It’s Melbourne Cup Day and while it feels like just about every Aussie celebrity, socialite and social media star is at some sort of Cup Day event (no doubt your Insta feed is being bombarded with pics of glamorous women and ridiculously well-groomed men too) there are more than a few who are saying #nuptothecup instead. The…
Angelina Jolie Speaks Up For Venezuelan Refugees and Praises Peru
UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie just spent 3 days in Peru meeting men, women and children who’ve fled Venezuela. The situation in Venezuela is bad right now. The economy is in free-fall and people are struggling to survive. It’s so bad, there’s a mass exodus happening – according to the UN, 2 million people have fled…
CelebrityKind Movies: A Star Is Born
Rated M, 136 Minutes Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliot, Rebecca Field, Andrew Dice Clay, Rafi Gavron It’s not hard to see why everyone is going gaga over this one. Familiarity of story alongside being a fourth official version didn’t diminish the effect this Bradley Cooper directorial debut maintained over me. From the opening guitar strums…
Emily Ratajkowski and Amy Schumer Stand Up For Women (And Get Arrested)
How awesome to see big names like Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski getting amongst it on Capitol Hill today to protest Brett Kavanaugh – you know, the guy who is accused of sexually assaulting multiple women but may still end up sitting on the Supreme Court? Yeah, that guy. View this post on Instagram Today I was arrested…
David Schwimmer’s #ThatsHarassment Videos Play in NYC Cabs
Friends star David Schwimmer made a bunch of important videos about sexual harassment last year and they’ve been doing the rounds in 13,000 cabs across New York City. “My mother, my sister, countless female colleagues and friends have all experienced some form of sexual harassment in their lifetime,” David said when the ads were initially released. “Now I’m…
Alyssa, Ashley and More Explain #WhyIDidntReport
Hollywood celebrities are among thousands of sexual assault survivors sharing heartbreaking stories on social media about why they didn’t report their attackers straight away. The #WhyIDidntReport hashtag started in response to a tweet by US President Donald Trump questioning whether Dr Christine Blasey Ford was ever really sexually assaulted by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh: “If the…
Adrian Grenier’s Pledge To Stop Using Plastic Bottles
First, he got us to ditch the single-use plastic straws. Now, Adrian Grenier is hoping we’ll do the same with single-use plastic bottles. View this post on Instagram Yesterday I signed a pledge to make the switch to reusable water bottles w/ @SodaStreamUSA & @oceanic.society. Join me (link in my bio) By doing so,…
One Reason Why Annie Lennox is a Global Feminist
Annie Lennox is one of my favourite celebrity philanthropists and activists. I’ve been following her work since 1999 when she donated all the profits from her Eurythmics Peace Tour to Amnesty International and Greenpeace. It was the first time it registered that celebrities were doing this sort of stuff and, it was largely going unnoticed. (Teenage…
Cate Blanchett’s Statement to UN Security Council About Rohingya Refugees
“Many Bangladeshi villagers living nearby, with very little to call their own, have been helping the Rohingya refugees over the past year. If people with so little can step up, why can’t we do better?” Today, Cate Blanchett sat before the United Nations Security Council and asked the world this very important question. There are currently…
CelebrityKind Movies: I Feel Pretty
Rated M 110 min Amy Schumer, Busy Phillips, Aidy Bryant, Michelle Williams, Lauren Hutton, Rory Scovel At first glance this is a film that may cross reference touchy subjects with little decorum, aiming at cheap laughs rather than effective emotions; WRONG. The inspirational heartbeat of a dreams can come true mantra as channelled by gorgeous star Amy…
Beyoncé Gives 75 Thousand People Clean Drinking Water in Burundi
Beyoncé is kicking humanity goals left, right and centre at the moment. The headlines are all about her upcoming VOGUE cover and how the photographer she’s chosen, Tyler Mitchell, will be the first black photographer to shoot a cover in the magazine’s history. But that’s not her only triumph this week. It’s also the one…
Ryan Reynolds, Maggie Gyllenhaal & More: My Name is Mirian
Below is the full video for #MyNameIsMirian as read out by a number of Hollywood celebrities who are calling for an end to Trump’s family separation policy:
Celeste Barber Gets Serious About Suicide Prevention
She’s usually making us laugh so hard, we’re shooting coffee out of our nostrils, but today, Celeste Barber is getting serious about a cause close to her heart: suicide prevention. The comedian and Instagram queen (yes, she beats ALL other Instagrammers in my books!) is an ambassador for R U OK?, an Aussie charity urging us all…
Celebs Get Ugly for Wilderness Campaign
Hollywood stars are getting their ugly on and it’s all for a good cause! Full video below: Cate Blanchett, Rosario Dawson and Joel Edgerton are part of The Wilderness Society’s #SaveUgly campaign, starring in a short musical comedy about all those creatures that don’t get any attention. The ones that aren’t cute, cuddly or well-known, but are still…
Angelina Jolie in Iraq: “People Here Have Lost Everything”
“We often tend to assume, as an international community, that when the fighting is over, the work is done.” Some powerful words spoken by Angelina Jolie in Iraq this week. She’s reminding us that although the people of West Mosul may no longer be front page news, their story continues: Angelina Jolie, a Special Envoy…
CEO’s Donation to Suicide Prevention After Death of Anthony Bourdain
A post shared by Xi’an Famous Foods (@xianfoods) on Jun 8, 2018 at 8:37am PDT This is the story of Anthony Bourdain and Jason Wang, the CEO of Xi’an Famous Foods. The mini-chain that sells Chinese food in the US recently donated more than $73, 000 to America’s National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in memory of the…
Carrie Bickmore Continues Brain Cancer Mission
“Every 5 hours someone is diagnosed with brain cancer and 8 out of 10 people who are diagnosed, will die from brain cancer. Everyone thinks it’s this rare form of cancer, it is not. It kills more people under 40…than any other cancer. It kills more kids than any other disease. In 2010, my husband…
Cynthia Nixon (not Miranda Hobbes) to Run for Governor
This week Cynthia Nixon announced her plans to run for Governor of New York. If, like me, the memories of a red-haired, straight-talking, suited-up lawyer yelling at a man dressed up like a sandwich was the first image in your head, it’s time to remember Cynthia Nixon is not Miranda Hobbes. In fact, it’s everything she’s…