Sydney Sweeney Got Cut From Devil Wears Prada 2 — And "Creative Decision" Is Doing a Lot of Heavy Lifting

Sydney Sweeney Got Cut From Devil Wears Prada 2 — And "Creative Decision" Is Doing a Lot of Heavy Lifting

Sydney Sweeney was reportedly in talks for a prime role in The Devil Wears Prada 2 — the kind of career-defining slot where you get to trade barbs with Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt on a $200 million budget. Then conservative corners of the internet dug up footage of her waving a MAGA hat at a Trump rally, erupted, and called her "too political" for a Disney fashion tentpole.

Producers quietly showed her the door. The official explanation — "creative decision" — landed with the credibility of a PR intern's first draft. Reddit threads and Hollywood insiders tell a less sanitized story: the outrage cycle made her too hot to handle, and someone decided the math didn't work. Sweeney is 27, coming off Anyone But You's surprise box office run, and now watching a flagship gig evaporate because of a two-year-old rally clip.

Meryl's world stays immaculate. Sydney's next move depends entirely on whether studios have shorter memories than the internet does.

Gobble's Take: In 2025, your social media archive isn't a diary — it's an audition tape that studios are absolutely reading.

Source: r/Entertainment

Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan Have Been Quietly Building a Life — And You've Heard Almost Nothing About It

Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Supernatural costar Jensen Ackles set the two up on a blind date in 2009. Morgan went to a bar, met Burton — who had worked with Ackles' wife Danneel on One Tree Hill — and the night ended with tequila shots at his place. By the time they went public as a couple, they were already parents to a son, Gus, born in March 2010.

Everyone assumed they'd quietly married years before they actually did. A 2014 rumor spread that the couple had secretly wed, and it stuck — Morgan and Burton even used "husband" and "wife" as pet names, which didn't help dispel it. In fall 2019, they released a few photos from their intimate early October ceremony and set the record straight. Burton wrote on Instagram: "For years, publications have reported that we got married in 2014 or 2015... All untrue. But WE knew our truth." They now share a working farm in Rhinebeck, N.Y. — about two hours outside the city — where they tend to cows and alpaca and co-own a candy store with Paul Rudd.

Burton told E! News in 2024 that communication "is a very big deal," along with adapting to life's natural rhythms together. Morgan's philosophy on home life is simpler: "Be a crazy person on TV."

Gobble's Take: The most resilient relationships are the ones that didn't need your approval to begin with.

Source: E! News

RAYE Returned to Colbert With a Full Band, Her Sisters, and Two Songs From Her New Album

RAYE returned to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on April 21 — three years after performing "Escapism" on the same stage. This time she brought more: a full band, an ensemble of backing vocalists, and two performances from her sophomore album This Music May Contain Hope.

First came "Clack Clack Symphony," shot in black and white. Then she doubled up with "Joy," performing in a yellow summer dress. Her sisters Lauren and Abby-Lynn were among the backing vocalists on both songs. No gimmicks. No pre-tape. Just a live performance that reminded anyone watching why Colbert booked her twice in one night.

The backstory earns its weight. RAYE trained at the BRIT School, landed a deal with Polydor, and in 2021 publicly called out the label for refusing to let her release an album. She split, went independent, and proceeded to win — spectacularly. In March 2024, she swept six BRIT Awards in a single night, breaking the previous record of four. Her sophomore album debuted at No. 1 in the U.K. She's set to receive the Hal David Starlight Award at the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame gala. The Colbert appearance is one stop on a run that isn't slowing down.

Gobble's Take: RAYE went from shelved by a major label to breaking BRIT Award records — the Colbert double performance is just receipts.

Source: Billboard

Olivia Dean's "Man I Need" Joins Spotify's Billions Club

Olivia Dean's "Man I Need" has crossed one billion plays on Spotify, earning the fast-rising British pop star entry into the platform's Billions Club. The milestone lands at the peak of a remarkable run: Dean won best new artist at the 2026 Grammy Awards, swept the 2026 BRIT Awards with four wins — including artist of the year and album of the year — and took home a hat-trick of honors at the 2026 MOBO Awards.

The song's reach is staggering across multiple markets. In Australia, "Man I Need" spent 20 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, making it the second-longest reigning single in the chart's history since 1983 — behind only Tones and I's "Dance Monkey" with 24 weeks. In the UK, Dean became the first female solo artist in Official Charts history to place four songs in the top 10 simultaneously. In the US, Billboard named her Rookie of the Year for its 2025 Greatest Pop Stars series, and "Man I Need" topped Billboard's Adult R&B Airplay chart. She is also the female artist with the biggest increase in global Spotify streams over the past year.

Dean performed "Man I Need" at the Spotify Best New Artist party during Grammy Week. She's also a frontrunner at the 71st Ivor Novello Awards on May 21, with two nominations: best album and PRS for Music most performed work.

Gobble's Take: When a single song wins you Grammys, BRITs, MOBOs, and a billion streams, it stops being a breakout moment and starts being a statement.

Source: Billboard

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