Friday, March 15, 2019

So, you think you know Kate Beckinsale?


10 things you probably didn’t know about Kate Beckinsale

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You may know the British actress as the death-dealing vampire hunting werewolves in the early 2000s film, “Underworld” or you may just know her as the current girlfriend of “SNL” star Pete Davidson. But whether you’ve been a long-time fan of the 45-year-old or just learning about her existence in Hollywood, here are some things to know about Beckinsale. 

1) Beckinsale was born Kathrin Romary “Kate” Beckinsale on July 26, 1973 (which would make her a Leo for all you Zodiac fans) in Chiswick,  England.

2) The actress was born an only child to parents Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe. Her father, who was also an actor, died when she was just 5-years-old of a heart attack. 

3) Beckinsale's appeared on screen for the first time when she was 4-years-old. 

4) She attended Oxford University's New College school where she studied French, Russian and later, drama.




5) The British star reportedly landed her big break when fellow actress Charlize Theron dropped out of 2001's “Pearl Harbor," leaving the role open for Beckinsale. The budding actress landed the lead role where she played the love interest to two WWII soldiers played by Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett. 

6) A few years later, she portrayed the iconic Ava Gardner in hit film "The Aviator," also starring Leo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes. The actress, who is known for her relevantly slender frame, reportedly gained 20 pounds for the role to better depicter Gardner's more voluptuous figure.



7) After starring in hits like "Underworld" the star decided to settle down and married the film's director, Len Wiseman. The then-couple were married in 2004, following her 8-year romance with actor Martin Sheen, with whom she shares a daughter with. Wiseman and Beckinsale divorced in 2016 and now the actress has been linked to "SNL" comedian, Pete Davidson.



8) And's she's got a sexy side. In 2009, Beckinsale was named Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive.



9) In 2017, the actress opened up about being sexually harassed by Harvey Weinstein at the age of 17. Beckinsale illustrated the incident in a long Instagram post where she said Weinstein "opened the door in his bathrobe." Though initially horrified, the strong actress said she was "unscathed" by the incident. Beckinsale joined the chorus of other actresses who spoke out against the disgraced film mogul which sparked the Time's Up movement in Hollywood. 

10) In 2018, Beckinsale made headlines after sharing an Instagram post where she raved about an unusual facial known as the "Hollywood EGF Facial," which is said to include "liquefied cloned foreskins." The facial has been since referred to as the "penis facial."

Olivia Jade's revealing interview

Lori Loughlin’s daughter Olivia Jade says father ‘faked his way’ through college days before parent’s arrest



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Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are not the only ones making headlines. Following the news of Loughlin and Giannulli's arrest after the FBI discovered they had participated in an alleged college admissions scandal, their daughter, Olivia Jade, revealed that her father “faked his way” through college in an interview released just days before her parent's arrest.

While appearing on the “Zach Sang Show,” which aired on March 8, the social media star explained how her father, who was thought to be enrolled in college, “started his whole business with tuition money that his parents thought was going to college.”

“He didn’t come from a lot so it’s cool to see that he built it all himself,” Olivia Jade said of her father who created the fashion line, Mossimo. “He, like, built his whole entire brand and he wasn’t actually, like, I don’t know if I’m supposed to say this, ever enrolled in college. But he, like, faked his way through it and then he started his whole business with tuition money that his parents thought was going to college. That’s, like, such a different time. I don’t know if I was supposed to say that, but it’s okay.”




The 19-year-old, who was a freshman at the University of Southern California, said she looked to her father for inspiration and was now thrilled at the chance to inspire other girls her age. Ironically, the social media influencer explained that she often received messages from her followers regarding the college admissions process.

“It’s the coolest thing getting DMs from girls being like ‘I’m applying to college right now, what did you do?’ It’s fun!” she on the "Sang Show."

But the young star admitted that going to college was not her initial idea, saying that her parents pushed her to pursue higher education since neither of them had attended college.

“Mostly my parents wanted me to go because both of them didn’t go to college. I’m so happy they made me go. That sounds so terrible, they didn’t make me,” she said. “My sister [Isabella Rose] goes to the same school and we are pretty much inseparable, so it was nice following in her footsteps in a little bit. I do like it.”



Loughlin and Giannulli were among 50 charged in an alleged college admissions scam where the parents reportedly paid $500,000 to make it look as though their daughter, Olivia Jade, had been an elite rower for her admission to USC where she was not listed on the USC women' roster according to People.

The celebrity couple was arrested on a felony charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Since the scandal broke, the news has impacted both of Louglin's daughters. According to Page Six, both Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose have dropped out of USC for fear of being bullied about the scandal.

