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Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani Romance Rumours

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Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton (NBC)

-These Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani reports are just the result of a weird confluence of wishful thinking/coincidental timing, right? RIGHT?!?!?

–Taylor Swift‘s reaction to the Hollywood Reporter tweeting about her winning an Emmy was pretty adorabs.

-Did Ben Affleck have to change his phone number to get away from his nanny? HA!

–J.K. Rowling says we’ve all been pronouncing Voldemort wrong. The last ‘t’ is silent. (Which probably means only Americans were pronouncing it wrong.)

–Susan Sarandon explained her trip to Burning Man and her love of nail guns to a bemused Jimmy Kimmel last night.

-Not only do Canadians still get to watch the new Hulu-produced season of The Mindy Project on an actual TV network starting Nov 5, each episode will be available on Citytv.com at noon on Wednesdays, beginning Sept. 16. God save the Queen!

–Ellen DeGeneres crushed Jimmy Fallon in the latest round of Lip Sync Battle.

–Fallon rebounded by pulling out some classics in last night’s History Of Rap with Justin Timberlake.

-Also, here’s Fallon and Timberlake dancing in the stands to Beyonce on the arena screen at the US Open.

–Tina Fey showed the world the best DubSmash ever, featuring Maya Rudolph.

-After yesterday’s pro-Jon Hamm story in Us Weekly, People is giving Jennifer Westfeldt‘s camp a boost.

-Once again, a CW show seems to be the only new fall series TV critics are really pulling for.

-At this point, announcing you have a crush on Amy Schumer is like announcing you like to breathe.

-I broke my Fall TV “no promos/no spoilers” pledge (which, btw, has been REALLY hard. Why ya gotta release so many tempting trailers, Arrow?!) to watch the Netflix promo for Jessica Jones because A) Twitter warned me that it doesn’t contain any actual footage, and B) I adore Krysten Ritter. It’ll premiere on Nov. 20 and be 13 episodes.

-Here’s the trailer for the Sundance hit James White, starring Christopher Abbott, Cynthia Nixon and Kid Cudi.

 

Johnny Depp Channels Matthew McConaughey in New Dior Ad

-I couldn’t even get through Johnny Depp’s entire Dior ad. My cringe muscle was spasming. Seriously, did he think we needed *more* reasons to mock him?

-The VMAs continue to tear everyone apart, and it’s glorious. Demi Lovato and Kathy Griffin are fighting again, Miley Cyrus is pissed about that Nicki Minaj‬ confrontation, and Taylor Swift is angry that Kanye West went off-book. It’s the show that keeps on giving!

-Usually when actors cover Men’s Health they’re looking shirtless and ripped, but Colin Farrell ain’t got no time for that. Change approved!

-The author of the 007 books said Idris Elba is “a bit too rough” and “too street” to play Bond. Twitter immediately got its panties in a bunch (rightfully so), but his actual quote got a little lost in the headlines. (The author immediately followed up the comment in question by saying “I can think of other black actors who would do it better,” citing Hustle’s Adrian Lester, so it was more of a tone-deaf comment about class, not race.) He also suggested Idris isn’t “suave” enough, which is equally incomprehensible. Don’t worry Idris, you can still star in lots of stuff. Let’s start with my dreams and my wedding and go from there, mm-kay?

–Ian McKellan refused to join Taylor Swift’s silly squad after she evicted him from his apartment.

–Hilary Clinton‘s emails revealed that she wanted to know when Parks and Rec is on. Hilary Clinton is all of us.

–Andrew Garfield is totally unrecognizable here.

-I really liked this Grantland piece on how young stars like Zac Efron, Jesse Eisenberg and Miles Teller should handle their summer flops.

–Emmy Rossum is engaged to the guy who created Mr. Robot. I LOVE that guy!

-The internet is hating on Kermit’s new girlfriend.

-I’m leaning into my inner geekgirl and going to my very first fan convention this weekend! (Well, I went once but that was on a press pass so it doesn’t really count.) So is Gillian Anderson going to sing to me? Because YouTube has taught me to expect that. A lot.

-This new promo for Shonda night on ABC is all kinds of cute. I love that they’re really playing up Scandal’s love of wine.

–J.K. Rowling wished James Sirius Potter a happy first day at Hogwarts and it sent me down a long wormhole via Pottermore.com. (I got sorted into Ravenclaw, which I’m feeling very conflicted about.)

