When I first saw these photos of Guy Pearce, I thought he was beardy Chris Pine. Guy Pearce might be hotter though. PS… blue nail polish. [Go Fug Yourself]
The most recent Bachelor couple split. Shocking. [Dlisted]
Julia Roberts looks like she’s wearing a sleeping bag as pants. [LaineyGossip]
Leonardo DiCaprio uses the selfie stick. [Buzzfeed]
The new, useless Point Break has crazy stunts. [Uproxx]
Janelle Evans has been arrested for the 15th time. [CDAN]
I do think Kylie Jenner got butt implants. [Popoholic]
The Bobby Flay/January Jones thing was happening for months. [Starcasm]
Review of San Andreas: um, it’s not a good movie. [Pajiba]
Here’s Avicii’s new music video. [The Blemish]
Vintage Kim Zolciak and her terrible Barbie wig. [Reality Tea]
This commercial is so sweet & the dog is adorable. [I’m Not Obsessed]
Melissa Rivers covers AARP Magazine. [Celebrity Baby Scoop]
Demi Moore stepped out last night to support Soleil Moon Frye in LA last night. How many of you right now are like, what’s a Punky and who’s Soleil? Too many I fear. The two have been friends for a long time. They’re so close that Demi was apparently Soleil’s birthing coach?
I’ve been worried about Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson. If they ever break up, I’m going to burn this place to the ground! And for a few months, it seemed like they were having problems. They just weren’t seen out together very often. They didn’t go to Coachella this year, which they’ve always attended together in the past. They did go to the Met Gala together, their first red carpet in months, but then Diane flew off by herself to the South of France, where she got very, very flirty with her costar (and hottie) Matthias Schoenaerts at the Cannes Film Festival. Joshua didn’t even fly into Cannes to walk the red carpet for her big premiere. And Diane flew solo to Joel Silver’s annual Memorial Day party earlier this week too! What gives?
So, was there trouble afoot? And is it all over now? These are photos of Joshua and Diane in LA yesterday. They look… okay? Their body language seems decent-ish, like they’re not mad at each other but I wish they were holding hands. I mean, they’ve been together for nine years. They’ve outlasted many, many couples. Are they just that old married couple (despite the fact that they are famously unmarried) that doesn’t feel the need to do everything together?
Sigh… I hope they’re fine. I hope it was all just a work schedule thing and they’ll be together forever.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Giuliana Rancic has kept a low profile after the end of awards season and her promotional memoir tour. Much of that tour revolved around Giuliana discussing her weight. She initially wanted to focus on the book and didn’t want to talk about her body. Giuliana framed the issue as knowing her own “truth, that’s all that matters.” As the press appearances continued, so did public concern over her fragile appearance. Journos asked about her weight, so Giuliana gave in and started talking. A lot.
Giuliana denied having an eating disorder. Her anti-cancer meds make it hard to gain weight, which is true for many people. Guiliana doesn’t find herself attractive at a lower weight, and she knows people find her “disgustingly skinny.” After some time off, Giuliana is ready to confront the issue again. She posted this bikini shot on Instagram.
On top of the world ????????
A photo posted by Giuliana Rancic (@giulianarancic) on May 27, 2015 at 3:30pm PDT
This photo is a direct challenge. Maybe Giuliana was able to re-up with some time off after defending her body for weeks on end. It must have been exhausting to keep getting picked apart. Giuliana has always been very thin, and she lost even more weight after her cancer diagnosis. I understand the desire to side-eye a woman who didn’t want to gain 10 pounds to boost her fertility potential. She also once tried her hand at a diet and fitness newsletter, which didn’t go over well. I remember reading her instructions for restaurant eating. She always wanted her veggies roasted with no-calorie Pam spray.
All the same, I’m cutting Giuliana some slack because body criticism is rough to deal with. She has a legitimate health issue that makes it hard to gain weight (even if she wanted to, which she may not). Giuliana felt good enough about her body to post this bikini shot, which is good news. It still feels like she’s trying to restart the conversation again.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
I forgot that Kristen Stewart made this movie! The NSFW Red Band trailer was released for American Ultra, otherwise known as the stoner action movie. Think Dazed & Confused meets The Bourne Identity. Jesse Eisenberg plays the stoner assassin and Kristen Stewart plays his girlfriend and the damsel in distress. It’s supposed to be a stoner comedy with badass action sequences. It could have ended up failing hard, but I kind of think the trailer makes it look pretty enjoyable?
