Taylor Swift, Kylie Kelce and Haim sisters dine in downtown New Orleans before Super Bowl

Taylor Swift was spotted dining at a popular downtown New Orleans restaurant Saturday night, along with some family and friends, according to People Magazine.

The pop star was photographed heading into Gianna, an Italian restaurant on Magazine Street in the Warehouse District, one day before her boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs will take on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX.

Musicians Danielle and Alana Haim were seen arriving at the restaurant with Swift.

Kelce’s sister-in-law, Kylie Kelce, was also spotted inside.

Gianna has been a popular spot for celebrities this week. Martha Stewart sipped on espresso martinis with a few friends at the same Italian restaurant on Friday night. “Top Chef” star and chef Carla Hall was also there.

Swift and Kelce dined at Lilette, a popular French restaurant on Magazine Street, on Friday night. They were joined by Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife Brittany.

Swift will be at the Caesars Superdome tonight for the Super Bowl, likely with a celebrity posse in tow.

Read more about where celebrities are dining while in New Orleans for the Super Bowl here.

Trump sent message by Olivia Culpo with Super Bowl plea ahead of Chiefs-Eagles

PRESIDENT Donald Trump has been sent a clear message by model Olivia Culpo ahead of Super Bowl LIX.

Culpo has sent a passionate plea for Trump to join her on the Super Bowl red carpet when he arrives at Sunday’s game in New Orleans.

Trump will become the first-sitting president in history to attend the Super Bowl when he watches the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles today.

And Culpo – the wife of San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffery – is set to join Fox’s star-studded coverage team.

The American model will host a new red-carpet event taking place before the NFL showpiece finale, with Grammy winner Kendrick Lamar headlining the half-time show.

Culpo will be interviewing former players, celebrities and influencers live on Fox-owned streaming service Tubi as they head into the Caesars Superdome.

And the 32-year-old beauty discussed the possibility of Trump appearing as a guest on the red carpet beforehand.

Culpo then delivered a personal invitation to Trump down the camera while referring to herself as his “former employee”.

She added: “It would be so fun, just like old times!”.

Trump is expected to watch the game alongside New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson, Front Office Sports reported earlier this week.

Benson, who became the majority of the NFL franchise in 2018, will host Trump as a special guest at the Superdrome – the home of the Saints.

The businesswoman is known to be Republican leaning with previous donations to particular political campaigns.

But it is unknown how Benson voted in the presidential election in November.

Trump’s attendance this weekend is expected to have an impact on security in New Orleans.

While the Big Easy isn’t new to hosting big football events, the city was rocked by the New Year’s Eve terror attack on Bourbon Street.

Trump regularly attends college football games, including an appearance last fall at Alabama against Georgia.

His son Donald Trump Jr and daughter-in-law Bettina Anderson went to Michael Rubin’s Fanatics Super Bowl party on Saturday.

The wife of Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, Tavia, has expressed support for Trump and Vice President JD Vance on social media in the past.

Trump has thanked Brittany Mahomes, the wife of quarterback Patrick Mahomes, for defending him in the past.

And the QB’s mother, Randi, wore a “Make America Great Again” hat to a game in November ahead of the election.

Is Taylor Swift an Eagles fan? Revisiting her nods to hometown NFL team before Chiefs

On Super Bowl Sunday, expect pop superstar Taylor Swift to be supporting her boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs. But don’t get it twisted: red was not always her color.

Swift’s newfound, very publicized love for the Chiefs has people wondering if she has always been a football fan or if it is just for her beau.

Her love of football runs deep, and while she’s switched to a new team recently, only one is (officially) written into her music.

So, which NFL Team, and Kelce brother, did Swift originally root for? Here’s everything you need to know.

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Swift has been following football since she was very young, so no, her NFL journey did not begin with the Chiefs. It did not start with the Titans either when she moved to Nashville at 14 years old to pursue her music career.

Here is a hint: Swift grew up on a Christmas tree farm and references her home state in her song “Seven”.

If you guessed Pennsylvania, then congratulations — you are a true Swifty.

Swift grew up in West Reading, Pennsylvania, claiming Philadelphia as her home city, and until she started dating Travis Kelce, she cheered for the Eagles. She performed the “Star-Spangled Banner” at a 76ers game at age 11 and the same at a 2008 World Series game for the Phillies.

