Timothée Chalamet first took aim at ballet and opera years before he suggested both were dying artforms in a recent interview.

“I was like, no woe is me thing, but whether you’re working on movies or acting, or pursuing your thing, I started to get the sense that [movies were], like, opera or ballet or something. It’s kind of like a dying artform or something,” Chalamet, 30, said in a 2019 TikTok clip that resurfaced in the wake of his latest comments.

Chalamet made those statements during a promotional screening for his 2019 movie The King. The four-time Oscar nominee cited the cultural conversation around his hit movies Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird as proof that cinema wasn’t fading away.

TikTok user @thealienstookover explained in the caption that they reuploaded the footage to show that Chalamet has a history of denigrating opera and ballet.

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“I took this video October 1st 2019,” they wrote. “I was excited to see this film and we got a surprise appearance of him in our theater. With his recent comments about ballet and opera I wanted to check on my video. I thought I remembered him saying something different. Unfortunately I was confused and he’s been thinking like this for years. Such a disappointment.”

In February, Chalamet ignited debate by seemingly dismissing ballet and opera during an interview with Matthew McConaughey for Variety.

“Some people want to be entertained quickly. I’m really right in the middle,” the Marty Supreme actor admitted. “Because I admire people and I’ve done it myself on a talk show, [saying], ‘Hey, we gotta keep movie theaters alive. We gotta keep this genre alive.”

He added, “Another part of me feels like, if people want to see it, like Barbie, like Oppenheimer, they’re going to go see it and go out of their way to be loud and proud about it. I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore.’”

Chalamet seemingly realized the shade he’d thrown because he quickly offered “all respect to the ballet and opera people out there.”

“Damn, I just took shots for no reason,” he joked.

His latest comments have proven to be particularly eyebrow-raising for some because Chalamet’s mother, Nicole Flender, is a former Broadway dancer.

It did not take long for some of the world’s most renowned ballets and operas to respond to Chalamet. The Metropolitan Opera shared clips via Instagram showcasing the skilled craftwork that goes into the creation of every high-level opera performance.

Quoting Chalamet, the Met Opera replied on Thursday, March 5, “All respect to the opera (and ballet) people out there. This one’s for you, @tchalamet.”

“He’s gonna be singing a different tune when the live arts are all that’s left after AI takes over. Oh wait. He’s above singing a tune,” Tony winner Laura Benati quipped in the Met Opera’s comments section.

The Los Angeles Opera took a different approach by encouraging Chalamet to come see a performance of Akhnaten during its residency in the city. Meanwhile, the Royal Ballet in the U.K. posted a tribute to its dancers.

“Every night at the Royal Opera House, thousands of people gather for ballet and opera. For the music. For the storytelling. For the sheer magic of live performance,” they wrote on Friday, March 6. “If you’d like to reconsider, @tchalamet, our doors are open. ✨#TheRoyalBallet #TheRoyalOpera #RoyalBalletAndOpera.”

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Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis, Dancing With The Stars pro Sharna Burgess and popstar Doja Cat have also shown support for the opera and ballet communities in the wake of the controversy.

“Opera is 400 years old. Ballet is 500 years old,” Doja Cat, 30, clapped back via TikTok on Sunday, March 8. “Somebody named Timothée Chalamet — big guy, by the way — had the nerve to say on camera that nobody cares about it.”

The “Agora Hills” rapper went on, “I’m sure you can walk into an opera theater right now, seats will be filled out, and nobody’s saying a word as the performance is going because everybody has that much respect for it. There is an etiquette around opera. There is etiquette around ballet. It’s amazing. It’s an amazing theater medium. It’s f***ing beautiful.”

Chalamet has not responded to the backlash.

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It’s no surprise to see Jennifer Garner wearing a look we love. What was unexpected, though, was her outfit’s striking resemblance to another fashion icon we adore, Kylie Kelce. Garner was spotted on the set of the forthcoming movie “One Attempt Remaining,” in a chambray button-down, which she layered over a white top and paired with white pants and a canvas tote.

Meanwhile, Kylie Kelce recently wore a nearly identical, light denim shirt on her Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce podcast. Both stars styled their tops effortlessly, and while we don’t know the exact brand either wore, we did uncover a nearly identical match on Amazon for just $38. If that’s not a sign to scoop up this spring-perfect shirt look, we don’t know what is!

