Dear Gossips, “Where is your beast mode?” Beyoncé showed us her beast mode yesterday in an IVY PARK Drip 2 video posted on her channels yesterday after releasing still images of the collection. The still images were already enough – but as she intended, the video hyped it all up even more. Duana, Ka…

If it wasn’t clear from my earlier post, I didn’t watch the whole fakakta debate. This was only the second time Joe Biden and Donald Trump were on a debate stage together, and only the first time they’ve been on a stage together whether Trump wasn’t feverish and insane from the coronavirus. It actually wouldn’t surprise me at all if they gave Trump some drugs to make him calm down a little bit? I mean, he was still insane and lies poured out of his mouth like wine, but he was “calmer” than we’ve seen before. Of course, that didn’t stop his wife from hating his guts. Melania was there at the Tennessee debate hall, making her first public appearance in the three weeks since she tested positive for the coronavirus too. After the debate, Dr. Jill Biden and Melania walked on stage to greet their husbands. This is what happened when Donald Trump tried to hold his wife’s hand:

These small and silent moments tell us all we need to know sometimes.pic.twitter.com/0KLwxmFO0M

— Ben Meiselas (@meiselasb) October 23, 2020

Another video:

Melania rips her hand away at the end of the debate.

Apparently Stand By Your Man wasn’t a big hit in Slovenia. pic.twitter.com/73q5DzdSVE

— KevinlyFather ???????? (@KevinlyFather) October 23, 2020

I will say this – there were some tweets suggesting that Donald Trump “shoved” her after she jerked her hand away, but he didn’t? He gave her a pat on the back, more out of disorientation than anything else. He was clearly trying to get Melania to guide him off the stage and she wasn’t about to. Yeah. She hates him. And considering all of the time he’s been spending with Hope Hicks, I think Mel probably already knows that within a year, she’s not going to be around.

People were also wondering if it looks like Mel has a black eye? I don’t think so, I think she was just wearing too much makeup and the lighting wasn’t great.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.

The saga of Donald Trump’s 60 Minutes interview has been entertaining me all week. On Thursday, I had another day like the “Trump tested positive for coronavirus” day, where I kept laughing at every new revelation. So, to recap: earlier this week, Lesley Stahl went to the White House to record an interview with Trump for Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes. The episode was supposed to feature interviews with Trump, Mother’s Husband, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Trump walked out of the interview at some point in a huff. Also, at some point, Kayleigh McEnany presented Stahl with a thick binder full of what they said would be all of Trump’s healthcare accomplishments. The pages were blank.

Throughout all of the whining Trump did this week, it was clear that he really felt like Stahl “wronged” him in some way, possibly by being a woman, possibly by simply asking him follow-up questions, possibly by telling him he was lying when he was lying. And so Trump felt so persecuted, he claimed he was going to release the full 60 Minutes interview himself before it aired on CBS. And then he did just that. He leaked the full video – how did he get access to it?? – on Facebook, because he thought it would make him look good, or it would make Stahl look bad. I watched about a dozen clips and… Donald Trump basically leaked a video of himself looking like a gigantic, petulant, lying child, just whining from start to finish and lying about crazy sh-t and then being nasty to Stahl whenever she tried to fact check him. Here are some clips.

LESLEY STAHL: “You’re okay with some tough questions?”

TRUMP: “No, I’m not.”

STAHL: “You’re not okay with tough questions?”

Trump thinks this looks *good* for him!!! pic.twitter.com/fhfPUnpFwn

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 22, 2020

I’m already laughing. Here he is lying about masks AND crowd size.

Grilled by Stahl about the irresponsibility of holding huge rallies that make a mockery of public health precautions during a pandemic, Trump has no defense other than insulting her and lying pic.twitter.com/UowM4rRrjE

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 22, 2020

His little baby fists can barely clutch the water.

Trump does that weird thing where he uses both hands to drink a glass of water pic.twitter.com/5swKiHmXIE

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 22, 2020

And here he is, actually telling the truth about one thing: that he hopes the ACA is struck down so that millions of people will lose their health care during a pandemic.

