One of the big, dumb Salt Island tabloid stories this weekend was an exclusive in the Sun, wherein Tom Bower claimed that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would be or should be stripped of their Sussex titles because something something Harry’s memoir. Bower doesn’t know what’s in Spare, Bower hasn’t read it nor is he a mind-reader. He’s just a decrepit, nasty old man screaming at clouds. Somehow, that exclusive was enough to get him booked on Good Morning Britain on Monday, where he said some predictably deranged sh-t about how Meghan and Harry need to have their titles removed because their titles are the only things Americans care about. Which isn’t true. Bower also said some crazy sh-t about how Meghan is basically the ghost-writer for Spare, which also makes no sense.

Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Bower was asked if Harry and Meghan should keep their titles – replying: “He’ll [Harry] keep his princely title, it’s Meghan I’m after. His book is really Meghan’s. Meghan is the person who has dictated this agenda.”

Presenter Ed Balls countered that the book is by Prince Harry and not his wife, to which Bower asked “Do you think he’s read it?”

Bower continued: “Meghan has actually read every word. Meghan is highly intelligent, very sophisticated.”

He continued to slam the Duchess, claiming that Prince William, King Charles and Princess Diana’s brother Charles Spencer “saw through” her. He claimed the core of the Royal Family saw that “she was adventurous, [she] came here to make fame and fortune and go back to America, [she] is exploiting the royal title.”

[From The Sun]

“It’s Meghan I’m after” sums it up. As many have pointed out, these disgusting old men have been “after” Meghan from the start. She’s “adventurous” (there’s another label for Archetypes), she’s a golddigger, she’s too sexy, she’s too American, she’s too smart! When every single thing Harry has done and said for more than three years is all about the decisions he’s making, the work he’s doing, the fights he’s waging. Meghan is sitting in Montecito, raising her children and doing a podcast. Bridge trolls like Bower are desperate to engage her in any way.

White decrepit British men & their obsessiion with #MeghanMarkle is a national emergency at this point.

Christopher Wilson: There was hope that Harry would come back alone

Valentine Low: As long as Meghan draws breath, Harry won’t come back

Tom Bower: it’s Meghan I’m after pic.twitter.com/YMRkKjNiYY

— Alexis( sowing discord in the west) (@ArchewellBaby) October 31, 2022

Should Harry & Meghan be stripped of their titles after the release of ‘Spare’?

Tom Bower tells @susannareid100 & @edballs that he doesn’t believe Harry and Meghan should keep their titles if they want to make their money out of ‘trashing Britain’ and ‘damaging the Royal family’ pic.twitter.com/9sI83BDgcy

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) October 31, 2022

‘They’re a different generation…Let them be.’

Historian Dr Tessa Dunlop argues against Tom Bower’s comments by saying that people need to let Harry and Meghan be.

What do you think? pic.twitter.com/HGvsHeJZ8r

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) October 31, 2022

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There was a fascinating interview with Roland Mouret in this past weekend’s Sunday Times. Mouret is French, but his fashion line was British-based for years and years, and his designs are beloved by many British women. During the pandemic, his business suffered and he had to close his label and fire all of his staff. But like a phoenix rising from ashes, Mouret has returned with a new business partner (Self-Portrait’s Han Chong) and a new, more affordable line. The business part of the interview is fascinating to me, but the piece is getting a lot of attention because Mouret talks about Kate, the Princess of Wales. Kate wore an older Mouret dress to the summer premiere of Top Gun Maverick, and it marked a big moment for Mouret’s fashion comeback. Some highlights from this piece:

His change in perspective: “Femininity can be strength now. The non-gendered situation of our time obliges us to redefine femininity. She can wear a pair of flat boots with a sexy dress now. She can have a split to here,” he gestures to the top of his thigh, “not because she wants to become an exotic attraction to the opposite sex, but because she thinks, ‘It’s my body, I do what I want and I like my legs and I show them.’”

He’s focused on doing selfie-friendly necklines and introduced peek-a-boo cut-out details. “In my past, I could never have done it,” he says, because his older customers would never wear it. His new, younger customers will lap it up, along with his signature wiggle dresses in shorter hemlines. “They say it’s younger, but it’s really Mouret — they like it.”

