The Press Box - Is Christian Bale As Dick Cheney Still Hot? | Tea Time (Ep. 565)

Episode Date: January 26, 2019

Pete Davidson has been hanging out with John Mulaney and we hope Mulaney is a good influence on him (2:44). Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin are postponing their wedding (16:50). The 2019 Vanity Fair Hollywood cover is the best one yet (30:10). Hosts: Kate Halliwell, Liz Kelly, and Amelia Wedemeyer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What's up guys and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network. I'm Liz Kelly. Here are a couple pieces to check out on the ringer.com before the end of the week. First up is Kevin O'Connor, who's writing about how the Denver Nuggets built a contender in a warrior's world. Then Chris Ryan and Justin Barrier have a rational conversation about Anthony Davis and the trade deadline. And finally, Robert Mays has 10 observations from the first Patriots Rams Super Bowl. Once again, you can check those articles out and tons more on the ringer.com. What's up, guys, and welcome to Tea Time on the Ringer Podcast Network. I'm Liz Kelly. I'm Kate Hallowell. And I'm Amelia Wendemeyer. And very exciting news. We are now a weekly pop culture podcast. And today we're going to talk about everything from Jessica Simpson's pregnancy feat to whether Christian Bale is still hot.

The answer is yes. It's questionable. Every time you hear the bell, we have to change topics. Let's spill the tea. Okay. First category of the week, we are checking in with various people. First one is Ariana Grande. Amelia.

We love to check in with Ariana Grande. We do. I'm sorry. Listen, she's up to so much. I know. Oh, my God. Well, she just released an album in August. It was super recent.

And now she's releasing a new album, February 8th. It has her new song, Seven Rings on it. And I think also the Thank You Next song is on her too. I would be satisfied to sweetener for another good year and a half. Yeah. Asim has so many good songs. I'm not ready for an entirely new song. And she's not explored all of it.

Yeah. Right. Yeah. I, like, I'm not bored with it yet, which is how you know I'm like, it's really good. She's in a huge rush and I don't exactly know why because she could not be more relevant right now. Seriously. She doesn't have to keep up in any way. Yeah.

So she just released a new music video for Seven Rings. Have you guys seen it? Yes. Have you seen it? It's a lot. It's a lot. My take is that the music video is bad, but the song is good as hell. I like to get aesthetic of the music video.

Right. It's very pink. Right. I don't love her dancing on a kitchen countertop. That's really, really uncomfortable. It's just, I feel like kind of dirty watching her music videos because I'm like, you look so young. She really leans into that for this one. She did.

Not comfortable. She's also changing her head gear now. Oh my God. What? Are those dog ears? They were like rimestone, like, ears of censor. Do you know Sailor Moon? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. She looked like she was wearing like a sailor. Anime. It was really. Vives. She is leaning into that animal. Yeah.

I liked her dangerous woman one better with the bunny ears that are black leather, super high-ups. Yeah. Those were good. But yeah, good song. video, but I'm really excited for the new album. Yeah, me too. Yeah, related to Arana Grande here. We can't get more than like 45 seconds in without name dropping Pete Davidson.

We're going to talk about him. We're going to check in with him. He's basically on a redemption tour right now. Yeah, I would hope, and I think he is. He's been with John Mullaney, right, Kate? Yep. He's been doing sets in New York and various other places. Wait, Pete has?

Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. So a lot of his set apparently is about Ariana and like, you know, the infamous quote that she has about him. I'm not going to say more than that because my dad listens. But cell phones aren't allowed inside the venue. He talks about moving in back with his mom.

He goes to parties with her. Like, he seems to be having a good sense of humor about the whole situation. He's like acknowledging it, which is important. He's like it never happened. He like went on SNL and like somehow made a joke about threatening suicide, but like kind of acknowledged it and moved on in a way that was like, it worked. Sure. He was like with John Malaney, who seems to be a good influence.

Yes, that's what I wanted to say is I need him to soak in John Malaney's goodness and have him rub off on Pete. Sure. There was an Instagram post that John Malaney did where it was like his green room and Pete's green room. I sent it to Liz immediately because we should note that Liz loves Pete Davidson. I love Pete Davidson. It's early for bad takes, but we're going to get right into it. So I sent it to Liz because John Maloney was like his green room. He's sober, first of all.

So, like, there's that vibe. And it was, like, fresh produce, juices. And then it was, like, Pete's screen room. And it was, like, all these sketchy-ass dudes, like, just weed out on the table, like, smoking. Yeah. Just horrible. Like, I could smell it through the screen. Pete needs to spend as much time as possible with John.

He really needs to, yeah. And I think it's safe to say tea time supports both Ariana and Pete. Right. But separately. Separately. Yeah, we wish them both the best. Amelia, what was that? I don't know.

