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Time of India
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Has Taylor Swift officially replaced Blake Lively with Dakota Johnson? Inside the dinner that's fueling Hollywood feud rumors
Taylor Swift's recent dinner with Dakota Johnson in NYC has ignited fan speculation about her inner circle dynamics (Getty Images) Taylor Swift's recent dinner outing with actress Dakota Johnson in New York City has sent fans into a frenzy—not just because of their shared history, but also due to rising speculation over Swift's inner-circle dynamics. On May 29, the pop icon was seen at Via Carota, a favorite celebrity haunt in the West Village, enjoying a meal alongside Johnson, her brother Austin Swift, and Jesse Johnson, Dakota's brother. A stylish reunion in NYC raises questions about Taylor Swift's evolving inner circle What made this particular sighting notable is the rarity of Taylor Swift and Dakota Johnson being seen together publicly. Despite their friendship reportedly dating back nearly a decade, sightings of the two have been infrequent. However, longtime fans may recall a 2016 birthday post by mutual friend Cara Delevingne, which featured the pair FaceTiming—an early glimpse into their off-camera connection. — TSwiftNZ (@TSwiftNZ) While their public appearances have been scarce, admiration between the two is no secret. Johnson notably described Taylor Swift as "the most powerful person in America" during her Saturday Night Live monologue in January 2024. She doubled down in a March interview, identifying herself as a 'proud Swiftie' and highlighting Swift's unmatched 'work ethic, songwriting, and kindness to her fans.' by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Our one of a kind Patented Cold Water Extraction Process Superior Ginseng Undo The renewed public sighting, therefore, signals more than just a dinner—it underscores a shared respect and possibly a rekindled closeness amid changing tides in Swift's high-profile social life. Speculation swirls over Blake Lively rift amid legal drama This sighting also comes at a time when Taylor Swift's relationship with longtime friend Blake Lively is under scrutiny. Reports suggest Lively's legal clash with It Ends With Us actor Justin Baldoni may have affected her bond with Swift. According to court reports, Baldoni's team alleged that Lively tried to use Swift's influence in the dispute, even reportedly pressuring her to speak out in support. Although a subpoena directed at Swift was later dropped, the situation sparked rumors of distance between the once-tight duo. At Via Carota, Swift looked radiant in a floral-print dress paired with Christian Louboutin heels, embodying her signature blend of elegance and confidence. Johnson, equally striking in a black ensemble and cropped leather jacket, seemed relaxed, suggesting genuine camaraderie. Also Read: Taylor Swift ditches Travis Kelce for glamorous solo night out in NYC — is trouble brewing before the ring? While Taylor Swift has kept a lower profile amid her Eras Tour and headline-grabbing romance with Travis Kelce, this intimate evening out reminds fans she remains deeply woven into Hollywood's elite—and still values long-standing friendships despite the ever-shifting celebrity landscape.
India Today
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India Today
She met a 'cute British boy' on a flight and now they're married after long distance
What started as a chance encounter at 30,000 feet has become a real-life love story that has made social media users year, Megan Meza, a digital creator, posted a video documenting her journey with the 'cute British boy' she met on a flight who is now her husband. However, she went viral after her post was shared by the Instagram account The Way We Met earlier this video in question featured photos and short snippets as Meza described her 'love story that truly feels like a movie.' The story begins with a candid picture Meza took mid-flight, captioned: 'Me noticing a cute British boy on my flight.' Excited, Meza texted her friends: 'Guys, it finally happened. My seat neighbour on my flight is cute. Except someone's in the middle.'As per screenshots of their conversation, one of her friends also suggested she move to the middle the meantime, the mystery man didn't disappoint. 'He swapped to sit next to me for the entire flight,' Meza said, posting a selfie with Meza and Freddie Gershinson's connection didn't fade after the flight as both kept in touch, FaceTiming daily. Eventually, Meza flew to London to visit him. Gershinson later surprised her in New couple managed a long-distance relationship for two years and reunited whenever possible. Now, the distance is over - for good.'Can't believe I get to marry the cute guy from the plane,' Meza said in the post that also featured a picture from their the video here: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Megan Meza (@meggymeza)Here are some more snippets of their dreamy love story: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Megan Meza (@meggymeza) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Megan Meza (@meggymeza) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Megan Meza (@meggymeza)Isn't this proof that sometimes love, perhaps, really is just one seat away?
