It’s really extraordinary to watch the British media complain about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Montecito money moves “pulling focus” from the coronation, all while the same British media is trying to focus on all of their Sussex slander, which they’ve specifically timed for the coronation. Like, it’s not a coincidence that the White Markles gave a TV interview timed for the weekend before the coronation. It’s also not a coincidence that the Heritage Foundation timed their unhinged “lawsuit” about Prince Harry’s visa application for this week, just days before the coronation. As we discussed previously, the right-wing fascists at the Heritage Foundation are very focused on getting their hands on Harry’s visa application, because… Harry wrote about doing drugs in his memoir. That’s the whole basis of their FOIA request to Immigration, that’s the whole basis for their attempts to have Harry deported. Harry smoked some pot. Again, this was timed for this week on purpose.

A right-wing think tank with close ties to former president Donald Trump wants a federal court to order the public release of Prince Harry’s immigration records because they believe his past admissions of drug use make him ineligible to enter the United States.

The Heritage Foundation on Monday filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, just over a month after the group made a Freedom of Information Act request for information on how the Duke of Sussex was admitted into the US when he and his wife, American ex-actress Meghan Markle, decamped there after leaving the UK in 2020.

Although immigration records are generally exempt from release under the Freedom of Information Act because of strict privacy laws governing the handling of personal information, the pro-Trump group argues that Harry, whose full legal name is Henry Charles Albert David George Mountbatten-Windsor, should not be afforded the same protections because of the “immense public interest” in his current status.

“Widespread and continuous media coverage has surfaced the question of whether DHS properly admitted the Duke of Sussex in light of the fact that he has publicly admitted to the essential elements of a number of drug offenses in both the United States and abroad … Intense media coverage has also surfaced the question of whether DHS may have improperly granted the Duke of Sussex a waiver to enter the Country on a non-immigrant visa given his history of admissions to the essential elements of drug offenses,” the group said in its’ lawsuit.

The Heritage Foundation added that “media coverage” of its’ previous Freedom of Information request has supposedly “surfaced the question of whether DHS’ decision to admit the Duke of Sussex into the United States should be reconsidered in light of the Duke of Sussex’s most recent admissions to the essential elements of numerous drug offenses”. The group is framing its’ demand for information as part of an effort to shed light on whether the Biden administration is properly enforcing US immigration law.

[From The Independent]

“…Given his history of admissions to the essential elements of drug offenses.” Ah, the “essential elements.” But no actual drug arrests? No court-mandated drug rehab? No admission of drug addiction? Because those are the things which could actually affect Harry’s visa and/or green card application, not Harry writing about how he tried cocaine once when he was a teenager. American immigration officials are going to see a white, wealthy British man married to an American citizen, with two American anchor babies, and they’re going to laugh at this dumbf–k lawsuit.

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The Duchess of Sussex announced that she signed on with WME last week. There’s been some talk within the Sussex Squad about whether we could see an immediate change in how Meghan was discussed, analyzed and gossiped about within the British media. From what I’ve seen, most of the British media figures were simply surprised that their years-long campaign to smear Meghan has fallen flat. You have to remember, most of these people live in their own echo chambers too, just like the Windsors. They believe they can create their own alternate universe where “everyone hates Meghan and Harry” and “Hollywood shuns the Sussexes” and “Harry will eventually have no choice but to return to the UK.” They honestly believed that, and the WME news was reality crashing down on them.

Since the WME news came out, they’ve been testing out new narratives, trying to ensure that they still have some kind of power over Meghan and how she’s viewed. The Telegraph’s piece over the weekend was full of bizarre and offensive lies, antisemitism and misogyny. So, they’re seeing if any of that sticks. Meanwhile, Dan Wootton got the call and the palace talking point: Meghan’s moves last week were bad because she should have let the coronation have all of the attention! Wootton doesn’t even realize how pathetic he sounds, crying about “why is Meghan forcing everyone to talk about her??!?!?!” Some lowlights from Wootton’s latest Mail column:

Ah, good, compare Meghan to Diana: It was a predictable script taken straight out of Meghan Markle’s masterclass in ‘how-to-get-everyone-talking-about-me-again’ Hollywood PR 101. After months of purposefully shunning the spotlight, allowing her hapless husband Harry to shoulder the backlash against his grotesque and unnecessarily nasty royal shaming tell-all Spare, the Duchess of Woke has viscerally exploded back into public consciousness, with a three-step campaign seemingly taken straight from the Princess Diana playbook.

