Lady Gaga confirms her engagement to Christian Carino last night as she thanks him as her "fiance" during her Women in Hollywood speech! pic.twitter.com/u0Kqy6zN0k
-Everything’s coming up Lady Gaga. A Star Is Born is doing even better than everyone’s wild expectations, and she just confirmed her engagement to Hollywood agent and boyfriend of two years Christian Carino.
–Gwyneth Paltrow talks about her wedding to Brad Falchuk in the inaugural issue of Glamour UK’s digital issue: “It’s different to be in your mid-forties; do it again and bring all your experience, your pain, your happiness, suffering – everything. It’s actually very heartening, I feel very optimistic!”
–Ariana Grande has returned her $100k engagement ringto Pete Davidson because she “ended the engagement and felt it was the right thing to do.” (And also maybe because it was pear-shaped? Just sayin’.)
–Hailey Baldwin gushes about fiance/maybe husband Justin Bieber in her new Harper’s Bazaar interview: “He is incredible. He crushes everything. Every song, every feature. It’s crazy to see what he does. I’m always blown away.”
-Whoa. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Chow Yun-fat has revealed he plans to donate his $714-million fortune to charity.
-In a new interview with Vogue, Chrissy Teigen talks about building her brand on social media, getting blocked by Trump, and reacting to pal Kanye West’s antics.
-Oh goodie. We’ve entered the phase where Louis C.K. wants us to feel sorry for him.
-Practical Magic turns 20 today and I love that movie so much. I wish it got the annual Halloween rewatch love that Hocus Pocus does.
-This is a good deep dive into ABC’s decision-making process about rebooting Roseanne without its star.
–Busy Phillips credits BFF Michelle Williams for saving her marriage. #FriendshipGoals
-The CW just released the poster for the 3-show DCTV crossover and it’s bananas. Everyone is body swapping? I usually hate multi-verse, parallel timelines crap but I dig this.
-Meanwhile, Legends of Tomorrow has bowed out of this year’s crossover, but the trailer for their new season looks bonkers in the best possible way. That show really came into its own last year.
-New parents Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott’s GQ cover story is accompanied by a 12-minute video in which he attempts to prove how well he knows her. Their banter about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches is way more entertaining than anything in the article.
–Katy Perry talks about her “situational depression” after getting negative reaction to her album, and her religious roots in her new Vogue Australia cover story.
–Amanda Seyfried‘s husband was a bit jealous about her working with her ex-boyfriend Dominic Cooper on Mamma Mia! 2. I can’t imagine why…
-You could win a trip to cook (breakfast – not meth) with Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul in the original Breaking Bad RV. The video is very cute. (“There’s so much shit in there, Bryan!!”)
-We already know Batwoman is coming to the CW in the upcoming 4-show crossover this fall, but now it looks like she’ll be getting her own series, too. I’m very interested in the casting for this one. I like that they’re actively seeking an actress who identifies as LGBT.
–Demi Lovato is reportedly datingHalsey’s recent very recent ex G-Eazy.
–Kourtney Kardashian‘s boyfriend apparently doesn’t like her sharing sexy picson Instagram. Did he know nothing about that family going into this?!
-I agree with this take that there are too many winter shows on TV in the summer these days. As good as I know they are, I’m having a really hard time tuning into heavy shows like Sharp Objects, Succession, Dietland, Killing Eve, etc. Which is probably why I’ve only caught up on The Bold Type and Glow this summer.
–Blake Shelton seems oddly proud of the fact that he drank so much during a concert that he fell down mid-performance.
–This featurette of Tom Cruise doing all this own stunts in the new MI movie is insanity.
-Are Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson getting married next month? Why the rush, children?
–Metric‘s new video was shot entirely on an iPhone.
-SNL released a blooper reel featuring Donald Glover, Will Ferrell and Ryan Gosling.
–Jude Law and Johnny Depp somehow don’t share any scenes as Grindelwald and Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Seriously, what is this movie?!
–Nathan Fillion pulled together a crew and made a 15-minute Uncharted fan film.
-Whoo boy. The CW, home of all my fave current shows, kind of imploded this weekend after Variety’s Mo Ryan talked to 15 women and 4 men about alleged sexual harassment from CW showrunner Andrew Kreisberg of Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl. (Ryan tweeted Monday: “If this story were published today, the number would be higher. I had an interesting weekend.). Among the allegations: he once told a woman “Wow, you look so tired that I don’t even want to have sex with you anymore” in front of her kids, he put his hands on a man’s hips and mimicked having sex, he asked an array of women for their bra sizes, he asked a woman to lie on his office floor while he assumed a push-up stance over her and then he asked her to choke him “for research.” He has been suspended.
–Carina Mackenzie, a writer on The Originals who worked on an episode of The Flash last year, tweeted(and then deleted): “When I left The Flash I told my agents I would rather live in a cardboard box under a bridge than work with AK again…I was at that show for a few short weeks & was disturbed by the way he spoke about women, the way he treated assistants and — to be honest — even the way FICTIONAL females were discussed.” (She also defended super producer Greg Berlanti, though a writer who worked on Legends of Tomorrow for two years seems to think Berlanti knew.)
-The ladies of the CW immediately stepped up, with Melissa Benoist, Caity Lotz,Emily Bett Rickards, and Chyler Leigh releasing statements. I was particularly impressed with EBR’s tweet, because it directly addressed the Arrow showrunner’s stupid, tone deaf tweet after the story surfaced about “reverse sexism.” That’s her boss! If she gets fired (or her character suddenly gets reduced screentime/plots), we’re burning that network down…
-It took a while for the CW men to get in on the action, but eventually Arrow’s David Ramsey,and Supergirl’s David Harewoodvoiced their support. Stephen Amell waited a whole day but eventually put out a pretty boss Facebook video, saying “I thought that it was appropriate before I spoke publicly to speak with our cast and our crew, which I got the chance to do this morning…I told them this morning and I tell you now and I meant it, if anyone ever feels anything less than 100% safe…that they should come to whomever they’re supposed to go to and that I’ll stand right beside them. I’ll speak on their behalf if need be. If you’re not an active part of the solution than you are part of the problem.”
-A writer on Hannibal (the darkest show ever) called BS on the notion that you have to act disgusting in a writers room for “research.”
-Screw everyone who made Mel Gibson‘s new movie a box office success this weekend.
-I watched Lady Bird this weekend instead (it’s lovely) and then I immediately texted my childhood BFF because of the movie’s generous, perfect use of “Crash Into Me.” It also did crazy good at the box office. Expect Oscar buzz on this one.
–Gal Gadot will reportedly only sign on for a Wonder Woman sequel if accused sexual harasser Brett Ratner is completely removed from the franchise. Bless her! (It just got an earlier release date, away from Star Wars, so I’m guessing she won.)
-A dozen cast and crewmembers told THR about the time in 2003 when actor Tom Sizemore was removed from a movie setin Utah for allegedly violating an 11-year-old girl.
-Because everything is terrible in Hollywood these days, someone asked Twitter for their stories about nice celebrity encounters and everyone delivered. (If you don’t want to read the whole thread, here are some highlights. This tweet about Chris Pineis my fave.)
-Thor: Ragnarok has started a jam warbetween Jack Black and Chris Hemsworth (except only one of them knows what that means).