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| | Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from Ben Affleck on their second anniversary | | Added 316 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck. She filed on their second wedding anniversary of their second wedding. In the summer of 2022, J.Lo and Ben first ?eloped? in Las Vegas in July, then they had a second wedding at Ben?s estate in Georgia on August 20, 2022. Two years later, Jennifer pulled the plug after waiting until Ben and Jennifer Garner moved Violet into her freshman dorm at Yale, which happened last weekend.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are calling it quits ? again. On Tuesday, Aug. 20, Lopez, 55, filed for divorce from Affleck, 52, more than two years after the couple married in July 2022, multiple sources confirmed to PEOPLE. TMZ first reported the news.
Lopez filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court and listed April 26, 2024 as the date of separation. She filed for divorce herself without using a lawyer and is technically self-represented. Although they married in Las Vegas on July 17, 2022, Aug. 20 marked the second anniversary of the traditional wedding ceremony in Georgia.
The singer did not say if there was a prenuptial agreement, and sources told TMZ there is none.
She tried really hard to make things work, and is heartbroken, a source tells PEOPLE of Lopez. ?The kids are a top priority, as they always have been.?
[From People]
Yeah, TMZ?s reporting says there?s no prenup and J.Lo filed pro per (without a lawyer). She listed the date of separation as April 26, 2024. Which checks out in February, Jennifer did the big rollout for her album (This Is Me? Now), plus the musical film and documentary, The Greatest Love Story Never Told. Ben supported her through that promotional blitz but you could tell that he was checked out of the marriage, especially given that the documentary revealed that J.Lo shared all of Ben?s love letters to her friends, music producers and songwriters. By May of this year, that?s when In Touch Weekly was the first to report that Jennifer and Ben had separated. Looks like that report was right on the money. Sigh? I wish this had turned out differently. I?m sad about this.
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| | Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner helped Violet move into her Yale dorm | | Added 317 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Ben Affleck celebrated his 52nd birthday last Thursday. While there were photos of Jennifer Garner stopping by his house on his birthday, many of us believed that his current wife, Jennifer Lopez, avoided her Leo husband on his birthday (the same way he avoided her on her birthday). But no, it turns out that J.Lo did stop by his house for a small family birthday party:
Ben Affleck celebrated his birthday exactly how he wanted. A source tells PEOPLE the actor marked his 52nd birthday on Thursday, Aug. 15 with a small birthday celebration at home with his kids.
Its exactly what he wanted. He didnt want to go out to celebrate. The kids had gifts for him, and it was cute, says the source. Jennifer [Lopez] stopped by to congratulate him.
Affleck is a parent to kids Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12, with his ex-wife Jennifer Garner, who was spotted visiting the actors rental home in Brentwood, Calif., earlier in the day, according to photos obtained by Page Six. Lopez, 55, was spotted departing Afflecks rental home hours after Garners visit in photos obtained by The Daily Mail.
The kids were with Ben for most of the day. He didnt leave the house at all for his birthday, the insider says.
[From People]
That is a very dad thing, to not want to do anything for their birthday besides sit in their chair and eat, and have their kids around. Dads don?t want to go to Chili?s or Nobu. They want their kids to bring them takeout and gifts. They want to watch a dad movie with their kids too. I?m glad Ben got the day he wanted. Meanwhile, after that, Ben and J-Garner flew to Connecticut with all of their kids. Because Violet is going to Yale, and the whole family came together to move Violet into her dorm. People Mag had a story about that too:
Ben Affleck is busy helping his daughter Violet prepare for college. The actor marked his 52nd birthday on Aug. 15 and has been under heightened public scrutiny over the state of his marriage with Jennifer Lopez.
However, Affleck has been very focused on getting Violet ready for move-in, a source tells PEOPLE. The 18-year-old, eldest of the three kids he shares with ex-wife Jennifer Garner, is starting classes soon at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
It?s, of course, a huge deal for the whole family, and they?ve all been so excited the last few weeks, the source adds.
