The most effective popular culture moments of 2022
January
It is GOLDEN GLOBES time. However is a Globes with out telecasts, drunken celebrities or purple carpets a Globes? The embattled Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation, reeling from staggering range failures, is internet hosting a non-public occasion and planning a return subsequent 12 months. Hey, bear in mind the unique wardrobe malfunction? Effectively, JANET JACKSON says she and JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE have moved on, and so ought to we. The New York Instances buys Wordle, and all of us suppose in 5 letters (though WORDLE has six, simply to say.) In the meantime, it is a month of loss, earlier than a 12 months of loss: actor, director and activist black pioneer SIDNEY POITIER dies at 94.
President Barack Obama presents the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Sidney Poitier August 12, 2009. Poitier, who died in January, grew to become the primary black actor to win the Greatest Actor Oscar for his position within the movie ‘Lilies of the sector.”
February
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Britney Spears
What would a 12 months in popular culture be with out BRITNEY? Simply months after her launch from her restrictive conservatorship, Spears reportedly signed a mammoth ebook deal, however as of 12 months’s finish, we’re nonetheless awaiting information. RIHANNA is pregnant! TOM BRADY is retiring! (Keep tuned, on that one.) TAYLOR SWIFT watches: JAKE GYLLENHAAL speaks out, saying he actually has nothing to do with this music, it is in regards to the relationship of a artist along with his followers – however followers should not be cyberbullied both.
March
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Will Smith, proper, punches presenter Chris Rock on stage whereas presenting the award for Greatest Documentary Function on the Oscars on March 27, 2022 in Los Angeles.
Fast, who wins the Oscars this month? Effectively, “CODA” does it, a feel-good drama with a largely deaf solid, and TROY KOTSUR turns into the primary deaf actor to win an appearing Oscar. Alas, all anybody can speak about is – you recognize. WILL SMITH, who received Greatest Actor shortly after slapping Chris Rock for a joke about his spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith, will not actually tackle the difficulty till the top of the 12 months, so learn on. KARDASHIAN Watch: Kim Ok has been declared legally single once more in her pending divorce from YE, the rapper previously referred to as KANYE WEST. And TOM BRADY, retired for 40 days, says: “It is okay!”
April
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Jon Batiste poses along with his awards through the sixty fourth Annual Grammy Awards on April 3, 2022 in Las Vegas.
It is GRAMMY time, and JON BATISTE wins huge, taking house 5 statuettes. The musician’s huge 12 months would later embody a efficiency on the Biden administration’s first state dinner, for French President Emmanuel Macron. The subsequent day, Macron will meet ELON MUSK (thanks for the follow-up, Mr. President) who begins his acquisition of TWITTER this month, driving untold – and nonetheless ongoing – adjustments on the social media big.
Could
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So think about you are sipping cocktails on the MET GALA and a musician walks round enjoying the melodica — in fact, it is BATISTE, as a result of the Met Gala is that form of loopy celebration. The largest contact of the night, nevertheless, is KARDASHIAN, on the arm of her boyfriend PETE DAVIDSON, sporting the identical sequined bodycon gown that MARILYN MONROE wore to sing “Comfortable Birthday” at JFK in 1962.

Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson attend the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute Profit Gala on Could 2, 2022 in New York Metropolis.
In films, “High Gun: Maverick” opens, the highest-grossing home debut album of TOM CRUISE’s profession, and his first to prime $100 million on opening weekend. HARRY STYLES followers rejoice! His album, “Harry’s Home”, is right here.
June
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Breathtaking information for BTS’ world fan base because the Ok-pop supergroup publicizes it’s taking a break to concentrate on the members’ solo initiatives. Legally, a Virginia jury provides JOHNNY DEPP a victory in his extremely difficult defamation case over home violence allegations, discovering that ex-wife HEARD defamed him in a 2018 op-ed. happier, Britney is getting married….

