Katy Perry Can't Believe Wendy's Did Her Like That

Wendy’s wasted no time dunking on Katy Perry’s Blue Origin space flight, and she is reportedly not thrilled. Apparently, fast food restaurants shouldn’t dunk on women briefly going to space. I didn’t know that was a rule, but if there’s an exception, it should be Wendy’s because there’s a girl on every burger. You can’t miss her. Bright red hair. (Page Six)

Is Ben Affleck trying to make a point by attending The Accountant 2 premiere with Jennifer Lopez’s kids? (Lainey Gossip)

RFK Jr. really hates autistic people. Damn, dude. (Celebitchy)

Why “The Left has gone too far!” works, and “The Right has gone too far!” never does. (Wonkette)

In 2003, Vanity Fair named six rising young actresses the ingenues of the year. What happened to them? Kayleigh dives into it for her newsletter. (Gossip Reading Club)

Glen Powell is in the Judd Apatow business. (Variety)

And, apparently, Goop loves his ketchup. Glen’s not Judd’s. (The Cut)

Conan is coming to next week’s Everybody’s Live. (LateNighter)

Haley Joel Osment had a little whoopsie. (Rolling Stone)

Lindsay Lohan is starring in a new show from the This Is Us team. (TVLine)

And your feel-good story of the day. (Mediaite)

How would you feel if you broke out of magic jail to run a D&D game at a convention, only to find someone is LARPing a ritual to raise eldritch gods? LittlePlat enjoyed this novella from Charles Stross’ The Laundry Files series, A Conventional Boy. “I found Derek to be a very endearing kind of protagonist, and despite the horrors I knew he was about to face, I was too happy to see him start to come out of his shell and socialize.” (Cannonball Read 17)

From Andrew: Worst mayor continues to be the worst:

Mayor Adams is wearing his “in god we trust” American flag shirt once again. But this time it’s written in Italian. He says it’s Spanish to honor the victims of a nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican republic last week.

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— Ethan Stark-Miller (@estarkmiller.bsky.social) April 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM