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The Internet Has Thoughts About Kim Kardashian's Christmas Wrapping Paper


It’s no secret that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have adopted a very neutral aesthetic in recent years—look no further than Kim’s muted wardrobe, their extremely minimalist home decor or their low-key 2019 Christmas card to prove it. So it’s fitting that, for the holidays, the famous duo has also opted for an equally colorless palette.

Kardashian took to social media on Friday (December 20) to share pictures of her family’s wrapped Christmas gifts. She explained the look, writing, “West Holiday wrapping this year! Each year every family member pics a color and vibe so we know who the gifts are from. This year we chose creamy velvet!”

The velvet swaddled gifts are a look to say the least. Many on Instagram wondered how you can even wrap gifts with thick fabric (how do you tape it closed?) while others found the presents lacking in festive cheer thanks to the beige tones and absence of traditional holiday motifs. (Don’t expect to see a snowman or Rudolph under the Kardashian-West tree.)

“Who told Kim Kardashian that it was cute to wrap gifts in bed sheets… she really tried it,” one person tweeted. “This [is] worse than wrapping your textbook in a paper bag when you ran out of book covers,” another added.

While another person on Instagram jokingly compared them to Star Wars: “How many Sand Raiders from Tatooine were hurt in the wrapping of these presents?” they penned.

Meanwhile, others appreciated Kardashian-Wests eco-friendly approach to the holidays.

“Great reusable gift wrapping…no trees hurt! Good going usable year after year after year…..Never out of style! Love it,” one person commented on Instagram. Another wrote, “At least they’re not wasting paper!”

This isn’t the first time Kardashian has divided the Internet with her Christmas decor. Earlier this month, the KKW entrepreneur shared the all-white “whimsical” and “Whoville”-inspired trees in her home. While some called the Seussian decorations unique and chic, others were left comparing the decorations to tampons and cotton balls.



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Ryan Reynolds Trolled That Conversational Peloton Ad and the Internet Has Thoughts


Ryan Reynolds loves a good Internet troll—just ask his wife Blake Lively—so it should probably come as no surprise that he wasted no time weighing in on that controversial Peloton ad that took over social media last week. In a new commercial for his Aviation American Gin brand, Reynolds recruited the wide-eyed Peloton wife (actress Monica Ruiz) and gave her a script that implies she finally escaped her exercise bike, and perhaps, the husband who gave it to her.

Just to quickly recap: The Peloton ad—which shows a woman receiving a Peloton bike from her husband for Christmas, then tracking her progress over the year by vlogging her rides—touched a nerve with millions of people. Critics called it everything from “sexist” to “body shaming,” while others joked that the woman’s eyes were practically screaming “Get me out of here!” It seems like Reynolds took the latter idea and ran with it, because his ad involves the woman sitting at a bar, looking completely dazed and exhausted, while having a drink with her friends. “This gin is really smooth,” is all she says before her pals chime in with, “We can get you another one, if you’d like” and “You’re safe here.” (Fun fact: One of the friends is Mercedes from cycle two of America’s Next Top Model.)

The whole thing is subtle and the only obvious dig on the ad is when one of the woman’s friends says off-camera, “You look great, by the way!” But Reynolds did make sure we got the joke on his Instagram, where he posted the ad with the caption, “Exercise bike not included.”

For the most part, people laughed about Reynolds extending the Peloton wife saga.

The Peloton Wife actress also shared a message that shows the whole thing was meant in tongue-in-cheek—and that she was ready to brush off the controversy over the original commercial. “So much fun with these girls. Let’s make light of this!! Cheers!!” she wrote.

Ruiz also gave a statement to CNN saying that despite the backlash to the Peloton ad, she’s glad she got the gig. “I was happy to accept a job opportunity earlier this year from Peloton and the team was lovely to work with,” she said. “Although I’m an actress, I am not quite comfortable being in spotlight and I’m terrible on social media. So to say I was shocked and overwhelmed by the attention this week (especially the negative) is an understatement.” That said, getting the call from Reynolds certainly helped. “When Ryan and his production team called about Aviation Gin, they helped me find some humor in the situation,” she said.

