Uh-oh, Laura Prepon & Ben Foster’s divorce is getting messy – he’s accused her of inappropriate marital conduct, and she’s accusing him of constant drunkenness and cruelty. Let me know if you guys are interested in this now that it’s getting messy, because it felt like no one cared when Ben filed for divorce last fall? [Just Jared]
I’ve been dodging Severance finale spoilers all day, I won’t get to watch it until this evening, give me some space!! [Pajiba]
Zoe Saldana’s awards-season fashion retrospective. [Go Fug Yourself]
Lupita Nyong’o looked adorable in Jonathan Cohen. [RCFA]
Analysis on Alec & Hilaria Baldwin’s red carpet weirdness. [LaineyGossip]
Meet “Instagram hottie” Morgan Lugo. [Socialite Life]
Fatboy Slim played a fish-and-chip shop. [Seriously OMG]
Cast bios for the new season of Love After Lockup. [Starcasm]
Wow, Carrie Underwood & Mike Fisher have been married for 15 years. [Hollywood Life]
Men discuss why they slept with married women. [Buzzfeed]

Cate Blanchett went through the entire awards-season rigamarole in 2022 and 2023 with Tár. I was really rooting for her at the 2023 Oscars, but she lost to Michelle Yeoh. I was happy with Yeoh’s win, although I think people will look back on Tár and wonder how the hell Cate lost to anyone that season. In any case, Cate has eight Oscar nominations and two wins. She has eight BAFTA noms and four wins. Twelve Golden Globe noms and four wins. You get the idea – Cate has been to a lot of awards shows for many, many years, starting in the 1990s. She knows how to work an awards season, she knows how to walk a red carpet, and she knows that she’s really f–king tired of all of it, especially the televised awards shows. So she has an idea: stop televising the shows??? It will never happen, but hear her out:

Cate Blanchett would prefer awards shows not to be aired on television. The two-time Oscar-winning actress made a recent appearance on the Las Culturistas With Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang podcast, where she suggested that the Oscars should “go back to the day when it wasn’t televised.”

The conversation started when Blanchett noted that there are “so few spaces that you can go now, where you are private,” without phones and the risk of someone recording you. “That’s what I loved about the late ’80s [was] going to all of the dance parties in Sydney for Mardi Gras. People were just there. They were so present, you know, they were just together, collectively, having a great time. It was non-aggressive. No one was being recorded. No one cared what anyone did.”

Hosts Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang proceeded to note how privacy is even more difficult in the era of TikTok, especially with the viral trend of lip readers analyzing celebrity moments during televised awards shows and other events.

“But now it feels like that chasm between that kind of event, that ideal, is widening from the thing that’s very common now at, like, an awards show where you’ve got lip readers, you’re being photographed,” Yang said before a confused Blanchett interjected, “Lip readers?”

The co-hosts explained the trend, which sees TikTokers trying to guess what celebrities are saying to each other at awards shows. “And it looks like it could be exactly what they’re saying, in a way that’s a little bit odd,” Rogers said. Yang added that the lip-reading trend makes Hollywood events feel more “treacherous,” to which the Black Bag actress agreed.

“I mean, I say, I know it’s blasphemy, go back to the day when it wasn’t televised,” Blanchett suggested. “Bring that back and just have a great party where people can just let go. I mean the industry is so scattered and at such a point…which I think potentially could be exciting or could really be depressing, but it’s at a pivot point, and so we need to gather together and celebrate what it is that we do, without it having to have any public-facing.”

She continued, “I mean, the fashion is great, and all of that stuff. We’ll find out in the end who won or who didn’t win. But it would be so nice that that happened behind closed doors. [It would be] absolutely a very different evening.”

[From The Hollywood Reporter]

I’ve been watching awards shows for so long, I remember a time when actors were regularly drunk off their asses at the Golden Globes, to the point where they would give hilarious, off-the-cuff sh-thoused acceptance speeches. I remember Jack Nicholson winning a Globe, stumbling up to the microphone and telling a long-winded story about how alcohol-infused the Globes USED TO BE. While I don’t think Cate’s suggestion will be considered seriously, I would like to see a conversation about the need to shake up the awards-show format in general. There are too many “shows” and Cate’s right, a couple of them could stand to be untelevised and ALL of them could be shorter.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid.

