Biggest Celebrity Stories of 2016 | biggest celebrity scandals 2016 | bi...

##########################################
Welcome to hot news channel biggest celebrity stories of 2016 10 Donald Trump elected president of the united states in the wee hours of november nine businessman turned reality star turned politician Donald Trump was elected president of the united states and what was perhaps one of the most surprising upsets well ever despite numerous poll showing Hillary Clinton winning some by a lot trump rally in the Rust Belt and surged to achieve a surprising victory sorry to keep you waiting complicated business he told followers as he took the stage to address his supporters I've just received a call from Secretary Clinton she congratulated us on our victory and I congratulated her and her family on a very very hard-fought campaign in the wake of his election Trump has continued to shake things up he kicks off at thank you tour has made some interesting choices when it comes to cabinet positions china by making a call to taiwan and has been taking meetings with everyone from Kanye West to Bill Gates if we could only get him to take a break from Twitter photo/john locker ap2 Brangelina breaks up with as much drama as when they got together angelina jolie and brad pitt's 12-year relationship came to a sudden end in September the controversial pair with the famous portmanteau who hooked up when he was still married to jennifer aniston parted due to parenting styles though it later came out that they had a nasty fight on a private jet with their six children present that culminated in their eldest Maddox going shoulder-to-shoulder with his dad while defending his mom it was ultimately vindicated of any wrongdoing but seems like the loser anyway as he has barely seen their kids and the visits are always supervise and must submit to drug and alcohol testing several times a month its allied co-star Marion consumer made it clear she wasn't the other woman in this.
It while it's never nice to see any family torn apart a small bright spot in the Brangelina bust up for the hysterical aniston means that served as a reminder that what goes around comes around.
Photo Jason laveris/filmmagic three kim kardashian robbed at gunpoint in Paris on october three kim kardashian was held at gunpoint forced into a bad Doug and robbed by men dressed as police officers in a private apartment she had been in France for paris fashion week along with her mother Kris Jenner and sisters Kourtney Kardashian and Kendall Jenner the attackers made off with a whopping 10 million dollars worth of jewelry including her nearly 20 carats second engagement ring from husband Kanye West though she was physically unharmed a spokesperson for the reality TV star said she was badly shaken in the aftermath social media was declared at least partly to blame as Kim had inadvertently revealed she was alone in her hotel room sands bodyguard when she snapped candid herself facetiming shortly before her bodyguard was watching over kindle and Kearney's night out at the time since the attack Kim has been keeping a low profile and has not posted on Instagram or Twitter photo/stephan cardinale corpus via getty images for Prince dies the world was devastated to learn prince was found dead at his Paisley Park compound in minnesota on april twenty first he was 57 just one week before the beloved musician full name prince rogers nelson had suffered a medical emergency that forced his private jet to make an emergency landing in Illinois the next day.
However the purple one appeared at a concert and assured his fans that all was well later testing revealed his cause of death to be an accidental drug overdose of the opiate fentanyl during his lifetime prince had sold more than 100 million records he was in discussion with netflix about the Paisley Park reality show at the time of his death photo Kevin winter/getty images five Amber Heard files for divorce from johnny depp and accuses him of domestic violence last year the biggest headline about the movie star couple was their marriage into scandal over there unvaccinated dogs in Australia but they really blew it away in 2016 Amber Heard shocked everyone when she filed for divorce from johnny depp after just 15 months of marriage and three days after the death of depths beloved mother and may later that same week the Danish girl actress soft and was granted a restraining order against the actor whom she said had abused her throughout their marriage depth via mentally denied the allegations of abuse a police report surfaced his ex's defended him and she was accused of making the claims for financial gain it got uglier before they eventually settled the split in august and she's bound to donate the seven million dollar she wanted the deal to charity photo/john cheerer wireimage 6 Ryan locked lies about being robbed during the Rio Olympics Ryan locked made headlines around the world when he revealed he was held up at gunpoint and robbed by these posing to be police officers Andrea the 12-time olympic medalist was on his way home with three other swimmers when the incident occurred only it didn't as investigators dug into lock story they discovered the four swimmers had vandalized a gas station and as locked made the press rounds his story kept changing until the truth finally came out there was no robbery i over exaggerated that story and if i had never done that we wouldn't be in this mess locked confessed to NBC's matt lauer the US Olympic Committee ultimately suspended locked from swimming events for 10 months for the scandal that nearly caused an international incident locked was also ditched by several major sponsors but landed a gig on Dancing with the Stars blame it on Rio photo/matt has lit getty images seven Kanye West hospitalized after a mental breakdown after making headlines in November erratic behavior at his concerts which he then cancelled indefinitely.