“I hope that they end it. It’ll be so good if they end it.” — here’s Trump saying he hopes SCOTUS strikes down the ACA during a pandemic pic.twitter.com/1bTonnA2YJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 22, 2020

And finally, here’s Trump whining some more and then leaving in a huff because he thinks Lesley Stahl asked him such hard, brutal questions.

Trump’s 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl ended with him whining about her asking him tough questions and storming out in a huff pic.twitter.com/zuiwYpKnFb

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 22, 2020

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.

Prince William gave an interview to the Outrage + Optimism podcast this week, and the podcast dropped today. He did the interview to promote the Earthshot Prize, his big new thing which is “the most prestigious” environmental scheme ever, because he’s involved, that’s what makes it prestigious. I have no idea what the Outrage + Optimism podcast normally covers, but I assume that William saw the word “outrage” and that’s why he was drawn to it. Some quotes from William’s interview:

Why he thinks environmentalism will win out: “The vast majority of people want to do the right thing. I think we’ve got to give people the opportunity to see the way forwards. The science is out there and is irrefutable. We have the data. So let’s stop talking about it and let’s actually provide the action. I think that’s what’s going to be really needed over these next ten years.”

What makes him incandescent with rage: He gets “outraged by the inaction” on climate change, adding: “That’s probably a bit of a cliche but that is what I get most troubled about. Especially as I’m in a position of responsibility if you like, or leadership. I feel I can do a lot more if given that ability. So therefore, I don’t understand why those who have the levers, don’t. I think that’s what really upsets me and keeps me awake at night.”

He was always enraged: He also revealed that while growing up, he did “feel that tackling things negatively was the way to go forwards…but actually it doesn’t work.”

Positivity works better though: “The message when I went to China and talked to the Chinese government about trying to tackle the illegal wildlife trade was very much a case of, how about you guys being the global leaders in conservation? You can take on that mantle and you can really drive it forwards. And it’s a much easier conversation to have with someone and it’s not about getting out of a hard conversation – I’m very happy to have hard conversations – but an easy conversation where they can see what you’re getting at, they understand the consequences. At the end of the day, the vast majority of people, if they are presented with the science and the facts, they want to do the right thing. No one wants to do the wrong thing. And I think you have got to give people the opportunity to see the potential and the way forwards.”

This is shady, right? With his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, and his father, the Prince of Wales, both being long-term advocates for the environment, William said: “I think my family has naturally had an opportunity here to support and to be a part of the environmental debate for a long time because it’s been at the forefront of a lot of conversations and a lot of issues for many, many years and people have talked about it for a long, long time. But we need the action now and that’s what these next ten years is about.”

[From People & Hello]

Wow, this interview really isn’t doing what he wanted it to? That part about William going to China and, like an old-school British Empire colonialist, telling the Chinese government what to do and how they should do this or that. And all it took was one meeting and now everything is fixed in China, right? And all of the credit goes to William! All I can think about is how wrathful and rageful he is every day of his life and how eager he is to have “hard conversations” where he tries to scream and stomp his feet and threaten and bully people. He had to learn – recently, it sounds like – that he can’t deal with every situation with threats and rage. And the entire thing about his father and grandfather and their DECADES of environmental work… wow, William is such an a–hole. He truly parachuted into the “cause” of environmentalism five minutes ago and now he’s more of an expert than his father and grandfather, AND he thinks he’s going to do much more for the environment. He’s such a pill.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.

Kate Beckinsale has had a thing for much-younger guys for a while now, and I still don’t really get it. I mean, she’s 47 years old, beautiful and rich, so she could date nearly any guy she wanted. If she wants to date younger guys, so be it. But the guys she actually dates are just such weird choices, and they tend to look even younger than they are. In April, we learned that she was dating a 22-year-old named Goody Grace. Goody looked, to me, like he was about 16. Kate quarantined with him in LA and even called him “the perfect quarantine boyfriend.” Gross. Well, now they’re done.

