By my count, Miley Cyrus has been with Cody Simpson for about three weeks. We first became aware of their coupled-up status two weeks ago, when they were gallivanting all over LA, making out at yogurt shops and breakfast joints. Since then, it’s been a whirlwind of selfies, Instagram Stories, rants about slut-shaming, hospitalizations and… it now seems like Cody has officially moved in with Miley. And he’s releasing new music based on their new love. Did he literally go into the music studio on their first date or something? Oh, and Cody’s rep is issuing statements to People Magazine on behalf of Cody and Miley’s love.

After years of friendship, Miley Cyrus and Cody Simpson’s relationship recently turned romantic — and the couple are on the same page when it comes to their lifestyles.

“It is early, but their friendship is long-standing and deeper than people realize. Though they originally met during their own wilder phases, they’re both sober now and are focused on health, work and spending time together. Seems pretty ideal to me,” Simpson’s manager Matt Zeidman tells PEOPLE exclusively in a statement.

While attending the Tiffany & Co. Mens Launch last week, Simpson opened up about his new romance with Cyrus, saying they “found each other again in a space where we’re both not partying” and “working real hard.”

The Australian singer — who was by the entertainer’s side as she recovered from tonsillitis — also revealed he’ll be dropping a new song inspired by Cyrus this week. “She was like, ‘If you don’t put this s— out, I’m putting it out on your behalf for you. I’m getting your Spotify login and doing this s— myself,’” said Simpson. Cyrus teased the track on Monday in several Instagram Stories. “Crystal dream, Cali queen / Radiant hand, vibrant sand / I’m shy, it’s a golden thing she’s got,” Simpson sings on the track, which Cyrus revealed is titled “Golden Thing.”

[From People]

Yeah… Miley has every right to move on and move in with a guy she’s been banging for three weeks, tops. But when the New Guy’s rep is issuing statements and Miley’s trying to parlay her fame to help out Mr. Three Week Boyfriend, I’m sorry, that’s tacky and gross. Miley could have been alone with her thoughts! She could have spent this time actually dating someone quietly, someone who isn’t going to release music less than a month into their love affair. And just like the thing with Kaitlynn, Miley is just burning through Cody too – they’re doing everything so quickly and in a month, Miley’s going to be out the door.

Photos courtesy of Backgrid and Cody’s IG.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spent the first half of their day in Lahore, in the same low-key clothes they wore at their arrival – Kate wore a very cute shalwar kameez in cream – and then they changed for the next part of their day in Lahore. They went to the Badshahi Mosque, one of the most photographed sites in Lahore. Kate went conservative, traditional and respectful with her green Maheen Khan shalwar kameez, with matching headscarf. Kate must have pulled back her hair into a low bun or low pony (I think it was a chignon, for what it’s worth) and made sure that there were no fly-away strands of hair, and that the back of her hair was covered too. She should get credit for this, for choosing the conservative and respectful path while visiting a mosque. Also: of course Diana visited this mosque too. So did Charles!

Regarding Kate’s conservative head covering… considering the British reporters are always itching to latch onto any criticism about the Duchess of Sussex, I’m still a little bit surprised at how few people criticized Meghan for half-assing her head-covering at a South African mosque several weeks back. You can make the argument that South Africa is less conservative than Pakistan – and thus, South African Muslims are less conservative – so Meghan doing the minimum with her head scarf was fine. That was basically what people went with – “oh, she threw on a scarf and left half her hair hanging out, it’s fine.” I just… wonder if that would have been the same reaction had Kate done the same. Sometimes, the criticism does go both ways.

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Immediately following her sister’s 2011 wedding, Pippa Middleton was in demand. She was in-demand for paparazzi, magazines wanted to profile her or hire her, and people were throwing job offers at Pippa too – she ended up taking a lucrative book deal, several gigs as a “columnist” (for Vanity Fair, among others) and of course there was now-infamous semi-offer to become an on-air correspondent for the Today Show. We knew about that years ago, that Pippa had done some kind of “screen test” for NBC but the real job offer never materialized and I don’t think Pippa was too interested anyway. Still, Today did air a taped interview between Pippa and… Matt Lauer. It was awkward as hell. It aired in 2014. Here’s one clip:

Immediately following that interview, there were many rumors that Buckingham Palace was basically trying to shut down Pippa and never allow her on camera again. The gossip was always on the royal/Middleton side of things. But we were missing the other side: the grossness of Matt Lauer. Apparently, he was all about Pippa. UGH.

Disgraced Matt Lauer set his sights on hiring Kate Middleton’s sister Pippa and pushed to get her on air, Page Six is told. The former “Today” show anchor, who is at the center of rape allegations by former producer Brooke Nevils, wanted Middleton to become a regular contributor. Lauer even shut down his favorite restaurant, Donohue’s Steak House on the Upper East Side, to host a dinner for the future queen’s sister, whose regal derrière became the unwitting star of Kate’s royal wedding to Prince William in 2011.

