“NBD but I just achieved a major milestone as a woman online,” Reese Witherspoon and ex-husband Ryan Phillippe’s daughter wrote in a TikTok video posted in May 2024. “I saw 2 different strangers commenting on my body.”
She continued, “The first said I should get on Oz*mpic because I’m too fat. The second accused me of starving myself because I’m too thin. My weight did not change in the time period between their comments. (& it wouldn’t be any of their business if it did!)”
Ava said that “no one deserves to be picked apart for what they look like.” She added, “You don’t always know what someone’s gone through or what they struggle with. But no matter who you are… Your beauty exceeds such superficial measures.”
After some critics accused the House Bunny actress of looking too skinny in an Instagram photo, the star fired back, writing, “I know I don’t need to do this but in an effort to spread some awareness and shed some light on body shaming tactics i felt the need to share. After the barrage of some really inappropriate comments left on my pic I posted yesterday I was left really bummed cause I was really enjoying the silly pics I took. It was a weird angle that even made me feel life I looked smaller than I do in real life. But regardless even though you may think it’s your job or even your right to leave unfiltered thoughts or judgements about my body for me and others to read… it’s not.”
“Coming for me in my comments and telling me how I’m too skinny or I need to eat is absolutely not helpful and extremely body shaming,” she continued.”Body shaming of any kind is something I will not stand for.”
More than a week later, she shared a photo of herself sunbathing in a bikini, writing, “For the haters….with love and gratitude kindly [kiss emoji] my [peach emoji], I’ll keep smiling regardless [peace sign emoji].”
After being called “too skinny,” the legendary singer addressed the negative comments, telling Entertainment Tonight, “Is there anything wrong about my body? I’ve always been very thin. I do ballet. I do a lot of stretching and I work out because it helps my mind, body and soul.”
“If you don’t want to be criticized, you are in the wrong place. I take what’s good for me. I leave behind what is not good for me,” she explained. “I let my management take care of that, and if it hurts anyone, they will take care of that. And I need to focus on what’s right for me, how I feel and, last but not least, you can’t please everybody.”
The “Señorita” star previously took to Instagram Stories to send a message to her haters.
“I haven’t gone on social media AT ALL with the conscious intention of avoiding things that hurt my feelings,” she began her lengthy post. “My eyes accidentally ran over a head line of people ‘body shaming me.’ Honestly, first thing I felt was super insecure over just IMAGINING what these pictures must look like, oh no! My cellulite! Oh no! I didn’t suck in my stomach! But then I was like…of course there are bad pictures, of course there are bad angles, my body’s not made of f–king rock, or all muscles, for that matter. But the saddest part of young girls growing up in an airbrushed world is they’re seeking a perfection that’s not real.”
“I’m writing this for girls like my little sister who are growing up on social media. They’re constantly seeing photoshopped, edited pictures and thinking that’s reality and everyone’s eyes get used to seeing airbrushed skin, and suddenly they think THAT’S norm. It isn’t. It’s fake. AND FAKE IS BECOMING THE NEW REAL. We have a completely unrealistic view of a woman’s body. Girls, cellulite is normal. fat is normal. It’s beautiful and natural. I won’t buy into the bulls–t today!!!! Not today satan and I hope you don’t either.”
In May 2019, the singer posted a video of herself performing at Hangout Music Festival in a black leotard. After seeing the video, a social media user tweeted, “Okay don’t mean to disrespect but aint too thiccccck!?? I mean never saw her like that BEFORE!! from the song with other two country dudes!!” However, the pop star quickly clapped back, replying, “I gained weight get over it.”
She also called out the fashion industry after she claimed several designers refused to dress her for the Grammys because of her size. “Empower women to love their bodies instead of making girls and women feel less then [sic] by their size,” she shared on Instagram in January 2019. “We are beautiful any size! Small or large! Anddddd My size 8 ass is still going to the Grammys. #LOVEYOURBODY.”
Just a week after she welcomed her baby, the podcast host took to Instagram to send a message to her followers.
