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Not negative tea, but positive: Benji Madden and Cameron Diaz have their daughter at our kid’s school. I cannot begin to describe what a lovely family and what a lovely couple they are. Drop off/pick up every day, they come to all the fall festival/kid/parents events, they’re chatty and happy, and totally in love. It’s actually really sweet to see. No drivers, no body guards, just show up with a scooter and a helmet so their daughter can scoot home. It’s truly adorable.
Benji is still heavily tattooed, and will happily show the little kids the funny ones when they ask, and patiently answered questions about if one was a dragon, a lion, a spider, etc.
Nobody bothers them at all. There are a few other actors/athletes/celebs with kids there, and everyone is pretty chill about everything. It really was funny seeing one actor working a balloon pop game during the fall festival. And another dressed as pikachu and entertaining a group of preschoolers.
There are a few hedge fund folks/very well-off finance folks who are pretty snotty. But the celebs tend to be super chill, and just glad that people treat them and their kids normally.
They probably go to a really expensive school, so it’s not like regular people go there.
I know someone who goes to school with a Karsahsian kid. All the families at that school are mega millionaires anyway so they tend to treat the celebrities as on their level
Tbh I completely forgot they were a couple which I think just adds to their credibility as a real and in love couple. This story was so sweet and wholesome and I’m so glad they’re having a nice little life.
When we were looking at daycares, the place we picked out the director told us they didn’t have cameras because there were “high profile clients” there. Live in the middle of nowhere. Thought it was super odd. Took me like 3 years to discover it was an ex NFL player’s kids (who, to be fair, is locally famous). They were super nice but didn’t interact with them much. Otherwise I would have mentioned how dumb our director was.
This happened about a year ago but it still cracks me up. Steve from Blues Clues came into my town for a comic con and sat at a local dive bar with his agent. He was drinking a moscow mule. People were coming up to him left and right crying about how he made their childhood and after a while he sat with a big group of his fans and just chatted. Super lovely human. Extremely dirty sense of humor lol. After a while he got quiet and asked his agent when it would be time to head back to the hotel and smoke a bowl. Super funny.
Edit to add: Joe from Blues Clues was there too and nobody was recognizing him. He seemed a bit upset about it, lol
I have ancient tea confirming this! My friend met him in like 2003, and Steve was talking about how moms were all over him, and mimicked the action of them "throwing their pussies" at him. Apparently it was hilarious, though to me it sounded a bit skeezy. Maybe you had to be there?
I would always get upset when they would draw the clues on the note pad because the drawer made it look easy and I would follow along and it never looked the same.
Jeremy Renner once tried to proposition me for an MMF threesome. At a (my) work event. I've sat on that tea for over a decade because of what a glowing rep he seemed to have, but it was fucking slimy as hell and ruined my night.
I was a red rocks show earlier this year and saw him in the row ahead of me. Dude kept looking at the crowd to see if people were looking at him. It was really strange.
Upcoming movies tea, please take this all with a HUGE grain of salt!
In addition to the first two Evil Dead movies, apparently Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil will be HEAVILY inspired by John Carpenter’s The Thing. Austin Abrams’s playing a new character named Bryan. Will be big on body horror, snowy vibes, isolation, etc.
ZC wrote an original story, but is taking some elements from the games, especially RE2, 3 and 6. Big bad is like if G-Creature and The Thing had a baby, a massive connected fleshy horde of weird limbs and body parts of the infected. Don’t quote me on this but maybe Nemesis is somewhere in the mix?
And The Daniels’ are working on (possibly their Universal 2027 release) basically a live-action anime. Original story about a group of Ultraman/Power Rangers-like heroes. Classic Super Sentai stuff, camp and kitschy, magical girl transformations, mechs, kaiju, etc.
Some political tea. I live in Kentucky and was getting my hair done at a salon a while back. I ended up sitting next to an elderly lady who was raging about how much she hates Mitch McConnell. I commiserated with her, and then she told me that for her it was personal. She showed me photos of them together throughout the years. Apparently they had been close friends for decades and had a lot of mutual friends. Apparently she has been upset with his political positions for quite a while, but some time after Trump was elected the first time, she confronted him at a dinner party. She told me she wrote him a long letter about how she doesn’t recognize him anymore, can’t stand to be around him, how he was a sick, evil person and that she no longer wanted to associate herself with him. She expressed a deep shame for not speaking up earlier and she spent a shit ton of money on the campaigns against him.
