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Alright, you guys, we are back to one of my favorite topics: the paranormal! To recap, I am fascinated by all of these supernatural, Universe-y type things. I’m talking about ghosts, dreams, intuition, synchronicities, aliens, psychic abilities, etc. I love hearing other people’s stories, too. But onto the topic at hand! Kumail Nanjiani was on The View this week to promote the new Ghostbusters movie, Frozen Empire. Naturally, the topic of conversation had to include a question about whether or not Kumail believes in ghosts, because of course it did. When Sunny Hostin floated it out there, Kumail responded that while he didn’t believe in ghosts, he does, in fact, believe in aliens. Whoopi really turned the convo up, though, when she shared that not only does she believe in extraterrestrials, she knows for a fact that they’re already here, “watching us.”

While Nanjiani said, “I don’t believe in ghosts, I’ve never had an encounter or anything,” he did bring another intriguing idea to the roundtable.

“I’ll tell you what, I do believe in aliens,” Nanjiani boasted. “I think aliens are circling us, waiting for us to get it together so they can come on down. … I think they’re waiting for us to clean up a little bit so that they can come here and tell us we’re really messing things up.”

That’s when a soft-spoken Goldberg, 68, spoke up and said, “They’re already here. They’ve been here for quite some time.”

A surprised Nanjiani needed clarification, asking, “You think they’re here? What are they doing?”

“They’re watching us,” a very serious Goldberg responded.

Hostin, 55, tried bringing some levity to the situation and joked, “They’re talking to Whoopi.”

Given the nature of the conversation, cohost Sara Haines couldn’t help but bring up Goldberg’s Oscar-winning movie to close out the wild conversation.

“She talks to ghosts, not aliens,” Haines, 46, said. “Duh, the movie was Ghost, not Alien.”

This isn’t the first time Goldberg brought up her belief in aliens. Back in 2023, Goldberg said she already “knew” about their existence before a congressional hearing on UFOs and aliens claimed the U.S. government recovered “nonhuman” remains from space objects.

“I don’t know why everybody else is so surprised. We’re not the only ones in the universe. We’re just not,” Goldberg explained. “There are more things in heaven and Earth that we are aware of, and we have to be aware of, because that is the nature of being an earthling. It’s going to happen, it has happened, and, so far, we’re alright.”

Still, Goldberg did her best to combat any panic about any supernatural beings, instead insinuating that perhaps they just want to be friends.

“I can say I haven’t seen any zapping happen, I haven’t seen things that you see in the movies, so, maybe they’re not adversaries,” Goldberg said. “Maybe they’re just trying to get along!”

[From Us Weekly]

Well, okay then, Whoopi! Tell us more, I am all ears. I’m not kidding when I say that I love hearing first-hand accounts of anything supernatural. When we talked about Kevin Bacon’s haunted shack, I loved hearing everyone’s stories so much. Some of y’all even recommended podcasts and I subscribed to them, so thank you! As far as aliens go, I do believe that there are so many things that we don’t understand about whatever exists outside of or even within our physical world. Like Whoopi said, it’s such a huge universe out there that it’s difficult for me to believe that we’re the only ones within it. It feels arrogant to think that we are. I mean, it would go a long way to explaining Ron DeSantis, #amirite? JK, JK. But seriously now I want to know what exactly Whoopi knows and how she knows it.

If you’re interested in hearing more on the subject of UFOs and aliens, CB covered the Netflix documentary Encounters last year. Definitely check it out if you’re into this topic.

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In January of this year, Prince Albert’s former accountant began a revenge tour, spilling all kinds of financial secrets of the House of Grimaldi. The accountant, Claude Palmero, had been fired last year and the dude has a grudge, although it seems like some of his information has checked out. Basically, Palermo claims that Albert is spending millions on his ex-girlfriends, baby-mothers and all of his kids, and that Albert’s wife Charlene spends like crazy and Albert lets her. Palmero also claimed that Charlene and Albert hired undocumented nannies for their children. There’s been some talk about what this all means and whether Albert is facing political pressure and… I just don’t see it? Monaco is a principality with a population of less than 40,000 people. Albert is basically a financially corrupt-yet-well-liked mayor of a small seaside town. And the mayor owns all of the casinos. Like, what are you gonna do? Anyway, Albert recently spoke to Paris Match and he shrugged off most of Palmero’s claims.

