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Brad Pitt's BAFTAs Speech Included a Harry Royal Exit Joke—and Kate and William Heard It


Brad Pitt continued his awards season winning streak at the BAFTAs on February 2—both in taking home statues for his role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and giving hilarious acceptance speeches. While most Americans were focused on the Super Bowl yesterday, across the pond the Brits were handing out their version of the Oscars at the Royal Albert Hall in London, with Prince William and Kate Middleton in attendance.

Technically Pitt didn’t give this new speech himself; he had costar Margot Robbie read it for him because he couldn’t attend due to “family obligations.” But he wasn’t afraid to go there about Prince Harry‘s highly-publicized royal exit.

“Brad couldn’t be here tonight due to family obligations, so he asked me to read his response for him,” she said. “He starts by saying, ‘Hey Britain. Heard you just became single. Welcome to the club! Wishing you the best for the divorce settlement, blah blah blah.’ He then says, ‘Thank you to the Academy for this extreme honor.’ He says he’s ‘always been a bit intimidated over here given the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and the titans that have come before, so this is especially meaningful.’”

But it was his final joke about Harry that really got everyone laughing—including a highly amused Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. “He’s gonna name this Harry,” Robbie said. “Because he’s really excited about bringing it back to the States with him.” Watch the clip below and you can see the royals’ reactions as the camera cuts to them. Those laughs sure look real to me.

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This seems to be, in part, a cheeky joke about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s recent announcement that they’d be stepping down from the royal family and spending half their time in North America. Whatever the case, Middleton and Prince William appeared in good spirits over the whole thing.

Seriously, who is Brad Pitt working with on all these acceptance speeches? Because they’ve all been stellar. He’s out here cracking jokes about Tinder, his exes, Quentin Tarantino’s thing for feet, and now the Sussexes’ move to North America.

We wonder what he has saved for Oscar night?



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Amber Heard Is Fighting for Social Justice in Red Lipstick


I just read She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, [the reporters who broke the explosive report about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment allegations], and it was insanely good. Spectacular. It’s detail-oriented, specific, biting, and smart. And it really champions the truth and highlights the crucial role journalism can play in our world, especially when it’s done correctly and not encumbered by the systems in place to protect those who are abusing positions of power. When [those systems] are challenged or circumnavigated and truth can come out, what a difference it makes.

Ronan Farrow’s book Catch and Kill is also equally good—a page-turner like no other. Frankly, I’m a little sad that I finished them. But I just started Sally Rooney’s book Conversation with Friends, and it’s such a good read. I think we need more women to speak from our generation and through our perspectives. Not by politicians, but by activists and thought leaders. I want to see more of our presence in the fiction world and in creative spaces too.

You’re stranded on a desert island. What are the three products you want with you?

Sunblock, sunblock, and sunblock. I mean, look at my skin. I’m going to bring sunblock and reading material. That’s it. Abandon the constraints of a bathing suit, I just need something for my brain and for my skin.

What’s your go-to getting ready music?

It changes a lot, but these days I’m into “dad music,” as they call it. So the old classics. I listen to them loud volume, no shame.

You’ve got $20 and free roam of a drugstore. What do you buy?

I’d definitely buy some lipstick. I love a red L’Oréal Paris Colour Riche. There’s a reason they say lipstick is recession proof. It’s one product that can dramatically change how you look and how you express yourself. And then for the rest: sunblock, an eye mask, and I don’t know how much more my $20 will get me, but maybe bath salts?



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Meghan Markle Says She Doesn't Need to Be Loved, She Just Wants to Be Heard


Meghan Markle has always been a person with a lot to say. As a little girl, she was fighting against sexism in TV commercials and she continued to speak publicly about women’s education and empowerment long before she met and married Prince Harry. As a member of the royal family her platform is bigger than ever, but so are the restrictions around when and where she can speak out.

There are, of course, official engagements and speeches, as well as her guest editing stint for British Vogue and her and Harry’s revealing documentary, Harry and Meghan: An African Journey, where the Duchess of Sussex opened up about her struggles behind the scenes. But unlike Hollywood celebrities, the royals don’t often talk directly with the press. However, during a recent trip to the Luminary Bakery, Markle did just that with the Telegraph‘s Bryony Gordon.

