Yesterday I posted photos of Tom Cruise with son Connor at the NCAA Women’s Final Four Semifinals. Click here for a refresher. Today TMZ reports exclusively that Tom Cruise hasn’t seen daughter Suri in almost a year. Here’s how they wrote up the story:

Tom Cruise said he wasn’t able to see hi…      

Emilia Clarke covers the May issue of Vogue UK as a blonde. Interestingly enough, Emilia doesn’t dye her hair blonde for Game of Thrones, and she didn’t go magically blonde for this Vogue shoot either. She’s wearing a wig on the cover. Why did they do that? So she would look more like Daenerys? Because people don’t always recognize her as a brunette? It’s a weird choice. In the Vogue shoot, Emilia just looks really sleepy and I feel sort of sorry for her. This is her first big Vogue shoot and the styling is just kind of… blah. Some highlights from the interview:

GoT sex scenes: ‘We’ve been able to take it to a very real level. It was never pretending to be a show for kids! It’s gritty in a good, realistic way.’

Living in a hotel in Belfast: “I went back to Game of Thrones and it was like coming home. Just the smell of the hotel in Belfast made me feel safe. I told myself, forget the big game plan; all I want is to do jobs that make me happy.”

What her family thinks of GoT: “When I first read the scripts, I was on holiday with my family. I told my dad, you’re not going to be able to watch the first five episodes.”

[From Vogue UK]

It’s funny that she didn’t want her parents to watch the first episodes. GoT is such a cultural phenomenon that I would suspect that all of the actors’ parents are obsessed with the show and family members are always trying to pry information out of their children.

Emilia also sat down with THR to talk about what would happen if Daenerys ever met some of the men of the show, like Jamie Lannister (Emilia says Dany would “bed” him), Tyrion (she says Dany would probably like him) and John Snow. She even responds to the R+L=J rumor/theory – go here to watch the video.

Photos courtesy of Vogue UK.

With just under a month until it opens on May 1, Marvel has released the final trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron. Despite a steady stream of trailers, TV spots, and featurettes, they’ve done a really good job recycling footage so that they haven’t given the whole movie away before it opens. Mig…      

Lindsay Lohan covers the new issue of Homme Style Magazine in what can only be described as a terrible photoshoot. We’re supposed to think she looks sexy, I suppose. But her dead, drugged-out eyes make it seem more uncomfortable than anything else. You can see more photos from the shoot here – beware, there are lots of corsets and lingerie involved, so just know that the Cracken is out to seduce you. Not you specifically – as she tells the magazine, she’s actually looking to befriend more rich businessmen. Obviously. Some highlights:

She loves London: “It feels like home, I miss it every time I have to leave for work and can’t wait to get back. I go back to NYC and LA for family and work.”

She loves the UK press more than the American press: “I find that UK press is much more politically based. Where American press is much more focused on celebrities. Especially when doing a West End play, it’s a different respect that you hope to gain.”

She’s not a cracked-out mess anymore: “I don’t place myself in the same “situations” as I used to. It also comes with time and age.”

LA is unevolved: “I don’t need to see it all over again. The last time I went to LA it was my friend’s birthday and we went to this karaoke place. It was the same people, the same faces, nothing had changed. It felt very un-evolved.”

She wants a businessman: “I haven’t really thought about (dating) in a while, I’ve been so focused on my career. At this time, I’d probably have to say someone not in showbusiness, maybe a businessman, but I’m just enjoying being single and enjoying experiencing everything here.”

[From The Daily Mail]

Obviously, Lindsay is full of it. But I have noticed something interesting: going away to London has changed the media perception around the Cracken. She’s not really seen as the same old hot mess getting into weekly crack shenanigans. That being said, I often get the impression that the UK tabloids – which are just the same as the American tabloids, if not worse – don’t really care that much about her. Which is why she’s desperate for attention and posing for magazines in lingerie and hanging out with Kris Jenner and such.

Photos courtesy of Homme Style.

Tom Cruise and John Travolta are the two most high profile members of the Church of Scientology. With a major summer blockbuster on the way, and after a decade of ridicule and speculation about the blurring between his love life and his religion, Tom’s not going to be the one playing defence agai…      

Tom Cruise and his 20-year-old son, Connor, made a big splash this weekend at the NCAA Women’s Final Four college semifinal in Tampa last weekend. Or as I like to call it, “Oh look, Tom’s surreptitiously shopping for a new girlfriend.” Yes, that’s a mean remark, but Tom (51) just okayed a 31-year-old actress to play his wife. This is the same movie where he’ll play 300-pound, drug-running pilot Barry Seal. Sarah Wright Olsen will play the wife, and I hope she’s ready for Tom’s tomfoolery. My point is that Tom marries younger on and offscreen.

