Four years ago, Justin Bieber was bitterly disappointed that his album, Believe, was not nominated for any Grammys. At the time, Grammys meant a lot to Justin. At the time, he thought he’d worked hard enough to deserve it. Last year, Justin won a Grammy for Where Are U Now, shared with Skrillex a…

Two of this year’s potential Best Actresses had their premieres last night. And since there aren’t many stories to go along with Emma Stone and Ruth Negga, I thought I might as well combine these photos. Emma Stone attended the LA premiere of La La Land, a sweet little musical which is getting rave reviews all over the place. Emma is considered a frontrunner in the Oscar race, although her costar Ryan Gosling isn’t getting much awards buzz.

For the LA premiere, Emma chose this somewhat uneventful Prada dress. Something nice: it’s a beautiful color. Something not-nice: I don’t know, I’m just not feeling this. It’s a cute dress for a holiday party, but the thing about Emma Stone is that one of the big reasons why people are excited for her Oscar campaign is that she usually has interesting fashion. Like, we need a certain number of fashion girls attending the awards shows or else it gets really boring. Emma better deliver! PS… I do love her shoe choice here though.

As for Ruth Negga, she will likely get nominated for some big awards for her performance in Loving. Much like my feelings about Emma, I have high hopes that Ruth has a great stylist and that she’s going to rock all of the red carpets. Thus far, I’ve found her style somewhat underwhelming. I get the feeling that she likes dressing up and having fun with it, but… more drama, please! This Valentino look isn’t doing anything for me. She’s been wearing a lot of Valentino this fall though, so maybe she has some connection to the fashion house.

Bonus photo of Ryan Gosling at the La La Land premiere.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Ashley Graham went from “who?” to “oh, she’s everywhere” this year, and what better way to cap off her year of domination than her first-ever Vogue cover? To be fair, this is British Vogue, not American Vogue, although it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Ashley got an American Vogue cover in the next year, given her complete domination. Also to be fair, this is just the January issue! There’s a weird ebb and flow to monthly magazines, and the January issue is not one of the important of the year. But still, a British Vogue cover is nothing to sniff at. Even if Ashley does look mid-sniff on the cover shot. She’s a seriously beautiful woman, but this cover is not the best, and neither is the “mechanic chic” interior photo (at the end of the post). Anyway, the interview is pretty good. Ashley talks about her career, body image and more. Some highlights:

The Plus-Sized Label: “When we’re supposed to be talking about diversity for women, it feels so divisive and purpose-defeating, giving us yet another label.”

Whether she wishes she was thinner: “Do I sometimes wish I were thinner? God, in the old days, absolutely I did, but now I feel that to lose weight would be disloyal to myself. A lot of who I am is connected to my size, and I am so happy with who I am.”

Her branding as a model: “For 10 years I’d been told I was always going to be a catalogue girl, never a cover girl. Well, I got with IMG and did five covers in a year, boom, boom, boom. See, if you have a pretty face doors will open, but your job isn’t just to walk through them, it’s to get invited back.”

The beauty jackpot: “Look, I hit the beauty jackpot, I get it, but that’s not enough, you’ve got to have more to have longevity in this business. It’s always been, ‘OK, so what can I do now?’”

[From E! News and British Vogue]

The way I feel about Ashley’s confidence is that there is a bravery and audacity to a plus-sized woman in our society standing up and saying “You know what? I’m beautiful and I don’t want to lose weight. I feel comfortable where I am.” It feels non-conformist, it feels iconoclastic in an industry dominated by size-zero women and the gay men who tell those women that they need to be even thinner. But I also think that if Ashley wants to lose weight – whether she does so consciously or just through circumstance – that’s not any kind of betrayal for her fans. I mean, I feel like she’s always going to be a big girl, but I wouldn’t be offended nor would I think she was “off brand” if she lost weight… or gained weight.

Photos courtesy of British Vogue.

