Serena Williams does not want to answer questions about Duchess Meghan! Serena won her first-round match at the Australian Open last night! [Just Jared]
My God, the business around Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston briefly paying attention to each other at the SAGs was really something. [LaineyGossip]
Is Rihanna already fooling around with A$AP Rocky? [Dlisted]
Vanessa Hudgens mixes her patterns. [Go Fug Yourself]
I can’t believe they spent $175 million making Doolittle! [Pajiba]
Commes de Garcons is culturally appropriating again. [Jezebel]
So many Nazis are in Virginia right now. [Towleroad]
A spoiler for a 90 Day Fiance couple. [Starcasm]
Will Adele’s new album come out soon? [Seriously OMG]
Rob Lowe is basically like “yay… sports.” [The Blemish]
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— Ben Rothenberg (@BenRothenberg) January 20, 2020
About Serena, that’s what a good friend would do. I can’t believe they even asked her that question…she just won a big match…congratulate her and move on !
Yeah, that annoyed me. They shifted the focus from her. Part of me is with that tweet – “well you tried” kind of thing. But it’s ridiculous.
Also, hats off to Serena for being a gd amazing friend. I’m so happy Meghan has a friend that’s as classy as Serena when it comes to the press. So many people have screwed her over it’s nice to see this.
Exactly, well said ladies.
WORD.
don’t tell them jack Serena.
And that is what loyal friends do, they do not discuss you in the press. Shame on the media outlet asking this question. Sleazeballs.
Serena is a true friend to Meghan and vise versa. What is there really left to say. It must be exhausting as a friend to see an almost entire country throw every resource it has to destroy your friend and drive her out of the country. What is there really left to say.
Yup!
Yep, and out of Meghan’s friends Serena is the one who could most closely relate to getting racist pile-ons by the media.
Definitely
1) Serena could closely relate
2) Michelle O as well; as a woman who found herself in a place where racists deemed she didn’t deserve or shouldn’t be in —> she probably understands it better than Serena or Beyonce could because she had to answer to the ‘public’
3) Beyonce can also understand; she herself had to deal with shit
One thing those 3 women have in common though is: they have a huge followings who won’t accept shit thrown at them and they all live in their home country……Meghan has the #SussexSquad who support her and have raised money for her Meghan’s charity and Archie
Meg will be fine!!!
Absolutely….no prominent black person has faced as much consistent racism over many decades as Serena Williams. I am pleased they are good friends and l wouldn’t be surprised if sometime in the future Serena puts on a big tennis exhibition to support Meghan and Harry’s charities.
oops, duplicate comment.
They tried the same with Janina. She said no comment , but also added she couldn’t wait to see her again. This is her crew. They’ve been privy to her pain and are more than relieved she’s out of it with her marriage and family intact.
Of course, Serena isn’t going to say anything. Meghan’s friends aren’t trash like Meghan’s father, the darling of the British media, is.
Neither do I. I can’t believe how much these two are dominating the news cycle everywhere. Iran shoots down a Ukrainian jetliner and the front page article on CNN is about the royals. Sounds like she had a crappy time in the U.K. no doubt, but I don’t understand the obsession.
Culture wars become very heated and played up in the media. They spurn lots of debate, self righteousness, outrage and jockeying for position. Harry and Meghan became the center of this one.
And yet you’re here, reading CB, and complaining about a story you chose to read.
Bazinga……….LOL; I’m sure that was delicious
Yes. Is there a problem with that? It seems to me if I don’t understand the interest in a topic, coming to a place where everyone is talking about it is the right place to get insight into the obsession. At least Mego offered a constructive reply.
Stay safe, Virginia
I saw the Rob Lowe thing live and was dying. It was so obviously for the show promo, but we couldn’t give the guy an actual team hat? It was comical.
That is pretty funny. Go Generic Team!
Good for Serena. It’s disrespectful to ask her about her friend’s personal life after she just won a big match. But she handled it perfectly.
That’s the same face I make when someone tries to make me watch football.
I thought it was funny too! I think Rob Lowe is very funny. I find his whole “pretty and he knows it” schtick hilarious. That silly hat just felt like such a Rob Lowe thing to do.
I don’t get some of the comments on this site. So many were all over Cressida for saying the same thing essentially, and Cressida has been removed from Harry for years. In fact people on here belittled Cressida’s acting career and said other not nice things yet Serena, who is still very much Meghan’s friend says something similar and you say what a good friend she is. Is it only acceptable when it’s someone you like? Did the world just turn into a bunch of Lindsay Grahams? Personally, I think both women are 100% right. The only way to calm the gossip press is to give them less to talk about. No matter what you say it’s deciphered and twisted to fit someone’s idea of a story. The only right answer is I don’t comment. I give Serena extra points for cheek to the reporter too.
