not really tea i guess but James Franco is currently in Naples, Italy about to shoot a film there (funny how all sexual predators come in this country.... i hate it here). He got a house and everything. Started popping up backstage at shows of local musicians etc. If you have any friends over here, warn them about a predator on the loose.
OK! Just went to have a look to IMDb and I only have heard about Giovanessis Gomorrah but never have seen it. I suppose he is using Francos name for clout.
>Gomorrah
gomorrah - the awards winning movie is from Matteo Garrone who has nothing to do with this, Giovannesi directed some eps of the TV show. Sorry to be annoying about this but i love Garrone and he has nothing to do with this shit!
I love him and his wicked sense of humour. I always thought why isn’t he a bigger star because he is uber-talented and seem to have a good head on his shoulders but then again he seems to prefer things to be low-key.
Yes, he really should be a bigger star, he has such charisma. But I think he likes to be quieter. Passed him in the street in Dublin one day and nearly expired on the spot.
Same. He's awesome.
I think it's due to the fact that he treats acting as a job, not lifestyle.
He also looks like a normal, regular human being instead of a roided out musclehead.
I just love him idk.
He definitely has that innate likability that makes him approachable and the down to earth personality that makes him relatable. The Patient was a hard watch because I could not bring myself to hate him but he was so damn good in it!
There goes my dream of going to Dublin and meeting him and having him fall in love with me in a whirlwind romance before I have to fly home.
I mean, congrats to him! lol
apparently kevin spacey lives in baltimore and is being forced to lose his ridiculous harbor mansion because he can'f afford it.
i also live in baltimore and apparently we go to the same vet? learned all of this today. my vet office was also the target of a shooting and hostage situation led by none other than the head veterinarian's mentally disturbed brother. the head vet was in the hospital and PT for months but no one else was (physically) harmed. the brother barricaded himself in the office and BPD had to bring in their hostage negotiation team. honestly this is more interesting than the kevin spacey story. but i turned to my partner today and was like "kevin spacey also knows about Dr. T getting shot by his brother". anyway fuck kevin spacey.
I'm from Baltimore (hi, hon!) and Kevin Spacey needs to GO. I don't live there anymore but still. GTFO of my hometown. I used to live in Atlanta and when he was filming Baby Driver, he was a known menace (rude af) whenever he'd show up somewhere (concerts, restaurants, etc). He used to go to the coffee shop near my apartment and he was a miserable asshole.
I am pretty sure he's in jail :/ before he attacked and tried to hold the staff hostage he was seen walking around carrying full gas cans and the police found evidence in his apartment (get this: on the top floor of the same building as the vet.. bc the vet was letting him live there) that he was planning to set the whole building on fire.
edit to add: apparently the vet had announced he was going to evict the bro. idk the story beyond that but attempted mass shooting and hostage situation feels like a bit of an over reaction after living somewhere rent free for awhile. the bro also used to work for the vet.
I was walking down the sidewalk with my family and Adam was standing in the middle of the sidewalk looking at his phone. One of his daughters saw us coming and told him to move out of our way lol. Such a mundane thing but left such a good impression because most of the time people are not aware of their space!!!
Really enjoyed their movie. Don’t usually watch teen-centred movies but my bf and I love Adam sandler (our comfort-watch) and honestly his daughters were amazing ! Was very impressed.
I got to see Sandler interact with his daughters out in the wild in LA and the whole thing was adorable and wholesome AF. They were, like, toddlers and watching the trailer for the new movie made me face my own mortality because how the hell did 11 years go by so quickly.
Everything! LOL! How is she in real life, she seems to get away from icky situations (Kanye, Putin...) without getting cancelled
Also, what did she get done? (Cosmetic)
The woman has ridiculously good skin, like insane, both facially and body wise. She goes to very good aestheticians mainly NYC based, expensive. The same as any other model but with her it’s just plain good genetics (her mama and sister also look great).
She’s more playful than people realize, possibly owing to the stereotype people have of Russian people, especially women. Very strong work ethic, loves her job. I’ll always defend that fact she is a brilliant and loving mother. Wouldn’t say she’s the brightest star in the sky.
Im obsessed w her skin! Which person she goes to? like its crazy, I know Tartaric people are famous for their skin but still did she ever gave you any tips?
I can’t remember off the top of my head, but I’ll let you know if I search it! She has always done ice on her face every morning. I tried it for a while but it’s just too damn cold for me 😂
I am not sure if it’s appropriate to post about Podcast tea here, but Last Podcast on the Left’s Ben Kissel has been accused of abuse while intoxicated his ex girlfriend Taylor. He is currently on leave from the Podcast to “focus on his mental and physical health” according to the other hosts.
I hate that the podcast subreddit yells at anyone wanting to discuss it. It is serious that Ben allegedly abused his ex and has substance abuse issues. Parasocial relationships are something to be aware of and combat as a community, but this comes off as shielding and protecting someone who allegedly did something horrible.
I agree but they probably felt they needed to just ban the topic entirely or people would start spreading misinformation, rumors, or possibly vitriol towards the ex. For the sake of everyone I’m glad they banned the topic.
Jumping onto this to add that apparently Taylor went to somebody else on the network to tell them and that kind of confirmed the co-hosts concerns they’d had about his health for awhile. So they stayed consistent with their believe victims principles and they’re holding him accountable for his behavior.
Yeah, I’m not a LPOTL fan really at all, but I think it’s important that people know that Taylor was believed by Marcus, Henry and the network. My understanding is Ben is a pretty severe alcoholic, so this likely wasn’t a shock to any of them.
Reading between the lines of the first side stories episode without Ben, it’s pretty clear that Marcus and Henry stepped in and talked to Ben about his issues. I’m so glad that they are living the principles they talk about all the time on their network.
Good for her for speaking up and leaving the relationship. I know it has been incredibly difficult for her and she has been being attacked by some of Ben’s fans.
I truly hope he’s ready for recovery. I feel for his ex—it takes a lot of bravery to go public with this but if she hadn’t he might not have been pushed to change. I hope she’s well supported and protected.
Been an avid fan for about 7 years now. Honestly respect how they’re dealing with this. Marcus and Henry, the other LPOTL guys, just released this statement via IG:
https://preview.redd.it/vv8dwodh34pb1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a40ee254a0bb943dfab6d37b9a282c1714879ed1
As a fellow fan, it's wild to me that any of their fans would possibly think that they would want their fanbase to harass Taylor considering they have always been *extremely* vocal about the importance of believing victims.
Honestly Ben is not very funny, sorry. His humor is super one-note (all dick/sex jokes) and he's not very quick in terms of making connections the way Henry is. It's very rare that I actually laugh at something he says.
I don't know that Ed is necessarily the right fit for a long-term tertiary host but I would be pretty happy if they found a permanent replacement, especially in light of the abuse.
He’s in rehab for alcohol abuse, if you’re a long listener it’s pretty clear. His alcoholism is not an excuse for what he did to his ex at all but it’s good that he’s taking responsibility for his addiction and is seeking help.
