Victoria Beckham can rest easy – she raised a son with good manners. A bustling crowd gathered outside the Vogue fashion show in NYC and one of the photographers was jostled to the ground. Brooklyn Beckham and his wife happened to be walking inside and he stopped to help the fallen paparazzi. Something not a lot of fashionistas are likely to do…
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Next week is the anniversary of the tragic death of John Kennedy Jr, and we wonder where he would have been today politically, had he survived. We would have voted for him because he made such a favorable impression when we met him (back in the late 80’s or early 90’s.) We were dressed to kill at the underground LA nightclub Flaming Colossus, and the main room was very crowded and smokey. Across the room we noticed someone was wearing a pair of DECK SHOES. Deck shoes at this funky club! We HAD to see who it was, and it turned out to be drop-dead gorgeous John F Kennedy Jr! He was with a couple of friends and his east coast apparel stood out among the black-clad scenesters. At the time we wrote the gossip column for Star Magazine, so we immediately struck up a conversation. John could NOT have been nicer. As he was on his way out, we followed him to the car valet, peppering him with questions. He remained totally charming, had perfect manners, and never lost his cool – with a TABLOID journalist! John waved goodbye and left us wanting more…
Suri Cruise is thrilled with her little dog- she’s been wanting one for a long time. Obviously she has been well brought up because she picks up after her pooch in a Brooklyn park. Suri has her mother Katie Holmes to thank for the good manners AND her pup, she hasn’t seen her Scientologist father Tom Cruise in years…
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We are SO impressed with The Big Bang Theory cast taking a pay cut so the two most recently added members can get a raise! This NEVER happens in Hollywood. Agents generally step in to make impossible demands and turn everyone against each other. Of course this series is a gold mine – it’s made a billion dollars world-wide, but that doesn’t stop leading characters from wanting MORE. Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Kunal Nayyar and Simon Helberg each agreed to cut their pay $100,000 a week so Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch can get a raise of $250,000 each. No surprise that this is a super-nice cast – last year Josh Brener, who was on the show for 3 years, found our runaway Bedlington Terrier trotting down the street and went out of his way to call and deliver Elvis back to our house. He said “I‘d like to have kept him but I already have too many dogs!”
When is the last time you heard about a Hollywood divorce where the less wealthy partner did NOT demand half of the earnings of the more successful one? (Keep in mind it is the LAW in California that earnings are shared 50-50) Maybe…NEVER? We are shocked and filled with something like respect for Gavin Rossdale, who is not asking his very successful estranged wife Gwen Stefani for half her considerable income OR for child support. We say “something like respect “ because he WAS caught cheating. But he’s proven himself to be more than a simple cad – transgressions notwithstanding, he’s a gentleman with a sense of honor, rare these days. Now we know what Gwen saw in her English rock star. This will prove to be a smooth divorce – all the better for their 3 sons.
(Above, Gavin and the boys play ball in the park.)
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