Beyonce has not attended the Grammy Awards since 2018. She’s been nominated for Grammys since then, but she almost always gets shafted for the big-category Grammys, with both nominations and awards. The worst moment for the Beyhive was when Adele’s 25 swept the Grammys the same year that Beyonce’s Lemonade was nominated. That one still hurts, and I say that as an Adele fan too. Adele’s 25 was a great album. Beyonce’s Lemonade is arguably one of the albums of the past two decades, and it is still (to my mind) her greatest work. Even Adele (a true member of the Hive) was upset that Beyonce got snubbed that year. Well, true story: Beyonce isn’t f–king with the Grammys this year, despite being nominated. I doubt she’ll f–k with the Grammys ever again.

Beyoncé won’t be making an appearance at the Grammys this year. Despite leading the pack in nominations this year, earning a total of nine, the singer was not included in the list of performers scheduled to take the stage on Sunday.

Speaking with The Los Angeles Times, Recording Academy interim chief executive Harvey Mason Jr. shut down rumors that the 24-time Grammy winner would be making a surprise appearance.

“It’s unfortunate, because she’s such a big part of the Recording Academy,” Mason told the outlet in a story published on Saturday. “We absolutely wish we had her onstage.”

In recent years, the awards show has received criticism from a number of stars, some of whom have chosen to skip out on music’s biggest night entirely. Although Beyoncé and husband JAY-Z attended the annual Roc Nation Brunch ahead of the 2019 Grammys, they made it clear on their song 2018 single “Apesh-t” that they would not be attending the show.

“Tell the Grammys f— that 0-for-8 s—/ Have you ever seen the crowd goin’ apes—?” JAY Z raps on the track, a nod to being nominated eight times for his 4:44 album in 2018 and not winning in a single category.

JAY Z previously boycotted attending the ceremony for six years before attending the 2018 ceremony to support his wife.

In 2019, Kendrick Lamar, the most-nominated artist of the year, also declined to perform, as did Childish Gambino and Drake. The Weeknd also revealed this year that he will boycott the awards show in the future, after his latest album and its hit single “Blinding Lights” were snubbed from nominations. “I will no longer allow my label to submit my music to the Grammys,” Tesfaye, 31, told The New York Times earlier this month.

[From People]

In case anyone was paying attention, Bey actually got 10 Grammy nominations this year, the bulk of which are for Black Parade, although three of the noms are for the “Savage” remix with Megan Thee Stallion. The racism in and around the Grammys has been going on forever, I absolutely remember it being a thing when I was a kid, and the Grammys were slow to recognize rap and hip-hop even back then. It’s still insane, and the voting transparency issue is only one part of it. There needs to be a big overhaul of the whole system, including how music is categorized, honestly. Anyway, good for Beyonce. If I was in her position, I’d boycott the sh-t too.

Photos of Beyonce at the 2018 Grammys, the last time she attended.

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Does it feel like it’s been ten years since Lady Gaga arrived at the Grammys as an egg? I remember, of course I do, and I’ll likely remember it forever, but I don’t feel like it was a decade ago. Just me? Katy Perry’s look, on the other hand, definitely looks like it was a decade ago. That whole vib…

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Review of Netflix’s Operation Varsity Blues. [Pajiba]
Unanswered questions from the January 6th insurrection. [Towleroad]
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In January, Demi Moore walked the quarantine runway for the Fendi show. She got a lot of headlines from the appearance because I guess we hadn’t seen much of Demi in the past year, and the photos went viral. They went viral because no one could understand what she did to her face. Demi’s been nipping and tucking for years, but much of what she’s gotten done over the years has been pretty good-quality work. You can see that she looks younger, that her face looks tighter, that she seems to be ageless in that particular way of surgical enhancement. But her Fendi appearance was something else.

