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Kate Upton will not be sidelined from modeling during her pregnancy ... at least if Tommy Hilfiger has his way. Sources directly connected to the famed designer says he would love it if Kate would model his clothes while she's carrying her first born. We're told Tommy just said the following ... "Our business is all about inclusiveness and diversity, and not just about 90-pound models." We're told Kate has an open invitation to model for him throughout her pregnancy. As we reported, Kate and hubby Justin Verlander announced they are going to have a baby. (TMZ)
Bruce Willis grinned and beared it during Saturday night's roast, but he was unprepared for the surprise guest of the evening -- his ex-wife Demi Moore. Bruce is the latest victim to be skewered by Comedy Central and Demi did not disappoint. One of her best lines ... "I look at our marriage like "The Sixth Sense" ... You were dead the whole time." Bruce and Demi were married from 1987 - 2000. They had 3 kids -- Rumer, Tallulah and Scout, and all of them were cackling in the audience. Cybill Shepard, who co-starred with Bruce in his breakout role -- "Moonlighting" -- also took her shots. The show is set to air July 29th on Comedy Central. (TMZ)
Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton Step Out for Their First Ever Solo Outing Together at Wimbledon. Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton take Wimbledon! For the first time, the royal sisters-in-law had a solo outing together as they teamed up to attend the Ladies' Single Final at the Wimbledon Championships on Saturday. The royal duo have appeared together at official royal outings along with their husbands, Prince Harry and Prince William, but Saturday's event marks their first ever joint appearance. The royals coordinated their outfits for the event. The Duchess of Sussex wore a summery blue-and-white striped shirt from Ralph Lauren with wide-leg cream pants, while Princess Kate opted for a white-patterned dress. Before the match, Meghan and Kate met with former female tennis champions and chatted with ball girls and boys to learn more about what it's like to participate in the iconic tournament. Then they took their seats in the royal box to cheer on the players, Angelique Kerber and Serena Williams, (a close friend of Meghan's. The Duchess of Sussex recently returned from her two-day tour in Dublin, Ireland, with Prince Harry -- their first overseas tour as a married couple. Meghan and Kate laughed and chatted as they sat next to each other. Just two weeks ago, the new mom joined Meghan to watch Harry compete in a polo match in Ascot, England. She was joined by husband Alexis Ohanian, who also accompanied her to Meghan and Harry's royal wedding in May. Meghan first met the tennis pro at the 2010 Super Bowl in Miami where they immediately hit it off. Williams opened up about their friending in Vanity Fair, saying: "Her personality just shines." Meghan has been a fixture at Wimbledon in recent years, but this year's event marks her first time attending as the Duchess of Sussex. She attended the tournament in 2016, around the same time she was set up on a blind date with future husband Prince Harry. Her royal sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, is also a veteran Wimbledon attendee. The avid player (she and Prince William have a court at home at Anmer Hall) regularly attends matches with William and sister Pippa Middleton. For Kate, watching Wimbledon was a family tradition growing up. "It is such a quintessential part of English summer," she said of the tournament last year. "I was really taken by Agassi and Sampras, Ivanisevic and Steffi Graf. That for me was my first memories." Now, both Kate and Meghan no longer have to wait in line for tickets, as they have a permanent spot in the royal box! (People)
Jane Fonda lobbies for working class women's rights. In one part of the Capitol on Thursday, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was meeting with more senators as he faces a contentious confirmation hearing. In another, the House was holding a circus-like hearing with FBI agent Peter Strzok. In a basement meeting room of the Capitol Visitor Center, there also was a lot of media interest: Jane Fonda, the star of Netflix's "Grace and Frankie" and the longtime political activist, was pressing lawmakers to expand protections for women domestic workers and farmworkers. One of her messages: The MeToo and Times Up movement is an opportunity for Hollywood to call attention to women in other industries who face pay inequity and sexual harassment. "We are here with the domestic workers and the women farmworkers and, as has been said, these women, often women of color, often migrants, immigrants, are very, very vulnerable and they work in a very isolated way and their voices are not heard," she said at a press conference. "Hollywood realized that we have the privilege of being able to stand alongside these most vulnerable women who don't have privilege and whose voices are not heard and lend our support to that. We are like repeaters, those towers at the top of mountains that can pick up signals in the valley and spread them out wider." Fonda was joined by other activists, including Ai-jen Poo of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Monica Ramirez of the National Farmworker Women's Alliance and Fatima Goss Graves of the National Women's Law Center, as they met with lawmakers including Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.). While the meetings on Capitol Hill were described as strategy sessions, the groups are pushing to expand Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to cover more categories of the labor force. Ramirez said that their goals should draw in all political background, as "sexual harassment ... is not a partisan issue." Fonda said that as she made the rounds on the hill, "It occurred to me that my father, Henry Fonda, who was an actor, is very present with me." He starred in the classic "The Grapes of Wrath," which showed the plight of a Depression-era family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl as they migrated to California. She noted that the movie showed how the farm workers were "fighting for dignity and rights and risking their lives doing so. Now we have women farm