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Made from a blend of cotton and polyester, this Amazon find has a chest pocket, just like Kelce’s pick, and the same sky-blue chambray hue as Garner’s top. It would look great buttoned closed or draped open, and over white jeans or black leggings like both A-listers. Either way, it’s a casual-yet-sophisticated layer that makes for the perfect, go-with-everything spring outfit.

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Tom Ellis has made the move from Tell Me Lies to the FBI spinoff CIA — and he already has ideas about which of his costars should join him.

“They’re all so good,” Ellis, 47, exclusively told Us Weekly about his former Tell Me Lies scene partners. “But I think because of this season and the way this season is going, I’m really excited about the work that Spencer [House] is doing as Wrigley.”

Ellis continued: “He’s so brilliant. I’d welcome him onto any set that I was working on because he’s got so much to give.”

The actor credited his wife Meaghan Oppenheimer‘s hit Hulu series for preparing him for CIA.

“Tell Me Lies was practice for CIA. Tell Me Lies is basically what Colin does all the time,” Ellis quipped to Us. “It’s really weird going from a character on Lucifer who prided himself on never lying to now playing someone who basically exclusively deals in lying. Because of what Colin does and because of how long he’s done it for, his sense of what reality is is probably a bit warped by now.”

Ellis was thrilled by the challenging character work, adding, “He chooses and hand picks what he tells people about himself. Sometimes you realize that that changes and you think about how reliable is this? How reliable is this source? But it’s always about self preservation. For the CIA, they can’t let anyone into their inner circle and so that’s why it becomes a bit of a stumbling block for [Nick Gehlfuss’] Bill.”

FBI debuted on CBS in 2019 and follows the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York City. The network followed that up with FBI: Most Wanted, which aired from 2020 to 2025, about the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Fugitive Task Force. There was also the FBI: International spinoff about the International Fly Team that ran for four seasons before concluding in 2025.

In April 2025, CBS gave CIA a straight-to-series order starring Ellis and Gehlfuss. According to the official synopsis, CIA centers on “two unlikely partners — a fast-talking, rule-breaking loose cannon CIA case officer and a by-the-book, seasoned and smart FBI agent who believes in the rule of law.”

“If these two people are going to get paired up to work together, there has to be an element of trust. How can you trust someone who isn’t always telling you the truth and is quite often bare faced lying to you?” Ellis teased. “But as the season goes on, Bill starts to realize why Colin is this way and the type of work that he does and why it’s important that he doesn’t let people in.”

Ellis went on to compare CIA to its predecessor FBI.

“The FBI deals in crimes that have already happened predominantly and the CIA try to stop the crime from happening in the first place,” Ellis exclusively told Us. “FBI is a very public present arm of the law enforcement. They’re the poster boy of U.S. law enforcement. And the CIA is very much in the shadows — and doesn’t want to be on any poster. It doesn’t want people to see who they are and they operate in a very sort of voyeuristic manner.”

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Gwen Stefani says getting pregnant with son Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale at age 43 helped inspire her to become a Christian.

“I really wanted to have another baby. I really did,” Stefani, 56, explained in an interview published on the “Hallow: Prayers and Meditation” YouTube channel on Thursday, March 5. “I couldn’t and I was old and [I] started talking about all these things … it was waking me up.”

Stefani tied her emerging Christian faith to welcoming her son Apollo in February 2014, just after she’d turned 44. (Stefani and ex-husband Gavin Rossdale share three sons: Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, born in May 2006, Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale, born in August 2008, and Apollo. Stefani split from Rossdale, 60, in 2015 and married her Voice costar Blake Shelton in 2021.)

The three-time Grammy Award winner reflected on how her spiritual revelation occurred shortly after she started working with a friend who’d gone from being “an atheist Jew” to a believer.

“I started working with this guy, and he was really like an atheist Jew that converted after being an atheist growing up in Israel,” she noted. “He was studying the Torah, and he had this big epiphany [and] awakening and he starts talking to me about the Torah.”

Stefani recalled that, around the same time, her eldest son, Kingston, said he “really wanted [her] to have a baby.”

“[I told him], ‘I’m sorry. Mommy is too old to have a baby.’ … [Kingston] was 8. He was like, ‘Please God, let my mommy have a baby,’” Stefani remembered. “I just remember thinking, look at my little boy. He’s praying for me!”

Kingston started praying for his parents to have another child “every night” even though neither of them ever asked him to do it, according to Stefani.

“I never taught him that, really,” she admitted. “I think it was four weeks later and I was pregnant with Apollo, who I had at 44 years old, naturally, totally a full-on gift. That was the first miracle.”

