Morning Swim: Friday, February 28

Cody Simpson and Gigi Hadid at the SI Swimsuit Launch Party in NYC :: Getty Images for SI

• Gigi Hadid's teen dreamboat boyfriend Cody Simpson entertained perhaps the dumbest question ever when he was asked why he went public with his relationship with his relationship with the model. Why wouldn't ANYONE go public about their relationship with a model? But he obliges with a more diplomatic answer.
• Modelinia did a comprehensive roundup of all the methods Swimsuit models use to get in shape for their shoots, the implication being that swimsuit season is coming and blah blah blah. Can't hurt to give it a look though, right?
• This suggestion that Kate Upton should make some time with NYC neighbor Rupert Murdoch made me die a little on the inside.
• Just Jared has some lovely pics of Anne V at a pre-Oscars gala in Hollywood, which he baited me with the misleading headline "Kellen Lutz & Anne V: Hollywood Domino Gala," by which he apparently meant Anne V was somewhere, and so was Kellen Lutz. I don't like being played with like that, JARED.