Here are some new photos of Beyonce and her newish braids, which she just got last week. Beyonce posted these photos to her Tumblr, which raises an interesting point… Beyonce and Jay-Z are really, really good at avoiding the paparazzi. They’re like Brangelina in that way. But it kind of defeats the purpose of avoiding the paparazzi if you’re just going to post intimate family photos and updated portraits on your Tumblr. I suspect it’s just about control for Bey – she can’t control the paps, but she can control the photos she puts on her Tumblr. Anyway, I’m not crazy about the braids, but they’re not the worst thing ever.

Anyway, we’re still talking about Elevator-gate. Solange Whoop-Ass-Gate? Something like that. Conventional wisdom/gossip has allowed us to believe that Solange was violently raging at Jay-Z because he was maybe getting too friendly with Rachel Roy. Star Mag asks a different question this week: what if Beyonce is the one having an affair?

Beyonce’s bodyguard, Julius De Boer, became instantly famous when — on surveillance video captured in a hotel elevator after the Met Gala — he saved her husband, Jay Z, from a brutal attack at the hands of her sister, Solange Knowles. On the video, Julius comes across as professional, loyal and level headed. But while all that may be true, Star has learned that there’s a lot more to the bodyguard — and his relationship with Beyonce — than meets the eye.

“Jay definitely thinks that there was and may still be something romantic going on between Bey and Julius,” an insider tells Star of the hip-hop mogul, whose own rumored cheating was the reported cause of Solange’s attack. “He wanted to fire Julius last February, but Beyonce said, ‘Julius isn’t going anywhere.’”

The “XO” singer and her bodyguard have raised eyebrows for years for their unusually close relationship. In 2009, they were spotted leaving a hotel, his lips stained with the signature’s signature red lipstick. Despite being subject to numerous cheating rumors himself, Jay is, nonetheless, “very jealous” of his wife’s friendship with Julius — and friends believe he may have a reason to be.

“They’ve spent a lot of time together behind closed doors,” the source explains. “He’s even stayed in her hotel room.”

[From Star Magazine]

This is a for-real question: would Beyonce bang “the help”? Yes, I’m really asking that. I don’t think Beyonce is as much of an elitist as, say, Gwyneth Paltrow. I mean, Bey likes everything fancy and her world-view in diamond-encrusted, of course. But I just don’t think Beyonce would get involved with someone she employs. I don’t think it would even occur to her that she could have an affair with an employee. Maybe I’m wrong. I do think it’s a little bit funny that everybody knows Julius and that he’s been part of Bey’s team for so many years. Maybe he’s more like family at this point. Huh – so if he’s “like family,” would she be more or less likely to bang him?

Photos courtesy of Beyonce’s Tumblr.