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The Emancipation of Morgan Riddle Original
7 min read In case you haven’t noticed, Morgan Riddle has been very outside as of late. She moved to New York earlier this spring, and ever since, her Instagram grid has become a mosaic of rooftop photo shoots, day drinking in the West Village, and head-out-the-window taxi escapades with her girlfriends. Riddle isn’t the only one in her inner circle who recently took up New York City residence.
Olivia Jade In Bloom
Up Close She’s spent the better half of a decade avoiding the press and channeling a brand of hot, cool, and unbothered to her millions of followers. Now, with the launch of her first-ever makeup line, she’s finally ready to talk.
Mallory Edens On Writing Her Own Narrative
Entertainment The model turned producer was called a “trophy daughter” at 18. Now she’s the one greenlighting the stories. by Samantha Leach March 27, 2026 Lately, Mallory Edens has found herself revisiting Joan Didion’s “Goodbye to All That.” The producer has read the essay countless times — but now, as Edens prepares to move from New York to Los Angeles at 29 years old, mirroring Didion’s own arc — it hits different.
Sam Claflin On Therapy, Divorce, & Finding Himself
Early last year, Sam Claflin was coming off filming two shows back-to-back, moving house, and trying to find his footing after his first post-divorce breakup — and his For You page seemed to know it. Though he’d never been much of a reader, suddenly his algorithm was serving him an endless scroll of self-help books like Jillian Turecki’s It Begins with You, Marianne Williamson’s A Return to Love, and the many other titles he gamely displays on his Instagram highlights reel. “I was exhausted.
Madeline Cash Talks About 'Lost Lambs' & Reveals Her Writing Process
For novelist Madeline Cash, a copywriting job at Jack in the Box was as educational as any MFA program could have been. “I would sometimes have to write 500 headlines over a weekend that somehow incorporated the food and the Super Bowl,” the Lost Lambs author tells Bustle. “It was very gamified, and I love writing puns.
Alexia Ioannou On Nou Shoes, Growing Up On 'RHONJ,' & Addison Rae
Growing up in New Jersey, every square inch of Alexia Ioannou’s childhood bedroom was draped in animal print. “I had a leopard bedspread, leopard towels. My whole identity was Jersey leopard in the tackiest way ever,” the Nou Shoes designer says. Her mother, Dina Cantin (then Dina Manzo), was an inaugural star of Real Housewives of New Jersey, and Ioannou made frequent cameos in full bridge-and-tunnel glory.
Grace Van Patten On ‘Tell Me Lies’ Season 3 & Boyfriend Jackson White
Grace Van Patten comes to this place for magic: the Big 5 Sporting Goods in Studio City. With its uninviting, gas-station-white exterior, it looks like the kind of place HAIM might stroll past in a music video without a second thought. But inside, it’s home to some of the actor’s favorite Los Angeles memories. Like the time she purchased a pair of Heelys in a stroke of childlike whimsy.
The Author Of 'Hamnet' Once Got An Hour-Long Voice Note From Chloé Zhao
When Maggie O’Farrell agreed to co-adapt her novel Hamnet with writer-director Chloe Zhao, she expected the process to differ from the long, uninterrupted days she spends writing fiction in the garden of her Edinburgh home. She just didn’t expect quite so many voice notes. “Chloé is the queen of a voice note. Sometimes I would wake up in Scotland and turn on my phone in the morning and there’d just be this cascade of notifications, and I’d think, ‘Chloé’s been busy,” O’Farrell tells Bustle.
Sarah Sherman On Adam Sandler, 'The Nanny,' & 'Saturday Night Live'
In her five seasons on Saturday Night Live, Sarah Sherman has made a name for herself as slapstick-meets-The Substance comedic sensibilities, playing gross-out characters ranging from a woman with a singing meatball on her neck to an office worker who undergoes plastic surgery to swap her eyes for googly ones. But while opening for Adam Sandler this year, the comedian learned that you don’t always have to wear your gore on your sleeve — sometimes, you can Trojan-horse your inner freak.