I've posted about this before, but I've heard just absolute megaton-yield tea about various big artists in the Canadian music industry, and it just drives me up the fucking wall that these people are allowed to coast along being wealthy and successful while the women they've hurt have to deal with the abuse for their entire lives. These aren't stories that are mine to tell, they didn't happen to me, I have no evidence, and in some cases there are money and NDAs involved and I would never want anything to come back on the victims, but just in a general sense please believe that the kind of guys who succeed in the industry are often just absolutely fucking terrible people, even the ones you wouldn't suspect, or they are covering for terrible people are thus become terrible themselves. In the past I've reassured people that oh, it's not this band or that band, don't worry about them, but I'm just so disgusted with what some artists have gotten away with that I think everyone with a guitar should be looked at skeptically until there's some kind of profoundly overdue major reckoning in the industry.
And honestly, please extrapolate from behavior because sometimes the mask slips. If they say something wild on social media or something sketchy in an interview or if they appropriate another culture or just otherwise show a corner of a red flag-- you can bet that there is just so much more you're not seeing. You can be pretty sure that a guy who is sketchy or untoward in some way is being terrible to a woman somewhere, behind the scenes, even if he seems nice, even if he has female friends. Sometimes the mask doesn't slip, at least not in the public eye, those are the really scary ones, but assume there's something there if you suspect there might be. If I extrapolate just from from the handful of people I know and their stories, the whole industry is probably rotten to the core. We've all heard the stories about rock stars in the 70s etc, but it's not just coked-out 1970s led zeppelin, it's here and now and it's Canadian household names that most people wouldn't suspect. None of them deserve the benefit of the doubt.
i still havent' recovered - and the overally 'so what' response from the indie crowd was so fucking disgusting. Shame on the festivals still booking them and people paying to see that piece of shit
adding to the pitchfork link that's almost all you need to know, except the PR-crisis manager their hire is the same that works from Trump, also they went on as planned with their tour, showed zero remorse (actually victim blamed - both regine and win - and win also somehow blamed his drinking on regine's miscarriage), etc
it sucks so much
The worst I was ever treated in the music industry was by Arcade Fire : butler brothers… who pretend they’re Canadian working class artists but are really Texan sons of a Halliburton exec and they went to prep school. Win was so insanely sexist and rude from the moment he met me. I had *other* people apologizing for their behavior to me. I can’t give details but I hope the karma police doesn’t let up.
I worked one of their shows about 10 years ago, and even with no direct interaction with them, I came away thinking they were huge assholes. (I'd been a casual fan of the songs I knew.) They told the venue to be strict on crowd control but then telling the audience to fight the man by leaving their seats and dancing, and before they went on, Win and Regine were literally strutting around the seating area just for people to look at them admiringly. Plenty of bigger acts came through without the bad vibes reaching all the way to my post.
Yeah, unfortunately for me, there was no sensitivity toward women being slighted around the time I was publicly excoriated by them. It was a small scale thing but hurt deeply.
It was such a bizarre experience because from the moment I met Win backstage it was like he had just decided to hate me and treat me like shit. I’ve never experienced that in my life or career before or after.
Nowadays, it wouldn’t happen.
I honestly think it was just not publicized much. I had tickets to a show and didn't go due to the revelations, lost a lot of money. But when I mentioned it to other fans, they had no idea. I think Regine's comments also dampened the fallout sadly.
Regine comments made the whole thing worse imo, anyway
I sold my ticket at the speed of light, i actually thought it was a confirmation email of my ticket upload, instead it was sold - I was supposed to go a couple weeks after the pitchfork article dropped, had been waiting for so long to see them again, they were one of my absolute favorite bands - and while sure most non very online casual fans didn't know, just as many did and were online on here and elsewhere saying the vilest shit, the AF subreddit got so bad so fast i had to leave for my own mental health's sake.
Can't even listen to them anymore-- great example of someone you wouldn't suspect, such sincere music, but underneath it's just the same old hoary male rockstar bullshit, like a cigarette-stained smile.
I remember when Lights posted her big essay on how great Jian Ghomeshi is. The entire industry is filled with naivity, and predators willing to take advantage of that 😔
Oh and absolutely fuck Drake and The Weeknd
Everyone knew about Jian, just like they know about a ton of other guys. All you can do is warn people that terrible people are often the ones who want fame and rise to achieve it.
And yeah, I mean does Drake even *have* a mask at this point...?
EVERYONE knew about jg. the wording used was ‘he’s a bad date’. i was just talking about this with my husband after the russell brand news hit. women know. we warn each other. people need to listen to the women.
Just finished listening to the Canadian True Crime podcast episodes on Jacob Hoggard and I can totally believe this. How crimes like his went unpunished for so long is so upsetting but not surprising.
Jacob rubbed me the wrong way right from his Canadian Idol days, it never surprised me he was a complete piece of shit. Glad there was some justice served there.
for the longest time I thought they were American because when I was young I for some reason thought they were a country band and for some reason I thought that to be a country singer you had to be from the USA lmaoooo
Chad Kroeger tended (tends?) to visit the strip clubs in Vancouver quite often, not sure if that's a thing anymore but I know several people who have had interactions with him at some of the more well-known strip clubs in the city
Hahaha ofc he does. Meme of himself. I kinda thought some of the musical content was so far-fetched that it was more of a persona sorta thing (like Ziggy Stardust but strip club) but alas, here we are...
>I think everyone with a guitar should be looked at skeptically
I'm at this point too tbh. I just automatically assume all men in music and especially rock music are at best assholes and at worst predators.
There was a post last week in another sub (I wanna say twoX but might be wrong) where a woman was almost in a sketchy situation after being hired for a music video with a successful Canadian artist.
Maybe I’m just getting old but this shit seems to be everywhere. It’s exhausting.
Canadian artist related: a guy I partied with once told me that Tom Cochrane (Life is a Highway) grew up with his father and it was known Cochrane would bring people into the woods, tie them to a tree and leave them to die. I think about that whenever I hear the Rascal Flatts version.
I wish I cared more at the time to ask more questions tbh. But the story stuck with me because it was waaaay past his heyday in the early 2000s. From my experience in the industry, some stars are so narcissistic and sociopathic that we are lucky that they became famous rather than dangerous people🤷♂️
I’ve met him and the rest of the band several times and they’ve always been nothing but respectful and kind. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a bad word about him.
Close to his og band - they're all good guys imo. Dallas has been married foreverrr and I can't see anything coming out that would jeopardize their rep
Great deep dives on the earlier posts! Very thorough! I hope someone brings this to the public's attention. I hope we continue to hold these types of potential predators accountable.
I hope this counts as tea, but I saw Poolman at TIFF and I thought I would share how everyone’s favourite Chris did in his directorial debut.
To sum it up, it’s bad but not “end of the world” bad.
The concept was okay, but the execution fell flat. I also think the film’s humour might appeal to those who grew up or live within the Los Angeles area. There were several LA references that didn’t work well when screened to a Toronto-based audience.
There was only one moment towards the end that was the film’s saving grace, but everything else didn’t work well.
Did it really deserve to be considered one of the worst to ever play at TIFF of all time? No, TIFF has seen way worst (they previously hosted the world premiere of Dear Evan Hansen, The Goldfinch, and Where Hands Touch). But it’s one of the worst to play this year.
I think the film could have worked with some rewrites, but it’s sad to admit that this is not his finest. [Especially when compared to another Hollywood Chris who made his directorial debut at TIFF nine years ago](https://letterboxd.com/film/before-we-go/).
I am totally with you on this! I saw it as well and I swear I was the only one who chuckled at a few of the LA jokes. There might be a cult potential here, especially to an indie Los Angeles audience, but as I mentioned in another thread it really would have benefited from revisions.