workers who are even more vulnerable. So the issue of workers rights has been with me for a long time." In the 1970s, Fonda said she worked in the antiwar movement with Karen Nussbaum, co-founder of 9to5, which addressed problems faced by women office workers. "She would tell me these stories of what these women were having to endure, and I said, 'I've got to make a movie about this, and that became '9 to 5.'" It was clear, though, that she sees the #MeToo and Times Up movements, triggered by the Harvey Weinstein scandal, as turning points. "I never thought I would live to see a day when women were actually heard," she said. "I am very aware of the fact that in the beginning, this happened the way it did because the women who were speaking out were white, and they were famous," she said. Soon after, though, the National Farmworker Women's Alliance reached out to celebrities in Hollywood with the message, "We stand with you," Fonda said. Fonda said that "made us all realize that this notion that has become so important of intersectionality was now being fleshed out, that this was a new reality for many of us, and that it was going to be forever." "I think that there is a beautiful synergy that is happening now with celebrities in Hollywood being able to learn about the realities of working women who are far more vulnerable than we are, and this is going to be ongoing," she said. "This isn't something that is going to peter out. This is not a moment, it is a movement." Kavanaugh's nomination has triggered alarms among a number of progressive and civil rights groups that existing worker protections may be in jeopardy, as well as fears that his confirmation would lead to the overturning of Roe vs. Wade. At the press conference, Fonda at first was reluctant about weighing in on his nomination, worried that it would distract from the event. But pressed on the point, she said that if he is confirmed it would be a "catastrophe, frankly, if this nomination goes through, for everyone, for our children and unfortunately our grandchildren. But women's rights, worker's rights, will be shunted to the side, and that is just the beginning." Fonda continues to be a focus of some Republicans' attack ads, and President Trump and others are already targeting Hollywood in general as the out-of-touch liberal elite. She doesn't think industry activists should let it keep them from getting involved. "If we are being attacked it is because we are being effective," she said. "We are able to amplify the voices of the people that really need to be heard. That is really how we have to use our celebrity, is to raise the voices of all workers, and we can't be cowed by the attacks from the right." She added, "We have to understand that it is because we are doing our jobs as citizens, and I am very proud of what we are doing. It is important for us to know what we are doing, to listen very carefully so we will know what it is people are talking about, so we can be informed. But I say go -- go for it." (PageSix)
Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker is simply 'brilliant' on the cover of EW's Comic-Con preview issue. "Aw, brilliant!" As monologues go, that expression of joy, uttered by Jodie Whittaker in last year's special Christmas episode of Doctor Who, may not rank up there with the best of Shakespeare. Nonetheless, it was an exultation of huge cultural significance -- and one that sprang directly from the preferred vocabulary of the actress herself. "My two go-to words are 'Brilliant!' and 'Ace!'" says Whittaker, 36, while chatting with EW at a studio in the show's home city of Cardiff, Wales, this past May. "I'll try to get the Doctor an 'Ace!' in there somewhere." The "Doctor" in question is, of course, the titular character of Doctor Who. A two-hearted alien from the planet Gallifrey, this time-traveling, monster-battling hero has been played by a succession of actors in the show's 55-year history, thanks to the Doctor's ability to "regenerate" his physical form. Up until last December, the "Time Lord" was always depicted as male. But at the end of the Christmas episode, Peter Capaldi's so-called Twelfth Doctor regenerated into Whittaker's Thirteenth. It was that switch in sex that prompted the character's delighted "Aw, brilliant!" after he -- or rather, she -- saw herself reflected in a computer screen on the bridge of the Doctor's time-and-spacecraft, the TARDIS. The choice of Whittaker to play the lead role on Doctor Who represents a massive gamble on the part of new showrunner Chris Chibnall -- who'd previously cast Whittaker as a grieving mother on his cop drama Broadchurch -- and the BBC, which successfully revived the sci-fi series in 2005 following a lengthy hiatus. More than 18 million Doctor Who DVDs have shipped, 12 million action figures have been sold in the 13 years since its relaunch, and in 2013 a 50th-anniversary episode was screened in 94 countries. In the U.S., the show has become the flagship series for BBC America, which will premiere the new season this fall, simulcasting the first episode so it screens at the same time as in the U.K. There is a lot riding on Whittaker's ability to make audiences around the world fall in love with a female Doctor, as the actress is well aware. "There's no rules, and it's liberating," she says. "But it's equally terrifying." EW spent two days on the set of Doctor Who for this week's cover story, hanging out with Whittaker and the trio of actors who are playing the Doctor's new companions: Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill, and Tosin Cole. Your writer also spoke with Chibnall who explained why he had made the decision to make the Thirteenth Doctor female once Whittaker's predecessor, Peter Capaldi, decided to leave the series. "I just felt the time was right," said Chibnall. "I think if the show hadn't done it, we would have been behind the world, and Doctor Who has got to be out front leading the world and being a great example of all the amazing things that are in the world. So, it wasn't even a question in my mind." But, much like the Doctor's bigger-on-the-inside timeship the TARDIS, there is so much more to see in this week's Comic-Con preview issue of EW. Like what? Like exclusive images from films and TV shows, including Shazam!, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Halloween, The Walking Dead, Star Trek: Discovery, and the new, small-screen version of The Purge franchise. You'll also find one of our signature "Three Rounds" articles with the cast of The Magicians; a deep dive into M. Night Shyamalan's new film Glass; an oral history of the Wesley Snipes-starring superhero-vampire movie Blade; and profiles of It and Castle Rock star Bill Skarsgrd and graphic novelist-turned-She Ra and the Princesses of Power exec producer Noelle Stevenson. (Entertainment Weekly)
