Hello and welcome to In the Limelight, Vanity Fair's Entertainment and Pop Culture

Podcast. I'm Josh Duboff, Vanity Fair Senior Writer, and I'm here with Julie Miller, Vanity Fair's

Senior Hollywood writer. On In The Limelight, we analyze the ins and outs of pop culture, entertainment, and celebrity from

the past week, from the Kardashians to Kate Middleton and everything in between. On this week's

episode, we have a variety of celebrities and events to dig into. We're going to talk about my

Friday night spent amongst the tweens at Jingle Ball, and we're also going to

see what Beyonce was up to. She visited a store that, I don't want to give too much away, that one of

our other faves celebs did recently as well. Right, right. Christmas really did come early on a

variety of fronts, another one being that big little

lies is officially getting a second season. So, you know, all of our wishes, all of our hopes,

dreams were fulfilled. And we are also going to talk about Julie's amazing coverage of the

crown and kind of connection that the crown has to one of

our favorite gals. So we will kind of get into that as well. Right. But first, Josh's evening with

Surrey Cruz, I could not believe it when you posted that Twitter. Yeah. The video. You did incredible video work.

I worked really. I've never worked quicker to get my phone out and framed. So for those who

haven't seen my tweet, which like, I don't know what you're doing with your lives. I went on

Friday night to Jingle Ball, which is sort of the, you know, radio show, end of year concert that happens in the major cities where they kind of cobbled together the best, you know, the kind of top pop music acts.

So the headliner this year was Taylor Swift at the New York one, which is Madison Square Garden.

And it was a packed house. and the anticipation for Taylor was high. The night started at 7 p.m. and Taylor did not go on until about

1130 p.m. So. So. You were there that whole time? Oh yeah, Julie. They're from 7 to midnight.

Amongst like like the kind of oddestest there was a group of girls behind us

I was fascinated by this group there was about eight of them they probably were I would guess

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