The daily gossip: Keke Palmer becomes a mom, Jon Hamm gets engaged to former Mad Men co-star, and more

1. Keke Palmer welcomes her 1st child

Baby, this is Keke Palmer, a first-time mom. The Nope star has welcomed her first child with Darius Jackson, a boy named Leodis Andrellton Jackson. "Hey Son!!!!" she wrote on Instagram, noting he was "born during Black History Month, with a name to match." Palmer famously revealed her pregnancy by showing off her baby bump during a Saturday Night Live monologue in December. After "only 48hrs of being parents," she shared a batch of adorable photos on Instagram with Jackson and their newborn son, writing, "Welcome to the world baby Leo." She also responded to a fan on Twitter who said that her son's name kind of makes him sound like he "led a civil rights march," with Palmer joking, "It's giving I marched with Martin, purrrr." Congratulations to this woman.

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2. Jon Hamm gets engaged to former 'Mad Men' co-star

He's going from mad man to married man. Jon Hamm is engaged to Anna Osceola, whom he met on the set of Mad Men in 2015, after two years together, People reports. Osceola (very briefly) played a receptionist at the spiritual retreat that Hamm's character, Don Draper, goes to in the series finale of Mad Men, so one of his last scenes in the show was with her. The 34-year-old was also in Hamm's 2022 comedy Confess, Fletch, and they made their red carpet debut last March. Hamm, 51, has never been married, though he was with Jennifer Westfeldt for 18 years until they split in 2015. But the actor told Howard Stern last year that he was open to marriage and kids and is "very much" in love. When it comes to discussing romance, Hamm doesn't shy away from a little cheese.

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3. The Weeknd lines up his feature film acting debut

Ladies and gentlemen, we come to this place for … the Weeknd. The "Blinding Lights" singer is set to make his feature film acting debut, and he has some strong co-stars lined up. According to Deadline, the Weeknd will star in a new movie directed by Trey Edward Shults (It Comes at Night), which will also star Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan. This will be the singer's first movie role (not counting his cameo as himself in Uncut Gems), though we'll see how good of an actor he is later this year when he stars in the HBO series The Idol. We don't know what this new movie is about, but the Weeknd co-wrote the script with Shults and will produce. Deadline says they've been working on the movie in secret for months, and Ortega and Keoghan signed on "after being blown away by the script." They can't wait to start working for the Weeknd.

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4. Shakira slams ex Gerard Piqué's girlfriend in new interview

Shakira is following up her diss track with a full-fledged diss interview. After dropping an absolutely brutal song where she tears into her ex Gerard Piqué and his girlfriend, Clara Chia Marti, the "Hips Don't Lie" singer addressed the drama in an interview with the Mexican network Canal Estrellas. She said that she previously "bought into the story that a woman needed a man to be complete," but after her split from Piqué, who was rumored to have had an affair, she's now much more "self-sufficient." But Shakira also appeared to throw shade at Piqué's new girlfriend by quoting Madeleine Albright that there's a special "place in hell reserved for women who don't support other women," a quote also famously once used by Taylor Swift to slam Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. So congrats to Shakira for officially making our list of top 10 celebrity feuds to involve Madeleine Albright.

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5. Yara Shahidi's Tinker Bell revealed in 'Peter Pan & Wendy' trailer

Disney's live-action remake trend isn't petering out, as the studio continues to tinker with its animated catalog. Disney has dropped the first trailer for Peter Pan & Wendy, its new live-action version of the classic animated film, which comes from the director of the live-action Pete's Dragon. The footage provides our first look at Alexander Molony's Peter Pan, Ever Anderson's Wendy, Jude Law's Captain Hook, and Yara Shahidi's Tinker Bell. Shahidi previously starred on Black-ish and led the spinoff Grown-ish, the latter of which also starred Halle Bailey, who's playing Ariel in the live-action The Little Mermaid. She will become the first Black woman to play Tinker Bell. So as you can probably imagine, the trailer's reveal of Shahidi's Tinker Bell generated some online backlash Tuesday from a group of people who may want to take a step back and remember that fairies don't actually exist.

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