#courtney-stodden

#courtney-stodden

Courtney Love came up to me. She goes, Gray, Gray, you've got to let my manager in,' recounts Graydon Carter, former editor of Vanity Fair. I said, Why?' She said, He's got my money, he's got my car keys, he's got my drugs.' I said, Look, Courtney, I just can't deal with this right now.

We were so happy to see Alysa Liu win the gold medal in Milan yesterday. My husband just showed me that in 2019 she skated to my song Don't Rain on My Parade. I'm so proud of her. Don't Rain on my Parade is the song Streisand made famous in the Broadway musical, Funny Girl, and in its 1968 film adaptation, for which she won the Academy Award for best actress.

I'm not innocent here. I was complicit, because at some point, especially at the very beginning of my career and my relationships and the things that happened in my personal life, it was just exploitation and I kind of gave up. I thought, 'Well, this is who I am.' Just being in Playboy and Baywatch and even the people around me at that time, I was being minimised.

Welcome back to another edition of Queerty's "Quick & Dirty" series. Join us as we recap the biggest stories of the week. There's no script. There's no filters. Just queer news, quick and dirty. This week, Queerty's Graham Gremore, Alex Reimer, Cameron Scheetz and Johnny Lopez dive headfirst diving headfirst into the latest Grindr chaos after a former employee spilled to Vox about exactly when things went from spicy to soggy.

And by "Who-dom," I don't mean the Seussian variety but the taxonomy coined by 's Lindsey Weber and Bobby Finger: the vast, sub-stratospheric tier of celebrity occupied by figures whose fame is intensely meaningful to some and virtually nonexistent to everyone else. Whos are defined in opposition to Thems, the indisputable celebrities known to most except those living under a rock or who willingly reject the very notion of pop culture,

The interviewer has just asked her about Shandi, a long-ago contestant from the second season of America's Next Top Model. Remember, Tyra? The one the show filmed having what may or may not have been non-consensual sex, while in an alcohol-induced blackout? The one where producers followed up by insisting they capture the poor girl's tearful phone confession to her distraught boyfriend back home? The one still traumatised to this day?

"During the early days of the group, there was another mom who often wasn't included. I'd picked up on hints of a weird dynamic, but at the time, I didn't dwell on it too much. I was just so happy to have found these incredible, smart, funny women. Now it seemed that this group had a pattern of leaving someone out. And that someone had become me," she claimed.

"As a model in this industry for over 14 years, testing has been, and will forever be a huge component of a model's career. "Yet the frustration has always been the same with it. This is why I have created the Testing Network. In my 14 years, I have found that when a shoot is curated with a full team of creatives, these shoots are some of the most inspiring, influential and fulfilling experiences I've had of my career. But those tests are a rarity, and they shouldn't have to be."

Trisha Paytas' announcement that she intends to run for a seat in the US House of Representatives in her home state, California, has come as a surprise to many. As someone put on X/Twitter on Tuesday (6 January): "Trisha Paytas announcing that she is running for the House of Representatives was not on my 2026 bingo card." Since then, Spencer Pratt, a reality TV star, has announced his own political aspirations by launching a campaign to become the Mayor of Los Angeles.

Madison Beer may only be 26, but she is something of a veteran in the pop industry. She got her start at 13, after Justin Bieber tweeted a link to a YouTube video of her covering Etta James's At Last, and has spent the intervening decade-plus toiling away in mainstream pop, amassing a huge gen Z fanbase in the process including more than 60 million followers between Instagram and TikTok.

The performer known as Erika Kwerk has posted videos on TikTok dressing up, lip syncing, and dancing to clips of Kirk's speeches, raking in millions of views and even fundraising for the American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]

The (There's Gotta Be) More to Life singer, 39, is seeking unspecified damages as well as a trial by jury after filing a lawsuit this week against multiple parties including former manager Britt Ham, Universal Music Group, and ForeFront Records for multiple offenses including childhood sexual abuse, sexual battery, negligence and gender violence, according to the filing on the website for her attorneys at Stritmatter Law.

As Pamela Anderson revealed in an interview this week, she couldn't wait to get away from Seth Rogan at the Golden Globes ceremony Sunday night. The Baywatch star told Andy Cohen on his SiriusXM show that she felt yucky sitting so close to the actor and thinks he owes her an apology because he developed, produced and starred in Pam and Tommy, the Daily Mail reported.

I got a little curious and did a little searching to see if I was in the files and unfortunately I am because one of Epstein's associates was a fan of my old show, The Colbert Report particularly of my explanation of massive anonymous campaign coffers known as Super PACs.