After Virginia Giuffre dropped the YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID on Prince Andrew outside a New York City courthouse this week, we saw yesterday the new angle he and his team appear to be taking in his defence. Sources close to Andrew told the Evening Standard that they’ve always doubted the legitimacy of t…

Cressida Bonas and Chelsy Davy both attended Prince Harry’s wedding to then-Meghan Markle last year. They got wedding invites but neither got invited to the after-party bash at Frogmore House. This was said to be done on purpose – Harry thought it was the right thing to do to invite his exes to the wedding, but either he or Meghan were uncomfortable with his exes attending the parties. Reportedly, Chelsy Davy was quite emotional about all of it, but Cressida mostly breezed in and out. Well, now that Cressida is marrying HER Harry (Wentworth-Stanley), will Prince Harry and Meghan get wedding invites?

Prince Harry “will definitely” go to the wedding of his ex Cressida Bonas, who announced her engagement to Harry Wentworth Stanley earlier this week. Royal commentator Adam Helliker, said the Duke of Sussex, 34, has always been on good terms with his stunning former partner, 30. Speaking to Fabulous Digital, Adam said of the upcoming nuptials: “Yes Harry will definitely go, as he has remained on very friendly terms with Cressida, who has never said a word in public about her relationship with the prince. Harry is also very friendly with the bridegroom’s mother, Clare Milford Haven.”

While it is expected that Prince Harry will go to the wedding, predicted to be taking place next year, Meghan Markle is also thought to be on the guest list. A royal source added to Fabulous Digital: “Invites haven’t gone out yet, but I’m told Harry and Meghan will be invited. Harry and Cressie are on good terms, Meghan has got to know her and they are expected to attend.”

Adam said that although Meghan is likely to get an invite, he said the real question will be whether or not she accepts. He added: “Meghan is known to feel less comfortable with his Harry’s former girlfriends, particularly Chelsy Davy, who was the prince’s first love and with whom he went out, on and off, for seven years. It was Meghan who ensured that Chelsy was not included on the list for the evening party after their wedding. This was a very pointed snub when many of Harry and Chelsy’s mutual friends from pre-Meghan days were invited to the Frogmore House party.”

[From The Sun]

Not only is Harry close to Cressida’s mom, Cressida is still close friends with the York princesses, and I would imagine Beatrice and Eugenie will in attendance too, so it’s not like Harry and Meghan would be the only royal guests. I know Meghan got the blame for not wanting Cressida and Chelsy at her wedding parties, but isn’t this a situation where Harry knows what’s what? He likely extended wedding invites to his exes, half-hoping they would not attend. And Cressida might do the same – send the invite to the Sussexes but kind of hope they don’t attend (because that would pull focus from her on her wedding day). I don’t know about Meghan being jealous or whatever narrative the tabloids try to bring up – it seems like “jealousy” is the least of Meghan’s worries.

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Martha Stewart built a lifestyle empire and she did it by offering people tangible things to improve their lives and their homes. She wasn’t trying to sell people fake science. She just wanted us to cook better, bake better, decorate better and have prettier homes. That’s it. I mean, you could bash her for consumerism or whatever, but at the end of the day, Martha’s brand was lovely and she wasn’t even an elitist – her Kmart line was affordable and massively successful. Compare that to Gwyneth Paltrow, who created an empire which only caters to…herself, and rich, clueless white women like herself. Gwyneth’s energy is pseudoscience, cancer-curing stickers, energy crystals and elitism. So of course Martha Stewart is going to throw shade. Martha is appalled by this goopy nonsense.

When it comes to Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness and lifestyle empire Goop, there’s one celebrity who isn’t a fan: Martha Stewart. Chatting on the debut episode of The Corp season 2 with Alex Rodriguez and Barstool Sports, Stewart talked about growing her business in the lifestyle, cooking and publishing market. So it was only natural for the 44-year-old sports broadcaster and retired MLB player to ask how she felt about the 46-year-old actress’ brand, Goop.

“How would you describe what Gwyneth Paltrow is doing today versus what Martha Stewart created years ago,” Rodriguez asked the 78-year-old businesswoman. Her response? Well, it was seasoned with some salt and subtle shade. “I don’t follow Goop,” Martha said point-blank. “Sometimes I look at products that she’s selling… I wish every young entrepreneur well and I hope that there are many, many, many different kinds of entrepreneurs… if they’re movie stars or hardworking women like I am, who are not movie stars.”

