While Buckingham Palace has been wildly briefing against Prince Andrew for the past two years, King Charles has mostly left his York nieces alone. Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice keep to themselves and seemingly enjoy a “half-in/half-out” arrangement. They both have high-paying jobs, they both travel for work, and they both seem to live the lives of part-time royals. But I’m starting to wonder if Charles is trying to hit Andrew through his daughters. The Times ran this story about how Beatrice and Eugenie have been spending a suspicious amount of time in the Middle East, and something something maybe that’s where Andrew got the money to stay at Royal Lodge. That’s the implication. Meanwhile, I really didn’t know Beatrice and Eugenie were traveling like this??

Prince Andrew’s daughters have made a number of visits to the Middle East, leading experts to suggest they are becoming unofficial “cultural ambassadors” in the region. Princess Beatrice, 36, has appeared at two conferences in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi in the past month, while Princess Eugenie, 34, has attended events in Qatar.

The visits came as their father, the Duke of York, came under pressure to reveal the source of the windfall that has allowed him to remain in Royal Lodge. Last week The Times revealed he had convinced Buckingham Palace authorities that he had sufficient means, likely to be millions of pounds, to pay for his own upkeep at the 30-bedroom mansion.

Beatrice told the Adipec energy conference in Abu Dhabi that the UK’s contribution to the artificial intelligence revolution was “great talent, great individuals”. The princess, who founded BY-EQ in 2022, spoke about AI, calling it “literally my favourite subject”. She said: “I’m probably making it my whole life’s mission to think about how hope and technology can kind of work in a collaboration mindset.” The conference was organised by the Abu Dhabi national oil company and the UAE energy ministry under the patronage of Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, the president of the UAE.

It followed her trip to Saudi Arabia for the Future Investment Initiative, in the last week of October. Yasir al-Rumayyan, the governor of the Saudi Arabian wealth fund, is one of the trustees. It was the second time she had been to Saudi Arabia this year, after joining the special meeting of the world economic forum at the end of April in the capital, Riyadh.

The region has also attracted Princess Eugenie, whose is as an art director at the Mayfair gallery, Hauser and Wirth. The mother-of-two was pictured in Doha, Qatar, at the M7 art centre, and at the Chaumet and Nature exhibition. This followed her attendance at a dinner last year hosted by Sheikha al-Mayassa, the sister of the country’s emir, in London, to celebrate the winners of a Fashion Trust Arabia prize.

Jennifer Gnana, the Gulf correspondent for Al-Monitor, saw Beatrice networking at the events. She said: “Along with her sister Eugenie, Beatrice is now a regular at Saudi economic and investment conferences. She’s become a culture ambassador of sorts for the UK in the Middle East. She seems a popular, more accessible figure in the Middle East, particularly as we’re seeing fewer senior royals such as the King, Prince William and Kate making visits here. I suppose Princess Beatrice represents a more modern and accessible face of the British monarchy that works for engagement in the Middle East. They seem easygoing and engage freely with people. You don’t really see royal protocol with them.”

Their reception has been compared to that of Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner. “Those with business backgrounds and associated with a world leader or a royal family tend to do particularly well here,” Gnana said. In addition to her appearances in the Middle East, Beatrice also attended technology conferences in Orlando and Geneva, in March and June respectively.

[From The Times]

The suggestion is that in between their international work commitments, Beatrice and Eugenie are acting as middlemen to funnel Middle Eastern money to their father?? While I have no doubt that Andrew has an abundance of shady connections, why would anyone give him money at this point? And why would they give him money through his daughters? And why would Beatrice and Eugenie ruin their own beneficial half-in arrangement by funneling money to their father? The real story here is that Middle Eastern countries – especially the Emirates and Saudi Arabia – are diversifying their business interests so they’re not just known as oil-rich cultural deserts. The Saudis especially have gone all-in on trying to establish themselves as a go-to destination for conferences, festivals, cultural events, sporting events. That’s why they invite British princesses to various events.

