opted for a darker shade of green with his suit, which he complimented with a black bow tie and a white rose boutonnière.

The duo, who wed in 2014, followed up the outing by attending the 2025 Critics Choice Awards on February 7. Meester looked ethereal in a glittering, sheer gold gown, while Brody rocked a classic black suit and white dress shirt. Brody shares a sweet kiss with his wife before taking home the award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.

“My darling, darling, darling wife, Leighton, thank you,” he said during his acceptance speech. “Thank you for sharing this life with me and this journey with me. Thank you for our family. I love you with all my heart.” (The couple share a daughter, Arlo, born in 2015, and a son, born in 2020.) Meester, for her part, was spotted shedding happy tears over her husband’s win.

Nobody Wants This season 1 is currently streaming on Netflix.

Katie Thurston is feeling optimistic after the latest update in her breast cancer journey.

“Good news! My cancer hasn’t metastasize[d],” the former Bachelorette, 34, shared via her Instagram Story on Friday, February 21. Despite the small victory, Thurston noted that the cancer was found in her lymph nodes “as expected.”

Detailing her next steps, she continued, “Two more appointments left in LA before officially moving to NYC March 1st. The anticipated order of things is fertility (egg/embryo freezing), chemo, then surgery.”

Noting that the past week has been “A LOT,” Thurston concluded her post by writing, “I’m so thankful for my family, friends, and community here for helping me make it to my current stage [sic] of mind. Today I feel calm, less scared, and ready.”

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Earlier this month, Thurston shocked Bachelor Nation with the news of her breast cancer diagnosis. “I experienced a range of emotions over the past two weeks. Despair. Anger. Sadness. Denial. And then strength. Purposeful. Ready,” she wrote in a lengthy Instagram post on Saturday, February 15. “I cried a lot. I tried to even make a video instead of this post and couldn’t.”

Thurston declared that she’s “ready to fight this” and thanked her fiancé, Jeff Arcuri, for being a pillar of support. “I don’t know how I’d do this without you. The selfless love that you smother me in is beyond anything I imagined I’d be blessed with,” she gushed. “I love you to the fullest in this lifetime and the next.”

She shared more details about her diagnosis via her Instagram Stories that same day, revealing she initially dismissed a “small lump in my breast” as a benign cyst like one she had previously removed. After the spot continued to give her pain, she underwent a mammogram and “had to get multiple biopsies taken and sent off for testing to confirm.” Thurston noted that she was “waiting on learning what stage” her cancer was in.

While navigating her health battle, Thurston has been working on moving to New York City, “ideally near Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,” she told followers on Tuesday, February 18.

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Thurston underwent another biopsy earlier this week, revealing via her Instagram Story on Wednesday, February 19, that the procedure “went much better this time.” She added, “Took lorazepam, explained my last appt struggles and asked for more numbing, and they allowed Jeff to be there holding my hand. Waiting between appointments for the next one.”

The former reality star praised her fiancé once again after Arcuri, 36, postponed his upcoming comedy shows in New Zealand, Australia and Japan to help her instead.

“I was originally planning on moving back to [Washington] to be with my family and start care while Jeff continued his world tour,” she wrote via her Instagram Story on Thursday, February 20. “But he opted to postpone the upcoming dates to be by my side and I’ll forever be so thankful for this selfless act.”

Justin Baldoni’s religious beliefs allegedly played a role in his It Ends With Us set drama with Blake Lively.

The initial December 2024 lawsuit filed by Lively, 37, noted that she felt “alarmed” when she learned the actor cast as the doctor during her character’s birth scene, Adam Mondschein, was Baldoni’s “best friend.” The Hollywood Reporter’s Friday, February 21, feature claims that she was also distressed because Monschein is a member of the Baha’i community. According to his IMDb page, one of Mondschein’s biggest credits prior to It Ends With Us was the 2018 documentary The Gate: Dawn of the Baha’i Faith, which tells the origin story of the religion.

According to THR, Baldoni’s parents both converted to Baha’i — which focuses on the unity of humanity and elimination of prejudices — before he was born. Lively’s December 2024 sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni does not mention the religion by name.

A source who worked on Baldoni’s 2019 film Five Feet Apart told THR that the director “talk[ed] about his religion a lot” on the set of the romantic drama. “This had shades of Scientology but with less of the prominence and people hovering at all times,” the unnamed insider added. However, a separate source claimed that the influence of Baldoni’s religion during production had the opposite effect.

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“I’ve never worked with a male director who was so worried about everyone’s emotional and mental well-being,” the second source shared with the outlet. “There was an openness and emotionality to his style that was more typical of a woman, and it probably wouldn’t be an issue if it was a [female director] because of the preconceived notions of gender.”

Additional sources told THR that because of Baldoni’s dual role as the director and male lead of It Ends With Us, the influence of Baha’i was more pronounced. He allegedly led crew members in prayer on the first day of production and would “ask God for guidance” before making creative decisions. There was reportedly lots of physical contact between crew members as well.

“The faith’s principles and ideas are interpreted and accepted in a variety of cultural contexts,” Zackery Heern, a Baha’i history professor with a focus on religion at Idaho State University, told THR. “In France, followers might be more inclined to hug. In Saudi Arabia, less so.”

Heern went on to address Blake’s December 2024 lawsuit, specifically her allegation that Baldoni claimed he could communicate with her dead father, Ernie. According to the professor, it is “not encouraged” in Baha’i to speak with the dead. “It’s a bit fringe for Baha’i,” he stated.

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Us Weekly has reached out to Baldoni and Lively’s reps for comment.

Several of the report’s claims connect to the allegations Lively has made against Baldoni amid the pair’s legal battle. She accused Baldoni of “constantly hugging and touching cast and crew” in her initial December 2024 lawsuit, adding that he would become “irritated, cold and uncollaborative” if his advances were rejected, adding to the set’s hostile work environment.

Baldoni, for his part, refuted Lively’s allegations in his $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times as well as a $400 million lawsuit against the actress, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and her publicist, Leslie Sloane. Among his many claims, Baldoni denied Blake’s accusations that he tried to ruin her reputation, arguing that she instead attempted to take over creative control of It Ends With Us despite his role as director.

