Category: Daily Starbuzz

VOX – The 2019 Emmy winners included Gwendoline Christie, both for Game of Thrones‘ Best Drama award and dominating the red carpet as usual; Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who cleaned house with Fleabag; and jokes about how cheerful and uplifting Chernobyl is — but, sadly, did not include Russian Doll, which nonetheless remains a perfect show

CELEBITCHY – Another unfortunate Emmys loser: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who had won six years running for Veep. Veep was completely shut out last night; if she’d won again, Louis-Dreyfus would have passed Cloris Leachman as the person with the most Emmy wins of all time

LAINEY GOSSIP – Jharrel Jerome won When They See Us‘ only award of the night, for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie; if you’ve not yet heard of him, get ready to, since at 21 years old he’s the youngest person ever to win the category

THE BLAST – “Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor Appear Back Together On Emmy’s Red Carpet After 2017 Split”

REALITY TEA – In more Starcasm-centric news, here’s a list of all the reality TV-specific Emmy nominees and winners (it was absolutely no surprise that RuPaul’s Drag Race won for the fourth year in a row, nor that RuPaul had one of the most best speeches of the night)

THE BLEMISH – I missed Jenny McCarthy making every celebrity she touched cringe like an injured dog with her red carpet interviews but after reading this recap I really wish I’d managed to see them live

JEZEBEL – “Bethenny Frankel’s Post-RHONY Plans: Making New Shows That May or May Not Be About Bethenny Frankel”

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – “Jon Gosselin Says He Once Rejected TLC’s $1 Million Offer to Stay Married to Kate & Keep Jon & Kate Plus 8 On the Air: “’I Wasn’t Gonna Have a Fake Marriage'”

DLISTED – A judge has ruled that Jamie Spears will remain Britney Spears’ conservator, so “Free Britney” is dead? The hashtags will live on

GO FUG YOURSELF – This outfit looks like it won the war only after losing several major battles

CELEBITCHY – There’s a Saved By The Bell reboot coming, it’s being produced by one of the people who made 30 Rock great, and it sounds like the press release announcing the show is also supposed to pressure Mark-Paul Gosselaar to sign on and make Governor Zach Morris (no, really) a thing

DLISTED – “Music” is as sensible a reason as any for this particular celebrity pairing

JEZEBEL – This new PSA about school shootings is getting a lot of attention and a fair bit of pushback for its realistic depiction of the violence kids are being trained to expect at any moment while also learning math

REALITY TEA – Vanderpump Rules star Lala Kent is embroiled in a serious beef with 50 Cent and this breakdown of it is absolutely, gloriously petty

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – “Former Flipping Out Star Jeff Lewis’ Daughter Expelled from Preschool Due to Comments He Made on His Radio Show”

THE BLEMISH – A second person who accused Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct has died under let’s call it fairly unexpected circumstances. And a third person out of the blue decided to stop talking to prosecutors. Insert your own Frank Underwood joke here

GO FUG YOURSELF – The plot of the Between Two Ferns movie sounds almost identical to that every-celebrity-cameo-possible Paulie Shore redemption project from a few years back, so maybe this is just a genre that produces one movie every decade or so?

LAINEY GOSSIP – Mark Ruffalo is getting a fair bit of Oscar buzz for playing “dude Erin Brockovich” in a movie called Dark Waters that it sounds like no one will ever see

VOX – Here’s the truth about Area 51, as told by the world’s foremost expert (provided you can trust her)

THE BLAST – This love letter from Guy Fieri to cheeseburgers in honor of National Cheeseburger Day is oddly touching, though it does overlook the fact that when your brand is built on greasy spoons and hipster pub fare, every day is National Cheeseburger Day

CELEBITCHY – Teigen v Trump continues to drag out on social media, following the president’s left-field criticism of Chrissy Teigen and Teigen’s prompt clapback this past weekend. Teigen, one of the few people online more than the president, is going to keep this fight going for awhile

REALITY TEA – Chef Ben Robinson from Below Deck Med made a joke about how Hannah Ferrier “tried to rape” him back in Season 1. As you probably suspected, the joke…did not go so well

DLISTED – In other Watch What Happens Live news, Wendy Williams was recently on and was eager to discuss some of the gossip about her personal life. Among the highlights: yes, she is seeing “many men”; if you want to be her lover, you gotta get with that prenup; Bill Cosby once tried to get her fired from a morning show, which is actually much nicer than what he usually tried to do to young women?

