Yesterday I wrote about Dua Lipa at the Grammys and wondered if she and Anwar Hadid had split because he hadn’t liked or commented on any of her posts. Instead of congratulating her online, he was doing it in real life with a post-Grammys party (a couple of their close friends and tons of balloons)….

Here are some photos of Olivia Munn out in LA yesterday, before she would have found out about the shooting in Atlanta. Eight people are now dead, six of them Asian women, as the murderer targeted multiple locations, all of them either spas or massage parlours. Authorities have not declared this a h…

Trailer for Monday, a romance with an ‘80s vibe starring Sebastian Stan & Denise Gough. This looks hot & complicated! [LaineyGossip]
Hello to Joel McHale’s buff arms. [Just Jared]
The latest revelations from Allen v. Farrow. [Pajiba]
Alabama lifts ban on yoga in schools. [Towleroad]
Josie Canseco sells swimwear, provocatively. [Egotastic]
Tiffany Haddish takes offense at being compared to Nicki Minaj. [Dlisted]
Balmain’s latest collection is… eh. [Go Fug Yourself]
Let’s do a real background check on Brett Kavanaugh. [Jezebel]
Eight people murdered in hate crime in Georgia. [Buzzfeed]
Taraji P. Henson in David Koma. [RCFA]
The Honest Trailer for WandaVision. [OMG Blog]
Love After Lockup dude is a domestic abuser, quelle surprise. [Starcasm]

Last week, Hailey Bieber made her debut in the YouTube space. One of the many reasons why YouTubers are so successful is because they do a great job at connecting with their audience on a personal level, so that’s why I find it so interesting to see A-listers try it out, their bid to show the world …

Last week, Hailey Bieber made her debut in the YouTube space. One of the many reasons why YouTubers are so successful is because they do a great job at connecting with their audience on a personal level, so that’s why I find it so interesting to see A-listers try it out, their bid to show the world …

Cindy Crawford covered a recent issue of Red, not really to promote anything, just to model and talk about her life. She’s 54 years old and she’s been able to shepherd her daughter Kaia into a pretty successful modeling career. Cindy hasn’t had the same luck with her son Presley, who seems to give off Rebel Without A Beach House vibes. Still, I actually do think Cindy is probably an okay mom. She seems very involved with Presley and Kaia and their careers, and I don’t really get the feeling that she’s living vicariously through them. She knows she was the OG. Some highlights from her Red interview:

The secret to her marriage: ‘Friendship. With my husband, I feel even if we weren’t together, we’d be friends. Of course, you have to have sexual chemistry, but our relationship is based on friendship and mutual respect.’

Parenting skills: ‘Parenting is the hardest and most rewarding job. Rande and I made our kids feel included. If we had friends over for dinner, they sat with us and I think that’s served them well. They’ve always been comfortable being around older people and asking questions. What could I do better? Probably not offer help unless it’s asked for. You want to do everything for your kids, but when I stand back and they come to me for advice, they’re more likely to listen. When I offer it unsolicited, it just annoys them.’

Pressured into photoshoots: ‘I have done a lot of nudes and swimsuit shoots, but the ones you regret are the times you feel pressured in the moment. When I did Playboy with Herb Ritts, I felt totally comfortable. I could have killed the whole shoot if I wanted and that allowed me to do it in a way that felt safe. But there were times when I haven’t felt I had a voice. I did the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue early in my career and the woman overseeing it was very controlling. I remember getting to Thailand and she wanted me to wear a turban for the first shot. At the time, I thought, I am not sure the guys who read Sports Illustrated think that turbans are very sexy, and I voiced that, and she did not like it. I ended up only having one small picture in the magazine. I thought, “Wow, I’m being reprimanded for speaking my mind – I’m not really down with that.”‘

Her movie debut: ‘I did a movie called Fair Game. I never really wanted to be an actor, but a guy I met, who was a producer, begged me to be in it and kept upping the price until I thought, “I’m an idiot to say no.” But I should have said no, or prepared myself better. The valuable takeaway was that I’m very comfortable in front of the camera, but only when I’m being me. But that was a gift, because as a model, a lot of people send you scripts and I was tempted – I was dating an actor at the time – but I let all that go and I realised that as much as I love watching actors, I don’t think I am one.’

