Since Halloween falls on a Monday, everyone—including celebrities—were forced to get spooky a little early this year. Check out what the stars went as for Halloween this year, and what a much bigger Halloween costume budget and a team of makeup artists can get you. But don't worry, your sexy cat costume is good, too.
So far, the Halloween game is strong, and the list will be updated throughout the day.
Just when Hillary Clinton thought she had this election in the bag, the Ghost of Emails Past came back to haunt her once again. On Friday, FBI Director James Comey released a letter explaining that his office was resuming its investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, based on new evidence found in the laptop of her aide Huma Abedin.
Of course, this story is very complex—there's no evidence these emails implicate Clinton, which were found while investigating Abedin's estranged husband Anthony Weiner for sexting with a teenager. Also, Comey suspiciously broke FBI protocol and angered half of Washington by releasing the letter, which many suspect is an effort to give Clinton's opponent Donald Trump a much-needed last-minute boost.
And speaking of Trump, he and his supporters are as happy as pigs in mud.
He couldn't be more excited if he were barging into a dressing room full of naked pageant contestants. Meanwhile, his supporters flooded Twitter with the hashtag #HillaryForPrision, a deliberate misspelling after Twitter blocked the "prison" version from appearing among its trending topics.
This election just keeps getting weirder, and no one knows what will happen next. But everyone knows what will happen on November 8. #HillaryForPresidient.
The breakup between America's most glamorous and terrifying diva, Mariah Carey, and Australia's handsomest billionaire, James Packer, continues to shatter the globe. We are all ants to be crushed in the fallout of their battle.
TMZ reports that Packer has ordered Carey to vacate the LA mansion that they shared, but he's forgetting on thing: nobody tells Mimi what to do. She has refused to leave, insisting that if he wants her gone, he has to buy her another mansion for her and her kids to live in. It's unclear if the mansion would count as part of the $50 million settlement she wants from Packer, which she claims she deserves because she moved her family to LA to be with him, and because she had to cancel a leg of her tour to deal with this heartbreak.
Is $50 million too much to pay someone you never married? Not if she's Mariah Carey. It just seems natural that she gets this kind of treatment. I'm fighting the urge to give her all my money right now.
Every Halloween, it's the same story: some celebrity dresses up in a ridiculous "Indian" costume, Native Americans and others who know better get pissed at them, and they're forced to apologize. But they never learn their lesson. This year, it's Hilary Duff and her boyfriend Jason Walsh. Check out the costumes they wore to the Casamigos Halloween Party in Beverly Hills on Friday.
The outrage was immediate. Both Duff and Walsh responded quickly, trying to bury the hatchet (sorry) before they were demonized by the media.
Now if only real pilgrims would apologize for smallpox.
Unlike other sports professionals, referees have no desire for fame. When they're doing their job right, you barely notice them. So it's a ref's worst nightmare to go viral on the internet for having to handle a sex toy in the middle of the game. But that's exactly what happened at the Bills/Patriots game at New Era Field on Sunday.
Luckily, referee Keith Washington is a pro. He dispatched the rogue dildo with speed and gravitas.
You can't blame him for not wanting to touch it. Who knows where it's been?
Macarthur Pets in greater Sydney, Australia has the opposite problem as the rest of Australia: not enough snakes. Around 6:30 AM Sunday morning, a masked bandito raided the store and made off with eight snakes, including the store's mascot, a rare albino carpet python named Everest. A security camera caught the snakenapper stuffing the poor reptiles into a bag and taking off.
Now the store, and the community, are in despair. Without Everest, Macarthur Pets has lost its spirit. In a desperate Facebook post, management offered a $1,000 reward for any information leading to the recovery of the big white snake, as well as the arrest of the "scumbag" responsible.
Store owner Fred Deveney believes this thief was no amateur, but a skilled snake-cat-burglar who knew the value of what he was after, and who was familiar with the store itself. He told the Macarthur Chronicle:
The person knew what they were looking for because they went straight to the reptile tanks … I've contacted the RSPCA because I'm concerned about the animal welfare issue of putting some smaller snakes in with larger snakes.