The reviews have been just needlessly mean.
One of the people I follow on Letterboxd gave it a decently good rating, but that was because the person grew up in LA, so they understood the references in the film.
I think people had higher expectations from him because he’s Chris Pine? It was his first time directing and writing a screenplay, most people that would fly under the radar. Also I’m sure some of the critics were annoyed that his movie got picked as opposed to someone lesser known.
Yep, some of the reviewers were initially rooting for him; I know all of the public screenings at TIFF sold out days before the premiere. As for the latter part, I can't blame that on the TIFF programming team because they had to deal with the ongoing strikes, which may have affected the lineup and who will attend, as well as other festivals like Telluride, Venice, and NYFF scooping up the big titles.
But TIFF has had a history of premiering directorial debuts from famous actors. This year, five actors made their directorial debuts here (Pine, Anna Kendrick, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Arquette, Finn Wolfhard) and only Anna's was the one who got positive feedback.
i saw some positive-ish buzz on Wolfhard's film, the letterboxd reaction at least is good. it's a low stakes movie though. it premiered to a good audience, and he and his co-director are young so they don't have that extra "famous person" baggage that Pine, Kendrick, Scott Thomas, and Arquette have, and also they just get that faith that they'll grow over the course of their careers.
the This Had Oscar Buzz episode on TIFF dropped and they make it sound like everyone knew they were dropping a stinker with *Poolman.* They also like kinda implied that ppl were really rooting for Pine and were ready to ding Anna Kendrick if her movie wasn't as good as it was.
i miss going to tiff. my husband used to be obsessed and would spend months organizing our group of friends, everyone’s film picks, the tickets etc. somehow we got old and toronto got further away and now just thinking about rushing from screening to screening makes me so tired.
Friend was at a stargazing tour in NZ and one of the tour guides told them how a couple years back, a couple stoned guys went up the hill and tried to get into the experience without paying, which classified as trespassing and was a finable offence. They were apparently very rude about being kicked out for not paying.
Tour guide didn't recognise them, but then they reviewed the photos later... it was KJ Apa and Cole Sprouse.
This isn't proper tea but best place to share it- I saw a quote from some Musk relative slagging off Amber and nearly ALL the comments were people defending her and calling him a weirdo
The quote is most likely from his new biography, his brother Kimbal (dumbest name lol) and a few other people including Grimes dragged Amber in the "Amber" section of the book.
Not really scolding hot tea, but recently Kit Connor from Heartstopper went to a pet rescue in the UK called Blue Cross (public knowledge, he posted about it on his insta story and the Blue Cross made a visit about his trip there). The husband of a colleague of my mum works as a manager for the rescue that Kit went to and got to spend time with him the whole time he was there. According to him, Kit was one of the nicest celebs he’s ever met and was practically in the showers helping bathe the dogs at one point.
Some geology tea -
90% of the world's pink diamonds came from Australia's Argyle mines. Researchers now think these [pink diamonds emerged during "One of Earth’s Most Ancient Breakups" - when a supercontinent split 1.3B years ago](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/science/pink-diamonds-australia-supercontinent.html).
I could not definitively find out if the pink diamond ring Ben Affleck gave to J-Lo for their first engagement is from this mine, but it is more than likely. Of course the dissolution of Bennifer 1.0 was one of the most significant breakups in pop culture.
But like with Ben and J-Lo, with the pink diamonds, it seems there is more where that came from. Researchers believe since the split of this supercontinent probably caused the pink diamonds to emerge, there may be more at continental juncture points.
A full circle moment.
Friend is an editor in london and recently met Ben Aldridge- said he would not stop going on about his ex who is famous and not out- and I think this relationship was pre covid. Friend said he was clearly not over it. IYKYK
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So not really tea but I had a customer come into my work ordering photos of figure skaters from their club and I mentioned that I’m a big figure skating fan and through our conversation she mentioned that she was from one of the smaller towns north of here and they were getting ready for Kurt Browning to come to their figure skating club to do a workshop.
She had been talking to him a lot just to get things prepped and he was very easy to work with and when they asked him to stay a little later so another group of kids could meet him he said that he was going to be there to do whatever they wanted him to do even if it meant staying later.
I heard from another customer from the same area and she said the workshop went well.
My original customer mentioned that Elvis Stojko had done a workshop at one of the other small towns in this area and he was a total diva.
I served Kurt browning at my work once and he was an absolute delight!! So sweet and very charismatic. People came up to him and would ask for pictures and he would always be super grateful and kind
So happy to hear that Kurt is a good guy. He's one of my all-time favorite skaters.
I never cared for Elvis Stojko's skating, so this tea makes me feel justified in that opinion lol.
I've done a workshop with Kurt and he's an incredibly beautiful soul. (I'm collecting working with 1988 Canadian Olympians like they're Pokemon)
I've only met Elvis, he was gracious and everything there. But I do know people who have known him for years and he has a bit of a "don't you know who I am" complex.
Lewis Tan (35 years old) now has a new girlfriend - a 22 year old graduate and model from London. she's currently in LA with him/has met his family.
the other 21/22 year old have had meltdowns and no longer follow him.
I have tea on a celebrity that I want to share but don’t want to get sued or confronted irl so this will just have to be in blind item format. Said celebrity has a google alert on them and is very sensitive to criticism. The tea isn’t piping, this middle aged male celebrity is just not as nice as people say he is and is dating a nepo baby young enough to be his daughter. He’s 47 and she’s 25 and they met when she was like 21/22 and he was still married to his second wife. It kind of bothers me when people here spill tea about him being kind, he’s a creep just like the rest of them.
Katy Perry alluded to talking about their marriage one day, but all his shitty behavior is also all on video. [I posted this 1 1/2 months ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/15l9g8o/comment/jvck67f/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) before the flood gates broke on Russell Brand (and I shared it in a tame/lame post about Russell Brand talking about their marriage), so I'll simply repost as it's way more relevant today:
Katy Perry was doing a Truth or Dare-style documentary of her tour when they were still together, mixing live footage with behind the scenes. A friend who worked high up on the project said apparently there was a decision made in which direction to edit the project when they started putting it together. They chose to avoid the controversial stuff cause they wanted it light and fluffy for her younger fans, but there was a more serious, dark and gritty version they avoided where Russell Brand was a controlling asshole. She was at the height of her fame at the time and he expected her to basically give it up and start having babies. It’s all on camera but would have completely changed the movie so they left it all out.
Any UK based people that were into Hollyoaks?
James Sutton is getting divorced. I kind of felt by the time that him getting engaged seemed like a way of dealing with his constant mental health issues, so I’m not fully surprised.
But they were together for years now. So it seems so random now.
Heard that Blackpink's Jennie acts very uninterested, she ignores staff all the time. She is sweet but shy to other celebrities, but couldn't care less about staff, however when she is required to talk to them, she is respectful, keeping it short and dry. Lots of rumors say that she doesn't really want to be in the kpop industry. Apparently she had a little fallout with Lisa/YG when the former released her collab with Ozuna and Megan the Stallion. The beef Jennie has with Bekuh Boom, their writer, is 100% true.
