T LOunge for January 6th 2024

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Huzzah and hooray! It’s a new dawn, a new day, and a new year. It’s also MONDAY and most of us are still trying to shake off the visions of sugarplums trying to do their final dance in our brains. Let’s not overtax ourselves too much. Take a seat and settle into things. Get the lay of the land, so to speak. We, for our parts, won’t be able to join you because we have a metric fuck tonne of red carpetry to sling at you. So order a round on us and prepare to be distracted all day.

2025 Golden Globes winners announced: See the full list, from Best Actress surprises to Emilia Pérez domination
Nikki Glaser hosted a ceremony that skyrocketed Demi Moore into the Oscars race, while “Shōgun” and “Hacks” won big among TV contenders.
With the holidays in the rearview mirror, the 2025 Golden Globes winners rang in the new year with a fresh class of awards season darlings at the top of a heated race — including several stunning surprises and shutouts along the way.
Across Sunday night’s ceremony hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, the Golden Globes revealed its annual roster of winners in both film and TV categories, with many movies and performances in contention at the Globes — like Mikey Madison (Anora), Angelina Jolie (Maria), Colman Domingo (Sing Sing), and Ariana Grande (Wicked) — also expected to cross over into Oscars territory when the Academy announces its nominations on Jan. 17.

Golden Globes Snubs and Surprises: ‘Anora’ Shut Out as Demi Moore, Colin Farrell and Fernanda Torres Nab Acting Wins
Sunday night’s Golden Globes Awards was a delightful mix of expected (but still great!) wins — from Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña to “Shōgun” and “Baby Reindeer” — and genuine (and genuinely fun!) surprises. Along with a reminder of what a relief it is when the show has a terrific host, which Nikki Glaser turned out to be, the Globes featured upsets in both film and TV, with veterans Demi Moore and Colin Farrell earning awards while “Anora” and “The Wild Robot” went home empty-handed. Several winners expressed shock in their speeches, like “I’m Still Here” star Fernanda Torres and “Emilia Pérez” director Jacques Audiard. With wins for best drama, director and actor in a drama, meanwhile, “The Brutalist,” emerged more or less anointed as the frontrunner for this awards season.

The 20 Best- and Worst-Dressed Celebs at the 2025 Golden Globes
Tom + Lorenzo are here to unpack the highs (and lows) of 2025’s red carpet kickoff.
And just like that…awards season 2025 has kicked off! The Golden Globes are pretty much the most tainted and least respected of the major awards shows, but because they’re the first big one of the year, the stars tend to pull out all the stops on their style choices. Maybe it’s a celebration of their success or maybe they’re all just trying to lend the proceedings a little more legitimacy and glamour, but whatever the reason, the results this year were surprisingly adventurous. Let’s assess the good, the not-so-good, and the hilarious on this year’s Golden Globes red carpet.

Meghan Markle Breaks Her Silence On Her Netflix Show, ‘With Love, Meghan’
Just a day after joining Instagram, Meghan launched the trailer for her new lifestyle show.
One day after launching her Instagram, Meghan Markle is introducing the world to her first project of 2025: Her highly-anticipated Netflix lifestyle show, With Love, Meghan. News of Meghan working on a cooking show first came out in April 2024.
The final series doesn’t just involve cooking, but floral arrangement, gardening, and more, as its trailer revealed. Meghan posted the first-look clip on Instagram and wrote, ‘I have been so excited to share this with you! I hope you love the show as much as I loved making it. Wishing you all a fantastic new year! Thanks to our amazing crew and the team @netflix. Beyond grateful for the support—and fun!’

Demi Moore’s ‘popcorn actress’ Golden Globes 2025 speech was the most moving of the night
“I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness.”
If you’re only going to listen to one Golden Globes 2025 acceptance speech (and we get it, they can run long), make it Demi Moore’s. After winning for The Substance, the actor reminded everyone that this is the first acting award she’s won in her 45-year career, while sharing a deeply personal story about being made to feel small even when she was successful.
“Thirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a ‘popcorn actress,’” Moore said. “And at that time, I made that mean that this wasn’t something that I was allowed to have. That could do movies that were successful that made a lot of money, but that I couldn’t be acknowledged. And I bought in and I believed that. And that corroded me over time to the point where I thought, a few years ago, that maybe this was it. Maybe I was complete. Maybe I’ve done what I was supposed to do.”

