You guys don’t even want to know how I plan to spend my New Year’s Eve, nor would you be interested in hearing how I’ve spent the last five NYEs. Let’s say my plans tend to involve no alcohol and a good night’s sleep. In my youth, I would do the staying-up-and-partying thing on NYE, but you do get to a certain age where “looking for somewhere to pee at a crowded party” isn’t how you want to spend your New Year’s Eve. But I am much older than Jennifer Lawrence. J-Law is still in the flush of youth, and as such, she still tries to party for her NYEs. She ends up disappointed though. Drunk and disappointed. On a pre-taped appearance on the NYE edition of The Graham Norton Show, J-Law chatted about that and… puking, of course.
She hates NYE: “I really hate it. I’ve never had a good one. Everyone’s chasing a good time and it’s always a disappointment. I plan on doing nothing and then if something lands in my lap…but I always end up drunk and disappointed… Drunk and Disappointed should be the title of my memoir!”
Her biggest Hollywood mishaps: “I am a puker. When I get stressed and exhausted I just vomit. I was driving with my publicist the other day and had to roll down the window and I puked all down the side of the car. It was in front of all the paparazzi—I painted New York! And I threw up at Madonna’s party—on the porch!”
Her early days as a model: “You’ll never see the pictures I did for Abercrombie & Fitch. They wanted natural pictures so they made us play football on the beach. The other models played football in a pretty way but not me! My face was bright red and I was sweaty with flaring nostrils. One of the girls even yelled, ‘Get her away from me!’ And, when my agent asked why the pictures hadn’t been used, their only response was to send the pictures…you won’t see them in a store, for sure!”
It wouldn’t be a Jennifer Lawrence interview if she didn’t talk about farting, puking or peeing, preferably all three. This girl and her bodily functions. That being said, I really did laugh out loud at her description of her modeling photos. Like, I could actually imagine it. The other models were trying to look hot while they were playing pretend football and J-Law was actually playing football and she was playing to win. Abercrombie SHOULD use those photos.
As for her terrible New Year’s Eve experiences… she and I are kindred spirits. She could come to my house and we could watch some old Inspector Lynley episodes on DVD whilst drinking Diet Pepsi and eating discounted Christmas chocolate, perhaps even a McFlurry. Oops, I revealed my NYE plans after all!
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I love Graham Norton. He’s my favorite talk show host. I hope she’s with a decent crowd of celebs. Or at least very funny Brits. I think his Adele show and the Chris Dowd, Kristen Wiig, Steve Carell are the best ones. I love when American celebs are down for anything.
It is just her and Eddie Fishlips.
I think the show is overreated and too scripted (because of the pre-interview). Hate when talkshows do that. But I guess it shows which celebs are calculating.
I like the show, but I think Graham is a bit too far up some celebrity’s arses. Plus, the red chair bit always makes me uncomfortable . It often feels like the celebrities are laughing at the people, rather than with them. The winnig part od the show is the fact that all the guest are on the couch at the same time.
As far as British chat show hosts go, Alan Carr is by far the funniest, and I like Jonathan Ross for the snark. He borderline insults celebrities, which is fun. He did mellow in the last few years.
I agree, Ross and Alan Carr are so funny and great interviewers. But the best one by far is Craig Ferguson. He rips his notes at the begninning.
Yeah, it’s such a shame Craig doesn’t do tlks shiws anymore. He was so so good. And I have major respect for him for nit riping Britney apart when she was going trough ahard time.
Alan Carr is the funniest and there’s something about him that seems genuine, whereas the others seem “talk show host-y” and contrived. I think Norton has been phoning it in for a while.
Yes!! Also the ones with Miranda Hart, Adele and Whitehall. He does so well because there is usually a comedian on the couch with these stars.
Yes! I’ve watched that episode way too many times. Best one ever. (Don’t forget the leads from the William & Kate TV movie make an appearance, too, and Miranda snogs “Will”. The accent!) Adele’s poncho story!
Dude, sorry but this guy is ROYALLY annoying. His show’s color scheme is annoying enough. I don’t think the guests are all that bad in the interviews … but every time I’ve checked his interviews out, he seems like a try hard and while attempting to be ‘hilarious’ and kissing up to every single guest on his show. I feel like much of today’s talk shows are getting to be like Graham N’s, sadly.
