If Andrew Garfield and Rita Ora were among the most random celebrity hookups of the year, Timothee Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp are the couple that seems to make the most sense. Who else would they be with? Lily-Rose’s father is American and her mother is French. Timmy’s mother is American and his fa…

This randomness was first reported at the end of November – that Andrew Garfield and Rita Ora were in the “early stages” of a relationship, conveniently reported by the UK Sun after Rita “let it slip” to her friends. Which is definitely a Rita Ora move but is not known to be an Andrew move.

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With Get Out, Jordan Peele revealed himself to be a filmmaker fully formed, with clear vision and scope, and really no improvement needed. So his sophomore effort, titled Us, is both highly anticipated and scrutinized, as we want the next dose of his particular brand of horror, but also to see if Ge…

As expected, Prince William, Kate, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle walked amiably together to church on Christmas morning in Sandringham along with other members of the royal family per royal tradition. It was a repeat of last year, with the Cambridges and the Sussexes taking up the same positions: …

Nothing says Christmas 2018 like a billionaire sitting in front of a gold piano telling us all to pull together through this difficult time. pic.twitter.com/uQ2G9ao1iS

— Saint Guff Of Stellamas (@gavmacn) December 24, 2018

The Queen’s gold piano became a big talking point over Christmas. [Jezebel]
Emma Stone’s year-in-Louis-Vuitton was a mixed bag, but at least she’s getting paid the big money for wearing these terrible clothes. [Go Fug Yourself]
Here are some of the political stories I’m trying to ignore. [Pajiba]
There’s video evidence of one of Kevin Spacey’s crimes. [Towleroad]
Sofia Vergara & Nick Loeb’s lawsuit shenanigans are still happening. [Dlisted]
Rihanna has been with Hassan Jameel for two years?! [LaineyGossip]
There’s always drama on RHOA. [Reality Tea]
Beautiful photos of beautiful foxes in the snow. [OMG Blog]
Best-dressed ladies of 2018, and I disagree with most of these! [Red Carpet Fashion Awards]

Privileged wealthy hereditary monarch bunged £76m a year, sitting in front of a golden piano in the palace she’s billing taxpayers £369m to tart up, kills satire by lecturing the nation to pull together https://t.co/28ft4GGL3q

— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) December 26, 2018

Nothing says British quite like an unelected head of state telling us to overcome our differences while sat in a palace in front of a gold piano. Merry Christmas, all! pic.twitter.com/L5FBtQIOeI

— Miriam Brett (@MiriamBrett) December 25, 2018

The Queen quietly hints that all she wants for Christmas is a solid gold piano stool to go with her solid gold piano pic.twitter.com/fe12O7AmXi

— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) December 24, 2018

“So sad all those people going to foodbanks and sleeping on the streets. So to cheer them up I suggest we gather round my gold piano with a rendition of My Old Man’s a Dustman. That’ll take their mind off the cold and hunger for a while. Do you see how hard being Queen is now?” pic.twitter.com/k42Rt1PsJ8

— James Dornan SNP (@glasgowcathcart) December 26, 2018

Dear Gossips,

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth confirmed yesterday what we all presumed to be true on Monday – they were married December 23 in Tennessee.

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Before I write this post every year I review what I wrote the past year. Last year I was hoping for an impeachment, which of course we didn’t get (yet), but there were some deals made by guilty former Trump staffers and prison sentences handed out. I was also hoping for a better year, which we arguably didn’t get either, but there were two royal weddings, a royal tour, a royal baby and a royal pregnancy! There was a royal feud that played out in the press for weeks. The custody battle between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt went into its third year. Last year the most commented posts were about the orange one in charge. While we continue to cover his ridiculous tweets, unhinged interviews and open racism, it’s no longer surprising and we’re generally in agreement. Amid so many disappointments, there were some true heroes this year.

Here are the top ten most commented posts this year, in reverse order and grouped by subject.

