Bruno Mars Performed 'Marry You' Live for a Lakers Player's Stadium Proposal — Everyone Go Home, the Bar Has Never Been Higher

October 7, 2026 · 75 sources

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It's official: Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery have closed their $111 billion merger and are now a single company — Skydance Corp — with David Ellison as chairman and CEO, who declared it "a historic day, not just for Skydance but for our entire industry."
Bruno Mars soundtracked a real-life engagement by performing "Marry You" live while Lakers forward Ziaire Williams proposed at SoFi Stadium. Casual proposals are over forever.
Sam Smith hit The Tonight Show and admitted the title of their new album Hazel Eyes was a "nightmare" mistake — the album itself is all about "home and a happy place."
Shakira is taking ex Gerard Piqué to court four years after their breakup and has released a statement. She works hard for the legal drama.
An influencer publicly apologized for cheating in a marathon after being caught riding a bike mid-race. You simply cannot make this up.

Olivia Rodrigo is facing criticism after two small-business owners spoke out about harsh conditions at her Daisy Chain Fields Festival — they say they were never paid for their work, and that most vendors were stranded at their booths until 1:00 AM. Not the festival feel anyone was going for.
Over on r/popculturechat, the question of the day: what celebrity will future generations be jealous we got to witness in their prime? The Michael Jackson/Elvis tier debate is heating up — go stake your claim.
Prime Big Deal Days is eating the entire internet alive: Ariana Grande's r.e.m. beauty is up to 30% off, and BuzzFeed is tracking items at their lowest-ever prices. Your cart called, it's concerned.

Diddy has been ordered to pay nearly $500,000 after his failed defamation lawsuit against NBC over the 2025 Peacock documentary The Making of a Bad Boy, per a Tuesday court order obtained by Billboard. That's a very expensive L.
After last year's Beyoncé-related country music beef, Charley Crockett and Gavin Adcock are officially "all good" — per Billboard, after all the "beef and the bluster," they're getting on just fine. Peace treaty accepted.
Record Store Day revealed its 2026 Black Friday lineup, with special releases from KATSEYE, Joji, Noah Kahan and more. Vinyl girlies, start budgeting now.
Spotify is going all-in on audiobooks, announcing plans to expand the service across 180 countries to virtually all of its 750 million monthly users by the end of 2026. The "Spotify is becoming everything" era continues.

The Paramount–Warner Bros. merger closing is genuinely seismic: the $111 billion deal unites the two studios under Skydance Corp with David Ellison at the helm. Whether this means more blockbusters or fewer remains the billion-dollar question.
Colleen Hoover's empire grows: Verity, the Sony adaptation of her bestselling thriller, debuted at the top of the U.K. and Ireland box office, while Tom Cruise's Digger opened in fourth. Rough weekend for Tom.
Saoirse Ronan addressed the James Bond rumors swirling around her husband, Slow Horses star Jack Lowden, telling the AP it's "not really a subject that's coming up in our house." Which is exactly what a future Bond's wife would say, just saying.
LL Cool J is back as Sam Hanna in CBS's NCIS: New York, three years after NCIS: Los Angeles wrapped its 14-season run — Variety's review calls it "solid and steady," which in NCIS-speak is a rave.
Vikings star Gustaf Skarsgård has started production on his feature directorial debut, psychological horror The Cannibal, written by Peter Birro. The title is doing a LOT of work and we respect it.

Shakira's statement as she takes Gerard Piqué to court — four years after the split — is the story that won't quit. The tea has aged into a full vintage at this point.
Will Arnett, 56, says he's "very, very happy" in his relationship with a 28-year-old Guess Jeans heiress. Happy for him, terrified of the comment sections.
Kristen Wiig showed up to the Chanel Spring 2027 ready-to-wear show at Paris Fashion Week in Chanel by Matthieu Blazy, and per the fashion girlies on Reddit, she ate. Wiig fashion era, when?
In a true-crime history note: Bill Harris, one of Patty Hearst's kidnappers back in 1974, has died at 81, per the New York Times. A genuinely wild chapter of American pop-culture lore closes.

The influencer marathon saga: caught riding a bike during the race, then issued an apology that's currently getting roasted across every timeline. Cheating at 26.2 miles and thinking nobody would notice is peak internet confidence.
Three friends of Nolan Wells — Warren Hudson, Jax Pitalo and Morgan Seymour — are suing a TikTok creator for defamation after the creator allegedly branded them killers, according to court docs obtained by TMZ. A brutal reminder that "content" can have real legal consequences.
In heavier news: court docs obtained by TMZ detail new allegations from an accuser in Andrew Tate's Romania case. No jokes here — just a story worth following as the legal process plays out.