[From Red]

I like what she said about Fair Game because it gave me so much nostalgia for that era, when people expected models to transition into acting, and very few of those models were any good at it. In the 1980s and early 1990s, the models were the ones bringing all the glamour, while actresses just… were not, for the most part. Anyway, I remember how Cindy was mocked for Fair Game and I’m enjoying her insistence that the producer just kept offering more and more money. Something else to think about: after Cindy did her Herb Ritts photoshoot in Playboy, she booked a million jobs. That shoot made her incredibly famous, even more than anything else she had done at the time.

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After many of the awards nominations came out, I started paying attention to how much buzz Riz Ahmed was getting for Sound of Metal because of his tour de force performance as a rock/metal drummer who loses his hearing. So I found the film and watched it and WOW. I’ve been a Riz Ahmed fan in that I thought he was talented and he was good in whatever I saw him in, but this was really a star-making performance, and his Oscar nomination this week is well-deserved. I really hope more people see the movie and I loved the story and how the beats of the film unfolded. Riz covers one of W Magazine’s Best Performances issues, and the interview was a lot about Sound of Metal, his preparations and what he learned about American Sign Language (ASL) and the deaf community. Some highlights:

Learning about metal music and the deaf community: “One of the things that really attracted me to this role, and one of the things I like most about being an actor, is learning new skills and learning about new people in communities and cultures. And that’s what this job was. [Sound of Metal director] Darius Marder said, “Whoever is going to play this role is really going to play the drums. I love music too much to fake it. And similarly with American Sign Language—your character needs to be fluent. Then I want the actor to be able to improvise with deaf actors.” That challenge was just what I was looking for at the time: something that would be almost overwhelming, so I would have to lose any attempt at control. And that’s when the interesting things happened. It was a seven-month process of learning to play the drums from scratch, and American Sign Language.

He lived in the Ruben character for seven months: “Ruben is a character who is very structured, so I thought I’d approach the preparation in a very structured way, to be quite immersed. I stayed in the accent and with blond hair for seven months. And, you know, there are tougher things to do for seven months than walk around blond. I would do American Sign Language with Jeremy Stone, my instructor, for a couple of hours in the morning. Then I would go and work on my script with my acting coach. And then in the afternoons for a few hours, I would drum. In the evenings, I would usually go to Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous meetings. At night, I would go to a gig. I was learning about multiple worlds at the same time: the punk and metal and noise scene, the deaf community, addiction circles. The way I like to work is just to immerse myself in it completely. So it was a long journey, but it was such an eye-opening one.

Learning about the richness of the deaf community’s culture: In the preparation process, I was immersed often in the deaf community with my instructor. I would be at his wedding, or go to deaf poetry slam competitions, or just hang out and socialize. One of the things I learned is that deafness isn’t a disability for many people. For many deaf people, it’s a rich and diverse culture. There are even different deaf accents. People in Harlem will sign differently to someone from Brooklyn, who’ll sign differently to someone in L.A. It just gives you an idea of the elegance, the inventiveness, the creativity of American Sign Language and deaf culture, to be able to encapsulate all of that in a gesture.

What he learned: “I say to people that I feel like the deaf community taught me the true meaning of listening. It’s not just something you do with your ears. It’s something to do with your whole body, with your attention. And they taught me the true meaning of communication as well. Because Jeremy, my instructor and my good friend now, said, “Hearing people are emotionally repressed. And the reason for that is because we hide behind words.” I didn’t know what he meant until I became more fluent. As I was speaking in ASL, I realized that I was getting a lot more emotional. I felt myself getting very moved talking about certain things in ASL that I wouldn’t have if I was just speaking. When you’re communicating with your whole body, you’re connecting viscerally, in a different way. I always say the deaf community didn’t just teach me sign language. It taught me how to communicate and how to listen.