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King Charles has “cut off” Prince Andrew in several different ways, and Charles has wanted an abundance of credit for all of it. Months ago, Charles made a big show of cutting off Andrew’s royal protection, which Charles had likely been paying through the Duchy of Lancaster. Then Charles cut off Andrew’s £1 million-a-year allowance, which was basically given to Andrew to keep him living in a certain kind of royal lifestyle and to help Andrew maintain Royal Lodge. Well, Andrew has proven to the Crown Estates that he has the money to maintain Royal Lodge without Charles’s largesse. But what about his security? Royal Lodge is within the Royal Windsor estate, so there’s some security built-in. But the Sun believes Andrew has cut some kind of deal to get private security? And people in the Middle East are going to pay for it?

Prince Andrew is personally paying for a cut-price security deal to remain in his royal home — despite a bid by the King to push him out. The disgraced Duke of York, 64, lost his annual £3million-a-year hand-out from brother Charles which funded guards at Windsor’s Royal Lodge.

The Sun on Sunday revealed the King axed the cash for Andrew, who does not work but has links to oligarchs. And we can now reveal he has negotiated a cheaper protection deal at his leased home which he refuses to leave. His plan is believed to be bankrolled by Middle East money. Daughters Beatrice and Eugenie have addressed conferences in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.

A source said: “He has his security but at a cheaper rate and he is managing to finance it himself. He has dug his heels in and is refusing to move so found a way to finance his security. How sustainable in the long term, then who knows how long he can do it for.”

Author Andrew Lownie, who is penning a shock book on the prince, said: “Prince Andrew is likely to have many forms of income.” It is believed he carved out a string of business links in Asia and the Middle East when he worked as a UK’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment for 10 years until 2011. While working for the government he was handed use of a £1million home in Abu Dhabi by their Royal Family.

In November 2022, The Sun on Sunday revealed the scandal-hit prince flew on a ­billionaire Swiss contact’s jet to Bahrain to be pampered in five-star, all-expenses-paid luxury by his long-standing friends in the kingdom’s Royal Family. Bloomberg News reported that Andrew took out a £1.5 million personal loan with the Luxembourg-based private bank Banque Havilland in December 2017.

[From The Sun]

My theory is that this story – and others like it being circulated in recent days – are all from Charles and the Buckingham Palace courtiers, desperate to give Charles some kind of win and desperate to paint Andrew in the worst light. Like, this is still Charles throwing a tantrum over Andrew’s refusal to downsize. I doubt Andrew has even cut some kind of security deal. He’ll probably just go without – he barely leaves Royal Lodge at all. So Charles is just throwing this out there – “Andrew’s got money from somewhere, probably foreign, and he’s making a tacky spectacle of himself!” Except Charles is the one making a tacky spectacle of all of this because he’s still jealous of his younger brother. What’s weird is that Charles is doing all of this, but then he’ll invite Andrew and Fergie to Christmas at Sandringham and even allow them on the church walk.

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My favorite Kevin Smith movie is Dogma. I remember watching it for the first time, as a fairly sheltered Catholic teenager, and just loving it. It even had my favorite artist, Alanis Morissette, playing God herself. For years, it’s been impossible to find Dogma streaming anywhere, and that’s because Harvey Weinstein owned the rights to the movie and was holding it “hostage.” Last month, a new company finally bought the rights from Weinstein, which freed Kevin up to be able to screen it and more. In fact, it’s getting a re-release in theaters next year.

Kevin streamed Dogma at the Vulture Festival on Sunday, where he also did a Q&A. During the event, he dropped the news that not only has he figured out a way to do a Dogma sequel, but he’s also pretty sure that he’ll be able to convince Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to make an appearance. After all, as he points out, their participation is likely a key factor in getting a sequel off the ground.

During his Dogma Confessional on Sunday at Vulture Festival, the View Askewniverse creator revealed that he’s working on a sequel to the 1999 film, and he expects Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to return for cameos at least.

“Some people will be like, ‘Don’t f—ing touch it. You’ll ruin it,’” said Smith. “And I’m here to tell you: I will. I’m f—ing tickled. I found a way in.”

He sounded confident that Affleck and Damon would reprise their roles as fallen angels Bartleby and Loki. After Smith helped save the pair’s 1997 film Good Will Hunting, without so much as a thank you in their Golden Globes and Oscars speeches, they owe him.

