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CELEBITCHY - Now Donald Trump is going around telling his friends and advisors that Stormy Daniels isn't the kind of woman he's attracted to. I think the only honest comparison here is that of a rat swearing to his rat friends and advisors that he'll only eat certain kinds of cheese. Particularly if that rat is named Templeton, and he just got back from the fairground smorgasbord DLISTED - Christina Aguilera went almost makeup-free for the cover of Paper and is almost unrecognizable. There are plenty of made-up pictures of her in the actual feature, though. Also, apparently she "borrowed" a wig from the photo shoot because she wanted to wear it during sex later THE BLEMISH - Justin Bieber's reps are laying the groundwork for the big new "Christian-appropriate" album he's working on by leaking quotes about how he's "always been religious." I know that this is really nothing more than bait for gossip bloggers, but damn it if that's not some good bait JEZEBEL - Pregnant Cardi B announced last night that her new album has a release date -- and that the date is just a touch under two weeks away REALITY TEA - Though she's not on Vanderpump Rules as much as she used to be and her boyfriend Brian Carter is hardly ever on it at all, Kristen Doute would like you to know that she and Brian are "still together." Take that ringing endorsement for whatever you think it's worth VOX - Evangelical Christians have a particularly...creative defense of Donald Trump's infidenity LAINEY GOSSIP - Angelina Jolie apparently really is dating again, and apparently the gentleman is "older-looking." Which would be a shade-tastic enough way of describing him -- except that the report also goes on to say that "isn't a celebrity or high-profile in any way." It sounds an awful lot like someone is trying to suggest Angelina's new boyfriend is ugly UPROXX - So the Roseanne revival starts tonight. If you don't already have a take on it, here's an in-depth and nuanced review of the new show and its place in the pop culture landscape of 2018

UPROXX - In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal currently tanking Facebook's stock and further undermining Americans' faith in...everything, Mark Zuckerberg remains AWOL. But Facebook just put out a bland, detail-free statement on his whereabouts, so we can all go back to posting now VOX - The Stormy Daniels scandal is actually a neat political gateway drug because it's becoming a campaign finance scandal with an adult actress at the center of it JEZEBEL - Amy Poehler is directing a movie for Netflix; it's called Wine Country and stars Maya Rudolph, Paula Pell, Tina Fey, Ana Gastayer, Emily Spivey, and Rachel Dratch. And Amy herself. As one of the astute commenters put it, "This could be the greatest thing ever and anything less will be disappointing" REALITY TEA - Newest RHOA cast member Eva Marcille claims to not understand why Kenya Moore is "coming for her." She also suggests that her pregnancy will likely get her at least one more season on the show. Eva is either quite savvy or the exact opposite of quite savvy CELEBITCHY - This new unauthorized royal tell-all sounds scandalous and petty and juicy as hell. It might be the perfect antidote for Americans who are tired of our own markedly less glamorous palace intrigue DLISTED - A week after getting arrested for domestic abuse following a fight with girlfriend Laura Leal, Nick Gordon has been arrested again. This time it was for violating the no-contact order put in place following he and Laura's last altercation. Nick Gordon's mugshot collection is now approaching a Tommie-from-LHHATL level VERY SMART BROTHAS - Wait -- Snoop Dogg has a *gospel* album now? And it's actually pretty good? THE BLEMISH - Ivanka Trump playing scientist for a photo op got some reactions on Twitter, but the first and only thing it brought to my mind was Denise Richards' immortal turn as Dr. Christmas Jones, noted nuclear physicist, in The World Is Not Enough

DLISTED - United Airlines killed ANOTHER dog after forcing its owner to store it in the overhead bin on a flight. This despite the owner following United's rules for stowing a pet in a carry-on under the seat in front of her. Normally I never use all caps for emphasis, but I feel an exception is warranted in the case of United Airlines astonishing lack of common sense and outstanding success at killing its customers' dogs CELEBITCHY - Yes, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson really did find out he was fired via Donald Trump's tweet firing him. Tillerson's people also went on-record to confirm that Trump never called Tillerson about the firing, either before or after the Tweet THE BLEMISH - This week, two teachers have accidentally fired guns during in-class safety demonstrations. The second of those two is a reserve police officer whose shot hit the ceiling and injured a student via falling debris. On a related note, that student's father is no longer in favor of arming teachers JEZEBEL - Is it because they were all super-rich people accountable to no one before they became Cabinet members? That could be the reason REALITY TEA - Someone stole Brielle Biermann's purse out of her car and went on a $30,000 spending spree at Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus. No word on whether she and Kim Zolciak will go through the purchases once the thief is caught VERY SMART BROTHAS - Hot take: "We Need a New Category for Today's Rap Music Because This Shit Ain't Hip-Hop" LAINEY GOSSIP - The first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is here, and it seems to be going over well. One possible reason: Very little Johnny Depp THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - Former All That stars Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell, Josh Server and Lori Beth Denberg did a mini-reunion during a recent appearance on Wild 'N Out, which is set to air soon. Also, Nick Cannon, who was on the show for 20 episodes back in the day, introduced the four of them and got the crowd to sing the theme song, which will now be stuck in my head all day

