This ^^ is a “British TV presenter” named Katie Hopkins. She’s not a real journalist in the sense that she breaks news on important subjects. The frame of reference I would use for our American readers is that she’s sort of a Kathy Lee Gifford-type, maybe mixed with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Ann Coulter and Whoopi Goldberg. You get the idea? She’s famous for making stupid comments in public. She’s a “professional troll.” Her job is to get a rise out of a people.

Well, Hopkins latest is a doozy. She decided to get on her Twitter and throw a hissy fit about Kelly Clarkson. Yes, that Kelly Clarkson. The same Kelly Clarkson who would never hurt a fly. Kelly has never said anything negative about anyone, ever. This is what Hopkins tweeted yesterday:

Look chubsters, Kelly Clarkson had a baby a year ago. That is no longer baby weight. That is carrot cake weight. Get over yourselves.

— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) March 3, 2015

Classy. Just to clarify, Kelly Clarkson had her baby eight months ago. Not that it matters, because hateful troll is hateful trolling. According to the Daily Mail, Hopkins also made some comments after Kelly performed on the Graham Norton Show, writing: “Jesus, what happened to Kelly Clarkson? Did she eat all of her backing singers? Darling, if you had a baby a year ago, that is not baby weight. It is fat. Quit calling it cute names to make yourself feel better.”

There’s so much about this that pisses me off. Kelly has never put herself out there as some sexy pop star known mostly for her body. Kelly actually has a voice and she can sing her guts out, so who gives a crap about her body? Besides, if you get off on judging women who have only given birth less than a year ago, you’re a terrible person. Why is this a thing?

Oh, and when someone asked Kelly about all of this, her first response was “Who?” Which is amazing, because seriously, we have enough stupid trolls here in America without needing to import British trolls. When someone explained what Hopkins wrote, Kelly said: “Oh, and she’s tweeted something nasty about me? That’s because she doesn’t know me. I’m awesome! It doesn’t bother me. It’s a free world. Say what you will. I’ve just never cared what people think. It’s more if I’m happy and I’m confident and feeling good, that’s always been my thing. And more so now, since having a family – I don’t seek out any other acceptance.” Classy.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

Jennifer Garner is a busy lady. She’s about to get back to work and she’s thrilled about it after taking a lot of time off to be a stay-at-home mom. When Garner stays at home she also gives it her all. In a press conference for her upcoming movie, Danny Collins (we covered some other quotes she gave for the film yesterday), Garner said that she’s very involved in her daughters’ school and extracurricular activities. She said she’s been the room mom for Seraphina for two years in a row and also works as the Girl Scout leader for Violet. That’s some commitment. Here’s more, thanks to People:

On sharing parenting tips with Reese Witherspoon
If I run into Reese, she and I have so much to talk about. We’ll be on the street corner and just be like, ‘What do you do about this, and how did you handle this? I’m so grateful for that very specific kind of friend.

On her morning routine with the kids
I make sure everyone has notes for their lunch box every day and [figure out] who’s having something special, and deciding who I read extra to [in the] morning.

She will check in on Ben soon
I’m going straight to New York from here, and then I’m going to visit Ben [on set in Atlanta to] make sure he’s good. It’s just what you do.

On volunteering at her daughters’ school
I’ve been the room mom for pre-school and kindergarten this year, and I’m the Girl Scout troop leader for third grade. When I’m home, I dive in, [and] I try to Betty Crocker it up as much as I can.

[From People]

Garner is one of three girls, she’s close to her family and she’s said in the past that her two sisters are very hands-on crafty moms. So I get why she’s so involved in her daughter’s school. I’m busy gossiping all day and have a ton of other stuff to do. It would be too much for me to work at my son’s school too. I do help my son with his homework and activities and I donate to the school. Plus I live in a small town and the PTA and school activities can be incredibly political. There are surely rewards to it, but you have to be a people pleaser to deal with some of the things that come up. We know Garner is a people pleaser. She makes that pretty clear. In comparison, Reese knows the cat is out of the bag and she doesn’t care as much at this point what we think of her. There’s a kind of power in that.