“I have been able to hold that over both their heads for 25 f—ing years, which is why they keep showing up in all the movies,” said Smith. “Expect a cameo from them — more than a f—ing cameo. The only way we get a Dogma sequel made is if they’re there. So count on those guys being there.”

Sunday’s panel marks the 25th anniversary of Dogma, which saw Affleck and Damon’s buddy angels traveling to New Jersey in search of a loophole that will get them back to heaven. The film also features Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock, Jason Lee and Alanis Morissette, as well as Jason Mewes and Smith reprising their roles as Jay and Silent Bob.

Dogma served as the fourth installment in Smith’s View Askewniverse, which also includes Clerks (1994), Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Clerks II (2006), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019) and Clerks III (2022).

Last month, Smith announced that the religious satire is returning to theaters and getting a new home release after another company purchased the distribution rights from Miramax, making it potentially available to stream for the first time ever. Smith noted that the new Dogma deal could potentially lead to “sequels, TV versions, in terms of extending the story. Something we could never do before. So, exciting man. And all those people who worked in it are still viable.”

After Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault by multiple women in 2017, Smith expressed that he was “ashamed” to have worked with the producer early in his career. He also pledged to donate all future residuals from his Miramax and Weinstein Co. work to Women in Film. Smith said at the time that Weinstein had recently approached him to make Dogma 2, an offer the director declined.

[From Deadline]

My very first thought upon hearing this news was to just let Dogma be. After all, why do we need a sequel? (Insert whatever “There’s no new ideas in Hollywood” grumbling of your choice.) What if a sequel ruins our enjoyment of the original? Last month, Kevin said that he was working with the company that bought the rights from Weinstein to do a tour with screenings in honor of its 25th anniversary. Why not just stick with that?

Then, I thought about it a little bit more. I think Kevin has calmed down and matured a lot since his health scare in 2018, and it seems like he’s in a healthy yet YOLO place in life. So, now I’m cautiously optimistic that he’ll ignore some of more over-the-top tendencies and give us one of his trademark zany yet cleverly written films. If he says he’s got a workaround, then sure, why not? I have no idea what a Dogma sequel would entail. Also, I have doubts that Ben and Matt would sign on for more than just a cameo, but we’ll see. I also must mention that a sequel simply won’t be the same without Alan Rickman (RIP), but if Ben and Matt really do come back, then sign me up. Sign me up twice if Alanis’ God returns to play some more skeeball.

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Pamela Anderson might be a contender in the Best Actress Oscar race because of Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl. The first trailer was just released! [OMG Blog]
Jonathan Majors & Meagan Good are engaged… this will end badly, and I wish Good had better people around her. [Just Jared]
Behold, Tilda Swinton at the Governors Awards! [RCFA]
Joe Rogan: Hippies thanked me because of censorship. [Pajiba]
Kiernan Shipka is all grown up, and I don’t even want to admit about how many times I’ve wondered what Sally Draper would have done in the 1970s. [Go Fug Yourself]
Fox News’ trans-panic over every little story is bizarre. [Socialite Life]
I genuinely want to see A Real Pain (mostly for Keiran Culkin). [LaineyGossip]
USPS will release a Betty White stamp next year! [Seriously OMG]
Jana Duggar is a Mennonite now. [Starcasm]
What is Mike Tyson’s net worth? [Hollywood Life]
Elmo had a Chicken Shop Date (Rocco was there too). [Buzzfeed]

Martha Stewart has very discerning tastes. That’s what she built her billion-dollar empire on and covered in the 100 books she’s published. And it doesn’t stop at lifestyle and business either, as she recently told Andy Cohen that she wouldn’t appear on Golden Bachelorette because “the guys aren’t hot enough.” So in the midst of People Mag’s selection of John Krasinski as 2024’s Sexiest Man Alive, a choice that wasn’t controversial so much as it was befuddling, the magazine is thrilled to tout that Martha approves of their selection. While answering questions at a Louis Vuitton event in NYC last week, Martha gave the gushing comment: “John is pretty sexy.” And then things got a little weird, as Martha jokingly threatened John’s wife Emily Blunt, and suggested that her tween-age grandson should’ve been Sexiest Man Alive instead.

