Happy 2025 hunnies and welcome back, we’ve missed you! First up this week we’re debriefing on the holidays, from New Year’s resolutions to the culture that kept us entertained. Next, a deep-dive into the explosive developing story on the numerous (and ongoing) lawsuits surrounding It Ends With Us costars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. Is the world of crisis PR as dark as it seems? And finally, some great new film recs for you, randomly both starring Nicholas Hoult: Lily-Rose Depp’s ‘sexy vampire’ film Nosferatu, and Clint Eastwood’s crime thriller Juror #2.

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Recs discussed:

• The Traitors, BBC One
• Supacell, Netflix
• Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, BBC iPlayer
• Blake Lively’s Suit Exposes the Twisted World of Hollywood Misogyny, The Nation
• 'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine, New York Times
• Who Trolled Amber, Tortoise
• Juror #2, rent via Amazon Prime, Google Play and Sky
• Nosferatu, in cinemas now