Here are some photos of LeAnn Rimes out and about in LA a few days ago. We had these photos yesterday and I was going to write up something, but LeAnn has been pretty bland lately. I already mentioned – in the Brandi Glanville post yesterday – that LeAnn is still Twitter-stalking Brandi and Single-White-Female-ing her. When Brandi tweeted something about #Cookingforfamily, LeAnn had to copy her within a few hours. The whole thing, after all these years, is both funny and pathetic.

Anyway, while Brandi Glanville was in NYC this week to promote Celebrity Apprentice and RHOBH, I guess LeAnn and Eddie had his two boys. I was able to discern that from LeAnn’s Twitter, where she bragged about donating all of her food for Jake’s school project. #selfless #blessed #HowWillTheyKnowImSelflessIfIDontGetCreditForIt

I’ll be shopping for canned soups & beans to replace the ones we just unloaded for Jake’s school project He’s loaded down #feedingfamilies

— LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (@leannrimes) February 4, 2015

And of course, a pleasant reminder that she owns all of Eddie’s experiences with his sons. They are hers and hers alone!

I love watching my husband engage in every aspect of his son’s lives He’s the greatest dad Cheers to all you dads who give their whole heart

— LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (@leannrimes) February 5, 2015

Sigh… I mean, I guess the sentiment is nice enough, but knowing that LeAnn is a crazy Single White Female does give her tweets the patina of “they’re mine, they’re all mine, are you listening, Brandi?”

As for LeAnn’s ex-husband Dean, he told Us Weekly that he’s not writing a tell-all memoir about their failed married. He is going to write a book – a cookbook! He told Us Weekly: “I’m working on a book that is an inspirational cookbook about how I regained myself by disappearing from the Hollywood craziness and establishing my own roots through hard work and a lifelong passion for healthy eating.” The recipes will be interspersed between “anecdotal personal stories.” So there is a memoir-ish element to it. “This is the cake I made for LeAnn after she told me she was sleeping with Eddie…”

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

New Miley Cyrus interview with The Kit. She’s promoting MAC’s 2015 Viva Glam campaign. Turns out she was the one who approached MAC to create her own lipstick and gloss to raise money for AIDS awareness and support those living with the disease.

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During a Wednesday appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, new dad Ryan Reynolds talked family life with wife Blake Lively and their newborn daughter.

In an attempt to discover his baby’s name (which we know is not Violet), Letterman went through a series of different monikers, including Madison, Isabella and Sophia.

“I should’ve worn my cup!” Reynolds joked. “I didn’t know I was going to busted this hard.”

After confirming that it is a family name, Reynolds went on to say, “It’s not Elaine,” which is his MIL’s name.

All joking aside, The Voices actor, 38, went on to gush about his happy family life.

“It’s amazing,” he shared. “When we had that baby I fell more in love with my wife than I had ever been in my entire life.”

But the actor quickly returned to his usual humor.

“I would use my wife as a human shield to protect that baby,” he joked. “You can quote me.”

As for caring for a newborn, he’s been on diaper duty while his wife acts as “breakfast, lunch and dinner.”

“She’s a human Denny’s all day long and all night long,” he joked. “But the most beautiful Denny’s you’ve ever seen.”

Jay-Z is to New York like… Oprah is to Chicago. You know? Some people are synonymous with their cities. Jay could travel the world, he could live for years in the middle of nowhere and he would still be a New Yorker, he would still rap about Brooklyn and New York would still be in his blood. I always thought he was probably pretty happy calling Manhattan his homebase, but as it turns out, Jay-Z and Beyonce have already relocated to the West Coast. For months now, TMZ has been tracking Bey and Jay’s attempts to purchase major real estate in LA, and now TMZ says that they’re already living out of a hotel in LA and have been for a month or so. And they already enrolled Blue Ivy in pre-school!

Beyonce and Jay Z are moving to L.A. and they’ve already enrolled Blue Ivy in school … TMZ has learned. We’ve learned … Beyonce and Jay Z are currently living in a hotel in Beverly Hills and actively looking for an estate to buy on the westside of L.A., which includes Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills and Bel-Air. We’re told they have already discreetly looked at a number of homes, but so far none fit the bill.

We’ve also learned the famous couple enrolled their 3-year-old into a toddler program at an elite private school — we know which one but we’re not naming it. But we will tell you, the tuition is $15,080 a year. We’re told Blue Ivy was admitted halfway through the school year, which is unusual. The school generally only accepts students at the beginning of the school year.