Actor Johnny Depp waves to supporters as he leaves the Fairfax County Courthouse in Virginia on Could 27, 2022, throughout his extremely publicized libel trial in opposition to ex-wife Amber Heard.
July
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez
Just one marriage, Britney? BENNIFER has two! Perhaps what occurs often stays in Vegas, however not when you will have 227 million Instagram followers. With a flashy reference to being a “Sadie” (married girl), JENNIFER LOPEZ directs followers to her publication the place she shares photographs from her fast wedding ceremony to BEN AFFLECK. “Love is gorgeous,” she wrote. “And it seems that love is affected person.” Talking of persistence, BEYONCÉ followers are being rewarded for theirs, with the discharge of her long-awaited seventh studio album, “Renaissance,” her first solo album in six years.
August
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So, we have been like…. Bennifer’s second wedding ceremony, on the Affleck Georgia compound, is greater and fancier. A wedding, a breakup: KARDASHIAN and DAVIDSON aren’t any extra. In different summer season information, the world remembers Princess Diana, whose stunning loss of life in a automotive crash occurred 25 years in the past, and whose life is being reshaped for a brand new era within the present season of “The Crown”. And days later, that very same Netflix sequence will briefly halt manufacturing as an indication of respect for Queen Elizabeth II as Britain – and the world – mourns the beloved monarch, who died at 96 after greater than 70. on the throne.
September
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Rising political intrigue in Europe, and by that we imply…did he spat on the Venice premiere of ‘Do not Fear Darling’? Both approach, the movie, directed by OLIVIA WILDE and starring her boyfriend (alleged spitter HARRY STYLES), is saddled — or blessed? — with greater than its share of extracurricular drama. On the EMMYS, this is SHERYL LEE RALPH, profitable for “Abbott Elementary” and educating the gang on the ability of goals and self-confidence. “That is what perception seems like,” she says.

Sheryl Lee Ralph accepts the Emmy for Excellent Supporting Actress in a Comedy Sequence for ‘Abbott Elementary’ on the Emmy Awards on September 12, 2022 in Los Angeles.
what else believing is like? Rachel Berry of “Glee” – aka LEA MICHELE – is lastly enjoying the position of Fanny Brice in “Humorous Woman” on Broadway. In sports activities, with 4 unhappy phrases that resonate with working mothers in every single place, SERENA WILLIAMS says she’s strolling away from tennis, as a result of: “One thing has to present.”
October
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The second HARVEY WEINSTEIN trial opens in Los Angeles. ADIDAS is dropping YE, which is a part of a cascade of firms that may sever ties with the rapper over his anti-Semitic and different disturbing feedback. The ELON MUSK period begins on TWITTER because the world’s richest man brings a sink into the workplace, to “let it movement”.

Heidi Klum attends her twenty first Annual Halloween Celebration in a Worm Costume on October 31, 2022 in New York Metropolis.
HEIDI KLUM’s Halloween costume is a slimy, sparkly rainworm. However earlier than the month slips away from us, let’s give it to TAYLOR SWIFT for dropping his new album, “Midnights” (Spotify’s most streamed album in a single day), then including seven bonus tracks, then develop into the primary artist to occupy all the prime 10 spots on the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart. Let THAT sink in! PS Watch Movie star divorce: TOM BRADY and his spouse GISELE BUNDCHEN are going their separate methods.
November
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Did we are saying LAST month was Taylor Swift month? Effectively now, hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic followers are flocking to pre-sales for his extremely anticipated Eras Tour, leading to countless crashes and waits. Ticketmaster is canceling the final sale, citing inadequate stock. A number of state attorneys normal announce investigations. Takeaway: Folks need Taylor Swift tickets. On the multiplex, additionally they need their Wakanda. “Black Panther: Wakanda Endlessly” faces the double problem of following one among historical past’s greatest blockbusters and shedding its greatest star.
December
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Love ’em or hate ’em, this is HARRY and MEGHAN once more, with a Netflix “documentary” watched very, very intently by royalty throughout the pond.

Workplace employees in London watch the controversial Netflix documentary ‘Harry & Meghan’.
The “AVATAR” sequel lastly seems, 13 years after the unique broke information. Will viewers flock to Pandora once more? And to wrap up the 12 months, WILL SMITH emerges to advertise his new film, “EMANCIPATION,” and hopes folks neglect…what was that? …at the least sufficient to look at the film. On this 12 months of comebacks, will Smith be the best? Come again and see us in 2023.