Pitt leaves Gomez with stars in her eyes
Selena Gomez got a little anxious when she met Brad Pitt at the MTV Movie Awards the other night, she told Ellen DeGeneres:
“I was in my dressing room and I had just finished performing. They knocked on my door and they said Brad Pitt would like to come in, and I was like, ‘He can come in.’ I was trying to play cool and be really nice. … He’s so pretty!”
Brad asked to have his picture taken with her, it seems, because several of his kids are big fans of hers.
That was fine with Selena, but “as soon as he walked out, I ran and I hid under the craft service table for like two minutes because I couldn’t believe it was happening.” Sounds reasonable. She’s 20. He’s 49.
Fashion designer Tom Ford, formerly with two very big houses but operating his own label since 2005, spoke more bluntly than people sometimes do about his former employer, in an interview with WWD.
Nowadays, he said, “I’m in a totally different place. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke. I’m not the guy who’s designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at Gucci and (Yves) Saint Laurent.”
Gucci is certainly trying for a different image now. They’ve signed up many female A-listers for a short video promoting Chime for Change, a big campaign — including a June 1 benefit “global concert event” in London — about empowering women.
The overall campaign is plain enough, but this little video’s message is a bit murky, despite umpteen zillion candlepower of celebrity:
Salma Hayek (whose husband
runs Gucci), Freida Pinto, Zoe Saldana, Blake Lively, Olivia Wilde, Halle Berry, Katy Perry, Arianna Huffington, Evan Rachel Wood …
The token males are John Legend
and Ziggy Marley.
The punchline is Beyoncé saying this about little Blue Ivy: “I’m telling my daughter every day, ‘You know you can be president? You know it’s possible?’ And I know she has no idea why I’m saying that, but … one year old, I’m like, ‘You know you can be president.’ ”
Just Google “Chime for Change video.”
Wondering how Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso could afford that wedding-vow-renewal blowout in St. Lucia last weekend?
Easy: real estate. They’re selling their Miami Beach mansion on Biscayne Bay, asking $20 million — almost double what they paid in 2005, though they’ve bought some surrounding lots since then.
There’s no word yet on what the party cost, but it couldn’t have been cheap: They rented the whole of Sugar Beach, a swanky resort. There were 50 guests. Jimmy
Kimmel officiated. Matt wore a white suit and sandals. Luciana wore a gown by designer Naeem Khan, and sandals. Their four kids were there. So were Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, Casey Affleck, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, Stanley Tucci, Robert De Niro, Don Cheadle, Chelsea Clinton, possibly Catherine Zeta-Jones and assorted spouses and kids.
Matt’s 42. Luciana’s 36.