Category: Daily Starbuzz

LINKS! Chris Brown rape investigation, Jussie Smollett attack, Amy Schumer pregnancy cake…

THE BLAST - The lawyer for the woman accusing Chris Brown of raping her in Paris is confident that the Chris Brown rape investigation "will continue" despite the fact that Brown is no longer in custody and has left the country entirely CELEBITCHY - Kevin Hart tried to send a message of compassion to Jussie Smollett after the Empire actor suffered a horrifying hate crime, but got dragged for it across social media because it's only been a couple of minutes since Hart's Oscar hosting controversy (and also because social media) THE BLEMISH - The pregnancy cake that Amy Schumer's sister-in-law got her would not be at all out of place as the cover for some grindcore bands whose names I can't give without asterisking them beyond recognition. Suffice it to say that this is a cake to haunt your daydreams and sex life for years to come DLISTED - Gwyneth Paltrow is being sued for $3.1 million by a doctor who says he suffered "permanent traumatic brain injury" and other maladies after Paltrow crashed into him while skiing, then fled the scene. If he wins, expect everyone who saw Shallow Hal in theaters to follow the doctor's lead JEZEBEL - "Woman Says No One Helped Her When a Man Repeatedly Punched Her in Front of a Downtown LA Crowd" VOX - ""Wild-caught,” “organic,” “grass-fed”: what do all these animal welfare labels actually mean? A shopper’s guide to the labels on meat, dairy, and eggs." LAINEY GOSSIP - Apparently Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway's new movie Serenity is "not just a movie, it is an EXPERIENCE" in the sense that it is so unbelievably batshit terrible it's destined to become a cult classic. Here's the trailer! REALITY TEA - RHONJ star Margaret Josephs' husband Joe Benigno is not the biggest fan of his wife's close relationship with her ex-husband Jan THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - Enjoy these nine funny things that reality TV stars tweeted this week

LINKS! Cardi B and Offset back together, Michael Jackson documentary, Black Panther Oscar chances…

THE BLEMISH - Apparently the thing that got Cardi B and Offset back together was simple forgiveness, plus the quarter-million dollars Offset dropped on Christmas presents JEZEBEL - Michael Jackson's people are not happy with Leaving Neverland, a four-hour, meticulously detailed documentary alleging that the icon was also a child molester. Jackson's estate and family are calling the accusers "opportunists" -- but any retort from their side in the #MeToo and Surviving R. Kelly era LAINEY GOSSIP - Black Panther won the SAG Awards' equivalent of Best Picture, and the SAG membership is the single biggest voting bloc for the Academy Awards, so now the buzz is that Black Panther will clean up at the Oscars, too THE BLAST - Kendall Jenner got paid $275,000 to promote the Fyre Festival and now she's going to have to testify in court about it VOX - Fox's live version of Rent wouldn't have been a total shitshow if the multi-million dollar production had spent a few thousand on some understudies. But they didn't, and it was, and you should feel confident betting a prized possession that all live musicals will have three backups for every single role from now on CELEBITCHY - If you aren't listening to Celebitchy's new podcast yet, do yourself a great big favor and start! It's really fun, often catty, and full of thoughtful celebrity takes REALITY TEA - Teresa Giudice has been getting into shape for her first bodybuilding competition and she's using Dolores Catania's ex-husband Frank as her trainer DLISTED - Kelsy Karter, who is a singer and definitely not a person with a mid-tier Instagram following looking to level up, got a face tattoo of what's supposed to be Harry Styles but what actually looks like an artist's rendering of the adult version of someone missing since childhood THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - Kendra Wilkinson would like you to know she is neither dating nor sleeping with Chad Johnson, despite mounting evidence (and plenty of mildly warm gossip) to the contrary

LINKS! More Bryan Singer allegations, SOTU officially off, R. Kelly NDA revealed…

