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| | Princess Kate's Christmas event sort of got overshadowed this year, right' | | Added 206 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In years past, the Princess of Wales?s Together at Christmas event has guaranteed at least three days of royal gossip, usually about clothes and the Wales kids. This year was different Kate?s McQueen coat was a repeat (she added a giant bow for some reason) and there didn?t seem to be a send-a-message-to-Meghan color coordination. This year, Kate?s husband stepped all over her newscycle Prince William went to Paris on Saturday and met with Donald Trump, and that became a much bigger story this weekend. It frankly overshadowed Kate?s thing. So People Mag?s new exclusive should absolutely be read as ?don?t forget about meeeee!?
Kate Middleton?s carol service was about a lot more than singing seasonal songs. On Friday, Dec. 6, 1,600 guests fill the pews at Westminster Abbey in London to attend Kates fourth annual Together at Christmas concert, which recognized hard work done to help communities throughout the U.K.
Jenny Powell, who helps people with disabilities in her town of Abergavenny in South Wales, tells PEOPLE, It was like saying, ?We do acknowledge you. Since the COVID pandemic, Mrs. Powell set up a group, The Gathering, to do craft-making, provide sensory spaces, offer cooking opportunities and partake in bingo. ?In our group, everyone understands everyone else,? she says.
At Kates Together at Christmas concert, the royal placed a letter on each seat that summed up the theme of love and kindness. ?It was a gorgeous letter,? Mrs. Powell says. ?It really showed her appreciation of what we?re all doing. It was quite touching and brought tears to my eyes. These things that I?ve been doing have impacted the lives of people I?ve been supporting, but knowing that the royal family is aware of these little things is lovely.?
Mrs. Powell recalls the steel drum band playing and servers handing out mince pies at the event, as well as a ?kindness tree, which was positioned near the door. There, helpers handed out red labels and pens so you could write a note to hang on [the tree] before you went in, she says.
When Princess Kate, Prince William and their three children ? Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis ? arrived, ?They looked so happy together, Powell says.
?It?s been a hard year, but she put that brave face on and she looked absolutely gorgeous, she adds of Kate, 42, who recently completed chemotherapy after her cancer diagnosis.
[From People]
I?ll say some nice things, actually it?s wonderful that Kate invites local activists and advocates to this event. It?s nice that each attendee gets a letter from Kate. It?s nice that this event is organized as some kind of thank you to people like Jenny Powell. The thing is? when people like Powell are invited, do they have to pay out of pocket to go to London and attend this event? Like, take off work, drive to London from South Wales (or take a train), probably stay in a hotel for a night? We never hear about who?s picking up those costs, probably because the guests pay for it themselves.
This is a compilation of all of the videos of Kate at the event, and you can hear her talk/mumble to various performers and celebrities. I saw some people noting that she arrived separately she always does that, so she can have a separate moment to greet various VIPs. It?s basically the only time this happens at any event.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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| | Angelina Jolie was 'stripped of so many things that make you feel safe & whole' | | Added 209 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A few weeks ago, Angelina Jolie was spotted at the Met, attending a performance of Puccini?s Tosca with Pablo Larrain. It came during one of several trips she?s made to New York in recent months, almost all of which have been to promote Larrain?s Maria, where Jolie plays Maria Callas. What we didn?t know last month was that a New York Times reporter was along for the ride at the opera, and that it was all for a rather lovely piece about Jolie and about opera. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:
Jolie identified with Callas?s isolation. ?Loneliness is not a bad thing. We?re both seen as strong, but actually we?re very vulnerable and human. I don?t think either one of us is necessarily comfortable being public.?
Jolie was worried about her singing voice: For years, she had carried the trauma of a boyfriend telling her she had a bad voice and that she should be grateful she had other talents. ?It was nasty, and it was more than once. Then I stopped singing.? She told Larran that she had ?a lot of emotion and pain that I did not feel like letting go.? She was not very familiar with classical music; she had grown up listening to punk bands like the Clash. And she wasn?t sure she had the technique to sing ? until that point, she had avoided even ?Happy Birthday.?
She sang ?Piangete voi?? at La Scala: The aria was one of the most challenging on the list, but it was also Jolie?s favorite. Dressed in a costume that matched Callas?s, with a white headpiece and navy dress, she sang before a crowd of about 500 people. ?It?s like jumping off a cliff. There was just nothing I could do but try to give everything I had.?
