Independence Day weekend. For Taylor Swift, the Fourth of the July means her place in Rhode Island. And the ultimate Friend Collector party. Here’s a shot from last year featuring Jaime King, Lena Dunham, and Emma Stone:

Family Portrait Regram- what a beautiful we…      

Sweet sibs!

Kevin Federline‘s youngest kids – sons Preston, 9, Jayden, 8, and daughters Jordan, nearly 4, and Peyton, 13 months – were all smiles playing in the backyard together.

“Never to early for a skate lesson… “Gets better and better by time”… Captioned by #PDubs #PeytieWaity #JordyBear #JBoogy @federline4real,” Federline’s wife Victoria Instagrammed the cute image Friday.

Preston and Jayden are Federline’s sons with ex-wife, pop superstar Britney Spears. The former backup dancer, 37, welcomed his daughters with wife Victoria Prince.

Spears recently Instagrammed some photos of her skateboarding son, writing, “Practice makes perfect Check this guy out!!”

And Victoria went on to share more family photos on her Instagram page.

Federline also has daughter Kori, nearly 13, and son Kaleb, nearly 11, with ex-fiancée, actress Shar Jackson.

The Federline siblings were photographed together over the Christmas holidays, all sporting matching PJs.

Practice makes perfect Check this guy out!!

A photo posted by Britney Spears (@britneyspears) on Jul 2, 2015 at 9:15pm PDT

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Happy Fourth of July holiday, everyone! Hope you stay safe this weekend!

America Ferrara calls Donald Trump an “antiquated bigot.” [Uproxx]
What in the world is going on with Demi Lovato?! [Dlisted]
Chris Martin is suspiciously in India with Freida Pinto? [LaineyGossip]
I’m so happy I’m going to see Magic Mike XXL tomorrow! [Buzzfeed]
Princess Beatrice was covered-up this week. [Go Fug Yourself]
Best pop culture/art from the first half of the year. [Pajiba]
Shemar Moore is shirtless. You are welcome! [A Socialite Life]
Donald Trump is still saying words. [The Blemish]
Hilary Duff shows some leg in short-shorts. [Popoholic]
I think Miranda Kerr looks really cute here. [Celebslam]
Did Kimye hire a bartender to serve them drinks in bed? [Starcasm]
Beyonce supports marriage equality. [OMG Blog]

In some photos of Josh Hartnett and his girlfriend Tamsin Egerton, I’m like, “Is he dating Karlie Kloss?” But in other photos, she looks nothing like Karlie. Tamsin has a chameleon quality, is what I’m saying. Anyway, Josh and Tamsin have been together for years now – we started getting photos of them back in 2013, but sources say they’ve been together since 2012. Tamsin is an English actress – you may have seen her in…?? I looked at her IMDB and nothing stood out, so I’m sorry if I’m offending any Tamsin-loonies. Anyway, Tamsin and Josh are together and very happy. So happy, in fact, that they’re expecting their first child together. Yay!

Josh Hartnett is going to be a dad. The “Black Hawk Down” star’s girlfriend, English actress Tamsin Egerton, is pregnant, his rep confirms to Page Six: “It’s true and they are beyond thrilled.”

The pair reportedly met in 2011 on the set of “The Lovers,” but started dating in 2012. The flick was released in February. Hartnett, 36, who currently stars on Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful,” recently sold his Minneapolis home for $2.3 million. He previously dated Scarlett Johansson and Amanda Seyfried.

[From Page Six]

I don’t have any shade for this. There really hasn’t been much scandal with Josh or with this relationship. He’s 36 years old, she’s 26. While a decade is still a significant age difference, it’s not insurmountable or gross. Josh still gets some loonies, and I suspect there will be a few bitter tears about this. Even though… really, Josh is barely a celebrity at this point. He gives like one major interview a year and while those annual interviews always make headlines, Josh is pretty much now just a cable TV actor. Let’s wish him well. It seems like he and Tamsin are very happy.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Mimi and Packer were just there too! As Maria pointed out recently, a lot of celebrities are heading to Italy this summer. Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky are the latest. Here they are with friends and family in Portofino yesterday. Chris has been in London shooting The Huntsman. He’s supposed to…      

