Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attended the 2024 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Gala on Saturday night. We covered the lovely photos yesterday, and I’m including more pics in this post. At one point, Meghan happily posed with Paul S. Viviano, CEO of the Children’s Hospital. He was delighted that Meghan was there, and while Meghan’s attendance was a “surprise” in the sense that photographers didn’t know she would attend, Viviano apparently had a tip about her attendance. He had Meghan seated at his table, along with Jimmy Kimmel and Kimmel’s wife Molly McNearny.
A guest told People, “Meghan was lovely, and there was no pretense about her. She was smiling and happy to shake hands with anyone who approached her.”
At the Oct. 5 event, Meghan sat with CHLA CEO Paul S. Viviano and at the same table as Jimmy Kimmel and wife Molly McNearny.
“She was so approachable and accessible,” an attendee says of Meghan. “It was refreshing.”
Though her appearance at the gala was a surprise, Meghan has been a longtime supporter of the hospital. On March 21, Meghan visited CHLA to lead a Literally Healing session, where she used her acting chops to illuminate storytime with the kids.
I bring this up because the Derangers are very mad that Meghan stepped out of her house and looked so glamorous and beautiful. They’ve been spreading lies about how she wasn’t even invited to the gala, or she wasn’t really welcome, or better yet, she “only walked the carpet and then left.” Speaking of, Richard Eden spoke to a thirsty attendee at the gala – Liz Cundy, the same POS who regularly insults Meghan whenever anyone asks.
Meghan Markle just attended the LA Children’s Hospital Gala ‘for the photographs’, a former friend has claimed. The British socialite Lizzie Cundy, 56, attended the event with the Duchess of Sussex last Saturday wearing similar dresses.
Lizzie told the Mail: ‘There wasn’t a great deal of warmth from people when she arrived. She wasn’t there long – she seemed to be there for the photographs.’
She added: ‘Meghan needs LA more than LA needs her. LA people feel they’ve been played by her.’
‘I’d have worn a different one if I’d known,’ Ms Cundy, 56, who wore a £259 Pia Michi dress to the event, said. Ms Cundy added: ‘Harry and Meghan were loved because they’re part of the Royal Family, but they’ve bad-mouthed the royals, who are loved in LA. It’s a shame, because charity work is where her and Harry do great things.’
“There wasn’t a great deal of warmth from people when she arrived. She wasn’t there long – she seemed to be there for the photographs” – I’ve seen the videos of Meghan’s arrival on the carpet – the photographers were pleased, and Meghan’s attendance was and is a huge story. And obviously, Meghan was seated with the CEO of the hospital within the gala. Also: there’s nothing I love more than British people insisting that Americans are obsessed with the left-behinds and hate the Sussexes because they “bad-mouthed the royals.” Tell me you know nothing about Americans without telling me you know nothing about Americans.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
The Law & Order franchise is notorious for giving up-and-coming actors early TV gigs, many times even their first credited roles on screen. Stars like Sarah Paulson and Bradley Cooper had guest roles on the series before each of their respective breaks, and I always find it a hoot to go back and see big names like that before they were famous. It’s a rite of passage so recognized that even SNL has poked fun at the phenomenon. Apparently, though, once some level of stardom has been achieved, instead of nabbing a cameo that shows off their acting chops, the only part celebrities want to play is that of a dead body. So says Law & Order: SVU star and executive producer Mariska Hargitay, which she described on Late Night With Seth Meyers recently to promote the season 26 premiere. Sure enough, Seth responded with his own story of asking to play a cadaver. Always believe Captain Benson.
There’s one role all the biggest stars want to portray on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, according to star and executive producer Mariska Hargitay.
The actress made an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers ahead of the SVU season 26 premiere on Thursday. While speaking with the host, she revealed that A-listers who want to guest star on the long-running show all want to play dead.
“All the famous people, you know what they want? To be a dead body,” she told Seth Meyers. “It’s so weird.”
Hargitary recalled she recently spoke to a “big supermodel,” whom she wouldn’t name but noted she was “one of the greats,” who wanted to only portray a dead person, despite the SVU writers having a more elaborate role for her.
“I found out that she loved my show. So I said, ‘Oh my gosh,’ I went to the writers, I said, ‘Can she be on the show?’ And she said she wanted to be a dead body, but then I said, ‘No, no, we have this great part for you,’” the ER actress said. “I call her back, I said, ‘Listen we got it. We’re gonna get you on the show.’ She goes, ‘Oh no, I wanna be a dead body.’”
