I’m still loving the fact that FKA Twigs got to wear the Birds of Paradise dress to the Alexander McQueen exhibit. Apparently, Kate Moss was impressed too! According to The Daily Mail’s gossip girl, Moss told her modeling agency that they should sign FKA Twigs and get her some modeling contracts. But Twigs isn’t so sure about that, even though she appreciates that Kate Moss is trying to get her some money. A source told the Mail that Twigs “only wants to be famous for singing. She’s not actually sure she wants to do it.”

Meanwhile, Twigs has released a new music video for her song “Glass & Patron.” The video is NSFW, even though it really doesn’t show crazy nudity or anything (FYI: there are NSFW lyrics). It’s weird and somewhat macabre, but if you want to see Twigs “give birth” to some rainbow scarves, here you go:

Something nice… I like that Twigs directs her own videos and that this is really HER vision. I loved her video for “Two Weeks” (and I love that song too), but I’m not really on board with this song and video. Yet. Maybe it will grow on me.

And Twigs has a new interview with the BBC Radio 1. She talks about the torrent of online abuse she got last year, mostly from crazy Twihards spewing racist crap at her. She told Radio 1 that she responded to her haters because she wanted her fans to see her standing up for herself.

“I didn’t want them to see me being bullied and not stand up for myself. It wasn’t just for me. It was for people who listen to my music and feel how I was feeling at that time. I didn’t want them to see me being bullied and not stand up for myself because ultimately I’m ten times stronger than somebody hiding behind a weird name on Twitter. I wanted to show that I can stand up for myself so then hopefully another person will see that and want to stand up for themselves.”

She says she tries not to let online comments affect what she does creatively but admits tabloid stories can be difficult for her.

“It doesn’t affect me at all or what I create. Sometimes it’s just frustrating because those sorts of tabloids are just looking for a headline. That headline is often so far from the truth.”

She admits to reading what people are saying about her.

“I remember at the height when things were really bad for me. I remember lying in bed at 3 o’clock in the morning and it’s embarrassing but I was just reading through everything, reading every single comment. I just couldn’t believe the world was like that. I guess I’m quite naive for someone who’s come through the internet, I don’t engage with it that much. I just couldn’t believe people think like that or say things like that. It was morbidly fascinating.”

[From BBC]

What I like about Twigs is that she admits that she fell down a dark hole of reading online comments and she managed to come out of it with some perspective. I like that she admits to being affected by the racist crap that was thrown her way, but she wanted to be a positive role model to her fans in standing up for herself. I like her! She seems like a woman who has her sh-t together, you know?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

If I’m Justin Bieber, 21 years old, trying to “man up” at every opportunity, I’m loving the fact that Leonardo DiCaprio, founding member of the Pussy Posse, wants to hang out with me. On Saturday night, the two were at a club together in West Hollywood. The pictures are sh…      

Happy Birthday Erin R in Montreal with love from Amber who can’t wait for the baby meet-up in April! By request, this is vintage Billy Corgan which sent me into a 90s nostalgia music hour this morning so thank you for that. I really enjoyed revisiting James Iha’s beauty.      

During a Monday appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, new mom Mila Kunis opened up about family life with Ashton Kutcher and their 5-month-old daughter Wyatt.

“I love being pregnant and I love being a mom,” the Jupiter Ascending star, 31, gushed.

When asked if she is secretly married to her That ’70s Show costar, Kunis simply replied, “Maybe.”

But she was open to talk about their relationship and keeping the romance alive.

“Somebody gave us that advice when I first got pregnant, to make sure we have time for ourselves,” Kunis explained. “My parents live down the street, so we have them do what’s called monitor sitting, so the baby goes down to sleep and they have to watch the monitor. So I would say once a week we go on a date or something, just to connect. And we make an effort not to talk about the baby.”

When fellow guest Tom Hanks asked Kunis if that was even possible, she admitted it was tough. “It’s hard,” she said, “But for that one hour we try very hard to connect.”

Father-of-two Corden said thinking about anything other than your newborn is impossible when you’re a parent.