Both sides and their legal teams have vehemently denied the other side’s accusations. An official trial date has been set for March 9, 2026.

Blake and Reynolds, 48, have since filed a legal action to dismiss Baldoni’s lawsuit against them. Additionally, Us confirmed on Thursday, February 20, that Blake requested a protective order amid her and Baldoni’s legal battle, claiming she has received “violent, profane, sexist and threatening communications” and is seeking “additional protections.”

Jenn Tran and Sasha Farber dressed in their best business casual for their latest Hollywood date night.

The couple looked dapper while posing for red carpet photos at the Los Angeles premiere of the new series Suits LA on Thursday, February 20. Taking inspiration from the show’s title — and the characters’ attire of choice — Tran, 27, rocked a tan blazer dress, which she paired with sheer black tights, black knee-high boots and a matching tan handbag. She looked nothing short of professional with her natural glam makeup look and loose waves.

Farber, 40, dressed just as chic in a black pinstripe suit jacket with a white T-shirt underneath. He completed his ensemble with a pair of black dress pants and grey and brown lace-up boots.

The duo were among several celebrities who walked the premiere red carpet of the new NBC series, including stars Stephen Amell, Josh McDermitt, Lex Scott Davis and Bryan Greenberg. Original Suits star Gabriel Macht also attended the premiere to support the cast of the spinoff, which premieres on Sunday, February 23.

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Tran and Farber have made a handful of red carpet appearances together since sparking dating rumors late last year. The Dancing With the Stars pro was by Tran’s side at the L.A. premiere of Wicked in November 2024, as well as at the premiere of Megan Thee Stallion’s In Her Words documentary one month prior. They enjoyed another date night at the London premiere of Mickey 17 earlier this month.

“Red carpets are more fun with Mr. Farber,” the Bachelorette season 21 star captioned Instagram pics from their England outing on Tuesday, February 18.

Tran met Farber while competing together on season 33 of DWTS last year. Their dancing chemistry quickly translated into real life, with many fans questioning whether their partnership had turned romantic throughout the season.

“He’s just such an amazing coach. Every week we just grow stronger and stronger and closer and closer,” Tran exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2024. “I really feel like we’ve built such a great foundation.”

Their connection even caught the attention of DWTS guest judge Gene Simmons, who called them a “steamy couple” after their October 2024 Hair Metal Night performance. “I’ll take anything he says. Listen, I don’t listen to heavy metal, whatever this is,” Tran exclusively told Us at the time. “But I know Gene Simmons, and that’s just how amazing he is.”

The pair were ultimately eliminated ahead of the show’s milestone 500th episode, coming in seventh place overall. “I’m so happy and grateful and proud that we were able to work hard and get that 10,” Tran exclusively told Us after the pair’s elimination. “It just proves that anybody can do anything they put their mind to.”

After the show, the two continued to tease their relationship status via social media and with several public outings, including attending Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in December 2024. Later that month, a source exclusively confirmed to Us that “Jenn and Sasha are dating.”

Farber gave fans an inside look into his and Tran’s night at the Suits LA premiere via his Instagram Story on Thursday. Inside the event, the two snapped a pic with Tran’s fellow Bachelor Nation stars Joey Graziadei and Kelsey Anderson. (Graziadei, 29, took home the DWTS season 33 mirrorball trophy with partner Jenna Johnson.)

After months of cute social media moments, Kelsey Anderson officially confirmed her dad Mark Anderson’s relationship with actress Barbara Alyn Woods.

“Mark is in a relationship. Her name is Barbara, and she is the best,” Kelsey, 26, gushed on the Friday, February 21, episode of the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast. “She is super sweet. She has great daughters. We got to spend Christmas with them all together, and yeah. They are going strong, and he’s super happy. And now he’s in L.A. a lot because she lives in L.A., so I get to see him pretty often now, too.”

When asked how long the couple have been together, Kelsey revealed that Mark, 57, and Woods, 62, have been dating for “five months or so.”

Kelsey’s timeline closely matches with when Mark and Woods first sparked romance rumors in October 2024. “When Cinderella and Prince Charming have a baby …,” Woods captioned an Instagram snap of herself and Mark dressed as the famous Disney couple for Halloween, alongside her daughter Natalie Alyn Lind dressed as Grogu from The Mandalorian. (Woods shares daughters Natalie, 24, Emily, 22, and Alyvia, 17, with her ex John Lind.)

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Podcast hosts Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt went on to ask Kelsey about the couple’s connection to One Tree Hill, as Woods famously portrayed Deb Scott, the mother of James Lafferty’s Nathan Scott, on the hit teen drama.

“I never watched the show, so I didn’t know, but I’m pretty sure one of my sisters did,” Kelsey confessed. “But it’s funny, a bunch of my friends are big fans of the show, and they were freaking out. I was like, ‘Oh, I feel like I need to go watch it.’ But they were like, ‘She’s a little crazy on the show,’ but I was like, ‘In real life, she’s not crazy. She’s great.’”

Bachelor fans met Mark while Kelsey competed on season 28 of The Bachelor last year. Shortly after she and Joey Graziadei got engaged on the ABC reality series, Mark joined Bachelor Nation as a member of The Golden Bachelorette’s debut cast. Though he connected with leading lady Joan Vassos, he was ultimately eliminated ahead of hometowns.

On the podcast, Pitt, 26, asked Kelsey whether she has given her dad any dating advice, given that she is in a “more serious relationship” than he is at the moment. Kelsey said she hasn’t, stating, “I feel like my dad’s got it figured out now. I feel like, definitely, him going on the Golden Bachelorette helped him a lot with just kind of pushing himself to put himself out there.”

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She went on to share that it was Woods who reached out to connect with her father first. “They were just friends and then they started going on dates,” Kelsey shared. “And then my dad realized how much they just work very well together.”