Prince Albert of Monaco has said his family and the public have supported him after his former accountant accused him of financial impropriety, but his wife Princess Charlene is ‘very upset for him’. The king, 66, spoke to Paris Match to mark his birthday two months after Claude Palmero revealed Charlene’s personal spending allowance rocketed to more than £1million-a-year. The leaked documents leaked documents also accused the royal family of hiring illegal immigrants as nannies.

Mr Palmero, 67, was in charge of palace finances for more than two decades but stepped down in July after he was targeted by an anti-corruption website. His damning report was leaked to French media earlier this year, with Albert not commenting on it at the time.

Speaking this week, he said: ‘Thankfully, my whole family is there for me, showering me with their affection, both my immediate family and the extended family of Monegasque. She [Charlene] was also very upset for me, and saddened by certain things that came out in the media. We supported each other. She has resumed many of her activities, more public engagements, to everyone’s delight.’

Mr Palermo’s ‘secret notebooks’ detailing the spending of the Monaco royal family were shared with French newspaper Le Monde in January. It was the ‘illegal migrants’ who made up much of Charlene’s full-time personal staff of eight that Mr Palmero was particularly worried about. The books also allege that Albert spends millions every year from a secret French bank account to pay his former mistresses and love children – with Jazmin Grimaldi, 31, and Alexandre Coste-Grimaldi, 20, receiving allowances of £344,000 a year each.

This was while Charlene was pouring £826,000 into redecorating her holiday villa in Calvi, on the island of Corsica, along with £860,000 to decorate her office back in Monte Carlo.

In a letter written in January 2017, Mr Palmero said another employee from the Philippines had been ‘illegal for five years’, despite solely being on a one-month tourist visa. ‘He gets paid 100 euros a day [£85] which is off the scale,’ Mr Palmero wrote.

Elsewhere in the interview, Albert said he was supported by his whole family and said Mr Palmero’s grievances were over ‘not accepting a courteous offer of retirement’. He added however that he had a ‘hard skin’ from past experiences.

Albert also discussed his children, Hereditary Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella, who turn 10 this year. ‘She’s a little miss with an independent character and she expresses herself quite freely. We thought Jacques was more of an introvert, but he’s been gaining confidence for some time now. He looks out for his sister,’ he added. Albert also explained that the family are all ‘very very close’ and despite their young age the twins ‘understand their obligations’.

[From The Daily Mail]

Yeah, this piece sounds like some stuff was lost in translation, but the point is that Albert is fine and Charlene is fine, I guess. Like, Albert isn’t actually sweating any of this. Maybe I’m wrong! Maybe Albert is facing political pressure given all of these dramas, but he seems to be treating this as tittle-tattle from a grudge-wielding former employee. Also: Albert came out of it looking okay? He financially supports his exes and all of his kids and he allows Charlene to do whatever she likes?

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In today’s edition of “Celebrities Are Just Like Us,” we have Kristen Stewart! It turns out that K-Stew is a huge fan of Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s Barbie. She’s such a big fan that she’s even labeled herself “obsessed” and a “super-duper fan.” I love that so much! During an interview on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, which was recorded the day after the Oscar ceremony, Kristen got even more relatable when she talked about watching “I’m Just Ken” from her couch at home. Just like most of us, she laughed and cried, thinking about the magnitude of Greta’s creation.

She loved this year’s Oscars: “Oscars were incredible last night,” said Stewart, who earned a Best Actress nomination in 2022 for Spencer. “Best they’ve been in years, I feel. Don’t you think it was just a good show?”

She got so emotional, baby: “I was, for some reason, crying and laughing while watching the Ken thing. It’s emotional, dude, watching Greta watch it. When they did the one cutaway of her and she was just, like, front-row belting and looking at the thing she helped kickstart….”

