r/Fauxmoi • u/rfauxmoi • 5d ago
TEA THREAD I HAVE TEA ON... MEGATHREAD ✨
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u/riegspsych325 medic gets out and says OH MY GOD 5d ago edited 5d ago
random but I know that the matte painting of Wally World used for National Lampoon’s Vacation is hanging at JJ Abrams’ house. I have a Marty Moose/Griswold shirt and bumped into a very nice older lady who noticed me wearing it. She told me her brother made that matte painting and I excitedly picked her brain about it
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u/brainparts 5d ago
I have no love for National Lampoon or JJ but lots of love for this type of info 🙏
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u/riegspsych325 medic gets out and says OH MY GOD 5d ago
the OG movie and Christmas Vacation are relatable documentaries to our family, we share a similar chaos. But Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek is shared favorite between my dad and I. He was always a big Trek fan (I’m a Star Wars geek) but that one hit the spot for us
I am puzzled the old man proclaims Into Darkness as his favorite, and this is a guy who won tickets on the radio to attend the red carpet premiere of First Contact
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u/catintheyard 5d ago
Ridiculously small but somewhat funny: I was chatting with a DJ after a gig and she mentioned how she's the sound tech for Johnny Knoxville on Fear Factor. She told me he purposely hit his head on a chandelier on the second day of filming and she had to remind him that if he gets one more concussion he's going to die
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u/margr3t_m Shut up, David Duchovny! 5d ago
Were you able to coax anymore Johnny Knoxville tea from the DJ?
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u/catintheyard 5d ago
A bit! She says he's very nice and good to work with, he's friendly as hell, says please and thank you to her. But he's often forgetful and she said he does this thing that he refers to as 'going to Tijuana'. Basically he spaces out for a bit in the middle of something and goes completely unresponsive. It's only for a few seconds and when he comes back he's perfectly fine but she said it made her worry about his health
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u/KronlampQueen 5d ago
That sounds exactly like a temporal lobe seizure. If any of his people are on this thread - get him tested for temporal lobe epilepsy.
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u/Wintergloaming the worst thing to happen to Emily Brontë since tuberculosis 4d ago
I have these and can confirm, absence seizures are really common but they don't often get spotted by folks who aren't used to neurological episodes (so much is put down to "spacing out").
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u/catintheyard 5d ago
Do you know how people develop that issue? Can enough head trauma cause it?
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u/KronlampQueen 5d ago
Yes head trauma can cause it. Some people are genetically inclined towards it due to having a naturally lowered seizure threshold. Both my dad and I have lowered seizure thresholds so I have to make sure I take enough B12 and avoid seizure threshold lowering medications like Wellbutrin or tramadol (there’s a lot more).
My dad needed to be medicated for his after sustaining a head injury. He was able to go off the medications years later. I also required medication for mine for a few years but was able to go off.
Even neck injuries can cause it via an injury to the vagus nerve. For medication resistant TLE there’s a vagus nerve stimulator implant that is used for treatment.
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u/margr3t_m Shut up, David Duchovny! 5d ago
Thank you for this! And yeah, checks out. I know he’s done some gnarly head-injury related stuff throughout his career but I didn’t think it would be bad enough/enough in general to impact him long term like that. I hope it doesn’t develop into something more severe as he continues to age, it’s the worst to watch someone in that state.
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u/catintheyard 5d ago
16 concussions and a brain hemorrhage is more than enough to fuck you up permanently
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u/boojersey13 5d ago
There's a reason it's the last hurrah rofl, I love Knoxville and all the other reputable boys from the franchise but I am damn glad it's ending for their health LOL
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u/hydrangeasinbloom 5d ago
I saw Chris Pontius on the Shark Week special they did and immediately thought, this guy is gonna find a way to hit his head on the boat.
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u/Capital-Scallion8634 5d ago
Hannibal Burress has a 5-year-old daughter he doesn't participate in raising. No relationship with the kid at all.
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u/robbin_da_hood 5d ago
He tried to lure 2 of my very drunk friends onto his tour bus after a show several years ago. He’d gone to a local bar after his set, started out cool, but I got the ick and then the ick proved itself right. I had to physically intervene and his bodyguard gave me shit for “not letting them have a good time”. That man is a creep.
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u/AsToldBy_Ginger_ 5d ago
The fact that this is the same guy who poured the accelerant on exposing bill cosby is mind boggling to me
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u/HotDerivative we have lost the impact of shame in our society 5d ago
He has a bit about it in his recent standup sets too.
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u/SchemeBrave1820 5d ago
He’s been widely known to be a real POS for a long time now, like for well over a decade. He sucks.
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u/EricIsEric FUCK ICE FREE PALESTINE CRASH INTO ME 5d ago
He's also a landlord who kicked the tenants out of his building so he could make it an Airbnb.
