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Who Is Chase Stokes? Get to Know the ‘Outer Banks’ Star With These Inappropriate Questions


Oh my gosh, 100%. I will recommend this to the world, and next thing you know, Pedialyte is going to have a boost in their stock. If you drink an entire thing of Pedialyte after a night of drinking, you will wake up the next morning completely hangover-cured. It is proven by not just me, but by scientists around the world. And by scientists, I mean the majority of the cast of Outer Banks. And if you don’t have Pedialyte, two Advil and a giant Gatorade, and you’re good to go.

Let’s say we’re out of quarantine and you are going to a party. You stop by a convenience store to pick up some things. What are you buying?

Spicy Nacho Doritos, a bag of Sour Patch Kids, bottle of whiskey, and no, I’m never sharing any of them. Well, I’ll share the whiskey. But the Doritos and Sour Patch kids, those are staying in my pocket.

What are you currently binge-watching?

I am obsessed with New Girl. Nick Miller from the streets of Chicago! I am a Jake Johnson fan until I die.

Which celebrity do you first remember having a crush on?

Jennifer Aniston. It’s the same today. It will never leave.

She’s perfect. Did you love when she joined Instagram?

I actually cried. Like, I had tears coming out of my eyes. I was like, “She is available. We are on a similar parallel now.” There’s no chance for me, but at least knowing that we both have an Instagram, there’s a slight possibility that this could potentially turn into a conversation, at least. And if I die knowing I had a conversation with Jennifer Aniston, then I’ll die a happy man.

Do you have a type?

I’m really, really attracted to intellect. Any mental thing. Physicality sort of becomes a secondary thing for me. I’m so in tune with people’s hearts and people’s souls and deep conversations before I even start to look at the sexuality stuff. I’m not a typical, sexual-driven male. For me, it’s more about, I want to have a deep in-depth conversation with somebody before I even think about the physical intimacy of it. So anybody that can get in touch with my brain and then my soul, that’s what’s going to turn me on the most.

Is there a topic that someone could bring up on a date that you’d absolutely flip out over? Like, in the best way?

Something I’m completely not going to expect would blow me away. Anytime somebody brings up something you’re completely unaware of that that person’s going to bring to the table is the best of circumstances. It opens the floodgates into the universe of now, what’s next? And you can go from there.

Do you ever turn to astrology for guidance? Are you an astrology person?

I’ll be honest. On a scale of one to 10, I don’t. But if it’s optimistic and it’s something positive about the next 24 hours of my life, I am so game. If it tells me I’m about to make $10,000 in the next 24 hours, I believe it. If it’s negative, I’m like, “This stuff is not real.”

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Christopher Rosa is the staff entertainment writer at Glamour. Follow him on Instagram @chris.rosa92.





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Jennifer Lopez and Shakira's Super Bowl Halftime Show Is Being Called ‘Inappropriate’


Jennifer Lopez and Shakira delivered an unsurprisingly epic halftime show at this year’s Super Bowl. There was dancing. There was pyro. There were bops. It’s truly everything I hoped it would be (and this is something I’ve been wanting for a while now).

But there’s a certain subset of people out there who think Lopez and Shakira’s halftime performance was “inappropriate” and “too provocative”—an R-rated attack on family values. One columnist from a well-respected newspaper even wrote, “If the Super Bowl is going to be touted as family entertainment, or at least not marketed as adult entertainment, perhaps the NFL has an obligation to warn people with children that what they’re about to see may be upsetting to some viewers.”

Mind you, this is all over Shakira and Lopez’s “skimpy outfits” and “booty shaking,” which is just heterosexual speak for “costumes” and “choreography.” There was nothing inappropriate about what they did onstage—at least, nothing more or less inappropriate than what male halftime performers have done for years. The only difference is that we still exist in a culture that thrives on policing women’s bodies. A culture that says a woman baring her midriff is a threat to the American family but an aging rocker grabbing his crotch is just a Tuesday. That is the issue here—not Jennifer Lopez or Shakira, who delivered one of the best Super Bowl halftime performances in recent memory. (I mean, come on: It started with “She Wolf!” A forgotten gem of a song! That’s gay rights!)

If people are actually outraged by Lopez and Shakira’s set, then it’s only fair they call the moral police on these six (male) halftime heathens too:

Mick Jagger, whose midriff pressured me into trying a cigarette

His stomach was just so racy. It made me want to be racy too, ya know?

