So, y’all remember last week when Disney stepped in a pile
of Don’t Say Gay doo-doo when the Mouse House did nothing to condemn that
hate-filled Florida bill? And then CEO Bob Chapek suggested the company was
working behind the scenes to support the LGBTQ+ community, but a great many Pixar and
Disney employees put Disney on blast, listing all the ways Disney has profited off
the LGBTQ+ community but not really supported us. Well, in stepped actor Gabrielle Union, who stars in Disney’s reboot of Cheaper by the
Dozen and is trans activist Zaya Wade’s stepmother. Union took no prisoners
when she was asked if she was disappointed in Disney’s response to Don’t Say
Gay, and said: “Somebody asked me, ‘Are you disappointed?’ I’m disappointed when my order isn’t right at In-N-Out. I don’t even think that’s a word that you could use for something like this, where children’s lives are literally hanging in the balance. We need to own that if you truly are taking stands against hate and oppression, you should not fund hate and oppression. Period. The damage is done. There are so many states that are following suit [with Florida’s legislation], because there is no pushback, because no one in positions of power [or] corporations are taking a hard stance. Let’s look who’s donating to what and let’s call people out … I think a lot of people like to confuse accountability and consequences for cancel culture. And as long as you have a microphone and a stage that’s not cancel culture, honey… We have to campaign and fund for those people who stand for all of us.” Suh-nap, as Anne Marie would have said, and I add a double
suh-nap to Un ion’s statement because she worked for Disney and still took them
on. Brava, Mama. |
Kim Kardastrophe and Kanye West’s divorce looks like it might
get even uglier. In the new trailer for Hulu’s “The Kardastrophes,” Kim shares
a displeasing comment her now-ex-husband made to her: “He told me my career is over.” Her ‘career’ as a reality show whore? As a wannabe lawyer?
Her career as a former porn star turned underwear mogul? Gurl bye. |
Wendy Williams has had a bad couple of years, what with her husband
fathering a child with his lover and then divorcing Wendy; and that was
followed up by health scares, a Graves Disease diagnosis, allegations of
substance abuse and mental health issues, which culminated in Wendy leaving her
talk show for most of last year and well into 2022. But in a phone call to GMAS this week, Wendy proclaimed that
she has the “mind and body of a 25-year-old”—on a high shelf in a
dark closet?—and needs three more months to handle some shiz and then she’ll
come back to her show, except … The producers have cancelled the Wendy Williams Show and
replaced it with Sherri! starring Sherri Shepherd, so unless Wendy
changes her name, I don’t see her back on TV as the host … of Sherri! |
A few years ago a rumor came out that Jada Pinkett Smith had
cheated on her husband Will with a twenty-something friend of their son, Jaden.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith got on their high horses, panties in a twist and said
no affair ever happened and how dare anyone ever say it happened. Cut to a few years later, and Jada and Will, on her Facebook
talk show, Red Table Talk, discussed her affair with the young man, but didn’t address
their indignation at the public for discussing Jada’s affair. The couple then
suggested that they have an open marriage and yada yada yada publicity. Now, a couple of years past that, and Will Smith is campaigning
for an Oscar for his role in King Richard—not a Shakespeare play but a film about Venus and Serena
Williams’ father Richard—and Will appeared on CBS with Gayle King who asked
many questions, including this one:
Oh. So, if you tell your spouse you’re cheating it isn’t
infidelity? Yeah, I don’t think so, I think it’s still infidelity, because I
guarantee your wedding vows said nothing about poking your dick in other women,
or even men, or allowed Jada to flop on her back with her heels to Jesus. Just own, it, Will, You and your wife cheat on one another
but you both know the other does it and you’re both fine with that, but don’t
expect anyone to believe this hogwash. Infidelity won’t doesn’t bother either one of you unless the
day comes when one of you keeps their cheating secret to themselves. |
Now, some of you may know that recovering alcoholic and Real
Housewives of New York ‘star,’ Luann de Lesseps was arrested a couple of
years ago for drunkenly breaking into someone else’s hotel room and then trying
to assault a police officer, has fallen off the wagon … ALLEGEDLY. Last week former Countess de Lesseps drunkenly took over the
mic at a gay piano bar and began singing so badly that patrons began booing,
causing de Lesseps to shout ‘Fuck you’ from the stage before she was kicked out
of the club. Apparently the Countess, who performs her own “Countess Cabaret” show, arrived
intoxicated at the Townhouse piano bar and took to the stage as if she were
performing her act for the crowd who was not amused; one witness said: “Luann thought she was doing her act. She tried to sing [her own song] ‘Money Can’t Buy You Class,’ but they didn’t know it, they know standards. The piano player was like, ‘I don’t know the song,’ and she responded, ‘It’s a hit!'” SIDENTOE: the critically trashed song sold 19,000 digital
copies. And then it got worse. Luann began “belting out jumbled
versions of songs,” which were so intolerable that “the crowd began booing her”
and so she began yelling back: “You don’t know me! I’m a cabaret star! Fuck you.” Then she was thrown out of the club. Luann told the press the next day that she was “at
rehearsals all day … then went to dinner with Broadway producers. We were in a
celebratory mood and drinking champagne.” And making a drunken, belligerent fool of herself. Again. You can see the video, and hear Luann |
To cleanse my eyes and mind of things de Lesseps, let’s talk about country singer Jessie James Decker showing off her nekkid football player husband on his 35th birthday, Decker shared that photo of Eric Decker on Instagram wearing only his "birthday suit" to celebrate his milestone, telling followers that he's "lookin like a statue from Greece" in the poolside picture from Mexico. Thanks Jessie. PS There was also the time Eric posed with Jessie’s new cookbook rather provocatively. |