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Jennifer Lopez determined to make 2025 her year post divorce

If there is one thing you can say about Jennifer Lopez, it’s that she makes a hell of a comeback.
The star was close to tears this week at the premiere of her new movie, “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
“There was a standing ovation, not for the movie — which is important, I think — but for her,” said New York Post critic Johnny Oleksinski, who was at the premiere.
“The audience leapt to their feet when she walked out onto the stage of the Eccles Theatre. Same theater where Best Picture nominees like ‘Call Me By Your Name,’ ‘Boyhood,’ Whiplash’ and ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ premiered. That had to have been validating for someone who rarely gets that kind of recognition.”
In fact, Lopez is already earning the 2026 Oscar buzz for the big-screen version of the Tony-winning musical.
“I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole life,” she told the crowd at Park City’s Eccles Theatre. “The reason I even wanted to be in this business is because my mom would sit me in front of the TV and [‘West Side Story’] would come on once a year. I was mesmerized and was like, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ This is the first time I actually got to do it.”
J.Lo’s emotional appearance comes on the heels of her very own annus horribilis — a rocky 2024 that saw the demise of what was supposed to be her fairytale second chance with Ben Affleck.
Last year started off with the release of “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story,” a fever-dream musical trip through Lopez’s four marriages, and the documentary “The Greatest Love Story Never Told,” which featured scenes with Affleck.
And although the singer came under fire for pushing their love story into the spotlight — including using Affleck’s love letters for her new album — sources told Page Six that he was the brains behind the doc.
Months later, the pair’s marriage — which came more than 20 years after their first engagement — fell apart in public, while Lopez’s “This Is Me … Now” album met with poor reviews and sales and she canceled her concert tour.
Now Lopez is ready to reinvent. “There’s a lot of positivity for the year ahead,” said a source who knows Lopez, “It’s a big year for her.”
Her Hollywood career is soaring. Her divorce from Affleck was finally wrapped up in early January.
But that doesn’t mean he’s out of her life just yet.
If the movie — which has yet to be bought by a distributor — receives any awards nominations, the pair could easily end up in the same room or even on the same stage.
The exes also teamed up on Lopez’s last movie, the drama “Unstoppable,” in which she played the mother of a wrestler who was born with one leg.
That film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September — just two weeks after Lopez filed for divorce. She turned up in a “f––k it” revenge dress with open sides that showed off her incredibly toned body.
As Page Six revealed at the time, Affleck was nowhere to be seen at any of the screenings, surely by design.
As a Hollywood awards insider told us, “The director and cast can be the face of the film, producers don’t need to be there.”
Despite their break-up, Lopez remains close to Affleck’s kids, Violet, 19, Serafina, 16, and Sam, 9. (Serafina is also best pals with Emme, one of Lopez’ 16-year-old twins along with brother Max.)
We’re also told that Lopez is close to their mom, Affleck’s first wife, Jennifer Garner. “They’re still communicating, they’re on good terms,” said the Lopez source.
As for Affleck, 52, he’s moved on and has bought a new home in the Brentwood area of LA, near Garner. As we revealed, he was spotted with Kick Kennedy, the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., this summer and the pair are believed to have had a casual friendship.
This week, Affleck made a surprise appearance at a Netflix event in Los Angeles to promote the new thriller “‘RIP,” which he and Damon starred in and produced.
“There was an audible gasp when Ben came into the theater,” said an industry insider who was there. “It was only 9 a.m. but several women in the front row commented afterwards how amazing he looks.”
Affleck was spotted talking to The Duffer brothers, the creators of the Netflix hit “Stranger Things.” and the insider added: “Last time I saw him he was with J. Lo. It was just after their marriage, and you could see the strain on his face. He didn’t look happy like a newlywed should, he seemed stressed out. Seeing him this week was such a marked change. He looks healthy and like he doesn’t have a care in the world.”
Lopez, meanwhile, is also producing her own projects for Netflix. Her company Nuyorican is making a series out of the Emily Henry bestselling novel “Happy Place,” which “Bridgerton” Emmy nominee Leila Cohan is co-writing and show running for the streamer.
Keeping with the theme of her comeback year, Lopez was honored with the Legend & Groundbreaker Award at the 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival in January.
“I’m humbled; I’m blown away … ” she said at the time. “But I still have so much more to do. I’m at the halfway mark. I feel like my best work is in front of me. My biggest projects are in front of me, and my biggest successes. Everything is in the future.”
“Kiss of the Spider Woman” is a feature adaptation of the Broadway musical, which won Chita Rivera a Tony Award in 1993 for the role now played by Lopez onscreen.
When the topic of Oscars buzz was brought up, Lopez said she didn’t “even want to begin the conversation” — although, she added, “Of course, I would love it to get the recognition that I believe it deserves.”
In 2020, Lopez was expected to make the Oscars shortlist for playing an enterprising stripper in “Hustlers” but failed to get a nomination — which some in Hollywood chalked up to snobbery.
