In recent weeks, it felt like the ?Prince Harry could be deported? conversation fell to the wayside as the British and American media went into a feeding frenzy around With Love, Meghan. But they resuscitated it, because of course. The Heritage Foundation?s two-year-plus harassment campaign has come down to this: a Trump-appointed judge is now going to release Prince Harry?s ?full? visa files. And by ?full,? it looks like they mean partially redacted.

Prince Harry?s visa files must be made public by Tuesday at the latest, a judge has ruled. Judge Carl Nichols set the deadline to release the files which will give the clearest indication yet as to whether the Duke of Sussex lied on his immigration paperwork. The judge, who sits in Washington, approved the redactions suggested by the Department of Homeland Security and said they were ?appropriate?.

While it is not clear what material will be released, it could include forms which indicate whether Harry said ?no? when asked if he was a drug user. Lawyers for DHS have previously said that three items will be released with redactions but a fourth must remain private.

The right-wing Heritage Foundation sued the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last year after the agency, which oversees immigration in America, refused a Freedom of Information request for Harry?s files. Heritage claims that Harry may have lied on the forms under the section which asks if he had been a drug user.

In his order, Judge Nichols, who was appointed by Donald Trump, said: ?The government has provided the court with its proposed redactions to the documents?those redactions appearing appropriate, the government is ORDERED to lodge on the docket the redacted versions of those documents no later than March 18, 2025?.

[From The Daily Mail]

As someone who has followed Heritage?s harassment campaign since the beginning, this reads like a face-saving measure for both Heritage and the Trump administration. If there was anything questionable or noteworthy in the visa files, it would have been released and exploited months ago. Heritage has made this about ?what did the BIDEN administration do to help Harry,? ignoring the fact that Harry most likely submitted the bulk of his visa application in 2020, when You Know Who was in office. Now, all that being said, the Trumpers are going absolutely batsh-t crazy about immigration, detaining and deporting immigrants with lawful residency statuses and green cards. So even if Harry?s visa issue turns out to be a huge waste of Heritage?s time, money and effort, the Trumpers? reign of terror continues.

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It?s been so many years now, I actually get a kick out of how the Duchess of Sussex simply makes British people lose their damn minds. People you wouldn?t even think would have an opinion on Meghan are suddenly chiming in and saying something disparaging for no reason. ?I can?t believe she wears that kind of sweater, Harry never should have married her!? Well, obviously, they have now asked Prue Leith what she thinks of Meghan. Prue is probably best known to American audiences for being a judge on The Great British Bake Off. She?s 85 years old and I?m just realizing now that she?s actually South African, not British. She is a dame though ? she was knighted/dame?d in 2021. She?s 85 years old.

Dame Prue Leith is not a fan of Meghan Markle ? or her new Netflix cooking show.

?The Great British Bake Off? judge sounded off on the Duchess of Sussex?s ?With Love, Meghan? this week while promoting her own new cooking series, ?Prue Leith?s Cotswold Kitchen,? on ?Good Morning Britain.?

When asked by host Rob Rinder if she had tuned in to watch Markle?s latest Netflix series, Leith, 85, gave a blunt response.

?No,? she answered. ?I?ve only read about it but I honestly wouldn?t watch it.?

According to Leith, she doesn?t really like the duchess.

?I?m not a Meghan Markle fan,? Leith declared. ?All that touchy-feely, endless worrying about what creams you put on your hands. I just think there?s more to life than how you look and how your friends think of you,? she added. ?I?ve probably alienated half my fans.?

[From The NY Post]

?All that touchy-feely, endless worrying about what creams you put on your hands??.? Has Meghan ever publicly fretted about what hand lotion to use?? ?I don?t like her, for a completely weird reason I made up!? Well, that?s where we are. The dotty elderly lady on GBBO hates Meghan because of hand cream, and because Meghan? cares about how her appearance and what her friends think of her?? As the Telegraph pointed out, Prue is apparently pretty tight with the Windsors (thus, all of those honors). I always wonder, when it?s someone like Prue, if this is all Camilla?s handiwork behind-the-scenes. Is this Camilla hissing to her old-biddy friends ?and then Meghan threw a tantrum about hand cream!?

