Madonna is disappointed in the NYT which is quite confusing – it’s very well done, which is not an easy feat for Vanessa Grigoriadis considering that the subject comes with decades of footnotes. The story works because it’s specific in the details (like the shiny teapot and the art hung at a “confro…

Madonna is disappointed in the NYT which is quite confusing – it’s very well done, which is not an easy feat for Vanessa Grigoriadis considering that the subject comes with decades of footnotes. The story works because it’s specific in the details (like the shiny teapot and the art hung at a “confro…

If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you know I’m obsessed with dates and marking milestones. It is almost exactly the two year anniversary of us finding out about Rihanna and “Handsome Hassan” Jameel as Kathleen first called him back in June 2017. They were photographed making out in a poo…

Award season roundtable roulette continues, and this time, it’s the drama dudes up to bat. The roundtable features Stephan James (Homecoming), Diego Luna (Narcos), Richard Madden (Bodyguard), Billy Porter (Pose), Hugh Grant (A Very English Scandal), and Sam Rockwell (Fosse/Verdon). That’s a solid gr…

Alec Baldwin says he won’t play Donald Trump on SNL anymore. [Pajiba]
Entertainment Weekly is probably becoming Entertainment Monthly? [Dlisted]
The Wonder Woman poster is so pretty & colorful! [LaineyGossip]
Mindy Kaling’s hair looks so cute here. Her outfit is meh though. [Go Fug Yourself]
Lisa Vanderpump really is out of the Real Housewives franchise. [Jezebel]
Lesbian couple badly beaten on London bus. This is awful. [Towleroad]
Keanu Reeves came out for the Saint Laurent show in Malibu. [Just Jared]
Madonna’s new single is “Dark Ballet”. [OMG Blog]
Russia’s pretty sure the CIA had something to with Chernobyl. [The Blemish]

Weren’t we being bread-crumbed to this point all week? I think “bread-crumbing” means something else entirely in the Tinder age but I’m talking about gossip rollout and how, for the last few days, the sourcing and the leaks have brought us to this point: Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk are no more.
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Last night, Denzel Washington received his AFI Life Achievement Award. Well deserved, and honestly, a bit too late. They’ve given some AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards out to people who haven’t done even half of what Denzel has done, but I guess that’s a conversation for another time. Anyway, I just enjoyed these photos of Denzel with his family – his wife Pauletta, his son Malcolm and daughter Katia were there, but I didn’t see John David – and I enjoyed seeing all of the people who came out to celebrate Denzel and his outstanding career.

Spike was there! Spike is the Martin Scorsese to Denzel’s DeNiro.

Paula Patton was there and I honestly didn’t even recognize her.

Issa Rae looked like a princess!

Chadwick Boseman still looks so thin, I hope this is all just for a role, but even then, it’s going to Christian Bale-esque extremes.

Ava DuVernay looked amazing but I can’t figure out her coatdress.

Michael B. Jordan, y’all.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I still have my fingers crossed for some summer shenanigans with Miranda Lambert and her young cop husband Brendan McLoughlin. Brendan and Miranda got together last fall, just a month after her situation with Evan Felker ended, and Miranda and Brendan met during the same week that Brendan welcomed a son with his mistress/girlfriend. From the sound of it, Miranda met her messy match and of course she married him within three months. She’s already started showing him off at awards shows, and they’ve been pap’d a few times in New York, where she bought an apartment. Remarkably, they don’t get pap’d in Nashville, where Miranda also owns a home, and where she and Brendan get into salad-tossing steakhouse beefs. Anyway, Miranda chatted about their marriage and being a stepmom and their lives in Nashville and New York. I’m getting such strong LeAnn Rimes vibes.

Miranda Lambert is embracing her new life as a wife and stepmom! The country singer, who tied the knot with Brendan McLoughlin in January, recently opened up to Extra in honor of the CMA Fest and her annual MuttNation March about life as a newlywed and how the couple has managed to successfully blend their lives. Their compatibility would come as a surprise to some, seeing that Lambert, 35, has been based in Nashville, while McLoughlin, 27, is a New York City police officer. The city slicker cop is also a father and has a 7-month-old son from a previous relationship.

