Nadia Santiago
Nadia Santiago is a writer who lives between the clouds and the coastline, and writes about all the things your heart knows but your mouth can never quite say.
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Tan France Finally Told the Story of the “Queer Eye” Castmate Who Called Him a “Traitor” for Not Being Out to His Family
Tan France joined Jesse Tyler Ferguson on the June 23 episode of his podcast “Dinner’s On Me” and told a story he says he’d kept to himself for years. It happened while they were filming the first season of the “Queer Eye” reboot in 2018. A castmate, who Tan won’t name, learned that Tan wasn’t…
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Sarah Shahi Wondered How She’d Get Turned on by a “47-Year-Old Large Balding Man” on the Sopranos. “Oh Boy Did It Work For Me.”
Sarah Shahi calls her kiss with James Gandolfini one of the best she’s ever had. She was not expecting that going in. Shahi was early in her career in 2007 when she landed a guest role on The Sopranos. She played Sonya, a Las Vegas woman Tony Soprano connects with during a drug-fueled spiral after…
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Reese Witherspoon Kept Her Boyfriend of 2 Years Out of Public View. She Made Their Debut at the Legally Blonde Premiere
Reese Witherspoon and Oliver Haarmann held hands at the New York premiere of “Elle” on June 23, the first time the couple has stepped out together at a major event after about 2 years together. The two kept the relationship deliberately low-key since around 2024, with sources describing them as very committed and very much…
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Keke Palmer Was Asked About Sean Evans Dating Rumors. She Answered “One Wing At A Time.”
Keke Palmer has never been one to give a straight answer when a fun one is available, and she proved it again at Cannes Lions. During Spotify’s “Conversations That Channel Culture” panel on Tuesday, host Jay Shetty asked the 32-year-old actress and podcaster whether she was serious about Sean Evans, the longtime host and producer…
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Shay Mitchell and Hassie Harrison Are Back in the Red One-Piece, Filming Fox’s Baywatch Reboot on Venice Beach
Mitchell plays Trina, a former top-tier lawyer who quit her firm to lifeguard full-time. Harrison, fresh off Yellowstone, plays Nat, a former foster kid turned Olympic athlete who’s held to impossibly high standards on the sand. Backgrid photographed the two on June 22, 2026, posing on the deck of a pale blue lifeguard tower while…
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Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith Stepped Out for Dinner Together in Paris, 10 Years into the Separation They’ve Never Legally Ended
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith arrived arm-in-arm for a family dinner in Paris on June 22, photographed outside the restaurant near a stone building still lit by wall lanterns. Will, 57, wore a white cap and a patterned short-sleeved button-up over a cream tee with cuffed camel trousers. Jada, 54, paired a structured black…
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Jamie Lynn Spears’s 8-Year-Old Daughter Was in a Coma with a Priest Reading Her Last Rites. Then She Sat Up in Her Restraints and the Priest Said He’d Never Seen Anything Like It
Jamie Lynn Spears was 17 when she had Maddie. She has said the two of them grew up together. So when she talks about almost losing her daughter in 2017, she’s talking about losing the person she had spent her whole adult life beside. Maddie was 8. She was riding a Polaris ATV on the…
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The Actress Playing Young Elle Woods in the “Legally Blonde” Prequel Went on Fallon in the Exact Dress Reese Witherspoon Wore to the 2001 Premiere
Lexi Minetree is the newcomer stepping into Elle Woods. She plays a young Elle in “Elle,” the “Legally Blonde” prequel series arriving July 1 on Prime Video. Reese Witherspoon is an executive producer, so the dress wasn’t a coincidence or a vintage find. It was a handoff. The actress who built the character watched the…
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She Co-Wrote Kpop Demon Hunters While Quietly Coming Out as Bisexual. The Story She Was Telling Kept Turning into Her Own
Hannah McMechan is one of the screenwriters behind “KPop Demon Hunters,” the Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation film that became the most-watched original animated title in Netflix history, with more than 500 million views and four songs in the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 at once. She joined the project in 2020, fresh out of…
