Expectant mama Maci Bookout celebrated her baby shower on Sunday (April 26) and shared a fun photo via Instagram.

“Had a wonderful shower yesterday celebrating Baby Jayde! Thanks to everyone that was a part of it. Jayde is already such a lucky little lady! #babymoney #JC,” the Teen Mom OG star, 23, captioned the group shot, featured her in a strapless pink dress.

The Tennessee native and her boyfriend Taylor McKinney – who expect daughter Jayde to arrive in June – announced her second pregnancy in an episode of the MTV reality series.

Maci is also mom to son Bentley, whom she welcomed in 2009 with her ex Ryan Edwards.

During Monday’s episode of Teen Mom OG, it was revealed that Farrah Abraham has officially returned to the show. And as it turns out, Maci is not pleased.

“If this is true, I’m done,” Maci declared on the show. “I’m not doing this anymore. I’m not going to have my 6-year-old son on a show with someone who did porn.”

And Taylor McKinney weighed in on the matter, adding, “Everything that [Maci]’s trying to build and the message that she’s trying to portray — that being a young mother is hard — she feels like every time she takes a step forward in that, being linked to Farrah it takes her two steps back.”

Maci added: “I’m actually really mad. My feelings are hurt. This is bulls—t. I’m not doing it. You’re not going to talk me into it. There’s no discussion. This is it. I’m pissed off. I’m really, really mad. As far as I’m concerned, you guys can leave now. This is over. I’m done.”

had a wonderful shower yesterday celebrating Baby Jayde! Thanks to everyone that was a part of it. Jayde is already such a lucky little lady! #babymoney #JC

A photo posted by ?? (@macideshanebookout) on Apr 27, 2015 at 6:11am PDT

Dear Gossips,

If you were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, seriously, would you want to be on Fuller House? Everyone was talking yesterday about how John Stamos put them on blast for claiming to not know about the new show when they really did know about the new show and just didn’t want to come r…      

Dear Gossips,

If you were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, seriously, would you want to be on Fuller House? Everyone was talking yesterday about how John Stamos put them on blast for claiming to not know about the new show when they really did know about the new show and just didn’t want to come r…      

Alice Eve kicked up a hornet’s nest on controversy yesterday. This incident actually reminds me of the Patricia Arquette thing – Arquette attempted to make a feminist statement about wage equality, but instead of practicing intersectional feminism or inclusionary “yes AND” feminism, Arquette made it sound like wage equality was more important than LGBT rights or #BlackLivesMatter. Alice Eve was trying to comment on the Bruce Jenner situation with a feminist critique, but instead of making a statement of support for Jenner AND making some pointed feminist critique, Alice Eve came across like a transphobic bigot.

Star Trek’s Alice Eve has accused Bruce Jenner of “playing at being a woman” on her Instagram page. The 33 year-old says the former Olympic champion would not have “been a hero” if he had been born a woman.

“If you were a woman no one would have heard of you because women can’t compete in the decathlon,” said Eve. “You would be a frustrated young athlete who wasn’t given a chance. Until women are paid the same as men, then playing at being a “woman” while retaining the benefits of being a man is unfair. Do you have a vagina? Are you paid less than men? Then, my friend, you are a woman.”

“Your notion that Jenner is ‘playing’ at being a woman is honestly disgusting,” one user wrote on Instagram. Another said: “This is transphobia at its finest.”

Eve tried to engage with people before deleting her two posts.

“I do agree that the struggle for transgenders is unique and horrific,” she said. “However, I do want to also support a cause I strongly believe in, the right for women to have equal rights to men. The transgender equality struggle is the next one, as we all know. And very real it is, too.”

She then added a new Instagram post. In it, she said: “I’m not saying by identifying they are negatively impacting feminism, I am saying that we have to refine the language on this topic so all men, women and transgenders are accurately represented in their process of self-identification. Maybe this needs a little thought. Thank you for engaging with me on this subject, because I felt confused and now I feel enlightened and like I know what education I need to move forward.”