VOX – “Jojo Rabbit, a coming-of-age story about a boy and his best friend Hitler, is both hilarious and grim: Taika Waititi’s ‘anti-hate satire’ is a comedy set in Nazi Germany. And it mostly works — a comedy with satirical elements, rather than a true satirical tale”

THE BLEMISH – Korean model Han Hye Jin revealed her excruciating diet and exercise plan in the build-up to her nude cover shoot for Harper’s Bazaar (it’s not what you’d expect a model to say)

LAINEY GOSSIP – Robert Pattinson won the party circuit at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, had no drama (!) with Kristen Stewart despite a potentially ghastly scheduling mishap — and, in case you forgot, co-stars with Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse, which looks bananas and comes out next month

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – “Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino Set to Be Released from Prison This Week As His Wife Lauren & Jersey Shore Family Plan Big Welcome Home Celebration”

GO FUG YOURSELF – “There are always sheers and semi-naked dresses at the Bazaar Icons Bash”; enjoy this roundup of the best & most notable (Normani, for a couple of reasons; likewise Serayah)

THE BLAST – It’s not entirely clear to me why OxyContin heiress Joss Sackler thought she could get former drug addict Courtney Love — who also, in case you’d forgotten, used to be married to a heroin addict — to model in her fashion show. What is clear is that Love is not going to let Sackler’s oversight go quietly

JEZEBEL – “According to the BBC, a group of South Korean women over the age of 70 have found happiness in ‘cheerobics,’ a combination of cheerleading and aerobics. They are absolutely adorable in a way only a grandmother can be, and the video of them strutting their stuff in matching pink uniforms and pom-poms is particularly motivating. You can’t not smile while watching this. I’ve tried. It’s impossible.”

LAINEY GOSSIP – She made the announcement out of nowhere, then quickly tried to play it down — but is Nicki Minaj retired for real, or is she just planning a short (pregnancy) break? Nicki claims she’s going to be “talking about everything” on Queen Radio, so we probably don’t have too long to wait before finding out some of what she’s got planned

JEZEBEL – The Good Place‘s fourth and final season premieres September 26th at 9 PM on NBC. The first teaser trailer for the new season is here; it’s light on new material (as any good teaser trailer should be), but you’ll never think about JFK’s assassination the same way again

DLISTED – Kevin Hart is said to be “excruciating pain as he heals” from the major back injuries he suffered in a car accident last week — but he is apparently walking again. Hart began physical therapy last week, has months of the same ahead of him, and is “maintaining a relatively positive mood”

VOX – It seems America’s current president has been making the military stop over at his Scottish golf resort while on the way back from anywhere within (literally) a thousand or so miles of the place. In addition to making for inefficient travel, the stops also cost taxpayers more than layovers at the usual spots — to the tune of $11 million and counting in fuel alone

CELEBITCHY – Definitely not going to top this headline: “Prince Andrew was still getting rides on the Lolita Express after Epstein’s 2006 arrest”

REALITY TEA – “This season of The Real Housewives of Potomac is coming to a close, and my heart can’t take it. I never want this season to end. From start to finish, it’s been a breakout season in every possible way.”

THE BLEMISH – Just to play Devil’s Advocate: At what point over the last few years of Michael Jackson’s life could he have said he believed someone was trying to kill him and *not* had it written off as simple paranoia?

