Jake Gyllenhaal and his longtime girlfriend Jeanne Cadieu went to the French Open men’s singles final too. She’s 27 years old now, just FYI. [LaineyGossip]
The Idol is trainwreck television. [Pajiba]
Republicans tell young women: give up on your dreams & your birth control. [Jezebel]
Rest in peace, Treat Williams.[JustJared]
This just sounds unsanitary, not decadent. [Dlisted]
Jennifer Lopez stepped out in a funky dress. [Tom & Lorenzo]
Tony the Tiger went to the Tonys! [GFY]
What it’s really like to marry into a wealthy family. [Buzzfeed]
A lot of the Duggar kids have little to no education. [Starcasm]
Malibu Barbie cafes will pop up in cities ahead of the Barbie movie. [Towleroad]
Sienna Miller’s Erdem dress looks so stiff and uncomfortable. [RCFA]

I still think it’s kind of weird that Zooey Deschanel is with Jonathan Scott, one half of HGTV’s Property Brothers. Zooey is so twee and offbeat, it feels like she would only date banjo repairmen or professional chalk artists but here she is with a guy with a lifestyle brand and a popular show on cable. Zooey is also a mom of two and she runs a business with her ex-husband Jacob Pechenik. She was recently interviewed by the Wall Street Journal because she’s joining the cast of AppleTV’s Physical. She has a lot on her plate, but I think she’s just like that – she likes to stay busy and have a million side projects. Some highlights from her interview:

Whether she would ever reprise or reboot New Girl: “It kind of depends on the circumstance. I wouldn’t want to spend the rest of my life doing reboots, but I definitely had a wonderful time and would be very happy to revisit.”

What she consumes first in the morning: “I make a pot of coffee, and it’s all for me because Jonathan doesn’t drink coffee. I don’t really eat breakfast a lot. I snack around, snacky snack. It would be my dream for someone to make me an omelet, but that would never happen in my life.”

Her role in Physical: “I worked out pretty much five days a week and tried to eat pretty healthy because it’s a lot of leotards. I also play a figment of Rose Byrne’s character Sheila’s imagination, so I kind of have two characters. One’s a version of the sitcom character, and one’s the real person who’s an actor who has a little bit of a fitness empire. I have two different wigs and I get to wear all kinds of fun outfits.

On TikTok “twee core”: “I love it. I love twee. I love “twee core.” I consider myself an advocate of twee.

Jonathan build her a solarium in their new house: “I love the solarium, because it’s the most unusual room. It’s a big glass room that’s two stories high and I had had a dream of having one for a long time. When I first met Jonathan, I told him about how much I wanted a solarium. He made it happen. It feels like you’re indoors and outdoors at the same time—like you’re in Europe or something.

Her favorite thing to do with Jonathan: “Escape rooms, that’s our thing. We like to take the kids to family movies. We like to go to parties and have parties.

What she splurges on: “Clothes. I have a lot of vintage pieces. When I was pretty young, I bought a Courrèges collection at a vintage fashion expo. I still have that. I was really young and I didn’t have that much money and they were all my size. The lady kind of took, not pity, on me but she knew how much I wanted it so she gave me a really good deal. I think I bought four Courrèges pieces for $1,000 or something.

What piece of advice she’s gotten which helped her: “Just don’t go away. If you stick it out, even when it’s hard, that’s where you get the real value and that’s where you start seeing success. Sometimes it takes so much longer to see success than you think it’s going to. Especially in entertainment, there’s so many ups and downs. I’ve had that many times in my career. There’s always going to be good and bad and if you believe in what you’re doing—just stick with it.

[From WSJ]

I think the “stick it out” advice is particular to actors and artists, as in – keep following your dreams, keep trying to book jobs, stay with it. It’s not a general piece of advice to “stick it out” everywhere, all the time, in every situation. There are plenty of times when people should walk away and do something else, professionally and personally. And yes, Zooey does love twee core and everything twee and vintage. It’s her style, it’s what she enjoys, and so be it. It’s not for me! I do think it’s funny that the twee stuff has not only gone mainstream, but the “vintage look” which is part of Zooey’s celebrity brand is basically the same 1950s-housewife look fetishized and adopted by “trad wives” on TikTok.