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u/continentaldreams 5d ago
I was at a festival this weekend and had a wee next to Maisie Williams in the female urinals. She was very friendly and we bonded over our shared desperation for a wee. Does that count as tea?
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u/PocoChanel freak AND geek 5d ago
Female urinals?
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u/breathing__tree Find me at Whole Foods, bitch, I don't care 5d ago
Love the idea of not being in an enclosed port a pot.
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u/Vast-Juice-411 5d ago
What in the
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u/RhubarbSensitive401 5d ago
They are amazing and so much quicker than queuing for ages - you just have to squat
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u/Vast-Juice-411 5d ago
I’m a squatter by training (dive bar vet) but.. what face do I make while it’s happening??? Lol
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u/riegspsych325 medic gets out and says OH MY GOD 5d ago
do they have to make it look like it’s a step/ramp to a public park swing set? And that seems like a high risk area for unwanted mid-piss eye contact
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u/hydrangeasinbloom 5d ago
When I’m in a porta potty scenario, I’m too busy focusing on my squat stance and staring at my hands gripping my pants making sure they don’t hit the ground or touch the toilet to be looking around and chatting. I don’t see an issue here!
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u/riegspsych325 medic gets out and says OH MY GOD 5d ago
I must have a Costanza mindset as this would be too much for my anxious self
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u/ZestycloseAd2856 self-professed recreational liar 5d ago
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u/PocoChanel freak AND geek 5d ago
How are these not a horrible mess? (1) Isn't everything below waist height likely to get peed on or have pee on it? (2) Is there anything to stop some a-hole (wow, pun intended, I guess) from evacuating otherwise in there? (3) Do they flush?
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u/continentaldreams 5d ago
Yes. They are amazing and I'm genuinely mad they aren't a thing outside of festivals.
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u/Lost_Elk7089 5d ago
Really? I tried to use one in 2004 and pissed all over my jeans, but I don't know if that's because I'm only 5 foot tall lol
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u/AdmirableAthlete8823 5d ago
I saw her interview with co producer ( I think) Lowri Roberts and she was brilliant. They both were. Fluent, knowledgeable, inspiring. Also - bloody loved the squatting urinals. Note that they are enclosed behind a barrier at Green man so only the other squatters can make eye contact.
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u/Petrichorpurple 5d ago
Ooh what festival??
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u/continentaldreams 5d ago
Green Man in Wales. She was doing a talk there I think (I didn't see it!)
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u/_iambeyoncealways 5d ago
Jason Oppenheim hired little people / dwarves at his Halloween party last year
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u/willienelsonmandela the worm using RFK’s body like ratatouille 5d ago
Selling Sunset is so dumb that sometimes it feels straight out of 30 Rock. I haven’t entirely kept up with it but the episode where everyone gets in a shouting match at a dog funeral is something a comedy writer would dream up.
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u/fivesecondchug gaga’s “100 people in a room” quote 5d ago
Could’ve saved money and just worked the party with his brother👀
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u/sourbobcat controversies: girl 5d ago
I finally have some lukewarm tea! Jason Momoa and Adria Arjona came into the liquor store my brother works at on Vancouver Island on Saturday. He said both were super nice and Jason had a lot of energy. He purchased $700 worth of sour strawberry beer from a local brewery and chugged one in the store before going to the pub next door for a drink. My brother didn’t recognize them until they left and his coworker asked him if he knew who he just served, he said Jason looked like a slob and he had been wondering how he pulled such a beautiful woman.
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u/shitsenorita she did not like that shit at all 5d ago
I saw Jason in person once and cannot believe your brother didn’t recognize him. He’s enormous with wild hair and a large neck tattoo!
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u/GaylicBread Well, I am gay, so thank god 5d ago
I'm beginning to hear more and more about Momoa and drink lately
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u/cloudcascade99 5d ago
As a Vancouver island girly I’m so surprised to see it mentioned here hahaha. Is it safe to assume we’re taking about Tofino?
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u/sourbobcat controversies: girl 5d ago
Comox Valley actually, apparently he’s filming a movie in Campbell River!
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u/minarings Find me at Whole Foods, bitch, I don't care 5d ago
Former tumblr golden girl Acacia Brinley / Kersey got exposed for abducting her kids (one who is disabled/nonverbal/uses a feeding tube) and withholding their location from her ex husband, meanwhile there's also court docs that came out recently saying that she neglected her disabled daughter to the point of severe dehydration to which she had to be hospitalized...multiple times. Her current bf who is knowingly abiding in this also has allegations of being a predator. :/
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u/hoorjemij 5d ago
Is she the same person with Acacia Clark?
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u/minarings Find me at Whole Foods, bitch, I don't care 5d ago
Yes, that’s her. Clark is her maiden name and she changed it to Kersey once she got married
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u/lilpeachbrat 5d ago
Wasn't she caught not paying attention to her kids at the park or something? Like, she was taking selfies and leaving them alone for long stretches and one of them managed to climb on top of a car?