Per Gordon, the Duchess took time during the event to explain why she’s more than OK breaking royal protocol. “One of the things I have realised since being here [in the UK] is that people have an expectation when I’m coming somewhere, so I’m like, let’s just be really relaxed, keep everyone nice and chilled because at the end of the day we’re all just women. We all have a story to tell, and I feel honored that I am getting to hear yours,” she said to two of the women.

Gordon also watched Markle interact with the people at the event and drew conclusions of her own. “I get the distinct impression that Meghan has accepted the strange situation in which she finds herself: she is damned if she does, and she is damned if she doesn’t, and being the kind of person she is, she’s going to carry on doing, thank you very much,” she wrote.

Gordon continued: “[Markle] told me that she didn’t want people to love her—she just wanted them to be able to hear her. I have found that this is what the Duchess of Sussex stands for: using her voice to help give one to people less privileged than her.”

Markle reportedly also spoke passionately about why Luminary Bakery, which helps disadvantaged women get job training and build confidence, means so much to her.

“I was talking about this with someone the other day,” Markle said. “We get into this habit of wanting things done immediately nowadays. There’s a culture of instant gratification, of the instant fix. But we aren’t mechanical objects that need to be fixed. You’re a wounded creature that needs to be healed, and that takes time. And that’s what I love about this place. It gives you the support to heal.”

Markle may not be concerned with people loving her, but many very much do. From the politicians sending an open letter of support to her fans trending with the hashtag #WeLoveYouMeghan, there’s lots of royal love going around.



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Amber Heard Is Really Sick of the Dumb Blonde Cliché


Even if you haven’t seen Aquaman, Amber Heard‘s latest movie, you’ve definitely seen her name in the headlines lately. The actress has been making the news in her other role as a political activist. Of course, political activism is ever more inextricable from women’s activism, and Heard’s been using her voice there too, from making domestic violence PSAs to writing powerfully about sexual violence—and the anger she faced as a result of speaking up about it.

In that vein, #OwningIt might be a rallying crying ready for Twitter, but it’s also part of a new campaign from L’Oréal Paris, which Heard is a global ambassador for. (Her commercial airs for the first time tonight during the Golden Globes.) Glamour spoke with Heard about activism, her wishes for what needs to change in Hollywood, and the joys of truly “owning it,” whether it’s in your work, life, or image. Because if anyone proves you can care about beauty, hair care, and the political issues that matter most to women—that these things aren’t mutually exclusive—it’s the very blond and very vocal Heard. Ahead, she answers our Big Beauty Questions.

Glamour: Your new campaign is all about “owning it.” Tell us about a time where you really felt like you embodied the phrase.

Amber Heard: I’ve gone through times in my life where I was dying my hair a different color in order to alter or control others’ perceptions of who I was—and knowing that being a blond came with its own caveat, there have been times in my life where I’ve had to weigh out the meaning. As I get older, I feel more and more aligned with owning my hair color, no matter what color it is. It feels less as though I’m trying to carry around others’ expectations—or my expectations of others’ impressions of me—based on my physical appearance, and instead I’m truly owning my own color, and whatever I want that color to be. Especially recently, I have felt more and more proud of it, and proud to be me.

Glamour: In 2018, women really owned it—in so many senses of the phrase. What do you hope to see women doing more of in 2019?

AH: Well, for me especially, being able to help other people give back, being able to lend a voice to those who might not have one, or fight for justice where it’s not found or it’s being threatened—that is its own invaluable reward. And in my case, I feel so lucky in this moment to have a platform and to lend a hand and a voice. But the truth is, anybody can make a difference, no matter how big or small the effort. Especially now, the power is in our hands, and we’ve seen the effects of that reality really unfold in the last year and a half or so.

Glamour: What’s your favorite thing about being a blond?

