Can we just go ahead and cancel Euphoria...
Plus Travis & Tay, Kim & Odell, and Honey Boo Boo's wrath
Ariana Madix steals Sarah Hyland’s job. Sarah claims that she is departing Love Island USA on her own terms because of a different project that conflicts with the shoot dates, but how in-demand is Sarah Hyland, really?
Kim K and Odell break up. According to “sources,” Odell dumped her because she wanted to have another baby and he wasn’t down.
“She wants another child and she loves the idea of having a baby with Odell — he has such great genetics and she can’t help imagining how beautiful their baby would be. . .She has plenty of frozen eggs so it’s really just a matter of talking Odell into this plan, even if that means making it worth his while financially!”
LOL. I just don’t see a world where Kimberly pays Odell like a concubine to be the father of her fifth child. But stranger things have happened!
House of Villains S2 is cast. I’m kind of shocked this got renewed because I heard Season 1 was a huge flop (it was also impossible to find anywhere?) but the new season includes Tiffany Pollard, RICHARD HATCH (Survivor Season 1), and Teresa Guidice.
They are really trying to replicate what The Traitors has, but I fear they are too trashy! The pomp and circumstance is what makes The Traitors so lovable.
Christine Quinn’s husband shares his side of the story. Last week, Christine’s husband Christian was arrested outside their home in his little bathrobe after allegedly throwing a bag containing glass bottles at her.
He now claims that he had confronted Christine after her dog peed on "very valuable, irreplaceable and sentimental items,” but there was no domestic violence. His attorney says,
“Ms. Quinn filed a false police report with fabricated allegations of domestic violence in an attempt to gain an upper hand in potential divorce and custody proceedings.”
Are they going to play clips from Selling Sunset in court??
Will & Jada’s charity shutters. Like a print publication at a shady media conglomerate, the Will And Jada Smith Family Foundation is closing its doors.
Post-slap, donations dropped from $2.1M in 2021 to $365K in 2022, which is probably less than what their dentist makes in a year.
Jenn Tran is our new Bachelorette. It’s highly rumored that Maria, Daisy, and Rachel all turned down the role or couldn’t come to terms with production for various reasons, leaving ABC to scramble to find someone to sign on just days before Joey’s live finale.
Jenn is super pretty and it’s cool that she’s the first Asian lead, but we barely got to know her on Joey’s season. Why don’t they pull someone fun from the archives? Or get a celebrity? Maybe Julia Fox would do it for the right price!
Travis and Taylor maybe got in a fight. Videos of Tay “speaking animatedly” during lunch with Trav at Nobu Malibu have fans concerned there's trouble in paradise. I feel like this relaysh has to be winding down post Super Bowl. It’s probably been fun for her to have a cuddly jock as a distraction while she’s touring, but has the novelty worn off?
Euphoria is maybe cancelled. Shortly after all the hubbub about the cast filming season 3, it was reported that production had been delayed again. Season 2, which everyone agreed sucked, aired in 2022, and stars like Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, and Jacob Elordi have graduated to much bigger and better things in the interim.
After apparently scrapping the scripts for Season 3, HBO says it is “committed” to creating new episodes, but why can’t they just let this go?! The Idol was one of the most embarrassing disasters in recent history — if Sam Levinson was a girl he would not be getting this many second chances.
Mama June stole all of Honey Boo Boo’s money. On a recent episode of Mama June: Family Crisis (lol) Mama June revealed to Honey Boo Boo that she had taken 80% of the money out of her Coogan account to pay for family trips and other luxuries, now leaving Honey Boo Boo with nothing to pay for college with. We need better laws!!!
I got to interview a real acTOR for Byline this month! I am one degree of separation away from Pete Davidson, which puts me TWO degrees away from Kimberly.
Actually, I guess I am already one degree away from Kimberly because one time I talked on a Zoom with Simon Huck when I was doing PR for a seltzer brand, lolz. But I will take more degrees anywhere I can!
Myha’la Herrold is Caught Red-Handed
When HBO’s Industry quietly entered the scene in November of 2020, it didn’t get the immediate Game Of Thrones treatment I hoped it would. I was in my girlboss era, and Industry’s Euphoria-zation of entry-level corporate machinations helped me glamorize my 9-to-9.
“Guys, an intern literally dies in the pilot from grinding too hard,” I’d gush to my Brooklyn artist friends, who’d nod politely.
About halfway through the season, I perused the Instagram page of its star Myha’la Herrold, who played the Machiavellian protagonist Harper Stern, a scrappy American upstart charting her course at London’s prestigious Pierpoint & Co. investment bank.
Her profile seemed remarkably normal for someone headlining a show on the same network as Succession and The Wire. It was almost too accessible like I had looked up a cast member from my college’s production of Little Shop to see if we had any mutuals. (Other people must have thought so, too — Myha’la met her boyfriend through an optimistic IG DM around this time).
While it was overwhelmingly evident that Myha’la, who had barely graduated from Carnegie Mellon before booking Industry, was going to have the type of career cited by eager Tisch freshmen for years to come, for a funny, fleeting moment, it was like the rest of the world hadn’t caught on yet. She could probably still buy Hold the Cones from Trader Joe’s without being asked for a selfie in the freezer aisle.
Of course, that recognition quickly careened into focus like a derailed train in a Michael Bay movie. Getting tapped for Gen Z’s response to Scream, to the delight of A24 nerds everywhere? Check. Gracing the cover of Teen Vogue’s New Hollywood issue? Check. Dominating the screen opposite industry vets Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali? Duh.
Today, Myha’la joins us as one of the glowing faces of Colgate’s new "My Smile is My Superpower" campaign, inclusive of a brand music video, that encourages young people to embrace the beauty of gaps and imperfections. In the spirit of that authenticity, for this month’s Caught Red-Handed, we chat with Myha’la about addictive iPhone games, fashion faux pas, and the Broadway cast albums she’ll happily queue up for you on Spotify.
Emma Sharpe: If you were living through a permanent blackout, like your character in Sam Esmail’s brilliant Leave The World Behind, what TV series would you make sure you had on DVD in your prepper bunker?
Myha’la Herrold: I would neeeeeed Frasier. I watch it or listen to it in the background every single day. It’s my comfort blanket.
Emma Sharpe: You told W Magazine that Bareburger is basically a third wheel in your relationship at this point. What’s your go-to order?
Myha’la Herrold: The Spicy Paul Bunyan HAHAHAHA.
Emma Sharpe: As a student at a strict Catholic high school, you famously enjoyed pushing the limits of the dress code. Today, when you’re at parties or runway shows for some of the biggest fashion brands in the world, are there still any fashion “rules” you like to break, or faux-pas you lean into?
Myha’la Herrold: It’s not a conscious thing, me breaking rules, anymore. I think I incidentally break rules when I just do what I want! Above all else I want to be comfortable and happy in my clothes so if that means breaking rules, I’m willing to do that. If I’m not happy, I cannot serve the look!
Emma Sharpe: What’s the dumbest thing you spent money on recently?
Myha’la Herrold: Royal Match. The game on my phone that has me in a chokehold.
Watching: Problemista
Listening: Kristen Stewart on Not Skinny But Not Fat
Reading: “Dear Margot Robbie, Please Let Me Cast Your Sims Movie” (The Daily Beast)
