Jill and Jessa Duggar’s Fox News interview did not go over too well one week ago. It’s not that the sisters were unsympathetic – they were and are victims of their brother’s criminal acts, regardless of how they describe those incidents. But Jessa and Jill did come across as somewhat brainwashed, feeding Megyn Kelly their obviously rehearsed talking points and outright lies. I’m fine with blaming Michelle and Jim-Bob for the entirety of this mess, but it’s also worth noting that Jill (especially) seems happy enough to shield her brother publicly. And she has help – People Magazine has been running oddly, disturbingly sympathetic stories about the Duggars all week. People spoke to “a source close to the family” who claimed that Jill was the one who wanted to do that Fox News interview. The source said:

“She, too, wanted to give an interview. Her parents were concerned because they felt she had been through enough, but she was clear – she never wanted this information public….Since [the information] was already out, [Jill] wanted to speak out because so many stories were full of false and sensationalized information. She wanted to tell the true story of what had happened to her, how she watched with admiration her parents’ thorough response, and how wrong it was for the records to be released to the public. Jessa immediately spoke up and said, ‘I won’t let you do this alone. I’ll speak out, also.’ ” The girls identified themselves “to avoid endless games of, ‘Which ones did Josh hurt?’ ” and are looking forward to getting back to “[sharing] their happiness with people,” to “reminding people how good they still know life to be.”

[From People]

God, that quote sounds like it was written Mike Huckabee in a fever dream. It’s so obviously a pro-Duggar PR plant, I have to wonder… is this how People Magazine is going to play the story from here on out? Yikes.

Meanwhile, if Jill and Jessa were hoping that the Fox News interview would save their reality show careers and perhaps ensure a spinoff show in the event that 19 Kids & Counting was eventually canceled, Radar says that’s a pipe dream.

Jill and Jessa Duggar’s children might get to enjoy an off-camera childhood! RadarOnline.com has learned that after TLC put 19 Kids & Counting on an indefinite hiatus, there are “no real plans” to offer the daughters their own spinoff. The future of 19 Kids and Counting has been in question since the news of Josh Duggar’s sex abuse scandal broke, with rumors that TLC was planning a spinoff show focusing on the two married daughters. But now, there are “no real plans for any spinoff at this point,” a network source told Radar about Jill and Derick Dillard and Jessa and Ben Seewald.

[From Radar]

I would certainly hope not. But I have my doubts about the wisdom of TLC’s management. I think there’s a reason why TLC hasn’t officially canceled 19 Kids and why they haven’t officially announced anything about a spinoff show. I really think TLC’s management might believe that there’s still a way to keep the Duggars on the air somehow.

As for Jill’s future plans… apparently, her husband Derrick Dillard just left his corporate job at Walmart. He worked in Walmart’s tax department, which I imagine is a pretty a soul-crushing job. Derrick always praised Walmart extensively, which has led some people to wonder if Derrick was fired. When the Daily Mail tried to contact Dillard, they got this automated response: “I have recently accepted a position outside of Walmart and am no longer working for the company.” You know what I wonder? Whether the Dillards are going to move out of Arkansas, especially now that it seems Josh and his family are moving back.

Photos courtesy of Jill’s social media.

During a Thursday appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Avatar star Zoe Saldana opened up about family life with husband Marco Perego-Saldana and their 6-month-old twins Cy and Bowie.

“It’s great. It’s a blessing. We know because people keep telling us,” Saldana joked of having multiples. “No, we’re very, very happy. It’s just like whatever you do—if you change a diaper and you put one down, it’s like you have to do it all over again. That’s when they’re in a good mood. But if they’re having a tantrum and it’s at the same time.”

The actress went on to talk about the challenges of raising twins.

“Sleep training twins is no joke because you put one to sleep and you lay him down, and the other one has been asleep, but then that one wakes up and the other one wakes up so then everybody’s crying, then my husband and I are crying…You’re like, ‘Oh, my God,’” she shared.

