During a Wednesday appearance on Entertainment Tonight, The View alum Sherri Shepherd breaks her silence about her custody battle with ex-husband Lamar Sally over their baby born via surrogate last summer.

Last week, a judge ruled that Shepherd is officially the 8-month-old baby’s mother – and therefore financially responsible for him.

“Life is difficult,” Shepherd, 48, told ET. “So you just hang tough and you keep going. People who know me, my character, my integrity – I feel it speaks for itself.”

The Woodlawn star and Sally, 44, split last May after nearly three years of marriage. Sally claimed the couple agreed to pursue surrogacy, but Shepherd changed her mind after the breakup.

But Shepherd said she’s doing “extremely well” given the circumstances.

“I feel like everything always works out in the end,” she shared. “I’m a big believer that everything always works out in the end. Everybody has their challenges. So right now, it’s my challenge.”

Watch the full interview Wednesday on Entertainment Tonight.

Jennifer Aniston’s been in NYC the last week or so. Going for dinner. Seeing a few plays. Catching up with friends, including Jason Bateman’s wife. No sightings so far of Justin Theroux who is likely in Austin working on the second season of The Leftovers. TVLine reported that production was movi…      

Parents-to-be Evan Ross and Ashlee Simpson were spotted after working out at the Tracy Anderson gym in Studio City, Calif. on Tuesday (April 28).

Donning all black workout gear and a tan trench coat, the mom-to-be, 30, was escorted to the car by her husband of nearly one year.

We’ve spotted the pair working out at the Tracy Anderson gym several times together.

This will be the first child – a girl – for Ashlee and her husband, 26, whom she wed on Aug. 30, 2014.

The singer-reality star is already mom to 6-year-old son Bronx with ex-husband, Fall Out Boy rocker Pete Wentz.

The father-to-be recently Instagrammed a selfie in the sun.

Good day. Getting sun

A photo posted by Evan Ross (@realevanross) on Apr 28, 2015 at 4:37pm PDT

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Zac Efron wore nude underwear to film Dirty Grandpa. The rear view is sweet. [Evil Beet]
Rosie O’Donnell & Michelle Rounds‘ divorce is getting ugly. [Dlisted]
Jeremy Renner sang a dumb song about superpowers. [LaineyGossip]
Seriously, stop hitting on the drive-thru employees at McDonald’s. [Buzzfeed]
Nene Leakes is tired of all the drama and arguing. [Reality Tea]
Shia LaBeouf thinks he’s a lumberjack now. Art. [A Socialite Life]
Bobbi Kristina Brown‘s boyfriend, Nick Gordon, left rehab. [Starcasm]
Dudes are using eggplants to censor their units on Instagram. [OMG Blog]
Zendaya‘s outfit has more buttons than Duchess Kate‘s closet. [Go Fug Yourself]
Kate Upton‘s street style took a turn for the worse. [Moe Jackson]
Olivia Munn‘s floral jumpsuit is loud and screamy. [Popoholic]
Miley Cyrus & Liam Hemsworth might be a thing again. [I’m Not Obsessed]
Hilaria Baldwin takes Carmen for a walk. [Celebrity Baby Scoop]

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet

Gwyneth Paltrow is at the Waldorf Astoria right now in Chicago signing books. Take an early lunch and go and report back. (Sarah is ignoring me.) This photo of her was posted on the GOOP Instagram.

@gwynethpaltrow is sharpening her Sharpies for this morning’…      

Robin Leach, yes, that Robin Leach, of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, interviewed Mimi yesterday ahead of her Vegas debut. This will be the best 8 minutes of your life, the video below. First of all, he makes her stand the entire time. STAND! For 8 minutes! And she doesn’t fall over! I need t…      

Do you think Bruce Jenner was always supposed to be this week’s People Mag cover? Or do you think People held off on making their cover choice until the very last minute because they were hoping to do a royal baby cover this week? I can’t decide. Bruce Jenner’s story is the kind of human interest story People Magazine loves and Bruce dominated and continues to dominate gossip media, mainstream media and social media. So… maybe the royal baby was never a contender for the cover. Anyway, People recaps part of Bruce’s 20/20 bombshell and some sources talk about Bruce’s current state of mind. Some highlights:

Now, two months after the bombshell Diane Sawyer interview was taped, Bruce Jenner is happily entrenched in his new life as a woman. “He’s relieved,” says a Kardashian source. “He feels like a big weight is off his shoulders.”

