The Biggest Celebrity News Stories of 2016
2016 has been a wild year, to say the least — especially for celebrities.
David Bowie and Prince died, Orlando Bloom and Selena Gomez were caught neck nuzzling in Las Vegas, Kanye and Taylor nearly destroyed each other over those “Famous” lyrics, and a reality TV star got elected President of the United States.
So before we plunge headfirst into the puke-colored future that is 2017, let’s take a second to remember all the big stories that rocked the celebrity world in 2016.
JANUARY
Justin Bieber posts a picture of him and Hailey Baldwin kissing on Instagram.
David Bowie died.
Kanye and Wiz got into a Twitter beef and then Amber Rose told the world Kanye was into ass play.
Rihanna and Drake blew our minds by releasing a single together.
Blac Chyna started schtupping Rob Kardashian
FEBRUARY
Beyonce preformed her new single “Formation” at the Super Bowl and a bunch of old uptight white people freaked out.
Kanye debuted his new album The Life of Pablo at Madison Square Garden and everybody freaked out because he called Taylor Swift a bitch.
Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar and everybody freaked out.
MARCH
Kim posted an old nude selfie and broke the Internet
Justin Bieber posted a picture of him and Selena kissing on Instagram and she liked it
APRIL
Justin Bieber got dreds.
Anna Wintour gave T Swift a Hot Topic makeover.
Prince died.
Beyonce dropped Lemonade and all anybody could talk about for weeks was who Becky with the good hair was.
Kylie Jenner tried to do a one day juice cleanse and failed.
MAY
The Kardashians went to Cuba and nobody knew who they were.
Harry Styles cut his luscious locks of love.
Selena Gomez and Orlando Bloom were caught “neck nuzzling” in Vegas.
Drake shaved his beard off for a weekend.
Amber Heard filed for divorce from Johnny Depp citing domestic abuse.
JUNE
Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris broke up, and it was really chill until she ditched her Hot Topic makeover and got photographed making out with Tom Hiddleston on a rock in Rhode Island.
Rihanna fell off a pool float without spilling a drop of wine, and single women read way too much into it.
After breaking up for a hot sec, Tyga casually posted a picture of Kylie on his Instagram with the caption “they always come back.”
Kanye released the music video for “Famous,” which prompted Paris to remind Kanye who really made his bitch famous.
JULY
Taylor Swift had a massive Forth of July Squad Party, and she made Tom Hiddleston wear a shirt that said “I <3 TS.”
Kylie Jenner tried KFC for the first time.
Kim leaked a video of Taylor giving Kanye her approval for the Famous lines, which completely blew her alibi that she was blindsided by the song out of the water.
Khloe posted a picture of what she thought was Chloe Grace Moretz’s butthole, but was actually just some random girls.
Perez Hilton put Demi Lovato’s sad DMs on Twitter for everyone to laugh at.
AUGUST
Taylor Swift broke her social media silence to post a cute cat video so we’d all like her again, and when that didn’t work she started walking like a crab.
Orlando Bloom freed the peen in Italy and nobody could handle it.
A few days later, Justin Bieber also freed the peen…in a creek.
Selena and Justin got into a fight on Instagram about his new girlfriend and who loves their fans more, and things got so ugly that Justin Bieber deleted his Instagram.
Kanye premiered his video for “Fade” at the MTV VMAs and the world fell in love with Teyana Taylor’s ass.
Drake told Rihanna he loved her at the VMAs and tried to kiss her, but she curbed his ass.
Selena Gomez announced she was gonna take a break from fame for a hot sec.
SEPTEMBER
Kendall’s camel toe made her public debut.
Kanye had a fashion show and depending on who you asked, it was either vaguely lit or an abomination.
Kylie and Kim took matching naked selfies.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt called it quits.
Gigi got manhandled in Milan.
OCTOBER
Kim Kardashian went to Paris and got robbed at gunpoint.
Balmain shaded Kendall in retribution for skipping their show.
Selena resurfaced from her social media hiatus at a random chain restaurant in Tennessee.
Kanye revealed that North and Blue Ivy have NEVER hung out, which is probably because Beyonce hates Kim.
Kylie Jenner made lasagna in her underwear because YOLO.
NOVEMBER
Kendall Jenner turned 21 and got so drunk she forgot somebody gave her a Rolls Royce.
A former reality TV star got elected President of the United States of America.
Blac Chyna had a baby Kardashian and named her Dream.
Selena Gomez made her first public appearance since taking a break from fame and used it as an opportunity to casually tell women to stop being so thotty.
Lindsay Lohan came after Ariana Grande for wearing too much makeup.
Kanye West was rushed to the hospital and rumors of his impending divorce from Kim abounded.
DECEMBER
Kanye West met with Trump to discuss “life.”
Camila Cabello quit Fifth Harmony.
