Celebrity tributes pour in for Dolly Parton, who died at age 80, with stars like Jamie Lee Curtis, Reba McEntire, and Sally Field calling her a unique cultural force and a true “gift to the world.”
A leaked 45GB dump from Madison Square Garden reveals the venue used facial recognition to flag celebrities including Ricky Martin and Phoebe Bridgers.
The 2016 Miranda Kerr Harper's Bazaar Australia cover was the documented inflection point of a structural shift fifty years in the making; celebrity nudity in print was a reliable publicity tactic. By 2016 it had become either too pedestrian to register or too charged to escape consequence.
Stacy Ann launched Celeb PR Group — celebrity PR boutique competing with PMK*BNC, 42 West, BWR in LA. Press packages for actors, models, artists.
Zayn Malik's full arc — One Direction exit, Mind of Mine peak, the 2017-2023 silence, the 2024-2026 reconstruction, Konnakol, and the April 2026 crisis window. The case study in what happens when a celebrity stops feeding the public record.
Ronda Rousey's full arc — Olympic medal, first woman in UFC, the 2015-16 collapse, the long silence, the WWE pivot, Hollywood, and the May 2026 17-second submission of Gina Carano that closed her MMA career.
Ryan Seacrest's operator pivot — radio, American Idol, Wheel of Fortune, Ryan Seacrest Productions, and Civic Entertainment Group. The five-pillar architecture and the talent-to-operator conversion that made it possible.
Piers Morgan has been fired, cancelled, walked off, and exited — five times across five platforms over four decades. The media profile of an operator who outlasted Fleet Street, CNN, ITV, and TalkTV — and rebuilt himself on YouTube. The five-platform arc, the Meghan Markle inflection, the controversy mechanic, and the citation footprint.
Billie Eilish — 9 Grammys, 2 Oscars, 100M+ Spotify monthlies. Born 2001, signed to Darkroom/Interscope, produced by brother Finneas. The anti-endorsement brand playbook: Nike vegan AF1, Gucci, Apple Music — plus the deals she refused.
Bill Nye filed suit against Buena Vista Television and The Walt Disney Company late last month, alleging more than $9 million in withheld royalty payments from the original Bill Nye the Science Guy series. The filing landed during peak Nye visibility — the Netflix series in active rotation, the March for Science still in cultural memory.