Pippa was accompanied by her publicist at the time, former UK newspaper editor Simon Kelner, alongside senior “Today” staffers, including former “Today” executive producer Don Nash, who thought it would be a good idea to hire her. Lauer also interviewed Pippa personally on air and arranged for her to film a test shoot at a dude ranch in Montana, which, however, turned out to be “excruciating,” according to a source.

“Pippa wasn’t comfortable with any of it. Buckingham Palace was putting her under tremendous pressure not to go forward or cause any embarrassment to her sister. Matt and Pippa were never alone, and she wasn’t really interested in the job, but nevertheless NBC staffers were nervous about Matt’s interest in Pippa.”

Fortunately, Lauer was overruled by his then-boss at NBC News, Deborah Turness, who said “no” to hiring Pippa, now a happily married mom.

[From Page Six]

I would imagine that Lauer did this with many women and many female “potential employees.” The wooing, which he probably thought was a seduction, where he tried to ingratiate himself and worm his way into a woman’s confidence and trust. If Pippa had ended up joining the Today Show, I don’t want to even imagine how Lauer would have behaved towards her. Thank goodness she avoided all that.

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Donald Trump posted the above image on his Twitter yesterday with the message “Nervous Nancy’s unhinged meltdown!” As you can see, the photo shows Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi literally standing up to the lunatic president and his henchmen. The backstory on all of this is… well, one of the worst and most remarkable days in politics. Donald Trump has left the Kurds to be slaughtered in Syria. He did this because he’s Putin’s puppet and Turkish president Erdo?an’s puppet. Yesterday, Speaker Pelosi oversaw a vote in the House condemning Trump’s pullout in Syria. The House condemnation passed with broad bipartisan support, 354-60.

Trump also gave an unhinged press conference where he slurred his words and claimed that the Kurds were “no angels.” He also basically repeated talking points from Putin, Assad and Erdogan. In addition to that, he passed out the letter he sent to Erdogan and no one – not the press, not Congressional Republicans, not Democratic leadership – could even believe that it was real. The letter is real. Trump sent it to Erdogan last week. Donald Trump is illiterate and profoundly stupid:

This is insane. pic.twitter.com/ERHXoQGqUS

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) October 16, 2019

So that’s just some of the stuff that was leading into Trump’s meeting with Congressional leadership yesterday, late afternoon. By most accounts, the meeting started and Trump was already pissing in his pants because of the bipartisan House vote. As Speaker Pelosi was talking, he interrupted her, threw a tantrum and called Pelosi a “third-rate politician.” Pelosi stood up, told him off and walked out. She told reporters outside of the White House that Trump had a “meltdown,” and “we have to pray for his health because this was a very serious meltdown.”

After Pelosi accused Trump of having a meltdown, he got on Twitter and accused Pelosi of having a “meltdown,” because he really is that f–king stupid. YOU’RE THE PUPPET! Remember that? He actually posted that photo as some kind of proof that Speaker Pelosi is NOT a badass.

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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived in Lahore, Pakistan today for a day full of activities. First there was an official greeting on a tarmac with various local officials, and then – without changing – William and Kate headed off for an event with SOS Children’s Villages Pakistan. I first heard about SOS Children’s Villages because of Angelina Jolie – she’s a long-time supporter of the privately-operated homes/schools for orphans. Jolie has visited SOS Children’s Villages around the world. The Cambridges spent time with the kids, played with finger puppets and listened to music. Then they went to play cricket with some famous Pakistani cricket players and kids.

For the arrival and the SOS visit, Kate wore a shalwar kameez by Gul Ahmed and a shawl by Maheem Khan. I… love this? Once again, Kate is making traditional Pakistani garments look so comfortable. People think that there are small jasmine flowers embroidered on Kate’s shalwar kameez – jasmine is Pakistan’s national flower. Kate still put her stamp on the ensemble with beige low-heeled Rossi pumps.

Kate also gave a speech, and part of it was in Urdu! She tried.

