It’s been another huge week in culture news. We kicked it off with Aussie glory at the Golden Globes, courtesy of Rose Byrne, who won for her performance in the film ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’. During her acceptance speech, Byrne thanked her husband (actor Bobby Cannavale), who “couldn't be here because we're getting a bearded dragon and he went to a reptile expo in New Jersey.”

In an important pet update, Byrne told Extra: “We’ve got the guy. He’s really cute. He’s in the house, and it’s going well.”

Australian actor Jacob Elordi was also in attendance at the Golden Globes — a face you can expect to see plenty more of this year, with the highly anticipated return of Euphoria confirmed for 12 April… finally. After a four-year wait, this morning we got our first look at Elordi, Zendaya and the whole Euphoria cast in the season three trailer. You can check it out here.

“It isn't on my game card right now, but who knows… Never say never… If the people in America weren’t suffering, we wouldn’t be where we are right now. It’s a failure on both parties.”
Actor Mark Ruffalo speaking about a possible future career pivot to politics in a recent interview with Us Weekly.

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The amount Zoe Saldaña’s films have made at the box office, making her the highest-grossing actor of all time, according to The Numbers. Saldaña stars in all three ‘Avatar’ films, but has also had box office wins in the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ and the ‘Avengers’ movies.

Jennifer Lawrence was captured stealing a bottle of wine from Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner’s table at the Golden Globes. Chalamet won best actor in a musical or comedy film for his performance in ‘Marty Supreme’. Lawrence was nominated for best actress in a drama for ‘Die My Love’, but she lost out to ‘Hamnet’ star Jessie Buckley.

After a few years (mostly) out of the spotlight, Harry Styles has teased new music.

Styles is a Grammy award-winning artist who rose to fame with One Direction.

The 31-year-old cemented his status as a global pop powerhouse with his 2021-2023 ‘Love on Tour’ run of 169 shows.

The tour wrapped in July 2023, when Styles told his fans: “I'll see you again when the time is right.”

Speculation of a fourth Harry Styles album intensified on 28 December, when the British artist dropped an eight and a half minute video titled ‘Forever, Forever’.

The clip includes footage from the final ‘Love on Tour’ performance, and ends with an on-screen message: “We Belong Together.”

In the weeks since, that same phrase has been spotted on billboards and posters around the world, including in New York, São Paulo, Berlin, Palermo, and Manchester.

A new website, webelongtogether.co, also appeared earlier this week, directing fans to join the HSHQ (Harry Styles headquarters) WhatsApp group.

On Thursday, HSHQ shared a five-second voice note in the group. The clip sounds a lot like Styles singing the words “we belong together”.

Styles hasn’t directly confirmed if new music is on the way, but this isn’t the first time he’s used mysterious posters and websites to tease an upcoming album.

The singer rolled out similar promotional tactics ahead of dropping both his ‘Fine Line’ and ‘Harry’s House’ albums.

With no release date announced, Styles fans are playing the waiting game, but a new song (or even a full album) could be just around the corner.

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Toy manufacturer Mattel is introducing an autistic Barbie as the newest member of its line, in a move aimed at celebrating diversity.

Each doll comes with a pink finger clip fidget spinner, noise-cancelling headphones and a pink tablet modelled after the devices some autistic people who struggle to speak use to communicate.

Mattel said it developed the doll “with guidance from the autistic community”.

However, the announcement has divided some advocates.

A statement from the toy manufacturer said its goal was to create a Barbie that reflected some of the ways autistic people might experience and process the world around them.

It said the autistic Barbie doll “was named and created with the community’s guidance to allow more children to see themselves in Barbie,” consistent with its dolls “representing individuals with type 1 diabetes, Down syndrome and blindness”.

Mattel partnered with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) to develop the doll.

ASAN is a non-profit organisation that advocates for the rights and better media representation of people with autism.

The doll was given articulated elbows and wrists to acknowledge stimming, hand flapping and other gestures that some autistic people use to process sensory information or express excitement, according to Mattel.

ASAN community engagement manager Noor Pervez worked closely with Mattel on the Barbie prototype. Like many disabilities, Pervez said, “autism doesn't look any one way”.

“But we can try and show some of the ways that autism expresses itself.”

For example, the eyes of the new Barbie shift slightly to the side to represent how some people with autism sometimes avoid direct eye contact, he said.

Autism Awareness Australia CEO Nicole Rogerson said an autistic Barbie “will spark conversations, prompt curiosity, and for some children, offer a sense of recognition that has been missing.”

However, she pointed to ongoing inequalities and gaps in care faced by autistic people.

“The bigger question we should be asking is not whether a doll is good or bad. It is whether life is actually getting better for autistic Australians,” Rogerson said.

Dr Kristyn Sommer, an autistic mother with young children, called the doll “a win for the Autistic community”.

“But for those of us who want to think more deeply about it and care about what it actually means underneath the corporate veil, I think that's really important as well.”