Chris Evans spent a big chunk of his People Magazine “Sexiest Man Alive” cover story talking about how he’s ready to settle down. To hear Chris’s narrative about himself, he’s a romantic who loves regular ladies who want to live in Boston and hang out with his family. He’s ready to make that commitment to talking about how much he wants a commitment! It didn’t even occur to me that the SMA title could be the precursor to an official girlfriend rollout, but here we are. Apparently, Chris has been dating Portuguese actress Alba Baptista for over a year. He’s 41, she’s 25. Pretty predictable, actually.

Chris Evans has a new love in his life.

The Lightyear actor, 41, has been dating Portuguese actress Alba Baptista “for over a year and it’s serious,” a source tells PEOPLE, adding, “They are in love and Chris has never been happier. His family and friends all adore her.”

Reps for Evans and Baptista did not respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment.

Baptista, 25, starred in this year’s Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris. She speaks five languages and is the daughter of an engineer and a translator. In 2018, she did an extensive amount of humanitarian work at an orphanage in Cambodia focusing on education. Last year, she won the Shooting Star award at the Berlin Film Festival.

[From People]

I do think Chris has a physical type and Alba seems to be it. He’s mentioned his type before – dark hair, big booty, accent (Boston, Spanish or, as it turns out, Portuguese). Plus, she’s just young and pretty, so she’s most guys’ type. I hope Chris’s fans don’t make her life hell.

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Jennifer Garner was seen out at a Big Brother Big Sisters Gala in LA last night with a new haircut, a lob, in a lighter color. She also got caramel highlights. Garner was in a crisp white suit and she’s wearing a ring on her left ring finger. That makes me wonder if it’s an engagement ring, which we’ve speculated about before. She’s been with entrepreneur John Miller for years. It isn’t a typical engagement ring though and it matches her bracelet. Garner likely realized that people would speculate about it and that may be why she kept her hand in her pocket for most of the photos.

I love everything about her look here, including her styling. The haircut and color suit her! Her makeup also looks great. As I was looking for stories about Garner I found her cover interview with Town & Country, which came out at the end of October but I’m just seeing it now. It’s mostly a profile of her tireless work with Save The Children, to which she’s dedicated over a decade. There aren’t a lot of big quotes from her except for the one I put in the title – that she sort of threw herself a wedding for her 50th birthday in April.

Addressing that word, nice, she says, “I have no reason not to be nice. My life is lovely.” But, she adds, “I’m not always just nice. I can also be salty, and I can be taciturn, or I can be really serious about what I want to get done. It’s not that I feel I’m underestimated in that way—I’m not afraid to stand up for myself and say, ‘Just so you know, this isn’t going to fly with me.’ When that happens, I don’t want you to be shocked that I’m a real person.”

In April she did do something out of character: She threw herself a splashy 50th birthday party. “I basically had a wedding for myself,” she says with a laugh. “I was so shocked that I was doing it.” But her birthday fell on Easter weekend, and after she invited her sisters and her parents, well, it snowballed. Just let the record show she also asked her guests to fill 5,000 backpacks each with enough food to feed a family of four for a program called Blessings in a Backpack.

“I put everyone to work,” she says. And then they danced to “Rocky Top” by the Osborne Brothers…

Suddenly I wondered if Garner has some unfinished business with Hollywood. “I don’t know,” she says, genuinely thinking about it. “Because I’m not ambitious in that way. Do I feel I’m owed some kind of accolades or something? Not really. I’ve kind of played it differently. How lucky am I that I’ve gotten to work all this time and raise a family? It’s more that the work truly comes from a place of love. I love being with a crew. I love being part of a crew. And I love when I get to be on set. It’s different from anywhere else. It’s just mine…”

“I treat Save the Children like a job—and it’s a job I take as seriously as any job. I mean, how you do anything is how you do everything.”

