Stories about Johnny Depp haven’t been so positive lately. His last few films have been sh-t. He hurt his hand while in Australia shooting Pirates 5, but not actually when he was shooting Pirates 5. And there are a lot of rumours about how it actually happened, where it happened, his state of min…      

These are photos of Renee Zellweger and her boyfriend of two years, musician Doyle Bramhall II, at an event for The ALS Association on Monday night. As Fishwrapper notes, whatever Renee had done to her face and eyes last year has settled a bit, or maybe we’re just used to her new look, it’s hard to tell. She does look more like the Renee we came to know. The too-long bangs are throwing me off a bit, though.

Renee Zellweger looked radiant on the red carpet with her love Doyle Bramhall. See more pics! http://t.co/FkgPa9wmXG pic.twitter.com/Biy2BIMpvR

— Us Weekly (@usweekly) April 21, 2015

Renee’s lace overcoat is Burberry and People reports that she has a little black dress on underneath, although I couldn’t find any photos of her with the coat off. Burberry is often fabulous, but I dislike the trend of overcoats as dresses and something feels wrong about lace on a coat. It’s like too many disparate trends that don’t go together. Plus the coat is ombre at the bottom and along the sleeves (comparison photo to runway here.) That’s yet another trend that doesn’t belong.

Anyway I feel like a superficial bitch (which I’m fine with) for focusing on Renee’s coat when she was there for such an important cause. In her speech to the crowd, Renee talked about her longterm friend and publicist, who is living with ALS. Just reading what she said is getting me choked up. On the red carpet, Renee also gushed about her boyfriend. She does seem really happy.

“I’m great. I’m busy. I’m happy,” the actress, 45, told PEOPLE at the star-studded event, which raises money to help conquer amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the progressive neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

Donning a Burberry jacket over a little black dress, the Bridget Jones’s Diary star was all smiles while chatting about her boyfriend of more than two years, musician Doyle Bramhall II, who was by her side at the charity gala.

“Isn’t he cute? He’s a very sweet man,” she said. “I’m very, very happy right now.”

But the night wasn’t just any red carpet appearance for Zellweger. She explained that the organization has been extremely supportive of her close friend and longtime publicist Nanci Ryder, who was diagnosed with the disease nine months ago.

“It wasn’t hard to throw on a pair of shoes for this one,” she said.

“As a person who loves someone who is living with ALS, I’m happy to be here among so many of you who understand what that diagnosis means,” the actress said during her speech about Ryder. The audience then applauded the famed Hollywood publicist.

“We’ve learned that living with ALS does not mean being defined by the disease. She’s a beautiful example of that,” Zellweger said of her friend. “Her spirit is as vivacious as ever.”

[From People]

The ALS Association raised so much awareness and funding with the ice bucket challenge last year, and I’m sure they’re grateful when celebrities continue to support the cause. This is a disease affecting Renee’s dear friend, and right now there is no cure. It must be incredibly difficult to see someone you love gradually lose the ability to control their body. I cannot even imagine it.

Renee and Doyle also went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony together last week. I’m including photos of them there below. Stevie Ray Vaughn was one of the inductees and Doyle has been friends with him since childhood. Doyle also founded a band with Charlie Sexton and two former members of Vaughn’s Double Trouble band. Look at how happy Renee is with Doyle!

30th Annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony (April 18, 2015) #ReneeZellweger #DoyleBramhall pic.twitter.com/a4lxR43Ds8

— Team Renee Zellweger (@TeamZellweger) April 19, 2015

photo credit: Getty Images

Tomorrow night, the neWCHapter committee, proud partner of the Women’s College Hospital Foundation, is hosting the now annual Night At The Movies event to raise awareness and support for Women’s College Hospital. Last year the film was August: Osage County. This year it’s The Age Of Adaline.

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During a Tuesday appearance on The Tonight Show, actress Blake Lively opened up to Jimmy Fallon about her new film, Age of Adaline, and family life with husband Ryan Reynolds and their 4-month-old daughter James.

“I haven’t left my house in like four months. This is very different. I have this on record, though. Every time I get up in the morning,” said the Gossip Girl alum, 27.

“Is that what you watch with the baby?” Jimmy asked.

