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NFL Boss Fuels Taylor Swift Super Bowl Rumours With 1 Word

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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell offered a “maybe” when asked if Taylor Swift would be performing at February’s Super Bowl Halftime Show in Santa Clara, California.

“We would always love to have Taylor play,” Goodell said on NBC’s Today on Wednesday. “She is a special, special talent and obviously she would be welcome at any time.”

Goodell said he couldn’t say “anything about” whether Taylor was already in negotiations to perform, but when Today co-host Savannah Guthrie asked if it was a maybe, the NFL chief responded: “It’s a maybe.”

While Goodell didn’t say when the announcement about this year’s halfime performer would be made, in the past three years, the headliner has been announced sometime in September.

Goodell’s tease comes just a week after Taylor announced her engagement to Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce. Since the two began dating two years ago, Taylor has attended almost all of the Chiefs’ games, including two Super Bowl appearances. According to the NFL, she has helped grow the league’s female audience to 47% of viewers.

Taylor hasn’t slowed down since wrapping up her multi-year international Eras Tour. She announced last month in a two-hour interview on Travis’ podcast that her latest album, The Life Of A Showgirl, will come out in October.

With a football player fiancé and a new album, many think it only makes sense for her next move to be the Super Bowl.

Fans have been speculating that Taylor dropped Easter eggs — something she’s known to do — about performing at the Super Bowl during her interview on New Heights.

She spoke at length about baking sourdough bread – a possible nod to Sourdough Sam, the mascot of the San Francisco 49ers, whose stadium is where the game will be held this year. Or, it could have just been Taylor talking about baking — something she’s also been known to be a fan of.

During his Today show appearance, Goodell also spoke about ways to make the game safer, like giving players an option to wear helmets with technology designed to result in fewer concussions. According to the NFL, only 30% of players who have access to new helmets designed for their position are doing so.

“I think what’s mandatory now is working with our players association and looking at the different helmets and giving them a choice — the players,” Goodell said. “But making sure that we take helmets out that really don’t fit the standard.”

Goodell’s comments on football and head injuries come just over a month after a gunman killed four people at a Manhattan office building, allegedly with the intention to target the NFL’s headquarters.

The gunman claimed in a note that he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy that was caused by playing contact sports. One NFL employee was seriously injured in the shooting.

After the shooting, Goodell didn’t directly address the CTE claim from the shooter.

“There are no excuses for those senseless acts,” Goodell said at the time. “They’re hard for all of us to understand when it inflicts pain on people you know and people you care about and people that we deal with on a daily basis. That’s particularly hard.”

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Travis Kelce Breaks Silence On Taylor Swift Engagement With Very Sweet Update

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Taylor Swift’s new fiancé Travis Kelce has spoken out for the first time since the couple shared that they are engaged.

Last week, the pair announced their relationship update in a joint Instagram post that showed the NFL star getting down on his knees in front of the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, surrounded by flowers.

After his engagement made headlines the world over, Travis has now spoken out for the first time since going public with the news in the latest episode of his podcast New Heights, which he co-presents with his brother Jason Kelce.

In a teaser clip shared online on Wednesday, Travis said: “I appreciate everybody who’s reached out and said something, and all the posts, and all the excitement that’s been going on.”

He added: “It’s been really fun telling everybody who I’m going to be spending the rest of my life with.”

It’s expected that Travis and Jason will discuss the engagement further elsewhere in the upcoming episode of New Heights, which will begin streaming later on Wednesday.

Taylor and Travis first began dating in the summer of 2023, after he admitted to having a crush on her on his podcast, and they were subsequently pictured together for the first time after one of his team’s games that September.

“We actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other,” she later told Time magazine. “By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple. I think some people think that they saw our first date at that game? We would never be psychotic enough to hard-launch a first date.”

Taylor is currently gearing up for the release of her 12th album The Life Of A Showgirl, which is rumoured to have been inspired by her life on the road for her mammoth Eras Tour, and features a duet with woman of the hour Sabrina Carpenter.

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Emma Stone Reveals Brutal Effects Of The Favourite Costume On Her Body: ‘All My Organs Shifted’

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Emma Stone takes her craft seriously – so seriously, in fact, that her commitment to one role temporarily altered her body.

The Oscar-winning actor, known for films like Easy A, Disney’s Cruella, La La Land and Poor Things, has played a range of characters over the years. However, it was her 2018 film, The Favourite, that not only entertained fans but also pushed her physical limits.

“[This was] my first time ever wearing a corset,” she revealed to Vogue as part of their their My Life In Style interview series earlier this month. “I can confirm it does shift your organs after a while.”

She explained that her “body shape” remained altered for “a month” after filming commenced, all due to the extreme tightness of the garment.

“It pulls you in, I have a very big rib cage, so it’s like an intense thing to manoeuvre,” she continued. “My body was definitely not built for a corset.”

Emma Stone at the premiere of Eddington earlier this year
Emma Stone at the premiere of Eddington earlier this year

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Still, it wasn’t all suffering. Emma called wearing the corset a “gift”, joking that it helped her build up an unusual skill: the ability to “hold” her breath underwater for “a really long time”.

