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Meghan Markle Is Suing a Tabloid for Publishing Her Private Letter


Meghan Markle is taking legal action against the tabloid Mail on Sunday for publishing one of her private letters, Prince Harry announced Tuesday, October 1, on the Sussex Official website.

A legal spokesperson representing the Duchess of Sussex offered some specific details on this case to Prince Harry, which were published in his statement:

“We have initiated legal proceedings against the Mail on Sunday, and
its parent company Associated Newspapers, over the intrusive and
unlawful publication of a private letter written by the Duchess of
Sussex, which is part of a campaign by this media group to publish
false and deliberately derogatory stories about her, as well as her
husband. Given the refusal of Associated Newspapers to resolve this
issue satisfactorily, we have issued proceedings to redress this
breach of privacy, infringement of copyright and the aforementioned
media agenda.”

It’s not explicitly said in the statement what letter caused this lawsuit, but the Guardian reports it’s one that Markle wrote to her estranged father, Thomas, after her wedding to Prince Harry in 2018.

In a lengthy statement, Prince Harry explained why he and Markle decided to sue Mail on Sunday. (It’s rare for the royal family to give any sort of attention to the press, let alone take legal action. Here’s a brief history of times they got lawyers involved.) The Duke of Sussex cited what happened to his mother, Princess Diana, as a big reason for going this route.

Meghan Markle in South Africa this week

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Prince Harry Just Addressed That Private Jet Controversy


Much like many of us, the royal family—including Prince Harry—is getting back to work after a lighter workload over the summer. Unlike you, however, for the Duke of Sussex that means addressing the private jet controversy he and wife Meghan Markle have been dealing with lately.

In case you missed this royal drama, here’s the gist: the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are outspoken (as royal standards go) on the subject of climate change and other environmental issues. So when they took trips on private jets this summer—including one that took them to Elton John’s home in France for a vacation with baby Archie—critics came at them over their carbon footprint and deemed the behavior hypocritical. This also caused many celebrities like John, Ellen Degeneres, and Pink to speak out about what they considered to be unfair treatment of the couple in the British press.

Today, Harry was in Amsterdam to launch a new travel initiative and addressed the situation.

“I came here by commercial. I spend 99% of my life traveling the world by commercial,” he said. “Occasionally there needs to be an opportunity based on a unique circumstance to ensure my family are safe and it’s genuinely as simple as that.” He also added that he always offsets his CO2, which John stated he did for the royals’ trip to visit him.

So there you go. Harry says it was a safety issue, and who are we to question that? He also reminded everyone that he is only human, after all. “I’ve learned that we cannot dismiss the idea of trying to do something, just because we can’t do everything. We can all do better,” he said. “And, while no one is perfect, we are all responsible for our own individual impact; the question is what we do to balance it out.”

To that end, Harry was in Amsterdam to announce Travalyst (travel + catalyst) which is “global initiative striving to change the impact of travel, for good” with partners like Trip Advisor, Bookings.com, and Visa.

“I want to start with a little bit of background as to specifically why I’m here today, because as you may know, I am not a tourism or business expert, but through my travels I have observed the unique relationship between community and environment, and have noticed something alarming,” Harry said on the Sussex Royal Instagram. “There wasn’t the symbiosis or connection there needed to be and I wanted to understand why. I am one of those people fortunate enough to have a platform and I want to use it to tackle hard problems, in the hope of finding solutions…and that’s how Travalyst was born.”

Next up for the Sussex family is a royal tour in Africa starting September 23, where we will get to see how much little Archie has grown. We can’t wait.



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Post-Weinstein, SAG-AFTRA Wants to End Auditions in Private Hotel Rooms and Homes


SAG-AFTRA wants to keep actors safe by making one problematic Hollywood practice history. On Thursday, the actors’ union called for an end to professional meetings in private hotel rooms and homes—a tactic that Harvey Weinstein allegedly exploited to sexually harass many actresses.

To do this, SAG-AFTRA issued a new guideline that will ask “producers and other decision makers” to stop holding auditions, interviews, and meetings in such “high-risk locations,” as well as urge its members and their reps to turn down such meetings. In the rare event that this isn’t possible, the union encourages members to take “Support Peers” to the meeting, a press release stated. According to the guideline, the “Support Peer” should have “physical access” to the actor throughout the meeting, so separating them with a closed door, for example, is unacceptable.