She continued, “If they have a good idea, I want them to be able to succeed. So good luck, Gwyneth.”

[From E! News]

Honestly, that’s not even half as shady as Martha could have been and should have been. You actually get the feeling that she’s biting her tongue – “Sometimes I look at products that she’s selling…” Yeah, same. Sometimes I look at those Goop products and I’m like… ORLY? But mostly, I think Martha is offended by the idea that her empire was in any way comparable to Gwyneth’s Goop empire. Martha’s right – two very different vibes. Martha knew what she was selling and she wasn’t selling snake oil and elite energies and scammy diets.

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This is about a relatively new young couple making headlines for their romance, both with their respective spotlights. For months now, one of them has been putting together a special project that’s expected to last for almost a year, with cameras following everywhere, documenting everything. Recentl…

Here are some photos from last night’s Venice Film Festival opening ceremony/premiere red carpet for La Vérité. Considering what a snooze this year’s Cannes Film Festival was, I didn’t have any expectations for Venice as far as fashion or buzz. But I’m surprised to see that various companies, sponsors and modeling agencies really did send some young models to Venice just to be the “pretty faces” on the carpet. Sofia Richie was there, and please don’t judge Americans – we don’t know why she’s a thing either. She’s a “model” and she’s dating Scott Disick. That’s her claim to fame. And now she’s getting paid to go to Venice and look bored in a two-piece Please Don’t Buy by Twinset.

Juliette Binoche in Armani, with wet-look hair. I think so much of Binoche’s beauty but wow, she has some consistently bad styling, huh? Catherine Deneuve walked the carpet with Binoche – Catty wore Gaultier and looked kind of awful.

Iman wore Valentino and while this piece is confusing and weird, I kind of love it on her.

Nicholas Hoult looking *UNF*

Martha Hunt in Alberta Ferretti. I wish the bodice was a little bit longer? You know what I mean? Like, this would have been awesome if the grey part was just a tad longer.

Candice Swanepoel was one of the few models there who did NOT wear black. She wore this Etro gown in a champagne shade. Blah.

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We’re at the absurdist part of this terrible Duke of York story. Prince Andrew was close friends with Jeffrey Epstein. One of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, has said for years now that Epstein trafficked her to Andrew when she was only 17 years old. I believe her. This week, she stood in front of a bank of cameras and microphones and said that Andrew “knows what he’s done.” I agree. That’s why his denials are so… oddly worded. But according to one of Andrew’s close friends, this whole story is fake news. The only evidence – besides Virginia’s victim statements – is the photo with Andrew’s arm around Virginia, right?

“Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who says she was recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell after being a towel-girl at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, is shown at center in a 2001 photo at age 17 with Maxwell at right and Prince Andrew, Duke of York, at left.” https://t.co/lB1aVy0AeR #Suicide pic.twitter.com/PouDJdCWgv

— Andrew Kreig (@AndrewKreig) August 13, 2019

That’s the smoking-gun, I guess. I would have believed Virginia without the photo, but I believe the photo is authentic too. But still, the Duke of York is trying:

Sources close to The Queen’s second son have hit out at the “witch-hunt” against him telling the Evening Standard the prince has “absolutely no recollection” of the picture. They also insist that the Duke’s fingers are “chubby” and do not resemble the hand seen in the infamous picture.

However, images have emerged which appear to cast doubt on their claims, reports The Daily Mail. The snaps show Andrew in London in July 2000 – showing the royal leaving a night club wearing almost the exact same outfit as he allegedly did in the picture with Ms Roberts. Those pictures prove that the prince enjoyed wearing dark trousers, a partially unbuttoned shirt and cufflinks shortly before the allegations were made.

His pals also refute Ms Roberts’ claim that she danced with the father-of-two in the capital’s Tramp night club insisting the Duke is “teetotal”. However, the new pictures show the prince leaving celeb haunt Chinawhite club – proving that he still frequented night spots in the city.

[From The Sun]

I mean, what other plays does Andrew have? “Those aren’t my fingers!” “I would never go to a nightclub!” “I would never wear that outfit!” Messy lies. And he’s actually making it so much worse, honestly.

