In Touch Weekly has always dipped their toe in American-tabloid-style coverage of the Windsors. In Touch was notably one of the few American outlets really going for it, years ago, when the Prince William-Rose Hanbury rumors were circulating. I?m just saying, they?re not new to this! Anyway, In Touch is running a funny exclusive about how Queen Camilla is the whole reason why the Princess of Wales and Duchess of Sussex fell out. I disagree ? I think Kate hated Meghan on sight, but sure, Camilla?s machinations behind the scenes absolutely deepened a lot of the rifts within the Windsor clan. Camilla has always been a snake in the grass. Some highlights from In Touch?s big exclusive.

Harry wrote in Spare that he believed Camilla briefed the media about Meghan vs. Kate: ?Camilla is always looking out for herself first,? says an insider, revealing shocking new details behind the queen?s ?twisted? plots against her perceived rivals. ?Kate and Meghan made good targets. Quite simply, if the princesses were constantly at war, then anything negative out there about her and Charles would be of limited interest,? adds the insider. ?Kate and Meghan never had a chance.?

William & Kate were Camilla?s victims too: William and Kate were victims as well, Harry has claimed. Camilla ?wasn?t very keen on Catherine? when she joined the family, royal expert Tom Quinn reveals in the new British documentary The Middletons: Modern Royal In-Laws. And because they were seen as ?stealing the limelight,? Harry pointed out in a 2023 ITV interview, William, 42, and Kate, 43, ?went through a large portion of the same things that Meg and I went through.?

Camilla drove a wedge between the two couples: ?They definitely had their issues, but the animosity snowballed because of all the negative stories out there. Harry started accusing William of leaking things as well,? says the insider. Harry and Meghan, hurt that William and Kate and the rest of the palace staff often refused to set the record straight, ?took it to the next level,? the insider adds, by leaving the royal family and telling all in a series of barn-burning interviews and Spare.

Beloved Camilla: In the middle of all the strife, Camilla was crowned queen in 2023. ?And now, she?s almost universally beloved,? the insider points out. ?She finally achieved her goal.? But as Harry said on 60 Minutes, there were ?bodies left in the street.?

Kate and Meghan?s friendship was among the casualties. ?It?s a shame,? says the insider, ?because they have a lot in common. There?s no reason why they shouldn?t get along, even if they were never destined to be BFFs.? These days, contact between Kate and Meghan, who once giggled together at Wimbledon, is ?extremely limited,? says a source, ?though Kate was genuinely touched when Meghan sent her well-wishes during her cancer battle.?

Kate wants to make peace with Meghan: ?She?s so full of gratitude these days, and in her view, no one should waste time holding grudges. She is more than willing to make peace with Meghan ? and Meghan is very much on the same page.? The pair exchange gifts for each other?s children, ?who would love to get to know their cousins,? says the source. William and Harry will take some convincing. ?Kate has been quietly trying to chip away at the tension, hoping to bring them back together, but so far, nothing has worked,? says the insider. ?The feeling among those close to them is that the only way the brothers will ever reconcile is if both Meghan and Kate want it to happen.?

[From In Touch Weekly]

There?s been a renewed campaign in recent weeks to say that Kate is somehow open to reconciling with Harry, and now Meghan too? I don?t buy it. But I am happy to see that people are starting to understand how thoroughly Camilla has destroyed relationships within the family. Camilla always feared that Diana?s sons would gang up on her, so she drove a wedge between them. She hated that two younger wives got more attention than her, so she drove one princess out of the country and she?s gatekeeping the other. I also believe that Camilla is completely behind Charles?s estrangement from Harry, and Charles?s weird relationship with William. Granted, Charles has made those choices for himself, but Camilla has always wanted Charles estranged from his sons.

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I?ve noticed that comedy folks tend to do well on Celebrity Jeopardy. Robin Thede, Lisa Ann Walter, and Patton Oswalt all had strong games, and of course Ike Barinholtz. The MADtv alum won the celeb version in 2023, then came back the next year to play in the Tournament of Champions. CB and I were both blown away by how smart he is! Anyway, Ike is also a frequent collaborator with Mindy Kaling, and that includes co-creating the new basketball comedy series Running Point, out now on Netflix. He also co-stars in The Studio on Apple TV, with Seth Rogan, Catherine O?Hara and Kathryn Hahn.

