I Didn't Say It ... Happy Pride!

Sting, musician, on what the gay community has done for straight men:

“Thanks to the gay community, we [straight] men can actually follow our feelings and demonstrate our affection for each other without being afraid. The generation before us, our fathers, they would shake hands and that would be it. There would be no hugging or affection.”

Straight men could learn a lo from gay men about being open and loving with one another.

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Caleb Shomo, frontman for the rock band Beartooth, coming out as gay:

"There's been a lot of speculation surrounding my personal life as of late, and I feel compelled to set the record straight before it affects those I love any further … I am a proudly gay man. This is something I've been unpacking and reckoning with in my life for quite some time now. It's been difficult to navigate the feelings surrounding the subject and figure out what to do with this fact. I spent a decade burying feelings with alcohol, and honestly, when I decided to put it down and focus on exploring why I felt this way for so long, it's been a direct path to me reconciling with my sexuality in hopes that it will eventually lead me to experiencing self-love. One thing I decided before I wrote a single note or lyric of the upcoming album is that whatever happens, I will express myself wholeheartedly and fully. I encourage anyone who's struggling with who they are to give yourself grace. Do the hard work instead of burying it down as deep as you physically can thinking it will change like I did. Holding these things in only hurt you and those around you. Love you all, and hopefully this is a step in the right direction to loving myself one day.”

Welcome out, Caleb! And please accept as our gift to you, the Official Coming Out Toaster Oven™ and your own copy of The Gay Agenda.

No matter how long you took to get here, you’re welcome; you’re among family.

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Fleur Shomo, Caleb’s wife of 14 years, opened up her husband’s coming out:

“I will always want to love, protect and support Caleb. I have cared more about his well-being over the years than anything else in the world. To see the confusion and pain he went through and the highs and lows and wanting to help but now knowing how. You never want anything more for your person than for them to just be ok. I am the only person that is having to deal with the duality of this situation, to support him whilst losing everything has been incredibly hard to figure out. You can love and support your person through the hardest time in their life, whilst also be completely demolished and lose yourself at the same time... Our nearly 14 years of marriage was wonderful and full of so much fun, adventure & love. Nobody will know anything about our marriage like we do. And no one can ever truly know what depths of love exist between two people unless they are those people. I already miss it & my husband more than anything. Our story was a good one. And now it is done.”

My heart breaks for Fleur but also weeps for her strength and ability to still love her husband, even as this chapter of his life, and their lives, comes to a close.

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Willie Nelson, country singer, on his life and gay people:

“I’ve known straight and gay people all my life. I can’t tell the difference. People are people where I came from.”

It’s just that simple.

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Meryl Streep, actor, on her The Devil Wears Prada co-star Stanley Tucci during his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony:

"You can't even call Stanley a national treasure anymore because I've just been around the world, and truly, the affection hurled at him globally, he's just marinating in it. And it's impossible not to love Stanley Tucci. Urbane, sly, funny, bitchy, and generous and curious and so elegant. Stanley has an elegance to his heterosexuality. His undeniable heterosexuality, which is formidable. Not that heterosexuality is better than any other kind of sexuality. It's just that elegance—real, unforced, natural, unstyled elegance—is sometimes harder for straight men. His soulfulness is evident in the most elevated characters and also in the lowdown characters. It's a thing he can't lose, no matter if it's a priest or a prosecutor or a pervert or Puck or Paul Child, he always finds something true and surprising in every man that he plays. He transforms character acting into leading man material."

I know Stanley Tucci is a heterosexual male, but because he’s, as Meryl says, ‘sly, funny, bitchy’ he fits into a gay man’s idea of a certain kind of man … well, he’s my idea of a fabulous gay man … and also a Husband-In-My-Head.

And Carlos is fine with that!

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It's Monday and I'm ...

I’m not sure who annoys me more, Taylor Swift or Jada Pinkett Smith, but I do know I wish one would stop talking and the other would stop faux-dating.

