“Mondays are hard enough,” I thought 15 seconds into the new music video for Harry Styles’s “Golden.” It was then I knew my productivity for the day would significantly decrease. “Golden” is the fifth single off the Fine Line album, following music videos for “Watermelon Sugar,” “Adore You,” “Lights Up,” and “Falling.” After factoring in
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Episode 8 of The Haunting of Bly Manor delves into the origin story of the haunted English estate where the series takes place, focusing on the human life of the ghostly, murderous Lady in the Lake, aka Viola Willoughby. Viola is the older of two orphaned sisters who compete for the affections of a man
Matt WinkelmeyerGetty Images Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra have been married for nearly two years, and nearly eight months of that time has been during a pandemic. Apparently those months spent inside were a blessing in disguise for these newlyweds. During a virtual interview, Today hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager asked Chopra what
On Saturday, Gigi Hadid posted a selfie in a multicolored “vote” T-shirt. It’s the first photo she’s posted of herself since she became a mom last month, and she had a very important message: “I voted absentee last week with my daughter next to me, for an America I want her to see; but not
Ryan Reynolds turned 44 years old on Friday, and his wife honored their sweet, romantic tradition of…trolling each other on the internet. She wrote: “1) Who is the lost soul that selects birthday PIE. 2) What ANIMAL eats their cake (pie) without first blowing out the candles. @vancityreynolds that’s who. Happy Birthday. I honestly can’t
Early voting began in New York City on Saturday, resulting in long lines across the city. Timothée Chalamet was one of thousands who rolled out of bed and into an hours-long line to wait to cast their vote. Thankfully Chalamet, who stood in line at Madison Square Garden, had some company as he waited: He
Michael KovacGetty Images On Saturday morning, Hilary Duff made a special announcement on her Instagram: Along with a video of her husband, Matthew Koma, rubbing her stomach, she wrote, “We are growing!!! Mostly me…” They are expecting baby No. 2. Duff and Koma already have a daughter, Banks Violet, who was born in 2018 and
The November 3 presidential election is almost upon us, and the main focus this fall seems to be on whether we will have four more years of Donald Trump or the first female vice president in American history. Your vote for president is extremely important this year, but here’s something you shouldn’t overlook: the rest
Jennifer Aniston is among the many people to vote early—and she shared who she cast her ballot for on her Instagram. The Friends star publicly endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for president, then went on to explain just why she’s voting for them with so much at stake for women, LGBTQA+, people of color
Danita DelimontGetty Images Eric Reads The News is a daily humor column which skewers politics, pop culture, celebrity, shade, and schadenfreude. . On Wednesday NASA teased a forthcoming “discovery” about the surface of the Moon, to be announced Monday October 26 and I would like to file a formal complaint for emotional distress. Here’s the
This debate cycle has been anything but predictable. The first presidential debate was essentially lawless; the second presidential debate was canceled thanks to President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis and refusal to participate in a virtual debate; and this final debate was… actually comprehensible. (If you missed it: After the unruly first debate, the Commission on Presidential
With just days to go until November 3, calls to vote—some aimed squarely at Black women—have reached a fever pitch. But as many electoral strategists know, Black women are among the United States’ most consistent voters. Over the summer, as the country celebrated the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, a reckoning over systemic racism
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have settled into their new home in Montecito, California and are taking the next step with their Archewell foundation. Now, the landing page on foundation’s website has finally been unveiled to provide users the opportunity to be updated on the couple’s humanitarian work and charitable activities. A source close
Dominic Lipinski – PA ImagesGetty Images We knew when Reese Witherspoon picked the coming-of-age mystery Where The Crawdads Sing—which has now spent an unbelievable 98 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list—as her monthly Reese’s Book Club pick in September 2018, it was only a matter of time before an adaptation followed. Witherspoon has
With less than two weeks to go until election day, all eyes are on Kristen Welker. The NBC News correspondent will be the final moderator in the presidential debates between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, hosting their match-up at Nashville’s Belmont University on Thursday, October 22. Welker, 44, is only the second Black woman to
Nicki Minaj marked her and Kenneth Petty’s one-year wedding anniversary by sharing the first photo of their newborn son on her Instagram. Minaj wrote, “Happy Anniversary, my love ♥️” Her son’s foot was on display in the intimate shot. This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in
I was at my laptop writing when a friend texted with the news of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. Six-plus months into a mass-killing pandemic that never had to happen, in a nation convulsed by a racist backlash against the simple statement that Black Lives Matter, with wildfire smoke singeing each inhale, I didn’t know how
Stepping into the shoes of Princess Diana was no simple process, according to actress Emma Corrin. Ahead of The Crown‘s season 4 debut, she’s spoken about the work it entailed to portray the late royal, from watching the documentary Diana: In Her Own Words “about a hundred times” to meeting with Diana’s private secretary Patrick
It’s 5 o’clock somewhere and Rita Ora is rising to the occasion. On today’s episode of “Mama, I Made It,” we join Ora in the kitchen as she prepares her mom’s secret Penne all’Arrabbiata recipe, drink in hand. She also broadcasts her love of spicy food, reflects on learning to cook in Kosovo, and sneaks
Queer Eye beauty guru Jonathan Van Ness knows how to deliver a message. Just as he’s convinced heroes on his hit Netflix series to adopt a new skincare routine or chop off their hair, he’s encouraging citizens to make a voting plan ahead of the 2020 election. Van Ness narrates a video titled “Land of
It doesn’t take long to realize that Emily in Paris (Lily Collins) has no clue what she’s doing. The Netflix show follows a clueless young American woman who walks into a culture with which she’s made no effort to familiarize herself; when she first meets her downstairs neighbor, Gabriel (Lucas Bravo), he tells her he’s
There are new worlds to explore—quite literally—in the genre-hopping Lovecraft Country, the HBO series that applies supernatural horrors to Jim Crow America. With so much left to uncover, and a season finale rapidly approaching, fans are curious if showrunner Misha Green will diverge further from her source material, the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff. If
The first trailer for The Haunting of Bly Manor, unsurprisingly, didn’t give away many specifics about the show or its spooky twists. But the eerie song playing in the background of that ambiguous teaser was, as it turns out, telling us a lot more about the show than we could’ve ever realized at the time.
The final ten minutes of the Haunting of Bly Manor finale pack in a couple of big emotional twists, as the significance of the wedding sequence that bookends the show finally becomes clear. When the series first picks up with Carla Gugino’s character narrating a ghost story—which becomes the main story of the show—to guests