Her mother?s death: Her mother?s death from cancer in 2007, at 56, made Jolie feel she no longer had the luxury of time. ?I don?t want to be comfortable or too relaxed,? she said. ?I want to live fully.?
She?s concerned about revealing too many truths. ?When you are stripped of so many things that make you feel safe and whole, you really sit with what matters to you and what you want to give every breath in your body for. In the end, I found a lot of softness.? She said she hoped that despite all that, Callas was able to ?feel safe to be soft and hopefully eventually rediscover a level of joy.?
Has Jolie found joy again? ?I don?t know about that. But I hope for it. I hope to find a lightness that I may have lost along the way.?
[From The NY Times]
There?s a lot in the Times piece about how Jolie has a rare, genuine elusiveness and not even Pablo Larrain really knows her and they worked together for months. When Jolie walked into the Met, apparently people gasped and began murmuring and trying to take her photo too. The Met let Jolie linger after Tosca she and Pablo met several people working on the opera, and they let Jolie go on stage and examine the set. It?s actually a really lovely portrait, and Jolie?s unwillingness to talk about her personal life just made it even more interesting. I mean, she?s been doing this for a while, she knows how to talk around her eight-year-plus divorce. ?When you are stripped of so many things that make you feel safe and whole? fk Brad Pitt. She?s spent eight years just trying to feel safe and whole again.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.
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| | Angelina Jolie made her first late-night talk show appearance in a decade | | Added 209 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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You know how hard Angelina Jolie is hustling for Maria? She appeared on a late-night talk show for the first time in a decade! Jolie went on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, and she could not have been more nervous. I think her last talk-show appearance was probably The Daily Show in, like, 2013? Jimmy Fallon was really gentle with her last night and he made a point of not even saying Brad Pitt?s name or asking her anything about divorce or exes or any of that. She did talk a little bit about her kids, but emphasized that Shiloh is the one kid who really craves privacy. Here?s the
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| | Katy Perry will reportedly perform at the Invictus Games' opening concert | | Added 210 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Katy Perry is kind of over. Her 2024 album, 143, flopped hard. People are mad that she?s still working with Dr. Luke. People have outgrown her pseudo-feminist anthems. But! She?s still one of the most successful pop stars of the past 20 years. People still rock out to her old hits. Well, some interesting news. Katy is apparently the opening act for the Invictus Games next year. Katy and her husband Orlando Bloom are neighbors with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and Harry and Meghan even went to see Katy?s final show of her Las Vegas residency last year (a Sussex appearance which enraged Prince William).
Prince Harry has secured the services of his neighbour Katy Perry to sing at the opening night of his Invictus Games. The Grammy nominated star will headline the opening of the event for disabled military veterans in Vancouver, Canada, in February. The 40-year-old is by far the biggest star to appear at the bi-annual event attended by Harry and his wife Meghan.
Perry and her partner actor British actor Orlando Bloom are close neighbours of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in Montecito, California. The couple were among the guests invited to the third birthday party for Harry and Meghan?s daughter Lilibet at their 20m mansion in the swanky Californian enclave favoured by many A-list stars.
The friendship between the two power couples was highlighted last year when Harry and Meghan attended the ?Fireworks? concert in Las Vegas sitting in VIP seats alongside Celine Dion. While Meghan appeared to enjoy the concert body language experts who watched Harry noted that he appeared uncomfortable.
[From The Daily Mail]
I hope Katy sings some of her old hits at Invictus. ?Firework? or ?Roar? or ?Part of Me.? Like, I just hope that she doesn?t get up there and try to sing her flop single from this year, ?Woman?s World.? It?s really funny that Katy is now tight with the Sussexes, because she also made a point of performing at King Charles?s coronation concert (and she did the most to rizz him up). She was also very critical of Meghan?s wedding gown back in 2018.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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| | Andie MacDowell: 'I?m too old to starve myself for 5 pounds nonstop' | | Added 212 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Andie MacDowell, 66, is goals to me on so many levels. She was on the cusp of being one of my generations it actresses, and she could have been a bigger deal if she hustled more, but she moved to Montana to raise her kids. Ive enjoyed seeing how shes since carved out a niche for herself without chasing fame or youth. Andie walked the runway for Loreals Walk Your Worth in Paris a few weeks ago along with other luminaries like Viola Davis and Jane Fonda. She was working a silver strapless gown, but it wasnt her first option. Andie told People Magazine that she had a fitting for another gown that didnt fit properly and that she beat herself up for not fitting into it at first. The next morning she realized that she should just pick a more comfortable dress and that she had other priorities.
