Coach announced in September that Michael B Jordan would be their first men’s global ambassador. Yesterday they released his first campaign images. Per Coach’s press release, “the campaign was shot by Craig McDean and features Jordan dressed in the house’s reimagined iconic American silhouettes alon…

Normally, I wouldn’t care about a Bravo reality star, but I thought this was sort of an interesting story. Brittany Cartwright is perhaps known to some of you because she’s in Vanderpump Rules. She also recently got engaged to Jax Taylor, another “star” of Vanderpump Rules. She’s been getting more attention over the past year or so, and up until now, I thought she was a country singer or a Bachelorette, but no – she’s a Bravo reality star on the hustle. Anyway, Brittany flies Delta. She flew Delta Atlanta to Miami over the holidays, and it seems that – according to her – another passenger assaulted her and put gum in her hair?

It’s been a banner 2018 for Brittany Cartwright, including her 25-lb. weight loss and engagement to Vanderpump Rules costar Jax Taylor. But one day before the year came to a close, the Kentucky native hit a speed bump when an airline passenger allegedly assaulted her — pushing her and putting gum in her hair. Cartwright opened up about the alleged incident on Twitter in a post on Sunday.

She claimed in her tweet that while flying from Atlanta to Miami on a Delta flight, she was using the first class airplane bathroom when a female passenger “started shaking my door a good 3 to 4 times [even though] I had already told her someone was in there.” After Cartwright stepped out, she allegedly showed the passenger “where it said occupied and vacant.” The passenger then used the restroom, but mocked the reality star when she returned to her seat.

From there, things allegedly got worse. When Cartwright was exiting the jet bridge, the female passenger pushed and pulled her hair, Cartwright claimed. The woman also allegedly put gum in Cartwright’s hair — a photo of which the reality star posted.

“Jax saw it all happen so of course we walk after her and say how dare you touch me, I did nothing but show you a sign,” Cartwright wrote. “This kind of behavior is not acceptable and I will be pressing charges. This incident was a complete assault. I had to cut gum out of my hair. I did absolutely nothing to deserve this and I feel like a mean girl like this needs to be put in [her] place before she acts like this to someone else.”

Cartwright then when on to question Delta, claiming that the airline’s staff and flight attendants did nothing to help. The company’s official Twitter account did respond to Cartwright to say they would look into the incident, and a Delta rep told PEOPLE on Tuesday, “The airline has reached out to learn more.”

“I hope Delta does the right thing,” Cartwright added, in her original tweet. “I have her flight information, seat number, everything. I would NEVER ever disrespect someone this way, no matter how mad they made me so I can’t believe this behavior exists. It makes me sad and I can’t get over it. I will make sure this lady knows she can’t treat people this way. If this is what she will do at an AIRPORT (and get away with it), imagine what she is doing elsewhere?”

[From People]

I get that pushing someone constitutes assault, but the gum-in-the-hair thing? I don’t know. I don’t know about Delta’s liability here too. The assailant sounds like a total douchebag, for sure, but if it happened on the bridge, is Delta liable? And if someone put gum in my hair, that would make me so much angrier than being pushed. But it definitely feels like something is being left out of this story, right? Also: as someone with long hair and someone who likes to chew gum, that photo upsets me.

I’m so disgusted by what happened to me today while flying from Atlanta to Miami. @Delta I hope you see this and take the necessary measures, defending what is right, as I know I will. pic.twitter.com/R2X7LAHIJN

— Brittany Cartwright (@BNCartwright) December 30, 2018

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Just after Christmas, Forest Whitaker filed for divorce from his wife of 22 YEARS. This was not some flashy Hollywood marriage, and I never heard any gossip about Forest or his wife Keisha Nash Whitaker. After 22 years, their kids are grown (Sonnet Noel is 22 and True is 20) and out of the house. Maybe once they were empty-nesters, they were like “wow, I cannot stand you.” I honestly don’t know what happened, and no one else seems to know either. But does this sound like a shady update?

Forest Whitaker’s wife just filed her response to his divorce petition and although it seems on the surface there may be issues between the two, our sources say the divorce is super amicable.

Keisha Nash, through her lawyer disso queen Laura Wasser, is asking for spousal support once their 22 year marriage is dissolved. In Forest’s legal docs he asked the judge to deny Keisha spousal support.

