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Bobby Berk, the Queer Eye interior designer, was on Jenny McCarthy’s Sirius XM show because we’re in a pandemic and what else can you do, to dish about a Real Housewife of New York who got free work out of him under false pretenses and then returned to his store when he wasn’t there to clean him out of thousands of dollars of free merchandise.

Now, Bobby, whom I wouldn’t know if he crossed my path, has never said who the RHoNY wife was, but US Magazine says it was  Aviva Drescher, whom Bobby once called a “con artist.” If you don’t know Aviva, she was the housewife who lost a leg in a barn accident—seriously—and on an episode of the show, when she was called a fake, literally took her leg off and threw it across the room, shouting:

“That’s the only thing fake about me.”

Now, this is what Berk said about Aviva Drescher his client:

“[She] was like, ‘Oh, I’m buying this new [house].’ Turns out, of course, she wasn’t buying it … but she’s like, ‘I want you to come in and design it all. I’m gonna put you on the show.’ … I still kind of liked the Housewives, so I was like, ‘Oh, OK, but just so you know, I’m not doing it for free. I don’t need to do it for free. I don’t necessarily know if the Housewives is really the exposure I want anyways, so I’ll do it for you at cost.’ And she’s like, ‘OK, OK, that works.’”

But then her husband said it needed to be done for free—Red Flag—so Berk declined to do it at all. And so, Aviva the client came into his store when he wasn’t there and told the staff that she had his permission to take anything she wanted, and even gave them credit card to charge her for anything she didn’t bring back.

Months later, when nothing was returned, Berk tried to charge the card, but it was declined. He then confronted Drescher the client who threatened to sue him saying:

“You know what? Then let’s go to court. This’ll be good TV. It’s easier for us just to have our lawyer deal with it than it would be to actually pay you.’”

It looks like Aviva is as phony as her leg.

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Apparently, The Flash movie starring Ezra Miller is still happening, but that’s not the big news. That news is that it looks like Michael Keaton will slather himself in lube and slip on the Batsuit once again to play Batman in the film.

But then what about Robert Pattinson who is playing Batman in a different Batman movie. How many Batmans do we need? And why can’t we get Burt Ward to shove his ALLEGEDLY huge manhood back into those green short shorts?

I’d pay to see that.

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We all know that Mel Gibson is a racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic homophobe after his drunk driving arrest years back. And we also know he’s a rabid Roman Catholic religious wingnut … at least until he divorced his wife, mother of his many children, so he could play house with his new Baby Mama. But now, we get a little more, and yet still old, dirt on Mel and Hollywood anti-Semitism from one Winona Ryder.

When asked if she’d ever experienced anti-Semitism in Hollywood, Ryder said:

“I have … in interesting ways. There are times when people have said, ‘Wait, you’re Jewish? But you’re so pretty!’ There was a movie that I was up for a long time ago, it was a period piece, and the studio head, who was Jewish, said I looked ‘too Jewish’ to be in a blue-blooded family.”

And then she talked Mel:

“We were at a crowded party with one of my good friends, and Mel Gibson was smoking a cigar, and we’re all talking and he said to my friend, who’s gay, ‘Oh wait, am I gonna get AIDS?’ And then something came up about Jews, and he said [to me], ‘You’re not an oven dodger, are you?’”

Gosh, he’s just delightful, no? Ryder says he tried to apologize later, but Gibson says it never happened. Huh; who to believe, Winona, who has a troubled shoplifting past, or Gibson, who when he was arrested for being a drunken idiot in 2006 said this to police:

“The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world!”

He blamed that on being recorded without his knowledge, which, correct me if I’m wrong, doesn’t mean he never said it, it just means he didn’t know it was being recorded. Gibson also got into a drunken shrieking match with ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva in which he used racist slurs, including the n-word.

Yeah, I think I’m Team Ryder here.

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A long time ago, in a music business far, far away, long before he was an out and proud queen, Elton John kinda dabbled in heterosexuality.

