King Charles turns 75 years old on November 14th. He’s a Scorpio King. As I mentioned before, there was a moment when the British media was trying to make “Prince Harry must come back to England for his father’s birthday” into a thing, but the issue was quickly buried by Buckingham Palace. For assorted reasons, one of which is that Charles doesn’t want to remind people that he’s 75, and he also doesn’t want to be seen as the kind of frivolous monarch who would throw himself a big birthday party while people struggle to pay their bills. So, the palace has created a big new strategy: Charles will spend his birthday working on one of his big issues, food waste.

There are many ways to celebrate a big birthday, but the King has a novel one for his 75th next month — instigating a new initiative to tackle food waste. The King has told aides he wants his birthday to be a “normal working day”, which he will start with an engagement outside London to mark the official start of the Coronation Food Project. Charles has made a “substantial” personal donation, understood to be a six-figure sum, to the Coronation Food Project. He will set this in motion on November 14 because he is “very concerned” about the impact of the cost of living crisis on people’s lives.

It will be the King’s first significant project as monarch and follows other key passion projects, including decades of environmental campaigning and his work supporting disadvantaged young people through the Prince’s Trust. The five-year programme aims to radically reduce waste and help those most at risk of food poverty with the creation of eight new hubs and depots — redistributing up to 200 million meals a year that would otherwise go to waste.

Charles’s project aims to “supercharge” food distribution networks with the new hubs, which will have warehouses, fridges, freezers, vans and drivers. The first four will be built in London, Glasgow, Merseyside and Northern Ireland — with a further four to be built in the locations deemed most at need from a list including Cardiff, Leeds, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, the northeast and the southwest.

The King is meticulous about not wasting food in his own homes. He has tea and cake with his wife most days and insists on being served slices of the same cake, on successive days, until it is finished.

While the initiative to help those without enough food is a “current priority”, courtiers stressed that it was not a political move by the King, who was accused of meddling in government policy as heir to the throne. A royal aide said: “The King has been aware of the huge problems facing people because of inflationary issues and the cost of living. Addressing that is not a political position to take.” Buckingham Palace has briefed the government and the Labour Party on Charles’s project, and aides said “both are supportive of the plan”.

A royal source said: “His Majesty has chosen to make the launch of this project the focus of his landmark 75th birthday. He would prefer to use the occasion to shine a light on an important cause rather than on himself. If friends, family and well-wishers would like to similarly support the cause, that would be the most welcome way to celebrate the occasion.” The King will also host a “low-key” private party for close family and friends.

[From The Times]

As I’ve said before about this particular topic, I wish this was being branded as “Charles tackles food insecurity” as opposed to “food waste.” They’re two sides of the same coin, but there wouldn’t be a dire need to “redistribute” food if there wasn’t such a huge issue with food insecurity. As for Charles making a six-figure donation to Coronation Food Project… the man inherited everything, lock, stock and barrel. His “personal” wealth is easily in the billions. Donating $100,000 so that a few food banks can buy new refrigerators seems like putting a bandaid on a gushing wound. But whatever, at least he’s not throwing himself a giant party while his people starve (except he did just that in May, with his coronation).

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One of my favorite royal storylines was when the Princess of Wales (then the Duchess of Cambridge) could not STFU about how she was the keenest peacemaker in the family, and she was going to do the most to force her husband and brother-in-law to reconcile. This was in 2021, and Kate used the “peacemaker” storyline for weeks, if not months. The keen peacemaker actually overshadowed Prince Philip’s funeral with her shenanigans, just as she arranged for a special funeral photoshoot with her borrowed jewelry. Sometimes I think back to particular royal storylines and I’m like “did that actually happen?” It did. Anyway, Kate is too lazy to keep up the pretense of being a peacemaker, so her new thing is being a rageaholic like her husband. There have been several stories in recent months about Kate being bitter and full of hate towards the Sussexes. The latest twist is that she’s too bitter to even think about being a keen peacemaker over the holidays!

She was once dubbed the ‘peacemaker’ and believed to be instrumental in helping heal royal rifts. But Kate Middleton’s relationship with her brother-in-law Prince Harry is now so damaged that she won’t be the one to “hold out an olive branch” in time for Christmas, a royal expert has revealed.