Also, I think Garner has the time to write notes to her kids and read to them because she’s probably not the one preparing their lunches or getting them ready. She’s an involved mom, she just has help. That also explains why she has time for all the activities.

photo credit: FameFlynet

Here’s what I’m dying to know: did North West’s daddy do her hair? Because her hair looks super-cute in these photos. As I said earlier this week, Kris Jenner and North arrived in London to spend time with Kanye West. Kim Kardashian is (presumably) home in LA, so this is a little bit unusual. Despite rumors to the contrary, Kanye really does seem to get along with Kris (he says he calls her “Mom”), and I’m assuming Kris is doing most of the baby-watching on this trip, although North seems comfortable enough with her daddy. And they all felt comfortable enough to do a little pap stroll together in London yesterday. So did Kris do North’s hair? Or did Kanye? Also: that poor baby is in leather leggings. Seriously.

I was actually thinking about this a few days ago – North West is pretty much the most famous toddler in the celebrity world today. North is the most popular member of her family, and North is photographed all over the place. So it’s a little bit weird that Kim and Kanye still don’t want North to be on-camera for Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West‘s daughter North can’t be bought! Though the Kardashian family recently signed a $100 million deal to extend Keeping Up with the Kardashians four more years, RadarOnline.com has learned that North’s parents have told E! that their daughter is off-limits. The year-long talks between momager Kris Jenner and the network to cut a lucrative new deal for Keeping Up With The Kardashians, “didn’t ever include any talk of having North on the show,” an insider tells Radar. “It was a no-go from the very beginning because Kim and Kanye made it clear North wasn’t going to be up for discussion.”

Despite constantly parading the tot in front of cameras, the source claimed, “They want North to have some privacy and be able to be a child away from the cameras.”

“There will be times when North will be included in a group setting, where it’s impossible to edit her out,” the source continued, “but she won’t be on the show on even a semi-regular basis. E! offered big money to have North included, but her parents turned it down.”

The decision has irked some executives at E! because the toddler has become a fixture at couture fashion shows, and Kardashian often posts adorable pictures of her on social media.

But the source said, “Kudos to Kris for scoring a record-setting deal without having to give up much in terms of concessions. There was a point during the talks where it seemed E! wasn’t going to pay for the massive contract. Kris would have had another deal signed in record time, and E! wasn’t going to let that happen. Love or hate the Kardashians, the family continues to do very well in the ratings.”

[From Radar]

I mean, Yeezy and Kim are the parents, and if they don’t want North on camera, so be it. But it is weird that they’re so comfortable with North being photographed in every fashionable city in the world, but they don’t want her on a reality show. What’s really the difference?

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News, WENN.

I can’t believe this is happening, but I’m about to defend Madonna yet again. During the BRIT Awards, Madonna’s performance of “Living For Love” was sort of a disaster. She had some of the same awkward staging she used for her Grammys performance, only at the BRIT Awards, she added a custom-made Armani cape. The cape was tied too tightly, so when Madonna’s dancers tried to pull it off of her (revealing Madge in a bullfighter’s costume), Madonna ended up ass over tea kettle on stage. It was bad.

But here’s the thing: Madonna didn’t blame the cape. After the fall, she said the cape was tied too tightly and the staging wasn’t exactly as they rehearsed, but she even went out of her way to thank Giorgio Armani for making the cape. So, surprise, Mr. Armani threw some major shade at Madonna this week:

It was the fashion fail of the week, but don’t blame the designer. Giorgio Armani says the bull fighter’s cape that brought down Madonna during a live performance at Brit Awards was meant to be closed with an easy-to-undo hook. She wanted it tied instead.

“Madonna, as we all know, is very difficult,” Armani said with a smile and a shrug backstage after his Emporio Armani show. “That’s all there was to it.”

Madonna was yanked backward down some steps after failing to untie the flowing cape. adonna said the cape had been tied too tightly at the neck, and two dancers who were supposed to merely pull it off wound up dragging the singer down three steps. The singer told Britain’s “Jonathan Ross Show” that she hit her head and suffered whiplash.

