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Sometimes the TV show is based on real life, but this time real life is kinda based on a TV show.

Dominic West, who played an adulterer on Showtime’s The Affair, has taken on the role in real life … ALLEGEDLY … after being caught kissing his co-star Lily James even though he is married to Catherine FitzGerald who is said to be devastated by the photos of cheater and cheatee.

On the creepy side, West and James are in England shooting BBC One’s The Pursuit of Love in which 58-year-old West plays 31-year-old James’ father … at least in front of the camera

Perhaps the Golden Globes should take back West’s Best Actor nomination for The Affair because he wasn’t really acting as an adulterer.

UPDATE: Dominic and wife Catherine insisted in a handwritten note shown to paparazzi that their marriage “is strong”—and kissed for photographers outside their family home:

“Our marriage is strong and we’re very much still together. Thank you.”

Notably, Dominic The Affair West—bet he loathes that credit about now—wasn’t wearing his wedding ring and FitzGerald kept her left hand in her pocket.

Just sayin’.

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Phil Collins is fighting with his third ex-wife, Orianne Cevey, who is apparently still living in HIS house, despite their 2008 divorce and the fact that in that time Orianne has even married and divorced another guy.

Phil and Orianne first married in 1999 and had two sons but split up in 2006 at which time Orianne was awarded $46.76 million divorce settlement—at the time the largest divorce settlement in British history. Orianne then married Charles Mejjati and then divorced him, and went back to Phil, though they never remarried. They lived happily for another few years until they broke up again because Orianne took a long trip to Vegas and returned home with a new husband, Thomas Bates.

Trouble is, the home she and her new hubby returned to is owned by Phil Collins and he was none too happy that his ex-wife and her new husband are squatting in his mansion, and now he wants her out.

Phil sent an eviction notice, asking her to vacate the property that he owns but Orianne has refused, and now it’s getting ugly. Phil gave her a deadline to leave and when she didn’t, he went in and changed the security passcodes and plans to file a formal eviction lawsuit.

I’m confused … they were married, they divorced  she got 50 million, then she remarried and divorced that guy, moved back in with Phil until she married again and then brought him back into Phil’s house.

Doesn’t she have the coins to rent her own spot?

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I’m sorry, but I don’t like ‘like,’ and I really don’t like people who use ‘like’ all the time.

So, when I read a piece Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow shaded some of their costars about the way they kiss onscreen, while I at first thought it might be fun, I didn’t like it much at all. Like, you know?

Kate Hudson:

“Honestly, I feel like I kind of haven’t had the best kissers. I feel like I should have had better ones.”

That’s not so bad, but then Hudson goes on about kissing Matthew McConaughey:

“Every time I kiss McConaughey, I mean, it’s like there’s just something happening and there’s like snot or wind. Like when we were kissing, like, in the end of Fool’s Gold, we’re like in the ocean, we had the plane crash, he just had like snot all over his face.”

Then Paltrow talked about how kissing Robert Downey Jr. was akin to kissing a sibling:

“With Robert, like, when I kissed him, I was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. This is literally like kissing my brother.’”

It’s a good like thing these two like actresses like have people like write their like dialogue like for them, because without like screenwriters, they like come off like a couple of like dumb girls.

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This week Demi Lovato appeared on the 2020 Billboard Music Awards to debut a new song …  Commander in Chief … in which she sings about an unnamed Commander in Chief, who sounds like an asshole …

We’re in a state of crisis, people are dying
While you line your pockets deep
Commander in Chief, how does it feel to still
Be able to breathe?

… but you didn’t see the version Lovato wanted you to see because NBC edited her screen time down to avoid a very controversial message:

Vote.

Seriously. Now, I know while some of you want to boycott NBC because their aired a _____ Town Hall this week, this is the real reason you should boycott NBC.

For censoring Free Speech. Sources say NBC pulled the plug on the “VOTE” message because the song itself was a slam on _____ and the “VOTE” message was a call to vote against him. It was also Demi Lovato’s right to sing what she did and say what she wanted.

Now, you can boycott NBC.

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I Ain't One To Gossip But ...

