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Despite Nina's questionable taste in boys in the past, they were always at least cute. SW is a failure on all fronts.Leave a comment:
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If Nina and Shawn are getting close to a year, she’ll be freaking out and dumping him soon.
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So! Haven't done a Plecverse update in a while and thought I might, I mean the world is topsy turvy on fire anyway so let's check in with these people we no longer even think about ever why not. This might be very instagram heavy! That's the only way to get pics of most of these folks these days. Hopefully they will all embed well.
Nina and Mav are off in Vancouver, filming Love Hard for Netflix. It's crazy to me that so many actors are back at work already, but then again Canada might be one of the best places to be right now anyway?
I will say that the place where they did their 14 day quar is very beautiful.
She's been filming her daily Covid test every morning:
Now see, that's the kind of transparency we should be getting from our elected officials.
And yes, before you ask, the whole thing with Shaun is STILL happening. They were vacay-ing in Tulum a month or so ago (PANDEMIC BEDAMNED I GUESS).
And she made a bunch of standees of him for his birthday:
She and Maverick seem awfully cozy in Shaun's house and with Shaun (sigh).
You know, I feel like I brought this on myself, monkey paw stylez, because for YEARS I had been hoping for her to be more open about a dude and stop being so cagey about who she was seeing on her socials for my personal entertainment reasons and now! Now it's all coming true! . . . but with a guy it's basically impossible to get excited about.
Let's be real, it's all been downhill on the Nina train since the Powbrev days.
Glen's still out there, Neens! Still looking like this:
Well, like this, actually, with the quarantine hair and all that, but still!
Anyways, Shaun and Nina have been together probably 10 months at this point, possibly 11. Inching ever closer to the 1 yr mark which could mean!
(I'm honestly not actively hoping a couple will break up or anything, I'm just sayin'! Past is so often prologue, y'all.)
In early Sept, Neens and PDubs and Mrs.PDubs had a cute puppy playdate:
I mean sure, I probably won't get to see my parents at all this year, but you guys keep meeting up and having fun why not!
Gonna just assume they hand out Covid tests like candy out there, and that's what everyone is relying on. Didn't work out so well for the White House, but wevs.
Paul and Ian are promoting that new bourbon company of theirs, called Brother's Bond Bourbon aka Two Bros Desperately Clinging Onto Relevancy For The Ca$h:
Nina ain't playing:
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According to Nikki's post, I guess Ian is going to be building a still and creating this bourbon himself bottle by bottle hillbilly-wise, I dunno?
This might be her way of making it clear that PDubs had uh . . . not much to do with any of it other than showing up for the photo op, in which case I am not surprised.
Ian's other latest save the world thingy is kissing dirt I guess:
Hopefully this works out better for him than his show V Wars, which got cancelled oh well.
I don't have any updates on Nikkian as a couple, but just wanted the opportunity to post this UHMAZING fan art of them:
This is an actually cute pic of them an Bodhi, though from earlier in the year:
All righty! Last night during the VP debate, PDubs got into it with Ernesto Riley:
This explains why the whole gang stopped hanging out much with Matt Davis in the past few years! Although the hard feelings are too hard, I guess?
@ImMatthew_Da vis love you buddy
— Paul Wesley (@paulwesley) October 8, 2020
This bit has got people scratching their heads:
??? He's still on that witch boarding school spin off Legacies, I thought? Maybe this is a spoiler that Ric gets killed off? (again)
Phoebe and her Phoebeface are still with Alex Greenwald:
And she's still very purty:
You know, I'm very happy that she has someone and and I'm very happy Paul has someone but! Westonkin will always have a part of my heart forevs.
Speaking of splts, we posted in here about The Gillies and Racgel Leigh Cook divorcing, right? Well, dunno about him, but she's moved on.
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity...-of-my-league/
. . . to a "man named Kevin".
“He’s really great. I did good, if I do say so. Definitely hitting out of my league there,” the She’s All That actress, 40, told Us Weekly exclusively of boyfriend Kevin on Monday, August 24, while promoting her upcoming Netflix film Love, Guaranteed. “I met someone really nice, and I adore him. He’s fantastic.”
Ouch, poor The Gillies.
Jersia is still going strong though:
Now that's a relationship that would absolutely not exist without Julie Plec.
In other Plecverse news, Kat Graham and Alexander Ludwig are in an upcoming Netflix holiday romcom that looks cute:
Longtime readers might recall that AL hopped on the Nina Carousel O'Dudes very briefly a few years back in her coke boat days.