I'm not a huge Pete Davidson fan, but I will say this. Like, I'm happy that he's doing better because I'm not like a wishy. You know. And also, I don't know. But the whole thing that what she said about in her music video, I'm just like kind of not okay with it. Because if it, if he were a woman and she was a man and it was reversed, that would, people would be calling her. Sure. You know what I mean?

Yeah. That's just like, that's kind of weird. It's kind of weird. Dynamic. You know. But I think they're both moving on in their own way while still not moving on. But listen, it's fine. He also, we just need to note that he went home from the Golden Globes with Cape Bac, and Sale, allegedly.

She loves the younger dudes. Incredible poll for him. I know. We'll probably be checking in with them again next week. But for the time being, we're moving on and checking in with our last person. Oh, my gosh. Yes. An essential part of tea time.

Truly. Producer Kaya. Hello. This sent waves through the ringer in LA office. Kaya has been maybe the most talked about figure at the ringer in the past couple days. Yeah. Because there was a rumor that she, like, had never, I heard it was like she had never left her house. Right.

She has never stepped outside. She only Skype's into the ringer. Then it was like she's been to one state in her whole life. So a lot of rumors flying around about Kaya. We need to set the record straight. I need to clarify. I have been to four total states. I was born in California.

Okay. I have been to Nevada. Uh-huh. I have been to Utah. Great. And on an eighth grade trip, I visited D.C. And also, while in D.C., went to the Arlington National Cemetery, which is in Virginia, bringing my total to four. Thank you very much.

That's like... Oh, wait. And Illinois. So five. Oh, my God. Okay. So you're like well-traveled. Basically.

You're a woman of the world. One could say. And people... So the rumor at the ringer was that she'd been to like one state, two states in her life. People were like horrified by that. Then there's an alarming rumor that a lot of people at the ringer thought that D. Yeah, that was a whole debate. Another member of the pod team.

We had a really long debate about this yesterday. In the pod office, in my own opinion, it counts as half a state. Okay. So you think the United States has 50 and a half states? That sounds right. More or less. Sure. And it's like if you go to D.C., you're basically guaranteed to, like, go to Maryland or Virginia.

Spoken to the person who has never left California. California is great. Never leave. Thank you, Kyle. I'm ringing the bell now so this segment ends. Okay, next category is this week in social media. I'm so excited. Amelia, tell us about this first one.

Okay, so Tori Spelling, who we all know as Erin Spelling's daughter and also like the mother of 50 children. Both things I didn't know, but please continue. Well, now you know. She was also on 90210O the first one. But anyway, so her daughter, I think it's like her second oldest child, has a slime company called Stylish Slime by Stella. Love it. And apparently it's like a big business. She's got like 50K followers on Instagram.

Yeah. And apparently she's been accused of not fulfilling orders and people have taken to her Instagram and to Tori's Instagram. And they're like, where's my slime? Like, you shouldn't lie about this. Give me my slime. I love this in so many different ways. One slime is so confusing to me as a concept, which ages me in a way I'm not comfortable with. But essentially it's a material.

Slime is a material that pre-teens, like, tweens and teenagers have latched onto, right? Oh my God. My little cousins are obsessed with it. Same. My cousins are also obsessed. Right. There's videos online that have just millions and millions of views. Because it's relaxing. It's like the whole ASMR thing.

I'm also into chalk when people cut up chalk. Oh my God. I'm also. Is it like soap girls? Do you make the slime or do you watch people squish the slime? Both. So Tori's spelling's daughter is making slime. I'm not fast enough for the orders that are coming.

How old is the daughter? She's like 10 or something? She looks young. She's going to be. A wet shop in the spelling house. Like this 10 year old is like, I can't do it. Oh my God. She's like been to slime con and stuff, I guess.

There's a slime. It's like a big business. What do you mean? There's a slime con. The youths need help. If the youths have turned to slime, we need to reassess our The future of this world. So, don't.

Don't buy from her because you're not going to get your order. Good advice. The second thing in social media, also, Amelia, tell us what it is. Oh, my God. Okay, so couples are now doing gender reveals with lasagna. Like, they're baking it the color. It looks like someone ate some lasagna and then, like, drank some Kool-Aid and then barfed it and then put it back into the lasagna. So you cut it, the grand reveal is you cut it open and all the inside layers are like. The ricotta is either bluer-up. It's really the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in my life. The reveal is in general, I am extremely anti.

Really? No, same. Same. Oh, yeah, same. So sweet. You know, when the balloons come out, there's like 50 of them, and then the dad's all pissed because it's painting the mom's photo is like, oh, my God, she's so happy. Yeah, I'm anti all of that. Oh, same.

Okay. Okay. But also, like, dying food colors, I'm also against. Really? Like, it's not meant to be. I mean, especially lasagna. There's so many other. There's anything else.