Kate Beckinsale has reportedly split from boyfriend Goody Grace after nine months of dating. The actress, 47, has allegedly unfollowed the singer, 23, on Instagram and deleted any trace of him from her social media, after he moved into her home during lockdown.

Kate and Goody first sparked dating rumours in April when they were publicly seen together for the first time, and their split comes just three months after publicly declared their love for one another.

According to The Sun, Goody has allegedly returned to his native Canada after splitting from Kate, but he is still following her on social media.

While Kate has deleted any trace of her ex, including a birthday post she shared back in June, Goody’s account still features his gushing birthday post for the Underworld actress, which he posted in July.

[From The Daily Mail]

She’s 47 and doing the “delete him off my social media” thing?? Kind of uncool. At least she’s not pretending that it’s some great love affair. I guess Goody was just a convenience to her and now that lockdown restrictions are being eased, she gave him away or sent him back to Canada. Yikes!

Photos courtesy of Backgrid.

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Armie Hammer is the cover star on latest issue of British GQ where he’s promoting his roles in Rebecca and Death on the Nile. This is also his first big interview since he and Elizabeth Chambers announced their split over the summer. He talks about that a little bit, but the craziest sections of the interview are where he’s talking about Trump’s America and Joe Biden and stuff. It actually does sound like he and Elizabeth decided to split because they lived together in lockdown in really close quarters and they grew to hate each other. He tells the mag, “I felt like a wolf who got caught in a snare. A wolf who wanted to chew his own foot off. I was just like, ‘I can’t do this.’” RUDE! Anyway, this piece is A LOT. Some highlights:

In lockdown in the Cayman Islands: “We got stuck down there during quarantine. My dad lives out there with his new wife….The experience sucked so badly. The island itself handled the situation really efficiently, but they also handled it in a really intense way. It was a very draconian lockdown. They wouldn’t fly anywhere, or at least not to America. Everything was closed. I mean, everything – the gas stations, the grocery stores… Everyone just locked themselves in their house. If you’re out and they see you, you go to jail for a year. I am not kidding. One guy violated curfew by five minutes and they put them in jail for four months. They were not f–king around. I was in an apartment with my dad, his new wife, Elizabeth and our two kids. We’d be looking out at the ocean, but couldn’t go in the ocean; looking at the beach, but couldn’t go on the beach. We couldn’t leave the apartment, couldn’t go in the pool, couldn’t do anything. So it was a really concentrated family time, which is really great with the kids, but it was intense.

He didn’t handle the lockdown well: “It was a very complicated, intense situation, with big personalities all locked in a little tiny place. It was tough, man. I’d never dealt with anything like that before in my life, so I didn’t have the tools. It was just this thing that snuck up on everybody. I don’t think I handled it very well. I think, to be quite frank, I came very close to completely losing my mind. I just felt completely powerless. And I was on an island where the lockdown was so severe that mail couldn’t even come in.

He sought therapy: “I was more or less on my own, just trying to get through it. I knew I was not doing a very good job so I called my buddy in the States. I was like, “Hey, man, I know you work in mental health. Do you have someone I can talk to?” And I just started talking to a therapist, twice a week. It just sort of regulated everything and gave me the tools for dealing with things. It gave me a fresh perspective and it was incredibly helpful. I’ve been in therapy before, but this was a dire situation. And now I just think everyone needs to be in therapy, period, across the board. Everyone needs to be talking to someone and if you’re not, you’re doing something wrong.

On America in 2020: “America has turned into a raging dumpster fire. I don’t know how this happened, but at the same time I know we get what we deserve and we elect the president we deserve. So we got Trump; it wasn’t an accident… People here just aren’t paying attention to what needs to be done. In America, people don’t believe what they’re told and people don’t believe other people should be telling them what to do, because that somehow infringes on their freedom. So America is on a horse named “Freedom” and we’re riding full speed at a f–king precipice and there’s no slowing down. The CDC today just announced that if you have been in contact with someone who has coronavirus, you don’t have to get tested. I’m not even joking.