Barbie’s biggest fan?: Stewart said she’s “obsessed” with and a “super-duper fan” of Barbie, which starred Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Kate McKinnon and more. The actress said, though, she did not have Barbie dolls growing up, instead opting for the “Weird Barbie”-type toys.

Is Marvel in her future?: Elsewhere in the podcast interview, Stewart addressed whether she would star in a Marvel superhero movie. The Twilight alum said she’s a “yes man” and wouldn’t say no, though the idea seems “unlikely” to her. “It sounds like a f—ing nightmare, actually,” Stewart said with a laugh.

Her thoughts on blockbuster superhero movies: “I like big movies because I like people to watch them when I’m in them. The system would have to change. … What ends up happening is this algorithmic, weird experience where you can’t feel personal at all about it.”

She’d do it for Greta: “But maybe the world changes,” said Stewart, adding, “If Greta Gerwig asked me to do a Marvel movie, then I would do it.”

[From People]

I wonder if Kristen also re-watches “I’m Just Ken” on YouTube like us normies do, haha. I don’t watch it daily anymore but since it’s right at the top of my search history, I click on it every couple of days because it really does make me smile. I watched Barbie with my kids last week, too. They asked a lot of good questions about it and now my older son sings “I’m Just Ken” and “What Was I Made For?” all of the time, lol.

Anyway, It doesn’t surprise me at all that Kristen had a Weird Barbie growing up. I’d honestly be disappointed if she didn’t. I also love that she stans Greta so hard, too. Can you imagine a collaboration between the two of them? It would have to be more of an independent, artsy-type film, right? I also suspect that Greta is high on many people’s list of directors to work with now. A lot of people, myself included, are going to be watching to see what she does next.

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I’m excited about the new season of Bridgerton, get hype! [LaineyGossip]
Andrew Scott is so attractive, but these photos are kind of bad. [JustJared]
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A Simple Favor is getting a sequel. [Buzzfeed]
Sean Combs’ “drug mule” was arrested. [Socialite Life]
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Mick Jagger’s reaction to that terrible “Moves Like Jagger” song. [Seriously OMG]
Zendaya wore Lacoste!! Now I need her to do a photoshoot with Daniil Medvedev (who is sponsored by Lacoste). [RCFA]

After Reuters, Associated Press, AFP and Getty “killed” Kensington Palace’s “Mother’s Day photo” of the Princess of Wales, everyone said we were in a brave new world when it comes to the lack of credibility and trust in palace-issued photos, videos and information. One week later, Kensington Palace once again tried to pass off questionable “proof of life” media, in the form of a very strange bystander video published by The Sun and TMZ, of “Kate and William” leaving the Windsor Farm Shop. That blew up and created even more conspiracies and chatter.

Then, last Friday, KP released Kate’s bench video, where she spoke to camera about having cancer and starting a round of chemotherapy. Shockingly, perhaps, the video was taken at face value by mainstream media, as if the previous weeks of shenanigans were all washed clean. That being said, social media was a different story. Last weekend, people studied the cancer-announcement video like it was the latest Zupruder film. Theories abound about whether it was an AI deepfake, or whether a greenscreen was involved, or whether the audio was edited. The video was apparently filmed by a crew from BBC Studios (not BBC News), and the BBC will only confirm that they filmed it. Beyond that, the BBC hasn’t answered any questions on the record about whether there were edits or whether other manipulations (green screen, filters) were also employed. Well, the Washington Post had a pretty evenly-reported story about the social media conversations and conspiracies: “Princess Catherine cancer video spawns fresh round of AI conspiracies.” Some highlights:

Social media investigators: When Catherine, Princess of Wales, released a video statement last week sharing that she had been diagnosed with cancer, some users on social media said they regretted engaging in wild speculation about her prolonged public absence. But others jumped immediately to a new conspiracy: The video was generated by artificial intelligence. Users on TikTok, X and Facebook shared videos pointing out alleged AI breadcrumbs, such as a ring disappearing and reappearing on Catherine’s hand. Others said her hair moves unnaturally, or that the bed of daffodils in the background is suspiciously still.

