The renewed lockdown in England has done one good thing for the Windsor clan: it gave them an “out” on the subject of the “one year review” for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Harry and Meghan didn’t want the one-year review, they knew last year that they were leaving and never coming back in any real way. The review was something cooked up by the Queen and Prince Charles, to give Harry a chance to dump his American wife and come crawling back to them. As it became clear that Harry is – again – not coming back, the royal commentators became obsessed with the review, like Harry was going to arrive back in the UK in March and the Queen would send him to the Tower of London for the crime of Being Successful and Overshadowing Dull Windsors. There was even a story about Harry asking for an “extension” which some people thought was some kind of PR from Kensington Palace, but I thought was more like a pandemic reality, simply that Harry didn’t think it was safe enough to travel internationally. So no, he’s not coming back in March. Especially not with the new lockdowns happening.

Prince Harry will not meet the Queen face-to-face for a 12-month review of the so-called ‘Megxit’ deal as the Covid-19 pandemic has brought a ban on non-essential travel. The Duke of Sussex, together with wife Meghan Markle, quit as senior royals in January last year, with a review on their position set to take place on March 31.

Prince Harry, 36, planned to request a meeting with his grandmother in the coming weeks, but those plans are said to have been scuppered by the coronavirus pandemic. According to The Mirror, royal sources say the prince has ‘not yet attempted to contact’ the Queen to organise a meeting – but a solution was expected to be arranged in the coming weeks.

It’s understood the couple want to increase the amount of time before a deal relinquishing their position becomes permanent. The veteran of two Afghanistan tours is keen on retaining all military appointments, while Ms Markle, 39 remains a royal patron of the National Theatre.

According to The Mirror, senior advisers are alarmed at the pace the Duke and Duchess have signed huge financial deals. Last month it was revealed the couple had signed up for a podcast deal with Spotify thought to be worth up to £30million. It comes just months after the royals agreed a £100million partnership with Netflix and days after Meghan invested in a $28-per-pack oat-milk ‘superlatte’ business later promoted for free by her LA neighbour Oprah Winfrey.

Sources have told The Mirror that courtiers are taking a ‘renewed in-depth look at the couple’s business deals,’ to assess whether they fit with Her Majesty’s values.

One source told the paper: ‘There is undoubtedly a sense of unease over the pace at which they have entered the corporate world and the way in which they have conducted ­themselves relating to their various legal disputes.’

[From The Daily Mail]

This is the most important passage: “Prince Harry planned to request a meeting with his grandmother in the coming weeks…. royal sources say the prince has ‘not yet attempted to contact’ the Queen to organise a meeting…” I’ll translate for you: the Queen and her henchmen were looking forward to Harry contacting them to try to arrange a time and date for a meeting, and they were giddy at the thought of turning him down or making him jump through hoops to get an audience with Petty Betty. But… Harry hasn’t called. Harry doesn’t give a f–k. So now those same petty, punitive courtiers are trying to save face and claiming that it’s just about the pandemic and lockdowns. And every time anyone mentions the courtiers poring over the Sussexes’ business deals, I start giggling. These out-of-touch pieces of sh-t really think they’re doing something, don’t they?

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.

For many months in 2020, The Weeknd (aka Abel Tesfaye) was out in public, promoting the singles off of his 2020 album After Hours. Abel decided to forgo the streetwear kind of style he had for his previous promotional tours, and for After Hours, he went for suits and sharper-looking menswear. Weirdly, he also made “bandages” and a bloody face part of his promotional style. Whenever we saw him at an awards show or doing any kind of video or performance, his face looked beat to hell and he was always wearing bandages. I honestly thought it was all just a weird prop thing, an attempt to do something memorable, and I didn’t pay that much attention to it.

But… were all of the bandages real? Did he get plastic surgery? Abel posted the Instagram above last night and people are freaking out. In other recent IGs, he doesn’t look *this* different, which means that it’s likely facial prosthetics rather than cosmetic surgery. But it’s a total YIKES either way. Apparently, the “new face” was for this new music video for “Save Your Tears.”

