Olivia Culpo and Christian McCaffrey Prove They're Endgame
June 29: Olivia Culpo locked down her forever teammate when she wed NFL running back Christian McCaffrey in her native Rhode Island. Though fans did penalize the former Miss Universe for saying she selected her Dolce & Gabbana ballgown because she "wanted something that felt as serious as that commitment" and "didn’t want it to exude sex in any way, shape, or form."
Naturally, her new husband intercepted any critcism, telling one influencer, "I hope you can find joy and peace in the world, the way my beautiful wife does."
The Case of Charlotte the Stingray Ends in Tragedy
June 30: North Carolina-based stingray Charlotte made quite the splash in February when staff at Team ECCO's Aquarium and Shark Lab announced she was pregnant despite being the only stingray living in her tank. But weeks after revealing she actually wasn't expecting, workers at the aquarium delivered even more tragic news.
"We are sad to announce, after continuing treatment with her medical care team and specialist, our ray Charlotte passed away today," they wrote in a Facebook post. "We are continuing to work with her medical care team and research specialist."
Gypsy Rose Blanchard Reveals Pregnancy
July 9: Safe to say this was not on Gypsy Rose Blanchard's post-prison bucket list. But after going shopping, getting a nose job and splitting from husband Ryan Anderson, she took a big step forward in her romance with former fiancé Ken Urker.
"Ken and I are expecting our very first child come January of 2025," she shared on YouTube. "We're both very excited. This was not planned at all, it was completely unexpected." But proving they're both on the same page, she revealed in December that they'd dreamt up their daughter's name Aurora—a nod to their shared love of the Northern Lights—when they originally dated in 2018.
Shannen Doherty Dies at 53
July 13: "I don't think that I've processed it," Shannen Doherty told ABC News in February 2020, while revealing her breast cancer had returned after three years of being in remission. "It's a bitter pill to swallow in a lot of ways. I definitely have days where I say, ‘Why me?' And then I go, ‘Well why not me? Who else? Who else beside me deserves this?' None of us do."
The alum of beloved TV series like Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed passed away after a nine-year battle that saw the cancer metastasize to her brain and spread to her bones. "The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by her loved ones," her publicist shared in a statement, "as well as her dog, Bowie."
Christina Haack Flips the Switch on Her Marriage
July 16: Mere days after celebrating her 41st birthday, Christina Haack revealed her life was undergoing a renovation with both she and third husband Josh Hall filing to end their two-year marriage. (He was also swapped out of Haack's upcoming The Flip Off series with her second husband Ant Anstead joining Haack to compete against ex Tarek El Moussa and his wife Heather El Moussa.)
"When someone is insecure and doesn't like to watch you win, that really puts a damper on everything," the HGTV star later told Entertainment Tonight of her and Hall's split. "I feel like I was not shining as bright to try and not make him feel emasculated. But who wants to look like that?"
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Spotted Introducing Their Son
July 22: You know you love this name reveal. While speaking at the Deadpool & Wolverine world premiere in New York, Ryan Reynolds said XOXO to wife Blake Lively and their four kids, including son Olin, who joined the fam in February 2023.
"I want to start by saying thank you to my wife Blake, who is here," Reynolds shared from the stage. "I want to thank my kids James, Inez, Betty, Olin, who are here: I hope that, if I’m lucky, this moment will be the most traumatic thing—that is, the contents of this movie—that happens in your wondrous life."
Noting how close pal Swift had name-checked their daughters in verse, Reynolds had previously joked, "We always wait for Taylor to tell us what the child's name is, and I will say this, we're still waiting."
Céline Dion Opens the Olympics
July 26: Admittedly our hearts struggled to go on a bit after watching Céline Dion sing Édith Piaf's "Hymne A L'Amour" at the Eiffel Tower during the 2024 Paris Olympics' Opening Ceremony, her first performance for the public since 2020 amid her battle with stiff-person syndrome.
Weeks earlier, she'd given fans a peek inside that fight with her I Am: Céline Dion documentary. Her hope was that for those suffering "this will give them wings and strength to reach out and talk to people and say it's worth it," she explained to E! News. "We're all worth it, and I'm just thankful."
Stephen Nedoroscik Becomes a Pommel Horse Hero
July 29: Was it a bird? A plane? Nope, it was bespectacled pommel horse specialist Stephen Nedoroscik turning in a flawless routine to help the U.S. men's gymnastics team secure bronze at the 2024 Olympics, their first team medal in 16 years.