Royal commentator Jennie Bond exclusively told Fabulous: “Catherine was deeply hurt by some of the things Harry said about her, particularly in his book, and unfortunately because of these entrenched positions where neither side seems to want to make contact or the first move, I can’t see this rift healing any time soon. Catherine has played the peacemaker in the past and has brought William and Harry together, and I think that comes from her own family, and their values. But I think she has got to a stage whereby she has had to take a step back, things have gone too far, and she feels upset and, quite frankly, hurt and insulted.”

Now, despite months passing since the release of [Spare], Jennie says the trio’s positions haven’t changed and that she doesn’t expect a family reconciliation in time for Christmas.

She said: “I think Catherine was hurt by Harry (and Meghan’s) claim that she made Meghan cry during a fitting for Charlotte’s bridesmaid dress, and again by Meghan’s view, which was relayed by Harry, that she found Catherine and William standoffish, a bit cold, when they first met. After all, we have seen that Catherine is more than ready to give people a hug – even people she has no connection with and will never see again. We must remember that Harry once described Catherine as the sister he never had. Now it seems she is the sister in law he no longer wants to see.”

Jennie says that Kate has not only been hurt by the personal attacks on herself, but those aimed at her husband and the wider royal family too.

She said: “I think Catherine has been badly hurt by Harry’s brutal attacks on William, like his decision to reveal so much of what went on during their disagreements, and by the claim that someone in the royal family questioned the tone of unborn Archie’s skin, it was such a generalised claim that it hurt the whole family. I think Catherine and William have jointly decided that they will carry on with family life and work, and for most of the time, they don’t think about Harry very much, and I expect vice versa. I can’t see an olive branch being extended from either side any time soon.”

[From The Sun]

What changed from “the keen peacemaker” storyline of 2021 versus the “Kate is too bitter and hateful to ever make peace” storyline of 2023? The change was, as Jennie Bond says, Harry’s memoir. Harry wrote so carefully, but he really left the impression that Kate was just a sh-tstirring a–hole, someone who instigates drama, someone deeply unfriendly and someone who was immediately jealous of Meghan. I also think time has changed everything – the Windsors now realize that Harry isn’t coming back AND he’s pissed at them. As always, the royal experts’ framing is wild – the Sussexes have shown everyone that they have moved on thoroughly, but the Windsors still cling to this false narrative that they’re in charge.

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Two weeks ago, Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid went on a date in New York. It felt aggressively random and the news left me feeling unsettled. Since then, we’ve gotten something like an official relationship rollout. Publicists have dropped tidbits about the new relationship to People Magazine and Page Six, and Bradley and Gigi have been seen out and about a few more times for good measure. I still believe that Bradley is just desperate to be in the news ahead of the release of Maestro, the Leonard Bernstein bio-pic he directed and stars in. Bradley can’t do traditional promotion during the strike, so this is his way of keeping his name out there. “Sure, I’ll watch Maestro, starring Gigi Hadid’s boyfriend,” he imagines the youths will say. But what if Gigi + Bradley is also just random spon-con for Pennsylvania hotels? Because someone at “luxury hotel River House at Odette’s” just spilled all to People:

From stepping out for intimate dinners in New York City to strolling through Manhattan’s West Village together, Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid continue to enjoy each other’s company. Now PEOPLE can confirm they’ve also spent time outside of the city together, in a charming riverfront town in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Several weeks ago, both Cooper, 48, and Hadid, 28, were spotted at the luxury hotel River House at Odette’s in New Hope, Pennsylvania together — not far from where Gigi’s mother Yolanda has a farm.

“They were both here at the same time,” a River House regular confirms to PEOPLE, adding that they were enjoying an evening at the hotel’s exclusive roof bar. “The roof bar is for members and hotel guests only,” the onlooker explains, adding that Gigi and her siblings, Bella and Anwar, are also members and frequent guests.

“Their family farm is only about a mile down the road,” another insider says, referring to Yolanda Hadid’s Bucks County horse farm.

Previously, another insider explained to PEOPLE that the couple’s budding romance definitely included road trips out of the city. “Gigi is great. She is getting to know Bradley outside of the city. They take weekend trips together,” the insider said. “She has fun. She likes that he is a dad, too.” (Hadid shares daughter Khai, 3, with her ex Zayn Malik, while Cooper shares daughter Lea De Seine, 5, with his ex Irina Shayk.)

The River House at Odette’s, which opened in 2020, also boasts 36 hotel rooms and two guest cottages as well as a farm-to-table restaurant Odette’s and the private roof club, all overlooking the Delaware River. “It’s a popular spot for brunch, dinner, drinks and just people watching,” the first source adds, noting that it’s only 40 miles outside of Philadelphia and a four-minute walk to town. “We’re always packed on weekends.”

