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South African Civil Rights Icon Desmond Tutu Has Died at Age 90

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South African civil rights icon Desmond Tutu has died at age 90, according to the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation confirming the news on Dec. 26. "Tutu was a living embodiment of faith in action, speaking boldly against racism, injustice, corruption, and oppression, not just in apartheid South Africa but wherever in the world he saw wrongdoing, especially when it impacted the most vulnerable and voiceless in society," the statement read in part. "While Tutu was first and always an Anglican priest who made no secret of his deep dependence on the inner life of disciplined prayer, his faith burst the confines of denomination and religion, joyfully embracing all who shared his passion for justice and love. People of all faiths and no faith together christened him fondly as simply 'The Arch.'" Tutu spent a lifetime fighting against apartheid, South Africa's official system of racial segregation that lasted from 1948 until 1990. The beloved activist...

Meghan Markle Receives Public Apology From British Tabloid: "This Is a Victory Not Just For Me"

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Meghan Markle is celebrating a major victory for herself and other people who have been attacked by the British tabloids . As of Sunday, #MeghanMarkleWon is trending after the Duchess of Sussex received a printed public apology from The Mail on Sunday . The front-page apology comes 10 months after Mark Warby, a High Court judge in London, ruled that The Mail on Sunday invaded Megan's privacy by publishing a private letter she sent to her father, Thomas Markle, in 2018. The publication is also legally required to pay 90% of Markle's $1.88 million legal expenses. "The Duchess of Sussex wins her legal case for copyright infringement against Associated Newspapers for articles published in The Mail on Sunday and posted on Mail Online," the front page read. "Following a hearing on 19-20 January, 2021, and a further hearing on 5 May, 2021, the Court has given judgment for the Duchess of Sussex on her claim for copyright infringement," the remainder of the apol...

JoJo Announces Engagement to Dexter Darden: "Obviously I Said Yesss!!!"

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JoJo is engaged to Saved By the Bell actor Dexter Darden . On Dec. 25, the "Leave (Get Out)" singer announced the exciting news on Instagram with her 2.3 followers. "forever with YOU? Sign me UP. celebrating Christmas a whole fiancé!!!" she captioned a series of cute candid photos and videos from the proposal. "the most thoughtful, creative, positive, handsome, strong, loving, uplifting human being asked me to marry him. so obviously I said YESSS!!!" She continued, "thank you for the most epic birthday surprise ever. and for flying out my mom, your mom, and both of our best friends to share in that incredible moment with us. you are one of one. LFG @dexterdarden." Dexter shared the same carousel of photos and videos on his Instagram, even commenting on the post. "Yupppppp🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 thank you for being my forever 💍❤️," he wrote. It's unclear as to when the pair officially linked up, but they've been pretty private about th...

From Love Squares to a New Savoir, Here's What Happened in Emily in Paris Season 2

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Emily Cooper ( Lily Collins ) and her iconic camera phone case are back! Once again, she's living out our Parisian dreams (minus the complicated love triangles - we'll leave that to her and Sylvie) in Emily in Paris season two, which dropped on Dec. 22. While season one left many fans with mixed feelings , season two is upping the ante with double the fashion, triple the drama and scandal, and quadruple the romance. Seriously, we could barely keep track of all the new love interests introduced this season. From the Gabriel-Emily-Alfie timeline to a new Savoir on the horizon, there were a lot of bombshells this season and, here, we've recapped them all. Catch up on everything that went down in Emily in Paris season two and check back as we anxiously await for season three details. from POPSUGAR Celebrity https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/emily-in-paris-what-happened-in-season-2-48661246