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Erewhon Market is an upscale, organic grocery food store that?s primarily located in the Los Angeles area. Think of it as Whole Foods for the rich and famous. Everyone from the Kardashians to Jason Momoa have been papped shopping there. Hailey Beiber, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, and Bella Hadid are among the younger starlets to have smoothie collaborations with the chain. It?s a big thing for a certain subset of people. It?s also one of those places that attracts tourists. Mr. Rosie has to go to Los Angeles for work every other month, and he?s heard about it from coworkers.

Right now, Erewhon?s biggest trend is these $19 strawberries. And when I say ?$19 strawberries,? I mean a ?$19 strawberry.? As in, it?s one singular strawberry that costs $19. They were grown in Kyoto, Japan and are packaged in their own little bubble container that, to me, looks like either a spaceship pod or the enclosure for the Beast?s rose in Beauty and the Beast. Anyway, these organic strawberries are the new ?it? thing because they?re supposed to be the ?best tasting strawberries on the planet.? There?s so much hype that even Demi Lovato got in on the action. She did a taste test on TikTok.

It?s become a rite of passage for both citizens and visitors of Los Angeles to hit up Erewhon for overpriced groceries ? $23 smoothies, $19 cauliflower bites, and a $20.99 gallon of raw milk are just some of the store?s hottest, and most ridiculously expensive, items. Demi Lovato appears to have become the latest casualty in Erewhon?s cash grab after purchasing one overpriced item in particular: a $19 strawberry from Kyoto, Japan.

The singer posted a full review of the fruit on TikTok to her 6.8 million followers. ?Apparently you?re supposed to smell it,? Lovato said, opening the package and taking a whiff. ?It smells like a strawberry.? Surprise, surprise. Lovato then takes a bite, appearing unimpressed. ?I?d give it an 8 out of 10,? she said. ?It?s like, not tart at all, which I like. I don?t like tart strawberries, but it?s not that sweet. Oh well. Just wasted $20.? The video currently has 13.8 million views and thousands of people in the comments, berating the star for even buying it in the first place.

?This level of capitalism is actually sick,? one person commented, while another noted they were ?watching from district 12? and someone else said they ?hate America.? ??I just wasted $20? is the only appropriate response,? another comment said.

I have to side with the haters on this one. There are plenty of other useful things Lovato could have spent $19 on instead. A burrito bowl from Chipotle, for example. A few cartons of eggs. Or even a three-pack of those really nice Aritzia socks. While Lovato will never get that $19 back, we will have this TikTok review forever. For that we thank her.

[From MSN]

Like I said above, Mr. Rosie?s coworkers have told him about Erewhon. He actually knew all about the strawberries before I even showed him Demi?s video, and we live all the way across the country. So, it?s a real thing. I guess it helps to put the nationwide price of eggs into perspective, lol. I cannot imagine paying that much money for one singular strawberry, apple, melon, banana, or any other kind of fruit. There really are so many other things that you can spend $19 on to make it go further. Sure, these magic Kyoto strawberries may be bigger than other ones, but it?s still just a freaking strawberry, right? I?m really curious if anyone out there has tried one of them and if they live up to the hype.

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Last week, Chappell Roan released a new single called ?The Giver.? Like many pop/rock/alt performers before her, Chappell decided to ?go country? to see how it feels. Post Malone did it better, but I have to say that ?The Giver? feels very authentic to Chappell and her voice. Here?s the video:

It?s a reminder that if hadn?t decided to do her pop thing, Chappell absolutely would have been right at home in the country genre. Chappell recently spoke about why she decided to make ?The Giver? and check out which country artists she name-checks.