The Penn State alum then took his skills to the ballroom, where he placed fourth on Dancing With the Stars' 33rd season.
Team USA Scores a Golden Victory
July 30: Everybody want to know what they would do if they didn’t win. We guess we'll never know. Because Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee and Hezly Rivera—the self-named Golden Girls gymnastics squad representing the United States—vaulted themselves to a first place finish at the Olympics team finals.
Having led her team to another gold medal, Biles celebrated with a dig at former teammate McKayla Skinner, who'd said in a since-deleted YouTube video, "Besides Simone I feel like the talent and the depth isn’t what it used to be," adding, “I just noticed, obviously, a lot of girls don’t work as hard. The girls don’t have the work ethic.” Posting a photo enjoying their victory, Biles captioned the snap, "lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions."
Cardi B Announces Pregnancy and Divorce
Aug 1: She likes texts from my exes, when they want a second chance, but Cardi B is officially done with husband Offset. Or at least their romantic relationship. Hours after the Grammy winner, already mom to daughter Kulture and son Wave, filed for divorce, she revealed that she's pregnant with their third child together.
Giving birth Sept. 7, Cardi called her youngest daughter, "The prettiest lil thing."
Jordan Chiles Wins, Then Loses, Bronze Medal
Aug. 5: Chiles was that girl who claimed bronze in the women's gymnastics floor final, getting a 0.1 bump after her coach successfully argued that her score had been miscalculated. But then the Romanian Gymnastics Federation and Romanian finalists Ana Maria Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, who came in fourth and fifth place, filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport arguing that Chiles' coach had submitted the inquiry four seconds late.
Though the International Olympic Committee announced plans Aug. 11 to "reallocate the bronze medal to Ana Barbosu," Chiles still has hold of the original hardware and her belief that the inquiry was on time, thanks to footage captured for Biles' Netflix documentary.
“It’s hard to tell yourself that everything’s going to be fine when you know literally we didn’t do anything wrong,” Chiles said on Today in November. “Everything was very right. Everything was in the time that it needed to be, and for them to come back and say it was four seconds late when we’ve had proof. We’ve had everything that really can show that everything was right.”
Billy Ray Cyrus Settles Divorce from Firerose
Aug. 5: Don't tell Billy Ray Cyrus' heart, his achy breaky heart, but his brief marriage to Firerose came to an official end two months after he filed for divorce, claiming she was responsible for creating a rift with his daughters and alleging that she was a "fraud" only interested in his last name to benefit her music career.
Though the Australian singer was not awarded alimony or spousal support in the divorce settlement, she will receive all rights, credits and royalties for 17 songs that the couple wrote and published together.
Olympic Pole Vaulter Anthony Ammirati Gets a Sizeable Offer
Aug. 6: French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati may have lost his battle of the bulge, getting knocked out of the Olympic semifinals when his crotch hit the crossbar, but he did receive quite the, uh, sizeable offer from an adult film website.
"We are always searching for top-tier talent that can offer one-of-a-kind content to our users,” CamSoda’s Vice President, Daryn Parker, shared in a statement to E! News of pitching Annurati a $250,000 hour-long webcam show. “When we saw Anthony's performance in the pole vault competition last weekend, we wanted to present him with an offer to celebrate his physical stature rather than contribute to the distasteful comments he's been receiving.”
It Ends With Us Sparks Controversy
Aug. 9: Yes, Lively and Justin Baldoni's adaption of Colleen Hoover's book about an abusive relationship proved to be fertile ground for rumors of behind-the-scenes strife when it was released in theaters. But costar Brandon Sklenar did his best to nip that chatter in the bud.
“It just seems silly to me,” he told Access Hollywood of the chatter. “It’s kinda defeating the whole purpose of the thing to spread any negativity. It’s an important film for so many women and for so many survivors of domestic abuse.”
Jana Duggar Gets Married
Aug. 15: Twelve spouses and counting. After years of speculation about her love live, Michelle Duggar and Jim Bob Duggar's eldest daughter Jana Duggar married musician Stephen Wissmann at an Arkansas wedding ceremony attended by 500 guests.
"I think it is one of those things that all girls envision someday," the 34-year-old told People ahead of the nuptials. "For me, it felt like, 'Okay, it's never coming.' But now it's starting to sink in. Reality is starting to set in. And I'm like, 'Wow, this truly is something that I've dreamed of.'"