If it's savory, like, I don't want it to be any color of the rainbow that's not, like, natural. God, that's right. It's just disgusting. It's bad. I don't even know. Yeah. Lazzia dinner reveals don't belong in the same sentence. Yeah. But speaking of pregnant people. Yes. Incredible segue. Please. Okay. This is important to meet. Jessica Simpson is extremely pregnant with her third child. It's a known fact that when women get pregnant, their feet swell up, they grow. Kim had the same thing. Liz just saw me pull up the picture.

Look up Kim Kardashian pregnancy feet. She busts out of every pair of heels for nine months straight. That's not what I'm here to talk about. I'm going to talk about Jessica Simpson. Her feet were so swollen. I'm not sure she could even fit them in an ug boot. I don't think so. I'm looking at it right now.

She Instagrammed her whole foot journey from, you know, most swollen to she like, it's all in one pedicure. So she, like, happened very quickly. She went to cupping. She did like acupuncture. She iced her feet. Now they look somewhat back to normal. Not by much. Did she have like a post that was like, help? Yeah. She was looking. She requested Instagram's help and is like, how do I fix this? My favorite part of this was her sister Ashley Simpson commenting. So she goes, where are my ankles was the caption on one of her pictures? And her sister said, one day it'll show up again, my sweet girl. be estranged from my sister if she had ever said that to me. Also, like, Jessica says it's, like, been pretty self-aware and, like, funny about this. Yeah, she has.

That's true. So, Ashley's, like, very earnest, like, comment where she's like, oh, my sister, like, needs me to tell her that it's going to be okay. Like, on Instagram, it's like, come on. Absolutely amazing. Wow. Yeah, I, you really just need to look it up. This is one of the things that you really need to see for yourself. We can't do it justice.

You got to see it to believe it. Yeah, it's horrible. Okay, we've already had some very strong takes from Liz Kelly on the pot already. I'm so ready for this one, though. It's every time we think, I wrote this in the doc, every time I think she can't outdo herself, she does. Okay, so let's just take it away. Take it away. Okay.

Oh, this is Liz's worst take of the week. Yeah, that's that category. Okay, I'm here to tell you why. Leon, don't lose it yet. It's too early to go off the rails. Okay, I'm sorry. Pull it together. Leonardo DiCaprio.

And his girlfriend of over a year, her, her name is Camille Maroni. We're going to call her Cammy because I can't really pronounce it that well. I think it actually she does go by Cammy. Okay, we're going to go with that. Which is what Leo obviously calls her. I think Leonardo DiCaprio and his 21-year-old girlfriend are a perfect couple. A true match made in heaven. And I will tell you why.

So for context, he's 44 years old, she's 21. They met and know each other through Cammy's page. So her mom has been dating Al Pacino for 10 plus years. She calls Al her stepdad. So they met when she was a tween, which is not great. But they've been a part of each other's lives for a really long time. Since she was like 12. Right, right, right, right, right, right.

But regardless, he's 44. He's not going to settle down for at least another decade, like really subtle, like kind of George Clooney style. I think this is good because she's a budding actress. She's been in a couple of films. She's a model, really successful model. I think there are too many Instagram models out there, which was kind of what she was before she started dating him, who have all this beauty, and I'm not sure a lot of acting chops yet are inserted in all of these big blockbuster movies.

I am hoping that she at least is using this relationship to become a better actress to kind of carve her way through Hollywood, which we should all be supporting a young woman wanting to six. I love how you're turning this narrative around. It's incredible. I'm trying to stare this into you, both of you. Unbroken eye contact is key. Okay. We discovered a few troubling facts, which was that Cammy was only five months old when Titanic was released, which was not great because Leo was 23.

Right. I also have some good quotes. She's kind of a funny person. So I told you her stepdad is Al Pacino. She went on the late late show with James Corden last year, and they were talking about her first movie role. And she called Al Pacino up and was like, I've never asked you for anything, but I need your help. Like, how do I act? Which, okay, that's another problem.

But Al Pacino, here's what he said. He said, come to my house and we'll have tea and run the script. His advice was, you're fine, just act. And she says, what do you mean? And he said, you're fine. You're 19. Nobody cares. Wow.

Powerful words. Great advice because it's true. She's got a lot of room to grow in her acting career. Right. I'm all for it. you guys also were for love. She's never Instagrammed him. She's like not, she may be using him for fame and like resources and stuff like that.

But she's not, you know. I respect the hustle, honestly. Yeah, right. Exactly. She's using her for other things. She's using him. And what's the harm? I mean, just the fact that she was 11 when they met.

That's kind of weird. It's tough. But, yeah, you know, this is his M.O. He loves the young models. You know, it's like, are we surprised? No. No. Really not.

So, okay. Here's my question. We have, like, a list of his exes on here. We can come back to that. My question is, let's say, like, you were friends with Cammy. Yeah. And not Cammy. Let's say you were friends with someone else.