“A few things because honestly I’m so frustrated and I need to vent this,” she wrote in December 2018. “I wanted to post this photo (showing my stomach) because I wanted to show my journey back to healthy and my goodness I’m so glad I didn’t which is why this photo is now cropped. It’s amazing the comments and how rude some people can be from my last photo I took yesterday. A few things, no I didn’t get a tummy tuck, no I don’t have a personal chef, no I don’t have fortunes so I didn’t train everyday. Yes I had a c section, yes I am still in pain and on meds but I do have a high pain tolerance. I have had 3 stomach surgeries before this (appendix, gallbladder, and c section).. In that photo I had a belly bandit wrapped tightly, and high waisted pants and wow here I am defending myself. Why?!? If I would have posted the photo of my actual stomach in this photo I would have probably been shamed too even when I was wanting to be vulnerable with my journey. Why do we women have to compare ourselves to each other and then shame? I say this to myself as much as I say this to y’all…why can’t it be that we are all different. Our bodies are all beautiful and crafted differently, they heal different, they react different, they simply look different. Why do we need to shame someone for not looking a certain way? Or feel bad about ourselves for looking a certain way? Can we be kinder to ourselves and know that every women has a different journey but yet we are all beautiful? Can we lift women up but not tear yourself down in the process with comparing? Let’s give that a try…..I love y’all. Back to my baby.”

Guillermo Rodriguez is adding another gig to his resume … ‘cause TMZ has learned the beloved “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” personality is joining the upcoming season of “Dancing with the Stars.”
Production sources tell TMZ … Guillermo has signed on to compete in Season 35 of the ABC competition series and will be hitting the ballroom this fall.
The longtime sidekick and fan favorite has become a staple of late night television through his work alongside Jimmy Kimmel, earning laughs with his celebrity interviews, red carpet antics and comedic bits.
Guillermo is the latest celebrity to join the cast as ABC gears up for another season of the hit dance competition.
Reality TV stars Maura Higgins and Ciara Miller have already been announced for the upcoming season. Social media star and Savannah Bananas player Jackson Olson is also set to compete.
The full cast is expected to be revealed soon.

Tom Dreesen, the classy comedian who opened for Frank Sinatra for 14 years, pushed for stand-ups to get paid at The Comedy Store and partnered in a pioneering interracial act with Tim Reid, died Wednesday. He was 86.
Dreesen died at his home in Los Angeles, a family spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was revealed.
The pride of Chicago, Dreesen made hundreds of TV appearances during his 50-plus years in show business, including dozens on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and on the late-night programs hosted by David Letterman, his dear friend from their days in the 1970s at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood.
“Tom was the first comedian I met at Comedy Store in 1975,” Letterman said in a statement. “We became friends immediately. He had wisdom and endless stories. Everyone admired him, looked up to him and wondered if he ever stopped talking. He never did, he never will. We love him for that. We’ll miss the stories. God bless you Tom.”
Always thought-provoking but never controversial, few were better at delivering a joke.
“I don’t know if you know this or not, but in 1871 in baseball, men started wearing the cup to protect the family jewels,” Dreesen quipped during a gig at the Laugh Factory. “In 1971, it became mandatory to wear a helmet. It took men 100 years to realize the brain is important also.”
After warming up audiences for the likes of Liza Minnelli, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight and Sammy Davis Jr., the always dapper Dreesen began sharing a bill with Sinatra in 1983 and shared a special camaraderie with the Chairman of the Board during the singer’s twilight years.
As Dreesen explained it during a 2014 interview with The Desert Sun, it was a mixture of serendipity and quick wit that landed him his highest-profile gig.
The comic had opened for Robinson in Lake Tahoe and was running through the lobby to see Sinatra headlining next door when he was stopped by Holmes Hendrickson, a vice president of Harrah’s, and introduced to Mickey Rudin.
“I recognized the name as Frank’s lawyer, and [Hendrickson] said, ‘Tom would make a great opening act for Sinatra,’” Dreesen recalled. “[Rudin] said, ‘Hey, kid, if I gave you a week with Frank, would you want more than $50,000?’ I said, ‘Mr. Rudin, put it this way. If you gave me a week with Frank, would you want more than $50,000?’ He said, ‘I like this kid.’”
Dreesen soon was opening for Sinatra in Atlantic City, and he never imagined the impact it would have on his life. “I thought, ‘Yeah, I’ll go one week. I’ll get my picture taken and I’ll hang it in every bar back in Chicago and that will be the end of that,’” he said.
“On the second night, Frank and his wife, Barbara, took me to dinner, and in the middle of dinner he put down his knife and his fork. He said, ‘Kid, I like your material. I like your style. I’d like you to do a few other dates with me if you’re interested.’ I said, ‘Yeah!’ and it turned into 14 years, 45 to 50 cities a year.”
The two developed a deep friendship, and Dreesen often visited Sinatra at his compound in Palm Springs. He served as a pall bearer and spoke at the entertainer’s funeral in 1998 and for years hosted the Frank Sinatra Celebrity Invitational Black Tie Gala.