Apparently Lou Diamond Phillips just moved to Scarsdale, New York and his realtor took to Facebook to ask the citizens of Scarsdale to be his friends. Really, Lou?

Rumor has it that David Beckham has been cheating on Victoria for quite some time, but since none of it was with me I don’t really care.

After getting her pregnant and coercing her into an abortion, Justin Timberlake broke up with the pop tart in a text that said: “It’s over.” Justin’s a pig.

Is this a new thing in Hollywood? First Jada says she and Will have been separated since 2016—perfect timing for her “entanglement” with her son’s friend—and now Meryl Streep and her husband announce they have been living apart for six years.

Color me shocked, but :::gulp::: Kim Kardastrophe ain’t have bad starring in this season’s American Horror Story. Of course, she plays a vile human being so is it really “acting”?

I’m just gonna say that if you’re hosting SNL but you need Pedro Pascal, Mick Jagger and Lady Gaga to assist you, should you really be hosting? And what the f**k is a Bad Bunny?

Meanwhile, back at Kim Kardastrophe, she just celebrated her 43^rd birthday … her ass is ten years old and her face is a newborn.

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Anthony Scaramucci was White House Communications Director for a hot minute, and some say he didn’t contribute much, but maybe he had a little had in styling?

Katy Price who once worked as a hair and makeup stylist for Russia Today … seriously … and CNN, in now a full-time White House official and the title of “production assistant” whose job it is to make White House Liar Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Minister of Propaganda, Kellyanne Conway, among others, camera ready.

Clearly, she needs help in her job … Just sayin’.

I do love a Putin smackdown …

The Washington DC City Council has voted unanimously to rename a street in front of the Russian Embassy after Boris Nemtsov, the slain opposition leader and prominent foe of President Vladimir Putin.

Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of Putin’s government, was killed in February 2015 just outside the Kremlin hours after calling for marches to be held in opposition to Russia’s military involvement in Ukraine.

Coincidence? Perhaps not, and not the Russian Embassy sits on Boris Nemtsov Avenue.

The other morning Carlos asked what I wanted for breakfast and I said toast. So, since he runs the breakfast shift at Café Bob y Carlos, he set out the bread butter, marmalade and toaster. As he was making the coffee. He asked if I wanted some pineapple with my breakfast and I said No.

He said:

“You should have some, it’s good for you.”

I said, already annoyed: 

“I know that, I just don’t want any.”

He said:

“You should have pineapple, pineapple is good for you.”

And since because I love drama, if only for the laughs, I said:

“If you say ‘pineapple’ one more f**king time, I’m throwing it into the back yard.”

And he stopped because he knew I’d do it since … a while back, on another morning when we were having toast for breakfast, I had finished mine, set my juice glass on my bread plate, moved it to the side and started finishing my Café con Leche. Carlos asked if I wanted more toast, and I did a circular motion above my plate and said:

“Um, this is the universal symbol for being done.”

He replied:

“I was just concerned that maybe you wanted more toast.”

“I don’t”

“Well, if you wanted more toast, I was going to toast it for you.”

I took the loaf of bread and hurled it across the kitchen.

“Now no one gets toast!”

I do love the drama, and love that Carlos sees it for the joke.

Meryl Streep was on Jimmy Kimmel this week and dished the Golden Globes … like how Mariah Carey stole her seat.

Streep was supposed to be seated next to Steven Spielberg at The Post table but when she arrived her chair was occupied by Mimi:

“Bitch stole my seat. I came back, and there she was, next to Spielberg, sucking up.”

Streep was, perhaps, joking about the sucking up. She did say Mariah was contrite:

“She said, ‘Oh my god they made me sit down!’ Because you know we were moving….’ They make you…you know they say, ‘5, 4, 3, 2, 1 – wherever you are, everyone has to drop to their seat.”

So, being Meryl F**king Streep, she plopped herself down in Mimi’s ample lap.