Kanye West was hospitalized at UCLA Medical Center some reports claimed the rapper was being treated for sleep deprivation and exhaustion while others classified Kanye as having a mental breakdown.
He was released after nine days and has continued to receive outpatient treatment the anniversary of the death of his mother combined with lingering effects from kim kardashian's robbery reportedly triggered his breakdown according to ET West doctors were reluctant to diagnose anything in December he was back attending art openings and taking meetings with president-elect Donald Trump however the european leg of his tour has been canceled.
Photo Getty Images eight The Voice singer christina Grimmie killed by fan everyone was stunned when rising popstar christina Grimmie he competed on adam levine's team on season six of The Voice and finished third was tragically killed by an obsessed fan in orlando the alleged murderer.
Kevin label shot grandma she signed autographs following one of her shows before he turned the gun on himself loyal had to legally purchased guns in his possession at the time of the murder suicide according to labels only friend Kevin became fixated on the singer and watch everything having to do with their own youtubing her social media accounts labels family said he had no history of mental illness but lived like a hermit while he had no criminal record police were called to the family's home in 2014 because of a domestic disturbance involving Kevin and his father's girlfriend Hollywood mourn the loss of Grimmie she was 22 photo Jason laveris/filmmagic nine Chris Brown arrested after standoff with cops Chris Brown was arrested in los angeles on august 30 following a nearly 10 hour long standoff with police the charge suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon a woman who was later identified as Bailey current called 911 after brown allegedly threatened her with a gun it reportedly all went down in the early morning hours at brown's house when current was admiring a piece of the R&B singers jewelry Chris came in pulled out his gun and said I'm getting so sick of your people pointed the gun at me and told me.
To get the F out of the house she claimed Brown was released after posting $250,000 bail in the case is currently stalled due to lack of evidence and a sketchy alleged victim photo/chris con or getty images 10 David Bowie dies it felt like the day the music died all over again when the singing icon passed on january 10 and a time when we are oversaturated with news David Bowie's 18-month battle with cancer was a closely guarded secret so his death at 69 was a shock during his 40 plus year career ziggy stardust singer transform before our eyes taking us on inspiring musical journeys his final album black star released two days before his death was like his parting gift to the world personally his marriage to supermodel I mean was always one of the more stable ones in Hollywood so seen her grieve tongue even more at our heartstrings photo Getty Images 11 Taylor Swift faces off with Ken ye over famous lyric it's been seven years since Kanye West interrupted taylor swift's acceptance speech at the mtv vmas and though they seemingly reconcile 2016 was the year all that ended when easy debut his song famous drop this controversial life I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.
Why I made that be famous West who's recently made news for other ramps and for a hospitalization swore that he run the line by the singer but tdot Swift's people insisted he added the video for the song came out over the summer featuring wax figures of numerous famous people including Swift in bed with the rapper.
Meanwhile in defense of her husband kim kardashian intimated that she had a recording of his conversation with the bad blood singer Kardashian went ahead and released the audio of them chatting even though she claims Swift's camp threatened legal action if she did Swift responded on Instagram stating she was being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.
Gaming West did not tell her she would be referred to as Abbey fans took sides but that died down as quickly as Swift brief relationship with Tom Hiddleston burned bright then flamed out photo/kevin master.
Wireimage 12 Kelly replay is livid after ABC neglects to give her a heads up that Michael Strahan's leaving their gabfest Kelly Reaper survived replacing kathy lee gifford on the ABC morning show live in 2001 palled around with regis philbin until he left in 2012 and spent the next four years with former NFL player Michael Strahan's her coat host but when reba was not given any advance notice that straaten would be leaving live with Kelly and Michael for good morning america the usually perky blonde was furious.
Reba who had been with ABC for 26 years took a few days off to gather their thoughts as word traveled that she had been ambushed by the news she returned week later instructions departure date was moved up as things remained clearly strained between the two Reaper has had a revolving door of guest co-hosts ever since photo/abc 13 selena gomez and justin bieber spar on Instagram there's nothing like a pair of famous X is going at it on social media it all started in august when justin bieber slammed fans for flooding his Instagram with negative comments about then girlfriend Sophia Richie i'm going to make mines to Graham private if you guys don't stop the hate this is getting out of hand Bieber exclaimed underneath the photo of the two of them selena gomez decided to get in on the action riding if you can't handle the hate then stop posting pictures of your girlfriend law it should be special between you two only after Selena claimed her former flame cheated multiple times.