10, 6
Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s “divorce”

While the press used the terms divorce and marriage when covering Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s high profile split in February, curiously no one filed for divorce. We were one of the only outlets to point out that the paperwork for said divorce was never reportedly filed, suggesting they smartly didn’t make it official. We heard that they broke up after a vacation in Cabo San Lucas at the end of last year, that it was Theroux’s idea, and that their bicoastal living situation took a toll on the relationship. Whatever happened between them, they were much classier about their breakup than other high profile couples. Theroux possibly dated Selena Gomez, Emma Stone (is that still happening?), Laura Harrier (Kaiser thinks he’s with Laura) and a random woman from the gym while Aniston is either happily single or keeping her love life on lockdown.

8
Beyonce headlined Coachella

In April Beyonce was the first black woman to ever headline Coachella, the third woman overall, and she set the bar impossibly high. Outlets gushed about her energetic and entertaining performance of over two dozen songs, multiple costume changes and on-point choreography. Her performance was a celebration of everything from historically black colleges and blackness in general. Others complained that it was overrated. Whatever the case, everyone was taking about Beyonce.

5
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s custody battle dragged on

Just one story about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s divorce and custody battle made it into the top ten this year, a laughable piece about how Angelina might lose custody. Pitt’s press tactics are predictable and transparent. These two split way back in 2016 and yet their divorce still isn’t finalized. We did hear vague details that they reached a custody agreement earlier this month though, with Pitt receiving less than 50% custody.

9, 7, 3, 2
Meghan and Harry got married!

The celebrity-attended royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Meghan this May was a true highlight of the year. (We were spoiled with a second royal wedding in October, when Princess Eugenie got married.) In the lead-up to the wedding, we learned that Meghan has a narcissistic, manipulative father who sold her out instead of walking her down the aisle as planned. (She has a half sister who is a piece of work too, but at least her mother is supportive and wonderful.) We also heard that Meghan may have dumped her first husband by mail. Meghan is definitely efficient. She quickly hit the ground running with appearances and worthy causes, leading some of her staff to rankle at the increased work requirements of having an ambitious boss.

2
Spanish Queen Letizia was feuding with her mother-in-law, Queen Sofia

A surprising story was the Easter feud between Spain’s Queen Letizia and her mother-in-law, former queen-regent Queen Sofia. Outside the church after Easter services, Queen Sofia tried to pose for photos with her granddaughters. Queen Letizia stepped in quickly afterwards, as if she didn’t want Sofia posing with her daughters alone. Then Letizia’s husband, King Felipe, stepped in as if he was used to playing peacemaker between his mother and wife. A few days later Letizia and Sofia stepped out for a photo op together, publicly burying the hatchet.

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Were the Duchess of Sussex and The Duchess of Cambridge feuding?

We heard rumors of a feud between Duchesses Meghan and Kate that resulted in Kate crying over a disagreement with Meghan. We later learned that the argument was over a pre-wedding fitting for Princess Charlotte’s gown in which a postpartum Kate disagreed with the tailoring. Many of the stories seemed to have racist undertones and there was resentment of Meghan’s American work ethic. The real feud was perhaps the long simmering one between Princes Harry and William. Signifying that the feud was over and/or exaggerated, both couples walked to the church together on Christmas, with Meghan and Kate looking affectionate towards each other.

Thanks for being a reader and commenter and here’s hoping for more indictments and an impeachment in 2019. We also a royal baby to look forward to!

Photos credit: Backgrid, Avalon.red and WENN

This will hopefully be a new end-of-the-year tradition: my gossip predictions for the upcoming year. It’s not like gossip stories cycle out on December 31st, so obviously some of my predictions are about stories and celebrities we’ve been obsessing over throughout 2018. I’m not pretending to be a psychic or anything, but I do seem to have gotten a little bit of my gossip-predicting mojo back in the past few years (after it left me for a while). So here are some of my predictions for 2019:

Political predictions. I hate to say it, but I don’t think Donald Trump will be impeached in 2019. I think Republicans in the Senate will continue to have his back, even as everything descends into chaos. But! I do think 2019 will be an awful year for Trump, his family and the GOP in general. I truly believe that several Trumps will be indicted in the first three months of the year. I also would not completely disregard the whole “Trump will end up resigning” theory.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will welcome a girl. I mean, I have a 50% chance of being right? Unless it’s twins, but I don’t think she’s expecting twins. My gut says she’s pregnant with a girl.

