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Britney Spears Demands Her Life Back: “I’m So Angry, It’s Insane”

-After years of silence, Britney Spears testified remotely today about her conservatorship for the first time in open court, and she came out with guns blazing. She said “After I’ve told the whole world I’m okay, it’s a lie. I’m not happy, I can’t sleep, I’m depressed, I cry every day” and “The people who did this to me should not be able to get away and walk away easily.” She also said she did her last tour “out of fear,” compared her father to a sex trafficker: (“He loved the control he had over me, one hundred thousand percent”) and said she wants another baby but isn’t allowed to (“I have an IUD in my body right now that won’t let me have a baby and my conservators won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out”).

–Mariah Carey tweeted out her support to Spears.

-Speaking of female celebs who were treated badly in the 00s, Mischa Barton thinks it’s time she gets her own docuseries.

–Drake Bell pleaded guilty to child endangerment charges relating to a girl who was 15-years-old at the time of allegations.

–Harrison Ford injured his shoulder while rehearsing a fight scene for Indiana Jones 5. The film schedule will be reconfigured in the coming weeks to shoot around him.

–Stephen Amell was removed from his flight after an altercation with wife (though he insists he wasn’t forced off, tweeting “My wife and I got into an argument Monday afternoon on a Delta flight from Austin to LA. I was asked to lower my voice and I did. Approximately 10 minutes later I was asked to leave the flight. And I did so immediately. I was not forcibly removed”). He then followed up with a tweet that did not include an apology or contrition, but instead said “Must be a slow news cycle.” I followed this guy’s socials for years until last year’s tone deaf BLM video, and I’d grown increasingly worried that he needed help. (It also sucks to see a bunch of his fans blaming his wife and friends for being a bad influence. The dude is 40; his actions are on him.)

-Speaking of his friends, his close buddy Aisha Tyler (who hosted his ATX panel last weekend and was possibly on the plane with him when everything went down) unfollowed him and posted an Instagram graphic that says “Don’t Be a Dick.”

-Meanwhile, if you’ve gotten kicked off a plane for being belligerent and drunk, maybe cancel your pre-scheduled post about booze?

-Did Bennifer swap exes? JLo’s ex Alex Rodriguez was spotted hanging out with Ben Affeck‘s ex, Lindsay Shookus.

–Justin and Hailey Bieber met French President Emmanuel Macron, and Hailey’s outfit raised eyebrows.

–Avril Lavigne is now on TikTok. I remain in awe about how she appears to be aging backwards.

–Michael B. Jordan addressed criticism of his new rum brand’s name,  J’Ouvert, after Nicki Minaj and others called for him to change it.

–Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson have reportedly broken up.

–Billie Eilish has apologized after an old video of her surfaced using a racial slur.

-This deep dive into the reboot of Gossip Girl is a great read. “Too many actors came in wanting to play a version of Blair or Serena. Many auditioned in headbands.”

-NBC’s just-canceled Manifest recently premiered on Netflix and quickly claimed the top spot on their “Top 10″ list — but Netflix has declined to save it.

-In Netflix’s new music docu-series This is Pop, T-Pain says he became depressed after his friend Usher told him he “f*cked up music.”

-Netflix is officially out of good ideas: check out the bizarre trailer for Sexy Beasts, a new dating show where real-life singles sport elaborate makeup and prosthetics to put true blind-date chemistry to the test.

-After Warner Bros’ weird promo strategy of only releasing tiny clips of James Gunn’s Suicide Squad as a pre-roll ads for Youtube videos, the full trailer is finally here.

Rihanna Covers British Vogue

Rihanna British Vogue

–Rihanna on British Vogue is what the world needs right now. In the interview, she promises that she is “very aggressively working on new music,” says she gets anxiety before public appearances (“Oh, I’m nervous before even getting in the car to go to something. It can be devastating. And when I pull up to the red carpet, I’m like ‘Are you kidding me?’ I left the Grammys one time. Left! In the middle of my hair and make-up. My hair half up, half of my lash on”), and reveals she’s very involved in Fenty Beauty (“I write all of the copy for the websites, the product descriptions, product names, the colour names. I do have a huge team, but I just don’t necessarily think their tone is mine. I’d feel like a fraud selling something that I can’t stand by”).

-This is making so many people so happy right now: Christopher Meloni is bringing his Law & Order: SVU character back to television. The actor will return as Elliot Stabler in a new, yet untitled NBC series centered around his character that hails from L&O mastermind Dick Wolf.

-The best thing about all the late night hosts doing at-home shows is that now we can judge all of their houses.

-I don’t know why I’m surprised that Gwyneth Paltrow watched Tiger King, but here I am.

–Daniel Radcliffe and Erin Darke talk about being the first celebrities to get hit with a coronavirus hoax. They seems super sweet together.

-Speaking of sweet, The Star Trek: TNG cast had a video chat to celebrate Marina Sirtis’s birthday.

-Veronica Mars’ Ryan Hansen posted a video of him singing happy birthday for costar Jason Dohring. The best bit: “Feel free to comment below about how much you love Jason, happy birthday, all that stuff. If it’s about the show, email me. We can talk about it there. wedidnotwriteit@actor.com.” Man, that poor cast must have been bombarded with complaints after the final episode.

-I like this piece on how entertainment publicists are handling PR in the middle of a global crisis.

–Aisha Tyler just released a trailer for a comedy short she did with Stephen Amell.

-The kid who plays Mike on Stranger Things is stirring up gossip and I love it.

–Lindsay Lohan has declared she’s “back.” From what is unclear but…yay?

-I don’t know how the NYT is standing by its gushing article of the Internet Archive. Yes, it’s made more than a million books available free online. But it’s doing so by breaking copyright and not paying the authors. NPR also wrote a glowing article on it last week, which they ended up stepping back from after authors called out the site for piracy.

-I definitely agree with this take on how Annie Murphy will be Schitt’s Creek’s greatest legacy. The premise of her next show sounds great so I’m hoping for big things for her.

–Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys reading a children’s book is all kinds of cute.

-Here’s the trailer for Jennifer Lopez’s charitable new reality series on Quibi Thanks A Million, in which 10 celebs each give away $100k to deserving recipients.

-The one (only?) good thing about being stuck in our houses is that there are lots of new shows premiering in April with big stars, including Chris Evans, Cate Blanchett, Sophie Turner, Rashida Jones and Liam Hemsworth.

-Also premiering in April is Normal People, based on the Sally Rooney book that everyone seemed to fall in love with in 2018. Here’s the trailer:

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.