THE BLEMISH - There are now even more Bryan Singer allegations, after four men have came forward to claim the director had sex with them or sexually abused them when they were teenagers. One of the four says he was thirteen when the encounter took place VOX - Here's how Nancy Pelosi won her staredown with Donald Trump over not having a traditional State of the Union address while the government is still shut down THE BLAST - Remember how every member of R. Kelly's alleged sex cults had to sign an NDA barring them from talking about pretty much anything that went down involving Kelly? Now you can see what the agreement looks like; it sounds exactly like what you would expect the leader of a cult to have his devotées sign DLISTED - After Drake and Skrillex and G-Easy got huge deals to help lure more millennials to the desert, Cardi B is now officially on that Vegas residency money train REALITY TEA - Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards is hosting Andy Cohen's baby shower this weekend. The guest list is "mainly housewives" and other Bravo-lebrities, and so while I'm absolutely happy for Andy, I also wish I could get hold of a waiter's uniform or something and sneak inside for gossip purposes CELEBITCHY - It sounds like Gina Rodriguez is trying to have it both ways for initially going "All Lives Matter" with some comments eliding black women; and then, when the backlash came, breaking down in tears and claiming she felt like part of the black community growing up because it was the only community of color she could look to in the entertainment industry JEZEBEL - Wooly Willy's beard was fuller LAINEY GOSSIP - Elizabeth Banks is making mogul moves with the Charlie's Angels reboot, which just got pushed back from a September to a November release in a sign of confidence from the studio THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - Tarek El Moussa from Flip Or Flop is getting his own show sometime this year, as the inexorable reality TV split from ex-wife Christina enters its final phase

LINKS! 2019 Oscar nominees, Chris Brown rape allegations, Drake and Odell Beckham Jr. brawl…

CELEBITCHY - Here are the 2019 Oscar nominees, notable because this is the first year since the ceremony began that everyone has agreed 100% on all of the movies up for every award LAINEY GOSSIP - Speaking of the Oscar nominations, Melissa McCarthy was nominated for Best Actress for playing a woman "who's trying -- and failing -- to get acknowledgement for her work" in a movie that's tried and unfortunately failed to build up awards season buzz over the past few months THE BLEMISH - Chris Brown has been arrested and is being held by authorities in Paris after allegedly raping a woman in a hotel room THE BLAST - "Drake and Odell Beckham Jr. Sued Over Alleged Nightclub Attack" THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - Asa is still working up the energy to cover one of the more complicated and over-the-top Teen Mom social media feuds of all time, so for now you can try to make sense of it here REALITY TEA - In a "very easy, painless and awesome experience," Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Marie had her eggs frozen to make future babies whenever she meets an improved version of departed boyfriend Rob Valletta VOX - Because consequences are a difficult concept to grasp, apparently MAGA hats are something of a trend for teenagers, JEZEBEL - You should not have a gender reveal party, but you damn sure should not under any circumstances cook a lasagna the color assigned to your child's gender and then serve it at a gender reveal party DLISTED - Anne Hathaway says she's swearing off alcohol until her two-year-old can legally drink, which tells you how much parenting she's doing

LINKS! Cardi B walks the dog, Brad Pitt and Charlize Theron, PumpRules brand wine…

CELEBITCHY - You'd think all celebrities would know by now not to @ Cardi B with a hot take, but apparently Tomi Lahren didn't get that memo. The occasional political pseudo-commentator is now the butt of a million "Cardi B walks the dog" memes after coming for Cardi over her IG story & suffering the clapback consequences LAINEY GOSSIP - After a couple years' tabloid buildup, apparently Brad Pitt and Charlize Theron are maybe possibly a couple now? (It may just be more tabloid reaching, but that's its own kind of fun) REALITY TEA - #PumpRules stars Kristen Doute, Katie Maloney, and Stassi Schroeder are launching their own brand of pinot grigio in a couple weeks. Honestly -- why did it take this long? THE BLEMISH - Question of the Week: "Would You Suck a Dick to Save the Fyre Festival?" JEZEBEL - After breaking up Elon Musk and Grimes last summer, Azealia Banks is sharing the insult battle DMs between herself and Grimes. Grimes never really gets in a good dig; Banks' best shot is telling Grimes she "smells like a roll of nickels," which is somehow perfectly revolting DLISTED - Leslie Jones is pissed about Ghostbusters getting rebooted *again*, only this time without any of the cast from the 2016 reboot. Given that Hollywood is apparently going to do to Ghostbusters what it's done to Spider Man, hopefully we're all at least rolling our eyes THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - Southern Charm star Kathryn Dennis is now insisting that her baby daddy Thomas Ravenel answer under oath all sorts of juicy questions in their ongoing custody battle THE BLAST - Bebe Rexha is not here for any of the designers who wouldn't make her a dress for the Grammys because she's "too big" (she's apparently a size eight) VOX - Here's why women, for the first time in recorded history, are traveling alone more than men