Apropos of nothing really, I just thought of it. Those were the days!
I know nothing about Kat's boyfriend Darren Genet except that he's a cinematographer, but they do look sweet together:
And he's supportive that she's killing it out there, which is always a good sign in a boyf:
And! HELLO PLECVERSE BABIEZ.
Candy Cola King is preggers again! Florence May is going to be a big sister.
She and Joe make very cute babiez so this is nice news.
ONB and Mel B. had their baby and named him Huxely . . . which is a choice, I guess!
Very much doubt we are going to be seeing this kid's face until he's 21.
It doesn't end . . . here's Claire Holt with her new bebe Elle, born a couple of weeks ago:
Her oldest, James, is also still a baby, so . . . this is a family that gets No Sleep, I'm guessing.
And! Remember George and Janet? They are about to have Baby #2 as well.
They have also proven their past prowess at Making Extremely Cute Babiez.
And you remember Scarlett Byrne who was some kind of witch ? I think? in a later season of TVD? and ended up marrying Hugh Hefner's kid? Also had a baby! (named Betty Rose/ Future Heir of Playboy)
And Michael Malarkey (Enzo) also had a second kid (Hugo):
(late last year, but Imma count it anyway)
I wonder what future social historians are going to call the generation that arises from this pandemic baby boom, because it's a Thing that is Definitely Happening!
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I'm trying to well up sympathy but I just can't. I've never liked her online persona, she seemed way more interested in actors and famous people than creating cool shit. Obviously, she spent all her time with the pretty actors on set. Even though that's very unusual when filming on location like that. And on top of it all, the Ros reboot is soooo boring. I can't believe it's on season three. Amazing, to be honest. Just a real sign of how oversaturated programming is right now.
She also uses her "progressiveness" as a shield from criticism and I HATE THAT. Like how she said anyone who was bummed that she made Michael gay in the reboot was homophobic? Please. Michael and Maria was THE BEST THING about the original series -- unless you count how just generally insane and often deliciously bad it was). It's perfectly reasonable to be bummed they aren't resurrecting that!
And calling the people who air your incredibly low-rated show that nobody watches bigots? Sure. She sounds reasonable.
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Eh. Roswell also had abysmal ratings and I think she was sleeping with one of the actors. She was also very hated by the Arrow fandom.Leave a comment:
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Actually only came here to post about cadlymack getting fired off the show she created, but may as well throw in a Neens update . . .
Nina and SW are still making Questionable Romantic Choices together and! some Questionable Pandemic ones as well by traveling with pals hither and thither (raise your hand if you KNEW Nina would not be able to stay the fuck at home for months on end, no surprise there).
SW has made Questionable Hair Choices also!
Birthday yacht party for Leo DiCaprio's gf (who JUST turned 23!):
A lot of folks not very distant there!
This is how I imagine a Leo yacht party to look though:
We got a fan circled pic here, but isn't that her right hand anyway?
Dobrevics are hells nervous this whole thing is going to come to an engagement point, yikes.
i am deactivating again if nina dobrev is engaged to shaun white
— val)erija (@desiredelcna) June 24, 2020
At least they were outside for that one . . . for this other bday party, they were not:
And thither and thither with other friends as well, surfing, biking, hiking, snowboarding, hammocking, private plane-ing, bridge jumping, quarry jumping, etc:
I hung out with Shaun white, Nina Dovrev and Scott Eastwood last night.... my life is complete
— stevie nicole (@stevieybarra) June 8, 2020
Nina Dobrev and Shaun White on Shane Doyle via Instagram post: "Rad time with some rad people today ♀️" pic.twitter.com/tBSRKGy8z6
— (@sweetiedobreva) June 13, 2020
— Shaun White (@shaunwhite) July 8, 2020
Beaches might be closed, but the mountain is open baby #WearA Mask pic.twitter.com/EMHJ0S7KG5
— Shaun White (@shaunwhite) July 4, 2020
Literally met Shaun White yesterday at a random marble quarry I used to go to as a kid in the middle of nowhere VT. I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but he did ask me my name sooo.... pic.twitter.com/2Mqh9lTBAs
— Fluffhead ❁ (@CarolineCavz) June 15, 2020
Please tell me someone gets this reference #Itsnotsnowflake... pic.twitter.com/NQBvZXisDd
— Shaun White (@shaunwhite) June 28, 2020
. . . anyway, you get the idea.
