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‘SHE’S BEING SENSIBLE, LISTENING TO WHAT HER BODY IS TELLING HER AND EASING BACK INTO PUBLIC LIFE’—QUEEN ELIZABETH’S FORMER SPOKESWOMAN AILSA ANDERSON, TO PEOPLE A year after revealing that she had cancer and underwent abdominal surgery, and four months after finishing chemotherapy, the Princess of Wales announced on Jan. 14 that her cancer was in remission. That same day, she got back to her job as a busy royal. Her first stop: a visit with patients at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital, where she was treated and is a patron, so she could assure them that there was “light at the end of that tunnel.” It was a rewarding return for Kate that included visiting a children’s hospice on Jan. 30 and joining Prince William and King Charles in July…

Kendrick Lamar stepped out of a black 1987 Buick Regal GNX at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans with something to prove. Before the Compton, Calif., rap visionary was chosen to headline Super Bowl LIX’s halftime show, there had never been a solo hip-hop act in the history of the event. On Feb. 9 his 133.5 million viewership not only surpassed that of Michael Jackson’s landmark 1993 halftime show, it drew a bigger audience than the game itself. Backed by more than 100 dancers, Lamar tore through an 11-song medley, commanding a massive four-stage set that resembled buttons on a PlayStation controller, mirroring his life as a video game. He was joined by tennis legend (and fellow Compton native) Serena Williams, alt R&B star SZA (who joined Lamar on his…

Because of the fires that leveled parts of Los Angeles, the Oscar nomination announcement and the starry luncheon were postponed; few were in the mood to party. But the show went on, with a loving montage of L.A. in movies and a Judy Garland voice-over: “There’s no place like home.” After a medley by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, host Conan O’Brien had to bring the laughs. Appearing to pop out of the back of Demi Moore’s The Substance character, he soon led a number with Dune: Part Two’s sandworm playing “Chopsticks.” Winners included Anora, which took home five awards, including best director for Sean Baker, best actress for Mikey Madison and best picture. “I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian,” joked…

Two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver and his wife, actress Joanne Tucker, who are parents of two kids, joined Muppets and more stars in New York City on May 28 at the annual benefit gala for Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street. The event’s theme, “Stronger Together,” meant to foster resilience in the face of adversity, was geared for children and caregivers. But it might well apply to public media itself, weathering an unprecedented onslaught from the White House and Republican Congress that, alleging liberal bias, slashed $1.1 billion in previously approved funds, forcing PBS and NPR to scramble; in September the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shut down. Filmmaker Ken Burns called the cuts “foolhardy.” As for Big Bird and pals, not to worry: Sesame Workshop and a new Netflix…

For the better part of the year—or at least the part that included a global promotional tour for their film Jurassic World Rebirth—costars Scarlett Johansson (who is happily married to SNL’s Colin Jost) and Jonathan Bailey (the Wicked star who is single and openly gay) became blockbuster season’s cutest non-couple. Their red carpet smooches went viral, testimony to their immediate chemistry on and off the set. “We had a mutual friend that said, ‘You guys are going to really have a great time together,’” Johansson told People. “So then we had to, because we couldn’t let our friend down!” And as Bailey told Entertainment Tonight, “I believe in being able to show love in all different ways. And if you can’t kiss your friends … life’s too short not to.”…

Lyle and Erik Menendez were denied parole before separate California boards in August after serving 29 years in prison for the 1989 shooting murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty. The brothers, who had claimed they acted in self-defense after years of alleged sexual abuse—and now have the support of more than a dozen relatives—were rejected because of their behavior behind bars. Both boards cited Lyle, 57, and Erik, 54, for repeatedly breaking rules, including bans on contraband such as mobile phones. “We will not stop until they are free,” Erik’s daughter Talia wrote on Instagram. “Our fight is not over.”…

‘IT HAPPENED SO FAST. THE WATER WASN’T COMING UP IN THE DOORS OR THE WALLS—IT WAS COMING UP THROUGH THE FLOOR. IT WAS … OUT OF A HORROR MOVIE’—NATHAN RICH, 22, OF CENTER POINT, TEXAS Over the July 4 weekend, with summer camp in high season and vacationers celebrating Independence Day, the rain came hard and fast over Central Texas, causing the Guadalupe River to flood rapidly and sweep away nearly all in its path. At least 135 people were killed, making it the deadliest U.S. flash flood in nearly half a century. The victims included at least 27 girls and counselors at Camp Mystic, north of San Antonio. Austin resident Lisa Miller, whose three daughters, ages 9 to 14, attended Camp Mystic, credits their safety to camp counselors and…