If he isn't caught, this snake thief better keep looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life. You don't want to mess with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. They have their own snakes.
As the 2016 campaign finally draws to a close (eight days!), it's all just a matter of casting votes. On Saturday, young American Kenny Okwara tweeted a video of him telling his mom that he just might not bother voting, and his mom's reaction is the kick in the butt America needs.
"If you didn't vote for Hillary Clinton...there's gonna be a little problem in this house," she says, "I’ll seize your phone, I’ll seize the car. No I am serious, okay?"
When Okwara implied he might vote third party, his mom turned up the heat, saying, "Do not vote for the stupid man who doesn't even know there's Aleppo, there's a Syrian civil war going on. You'll be just be as dumb as the man."
It then gets even better, worthy of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" playing in the background, as Okwara's mom says, "“No, there’s no ‘no vote’ option. You are so stupid! You have to carry out your civic duties of being American. Okay?”
Okwara told BuzzFeed, “I was going to vote. However, I wanted to see my mom’s reaction if I told her I wasn’t going to." And the reaction was definitely worth it.
Over 86,000 people have liked the video, inspired by her passion, including The Fonz.
Listen to Kenny's mom. Don't be a moron.
It's 2016, how are there still people accidentally dressing up in offensive ways on Halloween? Have they not looked at a magazine or website in the last 10 years? Do they not have any friends to give them the lowdown? Apparently Hilary Duff and her boyfriend did not get the memo that appropriating other people's cultures as Halloween"costumes" is not a good idea. On Sunday, Duff posted a tweet apologizing for their decision to dress up as a Pilgrim (her) and a Native American (him). COME ON.
Duff, and her boyfriend, trainer Jason Walsh, were photographed at Friday night's Casamigos Tequila Halloween Party in Beverly Hills. I guess they thought their couple's costume was cute, but they soon found out otherwise when they started getting shredded on social media.
In case it's not clear why some people find Walsh's costume offensive, Twitter is quite happy to explain.
Duff is not alone in her mistake of participating in a questionable Native American costume choice—in 2010, both Paris Hilton and Miley Cyrus went out dressed as "sexy Native Americans." True, those incidents took place six years ago but Duff really should have known better. Sigh. There's always next year.
It seems that most-eligible-bachelor-in-Britain-and-possibly-the-world, Prince Harry, has been secretly dating American actress and humanitarian Meghan Markle, AKA Rachel Zane from Suits. At least, their relationship was a secret.
An inside source (who is apparently a huge blabber mouth) told theDaily Expressthat Harry is "besotted" with Meghan. Apparently she cooks for him, they both like doing yoga, and Markle has even stayed with Harry at Kensington Palace and met his brother and sister-in-law.
"William and Kate really liked her and she fitted in straight away," the source said.
The source also noted that Harry has been "desperate to keep the relationship quiet" because "he knows things will change when their romance is public knowledge."
Hopefully Harry has now learned that this inside source also happens to be the friend you shouldn't tell anything you want to keep quiet.
But even if their secret is ruined, it does appear that at least the couple is happy. The source told the Express that even though Harry and Meghan haven't been dating for long, "they love seeing each other and there is a definite chemistry between them."
"At the moment they are just taking it a step at a time and seeing how things develop. [Harry’s] in a very relaxed period of his life and Meghan has come along at the right time."
If things keep going the way they are, Markle might just end up wanting to marry Harry. (The real one, not the fake reality show one.)
Blac Chyna is basically due any day now, but she mother-to-be doesn't let that keep her from shaking it. Rob Kardashian's baby mama put up this video of her bouncing her bump to Juju on That Beat, looking blissfully happy and super glow-y as she shows off her dance moves. Perhaps she's trying to induce labor?
