Yesterday, Sarah wrote about the Beckham drama with Harper being followed (purposefully or not) to Brooklyn’s house. Brooklyn is getting blasted by the UK media for appearing in a World Cup commercial because he’s “capitalizing off his last name” and the soccer of it all.

I’m hardly a Peltz-Beckham apologist but come on, this is exactly how he learned to do business. The family name is a brand and his parents have literally profited off him (by selling baby photos). He’s using their playbook to make money off the family lore. David and Victoria do this all the time. Apple, tree, etc.

I’ve written a lot about Tiger Woods’s infallible public image – even at his personal worst, he is beloved by sports fans and revered in the golf world. One of one. A Teflon Don. Then there’s Phil Mickelson, who even in the conservative world of golf has had reputation issues (thanks to gambling and joining the LIV tour). He was recently kicked out of a club for unwanted behaviour towards an employee, but it hasn’t garnered much attention in the sports world because of the NBA and NHL finals. But if a professional golfer was immediately ejected from a course he has “played and practiced for decades”, it’s bad. Real bad. I expect we will hear more about this soon.

OK, Bobby Flay being “really cheap” is exactly the low-stakes gossip we need. If you are offering to order room service completely unprompted, the etiquette is to put your own credit card down. Not only did he stick Chelsea Handler with the bill, but a Vegas room service bill.

Andrew Rannells dated Anderson Cooper and then he told Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner the story so they wrote it into Girls, with Corey Stoll playing news anchor Dill Harcourt. One thing Lena Dunham is going to do with her writing is adhere to the Nora Ephron rule: everything is copy. Girls is still delivering.

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