Johnny Depp swinging for A-list friends who ‘did him dirty’
And we name the stars who have WAY less money than you think
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Liz Hurley and Billy Ray get their famous kids together… can a reality show be far behind?
Forget Something Beautiful — Miley Cyrus’s theatrical showing of her new album in London’s Covent Garden this weekend — the real premiere was in row G, where Liz Hurley was sitting.
The full-time-Instagram-bikini-poser/kinda actress sneakily snapped her son Damian and Miley looking very shoulder-to-shoulder and posted it with the caption: ‘The babies are all grown up… #proudparents.’ Sorry, proud what now?
Liz, in full sequinned auntie mode, was sitting next to new boyfriend (and, obv, Miley’s dad) Billy Ray Cyrus — who, let’s not forget, only went Instagram official with Liz in April.
Billy also piled on with: ‘The kids are together. SO PROUD’.
What are Liz and Billy up to? As The Spotlight knows, the real tea is that Miley hasn’t hung out with estranged dad Billy like this for years because of a family rift. Him showing up at her concert was a reunion no one saw coming.
Bill and Liz, we were just (not) getting used to you as the planet’s most unlikely couple. Now we’re forced to envision future episodes of Keeping Up With The Cyrus-Hurleys?
Chill.
‘They did me dirty’: Johnny Depp comes for Hollywood ‘backstabbers’ he says left him to rot
Johnny Depp is done being everyone's favourite cautionary tale.
In a new interview, the 62-year-old former pirate swashbuckled his Hollywood ‘friends’ who ghosted him as allegations of domestic abuse swirled. He said three close friends in particular ‘did me dirty’ and left him to be the MeToo-era ‘crash test dummy’.
Johnny’s life turned into a legal circus when he sued The Sun newspaper for libel after it called him a ‘wife beater’. But he lost — because a UK court ruled the allegation was ‘substantially true’.
He then successfully sued ex-wife Amber Heard for defamation in 2022. In the rambling, emotional new interview he claims he had to fight back — not for his career, but for his kids.
‘If I don’t try to represent the truth, it’ll be like I actually committed the acts I’m accused of,’ he told the Sunday Times.
‘Better go woke!’ he hissed. ‘I’ll fight to the bitter f**ing end.’ Bitter is right.
Dua Lipa wore lingerie to the club and handsy Callum got the memo
After smashing two shows at London’s Wembley Stadium, Dua hit her afterparty looking like a walking lingerie ad in a see-through dress.
Her fiancé Callum Turner was… not disappointed. The pair partied hard, surrounded by pals like Charli XCX and Lily Allen.
Public display of underwear, groping, downing martinis, kissing… it’s love’s young dream, 2025 edition.
Beyoncé?! Smoking on stage?! Oh wait…
Not Beyoncé lighting up mid-show like she’s in a Tarantino film?
For one chaotic second in Paris, it looked like Queen B was full-on smoking on stage. Mic in one hand, cigarette in the other.
Cowboy hats were clutched. Then came the twist: it was a prop. Just a little theatrical puff to go with the literal piano fire (yes, she set a piano alight on stage because that's what you do, peasantry.)
Jay-Z showed up, Blue Ivy twirled and Bey? She’s not just smoking hot... she smokes hot.
Booked, busy and broke-ish: Gabrielle Union, Sydney Sweeney and your faves working extra jobs to keep up
‘I have to go where the money goes.’ Eek! Gabrielle Union just said the quiet part out loud and Hollywood’s best kept secret is out.
Despite being a household name, married to basketball legend Dwyane Wade (net worth: $200 million, give or take a sneaker deal), and running a baby brand, Gabrielle just admitted she can’t afford her life.
Why? Because she’s bankrolling her entire family, including her dad, Sylvester, who has dementia. ‘That all adds up,’ she said. ‘So it depends what I made that year on how creative I can be — and that’s a damn shame.’
She’s not alone. Take actress-of-the-moment Sydney Sweeney. Our Euphoria darling told The Hollywood Reporter: ‘If I don’t work, there is no money,’ adding she barely made enough to cover her publicist (who, by the way, cost more than her mortgage…).
Taraji P. Henson? ‘The math ain't mathing,’ she confessed, revealing she made just $150k (£112k) for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, while co-star Brad Pitt was banking a million for every blink.
Michelle Williams was paid less than $1,000 for All the Money in the World reshoots — compared to her male co-star’s $1.5 million.
Rebel Wilson said she got $3,500 for era-defining comedy Bridesmaids. Jonah Hill pocketed $60,000 for The Wolf of Wall Street, while Leo DiCaprio swam in $10 million.
Yes, strike up the smallest violin, but as Gabrielle says: ‘We don’t get paid what y’all think we get paid.’ And in Hollywood? That’s the most honest line you’ll hear all year.
Keanu’s Matrix mind trick… about his marital status
Spotlighters, we are happy — and sad — to announce that Keanu Reeves might’ve just got married.
He and visual artist Alexandra Grant, 52, popped up holding hands at the MotoGP in Italy. She is still wearing that diamond on her ring finger… oh, and she was grinning. It was all very ‘private-ceremony-in-Bali’ vibes.
He had the ‘don’t look at me I’m someone’s husband now’ cap pulled low.
This is some Matrix-level mind trick they are playing on us and we are now both red and blue pill invested.
Bianca Censori wears candy lingerie in NYC because just like Kanye, fabric is cancelled
At this point, Bianca Censori wearing actual clothes would be the real plot twist. Mrs Kanye West hit the streets of Brooklyn in full edible candy lingerie like she’d wandered out of a fever dream and into a pick ’n’ mix.
Kanye looked unfazed. Probably just not really into sweets, with his titanium teeth.
The outfit has gone viral, sparked rapper-turned-fulltime-Instagram-troll 50 Cent commentary, and upset every dentist in a 10-mile radius.
Will Smith’s nepo baby Jaden spotted in Paris with a bong at 3am like it’s The Pursuit of Highness.
Shawn Mendes and Robert Irwin — the conservationist son of Steve Irwin —are definitely not a hot new ‘couple’. Despite what fans hoped.
Five years after breaking his back on an e-bike, Simon Cowell’s back on an £8,000 one and smiling like he’s won Britain’s Got Talent.
Hold on… Joan Collins has kids?! At 92, she finally decides to show one of them.
Cher's son Elijah Blue is out of hospital days after he was admitted for 'acting erratically'.
White Lotus darling Aimee Lou Wood’s anti-war post brought her vile death threats because, apparently, wanting peace is the problem.
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