Y’all already know the internet doesn’t miss a thing! When it comes to social media, fans have proven time and time again that they’ll put their detective skills to work in seconds. And now, Dess Dior has the timelines buzzing after a photo she posted — and quickly deleted — sparked a whole lot of curiosity.

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Internet Detectives Spot Mystery Man In Reflection Of Dess Dior’s Glasses

The viral moment started when a picture of Dess Dior circulated online showing her enjoying what appeared to be a tropical getaway. While the vibe looked relaxing at first glance, fans quickly shifted their attention to something else in the frame. And let’s just say, the zoom feature on everyone’s phone was working overtime. In the photo, Dess is seen sitting at a table under a beach umbrella, soaking up the vibes. She’s rocking a white tennis-style matching set paired with a forest green Miu Miu hat, and dark shades. She also has plenty of iced-out jewelry including bracelets, a watch, and earrings.

As she casually sips on a drink, Dess appears to be looking slightly off-camera at the person snapping her picture. But of course, fans didn’t stop there. Social media users immediately zoomed in on the reflection in her sunglasses. It appears to show a man sitting across from her and wearing a white shirt. While Dess hasn’t addressed the speculation, the internet is already trying to figure out exactly who her mystery plus-one might be.

TSR Comment Section Turns Into Investigation Hub

Fans wasted no time running to The Shade Room’s Instagram comment section, trying to make the math math about who might be sitting across from Dess Dior. Some people tried to give her the benefit of the doubt, joking that it could simply be her cousin. Meanwhile, others said the internet detectives should be recruited by the FBI to help find Nancy Guthrie. And, others kept it real and said folks should put that level of investigation into their own lives instead of celebrities.

One Instagram user @evrybdyhatekirs commented, “Chocolate and fine…😍”

This Instagram user @that.dee.girl added, “Y’all should work for the FBI at this point 😂”

And, Instagram user @mehganjames shared, “That’s her cousin , na let her be“

Meanwhile, Instagram user @immsbrandy wrote, “Can yall find Nancy Guthrie?“

While Instagram user @my_kalia claimed, “This type of nosy scare me🥴”

Finally, Instagram user @therealbigmuneca said, “Imagine if yall put this much effort into an education or yall futures 😂”

Dess Dior & Gervonta Davis Previously Sparked Dating Rumors

The last time Dess Dior was spotted with a man, the internet definitely couldn’t look away. Back in 2024, Dess stepped out in Paris alongside boxing champ Gervonta Davis, and the clip quickly had folks talking. The pair was seen strolling through busy streets together, both serving looks for the outing. Dess even kept it cute in a colorful tank top and black pants. Their Paris link-up came just months after the two were also spotted sitting courtside at a Los Angeles Lakers game in matching pink outfits, leaving fans side-eyeing the timeline and wondering what exactly was going on.

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By Chris Snellgrove
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Picard remains one of the most controversial Star Trek shows because its first two seasons were astoundingly bad: they piled nonsensical plots on top of bonkers retcons, all in service of creating absolutely slop. Generally, fans agree that Season 3 was a major improvement because it brought back the core crew from The Next Generation while bringing in a showrunner (Terry Matalas) who genuinely cares about the franchise. Unfortunately, even Season 3 couldn’t resist tweaking the lore in a way that absolutely ruined the spirit of Star Trek.

The Beginning Of The End For Star Trek Values

In a single throwaway line, Worf reveals that Section 31 stopped being the Federation’s secret wetworks division and became an open part of Starfleet Intelligence. That means that the “good guys” have no problem working with a division that specializes in murder and genocide, and that nearly jeopardized the entire galaxy back in Discovery. Eventually, Michael Burnham and crew jumped to the far future, but Starfleet Academy just revealed something depressing: Section 31 is alive and well, even in the 32nd century.