When Kate wore Mouret: When the Princess of Wales recently customised one of his old designs — a black column dress with a white off-the-shoulder band — by taking out the back zip, he was thrilled that they were thinking along the same lines. “She represents the way a woman grows, the way a woman stands not behind but beside. That sense of equality she has created — she’s powerful,” he says. There’s an orange short-sleeve dress in the collection that he casually refers to as the Kate dress. “I design with her in mind,” he says. “It makes me feel proud to be able to do things that can help her. To make things that she feels protected in at that moment when the world is looking at her, I’ve done a little part in protecting her.”

His Gallic vision: “There’s an 1980s Parisian attitude. I’m getting back in touch with my French soul… In England you have an aristocratic culture and the only way you can destroy that is by being eccentric. In France the bourgeois is destroyed by the seedy. It’s something we mix.”

[From The Times]

His comments about Kate were a lot nicer than Alessandra Rich’s comments about Kate wearing her designs. But that’s the larger problem with Kate’s style and her relationship with fashion: Kate genuinely likes Rich’s fussy, frilly, ruffled, peplum’d, puffy designs. That’s Kate’s true style, very ‘80s and overdone, with no wink or humor. Meanwhile, Kate *should* want to lean more into the Mouret style – body-con, well-constructed, with an eye to a minimalist silhouette. Mouret isn’t designing with Kate in mind, he’s designing stuff which he hopes she’ll choose and which he hopes she realizes will complement her look. Meanwhile, Rich is explicitly NOT designing for Kate and that’s the sh-t Kate gravitates towards.

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Elon Musk’s Nazi hellsite is crashing and burning faster than many predicted. It seemed inevitable that the crash would come, but Musk hasn’t even “owned” Twitter for a full week. Musk will likely end the “free” verification part of Twitter and he’ll begin charging people for verification and he’ll raise the cost of Twitter Blue services. Musk also dissolved Twitter’s board of directors and made himself the sole director of the company.

Elon Musk has dissolved Twitter’s board and made himself the “sole director” of the company. All previous members of the board have been removed from that role, leaving only Mr Musk as a director, according to a new filing. The action was taken on Thursday as part of Mr Musk’s $44bn (£38bn) purchase of the company, according to that same SEC filing, which was made public on Monday.

The board had previously included its chairman, Bret Taylor, as well as recently ousted chief executive Parag Agrawal; in all, it included nine directors.

It is just one of a number of substantial changes that Mr Musk has already made, within days of buying and taking over the company. Others include the suggestion that he will set up a council that will review content moderation decisions, that he will be firing significant number of employees, and that he could allow previously banned users back onto the platform.

[From The Independent]

In addition to firing most (if not all) of the Twitter executives and dissolving the board, Musk has “pulled more than 50 of his trusted Tesla employees, mostly software engineers from the Autopilot team, into his Twitter takeover.” I’m sure the Musk fanboys will insist that these crazy-billionaire schemes are more four-dimensional chess moves from Musk. The same four-dimensional chess which had him buying an overvalued product on borrowed money, then driving that $44 billion investment into the ground in less than a week?

Musk is also removing a lot of safeguards and controls around political content on Twitter, which is particularly scary given the midterm election is one week away. If sh-t goes down next week – and I’m certain it will – that might mark a mass exodus from the Twitter platform. Reputable media outlets, government officials and businesses will all decide that Musk’s Nazi hellsite is not worth it. Advertisers will pull out. What happens then?

I also predict that Musk will end the suspension of Donald Trump’s account this week. Buckle up, bitches.

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This week, the Duchess of Sussex’s Archetypes podcast focuses on “Good Wife/Bad Wife, Good Mom/Bad Mom.” Meghan’s guests this week are Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, Pamela Adlon and Sam Jay. I mean… Sophie is the first lady of Canada, and Meghan is giddy about describing how she and Sophie have been friends for years, and how Sophie came to visit her in Montecito with the Trudeau kids? It’s pretty amazing. I’ll admit that from what I’ve listened to thus far, this episode wasn’t my particular jam, just because I didn’t relate to it. I get the conversation at an intellectual level – mothers feel mom guilt, wives feel guilt about not being perfect partners, marriages are messy, no mom is perfect, give yourself a break, stop trying to be perfect. Like, this is a well-trod topic, the hook is that it’s the Duchess of Sussex having the conversation.

One of the early headlines from the episode is that Meghan and Pamela Adlon talk about how Adlon passed the British citizenship test so now she’s a British citizen. Meghan describes how she also had to study for the citizenship test and she found it really hard. Adlon jokes that the Brits probably made the test harder specifically for Meghan.