Admittedly, the late night host was also one of those people who only wanted to play dead.
“I wanted to be a dead body. During the 2007-2008 writers strike, I met all these Law & Order writers, and I was like, ‘I wanna do a cameo, but I just wanna be a dead body,’” Meyers recalled. “And they were like, ‘Oh my God, we’d love to have you on the show.’ But I was like, ‘OK, but I’m a dead person.’”
Despite eventually being offered a role, he turned it down because he “was like, ‘I don’t want lines, I just wanna be a dead person in the park.’”
I’m of two minds here. On the one hand, there is something hilarious about the fact that once actors (or other celebrities) have an established footing in the industry, all they seem to want to do on the show is play a dead body. It comes off rather lazy, right? And what kind of fee are they negotiating for the honor of a no-lines, no-life role? Reduced, I hope! On the other hand, and speaking of fees, playing dead is somewhat akin to sleeping, and I think it would actually be kind of brilliant to get paid to sleep. But I say that as a non-celebrity making non-celebrity wages! And as someone who’s really, really good at sleeping. If someone paid me to sleep, they’d get a top-notch professional performance, is alls I’m sayin’. But if these big-timers really want to stick to the dead body roles, I say sure — more opportunity for the next generation of talent! Plus I love the juxtaposition of new Juilliard grads acting their patooties off while Gisele Bundchen (correct me if I got the wrong supermodel, Mariska!) lies prone on the floor. End scene.
Photos credit: Elder Ordonez/INSTARimages and via Instagram
On Thursday, Glamour magazine revealed their “Women of the Year” cover. This year’s theme is “The Moms,” and features Donna Kelce (Travis and Jason Kelce), Maggie Baird (Billie Eilish and Finneas), Mandy Teefey (Selena Gomez) and Tina Knowles (duh; Beyoncé and Solange). You can read the full article here. In conjunction with the cover reveal, Glamour also released a 25-minute video of these famous moms talking with Glamour’s Editor-in-Chief, Samantha Barry. In the video, they chat about motherhood, having famous kids, trying to keep their famous children grounded, being recognized by themselves, and more.
When asked about what “normal thing” they miss being able to do with their kids, Tina spoke about how much she misses just being able to go the mall with her daughters and Mandy talked about Disneyland. Donna brought up how the Kelce family “can’t go anywhere” anymore. She also said that although they’ve managed to keep some places on the downlow, at this point, they basically have to “rent out” any restaurant or movie theater in order to be able to do something together as a family in private.
Still, when the mom to NFL superstars Travis Kelce—who has been dating Taylor Swift since 2023—and Jason Kelce is spending time with her sons, she admits it can be difficult to find privacy.
“We can’t go anywhere really,” Donna said in a conversation with Tina Knowles, Mandy Teefey and Maggie Baird for Glamour published Oct. 3. “If we want to do something, you have to rent out the restaurant or movie theater or whatever. I do get to sneak away every once in a while, and we go to places that nobody knows where they are.”
However, in comparison to the mothers of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles, Selena Gomez and Billie Eilish and Finneas, Donna—who shares Jason and Travis with ex Ed Kelce—appreciates she got to experience more normalcy with her kids.
“I think you just bring things up that they did when they were children to just show them that they’re like everybody else—how many broken windows there were, how many times I had a call from the neighbor,” she explained of how their normal foundation supports her sons’ growing fame. “They were very rambunctious.”
Donna continued, “I think it’s just bringing them back to their childhood—what they’re most grateful for and where they were able to have a platform to grow.”
And while she may not get to spend time with her sons in public like she used to, Donna is able to see a more normal side of the NFL players behind closed doors, especially when it comes to seeing Jason be a dad to daughters Wyatt, 5, Elliotte, 3, and Bennett, 20 months, whom he shares with wife Kylie Kelce.
“Watching your son be a father is just like, ‘How can they be so tender and be such a maniac out on the field?’” Donna added. “Travis is a good uncle, and Jason’s a great dad, and it’s just very heartwarming to know that they have that within them to be very nurturing, very kind, very gentle—especially with girls.”
One thing that Donna also points out during that same conversation is that it’s especially difficult to fly under the radar because they’re all so tall that even while trying to blend in, they’re hard to miss. I can imagine just how much whiplash the Kelces have gotten over the past year. I know that Donna has been famous in the NFL community for years, but it was not on the same playing field as the attention that they’re all getting right now. I wonder if they ever get overwhelmed and wonder if life will ever go back to a more “normal” level of fame. Jason and Kylie have said in the past that they’ve begun setting boundaries when it comes to their young daughters’ privacy.
