Archive October 3, 2025

Taylor Swift, a pop star, just released her 12th album today, making it seem as though she has used some incredibly cryptic clues to dig at her ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn.

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Taylor Swift fans have been left convinced she’s hit out at her ex Joe Alwyn in her new album, The Life of a Showgirl. The pop star released her 12th album today, with fans trawling through each lyric to work out references to her personal life.

She has detailed her love for fiancé Travis Kelce on the album following their engagement over the summer. And Taylor also didn’t mince her words on Actually Romantic where she appeared to reference her feud with Charli XCX.

Some fans, however, are left persuaded that she is now singing about her ex-boyfriend Joe. After six years of dating, Joe and Taylor parted ways in April 2023, according to a source who insisted that the end was minor.

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They explained to Page Six that the relationship had “just “just flowed.” Taylor “pledged allegiance” to a love interest who “dug her out of her grave,” according to Taylor’s new song, The Fate of Ophelia.

Taylor sings that “the fate of Ophelia was saved from my heart,” according to fans who believe Travis to be the singer. Shakespeare abruptly ends his romantic relationship with Ophelia in Hamlet, telling her to “get thee to a nunnery.”

Hamlet also chooses to murder her father Polonius by accident. Following her agonizing, Ophelia tragically drowns in what is interpreted as suicide.

Swifties are largely certain that the song is about Travis’s swoon following Taylor’s breakup from Joe, who also appears in a recent Hamlet film adaptation.

Shakespeare and his wife’s daughter dies after their young son, according to the actor, who also starred in the movie Hamnet. According to one fan, “Mind you Joe Alwyn is starring in Hamlet this year” and “Tay wrote The Fate of Ophelia.”

Another commented, “I know Taylor chose Olivia’s fate because Joe is from Hamnet and Hamlet, but I can’t prove it.” Someone else said, “And when will we clock that Taylor wrote the fate of Opel because Joe is in a new hamlet adaptation and Hamnet.”

A fourth person wrote, “Officially, the fate of ophelia is sooo good and iconic because she romanticized Joe and her depressive relationship for a long time and now she finally admits that their relationship was going to end me.” and Taylor helped her rekindle her inner joy.

Joe has remained tight lipped on his romance with Taylor but he did describe it as a “hard thing to navigate”. He told the Sunday Times last year: “What is unusual and abnormal in this situation is that, one week later, it’s suddenly in the public domain and the outside world is able to weigh in.”

Fans assumed Taylor had made a dig at Joe on her previous album, Tortured Poets Department. The group chat Joe and his pals Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott titled Tortured Men’s Club appeared to be a brutal swipe at it.

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Disgraced US rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs faces sentencing on Friday in a sordid criminal case that could keep him locked up for years

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Sean “Diddy” Combs is set to face sentencing on Friday (October 3) in a scandalous criminal case that could see him behind bars for years. The hip-hop tycoon was found guilty by a jury in July of flying individuals across the country for sexual encounters, including his girlfriends and male sex workers, breaching the federal Mann Act.

He was cleared of more severe charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking which could have resulted in a life sentence. Prosecutors are pushing for over 11 years in prison for Diddy, 55, who was convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.

Meanwhile, his legal team argue the punishment is “wildly out of proportion” and are calling for his immediate release. U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, who will determine the sentence, has twice refused bail and indicated that it’s unlikely Combs will be leaving federal custody anytime soon.

On Friday (October 3), the judge stated that despite Combs being cleared of certain charges, the verdict doesn’t absolve him of underlying conduct, such as violence and coercion.

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In his letter on Thursday, Combs told the judge, “The old me died in jail and a new version of me was reborn,” vowing he would never commit another crime. Cassie, in her own letter, claimed he as an abuser who “will always be the same cruel, power-hungry, manipulative man that he is.”

Combs’ lawyers argue the sexual encounters were consensual and that prison has prompted his sobriety and regret. They maintain he has already been punished enough. At a hearing last week, Combs told his mother and children that he is “getting closer to going home.”

Combs’ nearly two-month trial in a federal court in Manhattan saw testimonies from women who recounted being beaten, threatened, sexually assaulted and blackmailed by Combs. Former girlfriend and R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura told jurors that Combs forced her to have “disgusting” sex with strangers hundreds of times during their decade-long relationship.

The jury was repeatedly shown footage of him dragging and assaulting her in a Los Angeles hotel corridor following one such multi-day “freak-off.”

A woman who gave evidence under the pseudonym “Jane” said she endured violence and felt compelled to perform sexually with male sex workers at drug-fuelled “hotel nights” whilst Combs observed and sometimes recorded.

As Friday’s hearing commenced, prosecutors revealed the only Combs victim scheduled to speak in person had withdrawn following defence objections. The woman, a former personal assistant who testified under the pseudonym “Mia,” accused Combs of raping her in 2010 and has implored the judge to impose a sentence reflecting “the ongoing danger my abuser poses to me, and to others.”

Combs’ legal team say he will address the court, and they plan to present an 11-minute video showcasing his family life, career and charitable work. The judge confirmed Combs’ children and a minister will also be permitted to speak.

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Prosecutors stated the focus of Friday’s sentencing was accountability for Combs and justice for the public. “It’s a case about a man who did horrible things to real people to satisfy his own sexual gratification,” Prosecutor Christy Slavik said, “he didn’t need the money. His currency was control.”

Prosecutors also slammed Combs for, according to them, having arranged a speaking engagement in Miami next week — apparently presuming he’d be free to attend. “That is the height of hubris,” Slavik said.

Combs made his entrance into the bustling courtroom via a side door, flanked by deputy U.S. marshals. Dressed in a light-coloured jumper, button-down shirt and dark trousers, he embraced his legal team and acknowledged his family and supporters.

Outside the courthouse, photographers descended en masse as lawyers and family members arrived, mirroring scenes from the trial. To bolster their racketeering case, prosecutors had enlisted witnesses who testified about other violent acts.