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Bijou Phillips, the estranged wife of convicted rapist Danny Masterson, has reportedly made the monumental decision to leave the Church of Scientology because she believes it’s important to help their 9-year-old daughter maintain a relationship with her father while he is in prison. According to a report by the Daily Mail, Phillips “quietly” left Scientology because the church would have expected her and her daughter to cut ties with the disgraced TV star after the church expelled him and declared him a “suppressive…

Influencer Olivia Jade Giannulli is back in the news this week, and, as usual, it’s because of her association to other people who are more famous — or infamous — that she is. First off, Us Weekly reported that the 24-year-old model and YouTube star has once again broken up with Jacob Elordi, the 6-foot-5-inch Australian actor who became one of 2023’s breakout stars with his performances in “Priscilla” and “Saltburn.” He’s also set to host “Saturday Night Live” this weekend. Australian actor Jacob Elordi poses during the…

Dana Carvey and David Spade this week joined other comedians in offering a defense of Jo Koy’s much-maligned hosting performance at the Golden Globes, questioning why Taylor Swift put on a show of being offended when she became the target of Koy’s “innocuous” joke about her romance with NFL star Travis Kelce. Carvey and Spade riffed on Swift being “pre-offended” on their popular “Fly on the Wall” podcast Wednesday. This week’s episode incidentally marked Carvey’s return to the show, two months after his 32-year-old son…

Before Joseph DeAngelo was sentenced to multiple life sentences in prison for his crimes as the Golden State Killer, a number of women who survived his attacks spoke in court about their enduring trauma. The one-time Auburn police officer committed at least 13 murders and 51 rapes across Northern and Southern California between 1974 and 1986. In assaults in and around Visalia, Sacramento, Stockton and the East Bay, De Angelo was known for breaking into homes in the middle of the night and tying up and sexually abusing the…

Nearly three months after the release of John Stamos’ tell-all memoir, his ex-wife, Rebecca Romijn, has finally admitted that she was “shocked” by some of the things he wrote about her, including his allegations that she was unfaithful and that she didn’t think he was smart enough for her. “I was sort of blindsided by it,” Romijn told Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet for the Critics Choice Awards over the weekend. “I was very surprised by all of that, incredibly shocked actually,” the Berkeley-reared “X-Men” star…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Barbra Streisand’s film company paid the groundskeeper at her $20 million Malibu estate using some of the $209,000 it received from Paycheck Protection Program loans, a new report says. According to The New York Post, Barwood Films Ltd., the multimillionaire’s production company, received loans from the program in 2020 and 2021. The program was created by the federal government to help small businesses make payroll during the global health crisis and to prevent mass unemployment. The Post…

Prince Harry is set to receive some love after a tumultuous 2023 by being honored at the 21st Annual “Living Legends of Aviation” Awards on Jan. 19, a glitzy Beverly Hills ceremony that will be hosted by John Travolta and which purports to recognize “those who have made a significant contributions to aviation/aerospace.” But two former senior officers in the British military have hit out at the awards event for honoring Harry, even though he served as an Apache helicopter pilot in the British army and flew missions in…

A new report counters claims by Matthew Perry and some of his friends, including Jennifer Aniston, that he had been clean, sober and “in a good place” in the 19 months leading up to his shocking death on Oct. 28. In fact, as sources close to Perry told Us Weekly, the beloved 54-year-old actor had been lying about his sobriety, including during a promotional tour for his 2022 memoir, “Friends, Lovers, and the Terrible Thing.” In that book and in interviews, the “Friends” star spoke openly about his decades-long struggle…

Now that Lily Gladstone has made history by being the first indigenous actor to win a Golden Globe Award for a performance in a film or TV show, the “Killers of the Flower Moon” star is poised to make history again at the Academy Awards. It’s widely believed that Gladstone, who is of Blackfeet and Nimíipuu heritage, will be nominated for best actress for her performance as Mollie Burkhart, the real-life Osage woman who was married to one of the accomplices in the systematic murders of Osage people in Oklahoma the 1920s.…

Taylor Swift appeared to leave the 2024 Golden Globes ceremony early after initially turning heads by arriving in a shimmering green Gucci gown and De Beers diamond earrings. Page Six reported that Swift’s fans noticed that her departure occurred after her concert film, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” lost the award to “Barbie” for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement — and after she was seen shooting an icy glare at host Jo Koy, who made a crack about her highly publicized appearances at boyfriend Travis Kelce’s Kansas…