Obviously I was a huge Breaking Bad fan, and as much as it stressed me out, I miss writing the recaps as it made my love for, and understanding of, the show that much deeper.

But I wasn’t super excited about Better Call Saul; a prequel spin-off seems like it was just a disaster waiting …      

Candice Swanepoel covers the March issue of Self magazine. She’s not very exciting, gosspwise, but this is a very cool cover feature. No controversy or anything, but I always get excited when models take an athletic stance (like Gisele Bundchen’s Underarmour commercial). Candice looks so strong on this cover. She does talk about how her early career was met with criticism because she weighed too much. That’s the case for so many models, but I think she’s referring to muscle bulk. Here are some excerpts:

On being told to lose weight for her career: “I was so used to people criticizing me for being too thin that it was shocking to me.”

Her big break: “My agent said: ‘They want to see you. If you get the show, will you move to New York?’ I said: ‘If I got Victoria’s Secret, I’d do anything.’”

She’s an athlete: “I’m an athlete. I use every single muscle, especially my core and arms, when I pose. It’s so important for me to feel strong. When I have a show or a specific shoot coming up, I train for it full on, like an athlete would train for a game.”

Modelling is different now: “It used to be that if you had a swim shoot, you’d go away for two weeks and spend the first four days getting a suntan,’ she said. ‘Now we work 12 hours a day, every day, and I can be on a plane every two days. It’s almost like a chess game, where we’re the pieces.”

Her work ethic started early: “Africa is not for wussies. It’s in our culture to be hard workers.”

[From Self]

The modelling industry really is different now, especially for VS models. They’re a lot less curvy than they used to be, and there’s been plenty of criticism for that change. These girls also do a lot more events than back in the old days. It used to be a gig that mostly involved catalogue shoots, but now VS girls do more apperances and runway show blowouts for television. Candice is a good role example of a model who can be sexy and very atletic too.

Here’s Candice modelling the upcoming Apple watch. She’s the first woman to wear one on a magazine cover. Self made a big deal out of that fact.

Photos courtesy of Sebastian Kim/Self & WENN

Here are some photos of LeAnn Rimes taken off her Instagram. She celebrated Valentine’s Day in a bikini with her husband, per usual. I’m actually surprised she didn’t show off some “gifts” given to her by Eddie Cibrian. But no matter. LeAnn is going to perform in Las Vegas this weekend and she ended up doing a phone interview with the Las Vegas Review Journal. The whole thing was about her body, obviously. Some highlights:

How she stays in shape: “I work out a lot, because I like to eat. And I love wine. I have to figure out a way to enjoy that somehow” without gaining a ton of weight. Rimes boxes, jumps rope and does Pilates. She works out an hour to an hour and a half every day, five or six days a week. “I guess I do train pretty hard,” she said.

Whether she would like to box anyone in particular: “Haha. Um. I don’t think so. I like my face too much. And I like my brain. I can only imagine how I’d get rocked if I got hit too much. I love to box. I have to say, I’m actually pretty good at it.”

Her V-Day: Rimes and her husband, Eddie Cibrian, just spent a romantic Valentine’s weekend in an RV at the beach without the kids. “I thoroughly get into every holiday,” because the godparents who helped raise her “celebrated everything…I turn into Cupid on Valentine’s. I turn into the Easter bunny on Easter. Cupcakes and valentine’s everywhere!”

She’s working on another Christmas album: “It’s kind of odd talking about Christmas songs in February. But it’s all very odd. It’s 80 degrees outside, and we’re talking about Christmas!”

[From The Las Vegas Review Journal]

Well, I’ll give LeAnn this: this is the best she’s looked in years. She’s finally found a balance and her body is back to looking healthy.

But of course, not everything is healthy. Because LeAnn has to perform this weekend, she’s been bitching on her Twitter about how sick she is. Because that never gets old! She always gets a cold, flu or (this time) “bronchitis” whenever she needs Eddie to pay attention to her.

Photos courtesy of LeAnn’s Instagram.

Last night in New York. At The Spotted Pig. Taylor Swift and Kanye West were both there, papped leaving within minutes of each other after meeting for dinner supposedly to discuss their upcoming collaboration. This shouldn’t be a surprise as he told Ryan Seacrest last week:

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The latest Joe Biden catastrophe started when Biden was swearing in our new Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter. The new secretary had invited his wife Stephanie and their kids to the swearing in, and Stephanie was standing beside the podium with Biden. Biden couldn’t help himself. He put his hands on Stephanie’s shoulders and I think I detect some rubbing happening. Then he leaned in really close and whispered something to her while her husband was speaking. The whole video should be watched as an example of Workplace Sexual Harrassment (and I’m saying that as someone who ordinarily likes Uncle Joe).