Even Wootton admits that Meghan doesn’t have to coordinate with the palace: Now, of course, Meghan is her own woman who is no longer part of the Royal Family and has no need to coordinate her media activities, something she hated doing with a passion while part of the Buckingham Palace set-up. But it is no coincidence that this trio of major interventions occurred just one week before the Coronation of King Charles III, the most important day in her father-in-law’s life.

Strategic Meg: It seems Meghan strategically timed her almost total disappearance from the spotlight for four months – a lifetime in Californian terms – in order to make maximum impact when she did emerge at this critical juncture. Even the Sussex Squad must concede there was absolutely no reason why any of these trio of PR events had to take place in the past week.

Shameless Meg: This is nothing short of a desperate and shameless bid to steal attention from the new King in his Coronation week because, I believe, she’s jealous she won’t be part of it. Having decided it is just too risky to join her husband at the Coronation, given the likelihood she would be booed by the royalist heavy crowds in London this Saturday, there was no opportunity for Meghan to re-emerge via the first Coronation in 70 years, as she may have initially planned. So now she’s doing it her own way: Guerrilla style.

[From The Mail]

Hilariously, I also kind of think that the WME news last week was probably timed specifically, but she probably thought “well, we can’t announce it in early May, because that’s way too close to the coronation, I don’t want to pull focus.” That’s why it’s so funny – the WME news came out, what? Nine or ten days before the godforsaken struggle-chubbly. The Sussexes went to the NBA Playoff game twelve days before the coronation too. Did no one tell Meghan that she wasn’t “allowed” to do anything or go anywhere for a full 30 days before the coronation? That’s why people like Dan Wootton and Camilla Tominey are screaming, crying and throwing up – because Meghan is the story, no matter when or where she shows up, and they all know it.

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I’m out here doing my best to make Old Broads Sexy Again and the medical community is really yucking my yum. While many of us are trying to make menopause an approachable subject, one that can be discussed without hushed tones or shame, the Mayo Clinic is putting out studies like this. They found that working women in the US between the ages of 45-60 may lose up to $1.8 billion due to menopause. Yes, billion, with a B. The loss is from symptoms being so unmanageable, that women in that age group are either being laid off or quitting. And some say that number is conservative, because this study factored in women who had access to company healthcare and there are plenty of women who don’t.

Working women in the United States may lose up to $1.8 billion each year due to menopause, according to a new study.

Menopause is the time that marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years, or twelve months without a menstrual period. It usually occurs when women are in their 40s and 50s, but the average age is 51 in the U.S. Symptoms include irregular periods, hot flashes, mood swings, sleep problems, vaginal and bladder problems, loss of bone density and higher cholesterol levels — some of which come on gradually.

The study, published this week by the Mayo Clinic, surveyed more than 4,000 women aged 45-60 and found that 15% had either missed work or cut back on work hours because of their menopause symptoms. The study notes that more than 15 million women in the workplace ages 45 to 60.

Researchers also found that over 1% of participants reported that their symptoms were so debilitating that they were either laid off or quit their jobs in the preceding six months.

Dr. Juliana Kling — study author and chair of the Women’s Health Internal Medicine division at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona — said that based on collected data, there’s an estimated annual loss of $1.8 billion in working time.

Kapoor added that the recorded $1.8 billion annual loss is likely an underestimate because the women surveyed had access to health insurance and possible treatments for menopause symptoms, which is not the case for all women in the U.S.

[From People]

I’m being flippant but I am genuinely distressed about this. We’ve discussed the symptoms before. Many of them would affect job performance. Brain fog is a particular challenge. What I’m having trouble with is that menopause is finite. Laying someone off or quitting for something that will end is scary. I know peri can last up to four years, but there has to be a way to manage being a woman in the workplace, this can’t be the answer. The article noted that the study found women also felt they couldn’t talk about menopause in the workplace and that’s probably why they aren’t getting help. Smart companies should give every 45 year old woman in their employ a personal fan with their company logo on it and soak up the free advertising every time that woman has to bring it out to deal with a hot flash.