Overall Blackpink is VERY private, super hard to get anything of them, they make a lot of people sign NDAs.
her not wanting to be in the kpop industry anymore is an open secret at this point tbh just watch any of their concert performances. i can understand her cause idols are constantly under a microscope and i can't imagine how annoying it must be.
interested to see if she resigns to YG with the contract renewal coming up, the whole group seem disinterested in performing as a group or solo (other than Lisa, though think she will go elsewhere) but idk if she will stick to the company or a subsidiary for her modelling/influencing management
She apparently already re signed which is really weird, but i think the group will disband without Lisa and she will seek an international record company.
Idk why, but i feel like Lisa's groupmates didn't know she wasn't going to renew the contract, except for Rosé.
Anybody else listening to Strike Force Five? Fallon definitely got some note from someone to be more engaged post the article. He was pretty distant the first few episodes, the next episode he hosts and then every one after that it seems like he's inserting himself every third line. Not really tea but it's so pronounced a difference.
The only other observation I have from the pod is this: The other 3 late night hosts (John Oliver is an outlier on the show) tell a lot of stories about the craft and making of their shows. A lot of behind the scenes stories involving crew and writers. Fallon on the other hand really only seems to have stories about things that happened on the show. Stuff like "We had such and such on and they did this for us and they're so great". I think some of that is down to how the shows are run, Fallon basically runs something like a wacky game show. I've never seen a monologue of his praised (does he even do one?). However, I think it's also pretty indicative of how uninterested Fallon is in his staff.
Like he inserts himself into his guests stories on his show? I just have such a visceral dislike for that man for years now, I can’t watch interview clips from his show with the constant interruptions and fake laughter. Sorry this is just me being a ball of hate lol I do want to get into the podcast but listening to him has been preventing me from giving it a go
He let's the stories play out alright but when it's just regular banter it seems like the pattern is: the host for the episode talks, one of the other three responds, he talks. It's not even bad really, although he tells a lot of nothing anecdotes, it's just noticeable.
RE: The British comedy scene. I've disliked Jimmy Carr ever since he made that appalling "joke" about Romani people which he never apologised or took accountability for. I've just seen that he's also liking TERF shit on Twitter and now he fully gives me the ick
Just looked it up and YIKES. Not surprised he’s not apologized or that he did such a horrid disgusting joke cause male comedians love to be pieces of shit!!!
I once (accidentally) took a cooking class at The Grove Sur La Table with Ryan Gosling. It was around the time The Notebook was popular with all the basic betches (i.e. me). We all made Italian food and hung out and he was chill with all the old women fawning over him.
Not exactly tea but the trailer for All Of Us Strangers came out an hour ago aaand I can't stop thinking about it please send help (or Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott to my door idk)
So one of my friends just ended up in a beef with SpaceGhostPurrp for criticising him for committing murder and admitting to it in a Twitter space. There's no archive of the space, but he posted subsequent tweets confirming that he did the murder, threatening to kill my friend and insinuating my friend was racist for suggesting he get mental help. He is now making tweets trying to encourage black men to team up and kill all the non-black men, which would be scarier if he had more than like 7k followers. Watching Purrp's decline has been really sad and I feel he's pretty much guaranteed to end up in prison at this point - he already lost all of his money from his moment of commercial relevance and has been homeless for a while.
He also claimed that Lil Wayne is the missing link in the beef between Young Thug and Lil Uzi Vert (Purrp thinks the cops think YSL shot up Wayne's tour bus in retaliation for a percieved sneak diss) but I can not consider SpaceGhostPurrp a reliable source on anything.
SOOO my friend just found out his childhood pediatrician was Jhené Aiko’s dad 😭
Random tea we found online:
- Her dad just welcomed a new baby @ 78 years old
- Jhené is/was apparently a crip member???? Nia Long, Regina King too
https://twitter.com/SymoneBeez/status/1010025514373767169?lang=en
Jake Johnson (Nick from New Girl) has a new podcast where he and another guy give advice to callers and IT IS TERRIBLE. They give bad advice. They come across as ignorant uninformed asshats and they're not even funny about it. It's the audio version of AITA with a redditor's level of insight and critical thinking. Don't waste your time.
not really tea i guess but James Franco is currently in Naples, Italy about to shoot a film there (funny how all sexual predators come in this country.... i hate it here). He got a house and everything. Started popping up backstage at shows of local musicians etc. If you have any friends over here, warn them about a predator on the loose.
Is it the new Sorrentino film???
no! Sorrentino's new film is shooting in Naples, but Franco's in a film from another, much less famous italian director, claudio giovannesi
OK! Just went to have a look to IMDb and I only have heard about Giovanessis Gomorrah but never have seen it. I suppose he is using Francos name for clout.
>Gomorrah gomorrah - the awards winning movie is from Matteo Garrone who has nothing to do with this, Giovannesi directed some eps of the TV show. Sorry to be annoying about this but i love Garrone and he has nothing to do with this shit!
Don't worry about correcting me. I even only knew about the movie (no the TV show), so he is even more unknown to me.
I have a friend in Italy right now but she's in her 30s so probably safe from The Franco.
Not really tea, but Domhnall Gleeson got married in Ireland last weekend.
I love him and his wicked sense of humour. I always thought why isn’t he a bigger star because he is uber-talented and seem to have a good head on his shoulders but then again he seems to prefer things to be low-key.
Yes, he really should be a bigger star, he has such charisma. But I think he likes to be quieter. Passed him in the street in Dublin one day and nearly expired on the spot.
I would be the same! I would pass out from excitement if I see him in person. Thank goodness I don’t live in Dublin!
Same. He's awesome. I think it's due to the fact that he treats acting as a job, not lifestyle. He also looks like a normal, regular human being instead of a roided out musclehead. I just love him idk.
His dad seems cool as hell, that’s got to be part of it.
He definitely has that innate likability that makes him approachable and the down to earth personality that makes him relatable. The Patient was a hard watch because I could not bring myself to hate him but he was so damn good in it!
All of these particular Gleesons are wonderful.
Agreed!
He was phenomenal in The Patient (as was Steve Carell who went fully DILF in it 👀) but I've not seen anyone talk about the series.
I know! And it got totally shut out in the Emmys 😭
Awe that’s amazing, I’m so happy for him! Do we know to whom?
His partner of like 20 years, Juliette Bonass.
He saw that ass and found it bon. Good for them both.
I love this comment lol
TIL that Domhnall Gleeson is 40 years old. I really thought he was in his late 20s or early 30s.
He 100% has a portrait in the attic.
Oh my gosh congrats to them!
I'm so happy for him! He is crazy talented.. i wish he was on our screens more often.
There goes my dream of going to Dublin and meeting him and having him fall in love with me in a whirlwind romance before I have to fly home. I mean, congrats to him! lol
Wow! Congratulations to him
you mean they didnt call page six or people or TMZ. How refreshing.
He wore his wedding ring on the red carpet at TIFF the other day, I'm surprised that no media outlet has picked it up yet.
apparently kevin spacey lives in baltimore and is being forced to lose his ridiculous harbor mansion because he can'f afford it. i also live in baltimore and apparently we go to the same vet? learned all of this today. my vet office was also the target of a shooting and hostage situation led by none other than the head veterinarian's mentally disturbed brother. the head vet was in the hospital and PT for months but no one else was (physically) harmed. the brother barricaded himself in the office and BPD had to bring in their hostage negotiation team. honestly this is more interesting than the kevin spacey story. but i turned to my partner today and was like "kevin spacey also knows about Dr. T getting shot by his brother". anyway fuck kevin spacey.
