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When last we heard from Paul Boyne, he was extradited from his home state of Virginia to Connecticut to face dubious stalking charges. Boyne runs the Family Court Circus, where he rants in anti-Semitic, racist, and other objectionable language toward Connecticut judges, politicians, lawyers, and others he doesn’t like. Here is part of his last post from July 2023. The now-famous Blog of the free speech kind spotlights the hot mess, constitutionally confused, court appointed attorney Kelly Ball of Buffalo, New York, who has lit her hair on fire, hyperventilating, having panic attacks that the public is watching her silliness ranting about existence of now-famous Blog, screaming about the word ‘nigger‘, now demanding an ’emergency’ hearing before Judge Thomas DiMillo to protest the First Amendment, all while being paid with state funds, under the management of the senile Linda Kostin, Esq.

Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: a 60-year-old actor gets serious about his girlfriend, a 54-year-old pop star gets serious about her art, and Hilary Duff compares her husband to a Calico Critter.  Happy Valentine’s Day: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been getting divorced for EIGHT YEARS. They were declared legally single by the courts in 2019, but they are still fighting about what happens to Chateau Miraval and over custody of their seven children.

The first entertainment venue to succeed in making Brad Pitt look, well, downright ugly, coming up. For decades Gentlemen’s Quarterly was known for its slick covers featuring attractive men in appealing clothing. The last couple of years, the jackets have morphed. Some cloaks are now dark and moody, others weird…odd. Loyal readers have been disappointed, complaining, cranky; others have cancelled their subscriptions. And now, from this lifetime subscriber and big fan, I feel we have GQ’s strange, in all four-colors, August 2022 cover, featuring hunky movie star Brads Pitt, in my opinion, looking like a corpse.

Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. This week: a mid-aughts terror returns to Hollywood, an actor makes a 19-year-old friend, and Hilary Duff reveals a surprising goal. Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, which means certain celebrities are popping up to let everyone know they, too, have love in their lives. The latest is former Pretty Little Liars star Ashley Benson, who went public with a new boyfriend this week.

Written on 16/11/2023 Although I am not completely sure of the veracity of these reports, there are murmurs from Brazil that Liverpool have been keeping a close eye on São Paulo defender Lucas Beraldo ahead of a potential move in the January window. Having not signed a defender in the summer, it is logically right to think that the Reds would look to add one in January. With Andrew Robertson out until the New Year at the least, there is a shortage of options on the left-hand side of the defence.

It’s a compelling thought. Instead of running around pulling all the healthy, fruity things together for breakfast, you just cut yourself a slice of home-made cake, and sit down with a cup of tea or coffee. All together now: a long, drawn-out, sigh of relief. I’ve always adored hotel breakfasts in Italy and across Europe for their insistence that cake be part of the event. It just seems so civilised. Unclenching.

Over the weekend the Washington Commanders held their rookie minicamp. It was the first time we got to see some practice clips of the Commanders rookie class in action. Normally I wouldn’t be writing about rookie minicamp practice clips, but I saw something I found interesting. My former colleague Ben Standig at The Athletic and host of the excellent Standig Room Only podcast, tweeted out a few clips he was allowed to film from practice sessions open to the media on Friday and Saturday.

Thank you for reading the daily BTP coverage of the 2024 Giro d’Italia. This coverage was only possible thanks to all BTP readers and premium subscribers. BTP will be taking a short break but will be back on Monday, June 3rd, to break down next week’s Critérium du Dauphiné before packing up to be on the ground for the 2024 Tour de France. After taking a few days to ponder Tadej Pogačar’s dominant performance to win the 2024 Giro d’Italia, where he held the leader’s jersey for 20 of the Giro’s 21 stages (the most since Gianni Bugno went line-to-line in 1990) and won with a margin of nearly ten minutes, which hasn’t been seen since 1965, I wanted to pause to look back at how and where he won the race over the rest of the final podium, Dani Martínez and Geraint Thomas, and to analyze what it tells us about his chances of completing the Giro/Tour double later this summer at the Tour de France.

👋🏽 Hi friends! And a special hello to all the new subscribers from This Week in Tech. You might be overwhelmed by the deluge of recent AI news. I know I am. New developments are flying a mile a second. So what’s really happening in AI? Are we in the midst of an AI war? Is Bing going to take market share from Google? Can Microsoft make Bing’s new AI not go off the rails?