In the past month or so, pretty sure they've been to Oregon, Vermont, and Texas (and a couple of mystery locales?), presumably private plane-ing it each time. The outdoors-y stuff is safe enough, but packing into a private plane and yachts and hotels(?I suppose?) with pals and mixing with randos is not so much the best idea, I wouldn't think.
Steve Aoki took no chances when traveling with them:
SW is a madman. If it weren't for his shady dudebro past and apparent riskiness during a viral outbreak (y'all can stay home sometimes! it won't kill you!), he'd basically be the ideal adventure buddy for Neens.
Anyhoo, there it is.
Now! As for the person isadora calls Plec Jr, she's having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week!
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/li...runner-1302667
Carina Adly MacKenzie Out as 'Roswell, New Mexico' Showrunner (Exclusive)
Carina Adly MacKenzie is out as the showrunner of The CW's Roswell, New Mexico.
According to multiple insiders, the first-time showrunner's relationship with studio Warner Bros. Television had been strained for some time. One of the latest points of contention came late last month when MacKenzie, who created the soapy drama, which renewed for a third season in January, fired off a series of tweets. One source, in particular, says that Warner Bros. had to do "damage control" with a foreign distributor after MacKenzie accused ITV in the U.K. of homophobia, biphobia and bigotry for cutting selective sex scenes from her show.
A spokesperson for ITV2, the channel that aired the episode of Roswell in the U.K., disputes MacKenzie's characterization of the editing, however. "During our compliance process on episode two, we edited love scenes featuring the characters of Alex and Michael and Max and Jenna," said the rep. "Editing is only ever undertaken to ensure content is suitable for scheduling in a pre watershed time slot when younger age groups may be watching. Scenes involving sexual content were edited in keeping with the regulator, Ofcom's, guidelines."
For two-plus years, MacKenzie had co-run Roswell with Christopher Hollier (The Originals, Once Upon a Time) but was the show's sole creator and its chief creative voice. During her time on the show, she is said to have fostered a working environment that was rife with tension.]Among the issues, according to insiders, is that MacKenzie would spend an unusual amount of time on the set in New Mexico, away from the show's Los Angeles-based writers room — a move that was said to frustrate some of the writers.
Showrunners typically spend the bulk of their time during the writing process in the room (or at least they did pre-COVID), and though Hollier was technically in charge in MacKenzie's absence, some point to the fact that MacKenzie did a lot of rewriting and often turned scripts in late as proof the show may have been run more smoothly were she around in person more. Sources note that the situation improved some in the second season when the writers room was given more lead time before production started.
There was also said to be friction at times between MacKenzie and some of the actors, including series star Jeanine Mason. Multiple sources say that Warner Bros. HR looked into the matter last year. The results of that probe, which MacKenzie, Mason and Warner Bros. all declined to comment on, are not clear, but what is known is that MacKenzie was able to continue running the show.
In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, a Warner Bros. TV spokesperson would say only, "Carina Adly MacKenzie has departed as executive producer/co-showrunner of Roswell, New Mexico. The third season of the series will return to The CW as part of the network’s 2021 midseason lineup."
MacKenzie, for her part, told THR: "I have made the difficult decision to resign from my role on Roswell, New Mexico. I do not take this decision lightly, but ultimately due to fundamental differences, I must depart and entrust Roswell, New Mexico to capable hands. I am so proud of what we built over the last two years, and I believe in the heart and soul of the show: asking tough questions, striving to make the world better, amplifying marginalized voices, and fighting the good fight."
Her departure comes just as writing for the upcoming third season is beginning. Roswell, a steady performer for The CW, follows the daughter of undocumented immigrants (Mason) as she discovers her teenage crush is an alien who's kept his unearthly abilities a secret. Warner Bros. is likely to make a formal announcement about a succession plan in the coming weeks, though co-showrunner Hollier is expected to stay on and take full responsibility for the show.
MacKenzie, a former TV journalist who wrote about The Vampire Diaries at the now defunct Zap2It.com, transitioned to a career as a TV writer after that show's creator, Julie Plec, took her under her wing. MacKenzie started as a writers' assistant on Vampire Diaries spinoff The Originals, quickly rising through the ranks to become a writer and story editor on the series. Her credits also include an episode of The Flash. In April 2018, she inked her own two-year development deal with Warner Bros. TV. Sources say she is no longer under a deal with the studio.
Totally blew the chance that Plec Sr. helped her get, ouch.
http://www.justjaredjr.com/2020/07/1...ll-new-mexico/
Carina Adly MacKenzie is setting the record straight.
