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You might still have a half-empty bowl of Halloween candy next to your front door, but ready or not, the holiday season is officially here!
Yes, it’s Black Friday, and whether you’re battling the hordes at your local big box store or navigating the Amazon with nothing but your AmEx card for protection, there are some major once-a-year deals waiting to be discovered.
Now, as a celebrity gossip site, we might not be the most obvious candidate to guide you through the retail jungle.
But if you have a pop culture lover in your life (or if you just want to treat yourself to some movie merch or a new streaming service), then you’ve come to the right place!
Scroll on for our list of the best gift ideas for the TV, music, or movie aficionado on your gift list.
Streaming deals
Numerous streaming services are offering discounted rates for Black Friday. And while subscriptions might not be the most conventional present, they offer a new way of gifting in this post-physical media world.
Apple TV+ for $5.99/month (down from $12.99)
Pluribus, and Severance, and Slow Horses, oh my!
Yes, Apple TV+ is carrying some of the biggest shows on TV, and right now, you can subscribe for about half the usual rate.
And it’s the perfect time of year to enjoy exclusive holiday content like the 2022 Will Ferrell-Ryan Reynolds comedy Spirited!
Disney+, Hulu and ESPN Bundle for $29.99/month (down from $49.99)
Here’s one for all you cord-cutters out there!
If you ditched cable and you’re finding that the Netflix library isn’t offering as much quality content as those 150 channels, then the Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN bundle has got you covered.
In addition to all the quality movies and series on Disney+, Hulu is the best platform for keeping you connected with all of your favorite broadcast and basic cable shows.
And for a limited time, they’re knocking 20 bucks off the monthly subscription rate.
AMC+ for $1.75/month (down from $6.99)
Sink your teeth into a deal that’ll give you access to acclaimed AMC+ original shows like Interview With the Vampire.
A subscription — for the low price of just $1.75 a month! — will also provide you with access to AMC’s horror streaming service Shudder.
A word of warning, however: If you’re a Mad Men fan who wants to rewatch the acclaimed ad agency drama, you might just want to wait a few days — the show will be available on HBO Max beginning in December.
Merchandise deals
Hot Topic has discounted Stranger Things gear
Hot Topic is one of several retailers offering deep discounts on merchandise for the TV lover in your life, including Stranger Things t shirts and hoodies.
Yes, you might not have a mall in your town anymore, but Hot Topic is still there for all of your pop culture merch needs.
Sadly, it seems they no longer stock a wide array of Limp Bizkit posters.
Homage is offering 20% off storewide
You may not be familiar with the clothing retailer Homage, but they have a massive stock of pop culture-themed swag.
And for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, they’re offering 20 percent off storewide.
From Star Wars to The Simpsons, Homage has the branded merch that’s certain to please the TV and movie obsessive in your life.
They even have gear from all of the major sports leagues to satisfy the jocks on your list.
At Mashable, spend $100, get $300 off
Finally, we have a blockbuster deal at Mashable, the site that has you covered for all your Labubu needs.
If you spend $300 on Black Friday, you’ll get $100 off — and as any Labubu fan will tell you, 300 bucks goes awfully fast when you’re talking about these tiny collectibles.
So happy hunting, Black Friday warriors.
We hope you’ll find everything you’re looking for this holiday season!
The Best Black Friday Deals For the Pop Culture Fanatic In Your Life was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Porsha Williams has gone Instagram official.
With her brand new GIRLFRIEND.
On Friday, November 28, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star shared a birthday tribute to Patrick “Sway” McKinney, the founder of Encore Salon Suites in Atlanta.
“Happiest Birthday @sway_thepro Hope this year continues to bring you everything you want and more! Can’t wait to act up Saturday!” Williams captioned the post, which included the picture down below.
In one of the images Porsha posted to social media, Sway is hugging Williams from behind as the reality star throws her head back in a laugh.
In another, the pair can be seen embracing in a lovely hug as Sway plants a smooch on her girlfriend’s cheek.
In a third photo, Sway and Williams simply pose for a selfie.
Williams’ relationship is the first she’s made public since finalizing her divorce from ex-husband Simon Guobadia in June.
She filed for the official/legal split in February 2024, approximately 15 months after she married the 61-year-old Nigerian entrepreneur.