[From People]
Personally, I don?t think it?s some big deal that J.Lo was not invited to Violet?s move-in at Yale. They wanted to keep it for the immediate family, and it doesn?t look like Garner invited her partner/boyfriend either. I also think that Ben is trying to tell people that he hasn?t been focused on his marriage drama in recent months because he was more focused on his oldest leaving home. Now that Violet is off to college, will Ben file for divorce? Hm.
Also: Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk were also in New Haven over the weekend, because Brad?s son Brody is also a Yale freshman. So in this case, the freshman?s stepmother was invited to his move-in? Apparently. Gwyneth?s son Moses will be a freshman at Brown this year too I guess Brown?s move-in day/week is after Yale?s?
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| | Halle Berry has filed for sole custody of Maceo, her son with Olivier Martinez | | Added 318 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A few weeks ago, Halle Berry filed an emergency motion in family court. The motion was complicated since Halle and Olivier Martinez got a divorce, they?re both supposed to undergo coparenting coaching sessions to help them raise their son Maceo. Olivier was skipping his sessions because he wanted to take the summer off and travel back to France for a time. Halle seemingly took advantage of Olivier being out of town to file that ?emergency motion,? and the family court was like? this is not an emergency. But Halle is going to do her thing, and I knew something bigger was coming. Here we go? Halle has now filed for sole custody of Maceo.
Halle Berry is seeking sole custody of her son, Maceo, claiming that his father, Oliver Martinez, refuses to co-parent or communicate in a child-centered way.
Weeks after The Union actress, 58, alleged that her ex-husband, also 58, failed to continue seeing a co-parenting coach ? and after a source told PEOPLE that co-parenting hasnt been easy for the former spouses ? Berry filed a request for sole legal custody of their 10-year-old son on Friday, Aug. 16. Per legal documents obtained by PEOPLE, Berry is requesting custody, ?or in the alternative, tie-breaking authority to make all decisions? about his education, health and therapy needs.
The documents, filed in the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles County, arrive a year after they finalized their divorce, nearly eight years after their 2015 split. At the time, they agreed to share joint legal custody of their son, with Berry paying Martinez $8,000 a month in child support and an additional 4.3% of any income she receives above $2,000,000.
In the latest filing, Berry claims shes made an effort to address her sons educational challenges and additional behavioral concerns as she fought for tutoring, an educational assessment and finding an environment that was suitable to Maceo?s needs. The filing alleges that Martinez, however, has been oppositional, unmoving and withheld his consent for years.
Because of Respondent?s opposition to any interventions whatsoever for years and because of Respondent?s prioritizing soccer activities over Maceo?s educational and psychological well-being, Maceo?s educational and behavioral challenges worsened, and he continued to fall further behind in school, the document alleges. Specifically, Berry claims that Maceo would act out toward her following longer periods of custody with his father and that her son would repeat disputes that the former couple had in private. She alleges that Martinez claimed the boy was old enough to make his own decisions.
A lawyer for Martinez told PEOPLE that he will be responding to these allegations in the coming weeks. A representative and a lawyer for Berry did not respond to PEOPLEs requests for comment.
[From People]
It sounds like Maceo has some special needs and instead of Olivier and Halle coming to an agreement about their son?s education and priorities, Olivier is the devil-may-care father who lets Maceo do whatever he wants while Halle has to play bad cop. I mean, this is Halle?s narrative. I wonder what Olivier?s narrative will be. To think that they managed to keep it together long enough to complete their divorce over the course of eight years, only for Halle to challenge the custody agreement one year after their divorce was finalized.