[From The Associated Press]

Is this fair to Madge? Was she the one to order alterations on what Armani designed as “an easy-to-undo hook”? Is she to blame for busting her own ass? Perhaps. But still, it feels like Armani took an unnecessary swipe at her. Yes, we all know she’s “very difficult”. What does that have to do with her fall though?

Here’s Mr. Armani waving “BYE BITCH” to Madonna.

And here are some photos of Madonna outside of Raspoutine in Paris on Monday night. Yes, she had her grill in. And yes, her face looks like it’s melting. And yes, she’s still wearing those orthopedic shoes. Sigh… poor Madge.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

I haven’t paid much attention to Jill Duggar-Dillard and her husband Derick Dillard. I mean, I assumed they were nutjobs, of course, but they really haven’t seemed as aggressive about everything compared to the rest of the Duggar family. But this week, Derick has become Public Enemy #1. Well, the #1 Enemy of Team Cat.

The backstory: the East Coast and Mid-West has been crippled by snow for weeks now. Areas that normally don’t even see an inch of snow got a foot or more in February. So, that’s led to something nice: lots of kids and adults have gotten an extended winter holiday and a chance to do fun snow-related activities, like sledding. The Duggar family went out sledding at some point in the past week, and Derick Dillard decided to aim his sled at a poor little ginger cat who was just minding her own business on a snow bank. They filmed the whole thing.

Sledding with friends and family at the Duggar home #smallestsled

A video posted by Derick Dillard (@derickdillard) on Feb 28, 2015 at 9:18pm PST

What’s more disturbing? That Derick aimed his makeshift sled (it’s a baking sheet) at the cat or that the other Duggars laughed and laughed like it was the funniest thing to see a poor kitty get run over by a 180-pound dude?

Obviously, Team Cat is not amused. Team Cat is coming for the Duggars, Derick in particular. Team Cat lives on the internet. Team Cat is all over Derick’s social media, bitching him out. But he still hasn’t removed this video. TEAM CAT WILL GET THEIR REVENGE.

Photos courtesy of Derick Dillard’s Instagram.

Iggy Azalea may have quit Twitter, but she can’t stop talking. Iggy has a new interiew with Power 106, where she talks about losing Best Rap Album (to Eminem) at the Grammys. To Iggy’s credit, she realizes the backlash after she won the AMA was nothing compared to what would have happened if she won a Grammy.

I chose not embed this video interview for obvious reasons. You can watch it here if you dare. This is one of the crudest discussions I’ve heard from Iggy. She threatens to take a male appendage to her haters, and I’m not excerpting that portion because it’s so disturbing — especially after Iggy schooled Eminem when he threatened a similar fate for her. Iggy has a different problem with Eminem, specifically why he’s not called out for being a white rapper. She also claims that her history of racist tweets was photoshopped:

Iggy vs. Emimem at the Grammys: “I found it to be kind of ironic. It was because I’m white, therefore I’m appropriating culture. But then Eminem won it — who’s white and won it many times — and they didn’t seem to say anything about that.”

Her racist tweets: “Having to deal with people photoshopping things that I say, and then other people really thinking that they’re true. Like ‘n-word this’ or ‘I hate every race’. Tweet about me hating Asian people, black people – I hate everyone, apparently. That annoyed me. Nobody wants to be called a racist … Nobody wants to feel like they’re Hitler. That was weak. That was lame.”

She’s happy for the Grammy loss: “I did not want to win that award. My speech would have been like, ‘F*** this! I don’t want it! Take it! Get away from me!’. I’m glad I didn’t win because people already hate me enough. I do not need to be hated any more. Are you ever going to leave me alone? I lost. You should be happy. Sh*t. Bye.”

[From Power 106 on Youtube]

Well, I agree with Iggy that it would have been a mess if she’d won a Grammy. She still doesn’t understand the cultural appropriation mess or why her critics have a point. All she can do is compare herself to Eminem in terms of being a white rapper. I’m not about to excuse Eminem for his recent stunt-queening lyrics at all. All I know is that Iggy believes she should be treated with the same respect as Eminem, or he should go down with her. She sees Eminem as an equal.