But Graham IS hilarious, he’s very witty.
First world problems…
I agree about NYE. I usually spend it at home with friends now, but when I was young, I wanted to have a big, fabulous time and it just never lived up to the hype.
Exactly, I think I stopped chasing the NYE dream around the Y2K. The last big party was at my NYC apartment (number 54 thus living up to the Studio 54 reputation) where we partied like we were out of time for 1999. Making the treck back in stilettos and a mini skirt from the house party we all ended up at in Brooklyn was enough to sign off of NYE parties for a long time.
This year I’ll work with a sweet newborn baby and let the parents sleep in the new year!
I’ll be babysitting. The kid will be asleep and the parents pay extra for it being a holiday. I’m going to make $80-$100 for sitting on a sofa watching Netflix for 4 or 5 hours. To me this is way better than getting drunk and waking up sick and hungover in a new year. I’ve been using NYE to make extra cash like this for years.
I am young and I hate NYE. I hate going to clubs, but every New Year’s my friends make me. I don’t drink, I can’t dance and I just end up babysitting drunk people. The first thing I think when I wake up on New Year’s Day is thenk God I don’t have to go to a club for another year.
Oh honey, no one can MAKE you do anything. I hope next year you’ll feel braver and more self-confident and tell your friends NO THANK YOU.
Lol i am young but live in a new city and now my plans are to see Star Wars evening show and then gorge on fried chicken and sleep.
Agree with your agreement GNATTY. All these stores make NYE out to be some glamorous thing (“It’s not too late to find your show-stopping NYE look!!”), but it never ends up being as fabulous as they make it seem. I just see it as an extension of the holidays– time to be with family, love and reflect. And this year there will be football.
Me too. I think the last time I went properly out for NYE was like 11 years ago and it was ridiculous. Even the most basic bars had a $20-$40 cover, everywhere was rammed so getting a drink or going to the bathroom was frustratingly difficult. You could barely hear anything, choked down a glass of cheap, crappy champagne and then stood in the cold winter night for 1-2 hours to try and get a cab home. The last couple of years I’ve stayed in with my roommate, ordered food, drank some wine, watched Netflix and usually fall asleep before midnight. This year, I’m going to a house party and staying the night there. So much easier.
I hope someone out there is writing down all of Jennifer’s quotes. It might make for a funny book one day
Sure, let’s make it a series – the great Hollywood thinkers of 21. century. Hers will come out just after Jen Aniston’s book….
“Everyone’s chasing a good time and it’s always a disappointment”….
“I always end up drunk and disappointed”…
SAME!
I will be eating my last fatty meal then starting my crock pot of New Year’s Day backeyed peas for 1/1/16 dinner.
Health and wealth to you, LDUB! Thanks for reminding me to get some black eyed peas this week.
We always do an early dinner then try to get a Starbucks before it closes. We are home well before the parties start. I can be drunk and disappointed at home.
health and wealth in 2016 to you too @Senaber!
also, thanks for reminding me i gotta go grab a coffee. LOL
ergh i love Graham Norton so much and i wanted this for years!!
I love JLaw but i want the barrage of farting and puking to stop. Like just maybe 3 days rest. Also girl is finally hustling for that Oscar nomination.
I saw Joy and the film was so clunky it made my head hurt. How DOR is considered to be a great director will escape me. Jen is great mostly but in scenes with Cooper both of them are so bad. I also now have problems separating the character from Jen, which before only happned with the Hunger Games movies.
I have the same problem with Brad Pitt, Leo, Will Smith, Angelina Jolie and Clooney. I always know it’s them. Some people can’t escape their star power.
Especially since JLaw plays characters so far removed from her. You can see the wheels turning in head. THIS IS JENNIFER LAWRENCE ACTING! It doesn’t help David O. Russell miscast her in his movies.
I did not have the same problem in either Silver Linings or American Hustle though i did not like those films too. Last was probably in Catching Fire where i was able to believe she is the character.
