This will hopefully be a new end-of-the-year tradition: my gossip predictions for the upcoming year. It’s not like gossip stories cycle out on December 31st, so obviously some of my predictions are about stories and celebrities we’ve been obsessing over throughout 2018. I’m not pretending to be a psychic or anything, but I do seem to have gotten a little bit of my gossip-predicting mojo back in the past few years (after it left me for a while). So here are some of my predictions for 2019:
Political predictions. I hate to say it, but I don’t think Donald Trump will be impeached in 2019. I think Republicans in the Senate will continue to have his back, even as everything descends into chaos. But! I do think 2019 will be an awful year for Trump, his family and the GOP in general. I truly believe that several Trumps will be indicted in the first three months of the year. I also would not completely disregard the whole “Trump will end up resigning” theory.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will welcome a girl. I mean, I have a 50% chance of being right? Unless it’s twins, but I don’t think she’s expecting twins. My gut says she’s pregnant with a girl.
The Duchess of Cambridge will get pregnant with her fourth. My prediction is that Kate will wait until the late summer or into the fall of 2019 to get pregnant again. She will have announced the pregnancy by Christmas 2019.
Pippa Middleton will get pregnant again too. She’ll go twinsies with her sister, likely on the same schedule.
The Queen will survive another year. Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her 93th birthday in 2019. I believe she’s got several more years.
Justin & Hailey Bieber will get pregnant. I think Hailey Bieber (formerly Hailey Baldwin) will pop out one kid before they eventually split.
Brangelina In 2019. I think Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s divorce will finally be settled in the coming year – financially, custodially, legally, everything. The biggest hump was the custody arrangement, and that seems pretty much settled. It’s going to take months for them to work out the financial stuff, but I think they’ll manage to do it by the end of the summer. I also think Brad will do another big Girlfriend Rollout in 2019, and hopefully this one will feel more authentic than the Neri Oxman nonsense.
The final episodes of Game of Thrones will be disappointing AND traumatizing. Not only with the finale of GoT be traumatizing, I just think that everybody will be really disappointed by who dies and who lives and how everything plays out.
Will & Jada Smith will finally get divorced. It feels like they’ve already split up and consciously uncoupled and processed everything, so it’s weird to realize that they’re actually still “together.” I’d like to see them stop with the overselling of their marriage and just call it a day.
Cardi B & Offset. I think their split was legitimate, and she thinks she’s truly over it. But I predict they’ll sort of get back together and she’ll get pregnant again.
Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux. I think Jennifer will lean into her “I don’t need a man” image and she’ll casually date some dudes, but I don’t see a huge romance for her in 2019. But I think Justin will get someone pregnant in the next year.
Kim Kardashian & Kanye West. I honestly think that we’re going to get another round of serious rumors that Kim wants to divorce Kanye. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s filed for divorce by Christmas 2019.
One or more of the Kardashian-Jenners will get pregnant again. My money is on Kylie and Khloe.
There will be at least one major surprise pregnancy. We aren’t surprised by a lot these days, but there are some celebrity women who still have the skills to really come out of nowhere and drop a pregnancy announcement and surprise the world. Maybe Beyonce. Maybe Taylor Swift. Maybe Selena Gomez.
Serena Williams will win her 24th Slam in Singles. My vibe is that she’s going to do well throughout the year, and my gut says she’ll win #24 at the French Open or Wimbledon. I also think that Serena and Venus are both going to wait to announce their retirement – neither will retire in 2019.
Other tennis predictions. I’m saying that Roger Federer will not win his 21st Slam in 2019. Novak Djokovic will win #15, and my heart desperately wants Juan Martin del Potro to win another one. 2019 is Delpo’s year.
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