Here’s my thing…I’m actually feeling kind of bad that I haven’t been paying more attention to what Abel has been doing? I feel like he’s been trying to make some kind of point or create some kind of narrative with the bloody face and bandages, and this video is probably the culmination of all of those narratives. But… there will be so many people, like me, who weren’t paying attention to his sh-t for months and are now like “WTF did he do to his face??!”

Photos courtesy of Instagram, Avalon Red, Backgrid.

For weeks now, Donald Trump has been trying to not-so-subtly work over Mike Pence. I feel like Trump only really started in on Pence when Trump exhausted all of his delusional Kraken lawsuits, almost all of which were unceremoniously thrown out of court. So it fell to Pence, in Trump’s mind, to “save” him and be the one to do the coup. In Trump’s peabrain, he’s convinced himself that Pence will be able to ride into the Senate today, toss out the electors and somehow install MAGA dumbasses as electors and they’ll magically declare Trump the winner of the election. The same election Trump lost by millions of votes. These are just two insane tweets in the past 24 hours:

The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2021

If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency. Many States want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect & even fraudulent numbers in a process NOT approved by their State Legislatures (which it must be). Mike can send it back!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021

That’s literally not how any of this works. And, just a sidenote, Trump spent all night retweeting Tonka Lipshitz about Georgia, so it’s not like he’s *only* focused on trying to bully his VP into doing some light treason and fascism. Trump has a lot of balls in the air and his hands are very small, so he’s not going to catch any of them. Interestingly enough, even though Pence is an idiot, he’s not THAT much of an idiot, right? Well, sort of:

Vice President Mike Pence told President Trump on Tuesday that he did not believe he had the power to block congressional certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the presidential election despite Mr. Trump’s baseless insistence that he did, people briefed on the conversation said. Mr. Pence’s message, delivered during his weekly lunch with the president, came hours after Mr. Trump further turned up the public pressure on the vice president to do his bidding when Congress convenes Wednesday in a joint session to ratify Mr. Biden’s Electoral College win.

“The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday morning, an inaccurate assertion that mischaracterized Mr. Pence’s largely formal and constitutionally prescribed role of presiding over the House and Senate as they receive and certify the electoral votes conveyed by the states and announcing the outcome. Mr. Pence does not have the unilateral power to alter the results sent by the states to Congress.

More Republican senators came out on Tuesday against attempts to undermine the results, including Tim Scott of South Carolina and James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, who said he viewed challenging any state’s certification as “a violation of my oath of office.”

In a process that is likely to go on for many hours, Mr. Pence will preside on Wednesday over a roll call of the states. If at least one senator and one House member object to the results from a state, they can force a debate of up to two hours about those results. Each chamber will then vote separately on whether to certify that state’s results.

For results to be overturned, both the House and the Senate would have to agree to do so. Because the House is controlled by the Democrats, there is no realistic possibility of any state’s outcome being rejected. In addition, many if not most Senate Republicans appear likely to join all Democrats in rejecting challenges to the results.

The House and Senate are expected to debate objections to the results in at least three states — Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania, all of which went to Mr. Biden — but ultimately to certify Mr. Biden’s 306-to-232 Electoral College victory.

[From The NY Times]

So that’s what’s happening today. This is what cable news will be focused on, alongside the Georgia results still coming in and discussion of what will likely be a 50-50 Senate, with VP Kamala Harris as the tiebreaking vote. This going to be a total clown show, but I’m glad (at least) that Mike Pence isn’t going to ride into the Senate on a pony and try to toss out Democratic senators or whatever.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Backgrid.

The newest James Bond movie, No Time to Die will be released in April after several delays. Daniel Craig confirmed last year that he was leaving the franchise after No Time to Die. For years fans were calling for Idris Elba to be the next Bond. There was a lot of racist backlash at the suggestion of a black man taking on the role. Late last year it was rumored that Tom Hardy had been chosen to take on the role but it has yet to be confirmed.

Now that Rege-Jean “the God” Page is the new hot young thing due to his role as Simon Bassett in Netflix’s Bridgerton, people are calling for Rege to be the next Bond. Rege has gotten wind of the buzz and coyly posted a gif from Bridgerton captioned it with a well known James Bond catchphrase. Rege, 31, wrote “Regency, royalty. Shaken and stirred” along with the #Bridgerton hashtag. You can see that Tweet below.