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| | Sony fully supports Blake Lively after she screened 'IEWU: The Lively Cut' in Texas | | Added 320 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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What does this Blake Lively stuff remind you of? For me, it?s sort of like the Hilaria Baldwin stuff in late 2020 and early 2021 suddenly, people were going back through all of Hilaria?s old interviews and doing deep dives on all of the Hilaria-was-never-Spanish lore. While Blake Lively never lied about being ?from Spain,? there is a similar deep-dive into the gossip history around Blake. Like? what was up with Blake and Leighton Meester on Gossip Girl? They apparently didn?t get along at all towards the latter part of the series, so much so they the would barely even speak to each other. The Mail is on the case go here to read.
Meanwhile, the current Blake situation is that we still don?t know exactly what went down between Blake, Justin Baldoni and the cast of It Ends With Us. Many people around the production maintain this idea that Baldoni and Lively?s larger falling out happened in postproduction, especially when Blake brought in her own editor to create IEWU: The Lively Cut. It was also clear (to me) that Team Blake had already started an increasingly loud whisper campaign about Baldoni, one which scared him enough to hire a crisis management team this week. Well, speaking of all of that, the Hollywood Reporter has an interesting piece about the studio giving a lot of full-throated support for Blake, especially after she screened IEWU: The Lively Cut to Colleen Hoover?s groupies in Texas in June.
In mid-June, star-producer Blake Lively traveled to Dallas to attend author Colleen Hoover?s Book Bonanza for a Q&A in the lead-up to the August release It Ends With Us. Lively surprised the 2,000-plus attendees when she announced they could screen a rough cut of the movie adaptation the following night. The screening of the movie ? the first of Hoover?s popular novels to hit the screen ? proved to be a stroke of marketing genius for Sony, which bought rights to release the movie from Wayfarer Studios, whose co-founder, Justin Baldoni, both directed and stars in the film.
?Colleen Hoover?s Book Bonanza and her fans sparked the fire that was the beginning of the cultural movement,? says Josh Greenstein, a veteran marketer and president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group.
Absent, however, from the Dallas gathering was Baldoni. The version shown that night was Lively?s preferred rough cut of the movie.
By the time the movie opened Aug. 9, an ugly war had erupted on TikTok and other social media platforms pitting Baldoni and Lively against each other. Many took aim at Lively, despite reports that some cast and crewmembers, including Lively, felt uncomfortable over Baldoni?s behavior on set.
Sony is fully in sync with Lively. ?Blake, Colleen and so many women put so much effort into this remarkable movie, working selflessly from the start to ensure that such an important subject matter was handled with care. Audiences love the movie. Blake?s passion and commitment to advancing the conversation around domestic violence is commendable,? Sony Pictures Entertainment Chair-CEO Tony Vinciquerra told The Hollywood Reporter. ?We love working with Blake, and we want to do 12 more movies with her.?
Sony?s marketing campaign ? in staying true to Hoover?s book ? conveyed that It Ends With Us isn?t a story of victimhood, but a story of redemption. It traverses falling in love, becoming an entrepreneur, friendship and family, alongside pain and trauma. ?Lily is a survivor and a victim, but that doesn?t define her, as she is in charge of her identity and her story. These themes were important to the campaign,? says one source connected to the film?s rollout.
Sources have told THR that there was a fracture between Baldoni and Lively in the postproduction stage, wherein two different cuts of the movie emerged. Lively commissioned a cut of the movie from editor Shane Reid, who was an editor on Deadpool & Wolverine, according to multiple sources.
[From THR]
This reads to me like why Baldoni hired crisis managers in the first place, because he was afraid he was going to get squished by the studio taking Blake?s side and throwing him under the bus. Sony is obviously doing the most to stay on Blake?s good side, and not only that, Sony is seemingly doing a lot (here and behind-the-scenes) to keep the arguments from devolving into petty, personal attacks. It suits everyone involved if the story is ?Blake and Justin disagreed about which edit to use, that?s the big problem? rather than ?Justin fat-shamed Blake and gave her a lingering kiss? or ?Blake is a mean-girl bully.?
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.