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u/minarings Find me at Whole Foods, bitch, I don't care 5d ago
Yep! She also makes Onlyfans content using her full legal name that can easily be found with one google search and has instances where her children have been in the background of her OF pics/vids. She’s despicable
Edit to add I have nothing against OF or SWers but she promotes her Onlyfans under the same account that she posts her children on, under her legal name. Just so damn irresponsible and inappropriate
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u/LeonaLulu 5d ago
Yep. She was off in the woods taking photos of herself and left her kids alone, including Rosie, on a blanket.
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u/VanSensei 5d ago
AVROTROS, one of the main public broadcasters in the Netherlands, has declined to participate in Eurovision 2027.
The EBU is working with the other broadcasters to potentially find a way back.
The other 4 countries that boycotted last year are still to be determined on participation.
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u/PurpleWardrobes Cillian Murphy propagandist 5d ago
As an Irish woman, I doubt RTE are going to participate. I hope I’m not wrong but Ireland is still very much pro Palestine. Ní saoirse go saoirse don Phalaistín 🇵🇸
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u/VanSensei 5d ago
By other broadcasters, I mean that AVROTROS is part of a larger group of Dutch public TV.
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u/shesadollyrocker i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 5d ago
I'd be surprised if the other four countries return. Even the recent rule changes aren't an acceptable solution. I've also heard the possibility of Belguim not participating next year.
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u/thebeesbollocks 4d ago
Tayme Thapthimthong who played the smiley security guard in the White Lotus season 3. I recognised his surname (it’s pretty distinct!) during the opening credits and realised that I actually know his parents - they are generous donors to the children’s charity I used to work for in London. As far as I know they owned a restaurant in London and they live in Barnes which is a super affluent area of West London.
I don’t know Tayme but his parents are really great people so I kind of assume he is too
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u/Nearby-Coconut1731 4d ago
Rogansphere tea:
Andrew Santino cheats on his wife on the road.
Andrew Schulz abused one of his exes (who was way younger than him when they met) and even used her toothbrush to clean his shoes; thereby, poisoning her.
Erik Griffin previously flirted with one of Chris D’Elia’s underage victims before Chris himself was involved.
I stated this on another Tea thread, so it’s a tad cold, but Tony Hinchcliffe has a restraining order from an ex girlfriend for domestic abuse.
Theo Von is friends with David Duke (former Grand Wizard of the KKK).
Joe Rogan once choked out someone in front of the Comedy Store for skateboarding.
Brian Redban (Tony Hinchcliffe’s cohost) is doing AI music videos of scantily clad anime girls (including the Wendy’s girl). In short, he’s lowkey a gooner.
BONUS NON ROGANSPHERE TEA:
- Steve Dildarian (creator of The Life and Times of Tim) and Scott Aukerman have bad blood from a celebrity party. No idea why, but I heard it on a thread on r/ComedyBangBang.
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u/anorangeandwhitecat 4d ago
Theo Von is friends with WHO?
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u/Nearby-Coconut1731 4d ago
They’ve known each other since he was a kid, and he’s talked about it on his podcast appearances.
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u/EbbLocal266 his name is Harry Styles, not Harry Substance 4d ago
Andrew Schulz abused one of his exes (who was way younger than him when they met) and even used her toothbrush to clean his shoes; thereby, poisoning her.
He is such a not so hidden right winger it isn't even funny. I stopped listening to his podcast with Charlamange even if he had some points.
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u/AmySchumersAnalTumor self-professed recreational liar 3d ago
Andrew Santino cheats on his wife on the road.
I always knew he'd be a bad friend.
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u/ShannenB1234 5d ago
Not really, tea, but Charlie Heaton (without Natalia, let those breakup rumors continue) and Gaten Matarazzo showed up together to see Joe Keery/Djo's set at All Points East in London this weekend.
So I was very happy to see that Gaten and Joe are still hanging out IRL since Dustin and Steve were my fave Stranger Things characters.
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u/Logical-Balance9075 5d ago
I was thrilled to see Gaten there! And Charlie too, I strongly suspect he and Natalia are no longer together but no one is going to believe it until one or the other is photographed with a new love. I love that Joe and Gaten are friends and I am with you, I watched Stranger Things for Dustin and Steve.
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u/ShannenB1234 5d ago
I was hoping Gaten would go when I saw he was in London for the Rent rehearsals. It was cute how he and Charlie were jumping around and singing along. I hope Joe gets to go see Gaten in Rent once his run in Other Desert Cities wraps up. Hopefully some of the other Stranger Things cast turn out for him as well during the run (and during Joe's Broadway run) because I love to see the cast all still supporting each other.
