Blind Items Revealed #11

January 27, 2022

Several years ago the it thing to do was to play a certain game online. Everyone was playing it. You also knew they were playing it because it led to some very strange situations in parking lots and on the sides of roads. People still play it, but the frenzy is not there. That game was the brainchild of multiple governments. Not the characters, but the game. The "company" behind it was given unlimited access to the accounts registered in the app. Every single person. Every single piece of their information. This was allowed for the first 60 days and then after that would be shut off because the breach would be "discovered." The GPS data was never turned off though and now these governments knew which people were where and when they were there.

It was so successful at tracking people that another government decided they wanted in on all this access and monitoring and later that same year launched a social media platform that is worldwide and tracks hundreds of millions of people daily, all over the world.

Pokémon GO/Niantic/TikTok/China

Blind Items Revealed #10

January 19, 2022

There is nothing salacious in this blind, and is more of an encounter rather than anything else. Because it is rare for me to have a blind about this person, I thought it would be fun to include. Other than some light editing, it is exactly in the words of the tipster.

After watching one newly-released film decades ago in our Northern California county, we were handed a small typed flyer inviting us to a screening of a film that would go on to become an Oscar winner.   The film would also be the directorial debut for this permanent A list actor and starred one of our favorite actress in comedies who is also permanently A list. 

At the screening, though, there was no soundtrack so it was a little dull but I believe it was being completed at this nearby studio owned by the filmmaker best known for a franchise. The screening was to determine whether the audience would like the ending or not.

Our usual row (of only four seats against the side wall) was blocked, so my mother, sister and I settled for the row right in front of it. This was annoyance number one for my mom. 

All of a sudden, after everyone was settled and the theater was darkened, two or three people filed in and sat in the row - our row! -  behind us.  

Everything was fine until the man behind my mother started kicking her chair - non-stop.  This went on for quite awhile until finally my mom - who was really getting into the movie -  couldn't take it anymore and she turned to her side and, in a loud irritated whisper, said "stop KICKING my chair! I'm trying to watch the movie!"

As a teenager, I was a little embarrassed but when I saw a man's hand stretch out to touch my mom's shoulder, I turned to see what he was doing.  

I was startled to see that it was the film's director, sitting with his tall blonde girlfriend at the time.  He was quite embarrassed and obviously unaware of his kicking. 

 "I'm so sorry," he whispered back.  "Keep watching."   He never kicked her chair after that and left before the lights went back on.

A. Ordinary People

B. Robert Redford

C. Mary Tyler Moore

D. Lucasfilm

E. George Lucas

F. Star Wars

Blind Items Revealed #9

January 17, 2022

A scandal which has been brewing in a certain winter sport for years is very much an open secret, and will reach a boiling point at the upcoming Olympic games.  A certain federation has made it clear for a long time about their golden boy and what they want from him this Olympics.  However, this golden boy wants nothing more but  to be out of this sport and will announce retirement the second the games end. He is also currently dealing with with injury which is only getting worse. 

The federation is desperate to knock off their biggest rival to the golden boy and get the one title that has been out of their grasp. They know if they get it, the money and publicity for the federation will be like it was in the 90's early 00's for women in the sport. 

The federation is not above corruption and payouts or loopholes for coaches and over scoring for certain routines which favor the golden boy and not his rival.

There has been a similar scandal at a Winter Olympics. It was in the same sport and went mainstream when the public realized that the medal was sitting around the neck of someone who got it through corruption from their federation (which is not the federation who is the subject of the blind), and not the rightfully deserving, also ever-popular, foreign-born competitor.

Figure Skating/USSF/Nathan Chen/Yuzuru Hanyu/Yuna Kim/Adelina Sotnikova/'Sochi Scandal

Blind Items Revealed #8

January 26, 2022

The interview was filmed, but I do not know if it is for a documentary or the book that is being written. My guess is it is going to be used for both. The other question is whether this is going to be a documentary released at the same time as the book. That would seem unlikely as the book has a definitive release date, and would seemingly take longer to get the documentary ready. In any event, the interview, or at least the subject of the interview tells the rest of the world what direction the book is going to take. The interviewee who is very much in the very latter stages of life very much supports the theory that his son and A list girlfriend were murdered. He spent a great deal of money at the time proving his theory and it is very much a valid theory. He explains it every well and has documents to support his theory. There doesn't seem to be any point in interviewing him if you are also not going to subscribe to the theory yourself in writing the book. If so, there will be no building any bridges back ever again. How can you when you would be accusing someone of murder who is on the other side of that bridge.

