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I’ve always found Jane Seymour incredibly beautiful. I think the first time I registered her was as Solitaire in Live and Let Die but I never fully recovered after seeing her in Somewhere in Time. Jane turned 70 on Monday so of course everyone wants to know her secrets for health and vitality. Jane said the way to age well is to not feel old and find yourself some good skin. Oh, okay – let me just send away for that. Actually, Jane is being a little more helpful than that, she suggests some products that can get you to that good skin as well.

Jane Seymour isn’t worried about getting older. In fact, the actress, who turns 70 years old on February 15, feels no different now than ever before.

“I feel the same. I’m a glass half-full person. My thinking is, ‘Just be as young as you possibly can be,’” the actress says in her NewBeauty cover story, out now.

As much as she likes to live without regrets, Seymour said she does wish she could tell her younger self one important piece of beauty advice: “That young girl who lived in England where it’s cloudy and rainy most of the time — that she shouldn’t bask in the sun with a reflector board and cooking oil during those two weeks of vacation! But, I stopped sun-worshipping a long time ago, so I guess I’m lucky there.”

Now, Seymour credits her youthful appearance to a regimented skin-care routine, which includes Crepe Erase body products (she’s been a spokesperson for years).

“I think having good skin is really the secret to not aging your face,” Seymour told NewBeauty. “Using retinol at night, protecting yourself from the sun, using the great skin-care that plumps your skin and pretty much anything that makes me feel healthy is the best anti-aging secret I know.”

[From People]

I’d not heard of the Crepe Erase products Jane mentioned. Looking at Amazon, they aren’t that expensive on the skin care price spectrum. I have no idea if they work, but they do have a money back guarantee. I’ve had trouble with retinol products. I have this routine that works now, and I know there’s retinol in some of the stuff, but not much because it dries my skin out so quickly. Fortunately, I don’t mind my lines as much as my discolorations, so that’s what I focus on. What I will speak to is the sun worshipping – that is such a big part of skin care. Luckily folks aren’t baking themselves, as Jane mentioned, like we did when I was growing up. As tragic as it is, my kids are watching their grandmother’s legs be removed piece by piece because of her sun-worshipping So Cal youth, so I don’t think I will ever have to worry about them and sunblock. I have just discovered First Aid Beauty 5 in 1 Face Cream with SPF 30. It’s not too heavy and I love the extra layer of protection, especially running errands during the summer.

Jane said, again, that she has not had a facelift yet. And again, she said she’s not opposed to it, that many of her friends have, and they love the results, but she hasn’t yet. I believe her. She was always upfront about having her breasts done and why (nursing depleted their shape). She wasn’t embarrassed by it. I think she would confess to some tweaking if she had it. I also like this idea that Jane’s putting out there to let your mind dictate your age. Kim Novak kind of said the same thing. It’s not that they haven’t slowed down and maybe there are some health problems or an earlier bedtime, but overall, if you don’t feel like an old person, don’t let society tell you you are. When asked about being a sex-symbol at her age, I liked Jane’s answer. She said, “I don’t quite understand what a sex symbol means, but am I still a full-blooded woman? Definitely!” I love that – I’m not a sex symbol, I’m a full-blooded woman, bitches!

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I know vegan social media star Tabitha Brown from her posts that go viral on Twitter. She has a soothing voice and her personality is mesmerizing. You just want her to talk you to sleep every night. I saw her in a brief Buzzfeed video once and was almost convinced to go vegan she’s so charming. I expected to hear news that Tabitha was getting her own show, maybe on Netflix, but she has a couple of books coming out soon. She’s signed a deal with William Morrow and will be releasing an inspirational book this fall followed by a cookbook.

Brown is writing an inspirational book, Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business), PEOPLE can reveal exclusively. The new book will be published by William Morrow on Sept. 28 — and her own cookbook will follow.

“I literally wake up and pinch myself at the thought of my life today versus four years ago! Then I hear my daddy’s voice in my ear, saying, ‘You only live once, but if you live it right, once is enough,’ ” the mom of three, 42, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive statement. “I couldn’t agree more! Living in my truth is enough, and it’s the best feeling ever.”

“Sharing that with the world in my book is such a blessing,” she continues, “and my hope is that readers will take the same feeling away after reading it.”

Brown pursued acting for years, while also battling undiagnosed chronic autoimmune pain. Her life began to change when she switched to a plant-based diet — and even more after she went viral on Facebook with her funny review of the Whole Foods TTLA sandwich (tempeh bacon, tomato, lettuce, avocado).

Now, she has millions of followers on different social media platforms, who are captivated by her warm personality and the approachable way she makes vegan versions of the Southern dishes she grew up on.

“Our life is our business, and if we don’t take care of it, we can go out of business! So I thought maybe I could share a few moments that I almost went out of business — but came back stronger than ever before,” she says of the book.

I would love to read her book! She has the kind of voice that you can hear in your head when you read. She has such a lovely way of phrasing things and I always feel better about myself and calmer after watching her.

