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Last night (September 19), Taylor Swift and Sophie Turner were photographed leaving a restaurant in NYC — locking arms like besties just a few weeks after news broke that Turner was getting divorced from her husband, Joe Jonas. After the images surfaced on social media, fans were laughing about the move.

“Not picture me thick as thieves with your ex wife,” one person joked, referencing Swift’s “Vigilante Sh*t” lyric.

“She’s listening so intently while sophie was giving her the tea,” another user captioned another photo of Swift, that was reportedly taken of her at the dinner.

A few weeks ago, Turner was in the headlines after news broke of her divorce from Joe Jonas. The couple share two children. Sources had claimed that the two had different lifestyles, with Turner liking to party — despite past interviews where she self-described being an “introvert.”

However, Turner has stayed relatively quiet about the rumors, except for a standard divorce announcement.

“After four wonderful years of marriage we have mutually decided to amicably end our marriage,” the two previously shared in a joint statement. “There are many speculative narratives as to why but, truly this is a united decision and we sincerely hope that everyone can respect our wishes for privacy for us and our children.”

Upon the news, fans joked that one of Jonas’ other famous exes, Taylor Swift, had the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever. As it turns out, she followed the advice and did it.

Continue scrolling for some more reactions to Taylor Swift and Sophie Turner’s night out.

With four indictments now filed against him, and the majority of them filled with damning evidence, Donald Trump probably should be worried about going to prison. The former president is facing a litany of charges for mishandling classified documents, meddling with the state of Georgia’s election results, and sparking the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building.

In public, Trump has maintained his innocence, and even recently told new Meet the Press host Kristen Welker that he doesn’t even think about going to prison. In private, he’s reportedly freaking out.

According to sources for Rolling Stone, Trump has spent the past several months asking his lawyers and top aides what it would be like if he’s sent to prison. The former president is particularly concerned about his appearance and if he’ll be forced to wear “one of those jumpsuits.”

Would he be sent to a “club fed” style prison — a place that’s relatively comfortable, as far these things go — or a “bad” prison? Would he serve out a sentence in a plush home confinement? Would government officials try to strip him of his lifetime Secret Service protections? What would they make him wear, if his enemies actually did ever get him in a cell — an unprecedented set of consequences for a former leader of the free world.

In a more concerning move, Trump has also repeatedly gamed out what would happen if he’s convicted, yet wins the 2024 presidential election. A possibility that should be unthinkable, but the guy was already elected once, so never count out American voters and their ability to make a mess like you’ve never seen. It’s practically our superpower.

(Via Rolling Stone)

Selena Gomez has accomplished a lot in her expansive career. Her hit murder mystery series Only Murders In The Building premiered its third season last month on Hulu, and she also recently dropped a buzzy new single, “Single Soon.” Earlier this year, she released a documentary on Apple TV+ called Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me.

In the documentary, Gomez opens up about her mental health, her relationship with fame, and living with lupus. Yesterday (September 19), Gomez spoke about the documentary during the Music & Health Conference in Los Angeles (per The Hollywood Reporter). She admitted that she was hesitant to release the documentary, due to its raw, unfiltered nature.

“There was a very long period of time where I just didn’t know if it was a good idea,” said Gomez. “I knew, eventually, one day I wanted to maybe just be an actress for a while, and I didn’t know if it would jeopardize things in my life. I don’t know what I’m doing, letting people into my life. And then the moment it was released…I had no choice at that point. And I was relieved. I felt like a huge weight was lifted.”

While Gomez said she felt relief watching the documentary, she admitted she probably won’t rewatch it anytime soon.

“I felt like I got to say things that I’ve been keeping in for years,” Gomez said. “It’s very hard for me to watch. I will never watch it again, but I’m very proud of it. I couldn’t have been luckier to have the people that worked on it with me.”

In a move nobody could have seen coming, Samuel L. Jackson stars in a delightfully random new commercial for the British bakery Warburton’s, and it’s quite possibly one of the greatest ads to ever exist.

In the clever commercial for Warburton’s Toastie loaf, Jackson assumes the rule of the bakery’s chairman Jonathan Warburton as the Pulp Fiction star proceeds to go off on a nasty tweet about the company’s bread. “What gives?!” a fiery Jackson responds. “What gives tweety pie is me – Jonathan Warburton. I GIVE! And hell hath no fury like a baker scorned, Steve.”