She added: “It’s overwhelming because there are so many different methods. Just the other day, my sister, who has a 9-month-old, shared with us the method that she did. She brought the piece of paper and grabbed us both with a bottle of vodka. She goes, ‘What do you guys have?’ That’s how her and her husband did it. Because the moment you hear your child cry, it’s like it rips the guts out of you. And it’s like, we have two. It’s crazy. So there’s a bottle of Skinnygirl and we had the monitor with the volume all the way high. We have this little note thing, this log that you have to be logging in all the time. We put them down, say ‘mommy and daddy love you’ in Italian and Spanish—well get to that later—and then we walk out and they’re having a meltdown. So then you have to time it, then you go in. And my sister, I’m like, ‘Can we go in? Can we go in?’ ‘OK, go in now.’ And we go in and I’m like, ‘What do we do?’ No eye contact, just say ‘mommy and daddy love you’—in Italian and Spanish—and she would come pull us out. So by the third time, it had been 45 minutes already. We were kind of buzzed. It’s heart wrenching. My husband doesn’t drink and he’s like, ‘Gimme that bottle!’”

The Book of Life actress, 36, continued to talk about sleep training the twins.

“So then we go and we just finally abort. We abort mission,” the Guardians of the Galaxy actress said. “We take our kids. I take one, he takes the other, and we’re both crying. The boys’ bodies are, like, their bodies are weeping…and you go, ‘Oh, my God, he’s never going to forgive me for this.’ And then, Marco and I are talking in the room going, ‘It’s not for us. It’s too archaic. There has to be a more gentle method. They did it because they’re insensitive. They don’t care about their children.’ My sister’s outside with the monitor at full volume—and our best friend! They were just like, ‘We get it.’”

When Kimmel suggested having the twins sleep in separate rooms, Saldana said, “They wake each other up. I don’t know. They were born together. It’s unnatural to separate them,” she shared. “In my mind, it just makes sense.”

The mom-of-two went on to say her twins will be trilingual.

“I don’t know what they’re going to speak because right now we’re talking to them in English and Italian and Spanish,” Saldana said. “What’s most confusing is my mom would like to be called a certain way as a grandmother. In Spanish it’s mama. So I’m mommy. And then his mother is la nonna. I’m like, ‘How are they going to do this between la nonna, mama and mommy?’ I kind of have a feeling their first is going to be ‘English.’ Like, ‘Ugh, English! English! This is America!’”

Saldana recently made headlines for revealing that her husband took her surname.

“Nobody laughs!” she said. “Men don’t laugh in the room.”

She went on to say that he is Perego-Saldana and she goes by Saldana-Perego.

Kimmel then asked, “Did you make him do that?”

“No! Oh, my God!,” she replied. “Why does it mean a woman has to like hold a gun, like, ‘You’re gonna be Saldana!’ I took his. Why doesn’t that make it in the news? We hyphened.”

She went on to joke: “I was a gentleman and I allowed the boys to Perego-Saldana.”

We still don’t really know for sure that Benedict Cumberbatch will be receiving a CBE (Commander of the British Empire, one rung lower than a knighthood in the British honors system) this month. The original source for the story was The Sun, which makes up gossip at a regular clip. But the way the British press has reacted to the rumor is… interesting. They’re running it like it’s going to happen. And hell, it might. So bring on the Cumberbacklash!

He has never won a major acting award and is yet to reach his 40th birthday, but it emerged yesterday that Benedict Cumberbatch is to be recognised with a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. After reports that the Sherlock star, 38, is to receive the accolade, which is just one rung below a knighthood, critics claimed the decision to do so turned the honours system into an ‘alternative Oscars’. Cumberbatch is decades younger than other stars when they received the same accolade, leading some to speculate the announcement is more to do with his celebrity than his achievements. Sir Anthony Hopkins and Kevin Spacey were both in their 50s before receiving their CBEs, while Sir Michael Caine and Sir John Hurt were both in their 60s.

MP Nigel Evans, a member of the Public Administration Select Committee when it published a report criticising the rise of celebrity honours, said the trend is undermining the whole system. He said: ‘It does seem to be that as long as your 15 minutes of fame stretches into 16 minutes you get a gong. We shouldn’t treat the honours system like the Tony Awards or an Oscar. This is something which should be seen as for lifetime achievements, not an award because someone’s last movie was good. That’s what the Oscars are there for and the Tonys and the Grammys, I do think we run the risk of the honours system being turned into an alternative Oscars or Grammys when it was never intended for that.’

He added that this trend means the people who deserve honours, ‘the people who have worked selflessly for charities for decades, the lollypop lady who has done her work for 40 years or the dinner lady who has been there for her lifetime’, are missing out.

