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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Taylor Swift Owns Her Masters, So When Team Trump Used “August,” “Opalite,” and “Father Figure,” She Had the Audio Stripped in Days
Owning the rights to your own recordings comes with real leverage — and Taylor Swift is using hers. Team Trump keeps trolling and putting her songs to MAGA videos, but Taylor has the power to respond. Because she owns her masters, when Team Trump used “August,” “Opalite,” and “Father Figure,” she had the audio stripped…
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Meryl Streep’s Famous Chest-Lift Scene in Death Becomes Her Wasn’t CGI. A Crew Member Crouched Behind Her and Pushed by Hand
The crew built a pressurized bra to plump her chest on cue. It looked so fake that Robert Zemeckis threw it out and had someone do the job by hand. The gag sells the potion in Death Becomes Her: Meryl Streep’s Madeline drinks the Elixir of Life, and her body snaps back to youth, breasts…
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North West, 13, Just Dropped a Horror-Anime Music Video Where She Haunts an Abandoned School and Sings “Everyone Betrays Me.”
“Aishite” landed August 7 and it’s built like a horror anime, blood running down the frame as North West drifts through an abandoned school and arcade, her face slipping in and out of focus. Blue hair, facial piercings, staring straight into the camera as she sings “Just love me / Everyone betrays me.” The 13-year-old…
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Kaia Gerber Writes Her Own Fan Fiction, Keeps It Private, and Says the Subject Is “Not A Human.”
The subject of Kaia Gerber’s fan fiction is “not a human,” and that’s about all she’ll say. She told Jake Shane on his Therapuss podcast that she writes it and keeps it to herself: “I write fan fiction and I don’t put it anywhere, I just like it.” When “The Shards” costar Graham Campbell tried…
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Derry Girls Star Jamie-Lee O’donnell Says Therapy Led Her to Go “No Contact With My Entire Family.” She Trusted “The Universe,” Sold Everything, and Started Over in a City Where She Knew No One
“I finally did some therapy, which I know is pretty big deal for an Irish woman, but it was great” — Jamie-Lee O’Donnell Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, 39, who played Michelle Mallon on Derry Girls, sold her house in Ireland in 2025 and moved to Barcelona, a city where she knew no one, to start over. She…
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Leonardo DiCaprio Shows Off a Slimmed-Down, Titanic-Era Frame in Ibiza With Vittoria Ceretti and Tobey Maguire
Leonardo DiCaprio is turning heads on vacation in Ibiza, where the 51-year-old actor was spotted with a noticeably slimmer physique alongside girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti and longtime best friend Tobey Maguire. DiCaprio’s back to looking like he did in the Titanic days, decades and a few bulkier years later. The 51-year-old stepped out in Ibiza in…
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Chris Brown Carried His Newborn Son Through NYC After His Concert, Three Months Before He Could Be Sentenced to Prison in the UK
Chris Brown just wrapped a stadium show in New York and left with a baby carrier in his hand. In three months, a London court decides whether he goes to prison. Brown pleaded guilty to affray on July 24 over a 2023 attack on music producer Abraham Diaw at Tape, a private club in London’s…
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Jorge Messi, Lionel Messi’s Father and Lifelong Manager, Has Died at 68 After a Private Health Battle
The man who managed Lionel Messi’s entire professional career was his own father. Jorge Messi handled the negotiations and the business side from the start, standing beside his son at nearly every milestone, including the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar and this season’s MLS Cup Playoffs run with Inter Miami. E! News reported his…
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Miss North Carolina USA Was Stripped of Her Title After Allegedly Saying the N-Word. She Says She Was Really Targeted for Being a “Conservative Christian.”
Brittany Boltinhouse lost her crown after posts allegedly using the n-word resurfaced. In her first interview since, she says the real reason was her faith: “I’m a proud conservative woman, but a Christian woman.” Boltinhouse never addressed the resurfaced posts, which allegedly included racist remarks she’s thought to have shared between 2017 and 2019. What…
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Brooklyn Beckham Scooped Ocean Water Straight Off a Yacht to Boil His Pasta, and Fans Begged Him to Just Use the Tap
Brooklyn Beckham dunked a saucepan straight into the ocean off a luxury yacht and used the salty haul to boil his pasta. The 27-year-old, who sells a hot sauce and posts cooking videos, shared the moment to promote the sauce, and the comments came in fast. The video first went up last year, then hit…
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Anne Hathaway Says She Knew She’d Marry Adam Shulman the Second She Met Him, Right After Her Ex Was Arrested for Fraud
Anne Hathaway’s four-year relationship had just collapsed with her boyfriend under arrest for fraud. Then she met Adam Shulman, and she told a friend right away: “I’m going to marry that man.” Hathaway met Shulman through mutual friends in 2008, the same year her relationship with Italian businessman Raffaello Follieri ended. Follieri was arrested that…
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Madelyn Cline Has An MO, and Her Rebound With A Beverly Hills Real Estate Agent 5 Weeks After Her Last Split Proves It.
Madelyn Cline stepped out for date night in Studio City this week with Michael Reyes, a luxury real estate agent, about five weeks after her split from influencer Henry Smith. It’s the first public sighting of the pair, and the paparazzi soft-launch is already in full swing. Cline and Reyes were photographed leaning in close…
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A$AP Rocky Says His Dad Died on Christmas the Same Day His First Album Hit Number One, and He Was on His Bathroom Floor in Paris Crying When Rihanna Walked In
“My first album went number one. My dad died on Christmas. I was on my bathroom floor in Paris crying,” A$AP Rocky said. “I don’t even know how Rihanna got the key to my room. She walked right in. ‘Yo, you good’?” “She really is a strong black woman and she held me down even…
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Kate Winslet Asked a Female Director Why She Didn’t Just Go Gray
Kate Winslet recently learned firsthand how differently the film industry treats women as they age, in an exchange with a female director that laid bare an uncomfortable double standard. Winslet asked the female director why she didn’t just go gray, after the director admitted that she had to dye her roots every five weeks. She…
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The Viral Joke About Bear and Nikki, Explained
A running joke on social media is stacking the odds against a guy named Bear — and it all comes down to a single Instagram post and the numbers underneath it. A woman on Instagram posts a mirror selfie captioned “I need a lovaaa” and racks up 2,000 likes in the comments. So the joke…
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Tom Holland Is the Only Actor to Star in All Four of the Biggest Opening Weekends in Movie History
Tom Holland has quietly assembled a box office distinction that no other actor can claim. Across the four biggest opening weekends ever recorded, he appears in every single one. He’s a supporting player in two of them and the lead in the other two. The list is the four biggest opening weekends ever recorded, and…
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Elsie Hewitt Posted a Photo in a Red Polka-Dot Bikini Holding Her and Pete Davidson’s Baby, and the Internet Immediately Clocked the Emily Ratajkowski of It All
Elsie Hewitt has a new baby with Pete Davidson, and her latest poolside photo has the internet drawing one very specific comparison. Hewitt posted a poolside shot in a red polka-dot bikini with her infant on her hip. The pose lands right in the lane Emily Ratajkowski has spent years building: hot mom, baby, camera.…
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Anne Hathaway Asked for a Fencing Scene in Princess Diaries 2 Because She Wanted It to Be Sexy. After One Lesson, Production Quietly Switched Her to Archery
“I asked to have a fencing plot line in Princess Diaries 2 because I thought it would be kind of a sexy scene to have like, you know, me and Nicholas fencing. One lesson and the instructor was asked to kind of tell production how I was doing and suddenly I was an archer. No,…