WaPo got KP on the record: BBC Studios, a TV production arm of the BBC, has confirmed that it filmed the video of Catherine’s message last week at Windsor Castle, and Kensington Palace told The Washington Post that accusations of AI tampering are “factually inaccurate.” Multiple deepfake forensics experts agreed, saying they examined the video and found no signs of AI manipulation. “All of these armchair forensic analysts out there that are claiming that they find evidence of AI manipulation, it’s a spectacular combination of ignorance and arrogance,” said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who specializes in analyzing digital images. Farid said he reviewed the video and found “absolutely zero evidence” that AI was involved.

TikTok is discouraging the conspiracies: Earlier this week, TikTok appeared to be funneling users away from searches related to such allegations. A search for “Kate Middleton cancer ai” instead showed results for “Kate Middleton cancer.” The user then had the option to proceed to results for the original search. TikTok declined to comment.

The deepfake theory: Wael Abd-Almageed, a professor of AI at Clemson University who develops deepfake detection software, said he and a student ran the video through their detector and found no indications of AI content. Abd-Almageed slowed the video down to examine it manually, again finding no evidence of AI tampering. If details such as her ring appear fuzzy, he said, it’s because of motion blur and the video’s compression. Another expert, Hao Li, CEO and co-founder of generative AI video-effects company Pinscreen, agreed that the video appears to be authentic, noting the bugs that fly in front of Catherine’s face and the subtle swaying of yellow flowers in the background.

Another AI expert: Only one AI expert contacted by The Post offered support for the suspicions: Deepfake detection start-up Deep Media, which has contracts with the Pentagon, said it found a “high likelihood” that Catherine’s voice and face were manipulated with AI. But other experts — including Farid, Abd-Almageed and Claire Wardle, co-founder and co-director of the Information Futures Lab at Brown University — reviewed Deep Media’s findings at The Post’s request and said they found the results unconvincing.

A suggestion for shutting down conspiracists: Given that even disinformation experts now find it challenging to assess the authenticity of online content, Brown’s Wardle urged institutions such as Kensington Palace and the BBC to do more to publicly validate the images they share before online conspiracies gain traction. The continuing conjecture around Catherine underscores the difficulty of assessing what’s real in an AI-enabled media landscape, she said — as well as the risks of relying on deepfake detectors to separate fact from fiction. “Most people don’t have access to tools that do this kind of analysis,” Wardle said. “And even people who are saying they have these tools, they’re absolutely not 100 percent certain by any means.”

[From WaPo]

“Brown’s Wardle urged institutions such as Kensington Palace and the BBC to do more to publicly validate the images they share before online conspiracies gain traction.” This is what I said days ago – it was a good sign that the BBC was brought in to film Kate’s message and the hope was that the BBC would do more to lend THEIR credibility to a credibility-challenged palace which had just been involved in multiple faked/questionable photos/videos, not to mention the weeks of lies from palace sources. Instead, the BBC is being squirrelly about what was done to the video and only unnamed “BBC sources” will say that the footage hasn’t been tampered with. We’re way past the moment when we could take the palace’s word that everything we’re seeing is legitimate and above-board (although I appreciate the fact that WaPo got the palace to say, lol, that the deepfake allegations are “factually inaccurate”). There should have been – and there still should be – more of an effort to validate the videos and photos released by all of the palaces from here on out.

Screencaps from KP video.

In about six weeks, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex might be in London for a very special Invictus Games anniversary service at St. Paul’s Cathedral. The service was announced, in a suspiciously roundabout way, back in February. It was packaged with the news that the British government has made a big, splashy bid to host another Invictus Games, this time in Birmingham. The first Invictus Games were held in London in 2014, and Veterans Affairs Minister Johnny Mercer is making a huge effort to bring the games back and use the games to invest more resources in British veterans. I’ve said before that while I believe Mercer’s motives are above-board, the whole “church service and Invictus bid” situation seems like a massive trap. The British government and British media are desperate for Sussex storylines and control, however fleeting, of Harry, Meghan and their children. This is all happening simultaneously as the British government has repeatedly refused to guarantee security for the Sussexes if and when they visit. Well, anyway, a date has been set for the anniversary service:

Prince Harry is set to speak at the Invictus Games 10th Anniversary Service to be held at St. Paul’s Cathedral on May 8. Express.co.uk has seen a copy of the official St. Paul’s Cathedral schedule with the Invictus Games event listed as taking place on Wednesday, May 8 at 5 pm. We have also learnt that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are listed as guests on the official running order and the Duke of Sussex is set to speak at the service.

