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Baby Archie's Birth Certificate Is Here—and It Reveals a Lot


After what felt like years of anticipation, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry welcomed their first son, Archie, on Monday, May 6. Two days later, the couple gave a brief interview about their new lives as parents but didn’t reveal much information. Any more questions fans have, though, can probably be answered with Archie’s birth certificate, which the royal family made public on Friday, May 17.

It contains some illuminating details, like Archie birthplace: Portland Hospital, located in Westminster. (There was speculation Markle was planning on doing a home birth, but that didn’t pan out.)

Other interesting tidbits from the birth certificate? The official occupations of Meghan and Harry: prince and princess of the the United Kingdom. Also, we have confirmation that Archie’s first name is, in fact, just Archie. It’s not short for Archibald or something more formal.

The time of birth isn’t listed on this certificate, but Buckingham Palace wrote on Instagram that Archie came into the world early morning, May 6. We also already knew his birth weight: 7 pounds, 3 ounces.

Check out the certificate for yourself, below:

“It’s been great. Parenting is amazing,” Prince Harry told reporters on May 8. “It has only been, what, two and a half, three days…. We are just so thrilled to have our own bundle of joy and to be able to spend some precious time as he slowly starts to grow up.”

Markle hasn’t given many quotes about motherhood yet, but she did say, “It’s magic. It’s pretty amazing. I have the best two guys in the world, so I’m really happy…He’s just been a dream. It’s been a special couple of days.”

Meanwhile, the well-wishes from family and friends keep pouring in. Baby Archie met Kate Middleton, Prince William, and Prince Charles all this week for the first time. “I’m very pleased and glad to welcome my brother to the sleep-deprivation society that is parenting,” Prince William joked to journalists about two weeks ago.



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Netflix’s ‘The Society’ Is a Lot More Real Than You Think


Caution: Spoilers for The Society ahead.

As I sank into my couch and watched The Society, now streaming on Netflix, I couldn’t help but feel there was something familiar about the drama. Sure, it has all the hallmarks of a great teen show: love triangles, fundamental lack of supervision, betrayal. But something else lurched in my stomach as I watched—something heartbreaking and recognizable. Something wicked.

Many have compared The Society to a modern Lord of the Flies for a reason. The show follows a group of teenagers whose parents mysteriously vanish in the night, leaving them to their own devices in a small town that’s also been inexplicably cut off from the rest of the world. The town’s exits are sealed, landlocked by miles of woods that stretch to—for all they know—the ends of the earth (if this even is their earth). Their familiar sleepy hometown quickly devolves into a mad scramble for food, supplies, alliances, and power as a brand-new society buds. The teens must learn how to work together to survive, which sounds cheesy until you consider that means building a political system from the ground up.

Kathryn Newton stars as Allie, this new society’s leader who rises to power not by choice, but because “her people” choose her. But Allie and her older sister, Cassandra (Rachel Keller), swiftly face vehement backlash from their peers—mostly their male peers, like rich jock Harry (Alex Fitzalan) and the pugnacious villain Campbell (Toby Wallace), who feel emasculated and challenged by female leadership. And when that transpires, the show takes a devastating turn into the bowels of human nature. In other words, shit gets real.

Cassandra (Rachel Keller), left, and Allie (Kathryn Newton) on Netflix’s The Society

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Watching Allie and her sister fight for the good of the people—and their own lives—when challenged by brute male power made my stomach churn. Early on, it becomes clear this show is deeply political and current; Allie’s rise and fall as a leader is an eviscerating commentary on the ways in which female political figures have risen to power and how, just as quickly, they’ve been destroyed.

So I spoke to Newton about Allie, my new favorite TV character, a young woman I would vote for in a heartbeat if she ran on the Democratic ticket in 2020. Just saying.

Glamour: What drew you to this role? When you read the script, what was it that struck you the most?

Kathryn Newton: It’s really rare to find characters that aren’t stereotypes for teenagers, and I feel like [executive producer, writer, and creator] Chris Keyser had it all on the page. I thought that this character was going to be difficult for me to play. She’s very dark, and what she goes through is so difficult for me to even understand that I had to do a lot of research. I researched queens and went back to medieval times. I reread Animal Farm to get into it, just to think more about politics and commonsense thinking. I thought it would be fun to do something different. I had just done some comedy and Blockers, and I wanted to try and create this character and see if I can do it.

I do feel like The Society is timely and important right now. Did you feel that when you were shooting it?