Josh Hutcherson Is Madly In Love
Entertainment With his I Love LA castmates (looking at you, Jordan Firstman), his girlfriend (of 13 years), and the work. by Samantha Leach Dec. 1, 2025 While HBO’s I Love LA has been praised for its cocaine-fueled and roofie joke-laced brand of comedic chaos, one of the pilot’s standout quips is also among its most low-key ad libs.
Josh Hutcherson Is Madly In Love
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 Gets Hopeful Update From Matthew Lillard The second installment in the Five Nights at Freddy’sfranchise is set to open in theaters on Dec. 5, marking two years since the first movie based on …
Erin Somers On Writing 'The Ten Year Affair' & Millennial Adultery
As an elder millennial, Erin Somers has seen it all: the prosperous days of the “young urban creative”; the brief, sparkling reign of the girlboss; the inevitable crash that followed; and now… ennui. “We’ve become disillusioned with ambition, especially the women I know as they’re approaching middle age, so I wanted to explore that,” the author says of her latest, The Ten Year Affair.
Wallis Day On 'Red Sonja' & Why Jane Goodall Is Her It Girl Icon
For Wallis Day, every proper night out in London ends the same way: at the Chiltern Firehouse. “They’ve asked me to actually pay them rent a few times because I seem to be there so much,” she jokes of the hotel and restaurant, known for its legendary celebrity parties.
Jeff Lewis On Andy Cohen, Teresa Giudice, & Brynn Whitfield
On a recent episode of Watch What Happens Live!, host Andy Cohen asked the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Bronwyn Newport to name a person her castmates warned her to steer clear of at Bravocon this weekend.
One Nightstand With Allison Williams
Books The Regretting You star and erstwhile English major loves a literary classic. by Samantha Leach November 11, 2025 One Nightstand We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. In One Nightstand, celebrity readers and writers join us at The Blond in 11 Howard to discuss some of their favorite books, allowing us to learn about their tastes and lives in the process.
Brooks Nader Opens Up About Fame, Body Image, & Being For The Girls
At a pickleball court straddling SoHo and the West Village, Brooks Nader is splayed out on the ground, doing splits for the camera. It’s a brisk early autumn afternoon — and though she’s wearing little more than a sheer bodysuit, wraparound Balenciaga sunglasses, and stiletto boots, Nader appears entirely unbothered by the elements. Beatific, even. After all, this is exactly where the model, reality star, and newly minted tabloid darling always envisioned she’d end up.
Brooks Nader’s Naked Ambition
Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2025: Brooks Nader & More [photos] Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2025 [PHOTOS] Brooks Nader at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards 2025 held at The Plaza Hotel on Nov. 4, 2025 in …
Judd Apatow On 'Comedy Nerd,' Reading Self-Help Books, & Ayahuasca
In One Nightstand, celebrity readers and writers join us at The Blond in 11 Howard to discuss some of their favorite books, allowing us to learn about their tastes and lives in the process. Around the time Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann welcomed their second child, the filmmaker decided to take a break from work. He spent much of the year or so hiatus caring for newborn Iris, but it also marked an unexpected turning point: Apatow began reading more than he ever had in his life.
Susan Orlean On 'Joyride,' 'The Orchid Thief,' & Joining Substack
Susan Orlean doesn’t color inside the lines. Consider her seminal work of nonfiction, The Orchid Thief — the inspiration for the equally beloved yet even more unconventional film, Adaptation — which begins with the arrest of a horticulturist, before morphing into a history of orchid collecting, then exploring Orlean’s own yearning for that kind of all-consuming passion.
'After The Hunt' Screenwriter Nora Garrett Recommends 5 College-Set Books
While screenwriter Nora Garrett’s debut film, After the Hunt, unfolds on Yale’s campus — and is deeply steeped in the school’s milieu — its inspiration came from somewhere far less glamorous: a continuing education Zoom class. “During the pandemic, I took a couple of ad hoc philosophy courses from the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research on Hannah Arendt, Kierkegaard, Nietszche, and [the] Stoics,” Garrett tells Bustle. At the time, Garrett wasn’t trying to mine material for a screenplay.
Alex Cooper's Unwell Vegas Party Featured Paris Hilton As DJ
There I was, in the backseat of an Uber, cruising down the Las Vegas strip with Real Housewives icon Sonja Morgan... But I’m getting ahead of myself. When I was first invited to attend Unwell Vegas — Alex Cooper’s weekend-long extravaganza at the Cosmopolitan hotel — I was immediately intrigued by the lineup.
