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The Oscar nominations were announced on January 22, and the BIGGEST story surrounding them was the apparent snub of anything and everything to do with the second installment of the movie Wicked.  Here’s what we know.  At least a few people connected to the movie assumed that Ariana Grande was a shoo-in for a best supporting actress nomination, and mistakenly pre-ordered flowers to congratulate her. Oops, she didn’t get nominated, but still received some of the flowers.  My source says the billionaire actress wasn’t bothered by the mixup in the slightest, and called friends laughing about it.

Chris Noth made headlines when he appeared on the Really Famous podcast and expressed his disappointment in his former Sex and the City costar, Sarah Jessica Parker for abandoning him when unproven accusations surfaced a few years back.  We can tell you this.  While SJP, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis released a statement supporting the women when the accusations first happened, ONLY Kim Cattrall picked up the phone and contacted Chris to hear his side of the story.  Chris may or may not reveal this as Kim originally asked him to keep the call between themselves, but nonetheless she’s the only one from the show who still keeps in touch with him long after the accusations were made.

Timothy Busfield was in the news when a judge in New Mexico released him WITHOUT bail over child abuse allegations.  We can tell you this.  The case is flimsier than a piece of tissue paper and my sources are saying it might not even go to trial and could get dismissed.  Even if it does make it to trial, Timothy is planning to head to Washington, D.C. and testify in front of Congress that it’s too easy for anyone to accuse anyone of anything these days, and there should be more safeguards in place to prevent false imprisonment.

The Beckhams family feud is the story that keeps on giving. Hardly a day goes by that there isn’t another social media post or scandalous update somehow leaked. We can tell you this. The latest scandal involves a wedding dance Victoria Beckham supposedly hijacked at Brooklyn’s wedding to Nicola Peltz. Someone obviously connected to Brooklyn leaked a  statement that the video of the dance would never see the light a day. Perhaps they spoke too soon. My source says that none other than David Beckham himself videotaped his wife and son dancing together and the video could somehow be released to prove that nothing inappropriate happened. If you think this feud is going away anytime soon – think again.

Travis Barker’s ex-wife Shanna Moakler launched a new podcast. Wicked Awesome, and she kicked things with a bang, revealing that former action star Steven Seagal got inappropriate with her under the guise of auditioning for a movie role when she was a mere 18 years old.  Here’s what we know.  Shanna is secretly contemplating filing a civil  lawsuit against the 73-year-old actor, has ALREADY lined up a pit bull attorney, and is reaching out to other potential victims.

Nicki Minaj made headlines when a 2018 Facebook post surfaced which may or may not prove that’s she’s in the country ILLEGALLY.  We just heard this.  Trinidad-born Nicki has gone from liberal to MAGA crazy recently in hopes of sorting out her complicated citizenship.  My source says that Nicki is very likely here under some green card situation, but that she’s eager to get full citizenship and that’s why she’s been kissing up to Donald Trump and all but making a fool of herself.  Ironically we just heard her nemesis, Cardi B is telling friends that she’s going to try to get Nicki deported if she is indeed here illegally.

Donald Trump was once again in the news for babbling nonsense about taking over Greenland. We can tell you this. Donald is working overtime, trying to drum up distractions to take the news cycle away from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, since his name was linked all over that. One of his advisors told him to watch the movie, Wag the Dog, about creating a war that’s FAKE to draw attention away from a political scandal that’s real,  and that’s EXACTLY what Donald is now doing. My well-placed political source reveals that Trump will continue to say more and more outrageous things, including plans that he wants to annex Canada, and even some countries in Africa, just so the new cycle doesn’t include anything about Epstein.