Also, she definitely threw some shade at her ex Tyga at the end of that video. It was probably no coincidence that she grabbed their son, King Cairo, during the lyric, "You ugly. You your daddy's son." Obviously, she didn't mean that King is ugly. Look at this kid's little angel face, for goodness sake.
However, she probably totally meant to insult Tyga. All the Karadashians, present and future, are petty af.
Kylie "kylizzlemynizzl" Jenner hosted a Halloween gala in the mansion she owns as a 19-year-old, which makes her house truly scary.
Dressed as a contoured skeleton in couture, Jenner had a dessert buffet fancier than the ones at most weddings.
She and Tyga provided a tour of the creepy confections on Snapchat, leading up to the gooey-est, grossest offering: pimple cupcakes.
Yup, some surprisingly delicious-looking edible acne. She Snapchatted them all night, probably instead of eating them.
Jenner popped one on Snapchat, proceeding to freak the F out. Naturally, she is not as calm and cool as professional dermatologist Dr. Pimple Popper.
The pimple cupcakes are pretty lifelike—the icing nailed the blood and pus combo. Plus, the added satisfaction of getting to eat a cupcake if you're brave enough.
For comparison—and an excuse to look at pimples—here's some of Dr. PP's handiwork.
According to her costume the next day, it doesn't look like Jenner ate too many of them, though.
No one at Good Morning Americawas scrambling to put together a last-minute costume this morning.
As expected, the hosts completely committed to the holiday—and wow, the scariest thing about Halloween is how long it must have taken Lara Spencer to completely transform into Alexander Hamilton.
Yeah, it came with a borderline terrible "Hamilton" parody but you've got to respect her beard game.
Lin-Manuel Miranda reacted with all the shock a single emoji can convey.
Meanwhile, Michael Strahan turned himself into Pikachu, Gio Benitez went as Jigglypuff, Jesse Palmer was Captain America, and T.J. Holmes transformed into Tyler Perry's Madea.
Naturally, they weren't the only ones to enjoy the festivities, as Alfonso Ribeiro dressed as a Ghostbuster alongside Sara Haines and Dancing with the Stars favorites Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd went as The Joker and Harley Quinn.
Is your half-assed costume looking like a huge relief right now?
Every year, Ellen DeGeneres, beloved talk show host and Halloween enthusiast, loves to abuse use her power to scare the living hell out of guests and staff members alike by forcing them to go through Halloween haunted house attractions. Last week, her executive producer Andy "You Go First" Lassner barely made it through an "Exorcist Maze," just to have to endure an "American Horror Story House" with pop star Ariana Grande on Monday.
If you can't help but laugh at people being petrified at "scary stuff," you are, like me, sort of sadistic, and you will, like me, crack up at this video. Especially because Ariana Grande gets so scared she literally falls down.
I wish Ellen sent them through a few more haunted houses, but it did seem like they might not physically make it, so I guess we'll have to wait until next year.
An NBC insider who spoke to Page Six claims that, beyond the "vile talk" that occurred between Donald Trump and a then 33-year-old Billy Bush on the Access Hollywood bus, Sydney Davis was most horrified by how her husband persuaded actress Arianne Zucker to hug him and Trump.
Davis and Bush married in 1998, a full 7 years before Bush "egged on" Trump.
Billy Bush’s wife, Sydney Davis, was furious about the tape. Not just because of what was said, but because he was stupid enough to put himself in that position. It wasn’t just the . . . vile talk, it’s because he insisted the woman hug him and Trump. It was creepy. She was so furious that she refused to speak with him for a while — and she’s still furious. They are having marriage problems. He didn’t apologize to her for the embarrassment he caused in his statement. And she hasn’t released a statement at all.
Despite their rumored marriage problems, or maybe because of that rumor, Billy Bush posted this pic of him and his wife on Instagram over the weekend. This is the first time they've been seen together since the Trump tape has been released and Bush was fired from The Today Show.
On Halloween morning, Jenna Bush Hager joined the Today show in a fairly lazy Barbara Bush costume. Inevitably, the former first lady was more than happy to call in and make her granddaughter feel uncomfortable about it.