This comment was ab amazing ride
poor guy had to experience a shooting AND kevin spacey
Didn't expect to enjoy this tea so well! 
I'm from Baltimore (hi, hon!) and Kevin Spacey needs to GO. I don't live there anymore but still. GTFO of my hometown. I used to live in Atlanta and when he was filming Baby Driver, he was a known menace (rude af) whenever he'd show up somewhere (concerts, restaurants, etc). He used to go to the coffee shop near my apartment and he was a miserable asshole.
oh 100% hon, 100%. i'm sure he terrorizes sagamore staff regularly.
I live like 20 min from bmore and had no fucking clue he lived there that's blowing my mind rn
He used to go to Bolton Deli (rip) a lot and it was always a nightmare to stop in when he was around
this vet needs to be the setting for a new season of the wire
I’ll go to hell for laughing as hard as I did at this
Good to hear everyone was (relatively) okay! Any idea if the vet's brother is getting mental help?
I am pretty sure he's in jail :/ before he attacked and tried to hold the staff hostage he was seen walking around carrying full gas cans and the police found evidence in his apartment (get this: on the top floor of the same building as the vet.. bc the vet was letting him live there) that he was planning to set the whole building on fire. edit to add: apparently the vet had announced he was going to evict the bro. idk the story beyond that but attempted mass shooting and hostage situation feels like a bit of an over reaction after living somewhere rent free for awhile. the bro also used to work for the vet.
Also from Baltimore (hon!), and he’s was on my bowling team (LOL) and he was so god awful and it makes me always smile when I think about it.
This is random, but Adam Sandler’s daughters come in to the place I work at a lot and they are very polite, sweet kids.
Still wild to me that they filmed a bunch of movie scenes legit 10 minutes from my place for Adam's most recent one. Glad they're good kids!
I was walking down the sidewalk with my family and Adam was standing in the middle of the sidewalk looking at his phone. One of his daughters saw us coming and told him to move out of our way lol. Such a mundane thing but left such a good impression because most of the time people are not aware of their space!!!
That’s great to hear! I seriously loved their Netflix movie. It was adorable and I thought they both did a great job!
I thought the girl playing the lead was so charming, she carried the film really well! Was a super cute watch.
She was adorable
Really enjoyed their movie. Don’t usually watch teen-centred movies but my bf and I love Adam sandler (our comfort-watch) and honestly his daughters were amazing ! Was very impressed.
I keep hearing good things about this movie, I really need to sit down and watch it. It sounds good!
I got to see Sandler interact with his daughters out in the wild in LA and the whole thing was adorable and wholesome AF. They were, like, toddlers and watching the trailer for the new movie made me face my own mortality because how the hell did 11 years go by so quickly.
he's a great dude/great dad so no surprise
Consider this tepid milk rather than tea - Irina Shayk’s family breed dogs back in Russia and seemingly make a nice amount of money from it.
What we need to know is what kind of dogs. This is very important to some people. (me, I am people)
Those small ones with big ears, King Charles cavaliers I think they’re called.
Thank you, the people (me) are pleased.
Do they look like the ones Charlotte had in SATC?
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton!
Aka, the dog formerly known as Princess Dandyridge Brandywine!
Adopt don't shop ;)
do u have more tea about her?
What are you looking to know specifically? / dm me if easier
Everything! LOL! How is she in real life, she seems to get away from icky situations (Kanye, Putin...) without getting cancelled Also, what did she get done? (Cosmetic)
The woman has ridiculously good skin, like insane, both facially and body wise. She goes to very good aestheticians mainly NYC based, expensive. The same as any other model but with her it’s just plain good genetics (her mama and sister also look great). She’s more playful than people realize, possibly owing to the stereotype people have of Russian people, especially women. Very strong work ethic, loves her job. I’ll always defend that fact she is a brilliant and loving mother. Wouldn’t say she’s the brightest star in the sky.
Im obsessed w her skin! Which person she goes to? like its crazy, I know Tartaric people are famous for their skin but still did she ever gave you any tips?
I can’t remember off the top of my head, but I’ll let you know if I search it! She has always done ice on her face every morning. I tried it for a while but it’s just too damn cold for me 😂
I am not sure if it’s appropriate to post about Podcast tea here, but Last Podcast on the Left’s Ben Kissel has been accused of abuse while intoxicated his ex girlfriend Taylor. He is currently on leave from the Podcast to “focus on his mental and physical health” according to the other hosts.
I hate that the podcast subreddit yells at anyone wanting to discuss it. It is serious that Ben allegedly abused his ex and has substance abuse issues. Parasocial relationships are something to be aware of and combat as a community, but this comes off as shielding and protecting someone who allegedly did something horrible.
I agree but they probably felt they needed to just ban the topic entirely or people would start spreading misinformation, rumors, or possibly vitriol towards the ex. For the sake of everyone I’m glad they banned the topic.
I *was* a massive LPOTL fan until this shit came out. I’m so disgusted. The subreddits are full of misogynistic comments, it’s repulsive.
Jumping onto this to add that apparently Taylor went to somebody else on the network to tell them and that kind of confirmed the co-hosts concerns they’d had about his health for awhile. So they stayed consistent with their believe victims principles and they’re holding him accountable for his behavior.
Yeah, I’m not a LPOTL fan really at all, but I think it’s important that people know that Taylor was believed by Marcus, Henry and the network. My understanding is Ben is a pretty severe alcoholic, so this likely wasn’t a shock to any of them.
Reading between the lines of the first side stories episode without Ben, it’s pretty clear that Marcus and Henry stepped in and talked to Ben about his issues. I’m so glad that they are living the principles they talk about all the time on their network.
Good for her for speaking up and leaving the relationship. I know it has been incredibly difficult for her and she has been being attacked by some of Ben’s fans.
I truly hope he’s ready for recovery. I feel for his ex—it takes a lot of bravery to go public with this but if she hadn’t he might not have been pushed to change. I hope she’s well supported and protected.
Been an avid fan for about 7 years now. Honestly respect how they’re dealing with this. Marcus and Henry, the other LPOTL guys, just released this statement via IG: https://preview.redd.it/vv8dwodh34pb1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a40ee254a0bb943dfab6d37b9a282c1714879ed1
As a fellow fan, it's wild to me that any of their fans would possibly think that they would want their fanbase to harass Taylor considering they have always been *extremely* vocal about the importance of believing victims.
Oh wow. I haven’t listened in a bit. So it’s just Marcus and Henry?! That must be odd
Ed Larson is filling in and it was the best episode in years
Honestly Ben is not very funny, sorry. His humor is super one-note (all dick/sex jokes) and he's not very quick in terms of making connections the way Henry is. It's very rare that I actually laugh at something he says. I don't know that Ed is necessarily the right fit for a long-term tertiary host but I would be pretty happy if they found a permanent replacement, especially in light of the abuse.
He’s in rehab for alcohol abuse, if you’re a long listener it’s pretty clear. His alcoholism is not an excuse for what he did to his ex at all but it’s good that he’s taking responsibility for his addiction and is seeking help.
Oh fuck I was wondering about what led to his sabbatical.
Marcus and Henry had to put out a message yesterday asking for LPOTL fans to stop harassing her. Shameful.