On BLM: “Look, we all have things we need to relearn in our lives that we were taught by a different generation. Anyone who simply says, “I’m not racist”? Just go. Period. Everybody has something that needs work. We all have work that we have to do as a country in a very big way. It’s interesting, because, you know, I’ve donated and I’ve supported causes and foundations and donated to families and done that.

He has experienced prejudice too! “I also grew up, you know, on an island [Hammer lived in the Cayman Islands from ages seven to 13] where I was one of the few white people in my class. My daughter right now is in school down there, [the one] that I went to, and she’s the only white girl in the class. I think that is very important, for me, in terms of shaping how I view racism and prejudice, because, you know, I was called “White Boy” and all that sh-t. Whenever I’d go to the movie theatre people would throw shit at the back of my head. I know this is nothing compared to what black people go through in America today but it’s a taste of something.

What he thinks of Joe Biden’s chances of becoming president: “Not good. If I was an optimist, I’d say it was 50/50. I mean, a lot can happen, but also a lot can happen in a bad way. Historically speaking, incumbent US presidents are almost always elected in times of war. So, I mean, look at everything that’s going on in the Middle East. If a war kicks off there… Also, if Biden wins I don’t know how different things will be. I guess it will no longer be socially acceptable to be racist… But remember, he’s the guy who claims he wrote the Patriot Act. Do you think Biden cares about these private military police kidnapping US citizens off the street? Doing extraordinary rendition on our own citizens? He doesn’t give a sh-t. By the way, Obama did exactly that same thing by sending shock troops up when we had the pipeline protests. They sent a load of troops to just go basically beat the sh-t out of a bunch of natives when we were encroaching on their land. Sure, we have to get Trump out, period, but I lost my faith in politicians long ago.

[From British GQ]

What the actual f–k is this interview. The first part, where he talked about how intense everything was during lockdown, I was like “okay, he’s actually coming across alright here.” But by the political sections (and there’s a ton more in the interview), he’s just fully insane. And privileged. And barely able to see beyond his own privilege. He really is saying that America is screwed up because Americans are screwed up (something I agree with) and that Donald Trump is the result we get… but also Joe Biden sucks and ALL politicians suck and why even buy into the system? Spoken like a guy who has lived within the system with an enormous amount of privilege his entire life.

Photos courtesy of British GQ Instagram, Backgrid and WENN.

On the plus side, there are no more presidential or vice-presidential debates. Let’s celebrate that! Because last night was Donald Trump going down in a “blaze of glory,” if “glory” means “lies, white supremacy, more lies, and abject stupidity.” Where to even start? I’ll start with Joe Biden, actually! If this was any kind of normal election, I would suggest to him that sarcasm isn’t really playing that well and instead of deadpanning his sarcastic answers, he should just answer the dang question with no malarkey. But since this is 2020, his sarcasm was truly the least of anyone’s worries. Granted, I only watched 30 minutes (my ballot has already been cast, so I didn’t even have to watch that much), but Trump was lying and acting absolutely unhinged from the jump. Truly! I’m including the first few minutes of the debate, which started out with Trump just deadass lying.

Joe’s response:

Here’s a clip about election interference, etc.

I don’t know how many of these videos you want me to post. At this point, posting videos of Trump feels like I’m actively spreading dangerous misinformation. Here is the part where Biden sarcastically refers to Trump as “Abraham Lincoln” and… Trump didn’t understand the sarcasm. This is also the clip where Biden refers to the racist hate group “Proud Boys” as “Poor Boys.”

Biden sarcastically refers to Trump as “Abraham Lincoln,” and Trump gets confused by it pic.twitter.com/Ogdt1QXf3g

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 23, 2020

There was also this huge part in the coronavirus section of the debate where Trump kept insisting that New York is “dying” and it’s a “ghost town” and that Democratic leadership has destroyed a once great city. Um… New Yorkers literally just started wearing masks everywhere and businesses began reopening because they got their numbers under control.

Some reactions:

Malarkey!

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 23, 2020

We literally have the stupidest leader of all of the developed nations.