Kate also gave her first (and I think only) speech of the tour and even said a few words in Urdu pic.twitter.com/0qzhZi4ivR

— Rebecca English (@RE_DailyMail) October 17, 2019

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Jonathan Van Ness is riding the high of being a best-selling author with his autobiography, Over the Top. As Jonathan likes to say, he’s lived a lot of life. Jonathan is very good about reminding people that a lot of life means both good and bad experiences. Because of that, Jonathan is all about destigmatizing things most humans have to deal with. Like his work on living HIV+, he’s trying to eliminate any shaming he can. His latest shame-removal campaign is: feces. Not feces per se, but defecating. So committed is Jonathan, that he just became the face of Poo-Pourri toilet spray. The pitch is that one shot of Poo-Pourri before you use the restroom will eliminate any embarrassing odor after. To start the ball rolling on anti-poo-shaming, Jonathan told his own embarrassing story. Sorry if this adds to the stigma but I feel I need to let you up front that this is a detailed story about diarrhea. He told his story in this behind-the-scenes (which is a really unfortunate pun) video. People graciously excerpted it for us:

It’s something that everyone does but it’s something that’s very stigmatized and people just feel kind of gross about it. I’ve dealt with poo shame, and anywhere we can remove stigma and shame, I want to be here for it.

It was Sepulveda and Pico, and I was in a Kia Rio, at a red light, with nowhere to run. And it wasn’t a ‘shart’ or a ‘chancer,’ as my step-dad would have said. (A chancer is when you have to fart and so you take a chance but you’re not sure.) This wasn’t a chancer — this was a 27-year-old having a full diarrhea that was brought on by a hot, seafood spinach salad with a kombucha and frozen yogurt.

[From People]

Two other pieces of information missing from the transcription are that he did not have a chance to spray Poo-Pourri prior to his Pico Poo (Sepulveda Secretion?) and that his expulsion was in the “gallons.” You can tell just by my language how comfortable I am with discussing this. I’m a mom, I have elderly parents/relatives – I have no problem with the facts or dealing with what I have to. But I hate – loathe, if you will – any scatological discussion, and that includes humor. The only exception to this is for medical reasons. I know I’m not as evolved as I should be on this and I’m sorry I can’t be that person.

However, I do support destigmatizing things that naturally affect us. And apparently, sh-tting oneself is much more common than I realized. I remember on I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman, she got an entire fire department to share their stories as an icebreaker – and almost everyone had one. And if this spray works, bully, because I get so annoyed at people who make a huge deal about poop or fart smells. Like Jonathan said, they happen all the time. If it’s too powerful, we can excuse ourselves but waving arms, dramatically holding noses or exaggerated admonishments are not necessary (unless that was what the offender wanted, we all find different things funny). I’ve seen Jonathan’s commercials and they are cute and playful, so right on brand with his message. I have not used the spay so I have no idea if it heavily perfumes the air or not, I know people with perfume sensitivities can’t be around certain air fresheners. I did see that they just came out with a Pumpkin Chai scent and gawd help me but that excites me. I love Halloween and if it was called Boo-Pourri I’d have no problem talking about it.

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As everyone keeps saying, Angelina Jolie is back to feeling good about life and feeling good about herself. It took three years, basically. Angelina has been promoting Maleficent: Mistress of Evil all over the world for weeks, and she’s been making a lot of public comments as she does press for the film. Her quotes, taken together, kind of reveal that Angelina spent 2014-2016 in a bad place. Those were her final years with Brad Pitt, and she was deeply unhappy. In the wake of their split, Jolie says she was not feeling strong, especially not strong enough to play Maleficent again:

Angelina Jolie had to work to find the strength to play Maleficent again in the upcoming sequel. Jolie put the horns back on last summer to shoot Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which comes out this Friday, marking her first acting role in four years.

“It was a tough time,” Jolie tells PEOPLE of returning to the character in this week’s issue. “I’d been coming off a few years of difficulty, and I was not feeling very strong. In fact, I was feeling pretty broken. It took me a moment to feel the strength of [Maleficent] again.”

Jolie, 44, shares six children with her ex-husband Brad Pitt, 55: daughters Zahara, 14, Shiloh, 13, and Vivienne, 11, and sons Maddox, 18, Pax, 15, and Knox, 11. But while her six kids hung around in London with their mom during most of the shoot, Jolie couldn’t get them to appear on screen this time. Even Vivienne, Jolie’s youngest daughter who appeared as a young Aurora in the 2014 original, wasn’t into it.

“I tried,” Jolie says. “Viv still can’t believe I made her a princess. None of my kids want to be actors. [They’re into] business, humanitarian affairs, things like that. Nobody was interested!”

[From People]

“I was not feeling very strong. In fact, I was feeling pretty broken.” Two years after the Jolie-Pitt split, she still felt broken. Keep in mind that during pre-production and production on Mistress of Evil, Brad and his team continued to smear Angelina because she was… taking care of the kids in London. Anyway, I love that her kids couldn’t care less about being in the movie with her. Vivienne was so cute as Toddler Aurora in the first film! And it made me laugh because Angelina sounded like such a stage parent when she talked about trying to get Vivienne to do “act” as Aurora. I wish at least one of the kids wanted to be in the second movie!