On Nov. 21, while attending LOral Paris Women of Worth Celebration, [Andie MacDowell], 66, opened up to PEOPLE about coming to the realization that she shouldn?t give in to expectations and the pressure she feels in Hollywood.
?I did a fitting and the dress was really tight around my waist. It looks so good, but I woke up and I just knew it was not the right thing for me to do,? she recalls. ?I wanted to wear something that was comfortable. And, of course, immediately I shamed myself for not being able to fit into this dress.?
?But thats Hollywood,? she says. ?Its this expectation, like you see in The Substance, to be something that you can no longer be and that was easier at a certain time in your life, but I cant. Im too old to starve myself for 5 lbs. nonstop. I just cant do it anymore.?
MacDowell says she doesn?t have to ?stuff? herself into clothes that don?t fit her and then beat herself up for not being able to wear it properly. She adds that every time she gets a break from Hollywood she actually feels better about her appearance.
?I used to live in Montana. When Im at home, I feel skinny,? she admits. ?Its only when I come out here that I feel like the bar is raised so high and the expectations are beyond anything that anybody can accomplish unless youre completely devoted to being skinny.?
?If that were the only thing that I thought about, I could do it, but there are other things I want to do in my life,? she continues. ?I want to learn about birds and I want to walk on the beach and I want to be smart and I want to read books. I want to work out, but I dont want that to be the only thing. Id rather have the 5 lbs. on me and wear something that fits.?
[From People]
Andie went on to talk about her grandneice who struggled with anorexia at just 12 years old. She said shes doing well now and that social media really affected her. Andies story about those five pounds was so relatable to me. Im constantly trying to lose five pounds. At first it was five pounds from the pandemic and then it was five more pounds from the ensuing years. Menopause is a bitch and you really get hungry. When I give myself a break and just buy clothes that fit I feel so much more confident and better about myself. Also I loved her explanation that being thin is no longer the focus of her life because she has a ton of other things shes interested in. Exercise is just one thing that brings her joy. Now I also want to learn about birds!
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| | Angelina Jolie & Zendaya picked up special awards at the Gotham Awards | | Added 212 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos from the Gotham Awards, which were held last night in New York. This was one of the first awards shows of the season, and judging from the A-listers who came out, it seems like there?s going to be a lot of eagerness this year, a lot of people vying for footholds in the Oscar race. I?m including photos of Angelina Jolie and an LV-clad Zendaya, both of whom received special awards for their performances in Maria and Challengers respectively. Other nominees and attendees included: Nicole Kidman, Adrien Brody (with Georgina Chapman), Jessica Chastain, Elle Fanning, Colman Domingo (who won Best Actor for Sing Sing), Pamela Anderson, a Schiaparelli-clad Saoirse Ronan, and Zoe Kravitz.
The Gotham Awards went for gender-neutral categories, and like every awards show which experiments with gender-neutral categories, the cisgender men took home all of the awards. I don?t know what the answer is to ?should gender-neutral categories be the norm,? but in practice, in the real world, whenever they run that experiment, the men always win. It sucks. Anora was supposed to pick up some major awards, but they left empty-handed. A Different Man won best feature, beating out Anora, Babygirl, Challengers and Nickel Boys. Nickel Boys won breakthrough performer (Brandon Wilson) and best director. Sing Sing won two acting awards, for Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin.
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| | Taylor Swift hosted Travis Kelce & the Kelce fam in Nashville for Thanksgiving | | Added 213 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Taylor Swift has maintained a penthouse apartment in Nashville for many years, even though she seemingly spends more time in New York and LA these days. I don?t know if her parents also have a home in Nashville, but it would make sense. Well, the Swift family was in Nashville for Thanksgiving, and they played host to the Kelce family. Travis Kelce, Travis?s parents and even Jason and Kylie Kelce all came to Nashville for Thanksgiving and they were hosted by the Swifts for the holiday. Who cooked though??
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce had a family-filled Thanksgiving together. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 35, and the pop superstar, 34, celebrated the holiday together and brought along both of their families, a source confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.
According to the source, Taylor and her family ? including dad Scott and mom Andrea ? hosted the Kelces in Nashville, before Travis jetted off to prepare for the Chiefs winning game against the Las Vegas Raiders on Friday, Nov. 29.