Earlier in the day on Friday (July 10), it was announced that the Roswell, New Mexico creator had resigned from the show, where she served as an executive producer and co-showrunner.
In an article about her leaving the series, it was reported that Carina had tension with cast and crew, which led to her eventually leaving.
“Because there’s a lot of nonsense getting spread around, let me make it clear this decision has nothing to do with any of the cast, crew, or writers. I love them in an epic forever handprints-on-my-soul kinda way,” Carina wrote on Twitter. “Finding Liz Ortecho with Jeanine [Mason] has been a joy. I think any fan who joined us for a glass of wine on Instagram live during this shutdown knows there’s no ‘tension,’ so I’m just gonna go back to texting with her about the home reno projects we’re both working on and roll my eyes at that boring attempt to pit women against each other. What year is it?”
“As for ~secret anonymous sources~ revealing that I wasn’t in the writer’s room as much as I’d have liked to be, TRUE TRUE TRUE. Shooting on location while writing in LA is so hard. Thank god for my co-showrunner/friend/partner/champion Chris Hollier; together we could be in two places at once,” she continued.
“Over the last few months, the team and I broke the Season 3 story together, I had talks with the actors about the season character journeys. I put my finishing touches on the season premiere this week. But this is a business, and there were fundamental disagreements about a couple of things that were and are very important to me,” Carina concluded.
I’m gonna let him fly. pic.twitter.com/lA2ghvzuwP
— carina adly mackenzie (@cadlymack) July 10, 2020
Well, her tweet rant about ITV was hella unprofessional, so . . . this was probs a good call on the part of the network. (you can read it embedded in the THR link). Pro-tip! Don't call an affiliate a bunch of bigots! I ain't no showrunner, but at least I know that much.
The thing that surprises me the least is that she spent most of her time on location with the cast instead of working in the writers' room. She hired mostly her friends to act in Roswell and! that's how she broke into the biz in the first place, hanging out on the set of CW shows and pal'ling around with the stars while interviewing them. That was pretty obviously going to be her MO as a showrunner, too. But you can't be 'boss' and 'pal' at the same time, I guess.
Not sure how she recovers from this career-wise? No longer having that dev deal with WB must hurt. They don't hand out second chances to women bosses in Hollywood very often, and Plec Sr. is not really on the ascendant anymore as far as influence goes. Maybe she can write for Berlanti again, or she can go back to doing YA books? Or maybe not! I tried to read one, but didn't finish it . . . too much like The Originals fanfic but not in good fun way, just boring.
cadlymack made a looooot of enemies in various fandoms over the years (including in the Roswell one), so there's a bunch of peeps crowing about karma on twitter now . . .
all she ever did was suck the ass of celebrities and julie plec. now she's unemployed awwww https://t.co/mftbIU7gLl
— ♡ / # (@sadgrlcinema) July 10, 2020
Same. From the tweets from the former writer however, it seems like within the writers room or bts she had a little clique of mean white people who were equally as toxic. Julie plec likely being one of them given how problematic she is too https://t.co/cRYUXC6Us8
— Rumy (@queenofpols) July 11, 2020
As a result of the tvd fandom making her 'famous' Julie Plec gave her a job (nepotism) so she 'made' the reboot of Roswell well she has parted ways with the WB (probably had too) and now other people in the industry are calling her out for her fake wokeness, racism and bullying.
— Danni (@conquerthethorn) July 10, 2020
but let's be real . . . if she was a dude, they'd probably just hand her another show to run, obvs. I mean, nothing here sounds any worse than what JRoth has done over on The 100 set, but no one ever ousted him and ruined his career for it!
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I am here to defend DK as Nina’s friend. She has always seemed like a good girlfriend to her female friends (from my vantage point of reading Issie’s extensive research on her). And she and Nina can compare notes on having problematic dirty-looking boyfriends. I think it’s good as long as they are physically distancing.Leave a comment:
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Ok. I just saved the meme. That's exactly my brand of dad humour. I love it!Leave a comment:
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You chose wrong ,Nina. Always choose Pacey!
So many bad choices* lately, Neens!
* not that she should give a flying fuck what randos on the interwebz think, but still!
Speaking of what interwebz randos think:
Ian but Nina
— Eternal DELENA (@spacefordelena) June 7, 2020
Somerhalder Dobrev
was a poem couldn't read pic.twitter.com/W3VAYLz3xy
That's uh . . .
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Nina went insta offical with Shaun White. MEH.
Yeah, that is still going on. They went US Weekly official, too.
