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Gossip: Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie Are Talking Again; A Look At Elton John’s Crazy Custom Nikes

Six months since Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie‘s split last September, the two are making peace — and have talked to each other directly, sources tell People.

“He’s much happier,” a source says. “He’s very relieved that things are not playing out in public anymore.”

After months of heated battles via court papers, Pitt, 53, and Jolie, 41, agreed in January to enlist a private judge to hash out their divorce and custody issues privately, and those negotiations are ongoing.

“It was a rough time, but they were able to resolve it,” adds the source. “This is a work in progress.”

Jolie even recently told ABC she thought Pitt was a “wonderful” father to their six children.

“He’s always been extremely positive about how Angie’s a good mother, and the goal was to resolve everything for the kids and the whole family, and they’re working toward that,” says the source.

“He is spending more time with the kids when they are in L.A.,” says another Pitt insider. “He has even spent some time with Maddox and Pax. Things are definitely calming down.”

Elton John’s Custom Nike Sneakers Are Insane—And We Totally Want Them

Nike has created a special disco ball-inspired shoe for Sir Elton John, featuring an elevated sole and a slick rainbow stripe.

“The Nike AF1 Jet is a one-of-a-kind sneaker created to say thank you to Elton for his commitment to diversity and inclusion, and his long-standing relationship with Nike,” Nike said in a statement.

The shoes are inspired by the singer’s disco days, where he’d tickle the ivories under glowing mirror balls in the packed clubs of the ’70s, often in a pair of Nikes. The shoes also have a BeTrue-esque rainbow along the sole and a BeTrue logo on the tongue.


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Here’s Why Woody Harrelson Quit Using Marijuana For Good

Woody Harrelson shocked us all by claiming that he hasn’t consumed marijuana in over a year after being one of Hollywood’s biggest and most vocal proponents of the herb and its legalization. 

In an interview with Vulture, Harrelson explained that while he’d consumed cannabis for most of his life, he recently decided to quit because he felt that the plant made him emotionally unavailable and that it messed with his head. He added that giving marijuana up was a consequence of “partying too fucking hard for over 30 years,” and that he wanted to stay away from all of that by also moderating his drinking. 

“The effect of it is euphoria. But when you’re doing it all the time, it just becomes… Well, you know.”

Cryptic much?

Harrelson made headlines back in the 90’s when he was imprisoned for planting hemp seeds in Kentucky as a way of challenging the state laws that made no distinction between the cultivation of hemp and marijuana (For those of you not in the know, hemp has a lower concentration of THC and is used for other purposes besides the medicinal and recreational use commonly associated with cannabis).

In early 2016 he also applied for a permit to convert his Hawaii home into a marijuana dispensary — a proposal which was later denied, dang it. 

He concluded the interview by claiming that he’s still a proponent of the herb and that he thinks it’s a “great drug”. He claims that his decision to step away from marijuana was a personal one that doesn’t reflect on his views on the plant and its federal legalization. 

Harrelson’s career is looking great right now with upcoming roles in massive blockbusters like the ‘Han Solo’ movie and ‘War for The Planet of The Apes’. He’s currently promoting his latest movie Wilson, where he plays the title role and co-stars with Laura Dern. The film will be released on March 27 and it looks as weird and crazy as anything you’d expect from him. You can watch the red band trailer below.



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Gossip: Kim Kardashian’s Security Costs $7 Million A Year; Lindsay Lohan Reality Show Coming

The gaps in their security were exposed when Kim Kardashian was victim of a terrifying robbery at gun-point in Paris last October and now the star is paying $7 million a year to feel safe.

“Kim’s security details costs her around $7 million a year,” sources tell Naughty Gossip. “She is willing to pay whatever it takes to feel safe. After what she went through, Kim does not care about money anymore when it comes to her safety. Kim thinks this is the best money she ever spend in her life. She will never allow herself to be vulnerable ever again.”

Kardashian says she can’t get to sleep without four security guards outside her home, in a sneak peak of Sunday’s all-new “Keeping Up With The Kardashians.”

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Kris Jenner, 61, looks concerned by the breach in security, as they assess their protection going forward.

“It’s my job to take care of everybody,” she tells the assembled family, as she’s seated wearing a camouflage hoodie.

Clearly Kris had been advising her daughters on the exposed parts of their life, as Kourtney is heard on the E! show saying: “Mom is saying I should tint that window.”

“I Can’t sleep without four security guards,” Kim on KUWTK trailer.