“No, I make sure everyone’s clapping and cheering for me,” Blake joked.

The new mom went on to gush about her baby girl.

“She’s the best!” she said, adding they are “already paranoid” about how fast she’s growing up.

“We turned our basement into this cool, accessible room,” she shared. “I said to Ryan, ‘You know, we need to put in a window.’ And he said, ‘A window going down into the basement? That doesn’t make any sense.’ I said, ‘It’s a chastity window. You knew. You were a teenage boy. We cannot have our child—a daughter—go in the basement with a boyfriend. We need a window so that they know at all times that we are watching and they can’t get away with doing anything terrible.’”

She added: “It’s the new form of contraception. We’re already planning for that, and terrified!”

As for parenting with her hunky hubby, it sounds like things are somewhat competitive in the Lively-Reynolds household.

“We’re total rivals, by the way,” the actress said of her husband. “I hear all the time, ‘da-da, da-da,’ and then I walk in the room and he’s like, ‘ma-ma.’ And I’m like, ‘How dare you do that?’ But all day! I’m like, ‘How dare you do that?’ The word ‘da-da’ is banned in our house. You have to say ma-ma all day. And I’m like, ‘How can you do that?’ I’ll take videos where I’m saying ‘da-da,’ but I don’t say it ever.”

She added: “She has to say mama first! I do everything! He does nothing!”

Actress Olivia Wilde and fiancé, SNL alum Jason Sudeikis, celebrated their sons Otis‘ first birthday on April 20. While promoting her new documentary, Body Team 12, the mom-of-one, 31, couldn’t help but gush about her son and the first year of motherhood.

“Oh yes my Birth-Day! Labor day as my mother in-law calls it!” she told E! News of her son’s first birthday. “We had an awesome celebration and especially in the mist of bringing Body Team 12 to the festival, I felt even more fortunate to be able to celebrate with Otis and be able to allow him to have this happy, happy day.”

She added, “I just feel so lucky and I am so overwhelmed with happiness.”

In an Instagram image posted Monday night, the actress shared a funny photo posing on a giant stuffed animal.

“One year old birthday party semi-survivor,” she captioned the image.

One year old birthday party semi-survivor.

A photo posted by Olivia Wilde (@oliviawilde) on Apr 20, 2015 at 9:00pm PDT

In her new documentary, Wilde explores the devastating impacts of the Ebola virus.

“As a mother, of course it is even more painful to imagine leaving my son as an orphan and it hits you harder in every way to witness the suffering of children,” she shared. “I also emphasize with mothers now in a different way and I can’t think of more of heroic story like this. My son Otis is an example of one of the fortunate ones and I am going to raise Otis with a sense of awareness and responsibility and he should know he got lucky. He won the life lottery!”

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Giorgio Armani gave an ill-advised interview to a UK paper a few days ago, and he ended up offending a lot of people. The most offensive thing – to me, at least – was when Armani pontificated about how gay men “do not need to dress homosexual.” He also chatted about breast implants (he’s against them), and the ideal male body (not too ripped or muscly). As it turns out, Armani also shared an anecdote about the late, great Gianni Versace. Gianni was murdered in Miami back in 1997, just six weeks before Princess Diana died in Paris. Gianni and Giorgio were contemporaries and friends, but their vision for fashion was very different. So, Armani shared a story about Gianni in the interview and now Donatella Versace is PISSED.

Donatella Versace blasted Giorgio Armani for comments about her late brother Gianni Versace.

Armani, 80, told the UK’s Sunday Times Magazine that Gianni once compared his clientele to Armani’s: “He was looking at the models, and he said to me, ‘I dress sluts. You dress church ladies.’”

But Donatella has fired back: “I find it extremely rude and tasteless that Mr. Armani has once again put words into my brother’s mouth, especially because he is sadly no longer with us to reply .?.?. This is the second time he claims this was said. The first was immediately after his death, and he apologized to me. When my brother spoke about fashion, the only word that ever came from his mouth was glamour. What should be said about my brother is: May Gianni Versace rest in peace.”

An Armani rep didn’t get back to us.