As for the full video, it’s a really charming conversation! All four women give great answers and it’s pretty interesting to get each one’s perspective. Even if you don’t watch it all in one sitting, I definitely recommend watching as much of it as you can. It’s always going to be neat to hear Tina tell stories about a young Beyonce and Solange. Maggie seems like a pretty badass lady, but I’d expect nothing less. I also cannot get over how much Selena Gomez looks like her mom. It’s uncanny.
Photos credit: Jennifer Graylock-Graylock.com / Avalon and via Instagram
Chris Pine is currently promoting his… children’s book?? Did y’all know that he wrote a children’s book? It’s called When Digz the Dog Met Zurl the Squirrel. It’s worth noting that Pine actually has a BA in English from UC Berkeley. Like, the man loves to write and he’s reportedly a huge reader. It just feels like Pine’s career is a lot weirder than it should be. He should be a full-fledged movie star with tons of A-list films on his CV. I get that he’s quirky and maybe he prefers smaller films, but still. I never would have thought that a guy who looks like Chris Pine would turn to writing children’s books. Anyway, that’s why he covered last weekend’s issue of Parade Magazine. Some highlights from Parade:
On starting his acting career: “I had blinders on once I realized after college that acting was what I was going to do. I had no room for doubt; I was just going to do it. It’s odd that I never thought about a world where it wasn’t going to work out. And I really didn’t f–k around in my 20s. There wasn’t a lot of going to parties and having a good time. I was like, I’ll do it.
On his first onscreen credit as a patient on the TV show, ER: “I think I was “drunk fraternity boy.” I might have had a name. There was something very romantic about the Warner Bros. studio in Los Angeles. On the ER soundstage they built this huge emergency room where the cameras are following characters going in and out. It’s exciting when you’re a young actor and you’re going to work with Maura Tierney and Sally Field.
On being on camera: “It took me a long time not to be self-conscious and terrified. I don’t know if there’s any acting school that can really prepare you for the permutations of set life. It’s a really bizarre thing to do.
A career highlight: “The first day on set for the first Star Trek movie. It was my first humongous movie, and we were on a soundstage on the Paramount lot. I come from a Hollywood family, so to be on a soundstage on a Hollywood lot was like everything that I dreamed about. Being on the ridge and looking out was definitely an out-of-body moment.
On why he wrote this book (during the pandemic): “I don’t have kids, but I have a dog and I’m in love with my dog. And I do have a deep love for stories, for literature and for books I grew up with. My mother and father would tell me stories before going to bed. And obviously I’m an actor, and I’ve written and directed and produced, so storytelling is kind of in my blood.”
On the message of his book: “What if the frustration and the anger that these two animals seem to have toward one another comes from a place of their own vulnerability and their own sense of being deficient? Why is a bully a bully? Probably because something happened to the bully, and maybe if you understood what happened to the bully, you can repair relationships and move on with love.
On his car collection: “I have an obsession with European cars of the mid-20th century. A Tesla is like the world’s largest iPad. It’s more romantic to get in a car that you’re not sure is going to start or it takes 10 minutes to warm up before you drive it.
“A Tesla is like the world’s largest iPad.” Seriously. And the Cybertruck is hideous and dangerous at every level. I also love mid-century cars, but even more than that, I love American metal from the ‘60s and ‘70s. There’s a very real nostalgia and modern need for things which are not “smart,” which do not operate through a phone or ipad or through the internet. “Dumb” refrigerators or HVAC or cars are making a comeback. As for writing this book during the pandemic… that’s sort of cool. It was probably his little project to keep himself sane. I wonder if he’ll do it as a series if the book is successful.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images. Cover courtesy of Parade.
Almost two weeks ago, Anna Delvey and her dance partner, first-year pro Ezra Sosa, were one of the first two couples eliminated from Dancing with the Stars. Anna’s behavior since then has been just as snotty and tacky as you’d expect. When asked by host Julianne Hough what she’d take away from the experience, she replied, “Nothing!” In a subsequent exit interview with Sosa for Good Morning America, Anna said that her favorite part of doing DWTS was being voted out.
Given the uproar that followed, I think Anna realized that she’d found a new way to stay in the headlines and extend her notoriety: Just talk sh-t about the show and people will pay attention. Last week, she laughably called the show “predatory.” Meanwhile, Ezra was apparently taken by Anna and is trying to help spin her snotty response as “ironic.” He even got a tattoo of the word “nothing” to commemorate his first-ever partner and the whole experience.
