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We’re almost 100 years deep into this rodeo culture thing in The Lone Star State and each year the crowds, performances, entertainment and fashion take things to a whole new level. What started with a few Texas cowboys linking up to share and showcase their livestock has become a grand affair – so you know folks step out wearing their Texas Best.
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This year, Rodeo Season kicked off March 4th and is set to wrap things up on March 23rd. So as we enter the final full week of Rodeo Houston 2025, it’s only right we salute the looks that made us do a double-take, as it’s always fun to see the different and creative ways Texans (and folks in town to party with us) put together pieces to create fist that express their unique interpretation of what can be considered modern southern style.
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This year the girlies showed up and showed out when it came to rodeo fashion. Scroll below to see the styles we couldn’t get enough of.
1. Rodeo ready
2. Not every cowgirl wears a hat.
3. This aint her first rodeo
4. CHOSEN 🤞🏾
5. One night only, I’m from out of town.
6. Whole Lotta Gang Ish
7. Howdy..
8. All Black Everything
9. It’s a Texas Thang
10. Countrified
11. Fur Baby
12. Stick em up
13. Bigger in Texas
14. Ms. Cowgirl
15. Tear the roof off
16. Boots and Dukes
17. Sittin’ pretty
18. Let’s ride
20. Rodeo Nights
21. Look at that horse
22. Her first rodeo
23. Hey H-Town
24. All Smiles
25. Welcome to the show
26. Welcome to Texas
27. Goin my way?
28. We eatin’ good down here
29. Get you a cowgirl
30. Country girls have more fun
31. Let’s go
32. Sundown is coming
33. Live free
34. From Texas with Love
35. Your new favorite cowgirl
36. It’s that special time of year
37. If you know, you know
38. Show stopper
39. No gatekeepin’
40. Strike a pose
41. Gotta love them H-Town Girls
42. Just touched down in H-Town
43. Boot Love
44. Still no time for games
45. This is a big rich town
46. Howdy partner
47. Let’s Rodeo
48. Western Wear
49. Neon Nights
50. Rockstar Cowgirl
After a couple years of dating, Normani and DK Metcalf have wedding bells on the horizon. During a Thursday (March 13) press conference following his recent trade from the Seattle Seahawks to the Pittsburgh Stealers, the wide receiver adorably revealed that he and the Fifth Harmony alum are engaged. “Hold that rock up, baby,” he […]
Jelly Roll has many tattoos, but one of them is particularly meaningful in how it relates to his life.
While speaking to People Thursday (March 13), the country star opened up about one piece of ink on his arm depicting a broken chain. “It is just about breaking chains in life — anything that is bounding us, any bondage that we have, any addiction, anything we think God can’t get us through,” he explained to the publication. “We can break those chains.”
“I think second chances are earned,” Jelly added. “I think sometimes you can earn them in opportunity — there are opportunities to earn — but I believe that second chances are earned.”
He also revealed that he only got the chain tat after he and collaborators Taylor Phillips and Jackson Dean wrote a song together called “I Can’t Break These Chains.” “We loved the song so much we got the tattoo of the breaking chains that day,” Jelly said. “And we still never put that song out! We should put that song out.”
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The “Son of a Sinner” singer has been open about his struggles with drugs and alcohol. His past also includes being in and out of jail about 40 times. Jelly has said that he knew he wanted to change his life after one particular stay behind bars when he was 23, during which he learned that he had become a father to now 16-year-old daughter Bailee.
In a recent interview on the Smartless podcast, the musician opened up about turning his life around for his child. “I had to go to court,” he said on the show. “I had to get supervised visits through the courtroom … I just had to keep going to the court every six months and going, ‘Look, I’m continuing to prove I’m changing.’ Music, being famous, wasn’t even a thought then. I just wanted to be a good dad.”