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| | Dakota Johnson & Chris Martin broke off their engagement (update: denied) | | Added 321 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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This has been widely rumored for months! Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin are over and they?ve called off their engagement. Back in May, Chris told an inquisitive fan that he was currently single. That set off a big chunk of the speculation, although I think there?s been more back-and-forth behind the scenes. As in, it wasn?t a hard break until recently.
Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson have reportedly called it quits. The Coldplay frontman, 47, and the actress, 34, ended their engagement after seven years together, the Daily Mail reported Friday.
The former couple ?have now accepted the relationship is over ? and it?s best to move on,? a source told the outlet.
Reps for Martin and Johnson did not immediately respond to Page Six?s requests for comment.
The ?Fifty Shades of Grey? star, notably, has not been with Martin during the European leg of his band?s ?Music of the Spheres? tour. (She did, however, check out Coldplay?s Glastonbury set in June.) She was pictured in Malibu, Calif., earlier this month without her engagement ring.
[From Page Six]
Dakota?s kind of having a rough year, with Madame Web flopping so hard and all of this relationship drama. Before now, Dakota and Chris seemed low-key and settled. They even lived together. I don?t think they ever got around to setting the date or planning any part of their wedding, but still, they were absolutely engaged. Anyway, I?m kind of sad for Dakota. She really loved him. Personally, I think Chris is a trainwreck in relationships, but I hoped he had grown out of that. Guess not.
Update: People Mag is saying this is all BS and theyre still together! Hmmm.
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| | Sony full supports Blake Lively after she screened 'IEWU: The Lively Cut' in Texas | | Added 321 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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What does this Blake Lively stuff remind you of? For me, it?s sort of like the Hilaria Baldwin stuff in late 2020 and early 2021 suddenly, people were going back through all of Hilaria?s old interviews and doing deep dives on all of the Hilaria-was-never-Spanish lore. While Blake Lively never lied about being ?from Spain,? there is a similar deep-dive into the gossip history around Blake. Like? what was up with Blake and Leighton Meester on Gossip Girl? They apparently didn?t get along at all towards the latter part of the series, so much so they the would barely even speak to each other. The Mail is on the case go here to read.
Meanwhile, the current Blake situation is that we still don?t know exactly what went down between Blake, Justin Baldoni and the cast of It Ends With Us. Many people around the production maintain this idea that Baldoni and Lively?s larger falling out happened in postproduction, especially when Blake brought in her own editor to create IEWU: The Lively Cut. It was also clear (to me) that Team Blake had already started an increasingly loud whisper campaign about Baldoni, one which scared him enough to hire a crisis management team this week. Well, speaking of all of that, the Hollywood Reporter has an interesting piece about the studio giving a lot of full-throated support for Blake, especially after she screened IEWU: The Lively Cut to Colleen Hoover?s groupies in Texas in June.
In mid-June, star-producer Blake Lively traveled to Dallas to attend author Colleen Hoover?s Book Bonanza for a Q&A in the lead-up to the August release It Ends With Us. Lively surprised the 2,000-plus attendees when she announced they could screen a rough cut of the movie adaptation the following night. The screening of the movie ? the first of Hoover?s popular novels to hit the screen ? proved to be a stroke of marketing genius for Sony, which bought rights to release the movie from Wayfarer Studios, whose co-founder, Justin Baldoni, both directed and stars in the film.
?Colleen Hoover?s Book Bonanza and her fans sparked the fire that was the beginning of the cultural movement,? says Josh Greenstein, a veteran marketer and president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group.
Absent, however, from the Dallas gathering was Baldoni. The version shown that night was Lively?s preferred rough cut of the movie.
By the time the movie opened Aug. 9, an ugly war had erupted on TikTok and other social media platforms pitting Baldoni and Lively against each other. Many took aim at Lively, despite reports that some cast and crewmembers, including Lively, felt uncomfortable over Baldoni?s behavior on set.