[From the BBC]

Ugh. Girl, know when to stop. I can’t make any excuses for her, nor do I want to. Her language is… wrong. It’s so wrong, it’s offensive. It’s so offensive, I don’t think her half-assed “thank you for enlightening me” statement is going to cut it. I don’t see how any self-identifying feminist can read “then playing at being a ‘woman’…” and think, “Ah, yes, good point.”

Here’s what I’d like to ask women like Patricia Arquette and Alice Eve: do you think there’s some kind of “limit” on the justice, tolerance and equality we can seek? Is it less of a feminist issue when an African-American mother buries a child gunned down by police? Is it less of a feminist issue to support transgender women against prejudice, bigotry and violence? Why does it have to be one or the other? It’s a big world and we can fight for many things all at once.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Years ago, I had the most amazing full-length mirror. I don’t know what was wrong with it, but it was the most flattering mirror I ever had in my life. It was like a fun-house mirror – it made everyone look tall and thin. It stretched people out slightly – not so much that they didn’t look like themselves, but just enough to make you feel great about yourself. Somewhere along the way, I lost that mirror. I think it found a home with Mariah Carey. Because that’s the only way to explain Mariah’s style these days – she has no idea what she really looks like.

These are photos of Mariah at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. She was doing a big event to celebrate her upcoming residency. And this is how our Elusive Chanteuse arrived at Caesars – wearing what looks like bedazzled full-body Spanx. Oh, Mariah!!! Girl, this does not look good. You know what? Mariah doesn’t have a bad figure at all – she’s a big, tall woman with a big bust and curves. Her curves shouldn’t limit her ability to look good, except Mariah has always poured herself into too-tight clothing and stuff that would only be flattering on someone super-skinny. And whoever told Mariah to wear a dress that draws attention to her waist (and she’s sucking it in too) needs to be fired from The Butterfly Cartel. It’s also hilarious that they made her stand in front of an insanely Photoshopped promotional image of herself.

A few days ago, Mariah released a new single called “Infinity”. It’s a diss-track against Nick Cannon. And it’s cheesy as hell. Her voice doesn’t sound great either, and it’s pretty obvious that all of the production magic in the world went into this.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

Top Chef star Padma Lakshmi stepped out with daughter Krishna, 5, donning matching outfits in New York City on Saturday (April 25).

Both sporting black and white patterned dresses, the mother-daughter duo walked hand-in-hand while strolling in the city.

Later that same day, the celebrity chef, 44, Instagrammed an image of her little Lego builder.

“With focus and hard work you can build yourself a castle….We did it!!#Saturdays with #LittleHands,” she captioned the image.

The day before, Krishna was seen cleaning the dinner plate.

“Someone REALLY loves moms salad dressing. #littlehands #bigappetite,” she wrote.

With focus and hard work you can build yourself a castle….We did it!!#Saturdays with #LittleHands

A photo posted by Padma Lakshmi (@padmalakshmi) on Apr 25, 2015 at 3:58pm PDT

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Avengers: Age of Ultron hits theaters this Friday. It’s gonna make so much money even though the internet refers to these four guys ^^^ as “The Offenders.” On Friday, I talked about how Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner gave two really different apologies after calling Black Widow “slut and wh*re.” Evans had the better apology, but neither of them is getting off the hook anytime soon.

As I predicted, Evans is trying hard to atone for his bad behavior. He did seem less drunk in the days following the slut shaming heard ’round the world. He knows we love seeing him with kids. He posed it up with children at a NYC Galaxy event (photos at the bottom of this post). Cute, right? Evans does sincerely love kids. He also posted a shoutout video to a hospitalized child superhero. Then he visited Jimmy Fallon to tell a special story about his nephew’s “I don’t wike it” speech habit. The clip includes Chris accidentally dropping the same phrase in an interview:

Yeah, it’s cute that Chris inadvertently imitated his nephew. But he did it while sitting next to Renner during the douche-bro press hour. So the endearing moment is lost.

Evans didn’t stop there. He spoke with Esquire on 4/24, which was two days after he and Renner messed up. He knew he was on probation. He talked about his dirty Boston mouth (it always gets him in trouble) and how he shares a moral compass with Steve Rogers. The interview in a true-false format, which compares him to Steve:

He lives by Cap’s no swearing rules: False: “I got a real bad potty mouth. I’m from Boston. That’s kind of a way of life back there. They’re a very expressive people.”