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A month ago, Taylor Swift and Matt Healy were chugging along and Taylor’s boyfriend rollout was going full-throttle. Healy had joined her in Nashville for her Eras concert, and they were seen together by Nashville-based paparazzi (?). Then, they moved along to New York, where Matt was seen going in and out of Taylor’s Tribeca condo. Around that same one-week period, Taylor and Matt were seen and photographed at Casa Cipriani, a private, members-only club. Someone sold these photos to the tabloids/photo agencies:

Taylor Swift and Matty Healy spotted out for dinner with Jack Antonoff. pic.twitter.com/PCgOQToxav

— Pop Base (@PopBase) May 11, 2023

As you can see, Taylor and Matt were holding hands and it was like one more big confirmation to the Snake Fam that Swealy was really happening. Less than a month after those photos were taken, Swealy was over. But for Taylor, there was still a betrayal to be dealt with – Casa Cipriani has specific policies in place to ensure their A-list clientele will not be bothered or photographed within their establishment. Those policies were breached. So Taylor canceled her membership:

A source tells Page Six that Taylor Swift has pulled her membership from NYC’s swanky members-only club Casa Cipriani after some guests posted photos of her on a date Matt Healy last month. The club has a no-pic policy and bounced the offending members for snapping the photos of Swift and the 1975 rocker, Healy. When reached for comment, the club denied that Swift bailed on being a member.

Page Six reported at the time, “at least three members got kicked out for taking pictures of Taylor,” according to a source. The same source added at the time, “Taylor came knowing the policy, and then had to leave” because of the intrusive snappers. “They are cracking down now like crazy.”

The private club also sent out a memo telling its members, “It has come to our attention that images have been captured at the club in recent days that have infringed upon the privacy of our members.”

The email, seen by Page Six, had added, “It is important to note that any member who violates these policies will face immediate revocation of their membership.”

We now hear that two members were permanently banned, while one was put on suspension, and now has to reapply for membership.

A rep for the club tells us that it “is absolutely not true,” that Swift has canceled her membership, but confirmed that, “Casa Cipriani revoked memberships to a few members for infringing our club rules.”

The luxe club, which opened in August 2021, has become a favorite for top celebs like Leonardo DiCaprio and Naomi Campbell.

[From Page Six]

I hate basically everything about this. While I’m no Swiftie, Taylor should be able to have quiet dates with her garbage boyfriends without worrying about being photographed. Of course, I also just hate the fact that all of these private clubs are popping up all over the place in New York and LA. I blame the expatriate Brits in America – they brought their classism and their “private members-only clubs are cool” mentality to our shores. It’s America – just go to a f–king bar or a regular nightclub. Anyway, I bet Taylor did drop her membership and I bet Casa Cipriani is sh-tting itself.

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Prince William was out and about today in London, for the opening of Centrepoint’s Reuben House. Reuben House is part of Centrepoint’s independent-living initiative, to help homeless or unhoused youths in South London find a way to get back on their feet. It’s meant as a transitional place for young people to stay before they hopefully move on to their own apartments or homes.

William has been a patron of Centrepoint for decades, and to his credit (I rarely say this), he tends to do a lot of “work” with Centrepoint, especially compared to his other patronages. He believes homelessness is one of his core issues, an issue for which he can make change. Unfortunately, William does all of these Centrepoint events and then returns to one of his four mansions and palaces and continues to have access to the most vast real estate empire in the UK, through the Duchy of Cornwall. William used to have big plans for how he was going to allow homeless people to live in royal properties. Notice we haven’t heard much about that since he became Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall.

