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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce had a post-holiday night out in New York City with Jack Antonoff and Margaret Qualley on Friday night (Dec. 27), based on photos that circulated Saturday.
Photographer @josiahwphotos (on Instagram) posted images of Swift and Kelce’s arrival to NoHo restaurant BondST, and their departure after dinner. Additional photos showed Antonoff, Swift’s close friend and longtime producer, and wife Qualley joining the couple.
Swift’s dinner look (seen in pictures here) was led by an oversized wool blazer with padded shoulders by Stella McCartney, a piece with cage paneling along the hem that’s hand-embroidered with lead-free crystals (Crystal Cage Oversize Blazer, $5,500). The shape of the blazer nods to menswear, while its embellishment, and its styling with tights and heeled boots, gives it a glimmer of femininity.
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BondST is a hot spot known for its Japanese-inspired cuisine with two locations in NYC, the one in NoHo (where Swift has been seen dining with friends before) and another in Hudson Yards.
The superstar wrapped her record-breaking, $2 billion-grossing Eras Tour on Dec. 8 in Vancouver. On Dec. 12, she was named the winner of 10 Billboard Music Awards, including Top Artist. With 49 total wins collected throughout her career, she’s now the most celebrated artist in the history of the BBMAs.
“Thank you to the fans, because Billboard is counting your stuff. They’re counting what you listen to, the albums that you’re passionate about,” she shared in a video message that aired during the telecast. “I count these as fan-voted awards because you’re the ones who care about the albums and come see us in concert. Everything that’s happened with the Eras Tour and The Tortured Poets Department, I just have to say thank you. It means the world to me that you guys embraced the things I’ve made, and the fact that you care so much about my music … This is the nicest early birthday present you could have given me. So, thank you very much. I love it. It’s exactly what I wanted.”
Swift, who turned 35 on Dec. 13, made an appearance at the Dec. 21 Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., to support Kelce.
Since wrapping her tour, she’s also been seen visiting patients at Kansas City’s Children’s Mercy Hospital; though she didn’t publicize her visit, patients and their families posted about her generosity online. Swift additionally made a substantial donation to Kansas City children’s non-profit Operation Breakthrough, according to the organization.
Dua Lipa‘s fans believe she may soon be levitating down the aisle, as they are convinced that the pop star is engaged to Callum Turner after about a year of dating.
Speculation that the two stars are planning to get hitched began after the “Houdini” singer shared a festive Instagram post chronicling her Christmas break Tuesday (Dec. 24), with a ring on that finger spotted in some of the snaps in the carousel. Then on Friday (Dec. 27), she shared another carousel of her Christmas. Wedged in between photos and videos of Lipa modeling a Santa hat, showing off her home-cooked turkey and watching old family tapes, a couple of snaps show the musician again wearing what appears to be a sparkly band on her ring finger.
That detail did not go unnoticed by Lipa’s fans, who flooded her comments sections — which have limited commenting on posts dating back to late September — with questions about her relationship status with the Fantastic Beasts star. “ARE YOU ENGAGED!? That ring on the first pic omg,” one fan commented on the Tuesday post.
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“are youuu engaged dua!? happy for you💙” another person asked on the Friday carousel, while another fan wrote, “Can we see the ring?”
Billboard has reached out to reps for Lipa and Turner for comment.
The pop star didn’t provide any further hints in the caption of her Friday post — “Christmas was vvvv cute 🎄 the turkey was some of my best work 👩🍳💋,” she simply wrote — nor did she feature the British actor in it. Turner did, however, appear in her photo dump two days prior, with Lipa sharing a sweet, semi-blurry selfie with her boyfriend captioned, “home for the holidays.”
Lipa and the The Capture alum first sparked dating rumors in January, when the former reportedly attended the latter’s Masters of Air premiere in London. In July, the couple went Instagram official, with the three-time Grammy winner sharing adorable snaps from Glastonbury with Turner at her side.