And now, Jenner, who excitedly told Sawyer about his plans for a “glam room” at home, is empowered to explore more publicly what for decades he kept private. “He’s so excited about everything female,” says a Jenner insider. “He loves to dress up, he loves wearing high heels, he loves doing his hair.” The insider, who reveals that Jenner has a “full closet” of women’s clothes that he buys online, is finally “looking like the woman he’s always wanted to be.”

Jenner, 65, is also continuing to privately pursue methods of physical changes so his face and body will appear more feminine. Multiple sources confirm that the reality star, who has been taking female hormones for nearly two years, has had several surgeries including breast augmentation, a third nose job and work on his jaw and forehead. As far as full sexual reassignment surgery, Jenner told Sawyer, it’s “down the line.”

For now, Jenner’s female identity will be kept behind closed doors until a public reveal this summer, but the former decathlete often hosts “girl parties” as “her” (his reference to his female identity). “More and more, and certainly in private,” says a source close to the family, “Bruce is living as a woman.”

When he does occasionally step out in public, “he seems confident and relaxed,” says a source. “Recently, he’s left his house with nail polish and lip gloss. He seems more comfortable in his new life.”

[From People]

I can’t imagine the relief of finally – at the age of 65!!! – being able to simply do what you want to do, behave the way you want, dress the way you want and enjoy the things that have always made you happy, things which you’ve kept hidden for decades. More power to Bruce.

I do wonder how Bruce will handle his transition as a public figure/celebrity in the months and years to come though, and by that I mean how the media will treat Bruce and how he will react. Last week, the New York Daily News published blurry photos of Bruce in a dress, and Bruce was reportedly pissed enough to threaten to sue. The NYDN took the photos down online, although they were still in the print issues. What will be the media reaction when Bruce goes out to dinner in a dress and full hair & makeup? There’s still stuff to be worked out within the media, and my hope is that GLAAD continues to offer Pro Tips to media outlets on how to appropriately cover Bruce and his transition.

Cover courtesy of People, screencaps from ABC.

Amal and George Clooney were out last night in New York for dinner with her parents and her sister. They went to Caravaggio. George Clooney LOVES Italian food. Actually, he loves Italian everything. Sh-t, why didn’t it work out again with Elisabetta Canalis?

Anyway, Amal is wearing Alexander …      

David Letterman is old-school and he loves New York. So he did what will probably constitute as his “exit interview” from The Late Show with a lengthy Q&A session with the New York Times. It’s a pretty classy thing to do, especially since Letterman has never been the guy you go to for open self-reflection or lengthy discussions about the scope of his career. The brief times we’ve gotten a glimpse of “the Real Dave,” he seems like a humble Midwesterner, not looking for personal glory or trying to follow whatever trend. The NYT is pretty epic and to Letterman’s credit, he didn’t shut down or shy away from answering any questions, not even about his affair with a female staffer, not even about his harsh feelings about Jay Leno, etc. There’s even an interesting admission that Letterman wasn’t even consulted about his replacement. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:

He’s more relaxed since he announced his retirement: “I think there’s a difference between regular-season hockey and playoff hockey. And I’m not in the playoffs. Yeah, I do notice a difference. When I was watching those interim shows they did on “The Late Late Show,” and I saw John Mayer hosting one night, I thought, “Ohhhh, now I see exactly what the problem is.” Because he’s young. He’s handsome. He’s trim. He’s witty. He was comfortable. So then I realized, I got nothing to worry about. I know I can’t do what Jimmy Fallon’s doing. I know I can’t do what Jimmy Kimmel is doing. There’s nothing left to be worried about. It’s all over, Dad, you’re going to be just fine. You’re going to a new place. They’ll be very nice to you, Dad. You’ll make a lot of friends.

He didn’t feel pushed out by Kimmel and Fallon: “No, they didn’t push me out. I’m 68. If I was 38, I’d probably still be wanting to do the show. When Jay was on, I felt like Jay and I are contemporaries. Every time he would get a show at 11:30, he would succeed smartly. And so I thought, This is still viable — an older guy in a suit. And then he left, and I suddenly was surrounded by the Jimmys.”