Kelsey even complimented Woods by saying the actress reminds her of her late mother, Denise, who died of breast cancer in 2018. “Honestly, she does remind me a lot of my mom in the sense of she brings out the fun side of my dad,” she explained. “He’s more of a quiet and just calm person. And she brings out a fun side of him and she’s just very vibrant, just like my mom was. So yeah, it’s special.”

Mark, Kelsey and Graziadei, 29, were featured in many Instagram pics Woods shared of their blended family’s Christmas celebration in December 2024. “Christmas 2024 @fariaresorts Belle River Mansion,” she captioned the carousel, the first slide of which featured the two families doing funny poses on a staircase while sporting matching pajamas. “A week of laughter and love and family .”

Nicole Kidman is getting candid about her early motherhood struggles.

The Oscar winner, 57, was already a mother of two when she and her husband, Keith Urban, welcomed their eldest daughter, Sunday, in 2008. In her TIME Women of the Year interview published on Thursday, February 20, Kidman revealed that she found herself unable to breastfeed after giving birth.

“I was so terrified, asking, ‘What just happened? Where’s my milk?’” she shared. “I remember standing naked in the shower, and my sister [Antonia Kidman] helped me. She was my source of strength. She’d had five children — she had the wisdom to pass on.”

Nicole and Urban, who wed in 2006, expanded their family again with the birth of daughter Faith, in 2010. Nicole is also mother to daughter Bella and son Connor, whom she adopted in 1992 and 1995, respectively, with her ex-husband, Tom Cruise.

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Nicole previously admitted to wishing she could have a bigger brood in an August 2021 interview with Marie Claire. “I wish I’d had more children, but I wasn’t given that choice,” she said. “I would’ve loved 10 kids. But that’s OK because I get to mother other children.”

At the time, Nicole revealed that she was also an aunt of six and a godmother of 12. “I love mothering, I love kids,” she gushed. “They’re quirky, funny and unfiltered. And then you get to see them grow and send them on their way.”

After staying mostly out of the spotlight throughout their childhood, Sunday and Faith made their red carpet debut alongside their famous parents at the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala in April 2024, at which Nicole was honored with the event’s titular award. During her acceptance speech, she called Urban, 57, and her girls the “loves of my life.”

Sunday and Faith have continued to make more public appearances with their parents since the April 2024 outing. Sunday showed off her fashion sense and her resemblance to Nicole at a June 2024 Balenciaga fashion show and Omega’s Her Time event in Paris one month later. The 16-year-old even went on to make her runway debut during Miu Miu’s Spring/Summer 2025 Paris Fashion Week show in October 2024.

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Faith, for her part, stepped out with Nicole at The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual Women in Entertainment Gala in December 2024. She looked all grown up in a white tweed jacket and skirt with black lining. She paired the set with sheer black tights and black Mary Jane heels. Nicole looked just as chic in a long-sleeved black midi dress with a collared light blue shirt underneath.

Nicole’s eldest two children have recently given fans glimpses into their private lives, as well. In a rare December 2024 Instagram Story snap, Bella took a selfie with a piece of her artwork that was displayed at the Imagine Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. “This lil guy made it to @imaginemuseum,” she captioned the pic.

Connor, meanwhile, reposted several 30th birthday tributes from friends via his Instagram Story last month. “Happy bday my dawg! Live it up @theconnorcruise,” one of his pals captioned a photo of them on a boat. Sharing the snap via his own profile, he wrote, “My guy!”

Maury Povich has some thoughts about OnlyFans star Bonnie Blue’s pregnancy rumors.

“I’m sitting this one out,” Povich, 86, jokingly wrote in reaction to news about Blue — who claimed in January that she slept with over 1,000 men in 12 hours — via X on Wednesday, February 19. The tweet seemingly poked fun at Povich’s eponymous talk show, Maury, on which famously revealed paternity and DNA test results.

He shared a screenshot of the X post via Instagram on Wednesday, wishing Blue, 25, the “best of luck” with her rumored pregnancy in the upload’s caption.

Though the Maury show ended after 31 seasons in 2022, fans took to Povich’s Instagram comments to ask for his help identifying the potential father of Blue’s child. “IM SURE YOU CAN SOLVE THIS ONE,” one fan commented, while another wrote, “You gotta come out of retirement for this.”

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Blue recently sparked pregnancy rumors via Instagram, captioning her Tuesday, February 18, upload, “It’s giving milf vibes.” In a Wednesday Instagram Story video, Blue noted how it’s “horrible” that some women have difficulties getting pregnant before adding, “I have a lot of spare, so I want to help resolve that.” She captioned the cryptic video with a pregnancy emoji, writing, “solution pending.”

In another Wednesday Instagram post, shared via the account @schoolies_xo, Blue claimed that “in just eight months time, I am so excited to do the world’s biggest livestream of a birth.”

The pregnancy rumors come one month after the OnlyFans star claimed she broke the world record for having sex with the most men in 12 hours with a total of 1,057. “This is what my face looks like after taking 1,000 men less than 12 hours ago,” she stated in a January 12 TikTok video.

She assured fans she was OK after the incident in an Instagram video that same day, stating, “I don’t need a wheelchair, like, I am fine. It just feels like I’ve had a heavy day in the bedroom, which is exactly what I’ve had.”

Blue has since teased that the father of her child could be one of the many men she slept with. “It’s a good job I’m rich because Christmas dinner with one child and 1,057 men is gonna need quite a big table,” she quipped in a Wednesday TikTok clip.

Calling herself “a girl of many talents and many tricks” in another Wednesday TikTok post, Blue stated that she wants to help others get pregnant. “And I’ve probably got 1,057 ways of showing how to do that,” she stated.

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In an October 2024 episode of the “Saving Grace” podcast, Blue admitted that she had only “slept with five people” before she launched her OnlyFans career. “I didn’t really know what I like. How I wanted it. Now I know exactly what I want to do,” she said at the time.

She also revealed that she had only been in one relationship before her OnlyFans fame. “I used to be married. We were together nearly 10 years and we just grew apart,” Blue shared. “We met when I was 13. Broke up last year.”

