Jennifer Lopez tipped for an Oscar after Kiss of the Spider Woman trailer
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Fans are convinced that Jennifer Lopez could finally nab her first Oscar after the trailer for Kiss of the Spider Woman dropped.
The film, an adaptation of the 1993 Broadway musical of the same name, will be released in cinemas on October 10 and has already been met with rave reviews.
The On The Floor star, 55, will be starring as Ingrid Luna, a diva actress made up by gay hairdresser Luis Molina (Tonatiuh) while he's enduring an eight-year jail sentence in Argentina.
Attempting to escape the horror of prison, he dreams up a string of movies starring the imaginary actress, including one where she plays a spider woman who kills her lovers with a kiss.
When he is joined in his cell by Marxist Valentin Arregui Paz (Diego Luna), his time behind bars is transformed as they forge an unlikely bond.
The first teaser for the movie, directed by Bill Condon, was shared this week, showing the singer belting out Where You Are while switching between a series of fabulous costumes – all through the imagination of Luis.
Fans were mesmerized over the footage and flocked to social media to rave about JLo's efforts, with many tipping her to win big during awards season.
Flocking to the comments below an Instagram post of the trailer, Cru.stella predicted: 'This could be the movie that Jennifer will receive an Oscar nomination. It looks dazzling.'
The_messymentor agreed: 'I was just thinking the same thing. She has waited for too long to be recognized for her talents by the academy.'
'Hello????! I hear an Oscar win!! This looks phenomenal!!,' Jlotheitgirl commented.
Ladelsanto penned: 'They're so not ready for this award winning performance!!!!!!!!'
As Ohmymybri added: 'And the 2026 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress goes to… Jennifer Lopez!'
This isn't the first time Jennifer has been mentioned in the lead up to the Academy Awards, as she was previously tipped to take home a coveted trophy for her efforts in 2019 flick Hustlers, but failed to land a nomination.
The 1985 movie adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Woman – based on Manuel Puig's novel – previously saw success at the ceremony when William Hurt landed the gong for best actor for his role.
In a new interview, the Love Don't Cost A Thing musician shared her hopes that Bill's version gets the same love.
Speaking of the Oscars buzz surrounding her latest role, she told Variety that she didn't 'even want to begin the conversation', but insisted: 'Of course, I would love it to get the recognition that I believe it deserves.
'Bill wrote a script that for the first time in my life I was in bed reading it and I started saying it out loud. Saying the lines and laughing and crying. More Trending
'This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. This is all I've ever wanted to do.
'I got into movies because of West Side Story. I thought I was going to do Broadway. I wanted to do movies but I didn't even think about records. I wanted to do musicals. I love musicals. My kids love musicals. My mother did.
'It was a dream fulfilled in having done the movie.'
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The VERY varied fortunes of F1's most glam WAGs ever: As Silverstone's British Grand Prix turns 75, how one wife 'died of heartbreak' and another went on to steal Elizabeth Taylor's man
From Lewis Hamilton to Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc, handsome F1 drivers have long impressed fans with not only their speed on the racetrack but also their dashing good looks. But it's not only the heartthrob sportsmen who have often left audiences hot under the collar - their equally stunning girlfriends and wives regularly turn heads as they cheer their men on from the sidelines. The glossy pitlane posse of WAGs who are championing their partners this year includes Kelly Piquet, a 35-year-old model from Brazil who's dated Max since January 2021. Elsewhere, Scottish model Rebecca Donaldson and fashionista Alexandra Saint Mleux are proving to be staunch supporters for their drivers Carlos Sainz and Charles, respectively. But today's social media sensations follow on from the glamorous figures of the 1950s, '60s and '70s, with F1's appeal having always extended beyond racing. For instance, Lady Helen Stewart was one half of a glamorous 1960s F1 couple with the British racing driver Sir Jackie Stewart, while Suzy Hunt's marriage to James Hunt in the '70s was the society wedding of the year. This year, Silverstone, the home of the British Grand Prix, celebrates 75 years of the F1 championship - and the upcoming milestone weekend of racing will no doubt see an array of radiant WAGs once again put on a spectacular display. So, ahead of the three-day event, starting on July 5 with the practise round and finishing with the thrilling head-to-head race on July 7, FEMAIL takes a look at some of the most glamorous wives and girlfriends to ever grace the circuit - and their varied fortunes. 