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Here's Why Bachelorette Fans Are Mad at Clare Crawley on Behalf of Contestant Matt James


Clare Crawley’s season of The Bachelorette hasn’t even begun filming yet, but it’s already shaping up to be the most dramatic season ever. (But, like, really.)

Production is on hold indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, but we’ve already got a bit of feud brewing between Crawley and contestant Matt James, who also just happens to be BFFs with Tyler Cameron. The whole thing’s a bit messy, confusing, and low-key ridiculous, so we’re here to break down what’s got Bachelor Nation so frustrated with next season’s lead.

This all started with a couple of tweets from Crawley on April 25. “If you are doing interviews and creating Cameo accounts before you are even on my season… you are in it for the wrong reasons… #dontwasteyourtime,” she wrote. “Respect the opportunity you’ve been given. Respect the rules. Respect me. @BacheloretteABC ❤️”

Fans strongly believe these tweets were about James even though she doesn’t mention him by name. Why? James told E! News that he is very much looking forward to meeting Crawley when the show can start filming. “There’s a very beautiful young lady in Sacramento right now who’s quarantining and who is patiently waiting for production on a show to pick back up and I’ve been waiting as well,” he said. “I’m hoping after everything settles down and everyone is safe that I’ll finally get to meet her. I’m looking forward to it.”

And yes, James is on Cameo—but fans were quick to point out he’s been using these opportunities to promote his charity. “Clare… Clare… in this house we stan Matt James. He is doing interviews to promote his charity, ABC Food Tours which is producing tablets and meals for kids in underprivileged areas. And he said he is looking forward to meeting you so where’s the problem,” one person tweeted.

After Crawley’s tweets, James posted a video message in his Instagram Stories about why he’s on Cameo, according to Us Weekly. “For those of you who may have missed the message earlier this week, myself and Alex Bachman, my former teammate and current New York Giants wide receiver, pledged all of our Cameo earnings to the Robin Hood Foundation to fight this fight,” James said.

Even host Chris Harrison weighed in on the drama.

Bachelor Nation appears to be firmly on Team Matt in this situation, and many pointed out that he might be more well known than she is at this point. “Lol I knew who Matt James was before I knew who Clare was,” one fan tweeted. “So it’s pretty funny she thinks he has a following bc of her.” Just as a reminder, Crawley did not actually name names.

Of course, there are some coming to the lead’s defense. “I think it is very clear that Matt is only coming on to try and become the Bachelor,” one fan replied to the backlash. “But to fault Clare for not wanting to risk people coming on for the wrong reasons after the last few seasons we have had seems WILD.”

Clare Crawley has yet to respond to the backlash—but we’re sure this will all be hashed out when the show finally airs…eventually.



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Matt Damon Played a Belligerent Brett Kavanaugh on *SNL*'s 44th Season Premiere


Saturday Night Live‘s 44th season premiered last night, and the show went in hard with its commentary on this week’s Kavanaugh hearings—starting right from the beginning.

For its cold open, the show tapped Matt Damon, a man who has found his foot in his mouth for his comments about #MeToo, to portray Judge Brett Kavanaugh during his hearing in front of the confirmation committee. His parody of the Supreme Court nominee was nothing short of spot on—but that doesn’t mean it didn’t also make us cringe.

“I’m gonna start at an 11, and I’m gonna take it to a 15,” Damon-as-Kavanaugh begins—then spends the next 13 minutes sniffing incessantly, aggressively turning the pages of his notes, and talking about his friends “PJ,” “Tobin,” and “Squi.” There’s also the tearful submission of his “beautiful, creepy calendars” into evidence, and a whole lot of references to his love of ‘skis. “

“I was the proudest, drunkest virgin you’ve ever seen,” he boasted at one point.

“I’m usually an optimist, I’m a keg-is-half-full kind of guy,” Damon-as-Kavanaugh continued. “But what I’ve seen from the monsters on this committee has made me want to puke, and not from beer.”

Senators Hatch, Grassle, Feinstein, Klobuchar and Graham all make their own appearances as played by SNL cast members, as does “female prosecutor” Rachel Mitchell (Aidy Bryant), who is “only there for Twitter”—and for Senator Hatch to hide behind “like a human shield.” Alyssa Milano shows up, too, in the form of a cardboard cut-out who’s really good at “finding her lens.”

Some of it brought a smile after a long week of news, but some of it hit a little close to home. At one point Damon exclaims, “I’m not backing down you, sons of bitches; I don’t know the meaning of the word ‘stop.'”