Sony is fully in sync with Lively. ?Blake, Colleen and so many women put so much effort into this remarkable movie, working selflessly from the start to ensure that such an important subject matter was handled with care. Audiences love the movie. Blake?s passion and commitment to advancing the conversation around domestic violence is commendable,? Sony Pictures Entertainment Chair-CEO Tony Vinciquerra told The Hollywood Reporter. ?We love working with Blake, and we want to do 12 more movies with her.?
Sony?s marketing campaign ? in staying true to Hoover?s book ? conveyed that It Ends With Us isn?t a story of victimhood, but a story of redemption. It traverses falling in love, becoming an entrepreneur, friendship and family, alongside pain and trauma. ?Lily is a survivor and a victim, but that doesn?t define her, as she is in charge of her identity and her story. These themes were important to the campaign,? says one source connected to the film?s rollout.
Sources have told THR that there was a fracture between Baldoni and Lively in the postproduction stage, wherein two different cuts of the movie emerged. Lively commissioned a cut of the movie from editor Shane Reid, who was an editor on Deadpool & Wolverine, according to multiple sources.
[From THR]
This reads to me like why Baldoni hired crisis managers in the first place, because he was afraid he was going to get squished by the studio taking Blake?s side and throwing him under the bus. Sony is obviously doing the most to stay on Blake?s good side, and not only that, Sony is seemingly doing a lot (here and behind-the-scenes) to keep the arguments from devolving into petty, personal attacks. It suits everyone involved if the story is ?Blake and Justin disagreed about which edit to use, that?s the big problem? rather than ?Justin fat-shamed Blake and gave her a lingering kiss? or ?Blake is a mean-girl bully.?
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.
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| | Mariska Hargitay helped raise the money to solve thousands of sex crimes | | Added 321 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Mariska Hargitay is a really, really good egg. Not only has she been delighting us as Captain Olivia Benson for 25 years on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, she?s spent that tenure bringing her work home with her in the most productive and impactful way possible. Moved by fans recounting their rape survival stories to her, Mariska established the Joyful Heart Foundation, through which she launched the End the Backlog initiative that discovered hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits in police stations across the country. In working to reform rape kit usage, Mariska met prosecutor Kym Worthy. In fact, Mariska helped secure the funding necessary to test 11,000 kits Kym had found in a Michigan evidence room, which led to solving thousands of sex crimes in that state alone. Dateline host Andrea Canning just appeared on the Today show to tout the latest Dateline podcast that focuses on Kym and Mariska?s work:
Mariska Hargitay hasn?t reserved her impressive detective skills for the TV screen ? she also solves some cases in real life too.
Recently, Dateline NBC?s Andrea Canning joined the Today show to discuss the newest episode of Dateline True Crime Weekly and revealed that Hargitay, 60, helped one Michigan prosecutor with thousands of sexual assault cases.
The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star funded prosecutor Kym Worthy on her path to solving thousands of cases. Worthy first discovered that over 11,000 untested rape kits were sitting on a shelf in an evidence room. She took matters into her own hands and worked to get all of them tested.
However, money was needed to get all of these kits tested, and as Canning said, ?So, who stepped in? None other than Law and Order?s Mariska Hargitay.?
Canning, 51, explained that the actress ?helped them raise the money to get this done.? As a result, thousands of cases were solved and they discovered 22 serial rapists.
The Dateline broadcaster also noted that Worthy and Hargitay?s work is ?having a ripple effect across the country [and] is making changes everywhere ? for police departments and for prosecutors? offices.?
This isn?t Hargitay?s first time assisting real law enforcement. Earlier this year, in April, while filming one of the final episodes of season 25 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, she was approached by a little girl who believed her to be a real police officer based on the badge she wore as part of her character?s outfit.
