Here are some lovely photos of our Celebitchy Crush, Chiwetel Ejiofor, at the Burberry show in London yesterday. God, he looks SO handsome. Apparently, it was crushingly hot in the tent erected in Kensington Gardens for the menswear show. But Chiwetel didn’t break a sweat. Because he’s awesome.

As we discussed last week and into the weekend, Benedict Cumberbatch was awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) on the Queen’s Birthday Honors list. What was also revealed: Chiwetel got a CBE as well! Chiwetel is actually younger than Bendy – Chiwetel just turned 37, versus Benedict’s 38-soon-to-be-39 years. Which means that all of the complaints about Benedict being too “young” and not famous or worthy enough of a CBE could probably be applied to Chiwetel. But does anyone even want to make those arguments? Chiwetel has worked steadily for more than a decade, turning in amazing performances on stage, screen and television. Chiwetel deserves it! (Also: British sites are trying to make it into a “thing” that Benedict got a CBE and Eddie Redmayne – this year’s Oscar winner! – only got an OBE, which is one rung lower than a CBE. Just FYI.)

Meanwhile, Chiwetel and Benedict will be teaming up later this year to film Doctor Strange. Bendy is Strange (he really is) and Chiwetel will be playing the villain/frenemy, Baron Mordo. I think it’s a good thing to see Chiwetel signing up for a Marvel franchise.

Last thing: I’m adding some bonus photos of David Gandy, who was also at the Burberry show. Who would you rather, Gandy or Ejiofor?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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As we discussed yesterday, Kristen Stewart’s mom, Jules Stewart, gave an interview to the Daily Mirror, a British tabloid/newspaper. Within the interview, in quotes directly attributed to Jules Stewart, Jules apparently confirmed that Kristen has a girlfriend, that Kristen identifies as bisexual and that none of it is any big deal. Many sites ran the interview like it was “OMG, Huge Confirmation!” but as I said… anyone paying even slight attention to Kristen over the past year already knew that she and Alicia Cargile were together. And now it’s looking like Jules maybe didn’t even say any of it. Hm.

No outing here! Kristen Stewart’s mom Jules is debunking a new story in British tabloid, The Mirror, which printed an interview with her that began trending over the weekend.

In the interview, conducted by Sharon Feinstein, Jules reportedly outed her daughter, supposedly saying, “What’s not to be accepting about her now having a girlfriend? She’s happy. I’ve met Kristen’s new girlfriend, I like her.”

The only problem with the quotes? Jules never said them.

“I spoke to Sharon Feinstein about my film K-11 that has been put on display in the Hollywood Museum,” she told Us Weekly. “It’s currently there under the LGBT banner on the third floor. She also asked me about my views on gay rights, which I was happy to express. Then we talked briefly about the fundraiser I am hosting for TheWolfConnection.org. Never ever did we discuss Kristen!”

Noting that she is a “huge supporter of gay rights,” Jules went on to acknowledge that she briefly spoke about Stewart’s personal assistant Alicia Cargile, whom The Mirror claimed is Stewart’s girlfriend.

“I said, ‘Yes, she’s a lovely girl,’” Jules said, when asked if she knew Cargile.

[From Us Weekly]

My first thought was… wow, if you believe Jules’ denial, that was a huge leap for the Daily Mirror. I mean, they openly attributed all of those quotes to Jules, it wasn’t a case of “sources close to Jules say yadda yadda.” And Jules admits that she did speak to the Mirror and that they asked her about Alicia and she answered, but she apparently never confirmed that Kristen and Alicia are together. Hm. I don’t know, you guys. On one hand, I wouldn’t put it past the Mirror to make something up entirely. On the other hand, the Mirror might have the receipts (like, audio of Jules Stewart saying exactly what they printed). We’ll see.

Photos courtesy of Getty, Fame/Flynet.

As analysts predicted yesterday, Jurassic World edged out both Avengers movies to become the top domestic opener of all time. Hollywood is so surprised, but it’s hilarious how this film has outrun modest expectations to become a sleeper popcorn hit. Chris Pratt will be coasting for awhile on this success, and there will surely be sequels.

