From unexpected nudity to shock DUIs to co-star PDAs – Hollywood really served it all up this year.
1/15Heidi Klum knows a thing or two about even tan lines. The 51-year-old supermodel left basically nothing to the imagination when she went topless during a trip to St Bart’s with her husband, Tom Kaulitz, in August. Picture: Splash/Backgrid
2/15The supermodel also generated headlines - and a fair bit of backlash - in October posing for a lingerie campaign with her 20-year-old daughter, Leni. Plenty of people online found the choice of attire for the duo odd, with many comments calling it “really weird” and “inappropriate”. Picture: Intimissi
3/15The Bennifer 2.0 divorce was a huge story this year - and this image of Ben Affleck’s BFF, Matt Damon, locked in an intense conversation with his estranged wife, Jennifer Lopez, at the Toronto International Film Festival in September sure added to that frenzy. Oh, to be a fly on the wall.... Picture: Backgrid Australia
4/15Concerns for Britney Spears grew this year after these images emerged of the star, barefoot and dishevelled, at the Chateau Marmont, in the wake of what was reportedly a heated altercation with her boyfriend, Paul Richard Soliz. Picture: Backgrid
5/15How does one shift into recovery mode after undergoing a $20,000 facelift? If you’re Katie Price, you strip down to your string bikini and lounge by the pool of a 5-star hotel in Turkey. The reality star and TV personality, 46, underwent her sixth facial surgery in August and later took to Instagram to detail her recovery. “My natural hair growing, My eyelashes. Natural face healing well,” she captioned a selfie. Price might have been feeling good about it all - but according to TripAdvisor, other hotel guests weren’t as thrilled to be sharing a pool with her during her recovery phase. “Who wants to relax and dine at a hotel looking at someone with blood all over their face, staples holding their scalp on and incisions weeping with pus,” a fellow guest wrote on the hotel review website. Picture: Backgrid
6/15“This is going to ruin the tour”. It was the DUI arrest that generated headlines all over the world - and immortalised an iconic new cringe celebrity quote. Justin Timberlake was arrested in Sag Harbor in the ritzy Hamptons in June, with a police report stating that he’d allegedly swerved to the wrong side of the road twice, failed to halt at a stop sign, and refused to take a breathalyser test three times. The ashen-faced singer apologised outside a New York court and said he “made a mistale” after being convicted in September. Despite facing possible jail time, Timberlake was handed just a small fine and a few hours’ community service. “I did not live up to the standard I hold myself to,” he told a judge in Long Island as he faced the music. Picture: Sag Harbor Police Department/AFP
7/15After absolutely dominating the box office with Barbie last year, Margot Robbie and husband Tom Ackerley turned their attention to family matters. The actress’ pregnancy was confirmed in July, and these pictures of the parents-to-be holidaying in Lake Como, Italy, surfaced shortly after. Picture: Cobra Team/ Backgrid
8/15Super Bowl? What Super Bowl? This year’s sporting extravaganza was almost completely dominated by Swift-mania, thanks to her very public (and rather sweet) relationship with Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce. After his team scored the victory, Swift rushed onto the field to plant a kiss on her beau - and create this iconic pop culture image. Picture: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images
9/15Speaking of Swift-mania - it certainly reached a fever pitch when the singer brought her Eras Tour Down Under in February. All eyes were on Swift both onstage and off - including during this outing to a Sydney restaurant during one of her rare nights off. Picture: Chris Dyson/Backgrid
10/15Like Heidi Klum, Game of Thrones star Charles Dance clearly believes in the “less is more” approach to swimwear. The 77-year-old dared to bare at a nudist beach while holidaying in Formentera, in Spain, with his girlfriend, Alessandra Masi in May. Picture: Cobra Team/Backgrid
11/15Sharon Osbourne has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years, and it was on full display during her shopping day out in Los Angeles earlier this year. The 72-year-old, who lost 19 kilograms using Ozempic, revealed late last year that her 2021 facelift was the “worst thing she ever did”. ”I looked like Cyclops. I had one eye here and one eye there and my mouth was all skewiff,” she told the Times. ”And then I had to wait for that to heal before I could go back and have it corrected.” Picture: Backgrid Australia
12/15There’s no denying Ryan Gosling has gone from strength to strength in recent years. His scene-stealing performance as Ken in last year’s Barbie was followed by his hilarious leading turn in action comedy, The Fall Guy. Gosling was on hand to promote the movie, which was shot in Australia, at the SXSW Festival in Texas in March, where his pillowy fresh features caused a bit of a stir. Picture: Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images
13/15Just weeks after his rumoured split from singer Rosalia, The Bear star Jeremy Allen White took his TV romance with co-star Molly Gordon off-screen durin a PDA-filled outing this year. The Emmy Award-winning actor, 33, and Gordon, 28, have played love interests since season two of the smash hit kitchen comedy. Picture:TheImageDirect.com
14/15Well... it sure scored points for originality. This portrait of King Charles by Jonathan Yeo, commissioned in 2020, was unveiled in Buckingham Palace in May - and let’s just say it sparked some incredibly funny reactions online. Picture: Aaron Chown-WPA Pool/Getty Images
15/15After making his debut on our TV screens as the new host of I’m A Celebrity alongside Julia Morris earlier this year (and scoring a nomination for the coveted Gold Logie), Robert Irwin turned his attention to modelling. The wildlife warrior and social media sensation took a break from the khaki sets and hit the catwalk at the Melbourne Fashion Festival, lookig right at home. Picture: Lucas Dawson Photography/Supplied