Section 31 was introduced back in Deep Space Nine as the Federation equivalent to the Cardassians’ Obsidian Order or the Romulans’ Tal Shiar. The main Section 31 representative in DS9 was a man named Sloane, who insisted that this spooky organization was created by the original Starfleet charter. However, the show played very coy with this notion, forcing audiences to argue whether Section 31 was truly sanctioned by the peace-loving Federation or simply a rogue organization doing terrible deeds in the name of the greater good.

Those terrible deeds included disgracing their Romulan ally, Cretak: they made sure she was convicted of treason, ensuring that this Dominion War hero, who saved countless Federation lives, would almost certainly die. Section 31 also tried to kill all of the Changelings with a morphogenic virus, proving that this organization has no problem committing genocide. Later, Season 3 of Picard also revealed that Section 31 conducted torture experiments on captured Changelings, intent on forcing them to be the perfect spies for the Federation.

Starfleet Loses Its Moral Compass

Many Star Trek fans hated the whole idea of Section 31 because, as Dr. Bashir noted, the very existence of an amoral organization accountable to no one goes against the ideals of Starfleet and the Federation. Those fans mostly clung to the idea that this really might be a rogue organization that Starfleet turns a blind eye to but does not officially condone. Unfortunately, in Star Trek: Picard, Worf casually mentions that Section 31 is an official part of Starfleet intelligence.

That means that, as of the 25th century, Starfleet has openly welcomed a group of genocidal murderers into its ranks. That’s nothing short of depressing, but it fits the mold of Picard, a show that regularly transformed Star Trek’s utopian vision of the future into something dark and dystopian. Speaking of the future, fans who have always hated Section 31 still had one last hope: that in its own fictional future, Starfleet would eventually be able to leave this creepy organization behind.

How Starfleet Academy Brought It All Back

Unfortunately, the Starfleet Academy episode “300th Night” completely dashed those hopes. So far, there has been no mention of Section 31 in either Discovery or SFA, implying that the organization might finally be a thing of the past. However, “300th” night revealed that Starbase J19-Alpha (which had recently been ransacked by Nus Braka) was developing superweapons, including a synthetic version of the Omega particle that could be used to destroy subspace and make warp travel through an area impossible.

It’s basically impossible to watch “300th Night” and not compare Starbase J19-Alpha to Daystrom Station from Picard. In the 25th century, that station housed some of Section 31’s creepiest experiments, including alien superweapons. Meanwhile, it is belatedly revealed that in the 24th century, this is the station where Section 31 tortured Changelings as part of its plan to forcibly create a small army of superspies.

Starfleet Is Now The Galaxy’s Number One Threat

For all intents and purposes, Daystrom Station was a Section 31 Starbase: it was used for their experiments, housed their technology, and generally engaged in experiments that violated half the laws of the Federation. Now, even though Section 31 hasn’t been name-dropped in Starfleet Academy, it seems like Starbase J19-Alpha is the same as Daystrom Station: it is used for secretive experiments that most of Starfleet doesn’t know about. Meanwhile, the revelation that they had weaponized the Omega particle (a molecule that Starfleet previously forced captains to destroy on sight) confirms the station is developing weapons that violate Federation laws nearly a millennium old.

In short, Section 31 obviously won the long game: they went from being considered a rogue organization to being an official part of Starfleet intelligence. Over the next seven centuries, they eroded the values of this once-ethical organization, turning Starfleet into a mirror for their own twisted cause: namely, Federation supremacy, no matter the cost. Sadly, this forever mars Starfleet Academy, a lighthearted show that just confirmed its hopeful cadets are working for one of the most amoral organizations in the entire galaxy!

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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! is set in 1936 Chicago, but takes inspiration from Mary Shelley’s renowned Frankenstein novel, published in 1818. The events of Frankenstein have actually occurred, but Mary Shelley’s existence is also a part of the same timeline.

Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) goes by Frank in the film and has become hopelessly lonely over the past century and some change. He craves companionship and the stinkiest form of sex since The Bride! goes out of its way on multiple occasions to point out how much Frank smells.

“The Bride! is a two-hour hodgepodge of dancing, movie-obsessed nonsense.”