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Nelly, whose crotch-grabbing antics are the sole reason I sneaked out of my house in middle school

It’s no one else’s fault but his.

Nelly at the Super Bowl
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These shirtless dudes from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who inspired me to bully all my friends

What? I wanted to be tough like them.

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Pete Townshend from The Who and his pearl-clutching buttons

An undone shirt? Not in my perfect household. Get this harlot off my screen.

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Put your shirt back on and apologize, mister. Grandparents are watching.

Adam Levine of Maroon 5 performs during the Pepsi Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show at MercedesBenz Stadium on February 03...
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He might as well have told the nation’s high schoolers, “Drop out! Drop out! Drop out!”

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Just atrocious. How am I expected to be a teacher, an uncle, and a role model when their torsos are exposed like this? Maybe get some actual talent and stop relying on your bodies, guys.





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A Timeline of Donald Trump's Inappropriate History With Women


1993: Jill HarthThat same year, Trump also allegedly subjected makeup artist Jill Harth to a “steady string of sexual assaults, as The Guardian reports. He allegedly groped her under a dinner table at the Plaza Hotel’s Oak Room and, later, he allegedly pinned her against a wall in one of his children’s bedrooms and and groped her. “He pushed me up against the wall, and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress again,” Harth recalled, “and I had to physically say: ‘What are you doing? Stop it.’ It was a shocking thing to have him do this because he knew I was with George, he knew they were in the next room. And how could he be doing this when I’m there for business?” Harth later formally accused Trump of attempted rape in a 1997 lawsuit.

1994: A 13-year-old GirlTrump has been accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in the apartment of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The case, which was recently filed for the third time in New York City, where the alleged rape occurred, consists of two affidavits filed by “Joan Doe” and “Tiffany Doe” which corroborate the victim’s story, as Buzzfeed reports. “Joan” says she was told about the assault after it happened, while “Tiffany”—who was apparently hired as a “recruiter” to bring young girls to Epstein’s apartment—alleges Trump and Epstein raped the victim more than once. Trump’s attorney has denied these accusations, though more information on the case may yet unfold—a hearing has been set for this December in New York.

1995 or 1996: E. Jean Carroll

The advice columnist wrote in a June 2019 New York Magazine cover story that in 1995 or 1996, Trump allegedly raped her in the dressing room at Bergdorf’s. Carroll writes that Trump asked her for advice buying a gift for “a girl,” which led to him asking her to try on a piece of lingerie. According to her account, “the moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips.” Carroll alleges that he pins her against the wall, then “the next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway—or completely, I’m not certain—inside me. It turns into a colossal struggle.” She also notes that the friends she told after the alleged assault corroborated her story to the magazine. Trump denied her allegations in a statement.

1996: Five or Six ModelsLisa Boyne, a health food business entrepreneur who apparently shared a dinner from hell with Trump, told The Huffington Post that she and a friend, along with “five or six models,” were seated at a semi-circular table with Trump in 1996. When the models wanted to get up to leave, Trump refused to get up to let them do so, instead forcing them to walk on top of the table where he “stuck his head right underneath their skirts,” per Boyne’s account, and remarked on their underwear and genitalia. “It was the most offensive scene I’ve ever been a part of,” Boyne said. “I wanted to get the heck out of there.”

1996: Alicia MachadoWhile Trump’s behavior towards former Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado wasn’t physically sexual, it was the definition of predatory and verbally abusive behavior. “He was very overwhelming. I was scared of him. He’d yell at me all of the time,” says Machado in a video clip executed by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “He’d tell me, ‘You look ugly,’ or, ‘You look fat.’ Sometimes he’d ‘play’ with me and say, ‘Hello, Miss Piggy,’ ‘Hello, Miss Housekeeping.'” Trump also body-shamed Machado when she gained 40 pounds after winning her title, which led to her developing eating disorders. “Long after, I was sick with eating disorders,” she recalls. “I wouldn’t eat, and would still see myself as fat because a powerful man said so. This is a man who doesn’t realize the damage he causes.”

After Machado told her story, Trump reacted by slut-shaming her.