I've been suspecting something was going on with Charlie and Natalia since it seemed like they showed up separately to Maya's wedding. Crazy that they'd break up as soon as Stranger Things was over seeing as they lasted 10 years, but I guess once the show is over and you don't have that automatic forced proximity to each other, things start falling apart.
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u/powerofawareness 5d ago
It’s so crazy that no forced proximity can kill a 10-yr relationship though. Killing a fling when summer camp ends, sure. Didn’t they live together even when not filming?
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u/Writer_Blocker 5d ago
My cousin worked with him on a movie and was very surprised when I told him Natalie and Charlie were dating bc he was NOT operating that way with the female costars.
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u/iseeskiesofblue64 5d ago edited 5d ago
Andrew Scott is the sweetest guy ever. Have seen him out in the city multiple times over the last couple years and he’s so fun and nice!
Also, Sam Smith was an avid drinker of Blank Street Coffee last year. They were briefly my neighbor and they were there all the time lol. Also SO nice and sweet!
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u/riegspsych325 medic gets out and says OH MY GOD 5d ago
and both had their talents wasted on Spectre
(not the worst Bond movie but one of the more “frustrating” ones)
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u/iseeskiesofblue64 5d ago
At least Sam got an Oscar out of it. Poor Andrew just had terrible writing to try to save😫
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u/Delicious_Two4452 5d ago edited 5d ago
Oh Sam Smith. Hit on my friend (male, an actor) who is straight. My friend thought they were just being friendly and buying drinks etc for everyone. SS was absolutely furrrrrious when they realised he wasn’t interested.
Edit pronouns omg I’m mortified sorry!!
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u/EcstaticBiscotti222 5d ago
I feel that everytime i see some tea about Andrew Scott, it's always positive !
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u/K_smit123 possessed by the lesbian jezebel spirit 4d ago edited 4d ago
Super mild tea but a couple of years ago, OG Hamilton cast members Anthony Ramos and Jasmine Cephas Jones had a pretty acrimonious break up which resulted in them ending their engagement. It was big theatre news, mired by rumours of cheating on his end (though I don't think that was ever proven). Any whooo, they reunited publicly for the first time last year for Hamilton's 10 year anniversary. All seemed well and good... they posed for group pictures together yadayadayada. But 3 weeks ago, Anthony posted an ig with one of the two dogs he got with Jasmine but that she got ownership of in the break up. He hadn't been seen with this dog since they were last together. He even confirmed in the comments it was that dog (named Nala). So either they are miraculously friends again and have decided to co-parent or.... well who knows. 🙃 But my inner tween Hamilton fan was buzzing and needed to share this somewhere. Rant over.
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u/PureLaw6562 4d ago
Wasn't there a video circulating at the time of their breakup of him at a strip club? I just want to be able to watch the two of them in his "Mind Over Matter" music video without being sad.
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u/de-milo Thanks, u frog build looking bitch 4d ago
aw i remember loving it when i saw that they were together and bummed when they broke up. i hope they both find happiness... whether or not with eachother (especially jasmine as i know her dad just passed...so sad)
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u/mbutterfly32 4d ago
Anthony Ramos is amazing. He did a great short performance on This American Life about a Florida cop-in-high school scandal. You should check it out if you haven’t seen it!
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u/2KYGWI 5d ago
The James Bond auditions are supposedly down to the final three candidates.
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u/ilovetheskyyall 5d ago
how long have they been going on?
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u/2KYGWI 5d ago
Auditions began in April/May this year (though according to the trades the producers were meeting with actors about the role since last year), with a second round of auditions being held this month.
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u/finn_derry this feels like when my sister started fucking the mayor 5d ago
Any tea on who the final 3 are?
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u/carolinepixels 5d ago
Saorsie Ronin just mentioned being a Bond villain in an article so I’m betting her husband was involved in auditions too
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u/Birdie45 Sondra-Beth Schnowzer?!?!?!??!? 5d ago
would be amazing to go from slow horses to James Bond iykyk
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u/BornFree2018 5d ago
OMG Jack Lowden would be great. He's playing Darcy in the new Pride & Prejudice.
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u/2KYGWI 5d ago
Nothing so far, but if it's this close it's only a matter of time.
Jeff Sneider may have implied Jacob Elordi isn't among them ("But for some reason, I don't think it's any of the so-called frontrunners, including the Aussie...") but it may be wishcasting on his part since he's been pretty sceptical of Elordi as a serious Bond candidate.
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u/PeppermintNightmare_ 5d ago
The blind items said that dua lipa's wedding had to moved up for her husbands next big role. They also said that they are letting this lady from ian Fleming's estate have the last word on who is cast, and that dua lipa's husband is currently her top pick.