THE BLAST – J. Lo’s clutch wasn’t “literally” $10,000 in cash at the Hustlers premiere, but it was impressive nonetheless

GO FUG YOURSELF – Come for the half-handsome, half-brooding madman pictures of Bill Skarsgard; stay for lines like these: “Here, Bill is the photo of your beloved that you kept in your locket during the war, ever since that day he hopped on that train and leaned out the window and held up a farewell hand while you waved your hanky”

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – I lost count of how many times I forgot Flip or Flop star Christina Antstead was pregnant during her actual pregnancy; now that she’s given birth to a healthy baby boy (congrats!) I look forward to many years of trying to remember that she actually has a child

THE BLEMISH – More details about the Kevin Hart car accident are coming in, and they’re rather alarming: just hours after the comedian suffered “major back injuries” in a “significant” car accident in Southern California, doctors now say that Hart will likely require surgery in order to make a full recovery

DLISTED – Johnny Depp, who is not the least bit Native American, paired with Dior for something called “Sauvage Parfum 2019” — it’s basically one giant Native stereotype. The backlash was so swift and so severe that Dior has now canceled the entire campaign and the $150 fragrance with it

CELEBITCHY – Prince Andrew has been linked to Jeffrey Epstein via whispers for years, and has already had to put out two statements claiming all the rumors about he and Epstein’s clientele are untrue. Now Andrew was forced to cut his golf holiday short so he could “return home for crisis talks” about the ongoing investigations into Epstein’s predatory ways

JEZEBEL – Donald Trump’s former personal assistant Madeleine Westerhout was apparently fired for claiming she has a better relationship with Donald than Ivanka and that he thinks Tiffany is “overweight” and “couldn’t pick [her] out of a crowd”

LAINEY GOSSIP – How did Kirsten Dunst not have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame before now? Anyway, she’s finally got one, so congrats!

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – “Southern Charm Star Kathryn Dennis Involved in Another Car Accident, Just Weeks After Previous Crash”

THE BLAST – “Lizzo Loses Her Mind After Beyoncé and Jay-Z Watched Her Made in America Set ”

GO FUG YOURSELF – The Marvelous Miss Maisel has been filming on location in New York City a ton the last few weeks, with everyone involved looking glamorous as always

REALITY TEA – RHOBH star Kyle Richards just confirmed she’s going to be in the Halloween remake sequel, because she was actually in the very first Halloween back in 1978?! I had no idea this was true, which further proves that there are way too many reality shows to keep track of everything relevant about each

VOX – “Bristling with nerdy energy, Alton Brown’s Good Eats is back — and not a moment too soon: One of the best food TV shows ever is beyond compare, even after a 7-year hiatus.”

THE BLAST – The latest chapter in the Chrisley family’s current tragedy is a Chrisley medical drama: 27-year-old son Kyle had to be hospitalized after an unexplained “adverse reaction to his medication,” one that got seemingly every member of the extended family to his bedside for a photo op

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – “EXCLUSIVE! Corinne Olympios Says She’s Thrilled to See Same Sex Couple on Bachelor Show: ‘We Should Have Done This A Long Time Ago!'”

LAINEY GOSSIP – “There is a mythology that comes with Brad Pitt. For three decades now he’s been the all-American masculine ideal – the hair, the face, the body, the romances, the mystery, the myth. Reading James Gray describing his lead character this way, it’s the first time I’ve been interested in Ad Astra and what the film might be interrogating and how he’ll ‘break down the myth of what it means to be traditionally masculine’ through Brad Pitt.”

CELEBITCHY – The Good Place‘s Jameela Jamil has been telling truth to the Kardashians’ power for years, so telling them “I’m not trying to cancel anyone. I don’t want to beef with the Kardashians. They have a huge amount of influence. I just want them to use that for more good. I think what Kim does with the prison system is really cool. Stop selling laxatives and I’ll get off your dick” is hardly surprising — but that doesn’t make it any less refreshing to hear

REALITY TEA – RHOC star Gina Kirschenheiter was already going through a messy divorce from her estranged husband Matt. Now Matt is asking for spousal support, meaning all of Gina’s financial documents are now a part of the case and available for tabloid fodder

JEZEBEL – “Real Housewives of Potomac‘s Monique Samuels Explains What It Means to Be ‘Messy'” (VIDEO)

GO FUG YOURSELF – There were “many many patterns” on display at the 2019 VMAs, and we didn’t get to a fashion roundup yesterday, so enjoy GFY’s analysis!