Prince Harry’s immigration/residency status was once again in the news this week after a federal judge authorized a more thorough release of Harry’s visa records. Harry permanently moved to the United States in March 2020, during Donald Trump’s first term, but that didn’t stop the Heritage Foundation from waging a two-year harassment campaign to “force” the Biden administration into releasing Harry’s records. Heritage thought that once Trump was back, his administration would be more forthcoming. Trump’s DHS wasn’t playing Heritage’s game though, and neither was the judge. The document dump was just page after page of black-out records. The DHS lawyers made it clear: there’s nothing untoward happening here and Heritage needs to let this go. Heritage Foundation douchebags reacted by throwing a tantrum and demanding that Harry “self-deport.”

Throughout all of this, it’s worth noting that Harry hasn’t said anything about Heritage’s “case,” nor are Harry’s lawyers involved in any way – this has purely been about Heritage vs. two administrations’ DHS lawyers. Well, Vanity Fair claims that they have a “source close to Harry,” and that source has some idea of how Harry feels about Heritage’s harassment and the “threats” of deportation.

On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security released documents related to Prince Harry’s immigration status and the Heritage Foundation’s quest to make his visa-application records public under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents contain private declarations from three DHS officers who had reviewed Harry’s records, as well as the transcript of a hearing with Judge Carl Nichols about the matter. However, they redact all details about the Duke of Sussex’s immigration status and the type of visa he has, with one of the DHS officials stating there was no evidence that Harry received special treatment from the government.

A source close to the duke says the documents show he was properly admitted to the US.

“Allegations that Prince Harry received preferential treatment during his US immigration process were unequivocally dismissed today by the Trump administration,” the source tells Vanity Fair. “Furthermore, the redactions in the case further weaken the Heritage Foundation’s claim that the duke’s immigration records should be considered a matter of public interest.”

The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind the controversial Project 2025 plans that have helped guide President Donald Trump’s second term, started its quest to acquire Harry’s immigration information in 2023, soon after the publication of his best-selling memoir, Spare. Their early filings in the case claim that Harry admitted to “a long history” of drug use in the memoir, alleging that this raised questions about whether the royal was properly vetted when he moved to the US in 2020 along with his wife, Meghan Markle.

Nile Gardiner, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, told GB News that he was not surprised that Harry’s full application was not released. “We still do not know whether or not Prince Harry lied on his application,” Gardiner added. “The fight continues to release Prince Harry’s immigration application to the American people.”

[From Vanity Fair]

I have no idea what Heritage will do next, but it feels like they’re not done and their harassment campaign will continue in some form. But legally, is there any road left? This source close to Harry doesn’t seem to think so, and I agree that the massively redacted files seem to be the final chapter on the attempted FOIA request. That’s probably why that Heritage idiot was squealing about self-deportation too – that’s the only scam they have left.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images.

David Beckham covers the latest issue of Men’s Health UK. While he has many businesses and sponsorships, it looks like this interview was mainly done for two reasons: he’s shilling his new nutrition/supplement line, IM8, and he’s also chatting about turning 50 years old in May. It’s a big deal – Ol’ Goldenballs is turning the big 5-0. He seems fine with it, probably because he’s in good shape and his body doesn’t hurt that much after decades of professional football. He’s got a strong marriage, healthy kids, and he’s the designated chore-monkey for the Windsors. Everything’s coming up roses! Some highlights from David’s interview:

He treats everyone respectfully: ‘I definitely learned a lot about leadership from Sir Alex Ferguson. I think I’ve taken that into my business. I’m sometimes first in the office and the last out. The staff see how I work. In business, I think it’s always been about how you treat people. That’s why I’ve got a great team. I don’t like an atmosphere in an office, I don’t like an atmosphere in a team. I don’t like aggression. You always treat people with respect – doesn’t matter who it is it, from the guy on the door to the lawyers or the accountant.’

His body feels good: ‘Do you know what, my body’s actually feeling better than it has done for a long time. People ask where I feel it the most – is it my knees or my ankles? My achilles was a bad injury towards the end of my playing career but it never troubles me now, despite rupturing it. It’s actually my back and left hip that give me the most grief. I’ve had it X-rayed, MRI’d – it’s just wear and tear.’

