Chris Martin and Kylie Minogue went for a late night walk together on Sunday night/Monday morning in London. She had just played a show at Hyde Park and the two were papped arm in arm around 1:30am. The Daily Mail has exclusive rights to these shots until this evening; I didn’t want to wait until…      

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Liev Schreiber is the sex on Ray Donovan, which returns for its third season on July 12. Masters of Sex is also premiering that Sunday, but I stopped watching it after the plot got tedious last season. Ray Donovan, on the other hand, remains a solid, watchable show with riveting drama and high level performances. If you’re a MOS fan please forgive my extreme bias. (I’m hoping that Katie Holmes’s stunt casting on Ray Donovan doesn’t detract too much, but it’s kind of inevitable that it will, considering her side-mouth talking and wooden acting.)

Of course I would watch Liev, 47, in anything. I wish he would get more lead movie roles. If Liam Neeson can be an in-demand star at 63, Liev could have his own action franchise too. He has such a badass roughness to him. Liev says he’s more comfortable on the stage, though, and that he loves having a live audience. Vanity Fair has a kind of bullet-point profile of Liev, and there were some things in there that I didn’t know about him. Liev actually co-founded an ad agency in 2012, and he does real work there.

HE IS so committed to Shakespeare that he has schemed as Iago, sleazed as Iachimo, dreamed of playing Richard III—alas, at six feet three, Schreiber fears he is too tall—and “can’t imagine dying without getting the chance to play Lear.”

HE CREDITS his Russian and Eastern European heritage for what he calls his “Slavic fat pads”—i.e., his pronounced cheeks.

THE DOWNTURNED arch of his eyebrows gives him a villainous resting expression. In real life, he laments his menacing visage because people “think I’m a lot meaner than I am.”

WHAT SHOCKS Schreiber is that he sired “such beautiful children”—his blond, blue-eyed sons, Alexander (named for Schreiber’s grandfather and called Sasha), seven, and Samuel (known as Kai), six. “But then, of course, they look like their mother,” he says, referring to his partner of 10 years, Oscar-nominated actress Naomi Watts.

THE SETTING for his first date with “Nai”—his nickname for Watts—was outside Magnolia Bakery in the West Village, where the two chitchatted over cupcakes (Schreiber prefers “the white ones”) on a park bench. “It was all very aboveboard,” assures Schreiber

HE PAID off approximately $70,000 in student loans after playing a suicidal transvestite in Nora Ephron’s 1994 comedy, Mixed Nuts, his first movie and the site of one humiliating memory: while rehearsing a dance scene with a co-star, a nervous Schreiber remembers fixating on how “inappropriate it would be if I got an erection while I was doing the fox-trot. … Sure enough, it happened.”

HE CRAVES another comedy project, although maybe not one involving the fox-trot.

DESPITE HIS intensive drama training, he had no qualms about appearing in the mainstream horror movie Scream. “For Shakespeare roles, I was making $300 or $400 a week. And suddenly Bob Weinstein at Dimension says, ‘I’ll pay you $20,000 to walk down a flight of stairs.’ ”

HIS FIRST brush with the Bard came during a sixth-grade production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He was in the band, playing Mendelssohn’s Wedding March on bass clarinet, and, he recalls, “I was thinking how ridiculous it looked onstage and how I thought I could do better.”

MORE COMFORTABLE onstage than in front of a camera, Schreiber says, “There’s nothing more exciting than that conversation you have with a live audience. It’s the best feeling in the world.”

[From Vanity Fair]

Vanity Fair also has a brief video interview with Liev (below). He says he’d love to do a comedy after Ray Donovan (he’s previously said that it takes him to a dark place). “I started doing comedy but you know, it’s like that joke ‘you f* one goat.‘” I guess he’s referring to the fact that he gets typecast as a villain, which he’s attributed to his features. He told NPR’s Fresh Air in 2013 that “being menacing [was] something unfortunately I was sort of born with. I often describe it as the ‘arched eyebrows and Slavic fat pads.’ It’s just something about my face. When I started out acting I really wanted to be a comic actor, but I naturally fell into these roles.” I think his face has character and that he doesn’t look scary at all. Schreiber also has this depth to him that really comes through on screen (and surely onstage). He projects so much with his eyes, and you get the sense that he’s conflicted but that he will power through to get the job done. He truly embodies that character. I really do think he’s more badass than Neeson, but I know those are fighting words to many of you.