Last Friday, Angelina Jolie filed paperwork with the court to solidify the temporary custodial situation with the six Jolie-Pitt kids. Basically, the temporary solution that Jolie and Brad Pitt agreed to during the CPS investigation would stay in place until Jolie and Pitt worked out something more permanent. Some people believed that Jolie filed that paperwork simply as a public sign that she was not in control of how often Brad got to see the kids – the temporary solution was and is that a psychiatrist decides when and how Brad gets monitored visits. All of this went unanswered (as far as we know) but Brad and his legal team. Until now. Brad filed papers asking for the custodial arrangement situation to be sealed.

Brad Pitt is going to court to keep his custody war with Angelina Jolie private, and sources connected with Brad say his motivation is to thwart her from further damaging their children by airing their dirty laundry in public. Sources connected to the case tell TMZ … Brad filed docs Tuesday in family court, requesting an emergency hearing. We’re told he intends to ask the judge to seal all documents and proceedings related to his and Angelina’s ongoing battle for custody of their 6 kids.

Several sources say Angelina filed the documents because she feared Brad was angling to change their temporary agreement so that he could have unmonitored visits with the children. We’re told Angelina is relying on the family therapist, who says it’s too early for Brad to have unmonitored visits — but she does want him to have solo visits … once the therapist signs off.

Sources connected with Brad, however, are calling BS … saying the only document filed in the case is the one Angelina blasted out to the world … exposing their 6 children to needless pain. Our Brad sources say there was no reason for Angelina to file a private agreement, and make it public other than to trash Brad and make the children collateral damage. We’re told he has made NO move to change the private agreement that was always meant to remain private — and he feels by gratuitously making it public the way Jolie did … it’s evidence she’s a bad parent.

Brad will get his shot within a few hours to argue the case should remain private. We’re told the emergency hearing is slated for Wednesday morning.

[From TMZ]

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I mean, didn’t we always know that the custody battle was going to get worse before it ever got better? I personally think that Jolie filed those papers last Friday because she didn’t want Brad and his people to accuse her of keeping the kids away from him (which, no surprise, they were already doing). She wanted to make it clear – to People Magazine, to TMZ, to everybody else – that it was the psychiatrist’s call, not hers. As for Brad filing this new paperwork… okay. I agree, all of the custodial documents should be sealed. But if they are sealed, will Team Brad stop leaking the info to TMZ and People?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Yesterday it was announced that 11-year-old Cruz Beckham has been signed by Scooter Braun, most famous for being Justin Bieber’s manager (more on that later). If you keep tabs on David and Victoria’s social media, this is natural evolution for Brand Beckham; Brooklyn is a photographer and model, …

Michelle Obama emerged as Hillary Clinton’s strongest advocate and surrogate during the election. Michelle’s speech at the DNC was widely considered one of the all-time great convention speeches, and Michelle’s speech about sexual harassment and male privilege in New Hampshire was widely regarded as one of the best speeches of the election cycle. Michelle’s advocacy for a Hillary Clinton presidency was visceral, moving and passionate. Following the election of an orange fascist, one of my first thoughts went to Michelle and how disappointed and devastated she must be. In the weeks that followed, Michelle offered no statement… until now. POTUS and FLOTUS appear on this week’s cover of People Magazine, and Michelle offers a glimpse into how she spent Election Night, and what she thinks now.

As many Americans waited into the wee hours of election night to find out who would be voted the nation’s next president, First Lady Michelle Obama says she was not among them. Instead, she was fast asleep in her White House bed. In a joint interview with President Barack Obama for this week’s PEOPLE cover story, the first lady breaks her silence on President-elect Donald Trump‘s stunning victory, and reveals why she didn’t stay up to see the results.

“I went to bed. I don’t like to watch the political discourse; I never have,” Obama tells PEOPLE, adding of her husband, “I barely did with him.”

The first lady was one of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton‘s most powerful surrogates on the campaign trail, where she delivered passionate speeches about the dangers of electing Trump, being careful all the while to avoid mentioning him by name. Her now-famous mantra, “When they go low, we go high,” delivered at the Democratic National Convention in July, moved audiences and became an unofficial slogan for Clinton’s campaign.