Blue is not the only OnlyFans creator to recently spark pregnancy speculation. Lily Phillips claimed she is expecting her first baby by sharing photos of her baby bump and positive pregnancy tests via Instagram on Wednesday. “The secret is out baby phillips 2025,” Phillips — who is known for her goal of sleeping with 1,000 men in a single day — captioned the snaps.

It’s been 10 years since the internet argued over whether a striped dress was blue and black or white and gold — and the Today show is trying to settle the debate once and for all.

The series’ hosts reignited the debate on the Thursday, February 20, episode of the NBC morning show in honor of the viral moment’s 10th anniversary. Jenna Bush Hager resolved the feud by wearing none other than the actual dress — which is blue and black — live on air.

“Obviously, this dress is blue and black. But in the photo, in some of the photos, I saw white and gold,” she stated, receiving support from Savannah Guthrie. Carson Daly and Willie Geist, however, firmly remained on team blue and black.

“Taylor Swift herself saw black and blue,” Daly, 51, stated, referring to when Swift, 35, shared which colors she saw via X in February 2015. “Clearly that’s the answer ’cause Taylor’s never wrong.”

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Despite disagreeing on the colors with Bush Hager, 43, Daly told his fellow Today personality that she looked “great” in the dress. According to Bush Hager, the dress was a loan from BuzzFeed’s New York City office, as the garment is no longer available for purchase.

The dress drama began in 2015 after a woman named Cecilia Bleasdale sent a photo of the blue and black dress to her daughter, Grace, to get her opinion. Grace, however, saw the dress as white and gold. The photo caught the attention of former BuzzFeed Community Manager Cates Holderness, who subsequently launched the online debate by creating a BuzzFeed poll.

“I turned to my colleagues and just said, ‘Hey, guys, what color is this dress?’ Within five minutes, there were 20 people behind my desk just screaming at each other,” Holderness said in a video package aired during Thursday’s episode. “And I figured if we were yelling about it, maybe the rest of the internet would.”

Ten years later, white and gold continues to lead the original BuzzFeed poll with 2.5 million votes. Blue and black, meanwhile, has only garnered 1.2 million votes despite being the dress’ true colors.

In Thursday’s Today video package, optometrist Dr. Sarah Klibanoff explained that the dress colors people see depend on how their brain perceives the photo’s background lighting. “It was the perfect storm to create an optical illusion,” she stated. “If a person saw the dress in a shadow, there’s more blue light in a shadow. They immediately think, ‘Oh, there’s blue light there. I’m gonna filter out that blue light, and I’m actually gonna see the dress much more white and gold.”

A decade on, Holderness said she’s glad the dress debate continues to live on. “Things go viral all the time for really negative reasons,” she said. “To have something as low stakes and fun as the dress being part of internet history, I think is wonderful.”

Back in 2015, former Today host Hoda Kotb joined in on the dress fun, writing via X, “Pls tell me you see black and blue when u look at this dress?” At the time, Kelly Clarkson replied to the tweet by stating she saw “yellow and gold,” adding, “I don’t get it haha.”

Jessica Simpson jumped back into music with the support of her family — including her estranged husband, Eric Johnson.

“It is a gift. Eric supported that gift. My kids supported that gift,” Jessica, 44, shared in an interview with her sister, Ashlee Simpson, for The Cut published on Thursday, February 20.

Rather than record her latest musical project in Los Angeles, Jessica said she was inspired to go to Nashville after traveling to Music City for her daughter Maxwell’s 11th birthday. (Jessica shares Maxwell, now 12, with Johnson, 45, along with Ace, 11, and Birdie, 5.)

“Instead of singing ‘Happy Birthday,’ she wanted me to play Hank Williams’ ‘I Saw the Light’ when she woke up,” Jessica shared. “I was having all these flashbacks of making my first record at 14, which was a gospel record, there. I was having flashbacks of writing In This Skin, writing ‘With You,’ some of my songs that reflect me more than other stuff.”

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While playing her daughter’s birthday song of choice, Jessica said she “saw the light” to record her upcoming EP, Nashville Canyon, Part 1, in Tennessee. “I started looking at real estate that day,” she stated.

Jessica previously teased her new music in November 2024 amid speculation about the status of her marriage. “This comeback is personal, it’s an apology to myself for putting up with everything I did not deserve,” she captioned Instagram pics of herself in her “Nashville music room.”

That same month, sources confirmed to Us Weekly that Jessica and Johnson were “living separately” while “trying to figure out a separation.” Insiders added at the time that the pair planned to spend the holidays together with their children.

Jessica officially announced in January that she and Johnson had called it quits after 10 years of marriage. “Eric and I have been living separately navigating a painful situation in our marriage,” she said in a statement to Us. “Our children come first, and we are focusing on what is best for them. We are grateful for all of the love and support that has been coming our way, and appreciate privacy right now as we work through this as a family.”

Another source later told Us that “trust issues caused by the breakdown of their marriage,” adding that while Jessica is “sad” about the split, she “knows she had to make a tough decision.”

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Earlier this month, Jessica revealed that the first song off her new EP, “Use My Heart Against Me,” will drop on Friday, February 21. “’Secretly anticipatin’ That you’re takin’ me with you,’” she captioned her Instagram announcement. “Y’all head on over to JessicaSimpson.com/music to pre-save my first new tune, sneak a peek into my eyes’ mind and get a first look at what these soul vibes are feelin’ like .”

Jessica has also spoken out about where she and Johnson stand amid their ongoing separation. “I’ve grown up so much. I can handle so much. Maybe I’m just meant to love a lot of people in my life,” she told People in an interview published on Wednesday, February 19. “I don’t know why my heart gets tossed around but I’m one of the lucky ones. At least I have my children and I still have Eric. He’s still very much a part of my life and will always be.”

Waiting to Exhale turns 30 this year, and Angela Bassett has nothing but fond memories of filming the beloved rom-com.

“Waiting to Exhale, four incredible women, an incredible time in a very, very hot place,” Bassett, 66, recalled while chatting exclusively with Us Weekly at the New York City premiere of her new miniseries, Zero Day, on Tuesday, February 18. “We were in Arizona filming that. [Director] Forest Whitaker, we were just in love with him. And he [had] just the right temperament and appreciation of who we were as women. I mean, the love and the respect, the regard, the care that he took with each of us and all of us.”