The Raunchier, 'Girls'-Inspired Side Of Dylan Mulvaney You Won't See On TikTok
While developing her new play, The Least Problematic Woman in the World, Dylan Mulvaney decided to revisit HBO’s Girls — only to discover that something within her had shifted. For years, she’d proudly (and exclusively) identified as a Shoshanna. But this time, much to Mulvaney’s disbelief, she saw herself as a Marnie-Hannah hybrid. “My obsession with creating based on what’s happening in my real life feels very Hannah-esque, and I definitely have a flair for the dramatics,” Mulvaney tells Bustle.
Lukas Gage’s Favorite Literary Characters Are As Chaotic As He Is
In One Nightstand, celebrity readers and writers join us at The Blond in 11 Howard to discuss some of their favorite books, allowing us to learn about their tastes and lives in the process. Lukas Gage has always been a natural storyteller — one who’s never let a few facts get in the way of a good story. “Growing up, I’d lie to my diary to just make my life seem more entertaining. I lied about having horses, [living] in a big mansion, and that I was on American Idol,” the actor tells Bustle.
How Girls Helped Dylan Mulvaney Unlock Her Raunchier Side
Kiernan Shipka and Sam Lansky know what makes a good meme When actress Kiernan Shipka and author Sam Lansky first met, they were already following each other on Instagram. To turn their acquaintance into a friendship, they both added each other to their ‘Close Friends’ story. The Close Friends story was the theme of a New York dinner party, hosted by …
Jesse Williams On 'Hotel Costiera,' Toni Morrison, & Ayn Rand
In One Nightstand, celebrity readers and writers join us at The Blond in 11 Howard to discuss some of their favorite books, allowing us to learn about their tastes and lives in the process. Growing up, Jesse Williams says that “reading was everything” in his household. His parents rarely allowed Williams and his siblings to watch television, instead taking them to the library to find entertainment. “My dad was drilling nonfiction into me.
The WhatsApp Groups & Instagram Sellers Making Shopping Fun Again
This winter, I was in the market for a very particular vintage shirt: a Grateful Dead concert tee featuring bedazzled sheet music for “Sugar Magnolia.” My mom had bought one at a show in the ’80s, and over the intervening decades, my sister and I wore it until the seams literally gave out.
‘Sorry, Baby’ Star Eva Victor On Queerness, ‘Lolita,’ 'Billions' & Fame
For Eva Victor, 2025 has felt simultaneously “800 years long” as well as only “four minutes.” In January, they premiered their directorial debut, Sorry, Baby, at Sundance.
Janelle James On ‘Abbott Elementary,’ Spin-Off Ideas & Emmy Encounters
Janelle James has always been one of Abbott Elementary’s most reliable scene stealers — but this past season, her character also stole some hearts. Well, one in particular: that of O'Shon (Matthew Law), a district IT rep whose patience is only outmatched by his brawn. For James, portraying this newer, loved-up side of Principal Ava has become a highlight of the series. “Sometimes Ava is saying one thing, but her face is betraying what she’s actually feeling.
Quinta Brunson Drew So Many 'Abbott Elementary' Faves To Bustle's Event
Ahead of the 76th Emmy Awards, Bustle hosted an intimate cocktail party at Alba Los Angeles to toast our latest cover star, Quinta Brunson. The Abbott Elementary creator is nominated for three Emmys — having won two in years past — and much of the cast came out to celebrate. Brunson’s co-stars Janelle James and William Stanford Davis rubbed elbows with Abbott newcomers Matthew Law and Brandon Kyle Goodman. Also in attendance?
How Kratom and 7-OH, Formerly Known as Gas Station Heroin, Went Mainstream
Late last year, my little sister called from South Florida, where she’d recently relocated. She was on a new health kick and had replaced her nightly glass of wine with some kind of herbal soda, which she said was deeply relaxing, totally legal, and way healthier than alcohol. I didn’t think much of it until she called a few weeks later. She had collapsed on the kitchen floor while waiting for nachos to reheat in the microwave.