There are a few Pratt stories floating around. First, he got ambushed by some dinosaurs as a prank. Dude took it well, but seeing “real” dinos may have taken a few years off his life. Here’s the video clip with some NSFW language when Pratt figures out he’s been pranked:

Pratt has a followup to his gross GQ interview. These are the discussion leftovers. He talks a lot about his early career and naked hippie life. Pratt also admits he played dumb for years in order to lure audiences into a false sense of security:

Charming his way into success: “I was pretty good at lowering people’s expectations by this ‘aw shucks’ dummy attitude. It was total survival mechanism in life. From an early age. That I really honed when I became a door-to-door salesman. This naive kind of … the guy who was like too adorable to say no to. It was my persona as a young standup comedian. So I developed my winning formula: the slightly dimwitted but charming guy. Immediately you’d let down your defenses because you’re, like, ‘Oh, what’s the worst that could happen with this young little dummy?’, you know what I mean? And that led to some roles.”

Did this carry over into real life? “Yeah. Loved that. Because I think the greatest offense you can have is to trick someone into underestimating you. It’s like the little catfish who has like a toe that looks like a worm, you know? ‘Come here.’ Deep down inside I’ve always been a survivor. I’m probably revealing too much but who gives a sh*t?”

[From GQ]

Pratt did well at tricking people into thinking he was simply a jolly guy who could play the fool well. Little did the world realize that Pratt had a plan. Well, maybe he didn’t have a plan, but it all worked out for him. Just like it did for the not-so-little movie that could, Jurassic World.

Pratt and Anna Faris have been joking around on Twitter about Blue the raptor. I guess Anna’s a little jealous, but Pratt assured her there was no need to worry.

She’s a little cold blooded for my taste. #rimshot But seriously. Nothing happened. https://t.co/TRoaJYIiaD

— chris pratt (@prattprattpratt) June 16, 2015

Screencap courtesy of YouTube; photos courtesy of WENN

Rita Ora covers the July issue of Marie Claire to promote her role in Southpaw. This is the boxing movie where Jake Gyllenhaal buffed up his bod and started his Oscar campaign early by talking about the power of the moon on the cover of Esquire. Harvey Weinstein’s producing, so no wonder both Jake and Rita received prominent magazine features this month. Harvey previously described Rita’s performance as “breathtaking.” We’ll see how this plays out. Rita recently played Christian Grey’s sister for about 30 seconds, so no one really knows whether she can act. Maybe she’s better at acting than being a pop star. Here are some excerpts:

She used to DJ as a teen and pretend to be at sleepovers: “I would rip my T-shirts and be really punk and not clean. And I would have blonde hair, really dark eyebrows, red lipstick, lots of fake rings that made my fingers go green. I wouldn’t be smelling that great … But me and my friends, we were really, like, rebel-y. I feel like I lived a lot when I shouldn’t have.”

On love: “I’m afraid of being alone … I’m not afraid to admit that, you know. I’m not embarrassed to admit that. I just hope it’s not a never-ending cycle. Sometimes love just makes you feel crazy. And that feeling that we have as girls, just to have that feeling, even for five seconds, it’s like crack. I mean, dont compare it to that, but you know what I mean. It’s like comfort eating.”

On the Calvin Harris split: “There was a reason why I split up with him. And there was a reason why I’m at this point in my life where I feel like I have so much musical freedom, and I don’t have to explain myself to anybody… It was more of a thing where I was in awe. I was at that point in my relationship where I felt he could do no wrong. I thought he had my back and that he’d never steer me wrong. But then ‘I Will Never Let You Down’ came out, and everything started to go a bit weird. I don’t know if it was because business was mixed with personal or what.”

[From Marie Claire]

Of course Rita talked about Calvin during this interview (again). And why not? American audiences don’t know Rita very well, but we did hear about that messy breakup. Rita says, “there was a reason” for the breakup, but she’s only echoing Calvin’s own words with less profanity.

I do believe Rita when she says she’s hooked on love and afraid to be alone. Why else would anyone date Ricky Hilfiger? Rita freely admits to not being able to stay single for a moment. At least she’s being honest.