Released in December 1995, Waiting to Exhale followed the romantic trials and tribulations of a group of friends, played by Bassett, Whitney Houston, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon. The four women’s strong onscreen bond is something Bassett told Us translated beyond and away from the cameras, too.

“The friendship, the bonding we were able to do before we began shooting, whether it was bowling or playing cards,” she shared. “Being around the campfire at the end, and truly, by the end of that shoot, being in love with each other and having a connection that would always be.”

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A sequel to the film was reportedly in the works but was canceled following Houston’s death at age 48 in February 2012. “When we spoke last she had just finished Sparkle and she told me how excited she was to start production on Waiting to Exhale 2 with Angela, Lela and myself,” Devine told MTV News at the time.

Bassett, for her part, told the outlet she was “so thankful to have been enveloped by the warmth of Whitney’s great talents.”

“Whatever her burdens, she has at last laid them down and picked up instead a crown,” she continued at the time. “For truly, she was and will ever be for us — who were so captivated by her strengths — unparalleled.”

Houston is one of the many iconic stars Bassett has worked with over the years. In the new show Zero Day, the 9-1-1 star reunites with Robert De Niro for the first time since they filmed 2001’s The Score.

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“[It’s] just amazing,” she told Us of getting to work with De Niro, 81, again. “I mean, a first time? OK, that’s more than a favor. But a second time? Yeah, yeah. It’s not fair. It’s favor, as they say.”

In the political thriller series, Bassett stars as President Evelyn Mitchell, who recruits a former president (De Niro) to track down the perpetrators behind a devastating cyber-attack. To play the president of the United States, Bassett drew inspiration from real-life political figures.

“It was absolutely Kamala Harris, our vice president. And we filmed this before the run for president, but I was very proud to see her have the opportunity to introduce herself to the world in that moment,” she shared. “Also, Shirley Chisholm, who was the first African American political activist woman to make a run for the presidency. … [She] paved the way for Hillary Clinton to do the same years later.”

Bassett added, “Of course, there’s Barbara Jordan and Stacey Abrams and Sojourner Truth. So, [I had] quite a North star. North stars.”

Zero Day premieres on Netflix Thursday, February 20.

With reporting by Nikaline McCarley

Working with country music royalty on their new album was an exciting challenge to The War and Treaty’s Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter.

“We wrote one song with Miranda Lambert and it was challenging, but not like, ‘Oh, this is so difficult,’” Michael, 42, exclusively told Us Weekly while talking about the duo’s latest release, Plus One, on Tuesday, February 18. “It challenged us to broaden our perspectives a little bit. I think that it did it in every way, so shout-out to Mo. Hey, Miranda!”

Lambert, 41, serves as a cowriter on Plus One’s lead single, “Love Like Whiskey,” along with Michael, Tanya, 47, and Jesse Frasure. The record dropped just in time for Valentine’s Day on Friday, February 14.

The pair’s collab with Lambert has been several years in the making, as Tanya told Us Lambert sent her “a really sweet card and a pair of boots” before she and Michael performed with Dierks Bentley at the 2021 ACM Awards.

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“I thanked her and everything for it, and we just became friends. So, we’d see each other out at different events and kind of hinted to doing something together,” Tanya explained, noting the team-up was Miranda’s idea. “One day she and Michael had been texting and she was like, ‘Hey, I’m in town. Let’s go to the studio.’ And so, we went to the studio with her and Jesse Frasure and we listened to a lot of different songs, and this was the one. She was like, ‘This is the one we’re going to write to this.’ And we did.”

Tanya went on to call three-time Grammy winner a “genius,” adding, “Working with her in the studio and just how she does her vocal arrangements — and I think people don’t get an opportunity to experience that side of her or see that side of her because it’s a studio. But we cowrote that song with her and it was great.”

While Michael and Tanya learned a thing or two from working with Lambert, they also get candid feedback on their music from none other than their 13-year-old son, Legend. “It’s very interesting to get his takes on things,” Michael told Us, adding that Legend’s music taste ranges from rock ‘n’ roll to classic jazz. “We’ll call him in and say, ‘OK, listen to this song, son, and I want you to give us your honest opinion.’ He’ll go, ‘You sure?’ He’ll sit down and he’ll get quiet and he’ll listen all the way. And he goes, ‘OK, not a War and Treaty song.’”

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Tanya, for her part, quipped, “[He’ll say], ‘You sound good, but it’s not you.’”

The new album was an emotional one for the couple, and they hope it’s just as emotional for fans to listen to. “I want you to listen to it and just feel,” Tanya told Us. “If you want to cry, cry. If you want to laugh, laugh. If you want to dance around, then do it.”

Like with any of their music, Michael said the message he hopes listeners take from Plus One is that “they’re not alone.” He shared, “Oftentimes, we feel loneliness. And it’s not so much like I’m alone physically, but we just feel like no one else out there can relate or is going through anything remotely close to what I’m going through. And I like to tell people like that’s not the truth, that you’re looking at two individuals and we’ve gone through years of things that you would not even imagine. But listening to this, that’s what Plus One is all about. I want to be your plus one in every scenario, even when you’re going through [it], I’m right there with you, plus one.”

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi

Kaitlyn Bristowe knows she has a complicated relationship with her body — and Instagram.

“Not me having body dysmorphia and then posting bikini pics,” the former Bachelorette, 39, captioned Instagram pics from her recent trip to Mexico on Monday, February 17. The post’s first slide featured a mirror selfie Bristowe took while sporting a white bikini.

“I don’t get me. But I love me,” she added. “And I love family time. Adios Mexico. Back to my babies .”

The first photo was one of many swimsuit pics Bristowe shared in her post, which also included a clip of herself sporting the same white bikini by a pool. She wore a black bikini top and pink bottoms while snapping another mirror selfie and taking a ride on the pool’s water slide. For a nighttime dip in the pool, Bristowe donned a bright pink one-piece bathing suit.

