The Moment
An astrologer has weighed in on Hollywood’s latest favorite sport: predicting other people’s breakups.
In a new video segment published January 24, 2026, astrologer Richard James – host of the show StarCast Weekly on the streaming platform Gaia – reads the charts of three Euphoria universe stars: Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, and their co-star Zendaya.
His big claim? Sydney Sweeney’s reported relationship with music power player Scooter Braun is heading into a rough, possibly temporary, season. Same story, different couple: he says Jacob Elordi’s on-again, off-again situation with influencer Olivia Jade should stay off for good. Meanwhile, he’s positively glowing about Zendaya’s engagement to her longtime partner and Spider-Man co-star, Tom Holland, calling their romance a cosmic green light.
In other words: two relationships allegedly on the chopping block, one certified by the stars. Or at least by the guy reading them.
The Take
I have to hand it to Richard James: he understands the assignment. If you want people to tune into an astrology show in 2026, you don’t start with Saturn in Pisces – you start with Sydney Sweeney’s love life.
But let’s be clear: this is less fortune-telling and more content-creation. Turning celebrity relationships into cosmic weather reports is the latest twist on a very old game. We used to read about who sat next to whom at the Golden Globes; now we’re diagnosing their attachment styles via birth charts.
James describes Sydney as intense, someone who needs deep emotional safety to open up, and suggests her romance with Scooter Braun might be more strategic than soulful. He predicts a year of big shake-ups and even potential separation for her. For Jacob Elordi, he basically slaps a spiritual “do not resuscitate” on his on-off dynamic with Olivia Jade and says the healthiest thing he can do is log off dating for a while and focus on himself.

With Zendaya and Tom Holland, though, he flips the script. Their engagement, in his read, is the one that looks stable and fated – the relationship equivalent of a blue-chip stock in a market full of meme coins.

Here’s where I land: astrology can be a fun lens, but when it’s applied to living, breathing couples – who are already being dissected by fans, PR people, and ex-assistants with podcasts – it starts to feel like adding one more microscope to a lab that’s already overcrowded. The metaphor that keeps coming to mind is this: it’s like reading a Yelp review of a restaurant based on a photo of the menu. Entertaining? Sure. Definitive? Absolutely not.
Also, we cannot pretend there’s no power dynamic here. Saying a random stranger’s relationship is doomed is one thing. Saying a very public woman’s romance with a very powerful man might just be a business move invites the audience to question every smile, every red-carpet pose, every new project – and that can turn nasty fast.
If Sydney and Jacob are happy right now, the stars can wait their turn. If they’re not, they don’t need a televised chart reading to tell them. And if Zendaya and Tom are thriving, it’s probably less because of their synastry and more because they quietly built a real life together while the rest of us argued over fan edits.
Receipts
Confirmed:
- Astrologer Richard James discussed Sydney Sweeney, Scooter Braun, Jacob Elordi, Olivia Jade, Zendaya, and Tom Holland in a video segment published online January 24, 2026, offering chart-based opinions on their relationships.
- James hosts an astrology program called StarCast Weekly, which streams on Gaia and focuses on weekly forecasts for each zodiac sign.
- Zendaya and Tom Holland’s engagement has been publicly reported and referenced in James’s segment as a current fact.
Unverified / Opinion:
- James’s suggestion that Sydney Sweeney’s relationship with Scooter Braun may be more strategic than romantic is his personal interpretation of her chart, not a stated claim from either of them.
- The idea that Sydney is heading into a year of separation, or that Jacob Elordi’s on-off relationship with Olivia Jade is cosmically doomed, is an astrological prediction – not a confirmed outcome.
- Any implication that Zendaya and Tom Holland are “written in the stars” is, again, a belief rooted in astrology, not a measurable guarantee of relationship success.
Backstory (For Casual Readers)
If you’re not living on TikTok, a quick roll call: Sydney Sweeney broke out on HBO’s Euphoria and has since become one of Hollywood’s busiest young actresses, from prestige TV to big-screen rom-coms. Jacob Elordi, another Euphoria alum, has moved into film roles, including playing Elvis Presley in the drama Priscilla. Scooter Braun is a high-profile music manager and executive long associated with big pop names. Olivia Jade is a lifestyle influencer and the daughter of actress Lori Loughlin, who herself drew headlines during the college admissions scandal a few years back. Zendaya and Tom Holland met filming the latest Spider-Man movies and slowly went from co-stars to one of the internet’s favorite couples.
Astrology has had a big resurgence with younger audiences, thanks to social media and streaming. Shows like Richard James’s StarCast Weekly package horoscopes as bite-size entertainment – and plugging celebrity charts into the mix is an easy way to get everyone talking.
What’s Next
For now, nothing changes in anyone’s life because an astrologer said so on camera. Sydney Sweeney is still navigating a heavy career load and a very public love life; whether that involves Scooter Braun long-term will be decided in conversations we are thankfully not invited to. Jacob Elordi and Olivia Jade will either quietly fizzle, quietly reconnect, or surprise all of us – the way most on-off couples do.
Zendaya and Tom Holland, meanwhile, are planning a wedding under the kind of spotlight that could make anyone reconsider cake flavors and guest lists. If their relationship continues to look as grounded as it has so far, people will call it destiny. If it hits bumps, people will say the stars changed their mind. That’s the beauty – and the built-in escape hatch – of astrology in pop culture.
What we can expect is more of this format: experts (astrologers, therapists, body-language readers, you name it) lining up to decode the love lives of the famous in real time. It’s snackable, it’s shareable, and it keeps our attention on celebrities as characters rather than as people who occasionally have truly messy Tuesdays just like the rest of us.
So maybe the more interesting question isn’t whether Sydney and Jacob’s relationships are doomed – it’s why we’re so eager to outsource those predictions to anyone holding a mic and a zodiac wheel.
Your turn: Do you see celebrity astrology readings like this as harmless fun, or does it cross a line when strangers start predicting specific couples’ breakups?
Sources: Video interview segment featuring astrologer Richard James discussing Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, Zendaya, and their relationships, published online January 24, 2026; Gaia program description and episodes of Richard James’s show StarCast Weekly, accessed January 24, 2026.
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