While Swift certainly cheers on the Chiefs now, she has Eagles roots.

Here is a picture of her in 2020 wearing an Eagles sweatshirt

This could complicate things on Sunday, but do not expect any questions about where her loyalties will lie in the Super Bowl.

Before running back D’Andre Swift had joined the team, Swift had a custom Eagles jersey made for her to perform in.

In her song “Gold Rush,” Swift sings: ‘I see me padding across your wooden floors, with my Eagles t-shirt hanging from the door.’

It was unclear at the time if this lyric was referencing the football team or the band.

This lyric sparked a lot of debate about which ‘Eagles’ Swift was referring to. At her Eras Tour concert at Lincoln Financial Field, she addressed this question.

“I saw some people wondering if it was the band Eagles or the team Eagles. And I love the band Eagles, but, guys, come on, I’m from Philly, of course, it’s the team,” Swift said.

Scott Swift is a lifelong Eagles fan. However, at a Nov. 11 Eras Tour show in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he joined Kelce in the VIP tent, wearing a Chiefs lanyard around his neck, potentially signaling a change in loyalty.

Ex-Hollyoaks actor ‘grieving’ after death of mother and her husband in France

Former Hollyoaks actor Callum Kerr is “grieving the tragic loss” of his mother and her partner after the British couple were found dead in their home in south-west France.

The bodies of Dawn and Andrew Searle were reportedly discovered on Thursday by a neighbour at their home in the village of Les Pesquies, south of Villefranche-de-Rouergue.

The cause of death of the couple in their 60s is currently unknown but a helicopter, drone, criminal investigation technicians and a forensic doctor have been dispatched to the home, according to French outlets.

The mayor of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Jean-Sebastien Orcibal, reportedly told French television that the deaths were “clearly a homicide”.

A representative of Scottish-born actor Kerr told the PA news agency: “At this time, Callum Kerr, Amanda Kerr, Tom Searle and Ella Searle are grieving the tragic loss of their mother and father, Dawn and Andrew Searle.

“We kindly request that their privacy be respected during this difficult period.

“We will provide updates as appropriate.”

Kerr is known for his role as Pc George Kiss in Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, as well as appearing in Netflix’s Virgin River and drama Flowers In The Attic: The Origin.

He has also released a number of country songs, including a new single this week titled Cold Beer Cold.

In 2023, Kerr donned a tartan kilt as he walked his mother down the aisle for her wedding to Mr Searle.

Alongside a photo of them walking arm-in-arm posted to Instagram, he wrote: “Not many people can say they walked their own mother down the aisle. What a pleasure! I love you mum.

“Congrats to Dawn and Andy on their wonderful wedding day and here’s to a tremendous life together for the happy couple.”

A spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said: “We are supporting the family of a British couple who died in France and are liaising with the local authorities.”

David Schwimmer Calls on Elon Musk To Ban Kanye West From X

Friends alum David Schwimmer took to Instagram on Saturday to implore Elon Musk to suspend Kanye West’s X account following several days’ worth of racist, antisemitic, and conspiratorial posts from the musician on the platform.

Schwimmer shared a photo of West with the text “I’m a Nazi” superimposed on top, quoting one of West’s own posts, with the caption, “We can’t stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate filled, ignorant bile… but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk.”

In his post, Schwimmer explained that “sick hate speech” like West’s results in “REAL LIFE violence against Jews.” The three-time Emmy nominee condemned the lack of “OUTRAGE to remove and ban West from all social media at this point,” as such inaction means West still has a number of global platforms where he can publish hate speech at will. Schwimmer ended his post with a simple message: “Silence is complicity.”

West, who now goes by the name Ye, has been posting offensive material to X for days following his red carpet stunt at the Grammys, including racist and ableist slurs, antisemitic conspiracy theories, proclamations such as “I love Hitler” and “I’m a Nazi,” calls to free Sean “Diddy” Combs from jail, and even threats to crash the Super Bowl with his wife, Bianca Censori.

Many of his tweets have been deleted, and more than a dozen have had their visibility limited by X, but Musk has yet to step in and actually suspend West’s account. Under Musk, the site’s policies around how many violations are required before an account is suspended have become unclear; Musk famously reinstated Donald Trump’s account in November 2022 — nearly two years after it had been suspended following the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

There is precedent for West’s account being suspended; the artist was previously banned from X from December 2022 to July 2023 after he shared an image of a swastika and made several posts similar to his most recent rants.

