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Victoria Beckham Says She’s “Really Good Value at a Dinner Party”

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–Victoria Beckham is on the cover of Elle UK, in which she insists she smiles IRL. “I’m really good value at a dinner party – I want to relax and have a laugh. I like to have fun, and I think that often surprises people.”

–Anne Hathaway has been exceptionally thoughtful and articulate during her Colossal press tour, but this interview with Jezebel may be my favourite — mostly because she doesn’t shy away from the fact that the site had posted incredibly mean things about her in the past. (The postscript to the interview with the reporter’s realization that he once posted Anne’s crotch shot is especially worth your time.)

-Yes, Antonio Banderas scented candles are a real thing that exist. (Unfortunately, they don’t actually smell like Antonio Banderas.)

–Chris Evans says he cried when he told his mom he lost his virginity.

–Olivia Munn and Aaron Rodgers have split after 3 years together. His family must be having a goddamn hootenanny right about now…

-Buzzfeed asks a very valid question: how many times does Nicole Kidman have to prove herself?

-Hmmm…Meghan Markle just shut down her lifestyle blog, The Tig. Everyone is assuming this means she’s positioning herself for a role in the royal fam. (Of course, her camp says that speculation is false.)

–Sandra Bullock is just living her life in Wyoming (complete with a great jacket).

-On today’s episode of The Talk, Sharon Osbourne recalled seeing her X Factor costar Mel B with “a black eye and bruising everywhere.”

–Elizabeth Hurley is 51 and she looks like this. I don’t even know how that’s possible.

–Cuba Gooding Jr. says he didn’t intend to exhibit “sexual misconduct” when he lifted up Sarah Paulson’s dress. Well then, give the man a medal!

–Emma Stone responded to that teen’s viral La La Land-inspired promposal, telling him  “I’m in London working, but I hope you have the best time at prom… P.S. I do see Gosling around the eyes.”

-It’s the week before the F&F movie comes out and Vin Diesel is downplaying his reported beef with Dwayne Johnson.

-If I had all that HBO money, I’d probably do exactly what Lena Dunham just did.

–Kristen Stewart runs, jumps and dances in the new ad for Chanel’s latest “it” bag.

–Joe Manganiello likes Dungeons & Dragons so much he wrote a script about it. I remember listening to him on the Nerdist podcast and being shocked by how gloriously geeky he is.

-According to GOOP, you can cure your insomnia by walking around barefoot. Sounds totes legit!

-There’s reportedly intense infighting among the six potential heirs that stand to inherit Prince’s fortune.

-When I die, please bury me in Laura Dern’s bathtub.

–Rami Malek is on the run in the trailer for Buster’s Mal Heart.

Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield Reunite?

–Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield are playing with our hearts again by being photographed together.

-Speaking of confusing relationship statuses, here’s a photo of Joshua Jackson and Diane Kruger hugging.

-Meanwhile, Jackson (and his sexy beard) are back to filming The Affair.

–Vin Diesel praised Dwayne Johnson‘s Fast8 performance; The Rock responded by thanking everyone in the cast but Vin. God, I’m living for this!

–Idris Elba posted a photo of him working out in just a pair of boxers. Happy Monday!

–Eddie Murphy lives quite the life. “I haven’t read a newspaper in 20 years, or read a corporate magazine, I don’t read corporate magazines or stuff, I don’t read stuff about me…I don’t have a computer, I don’t have email, I don’t have any of that shit.”

-He also says he turned down drugs from Robin Williams and John Belushi.

–Justin Bieber’s new girlfriend is named Bronte Blampied. God, that’s almost as good as Belinda Blinked.

–Rosario Dawson has the weirdest contract I’ve ever heard of. Marvel is so scared that she’ll reveal spoilers that all she knows every year is that she’ll be in four episodes of a Netflix show at some point — but she doesn’t know when or which shows.

-Here’s Angela Bassett delivering an impromptu Shakespearean monologue like a GD boss.

–Amy Adams is pretty much the only celebrity who can pull the “aw schucks, I’m so naive” card and get away with it in my books. I blame Enchanted.

-Sweet! Feist is reuniting with Broken Social Scene on the upcoming new album.

-Speaking of good Cdn music news, there’s a new Tegan & Sara song!

-Out of all the Hip tributes I read this weekend, this one and this one got me right in the feels.

-Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Vincent Rodriguez III is posting photos from his Disneyland trip with his husband and it’s all kinds of cute.

–Courteney Cox ate rotting sheep on while filming Running Wild With Bear Grylls; did not enjoy it.

-Is Tom Cruise holding up the new Mission Impossible movie with his money demands?

-One of my favourite people I’ve ever interviewed is Nick Offerman, because you could throw the silliest question at that guy and he’d respond with the most thoughtful, lovely answer. I was reminded of that by this AV Club interview, whether he’s talking about fans over-simplifying Ron Swanson as a breakfast-loving, Scotch-drinking libertarian (“He was much more complex than that. He was a very outspoken feminist. He was a man of few words and people mistook that for a man of few colors”), or his sex life with Megan Mullaly (“Look, I’m 46, Megan’s 57, and we have a happy marriage. We get it on with each other and we feel very celebratory about that.”)

-This Stranger Things theory just broke my brain.

-Meanwhile, the little girl who plays Eleven shaved her head for the show to the tune of Beyonce’s “Pretty Hurts.”

-Speaking of shaving, watch Hugh Jackman shave off his Wolverine beard.

-THR published an article about how TV production is exploding in Vancouver: “If you’re a paparazzo, you should go to Vancouver because it’s where every television star is going to be running around and misbehaving.” Oh, THR. They already are. The CW casts seem to be single-handedly powering blind item sites these days.

