Meghan Marks Her Comeback, Birkin dupe & How To Watch Movies & Shows for FREE
Vol. 2 Issue 1 – 4th January 2025
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The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle’s new lifestyle/cooking show, ‘With Love, Meghan’, comes out on Netflix on 15th January. Here’s the trailer.
While criticism always surrounds every move she makes, just a reminder that before marrying into royalty, Meghan Markle ran one of the most successful lifestyle blogs, The Tig, so this is simply her going back to her passion and not an attempt to publicise her life in LA and upstage the royal family.
Squid Game 2 dropped on Netflix and became the platform’s most-watched series in its premiere week, and also the top series of the week overall, beating the Christmas Day NFL games with Beyoncé’s performance.
Marvel’s What If season 3 and Doctor Who’s Christmas special also dropped last week.
The trailer for ‘Love Me’, starring Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun, has come out. The post-apocalyptic romance is about a satellite and a buoy falling in love.
Upcoming 2025 award season schedule:
• Golden Globes - 5th January
• SAG noms - 8th January
• Critics Choice Awards - 12th January
• Oscar noms - 17th January
• Grammys - 2nd February
• DGA & PGA Awards - 8th February
• WGA Awards - 15th February
• BAFTAs - 16th February
• Spirit Awards - 22nd February
• SAG Awards - 23rd February
• Oscar Ceremony - 2nd March
Christopher Nolan’s next film is an adaption of ‘THE ODYSSEY’. Described as a mythic action epic that follows the tale of Odysseus & his 10-year journey home after the Trojan War. Starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon, Lupita Nyong’o and Robert Pattinson.
Celeb sightings
Tom Holland covers the latest issue of Men's Health magazine. In his interview, he talks about retiring from acting once he has kids and not joining Zendaya on her red carpets to let her have her moment.
A clip of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo singing the Mariah Carey-Whitney Houston duet, When You Believe, from inside the 2024 Met Gala has finally surfaced online thanks to model Cara Delevigne’s Instagram.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard gave birth to her first child on the 1-year anniversary of her prison release, 28th December. Also, YouTuber Bretman Rock’s sister, Princess Mae has given birth to her fifth child.
Pregnancy rumours are also circulating for Kylie Jenner after she appeared in a video with her daughter and niece, covering her body.
It does not seem to end with them. After Blake Lively’s side of story came out with The New York Times, revealing the on-set sexual harassment by Justin Baldoni and producer Jamey Heath, along with scheming a smear campaign against her with the help of a PR team, Baldoni is now suing Lively, as well as The New York Times for libel, claiming full communication from chats were not revealed. The NYT hasn’t lost a defamation lawsuit since the 1960’s.
Mixed “bag”
Outdoor smoking is officially banned in the fashion capital, Milan.
The New Years fireworks in London had a brat segment.
After Gen Alpha, all the children born between 2025 and 2039 will be part of ‘Generation Beta’.
American retailer Walmart has released its dupe of the famous, coveted and exclusive Birkin bag by French luxury fashion house Hermes. The bag bears a striking similarity and is appropriately named the “Walmes Wirkin”. The bag was being sold for $78 instead of the <$10,000 original price tag. After going viral online, the bag is no longer listed on the website, with Hermes probably interfering on account of plagiarism.
The internet loves
A clip and audio from sketch-comedy channel Smosh’s game show, “Beopardy” is going viral. The cast member, Angela, is seen getting worked up, screaming, “Are you kidding? That's unfair. She made those.”, followed by a quite, “I need to calm down. Everything's fine. Amanda. I'm an adult.”
This gif of Timothee Chalamet is going viral too.
Reminder!
Apple TV+ is available for free for everyone this weekend, from January 4th-5th. My recommendations: Severance, Shrinking, Silo, Ted Lasso, Lessons in Chemistry, Pachinko, Dickinson.
I started watching Shrinking just last week, love it, almost through both seasons. Apple TV is my new Netflix