Evans shares Steve’s moral compass: True: “You hope to see some Steve qualities in you. He does set the bar pretty high. Any time you make a movie where you’re living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it’s tough not to take a little piece home with you. Sometimes that’s better than other times. If you’re gonna end up taking a piece of Steve home, that’s not the worst thing. Whenever there was conflict, you can kind of tell yourself, ‘What would Steve do in this situation?’, because his moral compass and his approach to conflict resolution, rooted in selflessness, is a pretty healthy place to start. I don’t even know if he has manners–he’s just a very selfless man. You know what I mean? He doesn’t complain, he puts himself last, he just does what’s needed of him.”

He’s playing pop culture catch-up like the rest of us: True: “The last movie I saw: Birdman. Loved it. It was very helpful to me. Sometimes in this business, it’s easy to feel like you’re the only one struggling or you’re the only one who has these anxieties or insecurities. It’s a tricky business, a very heady business. Actors in general are heady people. Just seeing a movie so beautiful bringing to life someone who is struggling with all those things I just mentioned … it felt like a support group or something. It was nice. It was just nice to relate.”

[From Esquire]

Chris is so eager to please, but it will take time to win back his fans. More than simply hugging some kids. That’s nice to see, of course. But those awful words about Black Widow spilled so rapidly from his mouth, and he laughed so joyously. I’d like to see him learn something about casual sexism from this controversy. Because Steve Rogers would never say such things about a woman (and if he did, he’d never use the Boston “potty mouth” as an excuse).

Oh, and Evans held a Twitter funeral for his own beard yesterday. #tryhard

Dear beard
We had a good run, but this is where I leave you. Thank you for braving the Boston winter with me. I miss you already #Cap3Begins

— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) April 27, 2015

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Here are some photos of Robert Downey Jr. and Jeremy Renner ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. I’ve been somewhat surprised by how Marvel has been pairing up the Avengers for some of their promotional duties – I mean, Downey and Renner? Which forgoes the pairing people want: Downey and Mark Ruffalo. Instead, Ruffalo has mostly been paired with the ladies, Scarlett Johansson and Elizabeth Olsen. It’s odd.

Anyway, it’s worth noting that RDJ hasn’t made any statements or apologies for walking out of an interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy last week OR the incident where RDJ seemed racist towards Alejandro Inarritu. I didn’t expect RDJ to say anything about the Guru-Murthy interview, but I’m shocked that someone hasn’t gently suggested to RDJ that he “clarify” his Inarritu statement.

Meanwhile, it kind of seems like the knives are out for RDJ. This was an item in this morning’s Page Six:

Robert Downey Jr. had security fit for a king for his family at ABC Kitchen Sunday afternoon. Witnesses tell us the “Iron Man” star took his father and other family members to lunch.

“The security operation to get him and his entourage to the restaurant was insane,” described a source, who said Downey sent two SUVs to pick up family members. Meanwhile, two bodyguards loaded Downey into an SUV at his hotel.

“You would’ve thought it was the president,” snipped our source. “His security blocked cars coming into the garage until Downey was in his car.”

The guards also stood watch in the restaurant throughout the three- hour meal. Despite the ring of steel, Downey did sign autographs on the way out.

Downey’s rep told us: “Robert had brunch on Sunday at his father’s favorite restaurant, ABC Kitchen. Security was invited to attend as guests, along with other family members and friends.”

[From Page Six]

Basically, RDJ had a lot of unnecessary security? RDJ is very security-minded, for what it’s worth. We may like to think that RDJ is super-accessible, but he basically lives in a fortified castle in LA and he’s always got a lot of security around him.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Bruce Jenner’s four oldest children, from his first two marriages, appeared on his ABC special. They were all open and understanding, and Brandon was especially supportive toward his dad. I was so impressed by how much love all the older children had for Bruce. Good Morning America aired additional segments yesterday that weren’t shown on the two hour 20/20 episode. (That video is available here.) In one segment, Jenner’s adult children said that their dad was absent during much of their childhood and that it was hard to deal with. Bruce’s daughter Casey, 34, said “He’s disappeared out of our lives, especially out of my life. So I’m looking forward to this next chapter.”