While Tabitha isn’t getting her own show just yet, we can see her on TV in The Chi, created by Lena Waithe, on Showtime! She’s going to play a recurring character, an interior designer, on the fourth season, which is filming now. Apparently Tabitha has acted for years before her Internet fame. I haven’t seen this show yet but it’s very well reviewed and is now on my list.

How gorgeous are she and her husband?

Next up we have vegan foodie and spreader of joy, @IamTabithaBrown, who will treat couples to a delicious Valentine’s Day (2/14) experience with her husband, Chance. pic.twitter.com/6977Nyg8cE

— Whole Foods Market (@WholeFoods) February 2, 2021

Don’t you break yourself trying to fix others ??. Love you #tabithabrown pic.twitter.com/bDzFr38lkF

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Before now, I had never bothered to learn Awkwafina’s real name: Nora Lum. I’m going to call her Nora in this post, just because it’s easier to type out, and I get the feeling that this Harper’s Bazaar cover story is the very beginning of her transition to using Nora Lum more frequently in her professional life. Nora created the “Awkwafina” persona as a kid, and then she used it as a stage name when she got into social media and music, and she sort of accidentally started using it for her acting career. Nora’s 32 years old, a recent Golden Globe nominee for The Farewell, and she’s got a million projects coming up, including Marvel’s Shang-Chi, the live-action Little Mermaid, a Netflix comedy and an AppleTV+ movie with Mahershala Ali (swoon). Some highlights from the Bazaar interview:

Imposter syndrome: “Yes, I always feel impostor syndrome because there are so many talented people out there. But I’m not going to today because I worked really f–king hard. My whole life has been spent with people having an idea of what I’m about to be, where I come from, how I was raised. I’ve spent my entire life walking into a room surprising them.”

The Awkwafina/Nora duality. “There is a duality. One is a stage name that entertains, and the other sleeps, eats, pees in the morning, and does normal things.”

Transitioning into Nora: “It wasn’t the time [for ‘The Farewell’]. I’d been Awkwafina in my first movie, I’d been Awkwafina in my first YouTube video. I haven’t had the kind of sign that it’s my time yet to be like, ‘It’s Nora now.’ I wonder what it will take to get me there… Awkwafina is still someone that comes without all of the layers of anxiety. She is more confident than Nora. Nora does hide behind her still. I don’t see how Nora exists in Awkwafina’s world yet. I don’t see how I could have done this without Awkwafina, which is weird.”

She’s an angry Bronx driver: “People would pick on us. People pick on Asian drivers. The most times I’ve been called ‘chink’ is out of a car window, being yelled at. So f–k them.”

Starting out in her 20s as a feminist rapper: Her first gig was performing at Sarah Lawrence, which earned her a check for $1,500. “It was the most money I had ever made, had ever seen at one time in my entire life,” she says. She quit her job working at a vegan deli and booked another gig, performing at Bust magazine’s anniversary party. She decided she would try to keep doing this. “I went into this mode of, if I can make $500 a month, that’s all I need, because that’s how much my rent was at the time. To this day I feel like I’m still in that ‘All I need is 500-a-month’ mindset.” She says she loved the days when she had a fake e-mail so she could pretend to be her own fake manager named Edward. “I made just enough, and I was able to do something that I loved doing so much. I just wanted it so bad. The truth is that the best years of your life are when you’re waiting for something big to happen.”

When everything started happening for her in 2018: “That summer, it was a lot of people being like, ‘Just enjoy, dude, just have fun, live in the moment.’ All this stuff started to come up. I wondered at a certain point, when everything in my life was amazing, why I felt so low and with no sense of identity. Why do I feel like no one knows me anymore? Maybe it does go back to depression. It comes in different forms your whole life. I was scared about what this meant: ‘Was this the pinnacle of all those years of waiting? And why do I feel like I don’t want it? I don’t want this to be the summer that that’s it.’? Fame is not a cure for depression. It’s just not. It’s not necessarily the cause of it, but it’s also not the cure of it.”

[From Harper’s Bazaar]

I saw The Farewell and I enjoyed the movie and her quiet performance in it. It did surprise me that she could play that character without any winks to the audience. I also think it’s pretty funny that she really did just fall backwards into a full-fledged acting career. She just wanted to create, to rap, to be funny and get paid, and now she’s doing, like, prestige indie films and taking calls from Disney and Marvel. It’s also fascinating to me that she created a persona/stage name to help her become a more confident person and now… people barely know that a “Nora Lum” exists. Anyway, she’s interesting. I look forward to seeing more from Nora.

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The Office fans are honed in on Steve Carrell and John Krasinski. Any time an Office alum is spotted with either of them, it sends ripples throughout the Office fandom. Especially when it was Jenna Fischer and John together, because of the Jim and Pam shippers out there. But the real love story that came from The Office is Jenna and Angela Kinsey, who played Angela Martin. Jenna and Angela met on the set and became best friends during the first season. The friendship has only grown stronger since. So strong the two produce their Office Ladies podcast together, using what Jenna calls their BBF shorthand when they communicate. Now they’ve written a memoir of their time on the show Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There. The pair are especially grateful for finding each other because they didn’t expect to find such a close friendship later in life.