At the time, a witness told PEOPLE that the little girl had been separated from her mother in the Anne Loftus Playground in Fort Tryon Park and asked the actress for help. Hargitay obliged and then halted production for 20 minutes to help the child locate her mother and to console them both.
The witness noted that the young girl was both oblivious to the film crew and Hargitay?s scene partner, Ice-T.
[From People]
Everytime we get to cover Mariska Hargitay it is such a tonic. Her goodness is so authentic! There?s no inflated ego, or sense that she?s doing this for her own PR. By her own account, she felt like her acting job opened a door to work she had no prior intention of pursuing, but could not turn away from once it entered her life. She?s previously described it as ?I didn?t take this job on SVU to do this work. But I think I was meant to do this.? The older I get the more I see that as an art in itself: to be able to embrace a path that takes you by surprise. I?m also now really hoping that we see Mariska at the convention next week. She?s such a strong advocate for the biggest issues at stake in this election: women?s rights and reproductive rights. You know, normal things.
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| | Kim Kardashian is single, but her kids want her to date someone famous | | Added 321 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Have I gotten really good at ignoring Kim Kardashian or has she been relatively quiet for months? She appeared at the Met Gala in May, she went to a wedding in India and? like, there?s been no real news or gossip about her in a while? Minus the gossip about how she sliced the top of her finger off. All of which to say, Kim has been out and about in New York this week and it feels like we haven?t seen her in months.
She wore a Miu Miu ensemble out to the Polo Bar (yellow sleeveless top and brown pants). North West is also with her on this trip, as is their dog?? Let me look this up? North West has two Pomeranians, Sushi and Sake. I hope North is taking good care of those dogs because Kim has a terrible track record with pets (RIP Mercy Kardashian-West). Kim was also spotted around 30 Rock, and she turned up on the Tonight Show on Wednesday:
People really do love SKIMS. Even people who dislike Kim sort of begrudgingly admit that SKIMS has some good stuff. Kim also talked about her new Ryan Murphy series, but the big headline is about her love life. She says she?s single and her kids are ready for her to date and they keep trying to set her up with people. Like, they?re creating lists of ?dream boyfriends for mom.? I like that Kim isn?t ready to jump into anything though. I do wonder who she?ll date next? my assumption has always been that her endgame-partner would be a lawyer or someone who reminds her of her dad.
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| | Sandra Bullock to Hoda Kotb on her birthday: turning 60 is pretty awesome | | Added 323 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Hoda Kotb turned 60 last Friday, August 9. To celebrate the big 6-0, her Today cohost, Jenna Bush Hager threw her an on-air birthday party on Monday. The celebration was really well-done, too. The audience was given shirts and party hats to set the mood. Jenna gifted Hoda a painting of her favorite photo of her and her daughters that she commissioned her dad, former President George W. Bush to paint (he signed it ?43? lmao). Some of Hodas good friends showed up for a segment. Producers played a sequence that checked in on three different families who Hoda?s interviewed in the past that spoke about her much she?d change their lives. There were also special birthday wishes from Hoda?s mom, daughters, and none other than Sandra Bullock. Sandra, who herself turned 60 on July 26, had an inspirational and funny message for her friend. It was a really nice birthday tribute.
I had so many brilliant and funny things prepared for you for this message that were just going to slay, but you know girl, Im just too tired, said Bullock, who turned 60 on Friday, July 26.
The Practical Magic star also thanked Kotb for being so incredible to so many people.
What you do for a living and how you have to shape-shift every single day, how you navigate your kindness, even when thats not whats coming your way, she said. How you are to those you care about and how you keep them safe, and just who you are as a human being. Were all pretty lucky to have you, especially your kids.
Bullock ended the video with a personal message for Kotb.
Happy birthday, my sweet friend. Thank you for allowing me to be in your circle, said Bullock. I feel very grateful. And I have your bar set up, up here, so we can look at the view. It?s pretty beautiful, but I need you up here. Happy birthday.
