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Leonardo DiCaprio at the ‘One Battle After Another’ premiere: did he go to Turkey??

Here are photos from the London premiere of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. Leonardo DiCaprio stars alongside Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti. Chase plays Leo’s character’s daughter. Leo is singing Chase’s praises, and he also enjoyed working with Teyana. I’m interested in seeing what PTA and Leo have done together – Paul is only five years older than Leo? They’re basically the same generation, weird.

Anyway, I was first struck by how good Leo looks in these photos. He looks well-rested, fit, younger. His hair also looks fuller than it has in recent years? Is it the hair dye or something else? Did Leo go to Turkey???

Fashion notes: Chase Infiniti wore Iris Van Herpen, which is stunning on her. Teyana also went for a bold look in Oude Waag Fall 2025. I actually love the futuristic/Dune vibe of this, but I kind of wish she skipped the fabric piece around her face. It looks like that Skims “face shapewear” which garnered so much criticism several months ago. Maya Rudolph (PTA’s wife) wore a terribly unflattering Bode dress. Neelam Gill also turned up at the premiere – a few years ago, there were many rumors flying around that Leo and Neelam were dating. I think she’s with one of Leo’s close friends though, but that might have been a cover story.

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Kayla Nicole admits she’s still ‘impacted’ by all of the ‘chaos’ around Travis Kelce

Kayla Nicole dated Travis Kelce for five years, and they broke up around December 2022. There was no overlap between Travis’s relationship with Kayla and his relationship with Taylor. Travis wasn’t hung up on Kayla, nor was Kayla hung up on him. They moved on, and months later, Travis made a play for Taylor Swift and they’ve been together ever since. What’s the problem? Taylor’s fans can be crazy and ridiculous. Taylor’s fans have spent much of the past year harassing and insulting Kayla because Kayla has the audacity to… be Travis’s ex-girlfriend. Kayla addressed the issue last year, and she’s made some other references to the situation this year. She once again spoke about it on Angel Reese’s podcast:

Kayla Nicole is opening up about the “online chaos” she’s faced since her ex, Travis Kelce, began dating Taylor Swift. Speaking on the latest episode of Angel Reese’s Unapologetically Angel podcast, released Thursday, Oct. 10, the sports commentator, 32, addressed the negativity she has faced on social media ever since the pop superstar, 34, started dating Kelce.

“I would be lying if I said that that level of hate and just, like, online chaos didn’t impact me, it does. Even to this day,” Nicole said. “You can go to my most recent post and it will be people debating each other why I am worthless and I’ll never be a talented person and I have no career.”

Reese then asked Nicole why she thinks she has been subjected to so much negativity after handling the end of their five-year, on-off relationship with “grace.”

“I don’t know,” Nicole responded. “I think that there’s something about that level of fame that attracts crazy people, and it’s unfortunate because I’ve never done anything to warrant that kind of backlash.”

The sports analyst went on to share that she and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 35, have bumped into each other since their breakup and revealed how she addresses her ex. “I’ll hit him with a head nod,” she said. “That’s about it. We’ve seen each other in public spaces but I think that we’re both aware of the nature of his new situation that there’s just no room to communicate or acknowledge each other publicly without it being spun into something crazy. So we just keep it moving.”

Nicole also opened up about her friendship with the Kansas City Chiefs WAGs (wives and girlfriends) and revealed that her relationship with them has changed since she and Kelce split.

“We’re cool. We are not as cool as we were … before,” she said, adding that the player’s other halves were “like family” to her. “That’s hard,” noted Reese, to which Nicole replied, “Yeah.”

[From People]

I saw some people – Swifties, possibly – saying that Kayla shouldn’t talk about Travis anymore, that it’s rude at this point. I think it would be tacky if she was offering details about their old relationship or gossiping about him as a person, but she’s not doing that. She’s talking about her ex’s new relationship is affecting her life right now, to this very day, because her ex is dating something with a rabid, unhinged fanbase. A fanbase that attacks Kayla online whenever she says or does anything.

That wasn’t the only headline from Kayla’s interview though – she also did a not-so-subtle blind item about dating an athlete who dumped her for someone more famous “at the time.” She didn’t name anybody, but people did some digging. As it turns out, she dated basketball player Iman Shumpert, who dumped her for Teyana Taylor. Teyana was so mad about Kayla’s story that she clapped back online.

Teyana Taylor just went thee f-ck off on Kayla Nicole:

It’s really crazy that everyone is allowed to bother me & be distasteful… EVERYBODY gets to play.. while I move with grace. ALWAYS! But now I wanna have a lil sagittarius fun too and it’s a problem?

F-ck the iman part,… pic.twitter.com/ObfRCPZra0

— Mílagro (@MobzWorld) October 11, 2024

Teyana Taylor goes TF off on Kayla Nicole in the Shaderoom comment section ????????????????

“She pulled the black card when it came to Taylor Swift, but in the same circle, turned around and tried to bully the black woman that was married to her situationship she claimed “dumped her”… pic.twitter.com/PRW36wQCjq

— The Daily Tea (@TheDailyTeaSip) October 11, 2024

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Cardi B channeled Karl Lagerfeld in Chen Peng at the Met Gala: fabulous?

Cardi B is such a fashionista. She loves going to fashion shows, she loves walking red carpets and she especially loves the Met Gala. Cardi changed her look like four times at this year’s Met Gala, but for most of the carpet, she wore this Thom Browne Chen Peng look which was clearly based on the entire aesthetic of Karl Lagerfeld as a person and his designs. I loved how many women did variations of “interpreting Karl Lagerfeld’s look,” rather than grabbing a Chanel frock. There was so much ingenuity at play with how people interpreted the theme.

