What Sharon Stone explained on Mayim Bialik's podcast could perfectly well be the beginning of one of her rawest films. According to the artist, while she was hospitalized for a severe stroke that almost killed her, she opened her eyes on a gurney moving through a hospital corridor toward the operating room. As she regained consciousness, a jolt of the gurney finished waking her up and gave her the strength to ask what was happening to her and where they were taking her. If all that already gives you goosebumps, the answer the doctor gave her then was worse: she was going straight to the operating room to have exploratory brain surgery. A surgery that, according to her testimony, she had never authorized.

Before him, stars only dressed well. After him, stars dressed like stars. Bob Mackie, who died this week at 87 due to pneumonia, has left us an intangible legacy: having redefined de facto how a show business star should dress. With the designs he began creating from a very young age, he made the entire industry understand that a star's attire must serve to be iconic, luminous, and exceptional. That is to say, to be diametrically different from the rest and not to be an improved version of the rest. Seeing how he did it, there could be no better mind than his to give shape and color to this creative concept. We refer to the evidence. More than six decades of evidence, to be more exact.

The student Leonor de Borbón y Ortiz has begun her political science degree this week at the Carlos III University of Madrid. While it would have been a truly groundbreaking message for the heir to the Spanish throne to study at any university outside of Spain's most central community, we will have to settle for the fact that she did not end up at a private university, as happened with her paternal cousins, and that they did not tailor a custom educational program for her and she is pursuing pre-established studies, like those taken by the rest of the students at that center. That is to say, that they did not do with her what they did with Felipe VI when he was a prince: they created ad hoc studies for him at the Autonomous University of Madrid to turn him into the prepared one.

He died on August 28th and until September 9th he has been and will continue to be news. It seems like an eternity for a heart that no longer beats, but the demands inherent in burying a king seem not to allow it to be done with more haste. And even more so in the case of a king like Harald V of Norway, a monarch loved by his people and who was in office for 35 years. Perhaps if the farewell were faster, Norwegian society would view it negatively. For this reason, the funeral rites for the late king will have all the necessary pomp and circumstance. Including 21 cannon shots and a whistle from his royal ship.

These days everyone has written a line about Dolly Parton. Normal. After seventy years of career, we all have some fond memory of her. In most of the published texts, however, it is particularly relevant that people, instead of mentioning the joy of when they had seen her in concert, the talent she had for writing songs or how impeccable she always was on stage, which is what is usually said about artists, spoke of the sadness they felt for the loss. This, which might seem strange, is not at all. It is the most normal reaction to the loss of Dolly Parton, since throughout her prolific life she won our hearts by doing things for each and every one of us. It is normal that everyone loved her so much. Parton was not just an artist of the kind who periodically come to sell us their material and then lock themselves in their mansion. She never disappeared. She was continuously present in people's lives. Because she was much more than an artist. She was an institution. And we all owe her a great deal of gratitude.

They left for the United States six years ago because they could not stand the media pressure or the lack of freedom to which they were subjected in the United Kingdom for being members of the British royal family. On the other side of the Atlantic, for all these years, they have dedicated themselves solely to making their fame even bigger and more polarized through all sorts of pop consumer products such as books or documentaries whose sole interest was the attacks they included against the British royal family. Now, with all this inertia of social hatred they have built up in the United Kingdom from a distance, they will return to live in the country, even though when they were loved and respected there they said it was unbearable for them. Below, we analyze the nonsensical saga that Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, want us to swallow.

Borja Thyssen has projected very different images throughout his extensive media life, which dates back to the day of his own birth. From being a shy and discreet child in the shadow of his iconic mother and adoptive father – Tita Cervera and Baron Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon et Impérfalva, respectively – he became a kind of pioneer of the reggaeton malemuscular and tattooed in his younger days to eventually, at 46 years old, become a low-profile figure who only appears in the media voluntarily for matters related to art collecting. This change of direction in his public image, however, has been interrupted by a controversy with an Andorran bank that has spread to all the Spanish gossip media, as expected, in the midst of a news drought.

Since many people are unaware, it needs to be stated: Calvin Klein is not underwear, he is a person. Specifically, an 83-year-old man to whom the establishment of minimalism in clothing as a desirable element can be attributed, and who can be perfectly considered one of the greatest emblems of American fashion of all time. However, in recent times, Mr. Klein has been more in the news for matters related to his private life than for anything related to his mark on the more pop side of fashion history.

The breakup of Shakira and Piqué was so sensational that many people had almost forgotten that she had a previous ex with whom she also went through a very complicated separation. However, it seems that now the waters have calmed between them, as a photo of the two together, which has gone viral on social media, would show that the relationship is currently better than ever. This ex is Antonio de la Rúa, son of the late Argentine former president Fernando de la Rúa, and in the image in question he is seen sitting with Shakira, with his hand on her shoulder next to the businessman George Nader – who is the one who shared the photo on social media – and Tonino Mebarak, the artist's brother, her road manager and one of her most trusted people.