Turning 50 this year: ‘Doesn’t bother me one bit. People are asking me about it gently, like it should be a big issue. It’s not something that I’m worried about, as long as I’m fit and healthy and my family are healthy, that’s all I care about. I’m really happy. I’ve got the business and an amazing family. My kids are working hard and they’ve all got passions – that’s what’s important to me.’

The back-end of his career did a lot of damage to his body: ‘Unfortunately, I did have a lot of injections and I don’t think it’s a good thing. I think that’s probably why certain parts of my body were a real mess. My last game at Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, I had three cortisone injections in my ankle and my achilles purely to play… I’ve had cortisone injections in my back, too. I actually broke my back. I was living in LA and cracked my spine. I had pain after a game, I went for a scan and they couldn’t find anything wrong with it. I was insisting there was something not right there – I could feel it. So they injected me with dye and then it came up. It was a bad one. I broke my wrist in South Africa and I still get issues with it. I was told that it was a dissolvable screw. Turns out it wasn’t, so I’ve still got it.’

Why he created his premium nutrition brand, IM8: ‘It’s the reason that I wanted to create IM8. I was fed up with going into the pharmacy or a health shop and there were so many supplements, so many tablets, so many powders. One person saying one thing is the best and others would disagree. IM8 works for me. Gut health, energy, focus – all of it is improved.’

Life in the Cotswolds: ‘Cooking is a real passion for me now. It’s something I’m so proud of.’ On social media, he’s given fans tours of his home in the Cotswolds, complete with a chicken coop, a vegetable patch and beehives. ‘When we harvest the honey and I’m sat there in my kitchen looking at it all, I get quite emotional. I turn to my kids looking for respect and they’re like, “Yeah, whatever, Dad.” It’s so satisfying for me, though.’

He’ll have an empty nest in five years: ‘We’re not quite there yet, but it’s actually painful. We’ve gone from having four in the house to one.’ The self-confessed ‘neat freak’ even admits he’s already missing the boys’ cluttered bedrooms. ‘What I would give to have that back and be able to walk in, moaning to them about it! That said, my boys are pretty good. They’ll always ask me to the pub when they go with their mates.’

[From Men’s Health]

Did you clock the fact that he was like “my body feels good, I’m in great shape” and then he’s like “oh yeah I broke my back and it still bothers me, as does my wrist and everything else.” Still, I bet that David thought his body would be much more banged up after his career and it’s shocking that his knees and ankles aren’t being held together with duct tape. Anyway, spare a thought for Harper, the baby of the family and the last one in the “nest.” She’s their only girl too – David is going to be completely devastated when she moves out. None of the Beckham boys are going to college, right? I wonder if Harper will end up going to university. If she does, I’m sure her dad will visit as much as possible and bring hand-cooked meals.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images, cover courtesy of Men’s Health UK.

Someone remarked that the media outrage towards With Love, Meghan was partially because the show proves that the Duchess of Sussex still has so many friends and those friends are really loyal to her. There are no leaks or bad vibes among Meghan’s closest friends and they’re not selling her out for tabloid pennies. Instead, they’re happy to show up for her cooking show, alongside some new friends she’s made in Montecito and new friends she’s making because of WLM. You get the idea – Meghan has a wide group of friends that she can count on. Well, I have no idea what inspired this, but the Mail is trying to make it into a thing: why isn’t Markus Anderson on WLM? Markus and Meghan became besties when she lived in Canada – Markus is some kind of executive with the Soho House. What’s weird is that they’ve hung out publicly in recent years and the Mail knows that – Markus and Meghan just attended a mutual friend’s baby shower a few months ago. Markus went to a hockey game with the Sussexes last year, I think? Markus was also in Montecito during “coronation weekend” in 2023 – they went hiking near Casa de Sussex and there was a big freakout. Well, here’s another freakout:

Whatever happened to Meghan’s best friend Markus Anderson? The tall, handsome Canadian was a third wheel in the early days of her romance with Prince Harry — and he was front and center at their 2018 wedding. However, he was nowhere to be seen in the first series of her recent Netflix lifestyle show With Love, Meghan — and I understand that he won’t appear in the second series either.

Though that next instalment isn’t due to air until the autumn, it was filmed at the same time as the first, in a rented $8 million home near to the Montecito mansion Meghan shares with her husband Prince Harry and their children Archie and Lilibet.

