Wikipedia:Top 25 Report/December 25 to 31, 2022

|Andrew Tate

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|A few months ago, this kickboxer turned misogynistic influencer was being expelled from social media. Now he's been outright arrested for human trafficking, rape and organized crime. And in the days prior Tate tried to use his freshly restored Twitter account to taunt Greta Thunberg, with the young one's responses being in the List of most-liked tweets showing it didn't go well for him.

| Pelé

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| Edson Arantes do Nascimento might have died at 82, but Pelé will live forever as the greatest footballer, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAMoivPkN3w capable of anything] Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappé, etc. could, back in the days of black and white TV. The Brazilian legend leaves among us feats being the only guy to win three World Cups (even if playing the final in only two.... but doing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYNsrKtV6Mc this] at 17 and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPzNStFGgno this] at 30) and [https://en.as.com/soccer/the-day-pele-stopped-a-war-in-nigeria-n/ causing a temporary ceasefire] during the Nigerian Civil War.

|Avatar: The Way of Water

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|Took 13 years, but James Cameron finally returned to Pandora, in an overlong movie with a lot of water, a combination that just begs for a bathroom break (or to buy more drinks). Audiences showed their eagerness to return to that world by making the movie earn a billion dollars in less than two weeks.

| Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

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|The second installment of the whodunit series hit Netflix this week. Then it gained a little extra attention when Ben Shapiro took to Twitter to indicate that he knows nothing about murder mystery films - [https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2022/12/28/ben-shapiro-mocked-for-ignorant-rant-against-netflixs-glass-onion/ making himself look like a right idiot in the process.]

|Barbara Walters

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|A well-regarded journalist that died at 93, who until retirement in 2015 worked for six decades, interviewing every sitting U.S. president and first lady from Richard and Pat Nixon to Barack and Michelle Obama, hosting shows like Today, the ABC Evening News, 20/20, and The View.

| Knives Out

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|The first installment of #4, and Rian Johnson has already started writing the third.

|Tunisha Sharma

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|This Indian actress hanged herself at just 20 in the make-up room of co-star Sheezan Mohammed Khan, supposedly because they broke up their relationship shortly before. Her mother made him get booked for probably having caused Sharma's death.

|Deaths in 2022

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|It's the end of another year for the deathly list, which only missed the week of the highest-profile departure. Overall it finished as the fourth most viewed article of the year, behind football in Qatar, war in Ukraine, and (undeservingly) a terrible human being on Netflix.

|Pope Benedict XVI

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|Joseph Ratzinger, the first Pope to quit in 700 years because he thought he was too old and frail for the job's demands, died at 95 on the last day of 2022, two months before the tenth anniversary of his resignation.

|Avatar (2009 film)

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|The prequel of #3 was an outstanding success - it was (and even if dethroned for over a year, [https://deadline.com/2021/03/avatar-overtakes-avengers-endgame-highest-grossing-film-all-time-worldwide-box-office-china-james-cameron-disney-1234713788/ is]) the highest-grossing movie ever, breaking so many records that there is a dedicated list: List of box office records set by Avatar.

|Cristiano Ronaldo

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|Not even the best footballers are immune to unemployment, since Manchester United dropped the Portuguese wunderkind in the middle of the World Cup. But like many before him CR7 will spend his final years (as fit as he is, he's still 37) earning some oil money, namely in Saudi Arabia.

|Vivienne Westwood

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|Another one who died as 2022 came to a close, an influential English fashion designer and businesswoman widely associated with the punk and new wave movements.

|Jenna Ortega

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|Having finished Wednesday, this here writer can't give anything but support for its star that nailed the role of the creepy goth and provided most of the show's entertainment. Maybe she can even survive another brush with Ghostface in Scream VI?

|Lionel Messi

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|The World Cup title that cemented him as better than #11 and comparable to #2 still resonates. The rest of Argentina's national team is trying to convince him to not retire and instead continue on the team until the 2026 Cup, even if Leo will be 39 by then.

|Wednesday (TV series)

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|It's only been on Netflix for a couple of weeks and it's already one of Netflix's most popular shows? It's overtaken Stranger Things 4{{'}}s record of highest number of viewing hours in its opening week. The second most-watched English language Netflix programme after only three weeks? Unbelievable, yet true! With all this in mind I'm actually surprised it's not higher up the list.

|George Santos

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|New York's 3rd congressional district's new representative, well - he hasn't actually been sworn in yet. Santos has admitted to lying about virtually every aspect of his life (apparently in a bid to get elected in the first place). Meanwhile, Brazil has re-opened an investigation into allegations of cheque fraud. And he is additionally under investigation by federal, state and county authorities - presumably for other crimes, but I can't really be bothered to read the article. Santos has also already promised not to stand for re-election, and according to one expert may even be prevented from sitting, triggering a special election. Surely taking the record for the earliest case of either - let alone both.

|Alice in Borderland (TV series)

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|Before Squid Game, Netflix had another East Asian show about deadly games in this Japanese manga adaptation that just released its second season.

|Boxing Day

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|The week of this Report started on Christmas, and yet the holiday was nowhere close to entering, with the less official follow-up 'celebration' of December 26 getting double its views. Go figure.

|Janelle Monáe

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|Even if this singer already had a few acting gigs like Hidden Figures, her very prominent role in #4 is bringing in lots of attention.

|Al Nassr FC

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|One of Saudi Arabia's most successful teams already had in its roster [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHJQtrO7G1I#t=16s Cameroonian star] Vincent Aboubakar, and now will get the illustrious addition of #11.

|Madelyn Cline

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|rowspan=2|Two more Glass Onion (#4) ladies, one still early in her career (her previous most famous role being another Netflix release, Outer Banks), and another better established ever since Almost Famous.

|Kate Hudson

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| Greta Thunberg

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|In one of those cases where Wikipedia vandalism was unquestionably hilarious, [https://twitter.com/MattThiessenNT/status/1608289245021487105 #1's fight record saw the addition] of a KO by the hands of this Swedish environmentalist for their Twitter spat. First Tate tried to brag to her that he owned polluting cars, Thunberg said he was [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CompensatingForSomething compensating for something] and told him to get a life. He responded with another taunting video, and [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/andrew-tate-arrested-jerrys-pizza-box/ given a rumor started] that his bringing out some pizzas was used by the Romanian authorities as an instigator to go arrest him, Thunberg proceeded to say "this is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes".

|List of highest-grossing films

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|#3 became the third 2022 release after Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World Dominion to surpass a billion dollars, and there's a big chance it will end as the highest-grossing of the three (while like its predecessor #10 probably being hailed as forgettable in spite of making all that money).

|The White Lotus

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|HBO have already confirmed season three. Season 2 meanwhile has been nominated for no less than 7 awards (counting the two nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film as one, as you can only win with one; one of the two is pictured) and has already won a place on American Film Institute Awards' top ten.

Couldn't they think of something better than "Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film" - its a hell of a mouthful. Doesn't really flow nicely.