Although Chappell Roan is about to debut her country single ?The Giver,? the musician has assured fans she?s not leaving pop music behind. Roan appeared on a new episode of Today?s Country Radio With Kelleigh Bannen on Apple Music, as previewed by E! News, and reflected on her longtime love of country.

?I really just did it for fun,? Roan said of the new single. ?I?m not switching genres or anything. I wanted to write a country song because I just thought it would be funny. It?s campy and fun.?

The singer explained that her connection to country music goes back many years. ?I?m from southwest Missouri,? she said. ?Grew up on Christian and country, and then found ?Alejandro? by Lady Gaga and I was like, ?I think I like this, too.? So, I have kept country in my heart. And it?s so incredibly nostalgic to drive in West Hollywood and [play] Jason Aldean or Alan Jackson?s ?Chattahoochee.??

She added that Big & Rich?s 2004 track ?Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)? was a big inspiration on ?The Giver.? ?I was like, ?I want to feel that way on stage. I want to feel that,?? she explained. ?Because that?s how I write. I?m like, ?How do I want to walk around on stage and sing?? And I was like, ?I want to write that song, but Chappell?s version.??

[From Rolling Stone]

While I?m not a huge country music fan, I f?k with some country artists, like Beyonce, The Chicks, Luke Combs, Chris Stapleton, Dolly Parton and of course Shaboozey. That?s the list I would provide to let everyone know that I?m not close-minded about country music but I do pay attention to what certain country artists say and how they operate politically. As in, I would never f?k with Jason Aldean nor would I ever publicly admit to listening to his garbage music. Jason Aldean is a Trump-supporting psycho who wrote an ode to small-town lynchings (IN 2023!). He?s married to a transphobic bigot who other country artists refer to as ?Insurrection Barbie.? What the hell is Chappell doing? At what point is her ?political naivete? no longer an excuse?

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In the past week, I?ve noticed several larger outlets publishing ?second reviews? of the Duchess of Sussex?s With Love, Meghan. It?s almost like there was a feeding frenzy of bullsh-t around WLM initially, and several outlets have slowly started to walk it back because they realize that they looked absolutely unhinged. It?s one thing to have a TV reviewer say ?this show might not be for everyone, but I?m sure some people will enjoy it? and it?s quite another to participate in the wall-to-wall character assassination of a woman who was simply doing a lifestyle show. In any case, the coverage of Meghan and WLM has softened a bit in recent days, and Women?s Wear Daily even ran this interesting piece about how everything Meghan touches or wears turns to gold:

Meghan Markle?s As Ever is off to a good start. Set to debut its first collection in the spring, the lifestyle brand earned $10 million in media impact value from its sister project, the Netflix series ?With Love, Meghan.? MIV is a proprietary metric that assigns an actual monetary value to marketing strategies across print, online and social media to calculate return on investment.

A new report from Launchmetrics also points out that Loro Piana earned $1 million in MIV thanks to Markle?s quiet luxury style. In one of the episodes, the wife of Prince Harry embraced high-low dressing in a Loro Piana sweater, which retails for around $1,325, paired with pleated pants courtesy of Zara. The Spanish fast fashion retailer also profited from the show?s exposure, earning $973,000 in MIV.

In another episode of ?With Love, Meghan,? the Duchess of Sussex wore a cashmere boyfriend sweater by Jenni Kayne, earning the brand $497,000 in MIV, and a ship-print midi dress from Emilia Wickstead, one of her go-to brands, which earned $362,000 in MIV. The data was collected between March 4 and March 11.

Markle reintroduced her lifestyle brand As Ever on Feb. 18, promising to sell jams, herbal teas, cookware, home goods, linens and apparel. The label was initially launched in 2024 as American Riviera Orchard. However, the name ran into trademark issues ? the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied Markle?s bid to use the name in a filing dated Aug. 31, 2024.

