As if Kendrick Lamar not only appeared in the Bad Blood video but also rhymed on the song too. This is the triumph that opened the Billboard Music Awards. And that was pretty much the night: a coronation of Taylor Swift. Because you can pretty much coast on Kendrick the rest of the year. But no, …      

Do you know how much Taylor Swift hates Katy Perry? SO MUCH, you guys. You don’t even know. Except now you do, because Taylor Swift is a middle school Mean Girl with an unlimited budget. At last night Billboard Music Awards, Taylor made sure that she ran the conversation. She won a bunch of awards, she was there with her Girl Posse and she debuted her new music video for “Bad Blood,” the song she wrote about her #1 Enemy, Katy Perry. Tay-Tay made sure all of her rigorously collected friends made appearances in the music video, even Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick should be ashamed of himself for getting involved with this mess too. In the past, I’ve thought Swifty and Kendrick’s unlikely friendship was charming, but this… no, man. This is just a big nope. Here’s the video:

Such terrible acting. God, am I the only one embarrassed for everyone involved here? And there are so many – I didn’t even catch half of them! Kendrick, Mariska Hargitay, Selena Gomez, Cara Delevingne, Gigi Hadid, Karlie Kloss and so many more.

As for last night’s fashion… Swifty wore a white Balmain jumpsuit which… I give her credit for wearing pants and not a sparkly party dress. Her implants look really obvious in this Balmain, but that’s no big deal. Mostly I’m worried about her hair because that looks like a really cheap wig. Like, a Travolta-level wig. Oh, and Calvin Harris was there. Calvin and Swifty apparently hugged at one point. That’s still happening, which makes me happy.

Other fashion… Lily Aldridge wore Balmain (it’s meh) and Hailee Steinfeld wore Givenchy. I love Hailee but this isn’t the best look for her.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Reality star Kim Kardashian posted a photo with her daughter North, 23 months, via Instagram Sunday.

“Minnie Mouse,” the KUWTK star, 34, captioned the image of her daughter donning Disney-inspired face paint.

In another shot with her tot, the proud mom wrote: “Face painting at the farm today!”

During their Sunday funday, the pair enjoyed some time with friends at a local farm.

On Saturday, Kim’s sister Kourtney Kardashian shared a new shot of her youngest child, 5-month-old son Reign Aston.

Face painting at the farm today!

A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on May 17, 2015 at 1:23pm PDT

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Iggy Azalea won Best Rap song last night at the Billboard Awards for “Fancy,” her collaboration with Charli XCX. You can see their joint speech here. Iggy brought her boyfriend, Nick Young, as her date. She wore a baby blue, two-piece custom dress, whose ID evades even the best sources. I don’t think the dress is terrible, although Iggy allegedly tried and failed to mention the designer on the red carpet. The whole look, including the dip-dyed pink hair is very mall girl, but it’s not inappropriate for a music show. A lot of people are talking about how Iggy looked different last night (compared to a month ago), and maybe she overdid the Botox. She may have also gone in for fillers, and possibly a chin implant. Iggy admitted to getting some subtle bolt-ons last year. I hope she doesn’t get carried away with plastic surgery.

Zendaya always looks lovely while taking a few well-placed risks. She wore a Fausto Puglisi ensemble with a leopard and zebra print mashup. Z’s bare midriff breaks up the prints a bit, so they’re not completely overwhelming. The little pop of turquoise color on the shoes and earrings is also unexpected but adds to the effect. The only complaint I have is how the sunburst adornments are so similar to those on Z’s Met Gala Fausto Puglisi dress.

Rita Ora abandoned her beloved Tom Ford to wear Fausto Puglisi as well. Rita always turns it up to 11 on the red carpet, and this look is no exception. Multiple cutouts, a waist high slit, and a mini-fishtail, it’s all so much. The matchy shoes are pretty bad.

Kendall Jenner wore a Balmain for H&M jacket and pants. The outfit was part of the label’s collaboration announcement. This look attempts to be rock ‘n’ roll, but the jacket is too oversized. The embellishments are all pearl! Kinda fussy, but the pants and boots look cool.

Kylie Jenner also wore Balmain. I’m glad to see her cover up a bit in this leather dress, although the waist on many of these Balmain dresses looks so uncomfortable.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are always so cute. Chrissy wore a Balmain plunge jumpsuit that managed to be both 1970s and fabulous. The top needed a little more tailoring, but that’s how the outfit looks on the runway too.