She met Leo at a club. And he was like, hey, he texted her the next day and was like, hey, like, let's go ride city bikes and, like, vape together. Yeah. Would you tell your friend to be like, yes, go for it? Absolutely. Why not? Yeah, you know, I agree with you. Life is so short, Kate.

Even, like, everything you've heard. And it's Leonardo fucking Decaprio. Yeah. Okay. I honestly agree. I probably would too. I'd be like, yeah. Also, city biking and vaping? Yes. Dream date. Dream date. Honest to God. So you guys almost agree with me. I saw Jason Conserption earlier. I told him this. He laughed in my face as all my opinions go here. But I think I've semi-convinced the two of you about this relationship. Yes. You kind of did. I mean, yes, I just really don't like the fact that he knew her when she was 11. I know. But regardless. But if, yeah. But if I had a young friend who was like, you know, Leonardo, Capri, I'd be like, yes. Have fun.

Also, for the record, Al Pacino is 78. Her mom is 41. Okay. So she's been around a very large age gap her whole life and age is but a number. So she's blinded? She's brainwashed to think that's normal? No, no, no, no, that's not the direction I wanted to go. Where's that bell?

Kaya? Okay. All right. Okay. T-time's biggest relationship news ever, Amelia Co. Okay, so someone posted in Celebrity Slack a picture of Kendra Wilkinson from the girls next door, and Chad, evil Chad, from Jojo's season of the Bachelorette, stepping out together? Because apparently they're dating now. The world is a hellscape.

I don't know what to say. It's insane. Stepping out together. I just want to go back to that. What does that mean? It means they were literally walking out of some place together. It means one of them, after ordering entrees, they call TMZ or they called whatever small-scale paparats and they were like, come outside Craig's right now. Actually, yeah. I think. It was like Craigs or something. Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah.

And they needed to make a statement. Which, okay, sure. I mean, I don't know. He was also on one of my favorite shows of all time celebrity big brother, UK edition. And why do you have to go to the UK? Why is it that edition? Couldn't get on the U.S.? It's not a big enough celebrity as a U.S.

Oh my God. But he also entered into a relationship from one of the girls from Girls Aloud, which was an English pop band like Cheryl Cole was in it. Oh. No her yet. Yeah. So it was one of the other girls. I think he just desperately wants a relationship with a semi-famous person.

Yeah. He also got like a handjob on TV. Whoa. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Got him warn us.

Okay. Well, I hate this relationship. That's all I have to say. Yeah. It's tough. Okay. Next relationship? This is a relationship that we thought was true and has proven to not be, but I have a theory why.

Charlie's Theron and Brad Pitt. First of all, just like, think about the like beautiful blonde image. like came into your head when I said those names. Yeah. Yeah. Similar energy, I feel like between the two of them. I supported that. When I saw this, I was like, yes.

Turns out it's not true. They spread a rumor, somebody spread a rumor that Brad Pitt and Charlie's there and were together. They shot a watch commercial together and they were like, I fell in love over expensive watches. And Adam Driver was there too. A perfect love story, really. It's my dream.

But my theory, so it turned out not to be true. My theory is that Brad's team leaked the rumor because And the cut mentioned this. So credit to them. Neri Oxman got married recently. His like former like professor babe. Yeah. Yeah.

She got married and she's pregnant. Oh. And like it just came out and there was like this whole thing in like the New York Times about her and like how happy she was with this billionaire. Wait, how long ago were they linked? I felt like that was recently. It was recent. Yeah. It was like last year.

She just got married. It was very recent. Oh. Yeah. So maybe it never happened. She is like the theory is that like it was. kind of Brad's team that, like, started this. Well, I think he does need some good press.

Right. And also, once upon time in Hollywood is, like, starting the press circuit. True. And, like, they need to drum up some gossip about him. You're right. I was going to ask, why does Brad Pitt need this? Yeah. Child support related.

Right. Yeah. You know, a little sexier. So just pair him with Charlize. Didn't we decide that he should be with someone entertainment adjacent or maybe entertainment not related at all? Yes. Like this MIT professor?

Yeah. Okay. So Charlize was not the path to go. But apparently that he's not even taking But, like, you know, she's older. She can handle herself. I feel like he needs, like, not. Don't go the, yeah, don't go the Leo route.

That's my advice to play that. Yeah. That's tough. Not a good luck. Next news. Other news, Bieber and Baldwin postponed their wedding. They sent, apparently, like, updates through the mail to everyone and was like, it's not happening in February anymore, like, hold the date.

Was that February 2019 that there was, like, this February? They were going to do February. Yeah. Remember the dancers were training. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Never forget. The officers have postponed their training.

Okay. The rumor is that like they did it because like enough people couldn't come because it was February 2019 and like they wanted enough people to be there. What? I'm telling you right now this wedding is not fucking happening. They're not getting married. That would suck to send out an invitation. Imagine how many hundreds of people got that. Not that they're really personally dealing with any of this.