Rege can be my Bond anyday. Where do I volunteer as tribute to be a Bond girl so I can be in a film with him? I will eat clean and exercise for months to get into shape. I actually like the idea of Rege as Bond more than Idris (although I loved this idea) and Tom. To be fair I am not digging Tom Hardy as Bond. I am not sure what it is… wait yea I do, it’s his voice. Don’t at me but I do not like Tom Hardy’s voice. It would ruin the film for me.

Despite wanting to see Rege in a suit, running around with scantily clad women and all of that, I think he may need several more years under his belt before he could be a great Bond. Bond is usually a man in his forties and Rege is only 31. And we’d need several more years before folks come around to the idea of a Black James Bond. I saw how Bond’s toxic fans came after Lashana Lynch with hate and trolling after the trailer for No Time to Die dropped and it showed her as a female Bond. Lashana had to shut down her social media for a wee because it had gotten so bad. The studios in these situations often do not support the Black actors who are experiencing harassment nor stand up to their franchises’ toxic fans. See John Boyega in Star Wars.

Now back to the frivolity. Rege-Jean is fine, and I for one am definitely here for fantasizing about seeing Rege’s beautiful face and body on the big screen. I personally can’t get enough of Rege. I’ve binge watched Bridgerton several times so my obsession is solid. With that being said, I’d prefer to see a more mature, read older, Rege playing James Bond. And while we wait for Rege to age like a fine whisky, I think Sam Heughan would be the perfect addition to the Bond franchise.

Regency, royalty

Shaken and stirred.#Bridgerton pic.twitter.com/cSwnSpLQCy

— Regé-Jean Page (@regejean) December 16, 2020

Here are a few tweets calling for Rege to be the next Bond:

It’s just dawned on me. Regé-Jean Page for James Bond….that is all ??? #Bridgerton #bridgertonnetflix #DukeOfHastings #JamesBond pic.twitter.com/58Aqyr6AvM

— Ticky (@tick898) January 1, 2021

Watching Bridgerton and thinking that @regejean would make a brilliant new James Bond.

— Richard Walsh (@RickyWalsh1973) January 3, 2021

I can get behind this https://t.co/Sl6rK5v3fL

— Candice Frederick (@ReelTalker) January 5, 2021

and of course this:

So, Rege Jean Page as the New James Bond? Yes Please…but Sam Heughen ?I am fucking torn #bridgertonnetflix or #Outlander. pic.twitter.com/0XOdhbgEmT

— ??sassenach ??? (@omwill3) January 5, 2021

photos credit: Netflix/Liam Daniel and Avalon.red

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Back in September, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey made some terrible statements about Americans and food. Buried deep within his nonsense, there were a handful of okay points, about Americans needing access to fresh, healthy food, and how the abundance of junk food is a massive problem. But he surrounded those arguments with a lot of bullsh-t. He barely broached the issue of food deserts and price in determining how specifically low-income people make food choices, and he basically argued that people decide all on their own to eat junk food, get fat and get sick, that it’s all down to personal choice. Imagine saying that in the middle of a f–king pandemic. Well, imagine saying that all healthcare should be down to people “not needing healthcare.” For real.

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey says the key to keeping people healthy in the United States is for people to eat better and live healthier lives.

“I mean, honestly, we talk about health care. The best solution is not to need health care,” Mackey told Freakonomics Radio host Stephen Dubner in an episode released on Nov. 4.

“The best solution is to change the way people eat, the way they live, the lifestyle, and diet,” Mackey says. “There’s no reason why people shouldn’t be healthy and have a longer health span. A bunch of drugs is not going to solve the problem.”

Americans are not taking as good care of their own bodies as they ought to be, Mackey says: “71% of Americans are overweight and 42.5% are obese. Clearly, we’re making bad choices in the way we eat,” he says. “It’s not a sustainable path. And so, I’m calling it out.”

It’s not the first time Mackey has called for better lifestyles as a solution to expensive health care. In 2009, he penned a piece for the Wall Street Journal along the same ilk, “The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare,” in which he advocated for less government control of health care in the United States. “This begins with the realization that every American adult is responsible for his or her own health,” Mackey wrote. “We should take that responsibility very seriously and use our freedom to make wise lifestyle choices that will protect our health.”