Janelle Monae wore Thom Browne (Cardi did too, in a different look). The fashion critics were going crazy about this but I find it… surprisingly unremarkable? There was the hooped “costume,” and then she removed various parts of the costume to reveal a sheer hoop skirt, and her bra and panties. Lady Gaga did something similar one year.

Olivia Rodrigo in Thom Browne. I love this? It’s great, minus the baby-bangs. That was a (terrible) trend last night too – so many baby bangs.

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Teyana Taylor in Thom Browne. I love this too, such a clever interpretation. Thom Browne really did an amazing job with their ladies.

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Bella Ramsey in Thom Browne. She’s lovely and I love that she chose something which makes her comfortable.

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Gemma Chan & Venus Williams at the Met Gala: who got the best Prabal Gurung?

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The Prabal Gurung ladies might be my favorite grouping of the 2021 Met Gala. Gurung is Nepalese, based in New York, with an American aesthetic. I love that he dressed so many women for the Met Gala, and I loved the variety of women and the variety of looks. Gemma Chan got one of the best looks, an East-meets-West minidress with a long, vibrant train. My biggest issue here (obvs) is that Gemma did clip-in bangs! So unnecessary, in general. Although with her perfect face, it’s hard to f–k it up.

MET Gala Departures 2021

My real favorite look from Gurung was Venus Williams’ whole look. Serena is the sister who gets more attention at the Met Gala, but Venus SERVED! I love the red, I love the train and I love her hair. She looked like she was having a great time too. She even posed for photos with Serena… and Maria Sharapova. Hatchet buried??

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Maria Sharapova hanging out with Serena and Venus Williams at the #MetGala2021.

This is….rare. 👀 pic.twitter.com/Y6idc1KonD

— Biola Solace-Chukwu (@Beeorlicious) September 14, 2021

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It never fails to amuse me that Hugh Dancy agrees to come to these events with his wife Claire Danes. I like her lil’ dress too, she looks cute and happy. I bet it was comfortable.

MET Gala Departures 2021

MET Gala Departures 2021

Diane Kruger in Gurung… did she get the worst look from Gurung?? Possibly. Although I bet she chose this, she loves the minidress-and-train combo, and to be fair, she kind of looks okay in this shade of neon bile.

MET Gala Departures 2021

Teyana Taylor in Gurung. Her body is FIRE. The look is… basically to show off her crazy body.

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Teyana Taylor is the first Black woman to be named Maxim’s sexiest woman alive

Teyana Taylor has been winning since she starred in Kanye’s 2016 Fade video. Teyana has been around since her Sweet 16 days, but Fade put her on everyone’s radar. This past year Teyana starred in the Coming to America sequel, and was asked by Auntie Dionne herself to play her in a yet unplanned Dionne Warwick biopic. Now Teyana is making history as Maxim’s first ever Black “Sexiest Woman Alive.” Maxim made the announcement when they tweeted out Teyana’s cover. Teyana shared in an Instagram post how her shoot day went. Teyana said that she had dropped her daughter Junie off at school and went straight to the shoot in a beanie, sweatpants and her hair undone. The beanie made an appearance in the shoot and so did Teyana’s toned abs. Below are a few more highlights via Huffington Post:

The singer, actor and dancer celebrated the honor on Instagram on Monday, writing, “Somebody pinch me!!!!”

“WOW…. Stepping back in front of the lens has been a journey of self-reflection and self-confidence,” she wrote in the post’s caption. “Living up to [the] name and title of this shoot wholeheartedly made me nervous.”

Taylor, who shares two daughters with her husband, professional basketball player Iman Shumpert, later noted in the post that her busy lifestyle often robs her of time to “feel sexy.”

She said she arrived at the photo shoot after dropping her 5-year-old daughter, Junie, off at school, and that the sweatpants and beanie she’d been wearing had made appearances in the shoot.

“Embrace and love yourselves for who [and] what you are because only the purest heart shines through,” she later added.

Maxim announced Taylor as its “Hot 100” cover star on Monday, celebrating her as a “graceful choreographer-dancer, actor-director and top ten recording star.” She is the first Black woman to land the No. 1 spot on the list, according to an archive of the publication’s past honorees dating back to 2000.

[From Huffington Post]

This is a well deserved honor. Teyana is absolutely stunning and talented. I also agree with several of the tweets that said that they were glad Maxim has finally caught up to modern times. I am actually stunned that, in the year of our Lord Beyoncé 2021, no Black woman had won the “Sexiest Woman Alive” title. Let me leave you with tweets from folks congratulating Teyana while throwing shade at Maxim for their myopic understanding of beauty and sexiness. Maxim has decided to wait until 2021 to acknowledge the plethora of beautiful AND sexy Black women running around this planet, hmmkay. Congratulations to Teyana, I hope that her career continues to grow and we get to experience how talented she is. In the meantime I am gonna go find her Fade Fit Workout vides, because I need to have abs like that.

funny, i didn’t even know Maxim still existed. apparently, they didn’t know Black women did either.

— Rodney Carmichael (@rodneyology) June 8, 2021

I had the same reaction. Great for Teyana Taylor, but that is an awful look for Maxim. Pathetic. https://t.co/l85qyKy3xg

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) June 8, 2021

I’m glad that @MaximMag finally caught up with the rest of the world cause Black women been gorgeous for a very long time. https://t.co/IbWKXroxd7

— Gyasi Ross (@BigIndianGyasi) June 8, 2021