Victoria Beckham Put Brooklyn Back In the Photo. He Still Didn't Show Up.

Quite the weekend for the dads of the celebrity world. Pete Davidson marked his first ever Father's Day with daughter Scottie, alongside Chris Evans, Justin Theroux, Charles Melton, Josh Allen, and Derek Hough. The Backstreet Boys talked fatherhood pulling rank over the boy band lifestyle. And at the other end of the timeline, Al Pacino, 86, and Robert De Niro, 82, remain proof that for a certain kind of Hollywood legend, the window for fatherhood simply doesn't close, whatever your own father's retirement plans looked like. Gordon Ramsay, meanwhile, got bumped up a generation entirely, with daughter Holly announcing she's expecting, making him a grandfather for the first time. And then there's David Beckham, who marked the day with a tender family post including the one son who's made it clear he's not interested in posting back.

Three more stories below show fatherhood from opposite ends of the spectrum: Jelly Roll proving the title survives even an amicable divorce, and a King finally closing the distance with grandchildren he's barely met. Beckham sits in the messier middle, the dad still showing up in photos for a son who's stopped showing up at all.

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Victoria Beckham marked Father's Day on June 21 with a throwback beach photo of David and all four kids, Brooklyn included. "David you truly are the best daddy," she wrote. David posted his own version hours later, plus solo shots with each child. Romeo and Cruz added tributes. Brooklyn, estranged since a January statement accusing his parents of putting "Brand Beckham" first, posted nothing.

The timing isn't an accident. Days earlier, Brooklyn appeared in a World Cup DoorDash ad, smirking as he tossed his match tickets on a coffee table and told the camera, "You're probably wondering why I'm watching the FIFA World Cup 2026 from home... it's a long story." DoorDash's own caption played along: "We have a guess on why you're watching from home." The campaign's own tagline didn't help matters either, signing off with "It's complicated. More soon." Critics didn't need much decoding. He'd skipped his father's Walk of Fame ceremony and the family's World Cup appearances that same week, so a joke about watching alone, during a tournament his dad played in three times, read as a direct dig. Sources told the Sun the family was "heartbroken," with one calling it "a tad hypocritical" given he's reportedly banked over a million dollars trading on his father's legacy to make it.

Celebrity Intelligence Takeaway: I always say celebrity stories are modern day Shakespeare, but this one has a biblical comparison. It's the parable of the Prodigal Son: a child who walks away, a parent who keeps the door open anyway, no conditions attached. That's the instinct driving David and Victoria, minus any guarantee of an ending like the original's. Post Brooklyn, and it looks opportunistic, exactly what he's accused them of for years. Leave him out, and it confirms the door is shut for good. Having built a life this public, there's no quiet, private option left to fall back on. So they keep including him, not because it fixes anything, but because silence is the one move that would actually look like giving up.

Bunnie XO dropped intriguing news during the Thursday, June 18 episode of her podcast, Dumb Blonde, telling listeners "we're still having a baby together," even as she and Jelly Roll finalize a divorce she said they've settled in just two weeks. She insisted nobody cheated, calling the split mutual and the result of two people who simply "served our purpose for each other," and added that they're planning to co-parent, calling Jelly Roll, whom she nicknames "J," her best friend. Hours later, Jelly Roll stopped his concert in Saratoga Springs, New York to confirm every word of it himself, telling the crowd "every word of it is the truth" and promising they'd remain best friends for life.

Celebrity Intelligence Takeaway: This is Bunnie getting ahead of a narrative before anyone else can write it for her, naming the breakup herself, in her own podcast chair, on her own terms. But the baby reveal is the real headline. A couple who spent two years and four lost embryos chasing a pregnancy together is now choosing to finish that journey as exes. Jelly Roll backing her up onstage within hours turns a podcast reveal into a fully co-signed announcement, a sign neither of them has any appetite for letting this become a he-said she-said.

They may be writing a new template for celebrity breakups in the process. In the old days, a star held the details for a big magazine interview and cover. That world is gone. Things move faster now, and stars like Bunnie know to break their own news on their own platforms to drive monetization and followers. Releasing this on Dumb Blonde rather than handing it to a magazine was the savvy move, the download numbers, the new subscribers, and the headlines all point back to her own show instead of someone else's cover line. Owning the scoop now is worth more than renting it out for a one-time prestige hit.

TMZ “caught” the influencer and the Grammy nominated singer leaving West Hollywood hotspot Craig's hand in hand on Thursday, with Boone opening the car door for her like a proper gent. Asked point blank if they're dating, he told a TMZ reporter, "Uh, no... we're just hanging out." Earle is also set to appear in his upcoming music video for "The Time of My Life," out June 26th.

