It feels like Reese Witherspoon’s online “Southern Goop” venture has been gestating for a really long time, but in truth, this whole thing basically took about 15 months for her to pull together. And now it’s officially here: Draper James is online now. Go here to look at draperjames.com. If Goop.com is elitist nonsense and Preserve is hipster nonsense, then Draper James is Southern nonsense. Now that I’ve had a few minutes to browse the site… I don’t really hate it though. Is it full of ridiculously marked up items? Sure. $200 sleeveless blouses are not my jam. But the prices are positively peasant-y compared to Goop. And unlike Preserve, Draper James has a very straight-forward, user-friendly layout (possibly helped by the fact that they don’t have a lot for sale at the moment).

There are personal touches too, from Reese. You can see Reese’s “editorials” here, which are mostly just “fun” and “peppy” I’m-so-Southern shills. She even has a page for “Southernisms.” Yeah… I grew up in the South and I still live in the South, and no Southerner has ever said to me, “We don’t apologize for looking pretty.” You want to know a real Southernism? “The bigger the hair, the closer to God.” (Steel Magnolias got SO MUCH right about the South.) So, yeah… I think this venture is completely unnecessary, but it’s nothing Reese should be ashamed of. It’s fine. She’ll make some money out of it and she’ll play up her “I’m a cornpone gal, y’all!” credentials for a little while longer.

Meanwhile, In Touch Weekly has some minor drama between Reese and her ex-husband!

Reese Witherspoon and her ex-husband, Ryan Phillippe, have mostly gotten along since their 2007 split. But In Touch has learned that the former Hollywood couple have recently had some serious arguments over their kids, Ava, 15, and Deacon, 11.

“Ryan thinks Reese is trying to cut him out of the kids’ lives because she’s cutting back on his time with them,” a source reveals in the new issue of In Touch. “Reese has been blaming the kids’ busy school schedule, but the reason Ryan thinks she isn’t letting them see him is that she doesn’t like his lifestyle. She thinks he parties way too much and doesn’t want Ava and Deacon around that.”

But, according to the source, Ryan finds fault in her reasoning. “He doesn’t understand why Reese is trying to tell him how to live his life — Ava and Deacon are honor students, and when they are with him, they do their homework,” the source tells In Touch. “He takes good care of those kids and is very angry with Reese right now.”

[From In Touch Weekly]

It wouldn’t surprise me if this story was true. And if it is, Reese needs to stop with Miss Holier-Than-Thou routine. Ryan was the one who had to tell the kids that their mom was a nasty, belligerent, drunk AMERICAN CITIZEN to a Georgia cop and she got arrested. Is Ryan a perfect dad? Doubtful. But I think he loves his kids and he’s not bringing a lot of unnecessary drama into their lives. Besides, Reese needs her kids more these days for the endless stream of happy-family pap strolls she’s been doing to shill Draper James.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

One of the earlier Sony hack leaks dropped the news that Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams were both paid less than their male American Hustle co-stars. Amy’s role in the movie was large, and much of the film’s promotional material revolved around JLaw. Yet Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, and Jeremy Renner all received larger backend deals. At the time, Bale was the only male with a proven box-office record. Cooper has since proven he can draw audiences with American Sniper, but Renner has never pulled off a financially successful movie on his own. He’s always an ensemble player (and a douchey one too). Why would even Renner make more than the ladies?

We know the answer to that question. Hollywood (and society) often hands men higher paychecks for doing the same job as their women counterparts. JLaw has had enough, and she’s pulling a Charlize Theron. Hollywood Reporter reports that Jennifer agreed to star in a space drama/romance, Passengers, when Amy Pascal was in charge at Sony. The deal is still awaiting the final greenlight, and it sounds like this HR piece is an orchestrated push. The film would hand $20 million to JLaw and $10 milion to her co-star, Chris Pratt. Sony is starting to hesitate on Jennifer’s salary because this movie isn’t part of a franchise, but JLaw’s team put their foot down. She’ll get that salary, or she’ll walk:

If a person were to try to design a movie project that could simultaneously attract and repel a fiscally prudent studio executive like Sony Pictures’ new film chief Tom Rothman, it might be the space drama Passengers.