Melania Trump Channels Princess Belle for State Dinner in England. First Lady Melania Trump evoked the essence of Princess Belle when she ascended the steps of the Blenheim Palace in England on Thursday. While attending a state dinner, the First Lady dressed to impress, with the Queen being chief in mind. The First Lady's stylist Herve Pierre told the L.A. Times they chose the pale yellow hue for the custom J. Mendel gown after learning it's Queen Elizabeth II's favorite color. Similar to other styles modeled by FLOTUS, the chiffon dress included a cape detail and elegantly flowed to the ground. By her side was President Donald Trump, who was wearing a tuxedo for the black-tie event, which was also attended by Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband Philip May. Friday the President and First Lady were scheduled to meet Her Royal Highness for tea at Windsor Castle. This isn't the first time FLOTUS has turned heads with her fashion choices. The former model has mastered the art of balancing her penchant for glamour, with the conservative style expected of the First Lady. (Eonline)
Nobody Is More Excited for Sandra Oh's Emmy Nomination Than Ellen Pompeo. To say Ellen Pompeo is happy for Sandra Oh may be an understatement. The Grey's Anatomy star took to Twitter to celebrate Oh's historic Emmy nomination (a day late, but it was sure worth the wait). Oh, who was nominated for five Emmys for her work on Grey's Anatomy, picked up an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series nomination for her performance in BBC America's Killing Eve. Oh is the first Asian American to ever be nominated in that category. "I was not on my phone yesterday and clearly missed ALOT!!! Congratulations @IamSandraOh this is beyond well-deserved and your history making is incredibly moving. Can't wait to hear your speech!! Which will have us in tears and laughing at the same time no I'm sure," Pomepo tweeted, punctuating the message with an emoji making a kissing face. Pompeo also retweeted her Grey's person's tweet reacting to the news and said nobody deserves the recognition more than Oh. "No one can touch this girl's dedication to story-telling or her talent," Pompeo tweeted. Pompeo and Oh played best friends and coworkers on Grey's Anatomy for 10 seasons. "I feel tremendous gratitude and joy with this nomination. I am thrilled for Phoebe Waller Bridge's nomination and for the entire cast/crew of Killing Eve. I share this moment with my community," Oh said in a statement. "PS. I think my mother at this moment may actually be satisfied." Oh will return for Killing Eve season two. The Emmys will air live Monday, Sept. 18 at 8 p.m. on NBC. (Eonline)
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West paid a little extra attention to North on Friday ... but Saint made it clear he was not to be forgotten. The proud parents went to their 5-year-old daughter's fashion show at a design camp she's been attending with a friend, where the kids get to design their own dresses and clothing. We're told Friday was the big show for the kids to reveal their designs to their moms and dads. As you can see ... North's is stylin'! Our sources say Kourtney also came to the show with her kids Mason and Penelope ... we're told Kim and Kanye took the whole crew out to eat at Carasoul after to celebrate. It's unclear what caused Saint's display of emotion as the family was leaving the show ... but we're going to guess it must have been the beauty of his big sister's design. Yeah, that has to be it. (TMZ)
If Ludacris had run out of places to lay his head inside his Bahamas vacation house, he had no need to worry, because there was a 400-square-foot elevated daybed outside waiting for him by the pool. Luda just crashed at the Ananda Estate on the island of Eleuthera. Sources tell us he was there for at least a couple of nights. The sprawling, 4-bedroom beachfront home is currently on sale for $10 million and rents for $3,600/night. It comes with an SUV, an ATV, 2 jet skis and a personal chef. There are also two chill spots next to the pool ... one with that huge daybed, and another with a sunken kitchen near a giant Buddha fountain. As for that 50 ft. infinity pool, seems like it'd be really hard to get out of ... and Ludacris looks like he agrees. If Ludacris had run out of places to lay his head inside his Bahamas vacation house, he had no need to worry, because there was a 400-square-foot elevated daybed outside waiting for him by the pool. Luda just crashed at the Ananda Estate on the island of Eleuthera. Sources tell us he was there for at least a couple of nights. The sprawling, 4-bedroom beachfront home is currently on sale for $10 million and rents for $3,600/night. It comes with an SUV, an ATV, 2 jet skis and a personal chef. There are also two chill spots next to the pool ... one with that huge daybed, and another with a sunken kitchen near a giant Buddha fountain. As for that 50 ft. infinity pool, seems like it'd be really hard to get out of ... and Ludacris looks like he agrees. (TMZ)
Justin Bieber wasn't traveling light when he took off for the Bahamas to pop the question to Hailey Baldwin ... he had a huge and pricey rock on him! We spoke with Jack Solow -- the owner of Solow & Co. -- about the backstory of Hailey's engagement ring. He tells us he originally met JB through his manager Scooter Braun, a close family friend of his, and Bieber reached out to him a few weeks ago about buying a ring. We're told he decided on a large, elongated oval-shaped diamond between 6 to 10 carats ... and Jack met Justin at his hotel in NYC to deliver it right before Bieber and Hailey left for the Bahamas. Solow wouldn't spill the beans on the final price tag, but sources tell us it was around half a mil. TMZ broke the story ... Justin proposed to Hailey Saturday night at their resort in front of the other guests, weeks after getting the blessing from her father. She said yes. (TMZ)