The Duchess of Cambridge will get pregnant with her fourth. My prediction is that Kate will wait until the late summer or into the fall of 2019 to get pregnant again. She will have announced the pregnancy by Christmas 2019.

Pippa Middleton will get pregnant again too. She’ll go twinsies with her sister, likely on the same schedule.

The Queen will survive another year. Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her 93th birthday in 2019. I believe she’s got several more years.

Justin & Hailey Bieber will get pregnant. I think Hailey Bieber (formerly Hailey Baldwin) will pop out one kid before they eventually split.

Brangelina In 2019. I think Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s divorce will finally be settled in the coming year – financially, custodially, legally, everything. The biggest hump was the custody arrangement, and that seems pretty much settled. It’s going to take months for them to work out the financial stuff, but I think they’ll manage to do it by the end of the summer. I also think Brad will do another big Girlfriend Rollout in 2019, and hopefully this one will feel more authentic than the Neri Oxman nonsense.

The final episodes of Game of Thrones will be disappointing AND traumatizing. Not only with the finale of GoT be traumatizing, I just think that everybody will be really disappointed by who dies and who lives and how everything plays out.

Will & Jada Smith will finally get divorced. It feels like they’ve already split up and consciously uncoupled and processed everything, so it’s weird to realize that they’re actually still “together.” I’d like to see them stop with the overselling of their marriage and just call it a day.

Cardi B & Offset. I think their split was legitimate, and she thinks she’s truly over it. But I predict they’ll sort of get back together and she’ll get pregnant again.

Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux. I think Jennifer will lean into her “I don’t need a man” image and she’ll casually date some dudes, but I don’t see a huge romance for her in 2019. But I think Justin will get someone pregnant in the next year.

Kim Kardashian & Kanye West. I honestly think that we’re going to get another round of serious rumors that Kim wants to divorce Kanye. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s filed for divorce by Christmas 2019.

One or more of the Kardashian-Jenners will get pregnant again. My money is on Kylie and Khloe.

There will be at least one major surprise pregnancy. We aren’t surprised by a lot these days, but there are some celebrity women who still have the skills to really come out of nowhere and drop a pregnancy announcement and surprise the world. Maybe Beyonce. Maybe Taylor Swift. Maybe Selena Gomez.

Serena Williams will win her 24th Slam in Singles. My vibe is that she’s going to do well throughout the year, and my gut says she’ll win #24 at the French Open or Wimbledon. I also think that Serena and Venus are both going to wait to announce their retirement – neither will retire in 2019.

Other tennis predictions. I’m saying that Roger Federer will not win his 21st Slam in 2019. Novak Djokovic will win #15, and my heart desperately wants Juan Martin del Potro to win another one. 2019 is Delpo’s year.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Avalon Red.

? I have always looked forward to our annual Christmas Eve party but this year was hands down my favorite!! True, you make everything so much more precious and memorable!! I will forever love and remember our custom made GORGEOUS party outfits by @monicaivena!! Thank you @janellermiller for helping my vision come to life! ?

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It’s always one step forward and two steps back with Khloe Kardashian, so I wouldn’t read too much into this: apparently, Khloe and True did not spend Christmas with Tristan Thompson. Tristan is still with the Cleveland Cavaliers, and they had to play several games around the Christmas holiday, so he was working and traveling. Khloe decided to spend the holiday in LA with her family, because the Kardashian-Jenners always blow it out for the holidays, with lots of parties and dinners and photoshoots. Khloe and True spent Thanksgiving with Tristan, and I believe the stories about how Khloe wants to have another baby with Tristan, so there you go. The fact that Khloe and Tristan were separated for Christmas probably isn’t a sign of anything.

Tristan Thompson did not make it to Los Angeles for the Kar-Jenner crew’s holiday festivities, because as a source explains it, he “doesn’t have a lot of flexibility” in his basketball schedule. The Cleveland Cavaliers forward played a game on Dec. 23 and has another today, leaving little opportunity for the couple to spend their daughter’s first Christmas together.

The insider tells E! News that because Khloe spent Thanksgiving with Tristan in Cleveland, she wanted to give baby True an opportunity to experience the magical holiday with her famous relatives.