“The dates and details are being kept very hush-hush, but the Invictus Games 10th Anniversary Service has now been confirmed at St. Paul’s Cathedral on May 8,” the source said. “Both Harry and Meghan are listed as guests and a speech has been scheduled, but there is still a question mark over whether Meghan will make an appearance. Her name has been pencilled in as a TBC (to be confirmed).”

The source adds that the 10th anniversary London service is being seen as a gentle push for Harry and Meghan to start weaving their way back into Britain’s consciousness.

“This event is being seen as a very important part of Harry and Meghan’s rehabilitation,” the source said. “It’s viewed as an important event that is almost on par with what a working royal would undertake. It’s a worthy cause where Harry is the key ambassador, and it will be a good starting point for the Sussexes to repair relations with the royal family and the British people at the same time.”

It was revealed last month that Harry was in talks to return to the UK for the service at St Paul’s Cathedral to mark a decade of the charity and that he very much hoped it would include Meghan and their two children, Prince Archie, four, and Princess Lilibet, two.

“The children’s attendance is still up in the air because they will only visit the UK if their mother [Meghan] decides to attend,” the source said. “Harry is hoping that they will join him so that they can all enjoy the service, and everyone can meet up with members of his family while they are over.”

If the Duchess of Sussex were to attend, it would be her first visit to the UK since Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in September 2022 and the children’s first since the Platinum Jubilee in the same year. The Sussexes’ children reportedly have next to no relationship with Harry’s family, so this could be a key visit.

“Charles and Camilla have very good relationships with their other grandchildren, and everyone is keen for them to have a stronger bond with Archie and Lily,” the source said. “Both Harry and Meghan are keen for the children to become closer with Harry’s family, but she’s very anxious about returning to England.”

[From The Daily Express]

The framing is giving me a panic attack and I’m not involved whatsoever. They’re really framing this as Harry and Meghan WANT to come in for the anniversary service, that they should feel grateful for the opportunity to be snubbed, maligned, harassed, abused and targeted again, because they must “repair relations” with their abusers and tormentors. This piece alone has convinced me that the anniversary service wasn’t even Harry’s idea and he’s probably only loosely confirmed his attendance – this is Mercer and the Tories trying to force him to visit. God knows the extent of the trap these people have set up. Anyway, hope Meghan and the kids stay far, far away. Harry too. It would be amazing if he canceled at the last minute.

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Some people are still talking about the suspicious bystander-video from two weekends ago, allegedly of Prince William and Kate leaving the Windsor Farm Store. You have to remember, initially the story was just a random sighting with no photos or videos. The Sun carried the story as an exclusive, having clearly been briefed by Kensington Palace that Kate and William were out and about in Windsor two weekends ago, pinkie-swear-promise. When everyone reacted to the Sun’s exclusive with “pics or it didn’t happen,” The Sun magically produced a grainy, weird video 24 hours later, allegedly taken by a bystander. When the video came out, the reaction was immediate, with everyone questioning whether that was really Kate (or William). Even Andy Cohen tweeted, “That ain’t Kate….” A BBC Sports reporter publicly questioned why British media was insisting that a random brunette speed-walking through Windsor was totally Kate.

In the days before Kensington Palace released the Kate-has-cancer video, there really was a growing consensus that the farm shop video was some kind of bizarre set-up using look-alikes. Then, last weekend, the Sun’s editor admitted that they (the tabloid) were “in discussion with the palace all along,” i.e., this was some special collaboration between palace and tabloid to (arguably) fake a Kate sighting. The story has largely subsided this week, post-cancer video, but Bot Sentinel and Spoutible founder Christopher Bouzy has still been raising hell about it on social media. Bouzy started out last week, merely questioning the Sun’s methodology in obtaining the farm-store video and wondering if anyone had bothered to verify any part of the story. Then the British media began attacking Bouzy as “Sussex pal” who was “attacking Kate.” There’s been a back-and-forth between Bouzy and the British media for more than a week. Then, on Wednesday, he published a thread about the Sun’s video, which you can follow below:

It’s time to debunk the farm video.