Justin fired back I cheated oh I forgot about you and Zane naturally this exchange in the comments section was captured for all to see both stars ended up taking a break from social media shortly after this bat Justin still hasn't returned to Instagram however Selena took that break one step further when she stepped out of the limelight for nearly three months to deal with anxiety.
Panic attacks and depression due to lupus photo TK 14 Beyonce debuts lemonade leaves everyone wondering who becky with the good hair is to paraphrase beyonce's husband mr. Carter you know you hit a crazy level of Fame when the fact your marriage made it is huge news and for many that's the story that the masterful audio and visual album that beyoncé released in April told lemonade touched on infidelity anger forgiveness and renewal but it was a few key lines in the anger part particularly the song sorry that got people talking when she said he only want me when I'm not there he better call back you with the good hair listeners had a few ideas as Becky was the by hives targets included Rita Ora Taylor Swift designer Rachel Roy and even celebrity chef Rachel Ray fans got their Rachel's mixed up while were plenty of denials and clarifications Beyonce and jay-z never publicly commented on Becky with the good hair beyond in song and the world was left to wonder that is until sorry songwriter Diana Gordon dismissed the speculation and insisted the controversial lyrics chords about no one in particular i laughed like this is so silly where are we living Gordon said I was like one day and age from that lyric do you get all of this information is it really telling you all that much accusing people photo Twitter 15 blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian get engaged and welcome baby.
Rob Kardashian shocked fans and his own family when he emerged from hiding in February with a new girlfriend blac Chyna China who shares a son with Kylie Jenner's bow Tyga was persona non grata in the Kardashian family due to Republic feud with Kylie.
Despite the Kardashian clans displeasure Rob popped the question to china in April after only three months of dating weeks after getting engaged it was revealed china and Rob were expecting their first baby together naturally a reality show Robin china was in order.
The couple who broke up and got back together several times during her pregnancy welcome their daughter dream Kardashian in november and they were one happy family for a few weeks china and Rob had another fight that resulted in China packing up their daughter and moving out this weekend i was in an emotional bad place and did some things that embarrassed myself and my family.
Rob road on instagram i apologizing i'm seeking help to deal with my flaws issues.
Stay tuned photo Tommy Garcia e entertainment NBCU photo bank via getty images 16 Leslie Jones quits twitter because of nasty trolls makes triumphant return that lands her get the Olympics bet you didn't know you needed the phrase play all day in your life but once saturday night lives leslie jones rose to prominence this year triumphing over Twitter trolls and championing the US olympics team like no one before it was on the comedian had been an SNL player since 2014 but it wasn't until this past summer that she became a household name after she shared the ugly racist and sexist comments she had been receiving on social media following her turn in the all-female remake of ghostbusters the vitriol drove her from twitter but the outpouring of support she got from colleagues fans and even Twitter CEO helped her return and that meant we got to watch her unbridled enthusiasm for the Rio Olympics and general and for the u.s. teams in particular from the comfort of her couch with her crazy color commentary hilarious insights and millions of followers.
It was only a matter of time before NBC sent her to Rio to cheer on Team USA in person.
Slay all day Leslie photo/mike pond wireimage 17 Taylor Swift called kissing tom hiddleston two weeks after splitting with calvin harris well that was swift just a couple of weeks after breaking up with DJ calvin harris taylor swift was spotted locking lips with actor tom hiddleston the bad blood singer and Avengers star were first spotted dancing together at the met gala in a while Swift was dating Harris they had a whirlwind courtship over the summer the PDA inclined couple were spotted together in Nashville England Italy Australia and rhode island where it'll still thought it was a good idea to sport and my heart PS shirt although the hills with even met Taylor's parents their love affair was short-lived.
Tom and Taylor split after three months together but are still friends reportedly photo spot news 18 Janet Jackson announces she is expecting first child a 50 the world has watched this superstar grow up make history and at times stumble nipply gate and you want so when the then 49 year old singer announced in april that she would be delaying her widely anticipated unbreakable world tour because she and her coterie billionaire husband with some al mana were planning their family it got a lot of attention and even more speculation even though she was spotted bundled up and shopping in a baby furniture store in September it wasn't until october that she confirmed her pregnancy in the pages of people blowing in a white ensemble that featured her baby bump and sane we thank god for our blessing photo.
Akm-gsi 19 housekeeper is accused of holding Richard Simmons hostage after decades of leading cheesy workouts in his many exercise videos and a Beverly Hills Jim richard simmons was suddenly silent no one really noticed until the New York Daily News reported in March that summons was being held at his home against his will by his longtime housekeeper to resurvey less the flamboyant star dismissed the accusation in phone interview the day after the story was published saying that he just wanted to break following a knee injury that kept him from teaching classes for all the people that were worrying about me.
