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| | Donald Trump's second inauguration drew pathetic TV viewership, sad! | | Added 8 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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When Donald Trump moved his second inaugural indoors, it was a two-for-one joke. One, the bigly macho man was scared of some chilly weather. Two, everyone knew that if the inaugural had gone ahead outdoors, the crowd would have been sparse and sad, and Trump would have looked like a giant loser. So he forced everyone into the Capitol Rotunda for the inauguration and he still managed to get a pathetic crowd size, this time in television viewership.
President Donald Trump?s inauguration numbers are in, and the notoriously ratings-obsessed president isn?t going to be happy. Early figures suggest that Monday?s proceedings, which were moved indoors due to frigid weather, took hefty dive?more than a third, according to Nielsen figures?in comparison to Joe Biden?s 2021 inauguration.
Nielsen found that ratings across ABC, CBS and NBC?s coverage of Trump?s swearing in as 47th president on Monday hovered around 26.05 million viewers on average from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m (ET), reported The Hollywood Reporter. According to Nielsen?s ratings, viewership for the two previous inaugurations?which includes Trump?s first term?fared much better. About 32 percent, to be exact.
Around 39.87 million people tuned in to watch Biden take the oath of office in 2021. A hair behind Biden, Trump?s first inauguration in 2017 pulled in an average 38.35 million viewers. However, THR reported that viewership then was measured from 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. (ET).
In terms of where audiences tuned in to watch the presidential fanfare, Fox News overwhelming held the most viewership. During the 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. window, Fox peaked at around 10.59 million viewers, just behind its coverage for Trump?s first swearing in.
Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all had significantly fewer viewers for their second entries into the White House, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
[From The Daily Beast]
As I said before, I didn?t watch either of Trump?s inaugurals. I only watched the Carrie Underwood video and I looked through the photos, which is when I was surprised to see that Trump couldn?t manage to put his tiny hand on the bible for his oath of office. What?s up with MAGAville though? Why aren?t they celebrating? Why didn?t they tune in to watch this sh-thead? Why does it feel like, post-election, the people who voted for the Leopards-Eating-Faces Party are actually really mad?
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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| | Princess Kate 'has drawn a line under the last year, and she can move forward' | | Added 8 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The revival of the ?Duchess Meghan bullies staffers? smear reminded me that we?ve yet to hear one concrete, specific, on-the-record story about exactly what Meghan said or did which drove staffers into a spiral of doom. The stories about Meghan are always purposefully vague, just ?she made me feel this way? or ?this is how she seems, because I?m projecting all of my insecurities onto her.? I bring up the Meghan stuff because vague is the name of the game when it comes to the Princess of Wales?s medical issues. Kate speaks in riddles and platitudes, like she?s trying to recite some half-remembered, barely read pamphlet for cancer patients. Kate?s staffers speak similarly, because I guess they feel like they can half-ass it and no one will ask follow-up questions. Kate covers this week?s People Magazine, and it?s all about ?her life in remission.? The quotes absolutely came from a Kensington Palace briefing.
Kate Middleton is turning the page to a new chapter in remission. The Princess of Wales, 43, is focused on the future after releasing a statement on Jan. 14 sharing her relief to now be in remission after undergoing treatment for cancer last year.
She has drawn a line under the last year, and she can move forward, a close royal insider tells PEOPLE in this weeks exclusive cover story. The word remission is such a positive one to use, and it just feels a veil has been lifted on their life of the last year, and that they can move forward with positivity and hope.
A source close to the royal household tells PEOPLE, It has been a tough journey ? harder than we perhaps thought. She has been through a lot, and it has been a rough road. Serious illness like cancer does change you. She has a young family, and it makes you rethink everything?your purpose and what you want to do with your life.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, who are proud parents to Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6, are now focused on settling into their new normal.
?For the princess, family ? her husband and children ? are more important than anything else,? the close royal insider says.
According to royal sources, Kates new normal wont involve a dramatic reset. Instead, she plans to maintain a similar pace of royal engagements to what she embraced in late 2024. Highlighting her steady and gradual approach, her visit to The Royal Marsden marked her first solo engagement since 2023.