As for why they’re moving, sources connected with the couple tell us they want “a change in lifestyle.” You’ll re recall, Bey and Jay spent the summer in a $200K a month rental near Bev Hills. We do not know but assume they will keep their New York digs.

[From TMZ]

This is just… weird. Right? I mean, Beyonce and Jay-Z are the Queen and King of New York. Blue Ivy is a New York baby! Is this all part of the sketchiness that went down between Bey and Jay last year? Is this part of the deal? Like, we’ll stay together and try for another baby but only if we move to a city so I don’t have to keep running into all of your New York side-pieces?

According to Us Weekly, it wasn’t about the side-pieces though. Their sources say Gwyneth Paltrow “heavily influenced” the move. A source says:

“Beyonce and Jay Z are making L.A. their permanent home based a lot on the advice of their friends. The friend that really influenced them to move was Gwyneth Paltrow. Gwyneth was telling Jay and Bey about the quality of life for her kids in L.A. and really swayed Beyonce and Jay to make the move. It’s all for Blue Ivy.”

[From Us Weekly]

The source also says that Bey and Jay will keep their New York property (properties, I believe) but LA will become their homebase. I can sort of understand moving to LA for a change of pace, and being able to move around with more freedom. What I don’t understand is moving to LA because Goop suggested it. I know Gwyneth likes to name-drop her friendship with Beyonce, but I really doubt that they’re close enough for Beyonce to uproot her family to be closer to Goop, you know?

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Congratulations are in order for Jenna Wolfe and Stephanie Gosk.

The Today show weekend anchor, 40, and her NBC foreign correspondent partner, 42, welcomed their second child – daughter Quinn Lily – on Wednesday, Feb. 4, they announced on Twitter.

Arriving at 4:06 p.m., the baby girl weighed in at 6 lbs., 12 oz.

“It’s time!!!” Wolfe, 40, Tweeted before Quinn’s arrival. “This little one’s as stubborn as her mama (me)…. Apparently she’s going to come out when she’s good and ready.”

Gosk went on to share a some precious first pics.

“The three of us. Pretty amazing stuff baby Quinny,” she captioned the image.

The newborn joins big sis Harper Estelle, 17 months.

The three of us. Pretty amazing stuff Baby Quinny pic.twitter.com/e8W0qhTMOk

— stephanie gosk (@stephgosk) February 4, 2015

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When was the last time you saw Ryan Reynolds on the talk show circuit? He can be charming, seems to love to gossip and is cagey as hell. Isn’t that what we’re looking for in a late night guest? Well, almost. The NEW DAD popped by Letterman last night to promote his latest film The Voi…      

This is a pretty serious story, but just take a moment and realize that the evening news broadcasts across all networks have become pretty meaningless. Evening news shows have been hemorrhaging viewership for the past decade (and longer). These days, the news anchors are fighting over the senior citizen demographic, basically. And these days, NBC’s Brian Williams is being beaten in the ratings regularly by ABC’s David Muir (Muir is my mom’s favorite anchor, just FYI). And this story will not help.

On last night’s evening news broadcast, Brian Williams had to take a moment and set the record straight about a claim he made in 2003 – and continued to make since 2003 – about coming under fire while reporting in Iraq at the start of the Iraq War.

“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams last night had to make the humiliating admission that he was not aboard a helicopter hit by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that he made and was repeated by the network for years.

Williams — who’d claimed he was in a chopper forced down by a rocket-propelled grenade 12 years ago — repeated the story on Friday’s newscast during a tribute for a retired sergeant major.

“The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq, when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG,” Williams said on Friday’s show. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor-mechanized platoon from the US Army 3rd Infantry.”

He was busted when vet Lance Reynolds commented on the “Nightly News” Facebook page, where the clip was posted, “Sorry, dude, I don’t remember you being on my aircraft. I do remember you walking up about an hour after we had landed to ask me what had happened.”

…Williams claimed on Facebook that he had confused events: “I spent much of the weekend thinking I’d gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake.” Stars and Stripes, which broke the story, reported that a different Chinook was hit by rockets and “the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft .?.?. Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter.”

Stars and Stripes quotes people from the scene who recall NBC reporting that Williams was aboard the attacked chopper. Mike O’Keeffe, who was a gunner on the damaged Chinook, said, “I can’t believe he is still telling this false narrative.” Williams admitted on-air Wednesday, “I want to apologize .?.?. This was a bungled attempt by me to thank one special veteran.”

