Celebrity News

Ashe releases The Girl Of Your Dreams, and this episode takes a closer look at the new release. It explores the idea behind the title and where the song fits in Ashe's music.

Tate McRae's Housewife puts financial independence front and center, and this episode explores how the song frames that theme in pop form. It looks at the idea of the modern housewife that the title plays with and why the message is resonating.

ADELA cracks the top ten, and this episode looks at the chart milestone behind that breakthrough. It also covers Madonna joining the Nicole Kidman trend and what the moment means for both artists.

Drake and Don Toliver debut at number five with Solar Eclipse. This episode looks at that chart debut and what the collaboration between the two artists represents.

Inde Navarrette, 25, is the breakout star of the summer film Obsession, where she plays Nikki, and the cover star of W Magazine's The Originals Issue, Volume 5, released October 15, 2026, with the issue hitting newsstands October 27. In her W interview, she said she thought the part would go to someone else at her second Obsession audition, that her heart sank when she got the call as she realised she had to work on her anxiety, and described landing the film as kismet; she also recalled her first red carpet in an orange shimmery bodysuit, Jessica Chastain telling her she looked pretty, being starstruck meeting Gemma Chan in an elevator at the Toronto Film Festival, and said she never really imagined fame and that every day feels like the best day of her life so far. Saturday Night Live returns live October 31 with Navarrette making her debut as host and Gracie Abrams returning as musical guest for the second time.

Zach Bryan announced an eight-song EP, Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs, arriving Friday October 16, 2026 via Warner Records, announced October 12 on Instagram with title, cover art and tracklist. The EP includes Lies, a duet with Lana Del Rey, and Plainsman, a collaboration with fellow Oklahomans Turnpike Troubadours. Del Rey teased a finished song with Bryan in September, though reports noted it was not confirmed whether that teased song is Lies, so the tease and the new track should be treated separately until confirmed.

Big Thief launched the Big Thief Live Archive, a free online collection of fully mixed concert recordings, the week of October 14-15, 2026, available at archive.bigthief.net. The archive opens with 10 full concerts, with a new show added on the second Tuesday of every month, and fans can build custom playlists from favourite performances across shows. The project was inspired by drummer James Krivchenia's love of the Grateful Dead's extensive live catalog, and the band began recording all shows around 2019.

Rhett Akins officially became a member of the Grand Ole Opry on Tuesday October 13, 2026 in Nashville, on his 57th birthday. His son Thomas Rhett opened the curtain to kick off the induction night, and fellow Opry members Jamey Johnson and Jon Pardi formally inducted Akins, with Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan also performing. Akins, a 1990s recording artist turned songwriter, called it the greatest night of his life, per a post-induction press release.

Animals was released on Netflix on October 9, 2026, with a limited run in select cinemas the same day, and reached No. 1 on Netflix in the US and worldwide. Directed, co-written and starring Ben Affleck alongside Kerry Washington, the film follows Los Angeles mayoral candidate Mark Kimball and his wife Abby as they face a ransom kidnapping of their son Denny days before the election, while a political fixer demands complete honesty as secrets surface. Reception was split, with critics divided and the film in the low thirties on Rotten Tomatoes against an audience score around 41 percent, despite about 23.8 million views in its first three-day weekend through October 11.

Verity, the Colleen Hoover adaptation starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Josh Hartnett and directed by Michael Showalter for Amazon MGM Studios, crossed $100M worldwide in its second weekend. After an opening of about $32M domestic and about $62M worldwide against a reported budget of about $40M, the second weekend added about $12M domestic, down about 62.5 percent, for a domestic total of about $54M and a worldwide total of about $114M. Reception stands at about 34 percent on Rotten Tomatoes with a C+ CinemaScore, and the audience was reported to be about 78 percent female and about 38 percent aged 25 to 34.