Dear Gossips,
Thanks for all your emails yesterday in response to the posts about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal baby. Thanks also for all your predictions/suggestions in response to Duana’s post about potential royal baby names Read Full Intro
Gina Rodriguez: Action Hero
She’s been trying with stuff like Deepwater Horizon and Annihilation, and Gina Rodriguez now has a leading action role in Miss Bala, an English-language update of the 2011 Mexican thriller of the same name. We can debate forever the value of adapting foreign-language films into English—yell about reading the damn subtitles all you want but simple reality is most people won’t—but what is not up for debate is that Gina Rodriguez should get to do whatever she wants. Full Story
Boring Bond
The James Bond casting carousel continues to revolve, even though Daniel Craig is locked into one more appearance as 007 and we don’t need a new Bond for at least 3-4 years, AT LEAST. Still, speculation runs rampant, and the latest rumor is that Bond producer Barbara Broccoli is set to offer the post-Craig role to Richard Madden, aka Robb Stark. Full Story
Smutty Social Media, October 16, 2018
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Subtext: we are going to be the Fast Flames that last. Full Story
Solange is coming
Solange is about to release her next studio album. It’s her follow-up to A Seat At The Table, one of my all-time favourite albums, one of the best of 2016, and undoubtedly the best of Solange’s discography. Full Story
Harry & Megan Day 1: baby talk
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Just hours after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrived in Australia yesterday, Kensington Palace made the announcement that they are expecting their first child. As we’ve established, this jacked up the excitement level about the tour, as intended. Harry and Royal Meghan’s final engagement today was a reception hosted by the Governor General where at one point, she spent time talking to singer Missy Higgins holding her baby daughter, Luna. Full Story
Harry & Meghan Day 1: koalas, girlfriends, and PDA
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By now we’ve seen that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have developed their own style. From the very beginning, at their “public debut” a year ago in Toronto at the Invictus Games, when they arrived hand in hand, they’ve always been the most tactile royals. And they didn’t dial it down, not after they announced their engagement two months later, not as they began to work together and rep the family on official engagements, not at the wedding when they sat with their hands linked on his thigh in St George’s Chapel, in the presence of the Queen, and definitely not now on their first major tour abroad. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
I opened this site on Friday with a note about royal egos and pettiness when writing about Princess Eugenie’s wedding and how it was also a moment for Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. As you know, for years there have been rumours about Andrew’s relationship with his older brother, Prince Charles. Read Full Intro
What Else?
Michael K, as usual, brings up an excellent point: you know those people who start camping out outside the hospital whenever a royal birth is imminent? Days ahead. You’ve seen the pictures. Be happy that you can’t smell the pictures. Because imagine? Anyway, when Prince Harry and Royal Meghan’s baby is on the way, will there be people waiting outside the hospital? And will one of those people be… Samantha Markle Full Story
Drake spins
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Oh, he’s GOOD. Drake is telling his side of the infamous Drake/ Pusha T/ Kanye beef of summer ‘18 and if there was any question about who would win this feud in the long run, the answer is here. I stand by my initial track by track assessment of “Duppy Freestyle Full Story
Meghan, Harry, and The Royal Name-To-Be
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So the new royal baby is coming in ‘Spring 2019’, and as Lainey pointed out earlier, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s child won’t necessarily be a prince or princess – unless the Queen decides Full Story
