Jennifer Lawrence was photographed for the first time yesterday since marrying Cooke Maroney last month. They were seen at MOMA in New York exactly a month after their wedding. Everyone’s been trying to eyeball her wedding band. I’m still curious about her wedding dress which we’ve yet to see, just …

A Joker sequel is in the works after the huge financial success. [Just Jared]
Billboard called Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy the #1 album of the 2010s. Is it? I would say Beyonce’s Lemonade was much more important. [LaineyGossip]
The Dlisted Podcast talks about farts & Goop. [Dlisted]
Jada Pinkett Smith looks so ‘90s. [Go Fug Yourself]
The Gordon Sondland testimony today is already quite pizzazzy. [Pajiba]
The bubonic plague is back, Jesus Christ. [Jezebel]
Kim Kardashian’s makeup artist comes out as gay in an emotional speech. [Towleroad]
Here’s some background on all of the Duggar rumormongering. [Starcasm]
Did Robert Pattinson lie about being a model? [Seriously OMG]

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker opens in exactly one month. To mark the final countdown, Entertainment Weekly has a special Star Wars edition with three covers featuring the casts of the three movie trilogies. I am not here for the revisionism that the prequel trilogy was good—it wasn’t, those are …

Recently, I saw a story on the news about the “oldest living married couple” ever and how they made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. John and Charlotte Henderson have been married 80 years. He’s 106 and she’s 105. What was remarkable about the segment I saw was that they asked this couple what their secret was and John answered, quite reasonably, that they never had children. I was like “damn, maybe that IS the answer.” That’s the secret answer to getting a marriage to work and it’s the secret to longevity. Anyway, I thought of the Hendersons because today is the Queen’s wedding anniversary with the Duke of Edinburgh. They’ve been married 72 years and they’ve raised four children, at least one of whom is a rapist/pervert/dullard. To celebrate, Liz and Phil didn’t even spend the day together. LOL. Maybe that is also the secret to a long-lasting marriage: distance.

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have lived a lifetime of milestones. Jubilees marking the anniversary of the Coronation, the Queen’s longest reign, a platinum wedding anniversary are just some. So, as their 72nd anniversary passed on Wednesday, they are likely to be the last to complain that they were spending the day apart.

Philip, 98, is at Sandringham, Norfolk, about 110 miles from London where the Queen is based as part of her working week. The monarch has duties in London, and Philip, who retired from royal duty in August 2017, has been resting at the estate’s Wood Farm. There, renovations were undertaken several years ago to make it easier to live in for a man of his age. The Queen, 93, spent some of Wednesday holding audiences with the ambassadors of the Republic of Suriname and the Kyrgyz Republic.

But some observers have been saying that she would have welcomed the support of her husband in this trying week since second son Prince Andrew appeared on the BBC and spoke openly — and without regret — about his friendship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The financier died by suicide in jail in New York City in August while awaiting trial on multiple sex charges.

“I’m sure it’s been good for his health not to be there getting involved in the day-to-day stresses and strains but I think the Queen has missed his hands-on approach to family matters,” a source told the Daily Express on Wednesday. “He might have been a much stronger voice advising Andrew if he had been around more.”

[From People]

While we’ve always heard that Andrew is the Queen’s favorite child, I think it’s also been established that Philip’s favorite child was always Anne, and he really never had much time for his sons. But yes, Philip would have had some sh-t to say about ALL of Andrew’s drama. The thing is, I don’t even think Philip cares that much anymore. And so while it is a little bit funny that the Queen and Duke are spending their 72nd anniversary apart, it’s also kind of sad that the Queen is so… unsupported, in general. She’s making some terrible decisions. Maybe she would still be making terrible decisions if Philip was there, but maybe not.

