Margot Robbie is hopefully saving her best look of the awards season for the Oscars, because her BAFTA look screams “placeholder” to me. Margot chose this Chanel gown with a lace dickie/capelet and a lace peplum. The material on the abdomen looks like a swimsuit and the lace looks budget. As I said, it’s just a boring look before she brings out the big guns for the Oscars next weekend. I hope! One nice thing: her hair and makeup here are lovely. Usually, it looks like her team is trying to “ugly her up.”
Margot is also making headlines because she was the one who got on stage when Brad Pitt won Best Supporting Actor. Brad pulled out of the BAFTAs at the last minute, citing a “family emergency” (huh). So he gave his speech to Margot, who read this to the assorted celebrities and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who were sitting front-row: “He starts by saying, ‘Hey Britain. Heard you just became single. Welcome to the club!’ He then says, ‘Thank you to the Academy for this extreme honor.’ He says he’s ‘always been a bit intimidated over here given the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and the titans that have come before, so this is especially meaningful.’ He says he is going to name this Harry because he is really excited about bringing it back to the States with him. His words not mine.” I saw the clip and the producers cut to William and Kate, and they both laughed. This… is not a scandal. The only thing notable here is that Brad’s speechwriters are still trying to make “divorce” jokes, which… seems odd in this particular instance.
Additional photos – here’s Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. I love velvet and I love green, so why do I dislike this dress? I think because the cut is so conservative and matronly?
Adam Driver & his wife Joanne Tucker. Joanne is stunning. I love her bird gown. I guess their marriage is okay…?
Photos courtesy of WENN and Backgrid.
Out of the royal family, half a world away and Harry STILL upstages his brother.
PS: William and Kate’s pinched smiles and slow claps were amusing as hell. (And revealing)
Where can I see it???? Sounds hilarious!
@ Jane:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=klZiO7Lftfw
Not to make too much of it, but I find it interesting that Kate had to look at William first before she briefly joined the clapping. Why? Amost as if to check in for the *correct* response first.
In any case, I don’t think they appreciated the joke. 🙃
Bella, I notice she does that a lot. William came with his game face and she looked to him to guide her to read the situation. It was awkward for sure, including the slow clap. I want the public to continue letting them know how they feel, frequently.
It is a bit chilling that she cannot decide for herself and looks to him for cues after all these years together.
That’s how u would fit into a toxic family, falling in line
Being the butt of a joke is considered upstaging?
Oh, is that the line certain segments of the royal fandom are going with now? Because last night there was certainly a lot of anger about the “disrespect” to William and how “nasty” the joke supposedly was to him. Some people even said he should skip it next year.
@ Susan
I don’t think you got the joke, hun.
Yes, Beach Dreams. That and they’re now insisting Harry is a terrible brother for abandoning his poor hard-working older brother. #PoorWilliam cannot do it alone, Harry is evil for not supporting him, etc.
I love Greta’s dress, I think it’s a great choice for her body shape and velvet always makes me think of cozy things which is good for the time of year.
Disagree on Adam Driver’s wife, I don’t see the appeal whatsoever. She’s just kind of plain?
Are you referring to her dress or are you saying she, herself, is “kind of plain” — ?
I personally think she’s plain, I don’t think she’s a stunner like the author does, which is fine, personal preference. Just nothing to write home about.
@LULU: we are twins! I love Greta Gerwig’s dress, it’s BEAUTIFUL. And Adam Driver’s wife look like his mum and not stunning at all. *shrugs*
👋🏼 Twinsies!
I want her dress, very much
I’m the opposite, I don’t see the appeal in Adam AT ALL. His wife is pretty though.
Why the speculation about the Drivers? Did something happen?
Not much help from me, because I hadn’t heard anything either. But I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a photo of them together until now. His wife is SUPER pretty. And I love her dress.
There was a lot of speculation a couple years ago that they were on the verge of divorce. It was odd because who cares to gossip about Adam Driver unless it’s the real deal. But I guess it worked itself out.
I’m starting to think 99% of the gossip I heard about their marriage was invented by either desperate Reylos who wanted him to dump Joanne and marry Daisy Ridley, or those wackos on 4chan who really have it in for Adam for some reason.