LINKS! Michael Cohen vs. Donald Trump, Fifty Shades of Michelle Obama, Dutchess Meghan insulted…

VOX - Michael Cohen vs. Donald Trump, already the biggest political boxing match of our time, just went into a new round with a potentially bombshell report claiming Trump personally ordered Cohen to lie to Congress about Trump's ties to real estate development in Moscow JEZEBEL - Michelle Obama's Becoming is the best-selling book in the country, and has been for the longest continuous stretch since Fifty Shades of Gray seven years ago CELEBITCHY - Some commoner went full Love Actually and called Meghan Markle a "fat lady" -- to her face. This happened during a royal meet-and-greet, and Meghan's response was way more tactful than any six-months-pregnant woman's ever has reason to be THE BLAST - NBA All-Star and Kendall Jenner ex-boyfriend Blake Griffin has settled the nine-figure lawsuit his baby mama Brynn Camerson filed after Blake left her -- and their two children -- "cash-strapped and homeless" LAINEY GOSSIP - Miley Cyrus really did sound fantastic at the Chris Cornell tribute concert the other night THE BLEMISH - On the one hand, I'm not surprised that high-level employees of Mariah Carey allegedly pee on some of the lower-level help; on the other hand...nope, I'm just not surprised all around THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - The new season of MTV's The Challenge drops next month, and here's the complete cast REALITY TEA - Teresa Giudice's daughter Milania got The Real Housewives of New Jersey to air her debut hip hop track on this week's episode, and got Fetty Wap to appear at her listening party DLISTED - It seems that for the last few years Robbie Williams and his next door neighbor Jimmy Page have been embroiled in a rich person feud involving home remodeling for the last few years. The real takeaway from all this is that Page can apparently only conjure the dark arts in which he's dabbled for years when onstage, and not to silence trolling neighbors

LINKS! Cardi B on Trump, Miley and Liam expecting, SOTU shutdown…

CELEBITCHY - No reaction to the government shutdown and the real consequences it's having for people has resonated quite as much as Cardi B on Trump. Her take -- complete with colorful, Cardi-familiar language, went viral, because that is what Cardi does; the more fun part is all the Democratic politicians worrying about whether they should share the video JEZEBEL - Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are said to be expecting a baby girl later this year, and will raise her in Australia near Liam's family. Miley took to Twitter to deny the gossip...which is exactly what you'd expect her to do VOX - The constitution requires the president to give a State of the Union address of some kind, but Nancy Pelosi is outplaying Trump to make sure it doesn't happen in prime time so long as the government is still shut down LAINEY GOSSIP - Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin have reportedly set a date for their actual wedding ceremony (they got married last year, but it was just in judge's chambers) DLISTED - When Katy Perry was 12 years old, she was suspended from school for having sex with a tree and pretending it was Tom Cruise. According to all the gossip about Tom Cruise, a tree would probably be a livelier partner REALITY TEA - "Jennifer Aydin Tells Margaret Josephs “I Don’t Relate To People Who Have Affairs With Married People” On Tonight’s Real Housewives of New Jersey Episode" THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - The Situation from Jersey Shore has officially begun his eight-month prison sentence on tax evasion charges. But he's determined to keep his fans updated on all things Gym, Tan, Laundry while inside THE BLEMISH - Spider Man: Far From Home now has a trailer. It's coming out on July 5th. It is the 412th major Hollywood Spider Man movie to be released in the last decade THE BLAST - No kink shaming, but thanks to Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna's ongoing lawsuit, we now know that Rob likes to be scratched during sex

LINKS! Jeff Bezos divorce drama, Pete Davidson’s dick returns, Alicia Keys doing the Grammys…