[From CNBC]

I honestly don’t understand this offensively narrow thought process at all. When he meets someone with cancer, is John Mackey thinking “well, they brought that on themselves”? When someone has broken bones from a car accident, does he think “well, it never would have happened if they had a better diet?” I’m all for self-sufficiency and being responsible for your own life choices. But there’s more happening than that! Genetics play a huge part, environment plays a huge part, education plays a huge part and again, we’re in the middle of a damn pandemic!! Are you really going to say to Grandma that it’s too bad she has coronavirus, she should have exercised more and eaten fewer processed foods? Jesus. That’s not how healthcare should work.

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I eagerly await the royal reporters’ gleeful takedowns of a certain prince’s “publicity stunt.” I’m sure someone is mad that a younger prince overshadowed Prince Charles or pulled focus from the Queen. I’m sure that the prince’s careful, performative PR hit will be exposed as exploitative and lacking in privacy. I’m sure that the prince will also be soundly mocked as an airy-fairy do-gooder trying too hard to be woke. What’s that? I’m being told the prince in question is Prince William. So… probably none of that will happen. Guess what William did? He visited a homeless shelter long enough to pose for a photo, and they held back the information for two weeks.

Prince William is helping out during hard times. Homeless shelter The Passage revealed on Tuesday that the royal visited their center in London on three separate occasions ahead of Christmas. In a photo shared by The Rooftop, William sports a mask and apron as he sorts supplies into paper bags.

According to the outlet, Prince William, who is patron of the organization, spoke with homeless residents about their experiences amid the coronavirus pandemic and worked alongside other volunteers to prepare hot meals for individuals who had been moved into emergency hotel accommodation.

“Because we thought you might need a good news story!” the organization tweeted. “If we’ve learnt anything from previous lockdowns, it’s the willingness and determination of so many to do what they can to help. We would like to thank staff and volunteers for their work at this time.”

The charity provided 70,000 meals during the U.K.’s two national lockdowns.

“This year, more than ever, our army of volunteers have enabled The Passage to keep our vital services running throughout both lockdowns and the time in-between,” The Passage Chief Executive Mick Clarke said. “From our emergency food hub to fundraising, outreach to essential office support, our Home for Good program to our residential projects, we are extremely fortunate to have such a versatile and committed group of supporters.”

[From People]

The Passage is a great organization and people working with homeless people are amazing. But… why hold back the news? Surely the f–king point of having a royal patron is to get more attention to the organization/charity, and to help raise vital funds? But that’s not William’s purpose – his purpose is to get a very convenient story and photo saved for a moment when he needs PR. I mean, if William had made a visit publicly before Christmas, I’m sure that would have bumped up the Passage’s donors and helped The Passage provide more support to homeless people during the holidays! But too bad, William wanted the PR hit after New Year’s.

When the Sussexes organized the photoshoot for Remembrance Day, this is what Richard Palmer wrote: “Since they quit Britain Harry and Meghan have mainly done “engagements” at which they seek to control the message by issuing photos and press releases afterwards. Where is the US media at these events? Isn’t a free press one of the western values we cherish and fight for?” Seriously is no one going to point out how bizarre it is that William does “private visits” with a homeless charity which is probably in desperate need of donations, AND he doesn’t inform the press and yet organizes his own photoshoot? Anyone??

Because we thought you might need a good news story!
If we’ve learnt anything from previous lockdowns, it’s the willingness and determination of so many to do what they can to help. We would like to thank staff and volunteers for their work at this time. https://t.co/9VAhL9lWAP

— The Passage Charity (@PassageCharity) January 5, 2021

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.

Like Kaiser, there is very little chance I will watch Vanessa Kirby’s new film, Pieces of a Woman. Or maybe I will, but just fast forward through the first half hour, because I don’t know if I’m strong enough to watch what sounds like a really traumatic child loss situation. I really like Vanessa, though, and want to support her. Plus, I think she’s got some chops so she’s probably fantastic and lord knows Ellen Burstyn elevates everything she’s in. For now, however, I will be content to watch Vanessa’s interviews because she is as charming as she is talented. Even when she’s telling what sound like traumatic stories, she makes them sound perfectly delightful. While calling in to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy asked Vanessa about an audition she had once in which her bottle of water slowly seeped down her leg throughout her reading. I posted the interview below but here are a few highlights

She’s in lockdown with her sister and they’re watching films
I got into a serious stage. Cassavetes, Fellini… then we went through a really good Tom Hanks stage. When you watch them in succession, he’s so comforting. He’s just the most lovable. Castaway [holds up]. I had a lot of dreams about it that night.