Ike just appeared on Dax Shepard?s Armchair Expert podcast to promote the show, and the two middle-aged men (Ike is 48, Dax is 50), talked about how they think they?ve each grown into their looks as they?ve aged. Dax noted he thought his hair in particular looked better now than when he was in his 20s, which prompted Ike to reveal that he gets platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections to help out his own mane. But they?re painful, so he uses laughing gas to get through the procedure:

?Some men, it gets a little bit easier. You don?t look as bad as you get older,? Barinholtz said.

?Relative to your peers, you start looking better,? Shepard said. ?If [you?re] taking any care of yourself.?

?All you gotta do is wait it out,? Barinholtz said. ?Everyone?s gonna get old and ugly, and you?re gonna still stay the same.? That prompted Shepard to reply, ?This hair was thin in my twenties, but it ain?t bad in my fifties.?

?Hello?? Barinholtz said, sharing he?s had ?no plugs, just a little bit of PRP. I do the PRP,? which Shepard said he hasn?t tried.

PRP, or platelet-rich plasma injections, use the patient?s own blood to create a serum that can either promote healing ? such as an injured joint ? or help stimulate hair growth and treat male pattern baldness, John Hopkins Medicine explains.

?I went the first time, and it hurt so much,? the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire winner said. ?It?s just kind of waking stuff up [in your scalp]. And then I went back. I just remember it hurt so bad, and the nurse was like, ?I forgot. Do you like the laughing gas?? And I was like, ?That?s a f?ing option? Yeah. Yes. Yeah.??

?So now when I go, you suck on [the laughing gas tube],? he said, adding in a slurred voice, ?and you?re like, ?Do you guys watch White Lotus???

?Meanwhile, you can hear all the popping,? he said, referring to the injections, ?but you can?t feel it.?

?[White Lotus creator] Mike White is a genius,? he added with the same slurred voice. ?I?m just like, ?Give me the good stuff, baby.? It?s so nice. It?s the only time you can do it legally.?

?And with medical supervision,? Shepard said. ?It?s like you?re free to get as high as possible, and there?s a staff to bring you back.?

[From People]

I thoroughly enjoy hearing two grown men candidly discuss their thoughts on beauty and aging and personal maintenance regimens. At the same time, I reserve my right to feel a bit conflicted over the fact that looking better as you age is a grace so easily afforded to men. It works both ways! Men care just as much about their appearance, and women continue to become even more fabulous as we age. Stepping off my shea butter soapbox now.

As for PRP, it seems to mostly be used for sports injuries and hair loss. (I wonder if a certain former Football Association president has heard of it.) My own curly hair is my greatest vanity, so I don?t begrudge Ike for seeking treatment with the means he has available to him.

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The Duchess of Sussex keeps adding recommendations to her ShopMy page! Earlier this week, Meghan launched her ShopMy page with a wealth of fashion recs, many of which have already sold out. Then she added a second page with beauty recs on Tuesday. But then something amazing happened on Wednesday? ?The Wedding Edit? recs. All of the products Meghan used on her wedding day: ten products from Dior, Tatcha and Mac. A while back, Daniel Martin gave an interview in which he described how he did Meghan?s makeup on her wedding day and he cited a lot of these products in that interview. Mama?s getting DIOR BEAUTY money now. You can see Meghan?s new ShopMy page here. As for the money/commissions, Puck News had this really interesting piece about Meghan?s influencer energy and how much she?s actually making in commissions.

Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Montecito, has picked a side in the ShopMy vs. LTK battle, having casually dropped a link to a ShopMy page on her Instagram Stories Monday evening. The URL simply uses ?ms,? subtly reaffirming her Sussex identity, while the page offers a high-low ?duchess of the people? mix: neutral favorites from semi-affordable French handbag line Pol?ne, sandals from Kering-owned Saint Laurent, cashmere from Loro Piana, J.Crew classics, and California label Heidi Merrick. I spoke to a rep from one brand who said they get Daily Candy levels of viral sales when Markle wears one of their items.