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) October 23, 2020

From a lying perspective, Trump is even worse tonight than in the first debate.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 23, 2020

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— Tasneem N (@TasneemN) October 23, 2020

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Struggling pretty much from the word go, Quibi is pulling the plug after only six months of being live. On Wednesday, Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg announced they will be kissing their elite pet streaming project goodbye, which has many asking, what went wrong? After-all, Whitman and Katzenberg were able to rustle up $1.75 billion in funding prior to Quibi’s launch. Only an unqualified US president could screw up that kind of surplus going in and both Whitman and Katzenberg are power-businessfolk, right? So what happened? For now, we don’t know, but folks have a lot of plausible theories.

Alas, tragedy has stricken a country full of potential streaming customers: Deadline reports that Whitman and Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg have chosen to dissolve the “quick-bite” streaming service after just half a year—a process that itself could take months. The app was pitched to us as the future of entertainment—but its rise and fall has been primarily defined by schadenfreude.

A cynic might argue that Quibi’s doom seemed inevitable from the start; it is, after all, an app for young “digital natives” designed by two sexagenarian billionaires whose cultural touchstones include Jane Fonda workout videos and the History channel series Grant.

The problems were never just philosophical. When Quibi launched, subscribers found out that the app didn’t allow the multi-tasking more established VOD players, like YouTube, have already made standard. So if you’re watching that Chrissy Teigen judge show, you have to really be watching it. The app also initially prevented subscribers from taking screenshots—effectively crushing any Quibi project’s best chance of getting talked about on Twitter. And that’s saying nothing of the patent infringement lawsuit from the interactive-video company Eko regarding the best part of Quibi’s interface: its seamless orientation-switching, which allows subscribers to watch shows in portrait or landscape mode.

And then came the cardinal issue with far too many nascent streaming services: The shows themselves were largely nothing to write home about. Save for the odd Emmy winner here or a campy Sam Raimi joint starring Rachel Brosnahan as a girl with a golden arm there, Quibi will likely be remembered, primarily, as a microcosm for 2020’s streaming apocalypse: So many platforms, so many shows, so many A-listers—and still, somehow, so little to watch.

In a recent essay, Vanity Fair TV critic Sonia Saraiya noted that streamers have adopted bloat as a convention—flooding an ever-growing number of streaming services with a deluge of series all produced at an increasingly frantic clip.

Quibi’s young user base, millennials, have less disposable income to spend on content that, increasingly, seems designed to exist rather than to enthrall. Many already have at least one, if not multiple, streaming subscriptions—for Netflix, or Hulu, or Amazon, or AppleTV+, or Disney+, or HBO Now, or Peacock.

Quibi never gained any traction with people who had no financial stake in caring about it because it was not designed for them. But it did illuminate a gap that’s become increasingly difficult to ignore—between what industry titans are producing and what consumers actually want.

[From Daily Beast]

I’m sure we’ll be hearing a lot more about the Fall of Quibi. In years to come, our kids will study the Quibi What Not to Do Model in business school. And I’m sure the answer is multi-layered but my money is that the foundation is hubris. The Daily Beast article began by reminding us that when Quibi was launching, Whitman gave a quote to Vulture in which she said:

There’s usually a premium version of what a service is. It often only attracts 5 to 10 percent of the market. Sneakers, bottled water. Water, by the way, is free. People pay for convenience and premium.

[From Vulture]

I think anyone that approaches a streaming service with a country club mentality has already completely missed their mark. Plus, cynical or not, the comment about two sexagenarians assuming they knew all about entertaining dem kidz was pretty spot on, although leave Jane Fonda out of this because if either of those two had asked Jane’s opinion on anything, they’d still be in business. Everything about Quibi shows that whatever research Whitman and Katzenberg did was to talk investors into forking over that kind of cash and swaying the star-power they did, and not any into the audience market they would ultimately be selling to. The fact that you couldn’t multi-task while watching alone was a built-in depth charge.

