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Taylor Swift’s new album ‘Life of a Showgirl’: Everything to know

Taylor Swift sent shockwaves through her fandom by announcing her 12th studio album during her debut appearance on boyfriend Travis Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast.
“This is my brand new album,” the Grammy winner shared in a teaser clip for the Aug. 13 episode of Travis and Jason Kelce’s show.
Leading up to the announcement, Swift’s website featured a countdown to 12:12 a.m. on Aug. 12.
Here’s everything we know about the new album so far.
Album Name
Swift titled her highly anticipated album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” which features an orange and green color scheme.
In the Kelce brothers’ podcast sneak peek, the “Lover” songstress pulled the album out of a mint green briefcase with the letters “T.S.” monogrammed on the front.
During the preview she revealed the name of the upcoming album.
Album Cover
Swift revealed the album cover art for “Life of a Showgirl” at the same time as the podcast aired on Aug. 13.
The cover shows the singer submerged in water while wearing a crystal bustier and a stack of matching bracelets, including a diamond bangle by Zydo Italy.
The title of the album is lit up in the orange glitter that was teased on her site before the cover reveal.
Track List
There will be 12 tracks on the upcoming album, all of which she wrote while on the Eras Tour in Europe.
“It just comes from, like, the most infectiously joyful, wild, dramatic, place I was in, in my life. And so that effervescence has come through on this record … this is the record I’ve been wanting to make for a really long time,” she said during her “New Heights” appearance.
“Every single song is on this album for hundreds of reasons. You couldn’t take one out and it be the same album, you couldn’t add one; it’s just right. That focus, and that kind of discipline with creating an album and keeping the bar really high is something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time.”
Song titles include, “The Fate of Ophelia,” “Elizabeth Taylor,” “Opalite,” “Father Figure,” “Eldest Daughter,” “Ruin the Friendship,” “Actually Romantic,” “Wi$h Li$t,” “Wood,” “CANCELLED!,” “Honey,” and the titular song, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
Major Clues
Fans took to social media to share their theories that Swift had been hinting at TS12 for years.
One Swiftie pointed out that the “Love Story” singer wore a showgirl costume in her 2022 “Bejeweled” music video and was seen sitting on a massive clock pointing to 12.
It was suggested that the songwriter was referencing her album announcement set for 12:12 a.m. on Aug. 12.
Fans also speculated that the pop star dropped an Easter egg when she shared via Instagram in October 2024 that she was heading “back in the office” for her Eras Tour stop at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium.
At the time, Swift shared a video of herself walking out to section A12 in the stadium.
During her Miami performance, she also wore an orange bodysuit while performing her 2019 album “Lover” and an orange and green outfit during her “1989” album set.
Both colors are represented on the cover art for “The Life of a Showgirl.”
In Swift’s Eras Tour book, she also wrote about her “showgirl’s dressing room routine” and attached a photo of herself wearing an orange and green outfit, per a fan.
Release Date
“Mean Girls” day has now been rebranded as “Life of a Showgirl” day.
Swift announced on the podcast the new album would be released on Oct. 3.
Max Martin and Shellback Producing
Swift also confirmed that producers Max Martin and Shellback worked with her on “The Life of a Showgirl.”
“The three of us have made some of my favorite songs that I’ve ever done before,” Swift said of the producers on the podcast. “They were my main collaborators on my ‘Red’ album … we’ve made songs that I’m so proud of … [and doing this] felt like catching lightning in a bottle, honestly.”
The “So High School” singer hinted at the reunion when she created a Spotify playlist with 22 songs titled “And, baby, that’s show business for you.”
The curated playlist included songs produced by Martin and Shellback, born Karl Schuster, including “Blank Space,” “Bad Blood,” “All You Had To Do Was Stay,” “Wildest Dreams,” and “I Knew You Were Trouble.”
Collaborations
Taylor Swift confirmed the titular song on the album, “The Life of a Showgirl” would feature Sabrina Carpenter during the “New Heights” podcast.
The song will be the last track on the album, according to the track list.
Rumors were running high that Sabrina Carpenter might be featured on the new album ahead of the confirmation.
Fans noticed the “Manchild” songstress’ website featured an announcement entry for Aug. 12, though she didn’t include a description.
One also pointed out on X that Carpenter was in a Taylor Nation picture shared on Aug. 11.
Carpenter opened for several of Swift’s Eras Tour concerts and performed alongside the record-breaking artist at her New Orleans tour stop in October 2024.
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Jon Stewart surprises Stephen Colbert with a surprise serenade from Andra Day