[From Town & Country]

I like that quote “how you do anything is how you do everything.” Garner has definitely worked hard for Save the Children and the T&C profile is full of people singing her praises, including Maria Shriver and her brother Mark Shriver, the head of Save the Children. As for throwing herself a wedding for her birthday – Selena Gomez just admitted she did that too. You may as well embrace the milestone birthdays with parties if that’s your thing. My 50th is coming up and I’m taking suggestions. There will definitely be a custom cake involved. My friend Karen just did a girls’ trip for hers!

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When we were recording this week’s Gossip with Celebitchy podcast, CB mentioned that she saw something about Elon Musk ending remote work for Twitter employees. I saidthat I thought that was just for Tesla employees, and while that’s true, it turns out that Twitter’s remaining employees are not allowed to do remote work either. CB was right! (She told me that she already edited that part out of the pod anyway!) Elon Musk ordered the handful of remaining Twitter staffers to report to work in the office. Musk did so in his first inter-office email after firing 50% of the staff. But that’s not all! Musk also said some crazy sh-t about how Twitter is going to make money after he f–ked it all up with the advertisers.

Two weeks after closing a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, Elon Musk sent emails to the employees of the social media company late on Wednesday, his first communications with them after mass layoffs and high-pressure drives to create new products.

In two emails seen by The New York Times, Mr. Musk painted a bleak financial picture for Twitter and outlined changes at the company, including an end to its remote work policy and a renewed focus on generating revenue and fighting spam.

“Sorry that this is my first email to the company, but there is no way to sugarcoat the message,” Mr. Musk, 51, wrote in one email. “The economic picture ahead is dire.” Twitter was too heavily dependent on advertising and vulnerable to pullbacks in brand spending, he added, and would need to bolster the revenue it gets from subscriptions.

In another note to employees, he wrote that “the absolute top priority is finding and suspending any verified bots/trolls/spam.”

Mr. Musk’s emails came as Twitter continues to be roiled by his changes. Last week, he cut about 50 percent of the company’s 7,500 employees. At the same time, Mr. Musk has been pushing for product changes that would help Twitter make more money, including promoting a subscription product. He previously said the company was losing $4 million a day.

Twitter, whose communication department has been almost entirely laid off, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Bloomberg earlier reported Mr. Musk’s emails.

On Wednesday, three top Twitter executives responsible for security, privacy and compliance also resigned, according to two people familiar with the matter and internal documents seen by The Times.

[From The New York Times]

No remote work, no communications office, no security and privacy people, next to no ad revenue and Elon Musk’s biggest f–king priority is ferreting out “verified” spam/bots? Like… what? What is his obsession with bots? Bots are a problem, in general, but bots are not the reason why Twitter is in freefall. Musk wouldn’t be in such dire financial straits if only he had a bare minimum of executive or managerial competence either – literally, the advertisers just wanted some assurance that Musk wasn’t going to turn Twitter into a Nazi playground and he could not even give them that assurance. So of course the ad revenues are going down. And I’m sorry, hanging all of his hopes on subscribers? LMAO. There are 396.5 million Twitter users. I doubt even 2% of them would pay to subscribe to Elon’s Nazi ego trip.

Speaking of how much money Musk is losing, he also told Twitter employees that bankruptcy is definitely on the table. Oh my f–ing god.

In a bankruptcy, the banks that lent Musk the money to buy Twitter would likely end up owning much or all of the company and Musk and his co-investors would see their equity diluted heavily or wiped out. https://t.co/IA6136mAzs

— Vikas Bajaj (@vikasbajaj) November 10, 2022

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Almost a year ago exactly, Prince William went to a private event at the exclusive, members-only club Oswalds in Mayfair. The trip was notable because William’s wife was not with him, and because he was seen in the company of a mystery blonde. I argued at the time that William is too much of a secret squirrel to actually bring his mistress or side-chick out in public, even in a private-yet-social setting. But I do understand that the mystery blonde was mentioned for a reason, and maybe I got it wrong! Maybe William is dumb enough to carry on an affair this way. We certainly know he’s an idiot. Speaking of, William went to the same private club last night for a charity event, and it feels notable that the Daily Mail mentioned the name of an attractive blonde aristocrat:

Prince William enjoyed a rare night out as he attended a charity event at an exclusive Mayfair private members’ club last night. The Prince of Wales was photographed leaving Oswald’s in central London after the charity event in honour of bereaved children.

