Kelsea Ballerini is a country singer in her late 20s who’s been recording since her teens. We haven’t cover her much beyond fashion yet, which is sometimes a good thing because it means she hasn’t had a messy personal life. CB covered some comments she made last summer when Kelsea amplified the irresponsible behavior of fellow country stars playing big concerts to unmasked, un-distanced crowds.

Kelsea has been working on new music in quarantine and appeared on The Bobby Bones Show, with whom it appears she’s friends. They discussed her career, her new home, her pup Dibs and how ready she is to get back to playing live. While discussing social media, Bobby asked Kelsea about disabling comments on her Instagram and Kelsea gave a very relatable answer. She said she likes to overshare, but she is also very sensitive and couldn’t take the negative replies. So, turning off comments allowed her to post the content she wanted without the anxiety of reading mean responses.

Kelsea Ballerini doesn’t want to see mean comments on her posts.

Chatting with Bobby Bones on Monday, the country singer, 27, revealed the reason why she decided to block comments on her Instagram posts and why she’s “setting boundaries” for herself.

“I’m super sensitive. And I think that’s a good thing. For a long time, I was reading all the comments, and I would obviously love the good ones, but I would find the bad ones and they would just hurt my feelings,” she said. “I didn’t want to get to a point where I was not posting and not sharing my life because I really like to be that person that’s an oversharer.”

“I think it’s relatable and girls need to see that,” Ballerini, whose “Hole in the Bottle” is expected to hit No. 1 shortly, added. “It’s either me not sharing or me sharing and not caring about what people say. And so I just turned them off.”

“This past year, we’ve had all this time to kind of marinate with our own feelings and what we need and what we want,” Ballerini said. “And I just think boundaries are healthy. And that’s a new boundary I have for myself.”

[From People]

I don’t know that I have ever identified with a celebrity more. I am a terrible oversharer. I know how hard this will be hard to believe, but I do actually hold back. I delete more of these posts than I write. But I, too, am super sensitive and like Kelsea, I can read through an ocean of praise and find that one person who came to kick me. Then I’ll remind myself for a week that someone hated me or that I said something that upset them.

I’m lucky that I’m a small fish in a big pond and my followers are good to me. Kelsea has people just looking for blood, like so many famous people do. I guess Twitter doesn’t have that function. Sure enough, the very first tweet of hers I clicked on, I found poison only two comments down. Kelsea was just 21 when Keith Urban asked her to open for him on tour. It took almost no time at all for rumors that they’d been caught together on the tour bus. The rumors got bad enough even Nicole Kidman came out to dismiss them. Imagine facing that kind of backlash at that age, on her big break. It was smart of Kelsea to figure out how to protect herself. I love that she found a way to share as much as she wants and not lose her joy.

Kelsea just moved to a house from an apartment with her husband, Morgan Evans and Dibs, their dog. Poor Dibs has some anxiety issues and recently tried to start a fight with his own reflection in a mirror. Aw, Dibs, it’s hard for all of us, buddy! Kelsea also talked about her current goal to be healthier. It was nice that spoke about it in general terms of feeling good. I like thinking of health in a general way – it’s not a mark on a scale or a set of practices. Rather than telling myself I have to get healthy, I can strive to be healthier.

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While Katy Perry’s pregnancy came as a “surprise” when she did announce it, she also telegraphed the fact that she was preparing herself for big changes. Remember that? She went to therapy, she started talking about meditation a lot, and it just felt like she was trying to change her life and make everything have a different energy for the next chapter. She spent most of her pregnancy in lockdown because of the pandemic and she gave birth to her Virgo baby in late August last year. She hadn’t talked about the birth or the first months with the baby until very recently. She chatted with Jimmy Kimmel this week:

During a Monday chat on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the singer told host Jimmy Kimmel that having her daughter, Daisy Dove, now 5 months, was “the best decision I ever made in my entire life.” Perry, 36, also confirmed to the host that having Daisy was, in fact, a conscious decision for her and partner Orlando Bloom, saying that she has “family, support and an incredible fiancé” by her side as she navigates new motherhood.