“As a security measure,” Kris interjects, in case anyone thought it just a style statement.

Kris is then asked, over a family meal which included a make-up free Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian: “Do you think we have enough security?” to which she replied a definite, “No.”

Lindsay Lohan Set To Make Explosive Return To TV: New Reality Show

Lindsay Lohan is set to make an explosive return, after the trailer for her new reality show, The Anti-Social Network, was leaked to MailOnline exclusively on Tuesday.

As a regular social media user, Lindsay is putting her expertise to good use as she takes over contestants’ social media accounts on the show.

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Similar to that of MTV classic Punk’d, the redhead will play pranks on unwitting individuals by messaging their friends and posting statuses online – with the contestants having to complete the challenges for lavish prizes.

SHE’S BACK!

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You Can Now Get Your Weed Through A Drive-Thru Window In Colorado

Feeling dankrupt in Colorado, but don’t want to get out of your car to go into a dispensary? There’s a business model for that. Can you say marijuana drive-thru?

Tumbleweed, owned by Green Cross Colorado LLC, is set to become the state’s first-ever drive through marijuana sales establishment. It’s located in a former car wash, in a plot twist that would make Walter White proud.

The building also makes it easier for owners to comply with some of the rules around dispensaries that normal fast-food drive throughs would struggle to meet: No displaying the product outside of the store, or letting it be visible from the outside.

Legal weed saved the town from near-certain economic destruction, as Parachute Mayor Roy McClung noted during a Chamber of Commerce luncheon this month. Nearly 30 percent of Parachute’s sales tax receipts in 2016 were from marijuana sales, at $310,000 out of $1.05 million total, according to the Post Independent. Legalizing weed sales in 2015 has been a boon to the small town:

He pointed to the fact that cars coming off the highway to purchase marijuana in Parachute are now more likely to stop at other restaurants and shops, which has proven to be an economic driver for the town, which was hit hard by the latest natural gas downturn.

“In December 2016, $25,016 of the town’s $93,320 tax receipt figure, or 26.8 percent of the town’s sale tax for the month, was from the sale of recreational marijuana,” McArthur wrote in a memo to the town’s Board of Trustees. “The percentage is down from previous months, indicating that other sales tax is increasing as a percentage of the total.”

Other regulations around this innovative idea include no one under 21 years of age (even if they’re in the backseat) and surveillance must be places at the point of sale. Tumbleweed’s drive-through is expected to open next month.

4 Pro-Tips For Getting The Best Value On Any Restaurant’s Wine List

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Few things fuck up wine like money. I’m not saying that you should throw your budget out the window when you go to order a bottle, but the degree to which people will fret about a few bucks never ceases to amaze me. Nowhere is that more evident than the endless stream of advice telling you to order the “X cheapest” wine on a list, where “X” stands for “Xtremely bad suggestion.” Wanna know how to actually get value when you dine out? Read on.

Know Your Price, And Tell Someone

I can do a lot of wonderful things, but I can’t read your mind. In the modern dining environment, it’s a fool’s errand to guess whether a guest is out for a rare date night and has a budget or is a tech billionaire. You, on the other hand, know your limits, and feel free to state them to the somm or server from the get-go. We won’t waste your time with pricey suggestions, and you won’t feel bad for ignoring them.

Don’t Be Picky

Look, certain grapes and regions will generally cost more. Wanna know why Pinot Noir is rarely cheap? Because it’s a finicky grape to grow, and because it’s a grape that everyone knows. As such winemakers both need to charge more for it, and also know they can.

Cabernet Sauvignon might be more vigorous, but often consumers prefer it aged in new oak barrels, which are expensive. Thus, the resulting wine is too. It’s fine to use those grapes as reference points, but if you insist on them, you’re likely to pay more money for less interesting wine, when you could be getting really delicious Beaujolais, Blaufranckisch, or Rioja for less money.

Avoid Glass Pours

I’ve talked about this before, but you’ll get soaked more on glass pours than on anything else on the list. A bottle of the glass pour Chardonnay might sell for the same price as another bottle on the list, even though the restaurant likely paid $5-10 more dollars for the latter bottle.

Give Yourself Credit

Look, we’re not all wine experts, but the constant stream of articles claiming that no one can tell the difference between $5 and $500 wine are bullshit. If you want to start understanding what makes great wine great, consider a few qualities that anyone can discern: the texture of the wine, the complexity (or how many different flavors you taste), and the length of the finish (how long after swallowing you still taste the wine).

