What Else?

The Gladiator II press tour continues apace, and Connie Nielsen wore a SPECTACULAR gown. (Go Fug Yourself)

Schools are banning Crocs because they’re a “tripping hazard”. Are they? Or are they just ugly and teachers are tired of looking at them? (Celebitchy)

Tom Ford swapped multi-million-dollar residences in Palm Beach with private equity guy Brian Kosoy. Yes, Tom Ford lives in the same neighborhood as Mar-A-Lago, but his house, Casa della Porta, is stunning. He can cry into his millions about having sh-tty neighbors. (OMG Blog)

Barry Keoghan strikes back against online needling that he’s a deadbeat dad, saying, “The more attention I’ve gotten lately and the more in the public I’ve become, the less I’ve posted about my child because I don’t think it’s fair to put my child online. […] Because I reigned that in, people draw a narrative and go, ‘Absent father, sh*t, deadbeat dad’…”

He also obliquely mentions his own upbringing, growing up in foster care, and someone on The Squawk (I’m sorry I can’t remember who or find the comment now) made a great point that he might feel compelled to work so much—and thus, be away from home for long stretches—because he grew up with nothing, and now he has a chance to make a lot of money, the kind of money that means his son, Brando, won’t have to scrap like Barry did as a kid. I also want to point out that he works a lot in the UK, he was working on Saltburn when Brando was born, and he’s currently working on the Peaky Blinders movie, which means he’s an easy train ride, at most, away from his son. He could be seeing Brando every day he has off set, and we just don’t know because like he said, he’s not constantly posting the kid online. (Teen Vogue)

Bone mystery! Archaeologists are excavating hundreds of skeletons in Denmark’s Alken Enge, the remains of people who maybe died in battle, but if they did, they probably weren’t seasoned warriors, which would make their deaths more of a massacre. But they didn’t die at Alken Enge, they were maybe dumped there later. Who are they? Who did they fight? Why were they dumped in the lake? It’s a bone mystery! (Atlas Obscura)