Sure. But still inconvenient. Also, all these people have access to, I don't know, everything in the entire world. That's exactly what I was thinking. And they not find a drag flight to JFK or something, whatever it is. Yeah, that's why I don't think it's ever happening. They're just looking for an excuse to push it back. That's a little weird.

They're never going to get married. Did it say when they pushed it back too? No. Oh, nice. It's just postponed. Okay. Next category. Speaking of Bieber.

Speaking of Bieber, this is not worth the tea. Not worth the tea. The first person that's not worth the tea is Justin Bieber. And especially not the tea is Chris Brown. Oh. Like this category makes you sad because everyone's disappointing to me. Seriously. Even when I need them to not be.

Justin Bieber defended Chris Brown, like the worst human being on the planet, commented on an Instagram. Chris Brown has been in the news recently and has been posting music videos and going about his life as usual. And Justin Bieber, who has one of the most stocked Instagram profiles of all time, commented very publicly and said, no one can touch you, you're the goat, the greatest of all time. Not that anyone who listens to this podcast needs that acronym explained, but this sucks in like 400 different ways. It's such an unforced error.

You're the goat. Don't what? He was like, Chris Brown was like just accused of rape in France. And Justin Bieber is like, this is the time to show my support. Right. Yeah. Like really? Yeah.

It's so, it's just unforced. Of all people, Chris Brown, are you kidding me right now? Right. Right. That's what I'm saying. This was like Noah Centennial last week. You don't fucking have to. support these men like...

Exactly. I don't know why they feel... Silence is free. Just don't say anything. Also, he had like two hits. Who, Chris Brown? Yeah, 10 years ago. 10 years ago, okay?

Like forever. And that's about it. Neither of these two men are worth the tea anymore. It's so exhausting, honestly. Yeah. This is much more fun to talk about that's not worth the tea. This is Vinnie from the Jersey Shore.

He has publicly asked Kim Kardashian to help Mike the situation get out of prison because of Kim's prison reform work. So for the record, Mike the situation only has an eight-month sentence. It will basically be over before anyone remembers who Mike the situation is. Vinnie from the Jersey Shore publicly asking someone like fucking Kim Kardashian who is so high profile. I mean, the difference in the two of those celebrities in itself is concerning. I don't know that.

I don't think that Kim has even blinked at this. Like, it's such a fat joke. Right. Also for tax evasion. Right. You know, I mean, are you serious right now? I did hear, I mean, who knows if this is true? I heard that people are like, you know, poking fun of him because it's like the pettiest of crimes in eight months.

And he's also like an enormous joke. That's not worth the tea. Definitely not. It's not. Also, what is not worth the tea is Yolanda Hadid. I think it was on Instagram saying that her daughter's Gigi and Bella have not had plastic surgery. Okay. We are going to talk about this in a way that is empowering because we've wanted to talk about it forever.

Sure. Okay, it's blatantly false. Let's just get it out there. Right. I mean, and there's nothing wrong with plastic surgery. Just admit that you've done it. Exactly. We have eyes.

They look great. The cited population can look at them and be like, you have a new face, Bella. Yeah. 100% I believe. Yeah. Bella Hadid, you can't throw a rock on my Instagram, explore, and see two side by sides at one pick up on the red carpet. Where she has a different face. It's literally a different face.

Someone transplanted another person's face under her face, and that's fine. If you have the money and you want to do that, go for it. I respect it. She created a, like, a modeling career out of nothing. Right. Yes. You don't, not nothing. The potential was there.

I'm just saying that, like, she was like, I want to be a super bottle like my sister. These are the steps I need to take to do it. Yeah. Make me beautiful. It worked, and she's a super bottle. And she's beautiful. Exactly. So, like, it's fine.

Also, she's a bang and bod. She looks incredible. Go to Kardashian route with plastic surgery, which is they've all have everything done, and just don't talk about it. Exactly. Anyway, the point is, it's not worth the tea. Yolanda Heidi, it's stop lying. Bella and DGELA, too, stop lying. Bella and DGia look great.

You're gorgeous, yeah. Okay, next category is covering the Oscar nominations. Kate, your reaction. Well, it's been tough. I woke up, saw the nominations. Timothy Shalameh was not nominated. I'm still processing my feelings. It's really tough.

I have written on the doc, No, Timmy, kill me. Wow. It's, people are saying that Sam Rockwell took his place. I also kind of thought Adam Driver took his place. Neither which are worthy. I felt a little better about Adam Driver.

This is what my problem is. People are saying that they're still going to invite him to come and, like, present. Timmy, stay home. Yeah, I agree with that. They don't deserve you. If they didn't nominate you, like, don't show up. in your fabulous fucking sparkly suit. This is a consolation prize.

You don't, yeah, you don't get his presence if you didn't nominate him. Right. You get Adam Driver in his boring-ass black suit. You get Sam Rockwell and Leslie Bibb making out like an embarrassing aunt and uncle on the red carpet. Sure. Doing whatever the fuck they're doing.

