So before we look at the new year,
we thought we'd take a look back
at People Magazine's top stories of this year.
Here to help us of course, is our dear friend
Editor-in-Chief of People, Jess Cagle.
Thanks, Rachael.
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Alright so, where are we starting
in your recap of the year?
Well if you look at the big stories of the year,
there was one story that dominated the news
but also made us happy and that is the Royal Family.
Amazing, right?
That was a beautiful wedding, a beautifully executed,
I loved everything about it.
I would also like to thank Meghan and Harry for giving
People Magazine it's best selling cover of the year.
Wow.
We're seeing it right there.
As well it should be it's beautiful.
And then you know the news just kept coming.
You know there was, you know, Louis.
There was baby Louis.
Kate had baby Louis and then there was Meghan Markle
announcing her pregnancy.
Yaaay!
So the news kept coming.
Well one of the stories I think that everybody is going to
be remembering at the end of the year is Anthony Bourdain.
Certainly you will be.
Of course, of course.
That was a monumental
moment this year because he was so beloved.
He was very honest about the problems he had in the past
about his addiction, about feeling lonely.
But, no one had any idea that he was in such despair
that he would kill himself and I think that it made us look,
especially, coming on the heels of Kate Spade's suicide.
It really made us look as a culture at the people around us.
It made us want to understand suicide a little more.
It made us want to understand that for some people
who may seem fine, it is a very short walk
because it happened within days of each other.
We put Anthony and Kate on the cover of People.
Oh, that's the cover. Very moving.
And there was nothing on the cover except for the
suicide hotline and it made such huge news that it really
told me how we were looking at this anew as a culture.
Another story that was not necessarily happy
but in a way it has had a happy ending
and that's Aly Raisman.
Oh, Aly was just here recently.
I always want to be involved in gymnastics
because I love it so much.
I've been doing it since I was a baby
but I also recently partnered with Darkness to Light.
We have the Flip the Switch program
which is a two hour program, it's completely free.
We want all the adults to do it.
It's the adult's responsibility to educate children
so that we can prevent child sexual abuse
and so since I've shared my story
I've never imagined all the support that I would get
and I find every day, sometimes multiple times a day
no matter where I am, at the airport, at the mall,
out to dinner, wherever I am, I have people stopping me
and sharing their stories and it breaks my heart
how many people can relate to my story
and we need as a society to make men and boys
feel comfortable sharing their stories too
because so many people are in pain and people
need to understand whether you come forward right after
abuse in 10 years, in 20 years.
whatever it is if you never come forward,
everyone copes differently, everyone feels differently,
everyone's experience is different so we have to be
supportive and listen and hear people out
when they share their story.
Well, here's a totally happy story.
Although, the movie itself is not necessarily a happy story,
no spoilers... A Star Is Born. Right?
I have seen every Star is Born, including the original
which people forget with two actors
not a stage performers, yes.
Yes you're exactly right.
Um, yeah, wooow... What a film.
This story of A Star Is Born...
I'm not surprised that the new one is a hit
because this is the fourth time Hollywood has made.
Has gone back to the same well.
Yeah. Made A Star Is Born and it's such an enduring story
because first of all there's the main male character, right?
He is this superstar celebrity, he's self-destructive,
he's sexy, Totally flawed.
He's talented.
What every woman wants in a man. A total wreck.
A total wreck.
And so that is just an interesting character and then
you have this young woman who he falls in love with,
who gets swept up into that world of glamour and
celebrity in danger.
The story that I've spent a lot of time
securing over in recent days, the Nick and Priyanka wedding.
Ohh, yeah.
There they are.
She is, well they both are, they've both been
guests here and they are just delightful people.
Thank you for sharing with the world,
all of our favorite stories of the year.
I'm definitely going to pick up the issue
that's coming of that wedding.
I want to sit there and daydream about it all day.
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