Nothing perfectly encapsulates the journey the Tony Awards have taken to rebrand themselves as a big, celebrity-friendly awards show than these photos of Kendall Jenner. Is Kendall Jenner a movie star? Nope. Is she a TV star? Nope (reality TV doesn’t count). Is she a theater star? Nope. Is she even a major model? Not really. But there she was, mingling at the Tony Awards. This year’s Tony Awards got a sort of Anna Wintour makeover, like they were trying to be a bigger fashion event. And this is what we get. Kendall wore Calvin Klein – I would have liked this better in any color other than salmon.

Kristin Chenoweth in Zac Posen. She and Alan Cumming were the hosts of the evening. I wish he didn’t wear his big-boy shorts to the red carpet, but whatever. She looks pretty.

Emily Ratajkowski in Marc Jacobs. Emily’s style is usually kind of cheap, but this looks nice on her.

Anna Wintour and Bee. Bee is so pretty. Bee is wearing Marc Jacobs.

Helen Mirren won Best Actress for The Audience! She wore this white Badgley Mischka gown which is a little matronly but still beautiful.

Elisabeth Moss in Oscar de la Renta. Bless her, she tries. This is a pretty gown, but her styling is sort of off. I’m not crazy about her blonde either.

Ruth Wilson in Ralph Lauren. I’ll admit it, this is one of my favorite looks from the evening. Beautiful color on Ruth.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I switched over to Game Of Thrones just before the Fun Home performance at the Tony Awards last night but Duana sent me a text making me promise to go back to Ring Of Keys after the dragons. Oh my God, Sydney Lucas.

Your swagger…

Your dungarees!

Watch this one. Will she be an Anne Hat…      

The Tony Awards were held last night and CBS is really trying to make the Tonys into, like, the Oscars of the theater world. The Tonys already are the Oscars of the theater world, but what I mean is that there’s an effort underway to make the Tonys into a major fashion event, with big-name celebrities in attendance. The message seems to be that regular old theater stars are not enough. You can see the list of this year’s Tony Award winners here. We’re just going to be talking about fashion in our coverage.

Jennifer Lopez was one of the biggest names at the Tonys. She wore this Maison Valentino Spring 2015 Couture gown with a starburst theme. We’ve already seen some of the Valentino gowns with the star theme (at Cannes), but I really like this. I’m glad she’s not wearing some body-con Zuhair Murad gown LIKE ALWAYS. But I do have to laugh at her styling – poor J.Lo. She’s always pissing off her hair and makeup people and you can tell.

Ashley Greene in Jason Wu. I have no idea why she was there or why her date was Jason Wu. This is not Wu’s best design either.

Rose Byrne in Delpozo. Rose was one of my picks for worst dressed. Such a terrible thing to do to such a pretty woman!

Vanessa Hudgens in Naeem Khan. Honestly, even though it was over the top, I really liked this. It was theater, it was drama! Good for her.

Carey Mulligan in Balenciaga. She’s obviously knocked up, so I don’t know why we should even pretend to not notice it when she’s wearing an ugly tube.

Ivanka Trump in Prabal Gurung. Honestly, this was one of my favorite looks of the night.

And finally, Kat Dennings and Josh Groban. I hope these two get married, they’re really sweet together!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Babies all look the same, really, when they’re as young as Princess Charlotte. I mean come on, could you really pick her out in a baby lineup? That’s why, even in her first portraits, her brother is the star. It’s all about Big G. It’s always about Big G.

Big G evidently took a break from sit…      

Proud papa Chris Brown posted a precious photo of his 1-year-old daughter Royalty via Instagram.

Rocking a pair of aviators, the curly-haired cutie was all smiles in the adorable image.

In another shot, the sweet tot is seen sleeping in her bed.

Two weeks ago, the Forever rapper, 26, wished his “lil lady” a happy birthday on social media. “I love you,” the notorious bad boy wrote.

The Fun hitmaker had a fling with Royalty’s mom, model Nia Guzman, last year.