The spousal support thing seems like it could blow up, but our sources say not the case. We’re told both sides want to work out a formal property settlement agreement that will satisfy them. There’s a lot to divide … he’s an incredibly successful actor and we’ve learned they did not have a prenup.

There are no minor children so child support is a non issue.

[From TMZ]

The prenup conversation is stupid because even if they had a prenup, after 22 years it wouldn’t matter in the state of California, a community property state in which prenups are generally thrown out the window if a couple has been married longer than a decade. I find it very shady that Keisha asked for spousal support and Forest asked that support be denied AND that “sources” are trying to play that like “oh they’re just working on a settlement.” If they were working on a settlement and on the same page, Keisha wouldn’t have had to ask for support and Forest wouldn’t have asked the court to deny it. And after 22 years, she better get spousal support. It’s one of those situations where the number of years should just mean a total 50-50 split in assets.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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On December 28th, Netflix released Bandersnatch, a new episode of Black Mirror. The episode is about 19-year old Stefan who is working on a video game called Bandersnatch. The game is a choose your own adventure, where choices that the player makes affect outcomes in the game. Wha…

Diddy and Cassie announced their breakup in October. I’ll admit that I never paid much attention to them as a couple, and to me, it seemed like they were always in a cycle of breaking up and making up. That cycle went on for 11 damn years. At least this time – the October breakup – it seems to be for real. They haven’t gotten back together. And perhaps that’s because Cassie is dating someone else: her new boyfriend is Cassie’s former trainer. As in, Diddy now believes that Cassie was banging this guy while Diddy was paying him for training sessions. LOL.

Diddy ?might want to ask for a refund from his former trainer … because sources claim the guy he hired to keep Cassie in shape was banging her on his dime … but she says his timeline is wrong. Here’s what we’re told. Diddy’s trainer, Jamal Liggin, got so busy he hired several trainers as backup, including Alex Fine. Diddy tagged Alex to train Cassie over the last year.

As we reported, Diddy and Cassie broke up several months ago after a decade-long relationship, but our sources claim Cassie and Alex hooked up before the split. We’re told what especially galls Diddy … he paid Alex to train his then-girlfriend and feels betrayed.

Cassie sure seems smitten with Alex. She has not ever publicly talked about a timeline, but we’re told Diddy is convinced there’s an overlap. Sources connected to Cassie insist she did NOT start dating Alex until after she broke up with Diddy. We reached out to Alex … so far, no word back.

Diddy has bigger issues to deal with, like raising his 3 children after the death of Kim Porter in November. Diddy was destroyed when Kim died, saying they were more than soulmates.

[From TMZ]

I mean… I bet this happens a lot. Rich man with a busy life. Rich man is used to hiring tons of people to work on all sorts of things. Rich man pays for his girlfriend’s private training sessions. Girlfriend bangs private trainer. The only thing is that if Cassie and Diddy split because she’s fallen for Alex, then lord, she’s dumb. You don’t break up with your rich man to get with the trainer.

Apparently, Alex is the guy Cassie is kissing in her IG, below:

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I love you Mommy

A post shared by Casandra (@cassie) on Dec 29, 2018 at 9:52am PST

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I saw this story over at E! Online, where they titled it “Netflix Warns People Not to Do the Bird Box Challenge.” Netflix’s twitter account didn’t do that though! They just told people not to hurt themselves with it, which as E! points out, is not the same as including a “do not try this at home” message. Netflix knows what they’re doing, they know they benefit from the memes. Apparently people are putting on blindfolds to see if they can navigate without sight, like Malorie and the other survivors had to in order to avoid the monsters which convince sane people to kill themselves. People are putting blindfolds on their kids, too, who are predictably running into sh-t. Bird Box was an interesting concept but it wasn’t compelling enough to make me do something this stupid and pointless. (When I’m in crowds I do sometimes imagine fighting my way out a la Walking Dead but that’s different and just an idea!)

This is the only terrible Twitter post I’ve seen of people doing this stunt. This poor baby.

Lmaooo the baby!!!#birdboxmemes #BirdBox #birdboxmemes #BirdBoxChallenge pic.twitter.com/4dhhIi6Str

— Bird Box Memes (@birdboxmemes) December 27, 2018

Most of the other memes and photos I saw were just people pretending they were on Bird Box with blindfolds, and not actually doing it though. TooFab has two YouTube videos of people who claimed they did it for a while though. These two women went 24 hours with blindfolds on. I only fast forwarded through it, but their sighted friend drove them around of course and helped them. They generally looked like idiots but they’re getting views. Another family let their two kids ride a little seated motorized bike around the house blindfolded. They just ran into sh-t of course. So I guess it’s a thing.