Former costars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey have been fulfilling this need, first with their award-winning podcast Office Ladies and now with their upcoming book, Office BFFs: Tales of The Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There — which includes their most “personal” and hilarious anecdotes yet.

The two women tell PEOPLE how they first became friends (it involves sitting on a bench for hours onset) and reflect on some of their favorite memories, if Jim and Pam would still be together today and more.

Fischer says that she and Kinsey had been friendly during season 1 of The Office, but it wasn’t until they sat on a bench “for two full shoot days, which is about 12 hours each day” during the filming of the “Basketball” episode that they really bonded. By the end of the shoot, they had told each other their “life story,” says Fischer, 46.

“We were leaving the warehouse and we were so giddy,” she says. “We had this really fun friendship. You don’t expect to make a friendship like this when you’re older.”

The day became even more epic when they encountered Carell.

“We had to walk through this big parking lot, and it was at night. Like school girls, we linked arms and started doing Schlemiel and Schlimazel from Laverne & Shirley and Steve was walking up behind us,” Kinsey remembers. “We were so embarrassed and we were laughing. Steve was like, ‘No matter what happens, this is what you’ll take with you. This.’ And he pointed at the two of us. He was so right.”

“Jenna is my life anchor because it’s like, the world doesn’t make sense until I can bounce it off her, whatever happens,” says Kinsey. “The big things, the small things. Once I tell it to her, I’m at peace with it, or I can navigate it.”

Fischer explains that the key to their longstanding friendship is “listening.”

“You just need that person who makes you feel seen and heard. That person who helps you process even little decisions when you’re standing in Target. Who do you call to tell you if you need another throw pillow or not, you know?” she jokes.

[From People]

This is one of those things that I never thought about, but Jenna is exactly right. I wouldn’t have guessed that my closest friendships would all be formed in my late 30s early 40 and yet, they were. Even my husband was 30 when we met and I was about to be the same. Jenna and Angela were in their early 30s when The Office premiered. It sounds like they were obviously well paired as BFFs in general. But I imagine the shared experience of having their lives blow up with the popularity of the show helped solidify their bond. Not to mention they had other life experiences during the show, like babies, divorces (remember Jenna’s first husband was James Gunn?!), etc. I think forming friendships as adults has a lot to do with how we change as people. I’m definitely not the same person I was in my early 20s. I don’t even think 33-year-old me would be friends with 22-year-old me. I love that Jenna and Angela found each other and they’ve only gotten closer. A truly good friend is such a treasure.

As the article mentioned, Jenna and Angela’s Office Ladies podcast just won the iHeartRadio Podcast of the Year award. This was some much need good news, especially for Angela, whose entire family – herself, her husband, daughter and stepsons all got COVID over the holidays. After she’d been diagnosed, she got the call from Texas that her 82-year-old mother was in the hospital with the virus and Angela couldn’t fly to her due to her own condition. Fortunately everyone recovered, although it was a hard recovery, she said. But Angela said it made her “prioritize her own value.” I’ll bet Jenna was at the top of Angela’s priority list too. I know my closest friends have moved so far up my list now.

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Oprah’s doing the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle interview and now the British press is coming for her. Referring to Oprah as someone who started their career as a “tabloid” talk show host is low. Billionaire is how most people describe Oprah now. But, you know, these people are always telling on th…

After a couple of delays due to COVID, Olivia Wilde’s sophomore directorial effort, Don’t Worry Darling, has wrapped principle photography. She marked the occasion by praising some members of her team, starting with the star of the film, Florence Pugh: And the Oscar-nominated cinematographer, Matth…

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When I first read about Eat the Book, I thought it was a cookbook book club, but it’s not quite that. It’s a series that pairs an author with a chef and mixologist to create a meal around a book (like Jasmine Guillory’s The Proposal). When Reese Witherspoon loves a book, she goes hard for it and pro…

The couple of 2021, so far, Lori Harvey and Michael B Jordan, celebrated their first Valentine’s Day together this past weekend. I appreciate that Lori did not share what they did with us until yesterday, until after the night was over, which tells me that even though she documented *some* details, …

Kristen Wiig apparently named her twins Shiloh and Luna. [JustJared]
I think Adam Kinzinger is a d-bag, but holy crap, I am on his side in this narrow circumstance. He was one of the few Republicans to understand how dangerous Donald Trump was and is, and he voted to impeach. [Towleroad]
I hope your lover got you a dozen Rose Nylands for V-Day. [Seriously OMG]
This Moschino coat kind of annoys me, but I also sort of love it? [Tom & Lorenzo]
Scott Disick & Amelia Hamlin are Instagram (Stories) Official. [Dlisted]
The Fifty Shades of Grey promo tour was so much fun. [GFY]
Review of Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar. [Pajiba]
Are you f–king kidding me, LAPD? [Jezebel]
The Sussexes of Notting Hill, by way of Montecito. [LaineyGossip]
Capitol Police officers are furious at their bosses. [Buzzfeed]

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