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Country songs are full of weddings that exist mostly as metaphors — the church, the dress, the girl, the forever. What Shane Profitt and Chloe Crawford did in Nashville on October 16 was take the metaphor literally, and the result is worth lingering on. A working country singer married the woman he met through country … Read more
Read the setlist first and you already know this couple. The groom entered to Elvis Presley. The bride entered to “Goodness of God,” the modern gospel anthem by CeCe Winans. The first dance belonged to Chris Stapleton. When Shane Profitt married Chloe Crawford in Nashville on Friday, October 16, the music was not decoration — … Read more
Every song at this wedding meant something. Shane Profitt, the rising country singer, married Chloe Crawford on Friday, October 16, in Nashville, in an intimate celebration with 126 guests that the couple have called the best day of their lives. It was a Nashville wedding in the truest sense: a love story that started at … Read more
Let us appreciate, for a moment, the sheer nerve of Bridget Marquardt’s love story. Most celebrity romances are built for the feed: the soft launch, the red-carpet hard launch, the sponsored wedding. Marquardt and Nicholas Carpenter built theirs out of a plastic spider, a decade-long engagement and a wedding so quiet that the announcement was … Read more
Every great proposal has a prop, and Nicholas Carpenter’s was a plastic spider. When he decided to ask Bridget Marquardt to marry him, he chose a Los Angeles hiking trail beside a waterfall the couple used to visit — and turned the moment into a two-act joke that fans of the former Girls Next Door … Read more
It might be the most low-key celebrity wedding reveal of the year. Bridget Marquardt, the former Girls Next Door star, has quietly married Nicholas Carpenter, her partner of 18 years — and the news did not come from a press release or a magazine exclusive. Carpenter broke it himself, casually, while appearing as a guest … Read more
There is a photograph from Rob Jetten and Nico Keenan’s baby announcement that tells you everything about how this couple does public life. No podium, no flag backdrop, no spin: just the Dutch prime minister, his Olympic fiancé and the woman carrying their child, all three smiling over an ultrasound picture. It is worth pausing … Read more
Some baby announcements are staged like state occasions. Rob Jetten and Nico Keenan’s looked more like a family photograph that happened to make history. On Monday, October 19, the Dutch prime minister and his Argentine fiancé revealed they are expecting their first child in 2027 — and behind the smiling picture with their surrogate Lisa … Read more
The Netherlands is getting a first baby at the very top of government. Rob Jetten, the country’s prime minister, and his fiancé, Olympic field hockey player Nico Keenan, announced on Monday, October 19, that they are expecting their first child together, due in 2027. The couple shared the news on Instagram with photographs that show … Read more
Pop stars are trained to be indestructible in public, which is why the most striking thing about Charli xcx’s Arizona cancellation is how undefended it is. No vague ‘unforeseen circumstances.’ No blaming the venue. Just a singer saying she fought sickness as long as she could, that her voice is gone, and that missing the … Read more