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It was 2013 when the Oxford Dictionary chose selfie as the word of the year:
“A photograph that one takes of oneself, usually with a
smartphone
or
webcam,
and that is posted on a social media website,” defined the word.
A few months later, at the 2014 Oscars ceremony, a group of celebrities took what would become one of the selfies
most famous in history who, as they used to say at that time, broke the internet.
It featured the comedian and presenter Ellen DeGeneres - who presented the gala that year for the second time, after doing so in 2007 -, and the actors Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Channing Tatum, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Lupita Nyong 'o and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, known at the time as
Brangelina
.
It has just been 10 years since that moment, and both the word selfie
—which entered the Rae dictionary in 2018— like the photograph taken that night, they have not aged well.
Following the awareness brought about by the #MeToo movement, some of its protagonists, such as Kevin Spacey and Jared Leto, have been accused of sexual abuse.
Ellen DeGeneres, once one of the queens of television, said goodbye to her morning show in the face of complaints of a toxic environment on the part of the team.
And what was one of the most iconic couples in modern cinema is still immersed in a bitter and lengthy divorce process.
We review the lives and careers (and selfies) of the protagonists of the photograph on the anniversary of that click.
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Ellen Degeneres
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In 2003, and after starring in the most famous coming out of the closet on American television, actress Ellen DeGeneres (Louisiana, 66 years old) reinvented herself thanks to the morning show format.
With
The Ellen Show,
the presenter earned her totem status, similar to that of Oprah Winfrey, boasting a proximity unparalleled in the industry, interviewing superstars in a format that is close, fun and with a rogue touch.
Until 2020. Whoever was described as the funniest woman in America lived through turbulent times during the months of her confinement that have placed her in the center of the target of many criticisms.
A series of complaints about the toxic work climate (from intimidation and racism to alleged cases of sexual harassment by superiors) made during the pandemic by workers in her program were the starting signal for her downfall.
Precisely, this series of complaints did not agree with the image of extreme sympathy that the presenter intended to continue transmitting.
In 2022, and with Jennifer Aniston as the final guest (she was also the first),
The Ellen Show
aired the last episode of the 3,200 made in 19 seasons.
Since then, DeGeneres has not been linked to any other professional projects.
Married to actress Portia de Rossi since 2008, on her Instagram she shares domestic scenes with her partner, or souvenir videos from her television show.
Bradley Cooper
2014 was a year of transition for Bradley Cooper (Pennsylvania, 49 years old).
The actor, known worldwide for the comedy
The Hangover
and its sequels, attended the gala that year nominated for the second time (the first was for
The Bright Side of Things,
just the previous year, which earned him the Oscar for best actress to her co-star, Jennifer Lawrence).
He had him nominated for best supporting actor for
American Hustle
.
He took that selfie as a performer, but soon turned his career towards director: in 2018, he debuted behind the camera in his first film, the
remake
of
A Star is Born
, alongside Lady Gaga.
In 2023, he presented his second film,
Maestro,
where he shares the spotlight with Carey Mulligan: both are nominated this year in the category of best actor and actress (and the film aspires to another five statuettes).
Of course, until now he has never won an Oscar the other nine times he has been nominated in different categories.
As for his love life, at 49 years old he dates the model Gigi Hadid, 28. It is the first official relationship that is known after his separation from his previous partner and mother of his daughter, the model Irina Shayk.
Julia Roberts
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A decade ago, Julia Roberts (Georgia, 56 years old) attended the Oscar ceremony as nominated for best supporting actress for the family drama
August
, an award that another of the protagonists of the photograph, Lupita Nyong'o, ended up taking. for
12 years of slavery
.
The one who was once America's sweetheart, with an Oscar under her arm thanks to
Erin Brokovich
, now carefully chooses her projects (such as her roles in series like
Homecoming
or
Gaslit)
because, as she herself has acknowledged in various interviews, he is enjoying his personal life.
In her own words: “Now that I am a desperately satisfied housewife I don't work as much.”
Brangelina
Just a few months after that famous selfie, actors Brad Pitt (Oklahoma, 60 years old) and Angelina Jolie (Los Angeles, 48 years old), or
Brangelina,
secretly married in the month of August, in their vineyards in France .