The meaningful chain tattoo is just one of countless pieces of artwork on Jelly’s body, which is nearly covered in ink. Some of his most distinguishable body art is on his face, including multiple crosses on his cheeks and near his eyes.
In March 2024, Jelly shared that he regrets “almost all” of the tattoos he’s gotten, and said that he’s done multiple coverups over his least favorites. “I regret 98 percent of these tattoos, 97 percent,” he said at the time. “Like core philosophies I rooted my life in when I was 17 and now that I’m 40, I’m like, ‘What the f–k was I thinking?’”
Bre Tiesi is opening up about her unorthodox relationship with Nick Cannon, whose time she has to share with four other women who’ve also welcomed kids with The Masked Singer host.
On the latest episode of Paul C. Brunson’s We Need to Talk podcast posted Tuesday (March 11), the Selling Sunset star explained why non-monogamy works for herself and Cannon, with whom she shares 2-year-old son Legendary Love. “It’s just so healthy and normal, and people think that it’s not because of the surrounding factors, but I don’t involve myself in surrounding factors,” Tiesi said matter of factly. “The kids are welcome into my life and our life, and that’s where I draw the line.”
“Nick’s always been a playboy,” she continued. “Everyone knows that.”
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The Wild n’ Out star has a total of 12 children with five different women including Tiesi. He shares twins Moroccan and Monroe with superstar ex-wife Mariah Carey; Golden Sagon, Powerful Queen and Rise Messiah with Brittany Bell; Zion Mixolydian, Zillion Heir and Beautiful Zeppelin with Abby De La Rosa; Onyx Ice with LaNisha Cole; and Halo Marie with Alyssa Scott. He and Scott also had a son named Zen in 2021, but the little boy died from brain cancer just five months after he was born.
Of Cannon’s respective relationships with the other women, Tiesi explained why she doesn’t feel “threatened.” “I know what my relationship is, and I know that no matter what, you’ll never have with anyone else what you have with me,” she told Brunson. “I’m cool with a majority of the women. Obviously, there’s emotions involved, and I can’t help how other people feel.”
The model went on to share the closest she’s ever come to feeling envious of Cannon’s other relationships. “I think I’ve gotten jealous about maybe holidays,” she said. “Holidays are hard. I’ll be like, ‘If you’re gonna do this, can you take Legy?’ It’s not for me — I’m not jealous. Say they go on a trip, and I’m like, ‘Well that would’ve been nice. Couldn’t you have just brought Legy with you guys?’ I’m looking more out for him. I want him to have the relationship with his siblings.”
Tiesi also explained why she currently isn’t dating anyone besides Cannon, despite the Drumline star maintaining relationships with other women in addition to her. “It’s not that I won’t or I can’t, it’s that I choose not to,” she said. “I just really don’t want to deal with another man for a very long time. I’m happy in my relationship. I’m happy with my family unit.”
Watch Tiesi break down her relationships with Cannon and his kids’ other moms on We Need to Talk below.
Seonghwa of ATEEZ is feeling golden after making his runway debut at Paris Fashion Week. On Thursday (March 6), the K-pop star walked in his first-ever fashion show for Isabel Marant’s fall/winter showcase in the City of Love. Looking laser-focused as he strutted down the catwalk, Seonghwa modeled a black suit with a sparkly silver […]
Lady Gaga may now be causing mayhem in pop music, but what she’s really looking forward to is the peace of starting a family with fiancé Michael Polansky.
In an interview with Good Morning America that aired Friday (March 7) — the same day the superstar’s album Mayhem finally dropped — Gaga opened up about how she wanted “marriage and kids more than anything” before meeting the tech businessman in 2019. “We’d been talking for, like, three weeks on the phone every single day just getting to know each other, and Michael flew to Vegas when I was doing my show to take me on our first date,” she recalled.
“And before we even sat down, I said, ‘Do you want marriage and kids?’” she continued. “And he goes, ‘Yeah I do.’ And I said, ‘Yeah OK, great. Do you want some champagne?’”