The snub hurt, Lopez admitted in her 2022 Netflix doc “Halftime,” as she talked about her struggle “to be heard, to be seen, to be taken seriously” in Hollywood.
“It was hard. I just had very low self-esteem,” she said,“I had to really figure out who I was and believe in that, and not believe in anything else.”
She’s soon to start filming a new Netflix rom-com, “Office Romance” with “Ted Lasso” heartthrob Brett Goldstein.
He has made no secret that he had a crush on Lopez.
Fans found a clip of Goldstein, who co-wrote the project, talking about Lopez on a 2018 episode of his “Films to Be Buried With” podcast.
“F–king hell … ” he said of his future co-star. “I love her.”
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‘Euphoria’ kills off Jacob Elordi’s Nate Jacobs

He’s not feeling euphoric.
Warning: Spoilers ahead! Do not proceed unless you’ve watched “Euphoria’s” seventh episode of Season 3.
“Euphoria” catapulted Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney and Zendaya into their current status as A-listers, and now, one has been axed from the show.
Season 3 killed Elordi’s controversial character, Nate Jacobs.
He was buried alive in a coffin, with a pipe leading to the surface so that he could breathe. A rattlesnake slithered down the pipe and bit him.
He had been placed there by Naz (Jack Topalian), the gangster he owes about a million dollars to.
Naz’s plan was to leave Nate down there (with a pipe to breathe) for 72 hours while his wife, Cassie (Sweeney) could get the money together.
Unfortunately for Nate, before 72 hours was up, a snake got him. Naz also didn’t make it out alive, as he was fatally shot by Season 3’s other gangster, Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). Cassie and Maddy (Alexa Demie) scrambled to get the money together as Nate got dug up, but they got a nasty surprise, as they were met with his dead body.
In the “inside the episode” segment at the end, Elordi said in his post-mortem interview, “It was a cool way to go, Nate is somebody who’s made so many mistakes and so many dark choices.”
First premiering in 2019, the Sam Levinson-created drama initially followed its characters in high school. Elordi, Zendaya and Sweeney were lesser known at the time.
“Euphoria changed my life,” Elordi, 28, told Variety in 2023.
“Saltburn” was the Australian star’s big-screen breakout that same year. Per Vogue Australia, his “Wuthering Heights” co-star Margot Robbie (who produced “Saltburn”) suggested him for the role at the time after watching him in “Euphoria.”
The “Frankenstein” star told GQ UK in 2023 that before landing on the HBO show, “I wasn’t booking jobs. I think I had – I don’t know, $400 or $800 left in my bank account – and ‘Euphoria’ was my last audition before I went home for a little while to make some money and recuperate.”
In the first two seasons, Nate was the show’s villain. He was a high school jock with anger issues – he manipulated, threatened and blackmailed everyone around him, choked his then-girlfriend, Maddy (Alexa Demi), and struck up a relationship with her best friend, Cassie (Sweeney).
Nate’s issues stemmed from finding his father Cal’s (Eric Dane) sex tapes at a young age.
In Season 3, which is set five years after high school, Nate had a dramatically different personality.
His rage issues inexplicably seemed vanished, his demeanor was softer and nicer and he appeared to genuinely love Cassie (instead of using her, like he was in Season 2).
Instead of being menacing, he did a goofy dance at his wedding. After he didn’t get his way in front of a board of bureucrats, rather than blackmail or threaten them, he just pathetically cried and begged.
Outraged fans criticized “Euphoria” for Nate’s inexplicable personality change and slammed it for giving the character a “lobotomy.”
Season 3 saw Nate take over his dad’s construction business, but he ran into issues when he had to stop his build because of an endangered flower – the white fritillary.
The show also revealed that he conned people into giving him money for his construction projects, including the gangster Naz.
In the third episode of Season 3, when Nate didn’t pay Naz the half a million dollars he owed him, Naz interrupted Nate and Cassie’s wedding and had him brutally beaten on his wedding night. It all culminated in Naz cutting off Nate’s toe. However, Nate later got it sewn back on.
Topalian exclusively told Page Six that Elordi did most of his own stunts during the scene where Naz’s henchmen threw Nate around.
“That’s [Elordi] really doing the struggling and the fighting and the falling and all of that,” he told us.
He called Elordi “committed,” “giving,” and “prepared,” but “between scenes, he’s back to being Jacob.”
“Obviously, he gets back into character really quickly,” he went on. “But once [the director calls ‘cut’] even though he’s been beaten and abused, he’s still having a lot of fun. He’s still cracking jokes and doing things like that.”
Elordi told Entertainment Weekly in November that his acting process was different in Season 3. He noted that he likes to “obsess over” his work, and take the time to prepare by going through “every element and construct it and put it together.”
The booked and busy actor – who was in “Frankenstein” and “Wuthering Heights” back to back – noted that he had “no time” to prepare for Season 3.
“And I didn’t have scripts in any kind of full sense. I sort of just had creative conversations with Sam, so I had no choice.”
The “Priscilla” actor also noted that he “loves” Nate, even though most fans hate him.