Jackson then launches into a highly entertaining romp through the company’s bread-making process that also includes paying a visit to Steve’s mom. You can watch the full Warburton’s commercial below:

When you randomly cut Samuel L. Jackson loose in a bread commercial, people are gonna notice. The Warburton’s ad is already blowing up social media where people can’t believe what they just saw. The spot is particularly melting the minds of UK residents who are familiar with Warburton’s Toastie loaf, which is probably the last product they’d associate with Jackson.

However, international audiences are absolutely loving the ad because, again, it’s Samuel L. Jackson being Samuel L. Jackson in a bread commercial. That’s not something you see every day, and kudos to the ad team who pulled it off. This isn’t their first rodeo.

You can see some of the reactions below:

(Via Warburtons on Twitter)

Author Michael Wolff has a new book coming out called The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty. It’s about, well, the end of Fox News and the Murdoch dynasty, including how much Rupert Murdoch hates Donald Trump. The real-life Logan Roy often wishes the former president was dead.

“Of all Trump’s implacable enemies, Murdoch had become a frothing-at-the-mouth one. His relatively calm demeanor from the early Trump presidency where, with a sigh, he could dismiss him merely as a ‘fucking idiot’ had now become a churning stew of rage and recrimination,” Wolff writes in an excerpt published in New York magazine, adding, “Trump’s death became a Murdoch theme: ‘We would all be better off…?’ ‘This would all be solved if…’ ‘How could he still be alive, how could he?’ ‘Have you seen him? Have you seen what he looks like? What he eats?’” We have, and honestly, it sounds good.

Fearing a repeat of 2016, Murdoch decided that the only man who could defeat Trump was Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who he called a “professional.” Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ then-biggest star, wasn’t as convinced. However, in spring 2023, “the DeSantises [were invited] to lunch at the Carlsons’ home in Boca Grande, an exclusive community on Florida’s Gasparilla Island. And certainly, for DeSantis, this was a significant moment — an opportunity to reach out, to break bread, to make nice, to suck up to a plausible kingmaker.” All Meatball Ron and his wife Casey had to do was win over Tucker’s wife, Susie. Let’s see how it went!

They failed it miserably. They had a total inability to read the room — one with a genteel, stay-at-home woman, here in her own house. For two hours, Ron DeSantis sat at her table talking in an outdoor voice indoors, failing to observe any basics of conversational ritual or propriety, reeling off an unself-conscious list of his programs and initiatives and political accomplishments. Impersonal, cold, uninterested in anything outside of himself. The Carlsons are dog people with four spaniels, the progeny of other spaniels they have had before, who sleep in their bed. DeSantis pushed the dog under the table. Had he kicked the dog? Susie Carlson’s judgment was clear: She did not ever want to be anywhere near anybody like that ever again. Her husband agreed. DeSantis, in Carlson’s view, was a “fascist.” Forget Ron DeSantis.

There’s a scene in the cult comedy Clifford where a fed-up Charles Grodin demands that Martin Short, playing a 10-year-old rascal, look at him “like a human boy.” This would be impossible for Ron DeSantis, who can’t do anything, not eat pizza or laugh or pet a dog, like a normal human.

(Via New York)

Lana Del Rey did an interview with The Hollywood Reporter for their new cover story, and she had a lot to say. For those who don’t know, over the past few months, Del Rey made waves online after she was spotted apparently working a shift at a Waffle House in Alabama.

In the conversation, she opened up about the backstory of her wearing the uniform and all. Del Rey had been at the chain restaurant for a few hours when the workers offered her a shirt.

“This guy, a regular, comes in every day and orders two things, so they were like, ‘Just go get it for him!’” Del Rey explained. “I brought him a Coke. No ice. And an empty cup.”

“I didn’t see anyone take a video of me,” she added.

But someone did, and Del Rey at the Waffle House has continued to be an internet joke (in a good way).

“I wish my album had gone as viral,” Del Rey laughed. “I woke up to, like, 10,000 texts the next morning — some from folks I had not heard from for 10 years. ‘Saw your picture at the Waffle House!’ I was like, ‘Did you hear the new album?’”

Check out the original video of Lana Del Rey at the Waffle House below.

Rootin’ Tootin’ Lauren Boebert seemed pretty irked that people were making a big deal about her Beetlejuice vaping and groping incident. She had insisted that she was acting as a “private citizen” that night while ignoring the fact that she willingly ran for public office, which means that certain behavior is bound to attract attention. Boebert may or may not be able to overcome this unsavory incident before her 2024 reelection date. Yet one thing is becoming clear: her date cannot be having a great time with the fallout.