Here are some photos of Iggy at a gas station last month. A fan jumped up to help her pump. She didn’t seem to mind one bit.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN

Tiny hands and tiny feet…God has blessed us with an amazing gift! Isaiah Michael Fisher – born on February 27. Welcome to the world, sweet angel!

A photo posted by Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) on Mar 3, 2015 at 7:33am PST

Carrie Underwood, 31, announced on Instagram that she and her husband, Mike Fisher, 34, have welcomed their first child, a boy named Isaiah. I didn’t even remember she was pregnant because it seems like she’s laid low for the past few months. Isaiah was actually born last Friday, February 27. Carrie shared the above photo yesterday, which only showed little Isaiah’s hand. It would have been nice to have seen his face, but at lease she told us the name. (*cough* Blake Lively *cough*)

Isaiah is a Biblical name, it’s also a book in the Old Testament. Carrie is an outspoken Christian who reads the bible. She also supports gay marriage, yay! So Carrie and Mike picked a very old school Biblical name. It’s better than Moses, probably because it’s one of the lesser-known Bible names.

Carrie and Mike have been married since July, 2010, and seem to have deliberately waited to have children. Carrie has said several times in the past that she wasn’t ready to have kids yet, and that she knew it would be a big responsibility. To me, that sounds like she waited, considered motherhood carefully and went into it with her husband with open eyes.

Congratulations to Carrie and Mike on their new arrival!

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I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Good news: Michelle Williams has finally grown out her pixie after many, many months of awkwardness. That’s the thing about pixie cuts: they are a bitch to grow out. Bad news: Michelle really seems to want to make the white-blonde color happen. And I’m not in love with it. Overall though, I’d say that she looks really good in this Elle UK editorial for the April cover. But I would like to see her soften her blonde. Or even go brunette (she looked nice as a brunette). Michelle is wearing Louis Vuitton in every shot of this editorial too – she’s the current face of LV, so there you go. Anyway, here are some excerpts from Michelle’s interview:

Her work-life-mom balance: ‘You truly never know what’s going to happen. And to have things go wrong, or to make mistakes in real time and then be able to assimilate whatever is different is a tremendous feeling. To find in those moments that one doesn’t stop, or perish, or run away, but that you can rely on yourself to process things and keep going.’

She’s exhausted: ‘I feel like I’m so good at raising a kid when I’m not working. I don’t forget anything. I’ve got everything covered. It’s a real luxury to have a moment when I’m not scrambling. I feel like most of my life, I’m trying to do two things at once, both to the best of my abilities. So that leaves me feeling pretty exhausted. I’m the person who falls asleep all the time. You invite me over for dinner or to a party, and there’s a whole scrapbook of pictures of me napping. I’ve even been given a nickname because of my snoring.’

She doesn’t do Twitter, but she reads poetry: ‘I love poetry because it’s like a shot, like an attack, like a dose. And for a person who doesn’t have very much free time, it does its work very quickly. So I read poems on my phone when I wake up in the morning. It opens you up for the rest of the day, and suddenly your life becomes a little more observed. And when it becomes more observed, it can’t help but start to become more beautiful.’

[From Elle UK]

I could not read poetry as soon as I woke up. But then again, I read Page Six as soon as I wake up (gossip blogging is totes glamorous). But I feel her when she says “it’s like a shot, like an attack, like a dose…” I’m reading and writing all day for work. When I’m reading for fun, most days I need something simple, which is why I go with magazines or essay collections or short stories. I’m done with something in 20 minutes, which is perfect for me.

As for the rest of it… I feel like we’ve been hearing a lot less about Michelle’s personal life in the past two years or so. There was a marked decrease as soon as she was done with Jason Segel. She dated an artist named Dustin Yellin for a year, but they broke up last May and from what I can see, she’s been pretty much single since. I’d like her to find someone, but I always get the feeling (from her interviews) that she lives with the ghost, you know?

Photos courtesy of Kerry Hallihan/Elle UK.