Both parents were recently released from custody after posting $1 million bond.





Thursday, January 11, 2018

2018 Golden Globes Blackout: WORST Dressed

Worst Dressed a la Golden Globes (Red Carpet BLACKOUT)




They say everybody looks good in black. But at this year's Golden Globes awards, that just was NOT the case. While some stars SLAYED the all black dress code, others well, completely missed the mark. Which btw is so hard to do because IT'S BLACK. Ugh. 

Several A-list celebs showed up in some D-list dresses, so with out further ado...

Here are le worst dressed from Sunday night's Globes red carpet

NOT AWFUL NOT GREAT 


Caitriona Balfe in Chanel

Ugh, I LOVE this woman and I LOVE "Outlander," but I'm not so sure that I love this dress. Is it awful? Nope. But is it great? Nope. I mean it's Chanel, and like fancy couture goes - it's either hit or miss. And while I don't love this dress, I do think Caitriona is werking it at the same time. I mean she's so tall and like former model beautiful, like anything would look good on her. And I actually really do love the neckline, its just the cut of the dress I'm like ehh about. But her best accessory of the night was her new engagement ring. BOOM. Congrats girl! 

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Kate Hudson in Valentino

I'm ALL for the plunge neckline and drop diamond necklace trend. And I'm ALL for Kate's new hair do. I love her short hair cause her face is like so defined - it's amazing. Buuut, I don't love this dress. It's like gothic chic? I love the whole sheer trend too, but I really don't like the whole criss-cross pattern on the dress. It's too much. I think the shape of the dress is gorgeous and she looks good IN the dress, but the dress is like meh. Plus my eyes go directly to the hot pants underneath. It's just not a balanced look. 

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Gal Gadot in Tom Ford 

Ugh, well I mean we all know Wonder Woman is gorgeous. And as Wonder Woman, Gal can literally wear pretty much anything and still look amazing. But half the outfits she wore while on her "Wonder Woman" premiere tour were WAY better than this look. Now, I love the crisp, tuxedo jacket but it should be placed over a simple, straight black dress - NOT a ruched stretchy fabric looking dress with a weird uneven hem line? Like the side slit looks like a rip. No thank you. But does she still like great? I mean, duh.  

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WORST 


Heidi Klum in Ashi Studio 

UM. Okay. I think the best way to explain this dress is BLACK SWAN. Like, this literally looks like a feathered, high-low disaster costume from "Black Swan." It looks like someone just glued feathers all over her dress, cut the front out so she could walk, but then they put to many feathers at the top of the dress and and it's totally overwhelming her chest. AHHH! I hate it. It would 100% be worse if Heidi wasn't wearing it. But luckily, she's Heidi so...
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Elizabeth Moss in Dior 

Ugh, so this dress isn't exactly ugly. It's a classic, diamond collar, vintage Dior dress. Nothing wrong with it, but this dress is just not flattering on the "Handmaid's Tale" winner. It's too frumpy and makes her look bigger than she is and the 1950s hemline just makes it worse. Like, love you Liz but this isn't "Mad Men" and even if it was well, Betty and Megan Draper would looked waaay better in something that wasn't this.
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Kendall Jenner in Giambattista Valli

I hate Pepsi and Frye Festivals AND THIS DRESS. Now anyone who knows me WELL knows that I like anything poofy, princess-y - anything with a lot of tulle and chiffon I'M THERE. BUT I'm not into the high-low look when the dress is MASSIVE. Plus the short, poofy front makes her look pregnant which if I were here, I would stay clear of unless she wants to create more rumors about her family. LOL. PLUS this is NOT how you do Giambattista Valli.

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THIS IS HOW YOU G VALLI:

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You're not Rihanna Kendall, sorry.

ALSO you're NOT supposed to be at the Globes! And I'm SO over your lip injections UGH. So I'm sorry Kendall, but until Kylie announces her pregnancy and you admit that you got your lips done - BYE. 


Samira Wiley in Romana Keveza 

WAHH! Samira, I love you. I love you so much that when you died in "OITNB" I cried my HEART OUT! And I am so happy that you've found a new role and are killing it on the "Handmaid's Tale," buut I HATE this dress. Like, I debated putting it in the MIZ section, but it's not God awful, it's just awful. Like I'd rather her to have worn a black strapless dress than this awk illusion neckline with these floating gold triangles. I mean, I DON'T EVEN GET the design?! WHO wants floating triangles on their chest?! Like it's so confusing and ugly. Oy, maybe I do think it's God awful.  :( 

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Lily James in Valentino

Love Lily James and her cute British self, but this is one poofy dress that I don't love. I would have been happier if she had just worn her Cinderella costume to the red carpet if she was going to choose this ruffled mess. It literally looks like someone took a bunch big Christmas bows and glued them to her chest and to the bottom of the dress. Also the dress looks heavy AF and that's not the look anyone should go for. Sorry Lily, but your "Downton Abbey" style was ten times better than this.