Incidentally, William’s “meeting” with Labour leader Keir Starmer last week flew under the radar with most royal reporters. I theorized that William wanted to look like he could do something “political” too, just like Harry. But I’ve also seen some reporting that William was actually meeting Starmer to talk about homelessness? Per the Express, William had official meetings with Starmer and Michael Gove to tell them about a “new project” he will launch in a few weeks. It sounds like he’s specifically timing an announcement of a new project for his 41st birthday on June 21. Why would… Starmer and Gove need a briefing about it and not the prime minister? Hm.

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I don’t know a ton about DeVon Franklin other than that he was married to Meagan Good for a long time and he’s a handsome preacher/motivational speaker/TV personality who doesn’t seem sketchy like the other “celebrity pastors.” And Meagan really changed up her image and was pretty buttoned up during the years that they were together. They married in 2012, separated in 2021, and finalized their divorce last year. DeVon recently appeared on the Tamron Hall Show and spoke about how he healed from the divorce: he took the time to feel his feelings and “sit in that pain.”

DeVon Franklin recently opened up about his healing process since announcing his separation from Meagan Good in 2021 after nine years of marriage.

During a recent appearance on the “Tamron Hall Show,” the author and producer shared that he allowed himself to feel the pain of the separation to heal.

“I really tried not to worry about anybody else, but just focus on the healing process and committing to that,” he said. “Because no matter what, that pain is a teacher. Instead of me trying to push through it, I really had to sit in that pain.”

“Because we don’t like pain, we’re always trying to feel good,” he later said, adding, “Our feelings are trying to reveal… what’s really going on in the inside.”

Franklin and Good wed in 2012 in Malibu, California. They released a joint statement announcing their separation on their respective Instagram pages in December 2021.

“There’s no one at fault. We believe this is the next best chapter in the evolution of our love,” they wrote in the statement at the time. They finalized their divorce in June 2022, per People.

[From HuffPost]

People say “the only way out is through” all the time, but doesn’t really work for everyone and definitely has its downsides. DeVon’s approach was not to worry about anyone else (I’m guessing he means Meagan or public perception/expectations of him) and to focus on healing and paying attention to his pain and his feelings. Truly sitting in the pain is uncomfortable, but it works. I’ve done it myself (not by choice, covid-era breakup) and not distracting myself from my pain really did allow me a sort of freeing clarity about the circumstances, how I felt, and what I wanted. And I think that distracting yourself often backfires; it catches up with us eventually and often at a more inopportune moment. Anyway, DeVon is probably just talking about his personal experience and not, say, sub-Tweeting, anyone, right? It sounds like he took his time and maybe is only now getting back to dating after divorce, just like Meagan. (If they are, in fact, actually dating. I’m hoping it’s just a poorly-calculated PR relationship).

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People are still talking about the Princess of Wales’s rugby event on Wednesday. Or should I say, her Shaping Us/men’s mental health/Early Years/rugby event. Let’s be real, the entire purpose of the event was to showcase Kate wearing a ponytail and playing pretend-rugby for the photographers. And because Kate’s children have to be attached to every event she does, wouldn’t you know that all three of her kids play rugby, and Charlotte is the best rugby player of all.

Like royal mother, like royal daughter! Kate Middleton showed off some serious rugby skills on Wednesday at the Maidenhead Rugby Club — the results of regular backyard rugby sessions with her three children: Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

“She regularly plays rugby in the back garden with the children — she plays all sports with them,” says Nigel Gillingham, who is President of the governing body of the sport in England, the Rugby Football Union. And 8-year-old daughter Princess Charlotte inherited more than athleticism from her mom.

“Apparently Charlotte is very much in her mold — very competitive as well,” Gillingham adds.

Princess Kate, who supports England as patron of the Rugby Football League and the Rugby Football Union, previously revealed that Prince George, 9, and Princess Charlotte are both playing rugby, noting that her eldest child is tall so “he has the physique.”