Wishing Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh a very happy 72nd Wedding Anniversary! pic.twitter.com/gqRmvSepkF

— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) November 20, 2019

Happy 72nd Wedding Anniversary to The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh, who were married on this day in Westminster Abbey. #HappyAnniversary pic.twitter.com/5zECFPmOqj

— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) November 20, 2019

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Felicity Huffman was released from her minimum security prison after eleven days in October. She was supposed to serve 14 days, but they let her go early, which isn’t surprising. While there was an initial flurry of interest when she was released in late October, nothing much has happened – Felicity hasn’t agreed to any interview, and she’s just been quietly going about her business in LA. She’s also been seen (and photographed) around the charity The Teen Project. To her credit, Felicity has always done charity work, and reportedly she wants to fulfill her plea-deal community service hours at these charities she’s already working with. She also wants to do more work with women in prison, according to Page Six:

Felicity Huffman was so moved by the “harsh” conditions during her time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, that she now wants to work with incarcerated women as part of her community service program, Page Six has exclusively learned.

“Her experience is that these women are left behind,” a source close to the family told us. “They’re abandoned. There’s no support for them either in the institution or when they leave the institution, and that broke her heart.”

The insider also slammed multiple reports that categorized the facility as “Club Fed.” In 2009, Forbes ranked it at No. 7 on its “America’s 10 Cushiest Prisons in America” list. Our source said any claims the prison is “kind of easy” are “totally wrong,” claiming, “It’s a very dysfunctional environment.”

Huffman did not begin her community service program until last month, but on Sept. 16, Huffman and her younger daughter, Georgia, were photographed visiting nonprofit The Teen Project. Our source told us Huffman and Georgia were volunteering that day because they had been already been working for two years with the organization, which helps young women who were homeless and sex-trafficking victims receive services such as therapy, counseling and medical attention.

Huffman’s community service hours should be completed in early 2020, but the actress reportedly wants to continue to work with The Teen Project and women’s incarceration reentry organizations long after that. “She really wanted to double up on her community service work anyway, and this is an opportunity for her to continue to do some of that,” the source said. “This case really affected her in a big way.”

[From Page Six]

Page Six has a lot of contradictory stuff in their story (which I took out) where I think they were trying to make fun of Felicity for finding the prison conditions harsh. I might have joked about it too – I mean, a low-security women’s federal prison in California is not the worst prison conditions one would encounter in America. But still, it’s f–king prison and no one wants to be there, even for 11 days. Anyway, I hope Felicity does fulfill her community service and then some. It feels like she’s truly sorry and she’s truly trying to make amends. Lori Loughlin would never.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.

It’s been an epically sh-tty week for Prince Andrew. His interview on BBC Newsnight was a bust. Then he was alleged to have said the n-word during a business meeting. Yesterday former Labour minister Jacqui Smith alleged that he “made racist comments about Arabs” at a state dinner for the Saudi roya…

Emilia Clarke was naked a lot in Game of Thrones, the first season especially. In later seasons, Emilia’s character, Daenerys, would still drop trou, but often it would shot around her so nothing was really showing, or the brief nudity would be “empowering” for Dany. But yeah, the first season was bad – Emilia was constantly in a state of undress. I thought/hoped that was probably all contractual, and worked out with Emilia and her agents far in advance. Turns out, not so much. Emilia chatted with Dax Shepherd’s Armchair Expert podcast, which you can hear here. Emilia spoke about how she was basically pressured and manipulated by producers to do more nudity than her contract covered.

Emilia Clarke has revealed that she once refused to perform a nude scene on the set of a project, despite being told that it would “disappoint” her Game of Thrones fans. While discussing on-screen nudity with Dax Shepard on his podcast Armchair Expert, the Last Christmas actor recalled being asked to perform a nude scene she hadn’t agreed to in advance.

“I’m a lot more savvy [now] with what I’m comfortable with, and what I am okay with doing,” she explained. “I’ve had fights on set before where I’m like, ‘No, the sheet stays up’, and they’re like, ‘You don’t wanna disappoint your Game of Thrones fans’. And I’m like, ‘F*** you.’”