Jeez, Kate. I'm sorry. They're the worst. We got that last season. You're embarrassing yourselves. Okay. I'm anti-Sam Rockwell and Leslie Biff. They're in love.

Oh, my God. They're embarrassing. Amelia just made a really bad face. Okay, yeah. You say to stay home. Timothy, stay home. Watch it in your pajamas. Maybe like an Army Hammer track suit.

Yes. Please. He did like the track suit phase when he didn't get nominated last year. Oh, watch it with Army. Yeah. Matching track suits. I love that. Instagram.

Yeah. Stay home. Don't come. They don't deserve you. Okay. That's where I'm out. Another snub. I don't feel strongly about this.

This didn't make me sad like the Timmy News made you sad. The next snub was Bradley Cooper with the directing category. Basically, confirm me what I already knew, which was a star is born-a-strap. And I'm sorry to whoever at the ringer is listening to this and all the loyal fans of that movie. But this basically, you could say that I was on the right side of history because enough people agreed with me to not nominate. Okay, that's, I'm not going to say that's true. But it's definitely seeming like the Academy did not like a Star is born nearly as much as anyone else. And I, the voice of the Academy?

I don't know. He can't say yet. It seems likely. Yeah. The next president of the Academy, Liz Kelly. Incredible. Yeah, Amelia, you think Aruna Shake is bad luck. I think she's horrible luck.

I, like, don't want her there. I am done with her. I just don't care. She can't stay home with Sam Rockwell and Leslie Bibbs. Exactly. Stay home, watch the child. I don't know. Put up at a table in the back.

Exactly. Bye. Also, my theory is that they announced that a bunch of the best original song nominees aren't going to be performed on the live show. Oh, my God. They're obviously going to have shallow live. I've been saying from day one Bradley Cooper is not going to get up on stage

and sing shallow with Lady Gaga. It's not going to fucking happen. He has frozen Botox face. Thank you. I've been saying it's true. I agree with that. He looks, he is not Jackson Main. He's officially like Bradley Cooper, I can't move my face.

But then he's singing it. Yeah, I was doing an assite. It's not going to be him. It's going to be like how they had John Legend do like City of Stars for La Land. They're going to have Gaga do it. They'll have like Father John Misty. I don't know.

I don't know who he's not. is going to do it with her. Maybe it'll just be her. Also, no fucking way he does that. This is my hot take. I don't think they're going to give a stars born anything. I think they're going to give all the stars, best song. From Black Panther? I swear to God. Yeah. You heard it here first. That is going to win and everyone's going to lose their shit. And a star is born is going to win nothing. Yes.

Once again, I am the voice of the Academy. This is true. Huge. If true. Okay. Last Oscars takeaway, Liz is just really, really into this one. Tell us about Christian Bale. This is not a take. This is just genuinely what I feel in my heart, which is that Christian Bill is the perfect man and I love him so much. He's my like number one celebrity crush. Oh my God. Number one. Yeah. Him and Liam's where they're tied for first. But yeah. What a spectrum. I'm a dynamic person. Obviously, best looking in American Psycho. He looked fabulous in the Batman series. Yeah. But him is Dick Cheney's like, I mean, not terrible. Still would. Okay. So you've seen. seen him in Miami, see American Psycho.

Neither of which are movies that I would think Liz Kelly would like. Would you say you're like... I'm so misunderstood. So would you say like you would still watch... Like, if you wouldn't think you would like a movie, you would still watch it because he looks good in it? Yeah. Or even... So here's a question.

I'm not that Shalough, you know, he's a phenomenal actor, too, you guys. Right, he is. So, you know, it's an excellent film that he looks really hot in? What? The 1994 cinematic classic Little Wemes. Oh, my gosh. Were you saving that until we got on this mic together? I just set that up.

Is he really in that movie? Yes. Oh my God, yes. He plays the community show me character. He looks good as fuck, Liz. But why is he in that movie? Listen, if you're attracted to him as Dick Cheney, you literally have to watch him in little women.

I only implied I was attracted to him as Dick Cheney. I never said that, you know, fully outright. You can't trace that back to me. Okay, watch and get back to me. Okay. Next category. Vanity Fair Hollywood Cover Reactions. Kate, you go first.

So every year, Vanity Fair debuts their, like, Hollywood cover. It has a bunch of stars on it, ranging from, like, why are you here to, like, people who actually deserve to be there. This series was, like, maybe the best ever, Amelia. It was a great one. No, I mean, there was a lot of diversity, which I love. Great. It was the first one to be majority people of color, which is great. The people on it, Sorcerona and Timothy Shalameh, Chowdhousman.

