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Courtesy Getty/Design by Leah Romero I’ll admit it: I didn’t watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer until I was in my twenties. I was in high school for the majority of its original run—from 1997 to 2003—and would tell myself the show wasn’t for me because the girl my 9th grade boyfriend had not-so-secretly hooked up

Dimitrios Kambouris/Sophie CarreGetty Images As this year’s Guggenheim International Gala performer, Lorde had two big fashion moments: the first in a haute couture gown on the red carpet and the second in a gold suit on stage. For each one, Lorde opted to wear Christian Dior—and the story behind each outfit’s creation is as impressive

At the end of the first season of My Unorthodox Life, the reality show’s star Julia Haart sits down at the head of her family dinner and makes a toast. “I think that we are a very rare and usual group of people,” she says, looking out a table of her children, her ex-husband, his

Adele really came for our feelings with “My Little Love,” the soulful third track on her new album 30. The emotional song contains recordings of herself and her nine-year-old son, Angelo, discussing her feelings about her breakup with Simon Konecki, Angelo’s father. (The singer filed for divorce from Konecki in 2019 after eight years together,

There’s a telling scene in Hulu’s new docuseries The Curse of Von Dutch: A Brand To Die For, in which pop icon Whitney Houston arrives at the brand’s flagship store and departs with dozens of logo-adorned products, all gifted to her for free. It’s the early-aughts, nearing the peak of Von Dutch’s feverish strangle-hold on

Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello confirmed their breakup last night amid split rumors, but the two singers did not offer any insight into why they ended their two-year romance. Now, a source is giving a little background to Entertainment Tonight about what led them to decide it’s better to not date anymore. It was both

As streaming services wrestle to nail down which episode rollout strategy will prove most fruitful, HBO Max has taken the “spaghetti at the wall” approach, cutting some series into mini half-seasons or, as is the case with The Sex Lives of College Girls, dicing up the show into seemingly arbitrary chunks. This strategy might smooth

Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s two-year romantic relationship has come to an end. The two singers announced on their Instagram Stories this evening that they’ve decided to stop dating. The two were friends for years before they became romantically involved in July 2019. Jeff KravitzGetty Images They shared identical statements on their Instagram Stories, saying:

Earlier this month, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar was once again the subject of intense backlash after he tweeted a photoshopped anime video depicting him killing his colleague, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Immediately after, Ocasio-Cortez responded in a tweet, saying “a creepy member I work with who fundraises for Neo-Nazi groups shared a fantasy video of him

Spider-Man and his crew are back for a new adventure that will undoubtedly turn his world upside-down (literally) just in time for the holidays. Marvel Studios and Sony announced that Spider-Man: No Way Home will hit theaters on December 17. The highly anticipated installment of Tom Holland’s web-slinging trilogy is rumored to introduce the multiverse

Riverdale season 6 is premiering into a new world of possibility. The show where anything can happen has inevitably connected to the otherworldly—which offered a perfect crossover opportunity with The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, another TV universe born from the Archie comics. The Riverdale character channeling the most of this new power is maple syrup

As surely as all good things must come to an end, so must all good things eventually be resurrected as a reboot, reunion, or revival on a major streaming platform. The latest example, of course, is the Broadway musical Spring Awakening, whose 2006 original cast reunited for the first time on November 16 as part

Elle Fanning stepped out in one of her edgiest looks of the year, wearing a literal giant gold chain crop top with a black column skirt at the annual InStyle awards last night in Los Angeles. The outfit, by Balmain, was midriff-baring and mesmerizing. Fanning wore her blonde hair down straight and had a dramatic

Kristen Stewart gave The New Yorker a very honest reflection of her time filming Twilight in the magazine’s new profile on her, which serves as a career retrospective. In the piece, Stewart recounted her first impression of her Twilight co-star and later off-screen boyfriend Robert Pattinson when he came to audition for the role of

Adele is coming back in a major way. To celebrate her long-awaited return—her next album, 30, arrives Nov. 19—the singer is producing a primetime TV special that will include live performances and an exclusive tell-all interview. The production is a big one fit for a superstar like Adele: It was filmed on the top of

Adele debuted a new song, “I Drink Wine,” during her One Night Only TV concert special tonight. The soulful, bluesy composition conveys the struggles in a relationship and the efforts that go into making it work. “You better believe I’m trying to keep climbing / But the higher we climb, feels like we’re both none

Adele shared a new song, “Hold On,” tonight during her One Night Only concert special and sent viewers into an emotional spiral. The deep but inspirational ballad, which will appear on her upcoming album 30, is loaded with lyrics that’ll stick with you (the kind you’ll be cry-screaming the shower). “Sometimes loneliness is the only

This weekend was Taylor Swift’s musical guest spot on Saturday Night Live, where she broke convention by singing only one long song—her ten-minute version of “All Too Well” off her new album Red (Taylor’s Version). A lot of people showed up to see and support Swift, including her ex, Joe Jonas, and his wife, Sophie

On Friday, Britney Spears’s conservatorship officially ended. Rumors swirled in early October that Spears intended to retire from music after this momentous occasion, but an inside source told Page Six that’s all they were: rumors. Apparently, Britney Spears “wants to make music and perform again.” She’s just not in a rush. The source said that

Dakota Johnson has a star-studded family, born to actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson. Fewer people realize her grandmother is Hollywood royalty Tippi Hedren, known best for her starring turn in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. During a live taping of The Hollywood Reporter‘s “Awards Chatter” podcast, Johnson explained why she thinks that Hedren wasn’t given

This week, Taylor Swift’s new album Red (Taylor’s Version) dropped, and the response has been pretty wildly enthusiastic. On Thursday, she appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers, and her look really reminded people of someone. She was in a black David Koma minidress with long sleeves sliding off her shoulders, and a V cut

Taylor Swift delivered on her All Too Well short film, and Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien, playing a couple in it, truly gave the roles their all. The short film just premiered in YouTube. In it, Swift channeled her own past, depicting the high points of Sink and O’Brien’s characters’ romance and how it all

Taylor Swift has officially released Red (Taylor’s Version), the re-recording of her 2012 album, complete with additional tracks that had never been heard before—including one very important 10-minute version of the fan-favorite song “All Too Well.” Swift has teased for years that there was an original, longer version of the song, and now with Red

Passing opens on a busy street in 1920s New York. A mysterious woman (Tessa Thompson) is roaming through Manhattan. In this part of town, she anxiously hides behind a wide-brimmed hat covering half her face. It’s every bit intentional. When she later settles down in the grand tea room at The Drayton Hotel, she stays