Celebrity Intelligence Takeaway: Now, I love Craig's. I usually swing by when I'm in LA to catch up with contacts, and it's exactly the kind of place where you go to be seen, not where you go to hide. So when two single, photogenic people who are "just hanging out" pick the one of the restaurants in Los Angeles that might as well be built entirely out of glass walls, there are really only two explanations. Either a) they're genuinely just friends and don't mind the attention because, frankly, it does no harm to either of their images, or b) they're dating and they're perfectly happy for the world to clock it. What neither of them is doing is hiding it. Nobody who wants privacy in this town picks Craig's on a Thursday. "Just hanging out" is the modern equivalent of going steady, minus the commitment and plus a TMZ camera crew. As I've said before, if you don't want to be photographed, you don't go to the hotspots where the photographers already are. The denial and the confirmation increasingly look like the same sentence now.

Eric Andre committed fully to his bit again at Thursday night's New York premiere of "Little Brother" at the Paris Theatre. Footage from the carpet shows his suit catching on the car door as he stepped out, tearing clean off and leaving him in nothing but his tighty whities for the entire walk. He was joined by costar John Cena, who plays his uptight older brother in the comedy from director Matt Spicer, about a buttoned up real estate agent whose life gets upended when his eccentric sibling resurfaces. Christopher Meloni, Sherry Cola, Ego Nwodim, Caleb Hearon, Ben Ahlers, Bryce Gheisar, and Pilot Bunch rounded out the carpet.

Celebrity Intelligence Takeaway: It's a strong entry in the outrageous red carpet canon, and the fact that Cena was standing right next to him only sweetens it, two reigning champs of weaponizing nudity for a laugh sharing one frame. But it probably still falls short of the all time crown. Sacha Baron Cohen dumping fake ashes on Ryan Seacrest in 2009 was a stunt aimed at someone else, and Rose McGowan's sheer chainmail dress at the 1998 VMAs still gets cited as the genre's benchmark decades later. The real competition is Bianca Censori, whose run of naked illusion dresses, most memorably at the 2024 Grammys (so much of an illusion there was no dress), has made her the default answer whenever this question comes up. Andre's moment might be the funniest. Censori's is probably still the most outrageous. In case it's not obvious, this is also just good business. "Little Brother" hits Netflix on June 26, and a torn suit at the premiere has already generated more headlines, screenshots, and group chat shares than a standard step and repeat ever could. Whether the rip was an accident or planned down to the stitch, it functions exactly like Censori's dresses and Cohen's stunts do: free, viral, impossible to ignore promotion that costs nothing but a little dignity and gets paid back in coverage like this.

Concertgoers are increasingly upset over skyrocketing ticket prices, which are limiting their ability to attend live shows. This week, outside Post Malone's concert in Toronto, fan Veronica Avila told CBC News that she now attends only one concert a year. She wanted to see Morgan Wallen and Chris Brown too, but chose Post Malone because she couldn't afford all three. Artists are canceling more shows than ever for the same reason, they can't sell enough tickets to cover the cost of touring. Notable cancellations this year include the Pussycat Dolls, Post Malone, Meghan Trainor, Zayn Malik, Kid Cudi, Dolly Parton, and Kiefer Sutherland. The term "blue dot fever" describes the wave of unsold seats showing up on Ticketmaster's seating charts, each one marked with a blue dot, and this year those charts have been covered in them.

Live Nation, which controls ticket pricing, insists the situation isn't as dire as it looks. A spokesperson says less than one percent of its shows have been canceled this year, with sales up eleven percent and seventy percent of tickets priced under one hundred dollars. Pollstar's numbers tell a different story. Average ticket prices for top tours have climbed from $96.17 in 2019 to a 2024 peak of $135.92, easing slightly to $132.62 last year. That's not a rounding error, that's fans getting priced out in real time.

Celebrity Intelligence Takeaway: Few of these acts are transparent with most reaching for a baby, an album, or vague "personal reasons," and only the Pussycat Dolls and Kiefer Sutherland told fans the plain truth. The more artists who do the same, the more pressure builds on Live Nation to actually move on pricing. It's simple supply and demand, if the demand isn't there at these prices, something has to give. Honesty, in showbiz, is still rarer than a sold-out arena.

As Harry and Meghan's imminent return to Britain takes shape, with Archie and Lilibet set to meet their grandfather for the first time in years, the question hovering over the visit is simple: will Harry and William cross paths at all  and whether this trip changes anything.  Anyone reading Celebrity Intelligence already knows the backstory here, the long estrangement, the failed reconciliation attempts, the public statements neither brother has walked back, and that this is highly unlikely. Tom Sykes' writing for  The Royalist, says that William has threatened to boycott Sandringham entirely if Harry and Meghan are invited there, and that he skipped a family lunch after Trooping the Colour last weekend rather than be near the unfolding plans for his brother's return. The visit is reportedly being bankrolled by King Charles, who is footing the bill for the couple's security detail, a detail Sykes says will only deepen William's belief that his father has been emotionally maneuvered into welcoming Harry and Meghan back into the fold. Friends of William, per the reporting, feel the King owes his heir more loyalty after years of what they see as one-sided sacrifice.