Here’s Netflix’s message

Can’t believe I have to say this, but: PLEASE DO NOT HURT YOURSELVES WITH THIS BIRD BOX CHALLENGE. We don’t know how this started, and we appreciate the love, but Boy and Girl have just one wish for 2019 and it is that you not end up in the hospital due to memes.

— Netflix US (@netflix) January 2, 2019

They know what they’re doing. They could have worded this “Please do not hurt yourselves BY doing this Bird Box challenge,” but they’re not telling people not to do it. The worded it ambiguously enough that it’s possible to interpret it as just saying “be careful!” This is a huge company with an entire social media team. Surely more than one person read this. Then again, we’ve heard how sh-tty the work environment is there.

As a rule I think these “challenges” are hyped by the media, that less people do them initially than reported, and that reporting them makes them more popular. *raises hand*

You can’t control me!! pic.twitter.com/USCPuqD5K9

— D dot Q (@DQ_Doo1) January 3, 2019

SANDRA AND HER DAMN BLINDFOLDS #BirdBox pic.twitter.com/bueV4eUOZv

— Bird Box Memes (@birdboxmemes) January 1, 2019

Dear Gossips,

Do you remember last year when Ryan Reynolds was promoting Deadpool 2 he went on a show in South Korea and sang “Tomorrow” behind a unicorn mask? That was a crazy sentence and I’ve read it back several times not quite believing it happened – but it did. It actually happened. And no…

Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting yesterday, even though the Trump Shutdown is still happening. It’s felt really low-key hasn’t it? I remember the government shutdowns in the ‘90s, and they felt like much bigger deals. But the Trump Shutdown came in the middle of the holiday season, and I truly believe that many people gave themselves the Christmas gift of Not Paying Attention To Trump For A Solid Week. Thus, it doesn’t seem like people were too worked up about the shutdown. But now that we’re in January and the new Congress is in town, people are like “wait, the Trump shutdown is still happening?” Yes. It is. And the orange madman isn’t doing anything about it but demanding billions of dollars for a wall – the same wall he claimed Mexico would pay for.

Anyway, this Cabinet meeting was apparently ridiculous for a million different reasons. I didn’t watch it, but I saw the headlines and tweets. Trump was ignorant of history and unhinged in about ten different ways. But the dumbest thing might have been this: the stupid fake-meme poster that Trump had made, which was laid out on the Cabinet table for some reason.

Note the poster on the table in the Cabinet Room. pic.twitter.com/iHc9e5LIg1

— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) January 2, 2019

If you’d like a better look, Trump tweeted the image back in November:

pic.twitter.com/nk2vKvHuaL

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2018

And it didn’t really take back then either. HBO was pissy about it too:

How do you say trademark misuse in Dothraki?

— HBO (@HBO) November 2, 2018

So, was this the craziest thing that happened in Trumpworld yesterday? Probably not. But it’s just a reminder of our shifting standards for CRAY in Trump’s America. Donald Trump literally tried to make a stupid meme happen, and even when it didn’t take, he still had the posters made and then he PUT THE POSTER ON THE TABLE for his unhinged Cabinet meeting. And all of it was probably supposed to district from the government shutdown. ¯_(?)_/¯

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.

Nancy Pelosi will become Speaker of the House for the second time today. I know there were (and perhaps ARE) some grumbles about Pelosi, but look… the lady gets sh-t done. Just look at how she regained the speakership – she negotiated and parlayed and hustled, because she understands how things work. She has an impressive amount of institutional knowledge about how power is structured in Washington. Anyway, to celebrate the new Congress and the Democratic majority in the House, Pelosi gave an interview to the Today Show. And she threw down some interesting pieces of news. As it turns out, the new Speaker of the House believes that presidents can be indicted, and she’s not ruling out impeachment. YAY.

Nancy Pelosi, who is poised to be the next House speaker, said that it remains open for discussion whether the Justice Department could indict a sitting president. Ahead of the new Democratic majority taking control of the House on Thursday, the California Democratic representative was asked whether special counsel Robert Mueller should honor the Department of Justice’s opinion that a sitting US president should not be indicted.