Clarke also revealed that she felt overwhelmed by what she described as the “f*** ton of nudity” in the first season of Game of Thrones. “I took the job and then they sent me the scripts and I was reading them, and I was, like, ‘Oh, there’s the catch!’” she remembered. “But I’d come fresh from drama school, and I approached [it] as a job – if it’s in the script then it’s clearly needed, this is what this is and I’m gonna make sense of it… Everything’s gonna be cool.”

She continued: “So I came to terms with that beforehand, but then going in and doing it… I’m floating through this first season and I have no idea what I’m doing, I have no idea what any of this is. I’ve never been on a film set like this before, I’d been on a film set twice before then, and I’m now on a film set completely naked with all of these people, and I don’t know what I’m meant to do and I don’t know what’s expected of me, and I don’t know what you want and I don’t know what I want… Regardless of there being nudity or not, I would have spent that first season thinking I’m not worthy of requiring anything, I’m not worthy of needing anything at all… Whatever I’m feeling is wrong, I’m gonna cry in the bathroom and then I’m gonna come back and we’re gonna do the scene and it’s gonna be completely fine.”

She went on to explain that it was only while working with Aquaman actor Jason Momoa, who played her on-screen love interest Khal Drogo, that she realised that she could set her own rules about how much of her body she was willing to show. “It was definitely hard,” she said. “Which is why the scenes, when I got to do them with Jason, were wonderful, because he was like, ‘No, sweetie, this isn’t okay.’ And I was like, ‘Ohhhh.’”

[From The Independent]

Big props to Jason Momoa for doing something to protect her and for telling her that’s not the way it’s supposed to work. Jason and Emilia are still very close, and I get the feeling that’s how it was from the start, that he was protective of her. Iain Glen was another one – I remember interviews with him where he spoke about how green and inexperienced she was in the first season and how he would often try to figure out ways where Emilia would not have to be so naked in front of so many people on set. But yeah, GoT producers were gross and exploitative. We knew that. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss ruined all of it.

Also: I’ve been reading a lot of those actress-roundtable discussions and actor-on-actor series, and some of the actresses have been talking about the immediate changes they saw when #MeToo and Time’s Up started happening. Films have been hiring “intimacy” coaches or various protective middlemen to come in whenever there is a sex scene or when an actor is nude, and the coach is there to tell the director what is and is not allowed contractually and to stand up for the actresses, etc. The actresses seem to like the protective measures being taken now, although clearly those practices are A) very recent and B) not widespread.

Photos courtesy of WENN and HBO/GoT.

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Lili Reinhart posted a series of Instagram stories calling out the Body Tune app for letting people slim down their images quickly and easily. She got an ad for it that showed a model being slimmed and it bothered her so much that she wrote about it. Lili wrote that she was looking for an app to help her get the aspect ratio right for Instagram and that’s how she found it. Here’s some of what she wrote and a video of her stories in order is below. (A French user recorded it while watching something on TV so you can just turn the sound down as that part isn’t relevant.) Lili has been open about her body image issues and has called out people who nitpick her figure.

[Shows demo video for Body Tune]
This is not okay. This is why people develop eating disorders. This is why social media has become hazardous to our health. This is why people have unrealistic expectations of their bodies.

I implore you: do not use these kinds of apps. If you photoshop your body, you are adding to this problem.

This is how unrealistic standards of human bodies have been created – to the point were people alter their bodies surgically to achieve unattainable results.

We are better than this. Looking “skinnier” in a photo on Instagram is not worth the detrimental psychological effects that these photoshopping apps have given our generation.

Our bodies should not conform to “one size fits all.”

People who use these apps and alter their bodies are clearly suffering from low self esteem, body dysmorphia, or other mental health problems.

My heart goes out to those people who feel like their bodies aren’t good enough.

But please don’t encourage this behavior.