Mimi and Packer were just there too! As Maria pointed out recently, a lot of celebrities are heading to Italy this summer. Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky are the latest. Here they are with friends and family in Portofino yesterday. Chris has been in London shooting The Huntsman. He’s supposed to…      

I finally got a chance to read Star Magazine’s full LeAnn Rimes story in this week’s issue and there wasn’t a whole of stuff that wasn’t covered in the online editions. Basically, OK! Magazine and Star got their hands on some legal documents that show that LeAnn and Eddie Cibrian borrowed $350,000 from their friends, Dave and Lizzie Fradin, back in 2012. They borrowed that huge sum to help make a down payment on their Hollywood Hills home, which cost $3 million at the time. Since 2012, LeAnn and Eddie have not paid back one dime of the $350,000. Star says that LeAnn has pretty much blown through her fortune, which at one time was estimated at $20 million or thereabouts (but probably significantly less than that when she married Eddie).

So, did Star’s print edition have anything new? A few extra quotes, basically. “LeAnn burned through her $20 million fortune.” And as for all of the vacations and luxury items LeAnn and Eddie purchase? “Most of the purchases were made with credit cards… Eddie thought he’d hit the jackpot by marrying a Grammy winner… the idea they’d be desperate enough to ask friends for money never crossed his mind.” Ouch. So what does LeAnn have to say about all this? This went down on her Twitter yesterday:

LeAnn tweets: “Some people are straight up CRAY lol”

A reply: “@leannrimes Is this about those saying your home may B foreclosed on LeAnn? They R nuts if yes. God bless U always! Holly (a day 1 fan of U)”

LeAnn: “@SweetHeartHolly no but that insane too lol”

[From Twitter]

And that’s all she had to say. And she was tweeting with fans for most of the day. So is it “insane” to suggest that LeAnn and Eddie owe their close friends $350,000 when the tabloids have the legal documents to back it up? Who is lying here? That’s a rhetorical question.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

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Kim Kardashian’s Rolling Stone cover is confusing. She’s not a musician, so some people wondered why she was on the cover. But even Jennifer Aniston once covered the magazine, which hasn’t been a serious music journalism rag in quite some time. In the interview, Kim talked about how her brother, Rob, gained weight because he smoked a lot of weed and played too many video games. She said he definitely didn’t do meth because then “he’d be skinny.”

Kim is usually pretty awful about Rob, which is why he compared her to Gone Girl‘s Amy Dunne. But her statement about meth simply articulates many people’s thoughts about InTouch’s cover story claiming Rob was hooked on meth. Should Kim have commented on Rob’s weight to Rolling Stone? Rob is reportedly furious and won’t take her calls:

Too soon. Rob Kardashian is furious with sister Kim Kardashian after the reality star joked to Rolling Stone that he’d be “skinny” if he was actually using meth.

“Rob and Kim had been cool again and were getting along,” an insider tells Us Weekly exclusively. “Now he’s furious at her again for her comments to Rolling Stone. He was been bitching her out on her phone. He’s mad — pissed as hell.”

Kim’s comments for her Rolling Stone cover story interview came after she was asked about her troubled younger brother, who has kept an extremely low profile since putting on weight in 2013.

“Do I think he smokes weed, drinks beer, hangs out and plays video games with his friends all day long? Yes,” she added, before joking about Rob having a larger issue. When RS asked if she thinks “it’s not more like hookers and meth at the Ritz,” the Selfish author responded: “No no. Or he’d be skinny.”

“Rob has blocked Kim on his phone,” the source tells Us. “He doesn’t want to hear what she has to say. He says there’s no excuse she could possibly have for saying that. He will not forgive her.”

[From Us Weekly]

Rob is surely angry with Kim for speaking publicly about his weight, but I doubt she tries to call him, so blocking her would be pointless. Yes, he probably smokes weed all day and has the munchies. Rob was papped at In-and-Out Burger a week ago, and he looks even heavier than last time we saw him. There’s no dancing around that fact, and Rob has opened up discussion about his own weight for years. I still feel sorry for him and feel like there are deeper issues, but (this time) Kim simply said what everyone else was thinking.