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Keke Palmer Kissed Sean Evans Across the Table on ‘Hot Ones,’ and Now They’ve Been Spotted at Dinner in Brooklyn
A photo tip to DeuxMoi caught Keke Palmer and Sean Evans deep in conversation at a Brooklyn restaurant the night of June 12, and fans immediately read it as more than a work dinner. The “Hot Ones” moment that started it ran last September, during Keke’s third trip to the show. After clearing the full…
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Dr. Carrie Bradshaw: Sarah Jessica Parker Just Picked Up an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Northwestern and Gave the Commencement Speech to the Class of 2026
Northwestern gave Sarah Jessica Parker an honorary Doctor of Arts on June 14, 2026, and put her in front of the Class of 2026 to deliver the commencement address. She opened by joking that the graduates had probably meant to invite “some other three-named person,” like Mary Louise Parker or Camilla Parker Bowles, before turning…
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Oliver Tree Has Died at 32
Oliver Tree Nickell was the kind of artist who made you check whether the joke was on you. He built a persona called Alien Boy out of a bowl cut, thrifted 1980s windbreakers, oversized scooters, and absurdist videos he directed himself. At CalArts he reportedly wrote a thesis on how to turn yourself into a…
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Keke Palmer Says a White Scream Queens Co-Star Snapped, “Who Do You Think You Are? Martin F—Ing Luther King?” She Refuses to Name Her
Palmer could have named the co-star. Plenty of people wanted her to. Instead she gave the woman a pseudonym, “Brenda,” and explained why: she didn’t want the story to become about that person, and she didn’t want to hand the remark any power over her. The moment lives in her book, Master of Me: The…
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Taylor Swift’s Bridesmaids Are Gigi Hadid and Selena Gomez, and Keleigh Sperry Teller, Her BFF of Over a Decade, Didn’t Make the Guest List
Gigi Hadid said yes over dinner in New York back in November 2025, and Selena Gomez was asked weeks later, according to reports tied to Taylor Swift’s upcoming wedding to Travis Kelce. Us Weekly says Taylor isn’t doing a formal bridal party. She’s getting ready with Gigi and Selena the morning of, after a sleepover…
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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Are Deep in a Lawsuit with Justin Baldoni. She Spent Their NYC Walk Yesterday Grabbing His Butt for the Cameras
The couple was photographed on a casual stroll through Tribeca on June 10, stopping for selfies with fans and laughing through most of the outing. Blake wore a leather jacket, polka dot pants, and studded heels with a black handbag. Ryan kept it simple in a salmon shacket, beige pants, and sneakers. The fashion-shot moment…
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David Harbour Was Asked About the Album Lily Allen Wrote About Their Marriage. He Answered for the First Time.
Lily Allen released “West End Girl” on October 24, 2025. It was her fifth album, and almost everyone read it as the story of her marriage to David Harbour falling apart. The songs move through infidelity, a mistress figure she names “Madeline,” the breaking of an open-relationship arrangement, and a partner who manipulates. Allen has…
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Jennifer Lopez Wiped Away Tears Watching Her Son Max Graduate High School at UCLA. Marc Anthony Didn’t Show.
Max Muniz, one of Jennifer Lopez’s 18-year-old twins with Marc Anthony, graduated high school on Friday on the UCLA campus. Paparazzi caught his mom dabbing at tears between hugs and proud-mom poses. Lopez was flanked by her parents Guadalupe and David Lopez, her longtime manager Benny Medina, and Max’s twin Emme (who now also goes…
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Nika King Addresses How Her Family’s History With Addiction Shaped Her Role as Rue’s Mother on Euphoria
Nika King grew up in Miami watching nearly every adult in her family struggle with addiction during the crack epidemic. Her uncle died of a heroin overdose just before she started filming the first season of Euphoria. That history is what she brought to Leslie Bennett, Rue’s mother on the HBO series, a role she’s…