Amanda Seyfried has a new interview with Fox 411 to promote While We’re Young‘s expansion into wide release. The movie features Amanda as one half of a 20-something couple who befriends 40-something couple Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts. Amanda’s 29 years old now but can pass for a few years younger. She’s also been kicking around Hollywood since her teenage soap opera roles. People started to notice her after Mean Girls, which also starred Lindsay Lohan. I’m pretty sure Amanda’s talking about the Lohan complex in this discussion. She explains how Hollywood can hamper the growth process, and actors must be proactive to avoid the trap of becoming an eternal child:

On approaching 30: “I have to behave like a grown up. And as hard as it is and as tough as it … as intimidating as that is, I realize it’s the only way to be, it’s the only direction. It’s the only way your life is going to work, you have to be mature, and you have to make mature decisions and you have to think of other people, and you have to be responsible. And you know what? My life is better for it.”

On being young in Hollywood: “I actually think it’s a detriment to growing up for certain people. Certain actors stay kids forever because they’re treated like it. And you just can’t stand for that, when people sometimes… people treating you like a kid, you’re just going to like kind of stay that way if you’re not careful. I’m only speaking from experience, so I realize it’s really important to stake your claim in the adult world.”

You won’t catch her on a Kindle app: “I will not read books on my iPad because guess what? That can also, the battery can die. The battery dies all the time. I almost bought a flip phone the other day because I was thinking, what if, this battery keep dying so much on my iPhone. Books, books, I have to read books it’s just so simple. You don’t need to plug it in.”

[From Fox News 411]

Amanda stresses that she’s not being “ironic” with her preference of traditional print books. She’s separating herself from the hipster crowd and simply admitting that she stresses over phone battery life. But Kindle battery power last forever! I’m a fan of the Kindle. Saves shelf space, saves money.

Another cute Amanda story surfaced last night. Us Weekly says Amanda served helped out the flight attendants while en route from NYC to LA. She “just took over and served cookies for the flight attendants! She was super friendly, laughing and joking with the flight attendants.” And she didn’t take a selfie, like other certain actors would have done.

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As Avengers: Age of Ultron ramps up in high gear, the press machine for another summer blockbuster, Jurassic World, is getting into motion. Last night Universal released the first clip from the movie and it features Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard and no dinosaurs. As always, Pratt is the bes…      

As Avengers: Age of Ultron ramps up in high gear, the press machine for another summer blockbuster, Jurassic World, is getting into motion. Last night Universal released the first clip from the movie and it features Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard and no dinosaurs. As always, Pratt is the bes…      

There have been rumors about Bobby Flay’s wandering eye for as long as I can remember. Flay married Law & Order: SVU star Stephanie March in 2005 – it was his THIRD marriage and her first. And rumors followed them everywhere. I still believe something very fishy happened between Flay and January Jones, and there were also rumors about Flay and Giada de Laurentiis. Incidentally, Flay and Giada were together in Miami just before she announced her divorce too. But I’m sure it’s nothing, right? Right. Plus, some commenters always claimed that Flay likes a certain types of pretty young ladies to work at his restaurants. All of this is totally unconfirmed, of course. But now it looks like Stephanie March might have had enough!

“Iron Chef” Bobby Flay cooks his steaks medium rare … but his marriage is well, done, and divorce is right around the corner. Sources close to the couple tell TMZ … Bobby and his wife, “Law and Order: SVU” star Stephanie March, separated 3 weeks ago. Flay moved out of their NYC home.

We’re told both have hooked up with attorneys … and divorce talks have started.

The marriage has been deteriorating over the past year-and-a-half. We’re told things reached a boiling point last year when Bobby didn’t come to the hospital until the day after Stephanie’s appendix burst. She was livid when she claims he said he was busy with work and had to leave before she was discharged … but offered to send his assistant to help out.

Bobby and Stephanie celebrated 10 years of marriage in February … only not together. We’re told Flay spent the time in Florida at a wine festival with his ‘B-Team’ — his group of assistants. Bobby and Stephanie were married in 2005 and have no kids together — he already has 2 previous divorces under his belt … this will be her first.