“He’s done this before, he has a 10-year-old son — so as much as I was like, ‘I don’t need to hear all those stories,’ they actually helped,” she continued of Bloom, 44. “[It’s] like, ‘Oh, you’ve had a run of this, you know how to do this.’ So he’s been amazing, incredible, and we’re so in love and so grateful,” Perry raved.

The “Never Worn White” singer went on to praise her fiancé for being “such a great support” in the delivery room, right down to multitasking (i.e., being by Perry’s side while also managing to film some of the experience). “We had a little boombox. He was there and he was so wonderful, and just holding my hand and looking into my eyes,” she told Kimmel, 53.

Later, sharing more details of daughter’s name, the American Idol judge said, “Daisy, to me, means purity, and Dove means peace and Bloom feels like it means joy, so it’s very, ‘Pure, peace and joy.’ ”

The singer also called for more attention on the postpartum period, revealing that she “could not wipe [her] own butt” right after giving birth. “Nobody talks about the first six weeks after you have the baby. Oh my God, that’s wild, what a roller coaster!” Perry said.

[From People]

A lot of people talk about what happens to a woman’s body postpartum, but I get Katy’s larger point, which she’s been making in several different interviews, which is that we really do need a different way to talk and think about motherhood and going back to work. I feel like Katy’s perspective of “nobody talks about this” is coming from the fact that she went back to work at American Idol like five weeks after Daisy was born. Which is way too soon! People expect new moms to act like Wonder Woman two seconds after giving birth and women internalize that sh-t and they’re like “why isn’t anyone talking about how f–king hard this is?”

Photos courtesy of Katy’s IG.

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For months last year, Tom Cruise was filming Mission Impossible 7 around Europe, in the middle of a pandemic. The MI films are his babies (unlike his actual children, whom he mostly ignores) and he cared deeply about getting all of the pandemic protocols correct, like mask-wearing and social distancing. The MI shoot was pretty chaotic in Italy, and then in December, the production moved to England, where they shot interiors and tried to maintain pandemic protocols. Tried and failed – in December, someone leaked an audio of Cruise ranting at crew members for failing to social distance and that audio made news all over the place. Soon after, it seemed like some crew members quit, and now the production has moved to the Middle East, and cast and crew members are justifiably worried about the virus AND travel restrictions:

“Mission: Impossible” is coming close to living up to its name. Sources working on the seventh and latest installment of the “Mission: Impossible” movie franchise are complaining that star Tom Cruise is continuing to be a “nightmare,” the UK’s Sun reported on Saturday.

“A lot of us would love to cut our losses and leave things for a while, then pick up when we can,” one insider told the outlet. “But Tom is completely obsessed with finishing and nothing will stop him. He’s the most determined person. It’s impressive, but a nightmare.”

Cruise is not the only issue, the outlet reported after production moved out of the UK and on to the United Arab Emirates. Crew are worried when they’ll ever get to go home, given that direct flights between the Middle East and the UK are now being banned. Even after a return flight home, under current “red list” restrictions all travelers from the UAE to the UK will be required to self-isolate for 10 days.

“Now many of the production team, especially the more junior staff who aren’t on big salaries, are up in arms and just want to go home,” the Sun reported. The insider told the outlet, “this is starting to feel like a real nightmare of a production — and of course, a lot of that is totally unavoidable. But the hope was that after the pre-Christmas rows and delays, filming out in the UAE would give the crew more freedom to make headway without holdups. It feels like everything is against us at the moment and morale is really down,” the insider added.