Others to attend the event included the Queen’s nephew David Linley and Lady Maria Balfour.

Oswald’s is the most exclusive of London’s private members’ clubs, with the Queen Consort and Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie among those who frequent the venue.

William was without the Princess of Wales for his outing – but accompanied by this security guards. He dressed smartly in a blue suit, with a smart white shirt and dark blue tie.

Others in attendance included Prince William’s cousin, David Linley, who is Princess Margaret’s son. The Queen’s nephew, who is professionally known as David Linley, was spotted emerging from Oswald’s with a friend. The father-of-two became an eligible divorcee following the end of his 26-year marriage to Serena — the daughter of multi-millionaire landowner the 12th Earl of Harrington, Viscount Petersham — in 2020. He has two children, Charles, 22, Viscount Linley, and Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones, who was a bridesmaid at the Prince and Princess of Wales’ wedding.

[From The Daily Mail]

Lady Mary Balfour is an aristocrat by birth, the daughter of a count. She’s also married, from what I can see. There’s no mention of her husband in this reporting. I think the Mail is trying to give plausible deniability here, perhaps suggesting that Mary might be involved with David Linley, not William. It does feel… interesting. Two appearances at Oswalds, a year apart, with William going solo, and hanging out with blonde women. Hm.

Royal night out! Prince William is handsome in a blue suit at private member’s club in Mayfair https://t.co/knzsjRls8d

— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) November 11, 2022

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Well, I called it! And so did everyone else. Back in June, TMZ reported that Abby De La Rosa was pregnant with Nick’s child. Neither Nick nor Abby confirmed it, but it seemed likely to be true since they already have twins together. Well, Abby posted an Instagram story about Libras confirming that Nick is the father. That’s a different way to confirm/announce. It’s hard to keep being creative with this stuff!

It’s official. Abby De La Rosa, who is currently pregnant with her 3rd child, confirmed that Nick Cannon is the father.

The DJ, 31, shared a post via her Instagram Story on Tuesday, November 8, that read, “1 night with a Libra can turn into 3-4 years. Be careful.” De La Rosa added her own message to the post, writing, “Damn! Lol 1 night turned into 4 years and 3 kids real quick … I see no lies here smh. Y’all be safe out there.” Cannon, 42 — who shares 16-month-old twins Zillion and Zion with the California native — is a Libra.

De La Rosa announced in June that she is pregnant. Shortly after sharing the news, she told her Instagram followers she was looking “to find the best Z name I can find” for the baby. Last month, model Alyssa Scott confirmed that she and Cannon are expecting their second child together after their infant son, Zen, died suddenly in December 2021.

The Masked Singer host also shares twins Moroccan and Monroe, 11, with ex-wife Mariah Carey, son Legendary, 4 months, with Bre Tiesi, daughter Onyx, 1 month, with LaNisha Cole, and sons Golden, 5, and Rise, 1 month, and daughter Powerful Queen, 18 months, with Brittany Bell.

In September, De La Rosa defended her dynamic with the Drumline actor. “Being in a polyamorous relationship doesn’t mean you have low self-esteem or self-worth,” she said during an appearance on the “Lovers and Friends” podcast. “I become hypersensitive when people attack me and my motherhood.”

She continued: “Me being open in my relationship does not change or take away from the type of mother that I am to my kids and the wholeness that I am to them and the strength that I share with them.”

[From US Magazine]

I didn’t know that tidbit about Abby saying she was looking for a Z name for her next child. She and Nick have twins Zion and Zillions and his baby who passed away was named Zen. Is Abby being shady or supportive? Who knows if any of these ladies associate with each other. Nick has famously said they don’t have to get along with each other as long as they get along with him. But Abby recently defended the polyamorous relationship, so hopefully the grace she gives to Nick she extends to the other mothers as well. Wow, Nick has so many kids I’m starting to lose count. However, even though it was unconfirmed, I had been keeping Abby’s baby on my list as being Nick’s. Abby previously said she was due on October 25, so she either had the baby already or will soon. So Abby’s baby will be Nick’s 11th child and Alyssa Scott’s will be his 12th. Unless there’s another surprise a la LaNisha Cole in there, which is definitely possible with Nick.

