Kaitlyn Bristowe Calls Out 'Bachelor' Double Standards
Nick Viall will be a cast member on the upcoming season of Dancing With the Stars once production wraps on Season 21 of the Bachelor (#TeamRaven, BTW). Viall's former fling and star of the most recent season of The Bachelorette, Kaitlyn Bristowe, is now speaking up about a DWTS/Bachelor double standard.
Bristowe is calling out Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss for allowing Viall to do DWTS but blocking her back in 2015 when she was awarded the same opportunity.
Responding to former contestant and friend Whitney Bischoff (from Chris Soules' season) on Twitter, she wrote:
Following this exchange, Fleiss took to social media to say he supports Kaitlyn's desire to be on the show with Kaitlyn responding:
For the record, two Bachelorettes have been on Dancing With The Stars: Trista Sutter (season one) and Melissa Rycroft (seasons 8 and 15).
Jimmy Kimmel on the Oscars Blunder
"Why is 'envelope' trending?"
Jimmy Kimmel used the opening monologue of his hit show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, to go over the Oscars "Best Picture" mix-up.
In case you missed it, at the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday, veteran actors Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced La La Land as winner of Best Picture. It was only after several La La Land alumni made speeches that the major error was revealed by the stage producer... Moonlight was the winner of Best Picture. NOT La La Land.
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“The host will go on stage and clear this up... and then I remembered... I’m the host!”
Ryan Gosling, star of La La Land, is being labelled as a good sport for his reaction to the huge blunder. I mean... What would you do in that moment?!
“The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered, was immediately corrected. We are currently investigating how this could have happened, and deeply regret that this occurred.”
The mix-up has been dubbed "Envelopegate" and many are now pointing their finger at whoever was in charge of the Oscars envelopes. So... who was it? A PriceWaterhouseCoopers accountant named Brian Cullinan was supposed to have given the Best Picture envelope to Beatty and Dunaway but in a recent statement issued by the firm, it looks like Cullinan "mistakenly handed the back-up envelope for actress in a leading role instead."
Oscars Announce More Presenters, Plus Star Studded Women in Film Event
Emma Stone, Meryl Streep and Brie Larson got together for an Oscars pre-party celebrating Women in Film.
No, I don’t mean they got together to literally celebrate themselves… Women in Film is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting equal opportunities for women in media.
“I want to ask you all in this room today to connect with others. Let’s share our stories, talk about where we came from, let’s get excited about where we are right now because there is only room to grow… So let’s talk… let’s talk about what’s really going on, what worries us, what scares us, what we’re excited about, what it feels like to be a mother, what it feels like to be a daughter, what it feels like to be a son or a father in this period of time, and let’s incubate all of this and make something amazing because we will be here later, and we’ll talk about how this was the moment when we went, ‘I got it, I know how to make the world a better place’.”
And the Oscar goes to…
The final round of presenters has been announced adding Matt Damon, Jennifer Aniston, Meryl Streep and more to the list of previously announced A-listers including Leonardo DiCaprio and Brie Larson.
We will also see Jason Bateman, Ryan Gosling, Salma Hayek, Taraji P. Henson, Warren Beatty, Michael J. Fox, Seth Rogan, Vince Vaughn, Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Halie Steinfeld, Emma Stone and more gracing the stage.
The 89th Academy Awards are hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and will air Sunday, February 26th.
Rihanna is Harvard's Humanitarian of the Year
Rihanna will officially accept the prestigious Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award on Tuesday, February 28th from Harvard University. The honour recognizes Rihanna’s charitable work and humanitarian efforts like funding a cancer treatment centre in Barbados, helping make education accessible to those in need in addition to helping international students pay for schooling in the U.S. through a dedicated scholarship fund.
““Rihanna has charitably built a state-of-the-art center for oncology and nuclear medicine to diagnose and treat breast cancer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, Barbados… She has also created the Clara Lionel Foundation Scholarship for students attending college in the U.S. from Caribbean countries, and supports the Global Partnership for Education and Global Citizen Project, a multiyear campaign that will provide children with access to education in over 60 developing countries, giving priority to girls and those affected by lack of access to education in the world today.””
Past recipients of this award include Malala Yousafzai, Desmond Tutu, Kodi Annan, James Earl Jones, Lionel Richie, Tommy Hilfiger and Sharon Stone. Harvard’s Humanitarian of the Year award recognizes “public-spirited leaders whose works and deeds have served to improve the quality of our lives and have inspired us to greater heights.”
This is a video still from The Telegraph showing Prince Harry and Rihanna getting tested for HIV on World Aids Day in Bridgetown, Barbados, Dec. 1st, 2016.
Angelina Jolie talks family, Brad Pitt during Interview
Angelina Jolie answers candid questions about family for the first time since her split from Brad Pitt.
Tuesday, February 21st during an interview with Good Morning America, Jolie answered some questions about family following her separation from Pitt in September of 2016.
The interview was predominantly focused on her new film "First They Killed My Father" based on human rights activist Loung Ung's experience as an orphan of war in Cambodia.
Jolie's eldest son, Maddox, was adopted from Cambodia in 2002. He and his sibling Pax both helped her with this film though she says, "I think they'd rather be musicians."
Prior to giving this interview to ABC News for a North American audience, Jolie spoke with the BBC on Sunday, February 19th where similar questions about her family life were asked and answered. CLICK HERE to see that interview.
“I don’t want to say very much about that except to say that it was a very difficult time... And we are a family and will always be a family. And we will get through this time and hopefully be a stronger family for it.”