“We have the best of both worlds,” she told the outlet. “We spend time in New York, we get to see our adorable nugget, then we get to come back to the farm and have the quiet life. I’m enjoying the balance.”

Though Lambert does not have human children of her own, as a self-described “crazy dog lady” she’s a mom to plenty of fur babies.

“I’m loving that whole phase, and I’ve raised a million dogs, so I feel like I’ve got that part of my womanly/motherly thing is full, so this is a whole new journey,” she told the outlet. “It’s great… My stepson is amazing. [Brendan’s] a great guy and, bless his heart, he didn’t have any dogs or any animals at all when he came into this relationship, so he inherited a whole barn full. I was like, ‘Hey, I got the dogs, you got the kid, we can mix and mingle.’”

[From People]

“We get to see our adorable nugget.” I mean, we went through this with LeAnn Rimes. I’m not going to fight these battles again. I’ll just say that I extend my sympathy to the nugget’s mother and the messy situation she likely finds herself in at the moment. As for all the dogs… my dad always said that when he married my mom, her cats were her “dowry,” and so that’s how I always think of it. Miranda’s dowry dogs.

Photos courtesy of WENN and Backgrid.

As covered yesterday, the Beyhive swarmed Nicole Curran, who was sitting beside Beyoncé at the Oracle for Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Toronto Raptors (#WeTheNorth) and the Golden State Warriors, after their interaction the sidelines. Nicole was STUNG. She says that the Video Assumption was …

The average American woman currently wears between a size 16–18, yet a lot of designers continue to ignore this fact. There’s also the issue of how to display plus-size clothes in stores; the standard mannequin size is a two. Nike is the latest company to start using plus-size mannequins; as of Wednesday, they are now in its London flagship store:

Nike knows that most women aren’t a size 0 — and the company finally got the mannequins to prove it.

The activewear retailer unveiled a line-up of curvy mannequins at its new-and-improved London flagship store Wednesday as part of a special floor dedicated just to women.

NikeTown says its third level now features “a full range of athlete figures” with “multiple plus-sized and para-sport mannequins” for the first time in the store’s history.

[From People]

Kaiser mentioned that Nike is probably doing this ahead of Wimbledon, which starts July 1st. The timing allows them to draw attention to and celebrate the diversity of athletes and Nike customers. People notes that Nordstrom did the same last month, and that Old Navy brought back plus sizes to stores last year, along with mannequins to display the clothing. Target and David’s Bridal have also brought plus-size mannequins into their stores. In the case of David’s Bridal, the article notes, “This plus-size mannequin was an attempt to keep up with real American women, not just models — and it worked. In 2012, the company was valued at $1 billion.”

As someone who spent most of the last year of graduate school sitting and writing a dissertation, and who continues to spend most of her day on the computer, working, I shop almost exclusively in the plus-size departments of most stores, which are often hit-or-miss. Some have almost no clothing. Some have clothing that I can’t quite believe got someone’s “OK” to manufacture. I was pleasantly surprised when I walked through Kohl’s the other day and realized that there were mannequins in the women’s section that were being used to properly, clearly display some of the clothes. Most of my exercise clothes are Champion, but I might check out what Nike is offering. I think it’s also neat that they are displaying para-sport mannequins, too, though I can’t seem to find any pictures of them.

Photos credit: Tanya Compas and Ashley Stokes via Twitter, tweets below.

Idk why but this @Nike mannequin makes me feel so empowered. pic.twitter.com/sWdkPEdfMN

— Ashley Stokes (@_AStokes_) June 6, 2019

Nike Town in Oxford Circus have opened up a new women’s space on the third floor and for the first time have plus sized mannequins modelling sportswear! pic.twitter.com/FOahIJNFu0

— Tanya Compas (@TanyaCompas) June 6, 2019