And while Prince William has also described his daughter as a “budding star” in soccer, Princess Charlotte revealed her favorite sport is actually gymnastics while attending the Commonwealth Games with her parents last summer.

“She really, really loved seeing the swimming, but she’s interested in the gymnastics, and while they’re trying lots of different sports at home, I understand, when I asked her about sport she answered very easily and said, ‘It’s gymnastics that I like,’ ” said Tim Lawler, the chief executive of Sports Aid, according to Hello! magazine.

Kate added, “Charlotte spends most of her time upside-down, doing handstands and cartwheels,” according to the Daily Mail.

[From People]

The thing is, the one thing we’ve always known about Kate is that she’s terribly keen on tennis, yet we rarely get an update on the kids’ tennis lessons. I’m assuming they have tennis lessons? It seems like Charlotte would be more likely to show interest in sports like gymnastics, swimming and tennis, as opposed to rugby, football, etc. Of course, if Kate mentioned that Charlotte and Louis were into tennis, then there might be expectations that Charlotte and Louis come to Wimbledon and not just George. Anyway, I totally believe Charlotte is sporty, I just don’t buy that Kate is out in the backyard playing rugby with them. I think Kate just feels the need to mention that her kids are so excited about fill-in-the-blank event, whatever Kate or William is doing at the time.

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Last night was the big Hollywood premiere for The Flash, the DC movie which was beset by problems during filming and in post-production. The biggest problem was the star of the Flash, Ezra Miller. Ezra was arrested and charged with multiple crimes in a cross-country crime spree. Their crimes involved everything from assault to kidnapping to grooming to basically starting some kind cult. Their crime spree seemingly ended last summer – Ezra checked into in-patient treatment for “complex mental health issues.” Since then, we hadn’t heard anything directly from Ezra, and the early promotion for The Flash featured an Ezra-sized hole as everyone talked around their absence.

At the premiere, Ezra made their first public statements in nearly a year. They thanked Warner Bros’ leadership and care, which means that the studio absolutely forced Ezra into treatment as the studio tried desperately to save their huge investment in this f–king messy franchise. The Hollywood Reporter also noted that all of the stars of the film were told to not give interviews on the red carpet, so it was images-only. Ezra did walk the carpet, as did Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Chastain, Dove Cameron and more.

I’m actually positive that Warner Bros asked Ben Affleck to bring Jennifer Lopez, and for the two of them to spend a lot of time posing for photos. I was even tempted to make them the headlining story: a Bennifer red carpet. That’s what Warner Bros wanted, to focus more on Bennifer and Ben’s return as the Batfleck. Anything to get the heat off Ezra. Fashion notes: J.Lo wore Gucci and she didn’t look too jazzed to be used as a shield for Ezra Miller.

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The unethical behavior of the British media should not be overlooked, especially as they report on Prince Harry’s many lawsuits against them. Instead of merely bowing out of trial coverage given the fact that Harry is literally suing all of them, the British media is instead willfully misrepresenting Harry’s lawsuits and statements and publishing screed after screed about how he’s going to lose, how he can’t “prove” that they’ve done anything to him, how he’s wrong to bring up all of these “old stories.” What’s worse is that I keep seeing the American media pick up parts of those same arguments. So it is notable (I guess) when the New York Times publishes a column about how Harry is actually quite noble for his war against Britain’s press machine. This was written by Tanya Gold, a British journalist who has worked for Harper’s, The Spectator and other outlets. Some highlights:

Harry is not a panda: Harry is determined to define himself, and not to be, in Hilary Mantel’s description in her essay “Royal Bodies,” a “panda”: “expensive to conserve and ill-adapted to any modern environment.” In this refusal to be the prince we wanted, or deserved, he has become something far more interesting.

