Oh, she’s making a list and checking it twice / She’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice / Ilana Claus is cominnnn’ to town. That’s right, folks. The daunting Christmas task of sorting the naughty from the nice falls to the expert of all experts (me) this year. Because I’m in my 70-year-old man with a giant beard era, apparently.
Not to fear: I won’t be judging you or your pals. Nope, I’m laser-focused on Hollywood’s elite for these particular lists. From the girlboss space mission to the Coldplay couple to TV events that sent us all into collective psychosis, 2025 was full of insane pop culture moments, starring a variety of naughty and nice celeb main characters. While I’m seriously disappointed in some of my faves for their heinous transgressions (like not releasing new music), I’m also here to celebrate the wins (like Robert Irwin taking home the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy).
After weeks and weeks of going through this tedious sorting process whilst jamming to Sabrina Carpenter’s fruitcake EP, I’ve landed on the following naughty and nice celeb lists.
2025 Celebrity Naughty and Nice Lists:
NAUGHTY:
- Kendrick Lamar for the demonic (and iconic) delivery of “Say Drake” at the Super Bowl
- Gavin Casalegno for putting society through Jeremiah Fisher and his psychotic cake demands
- Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie (in the most complimentary way possible) for those beautifully spicy scenes and for low-key creating a cult
- Katy Perry & her space crew for making a wasteful 11-minute space cameo (courtesy of Jeff Bezos) and branding it as girlboss
- Chris Martin for calling out The Coldplay Couple (“Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.”)
- Olivia Rodrigo for not releasing an album in more than two years
- Bowen Yang for leaving Saturday Night Live and leaving girls and gays everywhere feeling lost and depressed
- Maks Chmerkovskiy for randomly slamming my king, Jan Ravnik, on a podcast (“Jan has absolutely no business being a pro on Dancing with the Stars”)
NICE:
- Kam Saunders for making me cry happy tears when I watched the Eras Tour doc
- Young Australian icon Robert Irwin for lighting up the ballroom floor and our lives
- Olivia Dean for being literally perfect and bringing old-school romance and a neo-soul flair to pop music
- Nicolandria for giving us a real-life rom-com and reason to believe in love again
- Justin Bieber for spitting poetry that we will quote for generations: “It’s not clocking to you that I’m standing on business!”
- Kristen Stewart for being the great intellectual of our time and casually dragging male method actors in that one New York Times interview
- Beyoncé because she’s Beyoncé and thank god she finally won album of the year after roughly 10,000,000 years of deserving it
- Nicole Kidman because never have breakup bangs changed lives and shifted the culture like that