Unfortunately for Schwimmer, however, the chances of Musk taking issue with the content of West’s posts enough to actually suspend his account once more seem small. Trump’s “First Buddy” has relaxed moderation guidelines on the platform since West’s previous suspension — and Musk himself appealed to white supremacists around the country when he performed what most except for his most loyal followers considered to be a Nazi salute while speaking at a MAGA rally last month.

Broadcaster Piers Morgan took to X to share similar sentiments to Schwimmer, quoting a West tweet that reads, “B***hes deserve to get slapped sometimes” and asking Musk how much more “violence-inducing stuff” he was going to allow West to post before intervening.

It remains to be seen whether Musk will take any action against West.

Who will represent the UK at Eurovision? Act ‘confirmed’ by BBC Radio 1 hosts

The UK’s artist for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 appears to have been announced this week despite the BBC choosing not to comment yet.

BBC Radio 1 hosts Nat O’Leary and Vicky Hawkesworth announced the UK act for Eurovision 2025 during their show on Friday, February 7.

Rumours that have circulated about the act being a girl band appear to be correct – here’s what we know.

According to the radio presenters, Remember Monday, a country girl band, will represent the country in the international singing competition with their song still to be revealed.

On Friday’s edition of Group Chat With Nat And Vicky, the presenters said that it isn’t the first time the girl band has been involved in a singing competition.

Announcing the news, Nat and Vicky said: “Now we have to talk a little about Eurovision because we’ve gone a different route this year.

“So this year they’re going for a country theme and country is having its moment, still, which I’m really glad to see, we saw Beyonce win album of the year at the Grammys for Cowboy Carter and now this girl band, which are called Remember Monday, are going to be representing us at Eurovision this year.

“So we’ve got Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull, and Charlotte Steel, and they’ve already been on TV, they’ve been on The Voice in 2019, so they know what they’re doing, they’ve got us this year.”

Despite the radio presenters ‘confirming’ the news, the BBC told Newsquest it would not be commenting on the announcement.

Instead, the broadcaster said “any announcements regarding Eurovision will be made in due course.”

The act and song representing the UK will be publicly announced by the BBC before the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)’s deadline in March 2025, the BBC has said.

The country group have toured the UK and US including stopping at the C2C: Country to Country British music festival, The Long Road festival in Leicestershire, Highways Festival at the Royal Albert Hall, CMA Fest in Nashville, Tennessee and opening for Billy Joel’s 2023 BST Hyde Park show.

Last year, Eurovision was hosted in Malmo, Sweden and the winner was Nemo Mettler from Switzerland.

Tearfully accepting the trophy on stage, Nemo said: “I want to say thank you so much – I hope this contest can live up to its promise and continue to stand for peace and dignity for every person in this world.”

In 2024, UK entrant Olly Alexander didn’t finish dead last with dance-pop track Dizzy but did receive “nul points” from the audience vote.

It was the first time that a British entry performed in the semi-final of the competition and gave the UK a chance to showcase its song twice.

The year before that, pop singer Mae Muller represented the UK and scored 24 points with her track I Wrote A Song when she performed at Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena.

In 2022, Sam Ryder’s Eurovision stint representing the UK saw the singer finish as runner-up in Turin, Italy.

His Eurovision success also helped him achieve a UK number one album, two UK number two singles and Brit and Emmy Award nominations.

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The Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 will take place at St Jakobshalle arena in Basel, Switzerland on Saturday, May 17.

The semi-finals take place on Tuesday, May 13 and Thursday, May 15.

Both will be broadcast live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer as well as BBC Radio 2 and BBC Sounds.

David Schwimmer Calls on Elon Musk To Ban Kanye West From X

Friends alum David Schwimmer took to Instagram on Saturday to implore Elon Musk to suspend Kanye West’s X account following several days’ worth of racist, antisemitic, and conspiratorial posts from the musician on the platform.

Schwimmer shared a photo of West with the text “I’m a Nazi” superimposed on top, quoting one of West’s own posts, with the caption, “We can’t stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate filled, ignorant bile… but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk.”