No word on if she rested her head on Mimi’s more than ample bosoms.

I love The Amazing Race for it’s trips around the world, and for the fact that the show has long featured gay contestants and gay couples, and this year is no exception with the addition of hotties and besties Trevor Wadleigh and Chris Marchant.

Man.Candy.

And talented, too, as anyone who following Mistress Maddie’s blog, A Day with the Mistress Borghese, knows the two men are part of the musical quartet Well-Strung.

Hot. Hunky. Talented. Yum.

Carson Jones, the gay son of newly elected Democratic Alabama Senator Doug Jones, posted a photo to social media of his dad’s swearing-in on Wednesday and it’s priceless … and not just because Carson is kinda hot.

In the photo, Carson appears to be staring down giant homophobe, and perhaps deeply closeted homosexual, Vice President Mike Pence.

Priceless… but enough pictures of Pence; here’s Carson:

In other good gay news, figure skater Adam Rippon is the first openly gay man from the US to ever qualify for the Winter Olympics. Rippon has a good sense of humor about the notoriety:

“A few weeks ago, I was asked in an interview – and I tweeted about it – that they asked me, what was it like being a gay athlete in sports? And I said, it’s exactly like being a straight athlete, only with better eyebrows.”

Now, there were other gay athletes in the Olympics, but Rippon is the first openly gay athlete.

Good luck to you, sir.

In Hot Man news … new model Cordell Broadus. He’s kinda pouty boy hot … pouty boy with good abs hot. But the kicker is … his father is Snoop Dog.

Cordell must take after his mama.

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Blaine Stewart, openly gay Virginia Beach news anchor, on the snow storm this week:

“Get ready for a pounding. Some of us could see 8 inches or more. That’s too much — even for me.”

Blaine, that’s too much information, even for me.

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Richard Gere, saying that China is the reason he doesn’t get any big acting jobs any more:

“There are definitely movies that I can’t be in because the Chinese will say, ‘Not with him.’ I recently had an episode where someone said they could not finance a film with me because it would upset the Chinese. There was something I was going do with a Chinese director, and two weeks before we were going to shoot, he called saying, ‘Sorry, I can’t do it. We had a secret phone call on a protected line. If I had worked with this director, he, his family would never have been allowed to leave the country ever again, and he would never work.”

Gere has long drawn attention to China’s horrendous human rights situation and says that’s why he only gets smaller film roles.

But, he says, he doesn’t regret the change because he has something that Hollywood doesn’t: money and, in conjunction, freedom.

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Jodie Foster, on those big budget superhero movies:

“Going to the movies has become like a theme park. Studios making bad content in order to appeal to the masses and shareholders is like fracking — you get the best return right now but you wreck the earth. It’s ruining the viewing habits of the American population and then ultimately the rest of the world.”

I kind of agree, mainly because I have no real interest in these superhero movies because, at their core, they are all very much alike.

Give me a small movie with a good story and I’m all in.

Give me a Jodie Foster movie.

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Donald _____, on Steve Bannon, after that new bombshell book revealed how Bannon now feels about the Fat Bastard:

“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party. Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country.”

Delusional say what? Does he think anyone, other than his Basket of Deplorables, will forget the praise he heaped on Bannon?

Bannon was quoted in that new book calling the Trump campaign team’s meeting with Russians “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” and claimed “They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.”

Gosh, it’s fun to see mean girls turn on each other.

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Anderson Cooper, on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, saying he walked out of the new Star Wars movie:

“I actually saw it last night, I walked out. I know, I’m sorry. I have a lot going on, I had a lot of work to do and a lot on my mind. It wasn’t a protest, I’m going to see it again. I had too much in my head. About 45 minutes in I said, ‘I’m not giving this the attention it deserves.’”

Anderson? Call me. I’ll go see it with you ….