Carl Lentz -- the pastor at the Hillsong church who was inseparable from Justin Bieber -- appeared to have trouble congratulating Justin on his engagement, and we're told it's because the 2 have had a major falling out. Lentz was in Sydney, Australia Friday when the photog asked about Bieber, and it's pretty clear Lentz was uncomfortable. Sources connected to Bieber tell TMZ ... Justin became angry at Lentz a while ago and broke ties with the pastor. Justin and his fiancee, Hailey Baldwin, have both been active members of Hillsong and continue to patronize the church but, at least as far as Justin is concerned ... Carl is history. We contacted Lentz, who told us he will not comment on his personal relationship with Bieber. (TMZ)
Kris Jenner couldn't afford a tomato after Robert Kardashian divorce. Believe it or not, Kris Jenner once had to count her pennies before making even the smallest of purchases. The Kardashian family matriarch says in a new interview that when her late ex-husband, Robert Kardashian Sr., filed for divorce after her affair, he cut off her credit cards. "I didn't have anything," she shares on "OBJECTified," which aired Sunday. "I went to the market one day and my credit card didn't work. I had a market credit card and I'm like, 'I can't even buy a tomato.'" Jenner called her affair with a professional soccer player one of the "biggest regrets" of her life because of how it affected her and her kids, Kourtney, 39, Kim, 37, Khloe, 34, and Rob, 31. Kardashian filing for divorce left her devastated. "Because it made it real," she says. "Like, you think you're going to come through this period -- that was really hard for me." Although Jenner says she had the "happiest life you could've dreamt about," she felt something was missing, which is why she had the affair. "But when you're in something, sometimes people think the grass is always greener and that was like what I think I went through at some point." Jenner and Kardashian, who died of esophageal cancer in 2003 at the age of 59, were married from 1978 to 1991. (PageSix)
The estranged husband of "Long Island Medium" star Theresa Caputo apparently has a thing for platinum blondes ... because he's got another one by his side. Larry Caputo was spotted shopping with a mystery woman at the Bargain Hunt in Decatur, Alabama Saturday ... picking up some essentials and checking out their furniture selection. Sources at the store tell us Larry and the woman looked very much like a couple -- she often had her hand on his back and shoulder ... and he held the door open for her. We spoke with Larry last month, who told us he and Theresa have been living on separate coasts for months and were in the middle of divorce proceedings. He also said he'd moved on and found someone else ... so there's a good chance this is her. Theresa and Larry announced their split in December after 28 years of marriage, but were holding out hope for a reconciliation. Looks like that's officially no longer the case. (PageSix)
Former Kardashian nanny reveals Kris Jenner was a 'perfectionist'. As expected, working for Kris Jenner isn't easy. The famous momager's former nanny, Pam Behan, revealed on an upcoming Kim Kardashian-focused episode of "Scandal Made Me Famous" that working for the Kardashian family in the early '90s was stressful. "I liked Kris and I respected her for many reasons," Behan shared in a preview clip published by People. "She was not easy to work for because she was a perfectionist and she expected perfection." Behan's job including taking care of kids Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob. She was also required to shuttle the kids to school and to their various activities. "On a daily basis, when she has a very long list and you're fighting L.A. traffic and taking kids to their events, and maybe possibly not everything on the list gets done," Behan explained. "There were a few moments where I got an earful." That "earful" would sometimes come with hurtful comments. "At first, I used to be just crushed when she would speak to me like that," Behan said. "But she vents, she speaks what's on her mind. She wasn't easy to work for, but I did enjoy my job." Behan worked for the family for five years. (PageSix)
Pacman Jones isn't feelin' Colin Kaepernick -- telling TMZ Sports he does NOT support the players who took a knee during the national anthem ... and wants them to find a different way to protest. Here's the deal ... we shot this clip-on Tuesday at LAX just a few hours before Pacman was attacked at the airport in Atlanta. The fight story kinda knocked this clip off our radar for a while (obviously), but it's still pretty good. "I'm all for standing for the anthem," Pacman told us ... "I have a couple of family members that have been over to Iraq." Pacman also explained that, to him ... social issues "don't have nothing to do with the national anthem" and players who want to make a change should "figure out another way." (TMZ)
Donald Trump Jr. laid one on his gf, Kimberly Guilfoyle, while vacationing in the South of France ... the first time they've put on any PDA in public. Jr. and gf K.G. relaxed at Nikki Beach in St. Tropez Friday ... where it looks like he mostly went unnoticed under his straw hat and sunglasses. Can't blame the dude for wanting to keep a low profile overseas with all the protests in England over his dad's visit. The couple snuggled up on a couch by the pool and Don also took a hit of a hookah, which we're guessing was filled with tobacco ... then again, who knows? The FOX News host and Prez's son have been dating for a while now. His wife, Vanessa, filed for divorce in March but says she has no issues over her estranged hubby's new romance. (TMZ)
Stormy Daniels didn't file for divorce, as far as we can tell ... which makes it all the more intriguing as to why she told Columbus, Ohio vice cops who arrested her she was no longer married. We got a copy of the arrest report when Stormy was wrongly busted for motorboating an undercover cop at Sirens strip club in Columbus. Check out question 14 in the biographical info section. Married? The answer -- No. Stormy married Glendon Miller Crain in January, 2015 ... this according to the marriage certificate obtained by TMZ. There is no official record that Stormy or Glendon tried to end their marriage ... which makes her answer on the arrest report all the more puzzling. Stormy's lawyer, Michael Avenatti, tells TMZ his client is indeed married ... but he said he was unaware the arrest report suggests otherwise. \We'll keep ya posted. (TMZ)
