-In her new interview with Women’s Health, Eva Mendes says she hadn’t really considered motherhood until she met Ryan Gosling. “It was the furthest thing from my mind. Ryan Gosling happened. I mean, falling in love with him. Then it made sense for me to have…not kids, but his kids. It was very specific to him.”
–Jimmy Kimmel organized a Game of Thrones hotline to help confused fans — with the show’s stars manning the phones.
–Angelina Jolie is Pitt-less. She officially dropped her ex’s last name.
-Meanwhile, Kit Harrington is not here for any GoT hot takes. “Whatever critic spends half an hour writing about this season and makes their [negative] judgement on it, in my head they can go f*ck themselves.”
-Fleabag/Killing Eve creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge is reportedly polishing up the new Bond script — at Daniel Craig’s request. Smart guy, that Dan.
–Ariana Grande had a lucrative weekend. She was reportedly paid $8 millionto perform at Coachella.
-I don’t know how it took this long for Warner Bros to start having reservations about Johnny Depp, but I’m here for it.
-Netflix’s ratings claims should always be met with side-eye, but they say the brotastic film Triple Frontier was viewed by 52 million households in first month. On the TV side, it says Umbrella Academy was watched by 45 million households in its first month.
–Kim Kardashian West is the latest celebrity to get Vogue’s 73 Questions treatment — and it’s the most extensive glimpse we’ve gotten of their weird, blank canvas-y house. How do they actually live there? There’s no furniture!
-After weeks of speculation, Wendy Williamsfiled for divorce from her husband of 20 years amid rumours he had a baby with his mistress.
-This is a big deal. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are breaking from traditionand avoiding the dog and pony show outside the hospital after welcoming their kid. Instead the palace says they have “taken a personal decision to keep the plans around the arrival of their baby private” and that “look forward to sharing the exciting news with everyone once they have had an opportunity to celebrate privately as a new family.”
–Lori Loughlin is reportedly coming to terms with how much trouble she’s in. A source tells E!, “Lori is finally realizing just how serious this is. She is seeing the light that she will do jail time and is freaking out.”
-I wrote a Game of Thrones refresherbefore this weekend’s premiere and when doing some season 7 rewatching, I realized I had forgotten A LOT.
-Meanwhile, James Corden made one of his writers binge GoT in one, 67-hour sitting.
–Donald Glover and Rihanna‘s Guava Island, a music-driven, hour-long film shot largely in secret in Havana, is dropping this weekend. It’s a tropical thriller written by Glover’s brother and costaring Letitia Wright featuring Glover playing local musician character is determined to throw a festival for his island community. It’ll premiere on Coachella’s YouTube channel this weekend ahead of Glover’s headlining set, and stream for free on Amazon.
-Netflix released the trailer for Tales of the City, starring Laura Linney and Ellen Page. Oh, I am very in on this!
-Speaking of Netflix originals I’m in on, here’s the first trailer for Wine Country, starring Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Paula Pell, Emily Spivey, and Tina Fey.
-The Game of Thrones premiere red carpet was fire, but Gwendoline Christie was the clear winner. It’s a smart move on her part — she’s coming off her first big thing and now is when she needs to create some buzz for future gigs.
-Also, Sophie Turner confirmed on the carpet that Maisie Williams will be her maid of honourwhen she marries Joe Jonas.
–Tessa Thompson casually and repeatedly burning Chris Hemsworth in this birthday message to RDJhas me suddenly excited to see their Men in Black film.
-Sources say Britney Spears is doing “much better” after checking herself into a mental health facility to cope with her father’s illness.
-This is hilarious: Tom Holland still hasn’t read the script For Avengers: Endgame despite being done filming — and it’s because Marvel doesn’t trust him not to spoil it.
-So Jennifer Lopez is just going to keep ignoring those cheating rumours, huh?
–Kanye West‘s kids took April Fool’s Day wayyyyy too far — they made him think Kim Kardashian had died. Kim told Elle: “[North] roped him into an April Fool’s prank yesterday that was ridiculous. She took ketchup into my bathroom, and she begged me to let her spread it on me, and on the bathroom, as if it was like a bad scary movie. Then she asked me to lie down. I thought she was just playing, maybe that she was going to say I was hurt. No. She taught Saint how to fake-cry—she showed him how to do it!—and then she told him to scream ‘Mommy’s dead!’ Kanye ran upstairs and he was like, ‘Kids, this is not funny. This is not a good prank.'”
-Out of all the things I could imagine Prince Harry coming out strongly against, Fortnite wasn’t one of them. He talked about banning the video game, saying “It’s created to addict. An addiction to keep you in front of a computer for as long as possible. It’s so irresponsible.”
-Speaking of the royals, everyone’s keeping their eye on the UK press to see if they will start reporting on the Prince William cheating rumours now that the US press is. They continued to toe the line with the palace even though the Daily Beast reported on it, but now that it’s being splashed across supermarket tabloids, with they follow suit? That’s what happened once French outlets started covering Kate’s topless photos. We’ll see.
-I know it’s probably beyond a long shot, but it’s incredible to me that there’s talks of bringing Pitch back. Disney’s 20th TV is dangling a revival of Dan Fogelman‘s baseball drama to entice the This Is Us creator to remain in-house.
–Celine Dionlaughed off rumours of a relationship with her backup dancer: “Pepe is gay…The thing is that he’s my best friend and we dance together and he did so much for me and even just holding my hand…it’s something that I haven’t had for a long time…A hug from a 6′ 3″ man, it was wonderful…and people really thought there was a romance going on.”
-Maybe when you’re heading into your court appearance you should just skip the autograph line, Lori Loughlin. Just sayin’.
-Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath is denying reports he’s gone deaf, saying he was misquoted.
–Kristen Bell has a warning about the new Veronica Mars miniseries. “This will be a controversial season. Let me just say that. I am excited for people to watch and I am also probably going to stay off the internet once it airs. There’s some stuff that happens that people will have strong feelings about.” I’m guessing Logan and Veronica break up, which isn’t doing much to build my excitement.
-I really like this story about the women behind Captain Marvel banding together to form a new production company, combining the clout they’ve earned to “exponentially lift up storytellers and less heard voices.”
–Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen show off some surprising chemistry in this new Long Shot clip and I’m so confused.
–Kristen Stewart pretends to be an author to cover for Laura Dern in the trailer for J.T. LeRoy. I saw this at TIFF and I thought it was good, not great, but the performances were fun.
