Newsletter Tuesday, October 04, 2016

[LaineyGossip.com - Calling all smuthounds!] Tuesday, October 04, 2016 [Intro for October 4, 2016] [Prince George of Cambridge looks out of the window of a sea plane as he departs Victoria on October 1, 2016 in Victoria, Canada] Dear Gossips, As mentioned [in yesterday’s open], Kim’s Convenience, Canada’s first sitcom with an Asian cast, was scheduled to premiere tonight at on CBC at 9pm. As also mentioned, many Canadians will be watching the Toronto Blue Jays play the Baltimore Orioles tonight in the wildcard game at the same time. So the network has decided to delay Kim’s Convenience by a week. It will now premiere on October 11 with back-to-back episodes. I’ve set a series recording. In other Canadian news, have you seen the video released by Kensington Palace following the Cambridges’ visit? There’s been some…reaction. Here, check it out: We have created such happy memories for our children during this visit [#RoyalVisitCanada] [pic.twitter.com/S1v0XO3WvT] — Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) [October 1, 2016] Many felt that the tone was weird. I agree. It IS weird. Some are wondering why it [feels so sad]. I’m not sure it’s sadness necessarily. To me it’s more like nostalgia. Even the colours in the piece are filtered to nostalgia. When you’re watching it though, do you keep expecting Chariots Of Fire to kick in? Either that or the theme from Top Gun. Which actually would be a very good soundtrack to Prince Big G on the tarmac, and then later on the plane, wearing his blue headphones and smushing his face against the window. Big G is not expected to go on tour again for at least a few years, like a rock star on hiatus. The next time we see new photos of him will likely be at Christmas. I hope he lets Lupo into the picture this year. Yours in gossip, Lainey [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 2:02 PM [Smutty Tingles] On the 30th installment of [Sasha Answers Podcast], we cover how to BDSM responsibly, tough love for a dumb love and how to cope with fertility issues. Flip-flops are evil. Even predators know this. ([Dlisted]) Are there models on Mars? Groan! Too easy, I know ([Just Jared]) Prince Harry and the little kids ([Cele|bitchy]) 10 years of Clear Eyes and Full Hearts ([TooFab]) Tori Spelling’s money problems ([Celeb Dirty Laundry]) But all I want to know is whether or not we get to see Christian come ([Pop Sugar]) Salma Hayek’s feather shoulder ([Popoholic]) Cuuuuute ([Hollywood Tuna]) I love this black dress ([Go Fug Yourself]) [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 7:14 PM [Smutty Social Media, October 4, 2016] An extremely rare Daniel Day-Lewis sighting. Do you think Adam and DDL met on Lincoln? I can’t remember the movie well enough to recall if they had any scenes together. [When Daniel met Adam. Weird to think about where these characters are after the final episode has been shot.] A photo posted by Judd Apatow (@juddapatow) on Oct 3, 2016 at 4:57pm PDT People are analyzing the political implications of Barbara Bush (is she an official Jr.? I don’t think so) in a photo with Huma Abedin. All I can see is Derek Blasberg’s expert instincts in his role as the [Truman Capote of Instagram]. [AMERICANS IN PARIS 🇺🇸🇫🇷] A photo posted by Derek Blasberg (@derekblasberg) on Oct 1, 2016 at 2:33pm PDT Boy Sh-t, Olympics Edition! Michael Phelps, with his baby and his medals, got real redemption in Rio. Why would he jeopardize that for Ryan Dum Dum Lochte? And in case you are wondering if this was a quote blown out of proportion, Ryan tweeted out this story from his own account. [ — Ryan Lochte (@RyanLochte) [October 3, 2016] Bella Thorne has a new boyfriend who is apparently different from her previous boyfriend. One is a Tyler and one is a Gregg. [#mcm to this insanely talented punk bunny ⚡️🙌🏼💋 what up doggg #mine #mancrush #always] A photo posted by BELLA (@bellathorne) on Oct 3, 2016 at 11:12am PDT Jolie, as in Angelina? Did Angelina Jolie send Gwen a teddy bear made of pink carnations? [Thank u Jolie ❤️🐶Gx] A photo posted by Gwen Stefani (@gwenstefani) on Oct 3, 2016 at 4:30pm PDT WHAT A COVER! So cool, so youthful, so fresh, so powerful, so worthy. Cover Story: [@serenawilliams]'s biggest win. [#FADERAMERICA] [ [pic.twitter.com/y3DeW75wNm] — The FADER (@thefader) [October 4, 2016] [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 6:46 PM [Taylor Swift + AT&T] [Taylor Swift] has added another major corporation to her list of business partnerships. Taylor and AT&T announced today a multi-year deal that will include exclusive content and performances. The first exclusive performance will be in Houston on Saturday February 4th, the night before the Super Bowl, at the AT&T DirecTV party. Obviously this is a big money situation. And Taylor has shown us she’s good at big money business. So it’s clearly an advantageous partnership. But…this concert before the Super Bowl… I mean, I’m just not sure Taylor Swift, even though we’ve sh-t on her all summer, for her brand, is a night before the main night kind of artist. Taylor Swift is a main event