Lainey’s story on Tiger Woods from this morning is a must-read. Last night the Golf Channel was on in my house and the coverage of the accident was, in my view, pretty insensitive – there was little about his wellbeing and a lot of speculation about the accident. The Golf Channel is a niche area of …

Zendaya caught the attention of Queer Twitter yesterday with a brief but impactful moment from her Proust Questionnaire video for Vanity Fair. The questionnaire was started as a parlour game by the French writer, Marcel Proust, and now it’s how Vanity Fair works to “reveal the nature of Zendaya’s tr…

Hailey Bieber’s coat does look super-cozy, but it also looks like a terrible bath mat. I wonder if there are other colors? [Go Fug Yourself]
There are no Black members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The HFPA organizes the Golden Globes and determines the nominees. That’s one of the reasons why the Globes are consistently so racist. [LaineyGossip]
Tiger Woods released a statement from the hospital. [Just Jared]
Animals being interviewed with a tiny microphone. [OMG Blog]
The USWNT, Black Lives Matter and kneeling for the Anthem. [Pajiba]
Mitt Romney thinks Donald Trump would “win in a landslide” if he ran in 2024 – but Romney is just talking about Trump winning the GOP presidential nomination . [Towleroad]
Meek Mill apologized to Vanessa Bryant. [Dlisted]
Generation X didn’t solve any of the dumb culture wars. [Jezebel]
Michael B. Jordan speaks about grief & mourning Chadwick Boseman. [Buzzfeed]
Krys Marshall looks so glam in Dior. [RCFA]
Is Kenan Thompson leaving SNL? [Seriously OMG]

As anticipated in yesterday’s open, ahead of, during, and after BTS’s MTV Unplugged, the band and its fans took over social media. BTS or BTS-related hashtags and buzzwords, even the names of the bandmembers themselves, were trending in all the top spots. And then, not that they needed it, but just …

I had to look through our archives to see if I had ever confessed the fact that I’m attracted to Gordon Ramsay, and look – I totally made that confession in 2018. I know I have a problem! I don’t even watch Gordon Ramsay’s shows and I don’t really follow him as a celebrity in general, but whenever I do think about him, I think to myself “Yeah, I would.” You know he’s dirty in a good way. While I knew before now that Ramsay is overly concerned about his weight, I didn’t know that he loves to train for Ironman competitions. He’s obsessed with fitness and keeping weight off and perhaps it’s his stress reliever too. Well, anyway, this 55 year old man is shocked to learn that he has arthritis in his knees and he can’t do Ironman training at this point in his life:

He is the super-fit, marathon-running and Ironman-completing chef who previously played football for Rangers. But at the age of 55, Gordon Ramsay is finally slowing down — albeit by accident, not design. The Michelin-starred cook has just had surgery on his knee after falling during a training run in London — and has been diagnosed with arthritis. Naturally, he is typically sanguine about the prospect.

“F*** me,” he says. “I’ve just come off two weeks on crutches, as I had meniscus surgery. I did it running up the hill in Richmond Park, bolting up it. It was f***ing painful. And when I got the X-rays back, the doctor said, ‘You’ve got arthritis in your knee’. I’d never heard that word in relation to me before. He told me I needed to start slowing down. It was a case of ‘Imagine you’ve got 1.5million steps to run over the next 30 years?.?.?.?pace yourself’. He showed me pictures, and you just don’t want to hear you’ve got arthritis in your knee. I told my mum, though, and she told me to stop being so stupid and to just get on with it. So that was nice.

“I’m a workaholic and training is my release. When lockdown struck I didn’t want to sit there, put weight on and veg out, getting angry with the Government or the Chinese. I also have that stern warning of my father dying at 53 (from a heart attack) and I look at my kids and know I can’t leave them rudderless. I am slightly scared of stopping but do know I will have to slow down at some stage.”

Good luck to any medical team trying to hold Gordon back. Currently he trains for up to two hours a day, in addition to a gruelling 12 hours of work. For fun he knocks out Ironman events — each one a 26.2-mile run, 2.4-mile swim and 112-mile bike ride — and uses Zwift, an indoor bike system favoured by professional cyclists, to the point of exhaustion.

