Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Let’s Dance “Get the point? Good. Let’s dance” – Janet Jackson, 1989 There’s a time and place for every mood and vibe when looking for new music, but generally like Whitney once sang… we just want to dance. You may not think you want to, but put on a specific song By MC • May 20, 2025 01:27 pm
TV Updates Michelle Williams: Is it time “Fo Shiz”? Michelle Williams has started the press tour for her upcoming series Dying for Sex. I linked to a piece at Vulture about the show last week that’s worth the read if you missed it the first time. This is based on the true story of Molly Kochan who, with By Lainey • Apr 01, 2025 10:28 am
Style Blake wears Britney, covers Vogue As I mentioned yesterday in my post about Blake Lively’s floral fashion parade on the press tour for both It Ends With Us and her haircare line Blake Brown, it was all leading up to last night’s premiere in New York City. In the end, it ended with By Lainey • Aug 07, 2024 11:51 am
Top Reads Justin Timberlake’s “do you know my name” My post yesterday about Justin Timberlake’s arrest for drinking and driving ended with a mention of Reese Witherspoon’s arrest for disorderly conduct back in 2013 (!) when she said to the officer “do you know my name?”. Sarah was editing yesterday and because she’s brilliant, she was the By Lainey • Jun 19, 2024 11:43 am
Music Intro for January 26, 2024 Dear Gossips, Fo shiz, fo shiz, homies! https://twitter.com/alex_abads/status/1716814305272950857?s=20 Justin Timberlake is trying to reclaim his place in the culture with a comeback that officially kicked off this week. I know I promised last week that I wouldn’t be covering it because, By Lainey • Jan 26, 2024 09:11 am
TV Updates Britney: The TV Series? Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me, was released last Tuesday and has been a smash hit. People are reading the book, listening to the book, talking about the book, meme-ing details from the book… We can’t get enough of the book. Which is why Hollywood wants a By Lainey • Nov 01, 2023 10:17 am
Amazingness Intro for October 25, 2023 Dear Gossips, I’ve only just started reading Britney Spears’s The Woman in Me. And I typically prefer reading and not listening. But I swear, the moment I read this part… Britney Spears recalls a moment with Justin Timberlake when they saw Ginuwine: "One day J and I By Lainey • Oct 25, 2023 09:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me, releases today and, as mentioned last week in my post when allllll the revelations started coming out, I’d like to read it front to back for context, to really get a sense of how these recollections fit into the By Lainey • Oct 24, 2023 09:53 am
Douchebags Justin Timberlake’s “great place” Justin Timberlake is pretty unpopular right now after the revelations from Britney Spears’s book, The Woman in Me, have been coming out ahead of its release next Tuesday. I posted the other day about the sh-tty “source” comment that ran at Entertainment Tonight about how he’s “focusing on By Lainey • Oct 20, 2023 10:57 am
Books A Justin Timberlake Conspiracy Theory It hasn’t been a good week for Justin Timberlake. Britney Spears’s book is about to come out – and the excerpts haven’t been kind to him. So he’s getting clowned all over social media as people have been revisiting her old songs, her videos, his old interviews… By Lainey • Oct 19, 2023 11:40 am
Douchebags Justin Timberlake on blast The biggest entertainment story yesterday, by far, was the reveal from Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me – that she got pregnant when she was 18 and dating Justin Timberlake, and had an abortion in late 2000. TMZ is now reporting that the JT section of the book will By Lainey • Oct 18, 2023 12:17 pm
Books Britney’s First Bombshell Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me, releases next Tuesday and the anticipation over what, exactly, she’ll reveal in the book has been building for weeks. PEOPLE has been releasing advance excerpts but they were scooped today by TMZ breaking the story: that Britney got pregnant when she By Lainey • Oct 17, 2023 03:19 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Intro for January 18, 2023 Dear Gossips, The big story yesterday was Madonna and the announcement of the upcoming Celebration tour. And the ticket scramble begins. There will be another ticket scramble in a couple of weeks because word is, Her Majesty Beyoncé will finally make her tour announcement in February, which tracks for her. By Lainey • Jan 18, 2023 09:33 am
Britney Spears Intro for August 29, 2022 Dear Gossips, What would the MTV Video Music Awards be without Madonna? It was at the very first MTV VMAs that she performed “Life A Virgin” and writhed onstage in a wedding dress. Madonna would continue to deliver spectacle after spectacle at the VMAs until a successor arrived 15 years By Lainey • Aug 29, 2022 08:19 am
Weddings Britney’s Vogue Wedding News broke earlier this week that Britney Spears’s wedding to Sam Asghari was set for yesterday, Thursday, June 9, in Los Angeles. TMZ had the initial scoop and then PEOPLE and other mainstream American entertainment outlets followed with their own reporting. Then yesterday, early afternoon LA time, a minor By Lainey • Jun 10, 2022 11:20 am
Britney Spears Intro for November 15, 2021 Dear Gossips, Today in Is Britney Free Yet news, Britney Spears is finally free. After thirteen years, her conservatorship has ended. Is this the one and only case of hashtag activism working? Of course, there was a lot more to it than that, but #FreeBritney started as an online movement, By Sarah • Nov 15, 2021 08:50 am