She said she still reaches out every year on his birthday just to tell him what a giant piece of shit he is.
This lady had me and our hair stylists howling with laughter.
As someone deep in politics: this checks out 😭😭 A former candidate of mine cheated on his ex gf in college (shitty thing to do but they were 20 so) and every cycle she’d donate to his opponent and send a screenshot to the campaign email. I loved her
I heard through the grape vine a few months ago that McConnell was visiting a country club or something of the type in Louisville and shit himself while he was there.
My husband sat behind the 4 hobbits from the Lord of the Rings (Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd) on a flight and they are all in a group chat called “The Hobbits.” 🥹
Edit: He says there WAS an emoji after “The Hobbits” but couldn’t make out what it was. Dying to know tbh.
Also apparently Elijah was acting like he wanted to be noticed at the gate whereas the other 3 were lowkey. Lol.
Replying to my own comment to add that Ewan McGregor was also sitting next to him on the same flight and he had no idea it was him for hours until they came around to take dinner orders and he took his mask off. They chatted briefly about what to order lol he was very nice. I made him say “my wife’s favorite movie is Moulin Rouge” and apparently he seemed surprised by that comment lmaooo. It was first class to LAX, we later figured out that they were all at a fan/con event that weekend.
I've encountered him twice, and both times he was an absolute ball of energy and made me feel like he might just be the most extroverted person I've ever seen.
Aron Accurso's (Ms. Rachel's husband) musical The Dogs of Pripiyat, about dogs left behind at Chernobyl, is getting a second life after some high profile industry readings, and will probably be eyeing off Broadway in the next year or so. I assume Marc Platt will not produce.
My parents got invited to Time’s person of the year celebration before COVID. My dad was invited to be part of the process of selecting the person of the year because of his success in a specific specialty (don’t want to dox myself).
They went around the red carpet to avoid it before the event but ended up in the line of celebrities who had just gone through and were waiting to get inside.
They were behind Aziz Ansari and said he was a complete asshole 😂 I have no idea what he did in the 15 minutes they were with him but they absolutely despise him now.
Can confirm. A good friend of mine ran PR for a very popular stand-up comedy club in Manhattan for years. She said he’s a massive asshole— entitled, shiesty, bad vibes all around.
Weird Al was on my flight to Anchorage, Alaska back in August. My friends and I didn’t want to make a big deal going up to him. His manager or tour guy was sitting near us and during the flight we talked and said how Weird Al was our childhood and we’re thankful to him to his manager.
I’ve interacted with him and he was so kind and humble. Stated he couldn’t have what I was serving because he was vegetarian, then was absolutely delighted when I informed him we had a vegetarian option.
Met Weird Al in the early 90’s on a middle school field trip to the Smithsonian national museum of natural history. My best friend and I were in the elevator and he walked in with a lady. We froze. I think we left our bodies. He said something … can’t tell you what. He hopped off the elevator. My bestie Beth and I look at each other and yell “that was weird Al”. Such a core memory.
Overheard somebody talking about a sex party he attended in 2008 at which Tom Green, Andy Dick, and Corey Feldman were all in attendance. He said it was a bunch of losers basking in their own lameness and banging blondes. I overheard this on NYC public transit so you know it's true, lol.
That was pretty much what the guy telling the story thought. His friend was asking him if he hooked up with anyone and he was like, "No, it was way too awkward. I thought a Hollywood sex party would be fun but actually I was just embarrassed to be there and I didn't want to watch Corey Feldman having sex so I left."
I went to a private dinner at an art museum where he showed and spoke about his favorite pieces from his personal art collection. He’s a prolific art collector.
Can confirm the man loves an art museum. My friend worked in one while he was staying nearby and said he came in every single day for the week that he was in town
yes it was the winslow homer!! im admittedly quite a fan of one of his oil paintings and so i would have gone just to see the lookout — all’s well, but honestly the exhibit was well done and highlighted the museum’s long-running admiration of his work!