But really, who wouldn’t want a call from him? No offense, Blake.



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Helen Mirren Has Thoughts on People Saying She Looks Like Keanu Reeves’s New Girlfriend


The internet started buzzing last week when Hollywood’s favorite actor, Keanu Reeves, stepped out on the red carpet with his rumored girlfriend, the artist Alexandra Grant. While most people fixated on her age and her gray hair (ugh), others pointed out that she looks a lot like Oscar winner Helen Mirren. On Wednesday, November 6, at the premiere of her new film The Good Liar, Mirren weighed in on Reeves’s dating her doppelgänger, saying she finds the comparison “flattering.”

Mirren shared her thoughts after Entertainment Tonight asked her if she’d caught wind of all the people noting how much she and Grant look alike. “I saw that,” she replied. “That was very flattering on me, you know, because she’s obviously lovely.”

Mirren shared some more sweet thoughts about the couple, who haven’t officially confirmed that they’re dating. “I do know Keanu very well,” she said. “He did a film with my husband, and he is just the most adorable, lovely person. So she’s a lucky girl and I’m sure that he’s a lucky boy.”

Those words are high praise coming from a woman who literally had men carry her into a recent premiere on a throne, like the royalty she is. Online, people are freaking out over photos of Mirren and Grant and commenting about how much they look alike. “I wasn’t wearing my glasses at first and I legit thought he was dating Helen Mirren which I also would have been here for,” one person wrote on Twitter. Another person added, “Saw the photos and legit thought Keanu Reeves was dating Helen Mirren. Which I also would have supported.”

“Hands up if you thought Keanu Reeves was actually dating Helen Mirren for a second ? I’m not usually bothered about celebrity dating stuff but genuinely happy for him,” a third person wrote.





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The Woman Behind the First Viral Gender Reveal Is Having Second Thoughts


Back in 2008, a blogger named Jenna Karvunidis helped popularize gender reveal parties and videos when she baked a cake to celebrate the impending birth of her first child. After several miscarriages, she was ecstatic about being far along enough in her pregnancy to find out the sex of her baby and wanted to mark the occasion. But it wasn’t just any regular cake: Pink icing, revealed when the cake was cut into, let her friends and family know that a girl was on the way.

“For me, it was a milestone,” she told The Guardian on Saturday, July 27. “I had had several miscarriages. It was like, ‘Oh yay, I’m finally at a point in my pregnancy where I know if it’s a boy or a girl’ rather than ‘Let’s saddle this kid with a whole identity’. I don’t think anybody was thinking like that in 2008.”

The reveal made it onto her blog, the website The Bump interviewed her, and “then I started noticing people having the same party,” she wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday (July 25) via her blog’s account. (It’s important to note that what Karvunidis actually revealed was her baby’s sex, which indicates the biological differences between males and females, as opposed to gender, which is the social construct of norms and roles stemming from one’s sex.)

But now, Karvunidis is rethinking so-called gender reveals—thanks, in part, to the now-10-year-old daughter whose own reveal party helped catalyze the trend.

“I’ve felt a lot of mixed feelings about my random contribution to the culture. It just exploded into crazy after that. Literally—guns firing, forest fires, more emphasis on gender than has ever been necessary for a baby,” she wrote in her Facebook post. “Who cares what gender the baby is? I did at the time because we didn’t live in 2019 and didn’t know what we know now—that assigning focus on gender at birth leaves out so much of their potential and talents that have nothing to do with what’s between their legs.”

She accompanied her post with an updated family photo. “PLOT TWIST, the world’s first gender-reveal party baby is a girl who wears suits!” Karvunidis wrote.

Karvunidis told The Guardian that, as her 10-year-old has been exploring nonbinary expressions of gender, she’s also been teaching her mom a few things about all the nuances involved. “I’m letting her lead me,” Karvunidis said. “She has her opinions about there being many genders, and she is informing me about things. She was biologically born a female, and she is still ‘she’ and ‘her’ and says she’s a girl, but she is still doing things her way.”