Kotb, the parents of daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 4, through adoption, got visibly emotional after watching the video message and expressed that she was inspired to become a mother after watching Bullocks motherhood journey.
?The reason that I have Haley and Hope is because when I was looking for inspiration of somebody who was a mom at my age, Sanda Bullock popped up and I called her and I said, Tell me about motherhood,' recalled Kotb. And she said, ?It is the best decision I ever made. And from that moment forward, she led the way to these two girls.
[From People]
That was a really sweet message from Sandra. She very rarely makes public appearances like this, which makes the whole video extra lovely. I had no idea that they were so close and had never heard that story before about Sandy being a supportive inspiration behind Hoda?s decision to adopt Haley and Hope. I must have missed it because Hoda did talk about it on-air back in 2018. How awesome is that?
As for her message, I love that Sandra is out there letting women and anyone else who needs to hear it that 60 isn?t the scary number taboo that it?s been made out to be in the past. Sure, it may not always feel great as we?re forced to embrace the changes our bodies go through as we get older, but every additional day, month, and year is a blessing. And Sandy addressed those changes with her joke about being too tired to think of a clever message. I?m only 40 and I feel that way almost every single day, ha. Happy Birthday to Hoda! May 60 be her best year yet.
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| | Ben Affleck is doing well, 'he thrives when he's busy & he's been working nonstop' | | Added 325 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A lot of you guys have complicated opinions about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Not only that, you guys seem to have a lot of theories about who is briefing what and why. Having been a gossip consumer for decades, I feel like this is one of the rare situations where we can just take stuff at face value and assume that the gossip is flowing steadily from Jennifer?s camp and Ben?s camp. If a report says that Ben is over it and Jennifer is mad about it, I believe it and it?s probably coming from both sides. If something seems like it?s obviously Ben?s perspective, then it probably came from his people, and vice versa with J.Lo. Two months ago, I would have said that there was more nuance and gossip gamesmanship, but now, as we can see clearly that the marriage is over and that Ben said sayonara, all of these reports and gossip items are coming from both sides. J.Lo is pissed and it?s spilling out. Ben is a selfish ahole and he doesn?t care who knows. It is what it is. Well, People Mag has a piece on Ben?s perspective these days:
Ben Affleck is spending significant time working this summer, as rumors continue to swirl regarding his marriage to Jennifer Lopez.
A source tells PEOPLE that Affleck, 51, has not yet moved into the home in Los Angeles that he recently purchased and is still living in the rental home in Brentwood, Calif., where he was staying in May, when sources first said that he and Lopez, 55, were living separately.
?Ben?s doing well. He thrives when he?s busy and he?s been working nonstop, the source says. The kids are still off from school. He spends a lot of time with them, too.
Affleck and Lopezs marriage has been the subject of significant public scrutiny since May, though the pair put on a united front at his daughter Violets high school graduation that same month. The couple, who married in 2022, have spent much of the summer apart after Lopez canceled her tour and subsequently spent much of the past two months on vacation in Europe and in the Hamptons, New York. Lopez recently returned to L.A. and began searching for a new home after they listed the Beverly Hills mansion they purchased together in May 2023.
It hasn?t been the easiest summer for him either, the source adds. He?s just trying to stay focused and make every day as good as possible.?
[From People]
?He thrives when he?s busy and he?s been working nonstop? I remember back at the start of the year, when I thought Bennifer would be forever, I looked at Ben and J.Lo?s work schedules for this year and I was surprised by how they were both booked up like crazy. This was back when J.Lo thought she was going on tour as well (a tour which she canceled). All of which to say, Ben has been working a lot this year, and Jennifer was supposed to as well. He?s probably using work as an excuse for why he can?t engage with Jen or work through their bullsh-t. ?It hasn?t been the easiest summer for him either? my dude, you left her. I?m not surprised that Ben is trying to milk some sympathy for himself though. He?s done it before.
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Kate Hudson
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