Normal Montecito Livin’

Meghan Markle has made friends locally with “working women with normal jobs,” she tells People magazine.

This comes after critics of her Netflix lifestyle show told the Duchess of Sussex she was “out of touch” and “tone deaf.”

But Meghan says she and Prince Harry, who live on a $14.65 million estate in Riven Rock, are trying to be like other families with children at school.

She also reveals she goes to yoga and fitness classes with 40 to 50 others, sometimes solo or with friends. She also recently surprised a complete stranger with a fist bump and hearty “well done!”

“I think you want us to have some normalcy as parents and for our children despite how unique our situation is.”

Meghan says she likes nothing better than a girls’ night out or doing Pilates together with new friends.

Supreme Sports

Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet go all the way in their upcoming film Marty Supreme she has revealed to Vanity Fair.

“I mean, we have a lot of sex in the movie,” says the Goop founder, 52. “There’s a lot. A lot.”

Asked if she was in a lot of vulnerable positions with Chalamet, she replied: “Beyond!”

Marty Supreme is based on the story of pro ping-pong player Marty Reisman, who won world championships between the late 1940s and ‘60s.

Chalamet, 29, plays the main character, while Paltrow plays his love interest…

Chalamet played Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown and is currently dating Kylie Jenner.

“He’s very polite, appropriately raised,” says Paltrow, who refused an intimacy coach on set… “He takes his work seriously.”

So we gather…

Nothing to See Here

Prince Harry did not receive special treatment in obtaining his U.S. visa when he emigrated from the U.K. his recently unsealed documents reveal.

A lawyer from the Department of Homeland Security says the Riven Rock resident “followed all applicable rules and regulations.”

The documents were made public after a protracted lawsuit by Washington, D.C.’s Heritage Foundation, a right wing think tank, which was seeking to prove the Duke of Sussex lied on his visa application about his drug use, having admitted to it in his best-selling autobiography Spare and his Netflix documentary.

The documents made public under the Freedom of Information Act were heavily redacted.

Farewell to U.S.

Former TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has sold her last remaining property in the U.S. after moving permanently to the U.K with her actress wife Portia de Rossi.

DeGeneres, 67, sold the two-bedroom, two-bathroom property for $5.2 million, just four years after purchasing it for $2.9 million.

The impressive bungalow boasts 1,691 square feet near Butterfly Beach and the Coral Casino.

The twosome’s decision comes less than two months after they put another Montecito property up for grabs – a five-bed, 6.5-bath estate for $29.9 million.

The duo now owns a $18 million estate in the picturesque Cotswolds, 70 miles southwest of London, home to many celebrities including King Charles at Highgrove and sister Princess Anne at Gatcombe Park.

Home Renovations

Carpinteria actor Ashton Kutcher and actress wife Mila Kunis have demolished half of their $17 million Carpinteria cottage which was almost destroyed in the devastating mudslides in late 2022.

Kutcher, 47, and Kunis, 41, bought the two-home estate for $10.1 million in 2017. Today it estimated to be worth up to $17 million.

The home on Padaro Lane is a tiara’s toss from Oscar winner Kevin Costner and Star Wars mogul George Lucas.

No More Key Class

John Daly’s Key Class, which taught nearly 9,000 students social graces over the past 14 years, is no longer.

“Unfortunately, our local schools can no longer offer this as part of their curriculum,” says John. “Though from 2011-2020, 8,000 students attended the social skills classes, once COVID interfered with the educational system, attendance dropped and since 2020 we have only been able to reach 1,000 students.”

The educational system has been challenged in many ways, he adds. Grades have dropped so significantly that schools need to put all their efforts into academics. “They can no longer find the time to allow our class even one period a week.”

“I had hoped that in the last year the climate in the schools would change. Teachers and students shared how valuable an education in social skills was to the students, teaching them about ‘real life’ and ways to succeed in today’s world.”

Sad news…

Conan Bares All

Carpinteria TV host Conan O’Brien, 61, has been shedding some interesting light on his recent Oscar hosting duties.

He wanted to do a number of different items in his opening monologue, but wasn’t allowed to by obscure Academy Awards rules.

One planned sketch had Oscar as a domestic housewife, recumbent on a couch and wearing an apron, but Conan was informed that Oscar always had to be portrayed vertically and had to be naked.

Who knew?

Sightings

Actor Kevin Costner watching basketball at Santa Barbara High… Veep star Matt Walsh dining at Olio e Limone… Chris Pratt at Pierre Lafond.

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