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The cold open was just the beginning of SNL‘s all-in approach to the Kavanaugh hearings. The show’s “Weekend Update” segment began with a series of clips that showed Judge Kavanaugh talking about how much he liked beer and working out while he was in high school. After it played, co-anchor Colin Jost commented, “I’ve gotta say, you’re not really helping yourself in a drunken assault case when you yell about how much you like drinking and how strong you were at the time.”

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In a later clip, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg (Kate McKinnon) shows up to comment on the hearings. “He thinks his confirmation hearing was unfair?” she asks, “My confirmation hearing was they threw me in a river to see if I float. And I did! I floated on top like a little waterbug!”

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There was also a pretty unsettling sketch about an alcohol and drug-fueled college party in the ’80s. Although it made no direct reference to Kavanaugh, it alluded to some of the themes of assault and youth party culture that have been at the forefront of conversations surrounding his hearing this week.

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Things got even weirder during the show, but safe to say this is a premiere we won’t be forgetting anytime soon.

Related: 16 Times Women Changed the Game on Saturday Night Live



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Claire Foy Says She Actually Wasn't Paid Back for Making Less Than Matt Smith on 'The Crown'


It turns out that Claire Foy may not be getting her due after all. In an interview with Al Arabiya English published Thursday (July 26), the actress said that she has not received the back pay supposedly promised to her for the gap between her and costar Matt Smith’s paychecks. “That was what was reported that I was back-paid. I’ve never mentioned anything about it and neither have the producers. The fact that that is ‘fact’ is—not quite correct,” she told Al Arabiya English.

To recap: In April the Daily Mail reported that Foy would reportedly receive £200,000 (around $260,000) in back pay for her lead role as Queen Elizabeth II. This news came about a month after producers Suzanne Mackie and Andy Harries confirmed that Smith, who played Prince Philip, was getting a higher paycheck than the woman who portrayed the queen.

“Going forward, no one gets paid more than the queen,” Mackie said at the time. Meanwhile, Left Bank Pictures, one of the production companies behind The Crown, apologized to both stars, while declining to mention whether anything would be done to retroactively address the gap.

Shortly after, Foy addressed the controversy: “I’m surprised because I’m at the center of it, and anything that I’m at the center of like that is very, very odd, and feels very, very out of ordinary,” Foy told Entertainment Weekly in March. “But I’m not [surprised about the interest in the story] in the sense that it was a female-led drama. I’m not surprised that people saw [the story] and went, ‘Oh, that’s a bit odd.’ But I know that Matt feels the same that I do, that it’s odd to find yourself at the center [of a story] that you didn’t particularly ask for.”

In the article published Thursday, Foy elaborated on those thoughts: “Yes, it’s Netflix, but it’s a British production company. It happened at the same time as it was coming out with a lot of other people that there was a lot of pay inequality across the board—in the music industry, in journalism, in every industry,” she told Al Arabiya English. “It’s across the board that it became part of a bigger conversation, which is an odd place to find yourself in.”

“I realized early on that me being quiet about it or me not thinking about it in any way, and not associating myself with it, would be harmful to me and also lots of other people,” she continued. “It’s taught me a lot, and I’m still learning about it. I have not come out the other side and know exactly what I’m talking about. I’m still learning as much as anybody else is.”

Glamour has reached out to Foy’s representative, Netflix, Left Bank Pictures, and Sony Pictures for comment, and will update this story accordingly.

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Ann Curry Says She’s 'Not Surprised' About Matt Lauer Allegations


During a highly anticipated interview with CBS This Morning, veteran journalist Ann Curry said she wasn’t surprised by allegations of sexual misconduct that brought down her former Today co-host Matt Lauer. In fact, Curry added that she felt most of her female colleagues understood that a “climate of verbal harassment” existed at NBC, where she worked until 2015

On Wednesday, Curry sat down with CBS This Morning to promote her PBS docuseries, We’ll Meet Again. The conversation inevitably turned to her disgraced former co-host, and Curry was asked if she believed Lauer abused his power at NBC.

“I’m trying to do no harm in this conversations,” Curry said. “I can tell you that I’m not surprised by the allegations.”

When CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King pushed her about what her comments meant, Curry was evasive, but she explained, “I’m walking down that road I’m trying not to hurt people. I know what it’s like to be publicly humiliated, I never did anything wrong to be publicly humiliated, and I don’t want to cause that pain to someone else.”

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Still, Curry was willing to speak out against a pervasive culture of harassment that she says she observed at NBC, saying, “I would be surprised if many women did not understand that there was a climate of verbal harassment that existed. I think it would be surprising if someone said they didn’t see that. It was verbal sexual harassment.”

Curry added that the effect #MeToo has had exposing sexual misconduct is long overdue, and said she hopes people focus on supporting women who have bravely come forward with so many disturbing allegations.

