Tom Hiddleston made his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, to promote the new trailer for Kong: Skull Island, and he did it in a gorilla suit. So the new Tom Hiddleston formula is Dancing = Bad, Gorilla Suit = Good. Okay. Obviously, this is the kind of any-means-necessary capital-T Try w…

Eddie Redmayne was on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen last night. And someone called in to ask him about whether or not it was true that he dated Taylor Swift. It’s a visit to the Gossip Archives!

Here’s how Eddie responded:

That is a lot of fidgeting, non? I mean, Andy’s fac…

Over the course of his career RDJ has done just about everything, but one thing he hasn’t done is direct. Well that’s about to change as yesterday it was announced that he is going to make his directorial debut, and no, he’s not directing himself in a vanity project. RDJ’s debut is a television p…

Nicole Kidman wore Rodarte for yet another Lion premiere. I don’t love this dress as much as the Fug Girls, but then I never enjoy Rodarte. [Go Fug Yourself]
Michelle Monaghan looks cute here, but the dress sucks. [LaineyGossip]
Why, hello, Jon Hamm. He looks nice in this tuxedo. [Dlisted]
I’m laughing so hard at Ariana Grande’s high-fashion overalls. [Moe Jackson]
Jinger Duggar is fine on her honeymoon. [Starcasm]
It’s gross to me that Porsche stuck with Maria Sharapova. [JustJared]
Scott Disick is trying to make it work with Kourtney Kardashian. [ICYDK]
Donald Trump loves to use gaslighting language. [XOJane]
Kate Upton is the worst tweeter since Donald Trump. [IDLY]
Metallic performs “Enter Sandman” with classroom instruments. [Seriously OMG WTF]
Bruce Springsteen is getting a Presidential Medal of Freedom. [Socialite Life]

Leonardo DiCaprio is in Edinburgh this week to speak at the Scottish Business Awards. He also stopped in at a café called Home, which supports members of the local homeless community and “provides training and employment programmes for members of the Social Bite Academy, a four-year paid course f…

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban walked the red carpet together at the premiere of Lion at the MoMA in New York last night. They were coy, playful and affectionate, and gave photographers several options of loved up photos to use and service to the press in service of Lion.

In Lion, Nicole gets …

Chris Hemsworth isn’t even my favorite Hemsworth, so I’m ambivalent about Chris being named GQ Australia’s Man of the Year. But I am enjoying his beard and his arms. Chris was honored last night in Australia – although he didn’t actually show up to the event – alongside Iggy Azalea (Woman of the Year), Joel Edgerton (Actor of the Year), Jon Hamm (International Man of the Decade) and more. Apparently, Chris’s GQ profile was written by none other than Tom Hiddleston, which is actually the reason I’m covering this.

Tom wrote in GQ: “One morning on the set of Thor: Ragnarok, I watched Chris zero in on an important scene between Thor and Loki with razor-sharp focus and commitment. The scene required a lot of nuance, but he wanted to shoot it quickly, because he had to be off-set by lunchtime in order to make it to father-daughter day at school in the afternoon. That’s a Man of the Year if ever I saw one.”

Hemsworth was unable to attend the black tie dinner in celebration of GQ Australia’s Man of the Year Awards, so he recorded a video message to express his gratitude.

“It’s been a real dream of mine, since I was a young boy, to be a man. I achieved that when I was 18, but this obviously is the icing on the cake and the true recognition of what it takes to be a man—the highest honor,” Hemsworth joked. “I’m just going to continue to do manly stuff throughout my life and uphold that title: chopping firewood, wrestling crocodiles, all sorts of manly business.” After acknowledging his fellow honorees (and ribbing guest Chris Evans), Hemsworth took a moment to give Elsa Pataky props. “Thanks to my wife and all the great women of the world who make us men truly what we are,” he said. “You can’t have a great man without a great woman.”

[From E! News]

Why can’t I put my finger on why this irritates me so much? I don’t know. I guess what bugs me is the whole idea that Chris is being praised (by Hiddles, no less) for having an amazing work-life balance, and managing to make it to his daughter’s school. If we were talking about a “woman of the year,” would that be part of the conversation, or would it be a given that a mom would show up for her kids, instead of being cited as evidence of her goodness?

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Gold Medalist Olympian Simone Biles is not fat. I don’t need to tell you that, I realize, but somebody needed to tell her coach that in 2013. Simone, who was one of Glamour’s Women of the Year, has written a book, Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance. The book covers her childhood to her five medals in Rio last summer. Simone appeared on Today with Hoda Kotb and spoke about the account from her book when a coach said she wasn’t performing well because she was “too fat.”

Speaking to Today’s Hoda Kotb, the 19-year-old opened up about some of her struggles — including the time she was body-shamed by a coach.

It was in 2013 at a meet where Biles wasn’t performing as well as she had hoped.

“You overheard a coach say, ‘You know why she crashed? Because she’s too fat — that’s why. How does she expect to compete like that?’ ” Kotb prompted.

