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Actor and comedian Leslie Jordan has died at 67 years of age. According to reports, he appeared to suffer a medical emergency before crashing his BMW into the side of a building in Hollywood yesterday morning. Leslie was famous for his many TV roles including his breakout role as Beverly Leslie on "Will & Grace." He was also a fixture in series such as "Ally McBeal," "Ugly Betty," "Star Trek: Voyager," "Reba," "Boston Legal" and most recently, "Call Me Kat." There was plenty of film work as well – such as his work in "The Help" and "Ski Patrol." Leslie will always be remembered for his small stature (he was 4'11") and his fun and flamboyant style.
Last week, Boy George took to social media to wonder aloud why Kim Kardashian hadn't spoken up yet about Ye's anti-Semitic statements. She has now responded, saying on Instagram and Twitter, "Hate speech is never OK or excusable. I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end." Her family, including Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner, have all now posted as well. In the meantime, according to CNN, Ye's long-time talent agency CAA has also dropped him as a client. And while Adidas is still largely silent, one of the company's directors said, "We need to do better as a brand. We need to do better for our employees and we need to do better for our communities. Until Adidas takes a stand, I will not stand with Adidas." It's also said that Johnny Depp's attorney, Camille Vasquez, cut ties with Ye only days after she agreed to step in and help clean up the mess he has created, RadarOnline.com has learned, because of his unwillingness to apologize.
He's back….Henry Cavill has posted a video to Instagram confirming that he's back as Superman. The actor made a cameo as the Man of Steel in the mid-credits scene for the number one movie "Black Adam," and he says that cameo was a "very small taste of things to come."
Tom Brady's ex, Bridget Moynihan, has people wondering with her latest social media post, according to Page Six. Bridget, who Tom broke up with when she was two months pregnant with their son Jack - shared a quote about relationships ending from marriage therapist Vienna Pharaon — "Not everything is meant to be mended. Not all relationships are meant to last a lifetime. Sometimes we have to learn to get comfortable with the gifts that are offered through the ruptures and the endings instead of the stories of repair and reconciliation." The timing of the quote, with Tom Brady is on the brink of divorce from Gisele Bündchen, has people wondering which relationship she's talking about.
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Scarlett Johansson is promoting her new skincare line, and she's sharing two important beauty tips that helped her throughout life. One, she said, "I wish I didn't pick my skin so much when I was younger, I could've avoided so much scarring and drama," but admitted, "It's really hard for me to get over that compulsive need to touch my face a lot or pick my skin." And two, "My sister told me to throw away the magnifying mirror. She said, 'Nobody is looking at your pores that closely, and it's a liability.' It was the simplest advice but really true for me especially because I can get compulsive about my skin."
Baby news…
"A Thousand Years" singer Christina Perri is a mom again.
The singer and husband Paul Costabile welcomed their baby girl, Pixie Rose, on Saturday. Christina announced, "Please welcome our magical double rainbow baby girl." Christina and Paul are also parents to four-year-old daughter Carmella. Before welcoming Pixie, Christina suffered a miscarriage, and a stillbirth of a daughter she named Rosie.
Jessica More from "Below Deck Mediterranean" welcomed a baby girl.
"Dancing with the Stars" pro Lindsay Arnold has announced that she's pregnant with her second child, with a due date in May. She and her husband have a 23-month-old daughter, Sage. Lindsay skipped the current season of "DWTS" to focus on her family.
Singer Carly Simon lost both of her sisters this week, just a day apart. Joanna Simon, a renowned opera singer, died at the age of 85 from thyroid cancer on Wednesday in a Manhattan hospital. Her other sister, Lucy Simon, 82, died Thursday at her Piermont, New York, home after battling metastatic breast cancer, according to TMZ.
Tobin Bell has officially signed on to the next movie in the "Saw" franchise. While his character, John "Jigsaw" Kramer, was killed off in 2006's "Saw III," he's appeared in almost all the franchise's movies in live or flashback form. The 10th "Saw" movie is set to go into production later this month and has a scheduled release date of October 27th, 2023.
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Adidas is cutting ties with Ye, saying, "Ye's recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company's values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness." They added they "will terminate the partnership with Ye, end production of Yeezy branded products and stop all payments to Ye and his companies." According to TMZ, the hashtag #boycottadidas was trending on Twitter over the weekend, right around the time they announced the sale of new Yeezy shoes.
When Kim Kardashian showed up for a reshoot of her "Playboy" pictorial in 2007, it went from "no nudity" to "full nudity" over the space of 40 minutes. That's according to Stephen Wayda, the photographer for the shoot. He said that when Kim and Kris Jenner arrived at Playboy Studio West in Santa Monica, they were supposed to just take her cover photo, but Hugh Hefner wanted a full reshoot. Kris was "very controlling," according to Stephen, but greenlit the shoot. The shots weren't used, but they've now been leaked. The New York Post has them. You can almost recognize Kim (this was pre-face work).
While most women don't look forward to the inevitable aging process, Angelina Jolie has said, "I actually love being in menopause." She told The Telegraph, "I haven't had a terrible reaction to it, so I'm very fortunate.
I feel older, and I feel settled being older." And she's not the only celebrity who has talked about the ease they feel with menopause. Kristen Scott Thomas from "Fleabag" calls it "liberating" and "wonderful" and Judy Greer from FX's "Married," is promoting a line of perimenopausal and menopausal products to help balance hormones. They make it sound so good that if I get there and it's not… well, I guess there's not much I actually can do about it, but I won't be happy.
Jason Momoa's breaking the internet with his latest thirst trap. He posted a video of himself and some friends fishing in the open sea, and he was wearing nothing but a loincloth, which when blown up by the wind on the seas, revealed the loincloth thong underneath. Thank goodness for windy days at sea! At one point, his entire butt was facing the camera. He caught a pretty big fish and pulled it up onto the boat, sharing pics of his catch, even though holding it in front of the loin cloth, I couldn't even tell you there was a fish there. Actually, please move the fish, it's blocking my view. See the pic and video at okmagazine.com. It makes me wish I was a fish.