In 2005, Jamie Foxx was nominated for Best Actor for Ray, spoiler alert … he won … and also for Best Supporting Actor for Collateral, spoiler alert … he lost. And it appears that Foxx’s double nominations came as a surprise to Oliver Stone because in 1999, Stone thought Foxx couldn’t act his way out of a wet paper sack. And we know it’s true, because it’s Foxx telling the story:

“I remember Oliver Stone, when I first auditioned [for Any Given Sunday], he was like, “You’re horrible.” And I was like, “What?” He was like, “Just get the fuck out of here.” As I’m walking out, he said, “Jamie Foxx, slave to television.”

And yet Jamie seems to have appreciated Stone’s critique because he learned from it … though he doesn’t say how. But as we have learned from the past, Foxx received good reviews for Any Given Sunday and proved he could really act by spending five years acting like he wasn’t dating his Collateral co-star, Tom Cruise’s ex-wife Katie Holmes.

He should’a at least been nominated for something for that role.

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Mohamed Hadid, father of models Bella and Gigi Hadid, ex-husband of former RHoBH “star” Yolanda Hadid Foster, is ALLEGEDLY bankrupt.

Or not. Hadid  did file bankruptcy papers, but they were for his construction company, 901 Strada LLC, after he was ordered by an :A judge to tear down what he calls Starship Enterprise, a ridiculous half-built 30,000square foot mansion he’s been building in Bel Air for seven years because the multi-million dollar manse is not up to code, was illegally built and, according to neighbors, a “danger to the community.”

And it’s hideous. I would have ordered it torn down on looks alone.

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Gabrielle Union was recently fired from America’s Got Talent amid rumors that she had complained about workplace racial issues she witnessed, including racist jokes and sexist remarks.

Now, NBC, home of AGT, and former home of pervert Matt Lauer, is in  damage control mode, releasing a joint statement with AGT, Simon Cowell‘s Syco Entertainment and NBC’s Freemantle defending themselves which has only fanned the flames of ALLEGED stories.

There was a story about Jay Leno making a joke about Koreans eating dogs on camera, which was cut. There were stories about Gabrielle being told her hair was “too black”—whatever that means—and fellow AGT judge Julianne Hough getting notes about her looks. There was also a claim that Gabrielle was labeled “difficult” when she complained that Simon’s smoking inside bothered her since she’s allergic to cigarette smoke. The joint statement by Cowell and the show make no mention of any of this, but instead say that everyone involved in the show is “committed” to a “respectful workplace.” They also claim that they’re working with Gabrielle’s people about her complaints.

As in paying her off so she’ll stop talking? Hint: she won’t. And she shouldn’t.

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SNL comic, and standup comedian, Pete Davidson is asking his fans to sign a non-disclosure agreement before seeing his stand-up shows, and if an audience member breaks that signed NDA by Tweeting or Instagramming opinions about the show, they can be sued for $1 million.

Seriously? Pete Davidson thinks he can sue someone for posting an opinion? The idea that he thinks that is the funniest thing he’s ever done.

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Now, for those of you concerned with Tanning Your Butthole ...

Don’t. Apparently the sun doesn’t treat a naked sphincter too kindly. Just ask actor Josh Brolin who claimed he was butt fucked by the sun’s rays and now his hole is on fire. Josh wrote on Instagram last week that he spread his cheeks in the wild to sunbathe his asshole and it now felt he’d been fingered by a molten curling iron.

And I’ve officially heard everything …at least until next week?

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Random Musings

Looks like the suspension is over because … Billy Bush has been fired by NBC over #PussyGate. It appears that NBC will announce in the next few days that this Bush is out of a job, and apparently he has no one but himself to blame.

See, ALLEGEDLY, Billy was bragging about the tape to other NBC staff while in Rio for the Olympics and if he knew about the tape, and if he remembered all of what was said on the tape — with a presidential candidate — and didn’t that to NBC News, well, Buh bye Billy.

I used think Ivanka was the smart one but since Daddy Donald has been running for the White House it’s become clear that, either she’s been drowning herself in the Kool-Aid or she was hoping Daddy would win and she’d be Queen of the Empire because, let’s face it, her other siblings are complete morons.

But … the day before the last debate she posted a picture on Instagram and then favorited a Huffington Post tweet about her father giving the go-ahead for folks to call her a “piece of ass.”

She really did! She’s just like Daddy.

An email from a rep with Ivanka Trump states, “A simple mistake was made by a staff member.”

The story has since been “unfaved”.

From the He Apparently Doesn’t Follow The News Or Supreme Court Decision … former failed GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson says that opposition to same-sex marriage is the only thing preventing the U.S. from descending into “utter chaos” and that marriage equality will lead to “mass killings.”

