Elon Musk and Grimes are "on great terms"
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Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: a billionaire tech lord is single again, a Christian pop star is obsessed with his wife and vice versa, and Meghan Markle is wearing a coat.
It’s been a fun three years, but Elon Musk and Grimes are “semi-separated.” This is according to Musk, who talked to Page Six about it, for some reason. The 50-year-old Tesla CEO, who has previously been married three times (twice to the same woman), said, “We are semi-separated but still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms.”
He added that work and distance drove the two apart, which, sure. “It’s mostly that my work at SpaceX and Tesla requires me to be primarily in Texas or traveling overseas and her work is primarily in LA,” he added. “She’s staying with me now and Baby X is in the adjacent room.”
(Their one-year-old son’s legal name is X Æ A-Xii Musk, but I’m glad they’ve found a nickname.)
Grimes, 33, has yet to comment on this semi-separation, but something tells me it was probably her idea. Earlier this month, she walked the red carpet at the Met Gala with a sword instead of her boyfriend. (Musk and Grimes did attend the gala together in 2018; I was in the press pen that year and Musk was, as now, very chatty with reporters, telling anyone who would listen that he “sketched” Grimes’s dress.)
Before he dated Grimes, Musk was in a relationship with the actress Amber Heard for about a year. After that breakup, he told Rolling Stone that he was devastated. “If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy,” he explained.
So, if anyone is interested in uh, that, he’s available.
In happier relationship news, can you believe Justin and Hailey Bieber have been married for three years? And that they are more obsessed with each other than ever? Well, it’s true, because Hailey told Demi Lovato exactly that on a podcast this week.
Recently, fans have speculated that Justin doesn’t like Hailey that much or treat her in a particularly kind way. (Please see my Gawker colleague Olivia Craighead’s perfect post for examples of Justin closing a car door in Hailey’s face, skateboarding away from her, etc.) According to Hailey, people just don’t see what she sees.
“There’s one big fat narrative that goes around that’s like, ‘Justin is not nice to her and he mistreats her,’” she sighed. “It’s so far from the truth. It’s the complete and utter opposite.”
“If the lie is, ‘They’re miserable in their relationship,’ well, the truth is that we’ve literally never been more obsessed with each other and we have so much fun together,” she added.
It’s hard to say what’s the truth, a lie, or the opposite. But the Biebers did go on vacation together this week to Jamaica, so that’s something. They went with Kendall Jenner and her current NBA star boyfriend Devin Booker, and according to E! News, the whole gang stayed in “private lagoon cottages” at an exclusive resort.
Justin even shared a photo of Hailey on his Instagram Story, which he captioned “Sweet n sexy.” So. I’m sure everything is really good.
STUFF BY HILARY DUFF: Every time I Google Hilary Duff, this question pops up:
Maybe you’re curious about the answer. It turns out that for a few months in 2005, in between filming Cheaper By the Dozen 2 and Material Girls, Duff took online classes at the Harvard Extension School. She even wrote about it on her website. “I’m taking on-line classes for Harvard University,” she told her fans. “Really cool! I am really excited about going back to school and the online classes are really cool!”
There you have it.
Finally, I’ll leave you with this photo of Meghan Markle visiting a New York City public school today:
She’s been in town with Prince Harry for two days now and has yet to be seen without a coat. I can tell you a coat isn’t really necessary, weather-wise, in New York at the moment. What do you think it means?
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I’ve had a couple kids myself so I feel pretty confident in saying that Meghan may have a little leftover baby belly & doesn’t want to be picked apart by the press. It took me a good 3 years to not give a shit that my belly never ‘bounced back’ after my last one.