Cyclone Pam ripped through Vanuatu on Saturday and thousands of people have been displaced. Evacuation centres have been set up but communications have still not been fully restored. Despite the devastation, there’s been very little (comparative) coverage about the disaster, especially in N…      

A few weeks ago, “sources” announced that Prince Harry would definitely be leaving military service for good this year. It was weird, because many believed (as I did) that Harry would spend much of his life in the military. He already served two tours in Afghanistan and he seemed to be following a path to promotion. But it’s really happening – Harry released a statement yesterday confirming the news. He says he will be done by June. Here’s his statement:

“After a decade of service, moving on from the army has been a really tough decision. I consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the chance to do some very challenging jobs and have met many fantastic people in the process. From learning the hard way to stay onside with my Colour Sergeant at Sandhurst, to the incredible people I served with during two tours in Afghanistan – the experiences I have had over the last 10 years will stay with me for the rest of my life. Inevitably most good things come to an end and I am at a crossroads in my military career. So while I am finishing off one part of my life, I am getting straight into a new chapter. I am really looking forward to it.”

[From People]

Before he leaves military service, Harry will spend four weeks with the Australian Defense Force in April and May. After June, though, there are some mysteries to how he’ll spend his time. Some are saying that at the age of 30, Harry will be like his brother and take another “gap year” to sort out his future role. Unlike William’s “gap year,” Harry seems to already have some ideas and he won’t be using his gap year as just an excuse to go on vacation. Harry’s already planning on spending this summer in sub-Saharan Africa doing volunteer work with conservation groups. Then he’ll return to London to work for the Ministry of Defense’s Recovery Capability Programme, and likely try to make the Invictus Games an annual event.

Here’s what worries me though… it seems like William’s PR team is going to continue to use Harry’s misadventures (real or perceived) to make William look better by comparison. I hope Harry is able to keep his nose clean. And I hope he works non-stop.

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Proud mom Kendra Wilkinson shared a sweet snapshot via Instagram Monday.

“Happy 10 months Alijah. Growing up way too fast. Celebrating at the park today,” the Kendra on Top star, 29, captioned the adorable photo of her beautiful baby girl.

In addition to Alijah, Kendra and her husband, former NFL star Hank Baskett, are also parens to 5-year-old son little Hank.

“Happy Saturday. #family #beachday,” Kendra recently posted a family selfie at the beach.

In a series of recent pics, Kendra shares some shots of a chic black outfit, an at-home massage and rocking the red carpet at Dead Rising: Watchtower.

While at the premiere with her hubby, we couldn’t help but notice her latest accessory — a new wedding ring! The bling comes as big news since Kendra was not wearing a wedding ring for awhile, and she reportedly disposed her previous one by flushing it down the toilet.

Kendra and Hank, who briefly split and then got back together on last season’s of Kendra on Top, will appear on the third season of Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars.

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Dear Gossips,

“You know, you look a lot better without all that black sh-t under your eyes.”

Did she?

Then, maybe. But now?

By today’s standards, at least to me, Ally Sheedy totally looked better in The Breakfast Club BEFORE Claire gave her the hairband makeover….      

It’s a case of the baby giggles!

Teen Mom 2 alum, Jenelle Evans, hopped on Instagram to share a few adorable updates of Kaiser Griffith, 9 months, yesterday, and we have to warn you — they’re completely adorable! Jenelle even graced us with a video (click HERE to watch) of Kaiser giggling. She captioned the video:

“#BabyGiggles”

Jenelle then went on to share a picture of Kaiser in his superhero carseat with crumbs all over him:

In another update, Jenelle snapped a picture of Kaiser while he was “zoned out,” getting his cartoon fix:

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Azealia Banks covers the April issue of Playboy. The shoot was done by Ellen Von Unwerth, and it’s actually kind of fun to look at if you disregard a terrified looking cat. I thought the cat might be fake, but it poses differently in a few shots. Poor kitty looks spooked. You can see the full NSFW shoot here. I’ve talked about Banks before in a roundabout way, which is usually the best way to refer to her. Usually you can find a ton of insulting slurs all over her Twitter page, but Banks’ management grabbed the reins until April. A wise move.