Here’s the video from VF. It’s titled “What Liev learned from living on a Ashram,” but he doesn’t even talk about that.

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The Comeback…(Albino jacked the headgear)

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Jaden Smith appears in GQ’s most stylish men issue (along with Ryan Gosling and John Mayer). Jaden’s only 16 years old, but he caught GQ’s eye with his skirt wearing and flower dancing antics this year. The kid has style, although many people don’t think he has good style. I think he owns everything he wears, and it’s cool how GQ isn’t so stuffy with their best dressed requirements. The magazine describes Jaden’s style as “a form of wearable self-expression,” which makes sense since teenagers are all about expressing themselves. Jaden just stands out from the crowd with his fashion choices.

Jaden covers several subjects for this interview. The dominating question asked why he dressed as albino Batman at prom and wore a similar outfit to the Kimye wedding. Jaden’s answers are so Jaden Smith it hurts:

Style as expression: “I’m just expressing how I feel inside, which is really no particular way because everyday it changes how I feel about the world and myself, but I like wearing super drapey things so I can feel as though I’m a super hero, but don’t have to necessarily wear super hero costumes everyday.

Why he stopped wearing animal prints: “I think they’re cool and I used to wear them a lot more when I was a little younger. At 13 I used to call myself the king of animal print, because I would wear them almost everyday, but then I became more conscious and realized I didn’t want to be known as someone who wears animal skins only, so I switched to black.”

On “swerving too hard”: “Well you can get fined for swerving too hard so it’s tough. People may come up to you and say, ”Can you not swerve so hard? I can’t concentrate over here.’ Thats a way to know you’ve swerved too hard, but there are so many others.

Why he does Batman at special events: “I wore the Batman suit to heighten my experience at the wedding and prom which was fun, but also at the wedding I felt as though I needed to protect everyone there and needed to have the proper gear to do so.”

How he dresses for casual days: “First I roll over on the bed I built for myself and look at the ground. If there are clothes I wore from the previous day and they’re not too dirty, that’s what I put on.”

[From GQ]

Jaden also talks about how he doesn’t take style tips from his dad. Can you blame him? Parents are so uncool in general, but Jaden points out how Will used to wear crop tops on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. So we won’t see Jaden swerving in itty bitty tops. He prefers flowing material that makes him feel like a superhero. I don’t think he truly sees himself as a protector of crowds. That’s just one of those spacey statements that comes out of Jaden’s mouth on a regular basis. I wish he’d come back to Twitter.

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Jon Hamm looked GREAT arriving at Kimmel yesterday, non? Relaxed and healthy, with really good hair (the best his hair has ever been, I think), and reasonably well contained. On camera he seemed very tanned. I’m not sure if it’s just the settings on my laptop but on my screen at least, that’s som…      

Jon Hamm looked GREAT arriving at Kimmel yesterday, non? Relaxed and healthy, with really good hair (the best his hair has ever been, I think), and reasonably well contained. On camera he seemed very tanned. I’m not sure if it’s just the settings on my laptop but on my screen at least, that’s som…      

I think it’s been long enough since the Game of Thrones finale that we no longer have to throw up mad spoiler warnings, but if you still don’t know who died (“died”) in the finale and you don’t want to have it spoiled, go ahead and leave this post. SPOILERS.

So, Jon Snow is gone. Right? Maybe. Sort of. Kit Harington says Jon Snow is dead. Kit Harington says he’s not filming anything next season. But we still had hope, didn’t we? We had hope that we were being blatantly lied to. We had hope that it was all Hodor’s fever dream and nothing ever happened to the Starks. But it really does seem like Kit Harington is moving on and taking parts in movies that will be filming at the same time Kit should have been filming Jon Snow’s resurrection.

Kit Harington is moving on from Game of Thrones. The English actor replaces Robert Pattinson in the upcoming thriller Brimstone with Dakota Fanning and Guy Pearce.