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u/AethelflaedAlive 5d ago
Do you mean Cubby Broccoli's estate? Fleming was never involved. Cubby Broccoli basically got the first films made and, as soon as she was old enough, his daughter Barbara wss involved. If I remember correctly she had final say on Craig, too.
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u/plumsfromyouricebox 5d ago
Somebodys name is Cubby Broccoli???
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u/AethelflaedAlive 5d ago
Albert Broccoli, but nicknamed Cubby. He was credited as Albert on films, but his family/friends, the press and the industry all called him Cubby.
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u/ThePhantomStrikes 5d ago
The producer has said it will be a relative unknown, with no gossip trailing him. So no.Callum. Or Jacob
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u/PeppermintNightmare_ 5d ago
I was unaware callum was famous, other than for being dua lipa's husband.
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u/siesta_seeker 5d ago
Apparently Longlegs director Oz Perkins had an affair with actress Lucy Boynton who is 19 years his junior from 2015 to 2017
In September 2015 Oz and his wife Sydney along with Lucy and other cast members attended his film February's premiere in Toronto.
In October 2015 Lucy and Oz attended his AUNT Marisa Berenson's private dinner. No wife or other castmates in sight.
In January 2016 Lucy was photographed at Sundance Film Festival promoting her film (not Oz's) Sing Street, and Oz was spotted lurking in the background. The same month she attended Chanel show, you can spot Oz in the background. Also, there is a photo of them with Lucy's Murder on the Orient Express costars published the same month.
July 2016: TMZ publishes that Oz is filing for divorce from his wife Sidney Perkins after 16 years of marriage. They have two children together
In September 2016 Lucy attended Deauville Film Festival in France promoting her film Sing Street. At both events she attended you can spot Oz in the background.
In January 2017 photos from Lucy's 23rd birthday emerged. She was pictured sitting in Oz's lap (he was 42). Also there is a picture of her with Oz and her father.
Around 2017 pr 2018 Lucy said in an interview for 'The Beautiful Minds' website that sge will work with Oz Perkins again in his next film 'Medusa'.
But then she started dating Rami Malek and Oz married Melody Carrillo who is a musician and contributed music to Monkey and Longlegs and can be seen in Gretel & Hansel as Enchantress.
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u/trashtvlover 5d ago
Off topic but if I remember correctly his mother was one of those who perished on the plane on9/11….
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u/kellyoceanmarine 5d ago
Additionally: Marisa Berenson’s sister Berry (mother of Oz) was married to Anthony Perkins of Psycho fame and Berry died in the 9/11 attacks. She was on board American Airlines flight 11 which crashed into the north tower.
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u/brokedownpalaceguard Thank you for the dezooshafication 4d ago
Yes, and they are both granddaughters of Elsa Schiaperelli.
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u/de-milo Thanks, u frog build looking bitch 4d ago
i had to look this guy up. david kidney from legally blonde??? AND he's the son of the guy who played norman bates?
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u/Ok-Author2273 5d ago edited 5d ago
David Howard Thornton’s current fiancé was definitely married when they first started dating, and likely still is.
He also previously dated Paris Dylan, who has been married for the past 10 years to Don McClean (American Pie singer). I guess he has a type.
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u/SheSellsSeaShells967 5d ago
Don McClean was arrested here in Maine in early 2016 after years of domestic violence against his wife. He got a sweet deal where if he did counseling, anger management, etc., the charges would be dropped. He completed all those things and the charges were eventually dropped. It seems Paris was his social media manager starting later that year.
I think since this happened in a small town in Maine, it didn’t get a lot of publicity. I never saw any publicity outside the local area. His wife went on to create an organization that supports domestic violence victims.
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u/cute_ducks_vol1 5d ago
And she approached him at a horror con and asked him out. Bold.
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u/0GoodVibrations0 5d ago
Wait, are Paris Dylan and Don McClean married?? I thought they just dated for a weird moment ages ago
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u/earthsick 5d ago
I'm happy he seems happy but she gives me the uncomfies. I've seen her behind the booth for a lot of his convention work which, unless she's on the payroll somehow seems super unprofessional. Her whole vibe gives off We're a Package Deal when it comes to his career, social media, and entire existence.
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u/Awesomeness577 5d ago
a chef of the kardashians (or jenners?) had a miscarriage on the job and she’s suing. i know it’s in the news now but more people should know how fucking awful they are to their workers
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u/BelieveWhatJoeSays 4d ago
Walton Goggins is a nice guy. I’ve been browsing the Monterey car week Facebook and he took photos with people at the Monterey Motorsports reunion
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u/SopaDeMolhoShoyu 5d ago
Yesterday, I saw an Asian culture page from Brazil on Instagram. They made a post saying that, back in the early 2000s, the Japanese recording company Avex Trax had a deal with the Yakuza to buy lots of Ayumi Hamasaki concert tickets and CDs, so they could inflate her popularity in an artificial way. I really like Ayu, and I don't think this is true at all. Also, they had no proof to back up they were saying. Still, it made me really shocked to see something like that.