THE BLEMISH - OJ Simpson managed to keep his story straight for 24 years. That is, until he got carried away with a hypothetical discussion of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman's murders during a TV interview, and then pretty much OJ confessed to killing both of them. As anyone who's ever taught a freshman lit class will tell you, unreliable narrators can be tricky CELEBITCHY - Speaking of interviews doing their subjects no favors: This story about Colin Firth's wife Livia having an affair with Italian and future stalker Marco Branaccia is as messy (and bananas) as it was unexpected. And Marco, who has "a history of threatening behavior towards ex-lovers," isn't doing himself many favors with this very high-profile interview JEZEBEL - Today's trifeca of high-profile interview fails is complete: I'm all for giving billionaires with no experience a chance to do their new jobs before castigating them endlessly, but Betsy DeVos is so inept she makes Ben Carson look good. For proof, suffer through her 60 Minutes chat with Lesley Stah VOX - The creators of Stranger Things have been accused of verbally abusing women on the set of the show. Netflix's 48-hour investigation found nothing. So we'll probably never hear about this again THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - Contestants Ashley Iaconetti and Kevin Wendt have split just a few months after "taking home the gold" The Bachelor: Winter Games. If you extend the Winter Olympics metaphor far enough, does this actually make them a Russian couple disqualified for doping? DLISTED - Brad Pitt is going to spend the next year completely unavailable for boning (except in your increasingly vivid dreams). He's also apparently going to spend the next year getting cut. These two decisions do not seem compatible REALITY TEA - Aviva "Leg Toss" Drescher says she would go back to The Real Housewives of New York "if they needed somebody" and "if [she] worked in the mix." Commence eyepatch jokes LAINEY GOSSIP - It would appear that Amber Heard and Sean Penn are now an item VERY SMART BROTHAS - I don't know why we don't tip fast food workers either. But I do know that Mr. Pink would like a word

VOX - Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg went a little crazy yesterday, doing a series of increasingly defiant TV interviews in which he said he was actively refusing to comply with a subpoena from the special counsel's office. Daring Robert Mueller to come and arrest you doesn't seem like the best legal strategy in the world THE BLEMISH - The guy who stole Frances McDormand's Oscar filmed a short video of himself with it and uploaded it to YouTube, then walked around with the statue at an afterparty and told people he had won it for "music." If you're an aspiring talent agent and want to book this man for your Z-list, his bail is $20,000 JEZEBEL - If Oscars fashion and afterparty talk are your thing, here's a super fun and thorough rundown of both. Of special note: Megan Mullally's flying eagle dress; Rashida Jones' elegant garden gown; Bleona Qereti's boob-heavy display; and Mary J. Blige's near-perfect mirror of an Oscar statuette if it were made of butterflies CELEBITCHY - Kobe Bryant and Gary Oldman both won Oscars this year. Kobe Bryant allegedly raped a teenager in 2003, and Gary Oldman is allegedly a serial domestic abuser. In fairness, then, this year's otherwise diverse and often fun show can only be called the alleged wokest in the 90-year history of the Oscars REALITY TEA - Former RHOC star and current St. Louis citizen Meghan Edmonds returned to Southern California to pose for some baby bump-tastic bikini and yoga pose shots. And as further proof of how the reality TV life will drain a person, Meghan looks much happier these days even if she does have to live in Missouri LAINEY GOSSIP - At this point, saying out loud that you're not an especially big fan of Tiffany Haddish's shtick means you're risking side eye at a minimum and physical harm at worst UPROXX - Kevin Hart went on Conan last night and explained why he made a drunken run onto the field after the Super Bowl. Basically, it boils down to "I wanted to hold the trophy" and "I was drunk," but in Kevin Hart's hands those two phrases become an entertaining tale DLISTED - A British Ticketmaster spilled the tea on Beyonce and Jay-Z's summer tour. Judging by the leaked date, they're going to play stadiums, which makes sense given their incredible popularity but is also kind of a bummer for the simple fact that stadium shows leave most fans sitting too far away to have a really great experience