Rothman found Passengers awaiting his green light when he replaced Amy Pascal in the top job at the studio in late February. And while the project has obvious attractions — with red-hot Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt set to star in the interstellar love story and Morten Tyldum, who scored an Oscar nomination for directing The Imitation Game, on board — it hardly is an obvious yes: talent getting top dollar for an original idea with special effects that Rothman is said to see as a marketing challenge and that doesn’t appear to have franchise potential. Not necessarily an easy call for an executive expected to bring restraint to a studio that, under Pascal, long was known for its generosity to talent.

Before Rothman, 60, officially took over, Sony already had agreed to pay Lawrence $20 million to star, though her role actually is somewhat secondary to Pratt’s. His deal gives him about $10 million with the possibility (likelihood) of more based on the performance of Universal’s Jurassic World reboot. With its two huge stars, Passengers is important to Sony “because it has a hook; it’s marketable internationally,” argues one source close to the project, and the studio doesn’t have a lot of branded intellectual property in its cupboard.

Lawrence, 24, and her CAA reps are said to have held firm to the $20 million fee. Sources say Lawrence was prepared to walk away from Passengers if she didn’t get to $20 million on this film, and Tyldum was ready to exit with her. [Amy] Pascal herself might have fanned the flames with her February interview in which she was asked about the Lawrence pay gap. “The truth is that what women have to do is not work for less money,” Pascal said. “They have to walk away. People shouldn’t be so grateful for jobs.”

[From Hollywood Reporter]

Sony needs to get it together on this film. Space movies are usually big moneymakers, and the final budget would be $80 million. Jennifer has an Oscar and a built-in audience who follows her to nearly any film (except Serena, ha), and Pratt is getting there too. HuffPo notes that “the Sony hack proved to be a blessing in disguise for Lawrence.” We’ll see. I hope Sony makes good on this deal. JLaw would join the likes of Angelina Jolie, RDJ, Denzel Washington, and Matt Damon in the salary department. Make it so!

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN

Miranda Lambert is the first ever celebrity to cover Country Living magazine. I actually love these types of home-decorating magazines. I don’t like the super-fancy ones, where it’s like “I combined three massive Manhattan apartments because I just didn’t have enough space for my wine and cigar collection.” Those magazines make me feel like a class warrior. But the home decorating magazines that are like “I bought a terrible little cottage and I redid the kitchen and just painted everything else”? I love those. Miranda actually guest-edited this issue of Country Living, and she did the cover interview (obvs). Most of the quotes are blah, blah, I’m a country girl, blah. But she talks about trying to incorporate enough space in her home for her 15 RESCUE ANIMALS. Some highlights:

How Country is “in her blood”: “I grew up in Lindale, Texas, where the town motto is Good Country Living (really!), so you could say country life has been in my blood since birth. Even now, my husband Blake [Shelton] and I live in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, which is roughly two hours from any major city. There’s just a peace that comes with country life.”

On her summer plans to make jam with Blake: “My dad taught me to live off the land. I now have my own garden, but Blake is really the gardener. This year, we’re planting tomatoes and strawberries to make jam. I have a little downtime this summer, so I’m looking forward to this task.”

On her beloved pick-up truck, Tammy: “I’ve had Tammy, my candy apple red ’55 Chevy stepside, since I was 17. It’s named after Tammy Wynette, because that was the cassette tape in the player when I got it. Blake and I had it on display at our wedding, although I still won’t let him drive it!”

Miranda’s love for her pets and obsession with Pinterest: “We’re building a new house, and I’ve been saving inspiration on Pinterest. A friend of mine recently said, ‘I can see your Pinterest boards, and all you have on there are dog rooms.’ My husband [singer Blake Shelton] and I have 15 rescue animals, and I spend way too much time planning our pets’ spaces. I’m like, okay, I probably need Miranda Lambert, to move on to the laundry room!”