On Cumberbatch’s young age, Mr Evans continued: ‘We do run the risk of dolling things out to people too early, perhaps in anticipation of some greatness they might achieve later on. He might have had a good burst in film or on the TV, it seems like he’s been a big name only for a couple of years, whereas someone has put themselves out for 30 or 40 years, just because people don’t know their name, they don’t recognised’.

Showbusiness agent Tony Fitzpatrick believes the award is a ‘political’ decision to cash in on celebrity status. He said: ‘In the old days of showbiz, you had to be in the business for decades before you got honoured, now it’s to do with the size of your audience. It’s about making money. Benedict Cumberbatch is flavour of the month so it’s a political coup for whoever awards him the honour. It’s not fair, I have people like Anne Diamond who led the cot-death campaign and has saved 150,000 babies lives but because it was a political issue at the time, she will never be recognised for that. There are lots of people out there who are doing lots of good things but because they don’t make OK magazine they are not honoured. It’s a bit like Blair’s Britain, they are saying “Let’s be cool and associate ourselves with fandom”. The honours system has changed, it’s less about rewarding long term good work and more about getting the headline. It’s certainly been devalued in the way a lot of traditions like that are.’

[From The Daily Mail]

I wonder if critics would be wringing their hands if Bendy was just receiving an MBE or an OBE. Probably not, because those lower-rung honors are usually given to people in the middle of their careers, right? And you know what I was thinking of – how does Bendy get a CBE for LOSING the Oscar while Eddie Redmayne gets nothing for WINNING the Oscar, the BAFTA, etc? It’s weird. Colin Firth got a CBE… in 2011, after he WON the Oscar for The King’s Speech. And he was 50 years old at the time.

Meanwhile, it was just announced yesterday that Chiwetel Ejiofor will be joining Bendy and probably Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange. Chiwetel will be playing Baron Mordo, possibly the villain? You can read more about it here.

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Photos courtesy of Getty, WENN.

We are in the midst of the NBA Finals. Last night was Game 4 and now the Cavaliers and the Warriers have both won two games each. Do you mind if I don’t care? I love LeBron James and I want the Cavs to win, but it’s not like I’m really following it. But you know what would get be to tune in like clockwork all the time? If network TV coverage guaranteed NSFW dong shots during every game. That’s exactly what happened during Game 4 – just before the game started, the ABC cameraman got really close to LeBron as he made some pre-game adjustments to his underwear situation. The result was glorious!! The result was ABC airing (LIVE!) a quick glimpse of LeBron’s situation. Go here to see the NSFW video.

Sports Illustrated compared the “dong slip” (my words) to Janet Jackson’s infamous 2004 SuperBowl “nip slip.” I think it’s a different context though. Janet’s thing – which was really Justin Timberlake ripping off her bra-cup costume piece – was a pearl-clutchy moment designed to shock. LeBron’s dong slip was just a man making pre-game adjustments and the ABC cameraman shouldn’t have moved in so close. I think. I mean, do you believe LeBron, like, plotted to show his thunder on live TV? I don’t.

Do you think anyone is going to get fined by the FCC for this? How much is LeBron’s dong worth in fines?

Whoops, LeBron James accidentally flashed viewers during the #NBAFinals! http://t.co/9IGU0gblV0 #NSFW pic.twitter.com/MAJxkgkbcG

— EntertainmentTonight (@etnow) June 12, 2015

Photos courtesy of WENN, Getty.

This might be one explanation for why LeAnn Rimes has been seemingly less in-our-face for the past few months: Star Magazine claims LeAnn and Eddie are expecting their first child together! Sources claim that after years of trying to get pregnant naturally, they finally tried IVF and LeAnn eventually did get knocked up. Sources also say that LeAnn and Eddie are going to wait a few more months until they announce. And for what it’s worth, Leann – who constantly tweets – has not issued any kind of denial or statement about this particular report as of yet.

LeAnn Rimes and husband Eddie Cibrian are finally expecting their first child.

“It’s early, so there’s no bump,” reveals a source close to the couple, “but the buzz is, she’s pregnant.”

LeAnn’s love for Eddie’s sons have only increased her longing for a child of her own: “Eddie’s already a dad, so for him not having another baby isn’t the end of the world. But for LeAnn, it’s almost the only thing she thinks about.”