Rita Ora covers the April issue of InStyle UK in an Asian-inspired spread with lots of fabulous prints and relevant architecture lurking in the background. She’s promoting her role as Christian Grey’s sister in 50 Shades. Rita’s hustled plenty for this film, which seems unfair since she only snagged less than a minute of screentime. Critics called her out on the “blink and you’ll miss it” role, and Rita grew indignant. She’s already signed on for two sequels and promises her role will grow more substantial. If I were Rita, I’d be thrilled to skip out on this mess. She can still include the film in her repertoire, and Rita has a firm supporter in Harvey Weinstein. She may be set for the next few years no matter what. Here are some InStyle excerpts:

Her career setbacks:“I’ve been told ‘no’ so many times in my career. It doesn’t mean it’s over … I can remember every single ‘no’ I’ve been told in my life. They do not leave my brain. But they build you up.”

On snagging the 50 Shades role: “I said I’d love to involved as I was such a fan of the book. And then Sam said, ‘Well, why don’t you audition?’ And I said, ‘Sure … I’ve got a few song ideas, I could send them over…’ and she said, ‘No, why don’t you audition for the movie?’ And I was like, ‘What?, I’ve done a bit of acting, but honestly didn’t expect to be put into that role. I thought, what have I got to lose? I auditioned like everybody else — there were a lot of other people in the frame. I didn’t get any special treatment. I perfected my American accent, one thing led to another, and I got it.”

She rejected The Voice: “I said no straight away. I love the show but I wanted to focus on my second album. And then I spoke to will.I.am and he said “Listen, if you don’t do it, I won’t do it.’”

[From InStyle UK]

I’ve said this before — Rita’s musical appeal evades my sensibilities, but her unparallelled hustle works wonders. She plays a good game, which may only have temporary results, but it’s still an admirable haul. I don’t think anyone can judge her acting prowess by four lines in 50 Shades, but we’ll see how she fares in the coming years. At this point, producers could slip anyone into the cast slots and make it work.

FYI, here’s Rita in a silly blue fur coat in London last weekend. Rita attended the same event as Kim Kardashian, they both wore the same pink latex dress. No wonder Rita kept her coat on outside the venue.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, WENN & Marcin Tyszka/InStyle UK

Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie split up a while back, but they seemed to be genuinely working on their issues. Until Mike Comrie was caught blatantly offering random women money for sex. Then Hilary couldn’t file for divorce fast enough. Sources told Us Weekly that when Hilary heard about that incident, she “realized Mike would never change” and that she needed to call it quits. So, with that knowledge, here’s Hilary’s brave, fearless single-girl Cosmo cover. After reading these quotes… she’s been ready to divorce him for a while.

On her marriage & divorce with Mike Comrie: “Mike and I were very in love when we met. We both really wanted to get married. I’d been working since the age of 11 or 12, so making that choice at a young age seemed right for me. Maybe it wasn’t, but we spent the majority of our time together really happy. It wasn’t working well enough to stay together, but there was still a lot of love involved. It was just a slow set-in of us not being the match that we used to be. I’m lucky for the person he is and I am and how we decided to handle this.”

On her view of marriage, post-divorce: “I don’t want to sound bitter because I’m definitely not, but I don’t know if people are meant to be together forever. Things happen over a long relationship that you can’t always fight. A marriage of 20 years, the accomplishment of that must feel really great, but there are also huge sacrifices. I just always want to fight for happiness.”

On Aaron Carter’s recent declarations of love for Duff on Twitter: “Him reaching out through social media? It’s ridiculous! But then people do it all the time, like Chris Brown and Karrueche? Come on, guys. Keep it between text messages.”

Her Hollywood crush: “Charlie Hunnam.”

[From Cosmo]

Girl, Charlie Hunnam is everyone’s crush!!! Get in line! As for the other stuff… I don’t mean this in a rude or “talk to the hand” way, but Hilary’s comments about love and marriage sound pretty typical of a woman getting out of a marriage. I appreciate the fact that she’s not doing a bigger “WOE IS ME” routine, but pretty much every woman getting out of a marriage wonders if we’re are really meant to couple up for the rest of our lives.

Photos courtesy of Eric Ray Davidson/Cosmo.