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Late Saturday evening (London time), the @KensingtonRoyal Twitter account (the official Twitter of Princes William and Harry and Duchess Kate) released four portraits of Prince George and Princess Charlotte, all taken by their mum, the Duchess of Cambridge. The portraits were taken at Anmer Hall, by most accounts. The photos caused a stir on social media and on blogs, mostly because the internet thrives on chubby baby cheeks and cats.

Still, it did seem like an odd decision: why release the portraits on Twitter in the middle of a lazy June weekend? Many UK papers don’t even do Sunday editions, so half of the British print media would have to wait until Monday to publish the photos… although most British and American outlets posted the photos online, so it was no biggie. Except many of the British royal reporters are kind of pissed off about the way these photos were released. Richard Palmer is the royal reporter for The Daily Express and Niraj Tanna is the Middletons’ favorite paparazzo:

KP’s use of Twitter to release pictures and information will eventually render royal correspondents jobless. Nearly all info is from KP PO.

— Niraj Tanna (@IkonPictures) June 7, 2015

@IkonPictures We need to work harder at coming up with proper news – what somebody somewhere wants to suppress.

— Richard Palmer (@RoyalReporter) June 7, 2015

@royalmusing @missymckee If the palace tries to cut out the middleman, we need to go back to finding more unofficial stories and pics.

— Richard Palmer (@RoyalReporter) June 7, 2015

Twitter’s great fun but should a British Royal Family funded by UK taxpayers release historic images first on US-run social media?

— Richard Palmer (@RoyalReporter) June 6, 2015

It seems like petty, after-the-fact nitpicking, but it plays into a larger discussion we’re having and many royal-watchers are having about Prince William and Duchess Kate’s disdain for old media, and how they believe they can function as royals – paid for by the taxpayers – without doing much at all and by cutting out the press in total. The release of these portraits comes after William in particular was criticized for choosing a football game and playing polo over attending the opening of Parliament (which is apparently what the Queen wanted him to do, attend the opening). When William and Kate are criticized in the media, they deflect using their children or some “look, we’re just like you!” strategic leaks (which are usually about how they’re different from the royal family because they care about their children).

Oh, and there’s a rumor that William and Kate will bring George out for Trooping the Colour next weekend. If you remember, there were some tabloid reports that the Queen basically had to beg Kate to attend this year’s Trooping the Colour.

Photos courtesy of the Duchess of Cambridge @KensingtonRoyal.

Game of Thrones Season 5, Episode 9 recap.

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Last week Lainey noted that the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones is usually when the Serious Business goes down, but after last week’s episode featured that amazing battle sequence north of the Wall, we all wondered what could poss…      

It looks like congratulations are in order for Corey Stoll and Nadia Bowers.

The House of Cards star, 39, and his Jack, Jules, Esther & Me actress fiancée, 41, are expecting their first child. In a surprise reveal, the Non-Stop actress debuted her baby bump at the Tony Awards in New York City on Sunday (June 7).

Looking radiant in a red maxi maternity dress, Bowers’ bump officially announced their pregnancy news.

In addition to preparing for fatherhood, Stoll is set to hit the big screen next month in Ant-Man, costarring Paul Rudd.

Congratulations to the Bowers-Stoll family!

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InTouch Weekly has been doing a bang-up job with their reporting on this Duggar horror show. After Part 1 of the Duggars’ Fox News interview last Wednesday, InTouch released an amazing takedown of all of the lies Michelle and Jim-Bob told Megyn Kelly. Part 2 of Kelly’s interview aired on Friday night, and most media outlets did coverage that night or the next day – go here to read my assessment of Jessa and Jill’s interview. While they are profoundly sympathetic, they also told a whole lotta lies. So on Sunday, In Touch released their second Duggar takedown, which is – at this point – easily InTouch’s sixth major exclusive on this continuing horror show. You can read the full piece here – the headline is “11 Things the Duggars are Still Hiding After Second Interview.” The following is my summary and edit of the piece.

The “licensed” counseling lies. The Duggars maintained that the whole family got “licensed” counseling, but InTouch points out that Jim-Bob and Michelle “apparently waited FOUR years” after the 2002/03 molestations. The Duggars also omitted the fact that the licensed counseling happened as part of the Department of Human Services investigation in 2006/07. Josh Duggar’s victims did not get counseling back in 2002/03.

