Gary Shirley: I'm DONE with Amber Portwood! - The Hollywood Gossip
Gary Shirley: I'm DONE with Amber Portwood! - The Hollywood Gossip |
- Gary Shirley: I'm DONE with Amber Portwood! - The Hollywood Gossip
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| Gary Shirley: I'm DONE with Amber Portwood! - The Hollywood Gossip Posted: 30 Jan 2021 09:33 AM PST Amber Portwood has really screwed up this time. And sure, she's screwed up a lot over the years -- it's sort of her whole thing.  But this time it's a little different. That's because this time, she may have lost the support of Gary Shirley. For a long time now, Gary has stood by Amber's side, even after all the things she's done. If you watched early seasons of Teen Mom OG, you know that they were both awful to each other, but that Amber physically abused him multiple times -- she was eventually charged with three counts of domestic violence and the abuse is a big part of why she ended up going to prison.  When she was released from prison, it didn't take her too long to jump into a relationship with Matt Baier, a creep who hit on Teen Mom stars until one of them responded and who lied about how many children he had. Gary was concerned about all of this, but still, he supported Amber through it. Even when she broke up with Matt, started dating Andrew Glennon, immediately got pregnant, then got arrested for assaulting him while he was holding their baby, he was still on her team. Gary has done so much for Amber over the past few years, to the point where in a trailer for the current season of the show he offers to let her move onto a trailer on his property.  And how does she repay him? By hopping on Instagram and going on a rant when he and his wife, Kristina, discuss her on the show -- you know, something she knows good and well they're paid to do. The whole thing started because in the season premiere, Gary and Kristina were shown having a conversation about how much they help Amber, and Kristina remarked that Amber was like their "teenage daughter." Which is true -- and honestly no one would blame Kristina for being harsher.  In her Instagram rant about that scene, Amber said "You guys are two-faced and you're liars." "There's not gonna be any more lies said about me anymore," she insisted. "This immaturity is ignorance, so I'm not gonna keep my mouth shut anymore. It's not happening." She also claimed to have given them $7,500, a payment she said wasn't for child support, and she said she kindly paid Kristina $500 to clean her house.  She failed to mention that the her house is actually owned by Gary and Kristina and she lives there rent-free, which seems like something a rational person would consider here, but we all know being rational was never in Amber's skill set. A Teen Mom gossip page on Instagram recorded Amber's rant and posted a snippet of it on their page, and that's apparently where Gary saw it. Because that's where he responded. In the comments on the post, Gary wrote "My wife is amazing. I love her deeply."  He tagged Kristina and said "I'm very glad you're in me and our kids' life and know we together would put up with an infinite amount of Amber's for the sake of Leah." (It's unclear if accidentally added an apostrophe and actually meant that they would put up with many Ambers so that they could have Leah or if he forgot a word like "nonsense" or "terrible personality traits," but you get the gist.) He continued his comment with "I also want to apologize to @kristina_shirley3 for having to deal with all of this. She is a sweet caring being & my best friend." "I'm also very thankful for everyone here for also seeing through some of the BS."  He said that "We will be taking a step back and trying to see where to go from here. While trying to keep putting Leah's best interest first." "For a while that was (co-parenting) idk how to do it anymore." It seems like he's really frustrated with Amber right now, but he did say "I'm trying not to get into the fine details of everything trying to have some class." "Again," he finished, "thank you all for the support."  He obviously feels like Amber disrespected Kristina, which she did, but it also definitely sounds like there's something going on behind the scenes that's really troubling him, and that's terrifying, right? If all of this is where Gary finally draws the line ... what's even going on out there?
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| Posted: 29 Jan 2021 02:55 PM PST We've been having a lot of fun at Armie Hammer's expense in recent weeks, and there are three main reasons for this: 1. It's fun and easy. 2. He deserves it. 3. The opportunity to make jokes about literal freakin' cannibal doesn't come around very often.  Yes, in case you somehow missed the news, Armie Hammer is a cannibal -- or at the very least, he loves to fantasize about the idea of eating human flesh. The scary part is, if you're as rich and famous as Armie is and you're obsessed with devouring a thumb covered in Buffalo wing sauce -- well, you probably have the means to make it happen. It's hard not to laugh at Hammer's bizarre fetish/diet/whatever the hell it is that causes human beings to transform into pork chops when he looks at them, like in those old cartoons where two animals are trapped on a desert island and one tries to eat the other one.  But it's important to note that there's a deadly serious side to this story, as well. Several women have come forward with abuse allegations against Hammer. These accounts range from accusations that Armie posted nude photos without the subjects' consent to claims that he carved his initials into a woman's flesh.  While Hammer's fantasies (assuming that's all they were) of eating people may have been harmless, a good number of people were hurt by his actions, including his estranged wife, Elizabeth Chambers. Chambers says she was not personally victimized by Armie in the way of so many of his sexual partners. In fact, she says she had no idea of his strange tastes until she read about them in the press.  Quite understandably, Elizabeth has opted to keep a low profile in light of recent revelations about her soon-to-be-ex-husband. But earlier this week, she broke her silence under unexpected circumstances. Armie's acting career (which we can now safely talk about in the past tense) never quite took him to A-list heights as the big budget studio tentpoles he starred in -- most notably The Lone Ranger and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. -- did not meet with much success at the box office.  However, the 34-year-old does have some critically acclaimed films on his resume, including such Oscar-nominated favorites as The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name. And what does his work have to do with his current scandals? Well, this week, several media outlets reported that the Luca Guadagnino and Timothee Chalamet, Hammer's director and co-star in Call Me By Your Name are working on a new film about ... cannibalism.  The project, entitled Bones and All, concerns a woman who has trouble battling "the urge to eat people." And so, Ms. Chambers' first public comment came in the form of a comment on an Instagram post about the film, and it consisted of just two words: "No. Words," Elizabeth wrote.  That about sums it up. Sources say Chambers is currently living in the Cayman Islands, where she and her children are hiding from both Covid-19 ... and Armie. "Everything is just so crazy and disturbing right now. Elizabeth is doing the best that can be expected," a source close to the situation tells U.K. tabloid The Sun.  "Her kids are her number one priority, she has been going through hell and she is just trying to protect them. His behavior is atrocious," the insider adds, referring, of course, to Hammer. "She was willing to fight for her family and repair what he readily threw away until it became very clear to her he no longer valued their vows or family." Our hearts go out to Elizabeth and her kids. Like whatever Armie is eating for dinner tonight, this situation is horrifying no matter how you slice it.