Bruce Willis grinned and beared it during Saturday night's roast, but he was unprepared for the surprise guest of the evening -- his ex-wife Demi Moore. Bruce is the latest victim to be skewered by Comedy Central and Demi did not disappoint. One of her best lines ... "I look at our marriage like "The Sixth Sense" ... You were dead the whole time." Bruce and Demi were married from 1987 - 2000. They had 3 kids -- Rumer, Tallulah and Scout, and all of them were cackling in the audience. Cybill Shepard, who co-starred with Bruce in his breakout role -- "Moonlighting" -- also took her shots. The show is set to air July 29th on Comedy Central. (TMZ)
Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton Step Out for Their First Ever Solo Outing Together at Wimbledon. Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton take Wimbledon! For the first time, the royal sisters-in-law had a solo outing together as they teamed up to attend the Ladies' Single Final at the Wimbledon Championships on Saturday. The royal duo have appeared together at official royal outings along with their husbands, Prince Harry and Prince William, but Saturday's event marks their first ever joint appearance. The royals coordinated their outfits for the event. The Duchess of Sussex wore a summery blue-and-white striped shirt from Ralph Lauren with wide-leg cream pants, while Princess Kate opted for a white-patterned dress. Before the match, Meghan and Kate met with former female tennis champions and chatted with ball girls and boys to learn more about what it's like to participate in the iconic tournament. Then they took their seats in the royal box to cheer on the players, Angelique Kerber and Serena Williams, (a close friend of Meghan's. The Duchess of Sussex recently returned from her two-day tour in Dublin, Ireland, with Prince Harry -- their first overseas tour as a married couple. Meghan and Kate laughed and chatted as they sat next to each other. Just two weeks ago, the new mom joined Meghan to watch Harry compete in a polo match in Ascot, England. She was joined by husband Alexis Ohanian, who also accompanied her to Meghan and Harry's royal wedding in May. Meghan first met the tennis pro at the 2010 Super Bowl in Miami where they immediately hit it off. Williams opened up about their friending in Vanity Fair, saying: "Her personality just shines." Meghan has been a fixture at Wimbledon in recent years, but this year's event marks her first time attending as the Duchess of Sussex. She attended the tournament in 2016, around the same time she was set up on a blind date with future husband Prince Harry. Her royal sister-in-law, Kate Middleton, is also a veteran Wimbledon attendee. The avid player (she and Prince William have a court at home at Anmer Hall) regularly attends matches with William and sister Pippa Middleton. For Kate, watching Wimbledon was a family tradition growing up. "It is such a quintessential part of English summer," she said of the tournament last year. "I was really taken by Agassi and Sampras, Ivanisevic and Steffi Graf. That for me was my first memories." Now, both Kate and Meghan no longer have to wait in line for tickets, as they have a permanent spot in the royal box! (People)
Jane Fonda lobbies for working class women's rights. In one part of the Capitol on Thursday, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was meeting with more senators as he faces a contentious confirmation hearing. In another, the House was holding a circus-like hearing with FBI agent Peter Strzok. In a basement meeting room of the Capitol Visitor Center, there also was a lot of media interest: Jane Fonda, the star of Netflix's "Grace and Frankie" and the longtime political activist, was pressing lawmakers to expand protections for women domestic workers and farmworkers. One of her messages: The MeToo and Times Up movement is an opportunity for Hollywood to call attention to women in other industries who face pay inequity and sexual harassment. "We are here with the domestic workers and the women farmworkers and, as has been said, these women, often women of color, often migrants, immigrants, are very, very vulnerable and they work in a very isolated way and their voices are not heard," she said at a press conference. "Hollywood realized that we have the privilege of being able to stand alongside these most vulnerable women who don't have privilege and whose voices are not heard and lend our support to that. We are like repeaters, those towers at the top of mountains that can pick up signals in the valley and spread them out wider." Fonda was joined by other activists, including Ai-jen Poo of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Monica Ramirez of the National Farmworker Women's Alliance and Fatima Goss Graves of the National Women's Law Center, as they met with lawmakers including Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.). While the meetings on Capitol Hill were described as strategy sessions, the groups are pushing to expand Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to cover more categories of the labor force. Ramirez said that their goals should draw in all political background, as "sexual harassment ... is not a partisan issue." Fonda said that as she made the rounds on the hill, "It occurred to me that my father, Henry Fonda, who was an actor, is very present with me." He starred in the classic "The Grapes of Wrath," which showed the plight of a Depression-era family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl as they migrated to California. She noted that the movie showed how the farm workers were "fighting for dignity and rights and risking their lives doing so. Now we have women farm workers who are even more vulnerable. So the issue of workers rights has been with me for a long time." In the 1970s, Fonda said she worked in the antiwar movement with Karen Nussbaum, co-founder of 9to5, which addressed problems faced by women office workers. "She would tell me these stories of what these women were having to endure, and