Why exactly are we all obsessed with The Traitors?
A deep-dive into the greatest reality TV show since OG Big Brother.
There’s no escaping the fact that life is January-ing in a big way this year, but luckily for us, The Traitors season 3 is here to save the year already. In case you haven’t had access to a TV/ internet/ social media/ been part of society over the last three years, you may have missed real-life Cluedo, which follows 25 strangers (some with short lived air time this year – more on this soon) who are divided into innocent ‘faithfuls’ and murdering ‘traitors’. By day, they play happy families competing in challenges to contribute to a prize fund; by night, they metaphorically murder one another in a Scottish castle. It all happens under the watchful fringe of Claudia Winkleman. Iconic.

I rediscovered my childhood love of ballet at 32 and it’s changed my relationship with my body
I dance and I feel free
Like most ballet dancers, I vividly remember getting my first pair of pointe shoes. They were by Gamba — a legendary Covent Garden maker that now belongs to the French house Repetto. Always eager to please, I nodded when the fitter asked if I felt comfortable in them, but before long, I was limping at the end of every class. When I took my shoes off, my tights and the inner lining of the shoes were stained red with blood. I eventually overcame my shyness and asked my teacher whether it was normal to feel so much pain on pointe. She confirmed that yes, it was normal; and that a little bit of lambswool was all she ever needed to cushion her toes from the floor.
When a swath of lambswool did nothing to stop the pain, I decided that I was too heavy for pointe and I began to look at my thighs with disgust. I was twelve years old.

I was put on this earth to be cosy, and these are the 11 best perfumes that help me feel it
Like a warm, stylish hug in a bottle
This time of year calls for one thing and one thing alone: cosiness. I truly believe I was put on this earth with a primary objective to be cosy as much as possible, and I often thrive. As soon as winter hits (my favourite time of year), it’s time to ramp up the cosy aesthetic: warm blankets, soft, snuggly sweaters and rich candles all come out. And to top things off? It has to be a cosy perfume.
A cosy perfume could be interpreted in many ways. Is it something sweet and gourmand, with notes of marshmallow and caramel, or spicy, rich and intense with oud and woody notes? How about both, as well as everything else in-between. Here are 11 cosy options for all tastes…

Keen to up your movement this year? 10 most effective home workouts of all time, according to the pros
Get fit for free.
There’s always a lot of noise around health and fitness at this time of year. Before we go any further, let us say: you don’t need to reinvent yourself in 2025. Sure, taking steps to improve your wellbeing where possible can be wonderful. But making extreme lifestyle changes, particularly where diet and exercise are concerned, can do more harm than good. If, however, being active is a focus for you this coming year, then the most effective home workouts of all time may help you keep moving – particularly during the cooler months.

11 nail trends that will dominate your FYP in 2025
The tips you need.
Ready to contemplate the 2025 nail trends set to dominate our socials and FYP next year? We’ve got you.
The last couple of seasons have set a solid tone, with many of last year’s headliners set to continue to recruit fans going forward, but there are some emerging trends and techniques that are about to become a lot more familiar and OTT artwork in particular is having a major moment.

How to get big, bouncy, fluffy hair
The antidote to limp, flat hair.
Honestly, we’re so here for a bit of oomph. Because what says I’ve arrived like big, beautiful, self-assured strands? That’s why fluffy hair is one of our favourite diva hairstyles for drama, volume and a whole lot of style. Just as well it’s having a resurgence since its heyday in the ‘70s, ’80s and ’90s – then…

What We All Think of Reality TV But Are Too Embarrassed To Share
The third series of The Traitors is here and there’s no better way to kick off the New Year than with a bunch of liars in a Scottish castle.
‘Humankind cannot bear too much reality,’ wrote TS Eliot in 1942. Eight decades later, humankind is here to prove him wrong. Or rather we would do, if we could drag ourselves away from our screens for long enough.
How do you like yours? Hot and half-naked, like Love Island? Bitchy with a side of real estate, like Selling Sunset? Naughty and nautical, like Below Deck? Murderously machiavellian, like The Traitors? Those who’ve missed Claudia Winkleman giving side-eye dressed in black bovver boots and an oversized cable knit jumper will be delighted to learn that Season 3 of the psychologically tense game of wits has returned to our screens – for what better way to kick off the New Year than with 22 liars in a remote Scottish castle?

