You know what? I’m actually happy for Mariah Carey. It’s a weird feeling. She’s going through a rough divorce and she’s found love again, with an age-appropriate billionaire (she’s 45, he’s 47). He’s a sketchball, she loves to drink. He’s a starf—ker and she loves to spend money. This pairing really works. I hope they both get what they want out each other. Anyway, these are photos of Mariah and James last Friday in Portofino, Italy. Mariah and James have been on his yacht – with their children from other relationships – for more than a week now. They’ve toured Mediterranean coastal cities like Capri and Cote d’Azur and Portofino. They also ended up in Israel over the weekend… which is where this happened:

Mariah Carey and her billionaire boyfriend are taking a giant leap — jetting to Israel for what they call a “pre-engagement spiritual meeting” with a religious muckety-muck.

Sources connected with the newly-minted couple tell TMZ, Mariah and James Packer are jumping on his jet today, where they will meet a “spiritual leader” who James knows well. We’re told James believes the meeting is a must before he pops the question.

Our sources say once the meeting takes place, the ball will roll quickly and “they will be married soon.”

Packer doesn’t want the name of the spiritual leader or the location disclosed for security reasons.

[From TMZ]

There are spiritual leaders of three major faiths in Israel (Islam, Christianity and Judaism), so God knows who they met or what advice was given. Last week, TMZ claimed that Mariah and James were definitely talking about marriage, although Mariah’s people were denying that report pretty soon after. I don’t know what to tell you… I would love it if they got engaged. They would be so messy. Oh, and he’s already spending money on her – in these photos from Portofino, he took her shopping at Pucci and some other boutiques. Perhaps they flew to Israel so that Mariah could pick out the biggest diamond she could find?

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Proud papa Carey Hart shared a video of daughter Willow, 4, riding her bike.

“Bombing downhills. My daughter is bad ass,” the former motocross racer, 39, captioned the clip via Instagram Saturday.

After viewing the video, some of Hart’s fans criticized his parenting skills.

“Put a helmet on her! You know better,” wrote one fan. Another commenter said, “I knew the helmet thing would come up. It’s not your child people! Can’t put your kid in a bubble.”

This isn’t the first time Pink‘s husband got some heat over the helmet debate.

In Oct. 2013, Hart took Willow, then 2, for a motorcycle ride — sans helmet.

After receiving online criticism, Pink defended her husband via Twitter.

“If any of u have more experience on a bike than my husband, then I will listen to your opinions on how he should take my daughter for a ride,” Pink wrote. “I can’t promise I will care, but I will listen none the less.”

The conversation soon turned into a blunt exchange between Pink and her followers.

“Wait until she’s 16 and let her decide for herself. Bikes are no joke!” wrote one follower, which later added, “Yeah ok. I’ve never met you but that’s great.” Another fan said, “Honestly.. I wouldn’t like the idea of a child so young being on a bike.” Pink replied, “Then I don’t recommend it for your child.”

Pink ended the conversation with: “M’kay I’m gonna go now. Gotta figure out what wills is wearing tomorrow for her MANIACAL MOTO MANIA!!!!!! Gotta pack veggies too! Organic!”

Bombing downhills. My daughter is bad ass

A video posted by Carey Hart (@hartluck) on Jun 27, 2015 at 8:58pm PDT

Rocker papa Gavin Rossdale was spotted with son Kingston, 9, in Studio City, Calif. on Saturday (June 27).

After getting groceries at Whole Foods, the father-son duo stopped by Starbucks for some beverages to go.

On Father’s Day, we spotted the Stefani-Rossdale family – including Gwen Stefani and sons Zuma, nearly 7, and Apollo, 16 months – enjoying lunch together.

And the weekend before, the famous family-of-five were seen at the Wildlife Learning Center in Pasadena.

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What a cutie!

Lizzie McGuire alum Hilary Duff stepped out with son Luca, 3, in Bel Air, Calif. on Friday (June 26). The actress-singer, 27, and her boy enjoyed some quality time together at the Beverly Glen Market.