26 Emily in Paris Filming Locations From Season 2 You Can Visit in Real Life

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It only makes sense for Netflix's Emily in Paris to be filmed in Paris , which means the backdrops on all of the scenes are truly stunning. Season two of the show , which dropped on Netflix on Dec. 22, features even more beautiful filming locations than season one. The production also moved to the South of France this season, giving us amazing views of the beaches. Many of the locations used in season two of Emily in Paris are easy to spot because of the city's iconic architecture, but some locations weren't exactly what they seemed. Production used a variety of spots in the City of Light, and with the help of cast and crew , and even Netflix , we've tracked down some of the filming spots you can actually go to right now. Now, on your next trip to Paris, you can truly channel Emily and have a très bien time! from POPSUGAR Celebrity https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/emily-in-paris-where-was-season-2-filmed-48661407

The Princess Diaries Meets Cinderella in Netflix's The Royal Treatment Trailer

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There's no such thing as too many princess films , so let's thank Netflix for blessing us with another rom-com to swoon over ! The streamer released the trailer for The Royal Treatment , a feature film that follows the love story between hairstylist Isabella ( Laura Marano ) and Prince Thomas ( Mena Massoud ) on Dec. 22. In the clip, Isabella and her crew of stylists get the opportunity of a lifetime to do hair for the royal wedding . While the young salon owner doesn't anticipate falling for the prince and complicating his already-arranged marriage, it is a cheesy rom-com, after all. Both the prince and his possible princess will have to face what it means to take control of their own destiny and follow their hearts. The Royal Treatment arrives on Netflix on Jan. 20. Watch the trailer above. from POPSUGAR Celebrity https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/the-royal-treatment-trailer-video-48660887

What's Kingpin's Fate on Hawkeye? After the Finale, Here's What We Think

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The season finale of Hawkeye features plenty of major twists and takedowns, and one of the biggest confrontations involves the show's most shadowy villain: Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin . After his protégé, Maya Lopez (aka Echo) , discovers that her "uncle" is actually the one responsible for her father's death, she tracks him down and confronts him, and a gun fires. But is Kingpin really dead? We're not so sure. The rule that every TV and movie viewer knows is that if you don't see the body, don't believe they're dead. After surviving a lot (including attacks from Kate's arrows and literally being hit by a car), it seems like Kingpin has finally run out of luck when Maya arrives, now armed with the knowledge that he put the hit on her father. He begs for his life and insists that they're "family," and that's when Maya fires her gun. We very specifically do not actually see the shot, nor do we see Kingpin's body at any point. ...

Amazon Prime's With Love Normalizes Latinx Romance With Holiday Cheer

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Let's face it, love and the holidays just go together. Why else would we have all these cheesy Christmas romance films? There's just something about winter nights and sparkling lights that screams "go cozy up with someone you love." But unfortunately, when looking at the narrative of romance and Christmas, there are going to be some problems. Think The Holiday or Love Actually , which feature largely (or entirely) white casts and a straight, Anglo definition of love. In films like these, we find men and women, alone in their individualism, trying to find someone to make a new, tiny nuclear family with (and often repeating tired gender dynamics along the way). Thankfully, that's starting to change. This year, we saw not one but two made-for-TV Christmas movies staring Latina lovers - Lifetime's Holiday in Santa Fe and CBS's A Christmas Proposal . We also got more LGBTQ+ content, thanks in part to Single All the Way . But my favorite this holiday season...

Spider-Man: No Way Home: 3 Signs That Ned Leeds Will Turn Evil

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The Spider-Man Homecoming trilogy has built Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon) into one of the best characters in the Spiderverse. As the best friend to his Peter Parker ( Tom Holland ), he's essentially Peter's right-hand man, or his guy in the chair helping him along the way. He's supportive, he's caring, he's funny, and he's everything you'd want in a best friend. We're not convinced, though, that things will stay that way. You see, if we go back to the comics, which is where everything from the multiverse comes from in one way or another, Ned Leeds actually becomes Hobgoblin - a villain. There are always creative liberties, though, when it comes to translating the comics to the big screen, so we're not sure what might happen. The Ned in the Homecoming trilogy is actually pretty dissimilar to the Ned in the comics. He's a little bit more like Miles Morales's friend Ganke Lee with playing the guy in the chair and helping out. Where this Ned fee...