A woman named Ida (Jessie Buckley) dies after making a scene at a restaurant. Ida’s husband Clyde (John Magaro) works for a mob boss named Lupino (Zlatko Buric), and all of these factors play into how Ida dies. Frank seeks help from Dr. Cornelia Euphronius (Annette Bening), a scientist.

Euphronius’ research and publications have led Frank to believe that she could create a mate for him. The two of them dig up Ida’s body and bring her back to life, but Ida has no memory of who she used to be or even what her name is. Frank spends the entirety of the film trying to convince her to stay with him for eternity, while the bride just wants to discover her own identity.

The Bride! has a lot going on with its narrative, and there’s even more to divulge. Det. Jake Wiles (Peter Sarsgaard) and his assistant, Myrna Mallow (Penelope Cruz), are the ones investigating Frank and his bride as they travel from Chicago to New York. Frank has a fascination with movie theaters and movies in general, particularly any film with singing, dancing, and starring Ronnie Reed (Jake Gyllenhaal). The bride’s actions, mostly seen as a woman in 1936 exercising independent thought, spark a female movement that not only inspires them but also prompts women to dress like her and copy the black marks on her face and the rest of her body.

“Christian Bale is pure excrement as Frank.”

Who Ida has become as the bride, and what happens right before her death, are important yet highly spoilerish. Ida is now this split person, and that concept triggers this truly unhinged performance from Jessie Buckley.

The script is borderline atrocious with Buckley spewing a never-ending line of synonyms at the top of her lungs as if she’s about to crap out every edition of The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus right there in the back alleys of Chicago. Something is trapped within her that will seemingly never leave or escape. This is all happening while she struggles to remember who she is. Buckley has a mesmerizing on-screen presence, even if the gibberish she’s saying makes you fight the urge to turn away.

I take no joy in saying that Christian Bale is pure excrement as Frank. The character is written as a feeble monstrosity ashamed to exist, and it feels like Bale takes the role too seriously for it to work.

“The script is borderline atrocious with Buckley spewing a never-ending line of synonyms at the top of her lungs as if she’s about to crap out every edition of The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus.”

The character is somewhat intriguing at first, but slowly morphs into Jared Leto as Joker in the Suicide Squad version of Frankenstein’s monster. Yes, he licks the bride’s black vomit (it’s like brought-back-to-life phlegm or something), he also has sex with her while getting a tattoo of her “name” on his chest, while knowing it isn’t her actual name.

The Gothic romance film can’t really decide what type of film it wants to be. Apart from an American History X curb stomp and the biting off of someone’s tongue, The Bride! is not a horror film. Its few moments of comedy aren’t funny, and nothing in the film is entertaining. The film feels like it’s trying to have some sort of female uprising moment, but the sexual violence in the film kills that momentum at nearly every turn. It may be accurate for the time period, but it doesn’t really add anything to the film as a whole.

The film also builds up Myrna’s big moment as a detective, trying to get recognized as one and going out on her own. The concept is literally introduced in her first scene. Just as that recognition seems within her grasp, she ultimately lets it slip away in the final sequence, leading to a familiar, expected ending.

“Nothing makes a monster movie come together like a bunch of Goddamn dancing.”

Several characters in The Bride! are just as wishy-washy as the storytelling. Halfway through the film, the bride contemplates whether or not being with Frank is what she wants, and there’s this giant standoff where someone gets shot, and she goes off with Frank anyway. This is all after she made a point to thrust Frank’s underpants monster into her mouth, and after they’ve had a bunch of sex anyway.

Nothing makes a monster movie come together like a bunch of Goddamn dancing. Frank and the bride bounce from movie theater to movie theater after every crime they commit. One sequence sees Jake and Myrna go to one theater while Frank and the bride literally go to one across the street; splitting up to cover both theaters apparently wasn’t an option. Frank also bounces around to Ronnie Reed’s pictures. How it takes so long for this detective, and his secretary (that’s what she starts off as), for them to catch up to Frank and the bride is legitimately mind-boggling.