– Netflix has a new comedy series called Friends from College and the cast is stellar: Cobie Smulders, Keegan Michael-Key, Nat Faxon and Fred Savage.

–Aaron Paul is getting into the producer gam;. he’s sold a one-hour drama script called Blackmail to NBC.

-Sorry, nerds. Ian McKellan will not officiate your LOTR-themed nuptials.

-Um, why is Jason Momoa hanging with his Game of Thrones fam in Ireland?

-Speaking of GOT, that awesome shot of Jon Snow being crowded in battle last season was actually Kit Harington’s idea.

–Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are shooting a new movie together? TAKE MY MONEY NOW!

-Hmmm. Days after THR’s scathing article about Leonardo DiCaprio‘s charitable foundation, he abruptly dropped out of hosting a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton at his Hollywood Hills home. It’ll now be held at the nearby residence of Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel.

–Kevin Spacey has never been happier than this moment.

-Such a good read: “Mary Jane’s Hair Color: The Code for Racist Rhetoric”

-Speaking of great reads, this is a good one on the struggle for small shows to be seen in the times of peak TV.

-In case you ever doubt how powerful Barbra Streisand is, she got Apple to change the way Siri pronounces her name. “She pronounces my name wrong. With a soft S, like sand on the beach. And so what did I do? I called the head of Apple, Tim Cook.”

-The Ben-Hur remake belly-flopped at the box office this weekend. Let’s all see if that gets as much press as the Ghostbusters receipts did, shall we?

-Whoa. Sleigh Bell (love them!) are suing Demi Lovato (love her!) for unlawfully sampling their music.

–Helen Mirren was shutting down sexist interview questions as far back as the ’70s.

-Lindsay Lohan will do a Russian TV interview — but only if she gets to  meet Putin. Bless her heart.

-Congrats to Chris Hardwick, who married Lydia Hearst this weekend. Everyone shits on him now because he’s so ubiquitous, but I still kind of love him.

-This is boss: Katie Couric took a $1 million pay cut to save other people’s jobs.

–Halle Berry proves she’s the wrong mom to mess with in this Kidnap trailer.

Blake Shelton Responds After Racist, Homophobic Tweets Resurface

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–Blake Shelton went on the defensive after some terrible tweets he posted in 2009 and 2011 resurfaced earlier this week, blaming his inappropriate sense of humour. The Voice is also in damage control mode, reportedly asking outlets to not cover it in exchange for continued access to the show. Yes, blackmail should totally help this situation.

-Now Justin Beiber and Selena Gomez are taking their TMI to Snapchat. Goodie.

-THR has the scoop on what really went down between Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel:  On Aug. 8, Johnson was ready to shoot one of his final scenes with Diesel on Fast 8, and Diesel was in his trailer keeping everyone waiting. But an onset source says “this was how Vin has run things for the past several movies” and everyone’s been pretty much resigned to it, so Johnson’s public rant “blindsided” everyone.

-Us Weekly Claims Tom Cruise has had “essentially no contact” with Suri for about three years. If true, that’s incredibly sad. I wonder if the church has deemed her and/or Katie SPs?

-Meanwhile, Katie and Jamie Foxx were spotted backstage at a Barbra Streisand concert.

–Amber Heard‘s lawyers retracted that statement claiming she’s “vindicated” in the court of opinion. (They’re not wrong, tho.)

-Meanwhile, Billy Bob Thorton would like to erase himself from the narrative.

–Renee Zellweger denied a magazine claim that she talked to penguins — and then the writer denied her denial. Journalism!

–Diana Ross took out a full-page ad congratulating her daughter Tracee on her Emmy nom, which is all kinds of sweet.

-Stepbrothers costars Will Ferrell and John C Reilly will reunite for a new Sherlock Holmes comedy.

-THR’s cover story with Oprah and Ava DuVernay on their push for inclusion instead of diversity is so smart and thoughtful. This quote from O is basically the 100 emoji: “I realized that the best way to show that black people are just like everybody else, or that gay people are just like everybody else, is not to do a show about gay people or black fathers raising their children [but] just to include them in a story about raising children. That’s how you normalize it and make it OK for everybody else.”

–Joshua Jackson and Diane Kruger were photographed hanging out and now my brain/heart hurts. Also, he smokes? You’re killing me, Pacey!

-This is a fascinating article about the questionable donors to Leonardo Dicaprio‘s charity. He has “a notable habit of buddying up with smooth dudes who end up in federal prison.”

–Taylor Swift flew Tom Hiddleston to Rhode Island on her private jet for a reunion — but she also gave $1 million to help Louisiana flood victims so she pretty much gets a pass on everything from me this week.

-Now that Hulu has lost the rights to all of CW’s superhero shows, they decided to make their own, tapping the creators of Gossip Girl for an adaptation of Marvels’ Runaways.

-Now it sounds like The Flash and Supergirl will come together for TWO musical crossover episodes this season. This makes me nervous. Both of those shows still have to find their footing before getting all stunt-y.

-There’s more talk about how the studio is going to market Birth of a Nation in the face of the Nate Parker controversy. No one is giving him a pass.

–Jonah Hill shot down rumours that he feuded on set with Miles Teller while shooting War Dogs.

–Chris Pratt should promote every magazine he’s in exactly like this.

–Amy Schumer tweeted that she is “disappointed” in writer Kurt Metzger after his comments on a rape scandal, and he no longer works for her. Wait, she’s JUST NOW disappointed? Because he’s been pulling this crap for years.

–Cynthia Nixon plays Emily Dickinson in the trailer for A Quiet Passion, which is coming to TIFF.