[From People]

Shocked that the “source” didn’t add information about what phone number to call to book a table and the rooms available for the next six weekends. Clearly, The River House at Odette’s is looking to cash in with some hot Bradgi/Gidley gossip. The thing is, I’m still not clear about whether anyone cares? Is anyone checking for Gigi and Bradley? They’re not Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, a coupling which has something for everyone, which has captured a lot of imaginations.

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One thing about Taylor Swift is that she’s a tall woman and she loves a tall man. Calvin Harris? 6’6”. Tom Hiddleston? 6’2”. Joe Alwyn? 6’1”, although he carries himself as a much taller man. Travis Kelce is 6’5” and he also carries himself like a much taller man, probably because he’s so well-built and muscular. The dude is basically a giant tank, an enormous tree of a man. And Taylor Swift gets to climb him.

So, we’ve finally gotten our first photos of Taylor and Travis – Traylor or Tayvis, you decide – in a kissy sort of situation. These Instagram pics are from Chariah Gordon, girlfriend/partner of Travis’s Chiefs teammate Mecole Hardman Jr. Chariah just posted the pics, seemingly unaware that she majorly scooped hundreds of media outlets who would have paid good money for behind-the-scenes Traylor pics. Taylor reaching up to kiss Travis and he has to lean down to let her… HOT. Taylor seems to be cosplaying a cheerleader too with that pleated skirt. My God. She’s actually living out some kind of high school fantasy where she’s the cool, popular cheerleader dating the football hunk.

No one is saying where these photos were taken, but I’m guessing that this is inside Travis’s Kansas City home? From the Traylor reporting around their activities on Sunday, it seems like Taylor went to the game at Arrowhead Stadium and then Travis immediately took her back to his place, where he hosted a little party. So this is not just a glimpse of Traylor together, it’s also a glimpse of Travis’s house.

Anyway, thank you to Ms. Chariah Gordon, the snake fam is grateful for your service and they’ll support you in any way they can, just keep providing more Traylor photos.

Photos courtesy of Chariah’s Instagram.

Late last year and early this year, Lady Anne Glenconner promoted her second book, and her interviews got a lot of coverage in the royal media. Lady Glenconner was Princess Margaret’s lady-in-waiting, and she has/had a lot of affection for Anne, QEII, Prince Philip and that whole generation of royals. While Lady Anne has pleasant things to say about King Charles, her whole vibe was rather judgmental towards the younger royals, especially (you guessed it) Prince Harry and Meghan. In one interview, Lady Anne suggested that Meghan was disappointed by the lack of glamour in royal life: “One’s own wedding was fantastic, but next day you’re back to normal. I don’t know whether she thought it was going to be all very grand.” Well, Lady Anne appeared on Gyles Brandreth’s podcast, Rosebud, and man, did she have a story.

Speaking on the Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth podcast, Lady Glenconner said: ‘I think the thing about Meghan was, she had no idea what was expected of her really. I think she just thought it was sort of like being another actress, you know. Riding around in a golden coach and everything like that. And actually, being a member of the Royal Family – a lot of it is extremely boring.’

Lady Glenconner said members of the Royal Family are expected to meet thousands of people and to say something interesting and nice to each person.

Discussing the King’s Coronation, Lady Glenconner said she sat next to American politician John Kerry, 79.

The socialite, born Anne Tennant, said she asked him: ‘What do you think in America about Harry and Meghan?’.

She continued: ‘He said “We all feel very, very sorry for Harry. I think I can just leave it at that.”‘

[From The Daily Mail]

Not this ancient biddy getting John Kerry canceled! Oh my god!! So, the first thing I did was look through the photo agencies to see if John Kerry actually attended the coronation. There are no photos of him (that I could find), but he was there – he tweeted some sh-t about how privileged he felt getting to witness the coronation in person. Kerry is President Biden’s Special Envoy for Climate, and considering Biden skipped the coronation, I assume Kerry was part of the small American delegation, which also included First Lady Jill Biden (who was shuffled off, rows and rows behind the action). All of which to say, it’s possible that Kerry did speak to Lady Anne and it’s even possible he said exactly this. Maybe Kerry is not a fan of the Duchess of Sussex. Go ahead, Sussex Squad – cancel his ass!!