That was Group 1. They're kind of separated into panels. Yeah, there's like three. Right. Group 2, Rami Malik, Regina King, Yelitzaa, Abur. Mauricio from Roma and Nicholas Holt, aka that little fucker from Liz Kelly, direct quote. You also can't trace that back to me. And group three, Tessa Thompson, Elizabeth Tobicki, Denzel's son, John David Washington, and Henry Golding.

Right. So we were talking about who is the best hang in the set of four different groups. Yeah, of those three groups. Wait. Oh, choose a group? Yeah, yeah. Which of those is like the best hang? The third one, 100%. So that's, yeah. Tessa Thompson, Elizabeth Tabicki, John David, Washington, and Henry. re-golding. I'm going to agree with you for only one reason, one reason alone, is Elizabeth DeBickey is 6'3. And on principle, I have to support other tall women, so I would hang out with her at any time. We're on the same page, although I also wrote down, as Chris Ryan would say, Elizabeth

Tobicki, throw me off a building, run me over with the truck. I love her. Yeah, that's not... She's literally like 6-3, she's got like the blonde pixie cut. She has cheekbones for days. She was incredible in widows. I don't know if you guys saw widows. You probably didn't Christian Bales on in it. But she's incredible. And she's, you guys really also need to look this up. This and Jessica Simpson's feet are the two things you need to, like, visually see. Okay, got it. Elizabeth Tobicki is making hand contact with Tessa Thompson in a way.

It's kind of like the Sistine Chapel where, like, their fingers are, like, brushing. Yeah. I can't really describe it more than that. It's incredible. There's a lot of hand placement in this. Timothy Chalameh has, like, has some, his hand on, like, Sertia Ronan. Yeah. Henry Golding's, like, all up in, like, Tessa Thompson and Elizabeth's Vicky.

Right. Very dynamic tea-time set of home. We have look at Descartes and Sussex Yeah, you're gonna enjoy it. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, it's great. And I agree, the last panel is definitely the best thing. Amelia, are they missing anybody on this cover?

Okay, so here's another thing. Dating back to the whole academy, snubbing does not like a star is born. Gaga and Bradley are both not on this cover. Yeah. Which is a little weird considering how big that movie was. It's like people in Hollywood high up somewhere know something that we all don't. Am I the voice of Vanity Fair as well? Liz Kelly

knew out of Hollywood. Yeah, I agree. Gaga should have been there. It was just a little weird. It is a little weird. But I always feel like Emma Stone. You could just insert her anywhere. I know that's weird.

No favorite women. Kind of weird with that. They had Nicholas Holden there. True. To Liz's chagrin. Obviously, you can't control everything. And just one last question. Olimy and I were going back

through old Vanity Fair Hollywood covers on Instagram. Yes. Who from this cover will we look back on and be like, why did we think they were worthy of this cover?

Like, we were looking back and like Abby Cornish was on one. Giovanni Rubisi. You guys don't know who that is because like, why would you? Exactly.

But he was on, like they were on these Vanity for Hollywood covers. Like who from this? This is a stacked crew though. This really is. It really is.

It really is. My immediate one was John David Washington. Really? But that's just because like he hasn't done anything else yet. Okay.

I think. Sure. But yeah, other than that, I'm like, I don't know that there's anyone. And I can take your leave, as you know. We're going to come back to that in a minute. Yeah, we are. But yeah, I think she's sticking around. Sorry.

Kill me now. You can't control everything. Okay. Our last category of the week is T-T-Times most unanswerable question. And I'm going first, I'm going to pose this. So earlier this week, so we're recording on a Friday. Yesterday and Thursday was T-T-T-T-T-Mary on, Kate Hallowell's 24th, birthday.

And I believe that this week, and in actually recent weeks, she has been controlling the news cycle. So if you're controlling Hollywood, she's controlling the new cycle. Apparently. Much to my dismay, there has been so much going on in pop culture that directly cater to Kate

Hallowell. It's mildly concerning. There's been more Broadway news than ever up in my face. Magic Mike is training into a musical. It was just announced. Incredible. Which is crazy because isn't that like Thunder Down Under? Yeah, but like with plot and drugs.

Okay. Right. Taylor Swift is like officially entering her cats mode. She's been like rehearsing and Instagramming and stuff like that. I cannot escape Sershironan if I try. Everywhere I turn, she's there doing something with that accent. Chris Evans. How can you say that?

Like it's a bad thing. Oh my God. Chris Evans is now narrating an IMAX documentary about superhero dogs, which is the worst sentence in America. How dare you? I don't know what's happening. Kate has her hands in everything that's going on right now. So you and I are like fighting over Hollywood is what you're saying.

Yes, exactly. Wow. And who is going to win? The question can't be answered. I love it. Liz said this and like I immediately like brought to mind like three different examples of things that were like perfect for me this week. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry.