It was the hug seen round the world. At a Coldplay concert in Foxboro, Mass., on July 16, married then-Astronomer CEO Andy Byron was seen on Gilette Stadium’s giant “kiss cam” screen with his arms around his chief people officer Kristin Cabot. Immediately Cabot covered her face as Byron ducked from view. “Either they’re having an affair, or they’re just very shy,” Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin (top, right) called out from the stage. The moment fueled countless memes and headlines, forcing the pair to resign. But as a source close to Cabot told People, “There was no affair.” At the time, Cabot was separated from her husband—who was at the same concert with a date—and she has since divorced. Byron remains with wife Megan. The controversy has stirred much…

‘OUR SAVIOR SAID, “FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.” THAT YOUNG MAN—I FORGIVE HIM’—ERIKA KIRK Wiping away tears, Erika Kirk, 36, remembered life with her husband, Charlie, the right-wing activist who was gunned down on Sept. 10 while speaking on a college campus in Utah. She talked of viewing his murdered body, how she never told him that he had a gray hair and how “even in death, I could see the man that I love.” She spoke near the end of a Sept. 21 service organized by Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA. More than 60,000 gathered in a Glendale, Ariz., stadium, with tens of thousands more outside, to listen to speakers including Donald Trump, who credited Charlie Kirk with helping to elect him President.…

‘A beautiful person in every way. He stood for an America we have to keep fighting for’—JANE FONDA, FOUR-TIME COSTAR ‘From the first time we sang together as kids in my living room, I knew there was something otherworldly in him’—MIKE LOVE, THE BEACH BOYS ‘She worked hard [to] turn the character from a sexist stereotype into a real person.… We celebrated the day the script came out listing her character not as Hot Lips, but as Margaret’—M*A*S*H COSTAR ALAN ALDA ‘I didn’t try to be a soul singer, a jazz singer, a blues singer—no category’ ‘Kind, generous and loyal—a true pioneer of elegance’—MICHELLE PFEIFFER ‘If you look at yourself as a star, you’ve already lost something in the portrayal of any human being’—GENE HACKMAN, TO THE NEW YORK TIMES…

‘THE CHURCHES ARE GONE. ALL OUR RESTAURANTS, ALL OF THE GROCERY STORES. IT’S ALL ASHES’—PALISADES RESIDENT DR. SARA TREPANIER On the morning of Jan. 7, a cloud of black smoke hung over the coastal neighborhood of Malibu. Across town near Altadena, under orange-red skies, fires forced more L.A. residents, some 200,000 in total, to evacuate. Battling these blazes, and others in SoCal, had firefighters working around the clock for more than three weeks. They faced hot, dry, windy conditions, the extremity of which scientists attribute to climate change. By the time the fires were contained at the end of the month, they had taken the lives of at least 31 people and destroyed 16,000 buildings, gutting the homes of working-class citizens and celebrities—such as Julia Louis-Dreyfus—alike. There were also countless…

‘THANK YOU FOR HAVING US I’M SOOOOO NOT CHILL ABOUT IT AND NEVER WILL BE’—SABRINA CARPENTER VIA INSTAGRAM As SNL hit a half century, anyone who was anyone then or now was in Studio 8H for the Feb. 16 party. (The rest of us were invited to watch for three hours live in prime time.) Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter handled the cold open with a performance of his “Homeward Bound.” Steve Martin, who has hosted 16 times, delivered the monologue (“traditionally the weakest part of the show,” he noted dryly). A-list former cast members—Eddie Murphy, Molly Shannon, Will Ferrell and Tina Fey—joined current SNLers like Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman to revive old hits such as Black Jeopardy! and Coffee Talk. Where the merriment met music, magic happened. Ex-SNL…

