Miley Cyrus performed for vaccinated frontline workers before the Super Bowl and collaborated with Billy Idol – and I for one would be down if Miley was a halftime headliner one day with special guest… Dolly Parton, her godmother! Maybe when the Super Bowl returns to Tennessee? (Go Fug Yourself) Ev…

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Lord help me, but I thought Gwen Stefani & Blake Shelton’s T-Mobile commercial during the Super Bowl was very cute. [Just Jared]
I would die for Chunky Monkey the puppy. [Jezebel]
I love the rainbow fabric but Gucci could have done better with the design. [Tom & Lorenzo]
What’s happening on WandaVision (spoilers). [Pajiba]
John Fetterman is running for the Senate in Pennsylvania. [Towleroad]
Did Jeff Bezos say “who’s your daddy” to Alexa? [Dlisted]
Sarah Jessica Parker keeps promoting shoes. [Go Fug Yourself]
Cardi B joins Wayne & Garth for an Uber East commercial. [LaineyGossip]
The SNL “Zillow” skit was too real. [Buzzfeed]
SOW hated The Weeknd’s Halftime show! [Seriously OMG]
These Mulberry purses would be so much better if the designer just made hard decisions about whether the purses should be a shoulder bag or a handbag. [RCFA]

Prince Harry was seen with James Corden shooting on a double decker bus reportedly for an upcoming episode of Carpool Karaoke the other day. Harry and James have known each other a long time, and James was invited to Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding. So it’s no surprise that James is one of the peo…

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Liz Cheney is not a profile in courage, you guys. I’m not saying that to call out anyone specifically. It’s a general note: Liz Cheney doesn’t get a damn cookie because she’s in touch with reality. We’re setting the bar too low if we’re handing out cookies to Congressional Republicans who understand that Donald Trump literally sent his death-cult to violently murder all of them. Political self-preservation shouldn’t be seen as courageous.

When the House voted to impeach Donald Trump, Rep. Liz Cheney – the daughter of Dick Cheney – was one of the few Republican representatives to vote to impeach. She’s been getting sh-t about it ever since. First, House QOP had an internal meeting about whether or not to strip CHENEY of her committee placements. It was the same meeting where they gave Marjorie Taylor Greene a standing ovation. Cheney gets to keep her committees though. Then the Wyoming QOP censured Cheney about her impeachment vote. Because that’s where the Republican Party is now – it is synonymous with the Trump Death Cult. They are the same thing. Now Axios reports that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Q-CA) told Cheney that she should apologize for her vote:

Kevin McCarthy tried to get Liz Cheney to apologize for how she handled her vote to impeach former President Trump before last week’s highly anticipated House GOP conference meeting — a request she refused, two people with direct knowledge told Axios. Cheney rolled the dice, refusing her leader’s ask and counting on her supporters to keep her as conference chair, the party’s No. 3 post in the House. Newly empowered, she’s now embracing her role as the Republicans’ Trump critic-in-chief.

McCarthy, who hesitated in the first place about holding a vote to oust Cheney, told her privately hours before Wednesday’s caucus meeting that their members wanted to hear her say she was sorry. He also suggested it could sway some of her opponents. Cheney’s team, though, did a whip count, and she was confident she’d secure at least 142 votes, the sources said.

Inside the room: “Several members have asked me to apologize for the vote, they’ve asked my colleagues who also voted to impeach to apologize for the vote,” Cheney (R-Wyo.) told her colleagues. “I cannot do that. It was a vote of conscience. It was a vote of principle — a principle on which I stand and still believe.”

Toward the end of last week’s four-plus hour meeting, Cheney and members of the House Freedom Caucus demanded — for opposite reasons — that the conference take a vote. She ended up winning 145-61.

[From Axios]

Axios goes on to point out that Cheney is now raising money off her maverick stand… a stand that Donald Trump is a terrorist who committed impeachable offenses. Again, not a profile in courage, especially since she’ll still be voting in lockstep with the Freedom Caucus/Suicide Caucus probably 99% of the time. Sure, Cheney did the right thing (once), but she’s also showing that it was a political branding choice.

