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Jacob Elordi Claims He and Zendaya Are Just Friends

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–Jacob Elordi is in the new issue of GQ Australia, and despite being spotted with Euphoria costar Zendaya in Greece (and then at the movies. And then in Sydney), he denies they’re dating (“she’s like my sister”). The boy still raves about her though, cause he has eyeballs: “Zendaya is an amazing creative, you know? She’s super dope to work with. She’s an incredible artist and a very caring person to all of us.”

–Pete Davidson is making his standup audience sign $1 million NDAs. (In this economy?!) It was enforced at a recent San Francisco show where a fan refused to sign the agreement. This is, obviously, stupid. If your material is ready to be viewed by the paying public, said paying public can judge/talk about it.

–Prince William and Princess Kate are going to bake up some holiday treats — and you can watch! The royal couple will appear alongside Mary Berry in a BBC special, A Berry Royal Christmas.

–Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler’s Making It returns to NBC tonight, so here’s 60 seconds of them slinging craft-related puns at each other.

–Tom Welling is having a big month. Not only will he reprise his Smallville role on next week’s CW crossover, but he and his longterm girlfriend Jessica Rose Lee got married over the weekend.

-My god, I can’t believe the risks Watchmen is taking every week. I’m not even sure how I feel about last night’s insane reveal, but it’s breathtakingly ballsy. Please watch this show.

–Alanis Morissette just announced a Jagged Little Pill 25th Anniversary tour with Garbage and Liz Phair. Yes to all of that!

-Is This Is Us star Justin Hartley‘s divorce going to be messy? Days after the actor filed the paperwork, his wife broke her social media silence by posting a quote: “It’s hard to watch people change right in front of you. But it’s even harder remembering who they used to be.”

-Sadness: Shelley Morrison, who played Rosario on Will & Grace, passed away at 83.

–Martin Scorsese‘s new movie The Irishman may be on Netflix, but that doesn’t mean he wants you to watch it on the subway. “I would suggest if you ever want to see one of my pictures, or most films – please, please don’t look at it on a phone, please. An iPad, a big iPad, maybe.”

-Knives Out (which I saw this weekend and was thoroughly delighted by) doubled its tracking predictions by opening with a $41.7 million domestic box office, pretty much making back its budget.

–Fenty just won the Urban Luxe Award at the British Fashion Awards, marking the first British Fashion Award for Rihanna.

–Margaret Qualley and Miranda July posted some videos on Instagram which seems like it’s performance art, but then Jaden Smith waded into it and I’m confused. He’s in on it, right?

-This is a wonderful feature on Laura Dern reflecting on her career, from Enlightened being ahead of its time (“But now, this year, this moment particularly, everywhere I go, people are bringing it up, like, ‘Oh my God, I just found Enlightened, we are Amy Jellicoe. We are all Amy'”)  to the fallout of Ellen’s infamous coming out episode (“We only did it for what, ten days? We all spent the next couple of years really struggling in work and safety. It was radical to experience that. It was the only time I ever experienced having to have to have full security detail”).

-SAG-AFTRA has launched an investigation into Gabrielle Union‘s firing from America’s Got Talent.

–Josh Hartnett and his brother are drug dealers who get in over their head in the Inherit the Viper trailer.

Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Split

-The big news of the weekend was that Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are splitting after less than a year of marriage. The announcement came after came after Cyrus was photographed kissing Kaitlynn Carter, Brody Jenner’s ex, while on holiday in Italy.

–Hemsworth was approached this morning by The Daily Mail Australia while out in Byron Bay. “You don’t understand what it’s like,” the actor told the outlet. “I don’t want to talk about it, mate.” 😢

-The Morning Show, Apple’s new show starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, released its first teaser. (It’ll be available via Apple TV but the cost still hasn’t been announced, which seems nuts since this streaming service is set to launch in like a month.)

–Josh Kloss, the actor who played Katy Perry’s love interest in her 2010 “Teenage Dream” video (aka the best pop song of the last 10 years), shared a lengthy Instagram post detailing the alleged humiliation he suffered at the hands of the pop star. He said she was “cool and kind” in private but “cold as ice” whenever other people were around, and claims she once pants’d him in public.

–Priyanka Chopra was at BeautyCon this past weekend and was asked about her previous tweet on the India–Pakistan conflict. Her response was not great, bob.

–Kim Cattrall won’t stop talking about another Sex and the City movie — even if we wish she would. “It was a blessing in so many ways but after the second movie I’d had enough. I couldn’t understand why they wouldn’t just replace me with another actress instead of wasting time bullying. No means no.”