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Yahoo
Gen Z and boomers are both FaceTiming in public — but for different reasons
The other day, I was waiting for the subway, standing next to a woman in her pajamas making breakfast. She wasn't actually next to me but on the screen of another rider's iPhone. The flashes of movement on the screen and their loud conversation caught my attention. I wasn't trying to be nosy, but I (and several other commuters around me) was suddenly involved in what would have been a private, intimate moment. I'm not the only one getting annoyed. Social media posts abound with people districted and flustered by the prevalence of public video calls. "Am I insane for thinking it's extremely rude to FaceTime without headphones in a public space?" one Threads poster asked last year. "I find this to be so inconsiderate, entitled and obnoxious, honestly. I will never understand." The more than 350 comments that followed revealed a divide about whether we should be turning the whole world into our living room. Some questioned how FaceTiming was any different from chatting with a friend in person. Others deemed public FaceTimers "arrogant individuals with no care for others." This isn't a new phenomenon. FaceTime debuted with the iPhone 4 in 2010, but it took a few more years for enough people to get iPhones and grow accustomed to — and eventually feel entitled to — constant connection. The feature became available not just through WiFi but also via cellular data in 2012. People began to complain to etiquette experts, who gave their takes on the nuisance in newspaper columns. Video calls became even more normalized in 2020, when many of us started working remotely and stacking our calendars with Zoom meetings from 9-to-5, followed by virtual happy hours. Now, many have taken our comfort with chatting on camera into the real world. Our smartphones have blurred the space between what we do at home and what we do in public, and the digital world now has a tangible place in the public sphere. Pamela Rutledge, the director of the Media Psychology Research Center, says FaceTiming and talking on speakerphone in public are symptoms of broader shifts in social norms over the past two decades. It's common to check your phone at the dinner table or seclude yourself from public interactions with headphones. When people start a video call with someone, even in a crowded area, "our brains create that sense of social presence, which takes us someplace else," she says. We're taken out of the environment and are less likely to be aware of the annoyed people around us. Despite the ire, people continue to take these video calls because the benefits, like reading social cues from the person they're calling, "are greater than the violation of privacy that they apparently are not feeling," she says. For the people on the call, FaceTiming may be screen time that sits apart from "bad" screen time. Video calls make it easier to read social cues, which can help us avoid communication breakdowns that can happen over texts. One case study conducted during the pandemic lockdowns found that FaceTiming with family improved an Alzheimer's patient's behavior; he was less anxious and agitated after the calls and ate better than in the earliest days of lockdown. Even parents who keep young kids away from screens may give in for a video call with grandma and grandpa. A study from 2016 found that children under the age of 2 can learn words and patterns from interactive screen time like FaceTime calls, and even start to recognize people they repeatedly speak to, like a grandparent. But they don't absorb as much from prerecorded videos. FaceTime calls feel like hanging out, while phone calls can feel like work. But for all the benefits of FaceTime, any tech we use to communicate "can also detract from in-person interaction experiences," Juliana Schroeder, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, tells me in an email. Loud public calls can negatively affect the in-person interactions of other people around them — be it their fellow commuters, restaurant diners, or the people working out next to them at the gym. Gen Z hates phone calls, but they grew up on video calls. FaceTime calls feel like hanging out, while phone calls can feel like work. Boomers, meanwhile, didn't grow up talking on the phone in public, but they're likely to rush to answer (remembering the pre-voicemail days), and may happily pick up video calls from family, even in crowded spaces without headphones at the ready. Smartphones have increased the pressure for us to be always available, and we've become more comfortable disrupting public spaces or texting during meetings and conversations to meet that demand. Of course, we don't know the reasons behind any individual FaceTime or speakerphone call, and so may be quick to judge. Caroline Lidz, a 23-year-old in Boston working in tech public relations, admits she's operated with a double standard. She's irritated when she encounters a person on a video call in public with no headphones, but she'll answer any time her twin sister calls, which is usually on FaceTime (though she says she does use headphones). Lidz realized in speaking to me for this story that she tended to think, "It's OK if I do it, because I know my reasons," she says. But when she doesn't know someone else's reasons, "I'm less forgiving with other people." The FaceTime calls are more engaging — she can't be distractedly scrolling through her phone or on her laptop, but Lidz also says she thinks a lot about what the frenzy of public FaceTime calls means for privacy. Generally, Lidz says, to avoid being rude, people should do their best to respect the privacy of the person who's calling you, so they know they may be broadcast to the public, and try not to show too much of the people around you on the call. Part of the public-call shaming likely arises from the fear that we're too connected and even addicted to our phones. The average American spends almost seven hours a day staring at screens. Three in four US adults who use FaceTime make calls at least once a week, with 14% of people