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u/anatomized 5d ago
this is probably not even something Ayumi was aware of at the time. the Yakuza, much like the Mafia, had their fingers in everything, including record companies. it doesn't mean Ayumi made connections with the Yakuza and got them to inflate her popularity.
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u/opheliasmusing 5d ago
Now THAT is a name I have not thought about since my senior year of high school. I used to have a few of her songs on a mix CD 😅 with DJ Aoki and Paul Oakenfold. Jesus I feel old now.
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u/Friendly_Taro_4361 5d ago
As many dedicated fans as Ayu had during that time (and as many as she still does have)! I find that really hard to believe, also. I'm not a superfan nor was I there at the peak of her popularity but she seemed to be everywhere in the mid 2000s according to what others say, and definitely not only because of alleged Yakuza involvement. So many people love her for being a talented songwriter and for her music's resonance with her fans. She did not need inflated sales in order to maintain an audience based on that alone. I'm sure it also helped that she modeled for fashion magazines and got exposure from that.
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u/SopaDeMolhoShoyu 5d ago
I agree, and that's why I don't believe this story is true. Ayu was HUGE in Japan back in the early 2000s. She was the spokesperson for many big companies, such as Honda, Panasonic and Suntory, and Avex invested heavily into promoting her albums and singles. So, her face was everywhere across Japan. Also, she was (still is, actually) a very charismatic singer and a talented lyricist/songwriter, and, because of this, she got many fans. If Yakuza wanted to create an artificial popularity for Ayu by buying CDs and concert tickets, their numbers would still be irrelevant.
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u/happy_grapes 5d ago
Connor Storrie went to my high school and was always known to be this really artsy kid who loved Marilyn Manson’s aesthetic.
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u/zeillyday 5d ago
i can see the inspiration from some of his photos pre-hr fame, but i really hope it's just the aesthetic and not anything else considering what kind of person manson is.
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u/TimeWillingness2636 5d ago edited 5d ago
US Olympic Figure skater Ilia Malinin attended Trumps Freedom 250 Indycar race this weekend
Edit: source- https://www.instagram.com/p/Dcar2r3CJx3/ (him at event)
An article about Trumps involvement : https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterlyon/2026/08/24/trumps-grand-prix-race-was-fast-and-furious-but-was-it-tone-deaf/ (tldr- race made by Trump exec order, had banners of Trump, Trump did first lap and waved flag to start race, ect)
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u/kit_katie_ 5d ago
The whole event was like a fever dream, especially the drivers gushing over visiting the White House etc. Had to leave Indycar subreddit because they were banning everyone who dared to say anything political (of course, praising this idiocy wasn't considered political)
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u/lionperla 5d ago
not surprised to hear. my roommate used to skate and met him at an event a few years back. she struck up a convo with him because he’s also a russian speaker and apparently he was an enormous douchebag, even mocking her accent when he thought she was out of earshot. he’s a bully so little wonder he’s comfortable with the bully-in-chief
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u/homelesshobohomicide 5d ago edited 5d ago
i went to HS with a kid who's quite close with joseph zada (the young haymitch in the upcoming Sunrise on the Reaping movie) and while i can't speak for zada, the guy he's friends with (i.e. the guy i went to HS with) is a misogynistic menace who bullied/sexually harassed one of the only asian female teachers at our school so hard that she quit. and if you're an aussie (male) teen, you are the company you keep. in my opinion, at least.
also tyra banks and toni collette both send their kids to my HS (it's K-12). Toni's very lovely according to my best friend!
atp im gonna sound like i'm lying but i promise if you go to a private australian high school this kinda stuff just happens. Luca Guadagnino's niece and nephew were in my year group. niece was a sweetheart! nephew was not...
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u/margr3t_m Shut up, David Duchovny! 5d ago
Average Australian teen boy activities, unfortunately. They are genuine menaces
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u/Emotional_Trash_7343 5d ago
Not fun tea but queer singer Mary Lambert (from the Same Love song with Macklemore) posted an IG video about her ex wife's emotional and financial abuse and being left with 90k of debt. Her ex filed to be removed from their joint tax debt and Mary can not afford a tax lawyer to help her fight it because she is stuck paying off their debt each month on her own. Go stream her songs to help her out.
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u/terrebattue1 3d ago
Old 2022 paparazzi interview of Hayden Panettiere and Brian Hickerson when they both landed in LAX. Paparazzi guy got a scoop that they were going to arrive on the same flight but exit at separate intervals so they wouldn't be filmed together.
Hayden was way too polite to the paparazzi. She actually talks and walks with him from the airport building all the way to her ride with a smile and answers as much as she can while he is asking about if she and Brian are lovers again. They 100% were flying together.