Taylor and Travis had a great Thanksgiving together with their families, the source tells PEOPLE, recalling how the Karma singer was in South America for the Eras Tour around Thanksgiving weekend last year. Its the first Thanksgiving they celebrated together. Taylor and her family were excited to host the Kelces this year, the source adds. [Travis brother] Jason was there with his family and kids too. It was very festive and special.
Following the festivities, Taylor also traveled to Kansas City, where she arrived at Arrowhead Stadium with Travis mom Donna to cheer on Travis.
The news may come as a surprise to some fans, as Travis mom Donna said one week before Thanksgiving, during an appearance on the Today show, that Taylor would probably not be joining the Kelces for the holiday. I dont think so. Shes kind of busy right now. She still has her tour to do, said Donna, 72, referring to Taylors record-breaking Eras Tour, which wraps up on Dec. 8.
[From People]
The unspoken thing is that Travis usually avoids traveling in the days before a home game. Even if he?s been with Taylor in New York, he comes back to Kansas City days before the game so that he can train and prepare. I guess an exception was made because it?s Thanksgiving. Plus, I?m sure Taylor lets the Kelces use her private planes, so it?s not like Travis is stressed out at the airport, trying to get a commercial flight back to Kansas City. Anyway, I?ve said that Travis is in it to win it. This is a sign that Taylor is in it to win it too. Hosting the Kelces in Nashville? The parents getting together for ?the kids.? And yeah, I?d want Jason around every holiday too.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.
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| | Justin Timberlake cancels his third show on the world tour due to a back injury | | Added 213 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Remember over the summer when Justin Timberlake got arrested and charged with a DWI and traffic violations including missing a stop sign and driving in the wrong lane, after a cop pulled him over? (JT refused a breathalyzer test.) One of the gossip gifts from that incident ? which could have seriously hurt someone and thankfully didn?t ? was the detail about the arresting officer not recognizing Justin. JT: ?This is going to ruin the tour.? Cop: ?What tour?? JT: ?The world tour.? (Doubly funny because the actual name is the Forget Tomorrow World Tour, so you could say the officer indeed forgot the ?tomorrow.?) Well, turns out Justin?s fears were unfounded and the DWI didn?t ruin the tour. No, instead that credit goes to a series of health calamities that are preventing Justin from rocking his body. First it was ?undisclosed injury,? then bronchitis and laryngitis (at the same time!), and now he?s been hit with a back injury, prompting him to cancel Monday?s show in OK City:
?I?m so sorry Oklahoma City,? he wrote. ?I have to cancel the show on 12/2. I hurt my back in Nola and my doctors have instructed me to rest a little bit longer. Thank you for your support ? y?all know I hate doing this.?
Timberlake most recently performed in New Orleans on Monday, Nov. 25, which is apparently when the injury took place.
This is the third time in recent weeks that the ?Selfish? singer has rearranged his tour schedule due to health reasons.
?I haven?t been feeling great the last few shows and turns out I have bronchitis and laryngitis,? he wrote in an Oct. 22 Instagram post. ?I?m so sorry to say I do need to reschedule the next few shows from 10/23 through 11/2 [?] Thank you for understanding ? I?ll make it up to you .?
The former *NSYNC member also previously canceled and rescheduled his Oct. 8 show in New Jersey due to an undisclosed injury.
?I?m so sorry to postpone tonight?s show. I have an injury that is preventing me from performing. I?m so disappointed to not see you all ? but I?m working to reschedule ASAP. I promise to make it up to you and give you the show ya?ll deserve,? he wrote on Instagram, adding a broken heart emoji. ?Thank you guys for understanding. Appreciate your support always.?
The Forget Tomorrow World Tour was first announced in January and marked Timberlake?s return to touring after a five-year hiatus. The two-hour show features a 29-song setlist and highlights the star?s sixth studio album, Everything I Thought I Was. It also includes fan-favorites such as ?My Love,? ?Cry Me a River,? ?Suit & Tie? and ?Rock Your Body.?
The Forget Tomorrow World Tour has nine more U.S. stops in 2024 and continues throughout 2025 in the U.S. and internationally until July.
[From People]
Ah, so it?s really more than three shows that he?s canceled now. In a span of two months, Justin has issued three notices for a total of eight shows canceled (so far) on the Forget Tomorrow World Tour, six of them during his double bout of bronchitis with laryngitis. Performing is no joke! (Despite his rather crass attempts at them when he?s on stage.) He has to stay physically and vocally fit, and, regretfully, that simply takes more work with aging. I definitely believe that touring at 43 takes more out of Justin than touring in his *NSYNC days. Plus the ego blow it must be for him to deal with any criticism for canceling yet again. Like, I don?t know, say some callous person on the internet suggesting that it sounds like Justin is running through excuses like a schoolboy, and the next one is bound to be, ?Sorry fans, have to cancel, my dog ate my performance.? Some people just have no sense of class or respect, fo? shiz fo? shiz.