[From TMZ]

Yeah, just my opinion: they’ve been on the rocks for a while. And a lot of people saw this coming, and a lot of people have wondered what took Stephanie so long to see that Flay is a total dog. Oh well… better late than never. I kind of hope Stephanie cleans his clock financially. I’m also wondering if it’s “suspicious” that Flay and Giada both split from their partners within four months of each other?

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You may know Penn Jillette as the talking member of the famous Penn & Teller magic team. (You may also know him as the creator of the excellent documentary Tim’s Vermeer. Seriously, rent and watch that film sometime.) He’s also been the larger member of the team, both in height and girth, up until now. Jillette lost over 100 pounds, nearly a pound a day, on a plant based diet. He also cut out added sugar, added salt and processed grains. As you can see from the “after” photo above and the “before” photo below, he looks like a completely different person.

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Even master illusionist Penn Jillette couldn’t magically make his weight disappear – but he was able to drop from 330 to 225 lbs. by making a drastic change in his eating habits.

The 6’7” entertainer decided to get healthy after his high blood pressure landed him in the hospital.

“I was on six very powerful meds to bring the blood pressure down,” Jillette, 60, tells PEOPLE. “My doctor said I needed to get my weight down, and if I brought it down 30 or 40 lbs. it would be a little easier to control. And then he said something in passing that completely blew my mind – he said, ‘If you got down to 230, you probably wouldn’t need any of the meds.’ ”

The Wizard Wars judge decided to do just that, spending December through March on an “extreme low-calorie program” in which he consumed about 1,000 calories daily and was able to lose an average of 0.9 lbs. a day.

Since reaching his goal weight on his birthday, March 5, Jillette has stopped restricting the amounts he eats, and instead follows Dr. Fuhrman’s Nutritarian diet – this means he consumes no animal products, no processed grains, and no added sugar or salt.

“I eat unbelievable amounts of food but just very, very, very healthy food,” says the magician.

His typical daily diet consists of an “enormous salad” with vinegar as dressing for lunch (he doesn’t usually eat breakfast) and a dinner consisting of 3 lbs. of greens and three servings of black or brown rice with a vegetable stew, along with lots of fruits for dessert (his favorite is “an enormous amount of blueberries with plain cocoa powder”) and vegetables with vinegar or Tabasco sauce as a snack.

“I could probably have a steak or a doughnut every couple of weeks, but I just haven’t felt like it,” says Jillette. “When you’re feeling as bad as I felt, and you go to feeling as good as I feel, the temptation to go back to doing what you were doing when you felt bad is not very great.”

Although he wasn’t exercising during his extreme weight-loss phase, he now exercises every other day, doing the “scientific 7-minute workout” along with weight lifting, juggling and 10-mile tricycle rides.

“Now it’s really fun to exercise,” he says. “The only hard part of exercise is keeping it hard enough to be hard.”

Dropping the weight has come with many more pluses than dropping 10 pant sizes (from a 44 to a soon-to-be 34).

“I have so much energy and I feel so good,” says Jillette. “I’m just plain happier.”

[From People]

Eating a plant-based diet of just 1,000 calories is no small feat for Jillette, especially considering that he runs an atheist organization called The United Church of Bacon. (I’ve considered joining that.)

After Alanis Morissette lost a lot of weight and endorsed Dr. Fuhrman’s diet, I bought his book Eat to Live. As the article from People states, it recommends a nearly vegan, almost entirely plant-based diet if possible, to quickly and safely lose weight. Many people will say that 1,000 calories a day isn’t safe, but Fuhrman makes the argument that being overweight isn’t healthy, and that it’s safe to lose weight so quickly. He claims that many formerly overweight people with diabetes can go off their medication in weeks after they go on his diet. I tried it and it wasn’t sustainable for me. I do better with counting calories and having treats, but reading the book did give me the information which led me to significantly cut back my meat consumption, (which is also better for the environment) and to eat more vegetables overall. If you’d like to learn more about Dr. Fuhrman, this trailer for a PBS special he did is a good start.