Fanning (who replaced Mia Wasikowska) plays a young woman running from her past who is being hunted by an evil preacher (Pearce). Harington plays an outlaw in the Martin Koolhoven-directed film. Pattinson had originally been announced for the part in February. Rounding out the cast are fellow Game of Thrones actor Carice van Houten, Paul Anderson, Jack Roth and Carla Juri.

[From E! News]

Well, Kit will be working with Carice? Maybe they can plot out Jon Snow’s return. GAH! Anyway, I have no real thoughts on this project, Brimstone, other than it sounds sort of cheeseball and it’s weird that Kit is taking Robert Pattinson’s rejected scripts.

Meanwhile, Kit is starring in the HBO tennis mockumentary 7 Days In Hell. It comes out July 7th. HBO just released the full trailer. Kit honestly had me at “Indubitably.”

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How does he do this?! It is just impossible to not like Channing Tatum. My heart is made of second-hand smoke and the last inch of bourbon in the bottle and even I can’t hold out—Tatum has totally won me over. He may be a walking slab of abs and Mr. Potato Head’s face, but goddamn if he isn’t the…      

How does he do this?! It is just impossible to not like Channing Tatum. My heart is made of second-hand smoke and the last inch of bourbon in the bottle and even I can’t hold out—Tatum has totally won me over. He may be a walking slab of abs and Mr. Potato Head’s face, but goddamn if he isn’t the…      

Model mom Cindy Crawford shared a snapshot with 13-year-old lookalike daughter Kaia (and the family pups) via Instagram Tuesday.

“Today’s set? My closet! Hanging out with @kaiagerber (and Widget and Sugar!) for the @thethick_. Possible conversation, coming soon,” the supermodel, 49, captioned the image with her mini-me.

To celebrate Father’s Day, the mom-of-two posted a throwback photo of her husband Rande Gerber.

“And to this guy, @randegerber, for being an amazing father to Presley and Kaia. Love taking this crazy journey called parenthood with you,” she wrote.

Crawford recently traveled to Hong Kong with both of her children – including 15-year-old son Presley – where they hit the blue carpet together.

Today’s set? My closet! Hanging out with @kaiagerber (and Widget and Sugar!) for the @thethick_. Possible conversation, coming soon!

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Things I never get tired of: the Queen with a face like thunder and Brooch P0rn. And we have both in spades this week! Queen Elizabeth arrived in Germany for a three-day state visit yesterday. I’m including some photos of her arrival and from her journey to meet Angela Merkel today. The Queen has a full schedule which includes the sit-down with Chancellor Merkel (they are expected to discuss Britain’s place in the European Union), a visit to a concentration camp and a boat ride, which already happened earlier today. They really made the poor Queen haul her ass down into this tiny little boat too, which just seems mean.

By most accounts, the Germans are very pleased that the Queen is visiting. Queen Elizabeth is quite popular abroad and European leaders especially seem to make a great deal of effort when she visits. However, two really funny things happened with this trip. One, the palace really wants everyone to ignore the fact that the Queen (and the British royal family in total) have very deep German roots and that the House of Windsor is actually the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Sources told the Daily Mail that the Queen would not be speaking German during the trip because she wants “to avoid stirring up pesky republicans by reminding them how the Royal Family changed their name.”

The second funny thing? The Queen hated the gift given to her. She was presented with a portrait of herself – as a child – on horseback with her father. The Queen really hated the portrait, she hated that the horse was blue and she didn’t think the artist portrayed her father correctly – go here to see the video. The Queen was all “WTF?”

Meanwhile, back at the Queen’s home, everything is falling apart. It’s been reported pretty consistently that the Queen used most of her renovation funds on William and Kate’s apartment in Kensington Palace, and now Buckingham Palace is in a weird state of disrepair. It’s gotten so bad that the Queen might have to temporarily move out of Buckingham Palace while it undergoes about $240 million worth of repairs. You read that correctly. $240 MILLION. No decision has been made about moving the Queen out or even if they’ll do all of the renovations at once. The anti-monarchists want the Queen to move out… forever. And they want to turn BP into a tourist destination. Which honestly wouldn’t be the worst idea.

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