DLISTED – The use of “final” here seems pretty ominous with regard to the movie’s chances, but nonetheless: the final trailer for Joker the origin story nobody other than studio execs asked for and no one seems particularly enthusiastic about, is here

THE BLEMISH – Pete Davidson did not handle a cell phone filmer during his free stand-up set at the University of Central Florida very well. Also, Pete Davidson does stand-up?

VOX – “Political commentary can be both caustic and incisive. Molly Ivins showed America how: The new documentary Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins explores the famed columnist’s life and legacy”

VOX – It was only a matter of time before a franchise as well-known and profitable as The Matrix got either a reboot or a sequel, and now we know which it will be: Matrix 4, starring Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and presumably Laurence Fishburne as well, will begin production next year for a 2021 release

CELEBITCHY – Lori Loughlin would still like you to believe that she’s the real victim in her ongoing College Admissions Scandal and Trial

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – Lindsie Chrisley, who’s already accused her family of trying to extort her with a sex tape, has now hired security to protect her from the ongoing threats of her brother (OK, maybe) and father (???)

LAINEY GOSSIP – Harry Styles is shirtless on the cover of the new Rolling Stone and folks are losing their minds with glee

REALITY TEA – “Tamra Judge Dishes On Which Housewives She Misses & Which Ones She Doesn’t”

THE BLEMISH – The moviegoing world appeared to be losing its mind yesterday when, for business reasons that I’m not going to learn about, Spider Man stopped being a part of the Marvel Comics Universe. But given that our economy is powered by comic book movies and especially Spider Man movies, maybe I should be worried

THE BLAST – Andy Richter went off on an airline passenger a few seats down from him when the dude kept taking his sandals off and putting his bare feet up. Thank you, Andy Richter

DLISTED – It seems Miley Cyrus is getting over the initial stages of post-Liam grief by “basically having sex” in public with also-just-broken-up-with Kaitlynn Carter

JEZEBEL – What are mindless corporate jobs for if not slacking off, reading books in the break room when no one is around, and binge-watching TV shows when sitting at your desk?

GO FUG YOURSELF – Jenny McCarthy is definitely going for something here

THE BLEMISH – From pretty much out of nowhere, we got a Heidi Klum topless photo from the woman herself live from her extended honeymoon with brand-new husband Tom Kaulitz. The topless pic depicts Heidi bathing in a rainbow filter and showing a surprising amount of nipple for Instagram

JEZEBEL – The increasingly popular #Boymom hashtag appears to be sort of a surprise gateway drug for “Boys will be boys” acceptance — either that, or an unwitting cry for help from mothers who’ve given up on trying to teach their sons cleanliness

VOX – “Meet the medieval Welsh poet who wrote odes to her vagina” (there’s also a dick poet)

CELEBITCHY – Jay-Z got a pretty good return for selling Colin Kaepernick out: he’s about to become the co-owner of an NFL team, and his company Entertainment 720 Roc Nation is going to have an indefinite hand in arranging the Super Bowl halftime show

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – “Southern Charm Stars Kathryn Dennis & Thomas Ravenel Awarded Joint Custody of Their Kids By Judge After Patricia Altschul Spends “Hours” in Court Testifying”

LAINEY GOSSIP – Surprisingly, the Star Wars spinoffs continue: Ewan MacGregor is set to reprise his role as (hot) young Obi Wan Kenobi in a Phantom Menace prequel adventure show for Disney+

REALITY TEA – “Gizelle Bryant and Karen Huger are at odds again. This is a feud that will NEVER end, and I don’t know that I want it to. It’s kind of fun seeing which one will be messier or shadier each episode”

GO FUG YOURSELF – Kirsten Dunst is returning to television with a new Showtime series called On Becoming a God in Central Florida, and apparently it’s terrific and she is terrific in it

THE BLAST – Yeah, but to be fair, Finns never need an excuse to chant “F*ck Sweden”

DLISTED – This is hardly a hot take, but Cats *is* way better as a horror movie