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Ellie Goulding revealed her baby bump on the red carpet of the 2025 Fashion Awards in London on Monday (Dec. 1). The 38-year-old “Love Me Like You Do” singer showed off her baby bump at the event while wearing a leather jacket over a black crop top, which revealed her bare belly bump.
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Goulding had not commented on the news at press time, but People noted that the child will be her second — she has a four-year-old son, Arthur, with her estranged husband art dealer Caspar Jopling — and her first with new boyfriend actor Beau Minniear (Night at the Eagle Inn, Bad Haircut), who also did not appear to have commented on the pregnancy at press time. According to the magazine, the couple began dating in July of this year when Minniear shared a photo roll that included a snap of Goulding, seemingly naked, in bed; after four years of marriage, Goulding and Jopling announced their separation in Feb. 2024.
Goulding released her fifth studio album, Higher Than Heaven, in April 2023, featuring the singles “Let It Die,” “Easy Lover,” “By the End of the Night” and “Like a Saviour,” scoring the singer her fourth No. 1 LP in the U.K., tying her with Adele as the two British female artists with the most chart-topping albums in U.K. chart history. She debuted her fourth collaborative track with Calvin Harris, “Free,” during one of his residency sets at Ushuaïa in Ibiza in July 2024.
She returned last month with the personal, emotional ballad “Destiny,” which she wrote in a lengthy Instagram post felt like her, “finally taking control of my sexuality and surrendering to Destiny, feeling free in knowing that the prize belonged to me in some way, even if that prize was just accepting my fate with a wine and a cigarette.”
At the time, she added, “The song focuses on a superficial but intense chemistry with someone that served a purpose, for total sensual and surrendering from a type of suffering, and how powerful it can feel in that moment even if it’s not love. This was the first time perhaps that I felt a loving affinity for a person I wasn’t in love with, instead a sort of gratitude for their raw acceptance of my need for exploration and catharsis with their sex ‘I hit the lotto when I found you’ I love the old school romance of that concept. For the first time ever I didn’t need a person for validation or protection, and the person didn’t need me. But we just wanted each other. That felt like a potent shift in the way I loved myself as a whole.”
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While performing the song “Juno” on her recently wrapped Short ‘n Sweet tour, Sabrina Carpenter would “arrest” a fan or celebrity in the crowd in a fun moment involving pink prop handcuffs. The bit was a viral sensation during the outing that ended last month and it was accompanied by another viral favorite section where Carpenter would ask the crowd if they wanted to try out some “freaky positions,” before busting out a unique pose and saying “Have you ever tried… this one?”
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On Monday (Dec. 1), the White House once again appropriated a playful pop culture meme to shine a light on its attempt to deport undocumented people. In a 14-second TikTok video cued to “Juno,” a series of people are shown angrily filming ICE agents as they swoop in to arrest people on the street, with close-ups of handcuffs being slapped on someone. A series of clips of chases and arrests are then cued to Carpenter asking, “Have you ever tried this one?”
The caption to the clip reads “Have you ever tried this one? Bye-bye [kissy face emoji].”
At press time, a spokesperson for Carpenter had not returned Billboard‘s request for comment on the video; Billboard has also reached out to the White House to clarify if it got clearance from Carpenter to use her music in the ICE propaganda video.
The video dropped less than a month after Olivia Rodrigo lambasted the Trump administration after the Department of Homeland Security posted an Instagram video soundtracked by her Guts track “All-American Bitch” showing ICE officers forcibly tackling, detaining and deporting people. In the comments, Rodrigo wrote, “don’t ever use my songs to promote your racist, hateful propaganda.” The video featured a montage of what appeared to be undocumented people voluntarily boarding DHS flights and giving a thumbs-up as they depart. “LEAVE NOW and self-deport using the CPB Home app,” read the caption. “If you don’t, you will face consequences.”
Carpenter, a vocal supporter of Trump’s 2024 election rival Vice President Kamala Harris, is the latest artist to object to the president’s repeated use of popular music for his political videos without their permission. The pace of such seemingly unsanctioned usage has ramped up over the past few months, with Kenny Loggins lashing out at Trump for using his Top Gun classic “Danger Zone” under an AI-generated video of the president seemingly dumping a river of fecal matter on American citizens participating in the anti-Trump “No Kings” protests.
Swifties also aired their ire at the White House last month over a TikTok video set to Swift’s hit Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping single “The Fate of Ophelia,” renamed “The Fate of America,” depicting Trump’s mug shot from when he was charged with trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results as well as an image of POTUS kissing an American flag. While Swift — an avowed Harris supporter who Trump has repeatedly said he “hates” — has not commented on the seemingly unauthorized appropriation of her music, the White House sent a response to Variety in which it gloated about owning the libs.
Representatives said they made the video specifically to get “fake news media brands” to “breathlessly amplify” their message. “Congrats, you got played,” the rep said.
