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| | Resorts World lost money on Katy Perry's 'underperforming' Vegas residency | | Added 14 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Many years ago, the whole idea of an artist doing a Las Vegas residency was pretty much an announcement that the artist had given up and no longer had any cultural or musical relevance. That has changed significantly in the past twenty years, especially because so many top-tier musical talents would much rather have their fans come to them, rather than touring all over the world. Celine Dion, Adele, Britney Spears, Usher, Bette Midler, Cher, and on and on, they?ve all gotten paid huge sums for multi-year residencies in Vegas. Katy Perry did it too she had a three-year residency at Resorts World, a residency which ended last year. Apparently, no one in Las Vegas wants to ever see Katy again:
It?s a good thing Katy Perry is on the road ? because she no longer has a home in Las Vegas. The bubblegum popster had called the entertainment capital of the world her second home after sealing a residency deal at Resorts World for over three years, ending in 2024 ? and at first, hopes were high.
?There was a bidding war between Resorts World and Caesars ? and Caesars technically lost out ? but in the end, Caesars won,? a source said. ?The residency was a disaster for Resorts World, a complete failure.?
The source added, ?Katy was getting paid between $750,000 and $900,000 a show because of the bidding war and the entire run she underperformed and Resorts World lost money.?
While Perry does have a show planned for Vegas in this tour, it?s considered a one-off. Not a coveted residency, which my source says won?t happen again. The pop singer had a failed album last year, was the center of ridicule after the Blue Origin space flight and her tour has had lagging sales ? none of which has endeared her to any future Vegas endeavors.
?At the end of the day, Caesar?s won by losing the (Perry) residency,? the source added. ?No one wants to lose money like that in Vegas.?
[From NewsNation]
It feels like a national pastime at this point, dunking on Katy Perry. But some of it is deserved. Maybe most of it is deserved. Katy had an excellent run, hit after hit, she was a one-woman pop factory. But something really shifted the culture shifted away from Katy, as she tried to churn out the same old stuff with the same old problematic producers. There are plenty of pop stars who figure out what?s next after their audience grows up and grows out of their music. Katy isn?t one of them. Anyway, this NewsNation piece feels like a much-delayed gloat from Caesar?s because they lost their bid. It?s also worth pointing out that with artists? residencies, it?s not purely about ticket sales it?s about getting people to travel to Vegas and getting them to gamble at the casino. You can?t judge any residency purely on ticket sales.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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| | Paris Hilton's pizza 'life hack' is wiping the grease right on the box: nope' | | Added 14 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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There are some evergreen debates involving pizza. For example, is thin crust NY pizza is better than Chicago?s deep dish style? (I know you New Haven natives are all about your style, too!) Do you eat it folded or unfolded? Does pineapple have any business being a topping? Do you blot the grease off before eating it? On that last topic, one thing that I?ve never heard enter any great pizza debate is how you remove pizza grease. Using a napkin/paper towel or letting it drip off seem like straight-forward, universal methods to me. Well, Paris Hilton is here to introduce a new way to remove pizza grease: wiping it off on top of the box itself. She even posted a video of her doing just that to her TikTok. (You can watch that below.)
Paris Hilton just dropped a food take that?s decidedly not ?hot.?
In a TikTok video posted on Monday ? in which the heiress appears outdoors, bathed in sunlight and sparkle and surrounded by numerous pizza boxes ? she shares a ?life hack? that sits slightly outside the culinary norm.
As most know, pizza can be on the greasy side. While many opt for the classic napkin-blotting approach, Hilton takes a more unconventional route ? by blotting her pizza on the box itself.
?That?s my trick,? she says in the video while placing her slice directly on top of the box to absorb the excess grease.
?This is the content that people want,? someone can be heard saying in the background.
Some commenters praised Hilton?s ?ingenuity,? if not without a hint of sarcasm, declaring, ?Napkins are overrated.? Others were quick to defend traditional grease management, reminding her that napkins do, in fact, still exist.
After demonstrating her peculiar technique, the heiress broke into a celebratory shimmy, enjoying what one can only assume was a slightly less greasy slice of pizza.
Hilton wrote in the video?s caption, ?I?m full of #Sliving tips,? a nod to her signature quote that blends ?slaying? and ?living? (your best life) ? though a germaphobe may have some reservations about her methods.
[From HuffPo]
First things first: I have to say that this sure is some outside the box thinking! (I?ll see myself out in just a minute, thankyouverymuch.) Terrible jokes aside, I don?t even know what to say here. Actually, yes I do. That?s not hot at all. I mean, I get wiping it off. I actually do not mind pizza grease at all, but eating greasy pizza is a young person?s game. However, this is something that one of my kids would try doing because they were too lazy to get a napkin. I guess it?s a life hack if you don?t have a napkin, paper towel, or anything else handy, but you have no idea where that pizza box has been and whose germs are on it. Overall, this gets a whole lot of nope from me. Also, for the record, NY thin crust pizza is way better than deep dish any day of the week. I said what I said.