Biden has apparently known Ashton Carter and his wife for years. That’s not an excuse, but it’s possible he’s simply friendly with Carters and the whole thing has been misinterpreted. And while Stephanie Carter hasn’t said anything about this and perhaps she wasn’t even that uncomfortable with it, it does seem like yet another example of the Veep getting too friendly/handsy/inappropriate with the ladies. The only thing I’ll say in Biden’s defense is that he’s always a pretty handsy guy and he seems to enjoy the baby-kissing and voter-hugging part of political life, and he is legitimately that way with men, women and children equally. But yeah, he needs to stop.

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Photos courtesy of WENN, Getty.

Justified Season 6, Episode 5 recap.

After last week’s most excellent episode, this week we take a slight step back. It’s not a bad episode at all, it just doesn’t have the same urgency as last week’s. The main things that happen, plot-wise, are that Ava attempts to ba…      

Sandra Bullock was in New Orleans last night celebrating Mardi Gras with her son and some friends, including Anthony Mackie, Chelsea Handler, Whitney Cummings, and comedian Michael McDonald. She and McDonald have been friends for a while. They worked together on The Heat and appear to be quite cl…      

Jessa Duggar-Seewald and her husband Ben Seewald cover this week’s issue of People Magazine. I was like, “Ugh, I can’t believe that they’re the most interesting people this week,” but the Duggars’ TLC reality show has just started their new season. That’s why you’re seeing more Duggar stories this week: promotion for their show. Anyway, Jessa is by far the most “dangerous” Duggar because she’s a wanton harlot who French kisses her husband on Instagram. Jessa and Ben got married last fall, in early November, and Jessa still isn’t knocked up. This is a big deal for the Duggar clan, so of course Jessa mentions to People Magazine that she and Ben are thinking about adopting.

Jessa’s adjustment to married life: “One thing I’ve had to adjust to is not having my siblings around – especially my sisters because we are so close.”

Jessa wants to adopt: “We hope to adopt a lot of kids. If God blesses us with biological kids of our own, it’s not going to quench our desire to adopt.” Adds Ben, 19, “Kids are so important.”

Jessa on arguing with her husband: “If we have a hard time and we talk about it, you just love each other so much more afterwards. After a disagreement, I often feel, ‘I have never loved you more than I love you now.’ ”

[From People Magazine]

It’s all well and good that Jessa feels closer to Ben after a disagreement, but wasn’t she raised to NEVER disagree with her husband about anything? There should be no disagreements at all – Ben should make up his mind about something and Jessa should follow his lead. The end. That’s how Duggar women are raised. As for adoption…People Mag says that Jessa and Ben are already doing the paperwork for an adoption and all of that. If that’s what they want, fine, God bless. But they’re both healthy and young (she’s 22, he’s 19) and it seems weird to me that two anti-birth control young people would not be pregnant this many months into their marriage.

Photos courtesy of Jessa’s Facebook, cover courtesy of People Magazine.

Here are some photos of Will Smith and Margot Robbie premiering Focus at an Italian film festival. Margot’s wearing a Marni resort outfit. I worry about this movie bombing and negatively affecting her career. Will has built up enough of a box-office record that he’ll be able to skirt the blame for at least a few more duds. Look at Johnny Depp continuing to skate around with his merry band of quirky characters. Will’s never had a Pirates of the Caribbean level of success, but he’s still beloved by Hollywood. Margot’s a fresh face, and she’s a woman, which means she’ll shoulder the blame when people want to go watch 50 Shades again instead of a predictable looking heist film.

Will’s gone off the deep end lately in the parenting department, and I question his connection to reality. He’s a very insulated, protected person. Will doesn’t believe racism even exists in Hollywood anymore. The thought never crosses his Xenu-tweaked mind:

On a lack of diversity in Hollywood: “I didn’t even think about that really, I can’t say I feel negatively about it. I don’t really think that it’s too much of a problem. Really, my brain doesn’t even work like that.”

The Selma Oscar controversy: “In terms of what’s snubbed and what’s not snubbed, people vote for the movies that they want to vote for and they have that right.”

[From Ok! Magazine]

Someone must have disregarded the Denzel Washington discussion of the Sony hack. I can’t tell if Will is delusional enough to believe what he’s saying, or if he’s simply afraid to walk into a serious discussion. Nothing is serious when it comes to Will’s persona. He walks around on red carpets, pulling faces and pointing, and everything is wonderful in life. Marriage and parenting? Also never a problem.

There’s a story in this week’s issue of OK! Magazine that says Will and Jada told their kids they can’t hang with the Jenner girls anymore. This source is suspect, but it’s also the same magazine Will talked to about non-existent racism. So there could be something there. We’ve heard buzzings about how Jada thinks Kendall is a brat. It’s still hard to believe Will and Jada would lift a finger to throw down a rule for their kids.

Margot’s dress in this photo is Valentino.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN

Big Mike is 30 years old, happily married, the father of twin boys, just a year old. Mike is living with terminal cancer. Doctors have told him that modern science can no longer help him. He and his family are praying for a miracle, but he’s also working to build a business, something to le…