2011: a twin son and daughter with Mariah Carey (1 and 2)
2017: a son with Brittany Bell (3)
2020: a daughter with Brittany Bell (4)
June 2021: twin sons with Abby De La Rosa (5 and 6)
June 2021: with Alyssa Scott, a son who tragically died five months later (7)
July 2022: a son with Bre Tiesi (8)
September 2022: a daughter with LaNisha Cole (9)
September 2022: a son with Brittany Bell (10)
TBD 2022: Abby De La Rosa (11)
TBD 2022 or 2023: Alyssa Scott (12)

I saw this on FB and it really helped. I thought he started having multiples with a few of the same women. pic.twitter.com/51JceToqZG

— Mrs. Grotke (@__BHB__) November 6, 2022

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Michelle Obama has a new book coming out. Which mean, we get new Michelle Obama interviews. I love her interviews because even though she is so much more accomplished than me, she puts everything in a way I can relate to. In her book, The Light We Carry, Michelle discusses her marriage to Barack Obama. People ask her all the time how she maintains an idyllic marriage. Michelle says she doesn’t, because theirs is no more idyllic than any other. But they love each other, and that love comes through in everything they do and say.

People often reach out to me seeking relationship advice. They remark on photographs they’ve seen of me and Barack together—laughing, or sharing a look, appearing content to be side by side. They ask how we have managed to stay both married and unmiserable for 30 years now. I want to say, Yes, truly, it’s a surprise to us, too, sometimes! And really, I’m not joking. We have our issues, of course, but I love the man, and he loves me, now, still, and seemingly forever.

Our love is not perfect, but it’s real and we’re committed to it. This particular certainty sits parked like a grand piano in the middle of every room we enter. We are, in many ways, very different people. He’s a night owl who enjoys solitary pursuits. I’m an early bird who loves a crowded room. In my opinion, he spends too much time golfing. In his opinion, I watch too much lowbrow TV. But between us, there’s a loving assuredness that’s as simple as knowing the other person is there to stay, no matter what. This is what I think people pick up on in those photos: that tiny triumph we feel, knowing that neither one of us has walked away. We remain.

Partnership doesn’t change who you are. Just as Barack hasn’t changed much in the thirty-three years since we met, neither have I. The change is in what’s between us, the million small adjustments, compromises, and sacrifices we’ve each made in order to accommodate the close presence of the other. Whatever seed of mutual curiosity got planted in the moment we met and started to talk, that’s the thing we have grown over time into certainty. That’s the ongoing miracle, the conversation still under way, the home in which we live.

[From People]

“Yes, truly, it’s a surprise to us, too, sometimes!” This is how I feel much of the time as well. There really are no universal secrets for how or why relationships work because the people those relationships are different. For instance, the second half of Michelle’s comments are the opposite for my relationship. Partnership changed each of us a great deal for the better. There were selfish aspects or toxic relationships we shed in order to come together. But we maintained those changes in our other relationships. We had friends comment how we’d made each other better.

Michelle also talks about what she’s told Malia and Sasha to look for in their partners. Her advice is not to look for someone to fill a role, like “breadwinner” or “caregiver” but rather “someone who will do the work with you, not for you, contributing on all fronts and in all ways.” That’s great advice. As are her comments on how important love is in a relationship. And one thing is for certain, that “loving assuredness” really does come across every time you see the Obamas together.

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Melinda and Bill Gates got divorced in summer 2021. There was a lot of drama leading up to it involving sexual harassment, Jeffrey Epstein, and Bill regularly vacationing with his ex. Last month, Melinda spoke to Fortune about her experience, alluding to reasons why she left and how she got through it. But was that interview subtly laying the groundwork for this news? Melinda is said to be dating Jon Du Pre, a 60-something former Fox News reporter. They’ve been spotted out at a basketball game and a hotel in Newport Beach.