Banks is beyond epic in her troll-like ways. She regularly expresses anti-Semitic views and contempt for homosexual men (which is odd since she openly identifies as bisexual). Every so often, she speaks a kernal of truth about the hip-hop industry (see her Hot 97 interview). But she always ruins any valid message with hateful rants and button pushing. She even lamented the downfall of “father figure BILL COSBY.” This is the sort of behavior that killed two record contracts.

Here are some Playboy excerpts. This is some scrolldown WTF:

Her type of guy: “I love older men. The things in an older man’s house are better—his furniture, even his knives and his pots. And they smell better. Young guys, they may skip a shower and sh*t like that.”

Her career dreams: “The race thing always comes up, but I want to get there being very black and proud and boisterous about it. You get what I mean? A lot of times when you’re a black woman and you’re proud, that’s why people don’t like you. In American society, the game is to be a nonthreatening black person. That’s why you have Pharrell or Kendrick Lamar saying, ‘How can we expect people to respect us if we don’t respect ourselves?’ He’s playing that nonthreatening black man sh*t, and that gets all the white soccer moms going, ‘We love him.’ Even Kanye West plays a little bit of that game–’Please accept me, white world.’ Jay Z hasn’t played any of those games, and that’s what I like.”

Why people don’t like her: “It’s always about race. Lorde can run her mouth and talk sh*t about all these other bitches, but y’all aren’t saying she’s angry. If I have something to say, I get pushed into the corner. Because y’all motherf***ers still owe me reparations! That’s why it’s still about race. Really, the generational effects of Jim Crow and poverty linger on. As long as I have my money, I’m getting the f*** out of here and I’m gonna leave y’all to your own devices.”

On the U.S.: “I hate everything about this country. Like, I hate fat white Americans. All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma–that’s really America.”

She’s always been this way: “We had journals in second grade. I went to PS 166, on 88th Street and Columbus Avenue, and we had a teacher I could not stand. The black kids got in trouble all the time. We were loud or whatever, but whenever she told a white kid to quiet down and they did, she’d be like, whatever. But if she told a black kid to quiet down and one of them sucked their teeth, she’d put them in the corner. I wrote in the journal one day, ‘I cannot stand this white bitch teacher. F*** this white bitch.’ She found my journal and called my mother, who was embarrassed, because my mother used to say stuff like that–’White people are of the devil. Stay away from them.’ That teacher was scared of me after that.”

[From Playboy]

Banks also rants about why athiests suck (something about God and calculators, which makes no sense). She says she doesn’t sleep around but not because because she doesn’t want to. She admits to turning off men by ranting about the injustices of life, and they flee. She’s fine with that because she doesn’t want to catch VD.

Banks wants us to think she’s playing that game where she makes us uncomfortable and shakes up our version of reality, but all she does is pick fights. She doesn’t get why people don’t take her statements seriously when she talks about “the issues.” She wonders why people respect Q-Tip and not her? Well … for starters. Q-Tip expresses himself without drama. He doesn’t toss around slurs. He doesn’t insult people. Whereas Banks doesn’t discuss, she attacks. Troll is a troll.

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This is heart-breaking.

You may remember when we posted a couple weeks back about Taylor Swift, 25, granting a terminally ill 4-year-old fan her final wish. Jalene Salinas, the 4-year-old girl, had been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer since last year. One of Jalene’s wishes on her bucket list was to be able to dance to “Shake It Off” with Taylor Swift. This is a wish that Taylor would go on to grant for her fan. Unfortunately, Jalene has since passed away. Her Facebook page released the following statement:

“On March 15, 2015 Jalene gained her beautiful angel wings. She fought all the way to the end. She beat Cancer defying the hours and days we were told. She went to be with our Lord in his time. Jalene was a true princess and I made sure to have her glass slippers by her side. I have to say that Jalene loved her siblings and at the end she was waiting for her little brother to say goodbye before taking her last breath. She was dressed beautifully. I did take pictures 10 mins after her passing. The ONLY reason I am choosing to share a photo is because everyone can simply agree on what a great infectionest smile Jalene had. So with in the first 10 of her passing, as I sat by her side, I looked up and there she was smiling at me. Jalene’s smile seemed to grow as time was passing by and we were waiting for her to be picked up. Her smile comforted my heart and let me know that she is flying high free of pain and sickness!!!