It’s possible people tuned in to the Duchess of Sussex’s new Netflix series With Love, Meghan, for the recipes (truffle popcorn, pasta salad) or the crafts (beeswax candles, Japanese rice flour face masks). But many were there for a glimpse of Meghan’s homelife with Prince Harry—or as much of it as the nearby Santa Barbara set would allow. Royal fans got a treat with Harry’s March 4 cameo at the outdoor brunch Meghan threw to celebrate the show’s first-season finale. Arriving at the end of the episode, he leaned in to share a kiss with Meghan, who toasted guests including her mother, Doria Ragland. “To love,” she said. “Can’t end on a better note than that.”…

The April 14 Blue Origin flight orchestrated by Jeff Bezos lasted a mere 11 minutes, blasting off from West Texas and reaching the edge of space. It marked the first all-female spaceflight since Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s three-day solo flight aboard Vostok 6 back in 1963. Most on this trip were bigger household names: singer Katy Perry, TV journalist Gayle King and Bezos’s fiancée (now wife), Lauren Sánchez, along with former NASA scientists Amanda Nguyen and Aisha Bowe and producer Kerianne Flynn. As they floated 60 miles up, Perry performed “What a Wonderful World.” The jaunt, though, was not without controversy. Critics lambasted what they saw as a stunt, with actress Olivia Munn saying, “It’s so much money to go to space, and there’s a lot of people who can’t…

‘WHILE STILL A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT IN KENYA, ALICE REFUSED TO LIVE THE LIFE OF A CHILD BRIDE AND INSTEAD LAUNCHED HER OWN BEAD-MAKING BUSINESS’—AMAL CLOONEY, AT THE KING’S TRUST AWARDS Not long after the end of his Broadway debut run in Good Night and Good Luck, George Clooney, along with his wife, Amal, and their 8-year-old twins, was back to London in time to attend June 26 festivities at Buckingham Palace. There King Charles was honoring winners of the King’s Trust Awards, given to young people who have overcome challenges to have a positive impact on their communities. One of the eight prizes is the Amal Clooney Women’s Empowerment Award, named for the human rights attorney. The winner, Alice Ngitira (second from right), 19, from Kenya, was recognized…

A nervous Sean “Diddy” Combs sat in silence as he awaited the verdict inside a federal courthouse in Manhattan. For eight weeks the embattled music mogul, 56, was looking at a maximum of life in prison for racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking in one of the most salacious celebrity trials in recent memory. Combs, however, was acquitted on the most serious counts. The rapper, producer and businessman had been accused of being the head of a criminal enterprise, committing physical and sexual assaults and forcing women to engage in filmed drug-fueled sex marathons dubbed “freak-offs.” Two ex-girlfriends—former Bad Boy Records protégée Cassie Ventura and a woman presented by prosecutors under the pseudonym “Jane”—testified that Combs allegedly pressured them into having sex with male escorts. Yet a jury found Combs guilty…

‘WITHOUT SABBATH THERE WOULD BE NO METALLICA. THANK YOU BOYS FOR GIVING US A PURPOSE IN LIFE’—METALLICA’S JAMES HETFIELD The 45,000 fans who scooped up every available ticket to Birmingham, England’s Villa Park arena in 16 minutes knew that the megaconcert billed as Back to the Beginning was to be the last show for Ozzy Osbourne, legendary frontman for heavy metal gods Black Sabbath. Osbourne went public with having Parkinson’s disease in 2020. Organized by Osbourne’s wife, Sharon, and Tom Morello, guitarist for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, Ozzy’s last hurrah was a 10-hour epic featuring 19 bands, including Mastodon, Alice in Chains, Gojira, Pantera, Tool, Slayer, Guns N’ Roses and Metallica, that raised some $187 million for three charities. Lording over all was Osbourne, seated on a gothic…

A Whole Lotta Love LOVE ISLAND USA OFFERED SUN-DRENCHED PASSION & DRAMA Love Island became Peacock’s most-watched original series in season 7 when (from left) Bryan Arenales, Amaya Espinal, Iris Kendall, Huda Mustafa, Nicolas Vansteenberghe and Ace Green competed in Fiji for love and $100,000. Espinal and Arenales won in July but split by August. “After leaving the villa,” she posted, “it became very clear that we were on two different journeys.”…