Martha Stewart is giving PEOPLE’s 2024 Sexiest Man Alive her seal of approval.

“John is pretty sexy,” the lifestyle expert told PEOPLE about this year’s champ John Krasinski at Louis Vuitton’s opening of its temporary New York City base on East 57th Street on Nov. 14. “He’s been over to my house and he’s pretty sexy,” Stewart, who recently released her 100th cookbook Martha: The Cookbook, reiterated.

But the celebrity chef also gave the Office alum props for his talents: “He’s pretty good at all the work he does too,” she said.

“Watch out, wife,” she quipped with a smirk about Krasinski’s wife of 14 years, Emily Blunt.

When asked about how she characterizes “sexy” lately, Stewart said it comes down to being “Gorgeous, talented, clean, fun.” If the A Quiet Place star hadn’t been crowned as 2024’s winner, Stewart has a biased and youthful choice as to who should be PEOPLE’s SMA.

“I think my grandson, Truman. He’s only 12,” she joked.

Stewart recently told PEOPLE about some “especially attractive actors” who were guests on her TV shows over the years that left her starstruck.

“When Russell Crowe came on, he was still fit and gorgeous, just having done maybe Gladiator. He was pretty attractive. Matthew McConaughey, he is still pretty attractive. Tom Cruise in his first movies was so cute and attractive,” she said.

The Golden Bachelorette is one place that Stewart won’t be meeting romantic prospects any time soon.

During a Oct. 20 appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Stewart told host Andy Cohen that she wouldn’t join the ABC dating show if asked because she’s unimpressed by the male contestants.

Stewart replied that she would “absolutely not” join the show.

The Bravo star asked Stewart if she could be persuaded to join the show for $1 million an episode, to which she shook her head. She responded, “No, the guys aren’t hot enough.”

[From People]

I guess it’s all in the delivery, because “pretty sexy” can be read a lot of different ways. I still hear everything Martha says in the tone of Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada, that soft-spoken yet biting put-down quality. So “John is pretty sexy” sounds to me like, “yeah, he’s kind of good looking, I suppose.” Especially when Martha repeats the refrain when talking about his work. “I guess John is good at the work he does,” an endorsement I’m sure John has long been after, lol. To be fair, though, it is possible (if highly improbable) that Martha meant it like, “He’s pretty damn sexy!” But then we’re right back in Miranda Priestly territory with the “Watch out, wife,” comment. I feel like there’s a very specific categorization in Martha’s head for determining whose names are worth remembering, and it doesn’t bode well for those who get reduced to functions like “Wife” or “NY Post Lady.” Plus, there’s the fact that Martha has said in the past how she’d like for her friends to die so she can date their husbands. Hahaha? We won’t let anything happen to you, Emily Blunt! Also, I know in some ways it’s a cute, proud grandmother thing for Martha to suggest her (12-year-old) grandson for SMA, but it’s a little creepy too, right?

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It looks like royal biographer Robert Hardman was tasked with a desperate rewrite – if not a complete reimagining – of the past year for the Windsors. 2024 was the year the wheels truly came off the Windsor bus, although one could argue that same thing with the year 2020 and 2021 (and 2022 and 2023). Look, maybe it’s been a slow-motion trainwreck for five years, okay? Back to Hardman, he’s added chapters to his biography of King Charles, and in addition to Hardman clutching his pearls over what he thinks was the media’s “performative” outrage over Kate Missington and the Curious Case of Manipulated Photos, he also wants everyone to quake with sympathy for poor Charles. Poor Charles and his profiteering from public services, poor Charles and his emotional abuse of his first wife, but no – poor Charles and his health. Apparently, Charles had a never-before-disclosed “cancer scare” years ago.

