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People Think Kate Middleton Ignored Meghan Markle and Prince Harry at Their Latest Engagement


On Monday, March 9, Kate Middleton, Prince Harry, Meghan Markle, and Prince William reunited at their first group event since Meghan and Harry’s royal exit. After arriving separately at Westminster Abbey for Commonwealth Day services, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex were taken directly to their seats and did not take part in the procession of senior royals with Queen Elizabeth II. Kate and William did the same.

But this is where things get (seemingly) awkward. Harry and Meghan were the first to arrive at their seats in the second row, next to Harry’s uncle, Prince Edward, and Sophia, the Countess of Wessex. However, when William and Kate made their way to their seats in front, it looks as if they took great lengths to avoid Meghan and Harry. It seems like a smiling Harry and Meghan attempted to start an interaction, with Meghan giving them a wave, only to receive a brief hello from William and, apparently, zero eye contact from Kate.

Watch the interaction, below, in this video from Royal Central.

That’s not where the encounter ends. While reportedly waiting for the queen to enter, Meghan and Harry were seen in deep conversation with Edward. Kate, meanwhile, turned to speak with Sophie, without sparing a glance toward Harry and Meghan.

As the couples made their exit, they seemed to avoid speaking to each other altogether (though this may be protocol, who knows).

Of course, we have no way of knowing how the couples are interacting in private, but there have been reports of serious tension for the past few years. Before leaving London originally, Harry and William reportedly attempted to mend fences through “secret peace meetings.”

“They didn’t leave on good terms by any means, but they are both relieved that it’s over,” a source told People back in February. Another source told the publication that the brothers were “talking more” while Prince Harry was in Canada.

Fans who saw clips of Kate Middleton’s exchange with the Sussexes were definitely feeling the chilly vibes. “I’m still chipping the ice off my phone screen,” one user tweeted.

However, a few fans believe Kate did acknowledge Meghan’s hello. “Pretty sure Kate and Meghan said hi to each other,” @AshleyMMeskimen tweeted. “If you look Kate is looking at Meghan.”

“If Sophie is Meghan’s doppelgänger, then I guess Kate did say hello,” user @7calypso countered.

No matter what happened at the event, hopefully, the royal family will get a chance to spend some more time together, away from the public eye, before Harry and Meghan go back to North America.



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Clare Crawley Is the Next Bachelorette—and People Have a Lot of Thoughts


And the next Bachelorette is … Clare Crawley.

After weeks of speculation by fans, ABC made it official this morning during an announcement on Good Morning America. Crawley said she found out she was the pick over the weekend. “The most important thing is I want a man that will take off his armor,” she said on GMA. “I want a man who is strong, who will take off the body armor, open himself up and be vulnerable. I think that is some serious strength right there.” She says she isn’t looking for one type “physically” but more someone who “goes out of his way for her” because “it’s about me now.”

At 38, Crawley is older than a lot of Bachelorettes and says she has often dated younger men—but wonders if they’re ready for her age. “I feel so much younger at heart than my actual age. I’m proud of my age, I just feel younger,” she said.

There are still two episodes left of Peter Weber’s season of The Bachelor, so we don’t yet know who he ends up with—or whether or not it’s even a contestant on the show. Rumors have swirled that the pilot is in a relationship with one of the show’s producers. Typically ABC announces the name of the long-running franchise’s next star after the finale of the previous season, but they’re shaking things up this season.

Clare Crawley first appeared on Juan Pablo’s season of The Bachelor in 2014. “I lost respect for you,” she told him as she walked away from him on the show. She also appeared on seasons one and two of Bachelor in Paradise, where she failed to find someone. In 2018, she appeared on The Bachelor: Winter Games, and she got engaged to Benoit Beauséjour-Savard—though they eventually split.

Bachelor Nation took to Twitter to react to the news.

The premiere date for Crawley’s season of The Bachelorette has not yet been announced.



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Jessica on Love Is Blind Let Her Dog Drink Wine From Her Glass—and People Have Thoughts


Love Is Blind, Netflix‘s new reality show, is a gift that keeps on giving.

It all begins with this wild premise: A bunch of single men and women move into a house where they start speed dating each other to see if they’re a match. But here’s the catch: They can’t see what the other person looks like. The cast gets to know each other inside “pods” where they talk for hours and decide if they want to get engaged. Yes, engaged…after mere days of knowing each other. At that point, they finally get to see the person they’ve decided to spend the rest of their lives with before being whisked away on a romantic vacation.

After the trip, they have to return to some version of real life, where they move in together and meet each other’s family and friends. As you can imagine, there are many dramatic moments as these couples dig into the thornier issues involved in a relationship. But there are also many incredible smaller moments. Exhibit A: when Jessica casually lets her dog lap up red wine from her glass and whispers, “She loves wine.”

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It’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, but many of the show’s viewers clocked it—and they had some thoughts. “This is the most dynamic moment of TV I’ve seen in a long time – from Netflix’s Love is Blind,” one fan tweeted. “A guy telling his fiancé, who he met the week before, that he’s mentally stable while she feeds her dog wine and tells him that she’s not his mom. So much to unwrap in 10 seconds.”

“Why would you watch literally anything else when you can watch Love is Blind and see a DOG drink WINE,” another wrote.

Love Is Blind is currently streaming on Netflix and you should all definitely be watching it—if just for the wine-drinking dog alone.



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Luke Perry Was Left Out of the Oscars 2020 In Memoriam—and People Are Upset


The Oscars 2020 ceremony didn’t have any big mistakes of the La La Land/Moonlight variety, but that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to criticize. Of course, there was the noticeable lack of representation for female filmmakers and people of color, which the show seemed to try to quell with interstitial segments celebrating them. Maybe next year, we can just nominate them. Cool? Cool.