“It’s almost impossible when you’ve had a child,” he said. “To the point that you may be talking about it when you’re having sex.”

Kunis laughed and revealed her mind has wandered a few times.

“I’ve thought it but I’ve never said it,” she admitted, giggling even more. “I have been like, ‘I wonder if that’s her, making that noise….wait, what’s happening?’”

Watch the hilarious interview, and hear Hanks’ advice about getting their sex lives back on track.

Alright, I just finished reading Sophie Hunter’s Vogue profile and let me just say… chica is exhausting. It’s just a simple article about her wedding dress and wedding, and I came out of it feeling like Sophie is an exhausting person. Some Tumblr sites have the scans of her Vogue interview, but here are some highlights:

She actually IS working, people: “Sophie is currently developing a production of Britten’s Turn of the Screw with the Aldeburgh Festival and his Phaedra for the annual Beckett festival in Enniskillen, Northen Ireland…”

Sophie, on being told that she’s “grounded”: “When two people meet and it’s the right combination, it does ground you suddenly.”

What? Vogue says that Benedict and Sophie have known each other for “seventeen years.”

Planning the gown: Her wedding gown is Valentino Couture and normally it takes six months for the house to make a wedding gown, but “Sophie’s ensemble was raced through in three months.” She went to Rome for her first meeting with the designers.

Sophie on the process of planning her wedding: “From a directorial point of view, I see opera in it, I see art, I see theater. There’s a narrative of the individual and the occasion and the setting that is utterly unique.”

Sophie on her gown (which is lacy and silver-grey): “It seemed to encapsulate everything I’d been speaking about. It feels very much of nature, and it’s so detailed and extraordinary that I’m still trying to get my head around how beautiful it is.”

The veil: Sophie was going to wear a “200-year-old family wedding veil” but changed her mind because the old veil is “very ornate.”

The ring: Sophie’s something blue was “the fragile sapphire Tiffany engagement ring that Benedict, to her delight, picked out himself.” Sophie on the ring: “It has that delicacy, it’s certainly not ‘in your face.’” Sophie’s brother made their wedding bands.

[From Vogue, print edition]

The rest of the article is interesting, if you’re obsessed and/or a hater. She had five bridesmaids and three pages! What I came away with is… Sophie has some pretty good connections, mostly family connections, I would assume. She was able to pull together a really fancy, really expensive, really artsy-fartsy shotgun wedding very quickly. And it does sound like she was planning everything and Benedict didn’t get much of a say. It also sounds like her family made the wedding happen. As for her sapphire ring… damn, Benedict WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BRING MY BIRTHSTONE INTO IT?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Dear Gossips,

Angelina Jolie.

She put it in her own words in the New York Times. If you’ve not yet read the piece, click here. This is the part that resonated most with me:

“Regardless of the hormone replacements I’m taking, I am now in menopause. I will not be able …      

Eva Mendes is all about dresses and skirts. She’s all about “femininity” and pleasing her man. She’s also all about shilling for her dress line, the Eva Mendes Collection, with New York & Company. That’s why she’s been doing so much press the past few weeks – she’s shilling for her latest collaboration with NY&Co, plus I guess she has a line of drugstore cosmetics now? Who would have thought that Ryan Gosling would have ended up with the kind of lady who A) shills her own line of drugstore cosmetics and B) shills her own line of affordable dresses at a mall store?

Anyway, her shilling got her into trouble last week when she “joked” about sweatpants and how they were the #1 cause of divorce. She later had to take it back (claiming that it was all said in jest) and even Gosling had to help a sister out on his Twitter. But now Eva is coming after your comfortable pants again!!! She has a new interview with Who What Wear and she’s coming after JEANS. Not the jeans!! NO!

Whether having a baby affected her style: “I don’t think it’s affected anything actually! I feel like I’ve always been kind of rushed—I’m the girl who gets ready really, really quickly. It’s not something I’m incredibly proud of! I wish I was really calm and poised and—for lack of a better word—zen, but I’m not! I just don’t enjoy the getting ready process, although I do like the result.