[From Page Six]

On one side, I understand that Cruise and the studio want to get this done and wrapped, especially after pouring all of this money into all of the locations and coronavirus testing and all of that. But holy sh-t, this IS a nightmare. It’s one thing to want to get people back to work in a film industry which is deeply struggling. It’s quite another to run around Europe and the Middle East with a huge, unwieldy action-film production and force hundreds of crew members and cast members to put their lives at risk with the pandemic AND force them to be somewhat exiled in countries without the ability to go home any time soon. Most other Hollywood productions have been trying to limit far-flung location shoots and these huge crews during the pandemic. And there’s Cruise, forcing the production through Rome, Venice, London and the UAE all in a matter of three months? YIKES.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.

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The Ioan Gruffudd-Alice Evans split happened two weeks ago. We learned about it when Alice started tweeting that Ioan had come home and announced that he was leaving the family. Then that tweet was deleted, she claimed that he was abusing her and gaslighting her, and on and on. Many people took her word for it, and many assumed that this was another Dominic West-Lily James situation, where an actor of a certain age was screwing around with some younger woman, much to the dismay of his wife. It should be noted that Dominic West and his wife are still together though! They never even split up briefly, although she did spend some time at her family’s Irish castle without Dominic. Anyway, I wasn’t really sure what the story was with Ioan and Alice, only that she seemed like a massive pill and that he has been filming in Australia for years now, working on the TV show Harrow. He is back in LA now, where he was spotted by paparazzi last weekend, and he spoke to them:

Ioan Gruffudd has broken his silence on his ‘extremely difficult’ split from wife Alice Evans on Saturday, days after it was revealed via Twitter that their marriage was over. Still wearing his wedding ring, the Welsh actor, 47, stopped to briefly to speak with photographers as he went grocery shopping solo at Trader Joe’s in Los Angeles.

Addressing the split, he said: ‘Look, as I said before, it’s an extremely difficult time for the family, our thoughts are with our children obviously right now and I’d really respect a little bit of privacy right now, thank you.’

[From The Daily Mail]

I wonder how long he’s planning to be in LA, which is where Alice and their two daughters are based. According to the Mail, Ioan had been in Australia for months filming season 3 of Harrow, and then he only came back to LA recently. He stars in the show with Ella Newton, 30, who plays his daughter, and Anna Lise Phillips, 46, who plays his ex-wife. And so now everyone is convinced that he’s banging one of those actresses:

Love split actor Ioan Gruffudd has spoken of the close bond he developed with a co-star while filming a TV show in Australia. Ioan, 47, accused by wife Alice Evans, 49, of gaslighting her after their marriage collapsed, has gushed about blonde Ella Newton, 30.

The Welsh actor told an Australian newspaper: “I’m so lucky. We bonded almost immediately, so there’s a lot of respect there.”

She plays his daughter in Australian TV drama Harrow, while another blonde, Anna Lise Phillips, 46, plays his ex-wife. Ella, who has a boyfriend, used to play Delaney ­Renshaw — a Lolita character who tried to seduce an older man — in long-running ­Aussie soap Neighbours.

And The Sun on Sunday can reveal that Ioan, spotted in LA on Friday still wearing his wedding ring, found her equally mesmerising while filming Harrow. Ioan, who last year reprised his role as evil ­surgeon Andrew Earlham in ITV thriller Liar, said: “Ella — well, look, everyone gets branded ‘someone to watch’, but from working with her, she certainly is. You can’t take your eyes off her when she’s on screen. She’s so raw because she’s so young and inexperienced. But she’s eager to learn, eager to listen.”

Sources have revealed that Ioan spent lonely nights in the bar of the hotel where he stayed while filming in Brisbane. One said: “Ioan would often sit for hours with a whisky looking pensive. Those close to him believe that was where he decided it was over between him and Alice.”

There is no evidence to suggest Ioan was ever unfaithful.

[From The Sun]

I personally think that the British tabloids have just been poring through all of Ioan’s recent interviews and they’ve decided that he must be banging Ella, so they’re just quoting him and making sure to explicitly say that “There is no evidence to suggest Ioan was ever unfaithful.” Now, is it possible that Ioan has a side-chick in Australia? I would be shocked if he didn’t. But I’m not sure if it’s his young costar, who plays his daughter.

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