Every time Frank watches a movie, he imagines himself in the picture, usually dancing or singing. The drive-in sequence is bizarre, though, since everyone there can hear Frank and the bride’s dialogue that was previously seemingly only in his head. Slight spoiler, but Frank gets shot at one point and refuses to go to the hospital. The bride scoffs at the idea and takes him to a movie instead. You can bleed out somewhere where Mommy can fetch some Sour Patch Kids.

Maggie Gyllenhaal is going for something here, but the problem is that The Bride! has far too many things going on at once and never capitalizes on any of them; even the romance isn’t constant. The idea of these two born-again corpses having nothing together is this half-baked idea drowned out by Frank’s sobbing dick and the bride constantly reminding everyone with a pair of eyes and working ears that she’s an entitled, calamitous shrew. The Bride! is a two-hour hodgepodge of dancing, movie-obsessed nonsense.

The Bride! is now playing in theaters everywhere. Stay home and watch any other version of Frankenstein instead.

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There is a wide variety of sitcoms available on streaming, but nothing is quite like New Girl. Starring Zooey Deschanel, the series began in 2011, but 15 years later, it is just as incredible as it was when it originally aired. The concept is simple: Jess (Deschanel) moves into a new apartment with Nick (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield), and Winston (Lamorne Morris). However, it’s that simplicity that’s key, as it easily sustained the sitcom for seven seasons.

Many shows become stale as they go on, but the Fox series avoided that fate with many memorable episodes in the later seasons, particularly New Girl‘s ending. Its relatable story and lovable characters truly make the show a classic, placing this series in rare company. Even while many comedies age poorly, New Girl remains as hilarious as ever.

‘New Girl’s Characters Get Better Each Season

New Girl begins by creating an unlikely group of friends as Jess moves into apartment 4D. Contrasting personalities provide many conflicts and keep the story moving, offering moments for each resident to take center stage. From Nick and Schmitt’s argument about showing affection that leads to Nick’s cookie-related breakdown to Winston’s reaction to Jess believing she’s hiding meth during his police background check, the conflicts among them are unpredictable and endless, but never cross the line into toxic friendships.

Not only are Jess, Nick, Schmidt, and Winston a unique blend of personalities, but the strong friendships that develop among them are unbeatable. Nick and Schmidt are one of the best TV duos, but Winston and Jess are never left out, nor is Coach (Damon Wayans Jr.) when he lives with them, or even Cece (Hannah Simone). In fact, Winston and Cece become an unlikely duo of their own, providing “Classic Winston-and-Cece mess arounds” throughout the series. Because each friendship offers a distinct dynamic, different combinations keep the story fresh even as the series goes on.

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Another way the series prevents itself from getting repetitive is by letting the characters evolve. Schmidt goes from a womanizer in need of the “douchebag jar” to a loving husband and father. Nick slowly gets his life together, chasing his passion by publishing his novel. Even if the concepts are repetitive, like Jess and Nick’s on-and-off relationship, the characters’ growth makes each iteration different, which keeps the audience engaged.

‘New Girl’ Deserves Its Continued Success 8 Years After It Ended

The series may have wrapped up in 2018, but it remains popular to this day, finding considerable success on streaming. Max Greenfield acknowledged the show’s popularity, saying, “It’s the perfect binge show.” Now that the show is easily accessible, new fans seem to be latching onto it all the time, proving that the show has aged well.

New Girl remains so funny because it is relatable, even years after its run. The characters are not only quirky, but they face problems that most adults have experienced both in their personal and professional lives. They struggle to find the right careers, and Winston, in particular, tries many things before he realizes his passion. Jess has storylines about asking for a promotion and starting a job in a drastically different environment. In their personal lives, each character has failed relationships, which provide a myriad of romantic problems people can easily see themselves in. More broadly, the characters are constantly learning to deal with conflict and communicate with difficult people, which often includes each other. New Girl deserves every bit of attention it has received, both during and after its seven-season run.

