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Good American In ELLE.com’s monthly series Office Hours, we ask people in powerful positions to take us through their first jobs, worst jobs, and everything in between. This month, we spoke with Emma Grede, the East London-born entrepreneur behind some of the Kardashian’s most successful ventures. She’s the co-founder and CEO of Good American alongside

The supermodels are coming for the small screen. In 2020, Abbey Lee embraced the life of a cult leader in Lovecraft Country; in 2022, Hoyeon Jung earned a Screen Actors Guild award for her performance in the smash-hit Squid Game. Most recently, Cara Delevingne was recruited by Hulu’s overzealous true-crime podcasters for a stint on

Marvel Cinematic Universe god and occasional singer Harry Styles has deigned to grant the lowly earth with a new single: “As It Was”, the first track from his forthcoming third album, Harry’s House. After making fans (literally) go in circles with a turntable teaser earlier this week, “As It Was” has officially hit the internet

On February 15, 2007, Melissa Lucio’s 2-year-old daughter, Mariah, fell down the stairs of their Harlingen, Texas, home. Two days later, Mariah stopped breathing and died. After calling 911, Lucio was whisked into an interrogation room and accused of killing her little girl. After a contentious trial, Lucio was convicted of capital murder and sentenced

If TV’s hot new scammer shows and true crime dramas are not doing it for you right now, maybe some trusty superhero and action content from Marvel Studios and Disney+ will do the trick. Today, the comic book powerhouse drops Moon Knight, the latest long-awaited series from its ever-expanding cinematic universe. Starring Oscar Issac, Moon

Chris Rock has broken his silence following an altercation with Will Smith at the Oscars, which involved Will slapping Chris over a joke he made about Jada Pinkett Smith starring in G.I. Jane 2—despite Jada being open about her struggles with alopecia. Speaking in a stand up special in Boston on March 30 (in audio

There’s a moment in Olivia Rodrigo’s new film, Olivia Rodrigo: Driving Home 2 U, where, in footage from the final stages of making her debut album Sour, she says, “Hopefully I won’t be so sad on the next record.” She’s semi-joking to her songwriting partner and producer Dan Nigro in the studio as she leans

On July 13, 2014, authorities discovered the body of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III in his pickup truck, parked outside a Kmart in Fairhaven, Massachussetts. The honor roll student, who struggled with social anxiety and depression, had killed himself by attaching a hose from a portable generator and filling his car’s cab with carbon monoxide. In

Zoë Kravitz, like many others, is not okay with Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Academy Awards after Rock’s distasteful on-stage joke about Smith’s wife. The actress shared photos of herself in her Saint Laurent Oscars ceremony and after-party looks on her Instagram. Her captions made her stance candid on the infamous slap: “Here’s

New York University (NYU) is awarding Taylor Swift a well-deserved honorary doctorate. The songstress is set to get passed a diploma, a Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, and toss her cap when she addresses the university’s class of 2022 on May 18 at Yankee Stadium, according to a press release from NYU. Prior to

Admittedly, Keala Settle didn’t do too much detective work when offered a part in BritBox’s murder mystery series Murder in Provence. She was so thrilled to be mentioned in the same breath as theater legends Roger Allam and Nancy Carroll—and somewhat overwhelmed with a previously planned move from California to England—that she said yes to

Will Smith issued a public apology to Chris Rock and the Academy for the Oscars slap that went viral last night. Rock made a distasteful joke about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith while presenting at the Academy Awards, joking about her shaved head. He said she looked like “G.I. Jane.” Pinkett Smith has been vocal

Dakota Johnson arrived at Vanity Fair’s Oscars after-party in one of the most elaborate and breathtaking princess gowns of the evening. The Lost Daughter actress stepped out in a feathered pink Gucci dress, which originally debuted at the Gucci Love Parade show in L.A. She wore her hair half up and half down and posed

Zendaya in only one outfit on Oscars night? As if. The Dune actress switched up her look for Vanity Fair‘s Oscars after-party, opting for a pointy-shouldered power suit after drawing gasps with her Valentino white silk crop top and long, glittering skirt earlier in the evening. While Zendaya wasn’t individually nominated at the 2022 Oscars,

In another world, Selena Gomez and her Only Murders in the Building co-stars Martin Short and Steve Martin could’ve been the stars of this year’s Oscars ceremony, as the trio were reportedly asked to host it. But tonight, Gomez is not at the ceremony at all. While Gomez attended the Critics’ Choice Awards and Screen

If you, like most of the non-glitterati that compose the global population, plan to watch Sunday’s Academy Awards not from a seat in the Dolby Theatre but tucked under your duvet, welcome—you are amongst friends. Although the Oscars have lost much of the appointment-television prestige they once held, many film fans still consider the event

Neither Taylor Swift nor her boyfriend Joe Alwyn may be up for any Oscars tomorrow night, but the entertainment couple was seen out at CAA’s pre-Oscars party yesterday evening at the San Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood, E! reports. Multiple sources spoke to the outlet about the couple’s date night. Swift was seen talking to

Apologies in advance to our moral compasses, which will once again be tested with another season of You, Netflix’s hit thriller starring the ridiculously hot Penn Badgley as a ridiculously creepy serial killer. The streamer renewed the series for a fourth season just days before the third arrived, pointing to its confidence in the show.

Spoilers ahead. Perhaps the relationship between Eloise Bridgerton (Claudia Jessie) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) doesn’t get the marquee billing of its steamier counterparts, but if the Bridgerton season 2 finale proved anything, it’s that the duo know how to execute a satisfyingly stinging break-up. Even if it just so happens to be a platonic

Soo Hugh is no stranger to epic, multigenerational tales. Having grown up on a steady diet of such projects as The Godfather, Roots, and War and Remembrance, Hugh has been able to parlay her affinity for sprawling stories into a screenwriting career that has gradually grown in genre and scope: from writer on the CBS