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There’s just something about Keira Knightley, sporting a corset and gazing out a frosted windowpane, that feels right. However, the Oscar nominee’s plans to return to her costume drama roots in the new AppleTV+ series The Essex Serpent have halted. Deadline reports that Knightley has exited the romantic period drama, adapted from Sarah Perry’s bestselling

Selena Gomez isn’t just doing a new TV series based in New York; according to Variety, the singer is now in talks to do a horror movie based on the city’s “elite fashion scene” called Dollhouse. Variety described the film as a psychological thriller and Black Swan-esque. Gomez will also produce the project. STXfilms Motion

For Prince Charles and Princess Diana, happily ever after was only the beginning. That’s the idea explored in a new teaser trailer for The Crown season 4, which welcomes Diana (Emma Corrin) and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson) to the cast. The footage teases Queen Elizabeth’s (Olivia Colman) meetings with both royal disruptors and

Spoilers for The Haunting of Bly Manor episode 9, “The Beast in the Jungle.” If you’ve already finished bingeing The Haunting of Bly Manor then, first of all, congratulations. You are what everybody’s favorite haunted orphan, Flora, would deem “perfectly splendid.” Second, you’re probably reeling from the finale, which dealt its audience an emotional sucker

Spoilers for The Haunting of Bly Manor episode 7, “The Two Faces, Part Two,” below. The Haunting of Bly Manor has no shortage of ghosts, apparitions and otherworldly villains, most of them working both as literal threats and metaphorical representations of guilt, grief, and denial. But the most memorable and complex of all the baddies

Beyoncé’s daughter Blue Ivy Carter is already a Billboard-charting, BET Award-winning artist at age 8. But it turns out her talents expand far beyond music: Blue is also extremely skilled with costume makeup. Her grandmother Tina Lawson showed off Blue’s work doing Halloween makeup on her. Blue transformed her grandma into a skeleton and arguably

Today is National Coming Out Day. It’s also International Day of the Girl—so many things to celebrate! Here’s another thing to celebrate: Demi Lovato is introducing the public to a thing we in the queer community take very seriously: the “root.” Your queer “root” is the thing that first tipped you off to the fact

Prince WilliamsGetty Images Cardi B turned 28 years old today, and—because she can—she celebrated with friends in Las Vegas. Also in attendance at the big birthday bash was Offset, Cardi’s husband and the father of her daughter, Kulture. On his Instagram story Saturday, Offset shared many videos of Cardi, dancing in what looks like a

Princess Diana ArchiveGetty Images A new book, Battle of Brothers: William and Harry—the Friendship and the Feuds, written by biographer Robert Lacey, reveals a reported interaction between Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s brother Charles, 9th Earl Spencer after Diana’s death in 1997, per People. Lacey writes that during what were heated conversations about Diana’s funeral,

Spoilers for episode 5 of The Haunting of Bly Manor, “The Altar of the Dead,” below. “You can’t count on the past,” says Owen (Rahul Kohli) early in episode 5 of The Haunting of Bly Manor, discussing his mother’s recent death from dementia. “We think we have it trapped in our memories, but our memories

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner are cool parents who TikTok (is that a verb?). On Friday, they took a now-classic Kylie Jenner/Kourtney Kardashian Keeping Up With the Kardashians moment and make it into this hilarious video: This content is imported from TikTok. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or

Meghan Markle isn’t often photographed by paparazzi in California, but on Tuesday, fans got a rare glimpse of her off-duty date night style. The Duchess of Sussex and her husband Prince Harry went out with Katharine McPhee and David Foster in Montecito to Lucky’s steak house. Meghan opted for a very fall outfit for the

This weekend, consider your house haunted. Netflix just dropped The Haunting of Bly Manor, the ghost story following The Haunting of Hill House in Mike Flanagan’s ongoing spooky stories franchise. The series takes Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and leads us into the world of Dani Clayton (Victoria Pedretti), a governess tasked with

Mindy Kaling dropped a bombshell on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night: She secretly welcomed her second child, a son named Spencer, in September. She is also mother to two-year-old Katherine “Kit” Kaling. “I’m telling this for the first time, it feels so strange,” she told Colbert. “I gave birth to a baby

Gigi Hadid doesn’t share much about her relationship with her boyfriend and baby’s father Zayn Malik, but yesterday evening, she gave fans an intimate look at their first date night since welcoming their daughter last month. Hadid gave birth September 19 or 20; she and Malik announced their baby’s arrival on September 24, with Hadid

On the premiere of Fox’s The Masked Singer, fans of the show (or new viewers, like me, looking for some light in the 2020 darkness), met Group A of the costumed contestants. First up, singing Lizzo’s “Cuz I Love You,” was The Sun, a gold-masked performer who completely slayed the soulful notes and emotional depth

Six men have been charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer with help from a “militia group” ahead of November 3, the date of the presidential election. According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court and unsealed on Thursday, the FBI learned about the alleged plot through confidential informants and by intercepting

In May, Mary-Kate Olsen filed for divorce from French banker Olivier Sarkozy after five years of marriage. Now, Olsen is moving on—but she’s not seriously with anyone yet, despite rumors that Olsen was seen with a possible boyfriend in New York City this week. A source told Entertainment Tonight that “she’s single and having fun.

The vice presidential debate was nearing its end when the true star of the night finally emerged: a fly! Yes, an actual fly. More specifically, this fly, which landed on Vice President Mike Pence’s head and just decided to hang out there for a little while: This content is imported from Twitter. You may be

After drawing criticism for not endorsing anyone in the 2016 election. Taylor Swift made it official this afternoon: She is formally supporting Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Swift appears as one of the cover stars in V magazine’s Thought Leaders issue. She told the publication: The change we need most is to

Ayesha Curry knows what your day needs—a healthy serving of pasta. “I have to say, I can’t think of anything in the world more comforting than a big bowl of carb-loaded pasta,” she tells ELLE.com from inside her kitchen. “Any type of pasta, you name it, I love it. It’s what makes me feel like

While some wish Game of Thrones‘ series finale was an elaborate prank, there were actually quite a few hijinks happening behind-the-scenes. A few of them are revealed in Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon, a book that digs into the history of the hit HBO show. Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon: Game of Thrones and the

In a landscape dominated by white men and their high-tech toys, a new kind of superhero is debuting in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Step aside, Tony Stark and Peter Parker: Kamala Khan has entered the chat. Ms. Marvel is the latest Disney+ series to expand upon the franchise and tells the story of Khan, a

There’s a lot of crazy stuff happening in the news cycle, but Kylie Jenner did the country a service and released a little wholesome comic relief featuring her very cute and and very polite two-year-old daughter Stormi Webster. In honor of Halloween, Jenner posted a holiday-themed cookie baking video on her YouTube where the two,