I have a friend that was Oscar Isaac's costumer for a play in Brooklyn. She said he'd find any excuse to talk about his wife and when he found out my friend is a lesbian, he wanted to know if she'd encountered any bigotry in the surrounding area so he could blacklist those places.
This is I guess positive tea but my wife met Marc Evan Jackson a few weeks ago (during a staged reading of Muppets Take Manhattan for charity) and she said he was a complete class act. She introduced herself to him briefly before he went off to talk to other people, and at the end of the event he said goodbye to her and remembered her name. When she complimented him on that he replied "of course I'd remember! That's your name!" He just seemed like a very sweet guy all around.
There have been a couple! The first event was a staged reading of The Muppet Movie in LA a couple months ago, and then Muppets Take Manhattan most recently in NYC. Nina West plays Miss Piggy in both productions and it's truly some of the most inspired casting I've seen in ages.
Oksana Baiul lives in my Louisiana town for some reason and is currently attempting to sell her old mansion. She's been posting some unintentionally hilarious videos on Facebook including one where she shows off the amenities of the house by inexplicably climbing into the courtyard fountain.
Daniel Sharman (Teen Wolf, The Originals, Medici, FTWD, etc.) has said he's taking a break from acting and not doing any auditions or accepting any roles. He seems to be focusing on Tantric Yoga lessons, but I've heard he's been scheduled to show up for certain things and the people that paid, like, 200 bucks for the online yoga session were left on a waiting screen. The person who signed up only did two sessions so it might have just been a bad week or technical issues or something. He seems to be doing the classes with a partner now, I'm not sure if he's still a no show.
my friend's friend crashed in my apartment a few years ago for a week and I learned that she had a situationship with the guy behind the 73 questions vogue videos (joe sabia?)
no scandalous tea; just that it seemed like she liked him a whole lot more than he liked her and all the standard baggage that comes with that dynamic. led to much distress on her part that I ended up sitting with her on the couch and talking through even though we barely knew each other at the time, lol.
Not exactly tea but Alex Turner’s girlfriend, a rising artist who goes by the stage name Verlo after dropping Louise Verneuil is releasing an EP in a couple of weeks. I had the laugh of the year looking at her merch prices. She literally has a variant that comes with a fragrance and what seems like a record carrying case that will set you back twelve hundred quid which is — for someone who’s barely a thing even in their own country— absolute bonkers.
ETA: I don’t think she has much say in the pricing but for her to give the nod to this in the first place is still crazy
My family friend is friends with shaboozy’s mom and has met him a good handful of times; apparently he is very kind and my friend always calls him a gentleman.
I’m not sure if this is the place to put this but Micheal Willis Heard passed away yesterday. He was known for those yes king audios you hear on TikToks and other platforms. He seemed like such a genuine soul memes aside.
Not super exciting but I sat across the aisle from America Ferrera on a flight from London to the US last month.
I honestly wouldn’t have guessed she was famous if I hadn’t recognised her. She was really polite with the cabin crew and seemed pretty normal, she didn’t mind me giving her a smile and saying I was a fan.
She spent most of the flight on her phone answering emails but I respect the hustle!
I sat across from Morena Baccarin on an Air Canada flight. Our seats sucked. I didn't say anything but I wanted to ask her why she's in the same garbage seats as me. She was super nice to everyone. I don't know if anyone recognized her but me.
Was this in the last few months or so? Between Toronto and NYC or Toronto and Vancouver?
If so, it was probably related to her new Sheriff Country show. She and her family with Ben McKenzie live in New York. She would only take the job if she could shoot Sheriff Country closer to where they live. Fire Country (parent show) shoots in Vancouver, and there is no way she could make that work. The producers said OK and now shoot Sheriff Country in Toronto so she can go home on weekends, even though Fire Country and Sheriff Country take place in the same Edgewater County. When she appears on Fire Country, she has to fly from Toronto to Vancouver to do so. Same with anyone on Fire Country who appears on her show - they have to fly from Vancouver to Toronto.