She was unique in life and also after death. This would be the sentence that summarizes the figure of the Duchess of Kent, Katherine Worsley by birth, Kate to most of those who knew her throughout her long life. She was related to the most central core of the Windsor family since she married in 1961 the Duke of Kent, grandson of King George V and a prince with the consideration of royal highness who, besides being Duke, was also Earl of St Andrews and Baron Downpatrick. Her presence in this controversial and problematic family was always valued. And this, despite representing what for a large part of the aristocracy at the time was a sacrilege: a commoner in the palace!

"And is this news?" is the question we often see in comments on gossip and pop culture news. And, obviously, they are not news that occupy the front pages of newspapers, but they are questions that we often discuss with friends or family around a table or at the bar counter. And this is what we do in this podcast: we move to a venue to review some social chronicle news that serve not only to keep up with the most prominent gossip, but also to talk about love, friendship or breakups.

Nobody would have thought that the quarrel between the eldest son of Princess Mette-Marit of Norway and his girlfriend would end up leading to the most serious judicial affair the Scandinavian country's monarchy has ever faced. In August 2024, what was initially interpreted as a domestic dispute involving Marius Borg Hoiby soon led to an assault complaint, which was not the last. That incident, which initially interested the gossip press more than anything else, later became an international political issue with the four consecutive arrests of the young man, who was then 26 years old. Each step of the investigation further revealed the seriousness of everything that had been happening within the Norwegian royal family with Hoiby. The young man is not formally a member of the monarchy, but since he was four years old, when his mother married the heir to the throne, Haakon, he has lived as if he were part of the royal family.

There is an entire generation that if you say to them "If you wanna be my lover" they will automatically and inevitably answer "you gotta get with my friends". And this is thanks to the Spice Girls, who this week celebrated thirty years since they turned the world upside down with their triumphant appearance: a single called Wannabe. They were the dose of modernity that pop needed at the time. A group of empowered friends –when no one used this adjective yet– singing an ode to friendship and to putting a stop to sexism. All this in a dance-pop format and with a whole associated British aesthetic that was then synonymous with fresh exoticism.

In this chapter we talk about Taylor Swift's charming wedding. "And this is news?" is the question we often see in comments on gossip and pop culture news. And, obviously, they are not news that occupy newspaper front pages, but they are issues that we often discuss with friends or family around a table or at a bar counter. And this is what we do in this podcast: go to a venue to review some social chronicle news that serve not only to keep up with the most outstanding gossip, but also to talk about love, friendship or breakups.

Exactly one year ago, in July 2025, tennis player Paula Badosa and her then-boyfriend, also tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas, broke up for good. And it's worth emphasizing the latter because their love story had always been marked by ups and downs. By highs and lows that sooner or later they always managed to resolve, until last summer, when the decision was firm. The magazine ¡Hola!, to which they had granted an unprecedented report to talk about their love story in October 2024, confirmed the breakup, citing sources close to the couple and in which the media had full informational confidence.

The wedding of Taylor Swift with Travis Kelce reminds me of the case of the typical choni who wins the lottery and, instead of changing habits, opening their mind and looking for new references – even if it's just to try... – does the same thing but on a large scale. If before she went to Stradivarius and bought polyurethane boots that peel on their own for her closet, now that she's gotten rich, what she does is go back to buy the same boots but in all colors. Because for her, resources imply quantity, not quality.

Since Shakira broke up with Gerard Piqué, the singer's romantic life has always been one of the topics that have generated the most intrigue worldwide. While in his case we soon got out of doubt with Clara Chia, in her case there have been hints, but no confirmations whatsoever. In any case, the four years –yes, it's already been four!, since the beginning of June– that this couple ended their 12-year relationship have been eventful, and finally, it seems the artist has found a moment to stop billing and start creating new content for a hypothetical future album.

In this chapter we talk about Alexis from Gran Cita working as a gigolo and Paul Mescal in Barcelona. "And is this news?" is the question we often see in comments on news about gossip magazines and pop culture. And, evidently, they are not news that occupy newspaper front pages, but they are indeed topics that we often discuss with friends or family around a table or at the bar counter. And this is what we do in this podcast: we go to a place to review some social chronicle news that serve not only to keep up with the most notable gossip, but also to talk about love, friendship or breakups.

It has always struck me as surprising the stance of those people who are firmly against the tabloid reporters of the gossip press, who ask celebrities questions on the street. People who argue that society in general and the media in particular should "let celebrities live." The truth is that when I see them so worked up against the gossip press, I think how I wish there was a way to suddenly and completely make the fame of these so-hunted celebrities disappear. It would be very, very funny to see how, perhaps a month after failing to make a living on their own by any chance and not feeling recognized anywhere, they would do anything to regain their lost status. They would beg to get back the unbearable company of the paparazzi.

I am writing these lines while the Holy Father is still circulating in the Spanish state. He arrived on Saturday, June 6, when he landed in Madrid, and left this Friday from the Canary Islands. In between, he has been in Catalonia, where he has starred in a series of moments that will go down in history, because no matter how much we agnostics try to convince ourselves that he is just another head of state, the media power he has is far superior to that of most heads of state, which gives him extra power in terms of soft power. To him and also to whoever receives him, if they know how to sell their arguments well.