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Fans praised Bristowe for her candid post in the comments section, as well as shared their own body image struggles. “Sometimes we love how we look and sometimes we hate it – I blame our hormones . Btw, you look amazing!” one user commented, while another wrote, “I don’t post them but I take them and I look back on them fondly like ‘girl remember that one day when… .”

The Golden Bachelorette star Joan Vassos also gushed over Bristowe’s bikini body, commenting, “Remind me to never sit on a beach next to you!!!”

Bristowe previously opened up about experiencing body dysmorphia ahead of doing a swimsuit photo shoot in March 2024. “5 years ago I would have thought I need[ed] to eat air and grilled chicken to prep,” she wrote via her Instagram Story at the time. “Right now in this moment I’m thinking, ‘Ugh I love snacks. Eating these snacks aren’t going to change my body overnight AND … working out and not feeding my body will only make me miserable. I’m gonna be hard on myself no matter what but lets [sic] lean into alllll the feelings and try to love on this body that I keep strong and healthy.’”

She continued, “I still struggle but recognizing growth in a WIN. Body dysmorphia is real.”

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Over the years, Bristowe has been candid about how her appearance has changed since Bachelor Nation fans met her on season 19 of The Bachelor in 2015. “Everyone’s like, ‘Stop doing stuff to your face,’” she said in a February 2024 Instagram Story video. “I will never. I love skincare. I love having bright, tight, glowy skin. I love it.”

In December 2024, Bristowe took to Instagram to share then-and-now photos of herself, writing, “Believe it or not, I’ve done more work on the inside. You can’t physically see that, but I’ve never felt it more.”

She went on to address online trolls, stating, “To the people who always wanna comment ‘You were so much prettier before all the work you’ve had done,’ I suggest you do the important work on the inside before judging what’s on the outside.”

Savannah Guthrie’s family vacation in Palm Beach, Florida turned into an unexpected Today reunion.

Guthrie, 53, snapped a selfie with Hoda Kotb after running into her former Today coanchor during her trip. “Oh and a bonus @hodakotb sighting for a little extra ,” Guthrie captioned the Instagram pic, which also featured her husband, Michael Feldman, and a few of Kotb’s friends.

Fans freaked out over the reunion in the post’s comments, with one Instagram user writing, “Love your friendship! Everyone misses @hodakotb.” One fan called the women their “two favorite co-anchor[s]” of Today, while another commented, “Oh I know that was ONE EPIC HUG!!”

Guthrie’s selfie with Kotb, 60, is one of several vacation pics she shared via Instagram. “Turns out all they needed was more sunshine, more pink, more bingo, more pink, more warmth, more pink drinks, more time more together ,” she wrote alongside snaps of herself, Feldman, 56, and their kids — daughter Vale, 10, and son Charley, 8 — soaking up the sun at the pool and the beach.

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Guthrie took some time off from Today for her vacation, as she was absent from the NBC morning show’s Monday, February 17, and Tuesday, February 18, episodes. She returned to her hosting duties on Wednesday, February 19.

Kotb, for her part, was also enjoying time in Florida with her daughters — Haley, 8, and Hope, 5 — after stepping down from Today last month. “Wait… whaaaattt— each of my girls caught a fish today!! #wow,” she captioned Instagram pics of herself fishing with her girls on Monday. “Threw em back— but what a thrill!”

While announcing her Today exit in September 2024, Kotb cited turning 60 and wanting to spend more time with her kids, whom she shares with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman, as the main reason behind her decision.

“I was so sad for myself and for the show because — to me — she’s irreplaceable. I was happy for her as her friend,” Guthrie exclusively told Us Weekly of Kotb’s exit in October 2024. “I just think she’s being so creative and so bold and stepping out into this amazing new future that she doesn’t exactly know what it will look like. She believes in herself and she knows and she hears that call. I find that to be incredible.”

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Kotb bid farewell to Today on January 10. “Savannah, oh, my God. You’re my person, my person,” Kotb tearfully gushed during her final episode. “You know who shows up for everybody? This girl. … She’s in the room, she’s always in the room, and I love you.”

Guthrie and Kotb’s Florida run-in was not the first time they have reunited since the latter left Today. The pair were two of many Today stars who supported Willie Geist at the first-ever Sunday Sitdown Live taping last month.

After the taping, Guthrie and Kotb stepped out to grab dinner with fellow NBC colleague Jenna Bush Hager. “Reunited – but never really apart ,” Guthrie captioned a January 22 Instagram selfie of the trio. Since Kotb’s exit, Bush Hager, 43, has continued to cohost the fourth hour of Today, titled Today With Jenna & Friends, with a rotating lineup of celebrity guest hosts.

Former Playboy model Ariane Bellamar has died at age 46.

Bellamar’s ex-husband, Tanner Slaught, confirmed her death via her official Facebook page last month, sharing that she died on December 20, 2024. “I ask for your consideration to view more information by clicking on the link below to view our fundraiser for her funeral,” Slaught, who shared two daughters with Bellamar, wrote alongside a link to a GoFundMe page. “Her extremely early departure from this world has caught everyone off guard and we were not prepared for this.”

He went on to state that he was working to “provide Ariane, and our daughters, with a respectful ceremony for grieving their lost mother as a platform to start the healing process. Thank you.”

Slaught created the GoFundMe on behalf of Bellamar’s beneficiary, Scott Shelly, on January 21. “We launched this fundraiser to help pay for Ariane Bellamar’s funeral,” he wrote on the page, revealing that Bellamar died from a heart attack. “While this unbelievable news is shocking because she was only 46, I can assure you that I have verified this truth.”

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He continued: “The purpose of this fundraiser is to help Scott and I pay for Ariane’s funeral service. Unfortunately, Ariane, and the rest of us, were not prepared for this sudden turn of events. Therefore, the financial responsibility of putting on Ari’s funeral has become Scott and my financial weight to bear.”

According to the fundraiser, donations will cover travels for “Ariane’s friends who are having financial difficulties” and “lessen the financial weight of this modest funeral” for Slaught and Shelly.