Meghan Trainor wore a slinky Badgley Mischka dress that resembled seaweed. I’m glad to see her wear something different, not so cutesy. She won the top digital song award for “All About That Bass.”

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN

SPOILERS for last night’s episode of Game of Thrones, “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken”

A few episodes ago, I said I liked how gothic-horror this season had turned out. Yeah, but now I’m kind of over it. Don’t get me wrong, I could probably watch an entire hour of Arya washing dead people, hanging out in the tower of faces (or whatever) and playing the game of faces with Jaqen H’ghar. But the rest of it? Ugh. Alright, let’s get to it.

Cersei is short-sighted. I don’t really understand Cersei’s endgame here, but maybe that’s the point. Cersei has no endgame. She’s just a spoiled, short-sighted brat hellbent on torturing all of her perceived enemies. And for the moment, all of her enemies are Tyrells. Considering the Tyrells – before this season – were basically the only major family in Westeros legitimizing the Lannister hold on the throne, it seems counter-intuitive for Cersei to be doing all of this just because A) Margaery Tyrell smirks and puts Cersei in her place and B) Cersei didn’t want to marry Margaery’s gay brother. Basically, I can’t wait for Cersei to fail and fail HARD.

Littlefinger is plotting. But what is he plotting? He told Cersei that he had found Sansa and that Sansa is in Winterfell, and that Cersei should send troops to the North but only after Stannis and the Boltons had fought their war. Littlefinger is a master manipulator and I have no doubt that he’s war-gamed this all the way through, but I just don’t know what the final plot will be.

The High Sparrow isn’t playing. I mean, arresting Queen Margaery? And King Tommen just sat there looking bewildered. That’s another thing I don’t get about Cersei’s plotting – all she’s doing is making her son (the king) look weaker and weaker. Cersei and Tommen both suck at the Game of Thrones (eh?).

Arya is training. As I said at the beginning, I could pretty much watch Arya’s storylines for a whole hour. Even if she’s just washing dead people, I would watch that. The House of Black and White is so beautiful and creepy, and that massive room (The Hall of Faces) with all the faces and candles? It was creepy and magnificent.

Bronn & Jamie’s Excellent Adventures. For me, this part of the story was more about Princess Myrcella of Westeros and Prince Trystane Martell. They have a REAL love, you guys. It’s not just teenage hormones. They are like the Romeo and Juliet of Game of Thrones. Trystane is a cutie too – they cast a boy who is like Harry Styles and Zayn all mixed together. Well, Trystane and Myrcella are IN LOVE and she’s not going to go with her Uncle Jamie because you just don’t understand LOVE and *slams door* GOD NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ME. So Jamie and Bronn end up getting into a crazy fight with the Sand Snakes but since everything went down in the Water Gardens, I guess the king saw it go down and he just had everyone arrested. Good plan. Also – there’s some concern now that one of the Sand Snakes poisoned Bronn. Just FYI.

Tyrion & Jorah’s Excellent Adventures. This part made me question what I know about Greyscale. It’s passed through skin, right? Because Jorah made physical contact with a few characters and now they all have Greyscale? Or not. Jorah and Tyrion were taken by pirates, but only after Tyrion basically talked and hustled his way out of having his head chopped off. Now the pirates will take Jorah and Tyrion straight to the fighting pits, I guess? And then the pirates have to find a “c—k merchant” because OMG. Best line of the night, right? “The dwarf lives until we find a c–k merchant.”

Sansa gets married. By the old gods and the new, I really wish Sansa Stark had not been brutally raped on her wedding night. GoT writers and producers decided that Sansa would marry Ramsey very quickly at Winterfell. Then they decided Ramsey would rape Sansa in front of the man she once considered her brother, Theon Greyjoy. I only have one positive thing to say about that scene: Alfie Allen is a much better actor than I previously believed. You could see his humanity, his heartbreak and devastation as Ramsey ripped Sansa’s wedding gown from her body. Sophie Turner spoke to Time Magazine and she said she loved how crazy and dark it’s gotten for Sansa at Winterfell. Critics are not being so kind though – many are complaining about Sansa’s overall “damsel in distress” character arc and I sort of agree with them. We’ve gotten some glimpses of the strength Sansa could have, so they better deliver.

Photos courtesy of HBO/GOT.

