Lady Gaga’s romance got off to a stinging start
Now it can be told: Actor Taylor Kinney, who’s engaged to Lady Gaga, said on a talk show the other night that the first time the two met, she slapped his face.
Kinney told Andy Cohen on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live he had been cast as the hunk in her 2011 video You and I. During filming, he said, he strayed from the script.
“We’re rolling, and I kissed her and she didn’t expect it. They cut, and she slapped me.”
But “I think there was chemistry. … We exchanged information. A few weeks went by and we kept in touch, and then that’s that.”
He proposed last Valentine’s Day. They haven’t set a date for the wedding. He’s 34. She’s 29.
After a traffic stop in Beverly Hills on June 12, actor John Stamos has now been charged with driving under the influence of … something. In theory he could spend six months in jail, although in practice the Important Persons Act will surely kick in to prevent that.
The charge isn’t specific, but cops say the substance in question was GHB, a medication often involved in date- rape cases.
The drug can legally be prescribed — in some places, anyway — to treat narcolepsy. But TMZ found people to say Stamos was taking it as a fitness supplement. At the time, he was getting into shape for the launch of his Fox sitcom Grandfathered, which
debuted Sept. 29. He’s 52.
They won’t like this in Hollywood: British films are “just better,” Carey Mulligan tells a British interviewer. The Telegraph had the story.
She’s on the press circuit supporting her new British- made movie Suffragette, about the campaign, 120 years ago or so, to get British women the vote. A teenage reporter for some educational project asked her about British versus U. S. and other foreign films, and Mulligan answered that the U. K. has “an amazing wealth of talent … incredible actors and incredible directors and cinematographers and art directors and costume designers.”
“We’ve got a huge history here, so there’s so many stories to tell and we’ve got a really amazing multicultural society, and so that has so many stories.”
Hmmm. When word of this cultural chauvinism reaches Tinseltown, I’m guessing Carey won’t get many superhero movie offers for a while. She’s 30.
The Guardian caught up with Benedict Cumberbatch, at the London debut of his movie Black Mass, and asked if he wanted to be in the running for the next James Bond.
He didn’t sound very optimistic: “I don’t think they’d consider me for Bond, to be honest. I don’t know. I can wear a suit, yeah, I can do that. And I can fight. Yeah, I could raise my eyebrow, but that’s not what it takes to play Bond … and they might want to go in another direction.”
He added this: “It would be fun, though, wouldn’t it?”
He’s 39.