Stefani acknowledged that she went into that period of self-discovery feeling “ignorant” before conceding that she still “doesn’t know enough” about Christianity.

“It’s almost scary because the more you know, the more fear you get,” she said. “You realize, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m running out of time and I need to get this together. I’ve got to be a real Christian! I’m not gonna make it.’”

Asked how her faith has changed in the past years, Stefani answered, “I remember it was 2020. It was during COVID [and I was] searching online. Thank god for online. It’s horrible out there but there’s so much good information too.”

She added, “I found Pastor Mike Schmitz … That sermon really changed [me]. I remember just bawling and being on fire. Like, I had found this truth.”

Since that time, Stefani has partnered with the Catholic app Hallow, which describes itself as “a Christian prayer app that offers audio-guided meditation sessions to help us grow in our faith & spiritual lives and find peace in God.” Their partnership for a Christmas advent campaign proved to be controversial in December 2025 when Hallow’s anti-abortion messaging resurfaced.

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“It is important this holiday season to spend time in prayer. That is what Christmas is all about: letting God into our hearts and letting Jesus bring us his peace,” Stefani encouraged her followers at the time. “Download Hallow and join me and millions of others in praying every day this advent and Christmas season on Hallow.”

Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause was among those to call out Stefani’s partnership with Hallow, even invoking No Doubt’s 1995 song ‘Don’t Speak.’

“Gwen-DON’T SPEAK,” Stause, 44, demanded via Instagram in December 2025. “Please take your own advice on this one🫠.”

The reality star doubled down by later condemning Stefani for “​​taking money to promote an app that encourages anti-abortion, even in cases of [rape] and incest.”

“Please stop making young girls feel guilty to not have a choice,” Stause wrote.

She went on, “‘Don’t speak’ is a play on words. She can say what she wants, and I can oppose it. If your child got pregnant by a pedophile, would you want Gwen Stephanie [sic] making her feel guilty to keep [the baby]? I wouldn’t.”

Stefani has not responded to Stause’s criticism of her Hallow promotion.

Lewis Hamilton and Kim Kardashian’s connection is growing stronger.

“They are going strong and really happy. Lewis is head over heels and those closest to him believe he has finally met his match,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. “He has waited over a decade for his dream girl and is crazy about her.”

The insider adds that Hamilton, 41, “has been FaceTiming” Kardashian, 45, “regularly from the paddock.” While they can’t be together in person as much as they like, Kardashian has been “incredibly supportive” of Hamilton’s “demanding F1 schedule.”

“They are both very committed to making things work no matter how long the distance is or how busy they are,” the source shares. “Because their relationship started with a friendship first, those closest to them believe this could be endgame for them both.”

Kardashian and Hamilton have known each other for quite some time, as the pair have been spotted together at multiple events and functions since 2014. However, things seemingly shifted earlier this year after they were seen spending time at Estelle Manor in Oxfordshire, England.

Amid the rumors of a potential romance, Kardashian opened up about her struggles to date as a single mom. (The Kardashians star shares four children, North, 12, Saint, 10, Chicago, 8, and Psalm, 6, with ex-husband Kanye West.)

“I just feel like my kids need me. It’s really hard when I have to put them to bed every night. I get them up. I take them to school. I get them ready. They sleep in my bed,” Kim explained in a January episode of sister Khloé Kardashian’s “Khloé in Wonderland” podcast. “I haven’t had time [to date] — and I’m OK with that. I thought, ‘You know what? I’m going to be studying. I won’t have time. When I’m done, I’ll open myself up.’ I opened myself up. But it’s just, I haven’t found anyone. And that’s OK.”

Shortly after her comments about putting dating on pause, Kim and Hamilton were seen together at a hotel in Paris and at Super Bowl LX. At the time, an insider told Us that the twosome had gone on “a few dates” but things were just “casual.”

Earlier this month, Hamilton and Kim took a getaway to Arizona. An additional source exclusively told Us that the duo had a “break in their schedules” and wanted to “spend more time together and really get to know each other.”

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“It’s going well, and Kim has been genuinely enjoying her time with Lewis,” the insider explained, noting that they were still “taking it slow”.

The source added that while Hamilton has not met Kim’s children yet, the Skims founder is “open” to the idea.

“Lewis is such a great guy and has really been courting her and treating her right. He’s been making all the plans and making sure she is taken care of,” the insider continued. “Everyone around her thinks it’s really sweet and what she deserves. Kim has had such a relaxed aura recently in all aspects of her life. Her mindset has totally changed. She’s not forcing anything, just letting it unfold naturally.”