After doing some shopping, the adorable preschooler enjoyed some of the kiddie rides.

The Younger actress has been promoting her new album, Breathe In. Breathe Out.

When asked about her favorite song on the album, Duff tells Billboard, “One in a Million. It’s a ‘f– you’ anthem about a guy who’s not treating you right.”

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I keep forgetting that Angelina Jolie is DAME Angelina Jolie. That’s right, people. Dame Angelina was Dame’d last October. She got to meet Queen Elizabeth II and Dame Angie curtsied and everything. I bring up Dame Angelina’s Dame-ing because on Friday, Dame Angie got to meet two other members of the royal family: Duchess Kate and Prince William. The tabloids have always said that Kate was somewhat desperate to meet Angelina but I never really believed it. I guess Kate really did want to meet her though, because Kate pulled herself away from… ?? And William I guess got some time off from his job too. Angie and Brad went to Kensington Palace and chatted for “hours” with Kate and William.

Friday, June 26, 2015, will forever go down in history. Not only did the Supreme Court of the United States legalize same-sex marriage, but Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie had tea with Kate Middleton and Prince William.

After months of coordinating, the two power couples met for the first time at a private Kensington Palace meeting. “The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Pitt at Kensington Palace on Friday afternoon,” a Kensington Palace spokesman tells Us Weekly exclusively. “They discussed their shared interest in combatting the illegal wildlife trade.”

Brangelina had flown to London earlier in the morning so Jolie can attend a lunch at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on Monday as part of her work on UK foreign policy and her ongoing campaign to end war zone sexual violence. At around 3:45 p.m., the UN Special Envoy was joined by Pitt and they headed straight over to Kensington Palace for the informal meeting.

And according to the insider, Middleton and Prince William were “really excited” about the afternoon tea, with a source adding that the royal couple — who were joined by Prince George — actually waited outside their apartment 1A home to greet the Hollywood royal couple. (Pitt and Jolie’s kids were also in London, but did not join in on the visit). Naturally the Jolie-Pitt’s didn’t arrive empty handed. A source tells Us the couple brought a special gift for the Duke and Duchess to celebrate the arrival of Princess Charlotte, who was born in May.

“Everyone got on splendidly,” says the source of their afternoon tea. “Brad and Angelina spent much longer with the Duke and Duchess than planned. They ended up staying for almost a few hours.”

The meeting was a first for the foursome. Prince William, Pitt, and Jolie all attended the 2014 BAFTA awards but didn’t cross paths.

In October 2014, Queen Elizabeth II made Jolie an Honorary Dame Commander at a private Buckingham Palace ceremony, which is the female equivalent of knighthood, for her humanitarian work to which she has dedicated much of her life.

[From Us Weekly]

Us Weekly is wrong, Kate didn’t go to the 2014 BAFTAs, William memorably went stag last year and then this year, neither of them went to the BAFTAs (even though William is BAFTA president and they were supposed to host a pre-BAFTA cocktail party the night before and didn’t bother showing up for that either).

As for the meeting… I bet William and Kate would like to see themselves as a philanthropic power couple in the same league as Brangelina. What’s funny is that even though Brad and Angelina both have full-time Hollywood careers AND six kids, they’ve done more for conservation than Will and Kate ever have. Angelina owns hundreds of acres of land in Cambodia which is a fully functional nature preserve. She and Brad do/have done conservation work in Namibia, Kenya and Ethiopia too, I think. Oh, and Angelina has done more de-mining work with the HALO Trust (one of Princess Diana’s last patronages) than William and Kate too. I’m just saying, if we’re doing a side-by-side comparison between “power couples,” it’s hard to see how Brad and Angelina aren’t miles ahead.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

There are really only two scenarios for How Bristol Palin Got Knocked Up Again. Scenario #1: she had sex with her then-fiancé Dakota Meyer and maybe she used contraception and it failed, or maybe she didn’t use anything and predictably got knocked up. This scenario also involves the fact that IF she’s carrying Dakota’s baby, then he’s pretty much already a deadbeat dad who is not involved whatsoever. Scenario #2: Bristol had sex with an as-yet-unidentified man who is not Dakota Meyer and that sex and pregnancy is sort of the reason why the wedding and engagement was called off. I really don’t see any other scenario. Both are pretty bad. Scenario #1 makes Dakota look like a douche and Scenario #2 makes Bristol look like a trashy hypocrite living in a glass house.

