What Else What Else? Kanye and Kim Kardashian West are apparently on an island somewhere with their kids working out their marriage. And they are trying to keep it all secret – as in, it won’t be filmed, can you believe it? But then… why are we talking about it now? How do we By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 04:09 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Emmys and Ellen I couldn’t wait to talk to Duana for this week’s episode about the Emmys after the Television Academy and Jimmy Kimmel announced that the ceremony would be virtual. Duana’s produced a lot of live award television and the work that’s happening right now behind the scenes By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 02:51 pm
Top Reads Rihanna does it again Rihanna launched Fenty Skin a couple of weeks ago. It’s a three product range, each is multi-purpose, with more to come in the months ahead. To the surprise of no one, much of it, if not all, is already sold out and they’re promising to restock quickly. By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 02:07 pm
Royals Prince Andrew’s Perverted Puppet This story has everything: fat fingers, defective sweat glands, a possibly bogus pizza defence, and now a perverted puppet in the likeness of Prince Andrew that was allegedly used to grope victims. Reminds me of a piece by Amanda Marcotte last year for at Salon, “Are we breeding depraved billionaires” By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 11:40 am
BFFs Ben and Ana hang with Matt and Luciana at the beach A couple of years ago, Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso lived in Australia for a few months and were often seen with their kids on the beach hanging out with their good friends Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky and their children. Matt’s most famous friendship, however, is with Ben By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 10:19 am
Intro for August 5, 2020 Dear Gossips, Even before yesterday’s tragedy in Beirut, the people of Lebanon were struggling through an economic crisis and the healthcare system was overwhelmed by COVID-19. Today there are hundreds still missing from the explosions and hundreds of thousands of people are now displaced and homeless. Recovery efforts By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 08:50 am
What Else What Else? This story is so random and so hilarious and so…sly and cunning? I have a thing for foxes right now because there was a litter of foxes making headlines in our neighbourhood this summer as the mother fox decided that the rocks at the beach were a good place By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 03:40 pm
BTS BTS is Returning to America Before we get to what BTS is up to now, because as we’ve established, this band never f-cking stops, I just want to show you why I felt seen on Twitter this weekend. Here’s what was trending worldwide on Sunday afternoon: That’s right – the two most By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 02:27 pm
Weddings Ryan Reynolds: The Movie Star Marketing Executive Ryan Reynolds has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business 2020 and this is a profile of his work as a marketing executive who happens to be a movie star as opposed to a movie star who’s really good at marketing. As we have By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 01:29 pm
Style Katie Holmes’s Secret Summer Sweater Katie Holmes has a movie out right now – I only found this out today. The Secret: Dare to Dream is on Premium VOD and is based on the book from like 15 years ago made wildly popular by Oprah Winfrey about, I think, manifesting your dreams and desires. Right? I By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 11:29 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Harry, Meghan, and Pula Sussex Finding Freedom, the book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle by royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, is coming out next week. One of the reasons why the book has generated so much interest is because the UK press in particular has taken very personally some of the book’ By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 10:51 am
Royals Prince Andrew: the unsealed documents and the pizza defence As expected, the unsealed documents that were released last week from the defamation suit between Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Roberts Giuffre have caused even more trouble for Prince Andrew and the other rich and powerful men allegedly connected to Prince Andrew’s friend, the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 09:51 am
Royals Intro for August 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, Today is Meghan Markle’s birthday. A couple of weeks ago, when the British royal family was celebrating Big G’s birthday, I wondered whether or not they’d do social media posts for the next royal birthday. The question has been answered: all three senior British royal By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 08:58 am
Music BLACK IS KING: A Beyoncé Solar System The MTV VMA nominations were announced yesterday. A few hours later, Beyoncé released the visual album, BLACK IS KING, on Disney+, and ….well. Not that we needed one but it was yet another reminder that there is one game, and then there is another universe that belongs to Beyoncé, so By Lainey • Jul 31, 2020 10:21 am
Douchebags Ellen DeGeneres responds Almost five months ago, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Ellen DeGeneres was called out in a Twitter thread about how in real life, she is supposedly the opposite of “Be Kind”, which has become her slogan. For years now, these rumours have been circulating in the entertainment industry By Lainey • Jul 31, 2020 09:30 am
Beyoncé Intro for July 31, 2020 Dear Gossips, “She says less as she has more power.”– Treva Lindsey, Associate Professor of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University I don’t think I need to tell you who Professor Lindsey is talking about. Beyoncé doesn’t have to speak and some people are getting By Lainey • Jul 31, 2020 08:51 am
