Equality Issues Jesse Williams: Nominated and Viral I don’t know about your feed but mine has been blowing up over Jesse Williams the last 12 hours or so. The reason – nude photos and video of him have leaked from his performance on Broadway in Take Me Out in which he plays a baseball player who is By Lainey • May 10, 2022 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jesse and Taylour in Florence It’s super refreshing to see Jesse Williams in the news for a baewatch and not leaked details of his messy divorce and custody battle. A few months ago, we learned that he was dating bombshell actress Taylour Paige and he seems happy. Which, contrary to the internet’s opinion, By Melayna • Jun 20, 2019 10:52 am
Cheating Loins Jesse Williams & Minka Kelly: movie night consequences On Saturday night, Jesse Williams and Minka Kelly went to Largo at the Coronet, a live entertainment and comedy club. Yesterday TMZ reported that his estranged wife, Aryn Drake-Lee, is filing for sole custody of their children, because she’s worried about Jesse’s “revolving door” of randoms, and also By Lainey • Aug 16, 2017 04:44 pm
Cheating Loins Jesse Williams’ bad timing For a hot second this morning, I was feeling bad for Jesse Williams. In Jay Z’s newly released 4:44 footnote video I wrote about earlier, Williams addressed the rumours that he left his wife for Minka Kelly. Those rumours inspired a lot of conversation and speculation about the By Kathleen • Jul 11, 2017 04:10 pm
Break Ups Jesse Williams and the politics of black love “A little wince.” In a piece for Essence in 2010, that’s how Jill Scott described her reaction when a black male friend told her he had married a white woman. The piece received an onslaught of vitriol. Scott was called a racist. To avoid repeating Scott’s fate, I By Kathleen • May 01, 2017 09:44 am
Anna Wintour Intro for May 1, 2017 Dear Gossips, If you’ve been visiting this website – a gossip site – for a while, you are familiar with the position we take on gossip: that gossip is not irrelevant, that gossip can illuminate, that gossip is a conversation about social issues, social behaviours, even social injustice. As Anne Helen By Lainey • May 01, 2017 09:00 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, February 21, 2017 Everyone is getting all gooey over Drake wishing Rihanna a Happy Birthday, but I’m over it. I have something else in mind -- can you imagine how gossipy Future and Rihanna would be? He’s friends with Drake, she is not friends with his ex, Ciara. This week, Future By Maria • Feb 21, 2017 03:27 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, January 25, 2017 Never forget: Shane West was once Lainey’s summer crush. In honor of the 15th anniversary of A Walk To Remember, let's take a walk down memory lane...❤ What are your favorite scenes? Any questions? A photo posted by Mandy Moore (@mandymooremm) onJan 25, 2017 at 8:01am By Maria • Jan 25, 2017 02:09 pm
Dumbass Justin Timberlake was #Inspired by Jesse Williams As Lainey already discussed, Jesse Williams gave the wokest speech in the history of speeches at the BET Awards last night. It was a speech that made me cry, shout, cheer and throw sh-t at my television. It induced urgency, frustration and a call to arms. It was soaked in By Kathleen • Jun 27, 2016 12:16 pm
Amazingness The Real Magic of Jesse Williams Jesse Williams was honoured last night with the Humanitarian Award at the BET Awards for his work with the Black Lives Matter movement. And then Justin Timberlake tried to make it about himself. And got slapped for it. That post is coming up in a minute. For now, we spotlight By Lainey • Jun 27, 2016 11:31 am