In his post, Schwimmer explained that “sick hate speech” like West’s results in “REAL LIFE violence against Jews.” The three-time Emmy nominee condemned the lack of “OUTRAGE to remove and ban West from all social media at this point,” as such inaction means West still has a number of global platforms where he can publish hate speech at will. Schwimmer ended his post with a simple message: “Silence is complicity.”

West, who now goes by the name Ye, has been posting offensive material to X for days following his red carpet stunt at the Grammys, including racist and ableist slurs, antisemitic conspiracy theories, proclamations such as “I love Hitler” and “I’m a Nazi,” calls to free Sean “Diddy” Combs from jail, and even threats to crash the Super Bowl with his wife, Bianca Censori.

Many of his tweets have been deleted, and more than a dozen have had their visibility limited by X, but Musk has yet to step in and actually suspend West’s account. Under Musk, the site’s policies around how many violations are required before an account is suspended have become unclear; Musk famously reinstated Donald Trump’s account in November 2022 — nearly two years after it had been suspended following the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

There is precedent for West’s account being suspended; the artist was previously banned from X from December 2022 to July 2023 after he shared an image of a swastika and made several posts similar to his most recent rants.

Unfortunately for Schwimmer, however, the chances of Musk taking issue with the content of West’s posts enough to actually suspend his account once more seem small. Trump’s “First Buddy” has relaxed moderation guidelines on the platform since West’s previous suspension — and Musk himself appealed to white supremacists around the country when he performed what most except for his most loyal followers considered to be a Nazi salute while speaking at a MAGA rally last month.

Broadcaster Piers Morgan took to X to share similar sentiments to Schwimmer, quoting a West tweet that reads, “B***hes deserve to get slapped sometimes” and asking Musk how much more “violence-inducing stuff” he was going to allow West to post before intervening.

It remains to be seen whether Musk will take any action against West.

How Blake Lively REALLY feels about Taylor Swift’s Super Bowl ‘snub’

Blake Lively is content with laying low after pal Taylor Swift left her off her 2025 Super Bowl squad guest list ahead of Sunday’s big game, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

The pair’s 10-year bond has come under scrutiny in recent weeks after Swift was dragged into Lively’s ugly legal war with It Ends With Us co-star/director Justin Baldoni.

Baldoni claimed in his bombshell $400 million defamation lawsuit that Lively leveraged Swift’s name as a way to exert control over the 2024 film — even going as far as to refer to her powerful BFF as her ‘dragon’ in an alleged text exchange.

A source told DailyMail.com exclusively on Friday that Lively, 37, never intended on going to Super Bowl LIX because she doesn’t want her drama to ‘overshadow’ Swift and boyfriend Travis Kelce’s ‘big night.’

‘Taylor is not shading Blake or is she trying to teach her a lesson. It isn’t like that. Even if Taylor did invite Blake, Blake would not come,’ the insider dished.

‘She would never want to make Taylor’s big night – where she is going to see the love of her life play in another Super Bowl – about her. Blake would not want to overshadow Taylor ever.’

Blake Lively is content with laying low after pal Taylor Swift left her off her 2025 Super Bowl squad guest list ahead of Sunday’s big game, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal; the pair seen at last year’s Super Bowl

DailyMail.com has reached out representatives for Blake Lively and Taylor Swift for comment.

As for Lively’s next steps, the actress may soon be forced to return to the public eye to promote her new film Another Simple Favor, a source close to the production revealed to DailyMail.com exclusively on Friday.

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The Amazon Prime Video film is a sequel to Lively’s A Simple Favor (2018) and sees the return of her co-star Anna Kendrick and director Paul Feig. It’s set to premiere in May 2025.

‘Blake may have to do promotional work for another Simple Favor due to contractual obligations unless they decide that it is best for her not to,’ the insider explained.

Lively is currently hunkered down at her and husband Ryan Reynolds’ NYC abode with their four children but knows she can’t hide ‘forever,’ the production source claimed.

‘Other than that, she is staying close to home because she doesn’t want to deal with the added stress. She is focused on her family and her kids right now.

‘She knows she cannot stay in hiding forever.’

The latest Lively update comes hours after DailyMail.com confirmed that the mother-of-four will not be accompanying Swift to watch Kelce face off against the Philadelphia Eagles at Sunday’s Super Bowl.

A source told DailyMail.com exclusively: ‘Blake is not attending the Super Bowl with her. Blake has not left the house since this started practically. Taylor wants nothing to do with this trial and court case.’