Paris Hilton wipes her pizza grease right on the box pic.twitter.com/E8sa3oJLfk
celebitchy (@celebitchy) May 23, 2025
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| | Michelle Williams and Busy Philipps got teary remembering how they first met | | Added 18 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In our previous coverage of Michelle Williams and Busy Philipps (re)declaring their love for each other, I lamented that E! pulled the plug on Busy Tonight. Silly me, I was blanking on the fact that Busy has taken her talents where they?re appreciated, to QVC+, where she now hosts Busy This Week. (A name like ?Busy? all but begs to be a talk show host.) So naturally Busy had her bestie Michelle on, who?s still promoting Dying for Sex, the FX series that is itself a love letter to best friendships. (Sidenote: I always loved Michelle in the pixie haircut, but I gotta say she is really rocking the hot do of the season, the c-nty little bob.) In one clip from the episode, Michelle and Busy get teary as they recall meeting on the set of Dawson?s Creek. Busy had a profound moment of feeling truly seen, while Michelle had a sleeve of Fig Newtons in hand.
Busy Philipps and Michelle Williams clicked instantaneously on the Dawson?s Creek set.
In an exclusive sneak peek of Philipps? QVC+ late-night talk show, Busy This Week, the actresses recall how immediately they connected in North Carolina more than 25 years ago.
In the chat, Philipps, 45, confesses that she was nervous to join the hit series. Philipps joined during season 5 in 2001, as Joey?s (Katie Holmes) college roommate, and though she didn?t yet know Williams, they ?had heard of each other.?
?I had gotten added to the cast for the college years, and I remember being very, very nervous, and the first person I met was James [Van Der Beek],? Philipps recalls, before she notes that Williams, now 44, was crossing the street from a local market with a sleeve of Fig Newtons in hand at the time.
As the two reminisced over the specific detail of their meeting, Philipps quickly adds that she knew why she loved Williams ?immediately.?
?I?m gonna cry,? Philipps tearfully begins. ?Because I just felt like you got it. You just understood me.?
?I feel like ? oh no, I?m gonna cry ? my entire life I?ve always been like, misunderstood and prejudged by people,? she continues. ?And for whatever reason, you just instantly were like, ?I got you.??
Williams interjects to say, ?I loved you.?
?You really did,? Philipps says. ?That?s what it was,? Williams confirms.
?I really loved you, too,? Philipps adds. ?And the Fig Newtons in your hand, that was really nice.?
Philipps then confesses that they ?used to cry so much together.? Noting, ?But now you don?t let me cry as much, and you don?t cry as much. Do you want to tell them why??
?Because it?s the delicate under-eye area,? Williams cheekily replies, with Philipps adding, ?Because, you guys, under your eyes is a very delicate area and we can?t risk it.?
?I?ll tell you to stop,? Williams says before quoting herself, ??Don?t ruin the delicate under-eye area, it?s not worth it.??
[From People]
It?s fun to hear Michelle making the quip about protecting the ?delicate under-eye area,? given how she?s usually painted as the more serious one between the two. As for their retelling of that fateful meeting, People Mag didn?t excerpt the question Busy asks that starts off the whole conversation: ?Why do you think we had this instant connection when I showed up?? I bring this up because in watching the clip, I couldn?t help but notice how Busy asks the question? then pretty much answers it all herself. Michelle does very little of the talking! And I feel like the core question ? why they connected so strongly ? isn?t even really answered! Michelle just says, ?I loved you,? without any further explanation or context. Meanwhile Busy?s description of what she loved about Michelle, isn?t so much about Michelle as it is Busy, right? Don?t get me wrong, feeling seen and understood is very powerful. But I?m always fascinated when people give thanks or tributes to someone else, yet really end up talking about themselves instead. No question that the love between them is genuine and deep, but they are an odd couple! And Michelle agrees, as that?s the exact term she used to describe them in her recent Armchair Expert interview.
Another fun clip making the rounds is the pair talking about that crazy debacle at the 2017 Oscars, when La La Land was mistakenly announced Best Picture before producers stepped in to name the real winner, Moonlight. While everything was still awkward and unresolved, Busy apparently heckled Ben Affleck to ?Do Something!? Why? She thought he could fix it because he was Batman! Even funnier to me was Michelle dryly replying, ?He could not.?