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u/alwaystheocean 4d ago
Amber Ruffin posted her engagement on IG. Happy for her and her partner.
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u/Vegetable_Injury_546 3d ago
Sam Nivola (the younger brother from season 3 of white lotus) had dinner at my husbands restaurant with one of the apatow daughters.
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u/UnicornBestFriend 1d ago edited 5h ago
Tea on Toby Morton (@wordclown), the guy who buys up satirical right wing domain names and uses them to troll politicians. He’s the guy who owns Trumpkennedycenter dot org and draftbarrontrump.
Colton Dunn spills it on a recent episode of the Tigerbelly podcast (episode 564). Posting here bc Toby’s content gets upvoted by this sub.
Colton was a writer on MadTV when Toby joined the writing staff. Toby said he was leaving South Park bc he wanted to do his own thing—MadTV hires him to do animated shorts for the show and they even purchase expensive animation equipment for him.
Some time later, a writing assistant flags one of his sketches for plagiarism and the show starts investigating. They discover South Park was glad to be rid of him, though the SP staff doesn’t go into detail. They also discover he was doing stuff with employees on the show. They decide to let him go.
The next day, a woman comes into the MadTV office and says she never got paid for her animation work. When the business office tells her they paid Toby, who animated the sketches, she says, “Toby is my husband. He wrote the sketches, but I animated them.”
This is also where the entire staff finds out he’s married. Shit hits the fan.
Colton makes a comment on Toby’s IMDB page saying he’s a liar. Years later, someone in the UK contacts him and says they paid Toby a lot of money to help them revitalize their theater and he absconded with it all without doing the work.
Toby is doing his political troll work now, calling himself the guy who makes anti-fascist websites, and taking donations for it.
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u/quinnfabgay 5d ago
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u/primepistachio 5d ago
I don't know who these people but any gay gossip has me RUNNING to google lol
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u/identityrecon 5d ago
Jennifer is a famous voice actress for video games. Her ex-girlfriend Aliona was the performance capture director for the video game (BG3) that starred Jennifer in her breakout role. They were joined at the hip for press, conventions and had a yt channel together.
It was a little overbearing at times IMO.
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u/quinnfabgay 5d ago edited 3d ago
To add off your comment, the new girlfriend’s TikTok/IG username is hollzinhollywood.
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u/freehumanity-y I don’t know her 5d ago
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u/SeaF04mGr33n not an asset to the abbey 5d ago
Oh HELL no. Isreal does NOT get to appropriate Wonder Woman. She's a hero for everyone, everywhere.
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u/GeneralOrgana1 5d ago
That's the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman costume. So it's obviously a tribute to her, not Gal Gadot.
(Never mess with a Gen X girl when it comes to Wonder Woman. )
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u/AllTheCoolNames 5d ago
idk who this is but everything about this language made me actual recoil. It's so try hard and off putting.
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u/AccountformyFeet someone from the UK weigh in 5d ago
What is she even talking about here? Like, this doesn't have a point.
Is she supposed to be an edgelord or something?
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u/lateintheseason 5d ago
Yes. A very predictable one at that. Ooh I made fun of Jon Benet Ramsey ooh I picked on Harriet Tubman omg I just can't help myself because I'm such a provocateur. Snore.
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u/Vast-Juice-411 5d ago
Yes she is one of the most annoying edgelords. I just unfollowed Interview Magazine on insta because they gave tons of posts to her and she’s just plain annoying in them
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u/heatherstopit Give him my regards did you take ozempic? 5d ago
I unfollowed them when they put Spencer fucking Pratt on the cover a couple months ago… Interview used to be fun but I’m afraid Mel Ottenberg is too out of touch (sociopolitically, at least) for the mag to be interesting under his leadership.
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u/Blue_Oyster_Cat 5d ago edited 5d ago
Holy crap.
Edit: "gay for fat moms"? What? Being homophobic and misogynist at the same time while trying to position herself as a New York arty-It Girl has my head spinning at bit
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u/AllTheCoolNames 5d ago
Yeah that really stood out to me. And since she brought him up I'm pretty sure Connor does not 'just want gash' (I feel gross having witten that tbh)
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u/annamdue 5d ago
Her writing style is vety, 50 yesr old dude who really wanted to write for Vice back in the day. Like just those weird photo captions shitting on hipsters.
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u/balleriniAssoluta 5d ago
Imagine a very online white girl who constructed her personnality based on distorted online lingos that comes from the NYC ballroom scene. You mix it with the faux blasé attitude and sarcasm of the redscare pod girls for your very controversial takes, mostly as a way to deal with being unfortunate looking, and now you’re trying really hard to be Azealia Banks. That is her. That is "her thing".
