Last week, JoJo Siwa confirmed that she was a member of the LGBTQ community. JoJo had never technically hid that fact, but given her prior relationship with fellow social media star, Mark Bontempo, JoJo wanted to officially come out publicly and did so on social media. Another motivating factor was the encouragement she got from her girlfriend. JoJo has not named her girlfriend, but while she called in to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, she not only gushed over their relationship, JoJo said it was her girlfriend’s encouragement that helped her come out.

JoJo Siwa is opening up just weeks after revealing that she is gay.

”I was doing TikTok with the people in the Pride House… and I’m like, ‘I think this TikTok is going to out me,’” she shared. “I was like, ‘I don’t really mind, it is true. I do have the most amazing, wonderful, perfect, most beautiful girlfriend in the whole world. It’s not something I’m ashamed of, I just haven’t shown the internet yet.’”

“The day after I posted on TikTok, I was on FaceTime with her and we were talking about it, and talking about all of the love that came in and technically I still hadn’t confirmed it,” she says. “And I was like, I kind of want to post this picture [wearing a ‘Best Gay Cousin Ever’ shirt]… She was super encouraging like, ‘Do it!’ I was like, ‘Alright, I did it.’”

[From Just Jared]

Even though things are far better than before for LGBTQ youth today, it’s still a big deal for some to come out. Especially for someone with 30M followers like JoJo. She seemed prepared to weather the storm, but her girlfriend was taking a risk as well. We don’t know her name now, but we also know the Internet and they can get that information if they want it. So she really was taking this leap with JoJo and it’s wonderful they are willing to share that part of themselves with us. JoJo said later in the interview, which I have embedded below, she didn’t really realize until two days later the chance she took. It didn’t occur to her that she could have, in fact, lost everything with her tweet. But by that time, she said, “Yeah, but if I lost everything, that I’ve created because of being myself, then I don’t want it.” I wish I was that together when I was her age. I was so controlled by fear. I love all these young people, especially young women, who project their confidence so loudly. JoJo and her girlfriend are long-distance, she said. She also said they are on the phone constantly, to the annoyance of both their families. Uh, yeah – they’re 17-year-olds in love. Of course they are on the phone constantly.

JoJo called Jimmy from Vancouver. She is currently filming a new musical for Nickelodeon called The J Team. It was developed for JoJo. She plays a character named JoJo who gets kicked off her dance troupe by a sparkle-hating replacement coach. As you can imagine, it’s perfect for her.

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2020 was a garbage year overall, but some good movies and TV shows did make a dent. Unfortunately, many of those good projects were snubbed for Golden Globe nominations because the projects didn’t have enough white people in them. Even for the most random-ass year in entertainment, the Golden Globes still found the time to be racist as hell. As I said this week, most years, the unions (SAGs, DGAs, WGAs) “correct” the mistakes of the Golden Globes and veer slightly more towards inclusion, but only a little bit. So I waited to see if the 2021 SAG Award nominations would at least pretend to highlight some of the Black-led films. They did! Here are the film nominations:

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
“Da 5 Bloods”
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
“Minari”
“One Night in Miami”
“The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Amy Adams (“Hillbilly Elegy”)
Viola Davis (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”)
Vanessa Kirby (“Pieces of a Woman”)
Frances McDormand (“Nomadland”)
Carey Mulligan (“Promising Young Woman”)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”)
Chadwick Boseman (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”)
Anthony Hopkins (“The Father”)
Gary Oldman (“Mank”)
Steven Yeun (“Minari”)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Maria Bakalova (“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”)
Glenn Close (“Hillbilly Elegy”)
Olivia Colman (“The Father”)
Youn Yuh-Jung (“Minari”)
Helena Zengel (“News of the World”)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Chadwick Boseman (“Da 5 Bloods”)
Sacha Baron Cohen (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”)
Daniel Kaluuya (“Judas and the Black Messiah”)
Jared Leto (“The Little Things”)
Leslie Odom, Jr. (“One Night in Miami”)

My first shock was not seeing Amanda Seyfriend from Mank – I thought she would be a shoo-in for a big Oscar campaign, but I guess not. As for Amy Adams and Glenn Close for that Hillbilly Elegy mess… my God. Both ladies deserve all of the awards, but not for THAT. For other films, please!! I’m excited to see Regina King’s One Night In Miami do so well, nomination-wise, but I guess all of those predictions about Delroy Lindo in Da 5 Bloods were wrong. Every damn year, there’s at least one performance from an actor of color and I’m always like “why do people refuse to recognize this brilliant actor?” But here we are. As for the TV nominations, I’m not posting all of the categories, but you can see the full list here.