If you’re just looking for something to lubricate your meal, then sure, order whatever bottle fits your budget, but if you’re looking to have an actual wine experience, then start trusting yourself.

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Watch: How To Turn Your Computer Tower Into A Stove Top

This is insane, but someone figured out how to turn a computer tower into a stove top.

The desire for a Chinese hamburger spurred this video indie flick, which shows a woman arriving to work, retrieving a bag of cucumber flavored chips, along with some condiments, and bringing them to her desk. Innocent enough. But then she starts disassembling her computer, breaking apart a cheap wooden decoration to use as kindling, and ultimately transforming the tower into a surface that’s hot enough to cook a crepe. The crepe is smeared with egg yolk and stuffed with potato chips and other ingredients. It all comes together quite quickly and the result is pretty outstanding.

If job security doesn’t interest you, or you’re trying to figure out a way to get fired quickly, here’s how to turn expensive office equipment into your personal hot top.

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Why We Love The Anaxy Star: It Grinds And Stores Two Kinds Of Herb

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Anaxy Star has been referred to as the world’s most creative grinder, and for a good reason. This handy little device will satisfy all of your marijuana needs, packing a super powerful punch that’ll make you feel like you have the largest grinder in the world without the extra large size and weight. The Anaxy Star grinder was built to satisfy all kinds of purposes, being able to store, grind and dispense marijuana all in one package.

The grinder is equipped with two compartments that function individually and separately, where you’ll be able to store different strains of marijuana and carry them with you, for consuming at home or for some on the go impromptu smoking. Since these compartments function separately, you’ll be able to grind and store your marijuana at the same time, eliminating the need for having different devices and saving you room.

While you grind your favorite strain in one of your device’s compartments, you’ll be able to use the remaining one for storage. Anaxy Star is the only grinder on the world that does that, and it’s pretty incredible.

This little gizmo also has a dispensing module that gives you more control over the marijuana, so that you don’t have to use your hands or have to resort to last-minute pinching while looking for the last scraps of the herb. The module will place the marijuana exactly where you want it to be.

If you’re still unconvinced, check out this video that demonstrates the incredible functions that the grinder has: 

Watch: Hangry Chris Pratt Eats Snacks On The Set Of ‘Jurassic World 2’

Being on a movie set all day has its glamorous moments, but often times, it’s a lot of sitting around and pretending you’re not on a strict diet (says the person who’s never been on a movie set). Chris Pratt proves this point with a series of Instagram videos he recently made of himself eating tiny, portioned out snacks during the filming of Jurassic World 2. Obviously, the exhaustion and delirium has started to set in, as Pratt seems a little stir-crazy as he: annihilates an apple, cagily sneaks a late-night snack, eats cat food “like a good little boy” (it’s actually sashimi) and struggles to pronounce the name of cacao banana chia pudding.

In the first installment of “What’s My Snack?” Pratt stumbles through the pronunciation of Cacao Baobab Banana Chia. I mean, okay, that second word is a scorcher, but cacao? That’s way more common. Regardless, like a child learning to read, Pratt sounds it out until he nails it. Atta boy, Chris. We’re with IG user @nagi_janhvi who asks: “Is you high?”

The rest of the snacks get easier to pronounce.

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Looking like someone who hasn’t been let out of his cage in weeks, Pratt announces that his snack for the day is assorted sashimi. “This smells and tastes exactly like Berkley PowerBait. I see why trout love it.” If that’s not an endorsement, what is?

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The best #WhatsMySnack vid shows Pratt up at night, pondering how to take care of his intense hunger pangs when he should be in bed. It’s adorable and relatable.

Pratt whispers, “Honestly, it’s pretty late and I’m so huuuungry. It’s 10:53 pm and I should go to bed, but instead, I’m maybe gonna eat my snack for tomorrow.” He dives into the Olive Oil Pistachio Cake and, well, the ending is sweeter than the dessert itself.

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Pratt, feeling a bit embarrassed by his schoolboy-like behavior over a simple piece of cake tries to redeem himself the next day with a more “manly” snack because “snacks don’t have that kind of power over me. Nothing does. Because I’m strong, I’m a man, and I don’t get all hung up over some cake.” With that, he grabs his new snack with the disclaimer that “I’m gonna eat it and I’m gonna try not to be all weird about it.”

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Gossip: Kanye West Working On Stand Up Comedy Show; Jake Gyllenhaal ‘Absolutely’ Believes In Aliens

Kanye West was spotted grinning from ear-to-ear as he left an intimate Dave Chappelle comedy performance in West Hollywood on Monday night. And now sources tell NAUGHTY GOSSIP that Kanye is working on his own comedy act.