Obviously, the biggest concern is women losing money due to a milestone they will all pass through if they’re lucky enough to live that long. Granted, not all will suffer debilitating symptoms, but clearly enough to lose a collective $1.8 billion. What I’m focusing on is the women being removed from the workplace. I worry that employers will use information like this to weed out women of a certain age as job candidates. Professional resume builders already tell women to hack their work experience so HR can’t guess their age prior to the interview. So newlyweds are filtered because of their potential for pregnancy and choosing to stay home after maternity and now capable middle aged women will get filtered because a study suggests they’ll vacate or be forced out of that position after the company has paid to train them. I just wish they’d stop finding new ways to stack the odds against us.

Add this to the University of Birmingham announcing that there’s a rise in throat cancer because of oral sex and it’s like the medical community is out for us.

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The British newspapers are searching for any kind of new royal content ahead of the coronation, and Buckingham Palace is trying to placate the media by giving them access to random people in the new king and queen’s lives. Which makes for some interesting quid pro quo, in general. Queen Camilla clearly authorized this – her colorist, Jo Hansford, recently spoke on the record to the Telegraph. I have to admit, I actually enjoyed this piece a lot. Hansford is close in age to Camilla and she’s done everyone’s hair. Well, everyone but Prince William, it sounds like. She’s a gossip and well… you’ll see. Some highlights:

She started working with Camilla 35 years ago. “I remember seeing her for the first time. Her brown hair had a few lights in it, and she had this shaggy fringe. I noticed her bright blue eyes and I knew immediately she had to be blonder.”

Camilla & Charles are a “real old-fashioned love story.” “Camilla deeply loves him.And Charles obviously loves her very much. And as her son Tom said recently in an interview, that’s really what it comes down to. They should have married years earlier in my view. But all that silly royal nonsense… I felt so sorry for Princess Margaret, for example. She was unable to marry the person she wanted. And of course, things have changed. Obviously. Just look at Meghan and Harry! But I do think it’s sad that it went on for so long. Not that Diana wasn’t a lovely person. And I think she probably tried very hard, but she was so young to be in the firm, and we have to remember that it is a firm.”

Camilla won’t try anything new now that she’s queen: “It’ll be the same. Nothing dramatic happens to a woman’s hair on the day she becomes Queen. There are no new rules to abide by.” No special new “Queenly” shade. “I see everyone as an individual, whether they are a Queen or a pauper. I’ve always believed that. It’s not about what’s in vogue – but what suits a person.”

Gradually changing Camilla’s color: “Over time I have had to change Camilla’s colour. I’d noticed that in photographs her hair had started to look white – like grey hair. And I thought ‘why bother if it just looks white?’ But I had to be very cautious because she likes the body that the colour gives her, and she has a lot of hair but it’s fine. So we had the conversation and did it as a gradual process, and it looks so much nicer, the body is still there, and Camilla loves it.”

She’s asked what she would do with Meghan’s hair: Hansford deflects with a grimace and a “we won’t discuss The Big M”, she has some thoughts on the Duchess of Cambridge’s mane. “She’s got lovely hair but I think it is too long. She’s so slim, and with hair you have to look at the whole image, the proportions, so I would take it up six inches.” Not that she believes in “mum cuts”, she says. “I don’t agree with that idea at all. But as you get older you need a bit of shaping, because your face muscles start to drop, so bringing it all up to, say, shoulder length, can give you a lift. That said, everyone ages differently.”

The many bald Windsor men: As for the famously follicly-challenged male royals, Hansford wishes they had been given better guidance about hair loss and transplants early on. Alongside colour and cuts, the salon offers a whole range of individual services and has in-house experts in wigs, hairpieces and trichology. “The problem with the ‘inner circle’ is that they really don’t get given the right advice. But also they’re in the public eye so much, so if the princes had done anything everyone would have made such a big deal about it. I really feel sorry for William because he had such a lovely head of hair and he should have done his ages ago. If he were a client of ours, we would have advised him to do that as soon as he started to lose it, but of course he can’t do anything now because it’s gone so far.”