An instrument all his life: Like his mother, Princess Diana, Harry has been an instrument all his life. The Windsor family is Britain’s national pantomime and he was cast at birth — long before he could give consent — to be the shade to the sunlight of his brother, William. The newspapers chronicled his childhood; his parents’ love affairs, late-night telephone calls and hatred. They photographed his mother as she lay dying in a tunnel in Paris. They filmed Harry as he, aged 12, walked behind her coffin at her funeral, his presence necessary to protect his father’s reputation. Even the British media wouldn’t heckle a faithless husband in front of his son.

Finally, someone admits the press’s treatment of Meghan: Then he married Meghan Markle, and when she was abused by the British media — which happens to all women who marry into the family, but this was a racist, classist and xenophobic variation — he did something sensible and loving for his new family: He left Britain.

Gold hopes he gives up his title: Since then his redemption has been sequential. There was the interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which they described his family’s concern about the skin color of their unborn child. There was a Netflix documentary. There was his memoir, “Spare,” in which he described how his father, probably smelling of flowers and gunpowder, sat down on his bed to tell him that his mother was dead. Now there is the litigation and, eventually, I hope, the day when he lays down his title, accepts that some things cannot be reformed and is redeemed by the application of self-knowledge.

Spare was a whistle-blower’s account: I read “Spare” as a portrait of an abusive childhood and an act of whistle-blowing, but most of the British media did not. They mocked him for writing about a youthful sexual encounter — how crass to mention it, now we must find the woman! — and for his affinity for Stewie, the infant prodigy in “Family Guy,” whom he described as “a prophet without honor.”

Brave Harry: Even to the sympathetic, Harry can seem ridiculous. He is a panda, and pandas don’t usually fight back. And for the moment he thinks he can be meaningfully feminist and antiracist while embodying inherited wealth and power as a royal duke, which is absurd. But Harry is brave, and he has found his battlefield. I think if he could, he would bring it all down — the monarchy, the media, the whole awful dance. We did not have his consent. For that, he will have his revenge.

[From The NY Times]

The thing I agree with the most is that Spare is a survivor’s account of his abuse, and a witness’s account of watching the women he loves be abused. It was also a whistle-blower’s account of the dysfunction and cruelty of the whole institution. What was still so brilliant about Spare though is that… now it’s a historical document. It’s Harry reclaiming his narrative and saying no, it happened this way, all of it without hiding behind palace insiders or royal sources.

Now, all that being said, I don’t really get this stuff: “eventually, I hope, the day when he lays down his title, accepts that some things cannot be reformed and is redeemed by the application of self-knowledge” and “for the moment he thinks he can be meaningfully feminist and antiracist while embodying inherited wealth and power as a royal duke, which is absurd.” Embodying wealth and power… when he literally had to flee his country to protect his wife and children? When his father yanked his security and left him for dead? This idea that “Harry’s “power” comes from his title or the money his dead mother left him in trust” is absurd at this point – people couldn’t care less about his title – what his supporters care about is his journey, his survival story.

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The Department of Justice unsealed Donald Trump’s indictment last Friday, and the federal government seems to have a very strong case. It feels like we’re waiting for the other shoe to drop, right? Like, what will he do, what violence and insurrection will that guy incite this time? Regardless, it feels like seven years after this hellish journey began, we’re in the endgame. It’s very likely that Trump goes to prison for obstruction of justice, mishandling classified documents and violating the Espionage Act. It’s even more likely that he’ll go to prison given the fact that his lawyers are all quitting and he can’t seem to find a half-decent criminal defense attorney to represent him in his trial:

Donald Trump spent the day before his historic appearance in federal court scrambling to find a qualified Florida lawyer willing to join his defense team as he faces the Justice Department’s first prosecution of a former president.

After touching down in Miami on Monday, Trump spent the afternoon interviewing prospective lawyers and meeting with his legal team, along with other top advisers, to discuss the case, in which he is accused of mishandling classified documents and obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them, according to people familiar with the sessions. Several prominent Florida attorneys declined to take Trump on as a client after two of the key lawyers handling the documents matter — Jim Trusty and John Rowley — resigned last week, according to people familiar with the matter.