MAGA Boebert’s companion at the time, a Democrat Bar Guy revealed by the Daily Mail to be Quinn Gallagher, is a co-owner of Aspen’s Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar. The establishment regularly participates in Aspen Gay Week festivities and even hosted a drag show. And as one can imagine, the clientele cannot be thrilled to see him date someone who has tweeted: “Take your children to CHURCH, not drag bars.” The PR fallout is now growing intense.

Boebert recently laughed off Quinn’s Democrat label and revealed (to TMZ) that she would be checking political affiliations from here on out. She and Quinn are no longer dating, but now, he’s stuck with a big mess. As TMZ now relays, Hooch is being review bombed by people who surely haven’t even frequented the establishment. TMZ reports that it got so bad that the bar’s Yelp reviews were disabled after this mess went down:

One Yelper said Quinn is “disruptive & disrespectful in public places,” an obvious reference to last week’s caught-on-camera moment while he and Boebert were enjoying “Beetlejuice” the musical … and each other.

Another wrote, “This place sucks unless you admire an owner that dates Boobert [sic] and causes a ruckus at a theater play” — while someone else added, “The owner is doinking 36 year old Grandma Boebert, who supported an insurrection against America!”

The chatter on Yelp has gotten so bad, the platform had to temporarily disable reviews — something the site often does when it sees a rapid uptick in folks review-bombing a business.

The same fate has been met by Hooch’s Facebook page, and their Instagram page has been scrubbed of comments, which began immediately after Quinn was identified as Boebert’s Beetlejuice date, who also tends bar.

The drinks do look tasty. The situation is not fantastic though, and you gotta feel for Quinn’s colleagues if Hooch’s business is being affected by his unfortunate decision to grope Boebert in a theater. Hopefully, this will all blow over by Aspen’s next Gay Week in January 2024.

(Via TMZ)

For the past couple of months now, there’s been something going on between Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce. Exactly what that is, though, hasn’t been clear. However, Travis’ brother, fellow NFL player Jason Kelce, has provided some clarity, confirming that Swift and Travis have in fact been seeing each other.

In an interview on SportsRadio 94WIP, Jason was asked about the Swift rumors and he prefaced his answer by saying, “It’s hard to answer because I don’t really know a lot about what’s happening with Travis’ love life, and I try to keep a, you know… his business kind of his business, and stay out of that world.”

He then continued, “But having said that, man, I think he’s doing great and I think it’s all 100-percent true.”

This whole thing started back in July, when Travis told the story of trying to give Swift his phone number via friendship bracelet: ““I was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings, so I was a little butthurt I didn’t get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her.”

Lionsgate just dropped a brand trailer for the highly anticipated The Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

Set 64 years before Katniss Everdeen would volunteer as a tribute and rock Panem, the prequel story based on the bestselling book of the same name follows the rise of Coriolanus Snow as he has his first encounter with District 12. This time in the form of Rachel Zegler‘s Lucy Gray Baird, and like Katniss, she proves to be much more than her humble surroundings.

Also look for Viola Davis, Jonathan Schwartzman, and Peter Dinklage to add their actorly gravitas to the dystopian battle royale.

Here’s the official synopsis:

THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates. With everything he has worked for hanging in the balance, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow sets out on a race against time to survive and reveal if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes premieres November 17, 2023.

Ed Sheeran is dropping his new album, Autumn Variations, later this month. While he’s already been promoting it in some unique ways, including working at a Starbucks, it seems he had more tricks up his sleeve.

In a new Instagram post, Sheeran revealed that he’s recorded a live version of the album — with surprise performances in different fans’ living rooms. The video finds Sheeran at one fan’s house, where she had a piano. Because of this, he treated her to a special take of an older song, too.

“We got to @kariconaway’s house at the end of the day, and I instantly knew it was gonna be a fun one,” Sheeran captioned. “They had cats, friendship bracelets and some fruit drinks to start, but once I’d played the Autumn song I said take me on a tour, and when I went into her room I saw a piano.”

“She asked if I could play and I said ‘not really but I kinda play on wake me up’, so here I am playing ‘Wake Me Up,’ for all the Plus fans out there,” he added.

The fan posted one of Sheeran’s TikToks to her Instagram page, too. In the video, he can be seen entering with a guitar, pouring drinks, checking out her CD collection, and more.

Check out the video of Sheeran performing in a fan’s house below.

Autumn Variations is out 9/29 via Gingerbread Man/Atlantic Records. Find more information here.

Ed Sheeran is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.