“Kanye wants to be a stand up comedian,” sources tell Naughty Gossip. “He had been working on material and has an entire act put together. A lot of the jokes are about fame and the Kardashian family. He is surprisingly good at it. Next he plans to turn up, unannounced at a few clubs and do open mic. Kanye is 100 percent serious about this.”

No doubt the stand-up routine from the legendary 43-year-old entertaining put him in good spirits as he flashed a rare smile while leaving the Peppermint Club.

The outing comes just after the emotional episode of his 36-year-old wife’s reality program in which she detailed her experience during the horrific armed robbery in Paris back in October.

The episode was very emotional as several of her family members had reflected on the experience including Kanye who already had revenge on his mind.

He explained on the program that he would have went to great lengths to avenge her as he said: ‘If anything happened to you, I wouldn’t have stopped until they were dead.’

Kim and the 39-year-old rapper also agreed that they would not talk about the robbery in front of their two children: three-year-old daughter North and one-year-old son Saint.

In the actual episode Kim revealed that she believed she was going to be raped and killed on the night of her Paris robbery. The heist was France’s biggest jewelry theft involving a private citizen in more than two decades.

Jake Gyllenhaal Believes That Aliens ‘Absolutely’ Exist

Jake Gyllenhaal is making the promotional rounds for his upcoming sci-fi/horror flick, Life, where he plays an astronaut. In preparation for his role, Jake consulted with astronauts, trauma doctors and even worked with a zero-gravity-movement coach to effectively convey the physical and mental toll that space travel takes on a person.

But, as far as the existence of life on other planets, Jake feels that we may not be alone out there. Jake told the New York Daily News that, “I believe there’s so much yet to be explored. I think absolutely, there is no doubt in my mind — whether or not they’re friendly or already here — I think there’s a lot left to explore.”

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Washington State Teens Are No Longer Partying With Booze And Marijuana: But Why?

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Nearly three out of four Washington State 10th graders say they have not touched cannabis or marijuana in the past month, according to results from the 2016 Washington Healthy Youth Survey.

The survey, a collaborative effort of the state’s Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Department of Health, the Department of Social and Health Service’s Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery, and the Liquor and Cannabis Board, is taken every two years by students in grades 6, 8, 10 and 12.

The students voluntarily answer a wide variety of questions about their health behaviors. In 2016, more than 230,000 students in over 1,000 schools from 236 school districts in all 39 counties took part.

“On the marijuana side, we’re pleased that we have not seen an increase in marijuana use the last two years,” said Michael Langer of the Department of Social and Health Services.

Alcohol use by 10th graders has dropped by 12 percentage points since 2006. However, the number of students who use alcohol has not changed since 2014. In 2016, one out of five 10th graders (a total of about 16,737 students) drank alcohol in the past month. Alcohol plays a significant role in all three leading causes of death among youth: injuries, suicides and homicides.

Here are some key points of the study:

Rates of teen marijuana use have remained steady, despite the changing landscape.

  • In 2016, six percent of 8th graders, 17 percent of 10th graders, and 26 percent of 12th graders reported past 30-day marijuana use.
  • About half of those who used marijuana in the past month indicated they used on six or more days: 41 percent of 8th graders, 45 percent of 10th graders, and 52 percent of 12th graders.

The majority of current marijuana users, about two-thirds of 8th and three-quarters of 10th and 12th graders, usually smoke marijuana.

  • A much smaller percentage reported usually eating, drinking, or vaping marijuana.
  • There was a decline from 2014 in 12th grade current users who usually vaporized it (7percent to 5 percent).

Perceived ease of obtaining marijuana remained stable (8th & 12th grade) or declined (10th grade) between 2014 and 2016.

  • Fewer 10th graders thought marijuana was “very easy” to obtain in 2016 (27%) than 2014 (32 percent).
  • Among 8th and 12th graders, the percentage believing marijuana is very easy to obtain held steady, but about 40 percent of 12th graders think it’s very easy to get.

Where teens obtain marijuana may be changing.

  • Of those who obtained marijuana in the past month, the percentage buying it at a store decreased from 2014 to 2016 among 8th graders (11 percent to 5 percent) and 10th graders (9% to 6 percent).
  • Among 12th graders who obtained marijuana, the percentage getting it from friends decreased (63 percent to 57 percent) and giving money to someone else to purchase it increased (16 percent to 19 percent).

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