Trusty and Rowley’s departure was sudden and unexpected, leaving Trump jockeying to identify a lawyer ahead of his Tuesday appearance in federal court in Miami, where rules require practicing attorneys to be a member in good standing of the Florida bar or to be sponsored by one before appearing. Veteran Florida litigator Christopher Kise, who joined the team in the fall and has an extensive network in the Florida bar, has led the search for a lawyer and cast a seemingly wide net in the state. Kise declined to comment.

Disagreements over legal strategy have hindered the search for new defense attorneys, according to people familiar with the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Some on Trump’s team have pushed to pursue an aggressively partisan strategy in which they would accuse the Justice Department of prosecutorial misconduct and weaponizing the legal system against Trump. The other camp, a person briefed on the situation said, is urging the former president to put together a traditional defense team and believes that the case is winnable at trial through careful jury selection — one juror is all a defendant needs to convince to avoid conviction — and that a scorched-earth strategy could alienate a jury and the country.

[From WaPo]

The Post then volunteers some names on Trump’s shortlist, and they are a murderer’s row of Florida’s legal dirtbags, many of whom have faced criminal charges themselves. From what I’ve seen of Trump’s taste in lawyers – plus, he has to take whatever slim pickings he can get – he tends to prefer the “mob lawyer” type – someone who seemed “connected,” someone who is used to taking orders from a made guy. I’m just saying, a lot of mobsters retire to Florida. Anyway, this trial is going to be fun – Trump isn’t dicking around with some outer-borough dime-store lawyer, he’s dealing with the full weight of the DOJ and the Office of the Special Counsel. Special Counsel Jack Smith has spent the past ten months putting together an extremely strong case.

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Kim Zolciak of Real Housewives of Atlanta antagonist fame is getting a divorce from Kroy Biermann after 12 years of marriage. The divorce (and year) seems to be going poorly so far. Their shared home was in foreclosure before the divorce, they were and are having a lot of financial problems, and they’re fighting over legal and physical custody of their minor children. It’s gotten even uglier recently, with Kim asking for Kroy to be drug tested and Kroy accusing her of having a gambling addiction and asking for a psych evaluation. So it any surprise she’s not doing well? Current and OG cast member Sheree Whitfield appeared on Watch What Happens Live recently and told Andy Cohen as much.

Kim Zolciak is “not doing well” amid her divorce from Kroy Biermann.

Real Housewives of Atlanta star Sheree Whitfield made an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen on Sunday (June 10), where she opened up about the news of the split.

“I am in touch with her, and I was shocked. I thought her and Kroy [were] gonna be forever. I’m really sad for them,” she said.

“I’ve been in contact with her, and she’s not doing well. She’s not doing well. No, she’s taking it really bad.”

When asked about the “root cause” of the divorce, Sheree had no answers.

A bombshell police report has revealed details of what happened in the day leading up to Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann‘s split.

[From Just Jared]

I’m no Kim sympathizer. She’s a terrible person and it’s no surprise that she’s having a terrible divorce. But of course she’s not doing well; anyone would be doing poorly under such circumstances. It’s really ugly and it’s ugly for their shared children, but that can also be said of most of Kim’s media presence for the past 15 years or so. Like Sheree, I’m also surprised that Kim and Kroy are getting divorced. He always seemed rather hapless and vacant, like he needed someone to run his life for him. So I’m shocked they’re splitting and I also didn’t think he had it in him to fight so dirty. But I guess they were together for a reason. Like Hecate wondered in her past coverage, is Kim looking to make a Housewives comeback? And is Sheree helping her do it? Kim definitely needs the money and she certainly wouldn’t be the first Housewife to go through a messy divorce and head back to the show.

#RHOA OG Shereé Whitfield was shocked by the news of Kim Zolciak’s divorce. @iamSheree @KimZolciak #WWHL pic.twitter.com/freFo7kZ09

— WWHL (@BravoWWHL) June 12, 2023

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