Whether he developed new hobbies in lockdown: “One thing I got into a little bit, which I think has become a bit of a lockdown cliché, is plants: getting plants, watering plants, growing plants at home in London. I used to not understand the appeal. But in this time of lockdown, to just nurture life and see how resilient it is, and recognize what it means to nurture a little bit every day—it’s an amazing practice. And it teaches you something about how we can maybe deal with each other and ourselves a bit better as well.

[From W Magazine]

Hearing him describe his plants almost made me weep, so that’s where I am. Anyway, I love that he was so open to understanding the deaf community and communicating in ASL and learning about the nuances of ASL. He was committed to every part of this character, from the hearing loss to the addict’s mind to the music. I love him.

Cover courtesy of W Magazine.

There have been a lot of opinions about the way Alice Evans and Ioan Gruffudd’s split has happened out in the public sphere. Alice has forced the drama out in the open, giving periodic updates on her social media about how Ioan came home one day and suddenly announced that he wanted a divorce, and yet six weeks later, she was blindsided when he did file for divorce. She recently said that she “refuses to be dignified” about it and she seems to feel like she can publicly manipulate or bully Ioan into coming back to her, or at least that’s how it reads to me. I also don’t like how she’s dragging the kids into everything. This whole thing is a mess and it’s largely because she’s using her social media as a public confessional. So, here’s the latest: Alice doesn’t like the “collaborative divorce” process.

Ioan Gruffudd’s estranged wife Alice Evans has accused the actor of ‘winding the s**t up me’ as she posted a vitriolic video about their ‘collaborative divorce’ talks on Tuesday. Back in January, Alice. 49, revealed that they were breaking up after 20 years in a shock Twitter statement and accused the actor, 47, of ‘mentally torturing’ her – with the actress taking to social media regularly to update fans on the split.

She said: ‘I have been served with a petition for divorce and it’s came out of the blue and I won’t cry. But we’ve been 20 years together, we have two amazing kids. I don’t know why. At the moment we’re doing something called collaborative divorce which is somewhere between a really kind way of doing divorce and a phenomenal scam. Because in one way it’s “okay, let’s hear what you would want and take it to the court afterwards” and in another way it’s like, people in the acting business will know when an agent says to you “we just can’t find you the roles”. It’s a bit like, I’d like my daughter to stay with me on Saturday nights, “it’s just not within our possibilities”.

The star then accused Ioan of misleading her with collaborative divorce, adding: ‘And then I read nothing is binding in collaborative, absolutely nothing. So if I want my daughter to stay one more night in my house, the court hasn’t said anything so I can do it. So my husband is winding the s**t up me, saying what he says is the law, well we haven’t got to the law yet. Lawyers aren’t the law. Lawyers are there to f*** the law. That’s what I always said. Anyway I may have some more thoughts later.’

Mailonline has contacted representatives for Ioan Gruffudd for comment. Ioan’s divorce papers cite irreconcilable differences as the reason behind his split from his wife of 14 years, Alice. The couple share daughters Ella, 11, and Elsie, seven. The document, which was filed Los Angeles Superior Court on March 1, also reveals the former couple separated on New Year’s Day – a month before they went public with their relationship status.

[From The Daily Mail]

First off, Ioan’s divorce filing says that they split on New Year’s Day, but Alice claimed (at the time) in late January that Ioan just suddenly announced that he wanted a divorce right then and there. That’s… interesting. I have long suspected that Alice and Ioan were mostly separated for months, but perhaps not talking the specifics of a divorce. He was filming in Australia, etc. I don’t know what the real timeline is but I do suspect that Alice is an unreliable narrator on that issue in particular.

