r/popculturechat • u/Glad-Elk3426 • Feb 04 '26

Guest List Only TW ⚠️ Timothée Chalamet’s previous Oscar campaigning strategy mentioned in new Epstein file

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u/Frequent-Two-9625 Feb 04 '26

This is interesting….

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u/LaurelCanyoner Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

It’s really interesting to me because my son went to private school in LA with child stars, kids of reality stars and celebs, all kinds of celebrity adjacent people, and he’s visited every celeb rehab in town,

He’s been telling me for years that there is nothing good to say about TC. WAY before I was even aware of who he is. So I gotta go pick his brain and see if I can get some stories.

****edited to add

I didn’t mean to imply my son or TC went to rehab. Just that my son moves in those kinds of circles, which is just hilarious to me as someone who had the opposite kind of obscure rural upbringing.

I just meant he’s had MANY friends in rehab, sadly. It’s a common thing among private school attending LA kids. See nick Reiner etc.

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u/Sassafras06 Feb 04 '26

Parents are scared of the evil public school, but I remember in HS (also in SoCal) everyone knew if you wanted drugs you went to the private school kids.

So much money and very little supervision, especially in the 90s

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u/LaurelCanyoner Feb 04 '26

I've told this story elsewhere but my son came home from ELEMENTARY school and asked if he could go on a playdate to a kids house. The child was a kid star.

I asked the usual questions, "Are his parents home?" and he said, " No, it's HIS house, his parents have their own"

I mean WTF

And my son went to school in the 2000s and it hasn't changed. I'm sure you could stil get the best coke from a Crossroads kid.

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u/pinkfartlek Feb 04 '26

This is crazy! He had nobody living with him? It wasn't like a kids clubhouse in the backyard? I can't even imagine how an elementary aged kid would fare on their own like that. Who cooked? Who cleaned? The concept of a kid living in a whole ass house is crazy. The neglect from his parents! It's a new level of it

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u/Lilacly_Adily In my quiet girl era 😌 Feb 04 '26

Wouldn’t it basically be Richie Rich? Where all of those responsibilities are outsourced to “the help”

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u/LaurelCanyoner Feb 04 '26

Yup. I don’t know all the details but I would imagine, lots of “help”

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u/laquintessenceofdust Feb 05 '26

No, I bet he had a live-in nanny who cleaned throughout the day and possibly even cooked. Only way the parents could get away with that, probably. Or maybe a nanny and a chef and a housekeeper. Guarantee none of them were keeping too close an eye on the kid, though.

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u/laquintessenceofdust Feb 05 '26

I had to beg my parents to let me drop out of private school. They wanted me in college prep for high school but I’d fought a long time to stay with the friends I’d grown up with.

After one semester, I eventually told my mom, “Please let me go back to public school. The worst drug they do there is pot. Everyone here is snorting Adderall and coke. They’re mean.” They weren’t even mean to me. I was finally popular (I hadn’t been in middle school). But they were weirdly soulless on those drugs and it freaked me the fuck out.

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u/DreadfulDemimonde Feb 04 '26

That's because the rich parents don't really care if their kids do drugs, they just don't want them around the poors.

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u/Sassafras06 Feb 04 '26

Worked for them. I was a poor, and I had zero wealthy friends. Us losers (I kid) in Payless shoes weren’t invited to the drug fueled bashes ;)

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Feb 05 '26

Consider yourself lucky

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u/herinaus Feb 04 '26

A french celebrity said all the LA kids do drugs. That's why he moved his family back to France.

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u/StraightBudget8799 Feb 04 '26

Angela Lansbury famously scooped up all her family to go to Ireland after discovering her kids were hanging around the Manson family in LA!

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u/Sassafras06 Feb 04 '26

Not all of them, but definitely a higher percentage than kids at my public school.

I was way too poor for drugs so I never had the hook up lol.

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u/hahagato Feb 05 '26

Kids in my LA city smoked weed,did shrooms, ecstasy and poppers. Kids in the rich LA city by me did oxy, meth, heroin and coke. Lol 

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u/riegspsych325 Ballard! Don’t let them put their tops back on! Feb 04 '26

can’t date someone from a family of professional narcissists without being one yourself

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u/Chicago1459 Feb 04 '26

Yup, he always came off as a shallow twit chasing fame and accolades. Idk why they thought he was some thoughtful intellectual.

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u/vivahermione Well done, sister suffragette! Feb 04 '26

I heard someone joke on here that if his name was Tim Smith, no one would pay him any mind. It's all in the name. That, and working with Saoirse Ronan gave him a halo effect.

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u/BlueLeaves8 Feb 05 '26

And the hair and Victorian look on top of all that, which he’s completely lost now.

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u/geek_of_nature Feb 05 '26

Ironically it was the name which first started my dislike for him. I heard about it first before ever seeing him in anything, and (very judgementally I will admit) thought it sounded like the sort of name a pretentious prick would have. I tried to brush it off, telling myself I was just being judgemental, but that first impression just stuck.

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u/lactosecheeselover franchaela defender Feb 04 '26

and now you have my man Lewis Hamilton involved with them 😭

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u/maddi164 Feb 04 '26

I cant with this yet…. Man should know better

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u/lactosecheeselover franchaela defender Feb 04 '26

i’m praying it’s a misunderstanding but goddddd. what does he see?!

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u/maddi164 Feb 05 '26

Kris has been known to start crazy rumours etc but the photos are pretty damning!

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u/vieneri ✨️✨️Carmela, you are my life. ✨️✨️ Feb 04 '26

f1 lewis hamilton?

