This Week in Gossip (October 5, 2025)

Nicole and Keith are Divorcing? And It’s Already Gotten Messy

It’s not often that we’re truly shocked by a celebrity divorce announcement but this one really surprised us. After 19 years of marriage, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have announced plans to divorce. Nicole filed the papers but sources claim that she wasn’t the one who wanted the marriage to end. Flags at AMC theatres were lowered to half-mast.

Perhaps it’s naïve to assume that any Hollywood marriage will go the distance, but by the time you get to 15 years of wedded bliss, it seems like a safer bet. Plus, Nicole and Keith seemed to adore one another. We were rooting for them. He had to be better than her last husband, right?

The rumours and speculation have already gotten feverish. I’ve certainly heard my own share of stories about the marriage (not sharing them here because I like not being sued.) It’s that seeming dichotomy of Nicole not wanting the split but filing the papers first that has tongues wagging. Earlier this Summer, she applied for residency in Portugal (a popular location for many celebrities seeking to jump ship from America to Europe), and Keith wasn’t listed on them. Their kids are teens now (and one is a nepo model), and the custody agreements seem to have been hammered out before the announcement. Altogether, it seems like they got things sorted out pretty neatly before the news broke. I received one PR email claiming it was “Hollywood’s cleanest divorce.” No alimony, no child custody drama, and no debts to take control over. That’s how you do it, kids.

And now, the messiness begins, because it’s hard to do any of this without it getting messy. Eventually, “sources” will start running to the tabloids to take sides and get fans to wage online war. Okay, I say “eventually”, but I really mean “immediately”, because it seems like Team Nicole got their foot on the gas as soon as TMZ got the divorce news. They want to make it clear that Nicole did not want the marriage to end, that she fought for it, and that she was more supportive of Keith’s career than vice versa.

Granted, it’s always best to be suspicious of the official gossip narratives, but Urban doesn’t seem to be making things easier for himself. During a recent performance, he changed the lyrics to his song “The Fighter” to include his guitar player. Yes, this song was written about Nicole. Yes, the video for this song featured Keith serenading Nicole. Yes, the guitar player is only 25.

Dude. If you end up being this abysmal a cliché… As if your terrible highlights weren’t cringe enough.

Nicole, I hope you’re doing well and challenge your grief into some super bananas indie roles. Or you go and have your own Babygirl moment.

The Token “Taylor vs. Charli” Paragraph

Look, I’m not a Taylor Swift fan. I also don’t enjoy talking about her because any comment not deemed to be sufficiently fawning enough to this billionaire will lead to the most annoying harassment you’ll ever receive. I once received a ton of weird comments and harassment over a review I didn’t write because… honestly, I still have no idea how that happened. It was odd. Now that Swift has a new album out and the reviews have not been as universally glowing as she’s used to, the Discourse is at least more intriguing to me than another round of Taylor-mania. And the new enemy, apparently? The Brat Queen herself.