Markle also linked to a handbag from Cesta Collective?a brand that she recently invested in after being spotted out with Clare Waight Keller, who designed her wedding dress. (She also linked C.W.K.?s Uniqlo trench.) Every time someone clicks on the item and converts to purchase, of course, she will also make a commission, usually around 8-15 percent.

The move signals Markle?s calculated return into influencer territory. Before royal life intervened, her lifestyle blog, The Tig, covered fashion, food, travel, and beauty. Now she?s methodically reclaiming her space in the founder sphere with her insufferable Netflix show, With Love, Meghan; her podcast; and her Flamingo Estate knock-off brand, As Ever, which sells jams and other sundries.

In her renewed influencerdom, Markle is repackaging royal celebrity into aspirational founder status, blending aristocratic cachet with California entrepreneurship. In other words, attempting the ultimate rebrand from exiled royal to girlboss. After all, she has to pay for her own security now.

[From Puck]

I?m really a peasant because I had to look up the ?Flamingo Estate knock-off brand.? I guess Flamingo Estate is very popular in California? OMG, I?m reading the brand?s mission statement, it?s? um, very special. Anyway, I really didn?t know how ShopMy commissions worked and how much Meghan would actually be getting paid. In a panic, the British media cried about Meghan earning ?millions? from ShopMy commissions, but in the early days, it sounds more like she?ll be making thousands, maybe tens of thousands. Still, a nice little revenue stream and even more evidence that Meghan can sell the crap out of anything without even trying. That?s an extremely valuable commodity and it wouldn?t surprise me if many brands would be willing to do anything to get on Meghan?s ShopMy list.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Avalon Red.

In the early half of 2024, The Times of London and other British outlets (notably the Daily Mail) were running a full-scale pressure campaign to somehow force Prince Harry to remove himself from the board of African Parks. Harry had been the president of AP for six years, then he was promoted to board member. While there were genuine controversies involving AP, the British media did a ?big stretch? to make every single of those controversies solely about Harry and how HE needed to resign from AP. Suspiciously enough, the Times published a piece, adjacent to that campaign, about how Prince William and Harry had always ?fought about Africa? and William didn?t like how Harry had access to all of that money and power. It felt like William was behind the way the AP stuff was covered.

Anyway, I decided to take that trip down memory lane because I?m getting deja vu with this Sentebale mess. The way everything has come out, it feels like another operation from Windsor Inc. Long story short, Sentebale?s board of trustees didn?t agree with the direction their chairwoman Sophie Chandauka was trying to take on Sentebale?s behalf, and so they asked her to resign as chair. She refused, and ran straight to the Charity Commission in the UK to sue them. This week, Lesotho?s Prince Seeiso and Prince Harry, Sentebale co-founders and patrons of Sentebale, resigned in protest, taking the side of the trustees. The Daily Mail?s Becky English bizarrely gloated about the situation, suggesting that it never would have happened if Harry was still a working royal. In yesterday?s coverage, I used some coverage of Chandauka?s statement, but here it is in full:

Dr. Chandauka said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE that she had been ?guided by the principles of fairness and equitable treatment for all, regardless of social status or financial means.?

?There are people in this world who behave as though they are above the law and mistreat people, and then play the victim card and use the very press they disdain to harm people who have the courage to challenge their conduct,? the statement continued.

Dr. Chandauka added that this is ?the story of a woman who dared to blow the whistle about issues of poor governance, weak executive management, abuse of power, bullying, harassment, misogyny, misogynoir ? and the coverup that ensued.?

She also went on to say that her work with the charity was ?not a vanity project from which I can resign when I am called to account.?

?I will continue to faithfully perform my role as Chair of the Board, and I look forward to the opportunity to work with others who are interested in issues of health, wealth and climate resilience for young people in Africa,? Dr. Chandauka added.

[From People]

?Then play the victim card and use the very press they disdain to harm people who have the courage to challenge their conduct?? Like? was her statement written by Piers Morgan or something? We?re talking about a charity which provided healthcare for kids with HIV. When has Harry ?played the victim card? ever, but specifically about Sentebale or his work in Lesotho? This woman sounds completely delulu. ?The story of a woman who dared to blow the whistle about issues of poor governance, weak executive management, abuse of power?? She is the one with the power? She is the chairwoman. She is the weak executive. She is the one poorly governing.

