Month: January 2022

In these frigid, fraught days of early 2022, a singular bright spot has emerged: Wordle. The simple online game, in which you have six chances to guess a 5-letter word, has exploded in popularity in recent months, helped along this week by a sparkly story in the New York Times. Its viral load was juiced by the fact that the game makes it easy to copy your score for sharing on social media. Doing so looks like this: By Tuesday morning, when everyone had emerged from their Omicron-filled holiday holes, my Twitter timeline was slathered in tweets like that one. And I get it—it’s a fun game! And here I am, about to ruin it for everyone. Where to Play Wordle On the Wordle website. (It’s not an app.) How Wordle Works So, the instructions for the game appear when you first load it, so yo...

Cher is aging her way. The Oscar-winning actress and singer doesn’t think twice about taking major risks when it comes to her style. But one thing she won’t try anytime soon is to let her jet black mane go gray. The 75-year-old acknowledged that many stars have tried the natural look during the pandemic. Still, her mind’s made up. "[Going gray] is fine for other girls," she told People magazine on Tuesday. "I’m just not doing it!" CHER ADMITS SHE 'LOVED' AND STILL LOVES EX VAL KILMER: 'HE'S LIKE NOBODY I'VE EVER KNOWN' These days, Cher is trying something different, beauty-wise. She has recently teamed up with Saweetie for M.A.C. Cosmetics’ "Challenge Accepted" campaign, which encourages fans to experiment with the brand and share their results on social media with the hashtag #mac...

UPDATED: As expected, the Grammy Awards have been postponed due to coronavirus-related concerns, an Academy spokesperson has confirmed to Variety. No new date has been confirmed as of yet. While the 2022 show had been moving full speed ahead to take place on Jan. 31 before a full audience at its traditional venue, the Crypto.com Arena (formerly known as the Staples Center) in downtown Los Angeles, the recent Covid-19 surge has caused the postponement or cancellation of multiple events across the country. Sources tell Variety that even though the Crypto.com Arena has a basketball or hockey game or a concert booked nearly every night until mid-April, enough artists and executives voiced reluctance about appearing to convince the Academy to postpone the show. Sources close t...

Media top headlines January 5 In media news today, a producer exits Canada’s public broadcaster over its ‘radical political agenda,’ Jen Psaki denies the White House has ‘lost control’ of COVID, and an MSNBC anchor says his family was denied entry into an NYC restaurant because his 4-year-old daughter was unvaccinated. "The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg described being shocked Wednesday when she learned she tested positive for coronavirus during the show's break for the Christmas and New Year holidays.  During a remote appearance on the program while isolating at home, Goldberg declared that she was surprised when she received the positive test result because, according to her, she had been taking every necessary precaution to avoid contracting the virus. ‘THE VIEW’ CO-HOS...

After the party, it’s the hotel lobby. Kanye West and Julia Fox continued their Big Apple rendezvous back at the rapper’s hotel, a source exclusively confirmed to Page Six. “They arrived at the Pendry hotel in the same SUV they were in all night,” the eyewitness said. “Kanye got out first and ran in since there was a group of fans waiting for him outside. Julia then followed behind him.” Prior to their arrival, the couple had just dined at Carbone, which is about 20 minutes from the Pendry Manhattan West hotel. Fox changed out of her blue velvet coat and into a peekaboo thong look before heading to the hotel. We’re told Fox, 31, stayed at the hotel until at least past midnight, but it’s unclear if she spent the night with West, 44. She is based...