using it multiple times a day, a 2023 survey from the University of Southern California's Neely Center Social Media Index found. A lot of that screen time happens in public spaces, and it's changing our social etiquette; the more people film TikToks or FaceTime in public, the more we let down our guard and accept the behavior as normal. I'm guilty of FaceTiming my best friend in public when I need her advice on an outfit or gift I'm looking to buy. I try to be quick, feeling justified that I need to be on a video call because I've got something I need to show her. I answered a FaceTime call on a train once and screeched as quietly as possible — a friend had just gotten engaged, and I jumped on the call expecting to see the ring held up to the camera. My grandpa always puts his iPhone on speaker (he says it's hard to hear through the phone's tiny ear speaker) and will take these calls anywhere. We've all learned that if we call him, we could be on the line with anyone in the living room. It's as easy to justify these loud calls as it is to condemn them. We've gotten used to connecting to one another anytime and anywhere, leaving unpleasant places like airport terminals in favor of chatting with friends. That's not necessarily bad. But please, for all of our sanity, put some headphones in. Amanda Hoover is a senior correspondent at Business Insider covering the tech industry. She writes about the biggest tech companies and trends. Read the original article on Business Insider
Business Insider
27-04-2025
- Business Insider
FaceTime has become a public nuisance
The other day, I was waiting for the subway, standing next to a woman in her pajamas making breakfast. She wasn't actually next to me but on the screen of another rider's iPhone. The flashes of movement on the screen and their loud conversation caught my attention. I wasn't trying to be nosy, but I (and several other commuters around me) was suddenly involved in what would have been a private, intimate moment. I'm not the only one getting annoyed. Social media posts abound with people districted and flustered by the prevalence of public video calls. "Am I insane for thinking it's extremely rude to FaceTime without headphones in a public space?" one Threads poster asked last year. "I find this to be so inconsiderate, entitled and obnoxious, honestly. I will never understand." The more than 350 comments that followed revealed a divide about whether we should be turning the whole world into our living room. Some questioned how FaceTiming was any different from chatting with a friend in person. Others deemed public FaceTimers "arrogant individuals with no care for others." This isn't a new phenomenon. FaceTime debuted with the iPhone 4 in 2010, but it took a few more years for enough people to get iPhones and grow accustomed to — and eventually feel entitled to — constant connection. The feature became available not just through WiFi but also via cellular data in 2012. People began to complain to etiquette experts, who gave their takes on the nuisance in newspaper columns. Video calls became even more normalized in 2020, when many of us started working remotely and stacking our calendars with Zoom meetings from 9-to-5, followed by virtual happy hours. Now, many have taken our comfort with chatting on camera into the real world. Our smartphones have blurred the space between what we do at home and what we do in public, and the digital world now has a tangible place in the public sphere. Pamela Rutledge, the director of the Media Psychology Research Center, says FaceTiming and talking on speakerphone in public are symptoms of broader shifts in social norms over the past two decades. It's common to check your phone at the dinner table or seclude yourself from public interactions with headphones. When people start a video call with someone, even in a crowded area, "our brains create that sense of social presence, which takes us someplace else," she says. We're taken out of the environment and are less likely to be aware of the annoyed people around us. Despite the ire, people continue to take these video calls because the benefits, like reading social cues from the person they're calling, "are greater than the violation of privacy that they apparently are not feeling," she says. For the people on the call, FaceTiming may be screen time that sits apart from "bad" screen time. Video calls make it easier to read social cues, which can help us avoid communication breakdowns that can happen over texts. One case study conducted during the pandemic lockdowns found that FaceTiming with family improved an Alzheimer's patient's behavior; he was less anxious and agitated after the calls and ate better than in the earliest days of lockdown. Even parents who keep young kids away from screens may give in for a video call with grandma and grandpa. A study from 2016 found that children under the age of 2 can learn words and patterns from interactive screen time like FaceTime calls, and even start to recognize people they repeatedly speak to, like a grandparent. But they don't absorb as much from prerecorded videos. FaceTime calls feel like hanging out, while phone calls can feel like work. But for all the benefits of FaceTime, any tech we use to communicate "can also detract from in-person interaction experiences," Juliana Schroeder, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, tells me in an email. Loud public calls can negatively affect the in-person interactions of other people around them — be it their fellow commuters, restaurant diners, or the people working out next to them at the gym. Gen Z hates phone calls, but they grew up on video calls. FaceTime calls feel like hanging out, while phone calls can feel like work. Boomers, meanwhile, didn't grow up talking on the phone in public, but they're likely to rush to answer (remembering the pre-voicemail days), and may happily pick up video calls from family, even in crowded spaces without headphones at the ready. Smartphones have increased the pressure for us to be always available, and we've become more comfortable disrupting public spaces or texting during meetings