Meghan also talks about her kids a little bit – Lili is walking! Meghan says she prides herself on making breakfast for Harry and the kids every morning, and she talks about the “whirlwind” mornings of trying to get everyone (including the dogs) fed and ready for the day. There’s also a larger conversation about how “domestic labor” has been devalued forever, as if organizing a household and raising children isn’t “real work.” Meghan talks about paid parental leave, a topic for which she’s been advocating for a few years.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Archetypes/Spotify.

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While appearing on The Endless Honeymoon podcast, Dax Shepard said his daughter Delta, seven, had a lot to thank her sister Lincoln, nine, for. Namely her existence. Dax said he and wife Kristen Bell wanted to stop after one kid because three was the perfect sized family for their busy lifestyles. But they realized having a second child was best for Lincoln. So they had Delta, whom of course they adore.

Dax Shepard is sharing details behind the decision to have a second child.
During an appearance on the Endless Honeymoon podcast, Shepard, 47, opened up about his two daughters — Lincoln, 9, and Delta, 7 — both of whom he shares with wife Kristen Bell.

“We did not want a second child,” he explained to a couple who called in for advice about growing their family. “It’s a bizarre conversation to start because [a family unit of three] is perfect, and it’s so much easier. You can take that little Subway sandwich anywhere, as I’m sure you guys are doing.”

The Parenthood alum explained that as Lincoln started growing, he and Bell realized it may be beneficial to have a second child so she can have a “playmate,” not just on their travels, but for the long haul of life.

“One is, we travel a lot. It’s not fair to bring this little human everywhere we go and deal only with adults. Like, we owe it to her to give her a playmate that travels with us everywhere,” he explained. “We love [Lincoln] enough to do something we don’t really wanna do, which is have a second, because we were so absolutely happy with just the one.”
Another reason for the decision, he later quipped, was to minimize the chances for Lincoln to become “spoiled” as an only child.

“Our kids already are so privileged beyond belief,” he said. “It rattles both of us being from very, you know, modest backgrounds. So, to make the spoiled bitch, my first born, live in the same room with another person [when she gets older] and have to share everything, like, I needed [Lincoln to learn] the force of compromise and sharing discomfort because I wasn’t going to give it to her any other way. So we just thought it would be really helpful to make her a better person, to have to deal with someone else.”

Another piece of advice Shepard gave was, should anyone decide to have a second child, to do it “as quick as possible.” His own daughters were born 20 months apart.

“Our kids are under two years apart, and for a minute that was difficult because you know, when you’re 5 and the baby is 3, that’s no fun,” he said. “I will say the corner we’ve turned is, like, now they party. Not only do they party together, they’re united against us, which I love.”

He added, “If I’m giving it to one of the girls, the other one comes over, ‘You’re not being nice to Lincoln. You didn’t listen to what she said.’ And I’m like, ‘That’s right. That’s your role. You guys gang up and kill me. It’s you two against the world.’ That stuff, I think, the lesser the age gap the easier it is to achieve.”

[From Yahoo]

I know plenty of you have already dismissed all of this because you dislike both Kristen and Dax, so – mm’kay. For those of you still with me, obviously the only real family planning advice is to do what you’re comfortable with. My take on what Dax said is mixed. I understand his logic about one child being easier to travel with. When they’re young, the difference of traveling with one child vs. two young children is huge. But when they get older, it’s not an issue, they manage themselves. (It is, however, a lot more expensive!) I agreed with him on the playmate thing and wanted more than one kid for that reason. However, that was because I knew I wasn’t going to be enough for my kid. I know plenty of single kids who loved being only children. It’s not sure Dax’s universal logic. The spoiled brat point I don’t get. I would think that’s on them not to spoil however many kids they have.

As for age spacing, meh. I had my kids close together due to my age. They’re best friends. My mother had my brothers and I with years between us because of blood type issues. We’re best friends. All involved looked out for each other, regardless of how close or far they were spaced. I’ve always felt the relationship of the siblings was the personalities involved (including the parents) and not the age gap.