I said, 'I've got to make a movie about this, and that became '9 to 5.'" It was clear, though, that she sees the #MeToo and Times Up movements, triggered by the Harvey Weinstein scandal, as turning points. "I never thought I would live to see a day when women were actually heard," she said. "I am very aware of the fact that in the beginning, this happened the way it did because the women who were speaking out were white, and they were famous," she said. Soon after, though, the National Farmworker Women's Alliance reached out to celebrities in Hollywood with the message, "We stand with you," Fonda said. Fonda said that "made us all realize that this notion that has become so important of intersectionality was now being fleshed out, that this was a new reality for many of us, and that it was going to be forever." "I think that there is a beautiful synergy that is happening now with celebrities in Hollywood being able to learn about the realities of working women who are far more vulnerable than we are, and this is going to be ongoing," she said. "This isn't something that is going to peter out. This is not a moment, it is a movement." Kavanaugh's nomination has triggered alarms among a number of progressive and civil rights groups that existing worker protections may be in jeopardy, as well as fears that his confirmation would lead to the overturning of Roe vs. Wade. At the press conference, Fonda at first was reluctant about weighing in on his nomination, worried that it would distract from the event. But pressed on the point, she said that if he is confirmed it would be a "catastrophe, frankly, if this nomination goes through, for everyone, for our children and unfortunately our grandchildren. But women's rights, worker's rights, will be shunted to the side, and that is just the beginning." Fonda continues to be a focus of some Republicans' attack ads, and President Trump and others are already targeting Hollywood in general as the out-of-touch liberal elite. She doesn't think industry activists should let it keep them from getting involved. "If we are being attacked it is because we are being effective," she said. "We are able to amplify the voices of the people that really need to be heard. That is really how we have to use our celebrity, is to raise the voices of all workers, and we can't be cowed by the attacks from the right." She added, "We have to understand that it is because we are doing our jobs as citizens, and I am very proud of what we are doing. It is important for us to know what we are doing, to listen very carefully so we will know what it is people are talking about, so we can be informed. But I say go -- go for it." (PageSix)
Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker is simply 'brilliant' on the cover of EW's Comic-Con preview issue. "Aw, brilliant!" As monologues go, that expression of joy, uttered by Jodie Whittaker in last year's special Christmas episode of Doctor Who, may not rank up there with the best of Shakespeare. Nonetheless, it was an exultation of huge cultural significance -- and one that sprang directly from the preferred vocabulary of the actress herself. "My two go-to words are 'Brilliant!' and 'Ace!'" says Whittaker, 36, while chatting with EW at a studio in the show's home city of Cardiff, Wales, this past May. "I'll try to get the Doctor an 'Ace!' in there somewhere." The "Doctor" in question is, of course, the titular character of Doctor Who. A two-hearted alien from the planet Gallifrey, this time-traveling, monster-battling hero has been played by a succession of actors in the show's 55-year history, thanks to the Doctor's ability to "regenerate" his physical form. Up until last December, the "Time Lord" was always depicted as male. But at the end of the Christmas episode, Peter Capaldi's so-called Twelfth Doctor regenerated into Whittaker's Thirteenth. It was that switch in sex that prompted the character's delighted "Aw, brilliant!" after he -- or rather, she -- saw herself reflected in a computer screen on the bridge of the Doctor's time-and-spacecraft, the TARDIS. The choice of Whittaker to play the lead role on Doctor Who represents a massive gamble on the part of new showrunner Chris Chibnall -- who'd previously cast Whittaker as a grieving mother on his cop drama Broadchurch -- and the BBC, which successfully revived the sci-fi series in 2005 following a lengthy hiatus. More than 18 million Doctor Who DVDs have shipped, 12 million action figures have been sold in the 13 years since its relaunch, and in 2013 a 50th-anniversary episode was screened in 94 countries. In the U.S., the show has become the flagship series for BBC America, which will premiere the new season this fall, simulcasting the first episode so it screens at the same time as in the U.K. There is a lot riding on Whittaker's ability to make audiences around the world fall in love with a female Doctor, as the actress is well aware. "There's no rules, and it's liberating," she says. "But it's equally terrifying." EW spent two days on the set of Doctor Who for this week's cover story, hanging out with Whittaker and the trio of actors who are playing the Doctor's new companions: Bradley Walsh, Mandip Gill, and Tosin Cole. Your writer also spoke with Chibnall who explained why he had made the decision to make the Thirteenth Doctor female once Whittaker's predecessor, Peter Capaldi, decided to leave the series. "I just felt the time was right," said Chibnall. "I think if the show hadn't done it, we would have been behind the world, and Doctor Who has got to be out front leading the world and being a great example of all the amazing things that are in the world. So, it wasn't even a question in my mind." But, much like the Doctor's bigger-on-the-inside timeship the TARDIS, there is so much more to see in this week's Comic-Con preview issue of EW. Like what? Like exclusive images from films and TV shows, including Shazam!, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Halloween, The Walking Dead, Star Trek: Discovery, and the new, small-screen version of The Purge franchise. You'll also find one of our signature "Three Rounds" articles with the cast of The Magicians; a deep dive into M. Night Shyamalan's new film Glass; an oral history of the Wesley Snipes-starring superhero-vampire movie Blade; and profiles of It and Castle Rock star Bill Skarsgrd and graphic novelist-turned-She Ra and the Princesses of Power exec producer Noelle Stevenson. (Entertainment Weekly)