Wishing Justin well on his recovery from this back injury. After all, the tour is depending on him. (What tour? The world tour.)
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| | Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner looked cozy as they volunteered on Thanksgiving | | Added 216 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Ben Affleck spent Thanksgiving with his first ex-wife and not his currently estranged wife (who is divorcing him). Jennifer Lopez posted a photo of her Thanksgiving from her kitchen, presumably in LA. Meanwhile, Ben and Jennifer Garner volunteered at the Midnight Mission to feed homeless people for Thanksgiving. The photos are pretty exclusive, but you can see them here:
Ben Affleck cozies up to ex-wife Jennifer Garner on Thanksgiving amid Jennifer Lopez divorce: ?He?s very happy? https://t.co/snMC0Wd7C9 pic.twitter.com/VHrfqZJALG
New York Post (@nypost) November 29, 2024
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| | Sharon Stone: America is in 'our naive, ignorant, arrogant adolescence' | | Added 218 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Sharon Stone was invited to the Torino Film Festival this week. They gave her a Stella della Mole lifetime achievement award (just like Angelina Jolie). Sharon goes to these kinds of film festivals and international film events all the time she shows up to the opening of an envelope, especially if that envelope is in Europe. As part of her award, Sharon did a press conference at the festival, and she was asked specifically about the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. I repeat: she was not asked directly about Donald Trump, she was asked specifically about violence against women. It just so happens that Trump is an adjudicated rapist and that a half-dozen of his cabinet-level nominees are predators, rapists, degenerates and whatever Matt Gaetz is. As you can imagine, Sharon?s thoughts on the issue of ?violence against women? are influenced by the realities of the incoming Trump administration.
?This question about the question of violence against women is? is a big one. And I think we have to really stop and think about things. And we have to stop and think about who we choose for government. And if, in fact, we are actually choosing our government or if the government is choosing itself.
You know, Italy has seen fascism. Italy has seen these things. You guys. And you understand what happens. You have seen this before. My country is in the midst of adolescence. Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything. Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant. And we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence.
We haven?t seen this before in our country. So Americans who don?t travel, who 80% don?t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete. What I would say is that the only way that we can help with these issues is to help each other.
Now, we can?t just say women should help women because that?s the only way we have survived so far. We must say that good men must help good men and those good men must be very aware that a lot of their friends are not good men. And we can?t continue to pretend that your friends are good men when they?re not good men. And you must be very clear minded and understand that your friends who are not not good men are dangerous violent men. And you have to keep them away from your daughters, your wives and your girlfriends, because this is the time when we can no longer look away, when bad men are bad.
I was watching a comedian the other night and he said, I asked a woman to dinner and she said yes. And it was such a brave thing for her to do because the only real thing, the number one killer of. In the world today is men. For men, the number one killer is heart disease. The number one killer for women is men! It is very important to remember that. It?s very important to remember that. Thank you.
[From Mediaite]
On a scale of zero to Dixie Chicks, this is pretty middle-of-the-road to me? She doesn?t even say Trump?s name, but yeah, she makes not-so-oblique references to the arrogance and ignorance of millions of Americans who voted for Trump. MAGAts are crying because they think Sharon called them dumb, uneducated losers who never travel. But? she?s right? One of the big postmortems on the election was the dumbest people in America voted for Trump and they all cited some of the dumbest reasons why they voted that way.
The whole section about ?good men have to look out for women?? men had their chance to look out for women and they voted for Trump in large numbers. The majority of white women also chose this violent fascism. So it is what it is. What?s also interesting is that in 2022, Stone made some interesting comments post-Dobbs, in which she basically said that Trump, Dobbs, and the sort of new cultural acceptance of violent misogyny was all a backlash to Me Too. I don?t believe that, but I think her 2022 comments were more interesting than whatever this was.
Sharon Stone says Trump won because Americans ?don?t travel & are uneducated.??Keep them away from your daughters, your wives, & your girlfriends.? pic.twitter.com/GyTvoiisi8
AlexandruC4 (@AlexandruC4) November 26, 2024
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