I want to tell them that I love them with my whole heart and soul and not to worry.
Richard's fine he said on to death you haven't seen the last of me I'll come back and I'll come back strong sadly the workout gurus Jim slim ins closed its doors in November truly you don't need me to tell you what to do anymore.
Simmons wrote on Facebook you know it's within you.
It's in your heart and it's been there all along so get up and get moving photo/rodrigo Vance filmmagic 20 mariah carey and her billionaire break off engagement looking back we should have predicted the end of mariah carey's engagement to OC businessman James Packer in July when we published our story on how he was always wearing track pants while she was in evening gowns he may have done well presenting her with a 35 carat engagement dream it was up to the elusive chanteuse standards but they were mismatched couple from the start and the fact that they couldn't share a super-sized yacht while vacationing should have been another red flag their prenup was another disaster instead Maria went full speed ahead incorporating packer into a reality series Mariah's world which debuted earlier this month and the powers-that-be had to scramble to edit him out and play up with seems to have been her fake romance with one of the backup dancers Bryan Tanaka Oh Mimi photo Getty Images 21 Hulk Hogan Sue's got car and wins in one of the stranger lawsuits in recent decades former pro wrestling star Hogan sued Gawker for posting a sex tape that featured Hogan into friends former wife that wasn't the strange part though the strange part was that Hogan's suit was largely funded by Silicon Valley honcho Peter Thiel who had been harboring ill will toward the site ever since it out at him for being gay nearly a decade before Logan real name Terry gene Bali was awarded a whopping 150 million dollars by florida jury who believed he had suffered severe emotional distress since the tape surface three years ago tho Gawker insisted for months that it would win on appeal in early November the site caved and reached a settlement with Hogan agreeing to pay 31 million dollars in between those two turning points however the science founder Nick Denton exited and the site was sold to Univision Univision's first order of business was stripping the side of all the other articles that were involved in little ation photo/andrew eh walker/getty images.
20 to Orlando Bloom and katy perry make a splash when they go public with new romance orlando bloom and katy perry hooked up at a golden globes afterparty in january and while we could get into the nitty-gritty of their courtship disney dates coachella kisses met gala accessorizing matching jammies at Thanksgiving the true highlight of their romance at least in our eyes was their trip in sardinia italy which saw bloom stripping down to nothing while taking his ladylove on a paddle boarding ride we are not sure if these crazy kids will make it but they'll always have Sardinia and so will the internet photo akm-gsi 23 shannen doherty reveals breast cancer has spread in August shannen doherty let it be known that the breast cancer she had been battling had spread I had breast cancer that spread to the lymph nodes and from one of my surgeries we discovered that some of the cancer cells might have actually gone out of the lymph nodes the 45 year-old actress explained she also revealed that she'd undergone a single mastectomies may.
Throughout her treatment the beverly hills 90210 Allen was open and honest about the experience even going so far as to share a series of pics that documented her shaving off her hair while she continues to bravely battled the disease her husband is battling her ex-manager in December Kurt is wearing and go suit for failure to pay Dorothy's medical insurance premiums which called her policy to lapse in 2014 during which her cancer developed and spread he also claimed the breast cancer and hurt their love life.
Meanwhile the work he has been undergoing radiation treatments and continues to provide fans with regular updates on her cancer fight photo Steve granitz/wireimage 24 Iggy Azalea and nick Young split after impregnates his ex Nicki Azalea and NBA player nick young's relationship more accurately survived scandal in March after footage leaked of young bragging to his lakers teammate that he cheated on his fiancee they got engaged and.
Jun 2015 however the controversial auntie rapper stuck with him and went on a we're still together so deal with it pressed her there was only so much she could take though I broke up with me because I found out he had brought other women into our home while i was away and caught them on the security footage she explained on Twitter one more shock was the discovery through TV news that young sex was expecting her second child with him.
This is just like a second shot to the chest azalea confess and I feel like I don't even know who the hell it is i've been loving all this time she's been recovering from the split by posting lots of sexy photos and leaning on her plastic surgeon shoulder which is the hollywood way.
Photo Jason merritt/getty images 25 Jim Carrey slapped with to wrongful death lawsuits in a strange twist the estranged husband of jim carrey's late girlfriend Catherine and a white filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the actor in September one year after she committed suicide.