1997: Five Miss Teen USA ContestantsBack in 1997, Trump created discomfort for at least five teenage Miss Teen USA contestants—including one who was as young as 15—when he visited their dressing room as they were changing. “I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,’” former Miss Vermont Teen USA
Mariah Billado told Buzzfeed. His response, according to Billado, was something along the lines of “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.” Other contestants referred to the incident to Buzzfeed as “shocking” and “creepy.” While 11 of the other contestants from that year’s pageant told Buzzfeed they don’t remember the incident, Trump has gone on the record bragging about his access to dressing rooms before. “I’ll tell you the funniest is that I’ll go backstage before a show and everyone’s getting dressed,” he told Howard Stern. “No men are anywhere, and I’m allowed to go in, because I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it. … ‘Is everyone OK?’ You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. ‘Is everybody OK?’ And you see these incredible looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that.”



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LA Times Publisher Placed on Unpaid Leave Amid Inappropriate Conduct Investigation


Post-Weinstein, the Los Angeles Times has been at the forefront of coverage surrounding recent allegations of sexual harassment by powerful men, frequently within the entertainment and media industries. Now, its own publisher and CEO, Ross Levinsohn, was placed on an unpaid leave of absence Friday while the paper’s parent company, Tronc, investigates allegations of inappropriate conduct while working at other companies. The move follows an NPR report released Thursday that detailed past sexual harassment lawsuits and a long history of inappropriate workplace behavior, including fostering “frat boys’ club” vibes and the use of sexist and homophobic comments.

In a review of court documents and interviews with over two dozen former colleagues and business associates, NPR reporter David Folkenflik found that Levinsohn has been a defendant in two sexual harassment lawsuits both of which ended with paid settlements. In testimony, Levinsohn acknowledged that when he was a vice president at search engine company Alta Vista in 2001 he rated the “hotness” of female colleagues during office banter with other male employees, and speculated about whether a woman who worked for him was a stripper on the side and discussed with others whether she’d slept with a co-worker.

Another lawsuit was filed in 2007 against Levinsohn and other executives at News Corp.—the former parent company of several Fox television properties—by a video producer who claimed she’d been sexually harassed in the workplace by her boss, who worked under Levinsohn. According to the NPR report, she alleged that when she asked Levinsohn for a promotion, he pointed to a Fox Sports sideline reporter, a former pinup model, and said she “learned how to work her way to the top.” The producer also alleged Levinsohn and other executives allowed an atmosphere of sexual harassment to flourish.

In addition to the lawsuits, NPR detailed other instances of alleged offensive and unprofessional behavior. When Levinsohn was an executive at Guggenheim Partners, the company that once controlled entertainment industry trades The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard, witnesses said they saw him “aggressively” kissing and touching a woman at a music party in Las Vegas in March 2013. The physical contact, as NPR pointed out, appeared reciprocal and consensual to the witnesses, but they said they felt it was inappropriate considering Levinsohn was married at the time.

Homophobic language was also a problem during his tenure at Guggenheim Partners. According to NPR, Levinsohn arrived late to a lunch in Los Angeles hosted by The Hollywood Reporter in May 2013 and “couldn’t get out quickly enough.” The event—sponsored by shoe designer Jimmy Choo—included celebrities and Hollywood fashion stylists, and Levinsohn told an THR executive he’d have to leave early: “As my buddy said, why would I hang out with a bunch of ladies and fags?”

A current Los Angeles Times reporter, who asked to remain anonymous, told Glamour that she wasn’t surprised to hear about Levinsohn’s alleged past behavior, but that the Times‘ office atmosphere doesn’t reflect it. “It’s a newsroom with a ton of queer people and really supportive management in general so there’s always this weird feeling here of like, ‘the people you work with every day are awesome,’ and then there’s this sort of shadowy corporate entity that sort of messes with us.”

“We didn’t have a ton of interaction with [Levinsohn],” she added, “but the few times he’d come here he sort of came off as kind of like a glad-handing bro. So, the characterization of what he said isn’t shocking, it’s just very depressing.”

In a letter to Tronc, 12 senior Times editors wrote that Levinsohn’s history and alleged behavior “jeopardizes The Times’ 136-year legacy of integrity. The organization should not be led by anyone who has engaged in this behavior, if it is true, particularly given the [Times’] role in investigating multiple industries and governments on the topic of sexual harassment.”

The news of Levinsohn’s leave came hours after a vote passed to ensure that, for the first time in the L.A. Times‘ 136-year history, newsroom employees will be represented by a union, the newly-established L.A. Times Guild.

Levinsohn, who came aboard after Tronc fired former editor and publisher Davan Maharaj, is among the most highly paid executives at the company and received a starting salary of $1 million last year, according to reports.





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