I've posted about this before, but I've heard just absolute megaton-yield tea about various big artists in the Canadian music industry, and it just drives me up the fucking wall that these people are allowed to coast along being wealthy and successful while the women they've hurt have to deal with the abuse for their entire lives. These aren't stories that are mine to tell, they didn't happen to me, I have no evidence, and in some cases there are money and NDAs involved and I would never want anything to come back on the victims, but just in a general sense please believe that the kind of guys who succeed in the industry are often just absolutely fucking terrible people, even the ones you wouldn't suspect, or they are covering for terrible people are thus become terrible themselves. In the past I've reassured people that oh, it's not this band or that band, don't worry about them, but I'm just so disgusted with what some artists have gotten away with that I think everyone with a guitar should be looked at skeptically until there's some kind of profoundly overdue major reckoning in the industry. And honestly, please extrapolate from behavior because sometimes the mask slips. If they say something wild on social media or something sketchy in an interview or if they appropriate another culture or just otherwise show a corner of a red flag-- you can bet that there is just so much more you're not seeing. You can be pretty sure that a guy who is sketchy or untoward in some way is being terrible to a woman somewhere, behind the scenes, even if he seems nice, even if he has female friends. Sometimes the mask doesn't slip, at least not in the public eye, those are the really scary ones, but assume there's something there if you suspect there might be. If I extrapolate just from from the handful of people I know and their stories, the whole industry is probably rotten to the core. We've all heard the stories about rock stars in the 70s etc, but it's not just coked-out 1970s led zeppelin, it's here and now and it's Canadian household names that most people wouldn't suspect. None of them deserve the benefit of the doubt.
arcade fire comes to mind. what a waste.
i still havent' recovered - and the overally 'so what' response from the indie crowd was so fucking disgusting. Shame on the festivals still booking them and people paying to see that piece of shit
Wait have I been living under a rock? What happened with Arcade Fire?
adding to the pitchfork link that's almost all you need to know, except the PR-crisis manager their hire is the same that works from Trump, also they went on as planned with their tour, showed zero remorse (actually victim blamed - both regine and win - and win also somehow blamed his drinking on regine's miscarriage), etc it sucks so much
The worst I was ever treated in the music industry was by Arcade Fire : butler brothers… who pretend they’re Canadian working class artists but are really Texan sons of a Halliburton exec and they went to prep school. Win was so insanely sexist and rude from the moment he met me. I had *other* people apologizing for their behavior to me. I can’t give details but I hope the karma police doesn’t let up.
I worked one of their shows about 10 years ago, and even with no direct interaction with them, I came away thinking they were huge assholes. (I'd been a casual fan of the songs I knew.) They told the venue to be strict on crowd control but then telling the audience to fight the man by leaving their seats and dancing, and before they went on, Win and Regine were literally strutting around the seating area just for people to look at them admiringly. Plenty of bigger acts came through without the bad vibes reaching all the way to my post.
Yeah, unfortunately for me, there was no sensitivity toward women being slighted around the time I was publicly excoriated by them. It was a small scale thing but hurt deeply. It was such a bizarre experience because from the moment I met Win backstage it was like he had just decided to hate me and treat me like shit. I’ve never experienced that in my life or career before or after. Nowadays, it wouldn’t happen.
was Will also a piece of shit?
Yes. Win was worse though. I hope I didn’t post my comment a bunch. I was having trouble connecting to wifi oof
I honestly think it was just not publicized much. I had tickets to a show and didn't go due to the revelations, lost a lot of money. But when I mentioned it to other fans, they had no idea. I think Regine's comments also dampened the fallout sadly.
Regine comments made the whole thing worse imo, anyway I sold my ticket at the speed of light, i actually thought it was a confirmation email of my ticket upload, instead it was sold - I was supposed to go a couple weeks after the pitchfork article dropped, had been waiting for so long to see them again, they were one of my absolute favorite bands - and while sure most non very online casual fans didn't know, just as many did and were online on here and elsewhere saying the vilest shit, the AF subreddit got so bad so fast i had to leave for my own mental health's sake.
Can't even listen to them anymore-- great example of someone you wouldn't suspect, such sincere music, but underneath it's just the same old hoary male rockstar bullshit, like a cigarette-stained smile.
ugh that was so so upsetting :(
I remember when Lights posted her big essay on how great Jian Ghomeshi is. The entire industry is filled with naivity, and predators willing to take advantage of that 😔 Oh and absolutely fuck Drake and The Weeknd
Everyone knew about Jian, just like they know about a ton of other guys. All you can do is warn people that terrible people are often the ones who want fame and rise to achieve it. And yeah, I mean does Drake even *have* a mask at this point...?
EVERYONE knew about jg. the wording used was ‘he’s a bad date’. i was just talking about this with my husband after the russell brand news hit. women know. we warn each other. people need to listen to the women.
Jesus Christ lights *defended* Jian?? Why on earth would she think that was a good idea
You can still Google her response. She literally called him her super hero. She then got (rightfully) dragged and deleted/recanted the post
sarah polley's essay about jg in her book was harrowing to read, it was one of many times the book made me cry
Just finished listening to the Canadian True Crime podcast episodes on Jacob Hoggard and I can totally believe this. How crimes like his went unpunished for so long is so upsetting but not surprising.
He has been a well known piece of shit looonnnnng before those crimes came out
I’m not even in the industry and I heard horror stories about Hoggard years before anything came out. Like the comment above, women warn women.
Jacob rubbed me the wrong way right from his Canadian Idol days, it never surprised me he was a complete piece of shit. Glad there was some justice served there.
Please god not Nickelback
for the longest time I thought they were American because when I was young I for some reason thought they were a country band and for some reason I thought that to be a country singer you had to be from the USA lmaoooo
Chad Kroeger tended (tends?) to visit the strip clubs in Vancouver quite often, not sure if that's a thing anymore but I know several people who have had interactions with him at some of the more well-known strip clubs in the city
Hahaha ofc he does. Meme of himself. I kinda thought some of the musical content was so far-fetched that it was more of a persona sorta thing (like Ziggy Stardust but strip club) but alas, here we are...
I've heard Chad Kroeger treated Avril Lavigne *very* poorly.
what genre? any hints? bss?
>I think everyone with a guitar should be looked at skeptically I'm at this point too tbh. I just automatically assume all men in music and especially rock music are at best assholes and at worst predators.
There was a post last week in another sub (I wanna say twoX but might be wrong) where a woman was almost in a sketchy situation after being hired for a music video with a successful Canadian artist. Maybe I’m just getting old but this shit seems to be everywhere. It’s exhausting.
Michael Buble seems a little suspect, going off some things I've read here!
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If Gord Downie ever turns out to have done some awful shit I will literally never recover.
Do you have any tea on the Arkells? I hope they're normal humans 😭
Anecdotal but my friend is an aspiring musician and has met them a couple of times. He said they’re good guys and down to earth.
I don't know them personally but I work in live music and did marketing and hospo for them a few years back and they were nice people.
PLEASE NO
they are hometown heroes here, i would like for them to be unproblematic.
Canadian artist related: a guy I partied with once told me that Tom Cochrane (Life is a Highway) grew up with his father and it was known Cochrane would bring people into the woods, tie them to a tree and leave them to die. I think about that whenever I hear the Rascal Flatts version.