[From The Telegraph]

First of all, a criticism of Hansford’s work – Camilla’s hair has been too light, too white-blond for years now. While I appreciate the consistency of Camilla’s style & color, I feel like Camilla should pick one – either go snow-white or put in some lowlights so she’ll look truly “blonde.” Personally, I really think Camilla could go back to an ashy blonde these days.

As for the rest of it… I agree that Kate needs to take off six inches or more. We don’t know what’s underneath all of Kate’s wiglets, but I would guess her hair is already thinning significantly. A shorter, shoulder-length cut would not only look better, it would be easier for her to maintain and it would be easier to phase out the wigs and hairpieces. As for the stuff about Baldemort… lord, Camilla really authorized her colorist to slam Peg and Keen’s hair foibles, huh?

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This is one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever read, especially given the timing. Perez Hilton is still around, and he’s giving interviews like he consumes the Daily Mail 24-7 and he believes everything they publish. Perez and his obvious hairplugs went to the opening of a club in Las Vegas and he chatted with Page Six about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. He apparently finds them super-boring. So boring that he spun out for a page and a half about how they “need to go back” to the UK, because everyone in America is terribly bored with them. Are we 100% positive Camilla Tominey wasn’t wearing a Perez mask at this club opening? I mean…

Perez Hilton believes Prince Harry and Meghan Markle need to pack up their California mansion and return to the United Kingdom where they belong.

“Honestly, they need to give up and move back to the UK,” Hilton, 45, exclusively told Page Six at Tao’s grand opening for Cathédrale at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday. “I feel like it’s inevitable. I don’t mean this as an insult but they’re both boring. The only thing that makes them interesting is the family in the UK and all of that drama. In America, she and he are not royals to us. We’re not their subjects. They’re just celebrities and they have to play by the rules of celebrity. You have to work at it to maintain celebrity because the only way to monetize your celebrity is to maximize it and feed the machine.”

The podcast host, however, admitted that Markle has already hit it off with celebrity power players.“She’s hanging out regularly with Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, with Ellen DeGeneres, with Oprah [Winfrey]. It doesn’t get any more Hollywood than that,” Hilton said. “It’s still fairly young and new. They’re in their honeymoon period, so to speak, and I feel like they’ll end up moving back eventually because that would also be good for business for them even if they’re still not working royals.”

Hilton also believes that Markle, 41, and Harry, 38, won’t be able to “resonate” with a lot of Americans because people find them “boring” and “hypocritical.”

“They’re still calling themselves the Duke and Duchess but they hate the institution. They’re calling their daughter and son Princess and Prince but they hate the institution,” Hilton said, adding, “I don’t dislike them, but I don’t like them either.”

“I respect what it all boils down to which is, Harry never liked being the ‘Spare.’ I get that. He never wanted to play by the palace rules. I get that. He was a grown man and wanted to make his own decisions and he wasn’t allowed to do that under the system that he was in. So that’s why I do feel like he will ultimately end up moving back because there will be some kind of compromise. It’s a business but it’s also a family and that’s weird. [He left] not even his family but all of his friends too. Everyone. He’s in a whole other country.”

[From Page Six]

“You have to work at it to maintain celebrity because the only way to monetize your celebrity is to maximize it and feed the machine.” This is straight out of the British media’s playbook, that Harry and Meghan are “nobodies” because they aren’t constantly going to LA parties or attending the opening of an envelope. Perez apparently doesn’t understand that the truly A-list celebrities have so much cachet when they aren’t being seen everywhere. And honestly, just in the past six months, they’ve had a hugely successful Netflix docuseries and the biggest bestseller of the year (so far). I will never understand this idea that H&M “need” to “go back” for their brand. Why, so they can be bossed around by Little Lord Incandescent With Rage? No.

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Looking back on it, I’m still so mad that Prince Harry and then-Meghan Markle extended wedding invitations to the Middleton clan. Like, I know I’m the only one hanging on to this, but after the way Kate and William were already treating Meghan, and after the way the Middletons treated Meghan around Pippa’s 2017 wedding? No – Carole, Michael, Pippa and James Middleton should not have been invited to the Sussex wedding. Now, it makes some kind of sense that the Middletons have apparently ALL been invited to the coronation. Kate is the Princess of Wales now, and Prince George is a page at his grandfather’s coronation. So it appears that the whole Middleton clan is hopping in their jalopy and goin’ to the Clowning, Clampett-style.

