From what I can gather, Chris Evans and Chris Pine are always competing for first place on the Chris List. I think, for this week, Evans takes it.

He doesn’t pose very long. pic.twitter.com/3ShuJX7RlV
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) December 4, 2018

Bella Hadid is traveling with The We…

From what I can gather, Chris Evans and Chris Pine are always competing for first place on the Chris List. I think, for this week, Evans takes it.

He doesn’t pose very long. pic.twitter.com/3ShuJX7RlV
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) December 4, 2018

Bella Hadid is traveling with The We…

Next stop on the Award Season Express, it’s The Hollywood Reporter’s actor roundtable, featuring Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen, Timothee Chalamet, Chadwick Boseman, Hugh Jackman, and Richard E. Grant. This group actually makes me wonder how far in advance they book these things, because Hugh Jackm…

When World War Brange first broke out, it was ugliness all around. The two then agreed to shut it down and it remained that way until earlier this year as Angelina Jolie was accused of keeping Brad Pitt from their children and then it came out that he supposedly wasn’t living up to his financial pro…

Eddie Murphy,57, just welcomed his TENTH child. [Dlisted]
Emily Blunt is here to remind you that Golden Globe nominations come out tomorrow. It feels way too early, right? [Go Fug Yourself]
Roger Stone pleads the fifth. [Towleroad]
What has Julia Roberts been up to this week? [LaineyGossip]
Katy Perry spent $50K to go on a date with…Orlanda Bloom. [Pajiba]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a bold idea about paying Congressional staffers enough to live in DC. [Jezebel]
Bristol Palin’s ex-husband calls MTV’s Teen Mom “trash.” [The Blemish]
Real Housewife of Dallas Kameron Wescott has friends, OK? [Reality Tea]
Did Jax Taylor lie about his Naval service? [Starcasm]

Mary, Queen of Scots was considered an early Oscar contender several months ago. Now that we’re balls deep in award season, I don’t feel like anyone is talking about it anymore? The reviews seem to be OK to good, not great, but no one seems to pushing hard for it. The Favourite is the period piece e…

I really hoped that New York Magazine’s cover story about Lena Dunham a few weeks ago would be the last we would hear from her for a while. But of course that isn’t happening. That disaster profile was merely the opening salvo for Lena’s latest incarnation. The New Lena is just the same as Old Lena, only now she’s… like, more apologetic? I don’t know. I honestly don’t want to waste my brain space on this – we’ve all agreed that Lena should be canceled and IS canceled, and yet… she keeps talking, and keeps getting work. Her latest work? She’s the guest editor of The Hollywood Reporter’s Women In Entertainment issue, because white feminism. She used her guest-editor-letter to expound on Harvey Weinstein and rape and her own stories of sexual harassment and assault. But she also included a lengthy apology to Aurora Perrineau, the young woman who accused Girls producer Murray Miller of raping her. Lena had previously called Aurora a liar, but Lena let it be known that she apologized to the Perrineau family. And here’s the bigger apology:

Like so many women (so many people), I disguised my pain with medication and stuff and chronic overwork, with social media and mindless dating and the random day-to-day drama we generate to stay out of our own experience. I never stopped, much less stopped to consider that I might be capable of traumatizing somebody, too (the exact complaint I’ve always had about old white man artists).

And so I made a terrible mistake. When someone I knew, someone I had loved as a brother, was accused, I did something inexcusable: I publicly spoke up in his defense. There are few acts I could ever regret more in this life. I didn’t have the “insider information” I claimed but rather blind faith in a story that kept slipping and changing and revealed itself to mean nothing at all. I wanted to feel my workplace and my world were safe, untouched by the outside world (a privilege in and of itself, the privilege of ignoring what hasn’t hurt you) and I claimed that safety at cost to someone else, someone very special.

To Aurora: You have been on my mind and in my heart every day this year. I love you. I will always love you. I will always work to right that wrong. In that way, you have made me a better woman and a better feminist. You shouldn’t have been given that job in addition to your other burdens, but here we are, and here I am asking: How do we move forward? Not just you and I but all of us, living in the gray space between admission and vindication.

It’s painful to realize that, while I thought I was self-aware, I had actually internalized the dominant male agenda that asks us to defend it no matter what, protect it no matter what, baby it no matter what. Something in me still feels compelled to do that job: to please, to tidy up, to shopkeep. My job now is to excavate that part of myself and to create a new cavern inside me where a candle stays lit, always safely lit, and illuminates the wall behind it where these words are written: I see you, Aurora. I hear you, Aurora. I believe you, Aurora. This space is yours to do with as you please, when you please. I will keep holding this space — it will always be here.