So that’s where we are now. Radar claims that Dakota is definitely the daddy, but it’s Radar and I think they’re just guessing. And here’s the newest wrinkle: Dakota threw a pissy hissy fit on his Facebook in which he TOTALLY blasts all of us for paying attention to the wrong things. You guys are about to get TOLD.

Within the past 24 hours there have been three terrorist style attacks across the world. There has been an incident at a US company owned gas factory in Lyon, France Leaving one dead and two injured. Another incident in Tunisia with 28 people lost in an assault on a west tourist, mostly British. And finally, a blast at a Shiite mosque in Kuwait.

All ISIS/ISIL attacks and all overshadowed by the dog and pony show being put on here domestically by some politicians and mass media. The news that feeds the “inquiring mind want to know” is inconsequential compared to that which is truly relevant but lost on the back page. I urge you to go beyond what is spoon fed to you and see what is truly going on out there. ?#?NeverOutgunned? ?#?DakotaMeyer0317?

[From Facebook]

These types of arguments are always stupid. Of course there’s always something awful happening in the world. Within the same 24 hours, there were awful terrorist attacks, SCOTUS made marriage equality happen in all 50 states, SCOTUS upheld the ACA, SCOTUS upheld the Fair Housing Act, President Obama took us all to church in Charleston AND a hypocritical a—hole announced her second unwed pregnancy. We can care about all of it all at once. And if there’s one thing that makes someone look bad/guilty, it’s making a false equivalency argument. How dare you care about Josh Duggar molesting his siblings? Don’t you know ISIL is killing people? How dare you care about marriage equality, don’t you know that there’s a refugee crisis?!?! Dakota is so basic.

Meanwhile, do you remember how Bristol grifted hard for hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote “abstinence” on behalf of the Candie’s Foundation? HAHAHA. It’s true. Well, Candie’s released a statement about Bristol’s second pregnancy: “In 2011, when she was just 19, Bristol Palin was enormously helpful to The Candie’s Foundation in our mission to educate teenagers about the devastating consequences of teen pregnancy. Her courage, while still a teen herself, to admit her mistakes so publicly in an effort to help others was remarkably brave. Today, at 24, we can only offer our support to Bristol and her family and respect her request for privacy.” That’s another thing that’s pissing me off – I’ll only respect her privacy when she respects everyone else’s privacy. She’s a judgy, holier-than-thou wingnut spreading her mother’s brand of judgy, delusional faux-conservative “family values” and I love that it’s blown up in her face.

Photos courtesy of Dakota Meyer’s social media.

Here are some candid photos of Amber heard at LAX on Friday afternoon. She paused to sign some autographs for adoring fans, which isn’t surprising. She graciously dealt with an overzealous male fan outside her NYC hotel last week. Amber is gorgeous.

We sort-of poke fun at Amber for capitalizing on Johnny Depp’s fame while accusing others of doing the same. I think Amber may be fame hungry, but she’s also under a microscope. People question her affectionate selfies with others, but she swiftly manages miracle joint appearances with the hubby. Amber is defending her marriage. This is from her recent Elle interview (where she also claimed to repeatedly fall in love with Johnny). Some excerpts:

The marriage: “We have a fairly normal, um [relationship]. I guess, we do our best. He has his life, and I have mine, and our challenge is to be able to find time to be together. We’re very happy. Very.”

On tabloid rumors: “I’m already probably pregnant and divorced. It’s been a month, so clearly there’s some trouble. Clearly I’m pregnant, or clearly it’s great and we’re buying ponies.”

Amber won’t be distracted: “Ironically, the people with whom I choose to share my life or by whom I’m compelled just so happen to be unwitting proponents, like a distracting force. I’m in a very similar type of situation and have my career that I’ve been working hard for now, and yet I still am constantly confronted with these forces that can distract or deflect from where I see my real work.”