Melania Trump Channels Princess Belle for State Dinner in England. First Lady Melania Trump evoked the essence of Princess Belle when she ascended the steps of the Blenheim Palace in England on Thursday. While attending a state dinner, the First Lady dressed to impress, with the Queen being chief in mind. The First Lady's stylist Herve Pierre told the L.A. Times they chose the pale yellow hue for the custom J. Mendel gown after learning it's Queen Elizabeth II's favorite color. Similar to other styles modeled by FLOTUS, the chiffon dress included a cape detail and elegantly flowed to the ground. By her side was President Donald Trump, who was wearing a tuxedo for the black-tie event, which was also attended by Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband Philip May. Friday the President and First Lady were scheduled to meet Her Royal Highness for tea at Windsor Castle. This isn't the first time FLOTUS has turned heads with her fashion choices. The former model has mastered the art of balancing her penchant for glamour, with the conservative style expected of the First Lady. (Eonline)
Nobody Is More Excited for Sandra Oh's Emmy Nomination Than Ellen Pompeo. To say Ellen Pompeo is happy for Sandra Oh may be an understatement. The Grey's Anatomy star took to Twitter to celebrate Oh's historic Emmy nomination (a day late, but it was sure worth the wait). Oh, who was nominated for five Emmys for her work on Grey's Anatomy, picked up an Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series nomination for her performance in BBC America's Killing Eve. Oh is the first Asian American to ever be nominated in that category. "I was not on my phone yesterday and clearly missed ALOT!!! Congratulations @IamSandraOh this is beyond well-deserved and your history making is incredibly moving. Can't wait to hear your speech!! Which will have us in tears and laughing at the same time no I'm sure," Pomepo tweeted, punctuating the message with an emoji making a kissing face. Pompeo also retweeted her Grey's person's tweet reacting to the news and said nobody deserves the recognition more than Oh. "No one can touch this girl's dedication to story-telling or her talent," Pompeo tweeted. Pompeo and Oh played best friends and coworkers on Grey's Anatomy for 10 seasons. "I feel tremendous gratitude and joy with this nomination. I am thrilled for Phoebe Waller Bridge's nomination and for the entire cast/crew of Killing Eve. I share this moment with my community," Oh said in a statement. "PS. I think my mother at this moment may actually be satisfied." Oh will return for Killing Eve season two. The Emmys will air live Monday, Sept. 18 at 8 p.m. on NBC. (Eonline)
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West paid a little extra attention to North on Friday ... but Saint made it clear he was not to be forgotten. The proud parents went to their 5-year-old daughter's fashion show at a design camp she's been attending with a friend, where the kids get to design their own dresses and clothing. We're told Friday was the big show for the kids to reveal their designs to their moms and dads. As you can see ... North's is stylin'! Our sources say Kourtney also came to the show with her kids Mason and Penelope ... we're told Kim and Kanye took the whole crew out to eat at Carasoul after to celebrate. It's unclear what caused Saint's display of emotion as the family was leaving the show ... but we're going to guess it must have been the beauty of his big sister's design. Yeah, that has to be it. (TMZ)
If Ludacris had run out of places to lay his head inside his Bahamas vacation house, he had no need to worry, because there was a 400-square-foot elevated daybed outside waiting for him by the pool. Luda just crashed at the Ananda Estate on the island of Eleuthera. Sources tell us he was there for at least a couple of nights. The sprawling, 4-bedroom beachfront home is currently on sale for $10 million and rents for $3,600/night. It comes with an SUV, an ATV, 2 jet skis and a personal chef. There are also two chill spots next to the pool ... one with that huge daybed, and another with a sunken kitchen near a giant Buddha fountain. As for that 50 ft. infinity pool, seems like it'd be really hard to get out of ... and Ludacris looks like he agrees. If Ludacris had run out of places to lay his head inside his Bahamas vacation house, he had no need to worry, because there was a 400-square-foot elevated daybed outside waiting for him by the pool. Luda just crashed at the Ananda Estate on the island of Eleuthera. Sources tell us he was there for at least a couple of nights. The sprawling, 4-bedroom beachfront home is currently on sale for $10 million and rents for $3,600/night. It comes with an SUV, an ATV, 2 jet skis and a personal chef. There are also two chill spots next to the pool ... one with that huge daybed, and another with a sunken kitchen near a giant Buddha fountain. As for that 50 ft. infinity pool, seems like it'd be really hard to get out of ... and Ludacris looks like he agrees. (TMZ)
Justin Bieber wasn't traveling light when he took off for the Bahamas to pop the question to Hailey Baldwin ... he had a huge and pricey rock on him! We spoke with Jack Solow -- the owner of Solow & Co. -- about the backstory of Hailey's engagement ring. He tells us he originally met JB through his manager Scooter Braun, a close family friend of his, and Bieber reached out to him a few weeks ago about buying a ring. We're told he decided on a large, elongated oval-shaped diamond between 6 to 10 carats ... and Jack met Justin at his hotel in NYC to deliver it right before Bieber and Hailey left for the Bahamas. Solow wouldn't spill the beans on the final price tag, but sources tell us it was around half a mil. TMZ broke the story ... Justin proposed to Hailey Saturday night at their resort in front of the other guests, weeks after getting the blessing from her father. She said yes. (TMZ)