In addition to nurturing her romance with Turner, Lipa also dropped her third studio album this year. Radical Optimism arrived in May and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
In her December cover story interview with Billboard U.K., the “Levitating” artist reflected on 2024 being “the best year of my life.” “There came a point in the year where I was thinking, ‘I’ve got to sit down and write some new dreams and new plans and other things I wanted to do,’” she said at the time. “I feel like I ticked so many of my boxes this year. It’s amazing.”
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce celebrated their second Christmas as a couple this year, and part of their to-do list appears to have been sending holiday presents to the Kansas City Chiefs tight end’s teammates and their families.
Two people who received gifts from the pop superstar and Kelce were Sheawna Weathersby and her boyfriend, Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones. The women’s clothing entrepreneur shared a photo of a cluster of presents sent by Swift and the tight end — which included an orange Louis Vuitton bag — on Instagram Stories Wednesday (Dec. 25) and wrote, “So blessed and grateful this holiday season … Thank yoouuu Tay Tay!”
The haul also featured two boxes with velvet ribbon and mixed-and-matched holiday wrapping, on one of which Swift wrote in her famous loopy handwriting, “Merry Christmas She She! Love, Tay Tay!”
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On a tag attached to a large Santa-print gift bag, the “Anti-Hero” singer drew a few stars and wrote, “Merry Christmas She She and Chris! Travis and Taylor.”
Swift and Weathersby have become pals in the year and a half since Swift first started dating the New Heights podcaster over the summer of 2023. In September, the two women shared selfies from their shared suite at Arrowhead Stadium following the Chiefs vs. Cincinnati Bengals game, as well as posed for photos with Chariah Gordon — who is engaged to Kansas City wide receiver Mecole Hardman Jr. — which Weathersby shared on Instagram.
On Christmas Day this year, Kelce and his teammates were busy facing off against the Pittsburgh Steelers, winning 29-10. Exactly one year prior, Swift — wearing a custom “#87” Santa hat — celebrated Christmas at Arrowhead, where the Chiefs defeated the Las Vegas Raiders just two months before the Kansas City team won the 2024 Super Bowl.
The 14-time Grammy winner wasn’t present for the Chiefs’ Christmas Day game this year, but she did attend her boyfriend’s match against the Houston Texans four days prior. Swift arrived at Arrowhead Dec. 21 dressed for the season in a furry red coat and black cap, marking the first game she was able to catch since the early December close of her historic Eras Tour.
“The unbelievable Eras Tour has come to an end,” Kelce recently congratulated his superstar girlfriend on New Heights. “Shout out to everybody that was a part of that show. Obviously, it’s her music, her tour and everything, but that was a full production, man. That thing was the best tour in the world because of a lot of people, but mostly because of Taylor.”
The couple that plays together, stays together. During the Christmas holiday break, Bunnie XO attempted to make some gluten-free biscuits, and the venture turned into a cute and funny moment between the entrepreneur and her husband, country singer Jelly Roll. In a video Bunnie XO posted to Instagram on Christmas Day, the couple playfully pokes fun at Bunnie XO’s seeming lack of baking skills.
BunnieXO wrote over the video, “When you can’t bake to save your life but your hubby requests gluten free biscuits & he knos how terrible they’re about to be.”
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While singing and rocking along to Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em,” the country star gives the Dumb Blonde podcaster a hug as she shapes dough into biscuits and places them on a baking tray.
“These are gonna be awful. Those look like sugar cookies,” he teases with a chuckle as they both laugh.
“Should I make them bigger? I’m not a baker,” she asks Jelly Roll. He responds with a bit of advice: “I’d give them more than an inch. I’d give them an inch and a half.”
Later, Bunnie XO says, “Out of my comfort zone here,” as Jelly Roll teases from off camera, “They look like little sugar cookies!”
Clearly, the couple is having fun together, enjoying the holiday season and spending quality time together.
Jelly Roll has previously opened up about his dedication to his health goals, and his journey to losing more than 100 pounds. While he’s been headlining his The Beautifully Broken Tour this year, Jelly Roll has been staying on track with his lifestyle changes, not only for his career, but for his health. In October, he shared a post on Instagram which showed the “Son of a Sinner” hitmaker’s personal chef detailing the star’s exercise regimen.
