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Gwyneth’s here to help
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I came back to work on Monday and practically everyone in the office is either “eating clean” or doing a “dry January” or substituting everything with cauliflower or doing Peloton. It’s January. It happens every January. We go bonkers in December with the parties and the holiday gatherings and suddenly it’s the new year and you feel like sh-t. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
Tomorrow is American Thanksgiving and I didn’t know this until Vulture pointed it out the other day but Friends apparently has the “most and the best” American Thanksgiving episodes which inspired their “definitive ranking of Friends Thanksgiving episodes Read Full Intro
Harry & Meghan Day 15: “What Meghan wants”
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Almost there. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have just completed their second-to-last day of events on their first overseas tour. They visited the Northshore Riding Club where they competed against each other in a “wellie wang” (tossing rainboots), and planted a tree for the Queens Canopy, and met with Pillars, an organisation working with children of prisoners, and there was a walkabout, and then a reception at the Auckland Museum War Memorial. Full Story
Let’s Get Busy
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I have been banging on about Busy Philipps's This Will Only Hurt a Little all week on Smutty Social Media and judging by my inbox, Busy is reaching what I will call the CTZ (Chrissy Teigen Zone). Full Story
Jen and Dolly “politickin’” together?
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As covered in the previous post, Dolly Parton started her Oscar campaign yesterday for the Dumplin’ soundtrack. Last week, when I wrote about Dumplin’, there had yet to be a release date. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
Something really exciting happened this week: Judy Blume has finally agreed to have Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret turned into a movie. Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen, a movie I loved) will write the screenplay and direct. Read Full Intro
Busy Philipps’s gossipy book
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Busy Philipps’s book, This Will Only Hurt a Little, came out yesterday. I can’t wait to read it this weekend. And I was trying to avoid reading the excerpts but some of these are so good that it’s impossible to look away. This is a gossipy book because Busy is a gossipy person – a redundant statement since we all gossip and they, celebrities, gossip more than they admit to, but that’s also what we love about Busy: she’s never pretended to be above it and when given the opportunity, she will f-cking serve it. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
We had the most vibrant guest on The Social yesterday and I’m now totally f-cking obsessed with her. Her name is Sisonke Msimang. Sisonke was born in exile in Zambia in the 70s. Read Full Intro
Dear Gossips,
Today is Mid-Autumn Festival or Harvest Moon Festival, one of the most important holidays of the lunar calendar, which is commonly observed in East Asia, and known in Chinese culture as Chinese Thanksgiving. This is why you may have seen moon cakes everywhere. Read Full Intro
TIFF Review: The Hate U Give
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A few years ago, book-to-screen YA adaptations meant sci-fi worlds of vampires or dystopian futures. Their heroines were named Bella or Katniss or Tris and even though their stories were unique in their own ways, a few things were constant. Love was as integral to these teen girls as forces bigger than their control. Full Story
Dear Gossips,
Peter Kavinsky, wait, no, I’m sorry, Noah Centineo did a photo shoot with puppies but that wasn’t the best thing I watched online yesterday. I mean, it was great. And here’s a screenshot of it… Read Full Intro