As for content, that’s a shame. So often I’ve watched a film and thought that it was a ten-minute short that got stretched to a full-length feature. I might get creamed for this, but the best example for me is the horror movie Mama. The original short absolutely *****ng terrified me and the film never even got close for me. So I would love a platform for high-quality shorts, like how Pixar airs theirs prior to their features. But it sounds like Quibi, instead, gave us a bunch of 10-minute duds. As for the Rachel Brosnahan short the article mentioned, The Golden Arm was only ever supposed to be a spoken ghost word story, the ending necessitates it. As a child, it scared me Every. Time. I. Heard. It. The minute you tell it in any other form, you lose it. So like Quibi, Rachel and her Golden Arm were doomed from the start.

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Kerry Washington has not only been a political advocate, she is an outspoken Democrat who sometimes work on campaigns, but she has be advocating for Black people specifically to practice radical self-care. Kerry released a ten minute meditation video for the Black Love Doc Facebook page. Kerry has also done a yoga video and interview for Essence festival in conjunction with Neutrogena. She spoke with them about selfcare as self-preservation.

Recently, Kerry was profiled in People magazine where she talked about skincare as self-care. Kerry has been a Neutrogena brand ambassador for six years and she discussed how she enjoys using Neutrogena because it is accessible and its democratizes luxe products. She also said that practicing self-care by taking care of her skin and body is a radical act. Below are a few quotes from the interview:

PEOPLE: What’s on your vanity right now, and why?
Kerry Washington: “I’m not on set for 16 hours a day right now, so I’m using less products and am trying to let my skin breathe. But with the change in season and temperature, I have to really think more consciously about hydration. The [Hydro Boost] Hyaluronic Acid Serum is great, and it combines so well with the [Hydro Boost] Gel-Cream. [For] my eczema, the Hydro Boost Body Overnight Cream is a game changer. I haven’t always been great about moisturizing before bed, but I feel like I’ve been able to do that [during] this time.”

PEOPLE: You’ve worked with Neutrogena for more than six years. What’s your proudest moment with the brand thus far?
Kerry Washington: “I’m really proud of the democratization of luxe product. Particularly as a Black woman, I think often about that Audre Lorde quote that – this is paraphrasing – but that for us, self-care is a radical act. It is activism to honor my Black body with love and care. And so I think this idea of providing a prestige quality product at a much more accessible price point and with even more efficacy, based on our commitment to science, that’s something I’m super proud of.”

PEOPLE: What does self-care look like to you these days?
Kerry Washington: “I try to drink a lot of water and eat foods that have high water content. I also try, imperfectly, to spend time every day in prayer and meditation. I feel like that’s really important. Earlier in quarantine, I said to my doctor, ‘I’m having chest pains, do I have Covid-19?’ And my doctor was like, ‘Covid-19 is not the only thing that could make your chest tight. You could be experiencing anxiety.’ So I started to incorporate more breathing into my morning routine [in order to] check in with my lung capacity and encourage more calm.”

PEOPLE: You’ve been vocal about how important it is for people of color to wear sunscreen. What more does the beauty community need to do to get everyone to get this message?
Kerry Washington: “I think it’s in the doing. There’s all this research that we talk about all the time at Neutrogena that [states that] the way to get kids to wear sunscreen is to see their moms wear it. It’s not just saying to your kids, ‘you have to wear sunscreen.’ If I put my sunscreen on first in front of my kids, I get a lot less complaints. And I think that’s true for all of our [other] relationships. If we do it out in the world, we can be carriers of that really important message.”

[From People]

As I have gotten older I am finding that my skin is changing and I have no clue what to do with it so hearing her talk about skin care from a decent brand is even more exciting. I find taking care of my skin feels good and is definitely self-care for me. Weekend exfoliation and mask sessions are a must for me these days. I also loved that Kerry mentions how darker skinned people should use sunscreen. By the time I knew to use sunscreen I had already done a lot of damage to my skin. I now use sunscreen like I am a red head with the fairest of skin. That 13% Northern European DNA is not helping me ya’ll.

Another thing that struck me in this interview is the anxiety that set in for her during the early stages of the pandemic. She initially thought she had the virus because of the chest pains she was having. I like that Kerry, like Kelly Rowland, decided to remedy the issue by spending a few minutes every day in meditation and prayer to ground herself. Deep breathing is definitely key folks.