Her nickname for being clumsy
They call me Bambi. You know how Bambi is on the ice? Always have been [clumsy]. I have a real lack of spatial awareness.

On an unfortunate incident at an audition
That was a bad audition. I’ve had many, but that was particularly bad. It was a really big audition for me, I was so nervous. Got in the room there was maybe 30 execs in suits. Sat in the front. There was this big, long speech, really emotional. 30 seconds in I thought ‘what’s that.’ I could feel I had a bottle of water in my lap. I hadn’t put the lid on properly. A stream of water was just flowing down my leg. I left and I was soaking. No one said anything either.

[From YouTube]

I don’t know if I could watch Castaway a second time. I enjoyed it the first time but it’s not one of those films I’ve ever been inclined to re-watch. However, I’d just resolved a major tooth issue prior to the film’s release and when he knocked his tooth out, I could feel his relief throughout my being. I, too, had dreams about it for weeks after I’d seen it. Weird. I love that Vanessa is called Bambi. She looks like a Bambi! I am also clumsy, but in a tripping, running into things kind of way. Whereas I am convinced Vanessa and I would be good friends, we might be a menace to anyone’s home we visited together. One of the reasons I think Vanessa is so talented is because in the clip Jimmy showed during her segment and in her portrayal of Princess Margaret, she conveyed a sense of quiet inner torture in a way that made the viewer feel it. It was both graceful and painful, expertly expressed. To watch the true Vanessa in these interviews and how gregarious and blithe she is, it makes me appreciate what she does on screen so much more.

As for the water incident, how does one recover from something like that? I guess you don’t. Vanessa did the only thing she could, which is walk out and pray they all noticed the leaky water bottle in her hand. I suppose she left an indelible impression on everyone in the room, none of them would ever forget the girl who leaked out a puddle of water with her emotional audition. But as Jimmy said, it is great to have these stories now that she’s achieved fame. If she’d never gone anywhere, it would have simply been the punchline at Christmas dinner, “remember that time Bambi dripped herself out of a career in Hollywood?” This is a much more entertaining outcome.

Here is the full video as promised. Jimmy asked Vanessa what her sister does in the first part of the video. They never actually get around to answering it due to Vanessa’s giggle attack, so I looked it up for you. Juliet Kirby is an agent. You’re welcome.

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The Georgia runoff election for the state’s two Senate seats will determine the majority in the Senate. There’s so much at stake, it’s like the whole thing was scripted by Hollywood, complete with the two very attractive Democratic candidates, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Warnock, the Baptist pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, vying to be Georgia’s first Black senator. Ossoff, a 33-year-old well-educated Georgia native who interned for John Lewis and has steadily built his profile in Georgia politics. They were up against two awful incumbents, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. Even though Perdue and Loeffler have done nothing for Georgians and they were literally committing crimes in office, many predicted that they would win back their seats because, well, it’s Georgia. And it’s a special election without a big-name Democrat to drive voter turnout. Right? Wrong.

Enter Stacey Abrams, the gubernatorial candidate who saw Brian Kemp steal the governor’s race from her in 2018. Abrams stayed in Georgia and organized so that no state-wide candidate would have to deal with the voter suppression she faced in 2018. Abrams and many other organizers – many of them Black women – helped deliver Georgia for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in November. Abrams once again stayed on the ground for the Georgia runoff. And guess what? Historic turnout for a special election, with Ossoff and Warnock OUT-PERFORMING Biden’s numbers in November in many counties. Raphael Warnock is going to be the next senator from Georgia. And it’s looking good for Ossoff too!!

Democrats moved a major step closer to capturing control of the Senate on Wednesday morning as Georgia voters elected the Rev. Raphael Warnock, the pastor at the storied Ebenezer Baptist Church, in a hard-fought runoff contest that became roiled by President Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in the state.