This game was the first occasion that Tom’s been stateside since his last film premiere. He filmed Mission: Impossible 5 in London for what seems like years. He’s also selling off property like mad because he’s never here. And we never see him with Suri. Part of the reason for that is because Tom grew really angry when people noticed how he didn’t see Suri for months at a time. That was his fault! He was the douchebag who invited the press to witness his daddy-daughter time. Tom shut down the pap walks and flashy Disneyworld visits so no one would notice how little time he spent with Suri. He also sued tabloids to reinforce his point.

The last documented visit between Tom and Suri was when she visited him in London in November 2012, but Tom spent most of that weekend filming Edge of Tomorrow. Then radio silence. I assumed he saw Suri on occasion, but sources tells TMZ that it’s been a year:

Tom Cruise said he wasn’t able to see his daughter for months because he was shooting Mission Impossible 5 in London, and he was counting the hours before he came home to little Suri. But we’re told he was off work for 2 weeks after shooting wrapped, yet never saw her.

Sources connected to Katie Holmes tell TMZ … it’s worse than that. They say Tom has not seen the 8-year-old in almost a year. Tom’s rep previously denied that and said the actor has seen his daughter plenty, but on the down low to shield her from cameras.

But our Katie sources say that’s not true … that he’s just not been a part of her life.

There’s been speculation Tom is distancing himself from Katie and Suri because they’ve been declared SPs in Scientology, but we’ve checked with the Church and we’re told that is simply not true.

Tom is now back to business … he just began a 90 day shoot in Atlanta.

He did take time Sunday to take his son Connor to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament in Tampa.

[From TMZ]

Well I feel awful for Suri. Part of me thinks it’s best that she’s not around all of Tom’s crazy, but this is still a very sad situation. She must miss her daddy, who would rather attend Scientology functions than act like a father. Tom’s priorities will always involve his own ego. He’ll hang from a plane like an idiot in order to continue his ridiculous action film legacy. I hope he regrets his behavior someday.

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Did last week’s Daily Show replacement-host-announcement seem weird to anyone else? In retrospect, I kind of wonder if the whole thing was mishandled. We didn’t even get a leaked shortlist of contenders to replace Jon Stewart. Out of nowhere, Trevor Noah was anointed as the new host. Initially, the reaction was positive. Although most Americans weren’t familiar with Noah, we wished him well. Then some sites did cursory examinations into Trevor’s social media history and there were many tweets that seemed… bad. Sexist. Misogynistic. Anti-Semitic. Maybe even racist.

The whole thing was made worse by the simple fact that The Daily Show was on a break last week, so Jon Stewart couldn’t personally vouch for Trevor Noah on-air. Instead, Comedy Central issued a flurry of “give the new guy a break” statements and Noah even had to tweet an explanation: “To reduce my views to a handful of jokes that didn’t land is not a true reflection of my character, nor my evolution as a comedian.” Are you buying that? Eh. I will give comedians a break to try to work out their material, but the vein of casual misogyny running through Noah’s Twitter feed gave me pause, and I feel like he is doing a disservice to simply dismiss that as a “joke that didn’t land.”

Anyway, The Daily Show came back last night and Jon Stewart finally vouched for Noah on air. Here’s the video:

Jon says Noah “will earn your trust and respect … Or not. Just as I earned your trust and respect … Or did not. Or sometimes earned it and then lost it and then kind of got it back and then it was like, ‘F— that guy!’” Jon says his experiences with Noah have shown him that Noah is “an incredibly thoughtful and considerate and funny and smart individual, and I think if you give him that time it’s going to be well worth it.”

So, controversy over? Ugh. I feel sorry for Comedy Central a little bit, losing Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart within a year and trying to reboot their late night line-up with new faces. But I suspect that this will not be the end of it. And I’d also like to hear why Comedy Central felt like there were no female comedians capable of taking over for either late-night slot.

Photos courtesy of Trevor Noah’s social media.