Last year, Lively was among Swift’s crew that cheered on the Kansas City Chiefs from a jam-packed VIP suite at Allegiant Stadium.

The elite group included Kelce’s parents, Donna and Ed Kelce, his brother Jason Kelce, as well as her pals Ashley Avignone, Lana Del Rey, Ice Spice, Miles Teller, and Keleigh Teller.

A source told DailyMail.com exclusively on Friday that Lively, 37, never intended on going to Super Bowl LIX because she doesn’t want her drama to ‘overshadow’ Swift and boyfriend Travis Kelce ‘s ‘big night’; Lively seen in August 2024

‘Taylor is not shading Blake or is she trying to teach her a lesson. It isn’t like that. Even if Taylor did invite Blake, Blake would not come,’ the insider dished; Taylor and Blake seen in 2023

Additionally, her mother and father, Andrea Swift and Scott Swift, and brother Austin were present as the Chiefs successfully defended their Super Bowl title for a second-straight season.

Although Lively joined Swift for two other Chiefs games in the past, she did not tag along to any during the 2024-2025 season.

Since going public with her romance with Kelce in late 2023, the So High School hitmaker has attended dozens of games and is set to fly out to New Orleans to see her man compete for an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl win.

The claim comes amid reports that the 14-time Grammy winner ‘feels used’ by the Gossip Girl star, 37, after becoming embroiled in the explosive legal feud between Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 41.

Baldoni has claimed Lively namedropped Swift to intimidate him at a meeting with her husband Ryan Reynolds about edits she had made to a rooftop scene in their film, It Ends with Us.

In his $400 million lawsuit, filed last month, Baldoni alleged Swift showed up and made him feel like he ‘needed to comply with Blake’s direction for the script’.

Lively compared herself to Game of Thrones character Khaleesi in a series of text messages to Baldoni in which she referred to Reynolds, 48, and her best friend as her ‘dragons’.

On Thursday, it was claimed Swift ‘resents’ Lively for ‘calling her one of her dragons and leveraging her name’, with a source claiming to TMZ that she was blindsided over the meeting with Baldoni.

The source claimed Swift came to Lively’s apartment when she was told by the actress and had ‘no idea’ that Baldoni would be there.

The source said Baldoni was about to leave after the two hour meeting when Swift walked in and was introduced to him for the ‘first and only time.’

Swift told Baldoni how excited she was to see the movie ‘because he was her friend’s boss’ according to the source.

The superstar pals have been close for a decade

They also claim Swift believes Lively ‘timed’ her meeting with Baldoni so she would arrive before he left.

Swift was also said to be ‘baffled’ by Lively calling her a ‘dragon’ adding: ‘It’s weird to say that about a friend.’

It was further claimed by the source that Swift has learned Lively has been ‘inappropriately leveraging her name for a long time, like telling a young actress that Taylor ‘cast her,’ which simply did not happen.’

DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for Taylor Swift, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni for comment.

Also on Thursday, numerous sources insisted to Us Weekly that Swift had ‘no involvement’ in the making of It Ends With Us.

‘Taylor has always been Blake’s friend, but Taylor doesn’t have any involvement in the case. She wasn’t part of the movie,’ one insider claimed.

‘Taylor was not a producer on the film and had no creative involvement.’

Another source pointed out that Swift was on her Eras Tour while the film was shooting in 2023 and 2024.

‘Taylor never even saw the film or a single scene from it until the movie was in theaters. She is not relevant to the case,’ they added.

As for Lively’s next steps, the actress may soon be forced to return to the public eye to promote her new film Another Simple Favor, a source close to the production revealed to DailyMail.com exclusively on Friday; Lively seen in August 2024

The Amazon Prime Video film is a sequel to Lively’s A Simple Favor (2018) and sees the return of her co-star Anna Kendrick and director Paul Feig. It’s set to premiere in May 2025

Lively is currently hunkered down at her and husband Ryan Reynolds’ NYC abode with their four children but knows she can’t hide ‘forever,’ a production source claimed to DailyMail.com

A different source told the outlet that dragging Swift into Lively and Baldoni’s legal battle is ‘unnecessary.’

‘While she and Blake are friends, this case is now a legal matter for the courts to resolve. Dragging Taylor into it is unnecessary and misrepresents what really happened,’ they said.