[Instagram via People]

I know she means well but I don’t think she should be calling out the users like this, just the company. It’s really rude to say that people who like to slim their photos have mental health problems or low self esteem. I mean it’s quite common and lot of people just want to look their best on social media. She also implies people who get plastic surgery have these issues too, and that’s just not true. There’s no shame in it.

Also, as someone who has struggled with disordered eating, I have to say that I have had this issue since way before there were apps or photoshop. It’s more about my own anxiety and self image than any one thing. Yes unrealistic images of women and computer altered images can contribute, but in the 90s we had Kate Moss and in the 60s there was Twiggy. (Those models were naturally thin and I’m not blaming them, I’m just saying they were held up as the ideal.) And I could look around any classroom and see other girls thinner and (I thought) prettier than me. It’s not about seeing these photos, it’s about what we tell ourselves. The good thing is that now we have so many amazing famous women showing how you can rock it at any size like Mindy Kaling, Lizzo, Ashley Graham and voluptuous Sports Illustrated models and powerful athletes.

I agree with her in general and think that apps like this and that excessive photo editing do contribute to unrealistic expectations. I like that she and people like Jameela Jamil are calling out diets and apps and having these conversations. I don’t think the solution is to ban the apps though or shame people for using them. She’s 23 though. I’m sure I would write stuff like this at that age, I was super idealistic too.

Here’s that video of her stories.

@lilireinhart thank you for your message on body image and those app. ? #bodyimage #bodytune #lilireinhart. pic.twitter.com/KZ5q9SRpgO

— whothefkisLouise (@labb952) November 17, 2019

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So I finally read Eva Amurri’s September blog post where she confirmed her third pregnancy and wrote about why she changed her mind about having a third child. She apparently claimed that she was done at two kids, but in the September blog post, she wrote that her husband Kyle Martino convinced her to have a third, that he wanted a “do-over” because he hadn’t been around or “present” for the first two kids’ early years. I know that Eva was and is an unreliable narrator, but reading it now, it just strikes me that Kyle was being so manipulative. Especially given their separation, which they announced last Friday. I keep saying that some sh-t had to have gone down for a couple to split while expecting a child. It’s some Affleck-Garner level of nonsense. But Eva is still trying to put a glossy mommy-blogger/Instagram influencer face on the mess:

Eva Amurri Martino and husband Kyle Martino remain on good terms amid their split, as evidenced by a sweet piece of jewelry the pregnant mom of two proudly wears.

“Def rocking this gorgeous friendship ring Kyle gave me on our anniversary this year to commemorate our 8 year marriage ??,” Amurri Martino, 34, wrote on her Instagram Story on Monday, showing off the ring for the camera.

The post came as Martino, 38, was moving out of the family’s home following the couple’s announcement of their split they made on Friday. Sharing a photo of Amurri Martino cuddled together with their two children — son Major James, 3, and daughter Marlowe Mae, 5 — the proud father documented his packing up and moving out on Instagram.

“Move out day. Couldn’t have asked for a better send-off crew,” Martino captioned his Instagram post. “I love you guys so much and will always be your dad in our beautiful family. See you tomorrow ?”

Amurri Martino opened up about the transition and their divorce process, telling her followers that the move out was “really hard” for her. “It really doesn’t matter how good of friends you are and how ‘right’ the decision is – there are moments in the process of a divorce that are just absolutely brutal for the soul and very scary as newly single mom of almost 3 kids,” she wrote on an Instagram Story post. “I know it all will get easier and better and there are good and bad days. Trying to hold it together for my precious kiddos who mean the world to us and deserve the best and healthiest life possible. They are my North Star ?”

[From People]

We’ve reached Peak Bulls–t when professional Instagram mommies are now documenting their husbands moving out of the house for posterity, and for the world to see. “Look at us, our separation is SO INSPO!” But yeah, there’s a rash of this going around. To the Eva Amurris and Hilaria Baldwins of the world… please do some of this in private.