Charles went to his Highgrove chapel when he was diagnosed with cancer: In good times and bad, as both Prince of Wales and now as King, Charles III likes to retreat to his ‘sanctuary’, his tiny chapel in the grounds of Highgrove, to gather his thoughts. ‘He was feeling his mortality,’ says his old university friend, Lord Chartres, former Bishop of London, who had been invited to the King’s Gloucestershire home to celebrate Holy Communion with a congregation of just three: the King, the Queen and Lady Chartres. Even if the tiny Hobbit-style refuge had been able to accommodate more that day, they would not have been welcome. It was February 25 this year, just three weeks since the King had received a diagnosis of cancer. With his treatment still in the early stages, his doctors wanted the risk of infection kept to a minimum. That meant no crowds.

Charles’s relationship with God: He was certainly not praying for some sort of miracle, Richard Chartres reveals. ‘Quite a lot of religion is bargaining with God: ‘You do this and I’ll continue to pay attention to you’ and so on,’ he says. ‘The King doesn’t have that sort of relationship.’

The statement about the king’s prostate: ‘The King and Clive [private secretary Sir Clive Alderton] thought carefully about how open he was going to be. They agreed very quickly that it would make sense to be open, though, of course, this is a house that hasn’t traditionally done that. So this was definitely a ‘change point’ in that regard,’ says a senior member of staff. The King’s candour was driven, primarily, by medical data. ‘We looked up the number of people who suffered from this and it’s something that affects so many men over 60. The King wanted to encourage other men to seek treatment.’

Kate & Charles left the London Clinic on the same day, they swear: The King, accompanied by the Queen, left through the front in the State Bentley – designed for optimum visibility – waving cheerfully at onlookers. The Princess left unobserved through a back door. The two royal patients then returned home – the King to Sandringham, the Princess to Adelaide Cottage at Windsor – to convalesce. The rest of the family, meanwhile, started to resume regular engagements.

Why Charles publicly spoke about his cancer: Says a senior aide: ‘Cancer is a very scary word if you’re a king or anyone else. It’s a big shock. But he is a great one for taking things on the chin and then saying, ‘Right. How are we going to get on with this?’ He was very clear that he would carry on doing all of the constitutional stuff in exactly the way that he did before.’

He previously had a cancer scare: Besides, one former member of the team from his Prince of Wales days reveals that the King had actually undergone a cancer scare some years before. As for announcing the news of the King’s condition, there had been very little internal debate. ‘After the earlier announcement about his prostate, it was actually an easy decision to say, ‘Well, that’s what we do these days’,’ says a member of the King’s staff. ‘We didn’t hang about because we all felt that the country does have a right to know about this – though not in forensic detail.’

[From The Daily Mail]

I’ve gone back and forth for months about whether the smarter play for Charles would be identifying what kind of cancer he has and explaining his treatment. I think his initial statement – leaving out the type of cancer – was an okay first step, PR-wise. But the longer this goes on, it feels strange that Charles hasn’t just come out and said, I have bladder cancer (which is the rumor going around London) and this is what my treatment entails, information is power, etc. The constant squirreliness and obsessive secrecy of the Windsors leaves a lot of people cold. Especially now that we’ve started to get glimpses past the gilded lily – these people are slumlords bilking taxpayers and public services, and they want to keep a lot of sh-t secret because they know it will destroy the monarchy. But sh-t like their health issues? I honestly don’t understand why Charles and Kate haven’t both disclosed a lot more.

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I’m sorry to do a big photo dump from Getty, but the Academy really limited the photo agencies’ access to the Governors Awards red carpet. Angelina Jolie bringing her 16-year-old son Knox as her date was maybe the biggest news from the carpet, but this event was exceptionally well-attended. A lot of the actors who are just starting their Oscar campaigns attended. I don’t think Jennifer Lawrence is campaigning for anything in particular, but as an Oscar-winner, she always enjoys attending these kinds of events. She wore a stretchy Bottega Veneta gown to suit her pregnancy. The gown is fine, but her hair is not great (BANGS) and her makeup is “off.”

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Nicole Kidman and Demi Moore. Nic wore Celine. Meh, right?

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Lupita Nyong’o wore Chanel – she has a brand-new Chanel ambassadorship and this is, in my opinion, kind of a bad match of celebrity and brand. I thought that about Margot Robbie and Chanel too. Chanel wants to be hip and cool and it’s just not.

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Jennifer Lopez wore Zuhair Murad, one of her favorite designers. I like the optical illusion aspect of this dress, honestly.