Game of Thrones Season 5 Episode 6 Recap

Weddings in Westeros give me such a bad feeling. Has anyone’s marriage ended well on this show? Ever? This week it’s Sansa’s turn, and boy, does her wedding night not go well. There is simply no escaping that Sansa is going to suffer as the wife of Ram…      

Mad Men Series finale recap (Season 7 Episode 14 recap)

If that’s how the story ends, then Dick Whitman is dead forever. Don takes himself to California to find and feel all the things that aren’t Don – the things that are from another part of his life – but Don keeps resurfacing. Don pulls h…      

It must be Little League soccer season, because here are more photos of Angelina Jolie with some of her kids at another soccer game. Shiloh and possibly Zahara were playing with their soccer team on Saturday in LA, and Angelina brought out Knox and Pax to watch their sisters. Several things are amusing me about these photos. First of all, trust Angelina to basically wear a black suit to watch a kids’ soccer game on a weekend. I understand that she believes in staying out of the sun and covering up, but wearing a long-sleeved black suit to a soccer game is a little bit much. Second of all… Knox has the same haircut as Shiloh these days. Which is an adorable shaggy bob. And Knox is such a little strawberry-blonde!! Third of all, Pax’s hair is on point these days. That’s a great haircut!

Incidentally, we recently learned something new about the Jolie-Pitt household, courtesy of Rebel Wilson. Rebel was promoting Pitch Perfect 2 last week and Rebel told Kelly Ripa and Michael Strathan that she was recently at a table reading for a Sacha Baron Cohen film with Brad, and Brad mentioned that his family is sort of obsessed with Pitch Perfect. Rebel said: “I was sitting next to Brad Pitt and he’s like, ‘Uh, I’ve seen your movie like 20 times. My kids love it.’ And he said, ‘Angelina watches it as well.’” I’m guessing that Shiloh and Zahara probably like Pitch Perfect a lot and they make the whole family sit through repeated viewings.

I wonder if Angelina remembered to bring healthy snacks this time? Probably not. I bet she just bought ice cream and treats at the park again.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Dear Gossips,

The focus last night was getting up the courage to watch Mad Men, the series finale of Mad Men. Duana basically had to hold my hand. Needless to say, the Billboard Music Awards were not a priority. The only music news that really only mattered to me this weekend is Janet Jackson…      

Here are some photos from the Cannes Film Festival premiere and photocall for Todd Haynes’ new film, Carol. It’s a drama set in the 1950s about a woman, Carol (played by Cate Blanchett) who sort of embarks on a love affair with a young woman (played by Rooney Mara). It’s supposed to be a rather beautiful, striking film and it’s already getting rave reviews at Cannes, with many critics already claiming that Blanchett will pick up her seventh career Oscar nomination for the performance.

As for fashion… at the photocall, both Cate and Rooney wore McQueen. I wonder if they planned that out? Because it worked out perfectly – Cate was the black-clad badass and Rooney looked ethereal and virginal. They were like yin and yang. For the premiere, Cate wore this over-the-top Giles Fall 2015 gown. I’m not really into it. Like, I could have gone with her on the whole HUGE skirt/ball gown thing, but the fabric is killing it for me. Rooney wore a Rochas gown from 2005 to the premiere. I’m not really into her look either.

Last week, we discussed how Cate had apparently told Variety that she had been in intimate relationships with women “many times” – go here to recap that interview. Cate was asked about that in Cannes, and she sort of took it back, telling journalists:

“From memory, the conversation ran: ‘Have you had relationships with women?’ And I said: ‘Yes, many times. Do you mean have I had sexual relationships with women? Then the answer is no.’ But that obviously didn’t make it.”

“But in 2015, the point should be: who cares? Call me old fashioned but I thought one’s job as an actor was not to present one’s boring, small, microscopic universe but to make a psychological connection to another character’s experiences. My own life is of no interest to anyone else. Or maybe it is. But I certainly have no interest in putting my own thoughts and opinions out there.”

[From The Guardian]

The journalist was Ramin Setoodeh, the same guy I recently complained about with that awful Michael Fassbender interview. So… I mean, it’s perfectly possible that Setoodeh misquoted Cate or misrepresented the context of her answer. For what it’s worth, Setoodeh tweeted: “When I asked Cate Blanchett if she’d had lesbian relationships in real life, she said: ‘Many times.’ She was accurately quoted.” Blah, whatever. I don’t think Cate really cares if you think she’s bisexual, so either way… blah, it’s no big deal.

Last thing – at the photocall, there was a lot of butt-grabbing between Todd Haynes, Rooney and Cate. I think Haynes grabbed some booty first (from both ladies) and they responded by grabbing him right back.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.