Mohammed Al-Fayed/Dodi Fayed/Princess Diana/Prince Philip/Book Being Written By Prince Harry

Blind Items Revealed #7

January 14, 2022

Hookups You Forgot

#1 - This one named A list singer not named Madonna hooked up with this musician who has an infamous sex tape.

#2 - Speaking of musicians, this one is also A list and fired from his band for drug use. He hooked up with two people you probably forgot about. This former brat packer and also this alliterate actress from an iconic show.

#3 - This permanent A list mostly movie actress who was the highest paid actress for a long time used to hook up with this A+ list mostly movie actor who is best known for that long running action franchise.

#4 - This former A- list mostly movie actress who had brief appearances in this movie franchise and also cameos in a long running sitcom that spanned network and streaming. She used to hookup with the A list mostly movie actor who died of a drug overdose.

#1 - Cher/Tommy Lee

#2 - Richie Sambora/Ally Sheedy/Courteney Cox

#3 - Julia Roberts/Bruce Willis

#4 - Heather Graham/Heath Ledger

Blind Items Revealed #6

January 6, 2022

This foreign born director was probably A- list if you look at his credits. Then, when you look a little deeper into it, you think to yourself, this director directed some really big budget box office hits, how come he has less than a dozen credits to his name? When you direct at least three movies that were at the top of the box office, you should have more credits. The crazy thing is, he directed his first two movies, and that is about it. For much of his career, he was a guy who lived off friendships and those friends saw that he was paid well for "directing" movies, but he was just a guy who was told what shots he was supposed to set up each day and how. He also got the credit for directing the movies, but had nothing to do with it except going where others had told him to go the night before. One of his biggest admirers is this permanent A list action actor who made sure his friend always had a job to earn some money and also got a kick out of the fact that he felt like he was pulling the wool over everyone's eyes in Hollywood.

George P. Cosmatos/Sylvester Stallone

Blind Items Revealed #5

January 4, 2022

Boy bands are a lot of work to create. Back in the day there was one particular boy band that was a lot of work and very expensive to get it to launch. All of you know the band. Most people, unless they are big fans don't know that the band, which is US based, needed Europe to launch the band into the stratosphere of fame. All of that work had been done and everything was ready to go. Europe had been conquered and the US was next. Then, one of the band members decides he is in love. This was not one of the random hookups from European fans, this was something else. A fellow singer who was on the same label and had been signed to the label at just about the time this whole US launch was about to happen. The pair met at a label party. The fellow singer was nearly a decade older than the very underage boy bander. The fellow singer had been around Hollywood for a long time. She had been having sex with producers and other men since she was barely a teenager. The boy bander was no match for her and thought he was in love. When the record label heard about it, they had a mixed response. They thought it might be great to have two label mates be a couple. The manager of the boy band went ballistic. He spent a ton of money and everything was perfect and he didn't need the older singer corrupting his underage singer. Looking back, that is ironic. What finally convinced the label to take the side of the manager and force a breakup was the news that the older singer's drug problem might taint the image of the perfect teen boy banders. Plus, the label executives liked having the female singer and the other women in the group to themselves. So, our boy bander had his heart broken.

NSYNC/Justin Timberlake/Fergie/Lou Pearlman/Wild Orchid

Blind Items Revealed #4

February 8, 2022

A few years ago, shortly prior to his divorce, this foreign born A list singer in an A list group had an affair. It was not his only affair in the marriage. There were dozens, and some of them documented in this space. This particular affair though, since it was the one that immediately preceded his divorce, always seemed important. It was with, at the time someone who was an A+ list celebrity and one of the most popular people on social media. She is, and was a singer, and back at the time was focusing more on singing than she does today. They met through a mutual friend. The mutual friend is a foreign born A/A- list actor who was closer to A list back then. He also had spent time hooking up with the singer and introduced the two, so they could work on some music projects together. 

They did work on some projects together, but nothing too spectacular. What they mostly did was have a lot of sex and try not to get caught by anyone. When the public learned of his pending divorce, our singer thought this would mean they could now make their debut as a public couple. Instead, he kept her hidden and this really made her mad. It was not a good split. It was awful. At some point in the past year, there had been rumors of a reconciliation, but after that split, it was tough to fathom. There they were this past week though, all smiling and huggy huggy. His current A- list significant other probably has no idea of the history between the pair.

Chris Martin/Selena Gomez/Orlando Bloom/Dakota Johnson