I honestly don’t know what you’re talking about with regards to Cressida. I don’t think I followed Royal news as much then or never used to visit this site back then…so pardon me.
Well said
There was a story here last week about Cressida saying she wouldn’t comment on Sussexit and a few people said they thought it was somehow bitchy of Cressida to not defend Meghan in regards to her treatment by the press. Pity10 is saying it is hypocritical that Serena is being hailed as a good and loyal friend for also saying no comment.
@ChillyWilly
I never saw that post. I had no idea. Thanks for letting me know.
Cressida’s and Serena’s ‘no comments’ can hardly be compared. Very different positions – Serena is a famous American friend of Meghan’s. Cressida is a British ex-girlfriend of Harry’s. If Serena defended her friend, that would play very differently from any comments Cressida could make. The ‘no comment’ line is just not the same and no comparison can fairly be drawn.
@ME: You’re welcome! I figured you just missed that post.
You are comparing Serena W’s no comment to Cressida’s????????? you think those two situations are the same?
@enormous coat I think you inadvertently made another point on the hypocrisy. Shouldn’t a friend be more likely to defend her friend and say something about the injustice her friend faced, not an ex of her husbands. Not sure your point on how a no comment which is basically what both women said when asked about the Sussexes by a reporter is not comparable. Neither was doing an interview about the Sussexes, both were speaking about other topics and asked this random question about someone else one a friend and one the ex girlfriend 5+ years removed. Both said I’m not talking about it one is vilified for it one is lauded on here for it. Lots of mind gymnastics not to say they are not similar. As I said I think both women handled it well. I think some on here are just a bit too much of a fan to see reason. You know a fan or fanatic is more like it.
Right. Poor, poor Cressida. (insert eyeroll here)
That mob in Virginia is the picture definition of the term “ugly Americans”. It’s frightening.
Lol I’m not agreeing with Pity10. Just explaining what they were referring to because ME seemed to think they were bringing up some story from back in the day about Cressida. I couldn’t give two craps about Ms. Bonas.
Lindsay Graham is an actual traitor to American ideals and supports another criminal traitor as well. Saying that some people making comments on a blog about a minor gossip story have an inconsistent opinion (which was not the majority of comments anyway and not even the same people who made these comments) demeans the depravity of his hypocrisy.
This is ‘both sides’ at its worst and part of why the US is such a disaster right now.
Tell it, Nic!
I agree with Pity10 regarding the inconsistency of when ‘no comment’ is acceptable.
All the haters over on the Twit are trying to spin it like Serena is disavowing Meghan and their friendship is broken. One idiot even said – not implied – flat out stated, that Meghan slept with Alexis Sr. during Wimbledon.
What exactly are these people smoking??
@Izzy. What?!! I really need to know…has somebody tempered with the water supplies? So much crazy going on. So much stupidity.
I tell you Meghan will never be able to escape this sh*t. Her and Harry may need to move to another planet, and even then they’ll say she’s cheating on Harry with an Alien.
What would be the justification of newspapers to continue any discussion on M&H? they are no longer working royals………I thought W didn’t want to be overshadowed; instead of trashing M to the press, isn’t it more efficient to ask them to stop talking about her and H?
@ VS
The tabloids aren’t going to stop just because they left the U.K. As long as people are interested in them, the papers will continue to print stories. They are still famous whether Royals or not.
I’m so glad Meghan has friends like Serena. And congrats to Serena on winning her match!
Off topic:) but there is a godsend gossip event – Dasha Zhukova and Stavros Niarchos wedding plus all jet set in tow. Can’t wait for this one to come up in here
Wow thanks for this bit of billionaire worlds colliding. I had no idea they were together. Dasha is in that ultra sketch Wendy Deng, Ivanka and Karlie set so I wonder who all attended.
Eugh i hope it will be covered on celebitchy. So juicy! Karlie was there and princes Beatrice with her boy and many many others. Even Orlando Bloom. Ever present Derek Blasberg (wtf? Can anyone explain?) and many many more that i was rather shocked to find out they even know each other!
And I really thank her for that.
CB ——- did you rename ‘Royals’ to ‘Sussexit’ ??? LOL
Who still doesn’t understand that A WOC defending another WOC doesn’t yet have the same effect as WW defending WOC…