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If you’ve ever wanted to get to know Lady Gaga better Stephen Colbert is here to help. On Monday night’s (Dec. 1) Late Show, Colbert revisited an interview he did with Mother Monster earlier this year at New York’s The Bitter End nightclub, during which she participated in his seriously silly Colbert Questionert interrogation.
The host hit her with an easy one early one: the best sandwich. Well, it wasn’t that easy. Gaga quickly answered Italian sub, but then busted out her impeccable French to give props to ham, butter and cheese on a baguette. “So an Italian sub, but in French,” Colbert clarified.
Then things started to get a bit more serious with a query about the first concert Gaga ever attended. Turns out it was a Jingle Ball show where the Goo Goo Dolls played amid a flurry of fake snow that broke her brain. “They had snow and I was losing my mind. It was my first experience with production in an arena. I was crying,” Gaga recalled.
According to Gaga, the scariest animal is any really large bird, like a big, scary hawk that might spirit you away to its nest and, if she had to choose between apples and oranges, she’d definitely go orange, seemingly to Colbert’s chagrin.
“You judged me,” she said in mock horror. I felt you go, ‘oh, New York, big apple!’” No, Colbert explained, it’s just that you can’t spread peanut butter on an orange, though Gaga did remind him that you can dip an orange in dark chocolate, which seemed to ease his mind.
To her recollection, Gaga said she’s never asked another famous person for their autograph, but when fans give her a piece of their art she does ask them to sign it.
And then came the big one, or as we like to call it the Keanu Question: what do you think happens when we die? “I’m not sure,” Gaga admitted with a heavy sigh. “I think we all vanish into each other. I say that on stage every night, but I think it’s just what I believe… Like I definitely believe that the soul is like kind of forever here in some way. That you go from being in one place to being everywhere.” Asked if she could sometimes sense those souls, Gaga said yes, that sometimes when people pass she thinks “‘they’re everywhere now.’”
Gaga said her favorite action movie is the 1993 Clint Eastwood political thriller In the Line of Fire, that she prefers a window seat for a feeling of safety and that her favorite smell is, awww, the scent of her fiancé Michael Polansky’s neck, noting that he doesn’t wear cologne and that bottled scents are her least favorite smell.
For a probing question about her earliest memory, Gaga got existential, asking for a clarification about whether it was her earliest memory in life. “Or before life if you can think that early,” Colbert shot back. Turns out the first thing Gaga can remember is getting really excited when her parents gave her a toy kitchen set. “I remember being really excited because I could play house,” she said.
As for what song Gaga would pick if she only had one tune to listen to for the rest of her life, Gaga chose John Lennon’s “Imagine,” explaining that she grew up very close to the Strawberry Fields Lennon memorial in New York’s Central Park. “That has a very special significance for me,” she said.
And finally, she described her life in five words: “It’s going to be great, hopefully.”
Gaga is preparing to wrap up her Mayhem Ball tour dates for the year with a pair of upcoming shows at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia on Friday (Dec. 5) and Saturday (Dec. 6).
Watch Gaga take the Colbert Questionert below.
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Taylor Swift is closing out the historic Eras Tour with one more screen event. On Tuesday (Dec. 2), Disney+ released the first official trailer for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show, a full-length concert film documenting the tour’s final performance in Vancouver, B.C.
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Set to arrive Dec. 12, the new film differs from the existing Disney+ version released earlier this year. This edition includes the complete Tortured Poets Department portion of the show, which was added to the tour following the album’s April 2024 release and was not included in the theatrical cut or the previous streaming edit. The Vancouver stop marked the only performance where the entire TTPD set appeared in full.
In the trailer, Swift addresses the crowd directly, acknowledging the weight of the moment. “We’ve had so long to prepare for the end of this tour, and we get to play one last show for you here tonight,” Swift says. “I want to thank every single one of you for being a part of the most thrilling chapter of my entire life to date.”
The Final Show film arrives alongside a companion docuseries, Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The End of an Era, which premieres the same day.
The series offers a deeper look behind the scenes of the record-breaking global tour, including backstage footage, rehearsal clips, and Swift’s commentary on how she conceptualised and executed the nearly three-hour production in its various forms.
The docuseries features appearances from opening acts Gracie Abrams and Sabrina Carpenter, as well as special guests Ed Sheeran and Florence Welch.
Two episodes of The End of an Era debut on Dec. 12, with new instalments rolling out in two-episode batches in subsequent weeks. The series is directed by Don Argott and co-directed by Sheena M. Joyce, produced by Object & Animal.
Meanwhile, The Final Show is directed by Glenn Weiss and produced by Taylor Swift Productions in association with Silent House Productions, marking the latest in Swift’s expanding catalogue of concert films and tour documentaries.
The Vancouver performance capped what became the highest-grossing tour of all time, with Swift’s The Eras Tour breaking attendance records, global streaming milestones and reshaping the touring landscape across 2023–2025.
Watch the trailer for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The Final Show below. For more, visit disneyplus.com.