“If he loved you, he worshiped the ground you walked on,” Dreesen said. “In a lot of ways, he was like a father to me. I didn’t have a father that really cared that much where I was and what I did. But Frank would give me advice and counsel and then he was a buddy in a lot of ways. I thought the world of him.”
Before he met Sinatra, Dreesen led a charge that changed the course of comedy.
For years, stand-up was centered in New York and Las Vegas, but that all changed in 1972 when Carson brought The Tonight Show from Manhattan to Los Angeles. Suddenly, The Comedy Store on Sunset Boulevard became the place to be seen.
Run by Mitzi Shore, who was given the club as part of a divorce settlement with her husband, Sammy Shore, The Comedy Store became a kind of college for comedians. And because she was giving them such a valuable opportunity, she believed there was no need to pay them. Dreesen, in the process of establishing his career, disagreed.
“I told Mitzi, ‘You pay the waiters, you pay the waitresses, you pay the guy who cleans the toilets. Why don’t you at least pay the comedians?’” Dreesen told Richard Zoglin in an interview for the 2008 book Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America.
He spoke with Shore about one comic who had been on her stage on New Year’s Eve. “He said, ‘It was fantastic. I killed ’em,’” Dreesen said. “And then he said, ‘Tom, can you loan me $5 for breakfast?’ I told Mitzi that story, and she said, ‘Well, he should get a goddamn job.’ I said, ‘Mitzi, he has a job. He worked for you on New Year’s Eve.’”
When Shore refused to cut the comedians in on her profits, Dreesen, drawing upon his days as a Chicago teamster, organized a strike in 1979. Letterman, Garry Shandling and Jay Leno were among those parading in front of the club waving placards that read, “NO MONEY, NO FUNNY” and “THE YUK STOPS HERE.”
After six contentious weeks and a tension-filled confrontation that saw an anti-strike comic drive his car into the picket line, Shore caved. “Mitzi called me 10 minutes later and said, ‘Let’s settle this thing right now,’” said Dreesen.
The Comedy Store started paying performers, New York clubs followed suit, and places around the country began offering more to comics. Dreesen’s leadership was instrumental in transforming the business of stand-up.
Dreesen was born on Sept. 11, 1939, in Harvey, Illinois. His father, Walter, was a trumpet player who met his future wife, Glenore, when he joined a band led by her brother-in-law, Frank Polizzi. Polizzi also owned a neighborhood bar, and Dreesen’s mom worked there as a bartender.
One of eight children, Dreesen grew up poor. His dad worked factory jobs to make ends meet but drank and gambled away most of his paycheck. Eventually, however, Dreesen learned that the man he thought was his uncle was actually his biological father.
As Rick Kogan of the Chicago Tribune wrote in 2019, “Dreesen was 12 when he said to Polizzi, ‘I think you’re my father. I look like you. I look like your son. And I don’t look like anybody in my family.’ There was quiet and then Polizzi said, ‘I am your father. But I need you to know I had affection for your mom and your mom had affection for me. I’m saying this because I don’t want you to think that we were some one-night stand.’”
When he was 17 and attending Thornton Township High School, Dreesen enlisted in the U.S. Navy and got three meals a day for the first time in his life. After the service, he meandered through jobs in construction and bartending and earned his union card on a Chicago loading dock.
While he was selling insurance, one of his brothers urged him to join the civic group known as the Jaycees. “That was when life began to change,” he said. “I was hanging around in bars where everybody moans and complains but does nothing about it. The Jaycees were gentlemen of action.”
The group recruited Dreesen and Reid, a Black marketing representative who had recently moved to Chicago from Virginia, to speak about a drug-education program geared toward grammar-school students. The pair realized that the funnier they were, the more responsive the kids were to their message. And then they formed a comedy act.
Tim & Tom made their debut in 1969 at a jazz club in South Chicago, and as the first interracial comedy team, they skewered racial stereotypes. One of their routines, “47th and Drexel,” had Reid teaching Dreesen about “being Black.”
“Hey, you got to pass a test before I turn you loose on some South Side of some city,” Reid tells Dreesen, instructing him to talk like a brother. “A looka here, Leroy,” Dreesen responds in an exaggerated jive voice. “Do the bus stop here?”
“What do you think this is, Amos ‘n’ Andy?” answers Reid. “Do the bus stop here?! You’re going to die of natural causes — some dude in a natural is going to kill you.”
Tim & Tom worked Playboy clubs, opened for George Clinton and Sha Na Na and appeared in 1971 on The David Frost Show. But they would encounter resistance.
