Katy Perry vs. Wendy's
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Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: a pop star goes to space, an actress goes to London, and Michelle Williams goes to see Michelle Williams on Broadway.
Katy Perry went to space on Monday, and it’s ruining her life. Perry’s 11-minute, girlboss-only sojourn on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket is not receiving the thunderous applause she perhaps expected: Olivia Munn called the space flight “gluttonous,” and Emily Ratajkowski described it as “end-times shit” and “beyond parody.” No one seemed to think it was amazing that the 40-year-old pop star sang a few lines of “What a Wonderful World” while in space or that she carried a daisy with her in honor of her four-year-old daughter, Daisy. I guess no one is “connected to love” anymore.
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While most of the criticism of the flight was directed at the famous participants, including Gayle King and Bezos’s fiancée Lauren Sanchez, collectively, Perry was singled out for punishment by none other than the Twitter account for Wendy’s.
These tweets have apparently sent Perry over the edge, as a source close to her called up People and complained about them ad nauseam.
“Wendy’s didn’t make a joke — they made a choice,” the source claimed. “Their recent posts on X aimed at Katy Perry were not only disrespectful, but blatantly inappropriate. This wasn’t harmless banter, this was a billion-dollar brand using its platform to publicly demean a woman.”
“Telling a woman that she should be ‘sent back’ is shameful bullying and reflects a troubling willingness to tear down in today’s society,” the source continued. “What’s worse is that the face of Wendy’s is a woman, which makes this decision not just hypocritical, but painfully ironic.”
What’s worse is that the face of Wendy’s is a woman. My goddess. Does Wendy’s social media team have no respect for their mascot, which is WOMAN??? HOW CAN YOU BE WOMAN IF YOU DON’T SUPPORT KATY PERRY (WOMAN) GOING TO SPACE???
In response to Perry’s complaints, Wendy’s released the following statement to People: “We always bring a little spice to our socials, but Wendy’s has a ton of respect for Katy Perry and her out-of-this-world-talent.”
Pretty good.
Perry does have one woman supporter, though, and her name is Jessica Alba. The recently divorced actress/entrepreneur, who has been friends with Sanchez for years and who sells her Honest Company diapers on Amazon, reposted the following on Instagram this week:
That is, unfortunately, the best defense of the stunt I have seen, and it’s really bad. Bezos and Sanchez are all-in on Trump, first of all. And Perry et. al. wanted us to pay attention to the flight. That was their only stated mission! Go woman.
Speaking of stunts: What are Tom Cruise and Ana de Armas up to? The actors were photographed together for the third time this year at a heliport in London this week. According to People, Cruise, 62, and de Armas, 36, were coming from Madrid, where de Armas has lived on and off. She had her two dogs with her, too. But People says they’re not dating, just collaborating on some unknown project. Huh.
Meanwhile, de Armas’s last big celebrity boyfriend Ben Affleck was in LA this week, walking the red carpet at the premiere of The Accountant 2. It was this time last year that his marriage to J.Lo was falling apart, and the tabloids kept reminding us that he was not attending events with her because he was hard at work on The Accountant 2. I hope it’s good!
Affleck brought his kids and J.Lo’s kids to the premiere, and he said vaguely nice things about his recent ex-wife to a reporter at Entertainment Tonight:
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Now I have to wonder: Who will publicly date someone else first? According to Us Weekly, Affleck was “briefly” back on Raya this year, but “it’s not his thing” anymore. Mmhmm.
STUFF BY HILARY DUFF: Here’s Hilary Duff being all lady:
Finally, I’ll leave you with the moment Michelle Williams met Michelle Williams backstage at Death Becomes Her on Broadway:
Love them both.
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Dear lord why is Tom's hair like that?!
"But People says they’re not dating, just collaborating on some unknown project. Huh."
Collaborating on an unknown project aka Scientology indoctrination!!!!