Though LeAnn and Eddie had been trying “the old fashioned way,” word is they ultimately elected to go the in vitro route. “She wanted to conceive naturally, but it just wasn’t happening. The baby-making escapade has been traumatic. LeAnn had to convince Eddie to go for IVF and that’s stressful.”

LeAnn got her way and the procedure seems to have worked. She’s not shouting from the rooftops just yet though – “she’s had positive pregnancy tests in the past. But it hasn’t resulted in the happily-ever-after she so desperately wants. She couldn’t handle the heartache of letting people know she miscarried.” So LeAnn and Eddie want to remain mum until about four months, if they can keep it hidden that long.

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

Part of me doesn’t believe this because if LeAnn really was pregnant, she’d be signaling and indicating it all over the place. But maybe the absence of evidence is evidence? Could be. And if so, LeAnn just found a perfect excuse to cancel all of her appearances for the next two years! Sounds good, because judging from her Twitter, she’s promoting a Christmas album in June. Sigh… poor Wewe.

These are all photos of LeAnn at LAX yesterday.

Photos courtesy of LeAnn’s Instagram, Fame/Flynet.

When all was said and done, I think we can all agree that Prince George has more personality in his little finger than both of his parents combined. Even when he was a newborn, his parents seemed overwhelmed by him – he was apparently really fussy, he cried all the time and whenever he was photographed, he just seemed pretty grumpy. So how does his sister Charlotte measure up? According to grandpa Charles, Charlotte is nothing short of a dream baby, especially compared to her brother.

Our yen for royal baby news is bottomless — luckily Prince Charles is here to help. The Prince of Wales, proud grandfather to 6-week-old Princess Charlotte, tends to get gooey about her. So no surprise he was spilling a tidbit to a group WWII vets Wednesday about her sleeping habits.

“We were talking about grandchildren, he was saying Princess Charlotte does sleep through the night and it was much easier on mum than Prince George.”

That “Mum” would be Duchess Kate of Cambridge, and the person Charles said this to was identified by the official Press Association as Geoff Bradley, who was at a tea party for Battle of Britain pilots and aircrews hosted by the prince at his London residence, Clarence House.

Charles, who publicly said he longed for a granddaughter shortly before Charlotte was born on May 2, may not be entirely in the know about Charlotte’s nightly sleep patterns since he’s not living with her. The Cambridges — son Prince William, Kate and their two babies — are living full-time at their country retreat, Anmer Hall, on the royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk.

Still, if Charlotte has started sleeping through the night, it marks a change from just a few weeks ago. About two weeks after Charlotte was born, Will met with the British women’s soccer team and told them his eyes looked tired because the baby had been keeping him up.

And George? He was a midnight wailer for quite a while. When the Cambridges stayed at Government House in Wellington, N.Z., during their April 2014 Down Under tour, Will jokingly apologized for George’s tendency to wake up and holler at 3 a.m. He was nine months old at the time.

[From USA Today]

That trip that they took with George was when he was just nine or ten months old, and yes, he was still a “wailer.” That was the same trip where George punched a baby, threw a stuffed animal gift on the ground just as soon as he received it and cried when the Aussie prime minister tried to talk to him. It was glorious. I had hoped that Charlotte would be full of piss and vinegar just like her bro, but she sounds pretty docile and easy-going. Kate must be thrilled that she got an “easy” baby this time around.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Plus-sized supermodel Tess Holliday is billed by Milk Management as “the first size-22 model.” Her career is on the rise, and she covered People last month. She wrote an essay that challenged preconceived notions of beauty. Tess detailed how countless modelling agencies rejected her, so she started posting her own photos on the internet. She posed in bathing suits “and other clothes that I liked but weren’t considered suitable for large and curvy women.” Her photos drew attention, and she started booking modelling gigs.

Several days ago, Tess spoke with The Guardian about her career. The journo observed Tess during a lingerie shoot that took place on a public street. At one point, Tess yelled, “Never seen a fat girl in her underwear before?” This piece got progressively messier:

On being called “fat”: “To me it’s just a word, but it wasn’t until I discovered the body positive community that I became OK with it. I’ve been called fat my whole life. I am fat, so it’s kind of silly to get mad about it.”