[From Page Six]

It’s interesting that Donatella was so detailed with her statement. My first thought was… it sounds sort of like an off-hand joke made between friends? If Gianni ever said that, he likely never meant for Armani to repeat it. And you have to remember, Gianni’s designs back in the ‘90s were very va-va-voom. Like, fancy hooker-wear. That doesn’t mean that Gianni thought his clients were “sluts,” just that he thought women should dress sexier and have fun. Anyway, if Donatella doesn’t want that quote out there, being attributed to her brother, I can understand her point of view. It does seem like Armani was off his rocker during that whole interview.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Dear Gossips,

Yesterday, the Cannes Film Festival announced its full jury for this year. And many are calling it the most physically attractive jury ever which I’m sure will go over well with the jury members. Still, it’s not like you can’t see it, right?

Jury co-presidents Ethan and Joel…      

As we discussed yesterday, Jennifer Aniston made a rare public appearance on Monday night to support her BFF Courteney Cox at the premiere of Cox’s directorial effort, Just Before I Go. Some thought it was sweet that Aniston came out just to support her friend, with no ulterior motive or project to promote for herself. HA! As it turns out, Aniston has a lengthy conversation with People Magazine this week just to shill her haircare line, Living Proof. Go here to read the whole People piece. The gist? Aniston uses her friends as guinea pigs for her Living Proof line. Is this tacky? It feels tacky.

“Chris and I usually get samples like six months before so we get to try it out and see how it lasts over time and then give feedback for it,” Aniston tells PEOPLE of testing new Living Proof launches with her hairstylist and best friend Chris McMillan. “It’s so much fun; it really is a wonderful thing to be a part of.”

The actress also enlists her close group of girlfriends, including Courteney Cox (who just got a “lob”!) and yoga instructor Mandy Ingber, to try out new products like the Blow Out styling and finishing spray.

“They allow me to sort of use their hair, they’re like Barbie dolls,” she says. “Courteney has gorgeous hair, and Mandy’s is really curly so she loves the No Frizz line. Plus, everything smells incredible, that’s my other thing that I love about these products. For me that’s always a big thing, that it isn’t too fragrant-y or perfume-y. It’s so fresh and so light, so incredible.”

So do people ask Aniston for hair advice now that she’s involved in Living Proof? “No, thank God!” she says, laughing. “I so do not want to be the poster child for anyone’s hair problems. I would just say use Living Proof and you’ll be great to go.”

[From People]

There’s a lot more but it just reads as a straight-up infomercial and I kind of wonder if People Magazine is being paid to endorse this sh-t. And beyond that, is Aniston paying Courteney and Mandy for their second-hand celebrity endorsements? That’s what’s tacky to me – Aniston hasn’t been seen in two months, then she suddenly pops up, seemingly to “support a friend,” and in a sleazy quid pro quo, Aniston name-drops Courteney Cox as a fan of the haircare line that Aniston partially owns.

But yes, Jennifer is a 46 year old woman and all she does these days is give interviews about her hair. Deep as a puddle.

Photos courtesy of Getty, Fame/Flynet.

Single mom Sandra Bullock has been named PEOPLE‘s 2015 “World’s Most Beautiful Woman.” The Academy Award-winning actress, 50, opens up about the “ridiculous” title and gushes about 5-year-old son Louis.

On “deep” conversations with Louis: “[I love] listening to him tell me why he was going to marry his girlfriend. But then we were having Sunday dinner, and he said he changed his mind. I just told him, ‘Always love those who want to love you back and are nice to you.’ Then we moved back to Legos and ‘Why are you making me eat broccoli?’ “

On Louis being wrapped around her finger: “But I will never let him know it. We have rules. I let everyone else be the aunties and uncles who spoil him and I’m the one that lays down the law.”

On Louis trying to understand her celebrity status: “He thought I was an astronaut for a while. I want it to be so inconsequential and such a nonissue. I want him to be embarrassed by me like all other parents.”

On a sweet conversation with Louis: “I was putting him to bed and told him that even when I’m old and gray and more wrinkly than I am now, I’ll still love him and want to tuck him in. And he asked why I have wrinkles, and I said, ‘Well, I hope some of them are from laughing so much.’ And he touched my face and said, ‘You’re not old, you’re just happy.’ ”

On being named “World’s Most Beautiful Woman”: “No, really. I just said, ‘That’s ridiculous. I’ve told no one.”

