When Blake Lively had her baby, I predicted that she’d hold back the James for a VOGUE exclusive to promote The Age Of Adaline. That turned out to be wrong. Anna Wintour did not put her on the cover. She put Carey Mulligan on the cover for Far From The Madding Crowd. It’s the kind of choice you e…      

What time is it in New York right now (as I’m writing this)?

11:54am

Blake Lively is on the morning circuit to promote The Age Of Adaline. She’s changed… I don’t know…. I’ve lost count how many times. It’s a lot of times.

My least favourite is the pink and black wrap dress. I don’t lo…      

There’s another Duggar on-the-way.

Congratulations are in order for Jessa Duggar, 22, and Ben Seewald, 19. The 19 Kids and Counting stars – who celebrate their first wedding anniversary this year – are expecting their first child in November, PEOPLE reports.

“We’re expecting!” the mom-to-be tells the mag. “We are so excited. The due date is November first, our wedding anniversary.” Adds Ben: “We are looking forward to being parents.”

Jessa is the third daughter born to Jim Bob, 49 and Michelle Duggar, 48, and her husband is the oldest of seven Seewald children.

“I am feeling pretty good,” Jessa shares. “The morning sickness was different every day. It’s getting better, but I’m still hanging on to the heartburn. And I don’t have any super serious food cravings.”

Jessa recalls taking her pregnancy test before church one Sunday morning.

“I said, ‘Hey Ben, guess what? Yeah, you’re a dad.’ We couldn’t believe it,” she shares. “We are so excited. We have started talking baby names. It is one of those things that is so special, picking a name for a baby.”

As for their hopes to adopt one day, the couple is keeping that option open.

“Our hearts haven’t changed on adoption,” Jessa says. “We are still making plans.”

“We are trying to take it one day at a time,” Ben shares. “We pray every night that God helps us be good parents. We are getting advice from other parents.”

Jessa’s older sister Jill Dugar, 23 and her husband, Derick Dillard, 26, welcomed son Israel David on April 6.

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I’d be totally okay with that. The onslaught of “please put this in front of the Avengers” trailers continues today with a new trailer from Tomorrowland, George Clooney’s sci-fi adventure that is (disappointingly) also not a biopic of Walt Disney. This project, written and directed by Brad Bird, …      

During a Tuesday appearance on Live! With Kelly and Michael, new mom Blake Lively opened up about family life with husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, and their 4-month-old daughter James.

“I did have a baby, yes! A little girl,” the Age of Adaline actress, 27, said when asked about welcoming her first child.

The Gossip Girl alum looked lovely in a print Preserve.us jumpsuit, Charlotte Olympia heels and Lorraine Schwartz jewels.

When asked how motherhood has changed her life, the actress replied, “Oh, gosh! Well this, first of all, has changed,” Blake said, pointing to her body.

“Everything is different,” she added. “You see a balcony and you’re like, ‘Oh, my God! The hotel needs to demolish this balcony because my child can’t go anywhere near it.’ Everything is just so much more heightened. We’re crying all the time for no reason.”

Not to mention the sleep deprivation. “I slept two hours last night,” Blake added.

“The last time when Ryan was here, he smelled like baby powder. He was knee-deep in being a dad,” Michael said. The actress laughed and said, “Now he just smells like poop…he’s in full diaper duty. [He] likes the big ones, because they’re easier, so her diapers are like up to her chest.”

When asked who baby James resembles most, Blake joked, “I think she looks like her daddy. I want a maternity test!”

The actress, whose mom was in the audience, went on to share one of her favorite childhood memories.

“She would always take me out of school and take me to Disneyland, which is really ill advised. I know! It was terrible,” she laughed. “She was like, ‘It’s a landscaping lesson.’ But it was really neat because to see people’s imaginations like that, it did open your mind. I don’t know. I’m trying to justify going to Disneyland!”

Both Tom Hardy and Nicholas Hoult were photographed arriving in Vegas yesterday ahead of CinemaCon. So they’re presumably there for Mad Max: Fury Road, opening in less than a month.

