Today's Blind Items - Wardrobe Filled With Secrets

This alliterate once-revered heartthrob-turned-midlife crooner appears determined to learn nothing from history. After shrugging off backlash tied to a former girlfriend’s infamous blackface scandal, the one-role wonder is again entwining his career with a controversial partner. The much-younger “painter” now splashed across his album covers and videos comes from a loudly “Christian values-driven” family embedded in Biblically Responsible Investing circles — something her CEO father proudly discussed just months ago. Her relatives are reportedly fixtures at his shows, and the two are said to be living together. Her own social circle mirrors the same leanings.

Curiously, the phone-company ad star remains guarded about the relationship itself. Aside from one birthday pap stroll — during which he looked less than thrilled — he rarely posts her, even as she freely shares glimpses from his home. Once vocal about social justice, our crooner has grown notably quiet just as her presence in his life and work has intensified. For someone banking on nostalgia, doubling down on divisive optics may not be the encore he needs.

Fans are disappointed because they remember who he used to be. His numbers keep slipping — and instead of stepping forward, he seems content to disappear back through the wardrobe.