Well, well, well: after a quick investigation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences found queen of grassroots campaigning Andrea Riseborough innocent of all non-essential charges in the 2023 Oscar race. Variety reported that while the AMPAS still have concerns about the use of social media, that’ll be taken up with the guilty parties. “The Academy has determined the activity in question does not rise to the level that the film’s nomination should be rescinded. However, we did discover social media and outreach campaigning tactics that caused concern,” said Academy CEO Bill Kramer ..read more

The ballad of Rep. George Santos gets funnier every day. A recent Rolling Stone article claims to have found the congressman’s account on Smule, a horribly named karaoke app, where he — or someone who looks and sounds like him — allegedly performed under the name George Devolder (Santos’s mother’s last name). Miraculously, the account has not been deleted, so act quickly and you can still hear maybe-Santos’s stirring renditions of songs like “Hallelujah” (the Rufus Wainwright version), “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” and the cups song from Pitch Perfect. That Santos would appear to love doing k ..read more

HelloOoOoOo nurse, and a very hearty awooga to the missus: Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, was the recipient of a lecherous wolf-whistle while on an official visit to a market in Leeds. Aw, c’mon sweetie! It’s a compliment! Beautiful woman like you got a boyfriend? If the late Queen of England were ever to be catcalled like this, she probably would’ve lobbed a swift “sod off!” back at the aggressor. Kate, stoic as ever, ignored it. According to the Daily Mail, “Kate appeared to hear the distinctive two-note greeting as she waved and smiled to crowds who gathered at Leeds Kirkgate Marke ..read more

As if there isn’t enough to worry about, monkeys are disappearing. On Monday, a Broussard, Louisiana-based zoo called Zoosiana announced on Facebook that, over the weekend, an individual had broken into the wildlife enclosure and pulled off a primate-related heist. The perp breached the perimeter around midnight on Saturday, the post alleged, targeting the “facilities of smaller primates and specifically compromised the Squirrel Monkey exhibit,” absconding with some dozen members of the Saimiri genus. “The individual was unfortunately successful in stealing 12 squirrel monkeys,” Zoosiana wrot ..read more

For a creative partnership to last for 30 years is a true feat. It usually requires mutual respect, clear communication, and a genuine appreciation for each other’s work. It could also be some kind of blackmail situation, which might be what’s happening with Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis. The actor and director have made four movies together, one of which is genuinely great, two of which are piss poor, and one of which is Forrest Gump. The duo are reteaming once again for Here, an adaptation of a graphic novel that takes place entirely in the corner of a room, spanning the course of decades ..read more

Real Housewives of Potomac’s resident hat businesswoman Robyn Dixon has taken to “Unreasonably Shady,” the podcast she hosts with fellow cast member Gizelle Bryant, to confirm the rumor that her husband Juan Dixon had a pandemic-era affair. (And that you can hear all the details if you join their Patreon for $5 a month.) Robyn, the sleepy and perennially tardy fan favorite (I’m the fan), spent RHOP’s last two episodes denying a rumor that her ex- and newly current-husband Juan Dixon cheated on her before the show began filming its seventh season. The rumor, brought to light by fellow cast mem ..read more

Jinger Duggar Vuolo, whose name is pronounced “Ginger” but spelled like that to conform to her family’s strict J-names protocol, has written a book about how she’s finally free from the holy constraints of her family and their church, the Institute of Basic Life principles. It’s called Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear . Jinger’s wanderlust and apparent love for cities rather than the rural Arkansas landscape that raised her led fans to create a “Free Jinger” movement in 2019, paralleling “Free Britney,” according to Page Six. And now she’s done it. Jinger’s got ..read more

Since Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner finalized their divorce in 2018, Garner has allegedly been dating the CEO of a robotic burger chain who goes by the name of “John Miller.” Mr. Miller rarely appears in photos and seems to mostly exist in the imaginations of Us Weekly’s reporters. But this week, he emerged in daylight and was seen by someone other than Garner. That someone was Affleck. Today, Page Six published a record NINE photos of Miller greeting Affleck outside Garner’s home. The pics were allegedly taken yesterday, and they are some of the clearest images we have ever seen of the eni ..read more

The outlook for media companies is grim these days. Layoffs abound. There are now chatbots that can approximate low-level aggregated news, lifestyle quizzes, or Saddam Hussein’s NFL predictions. And there’s the slow degradation of the only social media platform where journalists have sway. Bad times can push anyone to desperate measures, so it’s no surprise many major outlets are embracing TikTok. The Washington Post was an early adopter of the platform and it’s worked out fairly well for them; the paper’s official account has some 1.5 million followers, or a little more than half the number ..read more

Like any burgeoning fashionista, I find myself staring wistfully out the window in the winter months, dreaming of the kind of person I will dress as when the weather goes back above 60 degrees, whether that’s in two months or just next week (given the current state of things). For a long time, I opted for the small — but not necessarily tight — shirt, a safe choice for a person of compact stature with short legs and a shorter torso and arms whose length invited the opinion that I would be “incapable” of playing the trombone as a child. It did its job: It fit my body to its shape, announcing l ..read more