Two years later, in 2016, they announced their separation.
The actress alleged irreconcilable differences and requested custody of the six children they have in common in the divorce suit.
Nobody could imagine that the popular couple of actors, who met in the film
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
and who for 12 years formed one of the most admired and profitable couples in Hollywood, would find themselves immersed in a process that the press has described cumbersome, expensive, murky, dirty and eternal.
In 2016, a story also came to light, which almost sounded like a rumor, which recounted an incident on a private plane in which Pitt became violent.
In September of that year, the actors reached an agreement that Angelina Jolie would have “temporary” custody of her children.
Since then, the former couple has been locked in a legal battle at the center of which are their children (Jolie claims that Pitt mistreated two of her children and grabbed her by the head while shaking her on that private plane) and also the Château Miraval. , the place where they got married, part of which Jolie sold without her ex-husband's consent for $164 million.
For his part, during these years, he has dedicated himself to working.
Since 2016, as an actor alone, he has participated in eight films, including those that earned him his Oscar (for
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
, in 2019).
In 2022, he joined the trend of many other celebrities by launching his own cosmetics brand, Le Domaine,
and, in 2023, its own gin brand,
The Gardener Gin.
Oblivious to any scandal, his love life also keeps a low profile, although it is known that he has a stable relationship with the jewelry designer Inés de Ramón.
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Jolie, on the other hand, has reduced her presence in the world of cinema, although she has continued to make headlines for her solidarity work in favor of women, refugees and children.
Her latest project is Atelier Jolie, her own fashion brand, where she will recover old garments and surplus fabrics.
Lupita Nyong'o
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That night of March 3, 2014, the actress returned home with an Oscar thanks to her portrayal of the slave Patsey in the film
12 Years a Slave,
by Steve McQueen.
A ceremony that she attended in the company of her brother: and Peter did not miss the opportunity to appear in that selfie full of celebrities.
For Lupita Nyong'o (Mexico City, 41 years old) this was her first film role and she has already made history by becoming the first Kenyan-Mexican woman to win this award.
From then on, the performer has divided her career between blockbusters (such as
Star Wars
,
Black Panther
or
The Jungle Book
) and some participation in more independent cinema (such as the horror film
Us
, directed by Jordan Peele).
In the last year, however, her appearance in her media has had more to do with her romantic relationship with fellow actor Joshua Jackson.
Kevin Spacey
For more than six years, the photos published about Kevin Spacey (New Jersey, 64 years old) have nothing to do with his happy grin in the famous selfie.
of the Oscars.
That gesture has been replaced by a serious expression that is captured by the cameras at the entrance or exit of the courts.
From 2017 until now, all news related to him has revolved around accusations of sexual abuse.
The first complaint against the
American Beauty
interpreter occurred in October 2017, when actor Anthony Rapp accused him of raping him when he was 14 years old, in 1986 (when Spacey was 26 years old).
That same week, Netflix indefinitely canceled filming on the sixth and final season of
House of Cards
, for which Spacey had won a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award in previous years.
The awards were over for him: he was going to receive the honorary Emmy a month after that first accusation, but the US Television Academy changed its mind "in light of recent events" surrounding the interpreter.
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Rapp's was the first of many other accusations of abuse leveled against the actor, but in the end justice has been on his side.
In October 2022, the jury exonerated him in his civil trial for sexual abuse of Rapp.
In July 2023, he was also found not guilty of nine other sexual offenses against four other men.
“I know there are a lot of people who are ready to hire me the moment I am acquitted of these charges,” Spacey said in an interview a month earlier.
It remains to be seen whether such a stained image is so easy to clean.
At the moment, he has already confirmed his return to the cinema as part of the cast of the psychological thriller
The Contract
.
His character is called El Diablo.
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep (New Jersey, 74 years old), the oldest in the photo, is the great example of the star who has never stopped shining.
Years and decades pass and the actress, three-time Oscar winner and 21-time nominee, continues to maintain intact the respect, affection and admiration of critics, audiences and colleagues.
She is never short of work and in the last decade she has appeared in dozens of films and series.
One of her latest works has been her role in the third season of
Only Murders in the Building
, a signing that was highly celebrated and will continue in the fourth installment of the series.