“The fourth time we were onstage, a guy put a lit cigarette out on Tim’s face. Another guy beat the hell out of me. A year later, at the University of Illinois, I got hit in the face by an ice bar outside in the snow,” Dreesen said.
“If we worked a Black club where there was a Black guy who hated white people with a passion, he wasn’t mad at me. He was mad at Tim because he would be an Uncle Tom. We worked a white club where a redneck hated Black people, and he wasn’t mad at Tim, he was mad at me. In time, the frustration was too much. There are some people who profit by keeping the races apart. They ended up breaking up the act. They didn’t break up the friendship.”
After the split, Dreesen did solo stand-up and Reid found stardom as the velvety-voiced radio DJ Venus Flytrap on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (Dreesen would guest star on a 1982 episode). The duo’s story was told in Ron Rapoport’s 2008 book, Tim & Tom: An American Comedy in Black and White.
Meanwhile, Dreesen got laughs on everything from American Bandstand and Soul Train to The Jim Nabors Show and The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast; was a fixture on such game shows as Hollywood Squares, Match Game and The $10,000 Pyramid; played himself in the 1998 HBO movie The Rat Pack; and appeared on the big screen in They Call Me Bruce? (1982), Spaceballs (1987) and Man on the Moon (1999).
His autobiography, Still Standing: My Journey From Streets and Saloons to the Stage, and Sinatra — complete with a foreword from Letterman, who wrote that Dreesen “has entertained every president from Trump to Oprah” — was published in 2020.
He appeared just last week on CBS’ Comics Unleashed With Byron Allen.
Survivors include his daughters, Amy and Jennifer, from his 1958-84 marriage to Maryellen Subock, and seven grandchildren. His son, Tommy, predeceased him.

Daveigh Chase, the voice behind Lilo in Disney’s hit animated movie Lilo and Stitch and who starred as Samara Morgan in the horror film The Ring, has died, according to BBC. She was 35.
Her manager John Ryan Jr. confirmed her death and said Chase died from sepsis after battling meningitis in a Los Angeles hospital. He said that she had been admitted to a hospital for malnourishment before her death. TMZ was first to report the news.
“She was the greatest. She loved cats. She worked with cat rescues with us. She was very to herself, ” said Ryan, who added that Chase would find refuge at her home in Las Vegas for years at a time and turned down big studio films in favor of independent projects. “She was not very Hollywood,” he said. “She’d rather eat at Bob’s Big Boy and go home with the cats. She loved acting but wasn’t into the fame scene.”
Born in 1990, Chase’s breakthrough role arrived in 2001 when she appeared as Samantha Darko in Donnie Darko. She would go on reprise her role in the 2009 sequel to the film, S Darko, which was made without the first film’s writer and director, Richard Kelly.
In 2002, Chase would star in two of her biggest roles starting with her terrifying turn as Samara Morgan in horror film The Ring. Her portrayal garnered her a MTV Movie Award for Best Villain. That same year, the actress also voiced Lilo in Disney’s blockbuster feature film Lilo & Stitch, and won Outstanding Voice Acting in an Animated Feature at the Annie Awards in 2003.
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Chase also appeared in the HBO drama Big Love, featuring in 32 episodes; Sabrina the Teenage Witch; ER; Mercy; and Beethoven’s 5th.

Christine Quinn’s return to “Selling Sunset” is already stirring up drama … because she appeared to take a swipe at some former castmates while explaining why now was the right time to come back.
We got Christine Tuesday outside The Oppenheim Group offices as she was leaving after a day of filming for the Netflix hit series, and asked what made this the perfect moment for her return.
Christine didn’t hold back … telling us the trash needed to be taken out before adding she also needed to be divorced from ex-hubby Christian Dumontet. Asked if the timing was finally right, she said timing is everything.
The remark comes after we broke the story … several longtime “Selling Sunset” stars, including Mary Bonnet, Emma Hernan, Chelsea Lazkani and Sandra Vergara, will not be returning for Season 10.
Christine didn’t name names, but her comment is likely to spark speculation that she’s throwing shade at some of her former cast members now out of the picture.
As for whether she’s returning as the villain fans remember, Christine kept things mysterious, telling us viewers we will have to tune in and see. Then she added, “It depends on the day.”
We also caught up with “Selling Sunset” newcomer Jordyn Braff, who teased plenty of excitement ahead this season. She told us she loves working with Christine and Heather El Moussa, saying the pair are always selling houses and serving looks.
As we previously reported … we got photos of Christine at Rose Day in Calabasas filming with the cast for season 10.
Christine appeared on the first five seasons of the show before exiting the series in 2022 amid feuds with several cast members.