NSFW Warning for language, drug use & violence (there’s no nudity). Here’s the red band American Ultra trailer:
Kristen barely annoys me here. Jesse actually seems really intriguing. I’ve always worried that he’s somewhat one-note, like he can do socially awkward nerds and not much else, so it’s nice to see him doing such a physical part and having such funny line readings. There’s a problem with the casual use of the n-word (by John Leguizamo’s drug dealer character), but then I laughed when he said “Nurr…” like Madea. So, I don’t know. Will this be a hit? I would see it for Jesse more than K-Stew.
Here are some photos of Jesse at the Southampton Book Expo yesterday. IS THAT HIS DOG?
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Above is Jessica Alba on the cover of Forbes’s “America’s Richest Self Made Women” issue. It looks like they put two halves of her face together from separate photographs. Forbes’s profile of Alba’s Honest Company is careful to note that she’s not quite on the list of the Richest Self Made Women yet, but that she’s headed there. The Honest Company, which Alba founded in 2011, sells organic baby, cleaning and household products and is currently valued at $1 billion. Jessica’s 15% – 20% share gives her a personal net worth of around $200 million.
You can see the full list of Forbes’ 50 richest self made women here. It includes celebrities such as Oprah (#5: $3 billion), Madonna (#28, $520 million), and Kathy Ireland (#33, $420 million), with Beyonce and Judge Judy in a tie at the end of the list with a net worth of $250 million. You’ll recognize many of the other names, including fashion moguls Tory Burch, Diane Von Furstenberg and Vera Wang along with tech leaders like Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and Marissa Mayer of Yahoo! I could spend all day reading that list and thinking about these powerful women, but I digress. (I haven’t even heard of #1, Elizabeth Holmes, who is all of 31 and founded a blood testing company called Theranos. I’m going to look up her Ted talk after this.)
Alba’s story goes into how The Honest Company was founded, and it sounds like it lives up to its name. Alba saw a need for products that were eco-friendly, chemically safe and with a design that would appeal to modern moms. She wanted products that she would use for her family that didn’t exist under a single brand, so she created one. I’ll just except some of the relevant parts here and the entire article is worth a read if you’re interested.
Alba works 86 hours a week
Details and hard work. Alba laughs about how she once worked an 86-hour week as the star of James Cameron’s sci-fi TV series, Dark Angel — the series that launched her career. Now, she says, she spends those 86 hours at a vintage teal blue desk, overseeing marketing and brand development for a company that feeds a growing demand for safe, nontoxic products, particularly among young helicopter parents who treat children — and what goes near or inside them — like porcelain.
Her company is valued at a billion
Safety sells. The Honest Company has experienced an absurd level of growth. In 2012, its first year selling products, it hit $10 million in revenue. By last year it was $150 million, and industry insiders are predicting over $250 million this year. The company is focused on growth over profits, boasting a current valuation to match: $1 billion.
How Alba was inspired to create safe products
[After getting hives from laundry detergent twice] Alba spent late nights on Google and Wikipedia researching the contents not just of the offending detergent but also of everything in her bathroom cabinet and under her kitchen sink. “I was like, ‘How can this be safe for babies if I’m having this type of reaction?’” she says. What she found terrified her: petrochemicals, formaldehydes and flame retardants in everyday household products from floor cleaners to mattresses. Some were listed on the ingredients label plain as day, with others disguised under the catchall of “fragrance,” which is entirely legal…
By 2011 she had turned herself into an expert on consumer products and traveled to Washington, D.C. to lobby for updated legislation. She was — and is — particularly focused on reforming the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, which has allowed more than 80,000 chemicals to remain in household products untested. Only five are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency; just 11 are banned from consumer goods. (In Europe that figure is more than 1,300.) “Enough people have to get sick or die from a certain ingredient or chemical before it’s pulled from the marketplace,” says Alba.
[From Forbes]
I’m chemically sensitive and have to be careful of perfumes and dyes in my products, so I appreciate when anyone brings awareness to this issue. Certain perfumes make me dizzy and my skin is very sensitive. It goes beyond that though, to long term health concerns. I heard a radio show recently on NPR about how the EPA barely controls any of the chemicals in consumer products, and how the conversation around chemicals is almost entirely controlled by “scientists” hired by powerful chemical conglomerates. It was sobering and this is what Alba is lobbying to change. Everyone should have the right to safe products, but much of the information required to make purchasing decisions isn’t known or is deliberately covered up. Good for Alba for creating products that families can feel good about.
Jessica Alba is shown at LAX yesterday (credit: Pacific Coast News) and out on 5-25 (Sail away shirt, credit: FameFlynet) and on 5-24 (scarf, credit: FameFlynet