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Fitness influencer Stephanie Buttermore tragically died in March 2026 at the age of 36.

“It is with profound sorrow that we share the sudden passing of Jeff’s fiancée and partner of 10 years, Stephanie,” a social media statement from a spokesperson for Buttermore’s fiancé, Jeff Nippard, read. “As many of you know, Stephanie meant the world to Jeff.”

The statement continued, “She will be remembered for her warmth and compassion, her love for her family and her Ph.D research on ovarian cancer. We kindly ask for privacy as we navigate this tragic loss. Thank you for your understanding and support during this difficult time.”

A cause of death was not immediately revealed for Buttermore, who got engaged to bodybuilder Nippard in 2022 after six years of dating.

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Fitness influencer Stephanie Buttermore has died. She was 36. “It is with profound sorrow that we share the sudden passing of Jeff’s fiancée and partner of 10 years, Stephanie,” a Friday, March 6, Instagram statement from bodybuilder Jeff Nippard’s team read. “As many of you know, Stephanie meant the world to Jeff.” The statement continued, […]

Keep scrolling to learn more about Buttermore’s life and legacy:

Stephanie Buttermore Was a Fitness Educator and Social Media Star

Stephanie Buttermore was an influencer with more than 528,000 Instagram followers and 1 million YouTube subscribers at the time of her death. She shared content about fitness training, nutrition, beauty and other lifestyle subjects.

Stephanie Buttermore Researched Ovarian Cancer

Long before Stephanie Buttermore started posting on social media, she received her Ph. D and worked as a cancer scientist.

“I obtained my Ph.D. in pathology and cell biology with a focus on the molecular mechanisms that drive ovarian cancer progression,” a biography on her YouTube page reads. “I mix science and fitness into all facets of life. I currently do cancer research but LOVE to workout and eat good food.”

Stephanie Buttermore Was a Proud Advocate of Body Positivity 

Stephanie Buttermore was always proud of her body — no matter her size.

“I heard every fat-phobic slur under the sun when I gained weight,” Buttermore wrote via Instagram in March 2023, alongside a handful of swimsuit photos. “But, you know what, I look back at these pictures like DAMNNN … I was HAWWWT 🔥.”

She added, “The sentiment of ‘F the haters’ never personally worked for me. I mean, I wish it did, it would make life so much easier. I prefer to just focus on me, my goals and giving my energy to those who deserve it.”

Months later, Buttermore proclaimed via social media that she felt “super happy and comfortable” in her skin.

“I can live my life eating intuitively and my body feels naturally settled here,” she captioned a May 2023 upload.

Stephanie Buttermore and Jeff Nippard Were Together for 10 Years Before Her Death

Stephanie Buttermore started dating bodybuilder Jeff Nippard in 2016 after he slid into her DMs. After six years of dating, Nippard proposed in October 2022.

“We got along like best friends right away because we established a foundation of shared interests and values from the beginning,” Nippard gushed via Instagram at the time. “We grew together as we learned from each other, travelled the world together, always supported each other, and used the power couple equation to build each other up in so many different ways.”

Stephanie Buttermore Took a Social Media Hiatus Ahead of Her Death

Stephanie Buttermore took a step back from posting content on Instagram in the years preceding her death.

“My mental health has been the best it’s ever been,” Buttermore noted in a May 2024 Instagram post about her online hiatus. “I no longer struggle with anxiety. At all. It was almost crippling a few years ago to the point I felt I couldn’t breathe or leave my house. Now I really don’t have to care whether people liked what I posted or if they are saying negative things about me.”

Leaving Instagram behind also allowed Buttermore to focus on her relationships.

“When I’m with my family or Jeff, I’m much more immersed in the moment,” she said. “I take photos for the sake of saving memories and not because I’m going to post it on my story. I never get caught not listening to someone because I’m checking comments, and I’m in a better mood because I’m not anxious. Family time is family time.”