When Prince Harry flew to London from California in September, it was primarily for a series of charity events, including with the Diana Award, which honors his mother by empowering young people to help others. But away from the cameras the real news was a private tea with his estranged father, King Charles, at Clarence House on Sept. 10, their first in-person visit since February 2024. The pair met for 55 minutes, during which time Harry presented the King, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, with a framed photo of his children Archie and Lilibet. “It’s a massive step in the right direction,” Queen Elizabeth’s former press secretary Ailsa Anderson told People afterward. Two days later, in Kyiv with his Invictus Games Foundation, Harry said of the year ahead to…

‘I WANT TO STAND ON THAT STAGE AND THANK EVERY SINGLE PERSON.… YOU ARE THE BEST FANS IN THE WORLD’—JAMES VAN DER BEEK When James Van Der Beek was diagnosed last year with colorectal cancer, the scary news brought together his Dawson’s Creek costars. “We have a little group text going,” Dawson’s alum Joshua Jackson shared on The Jennifer Hudson Show. On Sept. 22 this year they gathered in a Broadway theater to perform a live reading of the ’90s teen drama’s pilot episode, to benefit the patient support charity F Cancer. Along with more of the cast, Jackson reprised Dawson’s pal Pacey; Katie Holmes played tomboyish Joey; and Michelle Williams, Joey’s frenemy Jen. Van Der Beek had hoped to read Dawson Leery but was kept away by a stomach…

‘I DON’T KNOW HOW TO SAY THANK YOU ENOUGH.… WE’RE DOING THIS TOGETHER!’—TAYLOR SWIFT, TO HER FANS, ON LATE NIGHT WITH SETH MEYERS Wait, didn’t the world just witness the final concert of Taylor Swift’s globe-conquering Eras tour last December? Turns out that during the European leg she snuck off to Sweden to record her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, and announced it on the podcast of her fiancé, NFL star Travis Kelce. Upon its Oct. 3 release it became the fastest-selling album in U.S. history and was No. 1 across major streaming platforms. Swift gleefully promoted Showgirl’s joyful songs, telling Jimmy Fallon they reflected her current state of mind: “funny and feisty and having a blast and flirty and sort of tongue-in-cheek and a little scandalous.”…

Love Story of the Year CONGRATS TO ‘YOUR ENGLISH TEACHER AND YOUR GYM TEACHER’ Taylor Swift had the look of love when she celebrated Kansas City’s Jan. 26 AFC victory with boyfriend Travis Kelce. The Chiefs would lose the Super Bowl (to Philadelphia), but their tight end had a bigger win to come. On Aug. 11 he had Swift in the studio recording an episode of New Heights, the podcast he hosts with brother Jason. As she talked up her latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, his coconspirators were creating a floral wonderland in his backyard. There Kelce would ask Swift to marry him. She said yes.…

‘I JUST FEEL VERY FULL AND VERY HONORED. IT’S BEEN MANY, MANY YEARS’—BEYONCÉ, IN HER ALBUM OF THE YEAR ACCEPTANCE SPEECH “I want to dedicate this to Miss Martell, and I hope we just keep pushing forward, opening doors,” said a humbled Beyoncé, taking in a standing ovation as she received the Grammys’ most coveted honor, album of the year, for her acclaimed genre-bending statement Cowboy Carter. In her triumphant moment she honored Linda Martell, the first Black female country vocalist to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, in 1969. Martell, 84, whose voice appeared on Cowboy Carter, praised Beyoncé for exploring her musical roots: “What she is doing is beautiful.” The star had been up for, but missed, the top award five times before—husband Jay Z used his time…

Ever since she filled in for a pregnant Beyoncé in 2017, Lady Gaga has been itching to get back to the music festival in Indio, Calif. “I’ve had a vision I’ve never been able to fully realize at Coachella for reasons beyond our control,” she posted on Instagram. “I have long dreamed of throwing a massive night of chaos in the desert.” What better time than when her latest hit album (and upcoming tour) is titled Mayhem? Her two-hour opening-night headliner show was a highly theatrical, thrillingly executed 20-song trip through Gagaland—beginning with “Bloody Mary,” off 2011’s Born This Way—that pitted darkness and light against each other in five acts of what’s been called a demonic opera house. There were queens and witches, skeletons and zombies. There were the bangers…