This comes after insiders claimed Swift tried to help her close friend Lively ‘tone down’ her ‘ballsy’ nature years before the actress’ legal roller coaster with Baldoni.

The Gossip Girl alum is currently locked in a bitter battle with her It Ends With Us co-star whom she accused of sexual harassment and launching a smear campaign against her in a bombshell lawsuit last year.

Baldoni now countersuing both Lively and her husband Reynolds for $400 million, and shocked the world when he dragged Swift into the explosive legal feud.

The messy spat between Lively and Baldoni has seen her past behavior come under scrutiny as the public casts judgement with each new update.

Insiders claim Swift had tried to advise her pal about going ‘full throttle’ in the years before the saga.

‘Taylor Swift admires that Blake Lively is a ballsy chick who speaks her mind, swears like a trooper and refuses to be controlled by anyone,’ a source told DailyMail.com.

‘That’s the real reason they bonded and became firm friends when they first met 10 years ago.’

They continued: ‘Taylor saw her doppelgänger in Blake. The main difference between them is that Taylor is more subtle. Blake has always gone full throttle about everything. She never holds back and that’s what has caused the tide to turn on her.

‘Taylor has tried to help tone Blake down in the past, but she now knows it’s never going to happen.’

The latest Lively update comes hours after DailyMail.com confirmed that the mother-of-four will not be accompanying Swift to watch Travis Kelce face off against the Philadelphia Eagles at Sunday’s Super Bowl; Swift and Kelce seen in January 2025

Swift’s elite Super Bowl group included Kelce’s parents, Donna and Ed Kelce, his brother Jason Kelce, as well as her pals Ashley Avignone, Lana Del Rey, Ice Spice, Miles Teller and Keleigh Teller

They finished: ‘Right now, while they’re still close, there’s a slight shift because of the It Ends With Us drama. Taylor doesn’t like the fact that she’s been dragged into it.’

The idea of Swift pulling back came as a shock to fans of the pair who have been friends for a decade, celebrating milestones together, with Swift even name dropping Lively’s children in her music.

In fact, the singer’s music became a part of the legal back and forth after Baldoni claimed in the lawsuit Lively leveraged her friendship with the Grammy-winner to get her way behind the scenes.

According to Baldoni’s lawsuit, Lively threatened to withhold approval of the film trailer if she did not get extra time working on a cut of the movie with her own personal editor.

He claimed in the suit that the actress threatened to ‘change her mind’ about reaching out to Swift to secure the use of her hit 2020 track My Tears Ricochet.

The track, which is from Taylor’s folklore album, was eventually used in the trailer but Baldoni alleged that Lively tried to use her friendship with the singer to make sure her demands were met.

An alleged text exchange with a Sony executive read: ‘Blake is calling Taylor to approve the song. She of course just reached out saying she is asking for time with [REDACTED] her editor. We know it was conditional on signing contract – but asking if you will reconsider – so [REDACTED] can release this trailer and Blake does not change her me re calling Taylor Swift.’

Baldoni noted that they agreed to her demands in order to move forward as planned. The exchange allegedly took place in May 2024.

Swift appeared to rally around Lively when rumor of a troubling rift between the actress and Baldoni first started bubbling by August.

She was pictured arriving at Swift’s Rhode Island property, taking solace at the $17 million, eight bedroom estate alongside her husband Reynolds, to escape the frenzy.

At the time Lively was being called out for her ‘tone deaf’ marketing, apparently dismissing interview questions about domestic violence – a major theme in the movie – in favour of telling people to grab their ‘florals’ and head to the cinema.

The singer’s music became a part of the legal back and forth after Baldoni claimed Lively leveraged her friendship with the Grammy-winner to get her own way behind the scenes; Baldoni and Lively seen filming It Ends with Us last year

Lively and Swift were last pictured together in October on a double date with Deadpool actor Reynolds and Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce in Manhattan, two months before accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment

Baldoni claimed Lively threatened to ‘change her mind’ about reaching out to Swift to secure the use of her hit 2020 track My Tears Ricochet

Others accused her of using the attention to plug her alcohol brand Betty Booze.

Resurfaced interviews showing the actress being ‘rude’ to reporters also went viral on social media.

Lively and Swift were last pictured together in October on a double date with Deadpool actor Reynolds and Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce in Manhattan.

