From American Idol to American Powerhouse: How Kelly Clarkson Soared While Other Past Winners Failed to Launch

E! News/October 27, 2017 “Catch my breath, no one can hold me back,” Kelly Clarkson once belted. “I ain’t got time for that.” It was 2012 when the songstress delivered the lyrical thesis. Already a decade after her pioneering American Idol win in 2002, Clarkson had managed to propel her initial success in the Wild Wild West of reality […]

How Kelly Clarkson’s New Album Helped Her Soar to Stylish Heights

E! News/ January 28, 2018 “I’m a strong, badass chick with classic confidence.” Kelly Clarkson delivered one of her newest anthems with “Whole Lotta Woman,” an unforgettable tune off of her eighth studio album, Meaning of Life. As the first album to be released outside of her American Idol recording contract with RCA Records, which she once described as […]

How Gwyneth Paltrow Changed Her Approach to Love After Her “Conscious Uncoupling”

E! News/ November 21, 2017 In 2014, Gwyneth Paltrow catapulted a peculiar phrase to national stardom: “conscious uncoupling.” It was late March when the Oscar winner and her husband of more than 10 years, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, penned a joint statement shockingly announcing their separation. “We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of […]

Mary J. Blige’s Stylist on Fighting Blizzards, Finding Black Dresses and Defying Fashion Boundaries for a Golden Globes Look

E! News/ January 7, 2018 “It’s a lot, a lot of work.” Law Roach put it simply. With three days until the 2018 Golden Globes, a “bomb cyclone” looming over New York City and an industry jolted by widespread sexual misconduct allegations, the Hollywood stylist had a full plate when it came to his main task: finding […]

Once Upon a November: Behind the Scenes of Anastasia 20 Years Later

E! News/November 20, 2017 “There was a time not very long ago…” With those eight words, Anastasia opened to audiences around the country. It was November 21, 1997 and Fox Animation Studios had just nationally debuted its first film, headed by director/producer duo Don Bluth and Gary Goldman and featuring a star-studded cast of voices, including Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria and Angela Lansbury with […]

Camille Grammer Is Engaged: How the Reality Star Endured a High-Profile Divorce and Found Love Nearly a Decade Later

E! News/October 30, 2017 Camille Grammer once called 2010 the worst year of her life. The mother of two had been shooting the first season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills while simultaneously facing the end of her 13-year marriage to star Kelsey Grammer. “My whole life was falling apart,” she told Katie Couric of that time in her life two years […]

A Career High Note: How Singing Led These Stars to Golden Globes Glory

E! News/January 4, 2017 When a star successfully belts it out on the silver screen, they might as well prepare their Golden Globes speech. After 73 years, the annual awards ceremony continues to honor Hollywood’s risk takers who test their professional fate with a movie musical. While projects in the genre are not frequent nor […]

The Catch-22 of Losing Weight in Hollywood, as Told by Lena Dunham, Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Simpson and More

E! News/March 22, 2017 Magazine covers are often dedicated to it. Products are promoted around it. Britney Spears even sang a lyric about it. We’re talking about celebrity weight loss. In Hollywood, what begins as a highly personal process can snowball into a month-long tabloid beat, a red carpet obsession and, for many female stars, a winding […]

Behind the Scenes of TRL With the Man Who Helped Create It

E! News/October 2, 2017 The show of a generation is ushering in a new era. TRL, MTV’s flagship live show and the program that played a part in the careers of the millennium’s biggest stars, is on its way back into the pop culture zeitgeist. During the show’s decade on television, it gave up-and-coming stars […]

Revisiting Hugh Hefner and Holly Madison’s Complicated Relationship

E! News/September 28, 2017 Of the many women to come in and out of Hugh Hefner‘s life, Holly Madisonis one of the most famous. The late magazine mogul’s girlfriend for seven years—a majority of them as the “#1 girlfriend”—Madison was a prominent fixture in Hefner’s life for nearly a decade. Having frequently visited the mansion while a 20-year-old college student […]