White was found dead in her home after overdosing on a lethal amount of mbn propranolol and precose it none of which she had a prescription for the suit filed by Mark burden accused carry obtaining controlled substances under a fake name and giving them two white a few weeks later White's mother filed a similar suit against the actor Bridget sweetman alleged that her daughter contracted three stds from carry without warning and that her suicide was a result of that as well as having legally obtained prescription medication from the actor carry who insists the medication was stolen called sweetman's sudah shakedown and had this to say in response to Burton's claims it would be easy for me to get in a back room with this man's lawyer and make this go away but there are some moments in life when you have to stand up and defend your honor against the evil in this world photo/jason la Ferris filmmagic 26 Lindsey Morgan gets engaged announces she's pregnant then calls the whole thing off.
Lindsay Logan's 2016 actually got off to a promising start the actress appeared to find love with.
Russian entrepreneur eagle or terrorists have been got engaged in the spring but their relationship went up in flames in August when Lindsay alleged on social media that she was pregnant although she was photographed smoking during this time and that eager without cheating on her with a hooker lilo also claimed her beau had physically abused her eagar denied the harmful and false allegations and no charges were brought against him but that didn't stop the mean girls star from giving interviews in which she publicly slammed her ex and claimed he never paid for anything he got her fired back insisting it was Lindsay who was broke needless to say it's a good thing this wedding never happened plus then she might not have ever opened up our new nightclub in athens greece photo/david em.
Benett/getty images for Walt Disney Alice Temperley 27 sure in osborne temporarily breaks up with ozzie after he admits to affair the rock-and-roll couple married in 1982 had survived everything from his drug addiction to the kiss of death for many couples a reality show but it looked as if it were all over because of another type of addiction sex addiction ozzy osbourne's for your relationship with hair stylist Michelle few was revealed in May and Sharon spoke openly about her marital problems on the talk I honestly at this point today have no idea what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my life she said the future looked bleak as the couple's daughter Kelly reacted to the news by tweeting out fuse phone number along with an unsavory message prompting you to find the lawsuit by july the story took another dramatic turn as Ozzy publicly insisted his marriage was back on track and that a sex addiction was to blame for his affair with you Sharon later noted on her show that Ozzy was going through treatment for his addiction and that she was proud of him for doing so.
Rock on photo jb lacroix wireImage 28 Prince Harry's new girlfriend his suits actress meghan markle the tabloids went crazy when it was revealed in November that Prince Harry one of the world's most eligible bachelors was dating suit star Meghan Markle in an unprecedented move the British Royal confirmed his romance with the American actress after she was subject to a wave of abuse and harassment the statement read that Prince Harry is worried about miss Marcal safety and is deeply disappointed that he has not been able to protect her it is not right that a few months into a relationship with him that miss Marcal should be subjected to such a storm despite the media frenzy Megan and Prince Harry appear to be going strong she's been spotted at Prince Harry's residents in London and has reportedly met members of his famous family anyone else rooting for a royal wedding photo Getty Images 29 corey feldman gives a bizarre performance on today then marries one of his angels corey feldman the eighties child star also known as half of the two Coreys certainly caught attention in September when he appeared on today for a head-scratching performance.
Well some would call it just plain bad of his song go for it his angels a group of women he claims to have saved from life on the streets played in saying backup while he imitated michael jackson's dance moves spinning and grabbing his garage and singing not well the reaction from the internet was Swift.
We just wanted to tell everybody that like it's been really painful Feldman said interface for cliff post the day after the show aired we put ourselves out there and we did the best that we could and like I've never had such mean things said about me like constantly things got better for the actor though he returned to today for another performance in October and the following month married his angel Courtney Ann in his third trip down the aisle part of his reasoning was that his bride is canadian and he was concerned she might deported ones Donald Trump becomes president please give this man a reality show in 2017 photo.
Youtube thirty Jennifer Aniston and Renee's elder take a stand against shaming by writing off head dealing with Hollywood's outlandish standards of beauty coupled with society in general is expectations that a woman is only really happy if she has the stereotypical husband and children at home.
Must be exhausting this was the year that two of the industry's heavyweights took it upon themselves to speak out about it.
Jennifer aniston made the first move in july with an essay written for The Huffington Post calling for people to stop obsessing over whether or not she's pregnant if I am some kind of symbol to some people out there then clearly i am an example of the lens through which we as a society.
View our mothers daughters sisters wives female friends and colleagues she wrote the objectification and scrutiny we put women through is absurd and disturbing elder pentre essay for the same publication the following month leading with readers to stop speculating about whether she had eye surgery and begin talking about are many true societal challenges and how we can do better oh she didn't have vine surgery by the way.
Photo Getty Images.
[Music].


##########################################