On her definition of beauty: “Real beauty is quiet. Especially in this town, it’s just so hard not to say, ‘Oh, I need to look like that.’ No, be a good person, be a good mom, do a good job with the lunch, let someone cut in front of you who looks like they’re in a bigger hurry. The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren’t trying.”

The magazine’s May 4, 2015 issue highlights 192 other beautiful women, including Laverne Cox, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Ariana Grande, Gigi Hadid, Taraji P. Henson, Vanessa Hudgens, Padma Lakshmi, Shay Mitchell and Meghan Trainor, to name a few.

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Jennifer Garner and Gisele Bundchen attended an event last night to support the Just Label It project, which is advocating for federal mandates of food labeling for genetically modified consumer products. Both discussed the importance of transparency in the food industry, something that is sorely lacking when it comes to genetically modified food. Garner said that she’s able to buy non-GMO foods (she probably shops at Whole Paycheck Foods) but that the rest of the country doesn’t have that luxury. She also talked about growing her own food and helping her children understand the origins of their food. You can see a brief video interview with Garner on E! Online.

Garner on why she got involved with the cause
My friend Gisele and I are fed up with being kept in the dark about GMO and non-GMO labeling,” Garner said. “I got involved because she said, ‘Do you know what’s happening?’ She’s a firecracker. She said, ‘You have to educate yourself.

It’s easy for me to shop at places where foods are labeled. Only 3% of the food we produce is non-GMO. But if that 3% is available to you, you kind of take that for granted, but the rest of the country is being fed food – certainly all of the animals that are being turned into our meat, they’re all being fed food that’s been genetically modified.

How Garner educates her children about food
I cook for my kids, and we have a garden. We try to grow whatever we can, although I can’t say we have the hugest crop in the world, but I do try to pay close attention and I do my best.

But we talk about our food, we grow food, we talk about what goes into it and how hard it is. They planted it, they water it, they take pictures next to it. I’m a geek.

On what Garner cooks for her kids
I make everything. Roasted chicken and mashed potatoes, gravy, homemade bread, corn on the cob, you know, whatever.

Gisele on GMO labeling
This is a very important cause to me as an individual, as a parent and as a mother. I am here tonight because I believe we have the right to know what’s in our food.

Food sustains our bodies, minds and souls, and as a mother, I feel it is my responsibility to know what I am feeding my family. We need transparency in our food industry.

[From US Magazine and E! Online]

I’ve heard reports claiming the GMO foods are no riskier and that people are overreacting to the potential threat. However in the EU GMO foods are very strictly regulated to the point where most GMO crops are banned. The way I understand it, it’s not about the risk to human health so much as the potential agricultural issues that come up with GMO crops, such as cross contamination. Plus, we simply don’t know the long term effects of GMO foods on human health. At the very least we can have labeling for foods to help inform consumers. I eat non-organic vegetables from the grocery store, (organic veggies don’t last as long, are more expensive, and aren’t more nutritionally valuable) but I do think this is a worthy cause. It’s not necessarily going to get me to buy non-GMO food, but I think consumers should be informed about it.

Good for Garner for growing her own vegetables with her family and teaching her children where their food comes from. I’m not that ambitious and am not a gardener, but I appreciate it when people grow their own food. It’s a cause that Michelle Obama has helped champion, too. Children should also know what an environmental burden it is to raise animals for meat. I feel like I should mention that on Earth Day. If we can reduce our meat consumption and substitute local meat where possible we can reduce our impact on the environment.

I believe we have a right to know what is in our food. #justlabelit #GMOlabeling. Eu acredito que nós temos o direito de saber o que tem em nossa comida. #poenorotulo

A photo posted by Gisele Bündchen (@giseleofficial) on Apr 21, 2015 at 2:04pm PDT

Jennifer Garner & @giseleofficial are partnering up to fight against GMOs – read their quotes: http://t.co/hCgTybdLAL pic.twitter.com/KjbxdyQoL1

— JustJared.com (@JustJared) April 22, 2015

photo credit: FameFlynet and Instagram