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The 14-time Grammy winner added, “I wanted him to know that I was a family girl.”
Gaga and Polansky had been dating for about four years when they got engaged in April 2024. The “Die With a Smile” singer has been open in the past about how she’s ready to welcome children into the mix, telling Elle in January that she envisions her near future being centered around “me and Michael and our kids.”
“That’s something Michael and I have talked about a lot — allowing our kids to be their own people,” she added at the time. “It’s such an intense thing for kids coming into the world. And they’re told how to think and what to believe in and how to eat … I just kind of want to let my kids find out who they are.”
For now, the A Star Is Born actress is focused on planning their wedding — “You know what? It’s … it’s going,” she told GMA of the process — and sticking the landing with Mayhem, which Polansky was also heavily involved in. The entrepreneur is credited as a songwriter on several of the songs, and Gaga previously said that he was the one who encouraged her to return to her dance-pop roots on the LP.
“He just loves the whole me,” she told GMA. “We do a lot together. He includes me in his business as well. He’s really creative, he plays guitar — he’s like a beautiful musician. We have a really creative relationship.”
Gaga added, “My album’s called Mayhem, but it’s also nice to be in the mayhem with someone else.”
Watch her Good Morning America interview above.
Before the April showers have even arrived to bring May flowers, luxury designers are bringing their latest looks to the fashion capital of the world for Paris Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2025, which runs from March 3 to 11. While fresh, luxe designs are a given on the runways, the event also always promises the biggest […]
Congratulations are in order for Snoop Dogg‘s only daughter Cori Broadus and her fiancé Wayne Duece, who recently welcomed their first baby. “The princess arrived at 6 months. I’ve cried and cried, I’ve compared and compared, blaming myself because I wasn’t able to give her all that she needed. But no matter what God always […]
Before they were one of the world’s most high-profile couples, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce kept things on the down low. And according to Wes Bergmann — who just so happens to live right next door to the tight end in Kansas City — the two stars were dating much longer than anyone realized before they ever made their public debut.
In fact, the Traitors season three contestant tried to tell his friend about the pair’s romance, but she didn’t believe him. While serving as a guest on a recent episode of The Social Game hosted by Michele Fitzgerald and Kellie Nalbandian, Bergmann opened up about being neighbors with Kelce, whom he called “an enigma,” and added, “On one end, he’s like this big tough football player, on the other end, he’s probably going to have like 12 Taylor Swift songs written about him.”
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“On that note, I was, like, the first person to know about any of this stuff,” Bergmann continued, referring to the 14-time Grammy winner and football player’s romance. “I tried to tell [Fitzgerald] a long time ago. ‘They’re together, just so you know.’ She didn’t believe it.”
Swift and Kelce first went public with their romance in September 2023, when the “Karma” singer attended her first of many Kansas City Chiefs games. It was the first time most of the world had any idea the two stars were together, but it wasn’t Bergmann’s. “I beat the validating of her showing up to games and stuff by, like, six months,” the reality competition star boasted on the podcast.
The Eras Tour headliner previously shed light on the timeline of her relationship with Kelce in her December 2023 TIME Person of the Year interview. According to her, they “started hanging out right after” the Grotesquerie star confessed he had a crush on her on his New Heights podcast the prior July.
“By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple,” she added at the time. “I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date.”
A year and several months later, Tayvis is still going strong. Swift recently attended her second Super Bowl in a row to cheer on Kelce and the rest of the Chiefs. However, the 2024 champions lost this year to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Watch Bergmann open up about watching Swift and Kelce’s romance unfold next door below.
Nothing was holding Harry Styles back in Japan over the weekend, with the pop star taking part in the Tokyo Marathon and finishing in the top fraction of runners Sunday (March 2). As captured in videos taken by supporters watching from the sidelines, Styles completed the 26.2-mile race in a dark hoodie and neon sneakers, […]