artist. The main event is the Super Bowl. And Lady Gaga’s taking the main event stage this year. Like, by Monday morning, after the weekend, who’s gonna be talking about Taylor Swift on Saturday night? Thing is, I think she’d be aware of this. But I also think performing at that party might have been key to the whole deal. Or part of a larger strategy. A larger strategy like… a new album? Part of the promotion for a new album? The Super Bowl is just days before the Grammys. Taylor’s not going to be invited to the Grammys as a nominee. But Grammy performers are often there to sell new material. I’m curious to see how all of this fits into her bigger plans. And if this means a bigger plan is, indeed, in play. [Source] [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 6:32 PM [Benedict Cumberbatch’s fans take over] [Benedict Cumberbatch covers Vanity Fair] We are exactly one month out from the release of Doctor Strange, which means the Marvel Hype Machine™ is officially engaged. The first bit of timed publicity is [Benedict Cumberbatch] covering Vanity Fair, in a profile called “The Mind-Bending Benedict Cumberbatch”. You would be forgiven, however, for thinking the profile was called “Benedict Cumberbatch’s Fans Are A Train Wreck And We Can’t Look Away”. The profile wants to connect Cumberbatch’s adrenaline-junkie youth with his acting career, but every other paragraph, it seems, writer Michael Schulman stops to comment on the hysteria that surrounds The Batch. He’s identified as “the internet’s boyfriend”, a title which Tom Hiddleston has gladly [rescinded], and while the interview touches on his career playing “socially challenged geniuses” and the number of life-threatening scenarios Young Batch found himself in, it keeps circling back to his fans. I can’t imagine his publicist—or Cumberbatch himself—is thrilled about this, but at the same time, this has consistently been the marketing angle of up-and-coming, and mostly British, male actors. You don’t really see this kind of thing with women—when a woman does attract massive internet attention, it’s usually tinged with something darker and meaner, like the love-hate affair with Kristen Stewart. But crazed fans get a lot of attention. Tom Hiddleston was internet famous years before he cracked the mainstream as the future subject of a Taylor Swift revenge song. And remember Robert Pattinson’s screaming hordes, some of which still believe he is secretly married to Kristen Stewart and has two fake kids with her. The way that fans invent characters from famous people and spin off increasingly fantastical stories to explain their personal lives is endlessly fascinating to me—the Saga of Rob And Kristen’s Imaginary Children never gets old—so I understand the compulsion to address it when interviewing someone like Benedict Cumberbatch, himself the subject of conspiracy theories about his marriage and family. But the unexplored angle is why this keeps happening to British celebrities, in particular. Chris Evans has a large, mostly female, very loud fanbase that is increasingly bonkers, but that doesn’t dominate the conversation when he’s being interviewed. Nor does it for Jake Gyllenhaal, or Chris Hemsworth, or Jeremy Renner, whose fans have come up with some delightfully unhinged theories about his daughter. I want to blame it on Beatlemania and say that there’s some trace in our pop culture DNA that makes us turn it up to eleven for British celebrities, but it goes back further than that. Jack the Ripper and HH Holmes operated at the same time, but though Holmes killed more people and in way more fantastic style, English Jack is by far the more famous Victorian serial killer. And it’s not even an American/Brit thing because the internet is borderless and these bananas celebrity fandoms are multi-cultural and multi-generational, and the hysteria is experienced all over the world. I don’t have an answer, just the observation that this kind of distractingly insane fandom only happens more around male British actors. If you have any theories, I’d love to hear them. PS: The Batch is at his most alien-handsome in these photos. [Click here] for more. [Source] [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 6:12 PM [Meg’s Major Apartment Steeze] [Meg Ryan in Architectural Digest ] Yesterday, Lainey wrote about Johnny Depp’s [apartment/expensive torture chamber]. It’s a lot of sharp corners, cracks and brightly painted walls, basically my nightmare. The antidote to that? [Meg Ryan]’s New York loft, featured in November’s Architectural Digest (via [PEOPLE]). At first glance, I immediately thought of Kathleen Kelly’s Upper West Side brownstone in You’ve Got Mail. Remember her apartment, and her bookstore? The look was lived-in but sophisticated – you could definitely leave a cup of tea on the bedside or throw your coat over a chair without feeling like you are trashing the place. The details - industrial lights from Maine, floor-to-ceiling bed curtains, tufted ottomans, huge custom-made area rugs, marble double vanity sinks – give Meg’s new apartment that same homey feel (even though you can bet