KN: As an actor, I always just try to follow the story and the character. It’s timely because we’re all so connected to our phones and dependent on things. This show kind of strips away everything you know and everything you need, and it makes you look at who you are—everything you thought matters, no longer matters. No one cares how much money you have. No one cares what your car looks like. Now it’s just about who you are on the inside. And some of these people are really ugly, and some are really beautiful. I feel like people are both beautiful and ugly sometimes, and my character’s kind of complicated in that way. She’s a reluctant leader. She doesn’t come into the story of wanting to be king, you know? She’s not destined for greatness. She thinks that her life’s been made up, and that’s just not the way it goes for her. She has to rise to the occasion, and people do in life. This show asks the question: Who are you when nobody’s watching?



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Chrissy Teigen Had a Lot to Say About Ivanka Trump’s Reaction to Family Separations


Ivanka Trump has caught a lot of flak for refusing to speak out about controversial issues like family separation, despite positioning herself as a champion for women and children. On Wednesday night at the House Democrats’ annual retreat, Chrissy Teigen become the latest celebrity to put the First Daughter on blast, noting that Trump continued posting photos of her kids on social media while immigrant children were being removed from their parents as a result of her father’s policies.

Alongside her husband, John Legend, Teigen spoke with former MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry and explained that the images of children separated from their parents because of the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy at the border deeply affected her. “It’s a painful thing to see that, and it’s a painful thing to see such a complete lack of empathy,” she said.

Teigen then pointed out that Ivanka Trump had published images of her son on Instagram when the family separation crisis was at its peak. The photos were criticized as tone-deaf for appearing at a time when thousands of immigrants were trying desperately to reunite with their own children.

“When it comes from people, like Ivanka, I will say, that can post all day pictures of her children that are just in her home and ‘Oh, my daughter is having trouble in her crib’ or ‘My daughter is doing this’ and ‘My daughter is doing this,’ there are children out there that don’t have that opportunity,” Teigen said.

Last August Trump finally spoke up and called the family separations a “low point.”

“I feel very strongly about that. And I am very vehemently against family separation and the separation of parents and children,” Trump said at an event with the news site Axios. However, many people on social media wondered why she hadn’t been more vocal when the crisis was unfolding.

Since Donald Trump was elected, Teigen has been a forceful critic of his on Twitter. At Wednesday’s event, Legend joked that his wife “was ahead of the curve on making fun of Donald Trump.” Still, Teigen did leave the audience with one word of advice not for politicians, but for women: Harris-Perry asked her what word she hoped women would use more frequently and Teigen blurted out, “Fuck you.” The crowd broke into laughter, and Teigen quickly added, “You don’t have to say it…. It is not a word; it’s not a sentence. It’s a mind-set.”



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Lady Gaga Has Reportedly Been Spending ‘a Lot of Time’ With Jeremy Renner


I have some sad news for the people problematically shipping Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper: She might—and this is a big might—be seeing someone else. According to Us Weekly, Mother Monster has recently been hanging out with actor Jeremy Renner.

But not so fast: Sources tell the magazine Gaga and Renner’s relationship isn’t romantic yet. All we know, at this point, is the two are allegedly “spending a lot of time” together.

Gaga’s legion of Little Monsters claim to have receipts that at least prove she and Renner are friendly. According to one fan, the two stars hung out at the Black Rabbit Rose in Los Angeles last week, where Gaga gave an impromptu jazz performance. A Renner fan account on Twitter posted a video of Gaga’s performance and claims you can hear his voice in the background. Of course, take both of these tidbits with grains of salt. We won’t know anything definitive about Renner and Gaga’s relationship until one of them says something.

Fans on Twitter are more confused about this rumored coupling than anything else:

This is the second romance rumor involving Lady Gaga to pop up this year. As I mentioned earlier, some people are convinced she and her A Star Is Born costar Bradley Cooper are an item, even though he has a girlfriend and child. Their intimate performance of “Shallow” at the 2019 Oscars gave this rumor new life—but Gaga shut it down during an interview with Jimmy Kimmel.

“Yes, people saw love and guess what? That’s what we wanted you to see,” Gaga said, chalking up her and Cooper’s chemistry to just good acting. “[‘Shallow’] is a love song; A Star Is Born is a love story. It was so important to both of us that we were connected the entire time…. When you’re singing love songs, that’s what you want people to feel.”