[From The Sun]

“When lockdown struck I didn’t want to sit there, put weight on and veg out, getting angry with the Government or the Chinese…” What? Did people really just sit at home and think about how angry they were at China? I mean, I knew Donald Trump felt that way, but Gordon Ramsay? Gross. As for everything he says about his training and his knees… if you follow me on Twitter, you probably know that I also had a weird slide in some mud while I was walking/hiking over the weekend. My leg hurt like hell for two days but I managed to stay off of it. While I have never trained at Ironman-level, being unable to walk or hike for a few days really messes me up physically and psychologically, so in a narrow way, I do feel for Ramsay. Being on crutches for two weeks for someone used to being very active every day is just rough. But the arthritis stuff… like, a lot of people have arthritis? Many 50-somethings have arthritis in their bodies somewhere, their knees or their hands or their back. The fact that it never even occurred to Gordon Ramsay is kind of funny.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

SpoilersAs we head into the final two episodes of WandaVision, it has become exceedingly clear that while this is a pretty great show, it is not working for some people. Sure, it got off to a slow start, but at this point, seven episodes in, we’ve advanced beyond that. And yet, there is an ever-grow…

One of the things I’ve always liked about Drew Barrymore is that she’s always owned her particular look and she’s always just flatly assumed that everyone thinks she’s cute. She’s never seemed angsty or doubtful about her looks, and she’s never tortured herself about self-acceptance. She’s always been rather “I’ll come as I am, because I’m adorable.” It’s a great way to approach life, honestly. So it’s not surprising to me that Drew has never had plastic surgery. I would be surprised if it even occurred to her to alter her looks.

Never been nipped. Despite being famous for most of her life, Drew Barrymore revealed on Wednesday that she’s never had plastic surgery, instead choosing to age naturally — for now, at least.

“I’ve never done anything to my face and I would like to try not to,” the 45-year-old actress said during an episode of her talk show, “The Drew Barrymore Show,” adding, “Never say never.”

Barrymore pointed to her personality as part of the reason she’s reluctant to go under the knife.

“The thing that I do care about and I do feel is still relevant to my life is the face. I know myself. I’m a highly addictive person. I do one injection, I’m going to look like Jocelyn Wildenstein by Friday,” she joked, referencing the socialite who’s famously spent millions on multiple cosmetic surgeries. “I think because I’m so rebellious that I saw all of that pressure and I saw all of those women torturing themselves to look a certain way and I thought, ‘You miserable people.’ I just never wanted to be afraid of what life would do to me. I probably went to too many opposite extremes. Now I’m boring and safe and healthy.”

What’s more, the Flower Beauty founder said she doesn’t mind a few fine lines or gray hairs. “We’re gonna age, things are gonna go south and it’s okay and it’s a part of life and I feel more human and more vulnerable every year of my life, but I also know how to appreciate every year more and more, too,” she concluded.

[From Page Six]

I remember a photoshoot she did in 2010, before she had kids, where she had lost some weight and she was bragging about how her cheekbones finally “popped” in her 30s, after years of having a babyface. I remember that because there were some conversations about whether or not she had some work done, but in retrospect… yeah, I think she really just lost some weight and you could see it on her face. Drew looks like what she is: a 45-year-old woman who is ageing pretty well, with access to expensive skincare and dermatologists, but someone who doesn’t want to start tweaking because she knows she would never be able to stop.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid, Drew’s IG.

I read Finding Freedom last year, soon after it came out, and I decided to re-read Tina Brown’s The Diana Chronicles soon after. There were and are so many parallels, callbacks and lessons learned between Diana’s story and Prince Harry’s story. Diana wanted her sons to be her legacies, and by the end of her life, she was searching for her next moves, and I believe all options were on the table for her. She wasn’t going to just stick around Kensington Palace and wait until Charles married Camilla. I genuinely believe she would have eventually moved, perhaps to America, especially when both of her sons were at Eton for a few years. But yeah, we’ll never know. I don’t think this is the right reading though – one of Diana’s “friends” is criticizing Harry for… disrespecting the Queen and not doing what Diana would have wanted him to do.

Princess Diana would have been ‘furious’ with ‘confused’ Prince Harry over Megxit, a close friend of the late royal has claimed. The Duke, 36, and Duchess of Sussex, 39, who are currently living in their $14 million mansion in California, were stripped of their royal patronages by the Queen, 94, days ago, and shocked many by issuing a barbed statement in response to the palace.

Fashion designer Roberto Devorik, who remained a friend of Diana all her adult life, has now claimed the late royal would have been angered over the recent fall-out because she wanted him to help shape a ‘modern monarchy.’ He said Meghan and Diana wouldn’t have got along ‘in any way’, telling Hola! magazine: ‘I think Meghan is the boss… Harry is a boy who suffered a lot and believes that Meghan has the legacy of Diana. But he is very confused.’