“Khloe wanted to be in L.A. with her family for Christmas,” the source shares. “There was nothing more special than seeing True with her cousins on Christmas morning. There was no way she was going to miss the family Christmas Eve party and being a part of opening presents all together on Christmas morning.”

[From E! News]

Honestly, I totally understand Khloe’s decision. She can cling to Tristan after the holidays, but for True’s first Christmas, she wanted True to be around all of her aunts and cousins and Grandma Kris. No shade. Also: Grandma Kris looks INSANE with the new plastic surgery and the blonde hair/wig.

? Christmas 2018 ? oh what a fun night ? Mom you get prettier every single day!! ? My friends are pretty cute too ? ?

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Photos courtesy of Instagram.

Taraji Henson covers the January issue of InStyle to promote What Men Want, the lady-centric version/reboot to the old Mel Gibson movie What Women Want. Taraji not only stars, she’s the executive producer too, and this is her baby. She’s been longing to be the lead of a comedy, and she’s finally there. I love how InStyle styled Taraji for this shoot too – she’s a grown-ass woman and a boss, and that’s how they styled her, to look like an executive or CEO. You can read the full InStyle piece here. Some highlights:

She’s been dying to do a comedy: “I’ve always been the funny girl. Not that I was pigeonholed. They were all great dramatic roles, but I’ve been dying. I just felt so honored and grateful to get a comedy where I could let it all hang out.”

She wants to do more family films: “You know, that’s [audiences buying] four tickets instead of two. That’s generally going to be the largest-grossing film in anyone’s repertoire.”

Taraji knows she sells overseas: “Hollywood executives would tell me that I don’t have fans all the way over there. I said, ‘You’re lying because they can reach me any time. I’m a finger tap away, and they let me know every day.’ Then we go to Paris [to promote Empire], and it’s standing room only in a room with 1,500 seats. I cried. If you believe what people tell you?…?you can’t let people tell you sh-t.”

She grew up in the “hood”: “I was like the Punky Brewster of the hood. I was a well-rounded kid, but I could also scrap if necessary. But I wasn’t that hard. I still had Strawberry Shortcake wallpaper in my room, and my friend Tracie and I were doing Shakespeare in the Park?…?and we were in the f—ing hood.”

How Hollywood talks about diversity & then casts white dudes in everything: “Here’s the deal: When you talk about money, don’t you want to make money? I want every walk of life [in my films]. If I could put an alien in, I would. I want their money too. Come on, it’s what the world looks like. That’s what people want to see, representation. That’s all. You can make money doing it. It’s a no-brainer.”

She established the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation to focus on African-Americans and their mental health needs: “It was born out of necessity. You know, traumatic stuff happened to me and my son. [Her ex-boyfriend, Marcell’s father, was murdered in 2003.] You can’t just pray it away. I don’t care how strong you are. It gets to you, and if you don’t deal with it, it manifests itself in ways you don’t even know. My white friends have standing appointments with their therapists. I was like, ‘Why aren’t we doing that?’ In our culture, it’s taboo.”

On finding her wedding dress: “I’m not going to go through 10,000 dresses. How does it fit? How do I feel? Does it complement me well? Let’s just go with this one. I know what looks good on me. I’m not going to spend 10 hours on a fitting. I hate that.”

She’s a vegan now: She made the jump to veganism after suffering massive stomach pains while filming The Best of Enemies this past summer. “It took a doctor in Macon, Ga., to say, ‘If you don’t change what you’re doing, you’re going to get stomach cancer.’ I said, ‘Say no more.’ So I switched everything up out of necessity. I want to live. Thank God, because I feel so much better.”

She’s open to doing a superhero movie: “The older I get, I want to work smarter, not harder. DC, Marvel, you all can call me!”

[From InStyle]

Her foundation is named after her dad, who was a Vietnam vet with PTSD. I didn’t know she had started a foundation, but she’s absolutely right that “it’s taboo” in African-American culture to seek mental health treatment. I didn’t know she had gone vegan too – it seems like there should have been some other steps between “you can’t keep eating the way you are” and “go full vegan.” But if she feels better, so be it. And what she says about being told she won’t sell overseas… good lord, that’s some bullsh-t.

Covers courtesy of InStyle.