She doesn’t consider herself a ‘jeans & t-shirt person’: “I love a soft pant, so I make sure they’re included in every collection. But if you see me in jeans it’s probably because all my skirts are at the dry cleaners or just dirty. I mean, I think jeans are really uncomfortable actually—aren’t they? They’re so restrictive! I always prefer a boyfriend jean, but I find those to be restrictive, too! It’s not unrealistic to see me in an outfit like this at home [points to her skirt], just without the belt and the shoes. I’d wear this with a loose tee or a tank top.

[From Who What Wear]

To defend her for a second… some jeans ARE uncomfortable. That’s why women search far and wide for the perfect pair of jeans. It’s a lifelong search in most cases. I remember great pairs of jeans more than I remember most men, honestly. I had the BEST pair of jeans in college. I think they were a thrift-store find, and the leg was perfect for me at the time (boot cut flare, just the right length) and the rise was that perfect not-too-high and not-too-low. They had a great medium wash too. Sigh… I miss those jeans.

My current favorite jeans? No judgment, okay? LL Bean Knit Jeans. They wear like sweatpants, they’ve got the perfect amount of stretch and the leg is perfect (for me). But hey, don’t look at me. I’m the very definition of a “jeans & t-shirt girl.”

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

Before we get into the Prince William stuff, let’s just get through several minor Duchess Kate stories. You know her polka-dotted ASOS dress last week? The one that cost £35? Apparently, Kate bought it online after browsing the site and of course the dress is already sold out. Kate also went shopped a few days ago and after she got some stuff for herself, she picked up some baby booties for the new baby and some little kicks for George. There’s also a rumor – unconfirmed at this moment – that Kate actually will be going to her parents’ home in Berkshire after she gives birth, like she did with George. Like, she won’t be going to Anmer Hall.

Okay, now for the William stuff. Last week, there were some reports that the senior royals had warned about a possible electronic security breach and that they needed to change all of their passwords, etc. A few days later, William made a “secret” visit to the Government Communications Headquarters, which I think is like the equivalent of America’s NSA. The problem? William took a royal helicopter for what was a private visit?

Prince William has made a top secret visit to Britain’s most secretive building, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. The Duke of Cambridge made the unannounced ‘private visit’ on Thursday to Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) – the maximum security ‘listening station’ which tracks electronic traffic of terrorists and spy agencies around the world.

The Duke’s first ever trip to GCHQ, housed in a doughnut-shaped building in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, comes after The Mail on Sunday revealed that he and other young Royals were being advised to change their email addresses and cut back on social media activities over fears they could be targeted by foreign spies and hackers. But questions were asked last night about the Duke’s use of a publicly funded Royal helicopter to make the trip, as it was not an official public engagement and was not announced in the Palace’s Court Circular.

The Duke was flown from London’s Kensington Palace to Gloucestershire airport on the Queen’s helicopter Flight, funded by the taxpayer, and which is supposed to be only used for official engagements by the Royals. Under Government rules, the Royals have to pay for their own private visits. But last night Kensington Palace declined to comment on the reasons for the trip or confirm whether the Prince would pay back the estimated £8,000 travel costs.

A Palace source initially described the 200-mile round trip as a ‘private visit’ but later suggested it was ‘official’, and so could possibly be paid from the taxpayer-funded Royal Travel Budget.

Kensington Palace and GCHQ refused to say whom he met, or what he saw. But it is believed the Prince met the new head of GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, and also saw the agency’s code breakers at work, monitoring internet and communications traffic to pick up terrorist threats. Other members of the Royal family have previously visited GCHQ, which was opened by the Queen in 2004.

A GCHQ spokesman said yesterday: ‘Prince William paid a private visit to GCHQ on March 19. As it was a private visit we can’t go into further details of what his itinerary involved.’

[From The Daily Mail]

For the love of God, this could have been so easier explained if William wasn’t so privacy-obsessed and obsessed with making the British taxpayers fund his every move. My guess is that this was a formal visit, that he was probably briefed on security and it was mostly work-related. Which means he was probably fine taking his version of “public transport” (taxpayer-funded private helicopter). But William is so GD squirrelly that he can’t even allow his PR guy to say “yes, it was an official visit but secrecy is very important so we won’t be issuing any additional statements.”