CELEBITCHY - The richest man in the world is "madly in love" with his mistress-turned-public girlfriend, and the feeling is mutual, so it sounds like the Jeff Bezos divorce drama is only getting started. Bezos' PR team got a gushy article into People Magazine, which isn't surprising; what is is that it kind of makes Bezos look like a douche who simply up and decided to move on from his wife. All of this is to say that the likelihood those dick pics of his get leaked just went up tremendously THE BLEMISH - Now Pete Davidson is trying to downplay his allegedly big dick, joking that Ariana Grande only said it was big so that any future women Pete got with would be disappointed. To me, this all sounds like a lot of Pete protesting too much -- "Oh, my dick? I mean, it's not *that* big; here, let me show you..." DLISTED - The Oscars are going host-free, but the Grammys have got their MC: Alicia Keys is hosting on February 10th, and she'll be the first woman to do so in fourteen years. (Queen Latifah was the last, in 2005 -- too long for sure, but still a tough act to follow) THE BLAST - Donald Trump hosted the College Football National Champions Clemson and served them a ton of cold fast food; he tweeted about it and misspelled "hamburgers"; Burger King promptly mocked Trump's misspelling; absolutely everything about this story is an embarrassment THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - Dog The Bounty Hunter is returning to TV with a new show called Dog's Most Wanted for WGN America. And Dog's wife Beth, who's been battling throat cancer since it returned last autumn, will join him on the show REALITY TEA - Every time a reality TV star accuses the show's production of manipulating events, either during filming or in the editing room, I can't help but roll my eyes. Making things look different than they actually are is the entire point of reality TV, and has been since forever. That said, Vanderpump Rules' Ariana Madix was at least entertaining while doing so on Twitter LAINEY GOSSIP - I didn't know a third Bad Boys movie was coming out, but it's actually filming in Atlanta right now. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are both back. And Michael Bay isn't directing. So maybe this sequel will at least be really fun? JEZEBEL - It was already a dick-heavy links post today, so enjoy one more tumescence for good measure: "This 1748 Erotic Novel Sure Can Describe a Dick!"

LINKS! Chris Pratt engaged, Kanye defends R. Kelly, Drake’s Vegas residency…

CELEBITCHY - Everyone out there who figured we'd see Chris Pratt engaged to Katherine Schwarzenegger by Christmas 2018, you were only a few weeks off. Chris popped the question to Katherine at some point over the holidays, because they've now announced their engagement and she's sporting a ring fit for a Hollywood Wife DLISTED - All Kanye really wanted to do was drop a thinly veiled defense of himself and his ever-shifting, ever-sh!tty beliefs -- but what he actually did was defend R. Kelly, with what has to be the worst timing in music history THE BLAST - Drake has apparently agreed to a multi-year Vegas residency. It's only for a "minimum" of ten shows per year for an undisclosed number of years, but honestly? The $10 million fee seems kind of low for him REALITY TEA - An employee at Lindsay Lohan's Mykonos nightclub claims she's more of a "hardass" than Lisa Vanderpump, for whom the employee has not worked. Nevertheless, this story will probably go through at least one gossip cycle, so hats off to the employee for pouring good tea THE BLEMISH - God damn it Louis CK LAINEY GOSSIP - Here's the latest abomination from outrage sensation Logan Paul JEZEBEL - "Mining what appears to be weeks of behind-the-scenes footage of the festival’s conception and brutal failure, Chris Smith’s new documentary Fyre is an incredible deep-dive into how the bumbling, dweebish frat boy in businessman’s clothing McFarland torpedoed his festival into a viral disaster." VOX - "Ever wake up to a numb, dead arm? Here’s what’s happening."

LINKS! Jeff Bezos dick pics, Danielle Staub’s wedding ring, Meghan Markle’s regrets…

JEZEBEL - Jeff Bezos apparently sent dick pics to his mistress -- and they're now in possession of at least one tabloid. So we can all rest assured that if his divorce saga gets ugly enough, the Jeff Bezos dick pics will be unleashed upon the world by whichever party stands to benefit the most from the "unsparing close-up" shot going public REALITY TEA - On Watch What Happens Live, Danielle Staub confirmed that she sold Marty Caffrey's ring to pay for her divorce from him, though that was actually the least surprising moment on the show THE BLEMISH - It's now being reported that Meghan Markle finds being a royal "incredibly stressful" and is "miserable" in general. Based on what little I know about British life in general and the royal family in particular, it sounds like she's got it exactly right THE BLAST - Cardi B got served in the lawsuit stemming from the fight she got in at last year's Met Gala while walking onto the set of the net Netflix show she's filming. And there's video VOX - The government shutdown means no one is staffing the still-open National Parks, so naturally people have taken to crapping everywhere, spraying graffiti on natural monuments austere enough to make a teenager blush, and chopping down trees LAINEY GOSSIP - Leonardo DiCaprio and his new-seeming girlfriend Camila Morrone have been together for an entire year? Are we absolutely sure she wasn't replaced with yet another younger version at some point? Has Leo been with one woman this long since before Camila was born? CELEBITCHY - Mandy Moore's very good dog Jackson is at home and recovering nicely after needing emergency, middle-of-the-night surgery because he ate an entire tennis ball THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - ‘Counting On’ Star Jessa Seewald Reveals Her Sister Jana Duggar’s Current Relationship Status After Jana (Finally) Joins Instagram DLISTED - Minor league baseball player Tim Tebow is engaged to Miss Universe 2017 Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, but the real story is what he reportedly said to her as he put the ring on her finger