Anna Delvey took “nothing” from her Dancing with the Stars experience, but it’s now immortalized on show partner Ezra Sosa’s body! The dance pro got the 33-year-old convicted con artist’s memorable — and controversial — final comment on the competition reality series inked on his body, he revealed in a TikTok on Saturday, Oct. 5.
He debuted the upper back tattoo — “nothing” in cursive above a “33” to mark season 33 — while lip-syncing along to the now-infamous moment. In the caption, Sosa poked fun at his decision to get the one-word reply inked, writing, “[I’m] such an idiot.”
Delvey replied with a similarly blunt response, commenting, “Exactly.”
Sosa’s new Delvey tribute ink comes less than two weeks after he and the controversial contestant were eliminated.
Right after their elimination was announced, Sosa appeared shocked by his partner’s reply, raising his eyebrows in surprise. As demonstrated by his new ink, however, the dancer later told PEOPLE he thinks Delvey’s reaction was “iconic.”
“I was — I’m not going to lie — I was a little nervous [about] what she was going to say,” he recalled. “But with what she said, I think it was very iconic.”
Sosa said he is “really happy with how [Delvey] ended [her run on the show]” because she stayed true to herself throughout the experience. “With me being her partner on the show, I wanted her to show different sides of herself to America, but also I don’t want her to ever change who she is, because I really think she’s so brilliant and everything,” he said.
The DWTS pro also recalled that he could tell in the moment that Delvey was “livid” when they were not announced as being “safe” from elimination — and revealed that the duo has kept in touch since, both in and outside of TikTok comments.
“We’re texting every day,” he told PEOPLE. “Yes, we are. She’s like, ‘You have to come to New York!’ And I was like, ‘Do you miss me?’ She goes, ‘Sure.’ But every single time she says sure it means yes.”
“Like, I kind of have her down a little bit,” he explained.
Look, I totally get wanting to mark a special or particularly memorable occasion with a tattoo, but goodness, this is a wild one. I could understand him doing it if it also wasn’t tied into them being so friendly. You know, like getting one tattoo for each season on the show that basically wraps it up in a nutshell. Like a tattoo scrapbook, if you will. But with Anna involved, it just feels kinda ick, right? It’s almost as though she’s hustling him to feed her ego through all of the texting and convincing him that he knows her so well. Ezra seems like such a decent person that is just getting carried away with the excitement and momentum of his first go-round as a pro partner. Run, Ezra, run! Hopefully, he’ll look back at that tattoo several seasons from now and it will be one of many that include a #1 place trophy.
Anna Delvey’s ‘DWTS’ partner, Ezra Sosa, gets ‘nothing’ tattooed on his back after her one-word elimination shade https://t.co/MA6kQ2bVl1 pic.twitter.com/SF7ZQkmErY
— Page Six (@PageSix) October 6, 2024
Robert Pattinson & Suki Waterhouse went to the Veuve Clicquot Classic over the weekend. This was their first joint-appearance since they became parents. [Socialite Life]
Princess Diaries 3 is happening! [Seriously OMG]
Andrew Garfield’s jean jacket is amazing. [Go Fug Yourself]
Kendrick Lamar reportedly turned down Coachella. [Just Jared]
The final season of What We Do In the Shadows is coming soon. [LaineyGossip]
Is SNL good this season? It doesn’t seem like it is. [Pajiba]
Saoirse Ronan auditioned for Harry Potter. [OMG Blog]
David Boreanaz wants a Bones revival! [Coming Soon]
All about Hurricane Milton, which will hit Florida’s west coast. [Hollywood Life]
Hugh Grant has no memory of meeting Donald Trump, lol. [Buzzfeed]
The Daily Mail is seemingly not embarrassed to continue to fret over every single detail involving the Duchess of Sussex’s brief time in the UK. As we know, Meghan spoke – in a vague way on the Netflix series – about what it was like to meet Prince Harry’s family for the first time. She spoke about how she was surprised that “the formality” carried into the Windsors’ family meetings and dinners, and how she’s an American hugger and that certain people within the family didn’t like any of that. In Spare, Harry pointed out that when he and Meghan invited William and Kate to dinner, Meghan was usually in ripped jeans and barefoot, while Kate was “dressed to the nines.” Well, James Middleton recalls, in his pseudo-memoir, Kate’s introduction to his wife Alizee, and of course James makes Kate sound positively Meghan-esque. From the Daily Mail’s “Kate Middleton’s VERY casual first meeting with her brother James’s wife Alizee – and why it casts doubt on Meghan’s claims about her own introduction to the Princess of Wales.”