A friend of Anderson conceded that their bond ‘may’ not be quite as tight as it once was. This is apparently is due to Anderson’s extremely busy professional life – he’s an executive at Soho House and travels ‘almost constantly.’ The private members club now has 42 outposts around the globe. The last time he and Meghan were spotted together was at a baby shower for a mutual friend in December. And before that, he hadn’t been pictured with her in years.

On top of Anderson’s busy schedule, his friend admitted there was another reason he has steered clear from Meghan’s new show, saying: ‘He just really is not comfortable in the spotlight… it’s not his thing.’

Other prominent personalities who Meghan counts among her friends, but who haven’t appeared in her show, include Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey – though, it’s hardly like either of them are afraid of the spotlight. Another missing face has been feminist-trailblazer Gloria Steinem, with whom the Duchess of Sussex is close. Steinem’s absence is less surprising, for she has built a career around fighting for equality and getting women out of the kitchen – not sprinkling edible flowers on biscuits. Perhaps a changing of the guard is afoot in Meghan’s inner circle.

[From The Daily Mail]

I’m struggling to even figure out the point of this: “yes, Meghan clearly has a lot of close friends, but why isn’t every single one of Meghan’s friends on her show??” Because… that’s weird and unreasonable to expect every friend-of-Meghan to rearrange their schedules to turn up on her show in the first two seasons? “Why isn’t Gloria Steinem on the show?!?” Because she’s Gloria Steinem?? Is this all because they’re mad that they can’t say that Meghan is friendless and unsupported? Abigail Spencer, Mindy Kaling, Tracy Robbins (wife of Paramount’s CEO), Delfina Figueras, Kelly Zafjen, Victoria Jackson all showed up. And that’s why they’re mad.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Instagram, Backgrid.

Questions about Gwen Stefani’s politics have been percolating for a while, but in the past month, a lot of Gwen’s fans have now become convinced that she’s fully MAGA. Gwen has, in my opinion, always been more socially conservative and religious than her fans realize, and she also has a long history of problematic words and behavior around race. And yet… she used to be a huge Democrat and a huge Democratic donor and fundraiser. But things have changed – these days, she’s reposting hyper-religious-wingnut content, she’s boosting Tucker Carlson interviews and she’s following right-wing nutjobs on social media. Well, now the Mail is running an exclusive about how Gwen has basically adopted Blake Shelton’s Republican politics and the music industry doesn’t know what to do with her anymore because her new music sucks and she’s turned off all of her loyal fans.

Gwen Stefani has become ‘unrecognizable’ to her fans, friends and even her label – which is now said to be ‘considering dropping her’ after her alleged ‘MAGA makeover’. The No Doubt singer, 55, outraged her liberal fans last week when she publicly supported conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson, reposting one of his religious interviews. The move shocked her fans given her previous support for the Democratic party.

Now an insider has told the Daily Mail that Gwen ‘appears to have gone MAGA’ and ‘doesn’t care’ if it alienates her fans. They alleged that the change in her political views could be attributed to her husband, country singer Blake Shelton, who previously praised Donald Trump.

‘After massively supporting Democrats for years – she appears to have gone MAGA,’ the source explained. ‘Some of this can be attributed to her marriage, as Blake is an infamous Republican. She shut out everyone for him. She doesn’t seem to care about her fans anymore and has shed her persona to become the unrecognizable opposite of what she once was. The Tucker Carson situation is not anything new, though. This is who she has become,’ the source continued. ‘Gwen is not even trying to hide who she has become and this person is unrecognizable to her fans, friends and even her label.’

‘She cannot sell albums anymore and with her new holier-than-thou campaign, it has really turned a lot of people off,’ said our source. ‘After [teaming up with the Catholic] app, she released her last album Bouquet which was an absolute bomb. This has caused Interscope to consider dropping her which is a travesty considering she was once one of their top selling artists. But she has only herself to blame.’

Gwen’s last album debuted at number 95 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart and sold only 13,000 copies in its first week. The Daily Mail has reached out to Gwen and Interscope for comment.