[From Page Six]

I’m including the video of his apology below. What do you think? Was it an honest mix-up in the heat of a war? Or was it something grosser and more sinister? I think there are two separate issues – one, Williams was trying to honor a military man that he knew, but instead of talking about the man’s accomplishments, Brian made the segment about what the guy had done for him (the reporter should never be the story, Brian). And in describing what the guy did for him, Brian repeated a lie that never should have been told in the first place. This is a HUGE disappointment. No lie. I really thought Williams was better than this.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

It was reported last week that Johnny Depp would be marrying Amber Heard on his private island this weekend. They’re still going to the private island. And there will still be a ceremony there. But they made it official on Tuesday at his home in West Hollywood. According to an US Weekly sou…      

I had the chance to read People Magazine’s full print edition article on Bruce Jenner’s transition, and while there weren’t any big revelations, it filled in some of the details for me. The article was also full of photos of Bruce and his family throughout his life. It was a nice, compassionate take on what he’s going through. People also interviewed transgender people and leaders in the trans movement to help explain Bruce’s change. The magazine never used the word “historical,” but that’s what it seems like to me. He’s a brave person to come forward with this to the world.

Many of you have asked whether Bruce has expressed a preferred pronoun or name. He has not, and People explains that they’re still using the male pronoun to refer to Bruce because he has not said otherwise, and did not specifically address that question. Here’s more, along with some relevant excerpts from the article. I’m only including the parts we didn’t cover yesterday:

Why People is still calling Bruce ‘he’
Since his family currently uses the pronoun “he” to refer to Jenner, People is doing the same. “It’s important not to get too ahead of the person transitioning,” says Mary Andrews, a clinical psychologist and associate professor of clinical education. “Let them take the lead and tell you when they’re ready to be called by a different name or pronoun.” Jenner did not respond to a request for comment on this story or for a preferred pronoun.

How Kris took the news that Bruce is transitioning
Despite hints in Bruce’s behavior for years, multiple sources say that Kris was “shocked” by Bruce’s admission. “It’s really a hard adjustment for her,” says a source in Bruce’s inner circle. Adds the insider: “Kris had the most difficult time in the family. She’s looking back at their entire marriage, and a lot of things are suddenly making sense. She has had a lot to process.”

Bruce has not revealed whether he plans to change his name
Sources say Jenner, who remains attracted to women, hasn’t yet shared whether he plans to change his name or have more surgery. “No one feels deceived by Bruce,” says the insider. “He was going through this change slowly. It’s not like he woke up one day and was like ‘Surprise!’ He moved through his own feelings and his own changes at his own pace.”

“This is his story and [his family] wants him to tell the world the way he wants,” says the source close to the family. “He’s more and more confident,” notes the production source. “He’s doing what makes him happy.”

[From People Magazine, print edition, February 16, 2015]

Kris’ fingerprints are all over this story, but I guess I don’t blame her. Radar is claiming that Bruce is cutting Kris out of his docuseries and she’s pissed. People covered this with sensitivity and tact, similar to US’s coverage last week.

Some of you commented yesterday that Entertainment Tonight claimed that Bruce is going to change his name to Kaitlin with a K or a C. You can see their coverage of that here. They also had on Piers Morgan, who had some surprisingly thoughtful things to say about Bruce’s transition and how brave he was for doing it, especially in the public eye. Piers really pwned the trolls. He wrote an editorial for the Daily Mail about Bruce. “Bruce Jenner was one of the best decathletes in history. So to call him a coward is as pathetic as it’s so clearly inaccurate. So much commentary about his struggles has been vile, when what he’s going through is no doubt extraordinarily difficult. What’s truly cowardly is the way so many have raced to sneer, mock and humiliate the guy at probably the most difficult time of his entire life.” Oh damn! Awesome.

Speaking of not hearing from Bruce directly yet, the NY Times has an editorial on this story. The fact that Bruce has not spoken out yet is cited as a question of journalistic integrity. (That doesn’t apply to us of course, we’re a gossip blog.) Major outlets are now questioning whether and how to cover Bruce’s transition. It’s easier now that his mom has gone on the record.

Also, Bruce’s incredible mom, Esther, did an interview with The Associated Press too. She’d previously spoken to Radar Online. To the AP, she repeated some of the nice things she previous told Radar. Esther also added “I am at peace with what he is and what he’s doing.”

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Dear Gossips,

Sarah sent me this link yesterday saying “this is the craziest thing”. It’s about Jamie Dornan fans, three in particular, who spend what seems like all of their free time on social media hoping that he’ll notice them. Beyonce has a few of these too. For t…