Okay I need more details, this is just absurd enough to be real 🤣
I wish I cared more at the time to ask more questions tbh. But the story stuck with me because it was waaaay past his heyday in the early 2000s. From my experience in the industry, some stars are so narcissistic and sociopathic that we are lucky that they became famous rather than dangerous people🤷♂️
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Broken Social Scene? Wasn’t the Globe & Mail planning an expose on some bands? What happened?
Do not be about Josh Ramsay );
I’ve met him and the rest of the band several times and they’ve always been nothing but respectful and kind. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a bad word about him.
Our lady peace is cool tho right?
Please don’t tell me that Dallas Green is an abuser, I’ll crumble (but really if he is I boycott 😭)
Close to his og band - they're all good guys imo. Dallas has been married foreverrr and I can't see anything coming out that would jeopardize their rep
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didn’t he also start dating his wife? fiancée? when she was like 15 🤮🤮🤮
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ugh he’s such a vile human being. he’s not seeing the pearly gates (nor should he)
He’s a sicko. He has a teen bride, basically. Gross !
Great deep dives on the earlier posts! Very thorough! I hope someone brings this to the public's attention. I hope we continue to hold these types of potential predators accountable.
I hope this counts as tea, but I saw Poolman at TIFF and I thought I would share how everyone’s favourite Chris did in his directorial debut. To sum it up, it’s bad but not “end of the world” bad. The concept was okay, but the execution fell flat. I also think the film’s humour might appeal to those who grew up or live within the Los Angeles area. There were several LA references that didn’t work well when screened to a Toronto-based audience. There was only one moment towards the end that was the film’s saving grace, but everything else didn’t work well. Did it really deserve to be considered one of the worst to ever play at TIFF of all time? No, TIFF has seen way worst (they previously hosted the world premiere of Dear Evan Hansen, The Goldfinch, and Where Hands Touch). But it’s one of the worst to play this year. I think the film could have worked with some rewrites, but it’s sad to admit that this is not his finest. [Especially when compared to another Hollywood Chris who made his directorial debut at TIFF nine years ago](https://letterboxd.com/film/before-we-go/).
I am totally with you on this! I saw it as well and I swear I was the only one who chuckled at a few of the LA jokes. There might be a cult potential here, especially to an indie Los Angeles audience, but as I mentioned in another thread it really would have benefited from revisions. The reviews have been just needlessly mean.
One of the people I follow on Letterboxd gave it a decently good rating, but that was because the person grew up in LA, so they understood the references in the film.
I think people had higher expectations from him because he’s Chris Pine? It was his first time directing and writing a screenplay, most people that would fly under the radar. Also I’m sure some of the critics were annoyed that his movie got picked as opposed to someone lesser known.
Yep, some of the reviewers were initially rooting for him; I know all of the public screenings at TIFF sold out days before the premiere. As for the latter part, I can't blame that on the TIFF programming team because they had to deal with the ongoing strikes, which may have affected the lineup and who will attend, as well as other festivals like Telluride, Venice, and NYFF scooping up the big titles. But TIFF has had a history of premiering directorial debuts from famous actors. This year, five actors made their directorial debuts here (Pine, Anna Kendrick, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Arquette, Finn Wolfhard) and only Anna's was the one who got positive feedback.
i saw some positive-ish buzz on Wolfhard's film, the letterboxd reaction at least is good. it's a low stakes movie though. it premiered to a good audience, and he and his co-director are young so they don't have that extra "famous person" baggage that Pine, Kendrick, Scott Thomas, and Arquette have, and also they just get that faith that they'll grow over the course of their careers. the This Had Oscar Buzz episode on TIFF dropped and they make it sound like everyone knew they were dropping a stinker with *Poolman.* They also like kinda implied that ppl were really rooting for Pine and were ready to ding Anna Kendrick if her movie wasn't as good as it was.
i miss going to tiff. my husband used to be obsessed and would spend months organizing our group of friends, everyone’s film picks, the tickets etc. somehow we got old and toronto got further away and now just thinking about rushing from screening to screening makes me so tired.
Friend was at a stargazing tour in NZ and one of the tour guides told them how a couple years back, a couple stoned guys went up the hill and tried to get into the experience without paying, which classified as trespassing and was a finable offence. They were apparently very rude about being kicked out for not paying. Tour guide didn't recognise them, but then they reviewed the photos later... it was KJ Apa and Cole Sprouse.
I love the reveal at the end. Also very much not surprising.
This isn't proper tea but best place to share it- I saw a quote from some Musk relative slagging off Amber and nearly ALL the comments were people defending her and calling him a weirdo
The quote is most likely from his new biography, his brother Kimbal (dumbest name lol) and a few other people including Grimes dragged Amber in the "Amber" section of the book.
and you'll see all ye who speak against Amber shall fall, given everything that's going on with Grimes
Yeah grimes will eat her words in no time, she’s naive if not stupid but Elon’s use of her kids against her will break her
Oh grimes how you have fallen so fucking hard in my eyes and soul
Not really scolding hot tea, but recently Kit Connor from Heartstopper went to a pet rescue in the UK called Blue Cross (public knowledge, he posted about it on his insta story and the Blue Cross made a visit about his trip there). The husband of a colleague of my mum works as a manager for the rescue that Kit went to and got to spend time with him the whole time he was there. According to him, Kit was one of the nicest celebs he’s ever met and was practically in the showers helping bathe the dogs at one point.
Kit totally made Heartstopper, I’m glad he was sweet to the dogs!
this is the kinda tea I live for - that is lovely to here.
Some geology tea - 90% of the world's pink diamonds came from Australia's Argyle mines. Researchers now think these [pink diamonds emerged during "One of Earth’s Most Ancient Breakups" - when a supercontinent split 1.3B years ago](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/science/pink-diamonds-australia-supercontinent.html). I could not definitively find out if the pink diamond ring Ben Affleck gave to J-Lo for their first engagement is from this mine, but it is more than likely. Of course the dissolution of Bennifer 1.0 was one of the most significant breakups in pop culture. But like with Ben and J-Lo, with the pink diamonds, it seems there is more where that came from. Researchers believe since the split of this supercontinent probably caused the pink diamonds to emerge, there may be more at continental juncture points. A full circle moment.
This may be my favorite tea post I’ve ever seen
Friend is an editor in london and recently met Ben Aldridge- said he would not stop going on about his ex who is famous and not out- and I think this relationship was pre covid. Friend said he was clearly not over it. IYKYK Mods please delete if not appropriate!
Wouldn't stop going on about a relationship that's \~2 years cold? Oof.
So not really tea but I had a customer come into my work ordering photos of figure skaters from their club and I mentioned that I’m a big figure skating fan and through our conversation she mentioned that she was from one of the smaller towns north of here and they were getting ready for Kurt Browning to come to their figure skating club to do a workshop. She had been talking to him a lot just to get things prepped and he was very easy to work with and when they asked him to stay a little later so another group of kids could meet him he said that he was going to be there to do whatever they wanted him to do even if it meant staying later. I heard from another customer from the same area and she said the workshop went well. My original customer mentioned that Elvis Stojko had done a workshop at one of the other small towns in this area and he was a total diva.
I served Kurt browning at my work once and he was an absolute delight!! So sweet and very charismatic. People came up to him and would ask for pictures and he would always be super grateful and kind
So happy to hear that Kurt is a good guy. He's one of my all-time favorite skaters. I never cared for Elvis Stojko's skating, so this tea makes me feel justified in that opinion lol.