1950s Louise King Married to Peter Collins American actress Louise King and her British driver husband Peter Collins made up a glamorous 1950s racing couple. They met in a Miami bar in 1957 and just two days later, the racer proposed. A week after first meeting they were married, reported The Guardian. Aged 24, Louise was on tour with the Broadway production of The Seven Year Itch, while Peter, then 25, from Kidderminster, was beginning his second season as a member of Ferrari's grand prix team. A year later, the impressive driver won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, after finishing third in the Monaco Grand Prix and fifth in France. But in Germany just weeks later, as his supportive wife sat in the Ferrari pit with a stopwatch and a lap chart, Peter suffered a fatal crash. He had reportedly been set to retire at the end of that season ahead of starting a family. 'I had only a year and a half with Peter, but it was the most joyous time,' Louise later said in the 2017 documentary Ferrari: the Race to Immortality, according to the publication. She continued: 'He was a great driver: when he won the British Grand Prix in July 1958, they even said he might become the best. He was 26. He died three weeks later. 'We'd just bought our first house, near his parents in Kidderminster. We were just starting our life together, and there it was: over.' Louise, who died 18 August 2021 at the age of 88, would later marry Canadian film producer and screenwriter Gordon Burwash. He passed away in 1980. Meanwhile, Louise went on to act again before spending her final years in Florida, volunteering at a local history museum. She would always describe Peter as the love of her life. 1960s Helen Stewart Married to Sir Jackie Stewart Back in the early days, Sir Jackie Stewart, now 85, and his wife Lady Helen, born on 21 January 1941 in Helensburgh, Scotland, were the poster boy and girl of Formula 1 racing. He won 27 races out of 99 starts and was world champion three times before being knighted in 2001, while his glamorous and stylish counterpart was the 'original pit lane girl', attending 'every race'. Lady Helen - who wed her childhood sweetheart in August 1962 - was also an actress, known for Seven Days Too Long (1968), The Wicked Die Slow (1968) and Weekend of a Champion (1972). 'My wife was the original pit lane girl, my professional stopwatch - timing my laps to the millisecond,' Sir Jackie said to the Daily Mail previously. Lady Helen – the love of his life – was around before he made the big time; they fell in love when he was 18 and she 16. Speaking to the publication in 2014, the retired driver - who shares two grown-up children, Mark and Paul, with his beloved wife, added: 'We've had a fantastic relationship. 'It was a glamorous life, there were lots of girls around, but by the time I got into Formula 1 Helen was pregnant with Paul. 'My first victory was just before he was born, so the two are intertwined. We've been married 52 years and we still look after each other very well.' The couple were known to divide their time between their estate in Buckinghamshire, close to Chequers, the Prime Minister's country residence, and a house in Switzerland. For most of the marriage, theirs has been a gilded lifestyle with lots of travel, luxury and hobnobbing with celebrities and royals - Princess Anne has been a close friend for 40 years and Lady Helen is Zara Tindall's godmother. After retiring in 1973, Sir Jackie cut a series of commercial deals (being the first driver to spray a bottle of champagne on the podium brought him a contract with Moet Hennessy) and today he has an estimated fortune of $50million. But life irreversibly changed for the former Formula One golden couple after Lady Helen was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia - a less common form of the illness that can develop at a younger age - more than a decade ago. Lady Helen can no longer walk and suffers from significant memory loss - a common feature in sufferers of the condition. Sir Jackie launched the Race Against Dementia charity with filmmaker son Mark following her diagnosis. 1970s Suzy Hunt Married James Hunt James Hunt, who competed in Formula One from 1973 to 1979, and was played by A-lister Chris Hemsworth in the 2013 film Rush, which explored the British racing driver's intense rivalry with racer Niki Lauda, was married to supermodel Suzy Miller. Together, they were one of the decade's It couples, with their nuptials in October 1974 in London, undoubtedly the society wedding of the year. Suzy was a striking woman, who, while described as 'not classically beautiful', captivated everyone she met with her willowy figure and charming presence. She met her future husband in Spain in 1974, aged 24, a year younger than Hunt. The pair fell into easy conversation, and after a whirlwind romance lasting only a few weeks, Hunt proposed. Immediately after the proposal, he reportedly expressed regret