Friday, December 11, 2015

Gossip Girl Throwback Photo: Attention, Upper East Siders...

Michelle Trachtenberg has sent a simple, four-letter message to her 208,000 followers on Instagram. 


And it goes something like this…



XOXO!


The veteran actress threw it way back on social media yesterday, sharing a photograph of herself, Penn Badgley and Chace Crawford on the Gossip Girl set.


“#tbt One of my favorite pics behind the scenes of #gossipgirl with these two handsome gents. #trouble #georginasparks,” she captioned the picture. “#xoxo.”


As she mentions here, Trachtenberg recurred as Georgina Sparks for many seasons of the former CW smash.


It was never really clear whether Sparks was a friend or a foe to heroes such as Dan (Badgley) and Nate (Crawford), but she’s perpetually our pal for posting this image.


What can we say?


We’re Upper East Siders at heart.



Crawford, Trachtenberg, Jessica Szohr and Kelly Rutherford hung out at Elton John’s AIDS Foundation Oscars Party last year, snapping another memorable photo to document their mini reunion at the time.


“So happy to see these beautiful people (inside and out) last night. Chase, Michelle and Jessica #GG #PostOscars,” Rutherford wrote on Instagram as a caption.


Earlier this week, meanwhile, Blake Lively also went all awesome throwback on us.


She shared a picture of herself as a child with Jason Priestley and it may be the best thing we’ve ever seen in our entire lives.


SIGH. Can The CW just air a Gossip Girl reunion already or what?!?


Oh well. At least we can always watch Gossip Girl online via TV Fanatic. 


Lisa Rinna: STOP Questioning Yolanda Foster"s Lyme Disease!

Back in 2012, Yolanda Foster was diagnosed with Lyme disease. If you watch The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills online, you’ve seen Yolanda’s health deteriorate as she resorts to more drastic measures to treat her illness.


But apparently some of Foster’s co-stars have been too busy with their own problems to take notice of their “friend’s” suffering, because some of them have openly accused Yolanda of faking it



Kyle Richards, Lisa Vanderpump and Taylor Arnstrong have all questioned Yolanda’s health claims, despite the fact that the woman has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars traveling to Europe for stem cell treatments.


Now, one of Yolanda’s more sane co-stars, Lisa Rinna, is addressing the issue on her Bravo blog, and it seems she’s fed up with the rest of Housewives and their speculation.


“We saw Lisa talk to Kyle at lunch and openly admit she’s questioning what’s happening beyond the Lyme diagnosis,” Lisa writes.


“Then their second conversation about Yolanda in Tuscany where Lisa V said, ‘I’m thinking what she’s thinking is it’s not Lyme disease anymore’ and ‘so you think the mental state dictates the physical state’ in regard to Kyle’s story about her depression after her mother’s death showing itself as physical pain. A whole lot of speculation we’re seeing right now.”


While she doesn’t come right out and say, “Yolanda has Lyme disease; everybody STFU about it!” Lisa does describe the feeling of watching her friend suffer in heartbreaking detail:



It was quite clear that we were sitting with a woman desperate to feel well and determined to figure out the culprits to her illness while watching her descent into darkness.


My heart really went out to her in that moment as I couldn’t imagine, even for a second, having my own life do such a severe 180 due to illness.


Yolanda’s situation affected me in a way that made me want to understand what she was going through, and I really started listening to the conversations going on around me pertaining to Yolanda, Lyme disease, and her journey to wellness.


We think it’s safe to say Lisa is on Team Yolanda. We also think Bravo can cool it with the fake disease storylines now.

Miranda Kerr: Nude Magazine Cover Stirs Up Controversy

First, the good news: Miranda Kerr is naked again, this time on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar Australia.




Now the bad news: People on the Internet are super pissed about it.


Moments after the image was posted on the magazine’s Instagram page, hundreds of angry commenters expressed their displeasure.


The issue seems to boil down to two main complaints:


  1. Even Playboy doesn’t do nudes anymore, and many seem to feel that other periodicals should follow suit by showing less skin.

  2. Harper’s Bazaar is primarily a fashion magazine, and well, aside from stylish Louboutin shoes, Miranda’s not rocking a lot of fashion on the cover.

“This magazine was once considered a fashion bible,” wrote one irate IG user. “No wonder Playboy mag died out. Who needs porn mags when fashion mags are holding the torch?”


“How can they think as readers of a fashion magazine we want to look and read something akin to a men’s mag?” wrote another. “Very sad that this is what is on the cover. I thought this was a fashion magazine, not a version of Playboy.”


Of course, we doubt that Miranda or the folks at Harper’s are very concerned. 


You can’t sneeze without someone on the Internet taking issue with it these days, and this is one of those cases where we’re guessing the critics are just a very vocal minority.


Let’s all agree to save out outrage for the next time Miranda has sex with Justin Bieber, mmm-kay?

Jill & Jessa Duggar Compare Pregnancy Bodies in "Counting On" Clip

Jill & Jessa Duggar, both of whom welcomed kids in 2015, swap pregnancy notes in this new clip from TLC"s Jill & Jessa: Counting On.


Pregnancy notes, as well as bodies.


A scene from TLC"s three-part special shows Jill, who gave birth in April, comparing her (then-still-pregnant) sister Jessa"s size to her own.


When this was filmed, Jessa was nearing her due date for son Spurgeon, whom she and husband Ben Seewald welcomed November 5.


"You are not as big as I was, either," Jill, the mother to son Israel Dillard, says, noting that unlike Jessa, she was simpy "massive."


"Yes, I am," Jessa tells her sister.


"I just wear lots of dark colors."


Superlatives and word choice aside, "I always think I"m narrower than I am," she admits. "I always think, "Oh I can fit through there.""


#ThirdTrimesterProblems


The clip serves as a respite from previous teasers and the full Jill & Jessa: Counting On trailer, which is devoted largely to Josh Duggar.


Given their oldest brother"s life-ruining cheating and child molestation scandals, it"s no surprise that this is an issue they had to address.


Jill, in particular, was pissed that she defended Josh on Fox News, only to have an even worse scandal erupt just a short time later.


In any case, it"s good to see they"re also moving on to things they can feel good about, like welcoming the next generation of Duggars.


Check out how the two women stack up, in their minds, and don"t miss the 19 Kids & Counting spinoff when it premieres Sunday on TLC.


Jill and jessa counting on clip pregnancy body breakdown