A few more things ? Chandauka was the woman ?bullied? (lol) by Meghan at the polo match last year. The bullying incident was when they were all taking photos with the polo team and Chandauka thought she would stand on Prince Harry?s right side and Meghan said ?do you want to come stand over here,? motioning to her left. That was the big drama, which was amplified by the British royalists. Lastly, CNN covered the Sentebale mess, and they noted this: Britain?s PA Media news agency ?said [Chandauka] claimed she had reported the trustees to the UK?s Charity Commission and that a UK court had issued an injunction to stop her dismissal. CNN has not seen a copy of the alleged injunction from the UK?s High Court. A source familiar with the matter told CNN that no such order had been issued.? She lied about an injunction?

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The Duchess of Sussex?s ShopMy page is already a huge success and it?s only been active this week. Many items are already sold out, and sources close to Meghan have confirmed that she will continue to update the ShopMy page with new picks, not only clothing and jewelry, but beauty recommendations and homeware items. All in all, I love the way she did this, because people really are obsessed with everything she wears. All of her recommended items feel authentic to her style and vibe. Instead of signing up for an ambassadorship with one brand, she?s spreading the ?Meghan Effect? around to dozens of brands and she?s pocketing a nice commission too. Obviously, this is incredibly painful for the people who think giant shoulder pads and flag-dressing are the height of fashion. They find Meghan?s ShopMy page to be unspeakably ?crass.?

Meghan Markle?s new online clothing shop is being dubbed ?shameless? by royal insiders, who believe the move is one big cash grab. On Monday, Markle, 43, launched a ShopMy page, allowing fans to purchase her favorite clothing and accessories ? and the Duchess of Sussex will likely get a hefty commission. ?A handpicked and curated collection of the things I love ? I hope you enjoy them,? the mom-of-two wrote, adding that ?some products may contain commissionable links.?

A source familiar with the Sussex camp questioned why Markle, and Prince Harry, would need to do this, asking: ?Have they lost all their money? This is probably Meghan?s own idea. She probably got the offers once she rejoined Instagram, but it?s so crass,? said the source.

The deal may been brokered by the former ?Suits? star?s Hollywood money manager Andrew Meyer, Page Six is told. We have reached to Meyer for comment.

Another royal source called the new site ?shameless,? adding, ?This has always been Meghan?s Achilles heel ? applying celebrity status to the royal family as public servants, wanting to monetize her status. But blending the celebrity common practice of accepting things for free with public service doesn?t work.?

[From Page Six]

?But blending the celebrity common practice of accepting things for free with public service doesn?t work.? Prince William and King Charles are literally slumlords. All of the Windsors happily accept freebies and steep discounts all of the time. They prance around in jewels looted from their former empire. Isn?t modern royalty completely based on ?accepting things for free?? Besides which, they still want to pick and choose when the Sussexes are ?royal? and when the Sussexes must ?follow royal rules.? What part of ?the Sussexes earn their own money in California, where they?ve been living for five years? don?t they understand?

?Have they lost all their money?? the ?royal source? asked hopefully. And Page Six contacting the Sussexes? business manager too? these people have lost their damn minds. No, it?s even better than that ? Meghan truly broke their brains and they just bash their heads into the wall, crying ?it?s so crass, the way everyone wants to buy what she recommends, why can?t she be a slumlord taking advantage of peasants like the Prince of Wales???

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We heard several days ago that Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez had finally set the date. They?ve been engaged for two years and I?m sure some people wondered if Lauren was ever going to get this man down the aisle. Well, she is. It really is a mistress fairy tale ? not every woman can pull off ?cheating on your husband with a married billionaire, finessing your way out of two marriages and making a go of it with your side-dude? but here we are. Bezos and Sanchez?s wedding will reportedly go down in Venice this summer. We?re also getting a preview of the guest list, because apparently invitations have already gone out.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren S?nchez?s summer wedding is shaping up to be the event of the year ? ultra-luxe, ultra-exclusive, and a guest list stacked with A-listers!