they were hella expensive). Meg’s new home (it’s her 9th renovation, which is interesting as most people think renovating is a mini version of hell) is different than Johnny’s, or Gwyneth’s (which I [wrote about here]) because she actually lives in it. This isn’t a spread to help market the place to prospective buyers. So that’s why when she talks about reclaimed furniture and collecting buttons from the floorboard and the history of the place, it isn’t eye roll-inducing. The apartment is staged for this shoot (no one has that many photos casually propped against walls) but it’s not so aggressively “put together” that you get the feeling no one has ever taken a shower in the bathroom or slept in a bed. The feature isn’t just to show off her crib – she’s also promoting her directorial debut for Ithica. To be honest, I hadn’t heard of the movie and had to look up reviews (which are wildly uneven). At 54, Meg Ryan is over America’s Sweetheart, and probably really over people talking about her face. She’s directing, she’s a little more public, she’s letting people into her home (on her terms). Oh and John Mellencamp scored the film. He also painted a portrait of Meg that hangs prominently in her living room. Is there a such thing as Ex feng shui? [Click here] to see more of Meg’s home in Architectural Digest. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 5:18 PM [FKA twigs and Robert Pattinson leave LA] [FKA twigs and Robert Pattinson at LAX, October 3, 2016] [FKA twigs] and [Robert Pattinson] [arrived in LA last week]. They were seen at [Drake’s after-party a couple of days later] and yesterday they were back at LAX to return to London. Twigs and RP hadn’t been seen together publicly in a while prior to just recently, not since the MET Gala. Not spending a lot of time in LA[Click to Continue > by Counterflix] with that. Perhaps that’s why they decided to get out of Hollywood. RP’s in The Lost City Of Z which is closing the New York Film Festival next week. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen him in a movie. I can’t actually remember the last movie I saw with him in it. Maybe [Click to Continue > by Counterflix]To The Stars? That would have been two years ago. Is Robert Pattinson the kind of actor you miss at the movies? I miss Jake Gyllenhaal in movies for sure. And Idris Elba. Definitely Charlie Hunnam who is the lead in The Lost City Of Z. RP isn’t there yet, not even close. Now that Twilight is well behind us, I’m curious to know if you think he might become the kind of actor who will be. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 4:59 PM [Kristen Stewart & St Vincent] [Kristen Stewart attends the 'Certain Women' premiere during the 54th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on October 3, 2016 in New York City] [Kristen Stewart] going full Brigitte Nielsen at the Certain Women premiere at the New York Film Festival last night. It’s a great look on her, even though I’m not big on the colour of this suit. Sarah [reviewed Certain Women at TIFF] – the breakout star of the film is Lily Gladstone. As for Kristen, [St Vincent] was seen leaving her hotel to head to the event with her. There are rumours that St Vincent and [Cara Delevingne] are no longer together. And Kristen and St Vincent were also seen hanging out in LA at the end of August – [click here] to see photos – leading some people (who’ve been emailing me all morning) to speculate whether or not they might be happening. For what it’s worth though, Kristen was with her girlfriend, Alicia Cargile, just a couple of days before stepping with out with St Vincent. Kristen isn’t wearing a bra. This is my obvious and graceless segue to talking about bras because I read [an article today at Slate] about washing bras, or, rather, not washing them. First, let’s take sports bras off the table. I wash my sports bras frequently because I sweat in them. The issue here is how often you need to wash your other bras, the ones with all the f-cking wire and the adjustable straps. As noted in the Slate piece, handwashing them is a f-cker and you can’t wring that sh-t. Also, I can never find those goddamn special protective hairnet bags that you’re supposed to put them into when you want to wash your bras with the rest of your laundry. So, yes, it’s true, “bras are the demon of the laundry pile” and my new life philosophy about them is to have several of the same ones in different colours but not white and to wear them on rotation for 18 months without washing. Judge me! [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 4:04 PM [We’ve reached Peak Pontifex] [The Young Pope trailer stills ] The Sopranos, The Wire, Game of Thrones… HBO is architect of what is now known as Peak TV. There are other brilliant shows on other great networks but HBO is expected to be A+ all the time, and don’t think they don’t know it. Case in point: the 47-second trailer for The Young Pope starring [Jude Law]. I’ll let you watch but please come back. Now I’ll give you a moment to recover from being slapped in the face with PRESTIGE. Are you dizzy? That’s because you’ve been pounded