Photos courtesy of Beau Grealy/Marie Claire & Fame/Flynet

Gerard Depardieu is promoting his new film, Valley of Love, which premiered at Cannes (where he smoked at a photocall). Depardieu has led an extremely prolific career, and he’s still churning out several movies per year as he stares down age 70. I used to think of the guy as a legend and along the same lines as John Malkovich in terms of acting prowess. These days, Depardieu seems like a caricature. In 2011, he famously took a leak in a plane cabin. This is the first thing that comes to mind when Depardieu’s name comes up.

The guy knows people think of him this way, and he’s not happy. In an interview with The Guardian, Depardieu complains about his acting career. Out of 181 movies, he only likes 15 of them. He’s convinced that people only know him for his loose bladder. Now that’s not entirely true. We know that Gerard can’t stand France because of their astronomically high income tax rate. What else? He claimed to drink 14 bottles of wine per day, which is also astronomical. Depardieu reinforces his messy status in these excerpts:

He’ll never live down the plane incident: “When I travel around the world what people know is that I p*ssed on a plane, that I’m [now] Russian and that I wrote a letter of complaint to the prime minister.”

He loves dumb action movies: Depardieu covered a wide range of subjects, including his penchant for “stupid” Bruce Willis movies, how cinema audiences are “misogynist,” and I don’t care and I don’t want to hear about how many Rafales [French fighter jets] have been sold all the time on the radio. That’s why I live in a country where I don’t speak the language.”

He doesn’t drink much? “I don’t always drink alcohol, despite my reputation. I live for life and living makes me drunk. I’m totally ascetic at the moment.”

On body image: “I don’t see myself as obese. Near the Valley of Love in America is Nevada and I would go to the supermarkets there. I love big supermarkets and there the aisles are twice as big as our supermarkets because the trolleys are twice as big and the obese are larger than the trolleys on each side. I would think, ‘what a mad world.’ Lucian Freud showed larger older men and women and it was beautiful. Nowadays we see women who are sacks of bones and sometimes that too is beautiful when they are young, but not when one is old.”

Any regrets? “Non, non, non, non, non … no regrets. None. There’s no point. What’s done is done.”

[From The Guardian]

Well I can see why Depardieu is frustrated at how people remind him of the plane incident wherever he travels. To be fair, that was a pretty messed up thing to do. He was reportedly drunk at the time, and he’s always bragged about drinking. Yet Depardieu now claims that he hardly ever drinks. He’s kinda full of it, right? Not too surprising from a guy who complains about only having 15 decent movies out of 181 in his whole career.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN

This is a photo of David Furnish, Elton John’s husband, partner and father of their two children, out in London yesterday at the Burberry show. David and Elton have been together for so many years. They are part of the Establishment at this point, and their civil union and marriage has always believed to be one of the strongest in celebrity-ville. But… does David cheat on Elton? Does Elton know? Do they have an understanding? These are questions raised by a new report coming out of the British tabloids – apparently, David took a liking to a young personal trainer, and David liked the guy so much that he bought the guy an apartment!

Sir Elton John’s husband David Furnish bought a nightclub hunk a home and went on luxury holidays with him. The 52-year-old film producer met Danny Williams, 33, on a night out and they were seen hanging out together for a year and a half, even partying at Elton’s luxury London home. According to The Sun on Sunday newspaper, Land Registry documents from April 2013 show David splashed out more than £330,000 for a two-bed flat in South London and he reportedly helped to furnish and redecorate the pad.

Describing their relationship, a source said: “Furnish and Danny were close and went out a lot on the gay scene. Elton would not be there as he does not like clubbing and was often away touring and working.”

David and Danny went on a number of holidays together and Danny even flew first class to Hawaii to celebrate his 51st birthday with him, as well as hanging out in London. The Leeds-born dancer, who is openly gay, reportedly has a 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter from a relationship with a woman and now works as a personal trainer at a London gym.

Elton, 68, and David have two sons, Zachary, four, and Elijah, two, and sources claim after Danny travelled to Hawaii to party with David they started to see less of each other. Danny still lives in the flat he bought him but pays rent, while his trip to Hawaii was said to have been paid for using air miles and he regularly travels the world.

