Here is the June cover of Vanity Fair. Thankfully, it’s not a dead celebrity! HUZZAH. No, VF got a major exclusive with JJ Abrams on the set of Star Wars. The cover is pretty great – just seeing Harrison Ford in his Han Solo costume is enough to make me weak at the knees. I still maintain that Chewy has been buffed, polished and tweaked into oblivion, and I’m so disappointed in that. Chewy, you were naturally beautiful! You didn’t NEED the eye work. Also featured on the cover: the two leads, John Boyega and Daisy Ridley. I feel like Daisy might be playing a Skywalker/Solo? You can see all of the newly released photos here.

Annie Leibovitz came to the set to take photos, and we’re also getting our first real look at Adam Driver’s black-clad character, plus a sad confirmation on Lupita Nyong’o’s character. Here’s the spoiler: we won’t be seeing Lupita’s lovely face in Star Wars. She wore “CGI tracking dots” and she’s playing a “purely animated character” in the film. That sucks!! Why wouldn’t Lupita’s face “fit” into the Star Wars world? I’m including the video below.

Also: JJ Abrams reveals to VF that he killed off JarJar Binks, the terrible patois-speaking idiot character from Star Wars Episode I. Abrams tells VF: “I have a thought about putting Jar Jar Binks’s bones in the desert there. I’m serious! Only three people will notice, but they’ll love it.” Abrams also says that people “literally cried” when they walked onto the Millennium Falcon for the first time. Yeah… I might do that. I might cry. You can read more here are VF.

Cover courtesy of Vanity Fair, still courtesy of @StarWars Twitter.

Prince Harry was in Australia when his sister-in-law Duchess Kate gave birth. That’s just the way it goes sometimes, and Harry made his plans knowing full well that he would miss the birth. I don’t think he really cared, but he did release a statement from Australia about his new little niece (name still unknown):

Prince Harry has said about his new niece: “She is absolutely beautiful. I can’t wait to meet her.” pic.twitter.com/HiNR8lzThy

— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) May 3, 2015

Us Weekly says that Harry was waiting up in Australia to hear news of the baby, with a source saying: “Harry was worried he would be asleep when the news broke, so he was really happy that he was up to take the call from William.”

As for how Harry is occupying his time in Australia… well, he’s doing his military stuff, but there’s a rumor going around that he might have some free time for romance. The Daily Mail claims that Harry is still talking to Chelsy Davy, and Davy recently broke up with her boyfriend Charles Goode, and Chelsy is thinking about visiting Harry in Australia. A source says, “Yet again there is talk that they seem to be rekindling something.” Oh, just get married and be done with it!

As for the lack of baby name still, more than 48 hours after Kate gave birth… I don’t know what to tell you. The royal reporters were hoping we would get a name today, but Richard Palmer says that Will & Kate still haven’t exactly decided on a name, and they want to inform the Queen before everyone else. So… hopefully later today.

I’m also including some photos of the Queen on Saturday, shortly after she heard she now has a new great-granddaughter. She wore hot pink for the occasion!

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Mark Ruffalo earned his spot as one of “The Offenders” during the cringeworthy Age of Ultron press tour. He didn’t approach levels of Robert Downey Jr. offensiveness, and he didn’t call Black Widow a “wh*re and slut“ like Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner. But Ruffalo did step in it during a visit to Graham Norton two weeks ago. Elizabeth Olsen called Scarlet Witch a gypsy, and Norton warned her that the term is a derogatory term for Romani people. That should have been the end of the discussion, but Ruffalo and Jeremy Renner decided to chant, “gypsy, gypsy.” Norton was pretty peeved in response.

Norton’s people ended up editing out the offending portion from the final episode, but someone asked Mark about it on Twitter this weekend.

@choicesmakeus Sorry. It was goofing. I apologize. I hadn’t heard that until then. I won’t do it again. Seriously

— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) May 2, 2015

Ruffalo seems pretty sincere, and this tiny tweet is a better apology than Evans and Renner’s obligatory ones. I still don’t know why Ruffalo and Renner would chant an ethnic slur immediately after Norton admonished Olsen. Maybe Ruffalo and Norton are complete drunkfaces too. That’s still not an excuse.

Ruffalo also made this bold statement on Twitter last week.

.@Marvel we need more #BlackWidow merchandise for my daughters and nieces. Pretty please.

— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) April 29, 2015

Did Ruffalo just redeem himself? He’s the only male Avengers who has acknowledged Marvel’s astonishing lack of Black Widow merch. My niece wants an action figure for her birthday. Boys want them too, but you can’t find them anywhere. The only ones available are limited edition figures (leftover from Iron Man 2) that cost hundreds of dollars. It’s ridiculous, and thank goodness Ruffalo said something.

FYI: Entertainment Weekly has an in-depth analysis on ScarJo’s portrayal and how three different directorial teams have treated the Black Widow character. Oh … and this weekend’s episode of SNL had a Black Widow romcom sketch starring Scarlett Johansson herself. “Marvel gets women.”

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Every time Tori Spelling or Dean McDermott has something to promote, the tabloids have new stories about them. In this case, Dean wants to pimp his new cookbook, The Gourmet Dad: Easy And Delicious Meals The Whole Family Will Love. (What an unoriginal title. They should have called it Recipes of Adultery & Desperation.) Last week, I saw a predictable story in OK! about how Tori thinks she’s pregnant with a fifth child. She teased a pregnancy last year too, as a cliffhanger to True Tori‘s season 2 finale. Given all of the life-threatening complications from her fourth pregnancy, I would hope Tori’s not dumb enough to try again.

The last time we talked about Tori, she fell into a Benihana hibachi grill. Dean recently said Tori is recovering from her skin-grafting procedures. These two don’t have much else to shill, so they’ve returned to a familiar theme — money problems. In Touch Weekly says Dean is “more than $13,000 behind on child support payments” to his first wife, Mary Jo Eustace. This week’s issue of Star doubles down by saying Tori and Dean are blowing through over half a million a year. They have no income and don’t seem to care. Here’s Star’s breakdown of their expenditures:

They’re cash poor, out of work — and they burned through all their savings years ago. Yet Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott continue to spend money as though they’re sitting on a pile of it. “They’re living off credit cards,” says an insider. “Tori pays the minimum on the cards, so the bills keep doubling and tripling.”

And they’re headed even further into the red. Dean lost his job hosting Chopped Canada, and Tori recently found out that her reality show, True Tori, hasn’t been renewed for a third season — a huge disappointment that, on the heels of her failed series Mystery Girls, casts doubt on her future TV prospects. With residuals from Beverly Hills, 90210 decreasing steadily, insiders say that Tori is now cozying up to her mom, Candy, who — along with a lifestyle change — may be her only hope.

* Groceries: $48,000
* Medical expenses: $45,000
* Private school for 3 kids: $37,000
* Rent (not mortgage): $126,000
* Dog walker: $26,000
* Nannies for 3 kids: $126,000
* Clothing: $36,000
Total: $594,000 per year

[From Star, print edition, May 11, 2015]

Star didn’t include Tori’s expense for her 127 storage vaults of crap, which she previously said is as much as a mortgage. I’m honestly surprised that her her frequent hospital visits don’t cost more than the stated amount. And $48,000 per year for groceries is insane, even with four kids. Basically, nothing has changed for Tori and Dean. They’re no longer earning money (except for Dean’s book advance), and their spending hasn’t changed at all. Tori has flat out refused to change her ways because her dad wouldn’t have wanted it. They must be receiving money from Candy Spelling, right? There’s no way they can put half a million per year on credit cards.

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The couple no one expected to last longer than a year somehow made it over two (Lindsey seems to be fudging the numbers in her statement by claiming it was three.) It seems just like yesterday when Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn were making their much-derided couple debut in a series of staged photos. That was in March, 2013 and despite the widespread belief that their relationship was a publicity stunt, the two hung in there. The last time they were spotted together was about a month ago when they walked the Masters course with Tiger’s two children. (This is a tradition among Masters participants.) Now they’re announcing that they have decided to “mutually end” their relationship. Just like their rollout, their ending seems perfectly coordinated. Here are their separate statements on the end of their relationship:

Lindsey: After nearly three years together, Tiger and I have mutually decided to end our relationship. I will always cherish the memories that we’ve created together. Unfortunately, we both lead incredibly hectic lives that force us to spend a majority of our time apart. I will always admire and respect Tiger. He and his beautiful family will always hold a special place in my heart.

