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June 2, 2014

Star Wars Adds Lupita Nyong’o and Gwendoline Christie

Lupita Nyong'o and Gwendoline Christie
Lupita Nyong’o and Gwendoline Christie join the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. (Photo: www.starwars.com)

-The news that Lupita Nyong’o and Game of Thrones star Gwendoline Christie (Brienne!!) have officially joined Star Wars feels like a victory. And, as Vulture points out, Lupita really needed this pop.

-Speaking of Lupita, she bonded with Aaron Paul over horses and hats this weekend.

Kaley Cuoco chopped off all her hair into a cute pixie cut and the internet has a lot of feelings about it.

-In their New York Magazine cover story, BFFs Shailene Woodley and Brie Larson say, “Girls in this industry sabotage each other every day. We will never do that.”  They then proceed to say a bunch more feminist stuff — while Shailene continues to dig her heels in and refuse to call herself a feminist.

-Also revealed in that cover story, Jimmy Fallon‘s producers cut Shailene’s comments on gender politics from her recent appearance.

Justin Bieber is sorry he got caught telling a racist joke on video. At least his apology was pretty solid.

-In other apology news, Jack White has apologized for those comments he made about Meg, The Black Keys, Adele and a bunch of other people.

-Speaking of music feuds, Dave Grohl and Courtney Love made nice and hugged it out at the Rock Hall Induction telecast.

-I really needed these photos of Ryan Gosling’s arms today.

Amy Poehler is revealing more details about her upcoming book, in which she’ll talk about her divorce and that time Jon Hamm helped her through a rough patch in her pregnancy.

-Well, this is disgusting: Andy Cohen is shopping around a new reality show called I Slept With a Celebrity.

-I’m still traumatized by last night’s Game of Thrones, but at least the two characters who battled last night made up on Instagram.

-Speaking of GoT actors on Instagram, I love all the cozy cast selfies the guy who plays Oberyn has posted.

-A guy from The Vampire Diaries and a girl from Glee have ended the relationship you didn’t even know they were in.

-Here’s the racy first trailer for the new season of Masters of Sex.

-Last night on HBO, John Oliver delivered the best (and most hilarious) explanation of net neutrality I’ve seen so far.

Melissa Etheridge married girlfriend Linda Wallem this weekend.

-In other happy couple news, Armie Hammer and his wife Elizabeth Chambers are expecting their first child, and Les Miserables actor Eddie Redmayne is engaged.

Justin Timberlake is trying to be all earnest and wise in this Oprah’s Master Class video. Pffffttttt!

-Only Kim Kardashian and Kanye West would show up to a wedding in matching white outfits.

-Watch your six: Chris Brown is once again free to roam among the unsuspecting public.

Malin Akerman is the sweetest. She just co-signed the mortgage on her hairstylist’s new house.

-Fifty Shades of Grey star Jamie Dornan got naked and wet for his Interview photo shoot, but the interview itself is pretty great also.

-Once Upon A Time’s Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas welcomed a baby boy on Friday.

Miley Cyrus‘ home has been burglarized again — and this time, the thieves took her new $135,000 Maserati.

-NPR is streaming the new First Aid Kit album and it’s so, so good!

Tom Hiddleston gets drunk and recites Shakespeare at parties, because OF COURSE he does.

Kristen Bell‘s next project after Frozen will be much less PG — she’s been cast in a remake of Hair.

-Maleficent just gave Angelina Jolie her biggest opening weekend ever, and now she’s talking about leaving acting on a high note.

-Just when you thought the Casey Kasem story couldn’t get weirder, his wife threw raw meat at his daughter as she tried to wheel him into an ambulance.

Drake might have just dropped the song of the summer.

Mila Kunisshows off her growing baby bump,” which basically just means she went outside while pregnant.

-You may have to scrub your brain after this: in her new book Courtney Robertson says of Adrian Grenier, “He had the biggest penis I’d ever seen—and the biggest bush!”

-The humans gear up for battle in the latest True Blood trailer.

Blake Lively and Amber Heard are reportedly up for the same Bond girl role. I don’t want to see either of those girls flirting with Daniel Craig.

-The second trailer for Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley’s Begin Again features a Cee-Lo Green cameo and is heavy on the Adam Levine scenes. Despite all that, you must trust me when I tell you I LOVED this movie.