“I act to understand a different experience, to express an experience that’s different to my own,” said Elordi. “Playing him taught me a lot about empathy and patience, which is strange with a character like that.”
Elordi also told the outlet that Nate’s dark deeds didn’t bother him.
“It’s a real treat to be a part of that show, and to play the quote-unquote bad guy,” he said. “It’s always more fun. You don’t wanna play some morally superior, world-saving loser.”
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Robert De Niro had no idea ‘Taxi Driver’ would become a classic

You talkin’ to him?
Robert De Niro had no idea his 1976 film “Taxi Driver” would be lauded as a classic.
“You never can think that you’re doing something that’s going to have an impact,” the actor, 82, exclusively explained to Page Six in a recent interview alongside his fellow Tribeca Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal to promote next month’s event.
The Oscar winner “just never look[s] at it that way,” he adding, noting that success is “out of your control.”
The neo-noir drama, directed by Martin Scorsese, stars De Niro as an unhinged taxi driver named Travis Bickle, whose mental state deteriorates over the course of the movie.
De Niro acted in the iconic role alongside Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks.
The project generated controversy at the time for graphic violence and 12-year-old Foster’s casting as a child sex worker — and, later, for inspiring John Hinckley Jr.’s attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.
Nevertheless, it is considered one of the greatest movies ever made and, in 1994, was designated as “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant by the U.S. Library of Congress when selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
The movie, which turned 50 this year, is being screened at the June film festival — and De Niro and Scorsese, 83, will reunite for a conversation about the project.
Their sitdown is just one of many special talks and screenings taking place at this year’s 25th Tribeca Festival.
Not only are interviews with Madonna, Sean Penn and Josh Safdie also scheduled, but there will be special anniversary screenings of “Cable Guy” and “Bridget Jones’s Diary.”
“There are so many great things to see,” Rosenthal told us. “There’s so much music, everybody from Earth, Wind and Fire and Madonna to Noga Erez and Sarah Bareilles and Peter Frampton.
“There’s just a lot to see,” the 69-year-old continued, stressing that the festival is “a welcome festival for all New Yorkers [with] tickets available” now.
The annual event, which runs from June 3 through June 14, was established in 2002 to spur the revitalization of Lower Manhattan following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Laura Clery praises first responders after being crushed by fridge

Comedian and social media star Laura Clery praised the first responders who helped her after she was pinned beneath a 600 pound fridge in a freak accident.
Clery was seen in an Instagram video wearing a neck brace while speaking with emergency workers in an ambulance.
“So I was crushed by a 600 pound fridge,” Clery said as she looked up at two firefighters. “Is that correct?”
One of the mean — both of whom wore navy blue uniforms — responded, “Yes.”
A dazed Clery then looked into the camera before the clip ended. She wrote atop the video, “Shout out to these actual HEROES who pushed a 600 pound fridge off of me.”
“This was right after the fentanyl hit and all of my pain [went] away (instantly) I just need to say THANK YOU to these AMAZING firefighters who saved my life!!” the YouTuber captioned the video on Saturday.
“Truly. They got there so fast, broke through my garage door, and 3 of them pushed a 600 pound fridge off of me and got me safely to the trauma unit before things got worse.”
Clery also reflected on how “differently this could have gone” and said she felt “overwhelming gratitude.”
“No broken bones, my kids are okay and safe, I can walk… I’m so lucky!” she continued, praising the personnel as being “calm, kind” and handling “everything like absolute heroes!”
“And then right as one of them pushes the fridge off me, he goes, ‘Wait… I watch all of your videos!’ and they all start hyping me up 😭 like sir… I am currently being flattened but thank you 😂”
She concluded the post, “Forever grateful for these men. Real life angels. 😭🙏❤️”
In the comments thread, Clery admitted that she was “nervous” about fentanyl before it was administered, “but the pain was so severe that they injected it into me and thank God I had no craving to do it again as a recovering addict,” she wrote.
“That’s something we have to think about even when facing an immense amount of pain.”
Clery, 39, shared details of the “most terrifying night of [her] life as a single mom” in an Instagram upload on Thursday.
She said she was getting ready for bed earlier this week when her “600 pound fridge slammed into me and pinned me against the counter.”
During the terrifying incident, she “couldn’t move” and “couldn’t breathe” and that her kids Alfie, 7, and Poppy, 5 — whom she shares with ex-husband Stephen Hilton — were in the house at the time.
“Thank God it didn’t fall on my kids,” she wrote atop a video of her being transported to an ambulance.
The social media personality was able to reach into her pocket for her phone and call 911. “It took three firefighters to lift it off me,” she said. “I’m still shaking.”
She was also able to text Hilton writing, “I’m dying. Come by now now now.”
In the video, Clery could be heard complaining of severe pain following the incident.
She later shared that her son Alfie, who is autistic, had toppled the weighty refrigerator while climbing on it and that it wasn’t “properly mounted into the wall.”
Clery also stated that she wants to “f–king sue the contractor” who installed the fridge and called the oversight “negligence.”
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