@farack
yes because her character in Winter’s Bone is so like her…..rolleyes
@cornyblue
the movie had mixed reviews but Lawrence has raves. New York Post said that this is a performance of a true movie star
Well maybe that is what New York Times felt but when i saw i did not like her scenes with Bradley at all ? She was good otherwise no doubt and she is a true movie star even if Joy does not go well. This does not need to be discussed after every movie.
I saw it just last night and I liked it. I found it really interesting to see how someone navigates taking an idea into a product and becoming an entrepreneur. As a woman, I really liked that they didn’t make the movie about her love life or her fashion. It was about her strength as a person.
I’m 37 and have had exactly one fantastic New Years celebration in my life. It was Y2k, and I spent it at the top of a mountain in a snow cat, watching fireworks and drinking champagne from the bottle. It was wonderful! The rest have been a disappointment and I usually find myself in the car at midnight because I was too tired to stay at whatever party I was at. Yay.
I am getting 2nd hand enjoyment imagining your NYE on the mountain. I would love to do that. Then go inside a lodge around a big fire, like they do in the 1st Pink Panther movie, and dance the conga, then go to bed with my husband. Except my husband can’t dance, and neither one of us can drink any more because we are alcoholics, but it all sounds nice. I have spent many a night drunk and disappointed in days gone by (before I got sober)—feeling empty and lonely. Gross. I’m glad those days are over. Give me a bowl of good popcorn, a ice cold Coke, and a good movie to watch and I will be happy.
My best New Year’s Eves have been on a mountain, too! Maybe that’s the ticket.
Of course she was different from all the other models. She was real. She was special. Eyeroll.
I saw her model photos somewhere and she looked like the typical cute young A&F model.
Yeah. She looks like a very pretty blonde model. The photos are out there.
Yeah, she is a “cool girl” she is “real”.
I don’t know why you all hate Jennifer Lawrence so much. I just take her at face value, and I like her. Each to their own I guess..
Yes, each to his own, so why do you have to question why people dislike her? Pot, meet kettle.
I like her too, I think she’s funny. Whether or not it’s exaggerated doesn’t concern me.
Inspector Lynley, the 8th Earl of Asherton with Nathaniel Parker sounds like the sort of NYE I am up for these days. Usually for me it’s celebrating Old Year’s Night/Hogmanay with Mr Antipodean, who is fiercely Scottish, and a dram of the good stuff. Here’s to 2016.
Count me in on that plan too! Loved the Lynley series but it’s disappeared from channels here in the US and it’s pretty hard to find online too (legally, at least;) Add some Dunkin Donuts and cheap pink champagne…..aaaannnndd maybe a tasteful tiara red feather boa combo…and this gal is there!
I briefly heard of Hogmanay years ago from my sis when she lived in the UK. Please do describe what it’s like, you know, for us that live vicariously through others!! 🙂
@Kaiko, the good thing about Hogmanay is that it’s very flexible, so the addition of pink champagne, especially the plonk kind, and doughnuts is always possible, if not positively encouraged! I would emphasise that chez nous is not very posh, so while a tiara and boa combo is appreciated, we wouldn’t want you to be embarrassed about being a little too upmarket for our do. I usually am sporting a fetching wincey nightie, and Mr Antipodean always wears his kilt, he has fabulous legs if I do say so myself.
Traditionally there is a ball, and everyone gets dressed up in their best bib and tucker, and there are lots of reels and waltzes, and good scoff, haggis and such. Everyone gets absolutely plastered, and those that are still standing at midnight see off the old year, and welcome in the New Year, with copious amounts of single malts. It is loads of fun and I have been to several. In Glasgow everyone meets up in Sauchiehall Street as the pubs are tipped out. I did that one year too, it was an occasion like no other, and a fab way to celebrate New Year. There are lots of other crazy things to do, of course, but the Scots certainly know how to celebrate in style.
Our version now is much tamer, being longer in the tooth, and not living on the old sod any more. But all are warmly welcomed, especially the First Footers, which is another old tradition, but only if they bring a lump of coal.
I’ve never watched a Lynley… Will try it based on your rec, Kaiser!
Perfect way to describe NYE. I always feel hopeful and excited but it never ends up like it’s been depicted to be. Drunk and disappointed is exactly right and I have a feeling that this one won’t be any different. Sigh.
She drinks a lot, while chris martin don’t drink, that’s Why their relationship ended.
