The ballad of Leo DiCaprio and Old Lady Gigi Hadid
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Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: Leo DiCaprio is pursuing Gigi Hadid, Kim Kardashian is pursuing a biochemist, and January Jones is pursuing a good time on a national day of mourning.
If you repeat something enough times, it becomes true. That seems to be the maxim Yolanda Hadid is working under, anyway, as sources have been telling the tabloids for a week and a half now that Leonardo DiCaprio is “pursuing” the elderly single mother Gigi Hadid. DiCaprio, 47, has never dated a woman over the age of 25 before, but in the wake of his breakup with 25-year-old model Camila Morrone, he has reportedly set his sights on Hadid, who is — sorry, I’m throwing up — 27.
“Leo has been asking mutual friends about Gigi and wants to get to know her,” a source told E! News yesterday. “They have hung out several times and he is interested.”
Another source took it a step further in People, alleging that DiCaprio “really likes that Gigi has her life together. She has a child and she's mature. He wants to be with someone who has the same idea of good causes and political views like he does.”
Hoookaaay.
It can’t be denied, though, that DiCaprio and Hadid have spoken to each other in recent days. The Daily Mail got a couple blurry photos of DiCaprio touching Hadid’s shoulder at a New York Fashion Week afterparty thrown by DiCaprio’s nightlife buddy Richie Akiva on Saturday night. Since then, Hadid has walked in the Tom Ford show and DiCaprio has partied multiple times at the members-only club Casa Cipriani with guys like Jared Leto, Robin Thicke, and the art dealer Helly Nahmad.
So is this a match made in Pussy Posse heaven? Hadid’s dad, the 73-year-old real estate developer Mohammed Hadid, seems to think so. He talked to the Daily Mail about his daughter’s fledgling relationship yesterday, for some reason. “I met Mr. DiCaprio in St. Tropez four or five years ago and he is a very nice man,” he said. “I liked him.”
I’m sure DiCaprio is thrilled to have a stamp of approval from one of his peers. Personally, I won’t believe this thing is real until DiCaprio is milking goats on Yolanda’s farm in Pennsylvania. My best to everyone involved as contract negotiations continue.
In other fake relationship news, Kim Kardashian says she’s ready to move on after breaking up with Pete Davidson last month. “Clearly it’s not working, whatever I’m doing,” she told the dreaded James Corden on Wednesday during an appearance to promote the new season of The Kardashians on Hulu. Her next boyfriend will not be a musician or a SNL comedian, she said: “I think it’s gonna be, like, scientist, neuroscientist, biochemist, doctor, attorney. That’s maybe what I envision in the future.”
I’ve always thought Kardashian would thrive in a Reese Witherspoon-style marriage with a non-famous lawyer or agent. I guess a biochemist (?) could work also.
Davidson, meanwhile, has not been linked to anyone new since the split, which is surprising. His friend Howard Stern recently suggested he get together with the newly separated Emily Ratajkowski, but that doesn’t make much sense, because he was friends with her alleged cheater of a husband Sebastian Bear-McClard first. Here they are enjoying a Knicks game together with Josh Safdie in 2020:
I think Ratajkowski should also date a lawyer and Davidson should date Kate Beckinsale again.
Have you watched Netflix’s Selling the OC? It’s a Selling Sunset spinoff that is somehow better and dumber than its predecessor, featuring several cast members that admit to never having sold real estate before and only one Oppenheim twin. I watched it over two days and loved it. The most curious cast member on the program is Tyler Stanaland, best known for being married to the beautiful underrated actress Brittany Snow. In the show, Stanaland claims that fellow cast member Kayla Cardona — a single mom with a heart of gold and a mild drinking problem — tried to kiss him multiple times. Huh? I thought, watching this play out. Is this person in fifth grade? He is embarrassing Brittany Snow.
The good news is: Snow dumped him. She announced the split on Instagram this week with a black-and-white photo of the couple sitting on the subway and a requisite statement about how they plan to co-parent their dog:
A source revealed to People that the show was the couple’s downfall — duh. “They had issues before, but this is the final straw,” said the source. “Brittany never wanted Tyler on the show but he was adamant. He wanted to make a name for himself on his own terms.”
Well, now he has. In my opinion, this marriage was doomed from the start: Snow and Stanaland wed on March 14, 2020, in a big ceremony in Malibu, which was probably not recommended by the CDC at the time. Up until the divorce announcement, Snow had not posted about Stanaland on Instagram since his birthday in July 2021.
Here’s hoping Snow had a good prenup and also justice for Kayla!
STUFF BY HILARY DUFF: Hilary Duff went to Subway.
Finally, I’ll leave you with this photo that my favorite Instagram user January Jones posted alongside an American flag emoji on September 11:
Amen.
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In Britney Snow’s defense…the CDC had absolutely zero guidelines on March 14. That was the day Tom Hanks announced aka the actual start of even the govt taking it seriously.
I’m immunocompromised & was low key freaking out about a family trip to DC we had that week so was very in tune to news. We flew home the day that everything shut down & even then some lady in the airport looked at me like I was batty & moved away bc I was Clorox wiping everything we would touch. It was the Wild West back then😵💫