Jennifer Aniston and Jim Curtis seem to be serious.
The A-list lovebirds have been touring swanky apartments along Park Avenue looking for a nest.
Both have their hearts on a wedding in Greece, since both have Greek heritage, a source said. The couple has not publicly confirmed any engagement, though.
For Aniston, it would be a third wedding after her marriages to Brad Pitt and Justin Theroux.
They went public last fall. Aniston posted a photo of the pair hugging on Instagram on Curtis’ birthday, writing, “Happy birthday my love. Cherished.”
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, like to fly private, but they don’t have their own jet. They have friends who loan them jets.
The self-exiled British royals, who live in Montecito, Calif., were just in Lebanon visiting refugee camps.
The March issue of Town and Country reveals that Mark Danzi, the CEO of DigitalBridge, has been generous with his plane to the royals. Danzi is apparently obsessed with polo and Prince Harry invites him to matches.
Other friends have lent them their jets as well. Amal Clooney lent her and her husband George Clooney’s plane when the Duchess flew to New York from London for her baby shower.
It’s good to be a royal.
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Priscilla Presley wasn’t well-prepared when she was interviewed for a role on “Dallas.”
Though she’d never seen the show and didn’t know its star Larry Hagman, she called the primetime soap opera “fabulous.”
“I lied my way through the entire interview,” Presley said at the Old Bags Luncheon at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida. “I didn’t know I was such a good liar.”
Presley — hawking her book, “Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis” — spent five seasons on the show.
She was interviewed onstage by James Norton, founder and creative director of RobertJames, who created the It Bag for the lunch for 600 guests.
Guests included Audrey Gruss, Kimberly Paige Bluhm, Jamee Gregory, Simone Levinson, Laine Siklos and Jean Shafiroff.
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Mel B from The Spice Girls with her husband Jimmy Gulzar in 1999. (Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images)
Dutch-born dancer Jimmy Gulzar, the first husband of Spice Girl Mel B, claims David Beckham copied how he dressed and even his tattoos.
Gulzar said on the Allison Interviews podcast with host Allison Kugel said that Beckham, married to Posh Spice Victoria Beckham, had no style at all when they met.
“David, in his documentary, when they asked him, ‘Where did you get your style from?’ He says, ‘Oh, from old movies like James Cagney.’ You are a lying son of a gun. Since when did James Cagney dress like a hip hop rockstar?” Gulzar fumed.
“From the moment he [shaved his head] and put on the clothes that I gave him, and the whole swag… I gave him the brand,” he said. “That is what I gave David, I gave him a brand, because David was not brandable. He looked like a choir boy before he met me. Then he met me, and boom! Then all the contracts start flying in.”
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NFL Hall of Fame wide receiver Cris Carter played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings and Miami Dolphins, but now he lives in Boca Raton, Florida, where he’ll be playing golf in James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational from March 2-8.
The playing field includes PGA champions John Daly and Padraig Harrington and football legends Emmitt Smith, Ronde Barber, and Lawrence Taylor.
Bobby Love, a contributor to Joan Jedell’s Hampton Sheet, asked Carter what he does after the football season comes to an end.
Carter confided that he suffers from the offseason blues, but that his wife’s actually happy she can watch TV again.
The golf course beckons. Carter can’t wait to rib his fellow gridiron greats. “Anytime I see a fellow player, I’m going to be talking trash.”
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Black History Month was celebrated at the Southampton Art Center with a screening of “I Was Born This Way” that includes interviews with Dionne Warwick, Lady Gaga and Billy Porter.
The film, directed by Daniel Junge and Sam Pollard, explores the life and legacy of Carl Bean, a disco singer who became an archbishop and pioneer in the LGBTQ civil rights movement.
His most famous song was “I Was Born This Way” in 1977, which Questlove says was “a song ahead of its time … This one song started a revolution.”
Bean moved to the city and became a gospel singer at Harlem’s Christian Tabernacle Choir, then moved to Los Angeles in the mid-‘70s, switched to R&B, and formed a band called Carl Bean and Universal Love.
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President of the Louvre Museum Laurence des Cars. (Getty)
French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted the resignation of Louvre Museum director Laurence des Cars, after the infamous jewel robbery at the museum.
The thieves stole nine pieces of jewelry worth over $100 million, including items from the French crown jewels. Only one piece, Empress Eugenie’s crown, has been recovered after it was dropped during the robbers’ escape.
You don’t have to rob a museum to get your hands on a piece of this historic collection. M.S. Rau in New Orleans, is now offering a pair of natural pearl and diamond earrings for just under $8 million that belonged to Queen Amélie, the last queen of France who reigned from 1830 to 1848.
These earrings represent the only known legal opportunity to acquire authentic French Crown Jewels, with uninterrupted royal descent and comprehensive documentation.
Maybe President Macron’s government will buy them for the Louvre.
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Fancy restaurants are about more than food.
“Elevated dining is about intention and orchestration: the seamless integration of food, service, atmosphere, narrative and exclusivity, coming together to create a cohesive experience that feels purposeful rather than transactional,” said Herb Karlitz, the veteran event marketer.
Karlitz, who is producing a talk at the NY Restaurant Show at the Javits Center on March 9, will host a panel with chefs Marcus Samuelsson, Simon Kim, Ayesha Nurdjaja, executive chef at Shuka and Shukette, and Eugene Remm, the restaurateur behind Catch Hospitality Group.
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Hundreds of cocktail lovers will gather in Brooklyn on March 21 for the Bloody Mary Festival, now in its 13th year.
“The Bloody Mary is the quintessential NYC drink because it mirrors life in the city,” said the fest’s founder Evan Weiss.
“No two recipes are the same, and when you order one, you never really know what you’re going to get. That unpredictability is what makes it special, just like New York. Step outside your apartment, and anything can happen.”
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Out & About: Actor Manny Perez of NBC’S “Third Watch” joined Dr. Ramon Tallaj, the founder of SOMOS Community Care, to celebrate the achievements of Dominican Americans as they rallied in Washington, D.C. last week. Tallaj, who regularly works with baseball legends Mariano Rivera, David “Big Papi” Ortiz, and Sammy Sosa to raise money for their Bronx community, delivered the keynote speech … The 25th Flamenco Festival has arrived at City Center with 80 participants from 16 companies performing until March 15.