For his part, Bruce admitted that he wasn’t present for their childhood and added “The big formative years for them, I was really struggling with these issues.” Bruce said that he has apologized to them, and his kids said that they forgave him.

Bruce’s absence was something that Jenner’s second ex wife, Linda Thompson, also mentioned briefly in her essay for The Huffington Post. She seemed understanding, but she admitted that “after Bruce and Kris married, there were periods of several years going by without Bruce attempting to contact or visit his sons.” Bruce didn’t send birthday cards or Christmas presents and he didn’t check in at all. That makes it all the more admirable how supportive his children and ex wives have been.

Bruce’s first ex wife, Chrystie Scott, is also very open and understanding. She did an interview on GMA yesterday in which she said Bruce was with her when his 20/20 special aired. She was at a viewing party with Bruce, their friends and family. Chrystie’s reaction to his interview was pain and sadness at what he’s been going through. She said that has known about Bruce’s gender identity issues for decades as she was the first person Bruce opened up to. She called a “gift that he trusted me with something so intimate.”

As for how Kris Jenner is coping, she’s been somewhat silent and did not issue a statement for his special. She did tweet support to Bruce, calling him her “hero,” and she also tweeted that she was viewing the special with him, presumably at the viewing party. Radar claims that Kris only stopped by the party for a few minutes, stayed apart from everyone, and then left.

Kris’s friend Kathie Lee Gifford spoke for Kris on The Today Show yesterday. She explained that “The other wives… had a long time to get used to this. This was new to Kris. She’s trying to get her act together. She’s trying to be a good friend to him. Trying to still be a good parent. It’s complicated in ways that we cannot even comprehend.”

Meanwhile Bruce’s documentary type special with E! is still scheduled to air. We heard last month that Bruce was reluctant to move forward with the show. It’s still happening, will premiere on July 26, and will feature eight one-hour episodes. Kim, Brody and Brandon are said to have advised their dad to pull the plug on the show, lest it cheapen what he’s trying to accomplish, but it’s moving forward anyway. A source tells TMZ that the show will portray “the dark moments, the lighthearted moments and moments that are just plain hilarious” in Bruce’s life. This includes him trying to play golf now that he has bigger breasts.

Photo credit: ABC and via WENN

Jennifer Aniston is surprisingly not holed up in Bel Air. Shocking! She’s been in NYC for a few days, and these are some photos of Jennifer and Amanda Anka out for dinner last night. Anka is Jason Bateman’s wife – Bateman and Aniston have worked together so many times, and Jason and Amanda are part of the group of friends that Jennifer has cultivated in LA. It makes sense that Amanda and Jennifer would do dinner by themselves, I guess. They went to Nobu, and from what I can tell, Jason did not join them. And neither did Justin Theroux. I guess Jennifer is in NYC to spend time with Justin, although I couldn’t honestly tell you that Justin is currently in NYC. Last I heard, he was in Rome working on Zoolander 2. Last I heard, there was trouble in JustJen-ville.

Let’s talk about Jennifer’s street style, shall we? I’ve always thought that Jennifer’s personal, casual style was a lot better than her red carpet style, probably because I identify with Jennifer’s casual style. She has some great jeans in her closet, and some really cute sweaters, coats, sandals, blouses. I don’t hate her look here – I was going to bitch about the rolled-up jeans, but I think she needed to do that for the boots. The coat and scarf are too bulky, but there’s been a chill in the air on the West Coast, so I’ll give her that too. She’s still wearing her engagement ring too (SO CLOUDY, like a quartz).

I wonder if Jennifer is going to turn up at a dinner with Amal and George Clooney. Remember, George and Jennifer are “friends” now. They party together in Cabo. I would think that Amal is trying to jettison some of George’s friends though, so does Amal approve of Aniston?

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Pacific Coast News.