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Allison Janney in Mario Dice

I really hate to say anything bad about Allison Janney because I really do love her so much and I was so happy she won the Globe for "I Tonya," but I gotta say, I hate this dress. But I only hate the top. I think the dress fits her to the tee and  her body looks amazing, but I HATE the black and white top. YUCK. From far away the shoulder part  looks like butterfly wings, which I hate, but also like a tiger slashed the dress and left holes in it? If the dress had been ALL black it may have been different, but the black and white together is so tacky. Here's hoping her Oscar dress is better. Cause I have full faith in her Oscar nomination...and that she may win. 

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LIT MIZ


Jamie Chung in Ermanno Scervino

Jamie Chung is such a little cutie, but this dress is not cute at ALL. It's literally so ugly. To be blunt lol. So let's walk through this - you've got a leather top, that is sinched with a tiny belt, and then has a messy, uneven, looks like bunched up tissue paper, skirt. It looks like she's been rolling around in the dress for hours in her bed and then got up and decided to go to the Globes and threw that belt around her waist to try and make it trendy. YUP. I said it. It's MIZ.

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Pamela Adlon

Is it a corset? Is it a jacket? Is a costume from "Moulin Rouge?" I don't know WHAT it is or what's going on here but NONE of it is working. I think Pamela is hilarious and she's super talented but there is NOTHING funny about this dress people. Or I'm sorry, suit? UGH SEE! I don't even know what to call it but like fugly and miz. 

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Gwendoline Christie 

Obviously Gwen is like a super tall girl and she can legit where anything, but THIS, this is hideous. This looks like a black chiffon dress that was shredded in the shredder a few times and then someone threw it in the trash and left it there and then she found it and decided the crazy layers of fabric was trendy, but really it's just like SO miz. It also looks like someone bought a bunch of black streamers from Party City and made one of those plastic streamer dresses like I made in 4th grade...and mine looked better. And was yellow. SO I win.

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Abbie Cornish 

Ugh, this is a perfect example of when good sequins happen to bad design. I'm never one to turn down a sequin dress, but this is legit MIZ. I literally have ZERO idea what is happening the with neckline. Like it's a key hole neckline, but then it has this pointy part of the choker that's like pointing down into the key hole? Like a compass?! It's just v confusing. And then the sleeves are also too much. Wah, it's just ugly. 

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Zuri Hall 

As one of the few remaining women on E! News, LOL, I gotta say I'm pretty disappointed with Zuri's delivery here. There's TOO much going on with this dress! It looks like THREE different dresses. First off it's sheer, but then the top has polka dots, but then the bottom looks like a 17th century petty coat and has a lot of ruffles and lace! UGH. It's like MAKE UP YOUR MIND. You can NOT have your cake and eat it too in this situation. And if you look closely and you cut off the bottom of the dress and made it knee length, then it actually looks like a dress from Hot Topic. And ya, it's not 2001 and Hot Topic is not the place I normally suggest for red carpet dresses...

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Blanca Blanco 


Blanca, Blanca, Blanca. Oh boy. So, if we’re being honest, everyone was looking for that ONE person who was going to show up to the awards show in – drum roll please – A COLOR.  So leave it to Latina actress, BB to show up in a RED velvet dress that literally leaves nothing to the imagination. Not only is this dress cut out and slashed everywhere, who cares if it’s blood red it’s just NOT appropriate for the Golden Gobles. Grammys? Maybe. Maxium’s Hot 100? Sure. Globes? Nope. PLUS most people just think she did this for attention anyways so that she could get more on da radar, so again if we’re being honest, I think that worked in her favor. She explained that she wore red cause read means "passionate" and shes passionate about the cause? IDK. She’s either reaaally smart or reaaally dumb. I can’t decide, but this dress is awful.

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Barbara Meier 

And then there was girl. I don't even know who she is - I mean I could look her up but that's too much effort LOL. She wore this embellished floral dress, which I am normally ALL about, but it looks like it was dipped in cotton candy tie dye and then she decided that wasn’t enough so she added tie dye magic carpet looking fabric and just tapped it to the back of the dress. SERIOUSLY! That’s what this dress looks like. Talk about wearing NO colors – this dress has TOO many colors, too many flowers, and too many unidentified objects attached to it. It’s miz and I’m hating. 

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