Congratulations Frederick!

My congratulations to Montecito film director Frederick Toye, 57, who has just received two of the movie industry’s highest awards at the 77th annual Directors Guild of America Awards at the Beverly Hilton.

Frederick, whose mother is screenwriter (and MJ contributor) Sigrid Toye, received the Outstanding Directorial Achievements in a Dramatic Series Award and an Emmy for Best Director of a Dramatic Series.

He is a TV director and producer. Shogun, the FX series finished its first season this year.

Frederick began his career as a production assistant and editor for 15 years before becoming a TV director.

A Taste of California

Meghan Markle’s long awaited lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard, is coming to brick-and-mortar stores, courtesy of streaming giant Netflix.

The first of two American Riviera stores will open later this year in two of America’s biggest retails centers – the King of Prussia mall in Philadelphia and the giant Dallas Galleria in Texas, according to an old friend, Caroline Graham, Los Angeles correspondent for the Daily Mail.

Products available under her brand name will include jam, honey, and olive oil.

Netflix hopes to eventually open Netflix House stores coast-to-coast.

Can You Hear Me Now?

Montecito actor Billy Baldwin’s wife Chynna Phillips has gone a lengthy rant about iPhones, comparing Apple to Satan and claiming the device “kept tabs on her” and “scoured her brain.”

The former singer, 57, shared her disdain for cell phones in a new 20-minute video shared on her faith-based YouTube channel, California Preachin’.

She explained she had turned her phone off for three days straight and noted “innumerable” changes in her mood.

Chynna claims she went from feeling “frantic, anxious and overwhelmed” to being “focused and present” and believes it was her phone that was causing her “brain to be scrambled.”

She says her phone was “keeping tabs on her” and had “hijacked her life for the last 18 years.”

Sightings

Actress Demi Moore noshing at Convivo… Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez checking out the FisHouse… Kevin Costner at the Super Bowl.

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