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Pop’s biggest showgirl put on one of YouTube’s biggest shows Wednesday, with Taylor Swift pulling in a record-high amount of live viewers with her debut on Travis and Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast. As announced by YouTube on Friday (Aug. 15), the superstar’s guest appearance on the sports and lifestyle show was simultaneously watched by millions of people, peaking at 1.3 million concurrent livestream viewers. That’s more than any other podcast has garnered since the platform launched a “dedicated podcast experience in 2023,” the company shared. “I mean this video being 1.3 million views is the epitome of numerology,” the…

David Archuleta is in his “lover boy era.” The 34-year-old singer and American Idol alum released his new Earthly Delights EP on Friday, Aug. 15, and the project finds him freely exploring his sexuality after coming out as queer in 2021 and leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the following year. “I’m finding the pleasures of just being myself, finding the pleasures in the things that I always stayed away from before. I feel more in touch with my body and sensuality than I ever have,” Archuleta tells PEOPLE of his mindset for the six-track pop project.…

The Conjuring: Last Rites will be the fourth and potentially final film in the iconic horror series, and it is setting itself up to correct the franchise’s worst Warrens mistake ahead of its ending. While the first two movies in the series are beloved, The Conjuring has made a lot of missteps throughout its history. Last Rites appears to be course-correcting. Following up on 2021’s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, Last Rites sees Ed and Lorraine Warren go on another ghost-hunting adventure, where they are tasked with getting rid of a demon who is haunting a client.…

NEED TO KNOW Taylor Lautner tells PEOPLE exclusively that he joins his wife, Tay, in watching The Summer I Turned Pretty while travelingBut the couple, who wed in 2022, are rooting for different brothersHowever, the actor notes that his pick for Belly’s best romantic match “resonates a lot” with his experience in a similar duel from his Twilight days Taylor Lautner and his wife, Tay, are watching The Summer I Turned Pretty — and they have both chosen to root for different brothers in the latest TV love triangle. During an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the Twilight alum says the…

NEED TO KNOW Taylor Swift and Blake Lively first connected in 2015Swift is a godparent to Lively’s children with husband Ryan ReynoldsIn August 2025, a source told PEOPLE that Lively and Swift currently “aren’t speaking” Taylor Swift and Blake Lively’s friendship may be going through a rough patch. Following fan speculation that a track called “Ruin the Friendship” on Swift’s upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl may be about Lively, a source confirmed to PEOPLE that the longtime friends currently “aren’t speaking.” The news comes after earlier reports that their friendship has “halted” amid Lively’s ongoing legal battle with…

Halsey fans, it’s time to dust off your blue wigs. The singer is revisiting two fan-favorite Badlands tracks a full decade after their original release, announcing Friday (Aug. 15) that she’ll soon be releasing a double feature music video for “Drive” and “Gasoline.” In a video teaser for the project posted on Instagram, Halsey appears in their signature light blue hair from the 2015 Badlands era, looking solemn while driving in a pink convertible through familiar, grungey terrain. At one point, the musician appears in a bikini as a pink hue saturates the screen; in another shot, she runs dramatically…

This week in dance music: the king Kaytranada released his fourth studio album Ain’t No Damn Way, a project he says is one that’s “strictly for workouts, dancing and studying and for my people that love beats.” We caught up with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who talked about her new album and the recent renaissance of her 2001 single “Murder on the Dancefloor.” “Thanks to ‘Murder,’ I basically just wrote a wish list,” she says in the story, “and I completely took advantage of the fact that I could then get in the studio with people who maybe might not have [otherwise]…

NEED TO KNOW Amy Madigan is discussing her terrifying role in Weapons for the first time since the horror movie hit theaters Aug. 8″It’s really nice because I felt my work is really good in this piece,” the actress, 75, told Entertainment WeeklyMadigan plays Aunt Gladys in Weapons, a thriller about the disappearance of 17 elementary school children that also stars Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich and more Warning: This article contains spoilers for Weapons, in theaters now. Amy Madigan is enjoying the passionate response to her shocking role in Weapons. The actress, 74, spoke about her surprise pivotal…

NEED TO KNOW Kim Zolciak’s ex Kroy Biermann is filing for sole physical custody of their childrenThe former professional football player alleged that the reality TV star is a “tormentor and abuser”The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum and the former NFL linebacker share six children together Kroy Biermann is filing for sole physical custody of his and Kim Zolciak’s children. On Friday, Aug. 15, the former professional football player, 39, filed for primary custody and total decision-making authority over their four minor children, according to documents obtained by PEOPLE. The former couple share twins Kaia and Kane, 11, Kash, 13, and Kroy…

NEED TO KNOW Sophie Turner seemingly alluded to her high-profile divorce from Joe Jonas as a time period she felt like she was going through “hell”The Game of Thrones alum made the comment on the Aug. 14 episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers while reflecting on filming her new film Trust in 2024Turner and Jonas reached a settlement agreement in September 2024, one year after the Jonas Brothers singer originally filed for divorce Sophie Turner is reflecting on a difficult time in her life. The Game of Thrones alum, 29, seemingly alluded to her divorce from Joe Jonas during…