-NBC scraped plans for a Coach reboot. “It feels dated” seems like the weirdest excuse ever. Like, this is seriously just occurring to them now?!

-I made my TIFF movie picks yesterday, and one of the films I chose was Julianne Moore and Ellen Page‘s Freeheld, which I can’t wait to see. Page’s response to being told that she’s “brave” for playing a gay character makes me want to see it even more.

-I also chose Brooklyn starring Saoirse Ronan because it got such raves at Sundance.  Here’s the first clip.

-I seriously considered this Drew Barrymore/Toni Collette movie, but it seemed a little lightweight for a TIFF pick (says the girl who picked a film based on the fact that it’s from Denmark and features fake moustaches…)

-I also passed on Eddie Redmayne’s The Danish Girl, and this trailer is making be regret it.

What’s Up with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner?

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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner in the 2003 flick Daredevil. (Twentieth Century Fox)

-Rumours that there’s trouble in Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner‘s marriage are all over the low-tier tabloids this week, but they just got a boost with this new blind item. Seems to fit, as Affleck was in Cheticamp, NS last month and the Oklahoma reference reminds me of all those whispers about him and Olga Kurylenko when they were shooting Terrence Malick‘s To The Wonder there. Still, I hope it’s not true. I always root for them. (Well, I root for her because she’s Sydney ‘effing Bristow, and him by extension…)

-In other blind item news, we’re all trying to sleuth out which awful,  sexist Girls guest star Lena Dunham is talking about in this THR roundtable clip, right? Also, Amy Shumer‘s reaction to Lena’s story is all of us.

-Toast’s “If xx Were Your Boyfriend” posts are always great, but the Vin Diesel one reaches new heights.

–J.K. Rowling shut down a homophobic Westboro Baptist Church with one magical tweet.

–Bobby Flay‘s divorce just keeps getting nastier. Now his estranged wife is claiming he slept with January Jones “many times” during their marriage, leading to some speculation that he’s her baby daddy. (I’m still going with X-Men director Matthew Vaughn, if we’re taking bets. Which we’re not, cause that would be kinda gross.)

-Are Demi Lovato and Wilmer Valderrama engaged?

–Lindsay Lohan has reportedly completed her community service hours, and now her fate is in a judge’s hands after she fudged her record.

–Tracy Morgan has settled his lawsuit with Walmart over the highway crash that left him critically injured, and is set to give his first interview since the crash on the Today Show.

-I spent way too much time fighting about this on Twitter yesterday, but this Tom Hardy vs. the Toronto Star reporter meme that’s everywhere is total bullshit. If anyone bothered to read any of the reporter’s coverage of Mad Max, they’d see the question was meant to make a point. (The girl who first posted the meme has since deleted the tweet, but that hasn’t stopped people from running with it like dicks.)

-The creator of Netflix’s Grace and Frankie is crediting a tweet from Miley Cyrus for the show’s renewal.

-It’s weird that critics are reviewing the Supergirl pilot based on the version that leaked online, but at least they like it.

-Meanwhile, I’m down with any critic who isn’t enthralled with Netflix’s Daredevil, but why do they always have to poop on the CW in their reviews?

-I listen to a lot of comedy podcasts and it never ceases to surprise me about how openly comedians will talk shit about each other. It’s weirdly refreshing.

–Jeremy Renner crashed a wedding and took advantage of its open bar — but remained “standoffish” to the guests. Sounds about right.

-Is Channing Tatum having trouble convincing directors to helm his Gambit movie?

-A source tells E! News that Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez are “definitely not” back together. So there’s that.

-I wasn’t expecting Aloha to get rave reviews, but critics are HATING on it. Variety called it “Cameron Crowe’s worst film yet“, the Globe called out his “sloppy sentimentality,” and everyone seems to be having a hard time getting over the obvious age gap between Emma Stone and Bradley Cooper. Oh, and Stone’s character is part Asian, which is thrilling critics. It’s currently sitting at a tragic 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.

-It’s hustle time for Patrick Dempsey.

-I’ve been so very over Game of Thrones and it’s rape-y ways the last couple of episodes, but at least this looks promising.

-Are Kate Hudson and Derek Hough dating or just awkwardly hugging in public?

-The redband trailer for American Ultra, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Connie Britton and Kristen Stewart, has landed. It looks like a stoner version of the Bourne movies, which I can totally get behind.