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Meryl Streep, on the time Dustin Hoffman, accused sexual harasser,  admits that Hoffman, went too far in a Kramer vs. Kramer scene:

"I’m sure that I have inadvertently hurt people in physical scenes, but there’s a certain amount of forgiveness in that. But this was my first movie, and it was my first take in my first movie, and he just slapped me. And you see it in the movie. It was overstepping. But I think those things are being corrected in this moment. And they’re not politically corrected; they’re fixed. They will be fixed, because people won’t accept it anymore. So that’s a good thing."

Hoffman also made light of the fact that Streep’s boyfriend at the time had recently died after a long illness, so, yeah, he’s a pig.

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Matt Evers, professional ice skater, coming out as gay, and saying he was inspired by seeing what his uncle went through after being diagnosed with HIV:

"He was part of the original San Francisco and New York Fire Island crowd back in the 70s and 80s. I didn't know I was gay at the time, but when he was dying it hit me really hard that he didn't know the love of his mum, my grandmother. They were strict Catholics at the tip of the Bible belt. I wasn't aware of why his passing and the thought of him never being accepted by his own family hurt me so much until I realized I was gay. It's scary, the difference between generations [but] I live my life by example, and I want to show young people that what you feel or how you were born isn't something bad."

How sad to have your own family disown because you were born gay; and how hard that would have been growing up gay and knowing how your family feels.

Welcome out, Matt, and please accept as our Coming Out gifts, a copy of The Gay Agenda and the Official Coming Out Toaster Oven.

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It's Snarkurday!

EnvelopeGate. Yes, people are still talking about, even after the Academy’s accounting firm, Price-Waterhouse-Coopers, fell on Oscar’s sword and said it was their fault for having two copies of each envelope, which is why one of their accountants gave Warren Beatty the Best Actress envelope instead of the Best Picture envelope.

But were there others at fault ... Faye Dunaway? I mean, rumor has it that Warren and Faye were bickering like a couple of old has-beens backstage over who would get to make the announcement, so when Warren looked confused and flummoxed and kerfuffled, and then showed the card to Faye to get her take on it, she just blurted out “La La Land.”

A source says Faye and Warren were very cold with one another during rehearsals and wouldn’t even block their presentation together; they rehearsed separately because they both wanted to read the name.

Now, picture this, Beatty opens the card, sees Emma Stone’s name on it, realizes it’s the wrong card, acts confused, and then gives it to Faye to f**k it up. Wouldn’t that be better than hitting her with a wire hanger?

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Speaking of Oscar night, it’s not just about awards it’s also fashion and beauty and “Who are you wearing?” and “Who did your brows?” Yeah, people don’t usually ask about the brows, but after hearing this, you might wanna have your Red Carpet pros add it to their litany of questions ...

Sharon-Lee Hamilton is The ... and it deserves italics ... Eyebrow Stylist To The Stars. But she’s based in Sydney, Australia so what is an A-lister supposed to do? Well, if you’re bros, Leo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire, you send a plane Down Under to swoop Hamilton up and wing her to LA so she can sculpt your brows.

Yes, Mister Environmental, Mister Carbon Footprint, Mister I Fought and Got F**ked By A Bear, Leonardo DiCaprio paid thousands of dollars to have a specialist fly halfway around the world to pluck his eye hair ... and that of his BFF.

Men getting tweezed together; how adorable!

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More Oscars ... maybe Ryan Murphy’s next season of Feud can skip Chuck and Di and just give us Meryl and Karl.

It seems that when Meryl received her 123^rd Academy Award nomination the good folks at Chanel, and Karl Lagerfeld, were set to make her a custom gown, until she said she didn’t want it and the sparks flew!

Women’s Wear Daily [WWD] claims Meryl Streep turned down that couture Chanel after the fashion house refused to pay her to wear it. WWD’s Bridget Foley says Streep had her eye on an embroidered gray silk Lagerfeld gown and asked for the neckline to be customized, until, ALLEGEDLY, someone from Streep’s camp said:

“‘Don’t continue the dress. We found somebody who will pay us.’”