During an appearance at Culture Con last month, Williams revealed that she was “talking to” two different individuals — a man and a woman — and that she’d “narrowed it down” to them both.
“He is nice, and she is nice,” she said.
Williams said she “really just wanted to make sure that these were normal people” as she entered the dating world for the first time since becoming single once again.
“What I talked about with my therapist the other day was — I’m having a hard time opening up because they’re not narcissists,” Williams went on.
“And guess what narcissists do? They love bomb you, they do everything, they look perfect, they mirror you. And these people are not.”
Williams never came out of the closet as a bisexual.
HOWEVER, the upcoming Traitors contestant had previously hinted at not being able to “connect with other men” while stating that her dating life would look “different” after ending her relationship with Guobadia.
“When you go through a bad enough breakup, you’re like, ‘I don’t like nobody,’” Porsha told People Magazine in June.
“I was sitting there, I was like, ‘Do I like women enough? Can I get with a woman? Who can come in and fill this void?’ But I don’t yet. It’ll come.”
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How Trump’s base could break
President Donald Trump has held his coalition together throughout much of the first year of his second term in office like few other figures could — albeit at times with bailing twine and a red MAGA cap — but cracks are starting to show, according to the latest results from The POLITICO Poll.
And it’s clear whoever tries to pick up the MAGA mantle ahead of 2028 has some serious work to do to keep the coalition together.
For starters, a significant portion of 2024 Trump voters — more than a third — do not consider themselves to be MAGA Republicans. And not only are they less loyal to Trump than self-identified MAGA Republicans, the poll suggests some of them have already begun to turn on him: Non-MAGA Trump voters are much more likely to blame Trump for the state of the economy, say he has too much power and be pessimistic about the future.
The results underscore just how sui generis the cohort that reelected Trump was — and foreshadow the GOP’s coming challenges.
More than half of Trump’s voters last year — 55 percent — describe themselves as MAGA, but a critical 38 percent do not, according to the survey, which comprised 2,098 U.S. adults online and was conducted Nov. 14-17, with a margin of sampling error at plus-or-minus 2 percentage points.
And it’s here where the fissures start to emerge: Among those self-described MAGA voters, 47 percent say the current economy still belongs fully to Biden, compared to just 26 percent of non-MAGA Trump 2024 voters.
This divide becomes even starker on areas Republicans typically don’t own, like health care, where the White House is struggling to forge a path to extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies: 85 percent of MAGA Trump voters trust Republicans more to bring down health care costs, whereas just 55 percent of non-MAGA do — with 19 percent instead trusting Democrats and 27 percent saying they don’t know.
When it comes to trusting a given party on the economy, 88 percent of those MAGA voters back Republicans generally; but only 63 percent of non-MAGA Trump voters support Republicans, with 28 percent saying neither party or don’t know.
On affordability, the issue that Trump has said delivered him the election, and the one his own White House deputy chief of staff James Blair has said he will be “very focused on,” non-MAGA Republicans are more concerned by the cost of living than their MAGA counterparts: 59 percent to 48 percent.
Among the other findings centering on the economy:
- The non-MAGA cohort is less likely to feel Trump has taken the chance he had to change things in the economy: 65 percent of MAGA compared with 46 percent of non-MAGA.
- MAGA Republicans feel their personal financial situation has improved over the past five years (52 percent to 24 percent), whereas non-MAGA GOPers are virtually tied (37 percent to 36 percent).
- In a fascinating divide, 73 percent of MAGA Republicans expect their personal financial situation to improve over the next 5 years, compared with 57 percent of non-MAGA Republicans.
- Similarly, MAGA feels better off than the average American (49 percent to 17 percent), whereas non-MAGA is torn (30 percent to 29 percent).
What does this all mean ahead of the fast-approaching midterms? Already, we have evidence from the off-year elections that the 2024 Trump coalition isn’t holding, with Latino and young male voters shifting back to Democrats. On generic ballot vote intention, 92 percent of MAGA Republicans backed the Republican candidate, while 62 percent of non-MAGA did.
There’s something in the MAGA Republican voter mentality — a kind of economic optimism — that is durable even amid the current turmoil. Trump’s definition of reality permeates their own.
And the GOP has less than four years to turn Trump voters into reliable Republican voters.
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