“We are committed to addressing the scenario that has allowed predators to exploit performers behind closed doors under the guise of a professional meeting,” said Gabrielle Carteris, the SAG-AFTRA president, in a statement.

According to the press release, this new guideline is the first expansion of SAG-AFTRA’s new Code of Conduct, which it published in February as part of its advance equity and anti-harassment initiative, Four Pillars of Change. A Variety story from February reported that the new initiative includes rules, guidelines, education, expanded intervention efforts, and safety nets.

“To truly change the culture we must be courageous and willing,” Carteris said in February, according to Variety. “At its most basic, this Code will ultimately help better define what harassment is, and what members’ rights are in real world situations. We are going further, however, with the launch of our Four Pillars of Change initiative to achieve safe workplaces and advance equity.”



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Someone Edited Out All the Men in 'Saving Private Ryan,' and It's Hilarious


Star Wars: The Last Jedi, as everyone knows, is a cinematic marvel. It has a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, was the highest-grossing film of 2017, and guess what—almost all of its major characters were women and POC. That last fact did not sit well with one man, however, who decided to show us all by spending a great deal of time and effort editing out all the women from the film. (Or, as he called it, removing all the “Girlz Powah and other silly stuff.”) The result? A 46-minute short film called The Last Jedi: De-Feminized Fanedit that was universally panned and mocked relentlessly by the director and cast.

Twitter user Logan Smith, however, was not content letting it end there. Smith, who’s also behind the Twitter project @YesYoureRacist, took things one step further and applied the same flawed logic to Saving Private Ryan. “In response to the MRA douche who edited all the women out of #TheLastJedi,” he wrote, “I decided to edit all of the men out of Saving Private Ryan. Here it is in its entirety.”

The result is 2 minutes and 20 seconds of abandoned roads, graveyards, women looking out the window, the American flag undulating forlornly in the wind, and raindrops. For some perspective, the original cut of Saving Private Ryan is 2 hours and 49 minutes long. To be fair, it’s not like women don’t speak at all in those 2 hours and 49 minutes. It’s just that they speak only when there’s a man present. As Smith explained, “I think there was one or two scenes where a woman said something but there was also a man in the shot so I had to cut it.”

The new cut of Saving Private Ryan has since achieved viral acclaim, and Smith quickly followed up his breakout debut with a solid sophomore effort, a manfree edit of The Shawshank Redemption. This one is even leaner and slicker than the last, capping in at a minute and a half of run time. Beautiful.

Related: 8 TV Stars on the One Scene That Changed Everything For Women





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Selena Gomez Puts Instagram on Private After Posting and Deleting a Message About Her 'Billboard' Profile


When you’re the most-followed person on Instagram for two years running, you can pretty much do whatever you want on the social media site—including making your account private. That’s what Selena Gomez just did, at least. The “Fetish” singer turned her Instagram account private early Tuesday morning, a few hours after she had posted and deleted a cryptic message on her Instagram Story. (If you’re one of the 130 million people who already follow her, don’t worry: You still have full access to all Selena content.)

People first noticed that the world’s most popular Insta had locked out new followers around 7 a.m. ET, when major fan account @SelenaHQ tweeted out the news. Selenators reacted with shock and worry: “So Selena Gomez made her insta private. Guys am shook and happy at the same time. Like I want someone else to take that most followed title. So they can leave my baby alone. All the slander against her is just too much,” one concerned fan tweeted. Others, however, found it funny that an account followed by hundreds of millions of people was now “private.” “Selena has half of ig following her, what’s the point of putting her account on private ?” one wrote.

Gomez flipped the switch shortly after posting and deleting a message seemingly criticizing her Billboard “Woman of the Year” profile to her Instagram Story, according to a screenshot captured by JustJared. “Never will I let another human guess my words ever again. Or invite them in my home. That is so hurtful. The most ‘ridiculous’ part of that is no one knowing my heart when I say things,” she captioned a zoomed-in screenshot of the Billboard article, which was published last week.