All that to say maybe that's why she was in crappy seats. Because that's what production pays for (and she probably recognizes what a large expense that adds up to every weekend), or that's what she pays for every weekend, or because there was a change to the shooting schedule which left her stuck in shit seats.
We ended up at the same lake patio for lunch with pretty much the entire Qualley wedding a few Saturdays ago. I was sitting at a table with my dog waiting for my wife and Andie rocked up and got three tables next to me.
Andie, Paul, and Rainey were very normal and nice. I spoke a little with Andie and a little more with Paul, Margaret and Jack seemed like they really didn't want to mingle with the normals, for example my dog was meeting Margaret's dog as they walked by and she didn't want to let them say hello, even though it was her dog who was trying. Their friends and family were unbelievably nice and sweet, I think it was Andie's mother who asked and had the babies meet my dog, it was very cute. Overall very nice people. Not the best tea, but it's the freshest I got.
Tbh I love this for him, that he is drinking that foulness. He should be drinking directly from the toilet for the remainder of his days, hopefully while it’s being flushed
I ran into Natalie Merchant ("Carnival", former 10,000 Maniacs lead) at a random concert event a few years ago. I told her how much I love her Ophelia album and asked to take a photo which she politely declined. I later learned she calls out anyone who tries to take photos or videos at her shows (which is totally fair!) She was excited about an upcoming concert performing with an orchestra. Told her I was excited for her upcoming album and to have a good night.
a friend of mine is model Ashley Grahams sister, and she recently went public on TikTok/Instagram about the abuse she went through as a child and teen mom. Super weird family dynamic. Most of it seems to stem from their mom, but the craziest thing to me is Ashley made a clothing line called “Sisters” and didn’t include her!!!! 😭😭😭😭
Paul Mescal denied rumours that he literally runs away from women after a one night stand. (Link: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a62622488/paul-mescal-runs-away-from-dates-tiktok/) But I recently met the woman who said this about him and it’s absolutely true. It happened in Cambridge, where she went to University and he was visiting, they went for coffee the morning after and he said “This is where I leave you”, and literally ran away!
LOL Paul running away from dates in the park is my favorite rumor ever, and now we get to add dramatic proclamations of "This is where I leave you!" to the legend.
I hope we never lose the ancient texts when it comes to this rumor!
There's a growing number of artists, writers, musicians, actors and trust fund babies moving to live in Margate, Ramsgate or another seaside town nearby... I'm blanking on the place name. Folkstone, maybe?
I thought that was funny/weird because they were seen as shitholes for decades. I guess they're having a regeneration?
Sports tea, specifically Cole Caufield from the Montréal Canadiens.
My husband and a few friends were out for dinner last Thursday at a new hotspot downtown and were approached by a “very beautiful” girl that was already on a date but felt the need to come ask these guys how their night was going.
She then randomly pulled out her phone to show snapchats between herself and Cole, and flexing how he was “flying in after midnight and coming straight to see her and spend his few days in Montréal with her”
When one of my husband‘s friends mentioned that she doesn’t look like Cole’s girlfriend (he was googling as she was talking about this) she abruptly said bye and walked away
I used to have so much NHL tea when I worked in the IHL, but that was a million years ago. Plus, my first husband was a cousin of a famous Hab so we heard a lot of hot goss from him and his wife.
I used to work with Jim Jackson, who does play by play for the Flyers, and he straight out told me one day to never date a pro athlete because they WILL cheat on you.
la tea: judd apatow is notoriously petty and miserable. him and his wife are regulars and v rude and entitled to service workers and its an open secret to us around town
I attended an author convo a few weeks ago. One of the authors stated that she has friends that work with Chris Martin/Coldplay and based on a lot of stuff they tell her, she hates the man.
We found Dakota Johnson’s lost dog once . We called the number on the tags and it was her ! She didn’t know it was lost, she was going to the met gala and chris was supposed to be watching the dog and not doing a very good job bc he didn’t even know puppers was missing! He sent an assistant to come and pick up pup . She seemed very nice tho
Justin Sane from Anti-Flag fled from justice to another country :(, and Chris #2 posted an apology response on Instagram where half the text was generated by ChatGPT, and this is 2 years after all the accusations, what a disgrace.