So was it makeup or something else at Fendi? Demi posted the Instagram above this week and people were trying to find some clues. I don’t even know anymore? Something with her cheeks and jawline, right? But the work doesn’t look as strikingly different here. Maybe it was just the lighting and makeup at the Fendi show which made Demi look SO different. I’ve gotten bad at determining exactly what was done at this point, all I can tell is when someone looks notably different. Fendi photos:

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Here are some photos of Demi from a year ago, February 2020. She looked like she had some good-quality plastic surgery, but she still looked like herself.

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I didn’t go into Variety’s cover story with Kaley Cuoco expecting to like it, but I really did. Kaley usually annoys me – too try hard, too performative, too “look at me, I’m bubbly and relatable!” But the thing is, she actually is that kind of gung-ho, bubbly, extroverted personality. And it’s fine, different strokes for different folks. What I enjoyed about this profile is that it was so much about the work Kaley put in to getting The Flight Attendant made, and how she navigates her own power within the industry and how she negotiates power with the (mostly) men she works with. This is actually a great primer for a lot of would-be actress-producers out there – you can read the Variety piece here. Some highlights:

All of the shade for HBO Max, where The Flight Attendant premiered: Christopher Nolan called it “the worst streaming service,” kicking off an epic pile-on. “I honestly didn’t blame him,” Cuoco says. “But I would be like, ‘Don’t get rid of it! There’s a few more episodes left!’”

How she came to star and executive-produce the series: The project began with her scrolling through Amazon’s forthcoming book releases on July 25, 2017, and seeing the upcoming novel by Chris Bohjalian. “Amazon gives you one sentence, and it was something like ‘fun-loving, drunk flight attendant wakes up next to dead body in a strange hotel.’ And I got a chill.”

She doesn’t mind if people think she’s a newcomer: “Was I able to reinvent myself overnight, and they’ve totally forgotten about everything else? If they’re willing to see me like that, I’m just laughing in the corner.”

Working with John Ritter in her early years in Hollywood: “I really think you’re going to go places,” she remembers him telling her, and he introduced her to his management team. “The respect and the kindness and the joy he brought to that set, it was unbelievable. In the future, if I was that No. 1, I knew how I was going to run my set.”

The salaries on Big Bang Theory: When it came to money, the “Big Bang” actors took a page from the “Friends” cast’s playbook, and banded together during salary negotiations. With Season 8, they began earning $1 million each per episode. As to the question of whether she would be paid the same as her male co-stars, “I knew that I was equal to them from day one. And that was never questioned in my experience with ‘Big Bang’ — which I will always appreciate, because it set a standard for me.”

What it was like making that kind of money: “It was a blessing. I was able to take care of a lot of things in my life and my family, and I will forever be grateful for that.”

How the Big Bang Theory ended: In summer 2018, Lorre summoned the actors to his office. Cuoco and Galecki thought it was going to be about a 13th season, “which Johnny and I had talked a lot about. Did we want to do it? And we really did.” But no, that wasn’t it — and here Cuoco pauses. “How do I want to say this and make sure I say it correctly?” she asks herself. Then she launches in, telling the rest of the story: “Jim said, ‘I don’t think I can continue on.’ And I was so shocked that I was literally like, ‘Continue on with what?’ Like, I didn’t even know what he was talking about. I looked at Chuck: ‘Wow. I thought we were — I’m so blown away right now.’” According to Cuoco, Lorre said, “We’re all for one, one for all. And we’re not going to do this without the whole team. That was the one thing we all agreed on — we came in together, we go out together.”

Leaving the show: “Oh, my God, I don’t remember my life before this show!” she recalls thinking. “And I went through a divorce on the show,” she adds, referring to her abbreviated first marriage to Ryan Sweeting, in which, Cuoco says, “we got married in, like, six seconds.”

Optioning The Flight Attendant: She called her lawyer. “Can you just quickly find out if Reese Witherspoon has the rights to this book?” she asked him. Witherspoon, whose company Hello Sunshine has aggressively snatched up books for adaptation, had not. “OK, this is the book; this is the show. And my team’s like, ‘What do you mean?’ I’m like, ‘Just don’t ask questions; let’s get it!’”