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
“Better Call Saul”
“Bridgerton”
“The Crown”
“Lovecraft Country”
“Ozark”

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
“Dead to Me”
“The Flight Attendant”
“The Great”
“Schitt’s Creek”
“Ted Lasso”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Gillian Anderson (“The Crown”)
Olivia Colman (“The Crown”)
Emma Corrin (“The Crown”)
Julia Garner (“Ozark”)
Laura Linney (“Ozark”)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Jason Bateman (“Ozark”)
Sterling K. Brown (“This Is Us”)
Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”)
Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”)
Rege-Jean Page (“Bridgerton”)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Nicholas Hoult (“The Great”)
Dan Levy (“Schitt’s Creek”)
Eugene Levy (“Schitt’s Creek”)
Jason Sudeikis (“Ted Lasso”)
Ramy Youssef (“Ramy”)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Cate Blanchett (“Mrs. America”)
Michaela Coel (“I May Destroy You”)
Nicole Kidman (“The Undoing”)
Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Queen’s Gambit”)
Kerry Washington (“Little Fires Everywhere”)

Female Actor in a Drama Series is just about two shows, Ozark and The Crown. And people really just hate Issa Rae, Insecure, Mindy Kaling and Never Have I Ever, huh? At least Michaela Coel got nominated, although my guess is that Anya Taylor-Joy has a lot of these awards sewn up for The Queen’s Gambit. Once again, much love to Ted Lasso, which is genuinely a lovely, funny, well-written show. Nice to see Bridgerton get some love, especially for Rege-Jean Page. I think Bridgerton was in such a weird spot – technically, the show began streaming before the end of 2020, but Netflix might have been smarter to push the awards campaign until next year. Who knows, I have no idea how it works with streaming anymore, to be completely honest.

(Hey, at least there’s no Emily in Paris!)

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Another day, another stupid a** story about some young rapper doing something ridiculous. Lil Uzi Vert, whom I don’t know nor listen to, decided to spend a cool $24 million on a pink diamond that he had implanted into his forehead (eye roll). The rapper who decided to name himself after a small green machine gun is known for his extravagant lifestyle of blinged out jewelry and high end cars. Of course Lil Uzi sells this lifestyle through his music and videos to impressionable teenagers. Anyhow Lil Uzi said it took him four years to pay off the $24 million price tag of the diamond and that his Bugatti. all of his cars and house wouldn’t cover the cost. When Lil Uzi said he had purchased the diamond, one of his fans told him to put it in a ring. Lil Uzi did one better and put the damn thing in his forehead, you know, so he doesn’t lose it? Below is more on the story via Page Six:

Last week, Lil Uzi — whose real name is Symere Bysil Woods — announced that he spent the past four years paying for a $24 million natural pink diamond that he planned to have implanted in his forehead.

When asked if he spent more on the diamond — which he said is between 10 and 11 carats and comes from his favorite jewelry designer, Elliot Eliantte — than he’s spent on his cars, the rapper replied, “Yes my Bugatti can’t even pay for it … all my cars together, plus home, this took so long now I can get this money.”

Responding to a fan who told the rapper he should just put the diamond in a ring, Uzi said, “If I lose the ring yeah U will make fun of me more than putting it in my forehead ha ha jokes on you ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha… And yes I do have insurance.”

On Tuesday, it appears Uzi followed through with his promise to have the gem placed in his face.

Fans immediately compared him to Vision, the Marvel superhero powered by the Mind Stone.

The inspiration behind the rapper’s look is unclear, though he’s long been interested in anime, the Heaven’s Gate cult and aliens.

