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| | Demi Moore says that Bruce Willis is 'in a very stable place at the moment' | | Added 2 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Demi Moore is having one of the greatest professional years of her life. She started out with a scene-stealing supporting role in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. Since then, she?s been garnering heaps of praise for her starring, shocking turn in The Substance, for which she just scored a Golden Globe nomination. It?s been so much fun seeing her (and little Pilaf!) hustle for this film. She?s been doing a great job of balancing being damn proud of her work, while still being grateful. I think part of that grounding comes with age and having lived a full life. And one of the facts of her life right now, is her family dealing with Bruce Willis?s frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Even though they?ve been divorced for a long time, Demi is still very close with Bruce and his wife Emma Heming Willis. She talked about Bruce?s health, consciously deciding to remain a family post-divorce, and more in a new interview with Christiane Amanpour:
Demi Moore is giving an update on Bruce Willis? health.
The Substance actress spoke with Christiane Amanpour for an interview on CNN that aired Thursday, Dec. 5, about her ex-husband, who was previously diagnosed with aphasia that progressed to frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
?Given the givens, he?s in a very stable place at the moment,? said Moore, 62. ?And I?ve shared this before, but I really mean this so sincerely: It?s so important for anybody who?s dealing with this to really meet them where they?re at.?
?And from that place, there is such loving and joy,? she added.
Moore, who was married to Willis, 69, from 1987 to 2000, also told Amanpour that the situation is ?very difficult? and ?not what I would wish upon anyone,? including a feeling of ?great loss.?
?But there is also great beauty and gifts that can come out of it,? the Now and Then actress added.
Willis and Moore share three daughters ? Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30 ? while the Die Hard actor is also dad to two younger daughters with wife Emma Heming Willis: Mabel, 12, and Evelyn, 10.
Addressing their supportive joint dynamic with Amanpour, 66, Moore said, ?That has been very important to me even from when Bruce and I had separated and divorced, is the recognition that we?re a family, and we?ll always be a family, just in a different form.?
?And that form may kind of evolve and change, and there is a way in which we can all be in that form,? she added. ?And I?m grateful, ?cause it?s not just me ? it has to require everybody to be coming together. And it?s lovely.?
Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE at the 2024 Gotham Awards on Monday, Dec. 2, Moore also said she has grown to have more self-acceptance over the years, revealing that one of her children also consciously chooses to walk down the same path.
?My middle daughter Scout, in many of our conversations, she kind of succinctly put it. She said, ?I want to quit wasting time focusing on all that I?m not, when I could be celebrating all that I am,?? Moore recalled at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
[From People]
I continue to be impressed with the way the women in Bruce?s life are rallying around him with love, while also protecting his privacy. Demi doesn?t really divulge any specifics here, in fact this emphasis on meeting the person where they?re at is a phrasing she?s used before to talk about Bruce. I think it?s a thoughtful way to speak of Bruce positively, without disrespecting his privacy. And it also subtly redirects the focus, making the conversation less about the intimacies of how Bruce is doing, and more about how the rest of us can relate to people going through FTD and other illnesses. I?m wishing their big beautiful family all the love and grace for a joyful holiday season. And then I?m wishing for another knockout outfit when Demi hits the Golden Globes red carpet on January 5, ideally with Pilaf as her date.
?Given the givens, [Bruce Willis] is in a very stable place at the moment,? says Demi Moore, who was previously married to him. ?It?s very difficult and not what I would wish upon anyone, and there is great loss ? but there?s also great beauty and gifts that can come out of it.? pic.twitter.com/SVOiDsg6Fj
Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) December 5, 2024
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| | Katie Holmes denies the story about Tom Cruise setting up a trust fund for Suri | | Added 2 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Suri Cruise turned 18 years old this year. After Katie Holmes divorced Tom Cruise, Katie and Suri lived full-time in New York, and Suri is fully a New Yorker. Suri is currently a freshman in college and from the looks of things, Katie and Suri are handling it pretty well. Katie has an empty nest, but Suri comes home often to visit her. Tom has had nothing to do with Suri or Katie since 2012. That?s when Katie and Tom divorced, and Katie negotiated a divorce settlement which set her & Suri up in New York. Katie still works, but I would imagine the divorce settlement has largely financed their lifestyles. In recent days, the Daily Mail has been trying to make one particular story happen: that Tom Cruise set up a multi-million-dollar trust fund for Suri and it kicked in when she turned 18. Well, Katie just denied it:
Katie Holmes is setting the record straight about her daughter Suri Cruises finances.
On Sunday, Dec. 8, Holmes, 45, shared a post on Instagram disputing a report from the Daily Mail that alleged that 18-year-old Suri had become a millionaire after her trust fund from her father Tom Cruise recently kicked in.
