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Travis Kelce’s shiny new ESPN doc The Kingdom is supposed to be about football… Patrick Mahomes throwing rockets, Andy Reid in a visor, the Chiefs trying to three-peat.
We don’t know what any of that means, so here’s all we care about: does Taylor show up? And the answer is yes.
Director Kristen Lappas just said that not only does Taylor appear, ‘the pop queen’ personally approved every single shot of her that made the cut.
America’s sweetheart isn’t a side character any more for football fans who once acted all snooty about her vocal sideline support… she’s part of the mythology, right alongside touchdown passes and Gatorade showers.
The six-parter covers the Chiefs’ monster 2024 season, ending in that gut-punch Super Bowl loss.
But thanks to Taylor’s cameos, it also accidentally documents the moment football stopped belonging to dudes in jerseys and became part of the Swift cinematic universe.
Well, things just got (more) awkward for the royals. Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault and settled out of court for a reported $16million (£12m), will release a posthumous tell-all memoir this autumn.
The ‘unsparing’ autobiography was apparently finished before she took her own life in April. And I guess we all know who won’t be spared.
The book, Nobody’s Girl, promises raw detail about her years under the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s control, plus her dealings with his girlfriend and fixer Ghislaine Maxwell and with Andrew himself.
This will be the first time she’s spoken publicly about him since their 2022 settlement – and if you thought that Newsnight interview put a nail in his royal career, this looks set to truly hammer it in.
Virginia apparently made it clear in emails that she wanted the book out ‘regardless’ of her fate, in order to shine a light on sex trafficking. It’s 400 pages long, fact-checked and already being hyped as a bombshell.
For Andrew, now quietly motoring around Balmoral on the royal family’s summer break, it’s yet another reminder that the scandal he tried to bury won’t be going anywhere.
Okay, so David and Victoria Beckham are full-on making out in public, and the message is crystal clear.
For 26 years, their public image has been icy. A spontaneous handhold was a rare event; an actual kiss? Like spotting a unicorn.
But this weekend in Italy? Suddenly, Posh and Becks are touching, kissing, laughing like teens in the back row of the cinema. And for a couple this media-trained… that’s not spontaneity. That’s strategy.
The setting was their favourite lemon-decked restaurant in Nerano, Lo Scoglio. And there was 50-year-old David, stroking Victoria’s face like it was a Dolce & Gabbana ad, then going for their first ever proper public, no-holds-barred (eyes closed, head tilted back) smooch over the linguine.
This, just days after he was caught on their £16 million yacht giving her butt a cheeky, very public grab, with the paps just a boat away. But here’s the thing – these two don’t get caught. This isn’t just a sudden surge of PDA. This is Saving Brand Beckham.
And it’s fuelled by a real, and very painful, heartbreak: estrangement from their eldest son, Brooklyn. Now David and Victoria are circling the wagons – and pulling their other kids close. Romeo, 22, Harper, 14, and Cruz, 20, with his girlfriend Jackie, 30, were all sitting around that family table.
It’s textbook Beckham PR. After the Rebecca Loos scandal in the 2000s, with rumours David had been unfaithful, they posed for unmistakably couple-y, ‘we’re stronger than ever’ portraits.
This is Beckham-level alchemy: turning personal pain into a perfectly staged performance. The solidarity is real; the audience is part of the deal.
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Gaga paused her Mayhem Ball show in New York to share the ‘life-changing’ words her fiancé Michael Polansky told her before she hit the stage: ‘When you go out there, let them fill you up.’
Yes, really… and, no, you aren’t missing something. Somewhere out there, a self-help book is about to sue. Anyways, cue the sobs, applause, and a very teary Gaga introducing her next song.
Tbf, she admitted she always feels like she has to ‘fight’ when performing in her hometown… but thanks to Michael (and a pal who told her sometimes just showing up is enough), she let her guard down.
This is the same woman who wore a meat dress on the red carpet. How much more confidence does she need?
Prince William did his annual ‘look, I’m just like you, peasants’ routine on Sunday, playing chauffeur for the Wales crew on their Balmoral run to Crathie Kirk.
Passenger princess Kate was up front, debuting a summer upgrade: lighter, sun-streaked hair that basically screamed ‘I should be in St Tropez, not Scotland… but here we are again.’
In the back, the kids played their usual roles: George looking like he’s already drafting policy, Charlotte perfecting the casual window stare, and Louis planning mischief.
Selena Gomez’s man, Benny Blanco, just casually ate a $200 (£148) box of blueberries.
Each berry came in its own cushioned velvet compartment, because apparently, fruit needs better housing than most of us.
Anyway, TikTok is not having it (when are they ever, tbf?) While Benny raved about the berries, fans raged that they can barely afford regular fruit.
The Spotlight sees this differently. We know somewhere a market hustler is laughing about the $199 markup on the sale of his value supermarket-bought berries to ‘some rich guy named Blanco’.
Helena Christensen and Norman Reedus’ kid, Mingus (yes, really), just swapped Milan Fashion Week for Manhattan Criminal Court.
The 25-year-old strolled in with his mom’s genes, including cheekbones sharp enough to cut through his rap sheet, pleading not guilty to five charges, which all involved him allegedly attacking his ex-girlfriend.
The model, who is due back in court on Tuesday, walked out looking less ‘front row at Prada’ and more ‘walk of shame with paperwork’.
It seems he got the wrong nepo starter pack: a DJ set, a skincare collab, and at least one mugshot.
Lock ’em all up, we say. Just kidding… kinda.
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