Swift gets award from other Kennedy
What a surreal scene at the big Kennedy family charity gala the other night, when Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., gave an award to Taylor Swift, for her humanitarian work or something.
Not present, and not mentioned: RFK Jr.’s teenage son Conor, a high-school student who had a summer fling with Swift — until his family stopped it.
Taylor, in her speech, went on at length about “my great friend Ethel Kennedy,” who more or less approved of the match with Conor. Weighing on her mind: Tamara Ecclestone, who dumped her fiancé Omar Khyami during the summer, t old Now! magazine that she has gained a few pounds since they parted.
Bernie Ecclestone’s daughter, spending some time in New York this month, insisted at some length that she is OK with this, doesn’t weigh herself, likes her new figure, etc. “I’m so much happier and content.”
But then there she was in a Manhattan Whole Foods store, with a male pal, spotted by the Daily Mail stocking up on diet-conscious “boxes of fruit and nuts.”
You’ll recall that she unloaded Omar after he was caught performing … well, let’s just leave it at “he was caught.” Speaking of obsessed: Anne Hathaway, in Glamour mag plays the let’s-talk-about-mybody game.
“There’s no magic bullet; there’s no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time,” she says.
“I’m letting go of those expectations … But I still feel the stress over ‘Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?’
“... There’s an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would’ve grown out of by now. It’s an ongoing source of shame for me.”
Spotlight couple: New York Yankees star Derek Jeter broke up with Minka Kelly this year, and broke his ankle on the diamond. Not a great 2012.
He is, however, bouncing back.
The other night he surfaced on a date, reports the New York Post, with top model Hannah Davis.
They drank in the bar at Manhattan’s Gramercy Park Hotel and then went upstairs together. Wise words: The curmudgeonly Theodore Dalrymple, in the U.K.’s The Spectator, sums up our era of brainless tweeting, Facebooking, and Instagramming perfectly: “Selfexpression is far from an undiluted good ... That is why an age of instant communication is almost certain to be an age of absence of communication. There will be no plumbing the shallows of the human heart.”