BREAKING news from Hollywood where Katy Perry’s plans to buy a former convent from the nuns who once lived there have come a cropper after they googled her and saw the video for California Gurls.
The singer is in a legal battle with five elderly nuns over ownership of an estate on a hilltop in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles worth more than $14 million.
Katy’s been trying to buy the house for a number of years and was about to throw down a welcome mat at the front door and call it home when the sisters had a change of mind and transferred ownership to someone else entirely.
Katy had reportedly pulled out all the stops to woo the nuns, flashing the ‘Jesus’ she has tattooed on her wrist and singing the gospel song Oh Happy Days when she visited.
Sounds like something from a tweenie movie but who knows, maybe she turned up in a below-the-knee skirt, blouse and ponytail too.
Whatever she did worked to begin with and Katy’s $14.5m offer was accepted by the Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles Rev Jose Gomez.
Then super sleuth Sr Rita Callanan got her Google on and discovered that Katy wasn’t a Sunday school teacher who helps out at a homeless hostel during the week.
Over to you Sr Rita. “Well, I found Katy Perry and I found her videos and... if it’s all right to say, I wasn’t happy with any of it,” she told the Los Angeles Times.
The 77-year-old sassy sister also watched Katy’s Super Bowl performance when she took off on a shooting star and was distinctly underwhelmed (but at the same time saw a gap in the market for a nun with a head for heights) – “I thought, is that a way to make money? Maybe I could fly around. I could be the flying nun.”
Two of the last five surviving nuns from the convent claim the land is theirs to do with what they wish and have ignored the archbishop’s deal with Katy and transferred ownership of the property to an LA restaurateur for $15.5 million.
You don’t need Sleb Safari to tell you that this matter has ended up in court and later this month we’ll find out whether the flying nuns roar or the archbishop is left mourning the one that got away.
The Good Wife is a good role model
AND so to The Edit, Net-a-Porter’s weekly digital fashion magazine, and an interview with Julianna Marguiles who will forever be ER nurse Carol Hathaway in Sleb Safari’s mind.
To others she’s Alicia Florrick from The Good Wife and in her interview with The Edit Julianna says she “would never and could never be a politician, but God, it’s fun to play one”.
Asked whether she pays any attention to what is written about her Julianna/Carol displays the sort of common sense you’d expect from an ER nurse.
“I never think of myself as a famous person. I think of myself as a working actor who happens to be in a show that everyone watches. I can’t control other people’s opinions of me; all I can control is my reaction to it. Someone in Idaho may hate me, but I don’t have to know about it.
“I don’t read any of it – ‘Did I wear the right dress, did I not?’ – because it’s not going to help me as a human. It will only make me feel bad... or good. And if I believe the good, do I believe the bad?”
And that’s exactly why you should go into politics and become the minister for young people Alica/Julianna/Carol – that’s the sort of message our youth need to hear.
Tom Cruise lined up for Top Gun 2
GOOD news Top Gun fans, a sequel is being made to the 1986 classic and Tom Cruise is expected to return as Maverick, the – er – maverick fighter pilot.
There’ll be no Goose since (spoiler alert for anyone who still hasn’t gotten around to watching Top Gun in the last 29 years) he died in the first film but Maverick and his mates will now face modern drone warfare.
All that matters is whether Tom Cruise can still carry off the “I feel the need, the need for speed” line.
Social media watch
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