Photos credit: PacificCoastNews/Avalon, Sara De Boer/startraksphoto.com, BauerGriffin/INSTARimages.com/Cover Images, David Acosta/Image Press Agency/Image Press Agency/Avalon, jpistudios.com/JPI Studios/Avalon
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| | Jodie Foster: Young actors just want to act, they don't care about scripts or quality | | Added 18 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Jodie Foster was in Cannes to premiere her latest starring role in Vie Prive, which screened out-of-competition. Jodie is fluent in French, and this film saw her acting and performing in French in a French production. Jodie has come back to acting in a bigger way in recent years, after largely taking a hiatus from Hollywood to raise her sons. But she loved this script, and she was especially chatty in Cannes. Some highlights from her Variety interview:
Doing a French movie, acting in French: ?I?ve been wanting to go back and do a French movie, because I haven?t done one in a long time. For me, it?s always about trying to find the right piece of material. I didn?t want to do some overblown American and French co-production. As an actor, I need a story. And a lot of French movies, which I love, are behavior films where you just sort of follow people around for three days or something. That?s not what I do. I?m interested in narrative?It is fun [to act in French]. Acting in French was helpful, because I?m a different person in French than I am in English. I have a more vulnerable way about me. I?m less confident, not as sure of myself, which I think is more fun.
She?s fascinated by young actors today: ?When I was a kid, I worked so much that by the time that I was 18, I needed to take a different approach. I see a lot of young actors, and I?m not saying I?m jealous, but I don?t understand how they just want to act. They don?t care if the movie?s bad. They don?t care if the dialogue is bad. They don?t care if they?re a grape in a Fruit of the Loom ad. If I never acted again, I wouldn?t really care. I really like to be a vessel for story or cinema. If I could do something else, if I was a writer or a painter or sculptor, that would be good too. But this is the only skill I have.
On Nicole Kidman pledging to work with so many female directors & actually doing it: ?Wait, what? [Foster bangs the side of the couch she?s sitting on]. That?s incredible. She?s always working! I?ve watched things change a lot. When I started acting, the only woman I ever saw on set was a makeup artist or script supervisor. Then I started seeing some more female technicians. But the last bastion has always been directors. When I decided to direct, I was lucky. The people that made decisions knew me, so they didn?t consider me a risk as a first-time director. But as an actor, before my last three projects, I only had made one movie with a woman director. That?s over 50 years.
Whether she would make a similar pledge to work with female directors: ?It?s hard for me to be in the business of saying, half my movies are going to be made by women or men or whatever. Shouldn?t it be a more instinctual choice? You would hope that you?d be interested in the human being. I mean, Jonathan Demme on ?Silence of the Lambs? was my favorite feminist director. That said, I think some sort of quota system is important when it comes to giving first-time filmmakers an opportunity. You need to start the process early so we all get the same opportunities.
What happened after she turned 60: ?Something happens at 60. There?s a hormone that gets injected in your body, and suddenly you?re like, ?Oh, I don?t care.? This all coincided with me getting really excited about helping to tell other people?s stories and to elevate voices that hadn?t been heard before. So with ?The Mauritanian,? I was in that movie so I could tell Tahar Rahim?s story, not my character?s story. With ?True Detective,? I wanted to engineer my part so it served the indigenous characters? story. I want to bring whatever wisdom or experience or money or status I have as an actor to help with that. I got to tell my story, it?s someone else?s turn. And that?s much more fun. Who knew being a part of a community was so much more rewarding than being the person that has to open the movie on 1,500 screens?
The IDGAF Era: ?My 50s were hard for me. It?s hard to embrace the transition. You feel like you?re a worse version of who you were. But something happened a few years ago. I woke up one day and was like, ?I don?t care about any of the things that I cared about before. I?m gonna go down a different path.? Your kids grow up, your parents pass away, maybe you get divorced. Those life changes are shattering. But there?s a freedom that comes with that. As painful as it is to lose this other identity of being a dutiful mother or daughter or wife, you can also be like, it?s just me now.?
[From Variety]
This is an amazing observation from an older actor: ?I see a lot of young actors, and I?m not saying I?m jealous, but I don?t understand how they just want to act. They don?t care if the movie?s bad. They don?t care if the dialogue is bad.? It?s true in the sense that a lot of actors especially non-nepo babies who have really struggled in the industry are just happy when they get a job, any job. They just want to book jobs and keep it moving. Jodie doesn?t get it because she was working with Martin Scorsese when she was 12 years old, you know? But I also think Jodie should acknowledge that a lot of the younger actors don?t care about quality anymore, and there?s been such a realignment where? the youths don?t give a sh-t about working with auteurs or finding great scripts. They don?t have the patience or the money to wait for a ?good? project.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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