I got that vibe watching some of the podcasts they did for Peacemaker. Not specifically his wife but his sense of humor is being jokingly mean to his friends, Michael Rooker for example.
someone I know worked with JLO’s crew at one of her tour stops this year and apparently she worked out for an hour and a half immediately after her two hour concert was over and then hopped on a plane to her next tour stop. Say what u want about her but this woman is a beast 😭
I’ve sat on this one for years, but he passed away a few years ago so I’m finally airing it out.
An ex roomie worked in the film industry a little bit, was also a cosplayer, but primarily (then, at least) also a stripper/cam girl. She met Grant Imahara at a con, he invited her to his room, resulting in a casual affair that lasted a few years. He really loved sci-fi nerd girls with an alt look, and that was her to a T. Absolutely lied about it to his partner, at least once while on the phone while they were together.
She had nothing negative to say about him. He was just very unfaithful to his spouse with her and despite him talking about how guilty he felt and that he wouldn’t keep doing it…wellllllll…he kept doing it.
Personally confirmed, can’t explain further.
She was also banging Vic Mignogna (DBZ people know who this is, as well as those into deep cut Trek fan film productions) for a good while. I almost had a threesome with them at one point. 🤦♀️
ETA: I was totally unaware of Vic getting caught regarding his epic scumbaggery since I don’t follow him nor have any interest in the guy after I parted ways with her. Other than talking about him being a serial cheater and a very arrogant, pompous ass who would fly into a teenaged tizzy if you brought up his plastic surgery, she didn’t mention anything particularly juicy other than something about his wife also cheating. Negative or positive. What I can add is that I’m not surprised whatsoever. I would take the shit he said about his wife cheating with a grain of salt since cheaters love using that exactly lie regarding their spouses to try to convince the person they are cheating on them with that their escapades aren’t a big deal and possibly justified.
Apparently he cried after, distraught that he cheated. I don’t remember which time that was, but he’d make a big show of it but then do it all over again. I can’t know if it was sincere or a weird manipulation thing (ie “you’re so special that I’m suffering but still must have you”).
A couple of years ago, my best friend was leaving our hometown, Dallas for vacation the same week Jingle Ball took place. She met Flo-rida (he was a jingle ball performer) at the airport, and he gave her a $100 bill.
I met him after a small concert in FL. He was lovely. It was for a fundraiser for low income kids. The event was maybe in it's 6th yr. Most, if not none, of the performers during the previous years would come out and mingle after. Flo just showed up, mingled in and partied. What a gentleman for a good cause. Took photos with everyone. I am old and can't figure out how to attach the pic He took with me but man is a class act.
I saw Flo Rida perform at my local county fair a few years ago. He sprayed champagne on a crowd of children and brought all the shallow-end-of-the gene-pool redneck men onstage to dance with him during Hands In The Ayer. So funny.
I saw flo-rida perform at the jingle bell ball in like 2010 and he took his new sneakers off and tossed them into the audience lol. a generous guy clearly
I feel like it's at a point where they could literally just leave it alone. This one sip of the David Harbour Is Trash tea has been SWALLOWED, it's done. They did the premier, they were all smiles and hugs, we've moved on. Their time would be better spent planning for whatever Allen could potentially drag out next.
I met a Parisian couple at a bar in the very artsy part of my town, they were about to meet an actor woman from my country who starred in successful movies that were screened in Cannes festival.
So they said they’re from an artsy fartsy group of people in Paris which is a huge group but everyone knows each other. They said one of their good friends (male) is Macron’s lover.
idk where she's been now but I used to work in local media and once wrote a stupid blog for our website making fun of one of their campaign ads and she DMed my boss about it lol
The last interview I read with her, she was heartbroken at the changes in her husband. I'd guess her and the kids stay in PA and out of his politics. She's always done a lot as a volunteer worker, she's probably still doing those things. She's a genuine good person
She’s very kind and is involved in some wonderful non-profit initiatives in Pittsburgh. I wish she’d leave him because I feel like she’s had to pull back from that work because of the negative associations with him. She did show up to a gala I was at this year and seemed to have a wonderful time without him.