“If we can accomplish our goals above, then any remaining funds will be either donated to a charity in Ariane’s memory or to create a charity to help women, mothers and children, and young women in need,” the page states.

TMZ obtained a report of death from the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner in Nevada on Tuesday, February 18, though no further details about Bellamar’s death were publicly available.

Bellamar was born on June 27, 1978, in Florida and raised outside of Toronto, per her IMDb bio. Best known for her career as a Playboy model, Bellamar acted in a handful of projects over the years, including Minding the Store, Raven, The Hangover Part III and Suicide Squad. She also appeared as herself on a number of reality series, including Hotel Hell, Beverly Hills Nannies, The Millionaire Matchmaker and Famous in 12.

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Back in October 2017, Bellamar made headlines when she accused Entourage actor Jeremy Piven of sexual assault. “Hey @jeremypiven! ‘Member when you cornered me in your trailer on the #Entourage set? ‘Member grabbing my boobies on the without asking??” she wrote via X at the time.

In a second post, she added, “’Member when I tried to leave; you grabbed me by the ass, looked at yourself in the mirror, & said what a ‘beautiful couple’ we made? #MeToo.” She also claimed that Piven, 59, “cornered me & forcefully fondled my breasts & bum. Once at the [Playboy] mansion & once on set.”

Piven denied Bellamar’s accusations in a statement to Us Weekly at the time. “It did not happen. It takes a great deal of courage for victims to come forward with their histories, and my hope is that the allegations about me that didn’t happen, do not detract from stories that should be heard,” he said.

Kendall Jenner and Devin Booker’s on-again, off-again romance is officially back on.

A source exclusively reveals in the latest issue of Us Weekly that Jenner and Booker are “very much together,” adding, “Kendall thinks Devin is really funny, and they seem very solid right now.”

The insider notes that the duo “were in NYC recently at a friend’s dinner party, making out and being very affectionate.”

Despite their recent PDA, Jenner and Booker are choosing to keep their rekindled romance out of the spotlight.

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“Kendall and Devin like to keep their relationship private,” the source shares. “But they are very touchy-feely when they’re with friends.”

Us previously confirmed that Jenner, 29, was “enjoying hanging out” with both Booker, 28, and her ex Bad Bunny in March 2024. A separate source noted that Jenner saw “nothing wrong” with keeping her options open. (Jenner and Bad Bunny, 30, dated from February 2023 to December 2023 and briefly reconciled in summer 2024 before calling it quits for good.)

Another insider shared similar comments in September 2024, telling Us that Jenner is “really attracted” to Booker. However, the insider told Us that Jenner was choosing to stay “single” at the time, explaining, “Kendall isn’t ready to be tied down at the moment and is enjoying this era.”

Jenner and Booker’s recent reconciliation comes nearly five years after the first sparked romance rumors in April 2020. “They’re hooking up, but they’re not serious,” another source exclusively told Us in June 2020. “She’s talking to a couple different guys. She has so many men after her it’s crazy.”

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The two made their romance Instagram official in February 2021, as Jenner shared a photo of herself laughing as Booker cuddled her on a kitchen countertop. Booker, for his part, posted an Instagram Story video of Jenner playing with a dog.

The pair split for the first time in June 2022, with a source telling Us at the time that they were “taking this time to focus on themselves and figure out if a future together is what’s meant to be.” The duo didn’t stay apart for long, as they were publicly spotted multiple times before getting back together two months later.

“They spent some time apart but are back to a good place and are really happy with each other,” an insider told Us in August 2022.

Their relationship came to an end again in November 2022, with another source telling Us that there was “no bad blood between them.”

Last year, an insider teased Jenner and Booker’s eventual reunion exclusively to Us. “Kendall and Devin aren’t fully back together yet, but they have been spending a lot of time together and are working on their relationship,” the insider shared in February 2024. “He’s happy to have a shot with Kendall again because he really missed her.”

For more on Jenner and Booker, watch the video above and pick up the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco just took the next step in their relationship.

Us Weekly can confirm that the couple recently purchased a $35 million home together in Beverly Hills, California. Their future, rather large home includes seven bedrooms and 12 bathrooms, along with a pool and an adjoining guest house.

News of the pair’s home purchase comes two months after Gomez, 32, announced via Instagram that she and the music producer, 36, got engaged after more than one year of dating. “Forever begins now,” she captioned the Instagram post, featuring several snaps of herself flashing her engagement ring and cuddling up with her fiancé.

The two collaborated on multiple music projects over the years before sparking dating rumors in 2023. Gomez confirmed the pair’s relationship that December, revealing in a social media comment that she and Blanco had been dating for “six months.”

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Gomez continued to gush over her marquise-shaped diamond engagement ring in a December 2024 Instagram Story post, writing, “Sorry last post … I’ve just dreamed of this moment my whole life.” At the time, Jared Jewelers expert and VP of Merchandising Ann Grimmett told Us that the ring is estimated to be six carats and worth $225,000.

Grimmett also noted that the dazzler was “rare, given less than five percent of diamonds are marquise.”

Building a home together isn’t the only project Gomez and Blanco have been working on. Earlier this month, Gomez announced that she and Blanco teamed up again for her brand-new album, I Said I Love You First, which will be released on March 21. The album’s debut single, “Scared of Loving You,” features a subtle nod to Gomez’s romantic history.

“If I broke your heart / Would you take me back? / If I broke my arm / Would you sign my cast?,” she sings in the song’s first verse. “When I was young / I would love too fast / Hope I don’t repeat my past.”

Before Blanco, Gomez had been romantically linked to stars such as Nick Jonas, Zedd, The Weeknd and Drew Taggart. Her most famous relationship was her on-again, off-again romance with Justin Bieber, which lasted from 2011 to 2018.

Ahead of moving in with Gomez and saying “I do,” Blanco revealed that he knew their relationship was meant to last from the very beginning. “The second we started hanging out, I was like, ‘This is my wife,’” he shared in a joint interview with Gomez for Interview magazine earlier this month. “I was telling my mom, ‘This is the girl I’m going to marry.’”