into Peak TV submission with Peak Pontifex. All the markers are here: we’ve got the heady voiceover, provocative imagery (Pope broodily smokes, Pope at confession, Pope prays in a pool), a serious nun played by [Diane Keaton] (interesting in that few women live at Vatican City), some kind of moral and political power struggle and sinister forces at work. Jude is giving a monologue in a mirror like he’s projecting to the cheap seats at Madison Square Garden. That “I am God” line? Not subtle. This isn’t to say it doesn’t work – early reviews from the Venice Film Festival, which screened two episodes, were largely positive (I wish I had come up with the [House of Cardinals line here]). The trailer is meant to be a visceral tease, and it works. I wasn’t the most attentive student during my 7 years of Catechism (I mostly remember Pope John Paul II as a wall tapestry my aunt and uncle had hanging in their living room) and I don’t follow current Church doctrine, but this isn’t about religion, it’s about showmanship. It’s about sin and hubris and tradition and deceit – you know, the good stuff. There is flair but there are also universal themes being explored in a mysterious and hyper-traditional world that is constantly pulling and pushing against the crush of evolving societal mores. After just 45 seconds, of course I want more. Why did they pick such a young Pope? Why did they choose an American? They show someone kissing his feet, so I’m interested in the shoes. What kind of shoes does he wear and who makes them? There’s historical significance to Pope’s shoe choice -- it looks like Young Pope favours fancy footwear (unlike current, real life Cool Pope Francis, who opts for a simple black pair). What is it that Pope Jude wants, because he clearly wants something? And there’s talk of a revolution, but what kind of revolution? Is he a progressive Pope, or is he a pre-Vatican II kind of guy? This is Peak TV HBO so we are going to get sex. Maybe a murder or two. Some kind of dark secret will be revealed. An important character may be killed off in the first episode. There’ll be an alcoholic who is either very wise or very entertaining (or both). There’ll be passionate monologues. Historic and oppressive scenery. Lots of heady religious imagery (which Catholicism is aces at). A massive conspiracy at work. Oh and jaunty hats. Young Pope’s hat choice seems actively eccentric. To go with the shoes? (For more Young Pope, SKY has a [longer trailer here].) [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 3:25 PM [World War Brange: legal teams] [Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt] It was a pretty quiet weekend in World War Brange after it was reported on Friday that they’ve reached a [temporary custody agreement]. Sources on [Brad Pitt]’s side continue to portray him as a “shattered man”, overcome by sadness, caring only for the welfare of his children, while [Angelina Jolie] cackles at his misfortune. [According to TMZ], Angelina’s added two powerful lawyers to her team: Pierce O’Donnell and Bert Fields. Much has been made about the people in Angelina’s camp. A lot of people are paying a lot of attention to Arminka Helic and Chloe Dalton, Angelina’s closest advisors who, some say, are handling her PR. She’s also working with Judy Smith, the [real Olivia Pope]. And Laura Wasser, the divorce lawyer. And now these two trial lawyers. So the impression here is that Angelina is ready for battle and ready to bully Brad, a narrative Brad probably doesn’t mind furthering. Which might be why he’s not telling us who he has on his side? It’s been confirmed that he’s hired lawyer Lance Spiegel to handle the divorce for him, sure. But is that really how lean his team is? Is that how we’re supposed to picture the situation? Angelina brings an army and tanks to the battlefield and poor Brad’s standing there, forlorn and unwilling, holding just a small pistol? That’s the strategy. From a PR perspective, that strategy gives you the impression that he’s the underdog. Is it really realistic, though, to see Brad Pitt – BRAD PITT – as an underdog? Brad Pitt doesn’t want you to know the firepower he’s harnessed. So they’re not making any announcements about who’s been working behind the scenes to reclaim his reputation and in return attack Angelina Jolie’s. But he can’t possibly be doing it alone. I’ve been hearing rumours for days that Brad’s recruited Matthew Hiltzik, a PR and crisis manager. He [was most recently hired] to handle Ryan Lochte’s Rio mess. He’s also worked with Justin Bieber. I’ve also heard rumours that Brad is also being advised by Blair Berk. Blair Berk is one of the top criminal lawyers in Hollywood and one of the most feared. But nobody wants to go on record to confirm all the players in Brad’s camp, not even the magazines, because right now, to understand that these are two major celebrities with equally major reinforcements behind them simply isn’t as fun. Brad Pitt, quite cleverly, has been leaning into the image that he’s defenceless. [Click here for the rest of the photos.] Posted at 2:57 PM [Privacy Policy] - [Unsubscribe]