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My air card is f-cking up today. To clarify: Jacek f-cked it up. So my connection is unreliable and I’m trying to get this sorted. So sorry for any inconvenience. I’ll post as soon as I can as often as I can.

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The CMT Music Awards happened …      

Rest in peace, Sir Christopher Lee. He passed away at the age of 93. [Dlisted]
Homer & Marge Simpson are separating! [OMG Blog]
Jessica Alba is scarfy. [Popoholic]
Good God, Jennifer Lawrence’s bodyguard is hot. [LaineyGossip]
Kylie Jenner is recording an album with Tyga? [Starcasm]
I really like Jaimie Alexander’s bob. [Celebslam]
Texas is trying really hard to be the new Florida. [Jezebel]
Blind item #1: Jennifer Lopez or Mariah Carey. [I’m Not Obsessed]
Hilary Duff’s hair is back to normal. [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
Kim Kardashian gave Kanye West a “basketball sanctuary.” [ICYDK]
Douche CEO tries to mansplain to Elizabeth Warren. [The Frisky]
The Rock is adorable. [Seriously OMG WTF]

The 16-year-old son of David Beckham and Victoria Beckham is making his mark as a male model.

Brooklyn Beckham covers the latest issue of Rollacoaster donning Polo Ralph Lauren. Inside the U.K. publication, the trendy teen also rocks designs by Calvin Klein and Coach.

Last year, Posh and Becks’ eldest child was featured on the cover of Man About Town.

Brooklyn’s younger brother Romeo, now 12, made his modeling debut with Burberry at the tender age of 10.

In addition to their two models, Victoria and David are also parents to son Cruz, 10, and daughter Harper, 3.

Which Beckham kid will be next?

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The female-lead Ghostbusters movie is slated to start filming this summer, and as such, casting is underway. Last night, director Paul Feig announced on Twitter that Chris Hemsworth will appear in the movie in the “Janine” role, playing the Ghostbusters’ receptionist.

Our receptioni…      

It’s time for another episode of “Salma Hayek Has Amazing Skin & Wants To Tell You All About It.” I don’t understand why I seem to be doing endless coverage celebrity ladies giving infomercial interviews as they hawk their products. But here we are. Salma has a beauty line, Nuance Salma Hayek, and it feels like she’s been promoting it for years. Last month, she talked about how she doesn’t do Botox, she doesn’t do peels or fillers and she looks amazing and you can too if only you would just use Nuance Salma Hayek. Salma has a new interview with People and it’s a lot of the same.

Her beauty routine: “I don’t really take big risks when it comes to beauty. I think a big risk is plastic surgery. I’m very conservative in my beauty routine.”

Would she ever get plastic surgery? “I don’t know if I would never get plastic surgery. I’m not planning on it right now.”

Her thoughts on Botox: “I don’t believe in Botox, especially when [people] do it so young. They destroy themselves. They keep telling young girls, ‘Do it young, so you never get wrinkles.’ No, your face is going to fall. You’ll have to keep getting more and more and more each time. So if you’re going to do it, I recommend doing it as late as you can.”

Her mom’s advice: “I had a great mother who gave [beauty advice] to me, which is wash your face before you go to sleep — no matter what. She and my grandmother told me, ‘You have to do this for yourself. Just think about how much faster you’re going to age if you don’t.’”

[From People]

Okay, that wasn’t as annoying as I expected. I actually agree with her about Botox: it’s insane to think that 20-something and 30-something women are doing Botox. STAHP. I’m not sure about the science of “your face is going to fall” though. Is that true? If you do Botox and fillers for months or years and then stop, does your face just collapse in an unnatural way? I’ve always thought that when the crap wears off, you would just look the same as before, not worse.

Oh, Salma also says that she prefers air-drying over blow-drying. I could not agree more! I’ve been air-drying my hair for years and years. I don’t even own a blow-dryer. I’m lucky with my Indian hair in some ways, in that I don’t need special products or anything and my hair looks fine. The bad part about my hair: I can’t really do anything to it. Even if I tried to style it with products, my hair doesn’t “take” anything. So, yes… air-dry if you can. Air-drying makes me happy (I’m air-drying as we speak!).