Celebrity Intelligence Takeaway: There's a deeper layer to this too. By greenlighting the visit, Charles is effectively handing Harry and Meghan the half in, half out arrangement the late Queen explicitly rejected at the Sandringham Summit in January 2020. What William is watching, in other words, isn't just a family reunion, it's his father undoing a decision his own grandmother made. For now, a reunion between the brothers appears to be off the table, with Charles getting his moment with his grandchildren while William keeps his distance. Charles may be solving his own emotional equation, but he's reopening a much older one between his sons, and nothing in this reporting suggests William is ready to do the math with him.

Before this bubbles over again, let's slow it down. A fan asked Mike Myers directly during an appearance on Trevor Noah's World Cup Watch Party whether Austin Powers 4 would ever happen. He said "Yes." That's the entirety of it. No writer attached, no director, no studio greenlight, no release date. Deadline reported the exchange accurately, as a fan question and a one word answer. Somewhere between that report and the headlines now circulating, "yes" quietly became "confirmed." What Myers actually gave us is openness, not a greenlight, and after twenty years of dodging this exact question, a flat yes understandably reads as bigger news than it is.

Celebrity Intelligence Takeaway: Should this actually happen, yes, Hollywood will celebrate it, because Hollywood always celebrates the IP it already owns. But the better question is whether the magic that made the first one work can survive being reheated decades later, in a culture that's moved on three or four times since. Spielberg, talking candidly about his own Jurassic Park sequels, put it best: "My sequels are not as good as the originals because I get too confident." He went further with E.T., refusing Universal's push for a sequel outright to protect the tone and heart of the original. Austin Powers thrived inside a very specific moment, with a cast that had real chemistry and a director, Jay Roach, who's said he's only interested if Myers is genuinely "inspired," not just willing. Confidence, by Spielberg's own account, is often exactly what ruins the magic the second time round.

Lil Nas X posted a three-minute video statement on Instagram revealing he's spent the past few months in rehab and has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the diagnosis that allowed him to enter a mental health program following his arrest last August. He named it himself, directly, telling fans he'd actually suspected it for years but avoided addressing it because he didn't want to take medication or have people see him differently. The two time Grammy winner, real name Montero Hill, said he's "just smelling the roses," with the tone notably calm, more reflective than comeback campaign, and confirmed new music is coming even though he's not ready to return to pop stardom "just yet."

Celebrity Intelligence Takeaway: This is the good stuff. A Grammy winner naming his own diagnosis out loud, on his own terms, without a publicist softening the edges, does more for public understanding of bipolar disorder than a hundred awareness campaigns. Someone scrolling through their own diagnosis at 2am, feeling like the only person in the world dealing with it, gets to see Montero Hill call it what it is and keep making music anyway. That's not a small thing. Visibility like this chips away at the shame that keeps people from getting help in the first place, and every time a famous voice says "I'm in treatment and I'm fine," it makes the next person's phone call to a doctor a little easier to make. More of this, please.

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A German tourist named Freddy is driving through Georgia right now with a phone propped on his dashboard, documenting Waffle House at two in the morning and the sheer scale of a Buc-ee's like each one deserves a ten out of ten review. A Scottish fan named Shaun has been doing exactly the same thing. Neither is posting about goals. They're posting about free refills, turning right on red, and a gas station bathroom somehow cleaner than their hotel room. University of Florida tourism researcher Dr. Rachel Fu told ABC News that visitors are finding wonder in the stuff locals never look at twice, which is the whole trend in one sentence.

Celebrity Intelligence Takeaway: After what has felt like months, maybe years, of anti-American sentiment circulating globally, this is a genuinely refreshing moment. America turns 250 this year, and instead of a tribute scripted by a tourism board, we got something better: millions of total strangers, with zero incentive to be kind about it, choosing to fall for the place anyway. Sometimes the best birthday gift is the one nobody had to ask for.

Forget Le Bilboquet's chic menu or Nick & Toni's white tablecloths. This summer's real celebrity magnet on the East End is Babe's, an 8 seat diner in Sag Harbor serving classic comfort food, and we're not even at high season yet. Meg Ryan, Neil Patrick Harris, Matt Lauer, and Don Lemon have all been spotted in, among others. Harris celebrated husband David Burtka's birthday there with a bacon, egg, and cheese and a stack of pancakes, both reportedly the menu's top sellers, alongside the waffles, vodka chicken parm sandwiches, and burgers.

Celebrity Intelligence Takeaway: Stars really are just like us, especially on vacation. Famous people spend most of the year being looked at for a living, so what they actually want on a Tuesday morning in Sag Harbor is a stool, a short stack, and nobody making a fuss over them. Eight seats and zero pretense beats a wine list every time.

Hope you enjoyed this issue and got something out of it. Feels fitting to end Father's Day weekend on the King Charles story, a reminder that even when it takes years longer than it should, showing up still counts. Have a great week, and let me know if there's anything you want me to dig into next.

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