[From Page Six]

Listen, I had to keep myself from rolling my eyes as I read this story. I try my best not to be judgmental but I am going to be hella petty and judgy here. I just don’t get these youngens. Like why are you wasting $24 million on a pink diamond that you have decided like a fool to implant in your forehead? What is the purpose of this? Why not invest your money so that it never runs out? I swear these dudes don’t have a parent or someone who cares about them around to tell them no. This idea doesn’t make sense. In fact, it is frivolous. People like Lil Uzi also think that the money will always be rolling in, never considering that one day their records won’t sell and the money will run out. Who is gonna bankroll their lifestyle once that happens?

It would seem that no one knows where Lil Uzi got this idea to implant his diamond into his forehead or whether it is safe? All I can do is facepalm Lil Uzi laughing at people telling him to put the diamond into a ring because he could possibly lose the ring and the diamond with it. Instead, putting it in his forehead was a smarter move according to Lil Uzi. At least Lil Uzi was smart enough to ensure the diamond. With that being said, I cringed when folks said that Lil Uzi looked like Vision with the Mind Stone implanted into his forehead. We know what Vision’s fate ended up being and why. Be smart kids, don’t be like Lil Uzi.

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Some folks decided to roast Lil Uzi for his ridiculousness:

Dude really went from Lil Uzi Vert to Lil Uzi Vision @LILUZIVERT pic.twitter.com/w0gyDdnZnM

— MTK ? (@michaelthekidxx) February 3, 2021

Lil Uzi Vision. @LILUZIVERT @Marvel @wandavision pic.twitter.com/QWK9pySlz3

— Cooper D (@cooperjd23) February 3, 2021

Thanos looking at Lil Uzi Vert like pic.twitter.com/m8joNgRuHP

— Jay Washington (@MrJayWashington) February 3, 2021

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When you picture Julianne Moore, what is she wearing? When I think of Julianne Moore, she is always in green. I f-cking love her in green. Look at her in green in this gallery…and then every other colour just doesn’t compare, does it? (Go Fug Yourself) A few years ago, remember we used to laugh whe…

It was announced yesterday that Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut film, Passing, which premiered at Sundance, has been acquired by Netflix for more than $15 million. Reviews have been solid, and this for sure is a major accomplishment for a first-time filmmaker. Passing is based on Nella Larsen’s 19…

Here are Jake Gyllenhaal and Eiza Gonzalez on the LA set of Ambulance, directed by Michael Bay. Because this is a Michael Bay movie, I am surprised that Eiza, who may be playing a paramedic, is not dressed in a bikini. But maybe Michael Bay is doing better by women now in his work. As I noted last …

In early January, I guessed that Gigi would secure a Vogue cover this year and now here it is. It’s a small victory because I thought it would be a family photo shoot with Zayn and baby Khai, but that didn’t materialize (at least not yet). Oh and Gigi’s dad Mohamed Hadid is launching a caviar line….

As is now an almost annual tradition, the Golden Globe nominations yesterday outraged pretty much everyone. Today, on the film side, at least, the SAG Awards offer an improvement over the Globes. The nominees were just announced and though there is still some nuttiness, I do not want to throw my com…

Once again we’re splitting discussion of these nominations into TV and Film, and so the actual nominations process, which used to be “televised”, deserves a mention – solely inasmuch as Daveed Diggs’ panic at not being able to add Lily Collins to the IG Live was so real it gave me anxiety. The nomi…

VP Kamala Harris swore in the first openly gay cabinet member, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Chasten Buttigieg looked so proud! [Towleroad]
Wisconsin has lost track of murderer & terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse. [Jezebel]
Little dog helps his human “shovel” snow, therefore he deserves a treat. [Dlisted]
Oh, look at photos of Diana Ross’s Swiss wedding. [GFY]
Trading Places is such an underrated movie, now I want to see it again. [Pajiba]
Barack Obama talked about Michelle’s iconic inauguration look. [JustJared]
Michael B. Jordan is in a Super Bowl commercial. [LaineyGossip]
Chloe Moretz’s Louis Vuitton sweater makes her look like a linebacker. [Tom & Lorenzo]
Canada declared the Proud Boys a “terrorist entity.” [Buzzfeed]
Love After Lockup’s Clint Brady was arrested again. [Starcasm]

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