The daily gossip: Rolling Stones reveal first album of original material in 18 years, Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas slam 'speculative narratives' about divorce, and more

1. Rolling Stones reveal first album of original material in 18 years

It's time to get some satisfaction. During a live conversation with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, the Rolling Stones officially announced a new album called "Hackney Diamonds." This will be the legendary band's first new record of original material since "A Bigger Bang" in 2005. "We've been very lazy," Mick Jagger joked. Along with the announcement, the Rolling Stones dropped a new music video for the album's first track, "Angry," starring Sydney Sweeney. "Hackney Diamonds" will also be the band's first new album since the death of Charlie Watts in 2021, although two of the tracks were recorded in 2019 with the late drummer. Watts is "missed incredibly," Keith Richards said, but he noted that before he died, Watts picked drummer Steve Jordan as his replacement "if anything should happen to him." The album will debut on Oct. 20, so between this and "1989 (Taylor's Version)," your Halloween party playlist is all set.

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2. Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas speak out amid 'speculative narratives' about their divorce

She's no longer Mrs. Perfectly Fine. Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas have confirmed their divorce as details continue trickling out about what supposedly went wrong. In a joint statement, the two said they have "mutually decided to amicably end" their marriage, adding that although there "are many speculative narratives as to why," this is a "united decision," and they hope "everyone can respect our wishes for privacy for us and our children." Well, TMZ is going to go ahead and ignore that last part, reporting Wednesday that Jonas "had access to a ring cam that he said captured Sophie saying and/or doing something that made him realize the marriage was over." The outlet also claimed the issue was that "she likes to party" and "he likes to stay at home" — even though Turner said in 2020 she's a "homebody," while he's "a real social butterfly." The devil works hard, but Jonas' publicists work harder.

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3. Arnold Schwarzenegger recalls almost dying during open-heart surgery

He'll be back, but thanks to a botched surgery, that wasn't always so certain. In a YouTube video, Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed he nearly died a few years ago while undergoing open-heart surgery. The actor and former California governor recalled "really freaking out" after waking up to doctors telling him that even though he was supposed to be receiving "non-invasive surgery," they "made a mistake" and accidentally poked through his heart wall. This caused internal bleeding, so the doctors told Schwarzenegger they had to open him up "very quickly" to "save" his life. "I said, 'Well, great. This is really great news,'" Schwarzenegger quipped. "I mean, Jesus." He was "in the middle of a disaster," he added. This was just before he started filming 2019's "Terminator: Dark Fate," meaning Schwarzenegger recovered, only to go right into another disaster.

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4. Miley Cyrus looks back on Liam Hemsworth divorce

If Sophie Turner is looking for divorce advice, it sounds like Miley Cyrus learned some lessons from hers. In a series of TikToks, the "Used To Be Young" singer looked back on the end of her relationship with Liam Hemsworth, whom she married in 2018 and divorced in 2020. "Me and Liam's commitment to being married really came from, of course, a place of love first, because we've been together for 10 years, but also from a place of trauma and just trying to rebuild as quickly as we could," Cyrus said. She also revealed she decided the relationship "was no longer going to work" the same day she performed at Glastonbury in 2019, and she described this as an instance where her work came first. In another similar moment, Cyrus said she shot a key "Black Mirror" sequence the day after learning her house burned down, as "the show must go on."

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5. Michael Imperioli met with a witch to get a movie made

Double, double, your movie's in trouble. In a new documentary about the supposedly haunted Chelsea Hotel, "Sopranos" star Michael Imperioli bizarrely reveals he once met with a witch to help him get a movie off the ground, according to Variety. The film was "Summer of Sam," which he wrote with Victor Colicchio. "I really wanted to get it made," Imperioli, who also claims he saw a ghost at the hotel, explained. "So I met somebody who was living here who was a witch, who said she could help me get it made, but it wasn't going to happen the way I thought it would. I was very ambitious at the time and wanted to get that made, so [I] resorted to tapping into otherworldly means to get it through the studio system." The film did end up getting made with Spike Lee directing. Imperioli apparently didn't reveal many more details, but can that witch go ahead and do something about the long-awaited "Dredd" sequel next?

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