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| | Lori Loughlin 'felt that she hadn't done anything that any mom wouldn't have done' | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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All week, we?ve been talking about how Lori Loughlin lives in denial about her circumstances. She truly thought she could peddle her churchy Hallmark crap to federal prosecutors and the media and nothing would happen to her. She rejected a plea deal that would have gotten her a two year prison sentence, only to then get indicted for additional crimes. It?s clear that the federal prosecutors have more than enough evidence. It?s also clear that Lori has been workshopping her trial defense for weeks she?s just a Jesus-loving white mom who does yoga and Pilates, just like you. She only spent $500,000 cheating her daughters into college because EVERY parent would do that for their kids, right?
For the last month, Lori Loughlin has grappled with the charges against her in the high-profile college admissions cheating scandal, a source close to the actress tells PEOPLE.
?It?s just taking some time for it to sink in that what she was allegedly doing could be considered illegal,? says the source. ?To her, it wasn?t egregious behavior. Was it entitled and perhaps selfish? Perhaps. But she didn?t see it as being a legal violation. From the beginning, she didn?t want to take a deal, because she felt that she hadn?t done anything that any mom wouldn?t have done, if they had the means to do so,? the source continues. ?So this wasn?t her being obstinate; this was her truly not understanding the seriousness of the allegations.?
Now things are beginning to sink in for the actress, the source says. ?She?s trying to decide what is the best move for her,? says the source. ?She has no desire to prolong this for anyone, but she still believes that she deserves a fair outcome. Obviously, the deal, if any, will be different than if she had taken a deal a week ago [before the latest charge],? the source continues. ?She?s a smart woman and she realizes that. But she is amenable to discussing how to put this behind everyone now. She?s ready for this to go away.?
[From People]
The repetition of ?she?s ready for this to go away? in several stories this week makes me think that Lori really and truly does not understand the fact that she could go to prison for two decades. She thinks she can wave this away like a bad bottle of Chardonnay. She thinks it?s just a matter of calling in the right favors from the right connections. She might even be right Lori and Mossimo are allegedly hadcore Republicans, and I?m sure they?ve donated money to powerful people in the government. Maybe a discreet call to some ally at DOJ? Who knows. I?d like to believe that wouldn?t work, but in Trumplandia, anything is possible.
Also: ?To her, it wasn?t egregious behavior. Was it entitled and perhaps selfish? Perhaps. But she didn?t see it as being a legal violation? she felt that she hadn?t done anything that any mom wouldn?t have done, if they had the means to do so.? Again, I truly hope that parents like Lori Loughlin are the minority. The idea of it is so foreign to me, the idea that my parents would have thought so little of my education that they would buy my way into college. My dad (an Indian immigrant/highly educated engineer) and my mom (a public school teacher) always took the educators? side in any school issue. If I had bad grades (and a bad grade was a B in my house), it was because I wasn?t working hard enough, not because of the school or the teachers.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Hugh Jackman talks having to adjust to his children as they became teenagers | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Yesterday marked the 23rd wedding anniversary for Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness. They usually do some touching tribute and I generally cover it, but God knows who might have shown up to congratulate them so I felt it best to leave it alone. Instead, I thought we could talk about Jackman?s comments on adjusting to his kids becoming teenagers because that?s something I can relate to. Jackman has two kids, Oscar is 18 and Ava is 13. (I can?t believe Oscar is graduating from high school!)
On how parenting changed: My son is about to leave high school, and my daughter is about to go into high school. It?s amazing to just have conversations with them. But it took a bit of readjusting. It went from ?Hey, guys, these are the rules, we don?t do that,? to having to give them reasons why.
On watching movies: It?s nice to go to the movies and see something you both want to see. It?s no longer ?Oh good, let?s watch Shrek for the 120th time.? I mean, I love Shrek but not 120 times.
On what being a dad has taught him: When your focus is innately, deeply, one hundred percent become these kids in your life and their well being it just seems to put everything into perspective. Being a father has taught me so much.