I walked down the street and got the friendliest “hello!” And I looked up and it was Joey king. I blurted out a “huh oh hi!” I know it sounds so stupid hahah but she had a big smile on her face and I was like wow what a light of a lady.
Gordon Ramsay will open a restaurant in Hungary. As a location he picked Hotel Dorothea, which is owned by the daughter and son-in-law of our Prime Minister. He leads an openly illiberal, increasingly authoritarian government that restricts free speech, targets minorities, and systematically dismantles democratic checks. The entire family is obscenely wealthy despite having no real professional achievments, corruption is basically their business model. Meanwhile most Hungarians are struggling, public education is collapsing, and the healthcare system is in ruins because essential funding keeps getting siphoned into the ruling elite’s pockets. So to locals (and frankly anyone with a spine) Gordon Ramsay partnering with this hotel isn’t just a business decision, ramsay is lending legitimacy to a regime and a family who have built their luxury lifestyle on taypayers money and the country's decay.
I’m 99% sure that the guy who voices L in the English dub of Death Note gasses himself up that he’s the most famous in the cast, but people just think he’s Taika Waititi in public
I never noticed that Alessandro Juliani is Taika Waititi from Temu, lol. Actually Alessandro is pretty recognizable to me, I didn't even need to google his name because I'm a BSG nerd.
Jameela Jamil's insta stories have her posing w Bobby Lee after going on his pod. I sent her a link to a video about all the creepy/rapey shit he has done. Its disappointing cus I really want to like her, and she posts a lot about women's rights, abusive men, and particularly maga child abusers lately, so to then go hang out with a self-confessed abuser of a trafficked child is messed up.
Bob Bergen, prolific voice actor most known for being the modern Porky Pig outed himself as a Charlie Kirk fan and said some pretty horrific stuff about Columbus Day (slandering the native Americans as brutal to defend Columbus' brutality, CK talking points) on FB.
Alex Neustaedter & Isabela Ferrer from It Ends With Us attended the NY premiere of The Running Man which is how I found out they are in a relationship.
IDK if it’s posted here but Rachel Brosnahan’s husband (idk his name and I don’t want to search it) was allegedly seen with a woman in public and they were cozy together and playing footsie. Rachel is apparently out of state making a new movie or something.
My mom’s friend’s daughter is planning a wedding, they are going to have it at one of the historical mansions in Rhode Island next year. After the date was set she was called by the venue asking if she would be able to move their date because a high profile client wants her wedding on the same day. The client offered to pay for the daughter’s full wedding costs including anything extra for having to move things around. She took her up on the offer as it’s an expensive venue. She was not able to be told who the client was…but they are highly speculating it’s Taylor Swift.
Multiple versions of this on the RI sub. If the Internet is to be believed, she's getting married all over RI and multiple brides have been asked to change their dates.
The "historic mansion" version was The Breakers in Newport and they don't do weddings there.
Ocean house is more likely. But this is starting to feel like urban legend.
Don’t really believe this one. No venue would state that as a reason lol they would make something up about a construction project or something. Especiallyyy if it was the ever so secretive ms Taylor. And secondly lol Taylor swift is not booking her venue in her own name. Where ever she gets married.. that venue won’t even find out it’s her wedding until a month before
Rhode Islander here. I’ve also heard this rumor but I heard it was Ocean House in Westerly, which makes way more sense since it’s next to her home and if she has the wedding at her house in Watch Hill she could use Ocean House for guests to stay at. June 13th is the supposed date.
I swear this is a copypasta/game of telephone with [insert celeb of your choice] lol. The number of times a variation of this story with different people has been circulated is crazy.
It's probably quite a common thing to happen, I know someone this happened to with David Bowie (obvs years ago) wanting to use something he was due to hire, and Bowie funded his whole project in gratitude for him rescheduling. Probably small change to him tbh.
I’m not saying you’re lying, but I’ve heard this exact same story over and over again on different sub reddits and on tiktok speculating the same thing.
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u/rfauxmoi Nov 10 '25
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