Eva Longoria, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom, Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian and Jewel are among the lucky ones who scored an invite from the Amazon billionaire and his soon-to-be wife to their summer Italian affair.

We?re also told Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, as well as Karlie Kloss and her husband Joshua Kushner made the list. Our sources say Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg, film producer Brian Grazer, models Brooks Nader and Camila Morrone secured an invitation.

The nuptials are bound to be unforgettable ? Jeff?s a billionaire, after all ? and with a two-year engagement, they?ve had plenty of time to plan the ultimate celebration.

[From TMZ]

The Kardashian and Kushner invites are the least surprising names on this list. Lauren has been pretty tight with the Kardashian-Jenner clan for several years ? tacky birds of a feather flock together. Lauren and Bezos also recently spent time in Aspen with Ivanka and Jared. Maybe Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner were there as well. Eva Longoria? is very well-connected and powerful in her own right, but I had no idea she was in this circle. Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom will show up anywhere. It will be interesting to see if Oprah and Gayle show up. I also wonder if Bezos and Sanchez really plan to go all out for the wedding and make it into a pseudo-royal affair. Lauren seems like the type to want that.

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As I covered the Sentebale catastrophe yesterday, I wondered what would come first in the scandal: the Windsors and royalist media showing their hand and exposing their involvement in the situation, or sources close to Prince Harry coming out to tell his side of things. Surprisingly, sources close to Harry came out about 24 hours after the initial story broke. Sidenote: earlier this month, the Sussexes? new ?chief communications officer? Meredith Maines started working with them. Maines has been working her ass off this month, and I?m so pleased to see that the Sussexes now have a really responsive AND proactive comms strategy in place. Anyway, if you want a comprehensive recap of the Sentebale mess, go here. Sentebale?s board of trustees asked their chairwoman Sophie Chandauka to resign, she refused and ran to London to sue them, and then the trustees resigned en masse, then Prince Harry and Prince Seesio resigned from Sentebale as well. Well, Sussex/Sentebale sources spoke to People Magazine about what?s been going on for the past year:

Prince Harry, Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and the board of trustees of Sentebale made the shocking decision to resign from the charity amid what has been characterized as a financial crisis and internal turmoil.

On March 26, the Duke of Sussex, 40, and Prince Seeiso, 58, announced the ?devastating? decision to step down as patrons of the charity, backing the trustees who also resigned over a fallout with chairwoman Dr. Sophie Chandauka. After trustees asked Chandauka to resign, she brought a lawsuit against the charity, which supports young people in southern Africa. The Charity Commission, based in the U.K., confirmed they are investigating.

A Sentebale source familiar with the situation tells PEOPLE that Chandauka has placed significant legal and financial strain on Sentebale. According to the source, when Chandauka was appointed in July 2023, the organization was in stable financial standing ? but that changed under her leadership.

When the most recent fundraising deal collapsed in December 2024, internal discussions began about her stepping down. By February, the board formally requested her resignation, but Chandauka allegedly refused. When trustees moved forward with a vote to remove her, she filed a legal challenge to block the process.

A key turning point reportedly came when tensions arose between Chandauka and a major funder of the Sentebale Polo Cup, the charity?s flagship fundraising event. As a result of this breakdown, the 2024 match did not take place. Separately, Chandauka hired external consultants ? at a cost of over $600,000 ? to develop new fundraising strategies and build relationships with potential donors, allegedly without securing board approval.

?The trustees felt that they couldn?t in good conscience continue to place legal and financial strain on the charity by it proceeding in court and chose to resign,? the source says.

When reached for comment, a representative for Chandauka tells PEOPLE: ?First and foremost, like much of the content circulated yesterday, a lot of information being shared is untrue and defamatory in nature. When we are ready as an organization, we will share more detail regarding the events leading up to this point. Moreover, the Board acts collectively on major decisions, and it would be inappropriate to assume decisions were made by any one person. As previously said, legal action was taken because of the cover-up of issues relating to abuse of power, misconduct, mismanagement, bullying, harassment, misogyny and misogynoir amongst other concerns.?