Melinda French Gates is reportedly dating again following her divorce from Bill Gates.

The philanthropist, 58, has been seeing Jon Du Pre, a former reporter who worked as a correspondent for Fox News in the ’90s and early 2000s, according to a report from TMZ.

The pair have been spending time together for a few months and attended a basketball game between the Brooklyn Nets and the Boston Celtics back in April.

A rep for French Gates did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

This marks the first time the billionaire has been rumored to be dating since the end of her marriage to Bill Gates.

French Gates and the Microsoft co-founder, 67, filed for divorce in May 2021 after 27 years of marriage, and their split was finalized that August.

The former couple have three children together: Jennifer, 26, Rory, 23, and Phoebe, 20.

Du Pre, 63, has three children from a previous marriage, reports Page Six. In addition to being an author, he currently works in strategic communications, according to his LinkedIn page.

Although neither French Gates nor Du Pre has spoken publicly about their reported romance, the billionaire’s youngest child follows the former reporter on Instagram.

Earlier this year, in her first interview since her high-profile divorce, French Gates spoke candidly about “definitely” being open to dating again.

“I hope that happens for me again,” she told CBS Mornings’ Gayle King back in March.

“I’m dipping my toe in that water a little bit,” French Gates said, noting that the “water” is “interesting, at this point.”

[From People]

Jon seems to work in strategic communications now. Fox News did give me pause at first, but it was a different place in the 90s and early aughts than it is now. And he doesn’t seem to share the viewpoints of the current iteration of the network. Daily Mail pulled some of his tweets that indicate Jon disagreeing with Fox News and supporting President Biden. Daily Mail also did a pretty deep dive into his life. Jon and Melinda have a couple of things in common: both have three children from their previous marriages and were married to people in the computer software industry. Also, Jon looks pretty hot. He looks like he’s in great shape and very outdoorsy. Very rugged and handsome. (And the Daily Mail keeps pointing out how different he is from Bill.) Whether or not they’re a forever match, I like this for her. Some post-divorce fun with an attractive and seemingly non-problematic man sounds perfect after all that drama.

This is his sister:

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A few weeks ago, I was obsessed with the fact that Gisele Bundchen bought a small “beach cottage” in Miami back in February, when her marriage was falling apart. Gisele is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and it seemed cool to me that Gisele might be in the middle of decluttering her life and trying to live simply, in a humble beach cottage. As it turns out, the cottage will probably be used for business or something, or maybe she just liked it or bought it for someone else. Now it looks like Gisele secretly purchased a much bigger house just across the bay from Tom Brady’s place.

Gisele Bündchen secretly bought an $11.5 million Miami Beach mansion directly across the creek from Tom Brady’s pad, Page Six has exclusively learned. The supermodel splurged on a stunning five-bedroom, 6,600-square-foot home that has a nearly direct view of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback’s under-construction manse on Indian Creek Island.

Proving their troubled marriage was already doomed, Bündchen first viewed the mansion on Aug. 16, days before Brady’s shocking 11-day break from the NFL — which was said to be a last-ditch attempt to save their relationship. She closed on the property on Oct. 6.

“Gisele was actively looking at homes in Miami Beach even before Tom took his break from the NFL, which indicates that she was already done with the marriage and moving on,” a source tells Page Six.

Brady’s in-the-works mansion has a waterfront view of Biscayne Bay, while Bündchen’s new home is in Surfside, almost directly across the narrow waterway also known as Indian Creek.

“You could literally swim from Gisele’s place to Tom’s — not that they would — but both homes will include a dock, so it would be very easy for them to co-parent their children while living so close to each other,” the source tells us. The former couple will share joint custody of their kids following their Oct. 28 divorce.

Bündchen’s home sits on a 18,400-square-foot waterfront plot. The property listing states it has soaring 25-foot ceilings, numerous terraces and views of a wide waterway plus Indian Creek Island. It features five bedrooms and seven bathrooms.