Last year, she received the Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, which she received last October in Oviedo, after three days of pageantry and praise for the legendary actress.
It was just later when it was learned that the interpreter of
The Iron Lady
was separating from Don Gummer, who had been her husband for 45 years.
“They have been separated for more than six years, and although they will always take care of each other, they have chosen different paths,” a spokesperson for the couple told the American newspaper
Page Six
.
Several media outlets pointed to her co-star Martin Short as the actress's possible new dream, after her obvious complicity at the 2024 Golden Globes gala and after they were photographed very smiling entering a restaurant in California.
They take it with humor.
"We are not couple.
“We’re just very good friends,” Short clarified in January.
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Jared Leto
It's not that Jared Leto (Louisiana, 52 years old) has done very badly, but it is difficult to surpass his success in 2014 in which he appeared in the famous photo.
That year, the actor and musician won the Oscar, the Golden Globe, the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Film Critics Award for his role in
Dallas Buyers Club
.
Her profound performance as Rayon, a transsexual woman carrying HIV, conquered everyone and set the bar very high, and perhaps that is why her later more banal roles, many of them in action and superhero films (
The Suicide Squad
,
Morbius
), have been more disappointing.
In fact, in recent years he has won two Razzie Awards, which honor the worst in the film industry.
In 2022 he won the award for worst supporting actor for his role in
The House of Gucci
and in 2023 the award for worst leading actor for
Morbius
.
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On a musical level, as the vocalist of the band Thirty Seconds to Mars, he seems to be doing better.
The group, which she shares with her brother, is about to begin a world tour that has two stops in Spain (in Madrid on May 27 and in Santiago de Compostela between May 30 and June 1) .
To promote the tour, she climbed from the 86th to the 104th floor of the Empire State Building in New York, becoming the first person to legally climb to the top of the skyscraper.
It is already known that Leto likes to attract attention, as she also demonstrates on the red carpets.
Her most talked-about
look
from this last decade is possibly her
Choupette
outfit , the cat of the late designer Karl Lagerfeld, which she wore to the 2023 Met Gala. What she has not come to transcend so much are the accusations of her for sexual abuse of minors.
The
New York Post
published an article in 2015 where an anonymous source stated that Leto was looking for models between 16 and 17 years old to invite to her concerts.
That same year, a journalist published an article in which she reiterated the complaints of some fans who had accused the singer of intimidating them and forcing them to continue with sexual relations even though they had asked him to stop.
At the moment no legal action has been taken against her.
Jennifer Lawrence
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A year before the selfie, Jennifer Lawrence (Kentucky, 33 years old) was already one of the great stars of the Oscars, not so much for winning the best actress award for her performance in
The Bright Side of Things
as for the fall she experienced when He went up to pick it up.
The following year she fell again while walking the red carpet and got up laughing.
These anecdotal falls seem to be the only ones in the actress's life, because in the last 10 years she has managed to stay up and stable.
Her roles in
American Hustle
and
Joy
earned her the Golden Globe in later years and it is common for her name to be included among the awards season nominations year after year.
She currently has five projects on the way, still in the production phase, but it is clear that she has no shortage of work.
Nor on the family level: in February 2022 she gave birth to her first child, the result of her marriage to the prestigious New York gallery owner Cooke Maroney, with whom she has been in a relationship since June 2018. “The morning after giving birth "I felt like my whole life had started again," he said in an interview for
Vogue
.
She says of Maroney that “she is the best person” she has ever met in her entire life.
Channing Tatum
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The life of Channing Tatum (Alabama, 43 years old) in this last decade has not suffered striking ups and downs.
Neither for better nor for worse.
He has appeared in many films, such as
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
,
The Lost City
,
Bullet Train
or the most recent,
Magic Mike's Last Dance
, the third installment of the
stripper
saga for which he is known to many viewers.
Today he is an actor who is nominated for awards, but then he wasn't one either, his work tends to focus more on entertainment, just like that.
But his life has changed in the love field, after he separated in 2018 from actress Jenna Dewan, mother of his daughter, after almost nine years of marriage.
Since 2021, he has been dating actress Zoë Kravitz, daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet.
They have not confirmed it yet, but since the end of 2023 there are many media outlets that suggest that wedding bells will soon ring, for the second time for both of them.