As for the substance of Lady Anne’s repetitive bullsh-t about how Meghan thought she would be riding in carriages all the time – literally, all Meghan wanted to do is be with the man she loves and do charity work. That’s all. Meghan was living in dilapidated shacks and crummy government housing, all because she loved the f–k out of Harry. Meghan didn’t have delusions of grandeur and this stupid f–king talking point needs to be retired (as does Lady Anne).

Update: The Daily Beast got the State Dept to issue a statement in reaction to Lady Anne’s story, omfg. The spokesperson said: “Secretary Kerry does not remember being asked that question, but as a father in the public eye himself, he has nothing but empathy for people working through a family matter who all deserve privacy and compassion.”

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Travis Kelce is good at blind items too! He let it slip that he probably met Taylor Swift in July, before he grew his mustache, meaning they’ve probably been happening for a lot longer than most people realize. [Buzzfeed]
Britney Spears’ “drug of choice” was Adderall. [OMG Blog]
Yeah, the Napoleon trailer looks bizarrely great. [LaineyGossip]
Bad Bunny hosted SNL, with assists from Lady Gaga & Pedro Pascal. [Go Fug Yourself]
George Santos confesses: he’s on Ozempic. [Just Jared]
Now I kind of want to visit Salem and have a witch reading. [Jezebel]
Kody Brown calls Robyn the love of his life. [Starcasm]
What is Khloe Kardashian doing here? [Seriously OMG]
Hailey Bieber is “good at bobbing for apples,” if you get my drift. [Egotastic]
Were the ‘90s the “golden age of sketch comedy”? [Socialite Life]

Over the past four or five days, the British royal reporter hive-mind has been obsessed with one subject: the Duchess of Sussex’s memoir, which does not exist and probably won’t be written. This is how desperate they are for any Sussex content. They’ve got every delusional old fart doing commentary about what Meghan “will write” in her memoir, and they’ve already created an entire narrative about how Meghan will lie about Kate and this will absolutely be the final straw and after that, there would be no way (!!) for Harry and Meghan to ever “come back.” As always, I am here to bring you the lowlights so you don’t have to click on any of those horrid stories. The Sun ran an exclusive in which they cited Tom Bower and Angela Levin – two of the most racist and delusional bigots I’ve ever seen – as the sources for the “Meghan’s memoir” rumor. Then the Sun got Phil Dampier’s extensive comments on the false story:

Now royal commentator Phil Dampier has spoken out on the subject, and fears it will be the Princess of Wales who will be in the firing line, if the book rumours are correct. He told Fabulous: “Harry’s Spare was a best seller and Meghan’s would probably sell even more. It would also be the ideal opportunity for Meghan to put across her view of what happened to her when she met Harry, fell in love, joined the most famous family in the world and then left. She would give her side of what really happened between her and Kate in the run up to the wedding, when each allegedly made the other cry.

“Everyone will be fascinated to hear Meghan’s take on her relationship with Kate, whether she was hostile or welcomed her from the start. She probably thought she should have got equal billing and didn’t seem to appreciate from the start that she and Harry were the B team, not on the same level as William and Kate. She will probably talk about comparisons that were made in the press between them and will come across as bitter.”

Phil says the royal family will be feeling “very concerned” about the contents of any book that Meghan writes. He added: “The royals will assume the worst and brace themselves for more revelations. It would only make the relations much worse, but I still don’t think the royals will hit back. They will stay quiet and soak it up, even though they will be deeply hurt by it. Their policy was for Harry and Meghan to run out of ammunition, but unfortunately they have plenty left in the form of a Meghan book. There is nothing she won’t twist to justify her position.”

And Phil reckons that if Meghan were to also dish private details about the Prince and Princess of Wales, it could be the end of any hope of a reconciliation. He added: “It really would be the last straw and I doubt William and Kate would ever talk to Harry again.”

And while the firm may be worried about Meghan putting pen to paper, Harry, 39, will give her his support. The royal author added: “The couple are struggling to make money at the moment as they lost their Spotify contract and this would be a massive money spinner. I personally don’t think Meghan ever intended to stay in the royal family. But that won’t stop her concocting her own narrative of events to justify her actions, and I’m sure Harry will back her up 100 per cent. They are still friendly with Princess Eugenie, and I hope she talks to them and persuades Meghan not to write a book. Even if it’s not justified I think Meghan has now convinced herself that she is right and can’t see the other side’s point of view. She will claim she is putting forward her truth even if it’s not always the real truth.”