Fashion impresario Roberto said Princess Diana had told him ‘many times’ that she ‘wanted her children to be princes of a ‘modern Crown’ and said the royal would have been ‘furious’ with Prince Harry over Megxit. Meanwhile he called the Queen’s decision to strip the couple of their patronages ‘logical’. Declaring Prince Harry ‘the Queen’s favourite grandson’, Roberto said Her Majesty had been forced to put ‘Crown first’, adding: ‘For the Crown, what Harry has done is unforgivable. You cannot exile yourself and collect money from Netflix or Disney and also want to continue collecting from the State for your performances for the Crown. You cannot live in a mansion in Montecito, California, and sign millionaire commercial contracts , and also want to receive money from the public coffers or continue to represent the Crown.’

Devorik branded the statement from the couple ‘shameful’, adding that nobody is ‘forbidding’ Harry from helping people, but he shouldn’t ‘receive the privileges from The Crown.’ He said the Duke will now have ‘a normal life’ which is ‘what he wanted.’

[From The Daily Mail]

In the past, whenever people would say sh-t like “Diana would have loved Kate” or “Diana would have hated Meghan,” I was always like “???” People really do forget what Diana was like, with all of her flaws and her extraordinary ability to see through the bullsh-t. Personally, I think Diana would have had issues with both Meghan and Kate simply because Diana would have wanted to be the most important woman in her sons’ lives. But Diana would have judged the Middletons pretty harshly, especially Carole. As for Meghan, she and Diana would have a lot in common, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they would have gotten along! Anyway, yeah, I don’t get this continued infantilization of Harry, like he’s a pawn caught in Meghan’s trap. I also think Diana would have completely understood why Harry moved away, given all of the bullsh-t the Windsors put him through. The parallels between how she was abused and gaslighted versus what happened to her younger son… she would have seen that. And she would be spitting mad at William and Harry’s estrangement.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid.

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Soleil Moon Frye is 44, which makes me feel old because I’m older than her. I never really got into Punky Brewster as a kid though. It had four seasons, from 1984 to 1988, and I think I was watching Diff’rent Strokes and Who’s The Boss back then. Punky annoyed me, I’ll be honest. Soleil is doing well though, she avoided a lot of the pitfalls of kid actors. She’s now a separated mom of four, she has two teenage daughters and two sons, aged six and almost four, with her husband of 22 years producer Jason Goldberg. Soleil filed for divorce in December.

Soleil has a new documentary based on her life called Kid 90 that premieres March 12th Hulu. It uses hundreds of hours of footage she shot on VHS at the time. She was on Jimmy Kimmel live promoting it, and her interview really made me want to see that. She seemed really open and vulnerable when she talked about how meaningful it was to her to look back at her childhood by viewing those tapes and editing them into the documentary. Here’s some of what she told Jimmy and the video is below.

Watching the footage again after all this time
I turned 40 and I was wondering if my life had happened how I thought it happened. I had lost some people that were very close to me. I don’t think I wanted to deal with the pain. In unlocking Pandora’s box [and watching the footage] I discovered true self love and self awareness in a way that I’ve never understood.

She was friends with so many other child actors of the 80s
It’s so wonderful because we had such a joyful innocence. There was a group of us that were truly authentic friends.

This was pre social media we were able to live our lives and just be ourselves. I really loved people. I didn’t realize how loved back I was by those people.

On how she made the documentary
When I started the documentary I didn’t want it to be about me. I tried to make it about everybody but me. It was going to be about the death of privacy but it ended up becoming like the death of my own privacy. I cut a full found footage version. I had never watched all the tapes. I had to sit with the hundreds of hours of tapes and just live through the joy and also the heartbreak that had happened and the people that are no longer with us.

I felt like I was coming of age again to be able to share it with [my daughters].

On the Punky Brewster reboot
I’m still Punky and it’s like Punky and are rediscovering our Punky power. There’s a little girl, Izzy, who reminds Punky of herself. It’s really about coming of age again. Freddie Prinze Jr. plays my ex husband.

[From Jimmy Kimmel Live on YouTube]

The Punky Brewster reboot is coming sooner than this documentary, that’s out on Peacock tomorrow. The trailer makes it look really dumb. Even though Peacock is included in my cable subscription this isn’t something I would watch. I will definitely watch Kid 90 on Hulu though! Jimmy sold it too because he loves 80s nostalgia and seemed like he enjoyed it a lot.

Seeing the trailer for this, below, makes me wish I had video from that time in my life. It also made me feel so many things about growing up then. Jimmy said that Brian Austin Green particularly came off well in this. I agree with Soleil that it was different growing in the 80s because we didn’t have social media. We also didn’t have these type of amazing taped memories from that time for the most part. Kids growing up now and in the early 2000s will have more video and photos from their childhood and those are precious.

Here’s the trailer for Kid 90!

Here’s Soleil’s interview

She shared this photo with Will Smith and Mark Wahlberg!

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