But there was also a notable omission from the show’s In Memoriam segment, which featured Billie Eilish singing “Yesterday”: Luke Perry. The actor died in March 2019 at just the age of 52, and while he was best known for TV shows like Beverly Hills, 90210 and more recently, Riverdale, he also appeared in a number of films. In fact, one of Perry’s final roles was in Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-nominated Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. How do we leave out someone who’s in one of the Best Picture contenders?

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Fans (myself included) were rightfully upset on social media.

We bet Leonardo DiCaprio wasn’t thrilled either. “I was immediately struck by his kindness,” he told Entertainment Weekly last year about Perry, his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood costar. “And talking about being a native of Los Angeles, being around this industry my entire life, and really having it in a lot of ways shape who I am, there was this immediate excitement in seeing Luke Perry on set. I remember being in my teens and he was the manifestation of the new [James] Dean on television and everyone was crazy about him. And I felt this overwhelming feeling of being star-struck. Then he and I got to sit down and talk about Los Angeles, the ’90s, his life, where his career had gone, where my career had gone, where his life had gone, where my life…and I was just so, how do I say this, the kindness of his character, I don’t know, it really affected me. When I heard that news it was really heartbreaking.”



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The Oscars Rejected This Frida Mom Postpartum Ad for Being ‘Too Graphic'—and People Are Angry


As Hollywood’s A-list prepares to walk down the red carpet at tonight’s Academy Awards, a new Frida Mom postpartum ad is causing some controversy after being rejected by the Oscars for being “too graphic.”

The commercial shows a new mom in the first days after giving birth, facing the realities of what is happening to her body. You can see her postpartum belly, the mesh underwear given to new moms at the hospital, her struggle to go to the bathroom, the pad she must wear as her body continues to bleed—all while a newborn is crying in the background.

Frida Mom, a company focused on the postpartum needs of women, went ahead and posted the ad on its Instagram feed for all to see. “The ad you’re about to watch was rejected by ABC & the Oscars from airing during this year’s award show,” the caption reads. “It’s not ‘violent, political’ or sexual in nature. Our ad is not ‘religious or lewd’ and does not portray ‘guns or ammunition’. ‘Feminine hygiene & hemorrhoid relief’ are also banned subjects. It’s just a new mom, home with her baby and her new body for the first time. Yet it was rejected. And we wonder why new moms feel unprepared. So spray it forward and share this video with every new mom. She deserves to be prepared.”

The ad also has over 800,000 views on the Frida Mom Youtube channel.

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Many rallied to the defense of Frida Mom and the ad, including Busy Philipps. “I legit teared up when I just watched it. Partially because this is clearly an ad made by women who have been there and get it and partially because I DO believe so strongly that the more we can NORMALIZE A WOMAN’S BODILY EXPERIENCE IN MEDIA, the better off our culture and society will be. AND YES THAT MEANS ADS TOO,” Philipps wrote on Instagram. “You probably don’t even flinch when an Erectile Disfunction ad comes on but THIS AD IS REJECTED?! I think this is an incredible piece of advertising that accurately represents something millions of women know intimately. And I’m so fucking sick of living in a society where the act of simply BEING A WOMAN is rejected by the gatekeepers of media. Well. Shame on them and NOT on us for simply being human women.”

Many of the commenters on the brand’s post agreed. “Such a beautiful ad. I completely teared up. It brought me right back to having my babies and that our bodies are so badass. Thank you for creating this. It is beautiful. If anything you have impacted me today,” one wrote. “Such an honest representation of the new mom experience! My little one is now 20 weeks and your products were amazing! Thank you for sharing this and trying to help remove the stigma from the postpartum journey,” another said.

(ABC has not yet commented on the backlash.)

While the Frida Mom postpartum ad may not get its moment on Hollywood’s biggest night, it’s still making an impact on normalizing the experience of so many women—and that’s a very good thing.



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Billy Porter Had an Epic Response to People Who Are Mad He's Wearing a Dress on Sesame Street


Billy Porter has been killing it on the red carpet this awards season—turning out look after look and becoming a style icon in the process. Of course, this isn’t anything new if you’ve followed the Pose star’s career. He’s always been a fashion trailblazer. Just last year he wore a custom-made Christian Siriano tuxedo dress to the 2019 Oscars—a dress he’ll wear again on his upcoming appearance on Sesame Street.

Which has some people (read: trolls) in a tizzy. According to Page Six, a petition is being circulated calling for Sesame Street to pull Porter’s episode. “Do you approve of your taxpayer dollars being used to promote the radical LGBTQ agenda?” raged one critic, per Page Six. The petition itself reportedly accuses Sesame Street of trying to “sexualize children using drag queens” (which…doesn’t even make sense).

But Billy Porter isn’t sweating any of the criticism. “If you don’t like it, don’t watch it,” he told Page Six.

He continued, “Like, what about me singing with a penguin [on the show] has anything to do with what I’m doing in my bedroom?” and later added, “The really interesting thing for me is that that’s what it’s all about when it comes to LGBTQ people — the first thing everyone wants to talk about is how we having sex…Stay out of my bedroom and you will be fine—that is none of your business.”

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Billy Porter at the 2020 Oscars.
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Couldn’t have said it better myself, TBH. I’m very happy Porter isn’t paying this any mind. He’s too perfect and iconic to be bothered. The man is one trophy away to becoming an EGOT, for crying out loud (the only one missing is an Oscar). Literally if some tries to come for him again he can just cackle and point to his Emmy. I, for one, can’t wait to see him rock this dress again on Sesame Street. Give me all the style inspo.



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