Friday, July 15, 2016

Chris Hemsworth: Tom Hiddleston Looks Happy, I Guess!

Good on ya, Loki.



Chris Hemsworth didn’t have a lot to say about Thor co-star Tom Hiddleston’s relationship with Taylor Swift, but he sure is glad for him.


“I’ve seen Tom around and he looks happy, mate. Yeah!” Hemsworth told Australian radio show Nova 96.9.


The radio co-hosts asked if Swift had visit the set of Thor: Ragnarok yet.


“I haven’t met her personally but she’s obviously hugely talented and…as I’ve said I haven’t met her.  I think they [Swift and Hiddleston] only got here three or four days ago.”


Happy that their obligatory Hiddleswift question was out of the way, the co-hosts wanted to know if Hemsworth was going to get an autograph from Swift for his 4-year-old daughter, India.


“Nah,” Hemsworth said.  “I’ll ask her just to sing a song.  Hand her a guitar, in between set-ups with the cameras  tell her, ‘off ya go."”



Seems like a reasonable request.


Yesterday in New York, Victoria’s Secret Angel Martha Hunt told People Magazine that she’s thrilled for her friend.


“I love that they’re both happy and free together,” she said.  “It’s amazing, I’m all about people being happy in love.”


Hunt also confirmed that she and the rest of Swift’s friends gave Hiddleston the seal of approval over July 4th weekend.  The Brit joined a gaggle of girls – including Ruby Rose, Karlie Kloss, Gigi Hadid and Blake Lively – at Swift’s Rhode Island home.


Hiddleston, according to Hunt, got along “wonderfully” with the other guests, adding that he is “very charming.”



It’s the accent.  It gets you every time.


Yesterday, Hiddleston was forced to give a quote to The Hollywood Reporter on the nature of his relationship with Swift, since many saw it as a PR move to benefit both parties’ careers.


“The truth is that Taylor Swift and I are together, and we’re very happy,” Hiddleston confirmed.


“Thanks for asking. That’s the truth. It’s not a publicity stunt.”


Donald Trump and Ted Cruz Make Out on RNC-Central Billboard

Donald Trump just selected Mike Pence to be his Vice President.


But it’s the interactions between this insane candidate for the Oval Office and another Republican that have folks talking today.



That’s because there’s a billboard up in Ohio of Trump making out with Ted Cruz.


We’re talking a near full-on game of tonsil hockey taking place between the former GOP rivals, although we’re also talking about an artist’s depiction of Trump and Cruz.


See, the billboard was put up by Planting Peace, a nonprofit organization behind The Equality House, which is a rainbow-colored resident that sits across the street from Westboro Baptist Church.


The best part?


The billboard is located in Cleveland, just five miles from the site of next week’s Republican National Convention.


“Love trumps Hate. End homophobia,” reads the large caption alongside the image of Trump and Cruz.



Aaron Jackson, President of Planting Peace, tells The Huffington Post that the large sign is a response to the Republican party’s messages of intolerance toward the LGBT community.


“What Donald, Ted and the Republican party either fail to realize, or realize and just don’t seem to care about, is that their words and actions toward our LGBT family – especially LGBT children – have meaning and impact,” Jackson says.


“LGBT children hear these messages telling them they are nothing but second class citizens and are left feeling broken or ‘less than.’”


It’s not really debatable that proposed GOP platform – which will be up for ratification by delegates at next week’s convention – is one of the most anti-gay platforms in political history.


According to CNN, it “opposes same-sex marriage rights, supports efforts to restrict bathrooms to individuals’ birth gender and protects businesses who refuse services to individuals based on religious objections to gay marriage.”


“When children are dying because of negative messages, then it’s time to change the message,” Jackson says, adding:


“Planting Peace calls for the immediate change in the Republican party platform with regard to our LGBT family and LGBT rights. Never again shall a negative, hateful message be uttered in the name of ‘religious freedom.’


“We are calling for action that brings full, fundamental rights to the LGBT community, and a narrative that empowers LGBT people to live and love freely.”


Florida Man Fights For Right to Keep 47-Year-Old Pet Gator

Over the years, we’ve brought you many stories about the quirky men and women who help make Florida Florida.


But all of those drunk doctors and burrito brawlers may have just been out Florida’ed by a 47-year-old male alligator named Gwendolyn.



You see, Gwendolyn isn’t your average run of the mill gator who subsists on a diet of small animals and Florida residents.


He’s a housebroken pet who apparently doesn’t get too hung-up about gender stuff.


For most of the past five decades, Gwendolyn has lived with retired firefighter David Van Buren, who informally adopted the massive reptile when he wandered into his home when Van Buren was just 9 years old.


“Once he was in the house, he didn’t want to leave,” Van Buren recently told Inside Edition.


“I think it took us like three weeks to get him to go back outside. He was on the couch all the time or in the bathtub.”


Gwen even joined Van Buren he went off to college.


It’s not hard to see what Gwendolyn gets out of the arrangement:


Van Buren says the gator eats a steady diet of pizza and snackfood, such as Chips Ahoy! cookies.


(Check out the clip above to see Gwen devour a few slices. You’ll instantly feel better about your own eating habits.)


Unfortunately, that diet has resulted in one gargantuan gator.


Gwendolyn has reached over 13 feet in length, a fact that recently led Florida Fish and Wildlife authorities to inform Van Buren that he’s too big to be kept as a pet.


Van Buren fought the court order to turn Gwendolyn over to the authorities and because sometimes things work out in this world (and this is Florida) it looks like he’ll win his case.


The Fish and Wildlife Department has reportedly agreed with Van Buren’s argument that the best outcome for Gwendolyn would be continuing to live in an enclosure in Van Buren’s backyard.


We don’t see how anyone who’s seen his diet could disagree.


Florida Man Fights For Right to Keep 47-Year-Old Pet Gator

Over the years, we’ve brought you many stories about the quirky men and women who help make Florida Florida.


But all of those drunk doctors and burrito brawlers may have just been out Florida’ed by a 47-year-old male alligator named Gwendolyn.



You see, Gwendolyn isn’t your average run of the mill gator who subsists on a diet of small animals and Florida residents.


He’s a housebroken pet who apparently doesn’t get too hung-up about gender stuff.


For most of the past five decades, Gwendolyn has lived with retired firefighter David Van Buren, who informally adopted the massive reptile when he wandered into his home when Van Buren was just 9 years old.


“Once he was in the house, he didn’t want to leave,” Van Buren recently told Inside Edition.


“I think it took us like three weeks to get him to go back outside. He was on the couch all the time or in the bathtub.”


Gwen even joined Van Buren he went off to college.


It’s not hard to see what Gwendolyn gets out of the arrangement:


Van Buren says the gator eats a steady diet of pizza and snackfood, such as Chips Ahoy! cookies.


(Check out the clip above to see Gwen devour a few slices. You’ll instantly feel better about your own eating habits.)


Unfortunately, that diet has resulted in one gargantuan gator.


Gwendolyn has reached over 13 feet in length, a fact that recently led Florida Fish and Wildlife authorities to inform Van Buren that he’s too big to be kept as a pet.


Van Buren fought the court order to turn Gwendolyn over to the authorities and because sometimes things work out in this world (and this is Florida) it looks like he’ll win his case.


The Fish and Wildlife Department has reportedly agreed with Van Buren’s argument that the best outcome for Gwendolyn would be continuing to live in an enclosure in Van Buren’s backyard.


We don’t see how anyone who’s seen his diet could disagree.