Mr. Warnock’s victory over the Republican incumbent, Kelly Loeffler, was called by The Associated Press early Wednesday. It represented a landmark breakthrough for African-Americans in politics as well as for Georgia: He became the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from the South.

For Democrats to take the Senate, which is crucial to enacting President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s first-term agenda, they also need to win Georgia’s other Senate runoff held on Tuesday. With an estimated 98 percent of votes counted in that race as of 4 a.m. Wednesday, the Republican candidate, David Perdue, trailed his Democratic rival, Jon Ossoff, by 12,806 votes.

Turnout in rural, overwhelmingly white counties where Republicans needed a strong showing was lagging without Mr. Trump on the ballot, and many of Georgia’s heavily Black localities saw turnout levels that neared those of the presidential race in November.

While Mr. Warnock’s win was a major gain for his party — he is the first Democrat to be elected to the Senate from Georgia since 2000 — both political parties remained on edge over the unresolved Ossoff-Perdue race and its implications for the next two years in American politics. Whichever party wins that race will control the Senate, with Republicans counting on Mr. Perdue to prevail and give them the ability to constrain Mr. Biden’s policy ambitions.

[From The NY Times]

As of this writing, Ossoff has a lead with about 98% of the vote in. If Ossoff wins his race by less than .5%, that triggers an automatic recount, which is a very real possibility. But… it’s looking really good. I’m hopeful. And I’m beyond pleased with Warnock’s victory!! Senator Warnock!!

You just know he’s proud pic.twitter.com/264as3fTYU

— Parker Butler (@parkerbutler10) January 6, 2021

The Queen’s Gambit (2021) pic.twitter.com/2qBvb7ydxK

— Cameron Smith (@cameronsmith269) January 6, 2021

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Terri Nunn, lead singer of the group Berlin, came under fire for performing at Mar-a-Lago during their ill-advised New Year’s Eve Party last week (the photo above is from a show in 2019). Donald Trump didn’t even bother to show up. His bonehead sons did, as well as the permanently shouting Kimberly Guilfoyle and deranged consigliere Rudy Giuliani. Wow, now there’s a party, huh? Berlin was one of the big gets for the shindig. After it came out that the resort was packed with a bunch of sweaty, maskless, right-wing COVIDiots who can’t dance, many of Terri’s fans wanted to know WTF she and the band were thinking for signing up for that gig. Terri issued an apology on the band’s official Facebook page explaining she’d been tricked into playing Mar-a-Lago and the whole thing was a mistake and she was very sorry. Only she wasn’t tricked and there was no mistake.

I am truly sorry I performed at Mar-a-Lago and would not have done so if I’d known what I learned while I was there. My goal in performing was not to support a political party. I see now that that’s not the way it appeared and I am apologetic for that as well. The contract stated it was a small Covid-safe event for the members of Mar-a-Lago. Unfortunately it was not Covid-safe anywhere in Florida. I had no idea masks and social distancing were not required. I thought I was current on all Covid news everywhere, but clearly I was not. I was shocked by Florida and Mar-a-Lago’s lack of regard for the pandemic and if I’d known I would never have gone. Once I fulfilled my contractual obligation, I left the event as quickly as I could. It is a mistake I regret. I took a Covid 19 test yesterday and tested negative.
My apologies to those in the LGBTQ community who thought my performance was a statement against them. I have been and always will be fully supportive.

[From Facebook via Just Jared]

I am disinclined to give Terri the benefit of the doubt here. No one who’s paid any attention for the last four years thought those people would follow a single precaution. Trump’s people have openly flouted all COVID precautions so they certainly weren’t going to during a private party . Terri said she didn’t do her homework, but she would have to be living under a rock to think this would be ok. And how can she claim playing at Mar-a-Lago would not appear political? Or as a slight to the LGBTQ community? But this misguided deflection is Terri’s MO. I remember when Berlin’s mega hit, Take My Breath Away, came out. It was written for and shot to the top because of the movie Top Gun. The band, like most 80s pop groups, were anti-military and anti-war and came under fire for contributing to a film that glorified both. At the time, Terri gave this ridiculous response, like her Mar-a-Lago response, about how Take My Breath Away was their statement against the military and if you watch the video of them standing in front of a burned-out jet, you would get that they were making a stand against all things war. It, too, was a bunch of BS to cover up the boatload of money they made from it.