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Candice Bergen is promoting her new memoir, A Fine Romance. The book details her marriage to French director Louis Mallie and how she survived his death and moved on with life. Candace discusses aging and the empty nest she belt after her daughter (Chloe) reached adulthood. The most tantalizing excerpts from this book (so far) involve diet. Candice loves food and isn’t afraid to admit it. She discusses her weight gain of 30 pounds since Murphy Brown went off the air in 1998. Candice’s career has remained steady (with a hefty stint on Boston Legal), but she doesn’t care about her figure any more:

She doesn’t care about weight: “Let me just come right out and say it – I am fat. In the past 15 years … I have put on 30 pounds. I live to eat. None of this ‘eat to live’ stuff for me. At a recent dinner party I shared bread and olive oil, followed by chocolate ice cream with my husband. A woman near me looked at me, appalled, and I thought, ‘I don’t care!’”

Her “skinny friends” are “miserable”: “They maintain their weight by routinely vomiting after major meals consisting of a slice of steak or a filet of fish. I am incapable of this. I crave cookies … all the things that dilate my pupils.”

[From Page Six]

Good for Candice for being happy with her weight. Most people can’t say the same thing, although a 30 pound weight gain on her tall frame isn’t too visible. I wouldn’t have noticed if she didn’t point it out.

What Candice says about her “skinny friends” … there’s probably some sarcastic humor with the bulimia jab. Hopefully these women aren’t Candice’s real friends, or they’ll all figure out she’s trashing them. If Candice knows these ladies well enough to be aware of their ED, she shouldn’t reveal such knowledge in her memoir. I like Candice, but she should have stopped at her talk of loving food. She didn’t need to elaborate on vomiting rituals.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Julianne Hough covers the April issue of Allure because, yes, people are still trying to make Julianne Hough happen. I thought that attempt was over more than a year ago, but here we are, with Julianne covering yet another magazine cover for very little reason (I think she’s promoting her judge role on Dancing With the Stars?!). I’m covering this because Julianne actually gave a couple of half-decent quotes about some somewhat interesting subjects, namely her breakup with Ryan Seacrest (I would love it if she really dished about Seacrest, but she does not), Mormonism (she was raised Church of LDS), and most importantly, she admits that she was really, really stupid to wear blackface as part of her Halloween costume in 2013. You can see the Allure slideshow here. Some highlights:

Her short hair is because of Ryan Seacrest: “A little while after, when I cut ties with my relationship. I chopped more. It was about changing it up and beginning fresh—in the movie but in real life, also.”

She’s dating hockey player Brooks Laich, but she still runs into Seacrest: “It’s hard not to—he’s everywhere.”

She begins each day by reciting her “power virtues”: “A power virtue is who you want to be. I say the words, ‘I am’ beforehand… ‘I am determined,’ ‘I am passionate,’ ‘I am grateful,’ and ‘I am love.’”

Mormonism: “I am so grateful that I was raised LDS. I believe in their morals and their standards—and what they give out to the world, the service. I would do a mission, but not for the Mormon church.”

On her blackface Halloween costume: “Ignorance is sometimes not bliss; I really had no idea what I was doing, and it was all out of fun and respect for the character. I don’t even know how to talk about it because it’s such a sensitive topic. It makes me so sad to think that I was that dumb. I learned a big lesson.”

Returning to DWTS: “The fact that I can go back and judge and still pursue other avenues—it’s a win-win for me.”

[From Allure]

I have to give her some credit, because she handled the PR crisis of the blackface controversy pretty well. She gave a complete apology immediately and then she actually “went away” and let people forget about it for several months. And even now, a year and a half later, she’s still eating sh-t for it (justifiably) and taking it on the chin. But that’s what we want people to say when they’ve made a mistake, right? “It makes me so sad to think that I was that dumb. I learned a big lesson.” Thank you, Julianne Hough. Thank you for showing the dumb starlets how to manage a crisis with some kind of grace.

Photos courtesy of Carter Smith/Allure and Pacific Coast News.