I go back and forth about her. Sometimes I love her and other times, the more she talks, the less I like her.
I’m split on this one but I sort of love her chat about modeling photos, true or not.
Perhaps she and Amy Shumer should spend New Years together.
I feel so sad for her😋. The poor millionaire famous actress who can fly anywhere in the world with a trunk of couture clothes, a pile of friends and family, and a private chef to a ski chalet or a sandy beach or the most exclusive restaurant in any country is disappointed by NYE. It just shows a lack of imagination if she can’t use her essentially unlimited resources and access to have a grand time.
The opposite of that (but still a grand time) is staying home with Thai takeout and playing a long game of Settlers or Nations, drink mulled wine and go out and look at the stars at midnight (which is what we’ll do, but we’re old marrieds with a tween, so our expectations of a good time are not glamourous.)
+1000. And your NYE plan seems really nice!
She had the same BF for 4 years and never had a decent NYE? I just don’t believe the crap that comes out of her mouth. It’s all more of the same of her “I’m so regular” carefully crafted persona.
And she was with Mr. Goop last year.
I would end up drunk and disappointed with him too
does she say these things to make her seem more relatable/likeable??
anyhoo, I will be chilling w/a lil booze, new pj’s, some food and will be asleep before midnight as always. I may get matching jammies for me and my husband (to irritate him a lil) LOL!
That’s what I used to do when I was married … matching boxer shorts though, of which my then husband would switch in time before I changed when I got home. So glad I divorced his philandering ass. I can’t with regular PJs though. Boxers and doubling up on shirts for me. Yes, I live in NYC.
NYE for me means nothing except drunk drivers and expensive, crappy bar parties. It’s not Halloween (my high holy day!) Xmas or even Thanksgiving. I usually volunteer to work for someone, and if I’m not, I have a quiet night with a couple friends/family. As for JLaw..am I the only one who finds her exhausting and annoying? Her “Looka me I’m a frat boy in a movie star body” routine is grating. My god, get some Tums and some Beano and STFU already.
Ok, we get it. You’re a tomboy chill girl who farts, pukes and plays football in lieu of looking cute. NYE you chill at the house alone. Great. Stop trying to sell yourself as this down to earth fart chick. Just hush, stop trying to convince us of this image and have a seat somewhere. See you in 2016 where I hope you’ll just shut up about your bodily functions. You’re starting to grate my nerves. You’re starting to look really contrived and fake, and I really would like to like you. Stop making it impossible.
Best advice ever!
Just can’t with her anymore. She is always trying to be that cool girl and knows exactly what to say to make herself appear like the cool girl. Think she is full of it and gives me that Gone Girl vibe.
“I always end up drunk and disappointed”
Sounds like every Friday and Saturday night of my late teens and early twenties.
It’s hard to believe that Y2K was fifteen years ago. That was probably the last time I went out on NYE. Now it’s just another night.
The NYE party I was going to was just cancelled because of a combination of flu and a babysitter who fell through. I was secretly relieved. There’s always high heels and not enough chairs, a hundred really drunk strangers and finger-food someone has spilled cigarette ash on. Now I can stay at home with my boyfriend, watch movies, eat chocolate and make out under a sparkler or two. Not sorry!
“There’s always high heels and not enough chairs”
OMG, this!!! I hate the dilemma where my cutest shoes are the most painful. Usually if I wear them out to a dinner or something there is plenty of seating, but with NYE chairs aren’t always an option.
NYE is for the young and very young. Used to alwyas go out on NYE and would even travel to different cities celebrating it. It was a big deal but stopped around 10 years ago. Don’t miss it a bit and love just staying at home, not doing a single thing except watch the ball drop. Someday do plan on going to Manhattan, that is on the bucket list but that is it. Its a relief to not be kissed by a drunk stranger at midnight and not worry about the dress. Actually this is how I know I’m older, because I have to work on New years Day.
Drunk and disappointed? F***, that’s not just my NYE, that was my whole year.
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She looks so pretty here. Really, really loving this hair length and colour on her.
Funny, I always think everyone is having the best time in new year’s eve, but me. But seeing the comments I must admit I feel better. Anyway, when I was a kid this time of year used to be a blast. Now, it’s just eating and thanking for being alive.