Meghan Markle Is Back On Instagram, AND On Netflix
Plus: Angelina and Br*d Divorce, Andy and Anderson do NYE, Elon Is Using His Son As A Human Shield, Tom Holland Is Still A Lil Boy + more
If you had told me in 2024 that Meghan Markle would be back on Instagram I would have said “wow, she’s so brave” and inquired about the whereabouts of my jam. But then if you told me every post she makes would have the comments turned off, I would have said “wow, she’s so smart”, and inquired about my jam AGAIN. Where’s my damn jam! Anyway, not only is she back on Instagram, but she’s back on Netflix with her new show cooking/lifestyle show With Love, Meghan.
Meghan Markle being back on my TV screen is like I’ve stepped through a time portal. Maybe there’s a new flavour of jam she will send me, who knows! In 2025 we’re positive! We’re delusional! What I do know, is that this feels like a return to 2010s, when the Duchess was writing her blog The Tig. It feels like One Direction’s Story of My Life is playing on the radio followed by Timber by Pitbull f/Ke$ha. It feels like the best of times, and the Fly Like A G6 of times, at least from the trailer.
Even the poster for the show just feels, warm? Invite me over for drinks Meg, please!
Make like Meghan and start the year off right—refer a friend to Now That I Mention It since you like it so much, and why not upgrade to paid, and if you’re already paid, girl save 20% off your subscription price by subscribing for a year!
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Divorce Babe, Divorce!
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have reached a divorce settlement after 8 years. I cannot believe it’s taken this long, but as soon as the judge said Pitt had to hand over evidence that would prove he abused Jolie and the kids, he said OOP, the defense rests, shut his briefcase, and was ready to go. In an interview for W Magazine, When asked about her “pet peeves,” the Maria star replied, “So many things. But my pet peeve is somebody who is a liar.”
Without saying William Bradley Pitt specifically, Jolie explained, “Somebody who feels a need to not say the truth or what they want, what they feel. There's a big version of that — and I'm not trying to be heavy about it — but people who say one thing and mean another, who aren't completely who they are. I think a lot of people don't say what they mean.” Girl we know who you talking about, and I agree!!! Also, can we just talk about how gorgeous this cover is????
You can listen to my thoughts on the other performances here in my first audio post for Now That I Mention It!!!
New Year, Nude Ralph
Ralph Fiennes joining Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper for New Year’s Eve was literally so unhinged, but I adoooorrrrre his dedication to not taking himself too seriously. He was really out here showing nipple, and this line reading is something I will show my grandkids, and my grandkids’ grandkids. He really is the GOAT.
This week, paid readers with taste heard me break my silence about Babygirl!
In Da Werkplace, We All Babygirl
This post contains spoilers, but by now you should have already seen Babygirl on Christmas day with your family, leaving the theatre, and discarding your blue ICEEs in a hush of awkward silence having seen Nicole Kidman on all fours, doing her best imitation of a black German Shepherd (no blackface involved, thank GOD) in the hopes of still being in the running towards becoming a woman who
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Child Stars Playing Dress Up
Tom Holland for Men’s Health—I’m sorry, and I know he’s dating Zendaya and everyone wants them to be a power couple but he will never not give 17 year old boy to me. He’s like your college best friend’s little brother who keeps trying to be overtly sexual to get your attention and I’m sorry it’s not gonna work, you’re a child!!!
Now what I will say is, there was a moment he was in his grown man bag, and I think it was more about the hair and the styling that got him there, but it’s still a no from me.
Musk Be The Fear, Cause It Ain’t Your Face
Ever since someone who isn’t Luigi Mangione killed that healthcare CEO, Elon Musk has really using his baby as a human shield, and it is both disgusting, and extremely on brand. Hanging out in Mar-A-Lago, hope a bo—ahem, hope that place collapses.
Take Her Down A Meg
Speaking of Meghans, Meghan McCain is truly the worst of the nepo babies—lives off her dead father’s name (who ALSO wasn’t shit, mind you) and has never made headlines for anything other than looking an absolute mess or hating on other women. Her targeted hate at Meghan Markle (a superior Meghan) is simply jealousy and faux outrage because she looks like—well, that—and also because she has literally nothing better to do. Unbooked. Unbusy. Uninteresting, and untrustworthy.
From Lana Del Rey's pregnancy announcement, to Dua Lipa's elopement, and even Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus' Grammys performance, here are my predictions for 2025
Did I Forget To Mention
It’s been a long time since I’ve had good book mail, and this isn’t really book mail (even though I diiiiid receive a lot of books for Christmas) but it’s a copy of the 250th issue of The Paris Review that has healed something in me—particularly, Regular Decision, a short story by Silas Jones about a questioning young woman who does an overnight at her prospective women’s college and wrestles with decisions about sexuality, education, and her life’s overall direction. It’s beautifully written. I recommend it.
I also just finished More by Molly Roden Winter, a memoir about a woman in New York—a wife, and mother of two—who opens her marriage, and the things she learns about herself on the journey, and I wasn’t at ALL expecting to relate to this book as much as I did (mostly because I’m not a white woman and I’m not married and I don’t have kids and I’m not in an open relationship and I don’t read a ton of non-fiction) but it was SO good and intriguing. I hated the very last chapter of the book, so I’m going to pretend like it didn’t happen, like the last few years LOL. Happy weekend girlies!
You are so right about who is the superior Meghan. Blonde Meghan is insufferable.
Giggling Anderson Cooper never gets old. He just can’t contain himself.