There is a subreddit and it is out of this world. As Insomniac said, it’s mostly the Reylos throwing theories out there. They go off on a theory there was a time in 2017 where he wasn’t wearing his ring and his kid may not be his because she cheated on him to get back at him for cheating on her with Daisy. It’s messy yet oddly fascinating watching these “fans.”
there were a lot of sightings of him getting cozy w/Daisy Ridley over in Ireland & other places. I haven’t seen the new Star Wars movies, but I do know they are costars *shrug*
Everytime I see Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach, I think of the cruel crap they did. No film no matter quality would EVER compel me to give even a cent to them. I think it’s tragic Gerwig is the It young female director – so many women before her deserved what she’s received in the last 2 years…namely WoC *coughcoughAVADUVERNAYcoughcoughLULUWANG* – which is fitting since there isn’t a single PoC in ALL👏OF👏THEIR👏FILMS. I get Little Women’s lack of PoC, but Ladybird has no excuse. Baumbach has always been a egotistical dbag so I never set a high bar for him & never liked him.
So what’s the deal with Adam Driver’s marriage? He normally doesn’t have much gossip around him. I must have missed something.
Low key rumours about their marriage for like the last two years I want to say? He didn’t wear his wedding ring for most of 2017 when he usually does, and lots of blind items about him moving out (yeah, I know, blind items, but where theres smoke theres usually fire with famous people)
Hmm. Last time there were those kinds of rumors about them, it turned out they were hiding a kid. So who knows?
I hadn’t heard anything but I did notice when they got out of the car he walked on ahead and didn’t wait for her. Reminded me of a Trump move with Melania.
He also called her his ‘current wife’ at the Gotham awards which was kind of cringe.
If my husband referred to me that way I would be p*ssed to say the least
But wasn’t that the time they had a secret baby and that’s why she never showed up with him anywhere? (Yes, they have a 2 year old son and managed to hide the whole pregnancy and well, the child as well so far. )
@claudia Yes this is what I was going say. They had a secret kid and didn’t tell anyone outside of family until he was nearly 3. So that’s over a year of her not going to events which I guess started the rumor train.
The information about their child only leaked to Page 6 because one of her cousin’s accidentally had a picture up on her instagram page.
She did go to all the big events though, including the star wars premiere I think. it was his lack of ring that got tongues wagging
Thanks for the info all! I’m not sure how this flew under my celebrity gossip radar.
Every time there is a Brad Pitt award speech, I can’t help but laugh, the speechwriter’s sense of humor gets me but then I am so ashamed of myself and end up in the corner ashamed of myself ugh.
No need to be, while i don’t think the speech last night was out of this world funny, i certainly chuckled. It was light and fun. Now Rebel Wilson’s segment…..i laughed out loud!
Yes, Rebel was really funny.
As for Brad’s speech, clever for his speechwriter to likened brexit to his divorce status and stressing again him being single. I see it as self deprecating in the sense that he is Brad Pitt and yet poor him, he is single and a having a messy divorce, but at the same time, from most of his speeches, he really is showing his passive aggressive personality.
I cringe because Brad always namedrops someone who is more relevant than him.
ITA, I laughed out loud!
All i got from it is, outside of the kiss up royal reporters and courtiers no one else is going to kiss up to William and Kate. They had a hand full of jokes at the royals expense. Then Joaquin stole Williams I’m for diversity now moment.
Then by the time evening came all eyes were on the super bowl, then the uk had a terrorist attack. Now today all eyes are on Iowa.
What’s going on in Iowa?
Signed,
A Dumb Swiss person
Iowa is holding their caucus tonight to vote on who will be the democratic presidential nominee.
Does that mean the opposite party gets their nominee tonight or only Iowa’s choice of nominee?
The Iowa Caucus is important because it’s the first. Their selection of the nominee is considered weighty in terms of its influence, although it doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme of things. Many states hold a caucus to vote, although it’s usually the early ones that garner attention. If one person emerges as the “winner” of all the early caucuses, that person usually becomes the nominee. Because the race is fairly even right now (Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden both share the lead), one candidate emerging from the Iowa Caucus could be important.
Only Iowa and its caucus system is not like the direct votes that will come in most of the primaries in the other 49 states. Sometimes the Iowa win means something and sometimes it doesn’t. It may shape which candidates stay in the race and which drop out.
Only Iowa. All of their states have their votes over the next few months, but Iowa is the first. It doesn’t decide anything, but generally the candidate who wins gets a boost from it, particularly this year since the theme of the election is basically “who can beat Trump”. So most people are just trying to vote for who they think everyone else will vote for.
The person who wins the Iowa caucus gets a boost because he/she will get more media attention and it helps with fundraising. However, New Hampshire very often picks someone different.
I mean this in a nice way, but I did not expect to learn so much about American politics on a gossip site! Thank you for the replies, I’m slightly less dumb about it all now 🙂
@Lulu, many of us are counting down the days until the Angry Cheeto is out of office. At least in my mind, the Iowa Caucus means we’re getting closer to the supposed end of his reign. Now we need to focus on getting him out of office and not re-elected, which is a very real possibility.
I remember losing my mind when Bush was re-elected. I couldn’t believe the US would ever let him near the office again. Funny how I’d take him back in a heartbeat now.
Though his – i’m single – speech is boring really it did go well with the Brexit, but yeah Brad we get it. No one wants to date you.
Love Joanne Tucker’s dress. It could have been lower cut but it is different and I think very good on her
Love Margot’s look and am not sure Brad would have made those jokes in person but I did laugh, esp at the grimacing of the Cambridges. It was interesting to see even Kate look at William to see how he’d react.
I love Adam’s wife’s dress and she looks lovely with her hair short.
Pitt’s single-pringle jokes are such a weird choice. It’s the paroxism of humble-bragging.
Can you imagine I am single?! how tragi-comic.
Doesn’t his team see it?
Urgh.
The Cambridges were smiling but they were dying inside. I loved it! LOL
Double post
Super cringeworthy jokes – poor Margot Robbie that had to stand there and deliver those lines.
At least she got some lines… I hear she didn’t talk much in Once Upon a Time…
yeah she looked reluctant, as an Aussie I bet she respects the BRF more than Americans do
No. A whole lot of us in Australia don’t. Speaking for myself I certainly have no respect for a family that protects an Andrew and turns a blind eye to racism.
Right? Don’t make someone else deliver your jokes. So odd.
But the look from Kate to William. William was clearly uncomfortable. The laugh was FAKE. I’m not a fan of Brad Pitt but I absolutely love him for saying that! It was a your loss is America’s gain type of comment!!
Neither of them seemed comfortable but Kate was able to fake it much better than William. He doesn’t look thrilled and there was probably a temper tantrum later that evening.
I thought Margot looked fine. Not her absolute best but it was appropriate and seemed comfortable. And obviously her face can elevate pretty much everything. Joanne looked lovely! Great color and accessories. Those earrings!
Why is Brad constantly telling us that he’s single? Methinks he doth protest too much…
I take it as a dig at his ex wife which is disrespectful to his children’s mother.
No I don’t see it as a disrespect to Angie at all… How him being single is disrespecting to her??
Maybe because he hasn’t been single in a very long time and still finds it hard to deal with it? I have friends who constantly were in relationships since their teenage years and are now struggling a lot being single…
It’s just so awkward and uncomfortable. It’d be funny if he got dumped for some other guy, or they just split up normally, but he’s single because of drinking and some kind of abuse. Joking about it is very off-putting to me.
Sort-of related: did anyone see Jim Carrey’s dismissive comments (he basically implied her only ‘talent’ was her looks – he was doing a “bit”) to Margot Robbie and her uncomfortable reaction on the Graham Norton show? I really felt for her. What a prick.
Yeah I watched that she handled that well – I think he thought he was being funny but the passive aggressive snark was there. Carey has always been a bit of a douche.
Wait, what? Ugh.
I’m not a huge Robbie fan but I got so annoyed on her behalf! I mean, sure – not going to deny she got her foot in the door because she’s stunning, but as I understand it she actually created many of her most critically acclaimed opportunities (and also opportunities for others) by forming a production company and WORKING for it. And she’s a GOOD actor. She must get so sick of men reducing her to her looks. Yet another way to undermine a powerful woman I guess.
I’ve never had any use for Brad Pitt but watching a certain segment of Twitter flip out has been amusing af. So Brad gets a point in his favor for the day.
Rebel Wilson was funny too.
She was nervous; you could tell, but she did well overall. Was surprised she brought out the sheet of paper with her.
It’s really weird brad keeps making “I’m single!” jokes since he’s single because he was abusive. Like…..?
He has one more sparay to go to remind the world he is single. He can joke about Harry all he wants because he is the complete opposite of his weak as water azz.
The epitome of a man who stands up for his family. But per usual he hangs his hat on someone else.
WHAT ELSE CAN HE TAK ABOUT IN HIS SPEECHES? What? Seriously!
He has been gaining nerve since the GG along with hubris. Remember his speech about being nice? Yeah!He should not be commenting on anything when he has some serious legal issues going on. Phoenix was the best Of the night and should be echoed at the Oscars.
Funny how Phoenix’s speeches started off so horribly and are getting better and better. Shows his talent at learning lines I guess. Brad was being self deprecating don’t you know. The line did go well with Brixit but he needs to lay off anymore single jokes, esp at the Oscars.
Brad sure is begging for someone’s attention especially someone whose ghosted him since 2016.
Wait until the Oscars. I bet Sussexit will be mentioned.
Kate seemed sincerely amused by it. William is a humorless sloth.
To me they both appeared uncomfortable, knowing they were being put on the spot for something they did. These two only want a certain kind of attention, but both of them have incredibly thin skin when it comes to criticism. They expected to be glorified and William praised for his pathetic speech. Instead, the audience, winners, attendees showed which side they’re on.
Brad Pitt is counting on the ‘everyone hates Angelina’ crowd. He thinks an acceptance speech that jokes about the end of his marriage to horrible Angelina will ALWAYS go over big. Add that to all of the ‘Brad+Jenn’ diehards, still carrying a torch after all these years and our Bradley thinks he’s in like Flynn. I guess he’s counting on people not caring or knowing that his marriage ended when he assaulted his oldest son. What a guy!
Honestly not a Pitt fan and thought he was overrated in OUATIH (but excellent in others like Benjamin Button so he should win) but how did a push/shove (= dysfunctional parenting no doubt) become assault (= abusive parenting and illegal)?
Pitt is a douche. Just hurry up!
give him the oscar he’s desperate for so he can f*ck off for the rest of the year & give everyone a break.
I loved Greta’s dress. It looks beautiful in other pictures and she looked regal and pretty.
Agreed. Nothing wrong with conservative. It’s well-tailored and the color is STUNNING, both on her and just in general.
Greta’s dress is nice. I really love Adam’s wife’s bird dress, it’s unique and very pretty.
I think Greta looks stunning. Absolutely her best dress in a while, and the cut is flattering but also looks comfortable.
Does Noah Baumbach always look like this or should we expect a Marriage Story part deux?
Margot better gets some really good acting gigs after this. First she has to smile and look good – this is what misogynist Tarantino reduced her role to in OUATIH. Than she has to pull the same stunt during promo tour and then has to get on stage and read Brad’s writers jokes making it look like as effortless and not laboured out by professional writers. Which she managed to do.
In other news – I like her look except for hair, it’s like they simply ran out of time to do the hair.
In other other news, I have a question: when will there be an awards show for all the people who work around the clock running these people’s campaigns and style games all to win awards. I mean judging by Brad, there should be an award for a speech writer for acceptance speech. I mean how hard is it to pull a few lines from your own mind/heart?
Joanne is ‘stunning’? Really? She’s an average looking woman.
She reminds me of Anne Marie Duff, James McAvoy’s ex-wife. Its been bugging me all day as I keep thinking ‘she reminds me of someone’.
I’m so triggered by the BP adulation. There was a crazy piece of hagiography in the NYT about BP as god basically, all the commenters were back in the 90s, all completely overlooking the plane incident, MIR, and BP’s own admissions of substance abuse. On top of that, the film he’s nominated for — and all we’ve learned from Uma Thurman re QT having her drive a brakeless car, heaven forfend she might have to act, or worse QT would be unable to fulfill his (to me) increasingly dark misogynistic fantasies. The NYT piece was written no less by Manohla Dargis, a woman and a film critic, how could she miss this? And we thought time was up, apparently not, still a good day to be a straight rich white guy…
The Hollywood Reporter article out days ago about his speech writing have added to his enormous hubris. He is so sad and like his first ex wife lives for public acceptance. He lives in a bubble and I remember him telling GQ months back that he is one special gazelle in the public eye alone. It’s sickening to listen or read his train of thought.
Margot – said she wrote a letter to QT practically begging him to be in one of his films. So sad she has to resort to this. She faced a backlash and had to defend her decision being in his film, particularly after all the Weinstein allegations and how QT continued to work with him. She was happy to be used as the woman who defended the misogyny in the the film and the misogynists in the film.
What’s going on with Adam’s pants? They look a bit ill-fitted.