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Programming note: We will be live chatting the SAG Awards at 7:30 PM ET on The Squawk Sunday night! Join us!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, this is a weird story taking over celebrity gossip and it involves Pink, because apparently, it\u2019s like, 2002 today. I asked for smaller numbers and Pink took us backwards on the timeline! But buckle up, because this is a good old-fashioned gossip MYSTERY. We have our own cozy mystery to solve!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yesterday, PEOPLE published a report<\/a> that Pink and her husband of twenty years, Carey Hart, separated after twenty years of marriage. Nothing about this raised alarms, because twenty years in a celebrity marriage is like fifty years in a regular marriage, so it\u2019s a good long run, and they have separated in the past (circa 2008) and almost separated again in 2024<\/a>, so it\u2019s not like they\u2019re not known for having drama. Also, it\u2019s PEOPLE! PEOPLE is where \u201cunnamed sources\u201d (read: publicists) go to break news like this. PEOPLE is the approved celebrity breakup outlet!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n But then Pink herself took to her Instagram to call it fake news. So she and Carey Hart are NOT separated.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Okay, that\u2019s good, great, congrats, yadda yadda, but\u2026where did that PEOPLE story come from? This is the mystery! Us Weekly<\/em> also claimed \u201cunnamed sources\u201d with the story<\/a>, and I CAN believe Us Weekly<\/em> pulling a breakup story out of their ass, especially on a slow news day. And it is a bit of a slow news week, with the Olympics over\u2014more on that ongoing drama in a sec\u2014and everyone famous traveling between Milan fashion week, the UK, and the US ahead of this weekend\u2019s SAG Awards. Everyone\u2019s on a plane right now, so maybe Us Weekly<\/em> got antsy and just made something up?<\/p>\n But why did PEOPLE then run with it, claiming their own sources? Again, Us Weekly<\/em> making this kind of mistake is not shocking. But PEOPLE is usually not the outlet getting this kind of news wrong. It\u2019s just so weird! Is bad gossip hygiene finally infecting even the most stalwart of gossip outlets? Or\u2026does Pink just not want to air her business right now? Honestly, it\u2019s the gossip hygiene for me. I\u2019m worried the unclean gossip is spreading and we\u2019re going to have work twice as hard to not only see through planned publicity fronts\u2014O I C U NHL\u2014but also deal with a basic lack of fact-checking, proper sourcing, and basic understanding of like, how anything works. I just don\u2019t know what kind of gossip world we\u2019re living in if we can\u2019t even trust PEOPLE to get celebrity divorce news right.<\/p>\n PS: There\u2019s a question in the mailbag<\/a> today about what we do on slow news days, and I\u2019ll tell you what we DON\u2019T do\u2014make sh-t up.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n What else happened today\u2026<\/p>\n The Olympics are over but we\u2019re still talking about the sex lives of Olympic athletes<\/a>! I really hope the Olympics come back around in Heated Rivalry<\/em>, you KNOW Shane and Ilya are breaking those cardboard beds in half. (Popsugar)<\/p>\n Lisa Rinna and Priyanka Chopra Jonas are engaged in some kind of fashion duel on the sidewalks of New York. This is\u2026very bright<\/a>. (Go Fug Yourself)<\/p>\n Speaking of fashion! Connor Storrie is in VMAN<\/em><\/a> talking fashion and clothes and feeling good<\/a>. Speaking of Connor<\/em>, he\u2019s hosting SNL<\/em> tomorrow night<\/a>, and because their f-ckassness knows no bounds, the NHL is shoehorning in on Connor\u2019s popularity, with Quinn Hughes (the one who sees ghosts) set to appear in the episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n SNL<\/em> moves fast but they don\u2019t move THAT fast, this was probably in the works before the gold medal match last Sunday, and everything that followed. If you don\u2019t know, the hockey boys showed their asses<\/a> to the world, laughing at a misogynistic \u201cjoke\u201d made by Trump at the expense of the also gold medal-winning US women\u2019s team, and reminded us that Heated Rivalry<\/em> is a FANTASY. Now, the NHL is in full damage control mode, because all those new fans ushered into the \u201cboy aquarium\u201d by HR<\/em> have decided that actually, we don\u2019t f-ck with real hockey, only the fantasy version in which hot boys kiss, or the women\u2019s side of the sport, which is much less toxic and full of women loving women, in both the platonic and romantic sense. Gals rock.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now Connor Storrie has to fix the NHL\u2019s f-cksh-t with his winning smile, beautiful hair, and general sparkling personality on SNL<\/em>. This is not Connor Storrie\u2019s problem! Do not make the NHL being full of raging pricks Connor\u2019s problem! Do not make him do YOUR emotional labor! This is the whole reason straight women love gay romance in the first place\u2014it\u2019s a space to enjoy romance without doing emotional labor for men<\/em>. And now the NHL is making it Connor\u2019s problem to fix their image. Gross. Rude. Fix your own hearts, don\u2019t expect women, gay men, or Connor Storrie to fix it for you. (Celebitchy)<\/p>\n \u00a0While I deeply resent knowing the meaning of the words \u201clooksmaxxing\u201d and \u201cClavicular\u201d, I very much love Kayleigh Donaldson\u2019s deconstruction of male toxic beauty standards<\/a>, particularly as it relates to \u201cMar-A-Lago face\u201d, the feminine side of that particularly poisonous equation. The culture feels cooked right now. (Pajiba)<\/p>\n Here’s Pink out in New York in January. <\/p>\n Pink out in New York, January 14, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>