Lagerfeld then hissed to the press:

“A genius actress, but cheapness also, no?”

And so Streep’s team stepped forward to say Karl Lagerfeld is a big fat liar and that his account of what happened is nothing but fluff; they say it is against Meryl’s personal ethics to be paid to wear a gown on the red carpet.

Who to believe ... Meryl or Karl?  Brilliant actress, or fashion designer who doesn’t know when to stop talking and says asshatted things?

I’m Team Meryl. And that’s why I wasn’t surprised when Lagerfeld admitted he Jeff Sessions’d the whole thing:

“Chanel engaged in conversations with Ms. Streep’s stylist, on her request, to design a dress for her to wear to the Academy Awards. After an informal conversation, I misunderstood that Ms. Streep may have chosen another designer due to remuneration, which Ms. Streep’s team has confirmed is not the case. I regret this controversy and wish Ms. Streep well with her 20th Academy Award nomination.”

And Meryl, because she’s Meryl Freaking Streep wasn’t about to let Karl’s non-apology-apology sit:

“In reference to Mr. Lagerfeld’s ‘statement,’ there is no ‘controversy’: Karl Lagerfeld, a prominent designer, defamed me, my stylist and the illustrious designer whose dress I chose to wear, in an important industry publication. That publication printed this defamation, unchecked. Subsequently, the story was picked up globally, and continues, globally, to overwhelm my appearance at the Oscars, on the occasion of my record-breaking 20th nomination, and to eclipse this honor in the eyes of the media, my colleagues and the audience. I do not take this lightly, and Mr. Lagerfeld’s generic ‘statement’ of regret for this ‘controversy’ was not an apology. He lied, they printed the lie, and I am still waiting.”

Man, she went all Miranda Priestly on his ass and I am loving it!

Are you listening Ryan Murphy?

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Enough Oscars for now ... let’s move on to GOOP.

A few years ago, Gwyneth Paltrow and Tracy Anderson created a food-delivery service called 3 Green Hearts, which would deliver outrageously priced food to rich people who don’t wanna leave home. But 3 Green Hearts never really went anywhere until now, when the delivery service has morphed into a stand-alone cafe next door to Tracy’s newest fitness studio in Manhattan.

Now, because it’s GOOP, you know it costs, but, and here’s the deal, y’all, if you spend $900 a month for a membership to Tracy’s studio, you get discounts at the cafe. Yes, that’s right, if you plunk down $10,800 a year at Tracy’s fitness dungeon, you can save some coins at Paltrow’s fancy-pants cafe.

Um, Gwyneth, honey, if I’m paying nearly eleven thou a year to work out at your BFF’s gym, then the discount at your little green eatery better be one-hundred-effing-percent.

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Remember last week when I told you that Katherine Heigl’s new show, Doubt, would no doubt be cancelled halfway through the first episode?

Well, I ... was ... wrong. It took two full episodes for CBS to pull the plug. It will be replaced by a rerun of Bull and then a spin-off of a spin-off of a spin-off, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders—which may or may not be about a now-closed bookstore—will take its place.

Poor Katherine. Well, at least she has those cat litter commercials to fall back on.

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Just to prove that it isn’t just Hollywood that has some icky family drama, let’s turn to the Biden’s.

Beau Biden, former Vice president Joe Biden’s son, passed away in 2015 after battling brain cancer. His death really devastated the family, and in turn was one of the reasons Joe decided not to run for president in 2016.

Cut to 2017, and we find that Beau Biden’s widow is dating Beau’s brother, Hunter. Now, it isn’t talking out of the corners of my mouth to say that it was widely known that Beau was “the good brother” and Hunter was kind of a mess—he was drummed out of the Navy and cheated on his wife, Kathleen and divorced her.

