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January 2020

Justin Bieber Talks About “Super Precious” Hailey Baldwin

Justin Bieber gushed about his new wife during his Ellen appearance and talked about the proposal. “I wasn’t really nervous about her saying yes. I was more nervous about ‘am I able to make this commitment? Am I able to make this commitment as a man and be able to honour what I say?’ Because you know that’s a serious commitment when you say you’re going to love someone for better and for worse and like be faithful that’s a huge..am I able to do that? So I think that’s what really I was battling with. ”

-Meanwhile, Selena Gomez says she felt like a victim of emotional abuse during her time with Bieber.

-I don’t say this very often, but this Katherine McPhee tweet is very good.

Jodie Turner-Smith says she and Joshua Jackson plan to raise their child in Canada. Welcome home, Pacey!

David Schwimmer says he pushed for diversity on Friends and was responsible for the casting of Lauren Tom and Aisha Tyler. “I was well aware of the lack of diversity and I campaigned for years to have Ross date women of color. One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part.”  He also suggested the show be rebooted with an “all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends.”

This clip of Ariana Grande being incapable of not swearing during a red carpet interview? I felt that.

-This interview with the author of The Witcher is going viral because of his very candid, very relatable answers.

Andy Samberg‘s romcom Palm Springs just broke the record for the most expensive Sundance Film Festival sale of all time — by 69 cents. I’m surprised there was big bid this year, seeing as last year’s major buys (Late Night, The Report, Honey Boy, Britanny Runs a Marathon) didn’t translate into box office booms.

-In a series of tweets, Pink vowed not to mess with her face. Fine, more Botox left for me!

-Man, Terry Crews‘ refusal to stand up for Gabrielle Union (and his subsequent terrible tweet) are really, really disappointing.

-I stopped watching Riverdale in Season 1, but my god they’re going to try to tackle Hedwig and the Angry Inch in a musical episode and I just don’t know how to process that information.

-The controversy surrounding Oprah‘s latest book pick American Dirt isn’t slowing down, but it’s also not hurting sales. The author is doing a talk at my local Indigo next month, which is super disappointing.

-Here’s a really good, behind-the-scenes look at The Daily, the only podcast I listen to religiously.

-I can’t handle horror, but the buzz around Swallow is really good. Here’s the bizarre trailer.

Straight Up is filled with good character actors and the trailer is super charming. I’m charmed.

Robert Pattinson Almost Lost Batman Before He Even Had It

Robert Pattinson for Time Out Magazine
Time Out/Andy Parsons

Robert Pattinson is in the new issue of Time Out, in which he talks about almost losing Batman because news leaked that he was up for it (“I hadn’t even done the audition. It’s just nerve-wracking because I was really excited about it and you think: really, is this how I’m going to lose this role? It’s the most annoying circumstances to lose something”), and being surprised by blowback when he said Batman wasn’t a superhero because he has no powers (“People got very angry about it. It’s bizarre. I still can’t understand the argument. Okay, he’s a superhero, I’m sorry!”).

-A U.S. prosecutor said Prince Andrew has provided “zero cooperation” to the investigators who want to interview him as part of their sex trafficking probe into Jeffrey Epstein. Buckingham Palace issued a “no comment” response.

-The Daily Mail is claiming that Ellen DeGeneres confirmed that she’ll hold the first sit-down interview with Meghan Markle since she and Prince Harry quit the Royal family, but if you watch the clip, that’s not what she said. It sounded more like “I’d be excited [if that happened].” If there is an eventual interview, my money is on Oprah, who was at their wedding.

-Also, did William and Kate authorize the Daily Mail to use copyright photos of their kids even though Harry and Meghan are currently suing the publication? This is so messy.

Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan have settled their custody agreement. He also tangled with some trolls on Insta.

-Celebrities took to social media yesterday to pay tribute to Kobe Bryant.