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Hannah Brown Is the New Bachelorette, and Bachelor Nation Has a Lot to Say About It


A new season of ABC’s The Bachelor has come to a close with Cassie and Colton announcing that they are, yes, still together and in love. We also found out during the finale who will be the star of the next round of The Bachelorette when it begins this May: Hannah Brown, a.k.a. Hannah B, a 24-year-old former pageant queen.

“Even before The Bachelorette announcement, it was good for me to figure out who I am and what I want,” Brown told Glamour recently. “You can fall in love on this show, and if my person is here on this new journey with me, that’s amazing. I’m so open to it. I’m not here to just be on TV. I truly believe in this experience and want to find my person.”

“I’m happy for Colton. He was able to choose somebody and it wasn’t me, and that’s okay,” she also told People. “I’ve moved on. And I’m excited to find my person.”

But how is Bachelor Nation feeling about this announcement? Here’s what people are saying about the new Bachelorette on social media.

Many are on board

“It never ceases to amaze me how people, specifically women, get hyped whenever the Bachelor is announced, but when the Bachelorette is announced those same women slam and criticize whoever is chosen,” one user wrote. Another said, “Am I the only one who find Hannah B’s awkwardness really quirky and adorable? She’s growing on me.”

Others, however, were less psyched.

“Okie I don’t know if I can watch Hannah B all season,” one Twitter user said. “Does anyone else feel incredibly awkward when Hannah B is on stage? It’s awkward and she seems so uncomfortable. This is going to be weird,” another wrote.

Hannah’s season of The Bachelorette premieres on ABC on May 13.



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The Bachelor Colton Underwood Has a Lot to Say About Cassie and That Fence Jump


Heads up: Spoilers for the most recent episode of The Bachelor are ahead.

“Holy f–k, he’s gone,” is most likely something Chris Harrison never thought he’d say on this—or any—season of The Bachelor. Actually, Colton, a franchise staple since last spring, probably didn’t think he’d run off into the Portuguese countryside looking to escape the cameras either. But love on reality TV will do that to you—especially when it’s not reciprocated.

Love him or leave him, you couldn’t help but feel sorry for the fence-jumping former football player when he poured his heart out to Cassie, only to have her admit she’s not “in love” with him and doesn’t think she can get there. The whole thing is a mess, so it’s no wonder Colton felt like his only option was to hop a fence and go rogue.

But what about Tayshia and Hannah G.? Will Colton—who’s said he wants to be engaged from day one—propose to either of them? Or will he try to get Cassie back before she heads home to the states? With a week to go before we get those answers, Colton sat down with Glamour to talk about the details of the fence jump, and whether he wishes he would have listened to all those warning signs. “You haven’t even seen it all yet,” he teases.

OK, we must talk about the fence before anything else. Did you get splinters? How did you know you could even make it over?

Colton Underwood: It was metal, so I didn’t get splinters. To be honest, I wasn’t even thinking about not making it over. It was the last thing on my mind. I’m just very happy I stuck the landing and didn’t fall ungracefully over it. I’m very happy about how the actual performance of the jump went. [Laughs]

Did you hurt yourself at all? And how long after you jumped over the gate did the producers find you?

Colton: I didn’t hurt myself. And I was gone for quite a bit. Hours.

Do you regret scaring Chris and the producers by disappearing for so long?

Colton: No, I think in that moment I needed time to myself. I needed to sit and process everything. You guys don’t get to see too much behind the scenes, but you’re always sort of around producers and TVs. You’re always talking to somebody, so to have space, to have time to yourself, was much needed in that moment.

You don’t like talking about regrets—but now that we know what happens with Cassie, do you wish you had listened more to Katie and Kirpa?

Colton: No, because those two aren’t in the relationship with Cassie [and me]. You can only speak from your experiences, and it was a lot of she said/she said and I heard it from this, I heard it from that…no one actually heard it. I think one thing I realized is I have to follow my heart and trust my gut and think, how does this person make me feel? I didn’t see any red flags in any of my relationships. I really didn’t.

But do you understand why some viewers might be angry with Cassie for getting to this point and then saying she’s not ready? Especially because you’ve said it was your biggest fear all along.

Colton: Yeah, I think everybody goes through this in their own way. There’s no right way to really do this. I could see why people’s opinions are probably going to be like, “So why did you say you didn’t say that when you weren’t really there?” I think that’s what was probably most frustrating about that night for me too—putting my heart out there and breaking every unwritten Bachelor rule that there is of laying it all out there and fighting for somebody. It was tough.



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