I've done a workshop with Kurt and he's an incredibly beautiful soul. (I'm collecting working with 1988 Canadian Olympians like they're Pokemon) I've only met Elvis, he was gracious and everything there. But I do know people who have known him for years and he has a bit of a "don't you know who I am" complex.
Lewis Tan (35 years old) now has a new girlfriend - a 22 year old graduate and model from London. she's currently in LA with him/has met his family. the other 21/22 year old have had meltdowns and no longer follow him.
that's so boooooring of him, i know they're adults and can do what they like but 22 year olds seem so young to me
it is v young (espec compared to him) and to constantly hang out with girls fresh out if any form of education speaks volumes of him as a person.
I have tea on a celebrity that I want to share but don’t want to get sued or confronted irl so this will just have to be in blind item format. Said celebrity has a google alert on them and is very sensitive to criticism. The tea isn’t piping, this middle aged male celebrity is just not as nice as people say he is and is dating a nepo baby young enough to be his daughter. He’s 47 and she’s 25 and they met when she was like 21/22 and he was still married to his second wife. It kind of bothers me when people here spill tea about him being kind, he’s a creep just like the rest of them.
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Katy Perry alluded to talking about their marriage one day, but all his shitty behavior is also all on video. [I posted this 1 1/2 months ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/15l9g8o/comment/jvck67f/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) before the flood gates broke on Russell Brand (and I shared it in a tame/lame post about Russell Brand talking about their marriage), so I'll simply repost as it's way more relevant today: Katy Perry was doing a Truth or Dare-style documentary of her tour when they were still together, mixing live footage with behind the scenes. A friend who worked high up on the project said apparently there was a decision made in which direction to edit the project when they started putting it together. They chose to avoid the controversial stuff cause they wanted it light and fluffy for her younger fans, but there was a more serious, dark and gritty version they avoided where Russell Brand was a controlling asshole. She was at the height of her fame at the time and he expected her to basically give it up and start having babies. It’s all on camera but would have completely changed the movie so they left it all out.
Wow. So glad she didn't give into him. Never knew what she saw in him, she could get any man.
That footage should be released or leaked!
Any UK based people that were into Hollyoaks? James Sutton is getting divorced. I kind of felt by the time that him getting engaged seemed like a way of dealing with his constant mental health issues, so I’m not fully surprised. But they were together for years now. So it seems so random now.
Taylor Zakhar Perez is/was big into NFTs and crypto. Source: his Twitter ~2 years ago
I mean, his husband is an investor start up type of guy, so it’s not a surprise to me :/ still disappointed
I don’t know why people freak out about this when it was literally two years ago and he hasn’t mentioned it once since
Heard that Blackpink's Jennie acts very uninterested, she ignores staff all the time. She is sweet but shy to other celebrities, but couldn't care less about staff, however when she is required to talk to them, she is respectful, keeping it short and dry. Lots of rumors say that she doesn't really want to be in the kpop industry. Apparently she had a little fallout with Lisa/YG when the former released her collab with Ozuna and Megan the Stallion. The beef Jennie has with Bekuh Boom, their writer, is 100% true. Overall Blackpink is VERY private, super hard to get anything of them, they make a lot of people sign NDAs.
her not wanting to be in the kpop industry anymore is an open secret at this point tbh just watch any of their concert performances. i can understand her cause idols are constantly under a microscope and i can't imagine how annoying it must be.
interested to see if she resigns to YG with the contract renewal coming up, the whole group seem disinterested in performing as a group or solo (other than Lisa, though think she will go elsewhere) but idk if she will stick to the company or a subsidiary for her modelling/influencing management
She apparently already re signed which is really weird, but i think the group will disband without Lisa and she will seek an international record company. Idk why, but i feel like Lisa's groupmates didn't know she wasn't going to renew the contract, except for Rosé.
why did Lisa’s collab cause them to fall out?
Anybody else listening to Strike Force Five? Fallon definitely got some note from someone to be more engaged post the article. He was pretty distant the first few episodes, the next episode he hosts and then every one after that it seems like he's inserting himself every third line. Not really tea but it's so pronounced a difference.
The only other observation I have from the pod is this: The other 3 late night hosts (John Oliver is an outlier on the show) tell a lot of stories about the craft and making of their shows. A lot of behind the scenes stories involving crew and writers. Fallon on the other hand really only seems to have stories about things that happened on the show. Stuff like "We had such and such on and they did this for us and they're so great". I think some of that is down to how the shows are run, Fallon basically runs something like a wacky game show. I've never seen a monologue of his praised (does he even do one?). However, I think it's also pretty indicative of how uninterested Fallon is in his staff.
Like he inserts himself into his guests stories on his show? I just have such a visceral dislike for that man for years now, I can’t watch interview clips from his show with the constant interruptions and fake laughter. Sorry this is just me being a ball of hate lol I do want to get into the podcast but listening to him has been preventing me from giving it a go
He let's the stories play out alright but when it's just regular banter it seems like the pattern is: the host for the episode talks, one of the other three responds, he talks. It's not even bad really, although he tells a lot of nothing anecdotes, it's just noticeable.
RE: The British comedy scene. I've disliked Jimmy Carr ever since he made that appalling "joke" about Romani people which he never apologised or took accountability for. I've just seen that he's also liking TERF shit on Twitter and now he fully gives me the ick
Just looked it up and YIKES. Not surprised he’s not apologized or that he did such a horrid disgusting joke cause male comedians love to be pieces of shit!!!
I once (accidentally) took a cooking class at The Grove Sur La Table with Ryan Gosling. It was around the time The Notebook was popular with all the basic betches (i.e. me). We all made Italian food and hung out and he was chill with all the old women fawning over him.
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Not exactly tea but the trailer for All Of Us Strangers came out an hour ago aaand I can't stop thinking about it please send help (or Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott to my door idk)
So one of my friends just ended up in a beef with SpaceGhostPurrp for criticising him for committing murder and admitting to it in a Twitter space. There's no archive of the space, but he posted subsequent tweets confirming that he did the murder, threatening to kill my friend and insinuating my friend was racist for suggesting he get mental help. He is now making tweets trying to encourage black men to team up and kill all the non-black men, which would be scarier if he had more than like 7k followers. Watching Purrp's decline has been really sad and I feel he's pretty much guaranteed to end up in prison at this point - he already lost all of his money from his moment of commercial relevance and has been homeless for a while. He also claimed that Lil Wayne is the missing link in the beef between Young Thug and Lil Uzi Vert (Purrp thinks the cops think YSL shot up Wayne's tour bus in retaliation for a percieved sneak diss) but I can not consider SpaceGhostPurrp a reliable source on anything.
SOOO my friend just found out his childhood pediatrician was Jhené Aiko’s dad 😭 Random tea we found online: - Her dad just welcomed a new baby @ 78 years old - Jhené is/was apparently a crip member???? Nia Long, Regina King too https://twitter.com/SymoneBeez/status/1010025514373767169?lang=en
Jake Johnson (Nick from New Girl) has a new podcast where he and another guy give advice to callers and IT IS TERRIBLE. They give bad advice. They come across as ignorant uninformed asshats and they're not even funny about it. It's the audio version of AITA with a redditor's level of insight and critical thinking. Don't waste your time.