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You may remember that my BFF, Gwyneth Paltrow,  and her newly consciously coupled husband, Brad Falchuk married over a year ago and yet have never lived together.

Well, who could live with GOOP, but I digress … because the Falchuk-Paltrow’s are living together! And Gwynnie tells Jimmy Kimmel the hold off on the move-in was actually because of their teenage children …

“I think, really, because we each have two teenage children whom we love very much, but we were just trying to be mindful and give them a little space and not move too quickly… But now, we’re merged, and it’s great.”

But Jimmy prodded and prodded and asked her if Brad was allowed to keep any of his things when they coupled, and the truth came out:

“He got to keep some of his stuff. He’s [got] good taste. He’s got really nice clothes and we put some chairs from his house in there.”

She let him bring some chairs? Brad, honey, take your IKEA chairs and run.

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Chelsea Handler went on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Facebook talk show, Red Table Talk, to get into white privilege and it goes like this ….

Chelsea says she knows all about white privilege because she once went to a grocery store and came across a check-out line that was too long so she just said, ’Fuck it,’ and walked out of the store without paying because they would never stop a white woman.

No Chelsea, that’s not white privilege, that’s you tucking a ham in your cooch and strolling out of Ralph’s quietly.

Honey? You’re a thief.

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I’d say ‘Color me surprised,’ but why lie …

A mere few weeks after Miley Cyrus dumped her husband, and Aussie hottie, Liam Hemsworth, and then took up  with Kaitlynn Carter, Miley said she was taking time to be single.

And then those five seconds passed and now Miley has been paparazzi’d making out with Cody Simpson, the Aussie Justin Bieber.

I guess she has a thing for Aussie’s and relationships that end before the sell-by date on a carton of milk.

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Meanwhile, back at Gwyneth Paltrow … She is not really that into acting anymore.Odd, because acting was never really into her either, but I digress …

Paltrow was on a panel to discuss her role in a new Netflix series—created by her husband Brad Falchuk in exchange for being allowed to bring chairs into their home—and she said, of her acting job:

“I married a TV writer… he’s fantastic but he sort of dragged me back to the old job… I wouldn’t say I’m that passionate about it anymore…I have had a lot of good luck and a lot of hard work, which led to a really good film career…at a certain point I felt like it wasn’t what I wanted to do …so I did a little pivot.”

Which is doublespeak for when most of Hollywood said, “Gwyneth who?” and she started steaming her vagina instead.

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And now, sad news … the fabulous Diahann Carroll died this week at the age of eighty-four.

Miss Carroll, and she deserves Miss Carroll, started her career as a nightclub singer in 1954. And in that same year she made her film debut in Carmen Jones alongside Dorothy Dandridge. She also appeared in the film version of Porgy & Bess before taking on the groundbreaking television role of Julia, where she played the first non-stereotypical African American female character on television. Julia was not a maid, but was a nurse raising her son on her own after her husband was killed in Vietnam.

Miss Carroll said this of Julia:

“We’re going to present a very upper middle-class black woman raising her child, and her major concentration is not going to be about suffering in the ghetto. Many people were incensed about that. They felt that [African Americans] didn’t have that many opportunities on television or in film to present our plight as the underdog … they felt the [real-world] suffering was much too acute to be so trivial as to present a middle-class woman who is dealing with the business of being a nurse. But we were of the opinion that what we were doing was important, and we never left that point of view … We were of a mind that this was a different show. We were allowed to have this show.”

Miss Carroll received a Golden Globe award and an Emmy nomination for Julia. When that show ended, Miss Carroll starred in the title role in the 1974 movie Claudine and was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar.

And then came the 80s … and back to television for Dynasty where she would become Dominique Deveraux, Blake Carrington’s half-sister, from 1984 to 1987. Miss Carroll pushed to have that role created especially for her, saying:

“They’ve done everything. They’ve done incest, homosexuality, murder. I think they’re slowly inching their way toward interracial. I want to be wealthy and ruthless … I want to be the first black bitch on television.”

And she was, and she was fabulous at it.

After Dynasty she played Whitley’s mom on A Different World—and received another Emmy nomination—and guest starred on Soul Food, Whoopi and Grey’s Anatomy. On the stage, she appeared in House of Flowers, No Strings—for which she won a Tony—Agnes of God, Love Letters, A Raisin in the Sun, On Golden Pond, and as an African American Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.

She was fierce and fabulous.

RIP Miss Carroll.

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