CinemaCon is where they give out random awards. Like the Star Of Tomorrow award. Previous winners include Vanes…      

Everything is not coming up roses for Patrick Dempsey! These are some photos of Patrick at the pre-premiere (??) of WINNING: The Racing Life of Paul Newman a few days ago. If Patrick looks super-shady to you, that’s because he really does look squirrelly and weird in these photos, like he stepped out of an intense bender from 1988. Patrick is probably living it up more than usual these days – in January, we heard that Patrick and his wife Jillian Fink were divorcing after 15 years (and long-standing rumors of marriage trouble and Patrick’s infidelities). And now it looks like Patrick’s career is going to hell too. Page Six says Patrick is on the way out of Grey’s Anatomy because of his “diva” behavior. Interesting.

Patrick Dempsey’s time on “Grey’s Anatomy” could soon be up, with sources telling us his “diva” behavior on the set of the ABC show has infuriated creator Shonda Rhimes. Dempsey, who has played Dr. Derek Shepherd since the series began in 2005, was last November written out of the show, explained by his character getting a job in DC. Dempsey has since only returned for fleeting appearances, even though he signed a new two-year deal in January 2014.

A show source said, “Patrick has been acting like a diva and has clashed with Shonda. She suspended him for a while, and the word on set is that he isn’t coming back full time…Given all the past problems with Katherine Heigl and Isaiah Washington, there is little tolerance on the show for troublesome talent.”

After Dempsey’s character was sent to DC, Rhimes told Entertainment Weekly in January, “It’s highly possible that we might not see Derek for a while .?.?. There will be a time when you see him again, yes, but it’s probable that you won’t see Derek for awhile.”

The show is nearing the end of Season 11. But Dempsey, who is contracted through the end of Season 12 and 2015, has talked about leaving. The actor — who is in the midst of a divorce with his wife, Jillian Fink — said in November the medical drama “has been a blessing for me and has allowed me to do all this. But it’s transitional for me right now. I’m looking forward to the next thing, creatively.” He said his exit from “Grey’s” would happen “very soon,” but didn’t say when.

Our source added that his comments “didn’t help” Dempsey’s frosty relationship with Rhimes. A rep for Dempsey said, “I can confirm that this story is not true,” and a rep for the show didn’t return calls and e-mails.

[From Page Six]

It sounds more like Dempsey and Shonda Rhimes were simply sick of each other, that Patrick was looking for a way out of his contract and that Rhimes was trying to push him out as well. But sure, maybe he’s a diva. I doubt his transgressions were as awful as Katherine Heigl’s, but after 11 seasons, sure, people get sick of working with the same old people. What’s funny to me is that Shonda Rhimes gave Patrick Dempsey his legitimate second-act career. And if he thinks he’s going to go on to bigger and better things post-Grey’s Anatomy, he’s sorely mistaken.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

(Lainey: Scott Eastwood is in Toronto right now working on Suicide Squad. He’s been bragging about it on Instagram.

Thanks Oliver Stone for shooting in Hawaii. Training continues for #suicidesquad. Can’t wait to get back to the squad. Miss you all. Rock runs…      

Kanye West covers the new issue of Paper Magazine. The photoshoot is fine – a little blah, but Kanye looks nice and the editorial is mostly head shots. I was going to do highlights from the interview, but the piece is written as a stream-of-consciousness essay “as told to Paper Magazine,” and that’s just annoying. So you can read the full piece here – Kanye doesn’t sound ALL-CAPS ranty, but he’s definitely giving Paper the Full Yeezus. He talks about the importance of creativity, of innovation, how much he admires Steve Jobs, etc. Then he goes off on a tangent about the Illuminati:

“I heard a comment — a joke — about the Tidal press conference being an Illuminati moment. If there was actually an Illuminati, it would be more like the energy companies. Not celebrities that gave their life to music and who are pinpointed as decoys for people who really run the world. I’m tired of people pinpointing musicians as the Illuminati. That’s ridiculous. We don’t run anything; we’re celebrities. We’re the face of brands. We have to compromise what we say in lyrics so we don’t lose money on a contract. Madonna is in her 50s and gave everything she had to go up on an award show and get choked by her cape. She’s judged for who she adopts. F–k all of this sensationalism. We gave you our lives. We gave you our hearts. We gave you our opinions!”

[From Paper Magazine]

I’m sorry, but that’s amazing. His defense of Madonna, his claim that celebrities don’t run anything and thus cannot be part of the Illuminati… it’s just amazing. He also tells an amazing story about being on nitrous at the dentist’s office and realizing the meaning of life (“to give happiness”).

Here are some photos of Kanye and Kim leaving LA last night. Is it wrong to like her hoodie? Because I love it.

Photos courtesy of PCN, Fame/Flynet and Paper.