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Ashley Benson and Cara Delevingne after the Balmain show on September 28, 2018 in Paris, France.

What’s the paparazzi to do when celebrities are staying at home en masse? It was a full month ago that Chrissy Teigen tweeted that she was considering throwing them a bone by staging a nip slip, and since then, things have only gotten worse. Teens are getting entrepreneurial, manufacturing their own gossip, but tabloids and other news outlets are still grasping at straws. If a celebrity goes for a walk, they’re guaranteed to make headlines, and it’s been that way for weeks. 

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It's been just over a day since the rest of the world became privy to the big news from Grimes and Elon Musk: their child, X Æ A-12 Musk was born on May 4.

Celebrities are slowly but surely finding ways to still get a paycheck while quarantine. (The Biebers even made reality TV out of an afternoon on a row boat.) But no one has been as smart about it as Selena Gomez, who’s making the most of her at-home cooking sessions by turning them into a 10-episode unscripted series for HBO Max. An added bonus: She’ll also pick up some “invaluable” tips and tricks from a range of “master chefs.”

The highly anticipated baby from Grimes and Elon Musk has finally arrived.

Chloë Sevigny in “This Is 40,” photographed by Davey Adesida, styled by Caroline Grosso.

It’s easy to forget that the Met Gala is ostensibly about a museum exhibition. From its very first edition, in 1973, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual extravaganza has only been about three things: the celebrities, the red carpet, and the drama. And with this year’s edition postponed indefinitely, it’s the drama we’ll most sorely miss. Distract yourself from the paucity this first Monday in May with a look back at some of its past scandals, here. 

With little else to do in lockdown, Justin and Hailey Bieber have spent their time filming a secret reality show. News of the very existence of the project was only made public when the first episode was uploaded to Facebook Watch today at noon.

Madonna is chief among the list of celebrities with the most interesting takes on the coronavirus, which she infamously christened “the great equalizer” while taking a bath in March. On Thursday, she Instagrammed another video addressing the coronavirus while engaged in an unusual activity. This time, she also shared some personal news. 

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Remember back on March 6 when Elon Musk tweeted “the coronavirus panic is dumb”? You’d think that he’d be eating his words right now, along with all the “nature is healing, we are the virus” influencers. But Musk never deleted the tweet. Instead, he’s carried right along with downplaying the severity of a virus that has now killed more than 230,000 people (and infected more than 3.2 million).

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What’s a model to do during a pandemic? Kaia Gerber has been fostering a puppy and tattooing herself, while Bella and an allegedly pregnant Gigi Hadid have been doing farm work in rural Pennsylvania. As for Kendall Jenner, she seems to be taking advantage of the open roads and flouting California’s statewide orders to avoid people outside of one’s household and stay home.

Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik are reportedly expecting a child. TMZ was the first to break the new, while US Weekly and Entertainment Tonight now claim they've also heard the news from unnamed sources. Notably, People, the most careful of the major celeb gossip outlets, has not yet confirmed the reports. TMZ claims Hadid is about 20 weeks along.

Lindsay Lohan.

If it weren’t for the coronavirus, Gigi Hadid almost certainly would have celebrated her 25th birthday differently; after all, her friend and fellow supermodel-slash-horse girl Kendall Jenner arrived to the party for her 24th Bianca Jagger-style, atop a live horse. Instead, Hadid’s 25th was a relatively humble affair, with guests limited to her mom Yolanda, her sister Bella, and her boyfriend Zayn Malik.

Photograph by Juergen Teller; Creative Partner to Juergen Teller: Dovile Drizyte; Styled by Sara Moonves. Hair by Larry Sims for Flawless at Forward Artists; Makeup by Sam Bryant at Bryant Artists; Manicure by Michelle Saunders.

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To coincide with the launch of W’s stay-at-home Instagram challenge, we reached out to the people for whom a shelter-in-place order is an opportunity for creativity, a call to action.

From left: Timothée Chalamet wears a Gucci shirt. Armie Hammer wears an AG shirt.

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In a few short years, Timothée Chalamet has reached the level of rarified fame where it seems, much like Angelina Jolie or Sandra Bullock, he's above social. His face is for the silver screen, not the tiny little screens in our pocket.

On Tuesday, Florence Pugh partook in the age-old tradition of posting a birthday tribute to her loved one on Instagram. “Happy Birthday wishes, boogies and cheers for this special person,” she wrote, referring to the Scrubs and Garden State actor Zach Braff. Almost immediately, her followers flooded the comments section with much less glowing descriptions of the actor. Braff, you see, is 45 years old. Pugh, on the other hand, is 24. 

Lady Gaga may have delayed the release of her upcoming album Chromatica, but its attendant press tour is still showing signs of life. Presumably long before she helped raise $35 million for the World Health Organization Covid-19 response fund, Gaga posed for the May issue of InStyle.

Gwyneth Paltrow photographed by Steven Klein for W Magazine, September 2007.

Since taking a break from Instagram, not to mention the entire internet, Selena Gomez has grown increasingly candid. Still, the degree to which the 27-year-old opened up on Miley Cyrus’s Instagram Live series on Friday came as something of a surprise. Gomez regularly talks about mental health, but this time, when Cyrus raised the subject, Gomez also specifically went into her diagnosis with bipolar disorder. 

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When Kim Kardashian revealed last year that she would begin her law school journey, many did not foresee that she would become a celebrity avatar for the prison reform movement.

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Celebrities have been posting bland videos extending their “thoughts and prayers” to those affected by the coronavirus for weeks. At the same time, a new type of social media star emerged: the irate Italian mayors who’ve minced no words in calling out their constituents, getting nearly as many views in the process.

A cursory tally of every "bro" uttered in the first 30 seconds of the two-minute clip of Justin Bieber and Tom Holland chatting away on Instagram Live during quarantine brings the number to four, which is about three too many.

Everything seems quite literally gone, but Lindsay Lohan? She's back.

If you thought being quarantined away from the coronavirus meant the Kardashians wouldn't be filming season 18 of Keeping up with the Kardashians, then you thought wrong.

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