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Trending on Billboard Britney Spears is back on Instagram doing what she does: dancing and sharing small glimpses into her private life. The singer who deactivated her Insta account on Nov. 2 before quietly reactivating it less than a month later, took to her feed over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend to offer up a bit […]
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Kylie Minogue is finally sharing the Christmas song she has been holding onto for a decade. The pop icon has released her new single “XMAS,” a track she says dates back to the summer of 2015 and was originally inspired by the Village People’s “YMCA.”
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The song arrives as part of the 10th anniversary edition of Minogue’s holiday album, Kylie Christmas, which returns on Dec. 5 as Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) with four brand-new tracks.
Speaking to The Sun, Minogue explained that the idea first came to her while she was in Berlin shortly after releasing her first holiday album, Kylie Christmas, that same year.
“The song comes from 2015. I was at Soho House in Berlin, it was summer on the terrace and we’d just done the first Christmas album,” she said. “We’d had a couple of glasses of wine … and it came to us like ‘YMCA’ but ‘XMAS.’ I’ve been sitting on the chorus for 10 years.”
The single arrives with a video that sees Minogue recreating the iconic flying lift from Dirty Dancing. Despite decades of stage experience, she admitted the move was a leap of faith.
“I was a bit scared as I’ve never done it before. It was a fantasy moment. I was told not to overthink it,” she said. “We did a couple of practices before we did the main one. The thing is, you just need to trust the other person. The first one I got up, but I overshot it. The second was fine. The third one was good. The bruises were worth it the next day.”
Minogue also addressed the idea of “XMAS” becoming a holiday chart-topper — something she’s not expecting but would happily welcome. “I’m not counting on it,” she said. “It would be crazy but that’s definitely parked to one side for me. I am just happy that ten years have passed since my last Christmas album and we are all here still going.”
The release caps what has been one of the busiest stretches of Minogue’s career. Over the past two years, she has released two albums, including 2023’s Tension, and completed a 66-date world tour behind the record. After nonstop work, she says she’s ready for a pause — sort of.
“It feels like I haven’t stopped. It’s been a gigantic year but I imagine I will be making music just for the love of it and maybe banking some things,” she said. “I could happily be in the studio most of my time. I love it. I find it just gets richer and more satisfying.”
Still, Minogue admitted that trying to record a holiday album during breaks on her Tension tour “was maybe not so wise,” but the creative impulse keeps her going. “I don’t know about releasing. I think I should just do the background work… maybe.”
Minogue’s “XMAS” is out now.
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JoJo Siwa says she was hospitalized with sudden “excruciating” stomach pain just hours before her scheduled performance at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., on Friday (Nov. 28), revealing in a TikTok video that she suffered a ruptured ovarian cyst that caused internal bleeding.
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In the post, Siwa explained that she had been dealing with persistent discomfort for several days, which intensified any time she danced, walked or moved. “Every time that I’ve been dancing for the last couple of days or even just walking, my stomach would just really, really hurt,” she said. At first, she assumed the pain was related to menstrual cramps, adding that she tried to ease it with a warm bath. “That set it off 100 times worse,” she said.
After calling her mother for advice, Siwa said she was urged to phone an ambulance. At the hospital, doctors told her the cause: “One of my ovaries had a cyst on it that burst and was bleeding into my stomach,” she explained. She added that the blood in her abdomen triggered the intense pain. “Anytime that the blood in your stomach moves, that’s the bleeding in the stomach. It’s like brutal pain.”
Despite the medical emergency, Siwa still performed her Mall of America set later that day. She told fans she will undergo follow-up checks next week. “We’re going to keep it pushing,” she said, noting she has been instructed to return to the hospital immediately if she experiences vomiting or a recurrence of the severe pain.
The Minnesota stop followed the conclusion of her Infinity Heart U.K. and European tour, which wrapped earlier this month. Earlier in 2025, Siwa appeared on the U.K. edition of Celebrity Big Brother, where she was the subject of inappropriate comments and behavior from fellow contestant Mickey Rourke.
More recently, she released a cover of Kim Carnes’ “Bette Davis Eyes.” Carnes appeared to respond cryptically to the rendition in a TikTok, saying, “There is a difference between singing a song…and embodying it.”
Siwa has continued to tease new music and maintain a high profile across social media throughout the year. In her TikTok about the medical scare, she reassured fans that she expects to recover without further intervention, adding that doctors anticipate the situation will resolve on its own.
Trending on Billboard Kelly Clarkson has officially joined Spotify’s Billions Club. The 43-year-old pop superstar and talk show host earned her place in the streaming service’s elite circle as her hit “Since U Been Gone” became her first song to surpass 1 billion streams on Spotify. The pop-rock anthem was released as the second single […]
Trending on Billboard Training season’s not over just yet. Dua Lipa stars in the latest campaign for NBCUniversal as she hypes the women of Team USA ahead of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic Winter Games. The British pop star struts through a winter wonderland in the snowy streets of Milan and shows off her polyglot […]