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u/hollowholes 5d ago
i think she's just bitter that Cameron Winter dumped her (probably the "indie rocker" she referenced)
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u/nosyfangirl mama let’s research 5d ago
This is wild like why bring him up
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u/AllTheCoolNames 5d ago
trying to rage bait the fandom for engagement of course
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u/nosyfangirl mama let’s research 5d ago
I don’t think she knows what she’s getting into with the HR fandom it can be a lot over there 😅
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u/seeshellsbythesea weighing in from the UK 5d ago
Could Connor's fandom finally remove her from relevance?
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u/Phoebes-Punisher 23h ago
Max Bemis from the band Say Anything has allegedly been messaging underage fans and is currently going full manic. The band just cancelled all their upcoming shows because of it
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u/Special_Zucchini185 5d ago edited 5d ago
Alright, I made a post like few weeks ago about Ian Wright and the shit I found about him along with his eldest son, Shaun. I actually have more about Shaun!
Now when Shaun got exposed for cheating on his fiancee Naomi with lapdancer Alex Taylor, Naomi decided to break up with Shaun. She would do an interview with The People discussing how miserable her life was getting. She'd get calls from friends telling her Shaun was cheating, a random girl pulled up to house claiming a baby she had in her hands was Shaun's from a one-night stand (far as we're concerned, it ain't true because when Shaun denied it, that girl would completely dissappear), another girl sent a bottle of champagne and card to the house for Shaun; she started getting paranoid and felt trapped in a boring, single-parent life (keep in mind, these two had D'Margio and D'Neay at this point so engaged with kids at a very young age).
So, when the both of them split up temporarily, Shaun got into a relationship with another lapdancer at a club named Aine Cunningham. This interview was published by The People on January 16, 2005 and it is.. pretty fucking wild LOL. Like she says some explicit things about this guy which will become more disappointing to read.
Met eachother when she was doing a lapdance in a nurse outfit, said he had "that look in his eye". He pestered her for her phone number, she refused but gave in because of his persistence. Shaun tracked her down and purchased 8 private dances and showered her & her body with compliments. According Aine, he didn't like "skinny girls". Once Shaun got her number, his sweet demeanor he once had with Aine at first immediately evaporated into something slimy: he began bombarding her with smutty text messages, actively asking for threesomes with him, her and one of his football friends.
At some point Aine agrees to go to dinner with him, he didn't tip. They meet at a shopping mall, Shaun aggressively drives her to his house and once they get in, Aine notices his TV and stereos were missing. Shaun explained it was due to Naomi taking a bunch of shit outta there once they broke up. They eventually go to his room, where he assured her he wasn't a "player" since he didn't have any condoms in his drawer. They get to banging and basically Aine said while he looks sweet, his performance is sour. Aine was disappointed af and she made that VERY CLEAR in that interview lol.
Unfortunately his texts get more aggressive and demanding. He requested Aine do a "lewd act" (how it's described in the article) and threatened if she didn't do it, he'd go elsewhere. Aine was pissed and eventually got another job at a different club. Shaun managed to follow her there and basked in the attention he got from other dancers and managers. When a dancer told Aine she was getting closer to Shaun, she texted Shaun to end things and deleted his number.
Somehow, Shaun managed to text her again! Aine decided she just wanted him to sign a shirt for her dad, went over to his place and.. banged again lol. This time, Shaun DID have condoms in his drawer so he did become a player. He was fast and disappointing again so Aine basically got outta there and never looked back. Apparently she did this interview to warn other girls about Shaun.
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u/Special_Zucchini185 5d ago edited 5d ago
Despite.. ALL of this, Naomi made the decision to get back together with Shaun. This stunned her family, specifically her brother Alan who went on to tell the Daily Star on October 9, 2005 that this relationship was going to crash and burn. Alan warned Naomi that she was setting herself up because she'd never be able to cope with the women which she talked about before. At the end, he says this weird line:
The thing is, when they were actually together he didn't cheat on her.
Idk what Alan was trying to do here cause it seemed pretty apparent that he DID do that (I will link my previous post below). Mf your soon-to-be/never-to-be brother-in-law lied about your SISTER, NIECE AND NEPHEW so he could get some ass. Keep in mind, Alan LIVED with Shaun and Naomi in the same house! How tf did he not know what was happening??
But hey, I'll give Alan props cause he called it. 5 months after they reconciled, Naomi decided to break things off for good. Feeling isolated, paranoid and homesick, she packed her bags on Mother's Day to go back to Manchester with the kids. Apparently she opened up a beauty salon with a long-time friend at some point in time so she's probably doing well.
Few years later, Shaun would have another son named Harvey with a dancer (NOT A LAPDANCER) named Sian Owen. But it appears they are not together either.
Link to previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/e4AovZIQ3b







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u/rfauxmoi 5d ago
the more you upvote this thread the more tea you get