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North West seems to be the basketball player of the family, while Saint West is the soccer player. Kim Kardashian juggles the kids’ extracurriculars, and she must inform Kanye’s team about when certain games are happening. Kim and Kanye still aren’t speaking – when he was stalking and harassing her and Pete Davidson earlier this year, Kim began to phase out direct communications with Kanye, and now they coordinate between third-parties. Because he’s still obsessed with Kim and obsessed with making an ass out of himself, Kanye does show up to his kids’ games and he tries to draw out Kim or get her attention. It feels like Kim is grey-rocking him, and good for her. But that means he’s probably going to escalate in those rare moments when they’re at the same event. Which is what happened over the weekend:

Kanye West was very clearly agitated on social media over the weekend, but his anger was also apparent at his son’s soccer game, getting into a heated exchange with another parent.

We’ve obtained video taken Saturday while Saint played soccer. You can see Kim Kardashian sitting in a lawn chair and surrounded by security while an animated Kanye stands about 30 feet away. It’s unclear exactly what he’s upset about, but you see Kanye waving his arms in frustration.

From there, another woman — who is a family friend — approaches Ye, appears to say something to him and then he storms off. A witness tells us Kanye came back a few minutes later, seemingly after he had cooled off, and watched the rest of the game without incident.

As we’ve told you, Kim and Kanye aren’t talking — and that appears to remain true in the video from the weekend. It was a few weeks ago at North’s basketball game when Ye showed up wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt … we’re told Kim didn’t interact with Kanye at all during the game. Kanye’s been suspended from Instagram for 30 days after posting a text message exchange between himself and Russell Simmons where he once again made disparaging remarks against Jewish people.

[From TMZ]

I’m including the video below, and I’ve watched it a few times to see all the moving parts – Kim is seated, but she’s looking over at Kanye as he seems to be getting louder and more agitated. The other woman comes over to him and says something in a matter-of-fact manner. It looks to me like Kanye was actually directing his tirade at Kim from a distance, almost like he wanted to approach her but her security and the other parents stopped him. I think a lot of this is about Kim, or should I say, a lot of this is about Kanye trying to get Kim’s attention, trying to get Kim to “take care of him.” Also: while Kanye was suspended from Instagram yet again, he’s still on Parler (that other Nazi hellsite) and he was apparently going on another antisemitic rant.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.

The British royal commentators are playing a dangerous game with Netflix, The Crown and the monarchy. Their gleeful commentary about the “lurid, unflattering” Netflix series shows their eagerness to exploit all of these tragedies all over again, all while assuming an air of performative fury on behalf of King Charles. Does Charles really understand what he’s unleashed? Netflix is laughing all the way to the bank, especially with Salt Island’s media giving The Crown millions in free publicity. Even more than the free publicity, the commentators are making The Crown sound like the most epic royal takedown ever. The Mail’s Christopher Stevens has seen the whole (still embargoed) season 5. And he couldn’t help but throw a huge tantrum about all of it.

There are no depths of bad taste that writer Peter Morgan does not plumb in the new ten-part series of The Crown on Netflix. Divorces, infidelities, the most intimate conversations, the infamous interview with Princess Diana and Martin Bashir, even the death of a five-year-old from cancer, all are exploited for lurid drama. As the eight-and-a-half hours of new film were made available to journalists last night, under a stringent embargo, the sheer virulence of the storylines became shockingly clear.

Charles, Philip and at times the Queen herself are portrayed with disdain bordering on mockery. A teenage Prince William is also shown in an unflattering light, as slightly dim and sulky, though his younger brother Harry is let off lightly and barely features. Netflix may well find that, with the international grief and mourning that marked the death of the Queen less than two months ago, viewers’ appetite for royal muck-raking has disappeared.

Insiders at the streaming video giant say the mood in the company is already uneasy, with some American executives surprised by the backlash from fans who fear the death of the Princess of Wales will be re-enacted in graphic detail. This series stops short of that moment. It ends with Diana, divorced from Charles, preparing for a Mediterranean holiday with her friend Dodi Fayed.

Full reviews, with assessments of individual performances and an analysis of how far the script strays from historical fact, are embargoed until Saturday morning. But no spoiler alert is needed when I say that this series of The Crown is unrecognisable in its tone, compared to the original series in 2016. This show with its almost unlimited budget and all-star cast has become a monstrous perversion of itself.

