Summertime Sadness

Leonardo DiCaprio Seems to Be in a Funk

The actor makes tabloid headlines for being glued to his phone at a swanky party.
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From Splash News.

It’s summer in New York City, and Leonardo DiCaprio is single. One would assume this would mean a slew of sightings of DiCaprio cavorting and carousing with an assortment of lithe models. If you were to see a trail of vape-pen smoke in SoHo, you would think—under normal circumstances—that a newsboy cap- and T-shirt-clad Oscar-winning actor would be up ahead, making his way to a nightclub, Lukas Haas by his side.

But, alas, this is not a usual Leonardo DiCaprio summer. The actor—who recently split from model Nina Agdal—has been having a decidedly low-key and decidedly adult June so far. He went to Tobey Maguire’s daughter’s school play. He went on a separate outing with Tobey Maguire’s family. He was photographed walking in New York with Orlando Bloom and Tobey Maguire . . . with his earbuds in. So yes, one takeaway here is that he’s spending a lot of time with Tobey Maguire. The other is: what’s up with our Leo? Where is the vaping? Where are the tabloid items linking him to a variety of actresses and models?

And Friday morning’s report from Page Six—under the headline “Leonardo DiCaprio chooses his phone over women”—only makes us more concerned. The Post claims that DiCaprio was seen at a party Thursday night, held at Spring Studios, where he looked to be more interested in his phone than in those around him (to be fair to DiCaprio, though, have you seen anyone at a party recently who didn’t seem more interested in his or her phone than his or her surroundings?!).

“Leo was with the owner of Spring Studios and a bunch of ladies, but he was on his phone the whole time,” Page Six’s source said. “After the cocktail party, we went down to the sixth floor. He was on his phone the whole time texting.” To add insult to injury, the source also claims DiCaprio “has a stomach now.”

This is not the kind of Leonardo DiCaprio story we want! What’s next? A report about him waiting in line at an ATM (“He looked unusually bored”)? A photograph of him reading one of those free newspapers you can get at the subway? C’mon, Tobey, get him out on the dance floor; call up Rihanna and see if she’ll come hang; do whatever it takes. We want our Leo back.