[From People]

?A key turning point reportedly came when tensions arose between Chandauka and a major funder of the Sentebale Polo Cup, the charity?s flagship fundraising event. As a result of this breakdown, the 2024 match did not take place.? Imagine being so terrible at your job, you can?t glad-hand a major sponsor of a charity polo match involving Prince Harry and Nacho Figueras. So? maybe this wasn?t a Windsor op, maybe it was just gross incompetence. Spending $600K on ?external consultants? without consulting anyone within Sentebale is certainly a terrible look as well. The biggest red flag is that the entire board of trustees AND the two royal patrons have all resigned and Chandauka is still sitting in her chairwoman?s position, screaming about how she?s being bullied.

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In 2023, a YouTube ?mom-fluencer? named Ruby Franke shocked viewers when she was outed as a horrible monster that abused her children. I won?t recap it, but you can read about it here. Ruby and her accomplice, another YouTuber named Jodi Hildebrandt, were sentenced to 30 years in prison last February. The case shone a spotlight on the genre, which is also known on TikTok as ?MomTok.? It also renewed concerns about the children who are starring in these videos.

Utah, where the Frankes live, is a family influencer hotspot. In their heyday, the Franke children starred in up to five videos per week and had 2.5 million viewers. Following Ruby?s conviction, the state?s legislature has just passed new legislation to add protections for child influencers. The law gives these kids the option to have their underage content deleted once they?re adults and mandates that money be set aside for children who appear on social media or in film and TV projects be set aside for them in a trust. California, Illinois, and Minnesota have already passed similar laws.

Utah on Tuesday added new protections for the children of online content creators following the child abuse conviction of Ruby Franke, a mother of six who dispensed parenting advice to millions on YouTube before her arrest in 2023.

Gov. Spencer Cox signed a law under the encouragement of Franke?s now ex-husband that gives adults a path to scrub from all platforms the digital content they were featured in as minors and requires parents to set aside money for kids featured in content. Kevin Franke told lawmakers in February that he wished he had never let his ex-wife post their children?s lives online and use them for profit.

?Children cannot give informed consent to be filmed on social media, period,? he said. ?Vlogging my family, putting my children into public social media, was wrong, and I regret it every day.?

The Frankes launched the now-defunct ?8 Passengers? channel on YouTube in 2015 and began chronicling daily life as a seemingly tight-knit Mormon family in Springville, Utah. With its large nuclear families and religious lifestyles, the state is a hotbed for the lucrative family blogging industry. The reality show ?The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives? brought widespread attention to a group of Utah-based Mormon moms and TikTok creators known as ?MomTok? who create videos about their families and faith.

The content-creation industry is largely unregulated, but several states have added certain safeguards in recent years. Illinois, California and Minnesota have enacted laws protecting the earnings of young creators, and Minnesota?s law includes a similar provision to Utah?s that allows content featuring minors to be taken down.

In a memoir published after her mother?s arrest, Shari, the eldest child, described how Ruby Franke?s obsession with ?striking content gold? and chasing views led her to view her children as employees who needed to be disciplined, rather than children who needed to be loved. Shari wrote that her mother directed the children ?like a Hollywood producer? and subjected them to constant video surveillance. She has called herself a ?victim of family vlogging? and alluded in her book to early signs of abuse from her mother, including being slapped for disobedience when the now 22-year-old was 6.

Under the Utah law, online creators who make more than $150,000 a year from content featuring children will be required to set aside 15% of those earnings into a trust fund that the kids can access when they turn 18. Parents of child actors appearing in TV or film projects will also be required to place a portion of their earnings in a trust.

At a hearing last month, Kevin Franke read statements in support of the bill written by two of his daughters, ages 16 and 11. He filed for divorce shortly after his wife?s arrest and petitioned to regain custody of his children from the state. His lawyer, Randy Kester, did not respond to email and phone messages over the past week seeking to confirm whether Kevin Franke had regained custody in the sealed case.

Eve Franke, the youngest child who police found emaciated with her head shaved, wrote in a statement to lawmakers that they had power to protect other kids from exploitation.

?I?m not saying YouTube is a bad thing. Sometimes it brings us together,? she wrote. ?But kids deserve to be loved, not used by the ones that are supposed to love them the most.?