[From People]
I don?t want to give these people any ideas, but I?m surprised that KP hasn?t told everyone that Kate?s Christian faith has grown stronger because of this medical ordeal, that she is now even more humble in her faith and recommitted to Christian charity. They can?t do that though William apparently despises going to church, and Kate considers church visits part of her ?work? to be avoided. ?She plans to maintain a similar pace of royal engagements to what she embraced in late 2024.? We?ll see her maybe three times in the next five months? But you have to remember, the Invictus Games are coming up (Feb 8-16), and Meghan?s show comes out in early March. Ten bucks says that Kate will be pushed out during Invictus AND in early March. Poor sausage.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, cover courtesy of People.
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| | Justin Baldoni released 'IEWU' raw footage of one of the scenes in Blake Lively's suit | | Added 8 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively are still furiously duking it out publicly, even though all of their drama is now part of multiple lawsuits. Last week, Baldoni finally sued Blake directly, as well as Ryan Reynolds and Lively and Reynolds? publicist Leslie Sloane. This was after Baldoni sued the New York Times on New Year?s Eve, and after Blake Lively got everything going just before Christmas with a complaint to the California Civil Rights Department and then a lawsuit. In my opinion, the strength of Baldoni?s lawsuit is providing context and details around some of Blake?s claims. In the court of public opinion, he has (in my opinion) successfully shown that Blake has exaggerated and misrepresented certain events and situations. How it will all pan out in court, I have no idea.
Baldoni?s lawsuit also featured a treasure trove of written communications between Baldoni and Lively, as well as some comms between Baldoni and his Wayfarer team about Blake. Baldoni?s legal team now says that they?re launching a website to publish all of those communications so that people can read everything and decide for themselves. His lawyers told People: ?Justin Baldoni and team has nothing to hide and this once more proves this. [Baldoni and his co-plantiffs] have the right to defend themselves with the truth. This is what we will be continuing to show with the upcoming website containing all correspondence as well as relevant videos that quash her claims.?
In addition to the promised website, Baldoni released the raw footage of one of the scenes in question in Lively?s lawsuit, where Lively and Baldoni?s characters were supposed to be slow-dancing at a bar. In Lively?s suit, she claims this is where Baldoni behaved inappropriately, ?[Baldoni] leaned forward and slowly dragged his lips from her ear and down her neck as he said, ?it smells so good.?
Baldoni?s version of what this footage shows is that he and Blake both know they?re filming it for a ?falling in love? montage without any dialogue and that Baldoni was in character, trying to act like he was falling in love, period. Lively?s response to Baldoni releasing the footage? Her team made this statement to TMZ:
Justin Baldoni and his lawyer may hope that this latest stunt will get ahead of the damaging evidence against him, but the video itself is damning. Every frame of the released footage corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Lively described in Paragraph 48 of her Complaint.
The video shows Mr. Baldoni repeatedly leaning in toward Ms. Lively, attempting to kiss her, kissing her forehead, rubbing his face and mouth against her neck, flicking her lip with his thumb, caressing her, telling her how good she smells, and talking with her out of character.
Every moment of this was improvised by Mr. Baldoni with no discussion or consent in advance, and no intimacy coordinator present. Mr. Baldoni was not only Ms. Lively?s co-star, but the director, the head of studio and Ms. Lively?s boss.
Blake leaning away from Justin in the scene was not acting, according to her lawyers. They say, The video shows Ms. Lively leaning away and repeatedly asking for the characters to just talk. Any woman who has been inappropriately touched in the workplace will recognize Ms. Lively?s discomfort. They will recognize her attempts at levity to try to deflect the unwanted touching. No woman should have to take defensive measures to avoid being touched by their employer without their consent.
[From TMZ]
They were both speaking out of character within the scene, for what it?s worth. He was trying to ?act? but then she spoke to him out of character, so he was directing her within the scene and she was legitimately pulling away out of discomfort. There was an intimacy coordinator working on the film as well Lively mostly blew off those meetings, which meant that Baldoni had to speak to the intimacy coordinator solo and communicate the IC?s suggestions to Blake. What a mess.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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