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Spoilers below. HBO’s House of the Dragon concluded its second season on Sunday with little bloodshed (except, of course, for the innocents in Sharp Point that Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) obliterated). Despite the fan speculation and hype, there was no big battle scene in the finale—a twist that left some viewers disappointed. Director Geeta Vasant Patel

On a recent sweltering afternoon in downtown Manhattan, a group of designer-clad women stood chatting on the sidewalk, all holding the It accessory of the season. It wasn’t a handbag, nor a piece of jewelry, but a novel. They had assembled in front of the beloved West Village store Casa Magazines, a mecca for fashion

Spoilers below. If you were expecting Rhaenyra and her new dragon army to rumble with Aemond, Vhagar, and the greens…you’ll have to wait for next season. House of the Dragon took its time with season 2, setting up key players for the Dance of Dragons and coming to a close just before the highly-anticipated showdown.

Simone Biles has had an incredible 2024 Paris Olympics, winning three gold medals in the team, the all-around, and the vault competitions in gymnastics. She now has one more showing on Monday, August 5, in the beam and floor finals. And yet, reporters already want to know if she’ll be at the Olympics in Los

If Pippa Fitz-Amobi’s behavior is any indication, once a teenage girl’s addicted to true crime, it’s tough to break her habit. For that reason—among others, such as the popularity of the book it’s based upon—fans of the new BBC/Netflix crime drama A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder are hopeful Pip and Co. will return for

On Wednesday, July 30, actress Reese Witherspoon enjoyed dinner with private equity financier Oliver Haarmann after the pair arrived via helicopter in New York City a night earlier. They were photographed dining at L’Artusi in the West Village, sparking dating rumors. But a source tells People that Witherspoon and Haarmann are “friends.” A second insider

Simone Biles has had another historic win at the Paris Olympics, and her family was there to cheer her on in the stands. Amongst them was her little sister Adria, who knows all about a life in gymnastics. Simone has three siblings, but she was raised by her parents Ronald and Nellie Biles along with

As a reality TV star, Khloé Kardashian has shared quite a bit about her dating life, even starring in a show with her former husband, Lamar Odom. Now on Hulu’s The Kardashians, she has revealed a lot about her up-and-down relationship with current co-parent Tristan Thompson. But there’s plenty she has kept to herself, and

Tonight, Page Six ran another report claiming that Travis Kelce is planning to pop the question to Taylor Swift soon. For the first time, the NFL player’s rep set the record straight on the marriage talk. A “Kelce insider” told Page Six, “The engagement is happening soon.” In the same article, the outlet included a

Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles is a legend in her sport. While she was born with an incomparable natural talent for gymnastics, she aways says her parents, Ronald and Nellie Biles, were behind her success. They are technically her biological grandparents, but they adopted Simone at age six after she and her siblings were placed

Simone Biles and Suni Lee competed against each other today at the Paris Olympics’ individual all-around gymnastics competition, and both ended up on the podium. Biles won the gold medal and Lee the bronze. Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade took the silver. The Team USA gymnasts never stopped cheering each other on throughout their rotations, but the

Taylor Swift is in the middle of her Warsaw, Poland Eras Tour dates, with shows running today through Saturday. But one person who won’t be in the crowd is Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce. The Kansas City Chiefs player has been in training camp all week for his team in Missouri. Kelce has practice on Thursday

There truly is no “I” in team. After Suni Lee won bronze and Simone Biles won gold in the individual all-around competition at the Paris Olympics, their teammates Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey had the best response. Chiles, who was in attendance, waited by the stage to hug Lee and Biles once they were done

“I’m doing good; I’m feeling tan,” Karla Cornejo Villavicenio tells me from her home in New Haven, Connecticut. She’s donned a red sundress with a matching lip for the occasion of our Zoom interview, scheduled for after she’s spent some time away from the Northeast. “Some exposure to sunshine has changed me from Voldemort,” she

The Boyfriend As Japan’s very first same-sex romance reality series, The Boyfriend has attracted a lot of attention, and for good reason. The show follows a group of single men who spend the summer together in a beach house. There, they get to know one another, and search for the perfect love match. You won’t

Blake Lively has been wearing florals throughout her It Ends With Us press tour as a subtle nod to her character, a florist—and today in New York City was different. The actress stepped out in not one, but two summery looks fit for a garden party, including Dauphinette’s feather-trimmed “Heaven Is a Place on Earth”

Sixteen-year-old gymnast Hezly Rivera became the youngest member of Team USA to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics after qualifying in July. But make no mistake: A decade of training led to this milestone. After the trials, Hezly told ELLE.com of making the team, “After putting in years of hard work and all of the

Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey has electric chemistry with pretty much everyone he’s paired with onscreen. Season two of the hit Netflix series showed him and Simone Ashley falling in a passionate love that launched a thousand GIFs across social media. Fans also shipped him with actor Matt Bomer after seeing them together in the mini series

In 2020, Paul Mescal became everyone’s crush as Connell in Hulu’s Normal People, based on the book by Irish author Sally Rooney. Many fans of the show hoped he was actually in a relationship with his co-star, Daisy Edgar-Jones. The pair had amazing chemistry on-screen and are quite close off. But they are only friends.

Ever since its debut as the No. 1 drama in Apple TV+ history, Silo has been headed toward an extended run in its post-apocalyptic universe. The inventive, multi-layered sci-fi series stars Mission: Impossible and Dune actress Rebecca Ferguson as Juliette, an engineer-turned-detective who begins to investigate the underground vessel she (and the remaining last people

Spoilers below. Deadpool & Wolverine might not be a family movie, but it’s surely a family affair—at least for star, producer, and co-writer, Ryan Reynolds. Not only does his wife, Blake Lively, make an appearance as Lady Deadpool, but their four kids had parts to play too. In the army of Deadpool variants that appears

The Biebers, who are very close to becoming parents, celebrated the near end of Hailey Bieber’s pregnancy in a new Instagram shot. Justin Bieber shared a video of him hugging the model from behind as she stroked her pregnant stomach. The couple appeared to be at a dinner where Hailey dressed up in a sleeveless,

The opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics was the place to be for celebrities around the world. It began with performances from both Lady Gaga and Celine Dion, and there were events all throughout the city hosted by fashion houses and brands. But the real scene might be in the stands. The stars are shining

Spoilers below. Throughout House of the Dragon’s second season, we’ve met a handful of new characters from around Westeros whose purpose has been a bit unclear, at least to those of us who haven’t read Fire & Blood; but in episode 7, “The Red Sowing,” everything starts to come together. For a story set among