"Well I heard she was gonna dress up like a witch, so I did, too," said Barbara Bush, to guffaws by the Today hosts.
"I love dressing up as my favorite first lady, besides my mom," responded Hager.
"My favorite first lady is your mother," said Bush, before adding, "Well, you look better than I ever looked."
Aww, look how much fun you can have if you're from the Bush family and you have absolutely nothing to do with the election.
Kelly Ripa fancies herself to be the non-Heidi Klum Queen of Halloween (come on, there's no even competing with Heidi), and revealed her opening costume with a song that gave it away with the first bars.
Jerry O'Connell and Matt Bomer helped Ripa out with the big reveal, rapping about her previous costume stints as "prison girl" and Maria von Trapp "doing the twirl."
The rhymes are hilariously stilted and awful, but the dance moves are pretty smooth.
"There's a million wigs I haven't worn, but just you wait," Ripa sang, and she quickly followed up on her promise.
Ripa pursed her lips and attempted her best Trump impressions—both Donald and Melania.
She then attempted a Beyoncé impression with an extremely uncomfortable amount of bronzer (different from the Trump costume), batting off with O'Connell as The Walking Dead's Negan.
The Walking Dead's Jeffrey Dean Morgan himself made a cameo, and ABC's Live with Kelly paid homage to another beloved ABC property, The Bachelorette.
Many celebrities were there, but for the right reasons?
And finally, for peak 2016, she had to go Harley Quinn.
Only 364 days to get next year's ensembles ready.
Are Madonna and Idris Elba the newest celebrity couple you didn't know you wanted? According to British tabloids, yes! According to Elba himself, no way.
Rumors were swirling after Madonna attended Elba's boxing match at York Hall in London on Friday (Elba's road to becoming a boxer is being documented by Discovery Network International in a limited series titled Idris Elba: Fighter). Madonna sat ringside to cheer Elba on, and posted this video to her Instagram.
She also uploaded this picture of the two laying on the floor together with the caption "I kicked his butt." Attending his match? Instagram post? Butt reference? These two must be in love!
British tabloid The Sun just added fuel to the fire by reporting that the pair were seen entering the M restaurant together around 3am following the boxing match. Reports said that the two were "very blatant" and were "all over each other." When rumors of the romance circled back to Elba himself, he dismissed them with his own "very blatant" statement on Twitter.
Ouch, a swift knife in the belly of the most iconic potential couple ever. We get it, Elba. You two aren't hooking up. UGH.
We wanted to believe the hype. We wanted to real bad.
J.K. Rowling surprised Harry Potter fans everywhere when she revealed that Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Themwould be a series of five films instead of the originally planned three. Apparently, she also surprised the film's cast with the news.
At a fan event on October 13, Rowling (who is both producing and writing the scripts for the films) announced that the franchise, previously thought to be a trilogy, is in fact going to have five films.
"We set a trilogy as a placeholder because we knew there would be more than one movie," she said. "But now I think we can say - I've now done the plotting properly, so we're pretty sure it's going to be five movies."
Needless to say, Potter fans were surprised (and thrilled) to hear the news that they'd be getting an additional five films full of wizardly goodness. But apparently, Rowling had forgotten to mention that small detail to the film's cast.
Actors Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston said at a panel at Entertainment Weekly's PopFest that they were both shocked to learn that the franchise was going to consist of five movies instead of three. (It was apparently brand new information for them too.)
Redmayne said that although he was surprised to hear there'd be two extra films, it felt natural that Rowling might need more space to adequately tell the story she wanted to. Redmayne explained:
There's a much bigger story here about good versus evil that she wants to tell, and you haven't seen much of it in the trailers and the clips of the film. But it's really a core of the story that she's telling and it has an epic, epic quality to it. So I do see that [Fantastic Beasts] is a macro story that could take more time.