Kate Middleton’s family may be among the guests at King Charles’ coronation on May 6. While high profile guests like Lady Pamela Hicks didn’t receive an invitation to the event, another royal bridesmaid could be set to attend.

According to Daily Mail diary editor Richard Eden, Pippa Middleton, who, he notes, ‘made such an impact’ at the wedding of her sister to Prince William, has been invited to the big day. He added that the Princess of Wales’ parents Carole and Michael have also received an invitation, alongside her brother James Middleton.

‘They are the family of our future queen, so it’s right that they should be there,’ Richard Eden was told by one of their friends.

[From The Daily Mail]

People Magazine noted that Pippa and James Matthews (of Terribly Moderately Wealthy fame) had “no comment” when asked if they will be in attendance. Which probably means they will be. So, as I said, it seems like a reasonable thing for Charles to invite the “en masse Middletons.” It makes less sense when you think about how many aristocrats, lords, dukes, earls, marquesses, viscounts and family friends didn’t get Chubbly invites though. I absolutely think that Charles not inviting Pamela Hicks – the daughter of Lord Mountbatten, his mentor, surrogate father and advisor – was a huge shift in priorities. I think that really shocked the aristocrats, most of whom are also not invited. Lord, it’s going to look tacky as hell if Carole Middleton’s broke ass swans into the Abbey and gets seated in any kind of prominent position. Keep your eye on this too – if the aristos are truly disgruntled, they’ll play a long game.

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Last Summer, David Beckham announced he was partnering with Netflix to put together a documentary series on his life and career. I get a little tired of some things Beckham, but not David’s career and the impact he had on the sport, so this is something I’m inclined to watch. A recent article in The Guardian covering his new series discussed David’s OCD, which I didn’t know he had. The series detailed David staying up after the family goes to bed to clean up after everyone. He doesn’t just fluff the pillows and make sure the sink’s empty, but specifically cleans the candle wax, which is his particular bête noire.

David Beckham is opening up about the “tiring” ways his obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) affects his family.

In an upcoming Netflix documentary chronicling the soccer star’s career, the Guardian reported that Beckham, 47, said he stays up hours after his family sleeps to clean detailed parts of their home.

“The fact that when everyone’s in bed, I then go around, clean the candles, turn the lights on to the right setting, make sure everywhere is tidy. I hate coming down in the morning and there’s cups and plates and, you know, bowls,” Beckham said, per the outlet.

Beckham revealed that his “pet hate” is lingering candle wax. “I clip the candle wax, I clean the glass, that’s my pet hate, the smoke around the inside of a candle,” he shared. “I know, it’s weird.”

According to the Guardian, Beckham pondered whether or not his wife Victoria appreciates the results of his disorder.

“I clean it so well, I’m not sure it’s actually appreciated so much by my wife, in all honesty,” Beckham said as the Netflix cameras rolled.

“I clean it so well, I’m not sure it’s actually appreciated so much by my wife, in all honesty,” Beckham said as the Netflix cameras rolled.

The outlet reported that Victoria, 49, told the production crew that her husband is “appreciated” and “just so perfect” after the athlete shared his concern.

Beckham also said he “feels compelled” to do the tedious chores, despite how “tiring” they can be for him.

[From People]

I find David’s admission interesting. I remember when Jerry Rice talked about his incredibly strict pre-game ritual. No one talked about OCD back then, we all just chalked it up to superstition. But given Rice’s discipline and his comments about fear-based decisions, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn he also had OCD. The discipline OCD demands lends itself to certain professions, like sports. It is, however, exhausting, like David said. Not just physically because the body can’t rest until everything has been seen to, but mentally because the mind won’t let go unless it knows everything is in order. I swear I’m not being shady but it would behoove David to downsize from his huge estate if he has to canvas it every night to make sure it’s tidied up. And maybe just leave the candles for birthdays? Candle wax is a b*tch.

I was a little surprised to read David didn’t think Victoria appreciated his efforts. I have OCD tendencies, so not as pronounced, but my issues mostly just affect me. Maybe Victoria wants David to come to bed sooner than he does, or he’s listless during the day because of his nocturnal cleaning. It wouldn’t be because he’s keeping the house in order, certainly. If anything that made him sexier in my mind. But I’m glad Victoria set the record straight. I’m sure David is not ‘perfect’, but he shouldn’t be dinged for his OCD.

ps – Victoria posted a shot of David emerging from a hot tub in just underwear, in case you’re interested.

