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Guess where Jared Leto, Cara Delevingne, Will Smith & the Suicide Squad cast are staying…
Juice factor: 10/10
As you already know, the latest installation of Batman — called Suicide Squad — is currently filming in Toronto, and last week we let ya know that Will Smith’s been pumping iron at Studio Fitness on Bathurst. Hey, with a cast that boasts Jared Leto as the new Joker (RIP Heath Ledger), as well as supermodel Cara Delevingne, Clint Eastwood’s holy-effin-hot son Scott Eastwood (who looks like a more chiseled Chris Hemsworth), The Wolf of Wall Street’s Margot Robbie, and geek-chic poster boy Jesse Eisenberg — there’s something for everyone on the Suicide Squad of spectrum of celeb sex fantasies. While we’ve recommended hanging by Pinewood Studios (near Cherry Beach, y’all) for catching glimpses of the mouth-watering cast (read: flirting your way to a civilian-celeb hookup), rumour has it that they’re all staying at the Soho Metropolitan Hotel on Wellington near Spadina. Ahhhh yeaaaaah, that’s right near the Vv Magazine office. A certain someone we know has already hooked up with one of the leads at the Metropolitan Hotel on Chestnut Street, mind you, but that wasn’t during this particular movie. Believe in the power of common people. May the force be with you or whatever Batman says.
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Blind item: Guess what huge retailer is going to blow up on Queen West…
Juice factor: 9/10
Fitzroy Boutique might have just opened up in the old location of Bicyclette on Queen West (near the former Swan Restaurant, which also recently closed down due to rent issues — the block, it is a changin’), but it’s not the new permanent resident of the storefront. The online boho boutique is actually only there for a month-long pop-up, so get your mumus and kimonos from the flowerchild-friendly shop while it’s still around. But you won’t be disappointed when it comes time for the shop’s new owner to take over. It’s huge. You’ll be thrilled in that sick way that gentrification secretly delights the Aesthete. A hint: it’s fashion.
We got shoved by a couple “fashionistas” at Karl Lagerfeld’s Toronto party
Juice factor: 10/10
Well, there’s no way to welcome Karl Lagerfeld to Canada quite like behaving like he’s Joey Lawrence and we’re in Kazakhstan and Blossom is the hottest thing sweeping the nation. We were psyched to attend the media event for the designer’s first trip to our city and country for his first ever lobby design project with Freed Development, #LobbiesByKarl, at Art Shoppe on Yonge and Eglinton (yeah, yeah — we imagined him and Choupette dining at Pickle Barrel too). The city’s most prominent editors and fashion icons like Jeanne Beker and Stacey McKenzie were there, but so were a lot of not-so influential sometimes bloggers/full-time party scenesters. A crowd gathered around velvet ropes before Uncle Karl arrived at 9pm only for the “fashionistas” in waiting to go full-fledged 2001: Space Odyssey ape shit like they ain’t never seen a person who speaks three languages and has a white ponytail before. Karl drank half a Perrier on a stage before leaving, but we got mauled by two early-30s women who proceeded to push us like a punching bag as they tried to take Instagram photos in the air. We left with a tear in our shirt and a sweaty everything after telling them to “chill the fu*k out, you animals.” If you thought the 70s were in this spring — news flash — it’s all about barbarism and thrashing madly like a Titanic passenger. The good news is, we have two new enemies to keep trouble brewing in our column.
Food Babe VS Science Babe… and the winner is…
Juice factor: 10/10
…Science Babe, aka Yvette d’Entremont, obviously. We didn’t even have to read her amazing expose on Food Babe’s alleged blatant health lies and apparent efforts to slander her critics to know Science Babe, who’s an actual scientist, might have a leg up on Food Babe when it comes to “the truth.” It’s like deciding whose theory of evolution to believe — Stephen Hawking’s or Michelle Bachman’s — before hearing the details. One is gonna be full of puritanical BS and its likely the one closest to the deep south. Science Babe’s post went viral, and she’s allegedly being offered book deals left, right, and centre from American literary agencies, but she’s already got representation right here in Toronto at The Rights Factory. Yes — Canada got one thing right this week. #TeamScience
Blind Item: Toronto publicist versus Toronto publicist
Juice factor: 10/10
There’s a fight brewing, and it’s an off-the-charts throwdown, at least by Toronto’s notoriously tame standards. Yes, our PR firms are finally starting to play ball… and by ball we mean duke it out for each other’s clients. While it’s been an ongoing undercutting game between the newer small agencies for a few years, we hear the big boys are getting dirty now too. City chatter has it that the latest thrashing of the PR titans is “so uncool,” but we’re happy to watch our city finally starting to put a little effort in and make like Rocky to rule the ring. Eff mediocrity. May the best PR team win. And please send us invites.
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We’re off to lunch at the Soho Metropolitan. May the best civilian get some. Peace.
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