and conversations to meet that demand. Of course, we don't know the reasons behind any individual FaceTime or speakerphone call, and so may be quick to judge. Caroline Lidz, a 23-year-old in Boston working in tech public relations, admits she's operated with a double standard. She's irritated when she encounters a person on a video call in public with no headphones, but she'll answer any time her twin sister calls, which is usually on FaceTime (though she says she does use headphones). Lidz realized in speaking to me for this story that she tended to think, "It's OK if I do it, because I know my reasons," she says. But when she doesn't know someone else's reasons, "I'm less forgiving with other people." The FaceTime calls are more engaging — she can't be distractedly scrolling through her phone or on her laptop, but Lidz also says she thinks a lot about what the frenzy of public FaceTime calls means for privacy. Generally, Lidz says, to avoid being rude, people should do their best to respect the privacy of the person who's calling you, so they know they may be broadcast to the public, and try not to show too much of the people around you on the call. Part of the public-call shaming likely arises from the fear that we're too connected and even addicted to our phones. The average American spends almost seven hours a day staring at screens. Three in four US adults who use FaceTime make calls at least once a week, with 14% of people using it multiple times a day, a 2023 survey from the University of Southern California's Neely Center Social Media Index found. A lot of that screen time happens in public spaces, and it's changing our social etiquette; the more people film TikToks or FaceTime in public, the more we let down our guard and accept the behavior as normal. I'm guilty of FaceTiming my best friend in public when I need her advice on an outfit or gift I'm looking to buy. I try to be quick, feeling justified that I need to be on a video call because I've got something I need to show her. I answered a FaceTime call on a train once and screeched as quietly as possible — a friend had just gotten engaged, and I jumped on the call expecting to see the ring held up to the camera. My grandpa always puts his iPhone on speaker (he says it's hard to hear through the phone's tiny ear speaker) and will take these calls anywhere. We've all learned that if we call him, we could be on the line with anyone in the living room. It's as easy to justify these loud calls as it is to condemn them. We've gotten used to connecting to one another anytime and anywhere, leaving unpleasant places like airport terminals in favor of chatting with friends. That's not necessarily bad. But please, for all of our sanity, put some headphones in.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Nicola Coughlan and Boyfriend Jake Dunn Make Red Carpet Debut in Coordinating Looks at BAFTA Party
Nicola Coughlan and Jake Dunn made their red carpet debut in coordinating outfits The couple sparked romance rumors in August 2024 The star shared a sweet birthday post for Dunn's birthday in February, making their relationship Instagram official Nicola Coughlan and Jake Dunn are red carpet official! On Thursday, April 24, the couple stepped out to attend the BAFTA Television & Television Craft Awards nominees party in London, marking a new milestone in their relationship. The pair opted for coordinating looks. Coughlan, 38, wore a black peplum minidress with buttons down the front and a massive bow and tulle train on the back. The Bridgerton star also added tights and black heels. She wore her blonde hair in a straight, center-parted style and sported a smoky makeup look. Dunn, 25, went for a navy suit with a vest and striped white shirt. For a casual touch, he wore striped sneakers. Coughlan is nominated for a BAFTA Television Craft Award for Female Performance in a Comedy for her work in the 2024 dark comedy series Big Mood. The award ceremony is set to take place on Sunday, April 27. Related: Nicola Coughlan Goes Instagram Official with Boyfriend Jake Dunn on His Birthday When her nomination was announced on March 27, the Derry Girls star took to Instagram to share her excitement saying she was "overwhelmed" and "emotional." In the photo carousel, she included a snap of herself crying while FaceTiming her mom to tell her the news. On Feb. 12, Coughlan celebrated Dunn's 25th birthday with a sweet post, making their relationship Instagram official. The Irish actress shared a photo of Dunn looking at the sky while sitting on what appears to be a set. 'Happy Birthday ♥️,' she wrote over the image. ! In January, the two were captured on a casual stroll around London with their arms intertwined while holding hands. The pair first sparked dating rumors in August 2024, when the Daily Mail obtained photos of them getting close at Mitski's performance at the All Points East festival in London. The next month, Dunn posted a photo of a friend wearing a hat that said 'Nicola Coughlan' on it, along with a shirt that read "and her perfect breasts." The outfit was a reference to a June 2024 clip of Coughlan saying "women with my body type" are "women with perfect breasts." Coughlan and Dunn were later spotted leaving a date at an Irish pub in October. Before becoming a couple, Coughlan attended the March 2024 premiere of Dunn's show Renegade Nell. They didn't walk the carpet together, but one of Dunn's costars, Alice Kremelberg, later shared a throwback snap from the premiere that showed the Disney actor's arm around Coughlan. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Prior to going public with Dunn, Coughlan has kept her dating life private. In October 2024, she shut down rumors that she and her Bridgerton costar Luke Newton were dating during an interview with TIME. 'A lot of people really want me to marry Luke,' she told the outlet at the time. 'We have this gorgeous friendship. We have such a love for one another and this experience that I'll never have with someone else again. Isn't it gorgeous that a man and woman can have that sort of relationship with one another?' Read the original article on People