Carl Lentz -- the pastor at the Hillsong church who was inseparable from Justin Bieber -- appeared to have trouble congratulating Justin on his engagement, and we're told it's because the 2 have had a major falling out. Lentz was in Sydney, Australia Friday when the photog asked about Bieber, and it's pretty clear Lentz was uncomfortable. Sources connected to Bieber tell TMZ ... Justin became angry at Lentz a while ago and broke ties with the pastor. Justin and his fiancee, Hailey Baldwin, have both been active members of Hillsong and continue to patronize the church but, at least as far as Justin is concerned ... Carl is history. We contacted Lentz, who told us he will not comment on his personal relationship with Bieber. (TMZ)
Kris Jenner couldn't afford a tomato after Robert Kardashian divorce. Believe it or not, Kris Jenner once had to count her pennies before making even the smallest of purchases. The Kardashian family matriarch says in a new interview that when her late ex-husband, Robert Kardashian Sr., filed for divorce after her affair, he cut off her credit cards. "I didn't have anything," she shares on "OBJECTified," which aired Sunday. "I went to the market one day and my credit card didn't work. I had a market credit card and I'm like, 'I can't even buy a tomato.'" Jenner called her affair with a professional soccer player one of the "biggest regrets" of her life because of how it affected her and her kids, Kourtney, 39, Kim, 37, Khloe, 34, and Rob, 31. Kardashian filing for divorce left her devastated. "Because it made it real," she says. "Like, you think you're going to come through this period -- that was really hard for me." Although Jenner says she had the "happiest life you could've dreamt about," she felt something was missing, which is why she had the affair. "But when you're in something, sometimes people think the grass is always greener and that was like what I think I went through at some point." Jenner and Kardashian, who died of esophageal cancer in 2003 at the age of 59, were married from 1978 to 1991. (PageSix)
The estranged husband of "Long Island Medium" star Theresa Caputo apparently has a thing for platinum blondes ... because he's got another one by his side. Larry Caputo was spotted shopping with a mystery woman at the Bargain Hunt in Decatur, Alabama Saturday ... picking up some essentials and checking out their furniture selection. Sources at the store tell us Larry and the woman looked very much like a couple -- she often had her hand on his back and shoulder ... and he held the door open for her. We spoke with Larry last month, who told us he and Theresa have been living on separate coasts for months and were in the middle of divorce proceedings. He also said he'd moved on and found someone else ... so there's a good chance this is her. Theresa and Larry announced their split in December after 28 years of marriage, but were holding out hope for a reconciliation. Looks like that's officially no longer the case. (PageSix)
Former Kardashian nanny reveals Kris Jenner was a 'perfectionist'. As expected, working for Kris Jenner isn't easy. The famous momager's former nanny, Pam Behan, revealed on an upcoming Kim Kardashian-focused episode of "Scandal Made Me Famous" that working for the Kardashian family in the early '90s was stressful. "I liked Kris and I respected her for many reasons," Behan shared in a preview clip published by People. "She was not easy to work for because she was a perfectionist and she expected perfection." Behan's job including taking care of kids Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob. She was also required to shuttle the kids to school and to their various activities. "On a daily basis, when she has a very long list and you're fighting L.A. traffic and taking kids to their events, and maybe possibly not everything on the list gets done," Behan explained. "There were a few moments where I got an earful." That "earful" would sometimes come with hurtful comments. "At first, I used to be just crushed when she would speak to me like that," Behan said. "But she vents, she speaks what's on her mind. She wasn't easy to work for, but I did enjoy my job." Behan worked for the family for five years. (PageSix)
Pacman Jones isn't feelin' Colin Kaepernick -- telling TMZ Sports he does NOT support the players who took a knee during the national anthem ... and wants them to find a different way to protest. Here's the deal ... we shot this clip-on Tuesday at LAX just a few hours before Pacman was attacked at the airport in Atlanta. The fight story kinda knocked this clip off our radar for a while (obviously), but it's still pretty good. "I'm all for standing for the anthem," Pacman told us ... "I have a couple of family members that have been over to Iraq." Pacman also explained that, to him ... social issues "don't have nothing to do with the national anthem" and players who want to make a change should "figure out another way." (TMZ)
Donald Trump Jr. laid one on his gf, Kimberly Guilfoyle, while vacationing in the South of France ... the first time they've put on any PDA in public. Jr. and gf K.G. relaxed at Nikki Beach in St. Tropez Friday ... where it looks like he mostly went unnoticed under his straw hat and sunglasses. Can't blame the dude for wanting to keep a low profile overseas with all the protests in England over his dad's visit. The couple snuggled up on a couch by the pool and Don also took a hit of a hookah, which we're guessing was filled with tobacco ... then again, who knows? The FOX News host and Prez's son have been dating for a while now. His wife, Vanessa, filed for divorce in March but says she has no issues over her estranged hubby's new romance. (TMZ)
Stormy Daniels didn't file for divorce, as far as we can tell ... which makes it all the more intriguing as to why she told Columbus, Ohio vice cops who arrested her she was no longer married. We got a copy of the arrest report when Stormy was wrongly busted for motorboating an undercover cop at Sirens strip club in Columbus. Check out question 14 in the biographical info section. Married? The answer -- No. Stormy married Glendon Miller Crain in January, 2015 ... this according to the marriage certificate obtained by TMZ. There is no official record that Stormy or Glendon tried to end their marriage ... which makes her answer on the arrest report all the more puzzling. Stormy's lawyer, Michael Avenatti, tells TMZ his client is indeed married ... but he said he was unaware the arrest report suggests otherwise. \We'll keep ya posted. (TMZ)
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