He wasn’t consulted about Stephen Colbert as replacement: “No. Not my show. When we sign off, we’re out of business with CBS. I always thought Jon Stewart would have been a good choice. And then Stephen. And then I thought, well, maybe this will be a good opportunity to put a black person on, and it would be a good opportunity to put a woman on. Because there are certainly a lot of very funny women that have television shows everywhere. So that would have made sense to me as well.

Whether it bothers him that CBS didn’t consult him: “Yeah, I guess so. Just as a courtesy, maybe somebody would say: “You know, we’re kicking around some names. Do you have any thoughts here?” But it doesn’t bother me now. At the time, I had made the decision [to leave] and I thought, O.K., this is what comes when you make this decision.

[From The NYT]

He basically says that he believes in Colbert and that he likes that Colbert isn’t some kid, that Colbert has helmed a late-night show before and he’ll be fine. I find it interesting that in Letterman’s mind, Jon Stewart was his first choice. I wonder if CBS did go to Stewart first and Stewart was already feeling like he was “done” with late night? Because it’s been feeling like Jon Stewart’s heart hasn’t been in late night for a while.

As I said, Letterman also talks about Leno and how CBS has been good to him over the years, especially when they could have fired him, like when he was having an affair with a staffer. The whole piece is worth a read.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

#nofilter #sparks @adambreuchaud @etienneortega @hannahluxdavis @brettalannelson @amylilfire

A photo posted by Hilary Duff (@hilaryduff) on Apr 20, 2015 at 12:15pm PDT

Over the weekend, rumors circulated about Hilary Duff being on Tinder. No one knew whether the account was real or fake, but I assumed it was a publicity stunt like Hilary’s everchanging hair colors (she’s been pink, green, and grey in a matter of weeks). She’s harmless, but I think she’s a little stuntqueeny with talk of her overwhelming fame. She’s also usually more happy to see the paparazzi than she’d have us believe.

I’m giving Hilary a pass on this Tinder stuff though. This is an incredibly popular dating app, and she’s getting out there after trying hard to make her marriage work. Mike Comrie humiliated himself and Hilary by drunkenly offering money for hookups, and now there shall be a custody battle. She could use a distraction. You can see Hilary’s profile photo here (with a profile that reads “let’s get pizza“). Hilary confirmed her account during a talk with Ryan Seacrest. She’s been on a date already and is chatting with nine guys:

Yep, it’s her: “It’s totally me on Tinder. It kind of started out to be a joke with some of my girlfriends. I was like, ‘Explain this whole thing to me because it’s kind of blowing my mind.’ We were swiping and it started out to be kind of a joke and then I was like, ‘I’m gonna join Tinder,’ and they were like, ‘What?! No way you can’t.’ And I was like, ‘Why can’t I? Yeah, I absolutely can.’ I never thought anything was really going to happen. I was talking to a few of the guys and they were really normally.”

She went on one date: “We went bowling so we didn’t have to talk too much, but we did talk a lot actually. He was cool. He brought a friend and I had some friends there. He used to be in editing for reality shows. Now, he’s an actor and he just wrote a play. He’s an interesting guy. To be honest, I don’t really want an actor either … I think he has a few jobs.”

Why she’s on Tinder: “It’s hard to meet people in this business and I don’t want to date an actor.”

[From RyanSeacrest.com]

Hilary told Ryan she didn’t kiss this dude. I guess she didn’t like him that much. E! Online adds that Hilary isn’t into seeing “a shirtless, mirror selfie,” but “the first thing is obviously looks, which sounds super vain, but that is what you first go for: natural chemistry.” Hey, at least she’s honest about going for looks first! Instead of “sense of humor” or “sweet.” Those things are important, but physical attraction has to be there. Good luck to Hilary. Lots of guys would like a date with her. Hopefully she won’t run into Leonardo DiCaprio.

Here’s one more thing. Hilary had a mini-reunion with some Lizzie McGuire cast members (Lalaine and Jake Thomas). They went bowling!

So this happened last night… #LizzieMcGuire

A photo posted by Jake Thomas (@sirjakethomas) on Apr 28, 2015 at 3:17pm PDT

Was on the @todayshow this morning with @hodakotb and Kathie Lee ….they made me do it ????

A photo posted by Hilary Duff (@hilaryduff) on Apr 3, 2015 at 7:37am PDT

Photos courtesy of Hilary Duff on Instagram, Fame/Flynet & WENN