He recently surprised his fiancée with an unconventional Valentine’s Day gift, foregoing flowers or chocolates in favor of an entire bathtub filled to the brim with queso. As a cherry on top, he wrote “I [heart] you” on the floor with tortilla chips before placing a bowl of chips next to the tub for dipping.

“When your fiancé[e] isnt much of a flowers girl,” he jokingly captioned a February 14 Instagram video of his present, which he also enjoyed by dipping a chip into the tub full of queso.

Rachael Kirkconnell is clarifying where she stands with ex-boyfriend Matt James one month after their split.

Social media personality Zachary Reality pointed out that Kirkconnell, 28, “liked” one of James’ recent Instagram posts from his trip to Kenya in a Monday, February 17, TikTok video. “To me, this says, ‘We are on friendlier terms,” Zachary Reality said in the video “We’ve probably talked a little bit behind the scenes. Now I’m liking your post to let the fans know that things have smoothed over a little bit.’”

Kirkconnell agreed with his take in the post’s comments, but confirmed that her feelings for James, 33, as a person have not changed since they ended their romance. “Never hated him and never will, i will always be rooting for him and wish him the best,” she wrote. “At the end of the day a like is just a like. we’re all good over here .”

Zachary Reality shared a screenshot of Kirkconnell’s comment via his Instagram Story on Monday, writing, “Queen Rachael Kirkconnell with a message in my tiktok comment section after speculation over her liking Instagram reel .”

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Kirkconnell continued to address her and James’ split by replying to more fan comments. “I want her to want better for herself,” one user wrote underneath the TikTok upload, to which Kirkconnell replied, “I do alexis!! we’re good over here.”

She went on to deny another comment suggesting she “liked” James’ post to get in his “good graces” after discussing their breakup on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast last month, as well as clarified that she never unfollowed James on social media.

“Maybe it’s her way of telling fans to lay off the hate on him. Even on CHD she didn’t want him to be pinned the villain,” a TikTok user commented. Kirkconnell responded by writing, “Yes Dana,” as well as left a yellow heart emoji under the comment.

James has not publicly commented on the pair’s breakup behind his split announcement, which he recently deleted. “Father God, give Rachael and I strength to mend our broken hearts,” he captioned a pic of them from when they met on The Bachelor season 25 in 2021. “Give us a peace about this decision to end our relationship that transcends worldly understanding. Shower our friends and family with kindness and love to comfort us. And

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On the January 28 episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Kirkconnell revealed that she and James broke up after getting into an argument while on a trip to Tokyo earlier that month. She also claimed James didn’t give her a heads-up about his Instagram breakup post, but rather saw the post go live right before she was about to board her flight home from Japan.

“I would love to know. I don’t know if it was out of just him being so worked up, if it was out of anger, or if it was one of those things where he felt like he needed to do it to really finally just put a nail in the coffin, but I have spoken with him since all of that and I do know that he definitely acknowledges that that was not the right decision,” she explained. “When I step back, I’m mad … he should not have done that to me after four years. He didn’t even text me to give me a warning, like, saying, ‘Hey, I’m posting this.’”

James, for his part, followed up their breakup by traveling to Kenya. “How you spend 24 hours in Nairobi, Kenya ,” James captioned a montage of clips from his trip via Instagram on Monday, which was the post Kirkconnell left a “like” on.

A storm will be brewing in Oz when fans return to the world of Wicked on the big screen later this year.

“Wicked 2 is definitely a lot darker in a lot of ways,” Marissa Bode, who stars as Elphaba’s sister Nessarose in the two-part movie musical adaptation, exclusively told Us Weekly of the upcoming sequel, Wicked: For Good. “So, I’m excited for that aspect of it.”

Without spoiling what’s to come, Bode, 24, told Us she’s just as excited to see “what all the other cast members do with their character arcs, adding, “There’s a time jump for sure, and I’m excited to see visually – because I haven’t really seen any of the footage yet – how the characters have changed for good or maybe not for good.”

For now, she’s remaining tight-lipped on what For Good details she can and can’t share. “I can’t say. Not yet,” she quipped. “I signed an NDA.”

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Wicked, which hit theaters in November 2024, follows the events of the Broadway musical’s first act as Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda’s (Ariana Grande) relationship evolves from rival roommates to unlikely friends. (The musical is based on the book of the same name by Gregory Maguire, which is an imagined prequel to L. Frank Baum‘s The Wizard of Oz, the source material for the beloved 1939 film.)

Like the original show, Wicked: For Good will pick up some time after Elphaba belts “Defying Gravity” and flees the Emerald City to continue her work helping the animals of Oz. The sequel, which will follow the story of the musical’s Act 2, will continue to explore Elphaba and Glinda’s complicated dynamic as they find themselves on opposing sides as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch, respectively.

In addition to making her feature film debut in Wicked, Bode also made history as the first wheelchair-using actress to portray Nessarose. While working with the film’s star-studded cast was a memorable experience for Bode, one of her favorite moments with her costars happened off-set.

“Probably [when I was] with Ari and Johnny [Bailey] going to see Beyoncé,” she told Us of attending the Renaissance World Tour with her castmates. “That was fun. That was really fun.”

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With Wicked: For Good still months away from its release, Bode is already envisioning her next career steps. “I want to try a little bit of everything, honestly,” she shared. “But I love silly, goofy, little coming-of-age stuff. I also love indie projects – A24. A24, if you’re listening, hire your girl!”

Wicked: For Good will feature a few new songs – including one cowritten by Erivo, 38 – as well as make some changes to Nessarose’s story. Spoilers for the Wicked musical: In Act 2, Elphaba grants Nessarose the ability to walk by enchanting her pair of silver slippers.

Bode previously revealed that the story will be altered in the upcoming film, “I wasn’t there for the actual script change,” she told People in December 2024, adding that director Jon M. Chu told her, “’Hey, we changed this part in this way just so that it felt less like a fixing moment.’”

The story change will focus less on Nessarose “pleading for a disability to be fixed” and instead “on the magic in general and the magic of the story,” Bode explained.

Wicked: For Good hits theaters on November 21.

With reporting by Mariel Turner