“Anything that I felt about the election I said and I stand by,” the first lady says now, adding of her early election night, “Once you do what you can do, then the rest is easy. It was in the hands of the American people.”

Though the first lady stands by her campaign-trail criticisms of Trump, she, like her husband, is prepared to help the president-elect as he transitions to the White House.

“This is our democracy, and this is how it works,” she says. “We are ready to work with the next administration and make sure they are as successful as they can be. Because that’s what’s best for this country.”

[From People]

I understand perfectly why Pres. Obama is being so generous and conciliatory towards the president-elect, although I think Obama has more than enough room to say outright that the Trump administration is going to be disastrous for our country. I can feel Michelle’s sorrow and disgust in this interview – she wants to follow the tone her husband has set, but how can she? How can any of us? He’s an appalling man. He’s a tyrant, an autocrat, a fascist, a sexist, a racist and more. I wish Michelle would feel free to once again give voice to what we’re thinking, which is, “Buckle up, sisters, and fight back with everything you’ve got.”

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Photos courtesy of Getty, cover courtesy of People Mag.

Country star Naomi Judd, 70, has a new memoir out called River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope, in which she reveals that she was so depressed she couldn’t leave her house for weeks, was so physically weakened she couldn’t walk up stairs, was hospitalized and seriously contemplated suicide. Judd discussed this in a recent appearance on Good Morning America which you can watch here. It got me choked up because she was so vulnerable and honest about everything she’s been through, including molestation by a great uncle at the age of three and a half. Naomi was very sensitive about her appearance and opened her interview with Robin Roberts explaining that she looks different because her face is swollen from the medication, which also makes her hands shake. She looked lovely to me. Here’s more of what she said:

On trying to keep it together for her fans
They think, because they see me in rhinestones, you know, with glitter in my hair, that really is who I am… But then I would come home and not leave the house for three weeks and not get outta my pajamas, not practice normal hygiene,” she added. “It was really bad.

Why she’s going public with her depression
“Because what I’ve been through is extreme. Because it was so deep and so completely debilitating and life-threatening and because I have processed and worked so hard for these last four years.

“If I live through this, I want someone to be able to see that they can survive.”

[From Good Morning America]

Naomi said that her youngest daughter, Ashley, lives a mile away and she’ll walk out to her house every day to visit. She’s somewhat estranged from daughter Wynona though, and explained that she had Wynona when she was just a teenager (she was 18) and that they had to do a lot of growing up together. Naomi’s husband for 27 years, Larry Strickland, was there too and he sounded supportive of her saying that people whose loved ones suffer from depression should “Get ready to walk that path with them.” Naomi’s treatment includes what she calls “radical self acceptance,” daily exercise and medication.

Naomi also has a new interview with People Magazine promoting her book. I found it poetic the way she explained depression, as if all the bad things which have ever happened to you were all on the same day. She said “Think of your very worst day of your whole life – someone passed away, you lost your job, you found out you were being betrayed, that your child had a rare disease – you can take all of those at once and put them together and that’s what depression feels like.”

I have mild to moderate depression which honestly had me somewhat despondent last week. At times I was sitting and staring into space. I try to distract myself by keeping busy, exercising somewhat obsessively, making to-do lists and playing mindless games like candy crush. (I know this sounds dumb but Demi Lovato has said this helps her too.) In no way is what I go through comparable to Naomi’s struggle and my heart goes out to her, I just have had a taste of something similar. It’s like the whole world is moving and you’re sitting there, wondering if anything you do makes any kind of difference.

My mom actually helped me a lot by coming over when I couldn’t get out of bed and listening. It’s sad that Naomi and Wynona are estranged but at least Ashley is nearby and can provide support, along with Naomi’s husband.

