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🗞 Top Stories of the Week 🗞
Trigger warning: Sexual Assault
✊ Evan Rachel Wood Names Her Abuser
Evan Rachel Wood (you know her recently from Westworld) named her abuser as Marilyn Manson in a series of Instagram stories, and four other women also stepped forward to accuse the entertainer of sexual assault and trauma. Wood has previously spoken about the assault she experienced, but this is the first time she’s named him. This is an extremely brave step to take for survivors and we stand with her.
Manson has denied the claims, but that wasn’t enough for his label and talent agency to drop him.
💍 Wedding Bells are Ringing!
Rumors were floating early last week that Aaron Rodgers (famous football player + Olivia Munn’s ex) and Shailene Woodley (recently from Big Little Lies) were seeing each other. And yesterday, Rodgers seemingly confirmed that they’re not only dating but got engaged! In his acceptance speech for an NFL award, he talked about many big things that happened for his last year including getting engaged and thanked his fiancé! I now hear that the couple is house hunting in Hawaii. This was not a match I had on my 2021 Hollywood couple board, but hey I’m here for love!
💑 Famous Children Find Love
Eve Jobs (yeah, that Jobs) is coming into the spotlight a little bit! She announced that she’s dating Harry Hudson (Kardashian family friend and musician) in an Instagram post. L.A. kids are really connected to each other — it’s only a matter of time until we see her in one of Kylie Jenner’s stories.
📱TikTok Trends To Watch📱
If Covid Wasn’t Real Trend: What you’d wear to Fashion Week
Nuggets of Wisdom Trend: Giving a “TED Talk”
Work Trend: When you’ve done the bare minimum
Gym Trend (NSFW): Measuring the size of your “peach”
TikTok Tip: Want to see more of a trend? Click on the rolling song name at the bottom of a TikTok to see all the videos that were made to that sound.
That’s it for this week! Do you have any tips? Any drama you want to see reported on? Comment below + let us know!
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