‘MY MOTHER WAS A CUBS FAN, SO … WE LEARNED, EVEN IN SPORTS, TO HAVE AN OPEN, DIALOGICAL, FRIENDLY AND NOT ANGRY COMPETITIVE STANCE’—POPE LEO XIV, TO CRUX, SEPTEMBER 2025 On the afternoon of May 8, following a two-day conclave, the white smoke rose from a chimney on the Sistine Chapel, signaling a new Pope had been elected. Burning ballots is an old tradition, but this time something new: The 267th pontiff was the first American. After taking the name Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost stood on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and spoke: “Help us, too, and help each other to build bridges, with dialogue, with meetings, uniting us all to be one people, always in peace,” he said in his first public comments before paying tribute to…

He spent the past 10 years becoming the most successful ambassador of reggaeton the world over, including performing several shows throughout the U.S. But when Bad Bunny, born Benito Martínez Ocasio, 31, released his sixth studio album, Debi Tirar Mas Fotos (“I Should Have Taken More Photos”), in January, he chose to celebrate on his home turf, Puerto Rico, with a 30-night summer residency at San Juan’s 18,500-seat Coliseo that pumped some $200 million into the local economy. “We are an unincorporated territory of the U.S.… People from the U.S. could come here to see the show,” he noted. Future dates were planned for Europe, Asia and Mexico but not the mainland U.S., where immigration agents could target his shows. Indeed, when Bad Bunny was announced as the 2026 Super…

‘ITS A MOLLY GODDARD SKIRT, A SWEATER OF MINE—IT’S A L’WREN SCOTT SWEATER—AND THAT VINTAGE HAT’—SARAH JESSICA PARKER, BREAKING DOWN CARRIE BRADSHAW’S LAST LOOK One big difference between Sex and the City and its recent iteration And Just Like That… is that, at the start, the latter dropped the column-writing voice-over of Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), which had tied her story to those of pals Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Samantha (Kim Cattrall, who sat out the reboot save for a cameo). Her bubbling stream-of-consciousness added sparkle, silly puns and serial queries. Now it was fans who were left with questions. Why didn’t Carrie let couch-surfing Miranda have her apartment when she sold it? Did no one do the math on the kids’ ages? What’s with…

‘THEY WERE GLOWING ALL NIGHT AND COULDN’T STOP SMILING. THERE WAS SO MUCH LOVE IN THE ROOM’—A SOURCE AT THE WEDDING Before they ever had a first date, singer-actress Selena Gomez and music producer Benny Blanco worked together in 2015 on her songs “Same Old Love” and “Kill Em With Kindness.” Years would pass before Gomez would confirm a romantic relationship, posting in December 2023 that they’d been together for six months and that she was at “my happiest.” They still collaborate, releasing an album in March, I Said I Love You First. But it was the personal relationship that they solidified at a Sept. 27 wedding in Santa Barbara before some 170 guests, among them her bestie Taylor Swift and her Only Murders in the Building costars Steve Martin,…

‘WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THAT WE GET TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY THAT ALLOWS US TO HAVE A SHOW LIKE THIS’—JIMMY KIMMEL “Jimmy! Jimmy!” cheered the Jimmy Kimmel Live! studio audience on Sept. 23. “I am happy to be here,” said Kimmel, after a week away from his show, which ABC had pulled off the air in response to a line in his Sept. 15 monologue that accused some Republicans of trying to “score political points” from Charlie Kirk’s murder and suggested the alleged killer was “one of them.” Soon critics included President Trump and FCC chair Brendan Carr, who threatened, “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” Distributors began blocking the…

‘FIND THE JOY. IT’S ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS IN THE WORLD TO DO, BUT YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER THE JOY AND WHY YOU DO IT’—MISTY COPELAND, GIVING ADVICE TO YOUNG DANCERS After five years away from American Ballet Theatre’s New York City stage, Misty Copeland returned on Oct. 22 for a farewell performance. In a gala celebrating her 25-year career, she overcame injuries to perform three pieces: the balcony scene from Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, Twyla Tharp’s modern Sinatra Suite and a premiere by choreographer Kyle Abraham, Wrecka Stow, the name a nod to a line by Prince, with whom Copeland had occasionally performed. She joined ABT just after high school and in 2015 was promoted to principal dancer, the first Black woman with that title since the…