[From AP]

I remember when YouTube started regulating the monetization of children?s content. It was aimed at protecting the kids who were watching videos. I think Utah?s new law to protect the kids who are starring in these videos is a good start. However, I don?t think it goes far enough. Why pick $150,000 as the threshold? Families making $50k a year can also be f-cking up their kids. Where are the protections to at least try and protect their mental, emotional, and physical health? Can they somehow do welfare checks? Rules were put into place for child actors in Hollywood for a reason. Does TikTok also have any regulations? Who is protecting child influencers from their own parents? There?s also the fact that kids just want to be kids. Sure, it may be fun to be ?famous? for a little while but at the end of the day, it?s a job and those children will eventually be miserable about the normal childhood that they?re missing out on.

Photo note by CB: Photos are screenshots from the trailer for the YouTube documentary Devil in the Family and from 8 Passengers on YouTube. The children whose faces are shown in these screenshots are now adults who participated in the documentary

Sydney Sweeney and Jonathan Davino got together when she was about 20 years old and he was in his 30s. They got engaged at some point, and Sydney has said, in interviews, that she really wants to get married and have babies. Of course, she also has more professional hustle than most of her generational peers. So people have always felt like Sydney should dump Davino and spend her 20s on herself and her career. Well? it might be happening? Earlier this week, there were rumors going around about Sydney moving out of the home she shared with Davino (a home she bought!!) and living in a hotel. She also deleted at least one photo of Davino from her IG (but Davino barely appears on her IG anyway). In any case, sources now say that Sydney has called off the wedding (but not the engagement?) and that Davino has been stressing her out.

Sydney Sweeney and her fianc? Jonathan Davino have called off their wedding as the couple faces ?major issues? in their relationship, a source told Us Weekly.

?Sydney and Jonathan have been having major issues but are not fully split,? the insider said on Wednesday. ?Things are not great right now, but they aren?t throwing in the towel yet. They are working on their relationship but have called off the wedding for now.?

The source went on to share that all wedding plans have since come ?to a halt? and they ?aren?t having further discussions about it.? Sweeney and Davino, who began dating in 2018, were ?supposed to get married this spring.?

?Sydney wanted to cancel everything and couldn?t handle the stress,? the insider shared.
Sweeney?s ?extremely busy? career allegedly ?caused tension? in their romance.

?Sydney is really focused on her career. Jonathan wishes they were able to spend more quality time together,? the source continued. ?Things are also always tense between them when she is promoting a movie because she has to give her full attention to the project, and people always speculate about their relationship and Sydney being close to her costars,? the insider went on. They also noted that ?it?s a tough dynamic for Jonathan.?

[From Page Six]

I noted in an earlier post that this gossip does not seem to be associated with any current project for Sydney. As in, she?s not promoting anything right now, she?s just working on back-to-back projects. Which gives these reports some legitimacy. I think she genuinely might be phasing out Davino. Interesting. Also: I looked through recent photos of Sydney, and Davino hasn?t been around for a few months. She went to the Vanity Fair Oscar party solo and networked like a champ. She went to Paris Fashion Week solo to rep Miu Miu. The last time it looks like Sydney and Jonathan were out together was January. Hm.

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Charlie Hunnam visited an animal shelter in Illinois and he ended up adopting two kittens named Sugar Plum and Gingerbread. Aww? [Just Jared]
Sherri Shepherd had beef with someone at Othello on Broadway. [LaineyGossip]
Which fictional ?happily ever after? couple definitely broke up? [Pajiba]
Thoughts on Naomi Watts? leather pants?? [Go Fug Yourself]
Miley Cyrus announced her new album, Something Beautiful. [OMG Blog]
Nicole Kidman wore Bottega Veneta in Nashville. [RCFA]
Jersey Mike?s is donating all of their sales to charity today. [Seriously OMG]
A Sister Wives crashout. [Starcasm]
I got hooked on a Final Destination marathon a few weeks ago. [Hollywood Life]
Funny photos to brighten your week. [Buzzfeed]

Charlie Hunnam Adopts 2 Kittens Named Sugar Plum and Gingerbread from Illinois Rescue Shelter https://t.co/l82AqW4QtU

? People (@people) March 25, 2025