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| 2021 Is Already Doing More for Celebrity Gossip Than 2020 Ever Did - Vanity Fair Posted: 21 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST  According to ReelFeel time gauges, January 2021 has been the longest on record. It started well enough. The first Monday of a new year, after an objectively difficult one, there was a spate of news. Surprising news of the celebrity sort. You'd be forgiven for feeling a touch of hope, especially when a white hot streak of new gossip made it seem like the world could finally begin folding in some glitz and low-stakes drama to the doom and gloom again. It didn't last; that kind of thinking never does, really. But as we enter the second half of the month, and as the Biden era gets properly underway with a return to easily spotted symbolism in D.C. fashion and a scandal about…Joe's Peloton bike, the celebrity gossip is still making a good show of it. It's a signal that we might, maybe, start to redistribute our personal-attention economies. So to recap, on January 4, tabloids confirmed Zoë Kravitz filed for divorce from her husband, Karl Glusman. It was a total surprise. Then Harry Styles was holding hands with Olivia Wilde at his agent's wedding. And finally, not even a week into the new year, multiple sources confirmed to Page Six on January 5 that Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West are divorcing after more than six years of marriage—though TMZ countered with tales of marriage counseling. There was the Armie Hammer cannibal discourse, which was either a sign of the impending apocalypse or a wild thing to watch unfold that was totally immaterial to one's life, depending on how you look at it. It felt, at least, like some kind of pre-pandemic return to form on tabloid pages that had otherwise been scraping all they could out of Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas's Dunkin' runs. And then, well, the cardboard cutout that Affleck's kids were playing with mere months ago was going in the trash. The paparazzi caught that too. They had broken up, sources said. Alongside the pandemic's more serious consequences, the COVID crisis made for a strange year in gossip. At its start, around March, there was a backlash against the rich and famous for putting their position in the world on display in any way, especially when they made attempts at solidarity with those who might be hurting from it (or not). As the COVID era dragged on, the world of celebrity gossip constricted along with so much else—fewer (public) parties; near-zero red carpets; and paparazzi, film, and television crews—another whole industry—hurting for work. There were plenty of breaking stories that involved A-listers, but they skewed awful. Johnny Depp's legal vendettas against his ex-wife opened up grisly details of their life together. More recently, FKA Twigs told the New York Times the extraordinary story of her own lawsuit against ex-boyfriend Shia LaBeouf. The college admissions scandal bumbled along, ending with the brief imprisonment of Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli that anyone could have seen coming (Giannulli will be released this spring, if his petition to finish his sentence at his $9.5 million home in the Hidden Hills doesn't go through). Kardashian West shocked and awed with a big island blowout for her 40th birthday mid-pandemic, which, as Lainey Gossip recently pointed out, seemed pulled from some kind of reality television playbook on how to shock and awe when other storylines have run dry. Even when there were bright moments, we held on to them desperately like a ship captain would cling to lights on a foggy horizon: Affleck and de Armas's constant papping was a salve. There was a big question mark around whether Brad Pitt was dating Alia Shawkat or just being her friend. There were still more question marks around Pitt having a fling with a woman in an open marriage. The most uplifting and exciting thing he did all year was sit on the bed of a truck and smoke a cigarette, and we in all seriousness thank him for that. He looked great. But the joy and/or intrigue that these stories provided could not be understood without considering the hell we're in. The celebrity news that broke in the first days of 2021—that is, before the awful and earth-shattering news that came next—was what Lainey Gossip's Lainey Lui, who remains the reigning queen of reading the celebrity tea leaves, calls a return to classic Hollywood storylines. Zoë, Kim and Kanye, Olivia and Harry—to Lui, "There are such classic elements of celebrity gossip in definitely all three." There's the successful child of two famous people and the end of her short marriage. There's an infamous and well-heeled couple reportedly ending their longer one, with many millions on the line. And there's a couple of A-list stars falling for each other, probably on set no less. Lui, who also hosts two CTV shows, places that the shift in the ecosystem happened in the latter half of 2016, just as with some other major things in American life: Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt. After nearly a decade of tabloid dominance, with their globe-trotting and their six children, the breakup left a void that was filled, for a while, by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, whose relationship first went public that same month. "But that quickly went south too," Lui said, "with the racism and the disgusting headlines and the British tabloids showing their asses. And so you couldn't just celebrate and enjoy the Harry-Meghan relationship in a typical way—like, are they doing this or this? Are they going to have babies, and whatever?—without talking about very serious issues about class and race and the monarchy." Celebrity gossip downshifted. A-listers kept marrying their niche Art Boys instead of their costars, and reality stars or influencers of every kind kept edging into the conversation. Much was made of the the "Whos" and the "Z-list," which have been interesting in their own way, but there have been precious few tales of huge names falling for each other or megawatt divorces; the soap opera, for the most part, moved east.  |
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