“I do not think that that is conclusive. No, I do not,” Pelosi said in an interview with NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie that aired Thursday on “Today.” Asked if Mueller could legally indict a sitting president, Pelosi said: “Let’s just see what Mueller does. Let’s spend our time on getting results for the American people.”

The Office of Legal Counsel’s guidance, issued in 2000, says, “The indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would unconstitutionally undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions.”

“It’s not the law,” Pelosi told Guthrie. “Everything indicates that a president can be indicted after he is no longer president of the United States.” Guthrie asked, “What about a sitting president?”

“Well, a sitting president when he is no longer president of the United States,” Pelosi answered.
Guthrie pressed again, asking, “A president who’s in office? Could Robert Mueller come back and say I am seeking an indictment?”

“I think that is an open discussion,” Pelosi said. “I think that’s an open discussion in terms of the law.”

Pelosi also said in the exclusive interview, which aired Thursday, that impeachment “would be” very divisive, adding: “We shouldn’t be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn’t avoid impeachment for a political reason.”

[From CNN and NBC News]

Wait, what? “We shouldn’t be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn’t avoid impeachment for a political reason.” Nancy Pelosi, Queen of Riddles. Speaker Pelosi, The Riddler. We shouldn’t impeach Donald Trump because of politics but we shouldn’t NOT impeach Trump because of politics. We can indict a president but not a sitting president but we could probably indict a sitting president. I will untangle this riddle, I promise.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.

Ariana Grande spends the day with ex Ricky Alvarez https://t.co/ww4nX3kUaj

— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) January 2, 2019

Ariana Grande was photographed out with her ex boyfriend, Ricky Alvarez, on New Year’s Day. You can see those photos by following the link above. Ari has unique style that sometimes works and sometimes looks ridiculous. The black face mask is understandable as the flu is rampant, her instrument is her voice, and had to cancel a performance last week due to bronchitis. She likes to wear oversized sweatshirts and jackets and it technically wasn’t freezing in NY on Tuesday, but the low was 38°. That’s kind of cold not to wear tights, especially for someone recovering from bronchitis, but maybe they were nude-colored.

Ariana was asked on Twitter if she was dating and she said she wasn’t and that she probably wouldn’t be all year or ever. You can see her tweet below. Outlets vary as to the timeline was but it looks like she tweeted that the same day she was seen out with Ricky, but before the photos were out. These two dated for a year in 2015 and reconnected in early November, when “thank u, next” came out. They joked online about Ricky getting the worst line, “Wrote some songs about Ricky, now I listen and laugh.” Then, about three weeks ago, she commented on one of his Instagram posts. When people asked if they were back together she wrote “We’re friends everyone take a big ol breather.”

Here’s what she wrote about being single:

spoiler for the rest of this year / probably my life: it’s no one. please refer back to this tweet for future questions. ?

— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) January 1, 2019

On the rare (ha) occasions I stepped out with an ex after a breakup I was definitely sleeping with him again. It usually ended just as badly if not worse than the first time, but it’s a smarter move for Ari than staying with Pete. She’s getting hers and I’ll reserve judgment until and unless she declares she’s coupled-up again. That wouldn’t jibe with her new image though.

Ari’s ex, Pete Davidson, is getting press for talking about her in a standup set earlier this week. It sounds like he’s doing ok now, which is reassuring after his scare. He talked about “thank u, next,” saying that his mom had to hear at least one person singing it to her mockingly. He also called Ariana a “diabolical genius” for including her exes by name instead of writing a typical blind item song. Plus Pete revealed that Louis C.K. tried to get him fired from SNL during Louis’ hosting gig in 2017. Louis told the producers, right in front of Pete, that “all this kid does is smoke weed and he’s gonna smoke his career away.” Pete claimed he got a Harry Potter tattoo the day before Alan Rickman died and then a Willy Wonka tattoo the day before Gene Wilder died. “Now I’m like, all right, that’s a coincidence, that’s weird. So I’m thinking of getting a tattoo of Louis C.K., what do you guys think?” Go for it Pete.

Also, it was just announced that Ariana will be a headliner at Coachella in April. Other big names include Childish Gambino, Janelle Monae, Tame Impala and Weezer. Her career is fire.

thank u for seven weeks at number 1 ? what a beautiful start to this year #thankunext #ipickedupshitafterthis pic.twitter.com/kutYOmiIg5

— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) January 2, 2019

Ari in early December:

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