LINKS! Dorit Kemsley’s money woes, Kate Mara pregnant, ‘Made In Staten Island’ backlash…

THE BLAST - Dorit Kemsley's money woes don't look like they'll be over anytime soon -- her husband Paul is being sued over a $1.2 million loan he made seven years ago and has yet to repay any of. And the RHOBH star's husband is still struggling to pay off nearly $4 million in casino debt JEZEBEL - Kate Mara revealed she's pregnant to Emily Blunt while the two of them were waiting for the bathroom at the Golden Globes. The trigger? Blunt noted that Mara's breasts seemed bigger than normal THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - The Karen Gravano-produced Made In Staten Island will premiere on MTV next week over the objections of plenty of Staten Islanders who feel it panders to stereotypes. Jersey Shore residents would like them to kindly get in line CELEBITCHY - When the long-feared socialist uprising comes, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West will have unwittingly positioned themselves as 21st century's America's answer to Marie Antoinette THE BLEMISH - Christian Bale is still getting sh!t for thanking Satan in his Golden Globes acceptance speech. But not from the Church of Satan itself, which applauded his invocation *and* managed to leave Dick Cheney's name out of it REALITY TEA - Disgraced ex-Southern Charm star Thomas Ravenel says Kathryn Dennis' drug use during her pregnancy is why their son has developmental issues. Thomas is on thin ice blaming anyone for anything, so it should be interesting to see how Kathryn responds DLISTED - Ashley Graham is right VOX - It's bad for folks' vacations and national morale in general that the 418 sites in the National Parks System are closed for the duration of the government shutdown. But it's also the first good thing for the environment that the Trump administration has done LAINEY GOSSIP - Maybe there have been other articles about Black Mirror: Bandersnatch written in a "Choose Your Own Gossip" format, but I haven't seen them, so this one is by default the best one period

LINKS! Lisa Vanderpump vs. Kristen Doute, The Kominsky Method?, Kendall’s big flop…

REALITY TEA - Lisa Vanderpump vs. Kristen Doute was the main event during LVP's Watch What Happens Live appearance, only Kristen had to respond to Lisa's insults via Twitter since she wasn't also on the show. WWHL should offer an in-picture live feed of the person most likely to get roasted by the person actually on the show, just for social media JEZEBEL - Oh thank God, I wasn't the only person watching the Golden Globes who thought "The Kominsky Method? What the f*ck is that?" You could have told me it was a show about how there are so many TV shows that someone decided to just make one up and talk it up until it won awards and I would have believed you. (And now I wish that's what it was actually about) THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - It turns out that Kendall Jenner's super big hush-hush life-altering secret is that she's actually a paid spokesperson for a well-known brand of acne treatment creams whose name we won't glorify by repeating it here. So people have been rightly roasting Kendall and Kris for their buildup CELEBITCHY - What even is Gwyneth Paltrow, anymore? And am I still allowed to enjoy The Royal Tenenbaums? VOX - “Anyone in authority [claiming a terrorism crisis] to bolster support for building the wall or any other physical barrier along the southern border is most likely guilty of fear mongering and willfully misleading the American people.” –One of Donald Trump's former top counterterrorism experts THE BLEMISH - See, I like this news because the more people turn down hosting the Oscars the more likely it is that the ceremony will actually be helmed by a monkey in a tuxedo THE BLAST - Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin toured a home in Encino CA with 10 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, 12,500 total square feet, and a $13 million price tag -- and here are some photos LAINEY GOSSIP - Day of Teaser Trailers, #1: The good stuff is on lockdown until the final season premiere, but you can enjoy these three seconds of new Game of Thrones footage and parse them for clues until April DLISTED - Day of Teaser Trailers, #2: The Haunting of Sharon Tate, starring Hilary Duff and what feels like at least a couple decades' worth of anticipation at this point, is apparently going to be hot garbage. I am getting a definite The Room vibe from this trailer -- one to watch, for sure