By Wonderwall.com Editors
3:59am PST, Nov 8, 2023
'Weird' new normal
The last year of Jeremy Allen White's life has "been insane," the actor told British GQ in a September 2023 cover story interview. "A lot of high highs, a lot of terribly low lows," he added. Jeremy's acclaimed Hulu show "The Bear" was recently OK'd for a third season and his new movie, "The Iron Claw," hits theaters Dec. 22. But as his career in Hollywood has started to explode, Jeremy's suddenly been forced navigate the public's newfound interest in his personal life — including his split from Addison Timlin, who filed for divorce in May after nearly four years of marriage.
"It's such a weird aspect of this thing that I truly never thought I would ever deal with whatsoever," Jeremy admits. "It's not fun, and it's not nice, and it's really weird." He and Addison share two young daughters, who've been photographed by paparazzi in recent months despite their dad's pleas for privacy. The surge in curiosity about Jeremy's offscreen interests also sparked a slew of rumors and tabloid headlines after he wrote "wow" on a photographer's Instagram post that featured model Alexa Demie clad in lingerie for a campaign. As he told GQ, the "wow" was simply intended as a compliment to the photographers. He reached out to his publicist about the gossipy response, he recalled, and told her, "'I just need to shut the f*** up." She agreed.
"When we last met, I think that was the beginning of what's been going on in my personal life," Jeremy told GQ's interviewer. "So that's when I was rocked the hardest and it's taken me a year to find some footing again, I guess."
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Pregnancy loss
In her new book of original poetry, "Pretty Boys Are Poisonous," out Nov. 7, Megan Fox writes about having endured a miscarriage at 10 weeks into a pregnancy. The "Transformers" star shares three sons with ex, Brian Austin Green. But the pregnancy she and fiance Machine Gun Kelly lost would have been the couple's first child together.
"I've never been through anything like that in my life," Megan said in a Nov. 7 segment on "Good Morning America." "I have three kids, so it was very difficult for both of us and it sent us on a very wild journey together and separately … trying to navigate, 'What does this mean?' and 'Why did this happen?'" she explained.
"I want to hold your hand / hear your laugh … but now / I have to say / goodbye," she writes, in part, about the pregnancy loss, per Harper's Bazaar. "I will pay any price," Megan continues. "Tell me please / what is the ransom / for her soul?"
Other poems in the book are similarly raw, with many tackling difficult themes, including abusive relationships and depression. "These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence," Megan wrote on Instagram in August when she announced the book. "I've spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins." She added that she hopes her writing "can inspire others to take back their happiness and their identity by using their voice to illuminate what's been buried, but not forgotten, in the darkness."
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Elvis Presley reveal
At 81, Hollywood legend Barbra Streisand had an enormous amount of ground to cover when she set out to write her new memoir, "My Name Is Barbra," out Nov. 7. That must explain the book's length, which clocks in at 997 pages in print and a whopping 48 hours and 14 minutes on Audible, according to Variety. The tome spans everything from the "Yentl" star's acting and singing careers to her love life, including romances with fellow celebrities that almost happened, but ultimately failed to launch.
The Oscar winner also reveals Elvis Presley was once a more literal kind of would-be leading man. As reported by People, Barbra was in the early days of production on her 1976 classic "A Star Is Born," when producer (and her boyfriend at the time) Jon Peters urged her to consider his "idol," the King, for the role that would eventually go to Kris Kristofferson. According to Barbra, she and Jon met Elvis in Las Vegas after checking out one of his performances. He was "interested" in the role, she writes, but things got off to a funny start when Elvis showed up for their meeting late, blaming his arrival time on a girl who'd been talking his ear off backstage. Barbra adds that Elvis divulged he didn't know if he should disappoint the girl he said was driving him "crazy," so she'd been on his plane.
Despite his interest in being cast alongside Barbra, the role went to Kris in part because Elvis' infamous manager, Colonel Parker, demanded too much money, Barbra alleges. "In any event," she writes, "I had no regrets about Elvis. Kris was it."
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'GMA' absence explained
After missing weeks of airtime on both "Good Morning America" and "Fox NFL Sunday," Michael Strahan is expected to remain off the air for at least the next few days while he manages undisclosed "family matters," a rep for ABC tells People. "Michael Strahan will not be with us this week as he is dealing with some personal family matters. We appreciate everyone's thoughts and concerns," ABC told the outlet in a statement published Nov. 7. According to People, the morning show co-anchor "is healthy," though little more is known about his situation. Michael's also been away for two weeks from his analyst post on "Fox NFL Sunday." On Nov. 5, Fox Sports commentator Curt Menefee said his colleague was out "dealing with a personal family matter," according to the Los Angeles Times. He's been laying low on social media, as well, staying silent since Oct. 25, when he posted about his game show, "The $100,000 Pyramid."
Michael, 51, shares four adult children, ranging in age from 19 to 31, with two exes. On Nov. 7, Entertainment Tonight reported the star was expected to be back on the air next week, citing an unnamed source.
Family divide
As the Isarael-Hamas war continues to divide communities around the world, Jon Voight issued a scathing critique of the views expressed by his daughter, Angelina Jolie, on the deadly conflict. "I am very disappointed that my daughter, like so many, has no understanding of God's honor, God's truths," said the conservative actor in a video posted to Twitter. In his message, which featured an American flag behind him, Jon also suggested Angelina and others "on the left" are spreading lies about Israel's motives.
Angelina — who spent much of the last two decades years working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and advocating for people trapped in conflict zones worldwide — called out Israel's response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in two recent Instagram posts. Though she called Hamas' surprise attack that killed an estimated 1400 Israelis "an act of terror," she condemned Israel's response in Gaza, where airstrikes have reportedly killed nearly 10,000 civilians, the New York Times reported on Nov. 7.
"This is the deliberate bombing of a trapped population who have nowhere to flee. Gaza has been an open-air prison for nearly two decades and is fast becoming a mass grave," she wrote in a Nov. 1 post, writing elsewhere that "millions of Palestinian civilians … are being deprived food, medicine and humanitarian aid against international law." Shen also accused world leaders of being "complicit" for "refusing to demand a humanitarian ceasefire."
Jon, who was raised Catholic, argued Israel's intense response "is justice for God's children of the holy land." He continued, in part: "The Israeli army must protect thy soil, thy people. This is war. It's not going to be what the left thinks, it can't be civil now."
Angelina and her father were estranged for many years but reconnected around the time of her split from Brad Pitt in 2016. In May, RadarOnline.com reported she and her father had "lost contact again."
