Jessica Biel is "firm"
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It’s the holiday season: Do you know which stars are on the brink of divorce? According to the occasionally accurate Radar Online, Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake are taking some time apart this month, while Timberlake continues his WORLD TOUR, to reassess their commitment to one another.
“As everyone knows, they’ve had some hurdles to navigate, and Jessica actually needs some space right now for her own mental health,” a source told the outlet. “She doesn’t want to divorce Justin, but she isn’t about to follow him around like a puppy dog, either.”
What hurdles? Well, back in May, Biel revealed during an appearance on The View that she mostly communicates with Timberlake via Zoom, and then a few weeks later he got a DWI in the Hamptons. (But he only had ONE martini, swear.) I really don’t think Biel will ever leave him: He openly cheated on her in 2019, and she’s still hanging on. But she does want everyone to know that she’s setting healthy boundaries now.
As another in-the-know source told Us Weekly this week, “Jessica is showing patience and compassion while also maintaining firm expectations of him.”
Mmhmm. What is Timberlake doing to mend the relationship, then?
“Justin has taken time to reevaluate his priorities,” the source told the tabloid. “He hasn’t been going out as much and is staying in more with Jessica and the kids.”
Not going out as much. That’s a major sacrifice, especially at this time of year, with so many open-bar events.
Unfortunately, I think that as long as Timberlake wants to be married, these two will stay (miserably) together. But if he decides otherwise…
Oh no. I’m getting reports that Apple Martin, the 20-year-old daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, is…a mean girl. Ms. Martin made her debut at Le Bal des Débutantes, the preferred international deb ball for nepo babies, in Paris this past weekend, and she was apparently acting like a little bit of a diva. This video is sending me:
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I mean, that’s the point of these things, no? To pose the best? Let’s also note that Alessandro Michele himself designed her Valentino gown, which is not something any of the other debs could say.
Also, the deb she upstaged in the video was actually honored by the exchange. Aliénor Loppin de Montmort released this exclusive statement to People this week:
“Apple’s genuinely the nicest girl ever! She really doesn’t deserve an ounce of what she’s getting. She was the nicest girl ever towards not only me but all the debs!”
There you have it. I’ll just leave you with one more video of Ms. Martin preparing to walk out into the ballroom with her “cavalier” (aka date) Count Leo Henckel von Donnersmarck:
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She has it.
STUFF BY HILARY DUFF: Hilary Duff posted on TikTok for the first time in a year! I wonder if she hired a new social media manager.
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Finally, I will leave you with this photo of Ariana Grande and her once-married boyfriend Ethan Slater posing with a fan by a Christmas tree stand in New York:
According to Page Six, it was the “Yianni Karadimas’ Christmas tree stand on 62nd and Broadway.” Spon?
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Not buying that debutante statement whatsoever! The look she gave the girl who was in front of her was peak girlhood. That big open smile, a slight widening of the eyes, a look that says: did you clock that outrageous social faux pas??? Her family is properly fancy (googled obv) so she's probably too well-bred to talk shit about Apple.
This is my first time ever commenting because I need to talk about that LOOK!!!!!!
Imagine having a husband you mainly see over Zoom. Jessica Biel earns every penny.