AUGUST 19, 2019 Star 7Sir Elton is feeling frisky these
days — and maybe longing to be
the younger man he once was! He
seems more than pleased with the
choice of the actor who portrayed
him in Rocketman, Taron Egerton. In
fact, when the young new star met
the legend behind the biopic for
the first time, Elton made him blush
with his saucy salutation. “We were
filming the wedding scene for [the
2014 film] Kingsman and he said if he
were five years younger, it would be
me that he was marrying.” Did Taron
have a retort for the flirty remark? “I
think I just mumbled and went red,”
Taron told Star. “I was very nervous.
For the first few times I met him, he
made me blush. He doesn’t do that
anymore because I’m used to it.” ★DID ELTON
JOHN HIT
ON TARON
EGERTON?
Selena Gomez’s BFF kidney donor,
Francia Raisa, hasn’t spoken to her
famous friend — the recipient of her
lifesaving organ — in more than nine
months, a source says, since a falling-out
related to the singer's post-transplant
lifestyle. In the summer of 2017, Francia
donated one of her kidneys to Selena
when the star’s organs began to fail
— after which Francia herself went
through a hellish recovery period.
Selena reportedly vowed to change
her lifestyle, and abstain from alcohol,
after the transplant, but “Selena did
the exact opposite of what she
said she was going to do when she
got well again,” the source says,
adding that Francia called her out
on the drinking. That didn’t sit
well with Selena, and even though
she checked in to a wellness
facility shortly thereafter and has
recommitted to a healthy life,
“because of everything that they’ve
been through together,” says the
source, “Selena doesn’t know if she
can ever really be a part of Francia’s
life again.” ★Zac Efron has one of the most
jacked physiques in Hollywood,
and he works for it — to excess,
some might say. Zac stayed at the
Greenwich Hotel in New York City
during his recent press tour for
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil
and Vile, the Netflix film in which
he stars as 1970s serial killer Ted
Bundy. Even though he was bound
by a leg cast to support the ACL he
tore skiing in Utah during the film’s
Sundance premiere, he still worked
out constantly, a source told Star.
Guests saw him in the gym doing
pullups and other exercises in his
cast. The dedicated star worked
out two to three times a day,
sources reported, even discussing
his exercise regimen with hotel
servers. Fans gushed from afar —
but knew not to get between him
and his strength training. ★ZAC:
OBSESSED
WITH
WORKING OUT
SELENA & FRANCIA
FRIENDSHIP OVER!
HELLO,
HANDSOME!“UNHEAL
THY^
CHOICES”