Again, I love how she is using her platform to advocate for self-care since this is something I advocate for daily. I mean I teach two free virtual yoga sessions every Saturday so it is definitely very important to me. I will always champion Black celebrities advocating self-care and mental health fitness. Encouraging the Black community to take part in these practices is important as the trauma we sustain in a hostile society is detrimental to our bodies and mental health. While I patiently await Season 2 of Little Fires Everywhere, I think I may go do this meditation with Kerry. Hopefully I can get back to my yoga and meditation practice after election day.

@oumi_janta you’re my ROLL model ?

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Matthew McConaughey is promoting his memoir, Greenlights, that is available now. He called in to Howard Stern’s Sirius radio show to discuss some of the memories he brings up in the book, how they’ve affected his present and what the future holds – you know, basic memoir stuff. A lot of what he discussed I didn’t know. For instance, I never connected the dots that Matthew never dated any of his co-stars. He said even though he had crushes on a few he didn’t go there. Also, I did not know that for eight years, Matthew did not speak to his mother because she kept talking to news outlets and to his fans about him.

On not dating his co-stars: I’ve always tried to keep it professional and the people I worked with, I must say, did it well. Maybe we had certain crushes on each other at certain times, but we always just kept it professional – or maybe we were dating someone seriously outside of ourselves at the time and we both respected that for the other

On remaining faithful while famous: My wife and my family, in my mind, are non-negotiable. And so the non-negotiable things in my life, when I’ve watered their proverbial garden, that’s when my garden grew, and I flourished, and I became more me and felt more Vitale. I have nothing against certain, and I’ve had trysts along my way in my own life. And some people can have them forever. And you can Peter Pan your way through the whole thing. Fine. Um, but it’s the non-negotiable things in my life. I’ve looked at those other things like, Oh, those are stops. Not a stage. The most important thing to me is my, is my family.

On his mom oversharing to the media: I would have conversations and then all of a sudden whoop, what we’d talk about would end up in the paper three days later. I was like, “Mom, that was between us! No, no, no, no mom don’t share that this is a new thing. Loose lips can sink my ship. All of a sudden, I’m at home and I get a call from a buddy and, “Are you watching this? Go turn on the Hard Copy.” There’s mom, giving somebody a tour through the house, “Here’s where I caught him so-and-so in bed” “here’s where I saw him in the shower, you know what he was doing in there.” And I call her up and I go “Mom, what’d you do” and she goes “what are you talking about” I go “Hard Cover,” she goes, “What are you talking about?” I go, “Mom, I can hear it on the other end of the phone. I’m watching it. You’re watching it, too. She’s like, “Oh that, I didn’t think you’d find out.”

I’ve forgiven her. It wasn’t her fault. I just had to make some boundaries. It was tough for eight years, but we went through it and we’re on the other side of it. It’s good.

[From SiriusM’s The Howard Stern Show via YouTube]

I always want to call bs on Matthew but then I listen to him and he sure sells me on what he’s saying. I was about to say there is no way he didn’t date some of his co-stars, but I’ll be damned if he doesn’t sound sincere in his response. I do think we can be pretty certain he and Kate Hudson didn’t have a fling. I posted both clips below. The costars and faithful answers are both in the first clip. Although I never questioned his faithfulness to his wife, Camila Alves, his answer made me swoon a little. Again, not just what he said but how he said it. It’s not a struggle to stay faithful to her and his kids when they are the source of his happiness. Why would you cut the cord if it’s attached to the parachute?

The mom part is in the second clip. There’s more to it than what’s excerpted, like the fact that during the eight years that Matthew wasn’t speaking to her, they would still have Sunday phone calls with his brothers, Matthew would just only speak for about five minutes. In addition to forgiving his mother, once his career was cemented, he gave her permission to say whatever she wanted to the press. According to Matthew, she does and it’s all good with him.

Matthew on co-stars and faithfulness:

Matthew on not speaking to his mom:

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