CELEBITCHY - It's tough to read the full article on the Ryan Seacrest sexual harassment claims and not come away thinking that Seacrest was "a powerful boss who felt entitled to an employee’s body." Seacrest denied the claims, his alleged victim made a counter-statement to his denial, and E! really wishes this was all happening literally any other time than the week Seacrest is still scheduled to host their Academy Awards Red Carpet show VERY SMART BROTHAS - This is the best comparison possible for the Trump administration, which really *is* Love & Hip Hop for terrible white (and / or crazy) people. If I had even minimal video editing skills I would be cutting a supertrailer based on this premise right now VOX - And speaking of the reality TV White House, the Mueller investigation is now apparently investigating the president's continued abuse of Jeff Sessions, who the president also apparently refers to as Mr. Magoo in private. In other news, there is too much dysfunction in the reality TV White House for the Mueller investigation to ever actually end THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - Here's a "Duggar Babies By The Numbers" post to tell you probably everything there is to know about this ever-growing family. Hats off to Ashley for doing this much investigation into the Duggar way of procreation; I couldn't make it any farther than "Since 2014, there has been at least one pregnant Duggar at all times" JEZEBEL - "Woman Allegedly Poisoned Her Doppelgänger With Cheesecake in Order to Steal Her Identity" REALITY TEA - Former Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller was denied her early release from prison because of either a mix-up in paperwork or a prison budget crisis (it honestly isn't clear which) or because her "prison consultant and coach" has no idea what she is talking about THE BLEMISH - A YouTube "biohacker" named Ben Greenfield would like you to believe that he made his penis bigger by injecting it with stem cells. Just wait for the swelling to go down UPROXX - An evil genius erected a life-sized statue of Jason Voorhees at the bottom of a lake at a summer camp in Minnesota. Next step: getting the current generation of summer camp-goers to watch Friday the 13th LAINEY GOSSIP - Everyone's talking about Barbara Streisand cloning her two dogs. And, to be fair, is the craziest detail to emerge from her new Variety interview. But it's not the most significant part of the interview -- that would be the part where she talks about having to suffer through "the boys' club" and a mutiny of her (male) crew on the set of movies when she was already an established director but Nick Nolte had a diva moment DLISTED - After teasing the possibility for a few days, the reunited Spice Girls now appear to have confirmed that, no, they aren't going to be performing at the royal wedding. Just like how they teased the possibility of a reunion tour before nixing that idea. But they are still reunited, right? Are we all going to turn around soon and find out the Spice Girls weren't walking right behind us after all?

CELEBITCHY - Donald Trump is now claiming "Obama never used the Oval"? What is that even supposed to mean? The surface-level meaning is that Obama literally never worked in the Oval Office, which is untrue. And the deeper implication -- that Obama never put the trappings of the presidency to work for him -- is also inaccurate DLISTED - Kirstie Alley decided that the middle of the Winter Olympics was the right time to go on Twitter and trash curling. Am I the only one who finds curling weirdly awesome? Every four years I tune in like a madman during the Olympics (though as soon as the Olympics are done I forget all about it until the next one) THE BLEMISH - And speaking of the Olympics, it really does seem like a bad idea to use your hands to try and trip a speed skater as she whizzes by your falling body on her razor shoes JEZEBEL - Marco Rubio went on CNN last night to take the NRA's side in a gun control town hall meeting featuring parents of some of the students killed in the Parkland school shooting. It did not go well for him UPROXX - I was already a little interested in the Han Solo spinoff movie after finding out it's partially influenced by The Big Lebowski, but this Solo trailer re-cut to "Sabotage" by the Beastie Boys has me giddier than it probably should VOX - The short version of the keto diet is it's great if you want to treat epilepsy or want to trick yourself into believing ice cream is great for breakfast REALITY TEA - RHONJ's Teresa Giudice is going on Hollywood Medium next season work through her grief over her dead mother and ignore her legal issues for a full hour THE ASHLEY'S REALITY ROUNDUP - If you're a cast member for a show on Bravo, and you get an STD from another one of the network's reality TV stars, your contract forbids you from suing the network. Cue the Vanderpump Rules cast facepalm LAINEY GOSSIP - Tiffany Haddish, who is already everywhere right now, is about to get even more everywhere-er: She just signed a deal with Netflix to star in an animated show created by one of the people responsible for BoJack Horseman VERY SMART BROTHAS - Drake's video for "God's Plan" -- you know, the one where he gives away the video's $1 million budget to various people around Miami -- is ultimately a good deed version of what Red Fang did with "Wires," and good on him for making it

DLISTED - Jay-Z is the latest big name celebrity and / or major sport trophy winner to rack up a huge bar tab. He dropped $113,000 on booze at three New York City clubs this weekend -- but, in typical big name celebrity / athlete fashion, he bought stuff that costs over $1,000 per bottle. Just once it would be amazing to see a six-figure tab spent on an entire bar full of people and made up of nothing but Jell-O shots and high gravity beer REALITY TEA - The Real Housewives of New Jersey's Margaret Josephs is in some real trouble with the IRS. She would need two Hail Mary Jay-Z bar tabs just to keep her head above water CELEBITCHY - The New York Times has been throwing out some impressively bad hot takes over the past few months, but this David Brooks column in the wake of the Parkland school shooting is blacked out at the wheel JEZEBEL - We have a new frontrunner for the 2018 Headline Of The Year THE BLEMISH - Jessica Chastain, in addition to starring in what feels like easily a half-dozen comic book movies and assorted high-concept Hollywood blockbuster-type films, is probably going to play the lead in the sequel to It as well VOX - Here's what it's like to spend four days tripping on ayahuasca in the Costa Rican rainforest VERY SMART BROTHAS - "An Open Letter to the Men Whose Girlfriends and Wives Saw Black Panther and Now Want to Move to Wakanda" LAINEY GOSSIP -Jennifer Lawrence has been promoting Red Sparrow, her decidedly more mainstream follow-up to mother!, for the entire month of February, often outdoors. And if this photo gallery is any indication, she has turned down every offer for a coat UPROXX - There will be a woman occupying the Oval Office before there's a new Tool album, and anybody who tries to tell you different is Axl Rose