[From Elle]

Amber makes solid points. It must be extremely difficult to maintain a marriage where both parties travel for work. Most working actors only spend a few weeks at home before jetting off to the next location. Matters grow more difficult when both parties work on opposite sides of the globe. I don’t envy Amber’s position. She’s in a lose-lose situation with the press, and Johnny may have a serious alcohol problem.

The newest issue of the Enquirer says Disney execs are fed up with Johnny’s behavior on the Pirates 5 production. He leaves the set for legit and sketchy reasons. Execs reportedly told Johnny to “get his act together” because “the movie is millions over budget and behind schedule. It’s becoming a fiasco!” The tabloid says Johnny hired a sober coach. If this story is true, Johnny needs to tell Amber to stop badmouthing Australia to the press too.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN

There’s a ton of Kim Kardashian & Kanye West stuff this weekend, so this is only part of it. I’ll do more (mostly about Kim) on Monday. I sort of forgot that Kanye was doing Glastonbury this year – I’m seriously shocked and surprised that the Brits invited him to another prestigious music festival after the debacle at last year’s Verizon festival in London. Remember that? Kanye stopped mid-song to rant for 20 minutes about the art of genius or something. Well, at Glastonbury on Saturday, Kanye was still doing Kanye. Except someone else tried to pull a Kanye by jumping on stage and pretending he was part of the act. That guy? Lee Nelson, aka Leezus, aka Simon Brodkin. Leezus stage-rushed Kanye in the middle of “Black Skinhead” (one of the better songs on Yeezus). Leezus was escorted off stage by security and Kanye demanded that they just start the song over. Here’s the video – you can skip ahead to about the 45-second mark.

Leezus later tweeted, “Some people were saying Kanye shouldn’t headline Glastonbury so I thought I’d give him a hand.” Sure. Is this a big deal? Eh. I have to give Kanye a slow clap for not throwing a hissy and refusing to finish the song. He just started the song over and did it again. Also: the BBC airs Glastonbury performances and they accidentally didn’t censor some of Kanye’s many n-words.

Meanwhile, did you know that David Crosby hates Kanye West? It’s true. Crosby has a history of throwing major shade at Yeezus, previously telling journalists that Kanye is “an idiot and a poser…has no talent at all.” On Friday, Crosby told HuffPo: “Kanye West can’t write, sing or play, so I have trouble with him as anything but a poser.” When the reporter said, “But he can produce,” Crosby replied, “Produce. That means he sits in a chair while the engineer does the work. He’s a poser. I’m not backing off it.” Um… I like Crosby and everything and more power to him for speaking his mind, but Kanye DOES write and play music and if he gets out of his own way, he is legitimately talented.

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Academy Award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon stopped at Starbucks with her older kids on Saturday (June 27) in Brentwood, Calif.

Sporting matching stripes and denim, the Hot Pursuit star, 39, and her lookalike daughter Ava, 15, were all smiles with 11-year-old Deacon on their coffee run.

The Wild actress and her mini-me were recently spotted on a holiday in Rome. Joined by Reese’s mother Betty, it was a girls-only getaway in Italy.

Watch for Reese in the upcoming HBO limited series, Big Little Lies, costarring Nicole Kidman.

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Pop superstar Britney Spears shared a sweet snapshot with 8-year-old son Jayden James via Instagram Friday.

Putting on a brave face in the wake of her split from Charlie Ebersol, the Toxic hitmaker, 33, was all smiles with her youngest son.

In another photo posted Friday, Britney wrote, “Great Malibu Dogs!”

The Grammy Award-winning signer – who is also mom to 9-year-old son Preston with ex-husband Kevin Federline – recently split from Ebersol after 8 months of dating.

They were last seen together in public at the Billboard Music Awards last month, where he called her ‘the most beautiful’ woman.

Great Malibu dogs!

A photo posted by Britney Spears (@britneyspears) on Jun 26, 2015 at 3:33pm PDT

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