UPDATE: Matt Damon clarifies that crazy story — and says he never uses slurs, and stands with the LGBTQ+ community.

I had a whole post that included Matt Damon's surprising admission that he stopped casual use of “fag” just months ago when his daughter persuaded him it was harmful ... but it vanished.

I guess Matt missed this in 2009:

In a nutshell: If Damon is agreeing the word is harmful, late or not, I'm glad. And that he says in another interview that as a white movie star he has blind spots is at least self-aware.

Because on top of his latest act of obtuseness, don't forget that in 2015 — just six years ago, after playing gay in The Talented Mr. Ripley and Behind the Candelabra — he urged gay actors to stay in the closet, because audiences should not know actors' sexualities.

Matt Damon, who is married with kids said that.

Onward and upward — I think we have worse problems and more malevolent enemies, even if this is disappointing and, really, bewildering.

I want to know what word Matt Damon has replaced f****t with.

— billy eichner (@billyeichner) August 1, 2021

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Molly Bernard (L) in a still from Younger (Ali Paige/Goldstein/TV Land)

Actress Molly Bernard is currently spicing things up on TV Land's Younger, playing the pansexual publicist having a steamy relationship with Debi Mazar's character. The star, starring Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, and Nico Tortorella, provides many a water-cooler moment ... or would, if offices still had those.

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Next up, she'll be seen in Sully, the biopic about pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) directed by Clint Eastwood.

Check out my interview with the multi-talented actress after the jump ...

Hilary Duff's comeback single “Chasing the Sun” is a pleasant summer song. It sounds a lot like Sheryl Crow, but big fans of Hilary's kid-pop might recognize, as I did, that the background melody is very reminiscent of her single “I Can't Wait”'s infectious bum-bum-bum refrain (1:00):

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When Hilary was a kid and I first started working with her, I remember telling her and her mom she was a dead ringer for Kylie Minogue. I think she only looks more and more like her over time.

Video to come...