The police reports contradict the story of Josh’s “mild touching” of his “mostly asleep” victims. In Touch’s reading of the police reports includes the fact that Josh’s behavior escalated over the course of a year. Josh’s first victims were asleep, but when he was 15, he molested his five year old sister when she was sitting on his lap and he also cornered one girl in the laundry room and put his hand up her dress. The Springfield police report “also reveals that Josh molested another awake victim outside the home.”

Josh’s behavior showed sexual compulsion, not curiosity. InTouch quotes a psychologist named Dr. Paula Bruce who asserts, “None of them acknowledged that this is predatory behavior. It’s classic. It’s got dominance and exploitation…That’s a pattern of someone who is becoming more sexually compulsive and increasingly so. That’s not the pattern of someone who is resolving their sexual compulsivity.”

The failure of the “safeguards.” Jim-Bob and Michelle claimed they put “safeguards” between Josh and his victims soon after Josh self-reported in March 2002. But they didn’t address the fact that Josh was still molesting for the next year. And why did it take a full year for Josh to be removed from the house?

Josh paid for his own counseling. Jim-Bob, Michelle, Jessa and Jill all stated that Josh paid for his own counseling. But… they didn’t say when. Josh didn’t get counseling from a mental health professional until five years after the initial 2002 molestations. His “counseling” in 2003 was done by “a family friend who remodeled homes but was not a licensed mental health professional, according to the police report.”

The Duggars did not fully cooperate with authorities. The police requested an interview with Josh in 2008 (when Josh was 18) and Josh refused to go. Jim-Bob hired a lawyer for Josh and Josh refused to be questioned. That’s not “fully cooperating.”

Jessa and Jill called out the Arkansas DHS. Except as I said on Friday, the DHS records were not part of the FOIA request. Nothing from the DHS investigation has been reported or leaked. Also, the Duggars participation in the DHS investigation was mandatory, not optional.

The Duggars flew in a crisis public relations specialist. InTouch got a tip that a “plane used by the Duggars show that it flew to the location of their crisis public relations specialist prior to giving these interviews in an attempt to save their TLC show.” The Duggars also met with “their own PR team” ahead of the interviews.

InTouch has gotten advice from first amendment lawyers. Those lawyers believe that if the Duggars try to sue InTouch, they would not have a legal leg to stand on. The Duggars are especially up sh-t creek because Arkansas has some of the best public records laws in America.

The police investigation records were not “juvenile records.” The Duggars repeatedly claimed that they were. Because the Duggars were only investigated years after Josh’s year full of molestations, Josh was 18 years old by the time the investigations were concluded.

The destroyed police record. Judge Stacy Zimmerman ordered the police records to be destroyed following InTouch’s FOIA requests (which had already been granted). The judge only heard an “emergency argument” from the Duggars’ lawyer and most legal experts believe that the judge had no right to unilaterally order the records destruction.

Megyn Kelly is a dumbass. InTouch notes that Megyn Kelly repeated attacked InTouch with specious if not outright false claims about their FOIA requests. In Touch writes: “FOIA documents obtained by In Touch show that Fox also tried to get the police report to report the story AFTER it first came out. Their request was denied.” Oh ho ho.

[From In Touch Weekly]

God, I don’t think I’ve ever loved a tabloid more. In Touch has brass balls for following through on this story so completely. And OF COURSE the Duggars flew in a crisis manager to coach them for the interviews. Here’s what I want to know: did TLC arrange the plane? Did TLC pay for the crisis manager to protect their “brand”? And why the hell hasn’t TLC canceled this GD show by now?

Photos courtesy of the Duggars’ social media.

Elizabeth! Happy Birthday from Emma! Congratulations on the new job – and congratulations on choosing change and opportunity. I’m excited about what’s ahead for you. Which, hopefully, includes a great result for Team Canada and Christine Sinclair who demonstrated her leadership on Saturday. We ne…