[From WWD]

WWD is obviously focused more on the fashion side, but I?d be interested in learning about the MIV for Le Creuset, because it feels like EVERYONE is buying Le Creuset now because Meghan has a Le Creuset set (or at least a few pieces). Fun fact: Kamala Harris is also a huge fan of the French enameled ironware! As for fashion? the thing is, people have always known this about Meghan?s fashion. She doesn?t even have to identify what she?s wearing, people will hunt down the IDs and buy up everything in every size. This is why I hope that once the As Ever line is up and running and successful, Meghan expands everything to include some branded merch like t-shirts, aprons, baseball caps, etc. All she would have to do is wear an As Ever-branded apron in the show and it would sell out in minutes.

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For several months, we were told repeatedly that we should not expect the Princess of Wales to have any kind of normal schedule for the foreseeable future, that she was completely rethinking how she works and she will probably never make regular public appearances for months/years. I genuinely believed all of those briefings too, and I thought they were preparing everyone for Kate to go missing for months at a time again. Weirdly, all it took was the Duchess of Sussex rejoining Instagram, launching a Netflix show and announcing a new podcast to light a fire under the Middlebum. The first quarter of 2025 has resembled Kate?s old schedule. If anything, it feels like we?ve seen more of her than we did in the early months of her previous ?working royal? years.

All of which to say, Kate had to work on a weekend! It?s happened before, the poor sausage is forced to go to some sporting event on a weekend. On Saturday, Kate and Prince William went to the Six Nations rugby game between England and Wales, and they also met with some injured players who are involved with the Welsh Rugby Charitable Trust. This was Kate?s second trip to Wales just in March! She and William last attended a Six Nations game in 2023 ? this is part of their dueling patronages, with Kate representing the Rugby Football Union and William representing the Welsh Rugby Union.

I don?t have any IDs on Kate?s ensemble, but I?d be willing to bet that the coat is bespoke McQueen, it just has that look. I did see Hello Magazine claiming that Kate was wearing black, but I think her coat and turtleneck are dark navy though? Her leather gloves were absolutely black. This is sort of Kate?s new uniform ? light-knit turtleneck paired with a long, heavy coat.

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Since the election, I?ve been thinking a lot about drinking. I?ve been sober for more than a decade, and I acknowledge all of the benefits ? no more hangovers, no more empty calories, no more headaches, no more alcohol-infused messy situations, no more shame, no more regrets. But yeah, the past four months have been incredibly rough and I completely understand how some people have fallen off the wagon. I completely understand why even non-alcoholics are drinking more than ever too. Gwyneth Paltrow is opening up about her drinking ? she?s always enjoyed a glass of wine or a cocktail, but her drinking apparently got a lot worse during the Southern California fires. Apparently, menopause is compounding everything too.

Gwyneth Paltrow says her menopause symptoms were made worse by alcohol ? and she drank ?every night? during the outbreak of wildfires in Los Angeles. Paltrow, 52, had a frank conversation about menopause on the March 4 episode of the Goop podcast with guest Dr. Mary Clare Haver, a board-certified OB-GYN and author of the New York Times bestseller The New Menopause.

?I?m really in the thick of it right now, so I?m all over the place,? Paltrow said of her symptoms. ?But I noticed my symptoms are, like, pretty well under control unless, you know, in January when the fires were happening in L.A. I?ve, like, used alcohol for its purpose.?

The Academy Award winner previously said she was in ?deep grief? over the wildfires, which broke out in Southern California in January. Paltrow lives in Los Angeles with her husband Brad Falchuk, whom she married in September 2018. While she shared that they were safe from the wildfires, ?so many of our close friends? have lost everything.?

It was during this time, Paltrow says, ?I think I drank every night. I was medicating. Normally, now at this point, I don?t drink a lot at all. Maybe I?ll have one drink a week,? she said, adding that drinking every night impacted her menopause symptoms. ?My symptoms were completely out of control. It was the first time I really noticed, like, causation in that way.?

