Getting ‘Cut’

Orlando Bloom, British actor fiancée of singer Katy Perry, took his body to the limit while filming The Cut, about a retired boxer returning to matters pugilistic.

The new movie premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month and Bloom told People he “literally thought I was gonna die” because the role was so taxing and involved losing a drastic amount of weight.

“The last three weeks in London before we started filming was just eating cucumber and tuna,” he says.

The nutritionist on set put him on a “strict regime” designed to “tear him down” so he would start the film at his lightest weight.

“Then I put the weight on as we filmed,” Bloom explained.

He says Katy was shocked by his transformation. “She freaked out, but she knew what it took.”

Orchards and Godmothers

Meghan Markle’s latest trademark application was denied last month in major blow to her embattled American Riviera Orchard home goods brand.

The Duchess of Sussex’s effort to trademark her homemade jams and other household goods has landed her in another sticky situation with the U.S. Patent and Trademarks Office after previous bungles and failures to secure rights over new podcast, Archewell, last year.

The Patent Office rejected the application on Aug. 31, saying businesses are not allowed to trademark geographical locations, including the coastline around their Montecito home – the American Riviera.

The refusal also included a slew of problems with the filing, including her apparent failure to sign the current applications.

The USPTO admonished Prince Harry and his wife for giving vague descriptions of her products that covered multiple trademark categories.

“Registration is refused because the application is primarily geographically-based with the name American Riviera widely known as a nickname for Santa Barbara, California.”

In other news, Meghan spoke at the opening of the new Summerland bookshop Godmothers with near neighbor Oprah Winfrey.

Also at the event were actor Marco Leone, psychological astrologer Dr. Jennifer Freed, and author, teacher and psychic medium Laura Lynne Jackson, all of whom highlighted Meghan in their Instagram stories.

Relationship Reflections

Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry appears to have taken a swing at her British ex-husband Russell Brand as she made a jibe about “narcissists.”

Speaking in a preview from her interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast, she described to host Alex George her preferred types of male.

“I’m not attracted to narcissists,” she declared. “Anyone pulling the rug out from under you is not it. Someone like that just won’t help.”

Katy and Brand’s short-lived marriage lasted just 14 months, ending abruptly in December 2011, when the comedian sent the former Dos Pueblos High student a text saying he was divorcing her.

A Michael by Any Other Name

Montecito actor Michael Keaton wants to change his stage name and start going by his real name Michael Douglas.

After decades the 73-year-old Beetlejuice stars plans to go by Michael Keaton Douglas.

Keaton wasn’t legally allowed to use his birth name because the Screen Actors Guild prohibits members from using other stars professional names.

And, unfortunately for Keaton, Oscar-winning Michael Douglas, 79, son of screen legend Kirk Douglas, was using it first.

Keaton now wants to be credited as Michael Keaton Douglas in future movies.

Remember the Queen

On a personal note, it is hard to imagine that the weekend was the second anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the U.K.’s longest reigning monarch.

Her son, King Charles III marked the occasion with Queen Camilla at Balmoral Castle, the beloved Scottish estate where Queen Elizabeth passed peacefully away.

At the time I did innumerable TV and newspaper interviews, having covered the Queen for many years for ABC Network, the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror among them.

As I said at the time: “It’s like losing one’s favorite grandmother.”

An amazing, unique and utterly charming individual…..

Sightings

Kevin Costner reuniting with his Bull Durham co-star Susan Sarandon at the Venice Film Festival… Orlando Bloom catching the racketeers at the U.S. Open tennis championships… TV host Jane Lynch noshing at the Montecito Coffee Shop.

Pip! Pip!