Tiger: Lindsey and I have mutually decided to stop dating. I have great admiration, respect and love for Lindsey and I’ll always cherish our time together. She has been amazing with Sam and Charlie and my entire family. Unfortunately, we lead very hectic lives and are both competing in demanding sports. It’s difficult to spend time together.

[From Facebook and TigerWoods.com]

From what little I know of golf, Tiger is no longer at the top of his game of course, but he’s focusing on training and and is showing improvement in his performance. He has the Players Championship in a few days and next month he has two tournaments including The U.S. Open. Tiger is ranked 125th in golf while Lindsey is currently number 3 in her sport, alpine skiing. It could be true that these two barely have time for each other. However we know what happens when Tiger gets wrapped up in competition – he gets action on the side in just about every city. Did Lindsey finally open her eyes to the evidence that the world has known for years? Is it possible that Tiger is really a changed man and that these two just grew apart due to their schedules? Lindsey is at the top of her game while Tiger is struggling to earn back some of his former glory. It’s not that much of a stretch to imagine that two highly competitive athletes might also be competitive with each other.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s two oldest daughters, Zahara and Shiloh, are doing Little League soccer this year. And it’s amazing. I get the feeling that Z and Shi are really great little soccer players, and I love the idea that Brad is a soccer dad and Angelina is a soccer mom. Plus, it’s nice that they’re sticking around one place (LA) long enough for their girls to finish a season.

In these photos, you can see Brad and Angelina getting affectionate with Zahara while Shiloh seems to be particularly chatty. I love Shiloh’s haircut these days – it reminds me of the classic “skater boy” haircuts in the 1990s. It’s adorable.

Even though Brad and Angelina are now “soccer parents,” they’re still slightly disorganized. Like, neither of them thought to bring snacks, I guess. Angelina went and bought ice cream from a food vendor at Griffith Park. Judgy soccer moms: do you judge Brad and Angelina for this? For not bringing healthy snacks to their kids’ soccer game? These are the same parents, after all, who don’t believe it’s a big deal to stop by McDonalds occasionally, or pick up donuts or let their kids gorge on pizza. I personally think junk food is part of being a kid and as long as growing kids get their veggies too, why not have some ice cream and pizza?

PS… I think it’s kind of funny that Brad and Angie are still wearing all-black to a soccer game. Jeez, you guys… it’s fine to wear a white t-shirt and some shorts to your kids’ soccer game! Goth Realness!

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Tom Hardy had a lovely profile in the New York Times on Friday. It’s not the most enlightening piece – all in, the NYT gives us maybe ten quotes from Tom, including the fact that Tom calls a barista “love”. But it’s not meant to be some super-deep exploration of Tom Hardy the Bloke, I guess it’s just supposed to be breezy, “this is the guy playing Mad Max.” And The Bloke was in a decent enough mood (he handled his smoker’s cravings by taking draws “on an e-cigarette”). The interview took place at CinemaCon, in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. Some highlights:

Working on Mad Max: “It took a huge weight off my shoulders when I realized how big the piece was. It was 50 miles to the horizon, overseas, 360 degrees of sand and sky, and then there was this just sort of S-and-M party, do you know what I mean? With Hells Angels types right in the middle of it, with parasails and explosions. And it was very weird. It was fantastic.”

Who he is as a celebrity: “I’m not very interesting, by the way. I’m monosyllabic and sometimes just allowed to play in the corner. And I might express myself physically instead, if that’s all right. Cool?”

He’s drawn to odd characters: “In my job, I think it would be wrong for me to not push an extra little bit to see what’s behind certain walls. When I’m putting together a character, I kind of blend them with lots of things, part advertising, you know, the branding that you’ve seen before, so people are, ‘Oh, I kind of recognize that person, but I don’t know what it is.’ ”

He won’t complain about his ‘designer problems’: “I’m lucky to be an actor. There’s no life or death here, just humiliation. All right, that’s the worst thing that could happen. It’s just the first day of school, isn’t it? If you get beaten up on the playground, you still have to go back to school.”

[From The NYT]

I like that Tom rather consistently shrugs off complaints about an actor’s life. He’s admitted that he’s “difficult” to work with and that he takes his job seriously, but I appreciate that he’s not sitting in interviews, complaining about how he’s misunderstood or he doesn’t even enjoy his life or the work.

And here’s the trailer for Legend, where Tom plays the real-life Kray twins. Double the pleasure, double the fun. This trailer came out a few days ago! I think it looks okay.

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Here are some photos of LeAnn Rimes, Eddie Cibrian, Eddie’s two sons and a third child at the Marvel Universe LIVE! Event on Saturday. I’m assuming the third child was one of Mason and Jake’s friends, along for the ride. The lighting is really bad and unflattering here, but that’s what you get when you have a red carpet in the middle of the day in LA.

LeAnn has actually been somewhat quiet lately, or maybe I just haven’t been paying close enough attention. LeAnn and Eddie celebrated their four wedding anniversary a few weeks ago, and she posted a ton of Instagrams to celebrate, which was annoying but… I mean, that’s pretty standard for her. She’s also still doing her stupid “chalk talk” Instagrams, also annoying, but standard for her. And then this happened last Friday:

Leave it up to me to set off the fire alarm in the airplane bathroom w/ @theDrybar dry shampoo #purecomedy #firsttimeforeverything

— LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (@leannrimes) May 1, 2015

Apparently, LeAnn was using one of those aerosol hairspray/whatever products and the aerosol was what set off the fire alarm in the plane. TMZ says the flight staff was not amused, but since everything revolves around LeAnn, she simply “laughed it off.” I would be so embarrassed.

She also spent Saturday night watching – and tweeting about – the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. I think she was rooting for Pacquiao.

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I often wonder why celebrities bother to get married at all. Rosie O’Donnell can’t seem to get along with anyone, so it wasn’t a big surprise when she and Michelle Rounds announced their split in February (a few weeks after Rosie left The View).

Rosie and Michelle were married for three years and adopted a daughter, Dakota, who is now 2 years old. I remember their prenup had a no-cheating clause, but no one’s talking about cheating now. Rosie and Michelle simply hate each other. The drama kicked into medium gear last week with news that Rosie and Michelle are fighting over custody of Dakota. Michelle filed for full custody, insisting that the movie is “unequivocally in their child’s best interest and general welfare.” Rosie believes that Michelle is using Dakota as a pawn. Here’s a roundup of the news on this increasingly messy battle:

* Somebody went straight to TMZ to discuss Rosie’s alleged drinking and drugging. A source says Rosie drinks a bottle of wine per night and smokes pot (along with eating pot brownies) on the regular. Michelle, who claims to be a millionaire on her own (stock market), also promises that she’ll walk away from Rosie’s money if she gets full custody.

* Last week, Michelle was spotted hugging all over model Carmen Ortega outside a restaurant. Supposedly, these two are just friends, but Michelle made a point of getting affectionate for the cameras. They went out for a second dinner too. Carmen is a rumored reason for the Jason Derulo and Jordin Sparks breakup. She also may have gotten with Reggie Bush during his Kim Kardashian phase.

* Michelle has criticized Rosie’s parenting style. She wants Dakota to have “a normal life” instead of being raised by nannies and stuck indoors 24/7. Michelle says, “I’m at my daughter’s every beck and call. I give her mild discipline instead of like carte blanche, do whatever you want, which is more or less how Rosie likes to do things.” Michelle also plans to ask a judge to require drug testing for Rosie until their custody battle ends.

* Michelle told TMZ that she wasn’t the one to call TMZ about the pot stuff. She’s also angry that Rosie Instagrammed this photo of Dakota with a “do I get a vote?” caption. Yeah, this was pretty low of Rosie, but both she and Michelle are behaving badly.

excuse me – do i get a vote?

A photo posted by Rosie ODonnell (@rosie) on Apr 28, 2015 at 1:20pm PDT

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She’s gotten so big!

Larry Birkhead and his daughter Dannielynn, 8, attended the 141st Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday (May 2) in Louisville. The daughter of the late Anna Nicole Smith looked adorable in a pink Monsoon dress with a floral headband and sandals.

The mini fashionista accessorized with a silver bag with pink roses. Meanwhile, Larry matched his only child in a pale pink suit.

“Awesome Barnstable-Brown Kentucky Derby party. #southernhospitality,” the single dad, 42, Tweeted later that evening.

The southern event holds a special place in Larry’s heart — he first met Anna Nicole at a Kentucky Derby party in May of 2004. The model-actress would later give birth to Dannielynn in September 2006.

Larry has raised Dannielynn since the Playboy model’s drug overdose death in 2007. Their daughter was just 5-months-old at the time.

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