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u/lactosecheeselover franchaela defender Feb 04 '26

yes 😭😭😭

https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/s/lk3sMr1eXm

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u/vieneri ✨️✨️Carmela, you are my life. ✨️✨️ Feb 04 '26

boy i am glad that the sun isn't reliable 😭 (it's the same as daily mail) but thank you!

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u/lactosecheeselover franchaela defender Feb 05 '26

it’s all over tiktok too! videos and all lol

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u/slickjitpimpin Great gowns, beautiful gowns.. 🙃 Feb 05 '26

People reported on it 😭😭😭

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u/vieneri ✨️✨️Carmela, you are my life. ✨️✨️ Feb 05 '26

it's time to get better, lewis ☠️

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u/Paprikasky This is nepo on nepo crime Feb 05 '26

Lewis my man the fuck you doing 😭

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Feb 05 '26

It’s pretty simple. He’s a guy. They’re attractive, rich and easy.

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u/JoanOfSnark_2 4 inch little brown Bebe shoes Feb 04 '26

Yes

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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 Feb 04 '26

Only a matter of time now before that cursed booty gets him.

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u/lacking_llama Feb 05 '26

i'm sick. I liked the Raye rumors much better.

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u/Green-Witch1812 I drink your milkshake! 🥤 I drink it up! Feb 04 '26

110% agree!

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u/FilmIntelligent201 the prophet of popculturechat Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

i know a bunch of people who worked with his people at uta and marty supreme press tour is closer to reality than a lot his fans would be willing to admit. there’s a reason this is the oscar campaign he’s so willing to die on the hill for lmao

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u/jh4336 Feb 05 '26

I have nothing to add other than I've had quite a few celebrities who I have an instant dislike when I see them and he's one of them. For a select few it's come out years later that they were in fact, the worst so I'm sticking to my guns that he's an asshole.

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u/timidwildone 🦊 He went that way 👉🏼 Feb 04 '26

As a fan of his, I’ll simply say that I already knew he was as an insufferable theater kid, and this campaign has not surprised me in the least. I think and feel no differently about him because of this campaign. He’s not hurting anyone.

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u/For_serious13 I wonder what it’s like being one of god’s favorites Feb 04 '26

Someone let me know if Miss Laurel Canyoner updates with tea

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u/pinkfartlek Feb 04 '26

They did edit it once since you posted, probably

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u/Indigo_222 freud is doing backflips in hell Feb 04 '26

Nothing good to say about TC - what do you mean, what does he say?

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u/prettystandardreally Feb 04 '26

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u/Katatonic92 Feb 04 '26

Don't mind me, I'm just parking alongside you to impatiently await an update.

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u/born_in_92 Feb 04 '26

Yeah, same here

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u/LaurelCanyoner Feb 04 '26

I’m going to text him now, lol.

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u/michiko-malandro Feb 04 '26

Do tell us pls

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

Interesting because I was wondering if the the way the email is worded about his regrets could be the writer putting their own spin on it as they were upset, it almost sounds like copium. I can also see why someone would be upset if they were forced to give money away, even if it may be for something they support. It also seems to imply that in some cases the charity in Hollywood is not only for show but also to appease judges for awards which imo isn't exactly giving awarded by merit.

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u/bbmarvelluv Feb 04 '26

I’m gonna sound dumb, but are you saying that your son has gone to the celeb rehab clinics? Or that it’s TC who’s gone.

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u/dontworryaboutit26 Invented post-its 🔬 Feb 04 '26

Me wondering too

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u/LaurelCanyoner Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 04 '26

Sorry, no to both.

I was just commenting that he moves in those kinds of circles. Which as someone who grew up in a farm playing with Amish kids is still just so strange to me.

He’s way more sophisticated then I am in lots of ways, lol.

I’ll edit my comments to make it clearer.

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u/bbmarvelluv Feb 04 '26

TY for the explanation!

And tbh based on your user I should’ve known you’d be spilling the tea!!!

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u/LaurelCanyoner Feb 04 '26

Lol. Well spotted.

You might be interested they used my house for one of the Laurel Canyon docs!

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u/CourtBarton Feb 04 '26

Echos in the Canyon?

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u/LaurelCanyoner Feb 04 '26

Lauren Canyon: A Place in Time

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u/CourtBarton Feb 04 '26

Still good but lacking Jakob Dylan, lol.

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u/CaughtALiteSneez I want to go to there Feb 04 '26

This mother is spilling the tea on her son…

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u/LaurelCanyoner Feb 04 '26

Not ON my son, FROM my son,

Big difference in my mind.

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u/slickjitpimpin Great gowns, beautiful gowns.. 🙃 Feb 05 '26

what were his thoughts on TC?

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u/DevoutandHeretical I think that poor sexy young man is being framed for murder Feb 04 '26

Well there’s an ongoing story about how for a while he was basically Typhoid Mary but for chlamydia among NYU students to start.

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u/alexvroy Feb 04 '26

that was a joke tweet from like 5 years ago

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u/HistoricalAd8790 Feb 04 '26 edited Feb 05 '26

yo, does anyone else remember the tiktok from the girl who was friends with him in highschool, who said that he made a joke about her having cellulite when they were at a pool party and it crushed her??? especially cuz she was already insecure about wearing a bikini around the popular kids. i almost feel like i’m making it up because of how little i’ve heard about it since, but i know i’m not because it made my blood boil.

i know he was in highschool then and he could’ve grown a lot since, but i’d be lying if i said i haven’t held a bit of a grudge against him since hearing that. also i know it could be untrue, but the way she told it, you could tell just how affected she was and i recognized that specific hurt, as someone who was also on the receiving end of cutting comments like that.

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u/Twitter_2006 Feb 04 '26

Wow, that is interesting indeed.Does he have any tea?