Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are soo happy btw
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Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: a celebrity couple is for sure still in love, another celebrity couple is buying an $85 million house, and Hilary Duff is wearing the chicest pink dress in L.A.
Do you think Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are happy? Wait, don’t answer that. Just read this new Us Weekly exclusive and you’ll find out: They’re in a great place. According to a source, the married couple has recently been spending time in Timberlake’s home state of Tennessee, and it’s nice there.
“They’re both really happy they finally pulled the trigger and moved out of L.A.,” said the source. “It’s been really good for them. In a lot of ways, this is the happiest they’ve ever been.”
Why are we getting this update? Well, you may recall that in late 2019, Timberlake and Biel were not the happiest they’ve ever been. Timberlake, a 40-year-old pop star who insists on acting, was caught getting handsy with his Palmer co-star Alisha Wainwright at a bar in New Orleans just before Christmas. Timberlake posted one of his sad little Notes app apologies, and shortly thereafter, reports surfaced that Biel was pregnant with the couple’s second child. Sort of a Heartburn situation, except Biel did not leave Timberlake. Instead, she founded a line of protein shakes for children. (Why not bring back Au Fudge?)
Anyway, everything is so good now, according to Us Weekly’s very chatty source. Not only are Timberlake and Biel enjoying life in Tennessee, they are also crushing parenting.
Their new baby, Phineas, “really came along at the right time because it’s given them this renewed focus as a couple,” said the source, which, oh boy. “They both admit that having two kids has been harder than they ever expected, but the good thing is they’ve really bonded over it. Jessica says Justin has totally stepped up, they’re a great team.”
So the next time your mind wanders over to JT and Ms. Biel (does that ever happen to you?) think: Tennessee. Happiest they’ve ever been. Bonding over second baby. NOT: Cheating on pregnant wife.
Timberlake’s publicist thanks you.
In more happy-couple news, it looks like Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are playing real estate together. TMZ reports that the two toured an $85 million property in Beverly Hills this week — evidence that they are planning to move in together, as an $85 million home for one would be gauche. It looks simply crazy:
According to TMZ, Bennifer also visited a more reasonable $40 million property in the Valley.
Currently, Lopez owns a $28 million mansion in Bel-Air, and Affleck owns a $20 million “dad pad” in Pacific Palisades, right down the road from the home he used to share with ex-wife Jennifer Garner. In late 2018, Adam Levine and his model wife Behati Prinsloo bought that property for $32 million; it was recently featured on the cover of Architectural Digest. (Levine referred to the property as a simple family home in the story. “We didn’t want a palatial McMansion,” he said. “That’s just not who we are.”)
I hope everyone continues to make money at the rate to which they have become accustomed.
Also: Affleck turns 49 on Sunday. What do you think J-Lo will do for his birthday? I almost don’t want to know.
STUFF BY HILARY DUFF: In case you missed it, Hilary Duff wore the chicest pink dress in LA last week.
Take a look and lemme know what you think!
Finally, I’ll leave you with the news that Presley Gerber — son of Cindy Crawford and the Casamigos guy, brother of Kaia — is no longer misunderstood:
The 22-year-old model apparently had his “misunderstood” face tattoo removed just over a year after getting it. I want the number of his therapist!
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As someone intimately familiar with what it’s like to live in Middle TN (been here since ‘00) I can tell you this: you’re only thriving and happier than ever here if you’re a Republican or just a terrible person.
Like for real, we all know Justin sucks but this just proves it. It’s been a nightmare. They live in the same county where that insane school board meeting was over masks that turned into a riot outside the meeting. So I’ll say it again: if you’re thriving here you’re likely a terrible person.
(Not just mask stuff makes it impossible to thrive here…loads of anti-trans kid legislation and other truly baffling laws getting passed)