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Prince Harry joined Prime Minister David Cameron at the unveiling of the Bastion Memorial today to honour those who lost their lives in Afghanistan where Harry was stationed for two tours. As I’ve repeated many times, Harry is the best rep for the family right now. He always shows up for the vete…      

The Hollywood Reporter has been doing “roundtable” discussions with various actors ahead of the Emmy nominations announcement (July 16th). Last week, some of the presumptive Emmy contenders for men in dramas got their roundtable, and this week, it’s the women in drama. The roundtable consisted of Taraji P. Henson, Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessica Lange, Lizzy Caplan and Ruth Wilson. Just a word on Lizzy Caplan: Masters of Sex killed it in their first season but the second season was AWFUL and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the hype around the show at this point was non-existent. Anyway, you can read the THR piece here. I just wanted to highlight a few comments from Maggie and Viola, because I’m sure people will be talking about them:

Maggie Gyllenhaal on “not being pretty enough”: “When I was starting out, I used to hear “no” a lot and still do. And, “You’re not sexy enough. You’re not pretty enough.” When I was really young, I auditioned for this really bad movie with vampires. I wore a dress to the audition that I thought was really hot. Then I was told I wasn’t hot enough. My manager at the time said, “Would you go back and sex it up a little bit?” So I put on leather pants, a pink leopard skinny camisole and did the audition again and still didn’t get the part. After that, I was like, “OK, f— this!”

Viola on feeling like she was typecast as “downtrodden, mammy-ish” women: “There was absolutely no precedent for [my character on HTGAWM]. I had never seen a 49-year-old, dark-skinned woman who is not a size 2 be a sexualized role in TV or film. I’m a sexual woman, but nothing in my career has ever identified me as a sexualized woman. I was the prototype of the “mommified” role. Then all of a sudden, this part came, and fear would be an understatement. When I saw myself for the first time in the pilot episode, I was mortified. I saw the fake eyelashes and, “Are you kidding me? Who is going to believe this?” And then I thought: “OK, this is your moment to not typecast yourself, to play a woman who is sexualized and do your investigative work to find out who this woman is and put a real woman on TV who’s smack-dab in the midst of this pop fiction.

Viola on likability: “The thing I had to get used to with TV was the likability factor. People have to like you, people have to think you’re pretty. I was going to have to face a fact that people were going to look at me and say: “I have no idea why they cast her in a role like this. She just doesn’t fit. It should have been someone like Halle Berry. It’s her voice, and she doesn’t walk like a supermodel in those heels.” And people do say that, they do. But what I say to that is the women in my life who are sexualized are anywhere from a size zero to a size 24. They don’t walk like supermodels in heels. They take their wig and makeup off at night. So this role was my way of saying, “Welcome to womanhood!” It’s also healed me and shown a lot of little dark-skinned girls with curly hair a physical manifestation of themselves.

Taraji on her career goals: “I want to play a superhero. I want to be a Bond girl. I want to play a man. I want to play a white woman.”

[From THR]

First of all, Taraji as a Bond Girl. Let that sink in. I could totally see that. Especially with Daniel Craig. She would WRECK James Bond. And it would be so enjoyable. As for Viola being Viola and being able to own every part of her life, her looks, her career, her mind… I am such a Viola fan-girl. I love her a crazy amount.

Maggie talking about not being considered “pretty” by casting directors… it goes right along with Maggie being told that she was “too old” at 37 to play the love interest of a 55-year-old. Stories like that make me want to burn the place down.

Photos courtesy of THR, WENN.

Raven-Symone’s fashion choices are madness. There’s too much going here on with a plaid, button-up tunic top, camo pants, and a crazy scarf. This outfit reminds me of the stuff she says. Anyway, The View‘s downslide has been almost constant for years. When Rosie O’Donnell left earlier this year, Raven stepped in as a temporary replacement.

Raven’s notorious for her views on controversial topics. On The View, she delivers all kinds of messiness to hot-button discussions. Raven doesn’t explain her statements, lacks perspective, and she can come off as downright clueless. Especially when it comes to topics like basic geography. So of course The View decided to hire Raven as a permanent co-host.

Us Weekly set the stage in May by saying producers were so impressed with Raven’s work ethic: “Every night she studies all the current events and topics for the next day. Everyone is blown away. Nobody else prepares like she does!” An official announcement came out yesterday, and Raven says she’ll get the job done:

While many viewers of ABC’s daytime talk show were predicting the news for quite some time, the former Cheetah Girls singer admitted the official announcement came as a surprise.