Asked about his relationship with the stars, Danny said: “We were just friends, that’s all we ever was. I’m friends with both (Sir Elton and David).”

Meanwhile, Sir Elton and David tied the knot nine years after their civil partnership in Berkshire last December and uploaded photographs for fans on Instagram. The legendary singer previously said: “Partner doesn’t come close to describing the love I have for David. Husband does.”

Mirror Celeb has contacted Elton and David’s reps for comment.

[From The Daily Mirror]

I think it’s perfectly possible that this Danny guy is legitimately “friends” with both Elton and David. I also think it’s perfectly possible that Danny is just “friends” with David. And maybe Elton knows all about it. I just think… yeah, David and Elton have been together for long and they have such an amazing partnership, maybe their partnership isn’t even about sex at this point? Maybe they both have lovers on the side. That’s just my theory. If it’s the case that David is carrying on an affair with Danny behind Elton’s back… well, it could get really bad and really messy.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’m sort of surprised by the amount of drama going down with the Spanish royal family. Almost one year ago exactly, King Juan Carlos formally abdicated, leaving his son Felipe as king. Juan Carlos abdicated under a cloud of scandal, and there were several other family members embroiled in controversy too. I should note: King Felipe and Queen Letizia don’t seem to be particularly dramatic these days. The Daily Mail is always trying to start something about Letizia looking too thin, but other than a too-severe hairstyle, Letizia looks pretty much the same as always. So in the absence of drama at the top, all of the drama is still with other royal family members. Like Felipe’s sister, Princess Cristina de Borbon. The king just “stripped” his sister of her royal title. Whoa!

Duchess drama. King Felipe VI of Spain stripped the title of “Duchess of Palma de Mallorca” from his sister, Cristina de Borbon, on Friday, June 12, as she’s currently embroiled in fraud charges. According to a statement released by the palace (via Agence France-Presse): “The official journal of the state [on Friday] will publish a royal decree by which his majesty the King will revoke the use of the title of Duchess of Palma de Mallorca by Her Royal Highness the Infanta Cristina.”

The formal title of Duchess of Palma de Mallorca was bestowed upon Princess Cristina in 1997, by her late dad, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, who abdicated the throne last year. The bold move from King Felipe comes after surmounting pressure that his sister relinquish her succession rights amidst her scandal. Princess Cristina is expected to stand trial as the first-ever royal in Spain to face prosecution since the monarchy’s restoration in the country in 1975.

She is accused of being involved in a huge tax-evasion scheme involving her husband, former Olympic handball player Inaki Urdangarin, who apparently embezzled millions of public funds through his Noos Foundation. Cristina’s lawyers, however, have remained adamant that the Princess was not involved in the scheme and was simply used by her husband.

[From Us Weekly]

It’s my understanding that this “title-stripping” would be the equivalent of stripping Princess Anne with the title “The Princess Royal” (which was conferred on her by the Queen many years ago) but leaving her as HRH Princess Anne. Like, Cristina is still a princess (a blood princess) but she is no longer the Duchess of Palma de Mallorca. And yes, if you’re a member of the royal family and you’re standing trial for some major criminal acts, you should probably voluntarily relinquish your place in the line of succession.

Here’s Cristina:

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Bobby Flay tries to challenge Tom Brady and Tom Cruise (Dlisted)

Selena Gomez’s hair got a job (Just Jared)

Can’t keep Dave Grohl down (Cele|bitchy)

Katy Perry for Moschino (TooFab)

John Stamos is a f-ck up (The Superficial)

This woman is 29 years old? (Hollywood Tuna)
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Bobby Flay tries to challenge Tom Brady and Tom Cruise (Dlisted)

Selena Gomez’s hair got a job (Just Jared)

Can’t keep Dave Grohl down (Cele|bitchy)

Katy Perry for Moschino (TooFab)

John Stamos is a f-ck up (The Superficial)

This woman is 29 years old? (Hollywood Tuna)
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The Queen and Prince Philip were joined by Prince William and Princess Anne at the event to mark the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta today at Runnymede which is close to Windsor which, of course, is where Windsor Castle is –the Queen’s preferred home, where the Order of the Garter service ha…