1. Lady Gaga reportedly has a new boyfriend and we’re sorry, but it’s not Bradley Cooper.
Lady Gaga has moved on after splitting with her fiancé Christian Carino in February. And we’re sorry, but it’s not with her A Star Is Born co-star Bradley Cooper.
Which should put the rumours to rest, but also, probably won’t.
Gaga, 33, was photographed kissing her monitor engineer Dan Horton, 37, last weekend while at a cafe in California.
Sources told People the couple appeared “to be more than friends and were seen smooching multiple times”.
"They were kissing as they spoke really close up," a source told the publication. "Ironically, she had a table in the front near the sidewalk, so she was clearly okay with being seen. She seemed very happy when interacting with the guy she was with."
Dan is the first person the Grammy award-winning singer has been romantically linked with (at least... officially) since ending her two-year engagement.
There's not much we know about Horton, except that he has been working with Gaga since November 2018, as the monitor engineer for her Enigma residency show in Las Vegas.
2. Oh. It turns out that awkward "I'm a Gemini" moment on The Bachelor was actually... a joke.
You know you're in for a good season of The Bachelor when the promo goes viral. Properly viral. People tweeting about it on the other side of the world kind of viral.
You know the one: Bach Matt Agnew introduces himself to a contestant as an astrophysicist, only to have her respond, "I'm a Gemini."
People on the internet laughed, they scoffed, they shook their heads (while simultaneously sneak-Googling 'what is astrophysicist').
But it turns out that Abbie, the woman at the centre of the clip, is the one laughing.
So far, this is the first we've heard of an official cancellation of the runway show... here's to hoping she was allowed to reveal the news, however it was reported in May 2019 by The New York Times that the show would no longer be shown on network TV, a first since its initial broadcast in 2001.
Over the past few years, the lingerie brand also received criticism for failing to adapt to body positivity and inclusivity standards, with plus-sized model Robyn Lawley calling for fans to boycott the show completely until they committed to "representing ALL women on stage". Her 2018 Change.org petition even received over 10,000 signatures.
Despite this, Shaik did hint that something else will be taking the show's place.
“But I’m sure in the future something will happen, which I’m pretty sure about. I’m sure they’re trying to work on branding and new ways to do the show because it’s the best show in the world,” she said.
We guess we'll just have to wait and see.
5. “It was really, really horrible.” Why Kate Langbroek almost quit The Panel after a few weeks.
Kate with some of her co-hosts on The Panel: Glenn Robbins, Rob Sitch, Tom Gleisner. Image: Channel 10.
When Kate Langbroek was cast on a new prime-time talk show called The Panel back in 1998, she’d never ‘done’ television before. She’d had small acting roles, including on the soap Chances and in a Transport Accident Commission Community Service Announcement, and had built a profile as a host on independent Melbourne radio station Triple R.
But this was different.
Speaking to Sarah Grynberg on PodcastOne’s A Life of Greatness, the now-stalwart media personality revealed the early days of the weekly Channel 10 current affairs show were a maelstrom of insecurity and negative feedback from viewers.
Because the program came via Working Dog Productions, which had close ties with more-established talent, Langbroek said many questioned her casting.
“People were expecting that it would be Jane Kennedy or Jude [Judith Lucy], and when it was me they were like, ‘Who the f*** is that?’… That is basically the letters that I got,” she told the podcast.
“Also, I was really bad, because I’d never done TV before. I was a bit overwhelmed that, suddenly, there I was with these people who were amazing and seemed to know a lot of stuff. If I didn’t know something, I would go, ‘What does that mean?’ And [viewers] would go, ‘You know nothing!’ [in letters].
Read our earlier article about Kate Langbroek's time on The Panel here.
Top Comments
Comparing cancer to the fact you played a part in breaking up a relationship? Classy.
"Training like an angel"? Is that code for starving yourself, working out unhealthy and topping up on cosmetic work?
...Plus copious amounts of cocaine, coffee and cigarettes, yes.
Damnit - after all this training I still have not two nickels to rub together