[From The Daily Mail]

For what it’s worth, I listened to a little bit of Gwen’s last album and it was a trainwreck, it’s like she’s completely lost her innate understanding of the pop-music zeitgeist. I guess her old producers don’t want to work with her anymore either. I think that was why the album bombed, not “fans were turned off by her politics” – the music was just bad. In the musical sense, Gwen had a good run – she was incredibly relevant for over two decades. She even had some hit songs with Blake in recent years. But yeah, this is her semi-retirement vibe: bad music, MAGA politics, being Blake’s perfect Republican wife, I guess.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.

Graydon Carter is currently promoting his new memoir, When the Going Was Good. It’s largely about his time as Vanity Fair’s editor-in-chief and what the media/magazine business was like in the glory days of the 1990s and pre-crash ‘00s. I skimmed through his interview with the Times of London, where he spoke a lot about his dealings with Donald Trump over the years and he remarked, “I don’t recognise this man. If it comes out in 15 years that this Trump was a Manchurian candidate, I wouldn’t be surprised. The Trump I knew was someone who just wanted to be liked.” He also bad-mouthed Anna Wintour and VF’s new EIC Radhika Jones. He said that Jones has made VF “less fun, less interesting and don’t even get me started on the dull covers.” Which… fair enough. I also think Jones is too cerebral for a VF editor.

The reason I skimmed that Times interview was because I wanted to see if a British outlet got Carter to talk about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. They did not. The last time Carter was out and about and giving interviews, it was 2023 and he spent a good chunk of time criticizing the Sussexes and predicting that their marriage will last for “years not decades.” His site, Air Mail, has also spent a lot of time hitting Meghan in particular. Well, Carter also chatted with Maureen Dowd at the NY Times, and they played a game called “confirm or deny.” Dowd got him on the record about whether he thinks Harry and Meghan are, in Bill Simmons’ words, “f–king grifters.”

Confirm or Deny: Annie Leibovitz took your passport photo.
Graydon Carter: She took my passport photo.

CoD: The two funniest non-comedians you’ve ever met are George Clooney and Anderson Cooper.
In both cases, they were so funny that I had to tell them to stop because I thought my trachea would break.

CoD: Anna Wintour should retire.
Absolutely not. I think she can go on for decades.

CoD: Putin once called you to get on the cover of Vanity Fair.
Deny.

CoD: The Kushners are the new Kennedys.
Deny. Well, the new Bobby Kennedy juniors, if that’s the arm of the family you’re referring to.

CoD: Taylor Swift has a lifetime ban from the Waverly Inn.
No, we adore Taylor Swift.

CoD: Harry and Meghan are grifters.
Bill Simmons could say that. I never would. I’m not sure grifter is the right word. More “chancers,” which is an English expression for somebody who is on the make.

CoD: The Democrats need a celebrity candidate in 2028.
Confirm. Well, they need a candidate, and whether it’s a celebrity or not, they’ve got a strong bench. It’ll take six months, and they’ll get things sorted out, and then there’ll be a force.

[From The NY Times]

Americans don’t use “chancer” as any kind of descriptor, so I actually looked it up. Per dictionary.com, chancer is “an unscrupulous or dishonest opportunist who is prepared to try any dubious scheme for making money or furthering his or her own ends.” Like… Harry and Meghan got a Netflix contract? Meghan is investing in small, female-owned businesses? She’s doing a line of crepe mixes? Harry is working for a mental-health coaching business? What the f–k is so unscrupulous about any of this? The Sussexes really have the old guard royalist media on their heels, huh? In some ways, this is what Graydon Carter is describing in his memoir – he and the other tastemaker media types have seen their relevance dip to the point where they can’t control what people think of the Sussexes (or anyone), and it’s driving them crazy.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.

We recently passed the one-year anniversary of the Mother’s Day frankenphoto fiasco. To recap, the Princess of Wales went missing for months, then on Mother’s Day weekend in the UK – which was Oscar weekend – Kensington Palace released a “new photo taken by Prince William” of Kate and their three children. Within minutes/hours of the photo’s release, people began analyzing the amateurish Photoshop, with many theorizing that the photo (released officially by KP, remember) was hacked together using several photos. By the time of the Oscar red carpet, Reuters, the AP, AFP and Getty had all issued “kill orders” on the image. We later learned that a few of those agencies had even contacted KP and asked for the original image before issuing the kill order, but KP refused to play ball. Early Monday morning, “Kate” took responsibility for the hacked-together image and “she” apologized for causing confusion.