How Kratom, Formerly Known as ‘Gas Station Heroin,’ Went Mainstream
Former Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay suffered three overdoses over the final five years of his life and was prescribed ketamine from a "luxury" doctor, who signed Irsay's death certificate in California when he died in May at 65, according to a report in The Washington Post. The Post cited …
Cazzie David's New Anti-Romcom Cuts Through The TikTok Noise
On DateTok, words like “gaslighting” and “love bombing” get tossed around so often they’ve started to feel like background noise. “We went from a time where this kind of vernacular wasn’t used at all to suddenly being used so much that they lost all meaning,” writer-director Cazzie David tells Bustle. When everyone is a “narcissist” or “manipulator,” it can dilute the words’ power to call out real emotional abuse.
Zosia Mamet On 'Does This Make Me Funny?', Auditions, & Eve Babitz
In One Nightstand, celebrity readers and writers join us at the blond in 11 Howard to discuss some of their favorite books, allowing us to learn about their tastes and lives in the process. While growing up in Hollywood prepared Zosia Mamet for the demands of show business, nothing could have readied her for the loneliness.
Could My Friend Trio Actually Survive A Girl’s Trip To The Maldives?
As two of my besties and I embarked on a girls’ trip to the Maldives, the question on my mind wasn’t if we were cosplaying as the toxic friend trio from this season of The White Lotus, but how. When the The Ritz-Carlton extended an invitation to their Maldives, Fari Islands property, I eagerly texted my group chat to invite my friends along. But as the trip approached — and our text thread was renamed “MALDIVES 2025!!” in anticipation — my White Lotus jokes began to transform into real anxieties.
When Writer's Block Hits, This Author Reads Joan Didion
When asked what it felt like to pen his debut, Great Black Hope, Rob Franklin cites James Baldwin — a writer who had a similar experience, nearly 70 years prior. “His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, drew very heavily from his upbringing growing up in Harlem. He said it allowed him to write other things instead of always wanting to get to these core personal questions,” Franklin tells Bustle.
Gia Guidice & More 'Real Housewives' Kids Talk Growing Up Onscreen & 'Next Gen NYC'
The first generation of kids to grow up on Bravo are now of age — not just to take a swig from the shotski with network maestro Andy Cohen, but to helm their very own franchise.
Logan Lerman Wooed His Fiancée With ‘Sex And The City’ And Fancy Fruit
My attachment style? What does that mean exactly? I want to try to understand this,” Logan Lerman asks me, his aquamarine eyes scrunched in genuine confusion. In both the new indie dramedy Oh, Hi! and Haim’s “Down to Be Wrong” music video, he plays characters who are pretty much the human embodiment of avoidant attachment — why else would Danielle Haim excoriate you on a hotel bed while her sisters glower in the corner?
Japanese Breakfast On 'Infinite Jest,' Touring, & David Foster Wallace
In One Nightstand, celebrity readers and writers join us at the blond in 11 Howard to discuss some of their favorite books, allowing us to learn about their tastes and lives in the process. “Like a fine wine, I like to pair my books with my travels,” says Michelle Zauner, an author and musician who performs as Japanese Breakfast. “So I was going to Madrid for the first time and read Death in the Afternoon [by Ernest Hemingway].
Molly Jong-Fast On 'How To Lose Your Mother' & Her Writing Habits
Molly Jong-Fast was reticent to write How to Lose Your Mother, her memoir about her mom, Fear of Flying author Erica Jong. “What I didn’t want was to subject other people to my therapy,” Jong-Fast, 46, tells Bustle. But after her mom was diagnosed with dementia during the pandemic — and Jong-Fast took control of her care, which she continues to manage today — she started to see the universality in their highly specific, often thorny relationship.
Dylan Mulvaney On What Miss Piggy Taught Her About Gender & Girlhood
For the past three years, Dylan Mulvaney has been living her life out loud. In 2022, she began documenting her transition in the viral TikTok series Days of Girlhood, and this spring, she dug even deeper, publishing the New York Times bestselling memoir Paper Doll. The book offers readers a more unfiltered look at the fame (and controversy) that came with transitioning in the public eye.