Well, he married a woman at any rate. In 1984, John married Renate Blauel, a German sound engineer. That’s them up there and if Elton’s outfit doesn’t shrieeeeeeeeek Barbershop Quartet of Homos, well, you aren’t listening. Their marriage lasted just four years and Renate’s kept a low profile ever since … until last week when she popped up out of nowhere to seek an injunction against Elton. Renate’s lawyer says she’s “hoping to resolve it amicably” but wouldn’t say what “it” was although injunctions are usually related to “privacy matters or to prevent publication of material”. 

Juicy, it seems. But why now? Is it because Elton talked about her in his autobiography, "Me", or that the marriage was a brief—and I mean brief—scene in Rocketman and now she wants coins?

Stay tuned …

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Kanye West and The Gap are teaming up to sell his clothes at their stores throughout the nation. I think they’re even changing the name of the store to The Krap.

I mean, it makes sense, no?

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Poor Lori Loughlin. She’ll never be named Mother of the Year; her daughters won’t even graduate from community college; she’s off to prison; she’s terrified of the COVID-19; and now this …

Criminals Lori Loughlin husband, Mossimo Giannulli are … gosh, this is hard … haven’t they suffered enough … voluntarily resigning from the exclusive Bel-Air Country Club. What a sacrifice, though I think it was less Lori’s idea and more of a ‘Here’s your membership check back’ from the club. But, fear not, Lori and Mossimo may be allowed back in once their prison sentences are complete, though they will only be allowed to use the shallow end of the pool.

Cuz they’re shallow? Get it?

Still, the thought that the felons would be allowed to rejoin once they’re out of the Fuller Big House did not sit well with past club president, Michael Gallagher who told the board:

“BACC is a Club of gentlemen and gentlewomen. Gentlemen are not felons, and felons in turn are not gentlemen. You cannot be a member in good standing and guilty of a felony at the same time, it is a non sequitur….The board action, taken on behalf of the Club’s membership, now establishes our Club as a place of refuge and comfort for known felons … and our Club has become a laughingstock.”

I picture Gallagher dressed as Scrooge McDuck when he dictated that letter. Still, he has a point, though if every country club in the country booted all their felon members there’d be nothing but pool boys and bartenders left.

Hmmm, where do I get an admissions form?

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I am gagged! A very detail oriented TikTok user, AKA Kelly Sipos, found something odd as she watched old episodes of Glee.

It appears that to cut costs for the show—cuz hiring extras Lea Michele didn’t hate was pricey—Ryan Murphy used actual dummies to fill spaces in the audience when the show filmed performance scenes.

Yes, that’s the, um, audience, up there.

The good news is that some of these dummies are now getting work on The Bold and the Beautiful as sex partners to the cast while filming—see that post HERE.

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We all know that 70-year-old music producer and composer David Foster is currently on his fifth wife, 36-year-old Katharine McPhee, but this is about the breakup of his fourth marriage to 56-year-old Yolanda Hadid. They were together for nine years, and even appeared as a, um, happy couple on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills but then Yolanda was diagnosed with Lyme disease and Foster hit the bricks.

Yolanda says he left because she was sick and she could no longer be arm candy and maybe he was looking for someone younger—rumors flew that, even while married to Yolanda, Foster and McPhee were friendly—and in her memoir Yolanda ALLEGES that Foster told her “your sick card is up.” 

Now, in a documentary, Foster is hitting back:

“How can I leave a sick woman? The fact of the matter is that was not the reason I left. It was for a different reason which I will never disclose that had nothing to do with her being sick.”

Huh; that has shades of Tommy Cruise leaving Nicole Kidman for reasons “she knows” and then he ended up with a decades younger wife; must be a ‘thing’. Foster does, however, kind of hint that it had something to do with RHoBH except that Yolanda left the show when she and Foster spilt; still, he says:

“My wife at the time wanted to do the show. I didn’t want to be the guy to say no. I’ve got 16 f–king Grammys, half a billion records. Fuck that show!”

And yet he used that show to tout his career and even allowed the show to film him in concert and getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I think he left for a younger healthier model, so take note McPhee …the clock is ticking and if I’m not wrong, Wife #6 just graduated high school.

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