Christmastime paparazzi makeouts
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Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: everyone is making out with each other, Milk Bar cakes are back (?), and Hilary Duff is pregnant.
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The holidays are upon us, and everyone is getting a little loose. For you and me, perhaps that means drinking too much at a company party. For celebrities, it means: making out in front of the paparazzi. Jeremy Allen White, who admittedly has been pulling this move with various Instagram models since he got divorced this summer, went full on with Spanish pop star Rosalía this week. Note the matching cigarettes:
And Sophie Turner, who is also in the midst of a contentious divorce from Joe Jonas, couldn’t resist going public with her new boyfriend this week, too. His name is Peregrine John Dickinson Pearson, but he goes by Perry, and he is — wait for it — the heir to the 4th Viscount Cowdray in Turner’s beloved home country of England. He last dated Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark, who happens to be the goddaughter of King Charles, but they broke up this summer. According to Page Six, Turner and Sir Pearson are “really happy” together. Looks like it.
Also happy: pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo and the British actor Louis Partridge. They made out in front of the paparazzi in New York this week. According to the British tabloid The Sun, “They met through mutual pals earlier in the year and have been messaging quite a bit.” Without knowing anything about Partridge, I’m going to go ahead and say he’s better than Rodrigo’s last boyfriend, the music producer and professional celebrity hanger-on Zack Bia.
The celebrity most eager to debut her new relationship this holiday season, however, is Selena Gomez. The 30-year-old pop star went on an Instagram commenting spree to talk up her new music producer boyfriend Benny Blanco last week (sample comment: “why has he been the best thing that’s ever happened to me. The end”). And just this morning, she posted a photo of the two of them making out:
In case you were worried that all this relationship publicity was a bit erratic, rest assured that Gomez is actually just really happy. “Selena hasn’t felt this happy about anybody she’s dated in a really long time,” a source told Us Weekly this morning. “Selena and Benny are truly in love and although she has kept most people she’s dated under wraps, with Benny, she couldn’t wait to reveal they were together.”
Of course, Gomez took time out of her busy posting schedule to attend Taylor Swift’s 34th birthday party on Wednesday. Swift is becoming a real Leonardo DiCaprio with how seriously she takes her birthdays, and this year she celebrated at Outer Heaven on the LES with a slew of squad members including Gomez, Blake Lively (sans Ryan Reynolds), Gigi Hadid (sans Bradley Cooper), Zoë Kravitz (sans Channing Tatum), Miles Teller and his wife Keleigh Sperry, all the Haim girls, Sabrina Carpenter, Jack Antonoff and Antoni Porowski. Everyone partied like it was 2013: Swift had a Milk Bar birthday cake and an after party at The Box. Fun!
Sadly, Swift did not get to make out with Travis Kelce at her party, because he was attending “mandatory” football practice. The Chiefs take on the Patriots this Sunday in Boston — odds are Swift will be there in a VIP box wearing yet another interesting red outfit.
STUFF BY HILARY DUFF: I can’t believe I get to say this for the second time since starting this newsletter: HILARY DUFF PREGNANT.
I suspected this was the case last month when she made a strong commitment to oversized sweaters during her extensive press tour for her new line of home fragrances. She’s so busy!!!
Finally, I’ll leave you with this photo of Bradley Cooper and his six-year-old daughter, Lea de Seine Shayk Cooper, on the red carpet at the premiere of Maestro last night:
This is the first time Cooper has ever brought her to a public event with photographers — fitting, perhaps, given that she has a small part in the film. But still. He’s hustling this awards season!
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Making out is good Christmas vibes, tbh.
Bradley’s daughter is a true copy-paste