LINKS Meek Mill and Vanessa Bryant, Gizelle vs Mary Cosby, Coming to America 2…
DLISTED – The beef between Meek Mill and Vanessa Bryant appears to be over — Meek announced on Twitter that he’d apologized to Vanessa “in private” after she criticized his (honestly pretty lazy) lyrics referencing / disrespecting Kobe Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash. Vanessa has yet to address the apology, though
REALITY TEA – In Bryant news of a different sort, RHOP star Gizelle Bryant is stirring up that cross-Housewives pot with some words for Real Housewives of Salt Lake City breakout star Mary Cosby. Or, more specifically, for Mary and — you guessed it! — her always-fascinating marriage to her step-grandfather Robert
CELEBITCHY – Eddie Murphy talked to Essence about Coming to America 2 and said he “didn’t want to do…a bad sequel to a movie that a lot of people” love. But that…kind of sounds like a lukewarm endorsement of the sequel?
THE BLAST – Kelly Dodd denied she’s been fired from Real Housewives of Orange County, and honestly, if it didn’t happen in the immediate aftermath of her latest thoughtless comments, it’s probably not going to happen at all
JEZEBEL – It seems the Golden Globes are guilty of what industry insiders have long termed a little light corruption. An LA Times investigation revealed the Hollywood Foreign Press Association turns studio luxury junkets into nominations for preferred shows and movies, which is why the universally reviled Emily In Paris will be featured during the ceremony and the beloved Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom will not
LAINEY GOSSIP – The HFPA and Golden Globes organizers have to be secretly thrilled with this development, though. In a year when nobody went to see movies and an era when awards show ratings are slipping, what could be better for this week’s ceremony than some red hot controversy?
THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – We’ve got our first look at WeTV’s upcoming Mama June: Road to Redemption, which premieres in a little less than a month. Highlights include June “finally” going to rehab and her psychiatrist telling her she’s “out of [her] mind” for thinking she should be in her daughters’ lives right now
VOX – In case you needed another reason to never, ever use apps, here’s a good one: “App trackers secretly sell your location data to the government. App stores won’t stop them”
GO FUG YOURSELF – Come for the pics of Sarah Jessica Parker looking every inch a “high-fashion milkmaid”; stay for the amazing run of milkmaid-themed 90s alt rock puns
THE HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP – The Duggars have been casting teensy shrub shade on Jill “Renegade” Dillard for weeks now, and it seems Joy-Anna Duggar is the latest family member to take the social media bait
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