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Jon Cryer is among the many celebrities promoting memoirs this season. His book is called So That Happened and we previously covered an extensive excerpt in which he told his side of Charlie Sheen’s spectacular meltdown and revealed that he (Cryer) once hired a prostitute at Sheen’s recommendation.

During Cryer’s promotional tour he debuted a new look, with a shaved head and facial hair. It really suits him. In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight (video is here), Cryer revealed that he dated Demi Moore in the 80s (they starred in 1984?s No Small Affair) and so he found it strange to meet Ashton Kutcher for the first time, on the Two and a Half Men set. Cryer kept expecting Kutcher to bring up their mutual ex, but it doesn’t sound like he ever did.

On Charlie Sheen’s meltdown
I don’t recall in the history of television that a star went so spectacularly off the rails.

In the first few years of the show Charlie was sober and he was married to Denise Richards. He was an incredible coworker. That was what made the meltdown all the more scary.

When he realized that Charlie was unmanageable
For me the big indicator was [when he got] arrested in Colorado [in 2009]. When that happened, I knew he was no longer sober.

On if he felt that he could help Charlie
Because Charlie and I didn’t really bond over drugs… that part of his life he didn’t really let me into. So I tried, but Charlie made the choice that that [sobriety] was not the life he wanted anymore.

Why it was awkward to meet Ashton Kutcher
It was awkward because I didn’t know if [Demi had] even told him that we’d dated. So at our first meeting, we’re trying to have that ‘hey let’s create some chemistry’ meeting, when all the time I’m looking at him… waiting for him to drop the bomb.

The first season of Two and a Half Men I got a divorce. The second season Charlie got a divorce. So I thought that after a season of Two and a Half Men that it was probably appropriate that Ashton got a divorce.

On having to tell his son he had hired a prostitute in the past
I found myself picking my son up at school and having to give him a heads up that, ‘Oh, you might read something on the Internet today that’s a little curious.’ So I told him the facts of it, and he said, ‘Yeah, I’m not surprised.’ I was like, ‘Wow, okay!’

[From ET Online]

I didn’t realize that guys found it awkward to have dated the same woman. I thought that they usually bro-bonded over that sort of thing, but I guess everyone is different.

Cryer’s son, Charlie, (from his first marriage to British actress Sarah Trigger) will turn 15 in June so I guess he’s old enough to hear that his dad once hired a prostitute. I hope Cryer explains to him that it was a mistake and that he doesn’t endorse it at all though.

Cryer also said that he used to be mistaken for a gay guy and that he changed the way he sits so that he looks more masculine. He’s talked about this in the past. Last year he said that everyone assumed he was gay when he was a teenager, and not just because he played Duckie in Pretty in Pink. He claimed to strongly identify with Duckie and called himself an “effeminate heterosexual dork.” I’ve known guys like that.

Not everyone knows that Cryer rose to fame in the classic John Hughes film. In an appearance on The Jimmy Fallon show yesterday, Cryer played charades with Michael Douglas. Douglas failed to guess “Pretty in Pink.” That’s at about 4:00 into this video. It’s clear that Douglas had no clue. Spoiler – the other team, with Kat Dennings and Fallon, won.

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Jessica Simpson updated Instagram a few hours ago with this shot of her being groped by her baby father Eric Johnson. She’s wearing a headband with bunny ears. So that’s how she spent Easter.

And this is what happened on April Fool’s Day:

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Single mom Malin Akerman shared a sweet snapshot via Instagram Sunday.

“Spent Easter with my most special person. He was more interested in mommy than chocolates…gonna enjoy these moments while they last! Hope you all had a beautiful day. #easter #love,” the Rock of Ages actress, 36, captioned the photo with son Sebastian, nearly 2.

After ten years of marriage, the Trophy Wife star and Roberto Zincone separated just four months after welcoming Sebastian.

And recently, A-list pal Tom Arnold praised his Sin City Saints co-star, saying that she is “the most inspiring woman” for how she is dealing with the split.

“She’s a single mom. Her deal — and I probably shouldn’t talk about her — but…I have so much respect for her. She is such an amazing woman,” Arnold shared.

Arnold went on to talk about how Akerman continues to support her ex.

“You know, her husband, they’re together 10 years, they have a baby, [and] four months in, he’s like, ‘I’m done,’” he continued. “So she not only pays him alimony to take care of this guy, but I watched her as a mother, and I was like, ‘This is the most inspiring woman. I’m not gonna complain about anything in my life.’ Because she is incredible. She is an inspiration.”