The section of the article in Gomez’s photo also uses the word “ridiculous,” which was attributed to the “Wolves” singer. Here’s that part, from the article’s opening paragraph, in full: “There’s a five-foot teddy bear sprawled across the kitchen floor in Selena Gomez’s North Hollywood home. ‘I know, I know,’ says Gomez, rolling her eyes, acknowledging that the stuffed animal doesn’t quite blend with the trio of armchairs nestled in the inviting, marble-accented nook. ‘It was a gift, and at first I thought, ‘This is so ridiculous, I can’t wait until I give it away to another person.’ But Gomez, 25, hasn’t let go of it—yet.”

It’s unclear what exactly offended Gomez about that seemingly innocent description, though it appears she feels she was misquoted about her feelings toward the teddy bear. The situation is made even more confusing by the fact that Gomez posted her Billboard cover on Twitter and thanked the magazine last Thursday, immediately after the article was published—which would imply that she had read and approved of the article at that time. And over the weekend, after attending the Billboard Women in Music 2017 event on Saturday, she posted the magazine cover on Instagram. “Thank you beyond for your acknowledgment and honor @billboard but honestly thank you more for the event you held for women. That night was so inspiring and every woman spoke eloquently and with such force. I’ll try to continue to give my best to even remotely live up to a title. In the mean time I hope we all continue to give our best when the world wants to give us the worst. We aren’t stopping the fight,” she wrote.

Neither Billboard nor Brooke Mazurek, the profile’s author, have commented on Gomez’s unexplained criticisms. And while the only way we’ll find out what exactly was so “hurtful” about the Billboard story is from Gomez herself, she’s previously acknowledged that she prefers to step back from the spotlight than offer up long, drawn-out explanations when things get overwhelming—so we many never solve the mystery of the five-foot teddy bear in her marble-accented nook.





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Cole Sprouse Says It's 'Sexier' to Keep His Relationships Private


It’s been pretty mum when it comes to sweeping public declarations of love from Riverdale‘s favorite rumored off-screen couple, Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart. Sure, there are the soulful photoshoots, the low-key hand-holding, the wearing of each other’s clothes in public. The signs of a very intimate friendship and/or blossoming young love are there! But so far, we’ve received no confirmation—and no denial—from the two of them, save for a joke from Reinhard about how all the Riverdale kissing scenes with Sprouse are “comfortable”. Indeed, as my imaginary great aunt would say, pursing her lips at the thought of a secretive off-screen romance (yes, my imaginary great aunt is Maggie Smith).

Speaking of spilling tea, Sprouse recently opened up about his relationship with Reinhart. In a People article detailing his “sexy confessions,” he said some not-so-sexy things about his relationship with his co-star. Not that they’re bad things, just—wow, this guy is a pro at not saying things while also saying things! But…but…are all these little hints (see above list!) just a projection of our own shipping?

“Lili and I are constantly talked about in the public eye, and for me I think that it is being deeply informed by the love of the characters and wanting to see us together,” he told People. “I think that in many ways it’s offensive and an invasion of privacy, but it’s also a badge of honor because it means you’re creating a chemistry onscreen that is so understandable that people want to see it in real life, which is flattering from a professional perspective.”

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Apparently he was then directly asked about his relationship with Reinhart, and…do you see this coming?

“No comment,” he told People. “Because whether you dismiss those rumors or whether you encourage those rumors, it’s giving people who are in my opinion are a bit entitled to your personal life more power, and you have to have spaces for reverence in the industry. Going to college made me realize you have to have real spaces of privacy and you have to establish those early. [Ryan] Gosling is a perfect example. Gosling has been in a much more sexual or romantic side of the industry than many actors have to be, and his marriage is not publicized and talked about and beaten over people’s heads because people respect that he set those boundaries early.”

True. Ryan Gosling does have a cult of mystery around him.

“And that’s the same thing,” Sprouse continued. “The more you let people in on that, the more people feel entitled to it, and the more it becomes problematic with whoever you end up being with in the future, so I take that very seriously. So I just never talk about it because it’s not anyone’s right to know. People can speculate all they want—people speculate about me with every member of the cast practically—but it’s really no one’s right to know. It’s also sexy, these parts of the relationships that are just yours.”

We’re sorry, Sprouse. We ship often. We ship hard. We will try to tone it down.

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“It’s also sexy, these parts of the relationships that are just yours.”

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