“Jelly’s been crushing it,” nutrition coach Ian Larios said in the video, interspersed with clips of the singer working out and performing. “Walking the arenas, playing basketball, boxing. He just surpassed his 100-pound weight loss.”
More recently, Jelly Roll appeared on Dumb Blonde, and the couple talked in-depth about not only his health journey while on tour, but the musician also declared his latest goal of appearing on the cover of Men’s Health magazine in 2026. Meanwhile, not only is Bunnie XO spearheading her popular podcast, but she also recently revealed she has a book set to release in fall 2025.
See Bunnie XO and Jelly Roll’s baking video below:
It was a holly jolly Christmas for Britney Spears. The pop star revealed in an Instagram post on Christmas Day that she had reunited with her younger son, Jayden James Federline, on the holiday.
“Best Christmas of my life !!! I haven’t seen my boys in 2 years !!!” wrote the “…Baby One More Time” singer Wednesday (Dec. 25). “Tears of joy and literally in shock everyday koo koo crazy so in love and blessed !!! I’m speechless thank you Jesus !!!”
Her post included a video comprised of clips of the two having fun together. “Hello,” the 18-year-old says into the camera in the first snippet before Spears says, “This is my baby” and gives her son a sweet kiss on his cheek. In a second clip, Jayden once again sends his greetings before the mother-son duo wish viewers a merry Christmas before the view pans over to a roaring fireplace. In yet another clip, the teen says hello again as the Grammy winner tells the camera, “It’s me and Jayden!”
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Spears shares Jayden and 19-year-old son Sean Preston with ex-husband Kevin Federline. She and the dancer married in September 2004, and finalized their divorce just shy of three years later in July 2007. Last year, the young men moved to Hawaii with their dad, who received custody of them after the couple split. According to People, the pop star also saw her younger son in early November, when he visited her at her Los Angeles home.
The pop icon detailed her rise to fame, relationship with ex Federline, being a mother, her conservatorship and more in her memoir The Woman in Me, which was released in 2023 and acquired by Universal Pictures, Variety reported in October. Jon M. Chu, who directed Wicked, will be working on the biopic.
“She’s always been someone I’ve looked up to. She represents a generation of people growing up in the 2000s and late ’90s, and she has a story that deserves to be told properly. There’s a lot about us in it,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in November, noting at the time that a script hadn’t been written yet. “But in this initial conception, I think it’s a lot about how we treat people, young people, stars that we think we own, women, mothers.”
See Spears’ Christmas post with son Jayden James below:
Christmas may be over, but the NFL keeps delivering gifts. After the must-see Cowboy Carter Christmas games, football fans have three more reasons to celebrate before the New Year. On Dec. 28, get your favorite jersey ready, order some wings, and kick your feet up, because an all-day NFL triple header is on the way. And one of the best, most affordable ways to watch is on Sling TV.
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Signing up for Sling TV, fans won’t miss any of the action as the Denver Broncos and the Cincinnati Bengals face off to keep their playoff chances alive, the Los Angeles Rams look to improve on their win streak with a victory against the Arizona Cardinals, and the Los Angeles Chargers fight to maintain their playoff spot against the New England Patriots.
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You can catch all three NFL games streaming on Sling TV. Not subscribed? Here’s everything you need to know to watch football on the streaming platform below.
How to Watch NFL Triple Header on Sling TV
Want to catch the NFL triple header on Dec. 28? Subscribing to Sling TV Orange + Blue grants you access to ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, TNT and Fox, as well as live TV and local cable channels so you’ll never miss another NFL or college football game again. Compared to other platforms like YouTube TV — which just announced a price hike for their streaming service — plus DirecTV Stream, Fubo and Hulu + Live TV, Sling offers affordable options and discounts for first-time subscribers. For Sling TV Orange + Blue plan, get 50% off your first month, starting at $30/month (it increases to $60/month afterwards).