Biles said it was a hard comment for her to hear. “I dismissed myself from the floor so nobody could see me and I walked to the back behind the curtains and I was crying.”

But thanks to some inspirational words from her head team coordinator, Martha Karolyi, Biles managed to find the courage to pick herself up and move past the moment.

“Martha pulled me back on the floor and she gave me a little bit of a pep talk and was like, ‘See, you can’t train like this and let the results show,’ ” Biles said. “So I went back to the gym and I did as told. Her pep talk kind of gave me a little bit of an up rather than a down.”

“It felt good to hear her,” Biles added. “Because I was terrified she was going to be upset with me.”

[From People]

Somewhere Zac Efron just grabbed his wiffle-ball bat and bought a ticket to Texas. Were it me, I’d use my endorsement money to hire a marching band to parade in front of this guy’s house every morning at 3AM.But Simone is as gracious as she is accomplished. She’s using the opportunity to remind coaches of the power of positive reinforcement, which, I suppose, is better than my plan. In her book Simone also discusses her adoption, her time in foster care, being homeschooled, her love for gymnastics and her biological mother. But even though she wrote about her past, Simone always looks forward. When asked whether she can beat her Rio medal count in Tokyo 2020, Simone saw ahead and higher, saying, “I think anyone can get better, as long as you put your mind to it. You set new goals, so I don’t know if I can, but I hope I can.”

If you are looking for Christmas presents, a Disney Imagineer who went to school with Simone’s brothers has drawn a lovely book about Simon and the rest of the US Olympic team. Also, those on the Kellogg’s Tour of Gymnastic Champions did the Mannequin Challenge. How do they do this? I did ribbons when I was a gymnast so that’s my favorite part in this because honestly, that is how my routines usually ended up.

kelloggs tour mannequin challenge ?

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I watched the new red-band trailer for Why Him? starring Bryan Cranston and James Franco the other day. It’s the first footage I’ve seen of the movie ever. Why Him? opens at Christmas, when you might need to get out of the house, away from your family, and laugh at other people’s families so you …

When I first read these Donatella Versace headlines, I thought she was conflating homosexuality with transgenderism and I thought “oh, no, not another clueless jackass saying offensive sh-t.” But after I read her comments in context… I think I understand the point she was trying to make, and the point is somewhat valid. Donatella is promoting a new book called Versace (obviously) about her life and work, and she spoke to The Times Magazine. She believes that women make for better fashion designers, especially when compared to gay men. Because, in her mind, gay men are just imagining what they would wear as women, rather than trying to dress actual women, in clothes women want to wear.

Her comments in The Times Magazine are likely to raise a few eyebrows among her peers, but she believes female designers have an advantage because they “understand a woman’s body, a woman’s security and a woman’s attitude”. The 61-year-old added: “I love gay people. My friends are all gay. But some of the designers, when they design for a woman, they design for the woman they want to be, you know. They are thinking of themselves. But themselves and the woman are not the same… I want to design clothes that say, “This is a woman’s clothes.”

“Riccardo Tisci is amazing, so many [male] designers are amazing, too – but sometimes there is this little thing where they need to make themselves a little bit behind who they are, and to look at the real woman.”

[From The Telegraph]

See? In context, I understand the point she was making. I believe she’s saying that gay men have issues seeing and dressing actual women, with actual women’s bodies, in clothes that most women would truly want to wear. Gay men, in Donatella’s mind, are just designing clothes that they would wear if they were women. True or false? I don’t know. Gianni Versace was an incredible designer, but I think Donatella is a great designer too. And there are a lot of gay male designers who – I feel – don’t really give a sh-t about how a woman’s body works. They’re making clothes exclusively for women who are size zero, with no bust or thighs or butt. They’re making clothes for bodies that are all up-and-down, with narrow hips and no defined waist… like a man.

Meanwhile, in the same interview, Donatella told a Donald Trump story. She had rented out Mar-a-Lago (Trump’s Palm Beach property) for a Versace shoot with Madonna, and this is what happened:

“We rented his place, Mar-a-Lago, or whatever it is, in Palm Beach,” says Versace. “So when you’ve rented something, you don’t want the owner to come in. Well, he came in. I mean, we couldn’t get rid of him . . . .”

She reverts to the guttural, emitting a deep, primitive horny-caveman “URGGGH!” as an impression of Trump seeking entry to the set. “No, no,” she says, playing herself. “We are taking a picture inside there.”

“URGGH,” Versace trumps: “Madonna, eh!”

“And he brought us Kentucky Fried Chicken!” she reverts to narration. “I mean, excuse me. Models, you know? It’s fashion!” She laughs. “He was nice, in a way. But he was pushy . . . and Madonna, she was fasting. So, ‘Do you want Kentucky Fried Chicken?’ ‘No, thank you.’ ” She shakes her head in disbelief. Still, no p-ssy grab at least—just Bargain-Bucket breast.

[From The Times via Vogue]

Ugh. This just reminds me that Trump eats a ridiculous amount of fast food, and that his ham-face indicates that his blood pressure is through the roof. Yeah. The next four years are going to be awful.

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