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Dear Gossips,

A few days ago, the Daily Mail published an article about Queen Elizabeth’s “August horribilis”, a play on a speech she gave in 1992 when she referred to it as an “annus horribilis” (terrible year). What’s happening now, of course, is her second son is making headlines around the w…

Dear Gossips,

A few days ago, the Daily Mail published an article about Queen Elizabeth’s “August horribilis”, a play on a speech she gave in 1992 when she referred to it as an “annus horribilis” (terrible year). What’s happening now, of course, is her second son is making headlines around the w…

I’ve made my peace with the fact that I’ll never “get” Pete Davidson. I don’t get why people think he’s funny (he’s not), nor will I ever understand how he manages to date incredibly beautiful, famous women. First it was his whirlwind, WTFery romance with and engagement to Ariana Grande. Then he bounced back from that with a four-month fling with Kate Beckinsale. They ended in April of this year. Now he’s dating someone his own age, someone on the come up: Margaret Qualley, best known to me for her role in Fosse/Verdon, but some of you might know her from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the first time I ever saw her was in a small role on Mad Men). Margaret is 24 years old and she’s Andie McDowell’s daughter. See the resemblance? Well, Margaret and Pete have been dating for a few months. Ugh.

Pete Davidson has a new love in his life! The Saturday Night Live star is dating actress Margaret Qualley, Us Weekly can exclusively reveal.

“They’ve been seeing each other for a couple of months and Margaret is really excited about him,” a source tells Us, noting that the pair are planning to make their red carpet debut at the Venice Film Festival together. Qualley, who appeared in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, has a role in Seberg, which will premiere at the Venice festival on Friday, August 30.

Davidson, 25, was most recently linked to Kate Beckinsale. Us confirmed the twosome called it quits after nearly four months together in May.

[From Us Weekly]

I’m not trying to be TOO judgy, but how and why? Pete is a deeply unfunny dude who lives with his mom and plays video games constantly. Are these women – Ari, Kate and now Margaret – so fed up with the other guys on offer that they somehow end up with Pete? Is Pete’s pickup line really that good? And before everyone gets all up in arms and starts yelling about how Pete is a nice guy who treats women like gold and that’s more important… like, I don’t believe that. I don’t think he’s a good boyfriend at all. He seems like a massive pain in the ass emotionally, and don’t even start with that BDE sh-t. I think that’s why he keeps cycling through women too.

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We watched the Obama daughters, Malia and Sasha, grow up in the White House. It was amazing! Americans love it when we have presidents young enough to have little kids in the White House. We got to see them as little kids coming into Washington, getting their first dog and going to fancy DC private schools, and then we watched as they grew up into lovely young ladies who were embarrassed by their father’s dad jokes. Malia graduated from high school in 2016, and she announced in her dad’s final year that she would attend Harvard in fall ‘17 after a “gap year.” Sasha wasn’t through with high school when her dad left office, which is why the Obamas stayed in Washington – so Sasha wouldn’t have to switch schools in her final years. And it looks like Sasha will not be following her family’s Ivy League path – Sasha will reportedly attend the University of Michigan.

Former President Barack Obama’s younger daughter, Sasha, is poised to begin her college career at the University of Michigan next week. Sasha, whose legal name is Natasha, was seen by students attending summer freshman orientation and again this week accompanied by men believed to be Secret Service agents.

“I was walking by pushing a vacuum and she walked out right in front of me,” said Zach Lassen, a third-year film student from Redford. “I said, ‘Excuse me.’ It was a crowded hallway with her and some Secret Service dudes.”

Asked what he thought about her on campus, he said some people he worked with were a tad annoyed with the added security. But Lassen added: “It’s pretty cool.”

Another student, an 18-year-old freshman from Southfield who declined to be named, said Wednesday she saw Obama during her student orientation. The woman, who was in UM’s Summer Bridge Scholars Program at the time, said she saw Obama near the university’s undergraduate library. She said they have mutual friends and said she’s just “a normal student to me.”

Sasha Obama is enrolled for classes that start Tuesday, The Detroit News has learned, which puts her on a path different from her family members: attending a public Big Ten university instead of seeking an Ivy League education. Her sister, Malia Obama, took a gap year in 2016 before enrolling at Harvard University, where her parents attended law school. Malia Obama begins her third year at Harvard this fall.

[From Detroit News]

I really love that Sasha isn’t going Ivy League, and that her parents weren’t trying to force her to go to their alma mater. Some kids truly don’t *want* the Harvard or Princeton experience, you know? Some kids would prefer a university experience that suits their personalities more than the Ivy League. Isn’t Madonna’s daughter Lourdes also attending University of Michigan? I’ll look that up…YES, Lourdes already graduated! Lola is already 22 and a Michigan grad. I hope Sasha has a great college experience! Also: send some good vibes to Barack and Michelle, both of their babies are out of the nest.

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