At the beginning, The Crown charted the affectionate romance of the Princess Elizabeth and her prince, the Duke of Edinburgh, played with touching vulnerability by Claire Foy and Matt Smith. But it has descended into scandal-mongering, intent on inflicting every possible embarrassment on the Royal Family. The Crown is now a nakedly republican polemic, using embarrassment as its chief weapon against the monarchy.

Chief victim is the monarch himself. Perhaps Morgan and his Netflix paymasters imagined, like most of us, that the Queen would survive, ruling above reproach, for a number of years to come – and that the Prince of Wales was fair game. Certainly, none of the preview episodes (labelled, it ought to be said, as ‘work in progress’) carried an acknowledgment of Her Majesty’s death. Any viewers expecting a respectful caption, saluting her 70 years on the throne, will be disappointed.

But from the outset, the campaign against Charles is lacerating. In scene after scene, he is depicted as devious, impatient, resentful, devoid of self-awareness in his desperation to be king. This prince is a plotter whose mind works constantly, even during holidays with friends, on ways to dislodge his mother and force her aside. His aides talk of little else.

Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles – now the King and Queen Consort, a fact shamefully ignored by Netflix – suffer greater indignity still, with the replay of that excruciating phonecall. Dominic West as Charles and Olivia Williams as Camilla, then his married mistress, re-enact every word of it… including that awful extended metaphor about being reincarnated as a tampon. It is performed without mercy, and to emphasise the humiliation we see the reaction of other royals when the transcript is published. Princess Margaret reads it in bed. Diana holds her head in her hands.

[From The Daily Mail]

Charles “is depicted as devious, impatient, resentful, devoid of self-awareness.” “The Crown is now a nakedly republican polemic, using embarrassment as its chief weapon against the monarchy.” DON’T THREATEN ME WITH A GOOD TIME!!! Omg, I was genuinely worried that Peter Morgan was going to soft-pedal some stuff but I guess not! Apparently, Diana’s Panorama interview stretches over two episodes, which is pretty fair – it was the biggest f–king thing to happen to the monarchy in decades. I love all of the agitation about “they didn’t acknowledge that Charles and Camilla are king and queen now” and “they didn’t acknowledge QEII’s death!!” My dude, this is a dramatization of what happened in the ‘90s, not a documentary. In fact, the monarchy has run a huge campaign against the Crown to emphasize that it’s not a documentary. Anyway, one more week!!!

Photos courtesy of Netflix.

As if we didn’t have enough to handle with covid still hanging around, officials are now predicting this is likely to be the worst flu season in 13 years. Officials look at various data to track flu season activity and patterns and apparently pretty much everything just points to bad news. The flu lingered for longer than usual last season, this season it is hitting earlier and harder than is typical, and it is not following the same patterns as it usually does in either hemisphere.

Influenza is hitting the United States unusually early and hard, resulting in the most hospitalizations at this point in the season in more than a decade and underscoring the potential for a perilous winter of respiratory viruses, according to federal health data released Friday.

While flu season is usually between October and May, peaking in December and January, it’s arrived about six weeks earlier this year with uncharacteristically high illness. There have already been at least 880,000 cases of influenza illness, 6,900 hospitalizations and 360 flu-related deaths nationally, including one child, according to estimates released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Not since the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic has there been such a high burden of flu, a metric the CDC uses to estimate a season’s severity based on laboratory-confirmed cases, doctor visits, hospitalizations and deaths.

“It’s unusual, but we’re coming out of an unusual covid pandemic that has really affected influenza and other respiratory viruses that are circulating,” said Lynnette Brammer, an epidemiologist who heads the CDC’s domestic influenza surveillance team.

Activity is high in the U.S. south and southeast, and is starting to move up the Atlantic coast.

The CDC uses a variety of measures to track the flu, including estimating the percentage of doctor visits for flu-like illness. But given the similar symptoms that could include people seeking care for covid-19 or RSV, another respiratory virus with similar symptoms, the laboratory data leaves no doubt.

“The data are ominous,” said William Schaffner, medical director for the nonprofit National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and a professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. “Not only is flu early, it also looks very severe. This is not just a preview of coming attractions. We’re already starting to see this movie. I would call it a scary movie.”

Adding to his concern, he said, is that influenza vaccination is lagging behind where it usually is at this point in the season. About 128 million doses of flu vaccine have been distributed so far, compared with 139 million at this point last year and 154 million the year before, according to the CDC.

“That makes me doubly worried,” Schaffner said. The high burden of the flu “certainly looks like the start of what could be the worst flu season in 13 years.”

