One of the stories of the week is Elmo checking in & asking how people are doing and everyone trauma-dumping on him. Then the other Sesame Street characters all came online to talk about mental health and the importance of checking in with people. [Jezebel]
Emma Stone & Bryce Dallas Howard: gingers take Manhattan! [LaineyGossip]
Elisabeth Moss is knocked up! [Just Jared]
Review & backstory of The Woman in the Wall. [Pajiba]
What’s your most memorable dream about a celebrity? My sex dream with Andrew Garfield has to be way up there. [Go Fug Yourself]
Reba McEntire will be coming back to network television? [OMG Blog]
Lashana Lynch wore Maison Rabih Kayrouz. [RCFA]
Is anyone watching Extended Family? [Seriously OMG]
Love After Lockup’s Derek Warner is back in prison. [Starcasm]
Celine Dion gave a statement about her health & Stiff Person Syndrome. [Hollywood Life]
People talk about the movies or shows which changed their lives. [Buzzfeed]
Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?
— Elmo (@elmo) January 29, 2024
Wow! Elmo is glad he asked! Elmo learned that it is important to ask a friend how they are doing. Elmo will check in again soon, friends! Elmo loves you.❤️ #EmotionalWellBeing pic.twitter.com/jhn2LNKfHf
— Elmo (@elmo) January 30, 2024
Elmo saw like 50k trauma dumps in one day and got the whole squad coming together like the damn mental health avengers. pic.twitter.com/2veAhfpBty
— Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ (@spahn711) January 30, 2024
A little over ten years ago, I heard a Celine Dion song that I instantly loved. I tried to sing along but didn’t have the breath for it. For some dumb reason I was determined to be able to sing that song, so I did the one thing that was stopping me, and quit smoking. It was almost 15 months before I could sing along with Celine, but I did it, and I will always be grateful to her for that song. Last Friday was my 10th anniversary as a non-smoker. Thank you Celine.
That’s an amazing story ! I saw Celine Deon once. I was shopping and she was in one of the stores. The crowd was going insane. She’s probably the most famous person I have ever seen in real life.
That is awesome! Congratulations on your achievement.
This really is one kickass story, thanks for sharing!
Thanks all. In case anyone is curious the song is called I Drove all Night. Also, she does not need to fear me as competition. Singing along with her does not mean sounding like her. lol
I love the version by Cyndi Lauper. 😉
Maybe it’s common knowledge, but it was originally written for and recorded by Roy Orbison, no slouch as a singer himself.
Love that one.
What a great story thanks for sharing that!
Celine has my sympathy. Her health issues sound horrible.
Re: Elmo.
OK, so IRL, yes my friends and family are pretty good about checking in on each other.
The problem is, most of us are struggling on a lot of the same problems.
CoL, chronic health issues, etc. Talking about it at least we all know we are in the same boat I guess.
It’s hard when people are struggling with different problems, too. You might be having trouble at work or something, but your friend’s mom has cancer, and you feel like you can’t complain to her because she’s dealing with enough already. We all trust Elmo.
When I was little, I woke up on Saturday and Elmo was there teaching me A, B, C, and being nice to friends. So…if he asks how I’m doing, he’s a safe space to go back to from my childhood. When the world is scary, you can hug Elmo and tell him all your secrets.
This. Elmo isn’t a real child but she’s a safe space. If people felt comfortable opening up to Elmo and it started a healthy dialogue about mental health, then that’s a beautiful thing.
Wait is Elmo female? I always thought Elmo was male. I know it sounds stupid giving a puppet a gender (and it doesn’t matter), but for real, I always thought Elmo was a male.
@ME no, Elmo’s a boy. I think it was a typo.
I agree, Snuffles, and it’s really amazing that people (myself included) just vomited out their feelings, which we have all been holding onto since at least Covid lockdown.
I also appreciate Joe Biden’s team for recognizing what was happening. Huge props to the marketing team that figured out how to roll with it, rather than pretending there was nothing to see. It turned into a safe space on social media, of all the places!
I’m not gonna lie, as a former Sesame Street kid, this made me cry!
A lot of today’s adults (including myself), grew up on Sesame Street. I have nothing but love and extremely warm feelings for that show and all things Muppets.
