As Lainey mentioned yesterday in What Else?, this week’s MUST read is The Cut’s story What Broke the Beckhams by Bridget Read. It is well researched and goes into the lore on both families – the Peltzes as litigious bullies and the Beckhams as image-obsessed and opportunistic. Yes, there’s more about The Dance (I find the detail on DJ Fat Tony not even being in the room interesting) and the legal issues around licensing his name (which Brooklyn says impacted their relationship greatly; a source specifically disputes that).

It also points out that Brooklyn is using the Beckham playbook (family-first coordinated photos, my wife is my life etc.), but now with his in-laws,trading one overbearing family for another. Reading a piece like this makes the PR-pushed stories look so much more obvious. It took all my willpower not to text Lainey 80 times in a row while reading it.

Jaden Smith’s birthday tribute to Jackie Chan is sweet but Why Does He Capitalize The First Word Of Every Sentence. So much more difficult to type that way.

This caption about Easter Sunday miracles is even funnier if you consider it’s about a private jet.

Playwright and director Jeremy O. Harris reportedly called Sam Altman “Goebbels” at the Vanity Fair Oscar party. He corrected the record to Page Six, clarifying, “It was late and I had a few too many martinis so I misspoke when I said Goebbels… I should’ve said Friedrich Flick.” Vanity Fair recently published, “23 Books in 23 Days: Everything I Read While Imprisoned in Japan” (for accidentally carrying MDMA in his toiletry bag). Iconic behaviour all around, the kind of glamour we need right now.

If there is one thing Ben McKenzie is going to do it is tell you that crypto is a scam. He has been vocal about this from day one as other celebrities cashed in.

PEOPLE got the exclusive on Aubrey Plaza’s pregnancy with no direct quotes but very clear “this is sanctioned” anonymous sources. Neither Aubrey Plaza nor Chris Abbott are putting their business out there so I’m wondering if an outlet was going to run it and they decided to release it themselves. Just a hunch.

 Here is Brooklyn Beckham out in West Hollywood on the weekend with Cody Simpson.

Brooklyn Beckham and Cody Simpson out in West Hollywood, April 4, 2026

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