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Kris Jenner’s 70th birthday bash wasn’t just another celebrity party. iPINIONS contends it was a cultural coronation. From Oprah to the exiled Sussexes, even royals are keeping up. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/momager-kriss-70th-shows-even-royals Read more.
The Dodgers won the World Series, but not because of better baseball. Meghan Markle cursed them in LA, but Drake’s curse on Toronto proved more powerful. iPINIONS examines how celebrity jinxes determined the winner of this fall classic. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/drake-curse-helps-dodgers-defeat Read more.
I’ve written volumes over the years about Trump’s narcissism, envy, and insecurity. But his latest tantrum, accusing Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, and even Oprah of election meddling, marks a new low in his war against celebrity rejection. Trump craves celebrity validation the way his MAGA followers crave his attention. The irony? He wouldn’t let… Read more.
This is sad, but all too predictable. Drug addiction and mental illness often conspire to end in death. On Wednesday, Liam Payne, 31, fell from his hotel balcony in Argentina. Moments earlier, hotel staff complained he was behaving erratically, appearing “overwhelmed with drugs and alcohol.” His ransacked room only supported their claim. But Payne’s well-known… Read more.
Raducanu’s fall from grace I’ve written this commentary in the spirit of “I told you so.” That’s because it offers a cautionary tale young people would do well to heed. Emma Raducanu won her first and only Grand Slam at the 2021 US Open. But I felt compelled to rain on her parade by publishing… Read more.
The Kardashians are becoming an endangered species A new breed of influencers is taking over social media, and they’re not even real. Virtual influencers, or VTubers, are digital avatars created using CGI and AI. And they’re giving new meaning to thirst traps, captivating millions of already zombified humans with fantastical personas, hypnotizing voices, and flawless… Read more.
Raducanu Fires her coach 18-year-old Emma Raducanu shocked the world two weeks ago by winning her first Grand Slam at the US Open. Everyone probably thought her coach, Andrew Richardson, had much to do with her feat. That’s why Raducanu shocked the world again this week when she fired him. Perhaps, now that she’s a big celebrity, she needs a celebrity coach… Read more.
Angelina Jolie famously elected to replace her healthy breasts with implants because she feared she might develop terminal cancer … someday. And she won near-universal praise for doing so. TIME magazine even ran a May 27, 2013, cover heralding “The Angelina Effect” she would have on women. I, however, stood virtually alone in pooh-poohing the hosannas to… Read more.
On Tuesday the New York Times published an op-ed by actress Angelina Jolie on her decision to have a double mastectomy. Almost immediately she became the subject of media beatification the likes of which we have not seen, well, since Barack Obama announced his candidacy for president of the United States in 2008. But let me hasten to… Read more.
There’s no denying that Kim Kardashian is to Reality TV what Kate Middleton is to Royalty (sorry, Paris). So when news broke yesterday that she filed for divorce, after only 72 days of marriage, it naturally dominated headlines in both tabloid and mainstream press. Reality TV saturates our culture now, and the Kardashians are its… Read more.