AH: Well, you know, it’s me—I guess that’s what it is. Hair color isn’t who you are, but part of who I am is blond. Your hair color doesn’t make you one way or another—any more than a piece of makeup or jewelry or wardrobe makes you, in the same way that those things can be seen as tools to help you actualize how you act, or how you dress, or who you are, or how you feel like being. These tools can be incredibly empowering. While I’ve been bald or changed my hair all different colors, my blond is my own, and it feels like me.

Glamour: What do you do to keep your hair in such great shape?

AH: I put it through a lot, with the coloring and styling. But on my off days, I like to give it a break. Or I’ll leave a deep conditioner in if I have glam in the morning. There’s a L’Oréal Rapid Reviver Deep Conditioner that has the power of a leave-in, but it washes out just like that in a minute. It can easily fit into your life; you can easily incorporate it into your routine—you don’t need to change your process.

Glamour: What’s your favorite way to take a moment for yourself?

AH: Reading. Poetry. I love poetry. It’s truly a selfish exercise. I couldn’t recommend it more.

Glamour: What’s one beauty rule you swear by?

AH: It’s less of a rule, but you know what I will say? It’s time for all the clichés about blonds to step aside. It’s time to retire stereotypes about blonds—or any woman’s hair color for that matter.

Glamour: What country gives you the most beauty inspiration?

AH: I mean, maybe this is cliché, but French women are incredibly chic. There’s something I really appreciate and identify with in the simplicity of their approach. It’s an elegant simplicity. I try to do that with my look when I can, in real life and on the carpet.

Glamour: If you were stuck on a desert island, what three skin care products would you want with you?

AH: Well, no matter where I am or what I’m doing, I always wash my face. I never miss washing my face. That’s a must for me, whether I’m in a hotel halfway across the world or my own bathroom before bed. And when I wake up it’s a must. I use the L’Oréal Paris Pure Sugar Facial Scrub—it’s awesome. And I’m also really loving the L’Oreal Paris Revitalift Derm Intensives Vitamin C Facial Treatment. Dermatologists are constantly preaching the benefits you get from Vitamin C in skin care, so I try to work that in as much as I can. And then of course, SPF, baby!

Glamour: Screw, Marry, Kill: mascara, lipstick, highlighter.

AH: I’d marry lipstick, screw mascara, and kill highlighter.

Glamour: What’s the last Instagram rabbit hole you went down?

AH: Baby drag queens! These amazing, beautiful, sparkly little human queens are not even pre-school age.

Glamour: What’s your beauty mantra?

AH: Be yourself. And find who you are and own it.

Glamour: You have $20 and free roam of a drugstore. What do you buy?

AH: L’Oréal Paris Rouge. It’s got so much pigment in it. If you have $20, and you have one thing you want to buy, that red lipstick fixes everything. And if you have anything leftover, I would go to the snacks.

Glamour: What women are you most inspired by right now?

AH: Well, that’s what’s so exciting about being alive right now and being active socially right now. There are so many incredible groundbreakers, rule-breakers, and game-changers who are shaking things up from the ground up. And at the forefront, I’ve found the most impactful and inspiring people have been women. It’s an incredibly exciting time. It’s no longer about celebrities and public speakers or well-known activists: It’s the Tarana Burkes, the Emma Gonzalezes; it’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Paula Mendozas, Symone Sanders—those women that are on the ground doing things. They are incredible forces of nature. And there are also celebrities doing things, like Andie MacDowell, Shohreh Aghdashloo…

Also, this is very obvious but very true: shout out to my mom. That is who started this whole thing. I’d be nowhere if it weren’t for me having learned how to admire and adopt a role model. And my mother is the one who established that role model for me.

Glamour: If you could change one thing about the perception of beauty in Hollywood what would that be?

AH: That external beauty should be valued behind someone’s confidence, sense of self-worth, talent, or inner beauty.

This interview has been edited and condensed.



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No One's Ever Heard of Tussy Deodorant, But I Assure You It's the Best


Legend has it that my great grandmother was the first woman in our family to discover our signature anti-perspirant: Tussy. Though the origin story is unknown, her daughter (my grandmother), still associates its scent with her mom—even now, over nine years since she passed away.

