THE BIGGEST CELEBRITY STORIES OF 2025 — AND WHAT HOLLYWOOD HAS IN STORE FOR 2026
Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
From surprise blockbusters to billionaire fairy-tale weddings, 2025 gave us nonstop celebrity moments we couldn’t stop talking about. On this podcast, we break down the year’s most jaw-dropping headlines, iconic comebacks, and culture-shifting scandals — then look ahead to what’s coming next. Which stars are about to dominate 2026? Buckle up: the tea is hot and Hollywood’s next chapter is already unfolding.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:18.5 | Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, welcome to the naughty but nice show, our first show of 2026. I'm so excited. Last year was a tough one. I want 2026 to be amazing for every single one of us. I hope you had a lovely evening to those who went to bed early. Good for you. I was actually |
| 0:39.1 | out quite late last night. Our dear friends, Alan and Robbie and Evelyn took us out for dinner. |
| 0:45.0 | It was fantastic. We were there at midnight to sing all langs-eye and happy New York. And New York, |
| 0:51.4 | we sang that too. Does that happen all over the country or just |
| 0:55.9 | in New York? I know when the ball drops in Times Square at midnight they play that fantastic |
| 1:02.8 | Frank Sinatra, Liza Manelli song. Really, it is a Kanda and Ebb song. They wrote it, |
| 1:08.1 | John Kander, Fred Ebb. I love it, I it i love it i love it but it did wonder for a second |
| 1:12.4 | does that play around the country or is that just a new york thing maybe you can let me know already i have |
| 1:17.9 | questions and it's the top of the year that's what makes us really good at this we're curious some |
| 1:24.1 | people who aren't quite as generous would say we're nosy. I'm fine with that too. But we are. We love life. We love questions. We love finding answers. And we love a celebrity gossip. Okay, let's jump into the show. What time is it, my friends? It is tea time. So from blockbusters, bombshells to millionaires' billionaires' weddings, |
| 1:45.5 | 2025 was pure chaos. |
| 1:48.0 | Stars fell, empires crumbled, and Hollywood reminded us why we can't look away. |
| 1:54.8 | So today we're going to look at some of the biggest stories of 2025, |
| 1:59.4 | what we talked about in the podcast on the show. |
| 2:02.6 | And also, too, we're going to look ahead and predict what I think we're going to see in |
| 2:08.6 | 26 for all these massive stories. |
| 2:13.2 | Number one, it's got to be Taylor Swift. |
| 2:15.4 | Now, this romance with NFL star Travis Kelsey didn't just end with them getting engaged. |
| 2:21.8 | No, it ended in this now merger of this sports, this pop star, this life together, this business together. |
| 2:30.7 | So releasing new music on his podcast, let's remember that. That was brilliant. It |
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