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THE BLAST – RIP Kelly Preston — the 57-year-old actress and longtime wife of John Travolta died Sunday morning after a “private” two-year battle with breast cancer

CELEBITCHY – It seems a three-month lockdown spent in the Cayman Islands may have been too much for the marriage of Armie Hammer and Elizabeth Chambers, who’ve announced they’re divorcing after a decade as husband and wife

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – Lisa Vanderpump confirmed she’s had to close one of her establishments — while PUMP is still open, Villa Blanca, Vanderpump’s other Beverly Hills hotspot, is no more

DLISTED – Britney Spears’ fans think she’s secretly in trouble again and trying to send coded distress signals on Instagram; Britney insists she’s fine. Conspiracy theories abound

REALITY TEA – “Teddi Mellencamp Calls Denise Richards ‘Hypocritical’; Kyle Richards Agrees & Questions Denise For Talking About Her Sex Life On Real Housewives”

VOX – I totally forgot about Palm Springs being available for streaming already, and all the glowing reviews are only making me that much more excited to watch it. Here’s a sample: “Palm Springs is not groundbreaking or quite as compulsively quotable as some of Lonely Island’s previous outings. But it is an oddly perceptive effort, a movie that feels primed in particular for millennial audiences just starting to creep toward middle age who are trying to sort out what life really means, and how best to live it

JEZEBEL – Apparently we can’t trust medical professionals either — this is a genuinely horrifying story of parents who put conspiracy before family and lost their daughter as a result

LAINEY GOSSIP – “I am, to put it mildly, overjoyed about the way this series [Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters Club] has turned out”

PAJIBA – You had me at Ocean’s Eleven meets The Breakfast Club (which further reminds me that I’ve been meaning to see Brick for fifteen years now)

GO FUG YOURSELF – There’s been a lot of royal gossip over the past week! Get your roundup on

The frequency with which he’s started speaking out against Jim Bob Duggar would seem to suggest that we might be getting a Derick Dillard book after all. Derick, whose views on the transgender community remain not great, has started using his social media platforms to attack the Duggar family patriarch more often, now that Counting On has returned with new episodes. In his latest salvo, Derick compared Jim Bob to the notorious accused sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, and once again appeared to promise he’ll someday spill all Jim Bob’s tea.

Congratulations to CeCe Gutierrez, who has officially jumped the broom with her NBA beau! Former Basketball Wives star CeCe Gutierrez married former Los Angeles Laker Byron Scott in a beautiful, socially distanced ceremony this weekend. CeCe’s been sharing tons of photos from the wedding itself as well as behind-the-scenes pics of her amazing gown; keep reading for a complete gallery, plus a ton more!

RuPaul — or someone very close to the icon — chose the beginning of the recent holiday weekend to do an unexpected social media purge. As of this writing, RuPaul is no longer active on Twitter at all, and no longer has any Instagram posts. So why did RuPaul delete Instagram — and were some racially insensitive posts from a few years back part of the reason?

Five years after he first hinted at a political run, it seems Kanye West might finally be going through with this thing. Last night, the 43-year-old announced his intention to run for President of the United States — this year, with just months to go before the election. So is Kanye for real? How seriously should anyone take this man? And could his Star Wars housing plan for the homeless earn him more support than your average political observer might expect?

My 600 Lb Life may be between seasons, but that doesn’t mean there’s no news on any of the show’s cast members. And have we got a Sarah Neeley Where Are They Now update for you! Earlier this year, Starcasm broke the story of Sarah’s secret engagement and surprise pregnancy; we can now confirm that Sarah’s tied the knot to the man she calls “the love of my life.” Plus, Sarah’s also shared an ultrasound pic, along with photos from the wedding ceremony! Read on for the details!

THE BLAST – It’ll likely be awhile before Basketball Wives — or any big name reality show for that matter — starts filming again, so it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that there’s now an Evelyn Lozada OnlyFans. Evelyn just opened up her account on the formerly adult star-heavy platform; she’s charging $25 a month for foot fetish content (for now)

REALITY TEA – It seems Mark from Love Is Blind, whose big crime on the show was being younger than the woman he loved, has gone and upped his disgrace game. Mark reportedly cheated on his post-show girlfriend LC (who was on Love Is Blind for a minute) at some point during the coronavirus pandemic, which is unhealthy for all sorts of different reasons. Oh, and he may have also cheated on Jessica while Love Is Blind was filming?

JEZEBEL – Now here’s a death cult conspiracy theory to perk your ears up: “Is Donald Trump Trying to Catch the Coronavirus to Get Out of Doing His Job?” (The obvious answer is “No, letting himself be surrounded by people who’ve tested positive for COVID-19 is just representative of his decision-making process and presidency in general,” but it’s still an intriguing thought!)

GO FUG YOURSELF – Somehow there was a movie premiere in Hollywood this week? The movie is called aTypical Wednesday, it got screened on a rooftop with the audience sitting in fancy deck chairs spaced well apart from each other, and a bunch of big names posed with and without their masks — so, successful pandemic premiere?

LAINEY GOSSIP – Jenny Slate announced she’ll no longer voice a biracial character on Big Mouth (Netflix), which then prompted Kristen Bell to say she’s not going to voice a biracial character on Central Park (Apple+)

PAJIBA – The premise of Netflix’s new movie 365 Days sounds like a drunken idea from the first Love Is Blind pitch, and apparently the movie itself, while full of nudity and simulated sex and other such things designed to generate attention, is pretty lukewarm trash

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – I said “big-name reality show” in the paragraph on the Evelyn Lozada OnlyFans above because it seems The Hills: New Beginnings “is set to resume filming on Season 2 this summer.” The show had only begun filming its second season when everything came to a halt this past March; currently, the production team is looking to restart things “at the end of July or in early August

VOX – The ongoing pandemic has given rise to the virtual wedding — particularly in Washington DC, where couples can officiate their own ceremonies. Seems like it would be especially tough to have a virtual wedding feel intimate, but these couples are making it work

CELEBITCHY – If you remember the name of former YouTube celebrity Myka Stauffer, it’s almost certainly because a few weeks ago she revealed that she and her husband had “rehomed” their adopted son Huxley. Myka has finally offered a lengthy statement on the matter, one that basically boils down to her regret that she wasn’t “able to tell more of my story from the beginning” and other language that blames her four-year-old for what happened

DLISTED – Disney is going to “reimagin[e]” its famed Splash Mountain ride after enough people realized it’s based on the semi-obscure, definitely racist 1946 movie Song of the South for the company to do something about that. The new ride –it’ll still be the same ride, just different-looking — will be based on The Princess and the Frog

There appears to be a ton of behind-the-scenes drama regarding the new Real Housewives of Atlanta season, which is scheduled to begin filming in less than a month. According to multiple sources, a fairly big cast shakeup could be in the works, with at least one major name not returning. But Is NeNe coming back, or are rumors of her firing just that?