Photos of Wynona and Naomi are from October, 2015. Naomi is shown with her husband in October of this year. Photos credit: WENN, FameFlynet and GMA/Screenshots

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As you now know, Beyoncé received 9 Grammy nominations for Lemonade yesterday, the most of any artist, and in categories ranging from rap and R&B to pop and rock, which speaks to how limitless she is as an artist. But today’s intro is not about Beyoncé. It’s about Solange. While…

Here are some photos of Prince Harry in London today at ICAP’s Annual Charity Trading Day. Harry does “trades” on behalf of charity, basically. It’s a decent event, and one that the royals have done before. My guess is that Harry flew back to London late Tuesday, or possibly even overnight. As we learned yesterday, Harry ditched his people two seconds after his royal tour of the Caribbean was done and he flew to Toronto to see his lov-ah Meghan Markle. That was on Sunday, and I guess they probably got a solid 48 hours with each other before he had to fly back to London. But the Daily Express has an interesting story about what was happening behind-the-scenes, with (Poor) Jason Knauf flat-out lying to the press about Harry’s plans.

Prince Harry’s dash to see his girlfriend Meghan Markle in Toronto came despite Kensington Palace’s insistence that he would not be seeing her en route to or from the Caribbean tour. At a pre-tour briefing at Buckingham Palace on November 10, Jason Knauf, the communications secretary for William, Kate and Harry, said the Prince would be travelling directly from London to the Caribbean and back again. His answer came in response to a question from the BBC about whether he might see Ms Markle, 35, in Canada.

On the tour itself, royal aides maintained that Harry would be returning directly to London at the end of the 15-day tour of seven nations. That was still the line a few moments before the Prince and his party left Ogle Airport in Georgetown, Guyana, on a charter plane bound for Barbados on Sunday afternoon to join a scheduled British Airways service to Gatwick.

A Daily Express reporter asked one aide: “Can I just check, is Prince Harry flying on BA to London from Barbados tonight? The aide replied: “Yes.”

Harry’s decision to fly via Toronto will have added to the cost of his First Class return flight between Barbados and London but royal sources insisted the taxpayer would not pick up the bill. The Prince will fund the extra cost himself, although his police bodyguards’ costs will be paid for by taxpayers.

Combining a taxpayer-funded flight home from an official visit representing the Queen with a trip to see his girlfriend also appears to be in breach of assurances given to the National Audit Office by the Royal Household in 2004 during an investigation into Prince Andrew’s travel. The report stated: “Members of the Royal Family are entitled to grant-in-aid for official travel, as are their staff and, where capacity permits, other officials. They meet their own costs, however, for private travel. In order to avoid confusion, combining private and public engagements in the same trip is actively discouraged.” Kensington Palace said it had no comment.

[From The Daily Express]

Basically, this is the kind of story we’re used to hearing about Prince William, not Harry. William has pulled this kind of thing before, notably when he wanted to make a private trip to Kenya for Jecca Craig’s wedding, but he tacked on some “official” business at the last minute so taxpayers would pick up the cost and not bitch about the fact that he brought staffers and bodyguards. Except in this case, with Harry, the order is reversed – he was on royal business and he decided to tack on a few days of non-business related activities. Now, do you believe that Harry decided at the very last minute that he just had to spend a few days with Meghan? Or do you think this was always his plan and Poor Jason was just misleading the press? I honestly don’t know. But yeah, it looks bad that Harry ditched his press pool and his staffers so he could make an international booty call.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Life Goes On alum Kellie Martin struck a pose with daughter Maggie, 10, on Monday (December 5).

Looking beautiful in red, the ER alum, 41, and her elder daughter rocked the red carpet together at the screening of Hallmark Channel’s A Nutcracker Christmas at The Grove in Los Angeles, Calif.

After the event, the proud mama shared a sweet snapshot via Instagram.

“We left daddy and the baby at home and had a girls night out??Thanks for having us @hallmarkchannel,” she captioned the image.

The actress and husband Keith Christian welcomed their second child, daughter Olivia James, on Feb. 13.

We left daddy and the baby at home and had a girls night out??Thanks for having us @hallmarkchannel

A photo posted by Kellie Martin (@thekelliemartin) on Dec 6, 2016 at 8:21pm PST

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