[From Country Living]

I have just one dog and let me tell you… he makes every room his own space. My bedroom is HIS room. The living room his play area. My office is his nap space. The foyer is his other nap space. The hallway is his thinking space. The bathroom is his drinking hole (I’ve grown to accept that he will always drink from the toilet). But I can understand how Miranda might need to create special areas and spaces just for her animals, since there are 15 of them. Good God. Does she have a full-time staff member just to take care of the dogs?

Oh, and the idea of Blake Shelton as a gardener? Interesting. I keep getting a weird vibe from their marriage though, so I kind of think he’s spending time in another woman’s garden.

Photos courtesy of WENN, cover courtesy of Country Living.

If you’ve been following the saga of When George Met Amal, you might remember that I covered some photos of Amal’s sister Tala last August. In that post, I called Tala “Pippa-esque.” Tala is Amal’s younger sister, and Tala has been around for every step of Amal and George’s courtship, apparently. I’m pretty sure Tala lives full-time in London, and her “job” seems to be just as socialite-y as Pippa Middleton. Tala was just in NYC last week visiting her big sister and their parents. Tala got photographed a lot and she seemed to enjoy it. Since there were so many photos of her last week, People Magazine decided to do a blatant PR-plant story on how Tala is the “new Pippa Middleton.” Well I never! The main part of the story:

Just like her sister, Tala’s got some serious style. The meal may have been an intimate family occasion, but Tala looked glamorous enough for a night on the red carpet in a white ensemble (complete with a sexy slit) finished off with a pair of sleek snakeskin boots.

That’s just one of her killer outfits. She’s also been spotted sporting a Moschino purse, wearing an on-trend fringe skirt and owning a straw cowboy hat on the sidewalk. Amal’s younger sister is practically her twin, too: Their resemblance give away their connection instantly (just like Kate and Pippa!), and they both have long, thick raven hair. She may be her sister’s double, but Tala’s got an identity that’s all her own. On her LinkedIn, she says she’s an events planner and branding specialist (remember that other celeb event planner?)

When she’s not turning heads on the streets of Manhattan, Amal’s globe-trotting sibling calls Singapore home. She’s married to Singaporean businessman Nagi Hamiyeh, with whom she has a daughter, Mia. They may not always be living on the same continent, but Amal and Tala’s bond is still super-tight. At her sister’s 2014 wedding, Tala took on all the traditional maid of honor duties (Amal elected not to have an official maid of honor because of the small guest list) – and her daughter Mia was the flower girl.

“Tala is a jewel,” an Alamuddin relative tells PEOPLE. “She’s a giver. And very close with Amal.”

[From People]

Much like the Middleton sisters, I feel like Amal and Tala struggle with their casual clothes. Much like the Middleton sisters, the Alamuddin sisters put a lot of focus on hair. Much like the Middleston sisters, the older one frequently gets the “cat that got the cream” face. Much like the Middleton sisters, I feel like Amal and Tala might have some passive-aggressive issues. And much like Amal, I feel like George Clooney’s press people are trying to make Tala “happen.” Why? Does Tala’s events-planning business need some hype?

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

Buffy alum Sarah Michelle Gellar was photographed with son Rocky, 2, in Santa Monica, Calif. on Wednesday (May 6). The mother-son duo walked hand-in-hand during their afternoon outing.

Donning denim and shades of gray, the actress, 38, was not joined by husband, fellow actor Freddie Prinze, Jr., and their 5-year-old daughter Charlotte.

It sounds like The Crazy Ones star enjoyed a fun-filled day celebrating Cinco de Mayo on Tuesday.

“It was a #CincoDIYMayo,” SMG Instagrammed the Flipgram. “Had the best time with #EricaDomesek @psimadethis My daughter now has new handmade hair clips for school this am!! The highlight for me , was the #DIY margaritas. What a great #girlsnight (and thank you #galit and #emily for being my girls) #DIY #CincodeMayo.”

It was a #CincoDIYMayo – Had the best time with #EricaDomesek @psimadethis My daughter now has new handmade hair clips for school this am!! The highlight for me , was the #DIY margaritas. What a great #girlsnight (and thank you #galit and #emily for being my girls) #DIY #CincodeMayo

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