25 biggest celebrity stories of 2017
- 1/25
1. Sexual harassment scandals rock Hollywood
- 2/25
2. Bombing occurs at Ariana Grande concert
- 3/25
3. Country festival becomes site of deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history
- 4/25
4. Beyoncé and Jay-Z welcome twins
- 5/25
5. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce engagement
- 6/25
6. Tom Petty dies
- 7/25
7. Oscars Best Picture flub
- 8/25
8. The Kardashian baby boom
- 9/25
9. Kathy Griffin’s Trump photo shoot
- 10/25
10. Chris Cornell commits suicide
- 11/25
11. Chester Bennington commits suicide
- 12/25
12. Anna Faris and Chris Pratt divorce
- 13/25
13. Selena Gomez receives kidney transplant from best friend
- 14/25
14. Mary Tyler Moore dies
- 15/25
15. Julia Louis-Dreyfus diagnosed with breast cancer — one day after winning an Emmy
- 16/25
16. Barry Manilow comes out at age 73
- 17/25
17. George and Amal Clooney welcome twins
- 18/25
18. Corey Feldman names alleged accusers
- 19/25
19. “Bachelor in Paradise” shuts down production over misconduct allegations
- 20/25
20. The “Fyre Festival” fiasco
- 21/25
21. Kendall Jenner misses the mark with Pepsi ad
- 22/25
22. Taylor Swift comes out of hiding, drops “Reputation”
- 23/25
23. Gal Gadot’s “Wonder Woman” launches a new era for female superheroes
- 24/25
24. Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian feud
- 25/25
25. Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber get back together
2017 was an especially crazy year in Hollywood. As a former reality TV star took high office (we’re still not used to saying “President Trump”), we watched movie producer Harvey Weinstein be dethroned as a major player in the biz after a far-reaching sexual misconduct scandal. (He maintains his innocence.) While there was a lot of bad (including the Manchester bombing at an Ariana Grande concert and the largest mass shooting in U.S. history, during the Route 91 Harvest music festival), there were good things too: Beyoncé and Jay-Z welcomed twins, as did George and Amal Clooney, and the Kardashian family is baby-booming. Meanwhile, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal engagement delighted — on both sides of the pond. We look back at the biggest celeb stories of the year here…