“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart was one of Stephen Colbert’s final guests as “The Late Show” continues its final week, and he had quite the going-away present for his old friend.
Stewart, 63, and Colbert, 62, reminded fans that they go back decades to the late 1990s, when they both worked together on “The Daily Show” during Stewart’s first hosting stint.
“One of us has not aged as well as the other,” Stewart says of himself, joking, “One of these people is getting age-defying peptides, and the other is getting a placebo.”
The interview ended with Stewart presenting a gift for Colbert, a new recliner, but he had a surprise up his sleeve, bringing out one of Colbert’s favorite singers, Andra Day, which clearly stunned Colbert.
She came out and blew Colbert a few kisses before breaking into her 2015 breakthrough hit “Rise Up” for the comedy titans.
Stewart is no stranger to Colbert’s position, reminiscing on when he was fired from “The Jon Stewart Show,” which was syndicated through Paramount Domestic Television from 1993 to 1995.
“The term back then was ‘s–t-canned.’ I don’t know what they call it now. We had two more weeks to go, and they put security guards at all the exits … We didn’t have anything of value,” Stewart joked.
Stewart added that his show, ““spiraled so out of control” in those final weeks, “because I was not a mature grown-up like you are.”
Stewart’s final guest for that show was David Letterman, adding, “He said to me something very profound. He said, ‘Don’t confuse cancelation with failure.’ … But then he said, ‘But in this case it is also a failure.’”
Stewart also praised “The Late Show” staff, adding they were always, “So game” for whatever he had pitched to them, including a sketch involving alpacas.
“I am not a particularly good long term planner and I would challenge them. I talked to them and I said wouldn’t it be funny if it showed where I would be living at the time. Wouldn’t it be funny if I had a James Bond bookcase where I opened the bookcase and it revealed more of my lair. Wouldn’t it be funny if when it opened, it was revealed that I was raising alpacas? I was coming on the next day and he says to me, ‘They’ll build the room but the alpacas can’t be here till 1,’” Stewart said.
Colbert also welcomed director Steven Spielberg, who was promoting his new film “Disclosure Day,” which hits theaters June 12.
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Meryl Streep and Martin Short prove romance is still going strong with London dinner date

It’s [not] complicated.
Meryl Streep and Martin Short’s romance was proven to be still going strong after they were photographed together on a dinner date in London.
A fan took to X over the weekend to share that she had been seated near the actors in a restaurant.
“Spending a few days in London, picking a restaurant at random, and ending up eating just a few meters away from Meryl Streep and her husband ❤️,” the fan tweeted alongside a photo of the “Devil Wears Prada” actress and Short leaning in close to one another. (Streep and Short are not married.)
In the snap, the “Only Murders in the Building” actor and Streep were seated on the same side of their dining table and appeared to be looking at the actress’ cell phone.
When the fan was asked if she attempted to get a selfie with the actors, she replied, “No. They were having a great time. Full of laughs and tender gestures.
“No desire to impose myself in the middle of that,” the netizen claimed.
Streep and Short, both 76, first sparked dating rumors in October 2024 when they were spotted looking cozy while sitting together at the 2024 Golden Globes.
However, a rep for the “Father of the Bride” actor denied the gossip, telling People that they were “just very good friends, nothing more.”
In January 2024, Short doubled down on his claims that he and Streep were platonic during an appearance on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast.
“We’re not a couple. We are just very close friends,” he claimed at the time.
However, the following month, the “It’s Complicated” actress and Short were spotted catching dinner together at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica, California.
That August, they held hands on the red carpet at the Season 4 premiere of “Only Murders in the Building.”
A source exclusively told Page Six that the actors “seemed together” during the premiere.
In October 2023, we revealed that Streep secretly split from her husband, Don Gummer, six years prior. They were married for 40 years and welcomed son Henry, 46, and daughters Mamie, 42, Grace, 40, and Louisa, 34.
Short was previously married to Nancy Dolman for three decades until she died in 2010. They welcomed three children via adoption: sons Oliver, 40, Henry, 36, and daughter Katherine, who sadly died in February by an apparent suicide. She was 42.
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John Travolta reacts to attention his viral Cannes beret looks have gotten

John Travolta explained his bold looks at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, particularly, his choice to rock different colored berets.
The actor, 72, first caused a stir with his choice of headgear Friday, when he sported a slouchy white beret and spectacles at the premiere of his directorial debut, “Propeller One-Way Night Coach.”
He followed it up the next day with with a black beret paired with black wire-rimmed glasses at the film’s photocall Saturday.
Travolta explained that he came up with the much-talked-about outfits because he wanted to present himself as a director and not an actor.
“I said, ‘I’m a director this time. You’re an actor, play the part of a director, look like an old-school director,’” he explained to CNN.
“So I looked up pictures from the ’20, ’30s, ’40s, ’50, ’60s, and the old-school directors wore berets, and the glasses, and I thought, ‘That’s what I’m doing. I’m doing an homage to being a director, so I’m going to play the part of being a director.’”
The A-lister said he wanted to be able to look back at his outfits and remember the moment.
“I’ll know — ‘Oh, that was ‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach,’ that was Cannes, that’s when I won the Palme d’Or,’ and I’ll have a vividness of it,” he shared with a smile.
Travolta was presented with an honorary Cannes Palme d’Or — the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award — at this year’s annual festival.
“I’ve never been more proud to win an award!” he posted on Instagram Friday of the achievement. “To me the Cannes Palme d’Or award has always represented art at its finest. It is beyond a humbling experience.”
His 26-year-old daughter, Ella — who stars in “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” alongside her father — commented, “I’m so proud of you❤️.”
“Propeller One-Way Night Coach” follows a young airplane enthusiast named Jeff and his mother, who go on a one-way, cross-country journey to Hollywood.
It’s based on his own 1997 children’s novel of the same name.
Ella, who’s been by her dad’s side promoting the film at Cannnes, plays a flight attendant in the film.
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