The film, shot just outside of London, England, featured elaborate costumes by designer Sandy Powell, whom Emma referred to as a “genius” and a “legend” during her Vogue interview.

But this isn’t the first time the actor has opened up about her discomfort with this particular clothing option. In 2018, on the Graham Norton Show, Emma spoke about her experience.

“Women existed in that for such a long time, which does give you a lot of sympathy for that time period and what [they] were going through,” she said. “For the first month, I couldn’t breathe.”

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Bella Ramsey Has A Blunt Message For The Last Of Us Haters Who Criticised The Show

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Bella Ramsey has a message for The Last Of Us haters who slammed the latest season of the hit US drama.

“You don’t have to watch,” the British actor said while appearing on the podcast The Awardist earlier this month.

“If you hate it that much, the game exists. You can just play the game again. If you do want to watch it, hope you enjoy it.”

Bella went on to explain that because the “show is [already] out”, they don’t stress over the critics and avoid “reading or looking at anything” negative about the series.

“There’s nothing I can do about it anyway,” they pointed out. “The show is out. There’s nothing that can be changed or altered. So I’m like, there’s not really any point in reading or looking at anything.”

Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) in "The Last of Us."
Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) in “The Last of Us.”

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Noting that “people are of course entitled to their opinions,” Bella added: “But it doesn’t affect the show, it doesn’t affect how the show continues or anything in any way. They’re very separate things to me. So no, I just don’t really engage.”

Some fans criticised The Last Of Us after Pedro Pascal’s character Joel was killed off in season two. Though some details of his death were altered in the show’s adaptation, his brutal death aligns with Joel’s fate in the video game The Last Of Us Part II.

Meanwhile, other fans have focused on the differences in physical appearance between Bella and their character, compared to how Ellie is depicted in the video game series.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in April, bella admitted that they became “quite fixated” on the differences in Ellie’s appearance and their own, but that the show’s co-creator Craig Mazin soothed their concerns.

“I got quite fixated on the way that Ellie looks in the game and her physical stature and, to be specific, the muscle definition in her arms. And I didn’t look like that. My body type isn’t that,” Bella shared.

They continued: “I talked about this a lot with Craig, and he never put that expectation on me. He wanted me to look strong and feel strong, and that was in how I carried myself, my posture and the confidence you have. It was a challenge for me to let myself off the hook for not looking computer-generated.”

A premiere date for the third season of the post-apocalyptic series, which first aired in 2023, has not yet been announced. The show was renewed for a third season in April.

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Wednesday Actor Shocks Co-Stars By Using 1 Savage Word To Describe Jennifer Lopez

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Luis Guzmán was not exactly channeling the smooth-talking Gomez Addams when asked about working with Jennifer Lopez.

The stars of the Netflix hit Wednesday appeared on Monday’s episode of Hot Ones Versus, in which each cast member takes turns asking their co-stars probing questions, and if they mess up, they have to consume an incredibly spicy chicken wing.

Nearly 10 minutes into the episode, Luis was asked to describe some of the A-list celebrities he’s worked with throughout his impressive 40-year acting career in just one word.

The first up was Adam Sandler, who worked with Luis in 2002’s Punch-Drunk Love and 2003’s Anger Management, and earned the moniker “amazing”.

Next up was Catherine Zeta-Jones, who currently plays Gomez’s wife, Morticia Addams, in Wednesday.

“Belíssima,” Luis said of the Welsh performer, with whom he previously appeared in Traffic.

Then, he was asked about Jennifer Lopez, who worked with him in 1998’s Out Of Sight.

“OK,” Luis smirked — causing many of his co-stars’ jaws to drop.

Luis Guzmán's take on working with Jennifer Lopez, center, left his co-star Joy Sunday, right, floored in a recent "Hot Ones" episode.
Luis Guzmán’s take on working with Jennifer Lopez, center, left his co-star Joy Sunday, right, floored in a recent “Hot Ones” episode.

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The same year Jen starred in Out Of Sight, she also shared her own unfiltered opinions about other celebrities in an interview with Movieline.

“I swear to God, I don’t remember anything she was in,” she said of Gwyneth Paltrow, who would go on to win Best Actress the next year at the Oscars.

In the same interview, J-Lo called Cameron Diaz a “lucky model”, claimed she was “never a big fan” of Winona Ryder, though she praised both women’s looks, and she said that she and Salma Hayek were “in two different realms”.

When Vanity Fair confronted Lopez in 2011 about trash-talking other actors to Movieline, the Hustlers star said she had been “misquoted”.

“I was so misquoted and so taken out of context, and it’s a sore subject for me,” she insisted. “I don’t like to hurt anybody. I don’t like to hurt their feelings. I like to joke, so I do that sometimes.

“What they wrote in that article hurt people. [After reading it,] I just sat down and cried for hours.”

Watch Luis Guzmán’s evaluation of his past co-stars below:

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