Um, Ben? You ignorant brainless brain surgeon? Marriage equality has been the law of the land for well over a year now and there hasn’t been chaos and mass killings.

You can stop pandering to be base now and have a sit down.

So, after Hurricane Matthew blew through Camden and the trees came down, one of our neighbors called to say that her cat was missing and that he sued to love to sun himself in our yard.

Well, we looked and didn’t see him, but now the neighbor called back to say that she saw the cat — Gray is his name — going under our house and that he seemed to have been injured.

So, I went under the house — not at all a favorite thing of mine to do and that is not a picture of Gray because he won't come close to me — and saw Gray, but he wouldn’t come to me. The neighbor, whose name is Kitty — seriously — came by and set food out for him and we’re hoping he’ll come to his senses and come out now that the storm has passed but ….

That may prove difficult because starting tomorrow, our other neighbors will be in our yard removing their tree and the tress their tree took down, from our back yard. They will have a team of chainsaws and friends out there to take away the thirty foot tree that toppled, and also take away the three of four trees of ours that were hit by the “faller.”

The good news is that we have several Crepe Myrtles around the yard that get very little sun and don’t bloom as they should, so we’ll be able to move those to this new spot where they’ll get some sun.

Last year we watched a sudsy nighttime soap opera about Montana oil fields; it was dumb. But it co-starred the delicious Aiden Canto until the show was cancelled. So, cut to this year and Canto is back on Designated Survivor playing what may be a bad guy … a hot sultry bad guy.

And Daveed Diggs, late of the Broadway smash Hamilton, is appearing on Black-ish for a few episodes and so, yeah, there’s that, too.

Hotties everywhere …

The Washington Post endorses Hillary:

“In the gloom and ugliness of this political season, one encouraging truth is often overlooked: There is a well-qualified, well-prepared candidate on the ballot. Hillary Clinton has the potential to be an excellent president of the United States, and we endorse her without hesitation [and] … No, we are not making this endorsement simply because Ms. Clinton’s chief opponent is dreadful.”

Bam!

And what’s all this talk about Climate Change?

Ten days ago, in October, we were running the air conditioner because of the heat, and then we had a hurricane roll through and now we’re running the heater.

I went from shirts and flip-flops to sweats and socks in  the space of  a weekend.

We still have the racist Donald supporter at work, and this week she stood up for him after saying he wanted to f#k a married woman or grab a woman by the pussy because, wait for it, 33,000 emails.

I quietly said, “But you have no problem with the Bush Cheney White House deleting 22 million emails?”

She said “Hillary’s a criminal.”

I replied, “Huh, on the one hand, 33,000 emails vanished and on the other, a sexual predator, racist, bigoted, tax-dodging, homophobic, anti-Muslim, anti-women, adulterer for a candidate. Yeah, good choice.”

Some people.

And second-to-lastly, from the I Love Randy Andy Cooper [My-Husband-In-My-Head] … I saw him interview that delusional pandering moron of a Donald campaign manager Kellyanne Conway who declared that because Bill Clinton settled a lawsuit with Paula Jones without going to court, that means he was guilty of sexual assault or cheating or whatever.

Anderson tried to explain that people often settle lawsuits for all sorts of reasons and that doesn’t always mean guilt and Kellyanne, not knowing he was leading her along like an idiot, said it did.

Then, Anderson wondered what about the hundreds of lawsuits Donald settled over the years with former employees and vendors that he screwed out of paychecks? Wouldn’t that make him guilty, by Kellyanne “standards”?

:::crickets::::

Poor Kellyanne …

More Americans Want A Gay President Than Want An Evangelical One

Polls are a hot mess. For the most part, other than a hint at what some people are thinking, they don’t really matter much; I mean, we all remember those polls that said Obama was going to lose to Mittsy back in the 2012 election right? And look what happened there!

You can take the same poll question and get completely different answers depending on where you asked the question — Californians would answer differently than South Carolinians — and whom you asked —t he one-percent would not be so similar to the rest of us — and then there’s when you asked — a question now about the 2016 presidential election would be very different than the same question being asked say a year from now.

Still, there’s a new poll from the Wall Street Journal and NBC that says more Americans feel comfortable with a presidential candidate who identifies as gay or lesbian than with one who identifies as an evangelical Christian.