Blue Ivy's Audiobook Narration For Hair Love Snags Her Yet Another Award

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Blue Ivy Carter is clearly following in her parents' footsteps . On Dec. 19, the 9-year-old won big at the 2021 Voice Arts Awards, snagging best voice-over of a children's audiobook for narrating Matthew A. Cherry's Hair Love . Cherry originally created Hair Love as a short film, and the Oscar-winning short was later turned into a book also written by the filmmaker (it's also in the process of becoming a TV series ). At this point, Blue is eyeing superstar status with yet another award added to her repertoire. Her grandmother Tina Knowles congratulated her with an Instagram post: "Congrats my Blue. You killed this!! It's only the beginning ! You are so talented ! Grandma is beyond proud!!!" Based on her singing skills in the theme song for Knowles's forthcoming talk show , Talks With Mama Tina , Blue has a lot of big things lined up for her future. Earlier this year, Blue won her first-ever Grammy Award for best music video for her contributio...

Who Is Marvel's Mockingbird, and How Is She Connected to Hawkeye?

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In just six episodes, Disney+'s Hawkeye managed to introduce us to some new heroes (and some old villains ) while apparently tying up the story of one of the last original Avengers left standing. One of those new heroes, however, might be someone we didn't expect to hear about in this new series: after the series finale of Hawkeye , fans are speculating that Hawkeye's wife, Laura Barton, could be Mockingbird. But who is Mockingbird, and how does she fit in the Marvel universe? Allow us to explain. Who Is Mockingbird? In the Marvel comics, Mockingbird is the codename for S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Barbara "Bobbi" Morse. After an origin story that covers a couple of different storylines in the 1970s, she takes on the mantle of Mockingbird as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who is looking into corruption within the agency's own ranks. Her first story arc sees her most closely allied with Spider-Man and Nick Fury, but her most iconic storyline was yet to come. Mockingbird is p...

And Just Like That's Nicole Ari Parker and Sarita Choudhury on How the Reboot Combats Ageism

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Image Source: HBO Max/Craig Blankenhorn At the heart of Sex and the City is sex - something Hollywood has long erased older women from in conversation. And Just Like That. . . is exploring the internal lives of older women - including their sex lives - with an intentionality that not many other shows have paid. POPSUGAR spoke to newcomers to the SATC reboot Nicole Ari Parker and Sarita Choudhury about how the show challenges the idea that sexual agency has to disappear for women in their 50s. "When you turn 50, you're told that you're done," Sarita said. "Your kids are going to college and there's a next phase." Sarita further explored the concept that aging doesn't exclude you from sex or growth. "In 2021, most marriages didn't last until people were in their fifties. You were back on the dating scene. You're having some bad dates, maybe a few good ones. There are a lot of things going on," she said, adding, "We did a ...

Cardi B's $2M Birthday Gift For Offset Is a Major Money Move

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Cardi B isn't just making money moves in her career - she's making them for Offset , too! The "Up" rapper reportedly made her husband $2 million richer when she gifted him a hefty check at his star-studded 30th birthday bash. Cardi's gift was almost as nice as the new mansion Offset gave her for her 29th birthday, but the Grammy-winning rapper still helped pull off a pretty successful night for her husband. Offset turned 30 on Dec. 14, and to celebrate him, Cardi shared a heartwarming Instagram post ahead of his birthday party. And in true Cardi fashion, she paired it with a photo of the couple having a steamy moment on the beach. "Happy birthday to my huuuuusband, best friend and babydaaadddyyy 😩😂😂," she wrote. "I love you so much and I'm so proud of you. We have overcome so much together. I love the man that you're becoming and I love the father that you are . . . I'm so lucky to have you as a partner raising our beautiful kid...