My grandmother also distinctly remembers the very first time her mom introduced her to the brand. It was in her early teens, when she first started needing to use deodorant. “Tussy was the first kind I ever used, and I’ve been using it all of my life,” my grandmother, Joanie, now 77 and still an avid user, recently told me.

The rest is, as they say, history. My grandmother passed it on to my mother, and then when puberty hit my household, a bottle of Tussy was bestowed upon my younger sister and I—making us the fourth-gen users. And like any strange family quirk (not every family grew up using ketchup on their tacos?) I assumed using Tussy was totally the norm.

But when I got to the age where you needed a refresh post-P.E., I’d look around at the other girls in the locker room lifting up their arms to reapply, and would see Secret, Dove, or Degree—but Tussy was nowhere to be found. “What the eff is that?” I remember countless friends asking me as they gawked at Tussy’s retro red branding. And while I fell prey to many instances of adolescent bullying—like the time I threw away a pink and green shirt because it made me look like a ‘watermelon’, or when I got teased for being the last in my class to wear a training bra (despite the fact that I desperately needed one)—I always held strong to Tussy: because I knew it was the sh*t.

So why do I love this roll-on deodorant of yesteryear, that you can’t even find in most pharmacies (I bulk order it on Amazon)? As described on its label, it’s the “original fresh spice.” But it doesn’t have that overtly spicy, Christmasy scent of the more popular Old Spice. Or as my twenty-year-old sister, Ari, explains, “it also has this amazing powdery undertone to it. Like baby powder.” This one-two punch serves as a neutralizer for any odor you might have, but still offers a slight kick at the end, like the kind you find when you finish your last few gritty sips of a chai latte.

What keeps my mother, Melissa, 51, coming back is that, “while I’ve tried a lot of other [perfumed] brands, this is the only deodorant where I’ve never smelled bad. With other kinds I get sweaty, or paranoid I have B.O., but with Tussy, I just smell like me.” Personally, I think Tussy smells more like me, than it does her, but that’s another matter.

And though I sometimes feel the pressure to switch it up after articles come out warning me about toxins and urging me to switch to natural deodorant, I keep going back. Something about the way its quick-drying liquid rolls right on, minimizing any odor, and leaving me with the subtlest spiced fragrance. Or maybe it’s just that my family just has me completely brainwashed, but regardless, Tussy, I just can’t quit you.

Tussy Anti-Perspirant Deodorant Roll-On, $10.96 for 3, amazon.com

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Olivia Wilde's Childbirth Story Is Honestly the Craziest Thing We've Heard Today


Most moms would tell you that they can remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they went into labor. What’s unusual is, say, if they were breaking it down at a concert when their little one decided it was time to enter the world—but that’s exactly what happened with Olivia Wilde. Just four years ago, she and her partner, Jason Sudeikis, had their first child, Otis Alexander Sudeikis. And in honor of Otis’ fourth birthday, Wilde shared the crazy story of her son’s birth.

The A Vigilante actress shared a photo of her son on Saturday wearing a crown and posing with a birthday cupcake. Wilde’s caption reveals that she was at a Jon Batiste concert at a venue in New York City four years ago when her water broke. She wasn’t in a rush, however: Wilde stayed until the end of the concert before heading to the hospital to give birth to her baby boy.

“4 years ago today we were at a @jonbatiste concert at Webster Hall in Manhattan, and this little one decided he wanted to come out and join the dance party,” Wilde wrote in her Insta caption. “My water broke somewhere up on the balcony. So next time you’re there, think of us. ?. (We obviously stayed til the end of the show. Cuz that’s how we do.) Happy birthday, Otis!!!”

Back to the present: It looks like the family went to Disneyland to celebrate Otis’ fourth birthday. (Or, as Wilde named it, “Mousechella.”)

Weirdly enough, Wilde and Sudeikis almost had their second child, Daisy Josephine, at a concert as well: In October 2016 the couple was on their way to a Beyoncé concert when the actress started experiencing contractions. This time, they skipped the concert and headed to the hospital. Daisy didn’t arrive that night—the contractions wound up stopping—but a few days later, they welcomed their baby girl.

Don’t know about you, but these are some of the Wildest going-into-labor stories we’ve heard.

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