“We’re talking about the scandal, the scandal, scandal. What about the victims? What are we going to do to remove the stigma and the shame? What are we going to do to make sure these women work and are not sidelined and prevented from contributing to the greater good that we all are trying to do?” she said.

Curry left the Today show in 2012, following rumors that she’d a contentious relationship with Lauer and that he had been behind her ouster. Speculation intensified when NBC aired Curry’s tearful goodbye to Today viewers; in the clip, Curry visibly flinches after Lauer kisses her cheek.

Curry continued working at NBC until starting her own production company in 2015. Lauer, meanwhile, was fired from NBC last November after colleagues accused him of sexual harassment. He’d been the Today show’s anchor for more than 20 years.



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Matt Damon Is Finally Apologizing For His Comments Around #MeToo


A number of men in Hollywood have struggled with how to address the current culture of #MeToo and Time’s Up. There was that time when none of the male winners at the Golden Globes brought up the subject. And then there was Matt Damon‘s press tour for “Downsizing”, where the actor found himself in the headlines day after day but not for the reasons he was probably hoping for. Instead, in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the downfall of other prominent men, the actor found himself with his foot in his mouth on the regular. He often started out supportive and then veered into problematic territory with comments like:

And we live in this culture of outrage and injury, and, you know, that
we’re going to have to correct enough to kind of go, ‘Wait a minute.
None of us came here perfect.’ You know what I mean?… The Louis C.K.
thing, I don’t know all the details. I don’t do deep dives on this,but
I did see his statement, which kind of, which [was] arresting to me.
When he came out and said, “I did this. I did these things. These
women are all telling the truth.” And I just remember thinking, ‘Well,
that’s the sign of somebody who—well, we can work with that’…”

That was…not a great look. Even his ex-girlfriend, Minnie Driver, called him out saying, “I honestly think that until we get on the same page, you can’t tell a woman about their abuse. A man cannot do that. No one can. It is so individual and so personal, it’s galling when a powerful man steps up and starts dictating the terms, whether he intends it or not.” Alyssa Milano also had words for Damon.

This morning, Damon appeared on Today to promote his charity Water.org (a very worthy organization that is all about supplying safe drinking water to those without access to it) when co-host Kathie Lee Gifford asked him about his recent comments. It seems that Damon has finally taken the public (and likely a fair amount of private) criticism to heart and seen the error of his ways in speaking before listening. He apologized for his previous statements saying, “I really wish I’d listened a lot more before I weighed in on this.” He went on to voice support for Time’s Up: “A lot of those women are my dear friends and I love them and respect them and support what they’re doing and want to be a part of that change and want to go along for the ride, but I should get in the back seat and close my mouth for a while.”

We think that’s probably best—but we’re very glad to see it acknowledged.

Watch Damon’s full interview below:

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Katie Couric Just Opened Up About Working With Matt Lauer on the 'Today Show'


In November, Matt Lauer was fired from the Today show on NBC after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced. Multiple women have spoken out about their inappropriate experiences with the news anchor, though one voice in particular remained silent in the media. Katie Couric, who co-hosted the Today show with Lauer for 15 years, did not immediately make a statement after her former coworker was fired—she said in December that she would wait to comment until she felt ready to. Now, she’s opened up about her thoughts on the matter.

“The whole thing has been very painful for me,” the news anchor told People on Saturday. “The accounts I’ve read and heard have been disturbing, distressing and disorienting, and it’s completely unacceptable that any woman at the Today Show experienced this kind of treatment.”

She went on to explain that she never experienced any inappropriate behavior.

“I had no idea this was going on during my tenure or after I left,” Couric said. “I think I speak for many of my former colleagues when I say this was not the Matt we knew. Matt was a kind and generous colleague who treated me with respect. In fact, a joke I once made on late-night television was just that, because it was completely contrary to our brother-sister relationship. It’s still very upsetting. I really admire the way Savannah [Guthrie] and Hoda [Kotb] and the entire Today Show staff have handled a very difficult situation.”

The joke she referred to is one she made on Watch What Happens Live. She told Andy Cohen that Lauer’s most annoying habit was that “he pinches me on the ass a lot.”

Couric is currently working on a National Geographic documentary series called Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric. “One of my Nat Geo episodes explores the various obstacles that are holding women back in Hollywood, Silicon Valley and beyond,” she said. “I just interviewed Elisabeth Moss about this. Harassment is just one part of the equation.”

“I think it was really moving to see so many women support each other and demand change, not only for themselves, but for mistreated and marginalized women in all kinds of industries,” she said about the Time’s Up movement, “Clearly we are witnessing a sea change and a long overdue course correction.”

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