You’ll not only have access to more local networks like NBC, but many cable networks, including NFL Network, FS1, Lifetime, FX, AMC, A&E, Bravo, BET, Cartoon Network, Fuse, CNN, Food Network and many others.
Sling lets you livestream the NFL games on your phone, tablet, laptop or smart TV (via the Sling app). It’s the easiest way to watch this week’s MFL triple header online without cable.
Ring in the new year with more NFL football on Sling TV. See full details here.
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The end of 2024 is upon us and that means holiday festivities, gift swapping, and a lot of eating and drinking if we’re lucky. For those of us who indulge in cannabis products, this is a fine time to get gifted or hand out some holiday cheer so let’s get into it.
As my coverage of cannabis continues to take shape, I’m learning more and more about the wide uses for the plant and how it doesn’t always have to end up in a blunt, joint, or bong for me to get the relief and effects I want. I’ll level with readers and say I’m not much into flower but if it’s already rolled, I’ll indulge in a fresh “j” here and there. My preferred method of use is vaporizers, edibles, and concentrates and I’m more of a sativa or sativa-leaning hybrid kind of guy. I find it helps me with my ADHD, joint pain, and general mood.
In this short list, I’m listing brands I’ve tried in my travels across the country along with brands that have select locales but are still worth highlighting. Heck, you might be one of those frequent flight hoppers like myself so this can aid in your search for good products.
I do want to say that before we end this post and lock it down until 2025, please indulge in cannabis safely and observe the rules and laws in your respective hometowns. I hope all of you have an amazing holiday season and we’ll see you at the top of the year.
For now, enjoy this handy cannabis gift guide. Let us know in the comments what some of your faves are.
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1. 22Red
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22Red is the brainchild of Shavo Odadjian, who some might know is a member of System of A Down. The cannabis brand specializes in a wide variety of flower, prerolls, concentrates, infused flower, and vapes.
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2. CAKE She Hits Different
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CAKE She Hits Different, co-founded by Chloe Kaleiokalani, is dope for the fact we need more women-owned brands in the cannabis space. The brand’s Designer Distillate vaporizers are the first to boast a 1.25 capacity and boosted with terpenes.
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3. Housing Works Cannabis Co x Cartography NYC—Stoner Nameplate Necklace
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We’ve featured Housing Works Cannabis Co in previous gift guides and love what they’re doing up in New York. They also have a collaboration with Cartography NYC via the Stoner Nameplate Necklace now available for preorder. Peep the other gear in the eShop too!
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4. iGrowcan
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For the novice home grower, iGrowcan is a handy option to help those with an aspiration for having “green” thumbs, if you get our meaning. Salute to the Royal Queen Seeds crew!
Learn more here.
5. Jeeter
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Jeeter bills itself as the number one preroll brand in the world and they certainly have a wide reach in the game. They also have infused prerolls with TCHA diamonds, live resin concentrates, and more.
Learn more here.
6. Live ORO
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Live ORO is billed as a drinkable sleep aid boosted with 10 MGs of THC and 10 MGs of CBD, promising a relaxing night’s sleep in every bottle.
Learn more here.
7. Reefresh
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Reefresh is another drinkable cannabis option but without the bubbles. Sometimes, you just want a crushable sip and they have a 10 MG canned option, along with a concentrated 100 MG flavored shot that you can dose at your comfort.
Learn more here.
8. Royal Queen Seeds — TYSON 2.0 Collab Seeds
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For home growers, Royal Queen Seeds is a name most should come to know. And now, they’ve partnered with Mike Tyson, a known cannabis enthusiast with his own Tyson 2.0 seeds.
Learn more here.
9. Voila!
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I drink quite a bit of sparking mineral water and having an infused, flavored version of the drink is right up my alley. Voila! is a brand that’s new to us but we hope to try them out soon.
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10. WYNK
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Wynk is actually the first cannabis-infused hard seltzer I tried and I appreciate the fact that it’s a very mild dose that’s perfect for social settings and also for those who want to take a break from alcohol.
Learn more here.
Rihanna has a new snack she’ll be making for her kids — assuming she doesn’t take all of it for herself.