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity...ogether-video/
EXCLUSIVE
Nina Dobrev and Shaun White Are Dating, ‘Laugh a Lot Together’ as She Posts Funny Video
Nina DobrevOpens in a new Window. shared a funny video with Shaun White. As a source told Us Weekly exclusively that they are dating and “enjoying their time together.”
“Nina and Shaun are into each other and are dating,” a source tells Us Weekly exclusively. “They’re enjoying their time together and getting to know each other better.”
The playful video she posted on Saturday appears to sum up the couple’s fledgling relationship.
“Nina really likes Shaun and they both laugh a lot together and think each other is funny,” the insider added.
She used to be quite firm that if you saw a guy on her insta, that meant she was NOT dating him . . . so the fact that she's been very public and social media-y with SW makes me wonder if either this is the Real Deal for her, or if it's just so light and casual-esque and all about the funtimes that it isn't something she feels like she has to protect.
Anyway, I'm about as into this relaysh as I was into the whole thing with the tall dude with the bad hats, which is basically not at all. Here's a mini round-up of pics and stuff anyway, though, just because I'm a completist and must construct a full set of NinaDudes(TM).
And of course, Nina cutting Shaun's hair.
(she did a good job at least. Apparently, Riawna talked her through it).
And at a BLM protest:
Old pic from the Nian days of Shaun with the TVD peeps:
Shaun dated Arielle years and years ago:
So they've known each other awhile, but obvs didn't date until he was out of his long term relationship.
Based on insta, they seem to be spending time at both houses, not just hers -- but! this has become pretty domestic pretty quick for Neens. Maybe it's just because of living in pandemic times, though. She's been posting from his house/yard a whole bunch.
Anyhoo, Nina is not the only one quarantining/protesting with a new mans, so is Phoebe Tonkin. Phoebe moved in with Alex Greenwald, a musician from Phantom Planet, who up until a year ago was engaged to Brie Larson.
There are no pics of them together yet! But here he is:
. . . and with Brie:
I only knew who he was because the Braylors (ha! I still think it's funny they exist!) use his so-called obvious merkiness as proof that Brie is closeted. Of course, they say the same thing about her current boyfriend (who she lives with). The fact that Alex is now happily shacked up with Pheebs in a very non-showmancey way quite clearly pokes holes in all of that, but wevs. To bring it all back 'round, the Venn Diagram of people who think Braylor is a real possibility and the folks that think Nina has been dating Julianne Hugh off and on (whenever she's not dating Ruby Rose, apparently!) is a flat circle.
Side note: Glenn and PDubs have a motorcycle based bromance going on, and teamed up together to donate meals to frontline workers a month or so ago:
A very nice looking motorcycle gang indeed.
Second side note, I guess DK and Nina are still friends?
Diane and Norman reportedly on their way to meet up with their friend Nina Dobrov in LA on May 3rd 2020. Credit to owner ✅ #no rmanreedus #dia nekruger pic.twitter.com/wTsEII1XoY
— Norman’s Fan page (@NormanFangirl1) May 5, 2020
I would not have guessed that.
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. This guy. Just a tiny glimpse of what it looks like to go nonstop although I don’t often share the inside view. Sometimes I wonder if he even sleeps! For the last 12 months I’ve watched him grow a company from the ground up. He’s always worked hard, but this is on another level. Running a company isn’t easy and he’s doing it. On top of producing one of the most important films you’ll ever see on regenerative agriculture and trying to change the world. He starts at sunrise and finishes long after the house has gone to bed. And he doesn’t stop. Ever. I always thought no one could outwork me (I’ve been known to pull 7 days a week) but I stand corrected. If there were 25 hours in the day he would find the extra hour. When we met, he stayed up til 4am. Now, he gets up at 4am to be on calls with branding, logistics, distributors, attorneys, the design team, buyers, distilleries, and beyond. I’ve watched him mix every sample with his own palate creating a chemistry lab out of our kitchen, and run through every single variation/ layer / note and nuance out loud. I can now say I know a hell of a lot more about bourbon than I ever thought I would, and our three year old probably does too because it looks a lot like apple juice so we’ve had to explain the difference ... but seriously proud, seriously inspired, and wanted to share a little bit of what I see with all of you. They say finding your passion in life gives life a whole new purpose, and I do think this chapter for him will be the best yet. A boy from Louisiana who grew up on Bourbon Street now creating bourbon?! Come on... you couldn’t write this stuff! Well you could, because he did, and then he made it come to life. @iansomerhalder @applecreekranch @genasigala
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