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Kerry Washington in Elie Saab. Out: tailoring. In: boob-belts.

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Mikey Madison wore Prada – it’s very prim and it’s not the right color for her, but I’m looking forward to her campaign for Anora.

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Elle Fanning in Valentino. Kind of my favorite look of the night, tbh.

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This story is so strange, but I think we should just sort of sit back and watch it play out. It feels like there’s a hell of a lot more to the story. More than a month ago, it appears that two men broke into the Windsor Castle estate. The men broke one of the gates to the enormous property, and they stole a few “farm vehicles” and they got away with it. No one knew this happened, nothing was announced when it happened weeks ago. But now they’re making a big deal about how burglars broke into the estate just yards away from Adelaide Cottage, where Prince William, the Princess of Wales and their three children slept peacefully, unaware of what was happening. Hm.

Burglars raided the Windsor Castle estate while the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children reportedly slept nearby. Two men are said to have climbed a 6ft fence at night and stolen farm vehicles during the raid last month, The Sun reported. They used a stolen truck to break through a gate said to be the nearest exit for the Prince, Princess and their children before targeting Shaw Farm, a working farm inside the estate. The pair, who remain at large, stole a black Isuzu pick-up and a red quad bike before making off, police said.

On Sunday night, a Thames Valley Police spokesperson told the newspaper: “At around 11.45pm on Sunday October 13, we received a report of burglary at a property on Crown Estate land near to the A308 in Windsor. Offenders entered a farm building and made off with a black Isuzu pick-up and a red quad bike. They then made off towards the Old Windsor/Datchet area. No arrests have been made at this stage and an investigation is ongoing.”

Kensington Palace did not comment to the newspaper on Sunday night.

The Prince and Princess are reported to have been at Adelaide Cottage, which they bought in 2022, at the time. The King is said to have been in Scotland, while the Queen is said to have been in India before the royal couple’s tour of Australia and Samoa.

A source told The Sun: “They would have to have known the vehicles were stored there before they broke in and known when was the best time to get and escape without being caught. So they must have been watching Windsor Castle for a while. There are alarms at Windsor Castle but the first time anyone knew there was a break-in was when they crashed through the security barrier at Shaw Farm Gate exit. The barrier has needed to be replaced as it was so badly damaged. It was a Sunday night on a school week so the young princes and princess would have been tucked in bed at Adelaide Cottage, just around the corner but still in the grounds.”

[From The Telegraph]

Yeah… what the hell is going on at Windsor Castle and the larger estate? Where are the guards? It’s very weird. Maybe that’s what the burglars discovered when they cased the joint – there were several entry points with minimal-to-no security, and all it would take is ramming the gate to break in. As for all of the talk about “William, Kate and the children slept through it all,” it’s also very interesting. Did they not hear the gate being rammed? They did not hear the Isuzu pick-up and quad bike in the middle of the night? And were William, Kate and the children actually IN Adelaide? Because I seriously doubt all five were together on a Sunday night.

Also: the Waleses did not “buy” Adelaide Cottage. It was given to them in 2022 by QEII and then-Prince Charles because William and Kate suddenly decided that they didn’t want to live in Kensington Palace anymore, that they didn’t like living in London. They were given some kind of vague lease on Adelaide, and I’m convinced that the whole thing was setting up Kate at a small separation cottage. They didn’t want HER to have one of the grander royal homes.

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A worm ate part of Robert Kennedy Jr.’s brain, and it’s widely assumed that the man takes steroids. He also loves to decapitate dead whales and leave random dead bear bodies in Central Park. He is also anti-vaccine and a years-long advocate of dangerous junk science. He is personally responsible for a deadly outbreak of measles in Samoa. He is not what I would consider a “healthy” man. But Kennedy is Donald Trump’s choice to lead Health and Human Services. Kennedy’s motto is apparently “Make America Healthy Again.” That’s what Don Trump Jr. posted alongside this photo – Don Jr., Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy and Speaker Mike Johnson all eating some McDonald’s on a private plane (probably the plane which once belonged to Jeffrey Epstein).