Oops. Sorry Mike Huckabee. Pack up your clown car and go home.

This latest poll lists a series of qualities in a potential presidential candidate and asked respondents whether they'd "be enthusiastic," "be comfortable with," "have some reservations about" or "be very uncomfortable with" a candidate with each of those qualities:

61% say they would either “be enthusiastic” about, or “be comfortable with” a gay or lesbian candidate, while just 37 percent said they would have reservations or be uncomfortable.

And then, when asked about how they might feel about an evangelical Christian candidate …

52% said they'd be enthusiastic about or comfortable with an evangelical Christian running for president, but 44% expressed some degree of hesitancy about the idea.

Now, to be fair, where was this poll done, and who was asked, because those are important questions that might explain some of these answers, but, aside from the hilarity of Ellen DeGeneres having a better shot at the White House than Mike Huckabee, it does show that this shift toward more LGBT-friendly Americans is still happening.

And that’s a good thing.

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NBC Cuts IOC Anti-Discrimination Stance From Opening Ceremony

Okay. So. The Olympics.

I’m not watching. I’m getting my news via the interwebz and a little something I call a newspaper. I am not watching because of Russia’s anti-gay laws; I am not watching because the IOC will sanction any Olympian who does anything pro-gay; I am not watching because they’re killing stray dogs in Sochi, not because they’re attacking people, not because they’re rabid, but because they’re a nuisance. I find the symbolism between killing nuisance dogs and banning gays a little too uncomfortable.

I am also not watching because NBC has a nasty habit of deciding what we should be watching in this country. First, we only get to see American medal ceremonies, and we only focus on the American athletes. Time was, when I was a wee queerling and watching the Olympics, I loved seeing the other countries, hearing their anthems and seeing all the teams participate. Now, with NBC in charge, it’s become the Sochi Winter Olympics starring America.

I’m as American as the next gay, er, guy, er gay guy, but I likes to see some diversity, something new. Add to that that, well, as a Shallow Gay, I’m kinda missing the hot guys in bikinis so prevalent at the Summer Olympics.

But, mostly there’s this:

While Russia’s anti-gay laws have been a major focus for over a year now, I was  kind of pleased to hear that during the opening ceremony IOC president Thomas Bach made a strong statement against "any form of discrimination" and in favor of tolerance.

Nice to have those words heard around the world and hopeful —

Wait. What?

Television viewers watching the games here in the US of A on NBC didn’t get to hear those parts of Bach’s speech because the network edited it out.

Here's a transcript of Bach's speech from British TV with the portions that NBC decided Americans didn’t need to hear printed in bold:

Good evening, dear Athletes. Mr President of the Russian Federation, Mr Secretary General of the United Nations, Good evening Olympic friends and fans around the world! Welcome to the 22nd Olympic Winter Games! Tonight, we are writing a new page in Olympic history.

What has been achieved in seven years is a remarkable achievement. I would like it thank, in again, the president of the Russian Federation and his Government. The Sochi organising committee. The Russian Olympic committee. And the IOC members in Russia.

Thank you to all the workers for your great contribution under sometimes difficult circumstances. Thank you to all the people of Sochi and the Krasnodar region. Thank you for your patience, thank you for your understanding during these years of transformation.

Now you are living in an Olympic Region. I am sure you will enjoy the benefits for many, many years to come. Thousands of volunteers have welcomed us with the well-known warm Russian hospitality. Many thanks to all the wonderful volunteers. Bolshoi spasiba, valantyoram! Thank you very much to everyone.

Russia and the Russians have set the stage for you, the best winter athletes on our planet. From this moment on you are not only the best athletes, you are Olympic Athletes. You will inspire us with your outstanding sports performances. You have come here for sports. You have come here with your Olympic dream.

The International Olympic Committee wants your Olympic Dream to come true. This is why we are investing almost all of our revenues in the development of sports. The universal Olympic rules apply to each and every athlete- no matter where you come from or what your background is.

You are living together in the Olympic Village. You will celebrate victory with dignity and accept defeat with dignity. You are bringing the Olympic Values to life. In this way, the Olympic Games, wherever they take place, set an example for a peaceful society.

Olympic Sport unites people. This is the Olympic Message the athletes spread to the host country and to the whole world. Yes, it is possible to strive even for the greatest victory with respect for the dignity of your competitors.