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Big Little Lies Season Two Finale: People Have a Lot of Thoughts


This post contains spoilers for the second season of Big Little Lies.

It feels like we just got reunited with the Monterey Five on HBO’s Big Little Lies, and now the season has already come to an end with last night’s finale on HBO. The show’s return has been marked by divided reactions from fans—and some reported off- set drama about of who was in charge of the season’s overall vision.

But even if you weren’t so thrilled with season two, it was still a helluva a ride for the most part. Last night alone brought us another classic Renata (Laura Dern) moment when she destroyed Gordon’s (very expensive) model trains while screaming, “Maybe you should have shown a woman a little respect!” Madeline (Reese Witherspoon) went full Midsommar/Coachella for her vow renewal with Ed. And then there was that courtroom showdown between Celeste (Nicole Kidman) and Mary Louise (Meryl Streep). Oh, and Bonnie (Zoe Kravitz) decided to leave her husband and turn herself in—which led to the other woman, including Jane (Shailene Woodley), joining her at the police station in the episode’s final scene.

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But the cross-examination scene, which revealed that Mary Louise had a car accident that killed Perry’s brother as well as a video that showed Perry abusing Celeste, was probably the night’s biggest moment. Fans reacted accordingly on social media, even drawing comparisons between Celeste and Witherspoon’s Elle Woods.

Laura Dern has also given us so much this season—including a lifetime’s worth of GIFs. “Nothing but respect for my president renata klein,” one fan tweeted.



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Melissa McCarthy Is Reportedly Playing Ursula in Disney's Live-Action 'The Little Mermaid'—And Twitter Has Thoughts


Disney’s continuing with their live-action remakes of favorite animated classics—most recently Aladdin, currently in theaters, as well as The Lion King, starring Beyoncé and Donald Glover and set to come out July 19. Also on the slate? A revival of The Little Mermaid, which will likely have a similarly star-studded cast. Of course, people are watching closely to find out who’s going to be playing their favorite characters from the original 1989 film, and one reported potential casting is spurring some conversation on Twitter. According to Variety on Friday, Melissa McCarthy is in “early talks” to play the very memorable Ursula, and while a lot of people are thrilled—she’s hilarious, after all!—others on Twitter have some thoughts about it.

Some bring up the point that in the original Disney film, Ursula was inspired by the late drag queen Divine—so for Disney to skip picking an LGBTQ+ actor or drag queen for the role is to miss an opportunity for greater representation, especially with the news coming at the end of Pride Month. (Although inspired by Divine, Ursula was originally voiced in the 1989 movie by Pat Carroll, a cisgender white woman.) Top names on Twitter for the casting include Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt‘s Tituss Burgess, Danielle Brooks, TS Madison, and pop singer Lizzo, who has been a guest judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and is a strong ally of the LGBTQ+ community.

Lizzo actually posted an audition video for the film last year to Twitter.

She reacted to the news of McCarthy’s reported casting with the pleading face emoji:

A lot of people would also really, really like Ginger Minj, a runner-up on season seven of RuPaul’s Drag Race, to play Ursula.

She had her thoughts about the news, too:

Another Twitter favorite for the role is Tituss Burguss:

Like Lizzo, he basically already has an audition tape:

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We’re still waiting to hear about the rest of the casting, but last October, Zendaya responded to rumors that she’d been offered the role of Ariel. “It’s just the rumor, so we will see,” she told People at the time, adding that The Little Mermaid had been one of her favorite movies as a little kid.

As far as what we know about the rest of the movie, a few details have been finalized: Per Variety, Mary Poppins Returns director Rob Marshall is leading the project, and Lin-Manuel Miranda is working on some new songs for the movie with the first movie’s original songwriter, Alan Menken. (Don’t worry, the classic songs will still be in there too.)

Of course, nothing about casting Ursula is set in stone yet. According to Variety, no final decisions have been made, and no contracts have been signed—so we’ll have to wait and see.



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