?Lots of my patients say the same thing. They?ve really just spontaneously realized that they?ve cut back on alcohol or just quit altogether because it just hasn?t been worth it. They don?t bounce back the same way. It stays in our system a lot longer,? said Haver, who penned the foreword for Naomi Watts? book about menopause, Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I?d Known about Menopause.

Paltrow shared that she?s been struggling with insomnia, explaining, ?I?ve always been a real sleeper? but after menopause, ?I went through a particularly bad time with it. There were nights where my anxiety ? like, I just thought it meant, ?Oh, you?re not gonna be able to sleep because you don?t have enough progesterone or whatever,? ? she explained about what she expected from menopause-induced insomnia. But instead, ?It wasn?t that. I would just wake up [and] I would get crushed with anxiety, which I?ve never had in my life. And I would lie in bed thinking about every mistake I?ve ever made, every person?s feelings I ever hurt, like, every bad, you know, And I would be up, like, for six hours. It was crazy.?

[From People]

Or they would ?just quit altogether because it just hasn?t been worth it. They don?t bounce back the same way. It stays in our system a lot longer.? It?s true ? once you get out of your early 20s, it just gets harder to recover or feel ?normal? and that keeps getting worse and worse as you get older. I did a marathon of Sex and the City over the holidays and I was like? how are they all drinking so much in their 30s?? As for Gwyneth?s drinking exacerbating her menopause, I absolutely believe that and I?m sure the same would happen to me if I picked up a bottle right now.

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Two Fridays ago, the Santa Fe sheriff?s office finally announced the results of their investigation into the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa. Arakawa and Hackman were found dead at their Santa Fe mansion in February, but it was a huge mystery as to how long they had been gone and what exactly happened in that house. The autopsies and investigation revealed nothing but profound tragedy: Arakawa passed away first, from the hantavirus. Hackman, a 95-year-old with advanced Alzheimer?s, was left alone to fend for himself for a week before he died of heart failure.

There were always a lot of questions about why Gene and Betsy didn?t have help ? household staff for the upkeep on their mansion, or nursing staff to help Hackman. There were also questions about how Hackman?s three adult children were apparently not in communication with their father or Betsy, and no one in the Hackman family thought to check in with Arakawa on a weekly basis. Well, we?re getting a better picture of what looks like Hackman?s estrangement from his children ? he did not leave them anything in his will, which he wrote many years ago.

Gene Hackman?s will has been unveiled ? and the two-time Oscar-winner left every penny of his fortune to his wife, Betsy Arakawa ? but there?s a big twist. The Hollywood legend made Betsy his sole beneficiary back in 1995, according to the docs, obtained by TMZ.

What?s interesting is that his three children ? son Christopher and two daughters Leslie and Elizabeth ? are not named in the will. It was all supposed to go to Betsy ? but, the timing of their deaths could change where the money goes.

Betsy?s will leaves most of her assets to Gene, but there?s a provision which says if they died within 90 days of each other, it would be considered a simultaneous death, and in that case, her will provides all of her assets would go to charity. New Mexico is a community property state, so assuming there?s no prenup, Betsy?s estate could have a lot of money and her share would go to charity.

As for Gene?s estate ? despite the fact he did not include his children in his will, they would presumably get his share since they are the most direct living heirs.

Andrew M. Katzenstein ? a prominent California trust and estate attorney ? has reportedly been hired by Gene?s son Chris, who?s the oldest sibling ? indicating he may challenge the will.

Hackman discussed his difficult relationship with his children over the years ? admitting he wasn?t around much during Chris? formative years. He had gotten closer to his kids in more recent years.

[From TMZ]

TMZ cites 1995 as the year Hackman signed his will, which would mean that Hackman wrote it when he was 65 years old, four years after he married Betsy. But? People Magazine says that Gene and Betsy both updated their wills in 2005, but in general, everything was the same ? Gene left everything to Betsy, and she left everything to Gene or to charity. I?m sure people wondered if she was a golddigger, given the age gap, but Betsy was really there with him in sickness and in health, to the very end. I?m just saying, I get why Gene made that decision at the time. Plus, most people of means leave the bulk of their estates to their spouses, and I?m sure Gene believed that Betsy would survive him. But it does speak volumes about Gene?s relationship with his three kids. People Mag?s experts say that it will be pretty difficult for Hackman?s kids to dispute their father?s will. I?m sure they?ll try though.