Yes, Yes, it is possible - even as competitors - to live together under one roof in harmony, with tolerance and without any form of discrimination for whatever reason. Yes, it is possible - even as competitors - to listen, to understand and to give an example for a peaceful society.

Olympic Games are always about building bridges to bring people together. Olympic Games are never about erecting walls to keep people apart. Olympic Games are a sports festival embracing human diversity in great unity. Therefore, I say to the political leaders of the world - thank you for supporting your athletes. They are the best ambassadors of your country. Please respect their Olympic Message of goodwill, of tolerance, of excellence and of peace. Have the courage to address your disagreements in a peaceful, direct political dialogue and not on the backs of the athletes.

To all sports officials and sports fans I say - join and support our fight for fair play, the athletes deserve it. To you - my fellow Olympic Athletes - I say, respect the rules, play fair, be clean, respect your fellow athletes in and out of competition.

We all wish you joy in your Olympic effort and a wonderful Olympic experience. To all of you - Athletes, Officials, Fans and Spectators around our globe - I say, enjoy the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games! And now I have the honour of inviting the president of the Russian Federation, Mister Vladimir Putin, to declare open the 22nd Olympic Winter Games.

Why NBC?

:::crickets:::

Perhaps because NBC was airing commercials to pad their bank accounts and the idea of anti-discrimination and tolerance doesn’t pay the bill.

M’kay, you might say I’m over-reacting, and I do have a tendency to the dramatic, but this is not the first time NBC has decided what should air during a live broadcast.

During the 2012 London Summer Olympics opening ceremony there was a performance of the sporting anthem "Abide With Me" by Scottish singer Emeli Sandé. The song and the accompanying dance performance were a tribute to the victims of the July 2007 terror attacks in London that claimed 52 victims in the days following the announcement of London as the host city for the 2012 Summer Olympic .

It was a significant, emotional and important moment in the opening ceremony — especially for the host city — and came just before the parade of nations. But it wasn't aired in the United States. Instead, American viewers were treated to a lengthy Ryan Seacrest interview of Michael Phelps.

Hmm, honoring victims of terrorism — or as some also said, it was a tribute to England’s war dead — or listening to Ryan Seacrest gush about Michael Phelps. Now, to be fair, NBC cuts out small portions of the opening ceremonies to make room for commercials—and to make that money—but to cut out an entire segment is quite ridiculous.

NBC has never commented on why they cut out that piece of the London Games and I doubt they’ll comment about their special editing this time around.

NBC. No Body Cares.

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The RNC Foot-Stomps Over Planned NBC/CNN Hillary Films

You know what’s funny? The mere mention of the words “Hillary Clinton” and “White House” sends the GOP into a tailspin, chasing their collective tails and barking at imaginary doorbells.

Yesterday, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus sent pissy, put-on-your-big-boy-pants letters to both NBC and CNN because both networks have recently announced plans to produce, respectively, a film and a documentary on the life of former Secretary of State Clinton.

And Priebus and the RNC see these programs—both of which will air before the presidential campaign begins—as a kind of campaign contribution to the Hillary Clinton campaign that has yet to even be verified or announced.

The mere mention of Hillary sends the GOP running and pissing like a mad dog.

So, Priebus has decided that if either network airs their Clinton programs than the GOP will formally bar Republicans from partnering with the networks on any primary or Presidential debates in 2016. 

To CNN, Priebus wrote:

I find CNN’s actions disturbing and disappointing. Your credibility as a supposedly unbiased news network will most certainly be jeopardized by the decision to show political favoritism and produce an extended commercial for Secretary Clinton’s nascent campaign.

And to NBC, he said:

I find this disturbing and disappointing. NBC cannot purport to be a neutral party in American politics, and the credibility of NBC News, already damaged by the partisanship of MSNBC, will be further undermined by the actions of NBC Universal executives who have taken it upon themselves to produce an extended commercial for Secretary Clinton’s nascent campaign.

To be fair, most major entertainment networks—like NBC—and most news networks—like CNN—rarely produce mini-series or documentaries about major figures in politics yet, the idea of a Clinton story is an interesting one. It's a good one, too, as she has been on the forefront of American politics since her husband became president in 1992.

Still, and I keep going back to this, just how scared of Hillary is the GOP? I mean, they’re acting like Clinton, who has never said she was running for president, has already won the office before the race had even begun.

Hmmm, maybe they’re onto something ….. 

Here are the full letters:

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