Our family is starting down a new path. After a lot of thoughtful consideration, and work on our relationship, we have made the difficult decision to lovingly part ways as a couple. We are committed to, and excited about, raising our three beautiful children as close friends & pic.twitter.com/xDyN0lvrkp

— Eva Amurri Martino (@TheHappilyEva) November 15, 2019

It’s officially Gift Guide Season on Happily Eva After, and today I have my special selects for Her & Him !!! https://t.co/ruVriZ0v8J pic.twitter.com/Pdbjk7srah

— Eva Amurri Martino (@TheHappilyEva) November 11, 2019

Photos courtesy of Eva’s social media.

Emily Maitlis did a good job interviewing Prince Andrew. She was prepared, she called him out in the right moments, and she mostly let Andrew hang himself with a story that made no sense. The only complaint people have about the job Maitlis did was that she didn’t ask Andrew about the money. Jeffrey Epstein “loaned” thousands of dollars to Sarah Ferguson, something which she apologized for but never confirmed that she returned. And beyond that, no one has any f–king clue how Andrew has been supporting himself for years, and by “supporting himself,” of course we mean “living large.” Andrew gets tons of freebies, free private jet travel and free vacations and all of that. But even then, his outsized lifestyle does not match his official income.

Prince Andrew’s long journey from dashing young Falklands War hero to the pasty-faced, 59-year-old Royal pariah who bumbled through Saturday’s extraordinary TV interview hinges on a simple question: what on Earth first attracted him to the billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein? This rackety American financier was, after all, the living embodiment of the sort of chancer someone of the Duke’s pedigree ought to avoid.

A self-made man, whose personal fortune had been amassed in a highly-opaque fashion (rumoured, in certain circles, to have involved blackmail and money-laundering), Epstein lived like a real-life Bond villain, using private jets and helicopters to shuttle between a collection of vulgar mansions that were usually filled with very young girls of dubious provenance. His Florida home, where Andrew stayed on several occasions, presumably with police protection officers, was decorated with photographs of naked teenagers.

Yet within an extraordinarily short time of meeting this dubious character, the Prince welcomed Epstein into the Royal Family’s circle, inviting him to a birthday party at Windsor Castle, entertaining him at Balmoral and taking him shooting at Sandringham.Whatever, as the saying goes, was the Queen’s favourite son thinking? As with many old-fashioned tales of power and patronage, the answer almost certainly revolves around the one thing Epstein had which Andrew desperately coveted: money.

His entire official income, upon his retirement from the Navy, consisted of an allowance from the Queen, said these days to be around £250,000 annually, plus a Navy pension thought to provide around £20,000 per year. While the British taxpayer coughed up for ‘air miles’ Andrew to tour the globe, as the nation’s roving ‘trade ambassador’ (the Duke’s travel expenses were £4 million over his decade in the role, while his security costs were another £10 million), it would still take an awful lot more loot to keep him in the style to which he seemed accustomed.

That, of course, was where Epstein came in. The shady financier notoriously lent his private jet to the Duke — whose love of air travel famously once extended to taking a helicopter from Windsor Castle to Kent to play golf, at a cost to the public of £5,000. Meanwhile Epstein’s various homes and private island were placed at Andrew’s disposal, allowing him to live and holiday like an oligarch, for free.

[From The Daily Mail]

You can read more at the Daily Mail. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely think Epstein had a hand in financing Andrew’s lifestyle for a time and Epstein absolutely traded private jet rides and free stays at his mansions for access to Andrew’s family and connections. But… that’s not the whole story. Andrew’s up to his neck in shady associations with even shadier oligarchs. Most telling was the sale of Sunninghill Park, the home given to him by the Queen. Andrew sold it over asking price to a Kazakh oligarch as part of some kind of quid pro quo lobbying effort. I hope the Daily Mail and other publications continue to take a deeper forensic dive into Andrew’s finances. They’ll come up with a lot more than just “Epstein loaned him money.”

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