Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz.Photo: Kevin Winter/GettyKatie Maloneyis speaking candidly aboutwhat led to her splitfromTom Schwartz.Maloney, 35, reflected on what caused her and Schwartz, 39, to go their separate ways after 12 years together during an episode of her podcast,You’re Gonna Love Me, on Friday.After thanking supporters for their kind words amid the breakup, Maloney said, “I know [for] some people [it] may seem like a shock, or it may seem like an abrupt thing, but for us it’s not like we just decided this this week or yesterday or the day before....

Photo: Rich Polk/E! Entertainment/NBCUniversal/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty, AFF-USA/ShutterstockKatie Thurstonis calling out the naysayers who are criticizingMadison Prewettafter an important life milestone.On Monday, PEOPLEannounced Prewett’s engagementto boyfriendGrant Trouttas Prewett, 26, shared the news on social media.While this should have been an exciting time for the couple, Prewett received backlash for getting engaged so quickly. The milestone occurring on Sunday comes just eight months into the pair’s relationship.Amid the criticism, Thurston came to Prewett’s defense and supported the couple’s whirlwind romance journey....

Bon Appétit! Katy Perry and fiancé Orlando Bloom— along with fellow stars Padma Lakshmi, Tiffany Haddish, chef Aarón Sanchez and more industry heavyweights — have invested a total of $20 million inShef, a platform that enables home cooks to sell meals in their communities, PEOPLE confirms. According to the company, more than 85 percent of their home cooks — who offer customers authentic ethnic foods like freshly wrapped dumplings, coconut curry, jerk chicken, enfriladas de pollo and more — identify as people of color....

Katy Perryis taking time out of her busy schedule to support a very special man in her life. Days after the 33-year-old singer confirmed she’s officiallyoff the market, Perry fit in a quick trip to London in order to spend some time with beauOrlando Bloom. As part of her whirlwind trip betweenWitness world tour performancesin Belgium and Amsterdam, the “Chained to the Rhythm” singer made sure to catch Bloom’s performance in the West End revival of Tracy Letts’ playKiller Joe, which opened earlier this month....

Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty; Walter McBride/WireImage Katy Perryisn’t shy about her politics and on Monday night she dined with a particularly political guest: former New York City MayorMike Bloomberg, who is running to challenge PresidentDonald Trumpin this year’s election. Perry, who campaigned for Democratic candidateHillary Clintonin 2016, ate with Bloomberg at Wolfgang Puck’s CUT in the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, California, a source tells PEOPLE. (Bloomberg’s campaign is keeping mum....

Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty At the 95th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, theDaniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert-directed film was awarded Best Picture to close out the ceremony. Theother nine nomineeswere:All Quiet on the Western Front,Avatar: The Way of Water,The Banshees of Inisherin,Elvis,The Fabelmans,Tár,Top Gun: Maverick,Triangle of SadnessandWomen Talking. Ford presented the cast and directors with the award and embraced Quan when he went onstage. An excited Quan jumped up and down before appearing to happily give Ford a kiss on the cheek....

Keenan Cahill, theYouTube starfamous for lip-synching and celebrity cameos, is dead. He was 27. At age one, Cahill was diagnosed with Maroteaux Lamy Syndrome which is a “progressive condition that causes many tissues and organs to enlarge, become inflamed or scarred, and eventually waste away (atrophy),” according to the National Library of Medicine. Skeletal abnormalities also commonly occur with this condition. The star announced on his social media earlier this month that he was having open heart surgery on Dec 15....

Photo: GettyHuman error can rear its unforgiving head at any time, as a keeper at Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens learned on Wednesday morning.According to a Facebook postfrom the Florida zoo, a keeper entered the lion exhibit in the early morning to clean the area before the zoo opened. The keeper assumed they were alone in the exhibit, but due to an unsecured door, a young lion got out of its enclosure and into the exhibit....

Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones performs in Vienna in July 2022.Photo:HANS KLAUS TECHT/APA/AFP via Getty HANS KLAUS TECHT/APA/AFP via Getty After six decades withThe Rolling Stones,Keith Richardsis just as enthusiastic about rocking out on the guitar. The legendary guitarist, 79, opened up about living with arthritis and how it’s affected the way he plays his instrument in a new interviewwith the BBC. “It’s a sort of benign version,” the rock icon — whose band is about to release their first album in 18 years,Hackney Diamonds— continued....

Nicole KidmanandKeith Urbanare celebrating Mother’s Day. The Academy Award winner, 53, marked the holiday on Sunday with a heartfelt post that featured a snapshot of herself holding a bouquet of roses that she received from her daughters' school. “I was sent this from my daughters' school and it says it all…,” wrote Kidman, who is mom to daughters Sunday Rose, 12, and Faith Margaret, 10. “To all our women out there – to our mums, our grandmothers, our sisters, our daughters, our aunts, our girlfriends – I am so deeply grateful to the women who raise other women, who laugh, and love, and grieve, and befriend, and care, and never, ever, ever give up....

Kyle Jacobs and Kellie Pickler in 2016.Photo: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Kellie Pickler’s husband has died in what authorities believe is a suicide. He was 49. The Nashville Police Department confirms in a statement shared with PEOPLE that the Department of Emergency Communications was alerted to a home on Friday at 1:21 p.m. local time. Police and the Nashville Fire Department arrived at the location and found the songwriter “deceased from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound,” they said in the statement....

In the 20 years Since U Been Gone,Kelly Clarkson, there have been many subsequent winners ofAmerican Idol.The Grammy winner, who justreleased her most recent studio albumChemistrylast Friday, joinedAndy CohenonWatch What Happens Livefor a game of “Plead the Fifth” Tuesday night.But, when Cohen turned the conversation to the show that made the star famous (after she’d already taken a pass on the first question) Clarkson, 41, knew she was in trouble.“Can you name anAmerican Idolwinner from the last five years?...

Kelly Clarksonis paying tribute to one of her fellowAmerican Idolalums. On Wednesday’s episode ofThe Kelly Clarkson Show, the Texas-born songstress coveredCarrie Underwood‘s 2006 hit “Before He Cheats” — belting the country hit out during the popular show-opening “Kellyoke” segment. “Before He Cheats” was Underwood’s biggest crossover hit, coming six months after she won the third season ofAmerican Idol.Thesong topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs chartfor five consecutive weeks and spent a record 64 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, making it the sixth longest-charting single in history....