RHONY's Luann de Lesseps & Sonja Morgan Reveal "Scary Island" Secrets
Much like pornography, you know Scary Island when you see it. The 2010 Real Housewives of New York episode (officially titled “Sun, Sand and Psychosis”) aired in the middle of the series’ third season, sandwiched within a three-part arc set in the Virgin Islands. But to real RHONY fans, it’s the watershed moment of the entire franchise. “Scary Island was something that people had always talked about so I was looking forward to it.
Wally Baram On 'Overcompensating' & Working With Benito Skinner
Walking through the aisles of Pacific Aquarium & Plant on the Lower East Side, Wally Baram has a fact for nearly every tank. “See, that’s actually not an albino arowana. Albinos are really sought-after,” the Overcompensating star tells me, pointing at a mislabeled school of fish.
Tommy Dorfman's Memoir Explores Addiction, Her Transition, & Love Life
In One Nightstand, celebrity readers and writers join us at the blond in 11 Howard to discuss some of their favorite books, allowing us to learn about their tastes and lives in the process. Tommy Dorfman always knew she had a book in her, but it wasn't until she began transitioning in 2020 that its shape began to emerge.
How Life Coach Mory Fontanez Helps Celebrities Handle Fame
There’s no shortage of secret whisperers to the stars. Want someone to tell you exactly which adaptogens to add to your morning smoothie? There’s a guru for that. Does your lymphatic system need a thorough draining? We know someone who knows someone. Your aura’s hankering for a cleanse? Right this way. In Hollywood, all these experts and so many more are just one DM away. But what about an expert to guide you through the experience of celebrity itself? That’s where Mory Fontanez comes in.
Margaret Atwood On 'The Handmaid's Tale' Ending & Memoir 'Book Of Lives'
The series finale of The Handmaid’s Tale is on the horizon, but Margaret Atwood isn’t feeling particularly sentimental. The adaptation of her watershed novel has been on the air for six seasons now, and she knows there’s only so long an audience can suspend disbelief. “You start to think, ‘Why is the regime letting June stay alive so long?’” Atwood tells Bustle. “With TV serials, there are cliffhangers and narrow escapes because you have to keep the heroine alive.
Why Men Like Jason Isaacs & Keith McNally Are Great Gossips
When Gossip Girl finally unveiled the identity of its titular girl, fans were shocked. Dan Humphrey? The straightest, whitest, most Elliott Smith-listening, Brooklyn soft boy of all time? Aside from the plot holes the reveal opened up, it just defied logic to imagine the Moleskine enthusiast firing off b*tchy little missives from his Blackberry. Or did it?
Your Comprehensive Jawline-Sculpting Treatment Guide
In 2006, Nora Ephron published a collection of humor essays titled I Feel Bad About My Neck. Now, almost 20 years later, more people than ever are still gripped by that same gripe. “There's definitely been an uptick of patients since the lockdown coming in and going, ‘Oh, I hate how I look on Zoom. What can I do about my neck?’” plastic surgeon Dr. David Shafer, M.D., FACS, tells Bustle.
Your Comprehensive Jawline-Sculpting Treatment Guide
8 hours ago Dermatologists and RDs share the answer — and you’re probably going to like it. When it comes to growing healthy hair and nails, you’ve probably already seen all the ads for supplements containing certain nutrients that can help, such as vitamins A, E and D, along with iron, fats, carbs and protein. …
Lewis Pullman On 'Thunderbolts*,’ Quitting Instagram, & Relationship Privacy
“When was your last panic attack?” Lewis Pullman asks me. We’ve been talking about how we’re both too anxious to enjoy psychedelics — “I don’t like feeling out of control in my brain,” he says — which is not really the conversation you’d expect to be having with a newly minted Marvel star on the eve of his blockbuster hitting theaters.
Carla Sosenko’s Body Was Always the Story. Now She’s Telling It Herself.
Carla Sosenko spent much of her life trying to tame her body. She had liposuction at eight years old, cycled in and out of Weight Watchers, and hid her frame under layers and layers of clothes. But in her debut memoir, Sosenko tries a different approach — finally coming to terms with the Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome that left her with two different sized legs, a hunched posture, and many more idiosyncrasies.
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