When it comes to celebrity predictions, I’m a little bit more ambivalent about my chances. Of our 20 predictions for this past year, only two have definitively come true: one great (Beyoncé won album of the year!) and one terrible (a Jared Leto exposé finally dropped—not that it appears to have really affected him at all). A couple of others remain possibly true (Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have been seen together a number of times in recent months); some were obviously wishful thinking (Marcello Hernández movie vehicle when??); and some were flat-out wrong (Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco didn’t break up, they got married!).
With that mixed scorecard in mind, please join us as we speculate wildly (and occasionally without basis) about what’s going to happen in the celebrity-verse in 2026.
- Bad Bunny’s halftime show gets the highest ratings ever; Donald Trump responds by saying a slur that no one’s heard in decades.
- Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard split.
- Emily Ratajkowski dates a normie Brooklyn dad.
- Someone’s tux pants split on the Oscars red carpet.
- Zendaya is pregnant.
- Erika Kirk heads back to Bravo.
- There’s a brief, niche drama when Benicio del Toro is spotted reading I Who Have Never Known Men and TikTok accuses him of being a performative male.
- Zohran Mamdani parties with the World Cup winners at a tiny pupuseria in Queens.
- Rachel Sennott and Jacob Elordi spotted awkwardly smooching.
- LeBron surprise retires.
- Dua Lipa launches a book imprint and the novels she publishes become immediate contenders for the big prizes.
- Michael B. Jordan wins an Oscar for Sinners.
- Taylor Swift performs at her own wedding.
- And Travis Kelce’s tears of happiness generate an annoying online conversation about masculinity and crying.
- Kim Kardashian and Elon Musk announce that a surrogate is carrying their biological baby.
- I get progressively sadder and sadder about the Beckham family feud.
- Sydney Sweeney publicly crashes out.
- Dave Chappelle establishes a residency in Riyadh.
- No Rihanna album.
- Marjorie Taylor Greene gets a SKIMS campaign.
- Timothée Chalamet’s Marty Supreme performance isn’t even nominated for an Oscar. He disappears for three years.
- Blue Ivy drops a single.
- We finally get the skinny on what was happening with Olivia Wilde, Jason Sudeikis, and Harry Styles.
Agree? Disagree? Think we’re insane? Let us know in the comments. Happy New Year!