“I learned two seconds before that I didn’t get to come out first like I normally did so right then, I was a little flustered and then I came out and they had my song on and then I broke it down like it was hot, but then I had this really short skirt on,” she joked to E! News after the live episode. “So I was hoping that my grandma and my mom wouldn’t have to call and say ‘close your legs girl.’

“I definitely have a different lifestyle than a lot of people in this world–good and bad–and my views are different than one might think my views might be because I’ve never really spoken my truth until recently,” she confessed. “Hopefully I can shed some light on what I like to call the truth.”

She continued, “Some people might not agree with me and some people will but we know how to talk to each other in a respectful way so that everybody gets their point across and there’s no cutthroat conversation.”

[From E! Online]

Raven’s version of “the truth” includes tossing out unconventional opinions without backing them up with any practical information. She spoke out on the awesomeness of stay-at-home moms, which — obviously — is true. But then Raven said stay-at-home moms should get paid, sort of like the money would appear out of nowhere. She’s nutty and crazy, and I guess she’s perfect for The View. The Daily Beast believes Raven could save the show because she’s good at “speaking freely (and occasionally like a lunatic).” I think she can give a ratings boost, but people will eventually get bored of her antics.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Here are some photos of Tracy Anderson out and about in NYC yesterday. She recently returned to NYC – her homebase, I believe – after a short holiday in Miami, where she was strutting around in her “lingerie-inspired” bikini (go here to those photos, where she looks like she’s just wandering around in her panties).

Last week, Hamptons Magazine threw a party to celebrate their cover with Tracy and Gwyneth Paltrow – I covered their interview, which was horrible, condescending, stupid and annoying. I have moments where I think, “Maybe I should give Gwyneth a break.” Then I remember that she and Tracy feed off each other’s worst qualities and that Gwyneth and Tracy are idiots and business partners. Both of them deserve whatever they get. Anyway, at the party for the magazine cover, Tracy spoke to Allure and wouldn’t you know, Tracy bad-mouthed her clients, because she seriously does that CONSTANTLY.

Tracy on Gwyneth’s eating habits: “She doesn’t eat really well. She eats French fries more than anyone I know. That girl eats more bread and cheese and fries than I can tell you. But she eats good French fries—she’s not going to a drive through. And she’s consistent with her workouts. If she misses a workout, she definitely feels it. She and I will both feel it and have a struggle if we don’t show up for our workout. I would be obese.”

Jennifer Lopez is her client? “Jennifer Lopez is on the cover of the Us magazine’s best bodies issue. She works hard, she works consistently, but she doesn’t overwork. People think, Oh, I can’t have that body because she must be in the gym for hours. But she really does just one hour four to five days a week. And, oh, yeah, she’s an epic dancer, too. She’s getting ready to do a show in Vegas.”

None of her clients can “coast”: “That’s the mentality that I try to teach all of these girls, from Jennifer to Lena to Gywneth and others. It’s not, We’re going to get you what you envisioned, and then you’re going to be able to stop. If you stop, it’s done.”

Working with Kim Kardashian: “Kim is not consistent. I love her. She’s a sweetheart, but she’s not consistent.” [Editor’s note: Kim had yet to announce that she was pregnant at the time of this interview. That might explain a thing or two.]

How Tracy works out: “I don’t do it all day long. I work out only one time per day, period. That’s it. When I hit 40, I had to cut back. Exercising too much causes accelerated aging. There were years that I would go from Madonna to Gywneth—I haven’t trained like that for years. Gywneth does an hour and a half, and every ten days it’s different. She does the same routine for ten days, and then it changes. She’s done that for almost a decade. I design it specifically for her. We lead such busy lives; we’re not together enough. But we text almost every day.”

[From Allure]

Gwyneth’s diet sucks, Kim Kardashian is inconsistent, Lena Dunham isn’t allowed to stop working out until Tracy sculpts her body, and Jennifer Lopez only has an awesome body because she’s with Tracy’s program. Did I get it all? This woman is such a name-dropping famewhore and fraud. You know the part that pisses me off the most? “It’s not, ‘We’re going to get you what you envisioned, and then you’re going to be able to stop. If you stop, it’s done.’” That’s her business model, right there. You will never achieve the goals because the goal is to never stop paying Tracy to tell you that you look like sh-t.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Man oh man, is it good to be The Hollywood Reporter this year. That is, they’re doing what they always do – including the actresses who are most likely to get an Emmy nomination or to be discussed if they don’t get an Emmy nomination – but these women are the most interesting we’ve had in years.
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