She loves to comfort eat & won’t apologize: “Everyone has their vices, but mine are visible. If I shot all day and I want a f***ing hot chocolate and a chocolate croissant I’m going to eat it. Am I going to eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner? No. Is it OK to do it? If you want. But, you know, no one is coming at celebrities for smoking two packs of cigarettes. Or people who post a photo with their drink at the end of the day. So why is it OK to do that to me? Life is sh*tty, so why would you judge somebody for dealing with it in the best way they can?”

The excerpt that raised eyebrows: We’re in a cafe, finally sitting down after a six-hour shoot that’s had Holliday traipsing blocks in oppressive heat and then a rainstorm. Throughout, she’s been a hilarious corrective to the notion of models as mute and biddable clotheshorses. At one point, an African American guy, middle-aged, said something appreciative as he walked by. “What do guys think they’ll achieve by yelling something?” She asked, shifting her weight and adjusting the cape primly. “They’re like: ‘She’ll love this, I’ll definitely get her number.’” A pause, and then she added, with some satisfaction, “I do admit that black men love me. I always forget that, and then I come to a black neighbourhood and I remember.” And no one quite knew what to say. Later, finally and effortfully manoeuvred into some lethal-looking Christian Louboutin stilettos, adding height to her 5ft 5in, she’d calmly told the photographer: “If you’re not shooting my shoes, I will f*** you up.”

[From The Guardian]

The writers at The Grio weren’t impressed by Tess’ stereotypical declarations and reacted with a series of GIFs. Associate editor Danielle Belton wrote, “Um … ‘Good for her’? I also want to add that ‘black guys like me’ too, if we’re only basing this on who hollers at you on the street.” Yeah, Tess needs to watch her words. Her personality is very abrasive, and the Guardian journo pointed out the dead silence that followed this particular statement.

Tess believes her words were misinterpreted. She took to Facebook with an apology:

“I apologise for any hurt that my flippant comment has caused. Being followed and quoted is something new for me and I am going to occasionally say or do things that make people unhappy. For that I am sorry, your opinions are important to me. The incident in question occurred when I was on the street, feeling rather exposed in my underwear for the shoot, and an older black man cat called me as I was walking behind the team. I replayed the incident to the team once we were set up for the next shot, and jokingly said some semblance of what appeared in print. It was in relation to being cat called by black men significantly more than by white, but perhaps my tone and wording didn’t convey this clearly. It was also meant to play into the idea that black men like bigger women, but the humour of that doesn’t come through. To further add context, the team included two talented black women – so it was clearly not something intended to cause offence.”

[From Tess Holliday on Facebook]

Tess claims to be misquoted, which is possible. The entire Guardian piece presents Tess as an unpleasant person, but it’s possible that the journo carved a false narrative. Or maybe Tess was upset about being catcalled, and she said things she didn’t mean. If some of the catcallers were negative, that could throw a person’s mood completely off.

Here are some photos (all of which are tagged #effyourbeautystandards) from Tess’ Instagram page. She uses the hashtag to counteract online bullying.

A photo posted by +Size Model || Feminist???? (@tessholliday) on Jun 6, 2015 at 10:08am PDT

A photo posted by +Size Model || Feminist???? (@tessholliday) on May 31, 2015 at 5:46pm PDT

A photo posted by +Size Model || Feminist???? (@tessholliday) on May 15, 2015 at 7:26am PDT

Until next time NYC! (Dress is @ftfsnaps styled by @littlelimedress for my press day) #tessholliday #exhausted #effyourbeautystandards ????????????????????

A photo posted by +Size Model || Feminist???? (@tessholliday) on May 23, 2015 at 6:14pm PDT

Photos courtesy of People & Tess Holliday on Instagram

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This story is confusing, because People Magazine and The AP have reports with conflicting titles, although they essentially have the same details. People claims that Kelly Rutherford’s two children, currently living in Monaco with their father, Daniel Giersch, will not travel to the US for a scheduled custody hearing next week. A teleconference was held yesterday in which the LA judge said that he was still uncertain whether the US had jurisdiction over the case. The next scheduled custody hearing has been postponed until July 9.

The Associated Press leads with the title “Kelly Rutherford’s children to spend summer in US” and is decidedly more positive about Rutherford’s chances of seeing her children for their regularly scheduled visit. They report that Rutherford and Giersch have been told by the court to work out plans so that the children can see their mother until the judge “determines if he [the US] has authority in the international custody dispute.”