[From People]
My kids are a little younger (14 and 12) but I get his comments here. I guess I?ve adjusted too, but it?s such a welcome adjustment that I see it almost as a reward for surviving their childhood. Yes, there is moodiness and the drah-mah! but in total, I like having teenagers so much better than little kids. I absolutely adore the conversations, even if it is them negotiating a rule or defending something they did. They?re fascinating and I love when they give me a thoughtful response (even if the answer?s still no).
The movie thing is a mixed bag. I do get to see a better variety but I?ve also missed a couple I wanted to see in theaters because my kids asked me to wait for them and we couldn?t coordinate our schedules. Jackman?s animated film, Missing Link, opens today so I?ll bet he?s praying some poor schlub out there will be forced to the theater to see it 120 times, though. But yeah, I can still recite Finding Nemo by heart. We all have limits, no matter how much we enjoyed the film.
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| | Scarlett Johansson speaks out after paparazzi harassment | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Scarlett Johansson is ticked off and I don?t blame her. Apparently, after her appearance with Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth and Paul Rudd on Jimmy Kimmel the other night, a barrage of paparazzi overcame her security team and chased her to a police station as she sought refuge. LAPD confirmed that Scarlett and her team were taken to the Hollywood station for security reasons but that no official crime report was taken. LAPD also confirmed the incident left Scarlett spooked. Now, Scarlett is making it clear that she was chased down and that its not right.
Scarlett Johansson is offering a response after her security team was overpowered by paparazzi on Monday.
The paparazzi consistently go to increasingly dangerous lengths to stalk and harass the people they are photographing, she wrote in a statement obtained by ET. Even after Princess Diana?s tragic death, the laws were never changed to protect targets from the lawless paparazzi. Many paparazzi have criminal pasts and will perform criminal acts to get their shot.
Yesterday, after leaving the Jimmy Kimmel Show, I was followed by 5 cars full of men with blacked out windows who were running red lights and putting other drivers and pedestrians at risk so they could follow me to find out where I was staying and subsequently stalk me and my young daughter for the duration of my stay, she continued.
The paparazzi put peoples live at risk, so they can wait for days in quiet neighborhoods in blacked out cars, and try to follow me to the playground and photograph my child and other people?s children in a safe place that should be off limits, but isn?t, the 34-year-old actress added. All of this is perfectly legal. After yesterday?s incident, I felt it was my duty as a concerned citizen who was being pursued dangerously and stalked to go to the local precinct and seek guidance there. I would encourage others in a similar situation to go to the police.
Women across the US are stalked, harassed and frightened and a universal law to address stalking must be at the forefront of law enforcement conversations. Until paparazzi are considered by the law for the criminal stalkers they are, it?s just a waiting game before another person gets seriously injured or killed, like Princess Diana, she concluded.
[From ET]
Much like Hilary Duff?s experience with a paparazzo following her for hours while she was still pregnant, I find Scarlett?s descriptions of how the paparazzi tail her and her daughter horrifying. I can?t even imagine how aggressive these guys must have been to overpower her security team. If they were running red lights and driving unsafely, I?m not sure why a crime report couldn?t be filed. Kimmel?s stage door is a well-known photo spot, what shot were they looking for that required five cars giving chase? These actors are everywhere during Avengers promotion, we know this from past promotions. I wonder if the male actors there that night had similar experiences. As Scarlett mentioned, women are constantly stalked but we really don?t hear these harrowing accounts for men.
I?m curious about Scarlett?s comment that most paparazzi are criminals. I can?t find anything to confirm that. I do agree that much of their behavior should fall under harassment laws. And then there?s plain old common decency, like not chasing a person down the street in a car or trying to photograph someone with cancer after a chemo treatment or, again, stalking a pregnant woman. Im glad she encouraged others to go to the police. If there are enough reports, maybe changes will happen.
Photo cedit: WENN Photos
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