This is Nelson Silva, the man who filmed the Windsor Farm video. In this clip, he claims he typically goes to the farm shop on weekends. So far, so good… pic.twitter.com/5zXzeIoQV0

— Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) (@cbouzy) March 27, 2024

I’m not going to embed the whole thread, but the point is that the guy who “filmed” the farm store video keeps changing his story and there are huge inconsistencies about how and why he even filmed the couple. The video itself is weird too, which Bouzy points out – there’s no reason for a zoomed-in video of two people, taken from roughly 20-30 yards away, would be that grainy and blurry. As I’ve now watched the clip dozens of times, I wonder why Kinesiology Twitter hasn’t embraced this conspiracy: that is not Kate’s gait, and that’s largely because Kate’s legs are not as long as this mystery woman’s legs.

Here, you can see the male subject look directly into the camera and look down immediately, followed by the female subject. They both look at the camera, but still, their faces are not clear. That doesn’t make sense… pic.twitter.com/KpS6zdgbSN

— Christopher Bouzy (spoutible.com/cbouzy) (@cbouzy) March 27, 2024

Photos courtesy of Cover Images, covers courtesy of the Mail and the Sun.

My mother was a huge fan of Princess Diana, and she still loathes every single thing about Queen Camilla. Mom recently asked me how Camilla was coping with Charles and Kate’s health issues and I answered her honestly: Camilla has never looked happier, she’s practically glowing, she looks a decade younger. All of which is true! Never more true than today, where Camilla went solo to Worcester for the Easter Maundy service. She is now the first queen consort to pass out the “Royal Maundy money” on behalf of the monarch. While QEII skipped a couple of Maundy services during her reign, her heir always stepped in for her, nor her spouse. But it’s a brave new royal world.

Anyway, yeah, Camilla honestly looks great. If you told me she got some Easter Botox and fillers, I would believe you. She looks less jowly and more apple-cheeked than she has in decades. My one complaint is her recycled hat – she wears that stupid hat constantly and it gives me Jamiroquai vibes. But the Fiona Clare coat is great, the boots are great and I like her brooches too. The brooches are pieces from QEII’s collection. Interestingly enough, the Worcester News published photos of Camilla’s royal helicopter arriving in town. Usually, the British media avoids mentioning or publishing photos of the Windsors’ helicopter usage.

Oh, and Camilla did get protested at the Maundy service. As promised, Republic staged a decent-sized demonstration outside the cathedral.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images and Backgrid.

Reportedly, Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce shut down the WeHo Dogpound gym so they could have it to themselves for two hours, while other gym members waited outside. This honestly doesn’t sound like them? [Hollywood Life]
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As someone who will be seated for multiple viewings of Challengers, I’m not pleased by how little energy Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor are bringing to the promotion. These photos are from the first premiere event for Challengers, which was held this week in Sydney, Australia. Zendaya flew her ass to Australia for this?? And Josh and Mike can’t even bring some drama or chemistry to the photos??

Zendaya’s green “tennis dress” in these photos is from Loewe and I’m surprised that it’s so… straight-forward and themed. People are in love with this dress and I just find it kind of obvious. I mean, it’s flattering and sexy, but I hope Zendaya and Law Roach play around a little bit more with her promotional styling for this film. Josh is also involved with Loewe (he’s modeled for them) so I hope he gets some interesting looks for the tour as well. People are also talking about Zendaya’s newly lightened hair. It looks good? I like that she didn’t go too light.

One cool thing about Zendaya’s Challengers promotion is that she’s been showing up to big tennis tournaments for much of the past two years. I think she’s become a legitimate fan of the sport. She was just in Indian Wells last weekend for the men’s and women’s finals there, and she posed with Iga Swiatek after she won the women’s title.

Josh and Mike really saved all of their flirty energy for the screen and nothing more!

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.