I watched about 10 minutes of Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club and it was bad. Even worse than that, it was boring. And Lindsay looked so messy in it too. [Reality Tea]
Who is your pick for the Hot Slut of 2018? [Dlisted]
Gerard Butler made a movie that sounds sort of okay? [LaineyGossip]
Man licks doorbell for three hours, becomes Twitter sensation. [Pajiba]
Photos from the pre-Globes BAFTA tea party. [Go Fug Yourself]
Brazil’s new president Jair Bolsonaro stripped rights from LGBTQ people on his first day in office. Stay strong, Brazilian peeps. [Towleroad]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to Trump’s Nazi primetime thing. [Jezebel]
Matt Damon bought the most expensive condo in Brooklyn’s history. [OMG Blog]
Naomi Watts is so shiny in this Nina Ricci! [Red Carpet Fashion Awards]

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Duana and I recorded this week’s episode of Show Your Work on Monday, right after our Golden Globes all-nighter. And we could have kept going. This is award season – there’s so much to unpack!

We start with the show itself, inside baseball on the production value and why the Globes, especially th…

At this point, I truly am open to any and all conspiracies involving Justin Bieber, especially regarding his marriage to Hailey Baldwin (now Hailey Bieber). It was definitely one of the weirder stories of 2018, and it will probably get even weirder in 2019. Hailey and Justin – The Biebers – are dividing their time between California, New York and Canada. Reportedly, Justin really wants to spend more time in Canada, taking a break from music and LA and that whole world. I’ve wondered if Hailey would get pregnant right away… and Us Weekly says she probably will.

Babies are definitely on the brain for Hailey Baldwin and Justin Bieber. “They’re both super family-oriented and are excited about the next chapter of their lives together,” a source says in the new issue of Us Weekly. “Hailey can’t wait to be a mom.”

The model, 22, has even opened up about her excitement of starting a family with the singer, 24. “I love kids,” she said in the December issue of Vogue Arabia, noting, “I would say now that’s a closer reality.” But don’t expect them to expand their family right away soon as she added that she and her husband — the duo married in September — have no specific plans to have children “any time soon.” Watch the video above for more on Baldwin and Bieber’s baby plans.

[From Us Weekly]

Personally, I’m just thinking about Hailey’s life and career long-term. Unquestionably, Justin has been GREAT for her career. Hailey went from “a nepotism model no one cared about” to one of the most talked-about “models” in the world. She’s booked tons of jobs in the last six months of 2018. She has endorsements and beauty contracts and she’s getting to walk the best runways of every fashion week. That would obviously change once she got pregnant, but would that change be the worst? If hooking up with Bieber helped her career, it would follow that having a Bieber Baby would help too? But long-term, yeah, she would be tied to Justin FOREVER.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.

Saoirse Ronan appeared on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show yesterday and all I can think about are the metallic fuchsia pants she wore. Her whole look is amazing – so fresh and fashionable. I’ve scoured for a designer ID on the pants but haven’t found it yet. If anyone knows, please share! Since I am mentioning fashion, Ellen’s outfit is also great.

Saoirse is promoting her role as Queen Mary in Mary Queen of Scots alongside Margot Robbie. Ellen kicked things of by suggesting Saoirse looked just like Mary, which didn’t go over well with Saoirse, so they moved swiftly on to Saoirse’s adopted pup, Fran. Fran is a genius, so claims Saoirse. She said that Fran is able to recognize commercial music and when a dog commercial, especially a rescue dog commercial, comes on, she runs out to watch it. Here’s some of what she said and you can see the video below.

A lot of terriers, for some reason, tend to watch TV… and Fran can recognize when an animal or a dog is on the TV. And once she’s seen them on the TV like in a commercial if she hears the music and she’s in another room, she’s like ‘my ad’s on.’ And she’ll run into the living room and she’ll just watch it. And around Christmas time, you know the way they play like the animal shelter ads… they’re her people and she’s watching it and she’s like ‘Oh God, I know what that’s like,’ because we adopted her. She’s smart.

It’s not so much the sound recognition that impressed me, because dogs usually recognize sounds. If you’ve ever tried to sneak your car keys out when you do not intend to take the dog, you know that. It’s the fact that Fran runs in to watch “her people” when they come on. Saoirse best not tell Fran where her checkbook is kept, or the local animal shelter will be getting a hefty check every time Sarah McLachlan starts singing.

In the Vogue article to which Ellen refers, Saoirse declares Fran a genius when she offers the interviewer her paw at Saoirse’s request. Fran has my pup beat on that. When I ask for his, he just stares at me as if I am embarrassing myself by asking. I have a Korean Jindo and when we adopted him, the rescue representative “warned” me that Jindos are known to be smart. I never imagined she meant smarter than us. Seriously, we trained my dog to put his toys back in the basket, but my teenagers can’t seem to figure out how to get their dirty clothes in the hamper. My particular pup is beautifully uncoordinated though, so it keeps me from feeling inferior. Huh, look at that – I just spent half a paragraph talking about my dog. It’s almost as if I picked this video just to do that *walks away whistling*

Not only did I not know that Saoirse had a genius doggo, but that she never trained as an actor. That’s insane to me, she is so flipping good in every role. She told The Guardian that because she spent so much time on her own with only her imagination to keep her as company, “It was normal for me to pretend I was in a scene, and I would do it all the time.” I pretend a lot too, but I probably won’t get the Oscar for it. I just love Saoirse and knowing she has that much raw talent just makes me love her more.

By the way, I am not holding out on you, Saoirse doesn’t have social media so I can’t get you pictures of Fran beyond the one in the clip above. But in case you are curious what a genius dog look like, here is my genius dog resting after a long day of geniusing.

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Saoirse on @theellenshow #saoirseronan #maryqueenofscots #margottrobbie #onchesilbeach #theseagull #littlewomen #ammonite #thefrenchdispatch #goldenglobes

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I came back to work on Monday and practically everyone in the office is either “eating clean” or doing a “dry January” or substituting everything with cauliflower or doing Peloton. It’s January. It happens every January. We go bonkers in December with the parties and the holiday gatherings and sudde…

We all know that Kim Kardashian is one of the most superficial and mindless consumers in the world. She’s not so much a person as a collection of social media sponcon and unearned privilege and wealth. We’ve known for years that Kim spends a fortune on her kids, buying them designer clothes and giving them tons of expensive sh-t that they outgrow in a month or get bored with in a day. The Kardashian-West kids have baby Lambos and Chanel purses and toddler Hummers and diamond necklaces. It’s like the worst on America, on steroids. But even this bugged me: when Kim was in Japan, she bought mini-Louis Vuitton purses for all of the “baby girls” in the family:

Kim Kardashian West went all out on Christmas gifts for her famous family this past holiday! On Tuesday, Kardashian West, 38, revealed she bought Louis Vuitton Speedy Mini handbags for her daughters North, 5, and Chicago, 11 mos, and nieces Penelope, 6, Dream, 2, Stormi, 11 mos, and True, 8 mos.

“I got these for all of the baby girls in the fam for Xmas from Japan,” Kardashian West wrote over the Instagram Stories photo, which showed the multicolored bags from the Takashi Murakami Collection, which launched in 2003. In total, Kardashian West brought back eight bags, explaining she “kept one for myself and extras for the future,” after a fan asked who the remaining purses were for.

[From People]

I’m including the photo below – I know a lot of people love those Murakami LV bags, but am I alone in thinking they’re just kind of tacky, nouveau riche status symbols? If I had the money, I would spend a fortune on handbags, to be clear – I would buy up so many great-quality Marc Jacobs, Kate Spade and Hermes purses, it would make your head spin. But I wouldn’t waste my money on those LV purses. Also: Stormi and True are less than a year old, wtf do they care about a status symbol purse? They’re probably happier playing with a box, or mama’s keys.

Oh wait I kept one for myself and extras for the future lol https://t.co/7631Vwuhol

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) January 8, 2019

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.

MA! Enough with the pictures ? Uhg I love this kid so much ? @cbuckner_

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As someone who doesn’t post much of my personal life, I used to think the mommy shaming stories were overblown. Then I covered a mommy shaming story where people thought I had a bad take on it and got the brunt of the ire. I get it! Sometimes there’s genuine concern and reasoning behind the negative comments, which makes it sting more. Like the time an older lady berated me on the train for my infant not wearing gloves in cold weather. He had pulled the damn gloves off so many times before I just gave up, exhausted. I had so much other sh-t to do and felt isolated and overwhelmed. It didn’t make her wrong but I didn’t need her judgment at that time either.

Anyway Deena Cortese of Jersey Shore and her husband, Christopher Buckner, had their first baby on January 5th, son Christopher John Buckner! She posted a ton of photos of him on Instagram, including his height and weight, which I really appreciated. It’s nice when celebrities/reality stars are like “look at my beautiful baby” and aren’t posting just posting hand or foot photos. (If they want to do it that way or not share anything I completely understand that too, especially given this story.) Well people pointed out that Deann’s newborn was wearing what looked like an inappropriate outfit for a baby. In the third photo in this set below (mouse over to see the arrows) he looks like he’s wearing a winter jacket. I had no idea about this, but I found safety information that jackets can be unsafe in car seats because the harnesses end up being too loose. Deena told negative commenters very clearly that they were wrong and that the baby was in a big snuggly onesie which was hospital approved.

Going home ? ( it’s not a jacket .. it’s a onesie and hospital approved it ) we’re not perfect but we got this ?? thank you for the concerns ?

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This is how you handle it, you just say “thank you for your concerns.” I should have done this to the old Swiss woman making me feel like a sh-t mom but I ended up just defending myself because frankly she scared me. I wasn’t that confident in my parenting skills and I only spoke sh-tty high German, but whatever. I don’t know much about Deena except that she was wisely mostly absent from season two of Jersey Shore Family Vacation, which aired this year, because she was pregnant. So that was smart. Plus she dealt with this like a boss.

These sweet photos are giving me the feels!