The outlet reported that a source said Suri gained access to her trust fund from the Top Gun: Maverick star, 62, in April when she turned 18, and that she has an additional trust fund from her mother.
Completely false, Holmes wrote over a screenshot of the article. Daily Mail you can stop making stuff up.
Enough, she added in the caption.
[From People]
For years, I?ve wondered about the terms of Katie and Tom?s divorce, specifically the financial aspect of it. In many divorces, the wealthier parent does have to provide some kind of trust or separate account specifically for the kid?s education/college. While Suri might not have a trust, I wonder if there?s been a separate account for her education? Of course, Katie and Tom settled the divorce so quickly, it also seems possible that Katie accepted a lump-sum settlement with the understanding that everything to do with Suri?s education needed to come from that divorce settlement money. Anyway, it?s interesting that Katie even bothered to deny this. Maybe Suri wanted her to say something.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Keira Knightley: The 'Love, Actually' cue card scene was quite creepy | | Added 2 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last week, I was on an international flight with a selection of Christmas movies that were free to watch. At one point, I got up to use the restroom and as I walked back to my seat, I saw that the entire economy section of the plane was basically watching three different movies: Home Alone 2, Love Actually, and The Holiday. The woman sitting diagonally across from me was watching Love Actually with subtitles on. I am one of those fliers who raw-dog the flight map while doing other things, which in my case, became reading the subtitles as that woman played Love Actually. Yes, I acknowledge that this is weird, but when you?re on a plane for eight-plus daytime hours, you have to do what you can to pass the time.
Anyway, while creeping on my flight neighbor?s screening of Love Actually, I watched the famous cue card scene. It comes out of nowhere but is meant to symbolize that unspoken love that one person has for someone who is completely uninterested in them. Even if you haven?t seen the movie, that particular scene has been mimicked tons of times, most famously in 2016, with Kate McKinnon playing Hillary Clinton trying to warn us about Donald Trump. While the scene may be well-known, the context has always been a point of debate. During an interview with Variety, Keira Knightley talked about filming the famous cue card scene. In her opinion, the whole thing was ?quite creepy.?
The Love Actually star?who played Juliet in the 2003 movie?shared that she had to re-shoot the Richard Curtis-directed Christmas classics iconic cue card scene with costar Andrew Lincoln (who played Mark) to make his grand gesture seem less stalker-ish for viewers.
?My memory is of Richard, who is now a very dear friend, of me doing the scene, and him going, ?No, you?re looking at [Andrew] like he?s creepy,? Keira told Variety in an interview published Dec. 6. And I?m like, ?But it is quite creepy.?
That?s why Keira changed up her facial expression to try to improve the scene, recalling that she continued by ?having to redo it to fix my face to make him seem not creepy.?
And while the moment?in which Mark shows up at the doorstep of Juliet, the wife of his best friend Peter (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), and confesses his love in hand-written cue cards?wound up becoming one of the most famous romantic scenes of the last two decades, the Oscar nominee still sees the clip as having a creep factor for another reason: She was only 17 years old when it was filmed.
?I knew I was 17, Keira explained. It only seems like a few years ago that everybody else realized I was 17.?
Of course, the Pride & Prejudice actress wasnt alone in admitting the scene could read as inappropriate. Last year, Richard?who wrote the movie in addition to directing?revealed that he views Marks confession as a bit weird now.
?We didn?t think it was a stalker scene, he told the Independent at the time. But if it?s interesting or funny for different reasons [now] then, you know, God bless our progressive world.?
And Keira isnt the only Love Actually star who wasnt head over heels for one of their iconic moments in the film. Hugh Grant, who played newly elected prime minster David Grant in the flick, shared that he wasnt thrilled to shoot his memorable celebratory dance to The Pointer Sisters song Jump (For My Love) after his character stood up to the U.S. president.
I saw it in the script, Grant said in 2022 for The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later ? A Diane Sawyer Special, and I thought, Well Ill hate doing that.'
[From Variety]
I honestly had no idea that Keira was only 17 when they filmed that movie. That fact alone is definitely creepy, and yeah, it makes an already questionable scene even weirder. It?s all well and romantic to watch a scene like that because we movie-goers already know that he?s ultimately harmless, but it could also have dangerous repercussions in the real world. Personally, I always thought that even though she knows and trusts him as her husband?s best friend, it was bonkers that Juliet runs after Mark to give him a kiss on the cheek.
