In OMG this is adorable news, a family from Ireland was on a star tour recently, and when their bus stopped outside Aaron Paul's house, he came down to chat with them. Apparently, he does this all the time. The McNeive family's dad filmed it all and posted it on YouTube for us to all enjoy:
I'm a bit of an Anglophile, I admit it. Readily. Hell, I collect Charles and Di memoribilia (and some other royals, but mostly their stuff). So, I did follow Wills' baby news with some regularity. However, the coverage went from "too much" to "are you shitting me?" really quickly and I decided I would abstain from writing about the royal couple, or little Prince George (sounds like the greatest 80s amalgamation of all time). That is, until this Wednesday's OK Magazine came out.
News came last week that Jenny McCarthy was to be one of the replacement co-hosts for ABC's The View, in light of the departures of Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and the retirement of the show's creator and executive producer, Barbara Walters. McCarthy, the former Playboy Playmate is no stranger to controversy, and she has had her fair share of detractors.
The Prime Time Emmy Award nominations were announced on Thursday, and one major show's nomination means big things for how we consume episodic television. Netflix original series, House of Cards was nominated for best drama and people (myself included) are surprised (Jason Bateman is also nominated for Best Actor, Comedy for the now-Netflix produced Arrested Development). Why are we surprised? Because Netflix is not television. It's an online platform that we can watch on our televisions, but it's not a network.
As we all woke up Sunday, we learned of the tragic news of Glee star Cory Monteith's death in a Vancouver hotel. We all swirled towards the initial thought: drugs and alcohol. The actor had been very open in the past with his struggles with addiction, but maintained a sober lifestyle and by all accounts, was one of the kindest, hardest working young people in Hollywood. So what happened?
Earlier this week, a single (and wonderful) friend posted a Facebook update because she was recently found out that unless she was with a child, she would be unable to enter the new Legoland Discovery Centre. The park says that they host an adults only night once a month and that single adults should come then. This raised the ire of a number of people and started an intense discussion on her post.
My parents divorced when I was around 8 years old. It was tough on us and I don't think my mum gave my dad a fair shake all the time, especially in things she said to us about him. But nothing Nigella Lawson can say will be bad enough for her PoS soon to be ex husband, Charles Saatchi. Luckily, her kids are hers from her first marriage, so this awful man cannot get anywhere near them in future.
June seems to have been the month of babies here at YMC (and in my life — my baby brother and his wife just had their first baby, too!). Although my birth story wasn't so harrowing (did you see the craziness Sarah Remmer was dealing with while giving birth to her daughter?), it was definitely something.
Full disclosure: I think Miley Cyrus is a beautiful girl and I really enjoy her hair (but I kind of have the same style, so maybe I'm biased). This week, her new video for the single We Can't Stop was released:
So, of course I have baby on the brain. Baby number two, aka Lauchie, aka Lucky, aka Lachlan (more on his arrival and name in weeks to come) is two weeks old and I'm working on getting back into my normal routine. And then Kim Kardashian has to go and upstage me by having her baby, North, weeks early (celebrity baby names, amirite?). But news today is that the lunacy surrounding the early arrival of little North West (no middle name, aka Nori) isn't quite over.
Two big pieces of news I didn't want to miss out on sharing with you guys, both of which have me shaking my head for completely different reasons. The first involves TV chef, and absolute babe, Nigella Lawson and her husband, 70 year old multi-millionaire Charles Saatchi. They were out for lunch on the weekend in London and paps there caught the couple in an argument.
So, I've been a bit quiet this last week, and for very good reason. Last Monday, we welcomed our second son into the world after an insane 19 hours of labour (for a second kid!). After what I assumed was a false labour Sunday night, Lachlan (Lauchie) David came roaring out around 9am Monday. I had Lauchie at home, with midwives and no drugs or other medical intervention.
AH, NXNE. The Canadian sister to Austin, TX's SXSW festival is expanding this year to include programing for families — the NeXt by NE concert series showcasing musical talent under the age of 15. If you've got kids that are into new music, and you want to expose them to concerts and festivals, this is an awesome weekend opportunity at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre.
In oddly strange (yet somehow satisfying) news, looks like Saturday night's Britain's Got Talent finale was crashed by a former contestant. A contestant from last season, Natalie Holt, crashed the stage during one of the finalist's performances to throw eggs at judge/producer Simon Cowell.
This week, Radar Online decided to post a slideshow of Hollywood's Best and Worst Parents. The headline I'd intitially seen over on ONTD was Hollywood's Worst Dads and I clicked through wondering why in the hell anyone would want to target dads this way, and just before Father's Day.
Last night was the premiere of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, and we finally found out the gender of Kim and Kanye's baby. Her sisters and mum rallied around her because Kanye couldn't be with her (apparently, he was with her for 2-3 other ultrasounds previous), but earlier in the episode, Kim admitted to her mum that she felt like she was, "letting everyone down" because she wasn't excited about the pregnancy.
Just in time for the end of the regular school year for most kiddies, Disney/Pixar is releasing Monsters University; the story of our two favourite monsters from Monsters Inc and how they met in their college days. Turns out, Sully was a star everything in college, and Mike Wazowski was both jealous and worked very hard to keep up with his first-year roomie.
I've been trying to avoid talking about this because it isn't so much a scandal, nor is it something that should be taken lightly. Amanda Bynes is in the news yet again. This time, for allegedly throwing a bong out of a car window to avoid arrest. After her arrest, erratic behaviour and court appearance, she says that police sexually assaulted her and that was when she was arrested: after she fought back against the assault.
When I read this news today, I started grinning ear-to-ear. I'm not exactly sure why, but for all the struggles Demi Moore has had over the last few years, something about this has made me chuckle to myself. I think I may have actually said, "Get it, girl!" out loud at my computer.
