I know bleached blonde-ness on men can occasionally signify inner turmoil (or, not unrelatedly, the rampant Kenergy of last summer). On Chalamet, though, this hair transformation is a relatively low-effort and painless way to shift the vibe from the surly, 1960s Dylan that he plays in A Complete Unknown, while still paying canny homage.
You’re Welcome! An Exclusive Look Inside Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” Music Video
“Please! Please! Please! Play Espresso!” Read a sign in the crowd at Sabrina Carpenter’s Coachella set earlier this year. The singer had just released the now inescapable hit the night prior. Little did we know, the sign was a sneaky little Easter egg for “Please, please, please,” the lead single for Carpenter’s recently announced album Short n’ Sweet, out August 23. Carpenter’s new era is kicking off with a music video co-starring none other than her biggest hype man, the Academy Award nominated actor Barry Keoghan.
“I’m feeling like I will never pay for another coffee again, and I’m so grateful and excited for people to hear the whole record. It’s so close to me!” wrote Carpenter over email about entering her new era post the success of “Espresso.” In the video, Carpenter wears everything from Alaïa and Dilara Findikoglu to Alexandre Vauthier couture and custom Coach (“I always like to heighten fashion and storyline in my videos, it’s playtime for me”) while fabulously and—quite seductively—pleading to her mischievous lover to not embarrass her any longer. “Heartbreak is one thing, my ego’s another/I beg you don’t embarrass me, motherfucker,” she sings. One has to wonder, who could this song be about?
For those well-versed in the Sabrina Carpenter universe, the singer gets arrested at the end of her “Espresso” music video. “I ended the last video getting arrested, so naturally I thought it would be satisfying to start the ‘Please, please, please’ video in jail,” she wrote. “I liked the idea of falling in love with a convict and being shocked and embarrassed every time he commits crimes. I was sooo lucky to get Barry Keoghan in the video cause he is just magic on screen.” There’s no arguing with that.
To celebrate Carpenter’s new single and the announcement of her sixth album (you read that right, this didn’t happen overnight!), the video’s director and Vogue contributor, Bardia Zeinali, and Carpenter’s stylist, Ron Hartleben, joined Vogue for a short and sweet (sorry, I had to) chat about the making of “Please, please, please.”
Every Gilmore Girls Christmas Episode, Ranked
To that end, below, a power ranking of all the Gilmore Girls Christmas episodes:
I Want What They Could Have Had: Hugh Grant and Luann de Lesseps
Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we’ll be examining the celebrity couples—or would-be couples—that give us hope for our own romantic futures, and trying to learn what we can from their well-documented bonds.
I try to stay reasonably up-to-date on my Hugh Grant news, which is easy enough when said news tends to be along the lines of, “Hugh Grant steps out in London wearing a sweater” (likely place for him to be and likely item for him to be wearing). Yet we Hugh-heads have been blessed with all kinds of interesting news lately. Not only was it confirmed that Grant will reprise his iconic role as Daniel Cleaver in the upcoming fourth installment of the Bridget Jones’s Diary film series, but he is also at the center of a veritable kissing imbroglio this week. On Friday, Real Housewives of New York alum Luann de Lesseps reported that she and the 64-year-old actor had engaged in a little makeout at a Hamptons restaurant on some unspecified prior date.
“A girlfriend of mine called me and was like, ‘Hugh Grant is at Pierre’s.’ I said, ‘I’ll be right over.’ I called and said, ‘Get the table right next to Hugh Grant.’ I had my family over, my brother was visiting me, and I said, ‘Let’s go,’” de Lesseps told the site TooFab. “I pushed out my chair real fast, and I bumped into him—flirting 101—I bumped into him and said, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry.’ He knows who I am because I know Andy [Cohen]. I go, ‘I’m so sorry. Can I buy you a shot? I feel terrible.’ He goes, ‘Okay, but I’ll come have a shot with you if you do one with me.’ Before you know it, we are taking shots and making out…heavily at the table! My brother was like, ‘I can’t believe you’re making out with Hugh Grant,’ and I was like, ‘Neither can I.’”
Beautifully enough, Grant actually responded to de Lesseps’s memory of their alleged kissing session on Monday, writing on X: “Steady on. I do remember meeting a charming RHNY in a restaurant, but I’d like to stress it was about 15 years ago. I don’t recall shots or kissing, but her memory might be better than mine.”