Chris Evans narrating a documentary about dogs was like the icing on the cake. Fomit. He even tweeted. He even tweeted and was like, we don't deserve dogs. I was like, we don't deserve you, Chris. Seriously. Incredible. Yeah, that's unanswerable. And we'll come back to our Liz and my feud over Hollywood.

I'm sure we'll go on for years to come. Do you have an unanswerable question, Kate? I do have an unanswerable question. This is kind of just something I've wondered for a long time. So it's vaguely newsy because Ben Barnes, I don't know if you guys know who that is. Beem Barnes. You made me look him up. I made you look him up.

He's in the season of the Punisher, which is why he's been in my face. Also, he's on Westworld. He's on Westworld. He was Prince Caspian. So he is part of this category of actors that I can't stand called handsome actors who can't act. And they're like just be models. Like my question is why can't this certain category of like young handsome actors just be models? Like women can do it.

There are all these models where they're just like happy to just be models. Yeah. But there's like a longer life to acting than there is modeling. Right. And like I get. I just need to list these people and you're going to understand. Sure. Ben Barnes, who he just said, Alex Petty first, speaking of Magic Mike, can't act to save his life. Where has he been?

Being pretty somewhere and not acting finally. Hollywood tried to make him happen for so long. Theo James, he was in Divergent. Great movie. Oh my God. Shout out to all the 16 year old to agree with me. It's an amazing movie. Theo James gorgeous. Yeah, really, really hot.

Would prefer to just look at pictures of him in a magazine. Yeah, sure. I don't need to see your cardboard acting. Yeah. Jamie Dornan. Can we just end him already? I liked him for a little bit, but now I'm just like You were that gross guy in those 50 Shades movies. He's aggressively handsome.

But you know he hated those own movies. But then why were you in it? Right. Just be a model. A paycheck is a paycheck. And he was a model beforehand. Right. Go back to that.

And the ultimate example is Scott fucking Eastwood. Okay. Scott Eastwood, that's just pure nepotism. Right. Yeah. Like, Hollywood has tried so hard to, like, create a career for him. He's been in so many stupid movies where he just walks around and looks handsome. and scows of people and can't act.

And you're against that. Just a man walking around looking handsome in every movie there's ever been. Do it in a magazine. We want some substance. I don't know. I don't want you in my movies. And I actually put,

also this is controversial, but Liam Hemsworth is also maybe on this list. He's not a very good actor. Like, you don't have to be an actor just because your brothers are. Have you seen the last song, Kate? Have you seen it? It's enough to just be pretty sometimes.

When you're that pretty, you can just be pretty. I kind of want to see him in that new Rebel Wilson movie. Oh, yeah, we talked about this. We've been saying that. I maintain that he's not going to be good in that. I don't know. I saw the preview and I was like, he's kind of funny. Tea Time is tearing Kate and I apart.

We'll see. That's all I'm saying. It's okay to just be pretty and not act. That's where I'm at. Amelia, any questions? Well, here's my question. It's related to movies again. Quentin Tarantino, as you know, is a director, a very famous director.

And I don't even need, you can look them up. You can Google him to see what he's been controversial about. Right. Why must he make, keep making films that I fucking cannot wait to fucking see it? Oh my God. My favorite movie of 2018 was Kill Bill volumes one and two. Of 2018? Yes, because that was the first time I had seen it.

So, Liz is looking at me with the most disgusted look on her. He has, he has once upon a time in Hollywood come out. Oh, my God. And they just released photos on vanity fair.com. I'm in. Unfortunately. I agree with you on this question. Oh my God.

I was out and then... And then you saw those photos. I saw the photos and I'm like, I'm pissed that I want to see it. It looks so good. Brad Pitt, Leonardo Caprio. Tan. They look great.

Margot Robbie is Sharon Tate. It's incredible. Liz is like, yes, like she, her grip on Hollywood is slipping. It's a great question because I don't want to support Gwen Tarantino. I don't like him. I find him horrifying and creepy. Yeah. Sure.

But like, yeah, like I'm going to go see this movie. It's like all of my favorite things in one film. Yeah, you've been looking forward to this forever. I really have. I love true crime. Yeah. This is a great. It's the man's of murders.

Great true crime. Did you just slack this to me all the photos of Once Upon a time in Hollywood? Yes. Yeah. That's fast. You need to see them. Okay. It's like bookmarked on my computer.

No. And it's just like I love his films. Yeah. Cleanse me now. It hurts. It really does. Like Leo, usually looking pretty bloated,

looking pretty great in this. They've done a lot of contouring, I think, on, like, Brad Pitt Leo's neck. I think they have really, someone, there's like a tanning department for this movie because everyone is just perfect tan. Yeah, they all look great. It's going to be a great movie.

And also, funny story, relating back to the whole Camie, Al Pacino's in this movie too. Oh. And tea time comes full circle. Incredible. Wow. That is all the time we have for this. week. This once again has been tea time. I'm Liz Kelly. I'm Kate Howell. And I'm Amelia

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