PEOPLE Yearbook 2023
Yearbook 2023 • The Biggest Stories of 2023
Moments of the Year • THE EVENTS THAT MADE HEADLINES, MADE OUR JAWS DROP AND MADE US BAND TOGETHER IN JOY AND SORROW
Harry Has His Say • THE PRINCE ROCKED THE ROYAL FAMILY WITH HIS NO-HOLDS-BARRED MEMOIR SPARE
Mama Kelce Makes Her Mark • TWO SONS IN THE SUPER BOWL, A NEW GRANDBABY AND MISS AMERICANA HERSELF. NOT TOO SHABBY
A Nation Divided • PRESIDENT BIDEN SCORED SOME SUCCESSES DESPITE FACING THE CHALLENGES OF A CHAOTIC AND STYMIED HOUSE—AND ONE CLOSER TO HOME
History at the Academy Awards • EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE SMASHED EVERYONE’S EXPECTATIONS AND WON THE NIGHT
Pascal’s Principal • PEDRO PASCAL, AKA THE INTERNET’S DADDY, HAD THE BEST YEAR EVER
Taylor’s Hot Ticket • TAYLOR SWIFT’S ERAS STADIUM TOUR SMASHED MULTIPLE RECORDS—AND CRASHED TICKETMASTER
A Family’s Sorrow and New Joy • BRUCE WILLIS, BATTLING DEMENTIA, WAS SURROUNDED BY HIS LOVING BLENDED—AND GROWING—BROOD
The United Kingdom Gets a New Monarch • WITH SOLEMNITY AND STREET PARTIES, KING CHARLES III WAS CROWNED
Aiming to Do Good • WILLIAM AND KATE FLOURISHED IN THEIR FIRST YEAR AS THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES
In Full Blume • JUDY BLUME GOT THE DOCUMENTARY TREATMENT, FINALLY SAW MARGARET SIMON ON THE BIG SCREEN AND RAILED AGAINST BOOK BANS
Who Runs the World? The Carters • BEYONCÉ TURNED HER SOLD-OUT RENAISSANCE TOUR INTO TAKE-YOUR-DAUGHTER-TO-WORK DAY
Music to Our Ears • SAM AND KIM BROKE BARRIERS, MILEY AND JIMIN CELEBRATED THEIR SOLO STATUS, THE ROLLING STONES AND MADONNA KEPT ON KEEPIN’ ON, AND LUKE COMBS DROVE AN OLD BUT FAST CAR STRAIGHT TO THE TOP OF THE COUNTRY CHARTS
An Action Star at 80 • MORE THAN FOUR DECADES AFTER HE FIRST CRACKED INDIANA JONES’S WHIP, A VERY BUSY HARRISON FORD RETURNED TO THE ROLE FOR A NEW ADVENTURE
That’s the Way Love Goes • ACTORS, ATHLETES, MUSICIANS, MOGULS AND REALITY STARS WERE AMONG THE CELEBS BUSY MATCHING, HATCHING AND, ALAS, DISPATCHING
The End of an Era • YOU CAN’T MAKE A TOMLETTE WITHOUT BREAKING SOME GREGGS, AND SUCCESSION COULDN’T END WITHOUT BREAKING OUR HEARTS
Screen Time • WHERE’S THE BEEF? ON NETFLIX. ELSEWHERE WERE A JURY, A JEDI, CANNIBALS, CASINOS, CRIME—AND AIDAN!
Five Days of Waiting • FIVE PEOPLE BOARDED THE TITAN SUB FOR THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME; NONE RETURNED
The Plastic Fantastic World of Barbie • THE MOST ANTICIPATED MOVIE OF THE YEAR BECAME A BOX OFFICE AND CULTURAL PHENOMENON
Let’s All Go to the Movies! • TOM CRUISE TOOK ON A NEW MISSION, A DISNEY PRINCESS CAME TO LIFE AND CAPTURED OUR HEARTS, AND THE HEROINE OF A BELOVED NOVEL SANG OUT ONSCREEN
Florence Pugh Played Peekaboo • THE STAR’S FASHION CHOICES WERE AS AUDACIOUS AS HER MOVIE ROLES
Style Went the Extra Mile • STARS SUCH AS ANGELA BASSETT, KELSEA BALLERINI AND BAD BUNNY STOOD OUT ON THE RED CARPET
Hollywood Shuts Down • WRITERS AND ACTORS DEMANDED THEIR SHARE IN HISTORIC STRIKES
The 13-Year Search for a Murderer • POLICE BELIEVE THAT REX HEUERMANN COULD BE THE ELUSIVE GILGO BEACH KILLER
Legal News • STARS ON TRIAL, AN ARREST IN A COLD CASE, AND THE HEAD OF A PROMINENT FAMILY WAS FOUND GUILTY OF A DOUBLE MURDER
Devastation in Paradise • FANNED, IN PART, BY CLIMATE CHANGE, THE HAWAII FIRESTORMS DECIMATED A HISTORIC COMMUNITY
Hip-Hop Turns 50 • BORN AT A BRONX PARTY IN 1973, THE MUSIC SOME THOUGHT WAS JUST A FAD CELEBRATED FIVE TRIUMPHANT DECADES
The Trials of Donald Trump • THE FORMER PRESIDENT BECAME THE FIRST IN U.S. HISTORY TO BE INDICTED AND FACES MORE THAN 90 FELONY CHARGES
Coco Holds Court • COCO GAUFF BECAME THE FIRST AMERICAN TEENAGER TO WIN A...