The number of flu cases this season is already one-eighth of last season’s total estimate of 8 to 13 million cases.

The flu vaccine’s effectiveness in preventing a doctor visit, hospitalization or death is uneven from year to year, and in years past, has hovered between 40 and 60 percent, according to the CDC. But Brammer and others say this season’s vaccine is well matched against circulating strains. That offers a “little ray of sunshine” for what could be a bleak winter, Schaffner said.

[From The Washington Post]

Not only has the flu arrived early, but it looks more severe than it usually does. The number of flu cases at this point in the season is already one-eighth of last year’s total. So we are on track to beat last year’s record. Lovely. Basically, get your flu shots, people. The shot is said to be pretty effective against this year’s strains. And officials attribute part of this flu’s particular strength to covid, the currently circulating respiratory illnesses, and the reluctance to vaccinate. So get the shot and protect yourself and others. Even if you think you can handle the illness, you shouldn’t have to and the people you come into contact with certainly shouldn’t have to either. The flu could affect people for weeks after recovery and could result in complications for the very young, the elderly, and people with chronic health conditions. The only way to guard against this triple threat (covid, flu, and RSV in children) is to get as vaccinated as possible.

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I can’t really remember when I became aware of Florence Pugh. I guess it was around Midsomer, but she’d already established herself by then. I didn’t even see Midsomer, it was just like one day Florence was unknown to me an then she was everywhere I looked. But I’ve loved her in everything I have seen her in. Her opening scene in Hawkeye was such a fantastic introduction – and her character already had a whole-@$$ movie going into that series. Florence, or I guess Miss Flo if you’re nasty, got the Hollywood treatment, though, like so many other perfectly lovely, talented women. After finding early fame due to her enormous talent, those in the industry told her to slim down and change the shape of her face. Fortunately, Florence had the wherewithal to tell them ‘nope.’

Florence Pugh has revealed Hollywood bigwigs told her to slim down and change the shape of her face if she wanted success in the industry.

The 26-year-old actress said she was specifically told to “lose weight” and “change the shape” of her face if she wanted to bag the big roles and become a household name.

“I felt very lucky and grateful, and couldn’t believe that I had got this top-of-the-game job…” she said.

“[But] all the things that they were trying to change about me, whether it was my weight, my look, the shape of my face, the shape of my eyebrows, that was so not what I wanted to do, or the industry I wanted to work in.”

The Don’t Worry, Darling star, who has this week opened up about her early days in the entertainment industry, landed her first big role in 2014 movie The Falling.

She went on to land a part in a US TV movie Studio City, but was so disappointed in her experience on the show that she feared she’d made the wrong career choice.

She added to The Telegraph: “I’d thought the film business would be like [my experience of making] The Falling, but actually, this was what the top of the game looked like, and I felt I’d made a massive mistake.”

She added: “I think it’s far too easy for people in this industry to push you left and right and I was lucky enough to discover when I was 19 what kind of a performer I wanted to be.

[From Yahoo]

Of course it was the US studio that wanted to change everything about the woman they’d just hired. Thank goodness Florence had it in her to stand her ground at 19. I wish talent was enough. Florence is clearly gifted, and she has plenty of personality to bring to the promotions. She’s a beautiful young woman. I realize it’s not the Hollywood Way to accept people as is, though. What an awful message to send anyone, let alone a young woman just leaving her teens. I hope that other young women realize that Florence didn’t make those changes and is now calling the shots in her career at the age of 26.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. paid for Julia Roberts’s hospital birth. [Just Jared]
Here are some photos of celebrities dressed up for Halloween. [Buzzfeed]
Who will Tom Brady date next? Larsa Pippen? [Gawker]
Goodwill is no longer accepting Yeezy donations. [Dlisted]
So far, Brad Pitt is nowhere to be seen during She Said’s promotion. [LaineyGossip]
Photos from the Forever Valentino event/exhibition. [RCFA]
This woman is desperate for paranormal experiences. [Jezebel]
Wait, is Kody Brown a gun runner? [Starcasm]
Julia Fox still wants attention. [Go Fug Yourself]
A review of Prey for the Devil. [Pajiba]
Kanye West still owns 5% of Kim Kardashian’s Skims?! [Egotastic]
The Supreme Court is probably going to end diversity quotas at universities. [Towleroad]

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