It does make sense. The Fantastic Beasts clips and trailers released thus far (including the new fan featurette below) have hinted that we're going to get a look at the story of Gellert Grindelwald (the OG, pre-Voldemort dark wizard that the Potter series' Albus Dumbledore famously fought with), which is admittedly a big story to tell. Also, rumor has it there may even be an appearance from Dumbledore himself at some point during the Fantastic Beasts series. (Eek! Potter nerds rejoice!)
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them hits theaters on November 18.
A new dad bod book by Yale professor of anthropology Richard Bribiescas attempts to explain the following: why is Jason Segel sexy?
His work, How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals About Male Health and Mortality, looks at how natural selection has affected male aging. According to Inverse, he concludes that those with dad bods—pudgy men—have historically lived longer and had more babies.
One reason is pretty easy to understand. Our ancient human ancestors didn't have the most reliable access to food, so men who were able to eat and gain weight typically lived long enough to convince cavewomen to have their cavebabies.
According to theTelegraph, Bribiescas also claims that lower testosterone levels lead to "loss of muscle mass" and "increases in fat mass." Those are the same qualities we associate with that one photo of Leo DiCaprio, and they apparently lead to longer life and a stronger immune system.
Says Bribiescas: "This change in body composition not only causes men to shop for more comfortable trousers but also facilitates increased survivorship and, hypothetically, a hormonal milieu that would more effectively promote and support paternal investment."
Basically, our ancient dads got fat, got tired, and decided to take care of the kids.
Victoria's Secret has never been one to make women wearing lingerie look natural, instead publishing images of models Photoshopped to within an inch of their lives (or their butts). So it's sort of surprising to see a completely unretouched photo of Victoria's Secret Angel Jasmine Tookes, the model chosen to wear the company's new Bright Night Fantasy Bra designed by Eddie Borgo. In an Instagram posted by the shoot's photographer Bella Degas, Tookes is shown wearing the $3 million bra (wow, underwear is getting so pricey!), and lo and behold, the tiny natural stretch marks on her butt are still visible. She looks utterly fantastic and yet still human at the same time.
The photo wasn't released by the official Victoria's Secret account, only posted on the personal Instagram account of the photographer. It remains to be seen whether the finished image will show Tookes with actual human skin, stretch marks and all, or if she'll be airbrushed into one uniform, shadow-free color like their models usually are.
Either way, it's nice to get a peek behind the scenes, to the human behind the catalog. Pretty bra, too—although probably not too easy to wash.
The 1993 Halloween classic Hocus Pocus still has a cult following among millennials. There's something about the chemistry of Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker as sister witches from the 17th century that struck a chord with an entire generation. Twenty-three years later, that spell hasn't faded. Which is why '90s babies are flipping out at the costume Midler wore to a Halloween party this weekend.
That's right. Midler perfectly recreated her costume as Winifred Sanderson. She looks identical to how she did in 1993 (and in 1693), down to the famous underbite.
It's no surprise that Midler went all-out for this event. The party was hosted by the New York Restoration Project, a non-profit she herself founded in 1995. So the publicity from this awesome throwback will go to help a cause dear to her heart.
"Queen of Snapchat" Katie May died after a routine neck manipulation by a chiropractor. The coroner's report listed the death as accidental, but May's estate is threatening a wrongful death suit unless the chiropractor coughs up a seven-figure settlement.
In January, May suffered a stroke and subsequently died from an artery torn during the kind of neck cracking performed all the time by chiropractors. It could have happened to anyone.
Now, TMZ reports May's estate is looking to hold her chiropractor responsible.
May's estate's lawyer Ronald Richards acknowledges the coroner already deemed the death as "accidental," but is threatening a wrongful death lawsuit because when someone dies at the hands of a licensed professional, "there are some consequences."
True to scary-lawyer fashion, Richards has offered a way for the Chiro to avoid a "messy" (read: costly) lawsuit: by paying out a settlement. Richards is asking for an amount in the "low seven figures," which is intended create a college fund for May's 7-year-old daughter, Mia.
Damn. College is getting really expensive.