The Rolex on Hawkeye Could Have Just Revealed a Major Marvel Twist

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Who knew that a Rolex watch could give us one of the biggest surprises to come out of Hawkeye ? The six-episode Disney+ series has mostly focused on the superhero origin story of Kate Bishop , the young hero who admires Clint Barton's Hawkeye and who, eventually, takes up his mantle as he steps away from the superhero life. As it turns out, though, there's been another potential superhero in front of us the whole time, and that Rolex watch is what finally gave us the reveal. It's all about that ending scene, where Clint "rescues" the watch from the Avengers compound rubble and brings it home to give to his wife, Laura. He teases her about "taking better care of her things," making it clear the watch belonged to her before it got lost. So far, so good. But then Laura flips the watch over - the Rolex watch in question appears to be the Oyster Perpetual model - and we see a very familiar symbol on the back: the stylized eagle logo of S.H.I.E.L.D., with...

JoJo Siwa Was Almost Trampled by an NBA Player While Sitting Courtside: "Spiced Up the Game"

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Image Source: Getty / Charley Gallay Fore! That's the wrong sport, but you get what I'm saying. JoJo Siwa revealed on her Instagram Story on Tuesday night that she had a wish of sitting courtside and eating a hotdog . . . but she got so much more. The 18-year-old singer indeed sat courtside at the LA Lakers game against the Phoenix Suns with TikTok star Katie Mills and narrowly missed getting trampled. Suns player Jae Crowder dove into the stands to save a loose ball that was headed in JoJo's direction. Luckily, she ducked and Jae managed to jump over her . JoJo had a good sense of humor about the whole incident. "That was really cool. Also, I just saw my life flash before my eyes. If I wouldn't have ducked, I would've been out [and] down for the count," she said on her Instagram Story, before joking that it "really spiced up the game." Watch the clip below while I add "getting trampled by an NBA player while courtside" to my list ...

The Doctor Strange Sequel Is Headed Our Way Next Year - Here's Everything We Know

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After years of wondering whether or not there would be a Doctor Strange sequel , the guessing is finally over. The upcoming installment, titled Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , is set to arrive in theaters in 2022, and it picks back up on the mayhem from Spider-Man: No Way Home after Doctor Strange ( Benedict Cumberbatch ) casts a spell that disrupts the multiverse. It also brings Strange and The Scarlet Witch ( Elizabeth Olsen ) from WandaVision together to get to the bottom of what the multiverse is all about. The sequel was officially confirmed in July 2019 during Comic-Con , in which it was billed as a movie that would "play up the gothic" and "the horror." The sequel film is part of the fourth phase of the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe. The third Marvel phase ended with the highly anticipated Avengers: Endgame that released in April 2019, so Doctor Strange 2 is now shaping up to be one of the most important MCU films in phase fou...

What Selling Tampa Tells Us About Diversity in Real Estate and Selling Sunset

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When it comes to reality TV on Netflix, Selling Sunset is prime real estate (pun intended). Season four dropped on Nov. 24 , and a brand-new spinoff, Selling Tampa , followed on Dec. 15. Unlike Selling Sunset , which follows the drama behind the elite real estate brokerage firm The Oppenheim Group , Selling Tampa spotlights a Florida-based, women-led, Black-owned business, Allure Realty. The show adds much-needed representation to Netflix's real estate reality TV lineup. But Selling Tampa 's creation compels us to take a hard look at Selling Sunset and the representation among its agents in an industry that lacks diversity. In its first season, the cast of Selling Sunset was all white. Agents like Amanza Smith (a mixed-race Black woman) and Vanessa Villela (who is Mexican) joined The Oppenheim Group in seasons two and four, respectively, but most of the nine women dishing the drama on screen on Selling Sunset remain white. Looking at the numbers, this isn't too far ...