It also has a large outdoor pool, home theater, office, gym, playroom and an eat-in kitchen that opens up to a patio. The master bedroom is on the ground floor and features his-and-hers baths. It is located on a private cul-de-sac, offering Bündchen, 42, and their kids, Benjamin, 12, and Vivian, 9, more privacy. (The athlete also shares son Jack, 15, with ex Bridget Moynahan.)

Brady, 45, is believed to be keeping their property on Indian Creek Island — also known as the Billionaire Bunker, an exclusive enclave of wealthy residents including hotel magnate Jeffrey Soffer, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner and activist investor Carl Icahn.

[From Page Six]

Yeah, if you have hundreds of millions of dollars, this sounds like an okay solution – just buy the giant mansion across the bay from your ex-husband, and when it comes time to drop off the kids, tell them to swim to their dad’s house (she would never!). Anyway, Gisele’s real estate moves are kind of interesting, although I’m disappointed that she isn’t really moving into a smallish beach cottage and simplifying her life. It was rumored that, in their divorce, Tom got the billionaire’s bunker house and Gisele got the New York apartment. I wonder if Tom will buy a New York apartment across the hall from Gisele?

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Emily Blunt wore Prada to the NYC premiere of The English. [RCFA]
The Crown, truth and fiction. [Pajiba]
Bill Engvall walked off the set of Pictionary. [Seriously OMG]
The latest trailer for that Whitney Houston bio-pic. [Dlisted]
Celebrity Pickleball is coming to network TV. [LaineyGossip]
T&L recaps the first two episodes of The Crown. [Tom & Lorenzo]
Joe Manganiello & Sofia Vergara went to the Mythic Quest premiere. [JustJared]
What’s going on with Machine Gun Kelly’s hair? [GFY]
This is me, I didn’t know that Chris Evans has a bunch of chest tatts. [Buzzfeed]
I wish Virginia would do a statewide referendum on legalizing marijuana. It would drive voter turnout and help the local economy. [Towleroad]
This college athlete is making seven-figures through social media. [Egotastic]
Elon Musk killed the second “official checkmark” in three hours. [Gawker]

Emily Blunt Wore Prada To ‘The English’ New York Premierehttps://t.co/byWXJmgoEm pic.twitter.com/XiJZutcDZh

— Red Carpet Fashion Awards (@Fashion_Critic_) November 10, 2022

EMILY BLUNT!!!! pic.twitter.com/vMAhTHlc6R

— best of emily blunt (@badpostblunt) November 10, 2022

Hands down, one of the funniest stories of the week was King Charles and Queen Camilla being almost egged during their visit to York. Charles and Camilla were actually on a two-day tour of Yorkshire and they were doing a walkabout on Wednesday, where there was a decent crowd. Then a local 23-year-old man, described as a University of York student, decided to chuck a bunch of eggs at them. Apparently, the guy missed his target, but he managed to throw as many as FIVE eggs at Charles. He did so while shouting “this country was built on the blood of slaves!” Which is an accurate statement, egg or no egg.

Well, the man was reportedly arrested. We knew that the police detained him, but it was up in the air as to whether the guy would be charged with anything. I mean, felony egg tossing? Egg terrorism? While I don’t think “throwing eggs at the king” is nothing, it’s also not a capital offense. According to the BBC, he was arrested on “suspicion of a public order offence.” Which I assume is probably something akin to the American “disturbing the peace” law? It would probably be different if the dude had better aim and actually hit his target.

People praised Charles’s lowkey reaction to the egg-tossing, but I’m not entirely sure Charles understood (in the moment) that he was the victim of an attempted egging. Charles and his staff basically left the area swiftly, but they were running scared or anything. It should also be pointed out that all of the sycophantic royal commentators were absolutely gleeful months ago, during the Jubbly, at the idea that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex could be booed or disrespected by the crowds. And now that sh-t comes back on Charles and Camilla? The Eggs of Karma.

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