to his friends, saying he was not sure what he was doing - and was said to have spent the run up to their wedding drunk. However, the driver was aware of the great deal of value she added to him so resolved to try to make the relationship work, according to Shunt: The Story of James Hunt author Tom Rubython. But fed up of her husband's antics, Suzy later ran off with Richard Burton in 1976, after the Welsh actor split from Elizabeth Taylor. Burton reportedly paid Hunt $1m during the couple's divorce settlement, with the driver assuring the actor: 'You've done me a wonderful turn by taking on the most alarming expense account in the country.' Hunt died of a heart attack in 1993 at his home in Wimbledon. He was 45. He reportedly left a large sum of money for his friends to get drunk at his wake. Barbro Peterson Married to Ronnie Peterson Barbro met Lotus Formula driver Ronnie Peterson in true swinging 60s style while dancing in a club in Örebro, Sweden, around the spring of 1968. She worked as a secretary before moving to New York City in 1969 to become an au pair, however, she returned for the 1970 racing season. Barbro was more of a hands-on WAG and took up the role of Ronnie's timekeeper and was often found perching on the pit counter, watching her husband's performance. The couple married in 1975 and decided to make England their home, although they had a flat in Monaco and a holiday home in their homeland, Sweden. Barbro gave first to their daughter Nina in the November of that year and the pair lived together as a happy family for a couple of years. However, only three years after they tied the knot, Ronnie tragically died aged 34 on 11 September 1978 after his Lotus crashed during the Italian Grand Prix. Riccardo Patrese had collided with James Hunt and this caused a chain-reaction which launched Ronnie's Lotus into the barriers at 100mph. The impact of the smash tore off the front end of the vehicle and he sustained severe leg injuries so much so that amputation was considered. He was rushed to Niguarda hospital in Milan, but his condition worsened through the night, causing him to pass away from a bone marrow embolism that entered his bloodstream. Barbaro found it hard to cope after the love of her life was taken away from her prematurely and died of suicide less than a week before Christmas Day in 1987 aged 40. As Barbro was so involved in her late husband's racing life, she was thought to be terribly lonely after his passing. She dated British racing driver John Watson for around five years but Lotus team manager Peter Warr believed that deep down she knew her soulmate was Ronnie. Warr told Motorsport Magazine: 'The lifestyle she led and the happiness she found with Ronnie was totally irreplaceable. She wouldn't have found it with anyone else. 'They were made for each other, and they were just delirious that things worked out so well. They loved life and they loved each other.' Their deaths left 12-year-old Nina an orphan and she was raised by her grandparents. 1980s Susie Moss Married to Sir Stirling Moss Lady Susie Moss first met British F1 legend Sir Stirling Moss when she was five years old and he was 28 in Hong Kong, as the pair's families were close. The pair met again years later when Susie moved to London aged 17. The pair struck up a friendship that slowly blossomed into a romance, despite Stirling briefly going out with Susie's older sister, Tina. Susie previously told the Mail: 'The age gap didn't matter. I never thought about it because, to me, he was never old. He was always such fun.' Susie was four months pregnant with their son Elliot when they married in 1980 at Hammersmith & Fulham Register Office. Susie was never worried that her husband might stray and said: 'Once we'd got married, he wasn't a player. He believed very strongly that one belongs to one.' The pair spent 40 years travelling the world together, going to iconic festivals such as the Goodwood Festival of Speed and luxurious socialite events with brands such as Louis Vuitton and Chopard. Despite the many near-misses of his racing career, Stirling always seemed indestructible. In 2010, aged 80, he even survived a fall down the lift shaft at his home. He had summoned it and stepped into a void, realising too late that the door had opened onto emptiness. He broke both ankles, four bones in his foot and chipped four vertebrae in the plunge. 'I thought I'd lost him,' says Susie. 'But he came bouncing back. He made no fuss at all.' Stirling - who was previously married to Elaine Barberino - then passed away aged 90 from a chest infection in 2020 at their Mayfair home. He had retired from public life in January 2018 after undergoing lengthy rehabilitation for a serious chest infection he contracted in Singapore in 2016. Susie was at his bedside as he died, having nursed him through a long illness, at their central London house. She told the Daily Mail: 'He died as he lived, looking wonderful. He simply tired in the end and he just closed his beautiful eyes and that was that.' Three years after becoming a widow, Susie died aged 69 following a protracted period of ill health, however, her sister Tina believes she passed away from 'a broken heart'. 