Tom Cruise seemed to have made fast friends with Travis Kelce at the VIP tent of the Eras Tour in London.
The strapping 6-foot-5 Kelce is looking to become an action movie star, like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson or Arnold Schwarzenegger or Cruise, the star of many “Mission Impossible” blockbusters.
Kelce has just finished filming a role in Ryan Murphy’s “Grotesquerie” with Niecy Nash and Courtney Vance.
Let’s see if their new bromance turns into a role for Kelce.
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“Harry Potter” scribe J.K. Rowling might be the most successful children’s author of all time, but she is using some decidedly adult language to go after UK politician Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, who’s expected to become Prime Minister on Thursday.
Rowling — who once gave the Labour Party a million pounds — now vehemently objects to Labour’s stance on transgender rights and has accused them of abandoning women.
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The marriage of Donald and Melania Trump seems stable, at least to divorce attorney Martha Cohen Stine.
“An affair does not always lead to divorce, nor does prison, especially where, as here, we have a couple that has been leading separate lives for years,” said Stine.
The lawyer recalled how Melania wore a jacket in 2018 emblazoned with the words, “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?”
“She is not concerned about what others think,” Stine said. “She is used to the chaos and scandal of a life in the spotlight and remains strong for her husband and her son, who is now 18 years old and about to go to college.”
Melania grew up in relative poverty in Slovenia.
“Her status and power are much greater as Donald Trump’s wife than as his former wife,” Stine said.
“We can presume that Melania has known about Donald’s infidelities for years, but she looks away, as many wives have done through the ages.”
Bill and Hillary Clinton are still married, 27 years after Monica Lewinsky.
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The 25th anniversary of the tragic death of John F. Kennedy Jr. and his bride Carolyn will be quietly marked by his family in Hyannis Port on July 16.
The charismatic son of JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis crashed with his wife and her older sister, Lauren Bessette, 34, into the sea off Martha’s Vineyard while piloting his small plane to a family wedding in 1999.
John John, as he was dubbed by the press during the years he grew up in the White House, had political ambitions of his own and was rumored to be planning to run for the governor of New York and eventually the presidency.
His cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — although winning 15% in some polls — was denied a place on Thursday’s debate stage last week by CNN.
President Kennedy’s daughter Caroline Kennedy, who is now the ambassador to Australia, is quietly grooming her son Jack Schlossberg, 31, to pick up the Kennedy torch for a new generation of voters.
Jack, whose full name is John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, passed the New York State bar exam last year.
Although the smart and good-looking hunk appeared on an episode of “Blue Bloods” in 2018, he is now more interested in a career in public service, going so far to say, “politics definitely interests me.”
Time will tell if another Kennedy rises into public life.
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Curtiss Cook — hired for a three-episode arc — spent five years on Paramount+ and Showtime’s “The Chi.” But he’s finally been bumped off.
“The big, bad bogeyman,” he laughed. “I had an incredible run.”
Cook added: “Complaining about the inevitable is ridiculous. I try to do my best to be grateful.”
Cook, who has raised five children during his 35 years of acting, said his only regret is he’ll miss his castmates.
“We became a family,” he said. “But five years is a long time to play one character.”
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Congrats to newlyweds Christian McCaffrey, the San Francisco 49ers running back, and former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo.
Culpo is from Rhode Island, and the couple exchanged vows Saturday at the Ocean House in Westerly, R.I.
The bride, star of her own reality show “The Culpo Sisters,” is paparazzi catnip who has made it clear that she wants to get pregnant immediately.
NFL players are doing well off the football field. Josh Allen, the QB of the Buffalo Bills, is dating actress Hailee Steinfeld, and there is the grand romance of Travis Kelce and a certain pop star named Taylor Swift.
It’s never been better to be a gridiron great.
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Long-ago stars of NBC News 4 New York gathered Friday at La Villetta on E. 52nd St. to salute one of their favorite producers on her 100th birthday.
Rita Satz was the longtime producer of one of the first TV consumer reporters, Betty Furness.
Satz was feted by Carol Jenkins, Pia Lindstrom, Connie Collins, Mary Civiello and Magee Hickey as well as Vera Pressman (Gabe’s widow).
Satz, a great grandmother, lives on her own near Sutton Place and writes poetry. She took a poetry class when she was in her 90s and her teacher discovered her gift. She has now published two books.
What’s the secret to living 100 years? “Try not to fall,” Satz says — and also surround yourself with the people you love.
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Out & About: Kevin Costner, Goldie Hawn and socialite Kimberly Paige Bluhm have all checked out the windows of M.S. Rau’s new store in Aspen where they were displaying a painting by Frank Sinatra and vintage jewelry by Cartier and Harry Winston … D’yan Forest, the Guinness World Records title holder for Oldest Working Female Comedian in the World, will turn 90 in July. To celebrate, she will perform her new show dubbed “90 Years of Songs & Scandal” at Joe’s Pub on July 29 … 50 Cent’s attorney Arthur Aidala celebrated his recent appearance on “The Megyn Kelly Show” with Geraldo Rivera at Rao’s.