In a fun new video posted to the superstar’s Instagram Thursday (Dec. 19), Ri and a friend try out an unorthodox pairing: chicken nuggets and caviar. “Oh my god, I don’t like how much I like this,” the Fenty mogul says after smearing the spread on a nugget and taking a bite.
“Am I about to steal my kids nuggets?” she continued while going in for seconds and thirds. “I hate when I like my kids’ food, because I be stealing that s–t. I’m actually really nervous what my near future looks like.”
“In the spirit of Christmas, this one is for all the ‘snoccer moms,’” Ri captioned the clip.
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Assuming she actually shares with her kiddos, the caviar nuggets will go to 2-year-old RZA and 1-year-old Riot Rose, whom Rihanna shares with A$AP Rocky. In an October interview with Access Hollywood, the “Love on the Brain” singer opened up about being a mom to two boys, gushing, “It’s fun, I literally, I enjoy it so much.”
“I am just looking at them and living through them, and I’m amazed by every new discovery of theirs, even their boundaries,” she added at the time. “They’re teaching me how to be their mom as much as I’m teaching them how to be in this world and guide them as best as I can.”
Ri’s new “snoccer mom” snack tutorial comes shortly after she enjoyed a mom’s night out at Mariah Carey’s final 2024 holiday concert Dec. 17 at Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. While there, the “All I Want for Christmas Is You” vocalist stepped down into the audience to greet her famous friend, who asked Carey to autograph her chest in a hilarious moment captured on video.
“Mariah Carey is signing my t-t y’all,” Ri hilariously said into Carey’s microphone at the time. “This s–t is f–king epic! … Look at that s–t, y’all!”
Benny Blanco has had a week to process his engagement to Selena Gomez, but he’s still in disbelief. Seven days after the couple announced that the producer had popped the question — to which the singer-actress, of course, said “yes” — Blanco said he’s still reeling from the news. Reposting Gomez’s week-old Instagram post about […]
Kygo‘s work has long been the musical equivalent of a waterfront resort, and now he in his team have created the real thing.
Palm Tree Club is a hotel and restaurant project by Palm Tree Crew, the sprawling company created by the Norwegian producer and his manager Myles Shear. Set to open in Miami on Dec. 21, the property is in the former Shuckers Waterfront Bar & Grill, a 150-room hotel that’s been entirely remodeled to reflect Kygo and Palm Tree Crew’s laid-back, tropical aesthetic.
Built in the 1970s, the building reflects the Miami Modern (or MiMo) style of architecture common in the city and South Florida at large in the post World War II era. The hotel also embraces Art Deco with rooms styled in the aesthetic and also features a restaurant, a 24-hour fitness center, a 20-ship marina (so guests can cruise up in their boat for dinner) and other amenities.
See exclusive images of the property below.
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“Hospitality has always been at the heart of the live experiences produced by Palm Tree Crew,” Shear tells Billboard. “We’re thrilled to extend this ethos to a Palm Tree Crew venue, offering a curated year-round experience that combines exceptional hotel, dining and entertainment. Having grown up visiting Shuckers, I’m excited to honor its legacy while creating an elevated experience for both the local community and visitors.”
The resort opening also marks a new expansion the Palm Tree Crew empire, which also includes its ongoing Palm Tree Festival (which takes place in luxe locations like the Hamptons and Aspen), along with an artist management division, a record label and other food and beverage projects.
A resort has long been part of the plan, with Kygo and Shear telling Billboard in 2022 that they’ve taken inspiration from the late great Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville empire of music, resorts, restaurants, events and other lifestyle offerings.
“He created so many areas where [his fans] can come together — it doesn’t even need to be at his shows. It can be at his hotel or a Margaritaville bar,” Kygo said in 2022. “That’s what we’re trying to create: something that’s bigger than the music. A community, a movement.”
Palm Tree Club Miami is a collaboration between Palm Tree Crew, Miami-based management firm Think Hospitality and the Miami and New York City-based real estate development firm Continuum Company.
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