Rob Lowe’s Easter Bunny performance is only topped by the children screaming in the background. (Sound on for the full effect.) 

 

To be fair to the child, this is a justified reaction to the Easter Bunny, the creepiest of all the holiday mascots.

 

TMZ had a new post about Justin Bieber cutting ties with Ryan Good, his former road manager and partner at Drew House. This isn’t “news” to fans, who noticed the distance on Instagram months ago. What’s interesting about the TMZ story is that they pin the relationship breakdown on Judah Smith, Justin Bieber’s longtime pastor (who succeeded Carl Lentz). 

 

This is on the heels of The Hollywood Reporter story from last week about Justin’s bitter breakup with his old management team (including Scooter Braun) and possible financial trouble from his cancelled tour. While his former team is “worried”, it seems like his current team chalks this up to growing pains – he’s managing his career out of a family office now and bumps are inevitable. It would make sense for the Biebers to take total control, the way the Beckhams did (and there were constantly stories about management issues and money issues, and they are thriving). But you add the long shadow of childhood fame and it complicates things. When the media constantly says someone is “struggling” or “acting up,” it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, because everything they do is heavily scrutinized. But is smoking weed at Coachella even that big of a deal? I’m genuinely asking because aren’t music festivals meant to be kind of messy? And weed is hardly messy.  Going back to THR, one thing that struck me is that it makes it clear that there’s always a clock on pop stars (Justin Timberlake is mentioned specifically as a “nostalgia act” ). That is where the pressure comes from. Pop chart irrelevancy eventually comes for everyone, but it comes harder for baby-faced pop stars. 

 

Walton Goggins in The White Lotus this and Walton Goggins in The White Lotus that… are you familiar with Baby Billy’s game? This show is like the Character Actor Olympics. 

 

According to Page Six, Vogue is “vying” for the exclusive to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding. I don’t know if “vying” is the right word – AS IF Lauren wouldn’t want her wedding covered by Vogue. Like there would be any resistance there, that is comical. A source (Jeff Bezos using his Alexa) said that this is the “wedding of the year.”  For who???? 

 

Attached - Rob Lowe running on the beach in Santa Barbara on the weekend.