As for her collaborative divorce comments… the purpose of this kind of arrangement is that you’re keeping sh-t civil and working out everything with your lawyers and perhaps a retired judge, then presenting the finished deal to the family court. The whole purpose is to keep celebrities and well-known names out of the press while you hammer sh-t out. Ioan and his lawyers are probably fuming about this.

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Patrick Schwarzenegger looks like he’s settling on actor as his chosen profession. I haven’t seen anything he’s done so I have no idea if that’s good fit for him or not. He certainly has matinee idol looks and his pedigree working in his favor. His current role is in the Amy Poehler Netflix film, Moxie, in which 28-year-old Patrick plays a high school jock. I’d read a couple of comments on Twitter that turned me off the movie, but watching the trailer, I might try it anyway.

Patrick appeared in person on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote the film with a surprisingly fun interview. Surprising only because I’ve never heard him before. I was slightly turned off his mesh t-shirt under a partially buttoned linen shirt finished with a stiff pleather blazer, but his laid back California attitude let him carry it off. He has kind of a Tony Curtis vibe about him and if he can actually act, I might have to start paying more attention to him. A few things Patrick said during his interview that caught my attention were the fact that he once owned Blaze Pizza and that he used to be stoned all the time until his dad talked him out of it.

He used to smoke pot every day
I used to smoke [pot] every day to the point where I couldn’t do anything without smoking. We went to Easter brunch and I was high. My dad said ‘are you high?’ He said ‘Why would you want to be high? You have the best life in the world. Why would you ever want to take you out of your life?’ And then I never smoked since. [It’s been] five years.

On deciding he wanted to be an actor
[I was] watching Hercules in New York [with my dad]. He was awful. I was like ‘wow you are this successful and you are this bad in this movie. I’m giving acting a shot.’ I grew up going on set with him, I fell in love with it.

His early jobs
I had this pizza joint called Blaze Pizza. For a few years I was there making pies. I used to work for Rick Caruso at [mall] The Grove. I did valet, security, tours. [I was] security for Paris Hilton [once]. I knew Paris.

His dad’s menagerie
He’s got this weird 3/4th through life crisis now where he’s got a donkey and a pony. He’s got this massive 200-pound husky then he’s got a three-pound Yorkshire terrier that sits on his knee.

[From YouTube]

I remember when Patrick was dating Miley Cyrus, most people assumed their main connection was a shared love of pot. So it doesn’t shock me that he couldn’t do anything without being stoned. At one point that was very much his vibe. I’m more taken aback that he was so rocked by such a sensible question from his father. Maybe it was said at the right time. Whatever it was, it sounds like he doesn’t regret his decision, so it was obviously the right choice for him. I found his comments about his dad’s acting really funny. I’m sure he’s embellishing for entertainment but he’s not wrong. My gawd, Arnold was terrible in that early stuff.

Okay, so a little digging and Patrick must have owned a Blaze franchise because the Wetzel Pretzel’s folks founded the Blaze Pizza chain. That makes much more sense, although Patrick creating something called Blaze was a much better tie-in to this story. I appreciate that Maria Shriver and Arnold had their kids hold jobs, though, even if it sounds like they were bought and paid for jobs. Like they Rick Caruso stint. The Grove is one of the shi-shiest shopping centers in LA.

If you watch the full interview, Patrick explained that he was assigned to do security for Paris Hilton, his friend, when he was 15 years old. His dad, however, was governor of California at the time so Patrick had his own security detail assigned to him as he performed his role. And Paris arrived with her own security guard. So it’s not like he had to do much. I’ll bet Rick had him out timing the waterspouts in the fountain on slow days. But sometimes just teaching a rich kid to show up and perform his appointed task is commendable, I guess. The only part of Patrick’s interview I didn’t understand was that Jimmy asked if he had moved home during quarantine. He said that yes, he and his girlfriend, Abby Champion, moved home with his mom, which was his first time living at home since high school. Why would he need to move home, surely he owns his own place. It’s not like he was at school and the campus closed on him. It had to be because Maria’s house had more amenities and he didn’t want to have to do his own laundry or something.

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