Below is a recent video of Jillette arguing against the asinine “religious freedom” laws in Arkansas and Indiana that allow business owners to discriminate. (I’m including this because I like what he says and because I couldn’t find photos of him looking thinner than this. People has a photo though.) He makes the very cogent argument that no one is being asked to endorse gay sex, they’re “being asked to sell flowers and cake to people.” A woman with helmet hair and budget highlights tries to make the argument that journalists don’t have to write articles they don’t agree with, and he quickly shuts that down. The lady from the ACLU can’t get a word in edgewise. Then the CNN journalist, Don Lemon, (can you believe he is 49?!) says that as a person of color and a gay man he has seen the same bible verses historically used against black people and interracial marriage. Every one agrees with him except for helmet hair.

Sidenote: Jillette’s 9 year-old daughter is named Moxie Crimefighter and his 8 year-old son is called Zolten. Those are their actual names.

Here is another photo of Jillette before:

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Baby bump watch!

Expectant mama Ashlee Simpson was spotted in Studio City, Calif. on Wednesday (April 8). Joined by a friend, the pregnant singer, 30, stepped out for a prenatal workout at the Tracy Anderson gym.

We’ve spotted Ashlee hitting the gym several times throughout her second pregnancy.

Proud daddy-to-be Evan Ross recently shared a beautiful baby bump photo of his lovely wife.

This will be the first child – a girl – for Ashlee and her newlywed husband, 26, whom she wed on Aug. 30.

She is already mom to 6-year-old son Bronx with ex-husband, Fall Out Boy rocker Pete Wentz.

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IN TOUCH reports in their new issue that Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt have ended their relationship. Specifically the magazine claims that she cut him loose even before he went to rehab because she was tired of waiting for him to commit to her. Hamm’s rep immediately issued a denial:

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IN TOUCH reports in their new issue that Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt have ended their relationship. Specifically the magazine claims that she cut him loose even before he went to rehab because she was tired of waiting for him to commit to her. Hamm’s rep immediately issued a denial:

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Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon stepped out for snacks with son Tennessee, 2, in Brentwood, Calif. on Wednesday (April 8).

The Wild actress, 39, grabbed a green smoothie while her adorable tot enjoyed a chocolate covered donut.

The actress has recently returned from a tropical family getaway, where she shared several family photos.

Tennessee is Reese’s third child, her first with husband Jim Toth, whom she wed in 2011.

The actress and ex-husband Ryan Phillippe are parents to daughter Ava, 15, and son Deacon, 11.

The Walk the Line star recently dished on her happy marriage.

“I have to say a very healing part of my life is my wonderful husband, Jim,” Reese gushed. “It’s really wonderful being with somebody who supports me, who loves me, who is my number one fan. That is such an incredible experience. You have to be ready for those things. I had to be in a place where I felt all those things about myself.”

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I absolutely loathe this new movement of “announcing” your weight. I dislike that people like Bethenny Frankel and Giuliana Rancic are so weight-focused when they could be health-focused. Just my opinion: if you are truly eating healthy, working out and taking care of yourself, you wouldn’t be so focused on “the haters” and justifying yourself publicly. In Giuliana’s case, it’s veered into a national therapy session, but in Bethenny’s case, I think she’s just trying to get people to like her again. Which brings me to Brandi Glanville, making this a trifecta of C-list a—holes talking about their weight. Yesterday, Brandi tweeted this:

To the haters calling me fat-I’m 5’10 126lbs I’ve had 2 kids Im42 I try &workout 3 times a wk -I LOVE 2cook&eat! I applaud your perfection!

— Brandi Glanville (@BrandiGlanville) April 8, 2015

My first thought was: are people really calling Brandi “fat”? Then I really thought about it, and yes, I bet they are. I bet some pro-LeAnn people decided that Brandi looked “fat” and they trolled her social media accounts. Anyway, for her height (she’s tall), I would suspect that Brandi is probably slightly underweight. She has that lean model-type body and permanently-skinny legs (ugh, I wish my legs were permanently skinny). I believe Brandi eats solids and gets plenty of empty calories from liquor. She just has that kind of body type that absorbs it all. And no, she’s not “fat.” And even if she was, why would it matter?

Oh, and Brandi blogged about the Real Housewives Reunion show. I have no interest in covering that, so you can read her blog post here.

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