–Lady Gaga is donating school supplies to the communities of El Paso, Dayton, and Gilroy.

-The Teen Choice Awards always make me feel old, but last night’s was especially a doozy. So many YouTube stars I don’t care about!

–Chris Evans tweet-flirting with Yvette Nicole Brown on her birthday is very cute.

–Olivia Colman is my queen — and now she’s everyone’s. Netflix released the first look at the actress as Queen Elizabeth II in season three of The Crown, out Nov 17.

–Sarah Silverman says she was recently fired from new movie after a photo of her in blackface from her show resurfaced. (She’s talked about it before, calling it her most “regrettable joke” back in 2015). “There’s a still of me on Twitter in blackface and it’s totally out of context and I tweeted it when Twitter was new and the people who followed me watched that show and it was from that show. Now it’s forever there and it looks…it’s totally racist out of context and I regret that.”

-Alanis Morissette‘s third child, Winter Mercy Morissette-Treadway, was born last week.

-Based on a Trump remark and some conservative faux-paranoia around a movie no one has even seen yet, Universal has cancelled The Hunt release. This makes no sense — not only have movies like The Purge franchise existed for years, if anything right-wingers should love a film about poor people rising up to defeat rich elites. What’s it gonna take for us to get Betty Gilpin: action star?!

-In happier news, The Farewell continues to be the lil’ movie that could. It has boosted its domestic haul to $10.2 million.

-Netflix dropped the first trailer for My Name Is Dolemite starring Eddie Murphy as comedy and rap pioneer Rudy Ray Moore.

 

Alanis Morissette Talks Pregnancies and Postpartum

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-I’ve been following Nicole Cliffe on Twitter for a while because she’s hilarious, and it turns out she’s also a pretty amazing feature writer. Her first big profile is Self’s digital cover with Alanis Morissette, and the result is a really frank, emotionally honest chat that delves deep into the singer’s pregnancies, labors and postpartum episodes. Morissette also talks about how her husband uses the concept of “provisioning” as a way of detaching money/breadwinning from providing for the family, and how her past traumas have informed her parenting strategy (“I talk about this with my kids a lot, the four boundaries being: You can’t tell me what I’m thinking; you can’t tell me what I’m feeling; you can’t f*cking touch my body/you can’t do anything with my body; and don’t touch my stuff”). Definitely worth your time.

-Speaking of cover stories that are worth your time, Janelle Monáe talks about trans rights in her new Paper interview.

-Another great profile is this one on Sienna Miller, who talks about the obstacles she faced early in her career and how the NYT did her dirty by referring to Jude Law as a “fling” and listing her alleged sexual conquests in a profile — but when they profiled Law they called her a “three-year relationship and engagement.”

-Is this Jeremy Renner tweet a joke? Because if he was really trying to transition into music, he would surely hire a professional to make a better video teaser than this. Right?!?

–Leonardo DiCaprio got hit in the face with a volleyball and Twitter came through with the jokes.

–Mindy Kaling‘s Late Night underperformed at the box office. Between this, The Long Shot and Book Smart, what a disappointing summer for smart, female-focused films.

–Cardi B gets as naked as you can appear in a video without getting banned from YouTube in her “Press” clip.

-Everyone is freaking out about The Office leaving Netflix, and how they won’t be able to stream it. Am I so old that if I love a show THAT much, I just buy the DVD boxset and not worry about never having access to it? I bought a season of TV last month that I will probably never take out of the shrink wrap, but I just feel better *knowing* I can. It’s also very strange that The Office and Friends have reached mythical legend status just because of their Netflix popularity with the young ‘uns. I would love for Netflix to someday give that sort of boost to less mainstream sitcoms like Happy Endings or Better Off Ted.

–Britney Spears‘ dad is allegedly suing a blogger for perpetuating the #FreeBritney conspiracy theory.

-This is sad: Dog the Bounty Hunter star Beth Chapman has died of cancer at 51.

-The Game of Thrones cast looks horrified when confronted with footage of their younger selves in the first season.

-In his anniversary post to Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban calls her “baby girl.” I read a book last week that I almost didn’t finish for no other reason than the protagonist’s boyfriend kept calling her that and I couldn’t deal with it because it came across as so infantilizing.

–This article on the making of Mad Men’s “not great Bob” meme is a treat, with Vincent Kartheiser providing the perfect kicker. (Sidenote: I was once an extra in a movie he was in. He was…something.)

-Orange is the New Black’s final teaser sees Piper adjusting to life outside prison.