Maximum Dosage

As red carpet culture returns, the celebrity gossip cycle is back and more fervent than ever

- By Kenzie Bryant

There's been a frenzied quality to the celebrity gossip space in the last few months, no? As we leave one year for another, we could be coming down from any number of petty dramas or all of them at once: the end of Leonardo DiCaprio's relationship with his long-term girlfriend, Camila Morrone, in August, right after she turned 25 and right before his name started showing up in headlines alongside model Gigi Hadid's. Around the same time, an old standard reemerged with a new peg: the perceived tension between Princes William and Harry (and their respective families) during the very somber time of the queen's funeral. And then, who could forget that egg-yolk omelet thing that got James Corden banned, unbanned, and then rebanned (then re-unbanned and re-rebanned) from Balthazar?

And that's not including the 12-month news cycle that surrounded the film 3, which saw its cast and crew dogged by alleged on-set drama that only intensified from there. First its costars, Shia LaBeouf and Florence Pugh, had beefed, the rumors had it. Then we heard Pugh and her director, Olivia Wilde, had issues-allegedly over the latter's relationship with Harry Styles, LaBeouf's replacement. The movie's Venice premiere gave way to a week's debate as to whether or not, as some close watchers argued, Styles spit into the lap of costar Chris Pine. A few weeks later came a strange story concerning the role of salad dressing in the breakup of Wilde and Jason Sudeikis.