[From The Sun]

“She would give her side of what really happened between her and Kate in the run up to the wedding, when each allegedly made the other cry.” Meghan already gave her side to Oprah, which is that Kate made her cry. Harry gave his side, which is that Kate made Meghan cry. Kate gave her side to multiple reporters for years, which was an ever-changing story about how she threw a tantrum about children’s tights and then she cried salty white tears because Meghan is Black. “I still don’t think the royals will hit back. They will stay quiet and soak it up, even though they will be deeply hurt by it.” Ahead of the Oprah interview, Kensington Palace launched a fully unhinged smear campaign against Meghan.

Anyway, as this goes on and on, I become more convinced that “Meghan’s memoir” was the Oprah interview and the Netflix docuseries. That was Meghan’s version of events, and the Windsors should be grateful and thankful that Meghan is a million times more discreet than they’ve ever been. They abused her mercilessly for years and she’s just focused on the present and future, not the past.

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Do you ever think about how perfectly it worked out for Taylor Swift? Her favorite lipstick color – bright red – doesn’t even clash with the Kansas City Chiefs’ colors. Red is one of her favorite colors too, as well as the name of one of her albums. Anyway, Taylor was in Kansas City again this weekend, all to attend another Chiefs game. The Chiefs beat the Chargers last night, meaning that Taylor is bringing good luck to the Chiefs. They haven’t lost a game with Taylor in attendance. Taylor wore different Chiefs merch too – a kind of dated-looking sweatshirt.

During the game, Taylor stayed in the VIP area with her new friend Brittany Mahomes. It looks like she was mostly with the Mahomes family too, not the Kelce family. After the game, Travis and Taylor left together, in his Rolls Royce. Travis apparently hosted a party at his mansion, perhaps one last party at his old place before he moves into the new mansion. Travis also got a local restaurant to cater the party.

Meanwhile, sources told the Daily Mail that Taylor is really falling for Travis. A source told the Mail: “Taylor is blown away right now and her family is all about Travis. She is trying to keep it together, but is obviously falling in love with him and he feels the same way. He courted her and it was not her typical, ‘Hey, you’re hot, let’s go out,’ sorta thing. He actually courted her and she feels like she is the luckiest gal in the world right now. It is no coincidence that all she had to do was look outside of Hollywood.” As I’ve said for more than a month now, Travis is in it to win it. He wants to marry her. It will be fascinating to watch as Taylor’s instincts tell her to sabotage the relationship.

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Almost a year ago exactly, Prince William and Kate visited Scarborough and did an afternoon of events within the community. Kate cosplayed Meghan, there were jazz hands flying around, and after a few hours, Will and Kate left and never returned. There was one difference between that day of events versus all of their other inane busywork. The Scarborough visit was supposed to be the first of their brand-new plan to undertake “impact days,” wherein they would go into a community and donate to some specific charity so that they were not arriving empty-handed. That was their big idea, you guys. As you can imagine, after they hyped themselves and told everyone about their big keen plan, nothing happened. They’ve only done two “impact days” in the past year (while taking a two-month summer holiday too). Well, Richard Palmer at the Express has an update, and he even added some hilarious asides about how much money the Royal Foundation “donated” in Scarborough.

A year after a groundbreaking trip to the seaside town of Scarborough, Prince William and Kate are stepping up plans to bring a lasting legacy to their visits to some of Britain’s poorest communities by creating “community impact” projects providing permanent benefits. The first two pilot projects have created annual grants for young people in Scarborough and a therapy garden and allotments in Pontyclun, South Wales, one of a network of similar gardens to help mental health. More projects are on their way.

“There are plans in the works for further pilots to look at how we can deliver impact in the community in the long term,” a senior royal source said. It may not always be a huge sum of money. Aides are looking at providing benefits in kind like the garden.

Even when cash was involved, the couple’s donation to Scarborough was hardly a princely sum, sceptics might think. Newly published accounts from the couple’s Royal Foundation reveal that they donated just £13,043 towards a £345,000 fund announced on the day of their visit.

But their input was vital, according to Celia McKeon, chief executive of the Two Ridings Community Foundation, which is working with the royal couple in Scarborough.

