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Welcome to another week of Scaredy Cat recaps, where I, a habitually terrified person, review what is and is not nightmare fuel on HBO’s horror allegory Lovecraft Country. Let’s go back, way back, back in time. One of the scariest scenes in all of Black cinematic history comes from the 1978 film version of The

On September 24, Selena Gomez posted an Instagram of herself posing in a light blue La’Mariette one-piece, showing off her kidney transplant scar. It was a breakthrough in her journey toward embracing her body and feeling “confident in who I am and what I went through.” For Theresa Mingus, 31, and Morgan Brutocao, 29, the

Kevin Mazur/AMA2019Getty Images Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello have known each other for more than five years and first started setting off dating alarms last year. We’ve seen them appear to grow closer together during quarantine this year, when they performed a livestream concert and talked about their favorite Harry Potter characters. This content is

North West seems to have provided a solution for how we can all survive the rest of 2020: “I would make everybody love each other,” she told CR Fashion Book, per Page Six. “And make the coronavirus go away and make everyone have more dogs.” This series asked several fashionable people how they would make

On July 29, 1981, the world met one of the most iconic wedding dresses of all time: the dress that Lady Diana Spencer wore to marry Prince Charles at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. That dress, designed by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, became legendary for several reasons, one of which being its seemingly endless, dramatic

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge We learned last week that Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis got to hang out with legendary natural historian David Attenborough in the gardens of Kensington Palace. It turns out, the photos that Prince William and Kate Middleton shared of that adorable event weren’t the only thing to come

Some might argue that Harry Styles is becoming an icon in his own right. But he won’t be filling the shoes of international British spy and icon James Bond. Per The Daily Mail, the singer will not be replacing Daniel Craig in the role, despite rumors otherwise. A representative for Styles told the Mail that

Joe Jonas is celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October with one particular change: He’s dyed his hair neon pink. On his Instagram story, Jonas posted a photo of his new hair color along with the breast cancer awareness ribbon. This is the second major hair change Jonas has made since his daughter’s birth this

Hide your kids. Hide your mice. In 2020’s long list of films that are heading straight to streaming, Roald Dahl’s The Witches is landing on HBO Max on October 22. While a straight to streaming release used to mean bad news for a film, we live in times where we’re grateful to land any new

For the first time since the pandemic forced the world into lockdown in March, Giveon finally has time to explore his new hobby: interior design. “I’m a minimalist, for sure,” he says matter-of-factly. His living room is his first project. “A couple homies saw Kanye West’s crib with barely anything in it and thought it

After months of anticipation, Blackpink’s first studio album The Album is finally here. Featuring hits like “Ice Cream” and “How You Like That,” the eight-track release shot to the top of iTunes last night and threw Twitter into a frenzy, where the group’s loyal fanbase (a.k.a Blinks) celebrated the comebacks of Rosé, Jennie, Lisa, and

Dimitrios KambourisGetty Images Nicki Minaj is officially a mom. TMZ reports that the rapper welcomed her first child with husband Kenneth Petty on Wednesday in Los Angeles. There’s no word on the baby’s gender or name just yet. In July, Minaj announced the news she was expecting her first baby with a series of maternity

In 2020, we all need some reminders that the world is still turning. Yes, that thought is a particularly dark one, but we’ll take what we can get. Somehow, the idea that people still go on live TV to do completely ridiculous things, such as sing in absurd costumes, brings about some kind of deranged

October has arrived, heralding the official beginning of Spooky Season™—although it’s hard to imagine what could possibly be more horrifying than the year 2020 thus far. The world is full of reasons to be terrified, which is all the more reason to lose yourself in some entirely fictional, elegantly crafted horror storytelling. Netflix’s The Haunting

Chrissy Teigen shared truly heartbreaking news on her Instagram last night: after suffering complications, she has lost her third baby. Teigen has been updating fans throughout the week on her and her baby’s health after she was hospitalized for excessive bleeding last weekend; her husband John Legend has been in the hospital with her. She

One night after…whatever that first presidential debate was, those of us who are choosing to escape reality by watching season 4 of Fox’s The Masked Singer will be introduced to another round of contestants. Group B of the cast will perform tonight, and in that group we’ll meet Serpent, Seahorse, Baby Alien, Gremlin, Crocodile, and

Back in August, InTouch claimed that summer 2019’s most smitten, make–out–everywhere couple Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes were taking “a break from each other.” Cabello and Mendes were longer quarantined together in Miami like they were in the spring—and weren’t really posting about each other on social media, either. Cabello flew back to London to

As The Crown gears up for its fourth season, which includes the introductions of both Princess Diana (Emma Corrin) and Margaret Thatcher (Gillian Anderson), its creator is weighing in on a pair of real-life royal controversies. During a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Peter Morgan detailed the next installment in his chronicles of the modern

Netflix’s Ratched welcomes an engaging cast of characters to tell the story of Nurse Mildred Ratched (Sarah Paulson), and one of Lucia State Hospital’s most infamous residents is Charlotte Wells (Sophie Okonedo), a character struggling with multiple personality disorder. Throughout the series, Okonedo channels several different personas, including a boxer, a baby, and the hospital’s

Eric Reads The News is a daily humor column which skewers politics, pop culture, celebrity, shade, and schadenfreude. . Boy oh boy, am I pumped about the first presidential debate! I feel like I have waited all of my life to see Joe Biden and Donald Trump go head-to-head in an empty arena at opposite

Dress, Johanna Ortiz. Her own hat and accessories worn throughout. Kurt Iswarienko On a cool evening in February 2019, Shannen Doherty invited some friends to a Venice, California, rental house for a dinner party. Doherty’s actual home was in Malibu, 20 miles north, but she and her husband, photographer Kurt Iswarienko, had fled the property

It’s been three years since we bid farewell to the Pretty Little Liars of Rosewood, and it’s taken all that time to unravel every twist from the Freeform series. Just as (we think) we’ve figured it out, a new reboot of the show is headed to HBO Max. Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin has received

Amanda Seyfried and husband Thomas Sadoski followed Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom’s example and announced the birth of their child through the charities they work with, INARA and War Child. Seyfried had also managed to keep her second pregnancy completely secret. The couple released a brief statement on War Child’s Instagram alongside the first photo

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Instagram This week, Sir David Attenborough broke Jennifer Aniston’s record as the person who got one million Instagram followers faster than anyone else. I mean, come on; he’s David Attenborough, the 94-year-old natural historian who has been the voice behind pretty much every documentary that ever taught us anything about