…Aurora — your bravery, openness, forgiveness, dignity and grace in the face of legal proceedings and endless questioning and in the face of my statement has been astounding. You’ve been a model of stoicism, all the while reminding other women that their assault experiences are theirs to process as they wish (with noise, with silence, with rage — it’s all OK). You have generously allowed me to speak about your many virtues here and tell these readers that you are moving on as a woman and as an artist. You have inspired me to do the same, and I know I’m not alone. Aurora’s mother, Brittany, is fierce, powerful, a born leader, a patient mother, the kind of woman I hope to be. Getting to know her has been the unexpected gift that came from being humbled and reassessing so much over the past year: about women and power.

[From The Hollywood Reporter]

*holds out hands and shakes head* I appreciate that it’s a comprehensive apology. I do not appreciate the fact that it’s a comprehensive written apology more than a year after Lena called Aurora a liar. I also don’t believe that Lena actually learned a thing, and that’s why Lena is still f–king canceled – she writes a good apology, for sure, but after how many years of this do we acknowledge that Lena doesn’t have a learning curve? That she shouldn’t get a f–king cookie for making a thorough apology every time she f–ks up?

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Cardi B announced on Instagram last night that she and Offset are “not together anymore.”

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Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell recently admitted that they refuse to lie to their children and consider perpetuating the myth of Santa to be a lie. Fortunately, knowing he isn’t real hasn’t stopped the girls, Lincoln, five, and Delta, three, from loving all things Big Red and getting on with their lives.

Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell’s daughters won’t be leaving cookies and milk out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. Lincoln, 5, and Delta, 3, don’t believe in Saint Nick.

“This is going to be very controversial,” Shepard told Us Weekly at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on Monday, December 3. “I have a fundamental rule that I will never lie to them, which is challenging at times. Our 5-year-old started asking questions like, ‘Well, this doesn’t make sense, and that doesn’t make sense.’ I’m like, ‘You know what? This is just a fun thing we pretend while it’s Christmas.’”

While the Bless This Mess actor’s kids understand the man in the red suit won’t be sliding down their chimney on December 24, the little girls re big fans of his. “They love watching movies about Santa, they love talking about Santa,” Shepard, 43, explained to Us. “They don’t think he exists, but they’re super happy and everything’s fine.”

[From Us]

I don’t really feel one way or the other about this. Mainly, I do feel this is an individual’s choice, as long as they don’t go ratting it out to everyone else. Our best friends are Jewish and one year she confessed to me that she gets anxiety every holiday season that her kids will tell my kids Santa isn’t real. It seemed like a big thing to ask of her kids and although they were terrific and never did let it slip to mine, I realized I would be okay if they did. I’ve heard the argument that letting your kids believe in Santa is lying to them. Technicalities aside, I don’t see any harm in believing in him and as a parent it was fun to see my kids hold on to the magic. When they started to catch wise (it’s always the school playground, isn’t it?) I told them that knowing whether or not Santa was real is different than believing in him. My daughter hung on to the one for a while. I think it’s cute the Shepard girls still love Santa even though they’re in on the sitch. *winks*

It should be noted that Dax gave this interview quote while promoting Toys for Tots. Dax is working with Amazon who have a holiday feature in Alexa that allows people to donate toys just by saying “Alexa, donate to Toys for Tots.” This video Dax posted to Instagram explaining how it works. That’s pretty cool. But is it cool enough to get Dax off the Naughty List for outing Santa?

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Let’s talk (to Alexa)! It’s Giving Tuesday and I have the hands-down, easiest way to give a gift to a kid in need this holiday season. Just say “Alexa, donate to Toys for Tots.” That’s it! @Amazon will do the rest. The best part is Amazon is matching donations toy for toy – the more we give, the more they give. So join me in donating today! #deliveringsmiles #ad

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Here are some photos from last night’s New York premiere of Mary Queen of Scots. Saoirse Ronan plays Mary, and Margot Robbie plays the ageing Queen Elizabeth I. The more I hear about this film, the more I think Margot was miscast and they should have gotten someone older to play QEI, but whatever. Apparently, Margot and Saoirse got along very well during filming, and they posed together quite happily at the premiere.

Saoirse wore an interesting Gucci dress to the premiere – this has a lot going on, from ruffled shenanigans on the shoulder and collar, to the writing on the skirt, to the bejeweled heart (??) at her waist. All in all, I think this is very overworked and could have used some editing. But I actually don’t hate it? Saoirse is so beautiful, you have to really try to make her look terrible, and Gucci didn’t try hard enough.

Margot Robbie wore Chanel, like she’s been wearing throughout this promotional tour. I actually forgot that she was named a Chanel ambassador this year, and that she’s doing print ads for the fashion house. So…Chanel is giving Margot some of their best looks. This gown isn’t terrible, but the high halter neck isn’t youthful, and all in all, this could have been a lot better.

Also at the premiere: Joe Alwyn and his neck beard. Ugh!! If Joe *has* to have a scraggly beard, can Taylor Swift somehow convince him to shave that mess on his neck??

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