People’s story claims that “Kelly has hit a roadblock.” Giersch’s lawyer has stated that his client wants his children to have a relationship with their mother. However Rutherford asserts that Giersch is not cooperating. A hearing will be held in Monaco on June 22, during which Giersch will attempt to have Monaco take jurisdiction over the case and could try to gain full custody of the children.

Here are some of Kelly and her lawyer’s statements on the latest setback. They gave extensive quotes to People and The AP following this postponement.

“I can’t imagine that the children won’t be permitted to come to the United States as they’ve done for the past two summers. But, so far, their father has not kept up his side of the deal, and I am concerned that he will try to further prevent me from spending time with them.

“I hope this is finally coming to an end, and my children will soon be coming home,” she wrote.

No decision has yet been made,” David J. Glass, the lawyer who represented Rutherford during Thursday’s tele-conference, said in a statement. “We believe strongly that the Monaco Court, which was improperly petitioned by Mr. Giersch, will ultimately recognize that its earlier actions in this matter have not substantially conformed with the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act (UCCJEA). We are also confident that once the California Court hears all the evidence, it will choose to continue to retain jurisdiction over the matter, and will order the children back to California. As Judge Juhas stated in his ruling on May 22, 2015, the children are only residents of the United States, and can never be citizens or residents elsewhere.”

“Ultimately this case is about the passage of time, and whether the fact that two American children lived abroad – under force of court order – for more than two years somehow transformed a temporary parental visit with their father into mandatory forced residency in a foreign nation,” Murphy told PEOPLE in a statement. “The obvious answer is, no. Indeed, the passage of time can only facilitate the children’s prompt return to this country because no court ever has authority to cause an American citizen child to be forced into exile from their own country.”

“It is disturbing that judges from two nations lack appreciation for the simplicity of this constitutional reality because involuntary expatriation was rendered unconstitutional by the Supreme Court decades ago, and for good reason,” she continued. “There is nothing more fundamental than the right to reside in one’s own country, especially this country – because the precious rights of American citizenship have no value on foreign soil.”

“My children were only two and five years old when they were sent to live in a foreign country. They were supposed to return after a temporary stay in France and Monaco, but more than two years is not temporary. I’ve flown back and forth over 70 times to be with our children,” Rutherford said in a statement Thursday. “The children’s father promised the California Court in 2012 that he would apply for a visa so he could be with the children here, but he has failed to do that. And since March of this year, he has prevented me from visiting our children at all. I hope this is finally coming to an end and my children will soon be coming home.”

[From People and The AP]

If Rutherford is telling the truth and if Giersch hasn’t allowed her to see the children since March, that’s not right at all, nor is his unwillingness to apply for another visa. Given the circumstances I understand somewhat. She was waging a federal battle against him at that time (which failed) and has given interviews constantly in the interim asserting her rights. I think it reached this point because Rutherford kept pushing her ex and fighting with him instead of trying to coparent, which is how her kids ended up in Monaco in the first place. However I don’t know their dynamic and there’s possibly more going on behind the scenes.

Meanwhile Rutherford has a new boyfriend, Tony Brand, the assistant general manager of Gucci. It looks like Rutherford took a page from Salma Hayek’s book of landing a monied executive of a luxury goods company. Rutherford has been posting pics of Brand on social media and took a pap walk with him in New York yesterday. The two kissed for the paps because of course they did.

@tonybrand325 #dress @LeeAndersonNYC #DC #earrings @chiarabcn1

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Please sign and share the petition urging the White House to help bring @KellyRutherford’s kids home: http://t.co/YuIASU9zr1 ( link above) Thank you! ??

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Please take a minute to sign the petition urging the White House to help bring my kids home: http://t.co/YuIASU9zr1 ?? thank you! (Link above)

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Jurassic World is out, and the press tour is winding down. Not without several last minute talk show appearances and magazine snippets. Pratt has largely stayed inoffensive as promised (except for one slip-up, which was mostly confusing). Pratt recently talked relationships with People. He and Anna Faris still do date nights together. Pratt feels like it’s important to “maintain a relationship that’s going to outlast your child’s needs for you. People focus so much on their kids, and then when their kids leave the nest, they look at their spouse or partner like they’re a stranger.” Pratt also gave a charming interview to suggest a Starlord/Hulk dance-off, which sounds disastrous.

