Shailene Woodley’s stylist, Karla Welch, has pushed back against what she called “mean” reactions to the actress’s 2026 Emmys outfit, which drew a fierce response from fans online.

Woodley, 34, arrived on the red carpet for television’s biggest night in a plunging Balenciaga top, embellished trousers, maroon leather gloves that stretched past her elbows and a rainbow gemstone necklace. The unconventional ensemble sparked widespread criticism, with some social media users urging the actress to “fire” her stylist.

Welch, 52, addressed the backlash in a Threads post on Wednesday, writing: “Love or hate something fine but it’s an opinion.”

“It can even be a conversation but being super rude and mean and taking glee from it, well that says a lot more about the mouths it’s coming from,” the celebrity stylist continued.

The post prompted divided reactions. While some followers applauded Welch’s willingness to take fashion risks, others urged her to acknowledge that the Emmys look had “fell short.”

“The whole point of fashion is to play and try new things and be adventurous! Most are too scared to! Most importantly, she looked so happy and at ease, and like she was having so much fun and feeling like the best version of herself!” one supporter wrote. Welch liked the comment.

Another commenter simply said that Woodley “looked amazing.”

But one critic remained unconvinced, writing: “You need to own you made her look bad. She trusted YOU and you fell short.”

Welch – who has styled a number of A-listers, including Karlie Kloss, Olivia Wilde, Sarah Paulson, as well as Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey – went on to share a photo of Woodley’s look along with another picture that read, ‘Trigger Warning.’ 

‘We ♥️ pppiccioli,’ she added on Threads about the look, referencing Balenciaga creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli. 

Welch also styled Hacks star Hannah Einbinder for the star-studded Emmy Awards. 

Woodley’s look raised a number of eyebrows, including those of red carpet expert Melissa Rivers, who put the actress on her worst dressed list. 

The Divergent star later covered up her ‘bizarre’ outfit with a T-shirt as she attended a Disney after party for the event on Monday night. 

Her rare fashion miss comes just days after her ex-fiance Aaron Rodgers, 42, sensationally claimed that she asked to ‘go f***’ another man before getting married. 

And fans were quick to callback to the drama as they mocked her red carpet look on X (formerly Twitter), with one writing: ‘fit so bad you completely vindicate Aaron Rodgers.’

Another commented: ‘Who told her this looks good and did she look in mirror?’ 

‘I am so sad her stylist led her astray. What a terrible outfit’

Several fans branded Woodley’s look a ‘mess’ while others went as far as to say her stylist should be out of a job.

‘Shailene Woodley, fire your stylist,’ read one scathing tweet, with another person writing: ‘how can hannah’s stylist dress her so good and then there’s shailene woodley.’

Some jokingly suspected that Woodley’s stylist may be a ‘Packers fan,’ referring to her ex Rodgers’s football team.

The NFL star put his past romance with Woodley on blast when he appeared on the ‘Not Just Football’ podcast last Thursday.

He claimed the Paradise actress told him she had to ‘go f***’ another man before telling Rodgers she didn’t want to be with him anymore.

Rodgers proposed to Woodley in December 2021 but their relationship ended just three months later. They had gone public with their romance a year earlier.

‘I proposed to Shailene and she said yes. Now, she maybe felt like she was forced to make a decision. She could have said no,’ Rodgers told Pittsburgh Steelers teammate Cam Heyward.

‘A couple days after that she tells me, ‘Before we get married, I gotta go f*** this guy,’ and I’m like – because her story is that I ruined her life and gave her crazy depression because I left her.’

‘But in actuality, she told me that and then she took off the ring by March – I proposed in December – and we had a couple of times where we tried to get reunited and nothing ever happened. There wasn’t even a relationship in 2022 to break off.

‘She literally told me, “I don’t want to be with you” after we tried some reconciliation in 2021. There’s just a lot of narrative out there that isn’t true.’ 

While Woodley herself has yet to publicly respond, the star’s inner circle have reportedly been left ‘alarmed’ by Rodgers’s remarks, according to TMZ. 

Her pals reportedly feel that Rodgers’ comments were ‘completely out of character,’ claiming the football player, who is now married, hasn’t spoken to Woodley in more than two years. 

Woodley previously described the breakdown of her relationship with Rodgers as a ‘traumatic thing.’  

Scientists have identified a newly formed crater on the moon that is larger than Rome’s Colosseum, created by a powerful impact that went unnoticed when it occurred two years ago.

The steep-walled lunar crater measures roughly 728 feet wide and reaches depths of up to 141 feet. Researchers say it is the largest known impact crater formed anywhere in the solar system in recent times.

Events of this scale are expected only about once every 132 years, according to the researchers. The discovery offers an unusual opportunity to study fresh lunar impacts as NASA moves ahead with plans to establish a base for astronauts on the moon.

“This event constitutes a statistically rare, effectively once-in-a-lifetime observation,” scientists wrote in one of two studies on the discovery published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, detected the crater on the moon’s near side in May 2024, shortly after it was excavated by a fragment from an asteroid or comet.

Despite the force of the lunar strike, telescopes on Earth and in space did not detect the impact in real time.

The LRO’s wide-angle images were initially lost amid the vast volume of spacecraft data and were not recognized until August 2025.

More detailed images were collected by the spacecraft last fall, with the discovery confirmed early this year.