-This is a great profile of Parasite director Bong Joon Ho. He talks about drawing all his own storyboards for his movies (“When I go on set without a storyboard, I feel like I’m in central station in only my underwear”), and how he can’t see himself being able to step into a big studio production (“For me to feel safe, I have to start the project, build everything up, one by one, and see it to the complete finish. I really admire directors who can easily do superhero movies and big-budget films”).

Lukas Haas reached out to Vulture’s Hunter Harris (who is a must-follow on Twitter) to talk about his new song because he really liked what she wrote about him in Widows last year, and she kept asking him if he was the king of the Pussy Posse. Bless her.

-I thought I had watched all of Glee but I must have missed the last season cause I don’t remember Billie Eilish‘s brother Finneas being on it at all. But here he is!

-The Turning, a new horror movie starring Mackenzie Davis and Finn Wolfhard, has a ending so terrible that it’s getting an unheard of “F” Cinemascore from audiences.

-Can Adam Driver host SNL every week? His episode was the best in a long time, including this reprisal of Kylo Ren on Undercover Boss.

-The Grammys red carpet was especially underwhelming this year, no?

-Meanwhile, the Roc Nation brunch managed to have more star power than the Grammys.

-The first films to be getting buzz at Sundance include a romcom from The Lonely Island crew called Palm Springs starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, Carey Mulligan‘s revenge pic Promising Young Woman, and Alison Brie‘s trippy Horse Girl, which she says she wrote based on her own history of mental-health issues.

-Speaking of Carey Mulligan, she thinks Oscar voters should prove they’ve watched all the eligible films. “I wonder if the system works in terms of getting sent 100 screeners. Maybe you shouldn’t be allowed to vote unless you can prove you’ve seen every single one. There should be a test. The films that did get left out are indisputably brilliant. I’m talking about Hustlers, Little Women and The Farewell.” She’s not wrong.

Chris Evans, Rachel Dratch and John Krasinski try out a Boston accent for Hyundai’s Super Bowl commercial.

Steve Carell plays a Democrat strategist who helps a retired veteran (Chris Cooper) run for mayor in a small, conservative town in the trailer for Irresistible.

Kumail Nanjiani Has His First Bite of Pizza in a Year

-After a year of intense training for a Marvel movie, a shaky Kumail Nanjiani was treated to his first piece of pizza and cake in a year by Jimmy Kimmel.

-In a new documentary Miss Americana, which opened the Sundance Film Festival last night, Taylor Swift drops some major revelations – including her struggle with an eating disorder.

-Meanwhile, Swift will be skipping this weekend’s Grammys.

-A royal source calls the rumours Meghan Markle is set to do an interview with Ellen DeGenerescategorically untrue.”

-Friends superfan Selena Gomez gushed over guest host Jennifer Aniston during her Ellen appearance.

-Meanwhile, Friends’ Central Perk set is still set up as a tourist destination, so Aniston used her guest hosting gig as an opportunity to scare the hell out of fans.

Noah Centineo and Jimmy Fallon played “Water War” last night, just in case the idea of a dripping wet Noah Centineo interests you.

Rosie Perez testified today in Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault and rape trial in support of Annabella Sciorra‘s rape claim.

-Ocassionally when filming Carpool Karaoke, James Corden uses a rig instead of driving. Why are people surprised by this?

Eugene and Dan Levy love Kelly Clarkson very much. It me!

-The Good Place ends next week and my god I’m not ready.

-This is a fascinating look at the private Twitter rooms where progressive celebrities and activists such as Debra Messing, Don Cheadle, Gabrielle Union, Alyssa Milano, Jon Cryer, Sarah Silverman, and Ben Stiller gather to communicate and work in tandem to spread messages online.

Jessie Eisenberg and Imogen Poots star are trapped in a suburban nightmare in the trailer for the Vivarium.

Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant are teaming up for the HBO miniseries The Undoing, in which Kidman’s character’s perfect life is turned upside down when her husband disappears.