The outing came two months before she filed a complaint with the California Civil Rights Department in which she accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and creating a toxic environment on the set of It Ends with Us.

At the same time, the New York Times released a story based on her legal filing that accused him of orchestrating a smear campaign against her.

Swift was then pulled into the roller coaster saga when Baldoni fired back with a stinging counter suit against Lively and Reynolds in which he accused the Hollywood couple of conspiring to trash his reputation.

It Ends with Us was a box-office hit, earning $351 million worldwide despite a $25 million budget.

Based on the best-selling novel by Colleen Hoover, no update has been made about an adaptation of the sequel book, It Starts with Us.

Baldoni, Lively and the NYT have all denied the claims levelled against them.

Denzel Washington bit his tongue ‘almost half-off’, says it’s ‘affecting my speech’

During the ‘Gladiator II’ premiere, Denzel Washington experienced an awkward encounter with King Charles III.

Denzel Washington is struggling with his speech after suffering a gruesome injury.

During a Saturday appearance on The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast, the 70-year-old actor revealed that he is recovering after he severely damaged a crucial body organ.

“I bit my tongue almost half-off a few months ago,” Washington said.

“It’s affecting my speech,” he continued. “It forces me to slow down. I have to use it.”

Washington explained that his health issue has led to complications as he prepares for his titular role in the upcoming Broadway revival of William Shakespeare’s iconic play “Othello,” which also stars Jake Gyllenhaal.

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“I have a line: ‘Whither will you that I go to answer this your charge?’ It’s hard because my tongue is swollen,” the Academy Award winner said. “It has affected everything.”

Washington did not provide details as to how he injured his tongue or what medical attention he received to treat the wound.

However, the “Gladiator: 2” star shared that he was leaning on his faith to overcome his challenges in the wake of the incident.

“That’s why you pray every day,” he explained. “I’m like, ‘OK, Lord, I’m here, I think this is what you wanted me to do.’ Now I’m not sure why, but one can say coincidence and serendipity and all those things.”

On Dec. 21, Washington, who is the son of a preacher, was baptized by Bishop James Pullings Jr. at the Kelly Temple in New York City. During his appearance on the podcast, the actor shared that he is taking courses to obtain his minister’s license.

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While reflecting on whether his work as an actor helps people, Washington explained that he is only seeking validation from a higher power.

“It has affected everything.”

— Denzel Washington

“At this point, everything I’m doing is through the lens of what God thinks, not what they think,” he said. “I don’t know what they think,” he said.

“You go down that hole, you’ll never come out of that,” Washington added. “When people say, ‘What do you want people to get from this movie?’ or ‘What do you want them to get from this play?’ I always say, ‘It depends upon what they bring to it.’ There’s some interesting themes [in ‘Othello’] of jealousy and envy and pain and death.”

“And Kenny [Leon], the brilliant director, he’s putting it in what he calls the near future. So all of those things — jealousy, envy — it takes on a whole new thing with the information age.”

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Washington also expressed his belief that Gyllenhaal would be “brilliant’ in the role of Othello’s nemesis Iago.

“I’m not worried about that, because I don’t like to learn the lines too soon,” he added. “I was telling a young actor who asked, ‘Why don’t you like to learn them too soon?’ I said: ‘Because then I’m the voice I’m listening to delivering the cues to myself.”

“I want to hear it from you, and that’s going to affect how I say what I say.’ For me, that works.”

“Othello” will premiere at New York City’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre on March 25 and will run through June 8.

‘Emilia Pérez’ Director Jacques Audiard, ‘Wicked’ and ‘A Complete Unknown,’ Among AARP Movies for Grownups Winners

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AARP has announced the winners of its 2025 Movies For Grownups Awards. Honoring films “made by and for grownups,” categories at the Movies For Grownups Awards include best intergenerational film (“Thelma”) and best time capsule (“A Complete Unknown”).

“A Complete Unknown” led with two wins, best time capsule and best picture/best movie for grownups, while “Emilia Pérez” director Jacques Audiard took home best director. See the full list of nominees and winners below:

Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Pérez”)

Jay Cocks and James Mangold (“A Complete Unknown”)

Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox (“Wicked”) – Winner

Peter Straughan (“Conclave”)

Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts (“Dune: Part Two”)