What Will the Next Spider-Man Movie Be About? These 5 Theories Are Convincing

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The good news: Spider-Man: No Way Home won't be the last we see of Tom Holland's Peter Parker in the Marvel universe . The bad news: we have no idea when Spider-Man 4 will come out or anything about what the storyline might be . No Way Home leaves things on an incredibly emotional note for Peter, following the multiverse shenanigans he gets up to in the movie, and it's unclear what his future going forward looks like. With the next few years of Marvel movies already planned out, it could be a while before we get any answers about where Peter Parker goes from here. In the meantime, though, it's time for us to do what Marvel fans have always done best: theorize! No Way Home includes several small moments that might hint at what's coming up next. Take a look at a few of our top theories, and see if you agree. from POPSUGAR Celebrity https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/what-will-marvel-spider-man-4-be-about-theories-48657671

Ready to Give Your FYP a 2022 Makeover? See All of Our New Favorite TikTok Stars

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In 2021, TikTok gave us a place to express our undying love for Olivia Rodrigo's "drivers license " and have deep discussions about topics like " nature cereal " and potential collabs between major artists . But with 2022 in full view, we have our eyes on a few TikTok stars who are giving us reasons to laugh (See: Stepan the cat), experiment with new beauty trends, and blow up the group chat. Otis Jones is a creator who teaches ASL through impressive song performances, and Darlene Octavia shares beautiful vegan recipes that will leave you hungry for lunch. So whether you need a good feta mashed potato recipe , some new pets to follow, or just a new reason to send your BFF the same video 10 times in a row, these stars have you covered. Ahead, check out all of the comedians, dancers, singers, gymnasts, fashion experts, beauty influencers, and more who we're following in 2022. Related: 12 of the Best TikTok Accounts to Follow ASAP from POPSUGAR Celebr...

Meagan Good and DeVon Franklin Are Divorcing After 9 Years of Marriage

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Meagan Good and DeVon Franklin are separating after nine years of marriage, People exclusively confirmed on Dec. 21. "After much prayer and consideration, we have decided to go into our futures separately but forever connected," Meagan and DeVon said in a joint statement. "We celebrate almost a decade of marriage together and a love that is eternal. There's no one at fault, we believe this is the next best chapter in the evolution of our love." They continued, "We are incredibly grateful for the life-changing years we've spent together as husband and wife. We are also extremely thankful to God for the testimony being created inside us both and for blessing our lives with each other." Meagan and DeVon first met on the set of 2011's Jumping the Broom , and they tied the knot a year later. Their last red carpet appearance together was at the 2019 BET Awards. from POPSUGAR Celebrity https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/meagan-good-devon-fran...

Chrishell Stause and Jason Oppenheim Have Reportedly Broken Up

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Chrishell Stause and Jason Oppenheim have reportedly called it quits , People reports. According to the publication, the Selling Sunset stars recently broke up, five months after going public with their romance . Jason and Chrishell confirmed their relationship over the summer by sharing photos of their Italian vacation on Instagram. "The JLo effect," Chrishell captioned the snaps. Meanwhile, Jason told People at the time that he and Chrishell were "close friends" before their friendship blossomed into "an amazing relationship." He added, "I care about her deeply and we're very happy together." Neither Jason nor Chrishell have publicly commented on the status of their current relationship, but it's likely that we'll see it play out on the upcoming fifth season of Selling Sunset . from POPSUGAR Celebrity https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/chrishell-stause-and-jason-oppenheim-break-up-48658990

Few Things Are Cuter Than Malala Yousafzai and Asser Malik Playing This New Year's TikTok Game

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Image Source: Getty / David M. Benett Malala Yousafzai and her husband, Asser Malik , are ready for the new year. On Dec. 20, the 24-year-old activist shared a cute TikTok video of her and Asser playing a New Year's resolution game where they tossed a pen into a cup to determine whether they should do something or not. The questions varied from whether Malala should start going to the gym to whether Asser should shave his beard, to which Malala quipped, "You can't. Not allowed. If you shave your beard, just leave the house. I don't want to see you." After a few more rounds of fun questions, Malala then encouraged people watching the video to support girls' education by donating to her non-profit organization, the Malala Fund . Malala and Asser tied the knot in an intimate wedding this past November. "Today marks a precious day in my life. Asser and I tied the knot to be partners for life," she captioned her wedding announcement post. "We ...