Our Little Man has finally arrived ? Christopher John Buckner (CJ) born January 5th at 4:41 pm at a whopping 20.5 inches..6 Lb 8.5 ounces ??? Uhg mommy and daddy love you so much CJ .. youre our everything ? i never thought i could love Chris anymore than i did until i saw him hold CJ ??

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My boys ?? I’ve never loved something so much in my entire life #ourlittleprince .. It was a tough two days and I couldn’t have done it without my other half .. #wortheverymoment #iddoitalloveragain

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So In love ??

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When I first learned that there is a barely-advertised Gerard Butler movie about lighthouse keepers opening on demand this month, I thought for sure this would be a fun watch like Geostorm or Hunter Killer. Boy was I wrong. Turns out, this movie, The Vanishing, is about the Flannan Isles Mystery, in…

I keep forgetting that Jennifer Lawrence is dating Some Guy. His name is Cooke Maroney, and he’s involved in the art world – he works for a gallery or something. It’s a bit like Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn – everything is low-key, or maybe everything is performatively low-key. In Jennifer and Cooke’s case, I do think it’s pretty low-key, genuinely. We can weeks and months without hearing about them, which is probably why I keep forgetting that they’re a thing. Anyway, Us Weekly has a vague update: Cooke and Jen are in it for the long haul. Or something.

For Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney, the odds are in their favor! “Things between them are very serious,” an insider exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly, noting that the actress, 28, and the art gallerist, 33, have already moved in together. “They definitely appear to be in it for the long haul.”

Us first reported in June that the pair had been seeing each other for a few weeks. “Cooke plays very coy when speaking about her to his friends and colleagues,” a source told Us at the time. “He is clearly smitten about her.”

[From Us Weekly]

I tend to think of this kind of relationship as “pulling a Hathaway.” After dating and fooling around with a few problematic men (one of them a major con artist), Anne Hathaway just started going with a Normal Guy, and then they got married and had a kid and everything worked out. After several okay-to-awful relationships with famous dudes, maybe Jennifer is pulling a Hathaway. She’s tired of the drama. So she’s just going to settle down with a Normal. Maybe. I tend to think this guy is just a filler relationship before she finds another famous boyfriend, but what do I know.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.

For a brief moment back in 2017, it felt like the Academy finally did the right thing. Of course, they bungled that moment too. I’m speaking of the moment that the Academy voted for Moonlight for Best Picture instead of La La Land. First they had to give the Oscar to LLL in one of the biggest screw-ups in Oscar history. Then when Moonlight did win, people acted like they should share the f–king award. No. Moonlight was a better film that year, and it actually *said* something about about the African-American experience and the gay experience. So, here’s the question: will A Star Is Born get La La Land’d? If the Golden Globes are any indication – and they increasingly are – A Star Is Born peaked too early, and Academy voters will be looking to vote for films that “say something.”

“A Star Is Born” was snubbed by the Golden Globes and faces an uphill battle for the Oscars, because the movie is an oft-told story, with no political angle: A straight, white couple (played by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper) falls in love. “Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón’s story about the plight of an indigenous domestic servant in Mexico City, is even money to win the Academy Award for Best Picture on Feb. 24. (The nominations will be announced Jan. 22.)

“Roma” leads “A Star Is Born” at 2½-1, “Green Book” at 5-1, and “Bohemian Rhapsody” at 7-1, according to R.J. Bell, founder of Pregame.com. Bell, who makes the odds for the Associated Press, told me, “The odds move significantly because of the Golden Globes.”

Cuarón, who won the Best Director Globe, is now a prohibitive 80 percent favorite to win the Best Director Oscar. (You would have to wager $5 to win $1 on Cuarón.)

The academy, which faced #OscarsSoWhite protests four years ago, has added hundreds of minorities and women to its voting membership.

“Among the five favorites, the three that are the most ‘woke’ — ‘Roma,’ ‘Green Book’ and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ — are surging,” oddsmaker Danny Sheridan told me. Mahershala Ali, of “Green Book,” and Rami Malek, of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” both won Golden Globes and are favored to win Oscars. Regina King, of “If Beale Street Could Talk,” is a such a favorite to nab another statue for best supporting actress, you would have to bet $1.75 to win $1. The closest race will be Best Actress, where Glenn Close, with a feminist message in “The Wife,” is favored to beat Olivia Colman (“The Favourite”) and Lady Gaga.

“It’s a three-horse race,” Bell said. And the woke-est horse will win.

[From Page Six]

GREEN BOOK IS NOT WOKE. It is not woke at all, people. It glosses over race relations in the early 1960s by making the white racist dude the protagonist. That being said, I agree that however problematic I find Green Book, it got a HUGE Oscar boost with the Globes. I also agree that A Star Is Born will likely be hurt by the fact that it’s *just* a somewhat conventional and overdone tragic love story starring white people.

Personally, I enjoy the fact that none of the Oscar races seem settled at all. No one can even come up with a concrete guaranteed shortlist for any of the Oscar nominees either – like, will Emily Blunt get nominated? Will all of the women from The Favourite get nominated? Will both Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen get nominated from Green Book? No one knows. In fact, I think the only thing that is for sure is that ASIB peaked months too early.

Photos courtesy of WENN.