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Arnold Schwarzenegger was on Howard Stern’s Sirius radio show the other day. While there, he confirmed to Stern that there the promised sequel to the 1988 film Twins is, in fact being written, albeit not very quickly. For those who don’t know, Twins was a buddy comedy/city mouse country-mouse premise in which Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito were twins as the result of a laboratory genetic experiment. One twin (Schwarzenegger) was raised on an island with the best of everything by a scientist, while the other (DeVito) had an unfortunate experience being raised by nuns in an orphanage in LA. Critics were mixed on it, but audiences loved it. Plus it made enough money for the crew to consider a sequel, one that includes Eddie Murphy. Apparently, it’s still being considered, Schwarzenegger confirmed. The video is below and here’s the relevant part.

Last Time I saw you, you said, we’re in discussion, you sat with Eddie Murphy and that you were going to do a remake – not a remake, a sequel, I guess – to Twins. And it’s going to be you and Danny DeVito again, and now Eddie Murphy, you’re going to find out you have another brother. I love this concept, I thought this could be great, but I want to know where we are with this.

We’re at the writing stage. Yeah, it’s being written. Our mutual friend, Ivan Reitman, has been dragging his feet a little bit. Because he wants to protect the first one and he was worried that the second one may be better or may be worse.

I guess the sequel will be called Triplets, which is clever. I’ll be honest, I don’t really remember the first movie. I saw it and I know I liked it, but I needed wiki to remind me what happened. Stern said he understood Reitman’s hesitation because the first was “a great classic” film. I don’t know if I would go that far but it was fun. Given the premise, that a lab used six men’s DNA to create Schwarzenegger and DeVito, the sequel’s premise is perfect. And as Seriously OMG WTF points out, Murphy is hot right now so I bet Reitman starts burning the midnight oil on this. Murphy could get this green-lighted pretty quick.

I can barely remember the film, so I don’t know if it was problematic. If Reitman can restructure the conversation to keep with the times it could still be very funny. The talent alone would sell the script. Personal life aside, I think Murphy is a marvelous entertainer. DeVito was the straightforward disadvantaged/street-smart character who did what he needed to survive. Schwarzenegger’s character was naïve given his isolated upbringing. He was brilliant and physically perfect but not entitled. If they made Murphy the affluent, effete aristocrat that would be a fun dynamic. It will be explaining what the original two have been doing for the last 30 years that will be difficult, especially if Schwarzenegger’s character is still naïve.

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Neil Patrick Harris, his husband, David Burtka, and their children, Gideon and Harper, went on a fabulous European vacation this summer. Neil posted a video on Instagram of a jump into the Adriatic Sea in Croatia. That’s below! While that happened without incident, it turns out that Neil also injured his hand thanks to a sea urchin, and it is mending very slowly. That post is above and here’s People’s writeup.

“Had surgery today,” the How I Met Your Mother star revealed on his Instagram on Tuesday.

“I tripped and hand planted onto a sea urchin almost two months ago while climbing rocky cliffs in Croatia,” he explained.

“Most of the tiny spines I dug out myself, but two refused to leave and one got infected,” the 46-year-old actor continued. “Turns out it pierced through a tendon (see ultrasound video). Well, thanks to the surgical talents of Dr. Dan Polatsch and his team, I’m officially urchin free and on the mend.”

Unfortunately, being “on the mend” includes a massive “hand elevating contraption” that Harris has to wear on his injured hand “for the foreseeable future.”

But, the father of two is choosing to stay positive… and might be ordering some sushi while he recovers: “All in all, though, I have to say: uni is still delicious,” he added.

[From People]

My hand is aching in sympathy. Ouch. I hope Neil recovers soon! That “hand-elevating contraption” looks intense, and I’m sure it makes performing routine tasks a pain in the neck. I’m chuckling about this, though, because accidentally putting my hand somewhere that I shouldn’t while attempting to balance myself (like on top of a sea urchin) is totally something that I’d end up doing. I actually had to make an emergency eye appointment yesterday after noticing a bump on my eyelid the night before. It turns out that the bump is a swollen gland. HOWEVER, I also have a corneal abrasion and some erosion, because: Quimby. Back to Neil: I wonder how he is going to work this device into his Halloween costume? I bet it will be epic!

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Jumping for joy, if joy is three stories up. #croatia #iphoneX #waterproof #deathgrip #adriaticsea #glorious

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First day of third grade?!? How did it…… when did they….. what in the…… #timeflies #stooppic #proudpapa

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This Matt Lauer mess now has a royal angle. Because apparently he was trying to get Pippa Middleton a job at NBC at one point? Based on….the fact that he thought she’d be great TV? A great broadcaster? Look, I know we all have different tastes. You might love watching the person/people I can’t stand…