Before her relationship with Kate fell apart amid rows over bridesmaids dresses and ‘baby brain’ comments, Meghan Markle has claimed her sister-in-law took against her from the get-go because of her more casual style. Harry’s wife recalled how she was ‘barefoot’ and wearing ripped jeans when she first met Kate and said that the ‘formal’ future Queen, and other members of the Royal Family, found it jarring that she was a ‘hugger’.
However, an intriguing snippet from a new memoir by Kate’s brother James, about the royal being introduced to his now wife, Alizee, for the first time, paints a very different picture of the Princess. He described how Alizee appeared in the kitchen of the Middleton family home with her hair tousled and wearing nothing but his shirt, only to find Kate, William and their three children there.
Far from it being an issue, there was ‘no awkwardness at all’ and by the end of the weekend Kate had given Alizee her seal of approval, telling James the French financier was ‘just great’. It suggests that whatever issues subsequently emerged between Kate and Harry’s wife, Meghan’s penchant for ripped jeans was not the root of the problem.
By contrast, Meghan Markle said there was some awkwardness with Kate straight away when they first met in 2017, and put it down to their very different styles. Meghan recounted in the couple’s Netflix series Harry & Meghan that she was ‘barefoot’ and wearing ripped jeans when she first met Kate. Discussing the meeting, she said she did not know the ‘formality’ the royals display in public continues behind closed doors and that she is a ‘hugger’ – which she did not realise was ‘jarring for some Brits’.
She said: ‘Even when Will and Kate came over and I was meeting her for the first time I remember I was in ripped jeans, I was barefoot. Like I was a hugger, I have always been a hugger I didn’t realise that is really jarring for a lot of Brits.’
‘I started to understand that the formality on the outside carried through on the inside, that there is a forward facing way of being and then you close the door and think “OK we can relax now”. But that formality carries over on both sides and that was surprising to me.’
Gee, I wonder why Kate was more relaxed meeting her brother’s girlfriend in Middleton Manor and not so relaxed meeting her brother-in-law’s new girlfriend in Nottingham Cottage? I wonder if the situations were completely different? Gee, I wonder if race was a factor?? I wonder about other factors too, like whether Kate saw Meghan as competition, and whether Kate was jealous of a beautiful, accomplished American woman? Or perhaps Kate was jealous of her cute brother-in-law’s obvious devotion to Meghan? We will truly never know!!
On Saturday, Donald Trump returned to that same field in Butler, Pennsylvania. That field where a Republican teenager shot up Trump’s rally in July and everyone promptly acted like nothing happened. There was the “Kotex pad on the ear” phase, but beyond that… just a lot of unanswered questions. I was actually worried that Butler would be the site of some new horror show this weekend, and I was right, but I didn’t think it would be like this.
Elon Musk and JD Vance joined Trump in Butler on Saturday. Sidenote: Trump doesn’t like his running mate, and they rarely do joint appearances together without some kind of buffer. In this case, Trump would have preferred to just do the event with Musk, but Vance must have piped up like the latest Trump failson: “what about me, Donny???”
Anyway, the photos of Musk and Trump together are truly pathetic. I find it difficult to settle on which one is the biggest loser. Trump is so desperate for any kind of relevancy, and Musk is just a childish moron desperate for any kind of acceptance or validation. Daddy likes me the best! I’m cool, the moron MAGAts are cheering for me! Musk announced at the rally: “As you can see I am not just MAGA — I am Dark MAGA.” That’s one of the most deplorable parts of all of this – these men are some of the weakest, most subservient and most pitiful specimens out there, but they think they’re legendary. I hope Musk ends up in prison alongside his latest racist daddy.
I’m sorry, this is the funniest single photo of the entire election cycle. pic.twitter.com/w6PuJlPPmW
— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) October 6, 2024
Photos courtesy of Getty.
The last four weeks of the election are upon us. Election Day is four weeks and a day away, and I hope many people are voting early! I’m not, I’m going to the polls on Election Day. This is the “home stretch” of the campaign and VP Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz are in media-blitz mode. They’re just not playing the Beltway media’s games and the Beltway media is soooo mad about it. Look at this Politico tweet:
After avoiding the media for neigh on her whole campaign, Kamala Harris is … still largely avoiding the media. The VP is set for a series of interviews that likely won’t press her on tough issues, even as voters want more specifics.