Cheney is also becoming the self-appointed truth-teller to congressional Republicans – she hasn’t backed down from her position that Trump is awful and he doesn’t represent the future of the party. Yeah, most of the Republican caucus doesn’t agree with that. Oh, and now Don Trump Jr. wants to carpetbag his way into Wyoming and primary Cheney. So that’s something to look forward to.

Cheney says she talked to officer Sicknick’s mother this week. More: “the single greatest threat to our public is a president who would put his own self-interest above the constitution, above the national interest.” pic.twitter.com/qTJkViqSna

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) February 7, 2021

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Catherine Zeta-ones did an hour long live pitch for the launch of the cosmetics branch of her brand, Casa Zeta-Jones. You can watch it here, on talkshop. I found it fascinating that she could sit there for an hour and talk just to the camera about makeup and her products, but I could probably do that too. I love talking about makeup, hair and skincare as you know. So much of what Catherine said resonated with me in that she doesn’t go without makeup and she loves wearing it. I’ve been like that since I was young too. She was so into makeup and talking about it and I found it mesmerizing. I came away wanting to buy everything, which is ridiculous but true. This woman could sell me anything.

My mom is a beautiful woman, inside and out, and always loved makeup. She literally wouldn’t put out the garbage without putting her makeup on. She had a wonderful glamour and was an inspiration to me.

My love affair with makeup started very young. My mother was very welcoming when I started to work and put makeup on. She was the first one to say ‘go on, go and get my makeup bag and make me up.’ It was something I did with my mother and I do with my daughter now. We take it in turns [making each other up].

I’m a kind of woman who thinks I need makeup and I enjoy putting makeup on. When I’m not working with some of the great makeup artists in the world, I really love wearing makeup just in my day to day life. It’s not a big drama, it’s not a big event. I put it on and I’m good to go. If I were stranded on a desert island, I would surely have to have some creature comforts. Those creature comforts would certainly be a mascara, an eye pencil or two, because I know if my eyes are on, I’m on.

I love my packaging. It’s going to be about me me, I’m usually not that bad. I want things to be seen on my makeup counter or if I’m digging into my pouch, I want bring out something that looks nice. Beautiful shiny box with beautiful gold font. It says on here Casa Zeta-Jones. Genius! You know how I came up with the name Casa Zeta-Jones? I came up with it in the sauna. Some of my amazing ideas come from the sauna when I’m sweating like a roast piglet. I wanted to use my initials CZJ and something that was my name but not really my name.

I was doing my makeup in the back of the car and [the driver said] ‘do you think we should pull over,’ and I said ‘I can do this on a roller coaster, I swear.’

[From Talkshop stream]

She’s told that story about coming up with the name in the sauna before, but I loved hearing it again, especially when she called herself genius for her brand name! She was haughty as hell because she’s Catherine Zeta-Jones, but everything she said rang true to me and I came away from this wanting to buy her makeup. She loves makeup, she owns that and now she’s capitalizing on that like a boss. When she started talking about her eye pencils being the perfect soft pencil and non-harsh color for all eye colors I wanted them! Plus she peppered her talk with little tangents and cute anecdotes. “When you’re doing a smokey eye there has to be some light in there otherwise it gets too racoon-eyes. I love raccoons. I didn’t like the one that was on my garbage cans the other nights. I swear to God it was the size of a small bear.” She’s amazing!

I’ve said this for years, but I don’t leave the house without makeup. I’ve dated guys for months who have slept over and have never seen me without makeup. I don’t think of it as being insecure, it’s more like I know what I know what I like and I stick with that. A therapist once told me to let my boyfriend see me without makeup and I told her no because I didn’t see the point. I probably needed that advice but CZJ is helping me feel secure in my love of makeup. If only some of her extreme self esteem would rub off on me.

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The big headline about Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez last week was ARod’s association with Southern Charm’s Madison LeCroy who clearly did not mind sharing the spotlight with JLo, one of the most famous women in the world. Everyone’s been speculating about how exactly they know each other – and …