Celebrities Blog

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

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

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

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

Profiles of athletes’ parents usually exist to explain the athlete. This one works the other way round: Dan and Laura Olson are interesting in their own right, and their son’s unlikely career — part baseball, part Broadway, part ballroom — makes the most sense when you start with them. Consider Derek Jeter, Robinson Canó and … Read more

Somewhere in television history there is a rule that spin-offs are supposed to be grateful. SNL UK just broke it beautifully — and in doing so, it may have given us the clearest picture yet of what modern comedy arguments are actually about. Strip the story down and it is almost elegant. An American host … Read more

Let us ask the obvious question first: why would a family spend $4,000 and more than 200 hours turning their home into Jurassic Park? The sensible answers — they love the film, they love Halloween — are true but insufficient. Plenty of people love both. The Warners built a 13-foot gate anyway, and the reasons … Read more

Strip the celebrity away and Mel Robbins’ story is an accounting problem: how does a person carrying an $800,000 Debt — depressed, drinking too much, married to a man she was close to leaving — end up, in her late fifties, with a record-breaking book, a Golden Globe-nominated podcast and a magazine cover? The gap … Read more

Let us be honest about why a five-minute shopping trip became a week of headlines. It is not the bird, though the bird helps. It is that Kelly Clarkson’s Brooklyn story presses on a bruise almost everyone carries: the suspicion that somewhere, in some polished room, we were once looked at and quietly priced. Clarkson … Read more

There is a specific sound a room makes when a catchphrase is coming. It is a laugh that starts before the joke, built entirely of memory. The ’90s Con crowd in Hartford made that sound all afternoon on Sunday, October 18, as seven members of the Full House cast — the most complete reunion since … Read more