12 Recipes Every Beginner Baker Should Know
These classic, easy things to bake are perfect for practicing your pastry techniques.
So you’re not an expert baker — maybe precise measurements scare you, or you prefer French fries to French pastry. But if you’re looking to improve your baking skills and add some foolproof cakes, cookies, and other baked goods to your repertoire, try out any of these classic recipes, which we’re pretty sure you’ll make for the rest of your life.

These Are the 11 Best Nonalcoholic Beers for Dry January and Beyond
No alcohol? No problem. These brews have all the flavor and none of the fuzziness.
Not long ago, nonalcoholic beer was a punchline. Now it’s part of the mainstream.
But nonalcoholic beer drinkers aren’t always teetotalers. Stats from Nielsen, which tracks shopping habits, reveal that 82 percent of the people who pick up a pint or pack of nonalcoholic beer (legally defined as containing 0.5% alcohol by volume or less) still drink alcohol. They’re simply alternating between beverages, or cutting back.

Drinking Coffee Could Add Years to Your Life, According to a New Study
And yes, decaf works too.
If your New Year’s resolution was to quit drinking coffee, you may want to revisit that idea because, according to a newly published study, regularly sipping on the caffeinated beverage could add years to your life.
In December, researchers from the University of Coimbra in Portugal published a study titled “Impact of coffee intake on human aging: Epidemiology and cellular mechanisms” in the journal Ageing Research Reviews, showcasing how coffee can help reduce all-cause mortality.

11 Career-Defining Viola Davis Performances, From Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom to Doubt
Viola Davis is accustomed to making history. The 59-year-old South Carolina native and Juilliard graduate got her start on the stage, winning a Tony Award in 2001 for her part in August Wilson’s King Hedley II. Small but memorable turns in film and TV followed, before her breakout as a fearful mother in Doubt (2008), for which she received an Oscar nod. Since then, she’s become the first Black person to achieve the triple crown of acting—she won a second Tony in 2010 for the Broadway revival of Fences, was the first Black woman to take home the Emmy for lead actress in a drama series for How to Get Away with Murder (2014 to 2020), and then secured the Oscar for best supporting actress with her work in Denzel Washington’s big-screen adaptation of Fences (2016).

Why Can’t You Just Deal with It?
Often, it’s our most obviously necessary tasks that feel the most impossible.
You have something important to do—something vital. It’s not an item on a list but a burdensome project, urgent and complicated. Your home office must be transformed into a nursery for a baby due next month. Your late father’s house must be sold to pay for your daughter’s college education. You’ve owed your boss a report for a year, and with each passing week it grows more difficult to complete. You have to file this year’s taxes, and last year’s, and the documents you need are lost in your spare room, in nondescript envelopes you’ve never opened.
Why can’t you just deal with it? It’s a question you can ask yourself in bed at night, or in the mirror the next morning. Procrastination is one thing: we’ve all put off writing thank-you notes or responding to e-mails and survived with our dignity intact. Not dealing with it is different. It’s what we experience when a lot is being asked of us and we’re not rising to the occasion. The issue isn’t procrastination—you’re trying!—but defeat.

Michelle Visage Leads Tributes to The Vivienne, ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K.’ Star, Who Has Died at 32
James Lee Williams, better known as the winner of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K.’ season one The Vivienne, has died, with show judge Visage paying tribute to “a beacon to so many.”
Tributes have poured in following the death of James Lee Williams, better known as RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. winner The Vivienne.
Williams’ publicist Simon Jones said that the performer, who also went on to compete in the seventh season of RuPaul‘s Drag Race All Stars in 2022, died over the weekend at the age of 32. No cause of death was given.
“James was an incredibly loved, warm-hearted and amazing person,” Jones wrote. “Their family are heartbroken at the loss of their son, brother and uncle. They are so proud of the wonderful things James achieved in their life and career.

The perils of trying to optimize your morality
I tried to make the perfect choice every time. It eroded my humanity.
I am a recovering optimizer.
Over the past several years, I’ve spent ages agonizing over every decision I made because I felt like I had to do the best possible thing. Not an okay thing, not a good thing — the morally best thing.
I stopped working on a children’s novel because I began to suspect it wouldn’t be useful to anyone. I berated myself for not meditating every day even though I know it makes me a kinder person. I spent a year crying over a breakup because I feared I’d just lost my optimal soulmate and was now doomed to a suboptimal life, one that wouldn’t be as meaningful as it could be, one that fell short of its potential.
I thought maybe it was just me, an anxious elder millennial with a perfectionist streak. But then I noticed the same style of thinking in others.