The crater was named for the late Thomas McGetchin, a former director of Houston’s Lunar and Planetary Institute. It is three times larger than the previous record-holder, which the LRO found a decade ago.

Scarred by impacts since ancient times, the moon is home to some of the solar system’s biggest craters, including one spanning more than 1,500 miles.

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This latest impact churned the lunar surface for more than 66 miles.

Dust and rocky soil were hurled away at a higher angle than expected, according to Mark Robinson, chief scientist for the LRO’s cameras who works at Intuitive Machines.

Robinson was the lead author for one of the studies.

A separate study identified a 4-mile-wide cold spot around the new crater, consistent with a loosening of the moon’s top soil.

Co-author David Paige of the University of California, Los Angeles, likens it to gardening.

“We’re now thinking of impacts as a way to garden the regolith — churning the sediments and putting stuff above that’s usually below the surface,” Paige said in a statement.

The LRO’s numerous crater discoveries since its launch in 2009 show that the moon’s top inch of soil is being overturned by ejected material every 80,000 years, faster than previously thought, according to Robinson.

Contrary to the popular belief that the Apollo moonwalkers’ dusty lunar footprints will last forever, they will “definitely be long gone in that time frame,” Robinson said in an email.

The next step is to calculate the risk of ejected crater material striking NASA’s planned moon base, he added.

“That information will help engineers harden structures so one won’t have to worry about damage, or maybe worry less.”

NEW YORK — Israel and Morocco on Wednesday agreed to elevate their diplomatic missions to full embassies and exchange ambassadors, nearly six years after Morocco joined the U.S.-brokered normalization initiative that transformed Israel’s ties with several Arab nations.

The announcement followed a trilateral meeting in New York involving U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar. It came a day after officials commemorated the sixth anniversary of the Abraham Accords.

Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed the original Abraham Accords on Sept. 15, 2020. Morocco later joined the normalization effort through a separate U.S.-Morocco-Israel Joint Declaration signed in Rabat on Dec. 22, 2020. That agreement restored formal contacts and set out plans for full diplomatic relations, direct air links and deeper economic cooperation.

Wednesday’s Israel-Morocco agreement moves several of those earlier commitments forward. The two countries said they will open full embassies, exchange ambassadors, restore direct flights operated by Israeli and Moroccan carriers before the end of 2026, and complete agreements covering investment protection and the avoidance of double taxation.

According to a Sept. 16 joint statement, Israel and Morocco also committed to broader cooperation in trade, finance, technology, tourism, water, agriculture, food security, energy, telecommunications and regional security.

The statement further reaffirmed U.S. and Israeli recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, as well as support for Morocco’s autonomy proposal as the basis for resolving the long-running territorial dispute.

The conversation, however, quickly extended beyond Morocco to the possibility that Saudi Arabia could eventually join the Abraham Accords normalization framework.

Asked by News Media whether Saudi Arabia might become the next country to enter the Abraham Accords, amid reports of increased Israeli-Saudi security coordination against the Iran-backed Houthis, Waltz instead stressed the regional danger posed by Houthi attacks on international shipping.

“The scourge of terrorism from them is unacceptable to the entire region,” Waltz said. “They continue to act as a proxy of the Iranian regime.

“You cannot attempt to punish the rest of the world to achieve a political end,” he added. “The oceans, trade and international waterways must remain open.”

The comments come as the Houthis have made major gains along Yemen’s Red Sea coast near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Reuters reported Sept. 16 that the offensive has exposed new vulnerabilities for Saudi Arabia and strengthened Iran’s regional leverage.

The 18-mile-wide Bab el-Mandeb links the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and carries roughly 7% of global oil output. Houthi attacks beginning in 2023 forced major shipping companies to reroute vessels around Africa, increasing costs and transit times.

Sa’ar said the threats at Bab el-Mandeb and the Strait of Hormuz demonstrated why countries with shared interests should cooperate.

“What’s happening in Bab al-Mandab, like what’s happened in Strait of Hormuz, demonstrates the significance of all nations that want to respect freedom of navigation, world trade and cooperate against this kind of modern piracy,” Sa’ar said.

He declined to elaborate on any operational cooperation involving Saudi Arabia but made clear Israel wants the normalization framework expanded.

“It is clear that we would like this camp to be widened,” Sa’ar told News Media.

Bourita, meanwhile, said Morocco’s experience demonstrates that relations with Israel can also give Arab governments practical tools to help Palestinians.

“We can help the Palestinians, humanitarianly, because we have these relations with Israel,” Bourita said.

During the Gaza war, Morocco used its ties with Israel to secure a land route for 40 tons of humanitarian assistance into northern Gaza in March 2024. 

“Is it better to continue in the rhetorics, political positions, while sitting in our cities, our capitals or take initiatives?” Bourita asked.

“We don’t agree with Israel 100%. Each one may have its policy,” he said, arguing that Morocco uses the “Abraham Accords spirit” to “promote peace” and “promote stability in the region.”

Bourita also pointed to Morocco’s participation in Gaza stabilization efforts.

“I think it needs courage to contribute to peace,” he said. “And it’s easier to keep on making statements and engaging in rhetorics.”

Waltz echoed that argument, praising Morocco’s humanitarian work and its role in postwar Gaza efforts.

“It is far more than just signing agreements or coming to ceremonies,” Waltz said. “The Moroccan government, the Moroccan people are leaning in, in very meaningful ways for a more peaceful future.”