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Just know, I totally have qualms about this story. It’s not that I think it’s “rude” to speculate about Bristol Palin’s mystery baby-daddy – I have no qualms about that kind of speculation and I tend to think that Bristol is inviting us into a public guessing game. But I do think the story is totally sketchball – The Daily Mail basically tracked down Dakota Meyer’s grandparents and got them to half-way admit (sort of) that Dakota is the father of Bristol’s baby. As you probably remember, Dakota and Bristol got engaged after a very brief courtship in March, and they set their wedding for May, only to have Bristol pull the plug just days before the wedding. The whole thing is still shrouded in mystery and tackiness, even more so now that there’s a mysterious pregnancy. So, what do Dakota’s grandparents have to say about the situation? Ugh.

Bristol Palin has yet to confirm her former war hero fiancé is the father of her unborn child. But whatever the single mum decides to do in the future, she might not get the warmest of welcomes from the family of her ex, Dakota Meyer.

‘We don’t ever talk about Bristol Palin,’ said Meyer’s grandfather Dwight when asked about the pregnancy announcement. ‘We don’t ever discuss her in this family.’

Dakota Meyer has chosen to remain mostly silent about the pregnancy. The war hero later shrugged off the pregnancy controversy by going on a ‘mini break’ with a group of close friends and posting photos to his Instagram account. Meyer is understood to have headed for Destin, Florida, from his home in rural Columbia, Kentucky.

His family members have previously stayed silent over his latest break-up, with Bristol, but Meyer’s grandparents invited Daily Mail Online into their 150-year-old farmhouse.

‘We helped bring up Dakota and he has always been a very good boy,’ said 84-year-old Jean who accompanied her grandson to the White House for the Medal of Honor ceremony. ‘We try not to talk about Dakota but we are so, so proud of him. We helped raise him with his father Michael.’

A quick glance around the couple’s living room is testament to their pride. It is adorned with numerous photos of Dakota in his Marine uniform. Outside in the front garden a red Marine flag flies alongside the Stars and Stripes. When the subjects of Bristol and her pregnancy are brought up, the couple are less forthcoming. Dwight, 85, who uses a walking frame, makes it clear he has no desire to talk about her. But when Jean is asked if she is looking forward to welcoming a great-grandchild, she seems to confirm that Dakota is the father of Bristol’s baby. She said: ‘It will not be the first. I have other great-grandchildren.’

[From The Daily Mail]

Basically, the Daily Mail reporter weaseled their way into the home of two octogenarians and started badgering them about their grandson possibly knocking up his ex-fiancée. Rude. And I think Jean and Dwight did their best to simply avoid the questions and we shouldn’t take “I have other great-grandchildren” to be some kind of awkwardly worded admission that Dakota is the baby-daddy. Even if Dakota’s grandparents believe that he is the father, that doesn’t mean they’re right! What a mess.

And of course Bristol keeps blogging. She loves the attention so much. This chick is PARCHED. She wrote another blog post called “Choosing Humiliation Over Convenience: “The Five” Comes to My Defense.” She writes:

How pathetic is it that the media would be more supportive of me if I had chosen to kill my baby? Instead, they mock me because I am willing to choose to do what is natural and right—keep my precious baby.

And as a reminder, I never worked or pushed abstinence down anyone’s throat! I have always promoted pro-life and teen pregnancy prevention over all. Never once has it been “abstinence only”.

I’ve messed up, but I’ve owned up to my mistake and am trying to move forward. I’m so excited to raise my little blessing and see all that God has in store for this precious life!

[From Patheos]

The lies flow like water. She did promote abstinence-only education, and this is what she said in 2009: “I’m not going to have sex until I’m married. I can guarantee it.” She also said that abstinence-only is a “realistic goal.” And yes, she’s also supported anti-choice issues throughout – obviously, because limiting reproductive choice goes hand-in-hand with abstinence-only sexual education. The message she was always selling was: “Don’t ever sex before marriage, and when you do have sex before marriage and get pregnant, don’t ever get an abortion, you dirty slut, I can’t believe you can’t find a way to grift your way into supporting yourself and your child by promoting the same kind of inane BS I’m pushing.”

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, WENN and Instagram.

The incident between Puffy, his son’s football coach, Sal Alosi, and a kettlebell? It’s over now. The LA County DA will not prosecute. They’ve sent the case over to the LA City Attorney for a misdemeanor but that’s not expected to go forward either. Not surprisingly, Diddy has declared this a vic…