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Michael B. Jordan might be dating Taylor Russell? [Just Jared]
Jenna Ortega looks so different with glasses! Those frames are cute, but they make her look like a middle-aged art teacher. [Go Fug Yourself]
So many celebrities went to Paris Fashion Week. [Socialite Life]
A redheaded Anya Taylor Joy is filming Lucky. [LaineyGossip]
Review of Steven Soderbergh?s Black Bag. [Pajiba]
Lip reading the Oscars red carpet. [OMG Blog]
Millie Bobby Brown?s blonde looks better here, possibly because of her dark roots? [RCFA]
Wow, William Shatner was such a cute kid! [Seriously OMG]
No thoughts other than ?Cake Eater? is a surprisingly good memoir title. [Starcasm]
What?s going on with Kelly Clarkson? [Hollywood Life]
Alec & Hilaria Baldwin continue to make people uncomfortable. [Buzzfeed]

One of my (many) unpopular gossip opinions is that Kim Kardashian?s 72-day marriage and divorce to Kris Humphries was funny and relatable, and it even made her slightly sympathetic. It was so obvious (to me) what happened there: Kim freaked out about turning 30 years old and decided to run off and marry the first guy she came across, then she tried to convince herself that she wanted Kris Humphries and everything he wanted, and then it all fell apart quickly after the wedding. Like, minus the reality show and the wedding special, I always thought a lot of women could relate to the birthday freakout and the ?briefly convincing themselves that a douchebag they barely know was the One.? Well, Kim has one more regret about the Humphries marriage: she let him have the Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring, even though he only paid for a fifth of it.

Kim Kardashian might have one lingering regret from her swift divorce from Kris Humphries. The SKIMS founder was famously married to the former NBA player for just 72 days in 2011, and on the March 13 episode of The Kardashians, she reflected on the engagement ring he gave her ? or, more accurately, she got herself.

As she mused to her sister Khlo? Kardashian, Kim, 44, said, ?I wonder what my next ring shape will be ? on my last and final hoorah,? before taking a trip down memory lane to revisit each of her three engagement rings.

?Number one was a cushion cut, 14-karat,? she said, referring to her four-year marriage to Damon Thomas. Her second engagement ring, which Humphries proposed to her with, was an 18-karat emerald cut from Lorraine Schwartz, she said.

?I didn?t keep that,? she revealed. ?I was pregnant with [daughter] North [West], still married to him and in order to divorce him, he said I had to give him the ring in my divorce,? she explained of Humphries. The demand was made worse when Kim noted that she was the one who bought the ring. ?He contributed a fifth,? she clarified.

?Jesus,? her hairstylist and friend Chris Appleton said after hearing the story, which he called ?savage.?

Schwartz ? who was with Kim and Khlo? as well on their trip to Mumbai for the July 2024 Ambani wedding, which the episode documented ? told Kim it was for the ?best? that she got rid of the ring. ?But I would?ve loved a collection,? she admitted.

[From People]

Like many jewelry lovers, Kim worships Elizabeth Taylor, who was famously married eight times (to seven men, Richard Burton got a repeat). Something I learned from Taylor?s My Love Affair with Jewelry is that Liz didn?t keep most of her engagement rings either, although she kept the biggest, the Krupp diamond (she sold the ring she got from Mike Todd though). While it would be nice to have a huge collection of rings for all of one?s husbands, it?s probably not that realistic, I?m just saying. As for Kris Humphries demanding the ring? what a loser. I mean, granted, Kim probably followed the ?etiquette? around returning the ring (given she was the one who ended the marriage), but Kris really had some audacity to demand the ring in exchange for granting the divorce.

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