More in Playbook: https://t.co/psYR4CceRs
— POLITICO Playbook (@playbookdc) October 6, 2024
Keep in mind, Politico’s Playbook editor was just suspended last week after his ex-fiancee accused him of blackmailing her over her affair with Robert Kennedy Jr, a presidential candidate-turned-Trump-surrogate. Keep in mind that in addition to Kamala Harris’s appearance on Call Her Daddy, VP Harris will also appear on The Late Show, Howard Stern and 60 Minutes this week.
Speaking of Call Her Daddy, the videos/pod began dropping last night. There are so many good parts! The conversation was largely about women, women’s rights, the cultural war against women and reproductive rights. Alex Cooper also said that she did reach out to Trump’s team and invited him on the show but Trump refused: “If he also wants to have a meaningful, in-depth conversation about women’s rights in this country, then he is welcome on Call Her Daddy anytime.”
There are a lot of excellent parts to the clips, including VP Harris pushing back on a lot of Trump’s lies about how he’ll “protect” women, and all of the crazy sh-t he’s said about abortion. One of the best moments was when VP Harris was asked about Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ appalling comments about how VP Harris doesn’t have biological children so she has no one keeping her “humble.” Kamala said, in part: “I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who are not aspiring to be humble. This is not the 1950s anymore.”
Q: I saw the governor of Arkansas said ‘my kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.’ How did that make you feel?
Vice President Harris: I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who are not… pic.twitter.com/MsOmhEnDGH
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) October 6, 2024
Introduction: Minutes 0 to 5:45
Chandra and I both watched The Perfect Couple and loved it! Chandra also loved the fourth season of Emily in Paris. You can listen below!
Royals: Minutes 5:45 to 24:15
After our last podcast Kate released a video with her family announcing that she was cancer free. It was self absorbed and the British media criticized her for it. King Charles is said to have disapproved too. It was reportedly Kate’s idea, which makes a lot of sense.
There were stories after that about how we weren’t going to see Kate for a while and how her schedule wasn’t going to get back to normal until the spring. We heard that she went to a ballet performance recently and that she’s been having private meetings. This week Kate and William helped grant a 16-year-old cancer patient’s wish to photograph an investiture ceremony, which was really nice. The Waleses were possibly motivated by Harry’s recent press and the comments from Buckingham Palace about Kate’s video.
Last week Prince Harry was in New York for a series of appearances. He also was on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to tour his haunted house, which was fun. Cameron Walker of GB News tweeted that Harry is a veteran and that he was surprised that he got scared for that reason. Over the weekend Harry dipped in and out of London to attend the WellChild Awards. He didn’t see his dad at all. When we recorded Harry was visiting Lesotho and South Africa.
While Harry was getting so much positive press in New York, the British press tried to attack the Sussexes on two fronts. One was that Harry and Meghan must be having relationship problems because Meghan wasn’t with him on these trips. We heard she was sick maybe she has covid and/or she just wanted to stay home with the kids. Then they dusted off that old chestnut about Meghan being mean and making her staffers cry by asking them to do their jobs and sending them email. It was unhinged and they got some US outlets to run it this time, including The Hollywood Reporter. They got one specific story about Meghan allegedly screaming at a florist in 2018, however the florist for her wedding went on the record to say it was great to work with her. The lack of specifics about what Meghan allegedly did is so telling.
The Sussexes pushed back against these lies with an US Weekly cover story including quotes from people who work with them and went on the record. Of course Meghan and Harry are thoughtful, kind bosses. The reaction to the US story was unhinged. We wonder why The Hollywood Reporter parroted British talking points about Meghan circa 2018.
William tried doing a bunch of stuff as Harry was getting press. He posed in front of some new London Air Ambulance Charity helicopters with David Beckham and he visited a company called Enso where he changed a tire. This week there was a story that Victoria Beckham doesn’t like Meghan, but it seemed manufactured by the press. Prince William tried to poach Chef Jose Andres by putting him on the board of Earthshot, but Andres made it clear that he’s still good friends with Harry. William still has that unattractive patchy beard because he wants Harry’s style and life.
Comments of the Week: Minutes 24:15 to end
Kaiser’s comment of the week is from sevenblue on the post where Tom Parker Bowles calls Charles “the loveliest man in the world.”
Here’s a link the photos Chandra mentioned where Camilla is scratching her vag. I remember when Camilla went maskless to a cooking event right after Charles tested positive for covid.
My comment of the week is from Pinkosaurus on the post about Olivia Nuzzi filing a complaint with the FBI against her ex-fiance.
Thanks for listening bitches!