As many pointed out, this wasn’t just some minor controversy – what was supposed to be a health update about the future queen consort turned out to have been a faked and manipulated image. As I wrote at the time, “There are enormous ‘political consequences,’ and now, with this f–k up, Kensington Palace has zero credibility if and when some bigger sh-t hits the fan.” Instead of acknowledging that, KP and Buckingham Palace put a different plan into action, where it was all “woe is me, people were so mean to Kate while she had cancer!” We were just supposed to forget that William and his advisors all tossed a cancer-stricken Kate under the bus and made her take the fall for the frankenphoto, remember? Anyway, I bring up this sordid history because this week’s People Magazine cover story includes some revisionist history:

Kate Middleton and Prince William were hurt by the fallout around the photo they released for Mother’s Day last year after the Princess of Wales admitted to editing the picture.

“There was a real sense then that they felt bruised by it,” royal author Robert Hardman tells PEOPLE in this week’s exclusive cover story. “It was treated like some great fraud.”

After undergoing planned abdominal surgery on Jan. 16, 2024, Princess Kate, 43, largely retreated from public view, fueling online rumors. When she shared a Mother’s Day photo of herself with her children Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6, taken by William, on March 10, the image quickly became the center of controversy.

Online sleuths spotted irregularities, leading major picture agencies to pull it from circulation. The following day, Kate admitted to editing the picture, but by then, a firestorm of conspiracy theories had taken hold.

For Kate and her family, the experience was overwhelming.

“It was like being on a roller coaster for them… undergoing chemotherapy and trying to protect your children. It was like being in the middle of a tornado and not knowing when it was going to calm down,” says Ailsa Anderson, former press secretary to the late Queen Elizabeth.

Unbeknownst to the public at the time, Princess Kate had been undergoing treatment for cancer. She bravely shared her diagnosis on March 22, 2024, in an emotional video filmed at Windsor.

[From People]

“It was like being in the middle of a tornado and not knowing when it was going to calm down” – again, this was not something done TO them – they CHOSE to release a hacked-together photo and pass it off as an official portrait and a health update on a missing princess. William also chose to toss his wife under the bus regarding the photo. “It was treated like some great fraud” – it was a huge fraud? Jesus. As many said at the time, imagine the Sussexes released some hacked-together image as an official portrait. The reaction from these people would have been much different. And that comparison doesn’t even completely work – again, William and Kate are the future king and queen, as they’re so fond of saying. They should be held to a different standard of truthfulness and authenticity.

Photos courtesy of Kensington Palace. Cover courtesy of The Sun.

It’s been a minute since we’ve talked about Tracy Anderson. I can’t even believe she’s still around and people are still paying attention to her? Anderson is a longtime personal trainer and sort of disordered-eating advocate/goblin. Tracy’s whole deal is very dated, but then again, I have not paid attention to her in years so maybe she has changed up her gimmicks. Tracy is still aligned with Gwyneth Paltrow and they have various business dealings with each other, enough that Tracy films “recipe videos” for Gwyneth’s Goop brand. This week, Tracy filmed one of those “recipe videos” and she made a not-so-veiled crack about the Duchess of Sussex.

Celebrity fitness trainer Tracy Anderson has seemingly made a thinly veiled crack at Meghan Markle over her decision to film her newly released Netflix show, “With Love, Meghan,” in a rented Montecito, CA, home instead of at her own $14.65 million mansion.

Anderson, 50, made the apparent crack while filming a recipe video for her close friend Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness brand, Goop, beginning her video by stating: “Hi, I’m Tracy Anderson. Welcome to my actual kitchen.”

The introduction was deemed by many to have been a dig at Markle, 43, who filmed her own series of cooking videos in the kitchen of a property that was used by Netflix as the set of the former “Suits” star’s lifestyle series, despite the fact that the show was billed as an “at home” experience with the Duchess of Sussex.

Markle’s series was largely taped inside an $8 million dwelling that appears to have been leased to serve as a filming location, with many of the episodes focusing on her endeavors in the kitchen, where she is often joined by a celebrity friend. There are many parallels to be drawn between Markle’s series and the clip posted by Anderson, in which the fitness expert puts together a “green goddess crunch salad.”