Berlin aren’t the only ones having to defend their Mar-a-Lago performance, Vanilla Ice and Taylor Dayne both performed at the function and are also claiming they never intended for their appearance to be seen as political. Mike Love and his Non Beach Boys played the party, but he isn’t addressing anything because he doesn’t give a sh*t what you think of him.

Here are some videos to show you how bad it was at this thing. Warning, these will piss you off, but they are also blindingly white, so have some shades ready:

New Year’s Eve celebration at Mar-a-Lago during deadly pandemic pic.twitter.com/oICbuJzpH1

— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) January 1, 2021

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Back in June 2020, Kim Kardashian made a big business deal. She sold 20% of her KKW Beauty line to Coty for $200 million. Meaning, Kim’s KKW Beauty is worth – on paper – a billion dollars. And KKW Beauty isn’t even Kim’s best product – her best product is SKIMS, her shapewear line. KKW Beauty is just Kim trying to copy Kylie Jenner’s cosmetics business. Anyway, this week the Coty deal was finalized and Kim now has $200 million in the bank to grow her businesses and to continue living a separate life from her husband, the “W” in KKW. The Daily Mirror reported this week that Kim and Kanye have barely seen each other in the past three months and their separate lives are quite starkly different – Kanye barely sees the kids, he spends all of his time with his team in Wyoming, and Kim raises the kids in LA. Then this story hit:

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are over. Multiple sources tell Page Six that “divorce is imminent” for the Hollywood couple, with Kardashian hiring divorce attorney to the stars, Laura Wasser.

“They are keeping it low-key but they are done,” says a source. “Kim has hired Laura Wasser and they are in settlement talks.”

Kim, 40, hasn’t been seen wearing her wedding ring, and Kanye, 43, remained at his $14 million Wyoming ranch over the holidays instead of spending it with the Kardashian klan, who drew criticism for their extravagant celebrations.

“Kim got Kanye to go up there [Wyoming] so they could live separate lives and quietly get things sorted out to separate and divorce. She’s done,” the source continued. The source added that while Kim has done much in the past to protect and help Kanye deal with his mental health struggles, “Now this divorce is happening because Kim has grown up a lot. She is serious about taking the bar exam and becoming a lawyer, she is serious about her prison reform campaign. Meanwhile Kanye is talking about running for president and saying other crazy s–t, and she’s just had enough of it.”

Meanwhile, a separate source says Kanye, who became increasingly uncomfortable and irritated by the Kardashians’ over-the-top reality star lives, “Is completely over the entire family … He wants nothing to do with them,” adding he eventually found their reality show “unbearable.”

Kanye reluctantly showed up for Kim’s ridiculously extravagant $1 million-plus 40th birthday in Tahiti last October for just one day. “He showed up late and left early, he wouldn’t appear in any of their Instagram shots. All he did was bring over the hologram of her father Robert Kardashian, then got out of there as fast as he could,” the source added.

The source said the biggest sticking point in the Kimye divorce settlement talks could be over their Calabasas, California, family home, which underwent a total redesign masterminded by Kanye and was heralded by Architectural Digest as “an oasis of purity and light.” The source said, “Kim is trying to get Kanye to turn over the Calabasas house to her, because that’s where the kids are based and growing up. That is their home. She owns all the land and adjoining lots around the house but Kanye owns the actual house. They’ve both put a lot of money into renovating it.”

The source added of the advanced settlement talks, “This isn’t the first time they’ve been talking about a split, but this time it is way, way more serious.” Another source confirmed to us that divorce settlement talks were underway, but they were not yet at the point of deciding how their properties would be divided.

[From Page Six]

I’ve been saying that a divorce would happen for the better part of the past year. They were living separate lives back in March/April of 2020, and then Kanye had that profoundly bad manic episode which went on and on for months, and Kim just tapped out of the marriage. To be fair, it sounded like Kanye was totally over it too. So, yes, I totally believe that their lawyers are already putting something together. And obviously, Kim should just buy the Calabasas home from Kanye.

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