I’m including some talk show videos at the end of this post. First, here’s a story from this week’s issue of Star. A source says Pratt’s ego is through the roof. The story is titled, “Just call him Chris Bratt!”

Chris Pratt’s once down-to-earth attitude has gone extinct. Friends of the Jurassic World star say that his ego has grown right along with his star power. “Chris has definitely developed an attitude,” the friend tells Star. “He tells handlers in advance what he will and won’t answer in interviews, and he shoos fans away if they approach him.”

Even his wife, Anna Faris, is embarrassed by his behavior. “Chris and Anna were arriving to an event, and the coordinator suggested Anna exit the limo first,” recalled the friend. “Chris said, ‘Hey, dude, isn’t that advice above your pay grade?’ He meant to be funny but he just came across as arrogant, and Anna was embarrassed.”

Even Chris admits he was “more fun to be around” before his weight shrank and his career exploded, and Star’s insider agrees: “His ego has almost surpassed his fame.”

[From Star, print edition, June 22, 2015]

If this story is true, it sounds like Pratt simply made an awkward attempt at humor. Saying something like this to a driver is a douche move but just a dumb (and unfunny) joke. Anna probably reacted to knowing people could misinterpret the comment as arrogant. If she doesn’t mind being married to a guy who sends poop selfies, this won’t turn her off either. Hey, an “exploded ego” story is a Hollywood rite of passage and a sign that Pratt has “made it.”

Last night, Pratt visited Conan O’Brien to demonstrate his three Jurassic World facial expressions: Fear, love, and pure joy.

On Wednesday evening, Pratt ran around in high heels while visiting with James Corden.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN

A few days ago, I talked about how Iggy Azalea pulled out of the Pittsburgh Pride parade after protests by LGBT groups. She’s now been replaced by Nick Jonas, who said, “I had to find a way to help.” An interesting backstory — Nick was scheduled to open for Iggy on her arena tour. He pulled out months ago, and she couldn’t find a new opening act. No one wanted to sign onto this mess, which was one of several reasons why Iggy’s whole tour was cancelled. Iggy tried to explain the situation as as needing time off. But Iggy’s team wouldn’t have ditched her very first arena tour if ticket sales were strong.

Star magazine presents another reason why Iggy decided to stay home. Pregnancy!

Iggy Azalea’s $500,00 engagement ring may be Fancy, but it looks liek her recent betrothal to NBA star Nick “Swaggy P” Young may have some very pragmatic roots. “There are whispers in their group of friends that Iggy is pregnant,” says a source close to the singer. “She’s quit drinking and is always nauseous. Everything thinks this is the real reason she cancelled her tour.”

[From Star, print edition, June 22, 2015]

Maybe Iggy is pregnant, who knows. This could be a planted story by her team. Meanwhile, remember how Iggy quit social media? Those days are over. Iggy can’t stop tweeting, which means more trouble is on the horizon. Yesterday saw a flurry of entries, and here are some of them. She still thinks she’s a “good” rapper, you can tell:

(1) also i got some kind of laser skin peel thing a few days ago and now i look like “two face” from batman.

(2) my fish is named timothy

(3) its really tough to stick by someone when the “cool” thing is to hate on them. thanks to everyone who made the choice to stand by me.

(4) one thing iam thankful for is how strong its made my relationship with the amazing man iam going to marry.

(5) Also im making a book. i guess you could say its a coffee table book… its all pictures. my friend Brock Fetch has been taking them for me

(6) obviously the tour isnt happening but brock and i figured that shouldnt mean we stop documenting stuff. BTS of life not just the stage.

(7) i love all the old authentic, warm, candid pictures that make you feel like you could close your eyes and be there.

(8) @buterascrowns not really other than that i scraped an entire 6 months of work and started totally new

(9) @Chillinlaidback its too early to tell yet exactly how things will sound overall, but im not looking to abandon my identity.

[From Iggy Azalea on Twitter]

Iggy covered lots of ground here. She discussed her red-faced salon visits. She mentions scrapping her whole album to start fresh. I’ve heard whispers that Iggy might drop her fake accent for the next album, but that probably won’t happen. Oh, and the coffee table book sounds sketchy. Iggy wants to include a bunch of old-timey photos, which would be pics from before her obvious plastic surgeries. Maybe she’ll simply use some Instagram filters to achieve the same effect on new photos.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN