Faulkner

From last week: the epic Babyface/Teddy Riley IG Live battle that, on its first attempt, ended in embarrassing technical difficulties on Teddy Riley’s end. (Toni Braxton, being Team Babyface, was DRAGGING Teddy in real time on Twitter, and her tweets are hilarious.) They finally managed to pull it off two days, and it was a lot of fun to watch live in the company of seemingly every black celebrity (in the comments - I think even Michelle Obama showed up). Just a great walk down memory lane for anyone who grew up during that amazing time of black excellence in R&B in the 1980s and ‘90s. These two masters, along with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, defined a whole era of music.

From São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷

From California 🇺🇸

As much as I snarked on the Celeb Drag Race, I’m quite enjoying this. When Jermaine Fowler first saw himself in drag and recognized his uncanny resemblance to his mother who had recently passed away, it was really moving. And his “Kevina” Hart in Snatch Game was classic. Clever to play a female drag version of a male celebrity.

This made me laugh oddly.

Jeff Goldblum is simultaneously getting lusted over and roasted on Twitter. His question to Jackie Cox about Islam’s perceived homophobia and misogyny isn’t going over well. Glad to see self-pitying Widow gone. She wasn’t going to get any better. Glad to see Jaida rack up another win. LOL at this show’s definition of “celebrity.”

I missed this...

Sorry for the Sam Smith...

I love NYC, but Tinsley and Leah feel so inorganic in this group. The demographic divide is stark.

From Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱

That’s the thing. At some reunions, you can hear them lowering the sound on certain women (like the argument between Marlo and Kandi a few seasons back - you could hear Kandi still yelling in the background while Nene was trying to speak). You also have those interesting asides between the women we’ll miss (like Phaedra’s “Fix it, Jesus” or Nene’s crude comment to Tanya about “sticking that peach up your p*ssy”). Hopefully they’ll have time to clean up the audio.

Ugh. I get that everyone is making concessions in this unprecedented moment, but I’m not sure how this Zoom reunion will work. If it’s like a cable news panel, it might end up being a bunch of indecipherable shouting over each other.

ITA. I’m all for transparency and addressing things that are public, but she does seem to amplify her daughters’ mental health issues for story. All the while vamping for the camera. She’s not Yolanda, whose children are legitimately significant figures in pop culture.

I don’t enjoy BH and was really looking forward to Potomac. I get it, though, from a business standpoint.

That suuuucks.

From Medellin, Colombia 🇨🇴

From USA 🇺🇸

From Oslo 🇳🇴

Instagram

Stan Wawrinka is doing a chat with Chrissie Evert, and someone commented, “Stan, is this your mom?” 🤣

Lol so much Y&R shade. Not surprising given what we all know. Looking forward to PAS, but not that interested in the rest of them.

From Bangkok 🇹🇭