'My beloved sister died of a broken heart,' Tina, wife of ebullient retail tycoon Sir Philip Green, said amid floods of tears to the Daily Mail. 'She never recovered after Stirling left us. Their marriage was the greatest love story I have ever known.' Their union lasted for nearly four decades, in vivid contrast to his first two marital excursions. The first, to Canadian brewing heiress Kate Molson, ended after three years, while the second, to American Elaine Barbarino, with whom he had a daughter, Allison, endured just a year longer. Susie previously told the Mail: 'He had so many beautiful girlfriends. Oh, they were gorgeous!' 'I think there might be a photo of me among them in the book somewhere. We both kept in touch with a lot of them. I didn't have a problem with that. And the first Mrs Moss (Katie, nee Molson, heir to the Canadian brewing dynasty) used to come and stay with us in London and at our house in Florida.' Susie was never worried that her husband might stray: 'Once we'd got married, he wasn't a player. He believed very strongly that one belongs to one.' The couple lived in Mayfair, just a stone's throw from swanky private members' club 5 Hertford Street, at the house which Sir Stirling designed and equipped with a treasury of gadgets. Susie remained there after his death - sleeping close to the urn containing his ashes. 'She has gone far too soon,' her sister Lady Green said in 2023. 'We will miss her terribly.' 1990s Adriane Galisteu Partner of Ayrton Senna Adriane first met legendary Brazilian F1 driver Ayrton Senna when she worked as a hospitality hostess for the oil company Shell at the 1993 Brazilian Grand Prix. Despite the pair seeing each other several times during that race weekend in the hospitality suite, they didn't interact until Ayrton celebrated after the Brazilian Grand Prix at Limelight Club. During their relationship, Adriane lived a glitzy lifestyle and would often jet off to destinations such as Monaco and Hungary to cheer on her boyfriend. According to Tom Rubython's 2004 biography, The Life of Senna, Ayrton planned to stay in Portugal with Adriane for five months during the European race season in 1994 and not return to Brazil during that time, as reported by Business Insider. This caused a rift between the pair and Ayrton's family, who allegedly felt as though the glamorous blonde model was not good enough for their son. Galisteu saw Senna for the last time on April 3, 1994, weeks before his death. She was taking an English language course in Brazil in preparation for spending time in Europe and living with Senna. But their love story was cut short after Ayrton died during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix in Italy while racing for Williams aged just 34. He crashed into a concrete wall at 190mph and died almost instantly from the impact. Heartbroken Adriane - who saw Ayrton for the last time on April 3, 1994, weeks before his death - witnessed the crash as she was watching the race live on television from his apartment in Portugal. She told the Mail: 'I saw the accident and thought nothing of it,' she said. 'In fact, I thought, 'Good, he'll be back early, thank goodness'.' 'But then I saw it was more serious than I first imagined. I stood in front of the TV and watched the replay over and over again. I could see the car was damaged but I never thought he had died.' Adriane was told to get on a plane to Italy immediately but when it was about to take off, the pilot got a call from the tower. She said: 'I imagined it was Ayrton saying 'You don't need to come, everything is OK'. 'It was a friend [who said] ''Adriane, you don't need to come'. 'Wow, that's good', I said, thinking he must be improving. 'No, he's dead'. My world stopped at that moment. 'In my head it was impossible: he could only die of old age. It was incredible that he died doing what he knew best in life. 'It was very difficult for Brazil, for the whole world, but even more for me. It took me many years to recover my life, especially amorously.' Images show emotional Adriane joining mourners at his funeral in May 1994 as she appears to break down in tears over his coffin. Per Rubython's biography, Aridane said that Ayrton told her that he wanted to marry her someday, switch from Williams to Ferrari and had dreamed of becoming a father one day. After his untimely death, she ended up marrying Brazilian businessman Roberto Justus in 1998, but the pair divorced a year later in 1999. She then tied the knot with her current husband Alexandre Iódice in 2010 and the pair share one son together named Vittorio. The former model now works as an actress and TV host, boasting more than six million followers on Instagram, where she regularly shares an insight into her glamorous life. 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