Are men’s reading habits truly a national crisis?
The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse.
The question has been hurtling through think pieces, op-eds, and ominous headlines over the past few years: Have American men stopped reading? Specifically, have they stopped reading fiction? And is that why the world is so bad now?
The most recent entry in this genre came in December, when David J. Morris, an assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, theorized in a New York Times op-ed that the disappearance of literary men is a contributing factor to Donald Trump’s dominant performance with the manosphere. The conversation is so persistent that writer Jason Diamond declared in GQ back in August, with some resignation, “We’re Doing ‘Men Don’t Read Books’ Discourse Again.”

Is 2025 the year of Jane Austen? From society balls to blockbuster TV shows, the 250th anniversary of ‘Britain’s greatest author’ is set to break records
Miss Austen and The Other Bennet Sister on the BBC, a Dolly Alderton adaptation of Pride and Prejudice heading for Netflix, and a tourism boom for real-life regency balls, there’s something truly Austentatious about 2025
Time to crack open your corsets! This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, and from balls to blockbuster TV shows, the nation is set to celebrate ‘Britain’s greatest author’ in style.
The BBC will mark the milestone with not one but two Austentatious dramas: Keeley Hawes and Rose Leslie will star in Miss Austen, exploring why Jane’s sister, Cassandra, burnt the writer’s letters after her death, and The Other Bennet Sister will offer a Bridgerton-style update on one of Pride and Prejudice’s most unassuming characters, Mary Bennet.
Meanwhile, Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love, is penning a ‘progressive’ update of the novel for Netflix. Rumour has it, Emma Corrin, who shot to fame portraying Princess Diana on The Crown, is being ‘eyed up’ for the lead role of Elizabeth Bennet.

The Vivienne, Winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, Dies
James Lee Williams was best known by their stage name and also built a career in musical theater.
James Lee Williams, a drag performer and winner of the inaugural season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race UK” who was best known by the stage name The Vivienne, died over the weekend. They were 32.
Williams’s death was announced in a statement by their manager, Simon Jones, which did not cite a cause.
Williams, who adopted the stage name for a love of dressing in Vivienne Westwood clothes, rose to prominence as one of the world’s most recognizable drag queens after winning the first season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.”
On the show, The Vivienne was known for comedy and vocal impersonations — particularly that of Donald Trump — and opened up about a struggle with substance abuse and recovery.

36 Hours in Antwerp, Belgium
Five centuries ago, the northern Belgian port city of Antwerp was a thriving European center of diamonds, art and finance, with one of the world’s first stock exchanges. Today, works by the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens await those who wander its churches, and the city is one of the continent’s edgiest fashion and design centers. Both its medieval and Baroque roots and perpetual reach for the new culminate at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, a neo-Classical temple to both old masters and modern art, that reopened in 2022 after a decade-long renovation. The city is perfect for a weekend visit: Traverse its flat and walkable center, discovering Gothic masterpieces, Michelin-starred restaurants, design ateliers, wine bars and too many shopping streets to count.

Radicchio Is the Colorful Winter Vegetable You Didn’t Know You Needed
Learn how to use this gorgeous chicory in all kinds of new and delicious ways.
Radicchio is the “it girl” of the winter season. A type of chicory, radicchio is unique in just about every sense of the word, from its characteristic bitter flavor to the gorgeous look of each variety. It can be served raw or cooked and needs only a few other seasonal flavors to make it shine. Radicchio thrives in frigid temperatures that many other crops cannot survive, making it a mainstay ingredient in numerous winter recipes, from fresh salads to grilled or roasted wedges as a side.
Ahead, learn about the main varieties of radicchio. We’ll also share some of our favorite ways to prepare this wonder vegetable, which promises to bring a pop of color to meals on even the gloomiest days.

Are You Washing Your Pillowcases Enough? A Laundry Scientist Weighs In
The answer may surprise you.
Pillowcases become dirty fairly quickly. The reason? They spend roughly eight hours per night exposed to everything from the greases and oils on our skin and scalps to the products we use to keep our complexions and hair looking their best. This is why cleaning expert Mary Gagliardi says washing these bed linens frequently is a must. Ahead, we chatted with Gagliardi about how often to wash pillowcases and some best practices for doing so.

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