Even then, I don?t think that?s the most problematic storyline in the movie because at least the characters were all supposed to be the same age with equal power dynamics. I take more of an issue with the Colin Firth and Hugh Grant storylines because of the power dynamics in play. The Emma Thompson/Alan Rickman (RIP) one involving the character Mia always felt like it was the most realistic while the John/Judy (Martin Freeman/Joanna Page) one always felt like the one to root for. Im basically so split on this movie overall! I know so many people still actually love (see what I did there?) the movie in general, so I dont want to yuck anyones yum. I just personally think that Love Actually is a product of its time. That said, it should have been a miniseries that could have fleshed out the characters to provide more context and feel less creepy.
Keira Knightley is shown earlier this month at the Black Doves premiere and in 2003 at the Love, Actually premiere. Photos credit: WENN/Avalon, Jeremy Kathrens/Avalon/Avalon, James Warren/Bang Showbiz/Avalon
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| | Taylor Swift's Eras Tour sold $2.077 billion in tickets & gave out $197 million in bonuses | | Added 2 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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For decades, ever since the birth of pop music really, it?s generally acknowledged that music stars are not making bank from selling their music, but rather from touring. Music sales are complicated and everyone gets a cut, especially nowadays in the Spotify/streaming era. An artist can be streamed tens of millions of times and they?re only making a small fraction of what they should earn. Tours are much more profitable and straightforward, organized by the artist and their team. Profitable not just from ticket sales, but from the ultra-lucrative merchandising. Well, I don?t know the exact breakdown, but Taylor Swift?s Eras Tour blew every record to smithereens, from ticket sales to merchandising.
For the last 21 months, Taylor Swift?s Eras Tour has been the biggest thing in music ? a phenomenon that has engulfed pop culture, dominated news coverage and boosted local economies around the world. Now we know exactly how big.
Through its 149th and final show, which took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Sunday, Swift?s tour sold a total of $2,077,618,725 in tickets. That?s two billion and change ? double the gross ticket sales of any other concert tour in history and an extraordinary new benchmark for a white-hot international concert business.
Those figures were confirmed to The New York Times for the first time by Taylor Swift Touring, the singer?s production company. While the financial details of the Eras Tour have been a subject of constant industry speculation since tickets were first offered more than two years ago ? through a presale so in-demand it crashed Ticketmaster?s system ? Swift has never authorized disclosure of the tour?s numbers until now.
The official results are not far from the estimates that trade journalists and industry analysts have been crunching for months. But they solidify the enormous scale of Swift?s accomplishment. Just a few months ago, Billboard magazine reported that Coldplay had set an industry record with $1 billion in ticket sales for its 156-date Music of the Spheres World Tour ? a figure that is just half of Swift?s total for a similar stretch of shows in stadiums and arenas.
According to Swift?s touring company, a total of 10,168,008 people attended the concerts, which means that, on average, each seat went for about $204. That is well above the industry average of $131 for the top 100 tours around the world in 2023, according to Pollstar, a trade publication. The biggest single night?s attendance was in Melbourne, Australia, on Feb. 16, 2024, with 96,006. And Swift?s eight nights at Wembley Stadium in London, which she played more than any other venue, drew 753,112 people ? about as many as live in Seattle.
As gigantic as they are, the figures revealed by Swift?s company are only part of the overall business that has surrounded the tour. They exclude her extraordinary merchandise sales, for example, a product line so in demand that Swift opened stadium sales booths a day early in some markets to sell T-shirts, hoodies and Christmas ornaments to fans, ticketed or not.
[From The NY Times]
?Phenomenon? gets thrown around a lot, but holy sh-t, the Eras Tour was a phenomenon, as is Taylor herself. Think about how she did this too she dropped Midnights as her relationship with Joe Alwyn was coming to a close, she announced the tour and the sales went through the roof, and she just committed nearly two full years of her life to all of this. AND she released another album in the middle of it, not to mention cycling through Matt Healy and starting up with Travis Kelce. It?s also amazing that Taylor had a great team around her and there were zero catastrophes. I mean, yeah, there was a terrorism threat in Europe and there were climate issues, but none of that was her fault or her team?s fault. Over $2 billion in ticket sales alone. Probably that much in merch sales too. Seriously, congrats to Taylor and her team.
Additionally, People Magazine had an exclusive about the bonuses Taylor hands out to her tour crew. It looks like Taylor?s touring production company decided to confirm a lot of news after her last Eras concert, right? People Mag says that Taylor ?gave out $197 million in bonuses to everyone working on her tour ? including truck drivers, caterers, instrument techs, merch team, lighting, sound, production staff and assistants, carpenters, dancers, band, security, choreographers, pyrotechnics, riggers, hair, make-up, wardrobe, physical therapists and video team.? So, she gave out bonuses which were just shy of 10% of the total ticket sales. Say there were 1000 people working to ensure the tour ran smoothly that?s roughly $200K per person just in bonuses, in addition to their salaries.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.
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| | Princess Kate's Christmas event sort of got overshadowed this year, right' | | Added 3 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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