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HARRY Styles (right) is the
first man to grace the cover of
Vogue without the accompani-
ment of a woman in the fashion
bible’s 127-year history — but the
pop star told the mag he shops in
the men’s and women’s sections.
“What’s really exciting is that all
of these lines are just kind of
crumbling away. When you take
away ‘There’s clothes for men
and there’s clothes for women’...
you open up the arena in which
you can play,” Styles said. The
singer reflected, “I’ve never really
thought too much about what it
means — it just becomes this ex-
tended part of creating some-
thing.” He previously said of his
sexuality, “It’s just: Who cares?”Different Styles
ACTRESS Emma Corrin says
that since starring on “The
Crown” — which lays bare some of
the British royal family’s most em-
barrassing moments of the mod-
ern era — meeting a member of
the family would not be so majes-
tic. “I’d be quite nervous,” Corrin
(above), who plays Princess Diana
in the upcoming season of the
dishy drama, said on “Today.” “I
think it’d be a bit like running into
an ex at a party.” Like an avoidant
former flame, Buckingham Palace
has never commented on the show.House of wincer
DoNNIE Wahlberg is trying
to make something good come of- The “Wahlburgers” alum
left a $2,020 tip for the waitstaff
on a $35.27 bill, People reports.
Denise Andrews, his server at
Marshland Restaurant in Plym-
outh, Mass., posted a picture of
the receipt on Instagram with the
caption, “A very special thank
you to our friend @donniewahl-
berg!” The generous gesture is
part of what Wahlberg (above) is
calling the #2020TipChallenge.
One of the restaurant’s owners,
Marty Finch, told People that
Andrews divvied the hefty tip
among her co-workers. Of the
New Kids on the Block singer’s
generosity, Finch added, “It was
just very uplifting for everyone.”
On New Year’s Day, Wahlberg left
a $2,020 tip at an Illinois IHOP.
Annual income
COUNTRY music artists are outraged after
the CMA Awards did not include a tribute to
late music legend John Prine this week. Gram-
my-winning singer-songwriters Jason Isbell
and Amanda Shires went so far as to return
their lifetime membership cards to the Coun-
try Music Association, while other artists said
the music on the show “sucks.”
Critics’ darling Sturgill Simpson reportedly
said of the Prine diss in a post that was later de-
leted: “Don’t get it twisted... Wouldn’t be caught
dead at this tacky ass glitter and botox... pony
show even if my chair had a morphine drip. I just
wanted to see if they would say his name but nope.”
Singer Margo Price slammed the show’slack of diversity, and posted: “Anyone still par-
ticipating is a socially unconscious pawn...
Artists pander woke authenticity when it bene-
fits them and then sit in silence as they collect
their plastic trophies. Also the music sucks.”
A music biz insider told Page Six: “Managers
and artists are going crazy... John Prine dies
of COVID, no mention. [Outlaw-country pio-
neer] Billy Joe Shaver dies, no mention.”
Isbell and Shires, who are married, said they
quit over additional snubs, too, including of
Jerry Jeff Walker. The show honored four main-
stream stars who died in 2020: Charlie Daniels,
Kenny Rogers, Joe Diffie and Mac Davis.
The source added, “Country music is tonedeaf. It was another ratings disaster, and an out-
of-touch show — a tribute to ‘Urban Cowboy’?”
(Country act Old Dominion celebrated the
40th anniversary of the John Travolta film.)
Groundbreaking black artist Charley Pride was
honored at age 86 with the lifetime achievement
award, but our source said, “It was way overdue.”
Before he died, Prine received a lifetime
achievement honor at the Grammys, along
with a televised tribute. His family-owned
record label said it was disappointed he was
not included as part of the CMA Awards.
A CMA spokesperson said, “The CMA
Awards broadcast historically does not in-
clude an In Memoriam segment.”Not ready for Prine time
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[email protected]AN old picture did the rounds on social media showing Montel
Williams with his arm around Kamala Harris —
leading to much online speculation over their his-
tory. But TMZ pointed out that Williams has al-
ready acknowledged that he and the vice presi-
dent-elect were once an item. “[Harris] and I
briefly dated about 20 years ago when we were
both single,” he wrote in a tweet about a year
ago, according to the site. “So what? I have great
respect for Sen. Harris. I have to wonder if the
same stories about her dating history would have
been written if she were a male candidate?” The pic-
ture was taken in May 2001 at the Race to Erase Multiple Sclerosis gala
in California. At the time, Harris was working at the Office of the City
Attorney of San Francisco. Harris went on to find love, and married
presumptive Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff in 2014. Emhoff has said
that he’ll leave his law firm in the next couple of weeks to support his
wife when she assumes her position on Jan. 20. Harris will be the first
female vice president, as well as the first African- and South Asian-
American person in the office.LISTEN NOW!Listen now!
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Tyler Mitchell for VogueMEREDITH Baxter says that
being a working actress was
made infinitely more difficult
by her “enormous breasts,”
because they made industry
insiders objectify her. The
“Family Ties” star — who
played matriarch Elyse Keaton
on the hit ’80s sitcom — told
PageSix.com’s Nicki Gostin
that her breasts were “the plague
of my life” early in her career,
with TV execs constantly talking
at her chest or making lewd com-
ments. “People go, ‘Oh, to have
someone wanting you, lusting
after you’... That’s not lust, that’s
aggression. ‘Let me take your
power away by turning you into a
sexual object.’ You can’t even
open your mouth then,” she said.
In fact, the actress said the one
upside of having breast cancer in
1999 was having breast-reduction
surgery. Meanwhile, her new
movie, “Christmas on the Vine,”
premiered Friday on Lifetime —
but she said she’s never been a big
fan of the holiday: “I have a lot of
children, and I think I always ex-
perienced Christmas as, ‘Oh, I’m
going to be judged’ — it’s an obli-
gation. ‘Did I give the twins the
right thing?’ I always felt agitation
and expectation that I was going
to disappoint.”Eyes up here!
Kilting
them softly:
Harry Styles, the
first man to appear
solo on Vogue’s
cover, tells the mag,
“Clothes are there
to have fun
with.”