And that’s where the ick factor comes in. Joe’s daughter-in-law, Kathleen says that she and Hunter formally separated in October 2015, after had asked him to leave their home in July of the same year, “due to his conduct the night before.” Apparently the couple had an agreement that if he engaged in the conduct in question—though that conduct is not mentioned—he would leave. Kathleen also says claims that Hunter spent lavishly on “drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs, and gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations” and that those “habits” depleted their funds available to pay legitimate bills. Kathleen wants their temporary spousal support to be $20K per month for herself, and $5K per month for Hunter, who is now involved with Hallie.

See, I said he was a mess. And what about Hallie? What was she thinking getting involved with a man like Hunter Biden? And, even a bit ickier ... Joe has apparently given the relationship his blessing.

It’s just so icky. My Daddy. My Uncle.

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And howsabout some ex-Missus Marc Anthony mess?

No, not JLo, silly, but his first wife, Dayanara Torres. She and Marc are once again involved in a child support battle, after she has already taken him to court in the past hoping to get a raise in her child support payments—for their two children—from $13,000 a month to $113,000 monthly. Right?

Anthony said that increasing child support would spoil the children essentially, and Dayanara says Marc was hiding millions in assets and that he gives his other ex, JLo, much more in support for his two children with her.

Well, the judge increased the support to roughly $28,000 a month—Marc also pays $ 6,000 to $ 12,000 a year for “vacation expenses”—and Dayanara has been quiet ... until now. She’s apparently ready to reignite her modeling career and so she’s talking dirt about Marc and their child support issues:

 “Being a mother is my main role, and I pushed my career off to the side. Now that they are older [Cristian is 16, Ryan is 13] I feel like I can let go a little. Work is already starting and I feel happy. The kids also want me to do what I’m doing.”

Torres faced backlash for taking Marc to court for more money, but she says it’s all about stability for the children ... she says they were living in a very small apartment and the boy’s had to share a room ... on $13,000 a month! But, she says, if they lived a lavish life with Marc when he had them, then they should have a lavish life with her, too ... or she should have the lavish life, I’m thinking.

And then Dayanara gets in a dig at JLo; talking about what happened during last fall’s Latin Grammys, where Marc was recognized for his career and sang a duet with JLo, which ended in a kiss between the exes, Dayanara says:

 “Such a shame that a moment of so much stature lost quality with everything that came after.”

Ouch. Dayanara doesn’t mention that Marc was married to someone else at the time of the kiss, or that that marriage broke up around the same time; she seems to save her digs for Lopez.

Methinks Dayanara needs to move on, get a modeling gig, and pay her own bills for a while. Maybe then she won’t feel the need to bash her children’s father in magazine pieces.

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Lastly some good news ... a few years back, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, and Johnny Galecki of The Big Bang Theory pulled a Friends and renegotiated their contracts so that they all make $1 million per episode. Soon, two other main cast members, Kunal Nayyar and Simon Helberg, hit the Million Dollar Club, too.

Well, it’s time once again for Big Bang Theory contract negotiations, and this time it’s  Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch—aka Sheldon’s girlfriend and Howard’s wife—who want the raise. The two joined the show in the third season and were getting $200,000 an episode ... how can they live on that!!!—but now that Bang is in its 10th season, they are considered main cast members and so they asked CBS for their million dollar checks, too.

But, CBS may not want to throw more coins at the cast because there’s a small chance that Bang won’t generate as much syndication revenue for these next two years, which might be the show’s final two years.

So Mayim and Melissa might have been cut out of the Major Payday Sweepstakes except, sources say that Jim, Kaley, Johnny, Kunal, and Simon have all offered to take a $100,000 pay cut per episode so that Mayim and Melissa will get a raise. With the extra money, they’ll each make $450,000 an episode.

How’s that for nice? I mean, sure, cutting your million-dollar-per-episode price down to nine-hundred-thousand-per-episode isn’t a huge cut—they won’t be living in shelters and eating out of the garbage, but still, it’s a nice gesture to make.

You know, millionaires lending a hand to other millionaires.

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