The Bachelorette Gets Pulled, JT's Arrest Footage Drops, and Zendaya Is Giving Prince in Bridal Lace
What's Trending
The Bachelorette is officially off the rails. ABC yanked the Taylor Frankie Paul season from the schedule after a 2024 video surfaced, and former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay is saying the whole franchise is "over." She literally asked "how do you move forward past that?" and honestly? Fair question. Bachelor Nation is in shambles.
Justin Timberlake's DWI bodycam footage is out and it's... a lot. "I'm a little nervous… my heart is racing," JT told officers during his 2024 Sag Harbor arrest. He actually sued to keep the footage sealed, a judge said nah, and now here we are watching a man who once brought sexy back looking very much not sexy. The internet is having a field day.
Zendaya in that Harris Reed bridal look is consuming every corner of the internet right now. The outfit was directly inspired by Prince's iconic 1985 all-white lace stage fit, and she absolutely nailed it. The way this woman treats fashion like performance art — we are not worthy.
Music
Janet Jackson just made a major move. She's bringing her entire catalog to Believe Music Publishing in a long-term deal, shifting everything to the French indie company's new publishing division. Miss Jackson really said "I'm independent now, and I mean it."
Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck announced a collaborative album, which is the crossover of opera royalty and banjo legend that literally nobody predicted but somehow makes perfect sense. They'd previously canceled Kennedy Center concerts, so this feels like the creative energy got redirected somewhere even better.
Movies & TV
A24 dropped the 35mm camera test for The Drama starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, and the internet collectively lost its breath. Two of the most magnetic screen presences of their generation on actual film grain? This movie is going to be a MOMENT.
SXSW wrapped up and the highlights include a "semi-suicidal Charlie Day" and a talking fox voiced by Olivia Colman. Just another normal week in Austin. The festival was shorter this year but still delivered some genuinely buzzy premieres.
The Baywatch reboot keeps building its cast. Fox added Nadia Gray in a recurring role as an EMT named Lisa who partners up with the lifeguard squad. Slowly but surely this thing is actually happening.
The Testaments finally premiered at Series Mania with Chase Infiniti and Ann Dowd talking up the show's themes of "awakening and rebellion amongst younger women in Gilead." The Handmaid's Tale universe lives on, and Aunt Lydia stans are fed.
New indie distributor Row K Entertainment is already in crisis mode less than eight months after launching, with unpaid bills piling up and Maude Apatow's directorial debut caught in the crossfire. Not great when your reputation implodes before your first big release even hits theaters.
Celebrity Tea
Tom Holland is keeping Hollywood at arm's length and being refreshingly honest about it. "It's not for me, the business really scares me," he said, which is both deeply relatable and kind of wild coming from Spider-Man. The man sets boundaries like it's a superpower.
Jane Kaczmarek — yes, Lois from Malcolm in the Middle — married her high school sweetheart after they reconnected at their 50-year reunion. FIFTY YEARS. They found their way back to each other half a century later and I'm not crying, you're crying. This is the rom-com we needed.
Zara Larsson revealed she lost a $3 million brand deal over an abortion joke she made on TikTok. Her response? Basically "if you don't agree that women should have access to abortion, we're just not meant to be partners." Queen behavior, zero regrets.
TikTok & Internet
The TikTok rant epidemic is real and people are OVER IT. Users are reporting their FYPs are flooded with identical-sounding ranters who all say the exact same things, and no amount of "not interested" seems to fix it. The algorithm said you WILL listen to strangers yell.
TikTok is also glitching with multiple users reporting vanishing saved posts, broken live features, and mysterious view drops. One creator went from normal to zero views overnight with no explanation. The app is giving chaos energy this week and not the fun kind.