Team Jalene thank you for being a part of her journey. This is not over because Jalene Will live on in the heart of everyone. We will continue to spread her kind hearted nature. Her ability to care for others. Please in Jalene’s name today especially but always spread her smile to the ones that don’t have a smile on their face. Her legacy will continue alway and forever….”

This is heart-wrenching. Our thoughts are certainly with Jalene, her family, her friends, and her fellow fans at this time.

Your boyfriend Charlie Hunnam has a newish interview with Elle Canada. I enjoyed it! I’m really starting to enjoy him more as a person/celebrity, beyond his looks. He loves cats, his interviews are interesting and funny, he can cook and he has temporarily given up his motorcycle as part of the grieving process post-Sons of Anarchy. See? He’s more than a pretty face and an amazing butt. Anyway, you can read Charlie’s Elle interview here – he talks about leaving SOA and being “heartbroken” to say goodbye to Jax (none of which really interested me, so I’m leaving that out). He also talks about masculinity, rebellious youth and getting naked on camera.

What it means to be a man: “It means standing on your own two feet, living by your code of honour and being a rock for the people around you. But in the modern context, it also means being in touch with your feminine side. Men have to be strong enough not to repress their emotions; real strength allows for vulnerability.”

His rebellious youth: “When I was 15, I was banned from going to Florence on an art-history trip by a teacher who generally thought I was a ‘menace to society.’ While he was away, I broke into his stash of acrylic paints and painted this giant crushed-up Coke can. It was maybe the best painting I’d ever done, but he ripped it up in front of the whole class. I was so angry and humiliated and sad that this thing that I loved and that I’d created was destroyed. I felt myself starting to cry, which was totally un­acceptable to me at that time. We used to twist old art scissors into throwing stars, and I could hit a f–king bull’s eye, no problem. So I threw some of these scissors at him, and they landed in the doorframe parallel to his head. And that was it—they expelled me from school.”

On-screen nudity: “The level of nudity that I do now, which is taking my shirt off, doesn’t bother me at all. But I have done full frontal before. I did full frontal when I was 18 on the TV show Queer as Folk. But because I was playing a 15-year-old character, the censorship people wouldn’t allow us to put it on TV.”

Whether he would go full frontal again: “I think when I was young, I was a little bit more fearless with that stuff. I don’t know…I’m sure I would; I have nothing to hide.”

[From Elle Canada]

He dropped trou a lot for Sons of Anarchy, but they never did show “full thunder” as it was. Maybe he would have revealed his thunder for Fifty Shades of Grey, but he ended up pulling out of that mess. So… something to look forward to in the future. I could see him going full-frontal like Michael Fassbender in Shame, couldn’t you?

As for his story of “rebellion” – whoa. He threw scissors at a teacher!! That’s a pretty good reason for an expulsion. But I did love his answer about masculinity and “real men” knowing how to be in touch with their feelings and vulnerability. I feel like Charlie should do some PSAs about masculinity. Maybe he could be shirtless and crying at the time. GAH.

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As we discussed yesterday, Pamela Anderson is pretty much at war with her lunatic estranged husband, Rick Salomon. Rick has been harassing her, sending her crazy and accusatory messages, calling her a “serial baby killer” and more. Pam also claimed Rick tried to smother her during sex one time. She successfully got a restraining order taken out against him, and now it seems like Pam is going after his money.

Pam Anderson says Rick Salomon may not be screwing her anymore, but he’s definitely screwing the tax man … because he’s dodging a tax bill on $40 million in poker winnings in 2014 alone. TMZ broke the story … Rick has filed for an annulment from Pam in Nevada. She wants a California divorce, not an annulment, because it could entitle her to half his poker earnings.