This photo-op with what was probably cold-as-hell McDonald’s food was making a point, many people believe. Donald Trump is a huge fan of fast food, and he’s also a very unhealthy person. While Trump likes Kennedy a lot (birds of a feather), Trump doesn’t actually want Kennedy to do everything the brain worm tells him to do. Kennedy apparently wants to eliminate processed food from public schools, wants to force everyone to drink raw milk, wants to eliminate food dye, and most significantly, he wants to eliminate high fructose corn syrup and seed oil. You know, the seed oil used to fry McDonald’s food. Apparently, Kennedy wants people to go back to frying sh-t in beef tallow and lard (because that worked out so well for McDonalds last time). He says that will make people healthier. To be fair, people will die of preventable diseases (for which we have vaccines) before the lard will kill anyone.

So was this McDonald’s photo-op some kind of hazing? Was this Trump’s way of telling Kennedy to cool it with the talk of banning corn syrup and seed oil?

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I think it was Camilla Tominey who mocked the Duchess of Sussex for being friends with her hair colorist and makeup artist. The royalists are of the opinion that a royal woman should not be so friendly with “the help,” and that having close relationships with one’s glam squad is somehow tacky. Beyond the classism of that perspective, it’s stupid from a personal and business level. When Meghan and Harry moved to California, she got a recommendation to see colorist Kadi Lee, and it was not only the start of a beautiful friendship, it was the start of a business. Kadi Lee’s Highbrow Hippie salon/brand is now making a hair product and wellness line, and Meghan has invested in it. We learned that last week, when Meghan attended the launch party and gave some comments about Kadi and the business.

Meghan Markle shifted her beauty routine in a relatable way during the COVID pandemic: boxed hair color. The Duchess of Sussex, 43, made the relatable revelation at the Nov. 15 launch party for her close friend and hair colorist Kadi Lee’s new Highbrow Hippie Haircare and Wellness line at Gjelina restaurant Venice, California, showing support for the female-founded venture she backs as an investor.

After Lee spoke about how her friendship with Meghan influenced the evolution of her business, the Duchess of Sussex said, “I was using boxed dye when I met her!” eliciting laughs from those in attendance.

At the launch party, Meghan presented Lee with a thoughtful gift—roses from the garden of her Montecito home, where she lives with Prince Harry and their children, Prince Archie, 5, and Princess Lilibet, 3.

Meghan’s glossy tresses have long been one of her signature style features, and she ordered her hair color online for just a few dollars during the pandemic. Celebrity hairstylist Serge Normant, who did Meghan’s hair when she married Prince Harry in 2018 and has remained a friend, told her that she only needed to know one person in California: “Kadi Lee.”

PEOPLE understands that the pair struck up a friendship following the introduction, and Meghan has turned to the celeb colorist for the past four and a half years. Lee is a strong supporter of BIPOC businesses, and Meghan is one of the lead investors in her brand.

The celebrity hair colorist runs Highbrow Hippie with her business partner, Myka Harris, and the two are introducing the new namesake range to curb the root causes of hair loss to promote the healthy aging of hair. The hair pro has highlighted her work with Meghan on Instagram several times this year, from the Invictus Games 2025 countdown in February to the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Gala in October.

“She was in a joyful mood,” a source tells PEOPLE of Meghan’s infectious energy at the event. “She was dancing and celebrating with her friends.”

[From People]

That answered some of my questions about Meghan’s investment – People Mag describes her as “one of the lead investors in her brand.” That’s so cool, and Meghan is getting in at the ground floor. Clevr Blends was already a brand (a small, local brand) when Meghan invested. Cesta Collective was already a brand when Meghan invested. Now Meghan is part of the start of Highbrow Hippie’s first product line. Meghan also invited her friends to the product launch party – she was there with Daniel Martin (her longtime friend and former makeup artist) and Vicky Tsai.

As for Meghan’s box-dye comments… I use box-dye. I have ever since I started dyeing my hair in my early 30s. I get compliments on my hair all the time too! But yeah, I totally understand why Meghan would want to go to a real colorist. I’m fascinated by Meghan’s hair journey and I sort of want to know which brand of hair dye she used before she met Kadi!!

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