“What the royal visit allowed us to do was to catalyse a range of donors to invest in the town,” she said. Much of the £345,000 pledged as a result of their visit will be benefitting young people for many years to come in the seaside resort, where despite beautiful sandy beaches and numerous visitor attractions almost a third of residents live in areas that are among the most deprived neighbourhoods in England. Some of it was pledged as cash to be spent when needed but the bulk of it is tied up in endowment funds paying 5 per cent interest, together creating around £25,000 each year to spend on youth projects.

Ms McKeon accepted that alone would not solve problems such as lack of opportunity in the town. But she pointed out that Two Ridings and the Royal Foundation were among numerous agencies working with the local authority, North Yorkshire County Council, to improve life in Scarborough. She also insisted that even quite small grants to youth projects “can be really transformational for young people’s lives”.

It is early days yet but in Scarborough they are just starting to see the fruits of last year’s royal visit after a grant-setting session in the summer to decide how to spend the first annual tranche of £25,000. The money went to six groups arranging various activities, ranging from a summer of arts fun, to music therapy, and youth charities offering support and advice.

William and Kate’s advocacy for marginalised groups via community impact projects complements their work in other fields, such as his new project to try to end homelessness and hers to improve the first five years of children’s lives. They readily accept they cannot achieve those goals on their own but they can use their convening powers to bring people together who can, according to aides. They can use their positions to create a national conversation that moves those topics to the top of the political agenda.

[From The Daily Express]

Just so we’re clear, they showed up in Scarborough, posed for photos, donated £13,043, briefed the media that they were donating much more and structured the whole thing so that the Scarborough youths are only getting £25,000 a year to fund a handful of miniscule projects. This is offensive, right? It’s like some form of poverty tourism for Will and Kate – they want to be seen as these impactful humanitarians, meanwhile even their bare-bones charitable giving is so small, it barely has meaning. They’re not just going around and trying to get photo-ops, they’re using really poor communities to embiggen themselves without actually doing anything to help. By the way, Earthshot is structured similarly – Peg always brags about how Earthshot Prize winners are getting £1 million, but that “prize money” is stretched out over five years. Hellish for innovators who actually needed the capital upfront to grow their business.

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Here are some photos from this weekend’s Go Campaign’s annual gala. Robert Pattinson – a Go Campaign ambassador – attended with his girlfriend Suki Waterhouse. Lupita Nyong’o was there as well, and she brought her mother, Dorothy Ogada, as her date. I want to talk about Lupita more than Rob, if that’s okay. Weirdly, Rob seems so settled lately, like he’s finally figured out some kind of balance in his life and everything’s going well for him, so it’s not that scandalous or anything. But Lupita has some drama and it’s not just her shell headpiece or her sack dress.

So, last Wednesday, Lupita turned up at a Janelle Monae concert in Inglewood. She was with a group of friends, one of whom was Joshua Jackson. Jodie Turner Smith just filed for divorce from Joshua a few weeks ago, and reportedly, he was surprised. Reportedly, Joshua and Lupita are “just friends” but… you know, people will gossip. That Janelle Monae concert outing came at the very same time that people noticed that Lupita wiped all evidence of Selema Masekela from her social media. Lupita and Selema had been together for a year, probably longer. Well, the day after the concert, Lupita posted this note on her social media:

There are much more important things going on in the world right now, and my thoughts are with those who are deeply suffering.

At this moment, it is necessary for me to share a personal truth and publicly dissociate myself from someone I can no longer trust…

I find myself in a season of heartbreak because of a love suddenly and devastatingly extinguished by deception. I am tempted to run into the shadows and hide, only to return to the light when I have regained my strength enough for me to say, “Whatever, my life is better this way.” But I am reminded that the magnitude of the pain I am feeling is equal to the measure of my capacity for love. And so, I am choosing to face the pain, cultivating the courage to meet my life exactly as it is, and trusting that this too shall pass. The promise, they say, is that a tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. I hope it’s true… I share this to keep it 100, and hoping that the knowledge of my experience might be useful to someone else out there experiencing the grip of heartbreak who is poised to try and escape from the pain and miss out on the wisdom that comes from it. #Breakup

Let’s face our pain so we don’t spread it.

[From Lupita’s IG]

WTF did Selema do to Lupita? What kinds of lies, what deceptions, what did he do that was so horrible that she needed to publicly dissociate herself?? The fact that all of this happened within 24 hours is bonkers too – Lupita wipes her IG of any trace of Selema, goes to the concert with Joshua and then posts this message… I really, really want to know what went down. It was bad, I know that much. It also feels like Lupita’s mom probably had to fly in after the sh-t went down.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.