Pam claims in new legal docs — obtained by TMZ — Rick won $40 MIL from ONE GUY — Andy Beal, a billionaire real estate mogul who plays high stakes poker. In one weekend, Beal gambled at the Bellagio in Vegas and was up $13 mil at one point and down more than $16 mil later. Pam says in the docs, Rick is lying in his annulment papers by saying he’s a resident of Nevada, where there is no state income tax. Pam says they have lived in Malibu, California, where the state tax rate is a whopping 13%.

Pam says Rick actually used some of his earnings last year to buy a $4 million Nevada pad by paying cash, and then had his assistant use Rick’s credit card in Nevada to make small purchases, making it look like Rick was living there. Rick’s people say Pam is on a mission to ruin Rick because she’s not happy about the proposed divorce settlement.

[From TMZ]

I don’t really feel like taking a side here, mostly because it sounds like both of them are focused on the money and it feels like the financial aspect of this divorce is what we’ve been building up to. Do I think that Pam “deserves” half of Rick’s assets just because they were married to each other for a few months? Nope. But I do think that – legally – Rick is likely a resident of California, and this “I live in Nevada, dude” excuse won’t really hold up.

Meanwhile, it’s pretty well known (if you read the tabloids) that Pam isn’t in the best financial situation. Her Malibu property was a money pit and she spent millions trying (unsuccessfully) to renovate it. A few years ago, she was hit with a massive tax lien too. Plus, I doubt she has that much money coming in. So is it any surprise that one of her friends “gifted” her with an $800,000 ring?

Pam Anderson deserves the $800,000 ring “The Simpsons” co-creator Sam Simon gave her before he died of cancer, friends of the “Baywatch” star say. The buxom blonde was in the front row at Simon’s funeral in Los Angeles on Saturday and gave a eulogy before such mourners as Drew Carey, Conan O’Brien and Bob Barker.

“She called Sam the only real gentleman in her life,” PETA president Ingrid Newkirk told me. Both Simon and Anderson were honorary directors of the organization.

“They bonded over their concern about animal abuse,” Newkirk said of the platonic friendship. “She cheered him up, arranged a personal trainer to help him be less dependent on his cane, and he supported her as she struggled with divorce. They were solid pals, and Sam was a generous man who knew his own mind right up to the end.”

Simon’s girlfriend Kate Porter also denied a TMZ story that Simon’s family was upset that Anderson had taken advantage of a dying man.

“It’s not a true story,” Porter tweeted. “Whoever did this should be ashamed of themselves. Very upsetting to all of us!”

[From Page Six]

Yes, there was a story that Sam Simon’s family members were upset with his gift/bequest, but I guess not. I guess Sam and Pam really were friends and he was just trying to help his friend out. That’s nice, isn’t it?

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

Well, I never!! I can’t believe Duchess Kate didn’t repeat one of her two green coats (go here and here to see) for her annual St. Patrick’s Day outing to meet the Irish Guards. She didn’t wear green at all!! Shocking.

Kate ended up wearing something we’ve never seen before: a dark brown Catherine Walker coat and a Lock & Co hat. Walker isn’t a standard maternity designer, but this coat looks well-proportioned and I assume it was probably made for Kate. It’s very pretty. I envy her coat collection and this is probably one of the best maternity coats/coat-dresses I’ve seen on Kate. It’s a great length, the dark color flatters her as a brunette and I even like the way she’s styled her look. Her hair is back! And she’s wearing a gold Irish Guards brooch that once belonged to the Queen Mum (although you can barely see it because she’s also wearing real shamrocks). The brown suede shoes are by Emmy London.

Meanwhile, The Daily Beast ran a story/propaganda piece this week about how we need to stop calling her “Lazy Kate.” Apparently, Kate has been nothing short of a workhorse during her pregnancy, which the DB admits is a “carefully thought-out strategy” to “put an end to the ‘lazy Kate’ story that threatened to become a theme.” I don’t think Kate has suddenly become a workhorse, I just think Will and Kate’s new American PR guy is working his bum off and he’s actually convinced Kate in particular that if she wants to take a long maternity leave or month-long vacations, she needs to put in some work-time in between holidays. Apparently, Kate will also make a stop by a Children’s Centre tomorrow and she’ll do some events at the end of this month. So this isn’t her last engagement before her extended maternity leave.

Photos courtesy of WENN.