Leo summer returns
Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: an actor gets a review, a reality stars sends a cease-and-desist, and Ben Affleck smiles.
It’s officially-unofficially Leo DiCaprio’s favorite season: summer. Which means, thank God, he has emerged from whatever rich-person cocoon he was hiding in the last few months to do a pap stroll on the beach. DiCaprio, 46, was photographed alongside his girlfriend Camila Morrone, 23, in Malibu over the holiday weekend. Both were wearing sweatpants; DiCaprio carried a little baby-pink portable water bowl for the couple’s rescue dog, Jack.
As you know, Morrone is not the first 23-year-old DiCaprio has dated. Given his frequent proximity to the young women of Gen Z, do you think he knows how to use TikTok? I ask because DiCaprio was also in the news this week after being mentioned in a TikTok by Julianne Hough’s teenage niece.
The niece in question is named Star, which I think is appropriate given what she provided us in her now-deleted video. “My aunt and uncle are Julianne and Derek Hough,” said Star, by way of introduction. “They were on like, World of Dance, Dancing With the Stars.” Then she revealed the following: “My aunt has slept with Leonardo DiCaprio! Apparently he’s not good in bed though.”
Star insisted in her video that she’s “not lying,” which is good enough for me. But there is some evidence to suggest that Hough, now 32, had a fling with DiCaprio back in the day. In 2013, Star — the tabloid, not the niece — reported that Hough and DiCaprio were spotted “getting cozy” at Coachella. Apparently, they “flirted up a storm” at the Armani Exchange Neon Carnival tent.
“They were putting their hands all over each other,” said an eyewitness. “At one point he whispered something in her ear and gave her a quick kiss on the neck. They were so into each other, they ignored everyone around them.”
This was right after Hough broke up with Ryan Seacrest, when she was 24. So, that tracks. Thank you Star!
Remember Keeley Hazell? I’ve got a new one for you: Archie Keswick. This week, the British tabloids exploded with the news that Sienna Miller is dating this very British man — they were spotted holding hands in Manhattan.
Who is Keswick? By day he is the son of the billionaire owner of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, and by other days he is a “demon on the tennis court,” according to the Daily Mail. The tabloid has a full rundown on everything you might need to know about the old chap (the url is the charming Meet-Archie-Keswick-eligible-bachelor-youve-never-heard-of.html.) Keswick also “loves house music,” was educated at Eton, and is a longtime friend of Miller’s dating back to News of the World hacking scandal in the mid-aughts. Lovely!
Also very happy together: Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly. They were photographed wearing matching sweatsuits and mouse ears at Disneyland this week, alongside a serious-looking private guide named Joann. (Not to be confused with the guide who ferried Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker around the park last month; that was Joseph.)
Slightly less happy together: Khloe Kardashian and Tristan Thompson. Kardashian’s attorney sent a cease-and-desist this week to a woman who claims Thompson is the father of her child. (Thompson’s attorney says a paternity test proves he’s not.) A source told E! News that Kardashian “is not leaving” Thompson and believes he has been “faithful” to her. "Khloe obviously gets upset when rumors are spread about Tristan being unfaithful, but the dust has settled a bit and they are still together," said the source. Okay!
Kim Kardashian, meanwhile, is finally addressing her divorce from Kanye West on Keeping Up With the Kardashians. In a short scene during last night’s episode, she cried to her sisters about feeling like a failure for ending a third marriage and said West deserves a wife who will follow him to Wyoming or wherever he wants to go.
Speaking of divorce, here are some photos of Kristen Bell to make you go hmm:
The actress and wife of successful podcaster Dax Shepard was spotted leaving a “training session” with her new Netflix series co-star Benjamin Levy Aguilar. Typically I like to ignore the many public hills and valleys in the Bell-Shepard marriage, but I’m keeping my eye on this one.
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Finally, I’ll leave you with this photo of Ben Affleck leaving J.Lo’s house Wednesday morning:
This man sure knows what he’s doing with the paparazzi.
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