In any other year, the news that Vanessa Hudgens will potentially play four lookalike characters in the same Netflix Christmas movie would stun me. But in 2020, a third movie in the identity-swapping Princess Switch franchise just makes sense. Netflix announced The Princess Switch: Switched Again, a sequel to the original 2018 film, will drop
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If you need the dulcet tones of an Australian Academy Award winner to soothe your 2020-frayed nerves, might I suggest a subscription to HBO and a few moments spent watching The Undoing? I’ll admit the accompanying murder mystery might not be the best prescription for your spiking anxiety levels, but the show does feature a
Emma McIntyreGetty Images While much of America took to the streets yesterday with their various noise-making items, celebratory shouts and screams, and creative signs, Jennifer Lopez took a moment to honor the emotional weight the historic Biden/Harris win had for our country. “I’m just crying tears of joy,” Lopez said in the video, originally posted
Kamala Harris made history again, becoming the first woman to ever be elected vice president of the United States, along with the first Black, Indian-American, South Asian, and Asian-American person to ever have the role. Hollywood immediately began congratulating Harris and President-Elect Joe Biden, posting tributes on Instagram and Twitter to celebrate the feat. Here,
It’s official: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are the next president and vice president of the United States of America. After a nail-biter of an election that never seemed to end, the Biden-Harris campaign officially clinched the win for the White House and took to the stage in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday, November 7, to
On Saturday, November 7—four days after Election Day and exactly 48 years after Joe Biden was first elected to the U.S. Senate—it was officially announced that Biden and Kamala Harris will be the next president and vice president of the United States. In the end, the two received the most votes ever cast for a
After nearly four days of waiting, America finally has its next president: Joe Biden has won the 2020 election. All of that champagne we’ve been waiting to pop for days could finally come out of the cabinets. People took to the streets to celebrate with noisemakers that included but were not limited to tubas, cow
When we find ourselves in times of trouble, Steve Kornacki comes to us—clad in khakis and armed with a glowing map of the U.S. As the uncertainty of November 4 stretched into hours and days, the MSNBC political correspondent was a pillar of statistics. While we panicked, stress ate, and screamed into the ether, Kornacki
HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot has begun filming in New York City amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and paparazzi got the first look at two members of the cast in costume, filming a scene. How is the fashion of this revived series looking? Well, very different than any Blair Waldorf or Serena van der Woodsen
Following a long Election Day—that has turned into a nail-biting Election Week—former Georgia candidate for governor, Stacey Abrams, is now earning much-earned recognition for her work to help turn the state “purple” in 2020. Georgia has gone Republican in presidential elections since 1992, but record voter turnout has seen over 2.4 million votes for presidential
Hailey Bieber, Justin Bieber’s wife of two years, gave one of the bluntest responses ever to pregnancy rumors about her, taking aim at U.S. tabloid Us Weekly in the process. Hailey wrote that she wasn’t pregnant, getting ahead of an alleged story the publication was planning to run. “Since I know you guys were about
“It’s pretty wild how you can take the things you had as a child and remix them for who you are today,” actress and animal advocate Kat Graham says while prepping her vegan Gouda-filled burgers. In today’s episode of “Mama, I Made It,” she invites us into her kitchen for the gourmet take on that
Eric Reads The News is a daily humor column which skewers politics, pop culture, celebrity, shade, and schadenfreude. . As we head into the third day of the American Idol Election Extravaganza, members of the Republican party are bitterly divided over how best to obstruct a free and fair election. It seems no one filled
Before any races were even called this November, women had made history. A record number of women ran for office in 2020—surpassing the record set just two years prior. More Republican women ran for U.S. House seats than ever before, and a number of women were poised to bring new representation to the halls of
Alex WroblewskiGetty Images All four members of the Democrat’s progressive “Squad” have won reelection to Congress, the Guardian reports. Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan have all secured second terms in the House. The Squad, hugely popular among progressive Democrats, have championed
Ira L. Black – CorbisGetty Images Sure, technically we always knew that the presidential election results would take a while to trickle in, but that didn’t stop us from hoping that just maybe we’d find out who won on election night. But as a surprise to no one but our delusional selves, we didn’t, and
On August 4th, Ferguson activist Cori Bush won her Democratic primary race in Missouri, defeating longtime representative William Lacy Clay. On November 3rd, she won her U.S. House race and will now become the first Black woman to represent the state in Congress. In June, she wrote the following op-ed for ELLE.com about why the
Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, will make British royal history family today as the first member to vote in the U.S. presidential election. Newsweek was told by multiple sources that “the duchess is voting.” One added that “I’m not going to get into methods or timing, but can confirm that the duchess is voting
Spoilers for The Mandalorian season 2 episode 1, “Chapter 9: The Marshal,” below. This year was meant to see the arrival of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune adaptation, but never fear: The Mandalorian is here to deliver a replacement of sorts. The season 2 opener, “The Marshal,” a 45-minute episode set mostly on the desert planet Tatooine,
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are expected to spend Christmas in California due to the latest U.K. lockdown and the postponement of Duchess Meghan’s privacy trial until fall 2021. ELLE.com has learned from a source close to Prince Harry and Meghan that it is “anticipated they will be at their Montecito home in California
Beyoncé has officially declared her support for Democratic nominee and former vice president Joe Biden, and his running mate, California senator Kamala Harris, in the looming presidential election. The pop star took to Instagram today to share her endorsement, posting a Boomerang of herself clad in a “BP”-printed Balmain top and matching statement hat. Beyoncé
When Ximena Zamora was a junior in high school, her teacher suggested a summer internship at a law firm. As she filled out the application, Zamora paused before the question: “What is your Social Security Number?” Zamora, who is an undocumented immigrant, doesn’t have one. The next day, she told her teacher she couldn’t pursue
Toni Anne BarsonGetty Images A month ago, Chrissy Teigen revealed that the baby she and her husband, John Legend, were expecting, had died. She wrote, in part: “We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before. We were never able to stop
Kendall Jenner turns 25 years old on November 3, so, on Halloween, she threw a giant party in the middle of a pandemic that is currently experiencing a record surge in COVID-19 cases. The party, which was attended by Hailey Bieber, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Scott Disick, Kylie Jenner, Travis Scott, Jaden Smith, Paris