[From Realtor.com]

I was genuinely surprised that Realtor.com had some tea, and I wanted to use them as a source as opposed to the Daily Mail screaming about Tracy’s “BRUTAL SWIPE!” Anyway, I’ve never understood why people have latched onto “Meghan films at a rented home” as some kind of criticism/gotcha/example-of-inauthenticity. It’s always made perfect sense to me – Meghan doesn’t want a film crew in her home, especially when her kids are small. It’s insanely stressful to film this kind of show inside your own home, and plenty of chefs do the same, the film somewhere else or create a set which looks like a personal kitchen. Besides, if you watch WLM closely, you can see that some scenes are filmed outdoors at Meghan’s home. In any case, Tracy has always been an a–hole. You can go through our archives or subscribe to our mailing list for the top 8 stories, there’s more than a decade of assy lore about Tracy.

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Here are some more photos of King Charles and Queen Camilla in Northern Ireland this week. They were in Belfast on Wednesday, and on Thursday, they were in Limavady. They did a “walkabout” and there were some official-looking events, but the best photos were from their visit to Hunters Bakery. I would say that Charles and Camilla – much like William and Kate in Wales several weeks ago – made a point of handling food and doing a cooking “photo op” as some kind of message for/about the Duchess of Sussex and her show. But I have to admit that Charles and Camilla always do food-based photo-ops. It’s one of the few things I like about them – wherever they go, they stop by local bakeries, pubs and delis. Charles has always had a particular interest in what locals are baking, while Camilla has always had a particular interest in local spirits.

Charles also stopped by Ulster University’s Pharmacy and Pharmacology Department, where he met some fellow cancer patients. Charles quoted Winston Churchill, telling them “keep buggering on.” That was Churchill’s sign-off during WWII too, often abbreviated to “KBO.” Speaking of WWII, Donald Trump is “considering” giving up America’s long-standing position at the command of NATO. NATO is one of the strongest alliances in history, built in the wake of WWII, and America has maintained the American-only command position since the Eisenhower administration. Any day now, Trump will take the US out of NATO completely, I’m sure. All of which brings me to this ridiculous piece by the Mail’s Richard Eden – apparently, King Charles is going to invite the US into the British Commonwealth.

When Sir Keir Starmer personally delivered a letter from King Charles to Donald Trump at the White House last month, inviting him for an unprecedented second state visit, the American President said the monarch was a ‘beautiful man, a wonderful man’. It would, Trump added, be an ‘honour’ to visit the King’s ‘fantastic’ country.

Now, I hear that the monarch could make the president an offer he might find tempting.
And one which could help dampen down tensions between the White House and Canada, of which the King is head of state. Plans are being made for the USA to become the next ‘associate member’ of the Commonwealth.

The King shares his late mother’s deep affection and respect for the global ‘family of nations’, and sees it as particularly important at a time of international conflict and global uncertainty. The Commonwealth, whose nations have a total population of more than 2.7billion, is one of the world’s oldest political associations of states, with its roots in the British Empire.

Although America declared independence from Britain in 1776, this would be no impediment to its becoming the 57th member of the Commonwealth. The last four countries to join (Mozambique, Rwanda, Togo and Gabon) have no links with the British Empire, underlining the Commonwealth’s role as a voluntary organisation of independent and equal states.

The proposals were made by the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS), with the apparent backing of Queen Elizabeth, during Trump’s first term as president, but did not come to fruition. Now, the plans have been revived, with members of the society hopeful that the King will make the case to Trump when he meets him.

‘This is being discussed at the highest levels,’ a member claimed this week, telling me: ‘It would be a wonderful move that would symbolise Britain’s close relationship with the US. Donald Trump loves Britain and has great respect for the Royal Family, so we believe he would see the benefits of this. Associate membership could, hopefully, be followed by full membership, making the Commonwealth even more important as a global organisation.’

The source added: ‘The Commonwealth is also a great forum for resolving differences between nations, and the King has shown that he is a natural peacemaker.’

[From The Daily Mail]

Charles can offer, but as soon as Trump sees the list of Commonwealth member nations, he’ll say no. Because of woke. Global politics is a joke these days – Trump is seriously going to destroy NATO and then Charles will be like “hey, do you want to join our Former-Colony Group?” What’s even dumber is that the Commonwealth isn’t going to last much longer either – it will not survive past Charles, let’s be real.

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