Former Sesame Street kid here too! I will always have fond memories of watching that show while hugging my Grover puppet! True story: I was in DC, coming back from a party for a Kennedy Center honoree the year the Sesame Street creators were honored. I mentioned to my UBER driver that the muppets from Sesame Street would be at the ceremony; she immediately stopped the car (luckily it was late so few other cars), turned around and said “I love them! They taught me and my kids English!” For generations, the residents of Sesame Street have been and will continue to be a safe space, no matter how old we get.
When Elmo first appeared on Sesame Street I wasn’t a watcher. I was 13/14 at the time. He was a big thing when I had my daughter. Grew up with watching Sesame Street. Love, love, love. Dying at Oscar’s posts about him not caring (he’s standing his ground as a grouch), but, Slimey his worm would care. Elmo is a free spirit, loving muppet and gives great responses.
At first I thought they were trying to dump on him, rehash old stories to cover up other things like certain media does. Thought they were trying to bring up the Rocco beef again.
https://www.celebitchy.com/748486/elmo_comes_clean_about_his_long-standing_beef_with_rocco/
Elmo cares how you are doing today/now. He wouldn’t have asked if he wasn’t willing to accept the responses. Elmo is stronger than we know. He put himself out there as a sounding board. God Bless.
Exactly Elmo cares and it’s funny because I felt this story yesterday without knowing it was a thing. I follow the SS insta (which is fantastic follow if you don’t already) and sent the post to a couple of friends to check on them and likewise 4 friends randomly checked on me.
I hadn’t read the comments but what Elmo said resonated.
Hope y’all are doing ok here too.
I literally had a dream last night wherein I was having an affair with Alan Rickman, who was not dead, and I felt terrible as he and his wife were so loving and close.
OMG! I’ve had a number of dreams about involving celebrities/famous people. Rickman was one of them. He gives great voice. Even when he was the villian-it was sexy. May have banged in a dream. Truly, Madly, Deeply. IYKYK y
Not with Sam Heughan, but his character of Jamie from Outlander. Hot stuff. DH laughs.
Mark Ruffalo, been there did that in my dreams. He’s from my state too. Sadly, never.
According to dreams I’ve had, Colin Firth is very, very hot for me. Awesome conversation. Well, to be honest, in my dreams, there wasn’t a lot of conversation.
I’ve had several celebrity dreams.
I work in customer service and in one dream, Tom Cruise was working with us because he was making a movie about a customer service advocate who discovered some kind of nefarious plot. After every call, he jumped on his chair like Oprah’s sofa.
One time I dreamed I had been hired to work as a secretary for the Queen (QEII). We were riding in the back seat of this big car, sometimes the US sometimes England. We were going through a stack of papers, which I was trying to write notes on and my writing was horrible. Prince Philip was on the other side of the car, sleeping, but would occasionally wake up and say something nonsensical. We finally pulled up to a big house on a cattle ranch and got out. Just before she went into the house, the Queen said to me, “Elizabeth, I’m really quite hungry. Do go that into that field and bring me a cow to eat.” And I’m standing there wondering how I’m supposed to do that in a pencil skirt and heels…
Happy to divulge that my most memorable celebrity dream is some “Wolverine Lovin” from Hugh Jackman!!
How dare you sleep with my imaginary internet husband! 😀 😀
Ohh, best celebrity dream…. I once had a really great dream about Jason Mamoa’s legs. I had a wonderful existentially philosophical dream with Angelina Jolie.
Almost forgot, the absolute best was with Bae Doona. Oh my….
My most memorable sex dream in a bad way was with David Hasselhoff ::shudders::.
I have never had interesting dreams, and the only one I remember that is celebrity related was when Angelina was still married to Brad and I was their nanny. They were only in the dream long enough to give me a task, and I spent the entirety picking up toys in a playroom, and I crack up to this day about it.
On the completely unfair side, I have vivid and horrifically creative nightmares any time I get too cold. See also: the repeat nightmare where I show up to class for the first time, only to find out it’s the final exam. I would kill for a good old sex dream.
Poor Elmo. I felt so bad for the little guy but I’m glad that people posted. Kids and adults should be able to open up to someone, even if it’s a wee red puppet.
Sweet Elmo. My friend who is a pediatric nurse has said that Elmo helps so many children in the hospital, especially those who are frightened about surgery or treatments. They can always confide in Elmo while the nurses and doctors listen and learn about their little patients.
I have occasional dreams about the young Morrissey. I’m going to his concert and am supposed to go out with him afterward, but something always happens to mess things up.