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Well, this is a surprise. Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner are splitting up. Christine filed for divorce after almost nineteen years of marriage. They were together for six years before their 2004 wedding too, meaning… they’ve been together since the 1990s. It’s not just the fact that they’re divorcing though – in an exclusive statement to People Magazine, Costner’s rep makes it sound like Kevin absolutely does not want this.

Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner are separating. Baumgarten, 49, has filed for divorce, PEOPLE has confirmed.

In a statement to PEOPLE, Costner’s representative said, “It is with great sadness that circumstances beyond his control have transpired which have resulted in Mr. Costner having to participate in a dissolution of marriage action. We ask that his, Christine’s, and their children’s privacy be respected as they navigate this difficult time,” the rep added.

The pair wed in September 2004 and have three children together, sons Cayden, 15, and Hayes, 14, plus daughter Grace, 12. Costner, 68, also has four older children from previous relationships, daughters Annie and Lily and sons Joe and Liam.

[From People]

Costner sort of remade his career with Yellowstone, a hit drama he stars in and executive produces, and he’s a key part of putting together all of the spinoffs and such. Like, the franchise is his baby, and it’s a very profitable and career-fulfilling baby at that. According to the Mail’s sources, Christine asked him to quit the series because the shooting schedule (in Montana) is so intensive, it was affecting their family. The Mail also points out that Costner was recently in Las Vegas and he (gasp) posed for photos with his arms around some fans at the Milano Restaurant and Bar.

So… I don’t know. The terse statement from Costner’s rep makes me think that he crossed some kind of line somewhere and Christine decided that was it. Was the line an “affair” or was it about his professional ambitions? I don’t know.

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WNBA star Brittney Griner finally came home in December after being detained in Russia for 10 months. She and her wife, Cherelle, had a busy past couple of days during which they attended the White House Correspondent’s dinner as guests of Gayle King and then made their Met Gala debut. The couple walked the carpet together in custom Calvin Klein.

Brittney and Cherelle Griner made their Met Gala debut on Monday!

Brittney, 32, and Cherelle, 30, walked the carpet at the exclusive event in New York City side-by-side, just months after the WNBA star returned home from Russian imprisonment.

The couple coordinated in custom Calvin Klein. Brittney — who previously told Elle in 2013 that she vowed to never wear a dress again after her high school graduation — wore a long beige coat, matching trousers and a sheer top.

Cherelle, though, opted for a gown — a white strapless one with silver statement earrings.

“It is dripping off of us right now,” Brittney said of their looks for the exclusive affair.

When speaking with La La Anthony on Vogue’s red carpet livestream, Cherelle took a moment to remember the hardship the couple faced one year ago. “This time last year, I was missing my wife, so to have her right here, to be in this moment — breathtaking,” she said.

“It’s everything just to be here with my wife and just able to be here,” Brittney added. “It means so much. Get to see this event a lot and actually live it. It’s amazing.”

Both Brittney and Cherelle were dressed in custom designs from Calvin Klein for the evening, who also styled the couple for Saturday’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner in Washington, D.C.

Brittney and Cherelle were invited as guests of CBS and Gayle King to the event, where the WNBA star was able to thank President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden for the administration’s efforts toward her release from Russia last year.

[From People]

Both Brittney and Cherelle look classic in their Calvin Klein. They also look luxe and expensive, which is definitely the Karl Lagerfeld way. The couple spoke to LaLa Anthony on the red carpet and Brittney talked about how happy she was to be home and with her wife and talked a bit about the Bring Them Home Campaign, for all Americans detained overseas. Last month, Brittney announced that she’ll tell her story about her experiences in Russia in a memoir, to be published next spring. It will probably be distressing for her to relive that, but may also help with processing what happened and shed light on the conditions she experienced. Brittney’s had such a rough go of it, it’s nice that she’s happily back with her family and playing basketball. And while her work with the Bring Them Home Campaign and her book will also raise awareness, it’s nice that she’s getting to just relax and enjoy fun events like the dinner and gala with her wife too.

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