[From Variety]

I completely forgot that she had been working in TV before BBT and that story about John Ritter made me so sad. God, Ritter was such a mensch. It feels like every single person in Hollywood has a nice story about Ritter and how he helped them or gave them good advice or was just a really great friend. I also love that every blonde in Hollywood is now wary of Reese Witherspoon and her production company collecting all of the book options. Also: the story about the end of BBT is not as dramatic as Kaley makes it sound! Jim Parsons wanted out and so the show ended after 13 seasons! Lord, it’s not like they thought they were going to do it forever! Last thing: the Ryan Sweeting marriage, lol. She married that dude after knowing him for like two seconds, it was crazy.

Cover courtesy of Variety, additional photo courtesy of Avalon Red.

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I watched James Corden’s whole interview with Oprah promoting Weight Watchers. There was a large group of Weight Watcher members on Zoom clapping and watching live, which was nice to see. While I didn’t come away with more affection for Corden, he did get vulnerable and it was fascinating how Oprah got him to open up. He even got a little weepy at one point, and no shame in that. I would bawl like a baby talking to Oprah. Kaiser and I talked about that on the last Gossip With Celebitchy podcast, how Oprah is like a therapist. We think Oprah will be able to get Duchess Meghan to open up because she’s Oprah and has decades of experience interviewing people.

We heard early in January that Corden had become a Weight Watchers spokesperson simply by calling them up and telling them he wanted to lose weight. He was emotional in his announcement about that and said he’s struggled with his weight for over a decade. Corden told Oprah that he’s lost 16 pounds in the five weeks that he’d been on Weight Watchers at that point. He was really enthusiastic about being able to eat regular food and not having to give up whole food groups like on his past diets. Honestly this interview made me want to try Weight Watchers again, because Oprah can sell me anything. Here’s some of what they said and you can see the video here. This came out last week but I’m just seeing it now.

On Carpool Karaoke
God bless Mariah Carey for saying yes, because if she hadn’t said yes, I don’t even know if our show would have been on the air for more than three months. She took a real gamble on us and we will always, always love her for it

On his dream Carpool Karaoke guest
It has to be Beyonce, doesn’t it?

On losing weight and dieting
I’ve constantly gone on diets and I’ve seen them as diets. A shake in the morning, a shake in the evening, all of that nonsense in between. I may have lost 10 pounds in a month. And then two months after that, I’m 20 pounds heavier than I was at the start. There is no quick fix to this. This is a journey where I have to change my relationship with foods and change the way that I consume food. I don’t have to starve myself of all of these things that I love and enjoy.

I’m not going ‘Right, that’s it, I’m on a diet. Breads gone. Carbohydrate, gone. Chocolate gone everything gone.’

I’m down 16 pounds. I’d really like to experience just one day underneath 200 pounds. When I met my wife, I was about 280. And when I started this on WW, I was 236. I’m now 220.

[From Weight Watchers on YouTube]

After that Corden talked about connecting with the other Weight Watchers members and while I didn’t buy that part of his talk, he did seem to be genuinely affected by working with them and being so successful early on. As I often say, Weight Watchers is the best paid program out there. It’s not gimmicky and while they have their own branded foods they don’t push them too much. I’m still using MyFitnessPal but it didn’t stop me from going up a size during lockdown. I considered joining Noom but they seemed to keep changing their prices based on what I was willing to pay. Plus they have a lot of bad reviews. Maybe I’ll try Weight Watchers again, I know they won’t fleece me. I would say James Corden can sell me things, but I think Oprah’s power just rubs off on everyone.

Also I’m pretty sure I’ve heard Corden say before now that Beyonce is his dream Carpool Karaoke guest. I wonder if she talked to Dave Grohl and decided against it.

Please note that I wrote this all last night before I saw James’ interview with Prince Harry! Harry smoked him on the Spartan course, which was cute.

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