Arrests Are Made in Matthew Perry Case
Aug. 15: Nearly a year after Friends alum Matthew Perry died at his Pacific Palisades home from acute effects of ketamine, investigators uncovered exactly how he'd gotten his hands on the drug—enough that the amount found in his blood was equivalent to someone under general anesthesia, according to the medical examiner's autopsy report.
Just a few days before Perry would have turned 55 on Aug. 19, authorities revealed that five people—including two doctors and the assistant who found him in the hot tub—had been charged in connection with his death.
While Perry's assistant Kenneth Iwamasa and two others struck plea deals, Jasveen Sangha, an alleged drug dealer dubbed the "Ketamine Queen," and Dr. Salvador Plasencia, a.k.a. "Dr. P," pleaded not guilty and are set to go on trial in March.
Jennifer Lopez Files for Divorce
Aug. 20: Eventually Jennifer Lopez will wanna dance and love and dance again after filing to end her two-year marriage to Ben Affleck. But for now, “You have to be complete, if you want something that’s more complete,” the "Let's Get Loud" singer reflected to comedian Nikki Glaser in an Interview magazine profile published Oct. 9. “You have to be good on your own. I thought I learned that, but I didn’t. And then, this summer, I had to be like, ‘I need to go off and be on my own. I want to prove to myself that I can do that.’”
Ashanti Reveals She's a Mom
Aug. 21: Ashanti, chapter two has a new main character. The singer and Nelly—who quietly wed last December—welcomed their first child together, son Kareem Kenkaide Hayes, on July 18, their rep told E! News.
"Funny how life’s plans aren’t…always on time.. lol," she shared in her Instagram post. "I’ve been waiting to be a mom for a long time now but nothing could prepare me for EVERYTHING motherhood brings!"
Kelly Osbourne’s Boyfriend Sets Himself Ablaze
Aug. 23: In an Instagram Story, Osbourne revealed the dangers of playing with fire. “This is why you don’t f--k with burn piles," the podcaster shared in a clip, revealing her boyfriend "literally set himself on fire and exploded everything."
Though the Slipknot turntablist was released from the hospital the next day, "I'm singed everywhere," he acknowledged in his own social media post. "My eyebrows are singed. My mouth is blistered. My arm is pretty bad. Both my arms."
Sister Wives’ Robyn and Kody Brown Make Moves
Aug. 29: When Sister Wives stars (and newly minted monogamists) Kody Brown and Robyn Brown listed their five-bedroom Arizona home for $1.65 million, fans began speculating his fourth and final marriage was in trouble.
But as it turned out, the father of 18 just felt their assets should be multiplied. A month later, he and Robyn took the spread off the market and weeks after that closed on an expansive $2.1 million estate.
The Bloom Comes off Bachelorette Jenn Tran's Final Rose
Sept. 3: Freight company owner Devin Strader's decision to break off his engagement to Jenn Tran before her proposal even aired certainly made for one of the more dramatic Bachelorette finales ever. But the physician assistant student quickly found herself a new dance partner.
Though she and Sasha Farber were eliminated from Dancing With the Stars after seven weeks, their continued are-they-or-aren't-they moves prove they're still very much in sync.
Allison Holker Debuts a New Dance Partner
Sept. 10: Allison Holker's dance card is full once again. Nearly two years after her husband Stephen "tWitch" Boss died by suicide, the So You Think You Can Dance alum introduced her new boyfriend—tech CEO Adam Edmunds—to her social media followers and her three kids.
Enjoying an outing to Universal Studios with the whole fam, "We just shared a lot of laughter and a lot of memories," she detailed to People, "and it was actually a really fun way to start out."
Dave Grohl Reveals He Fathered a Baby Outside His Marriage
Sept. 10: This fall, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl had a confession to make. Announcing he had recently welcomed a daughter outside of his 21-year marriage to Jordyn Blum, mom to his kids Violet, Harper, and Ophelia, the musician wrote on Instagram, "I plan to be a loving and supportive parent to her. I love my wife and my children, and I am doing everything I can to regain their trust and earn their forgiveness."
Nikki Garcia Files for Divorce
Sept. 11: Nikki Garcia fully climbed out of the ring following her split from Artem Chigvitsev. In the months after the professional dancer was arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence Aug. 29 (he was never charged following an investigation), the WWE star filed for divorce and "disconnected from social media, from the world," she shared on the Dec. 2 episode of the Nikki & Brie podcast.
Her goal was to protect 4-year-old son Matteo's privacy, "so I was going to do whatever it took for that, most importantly," she continued, "and then just needing space, for healing, for facing trauma, head on, all of that."