Equality Issues Intro for May 29, 2020 Dear Gossips, Yesterday on The Social, our friend Tyrone Edwards joined us to talk about mental health. What followed was a personal and powerful expression of grief and anger as he shared his fears and frustration about the racism and the violence Black people continue to experience. Here’s a By Lainey • May 29, 2020 09:13 am
What Else What Else? This is… the most Keanu Reeves story ever. It’s the origin story of John Wick, not the origin story you might think in terms of storyline or a puppy (sob!), but an origin of name – and if I’m playing Duana here, I would say that it always begins By Lainey • May 28, 2020 05:18 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben-Ana: FaceTime and Tie Dye We are two days behind on Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas photos! The last time we checked in on Ben-Ana it was just after they’d spent part of Memorial Day weekend with his kids. Ana was seen the other day out with a friend and their baby By Lainey • May 28, 2020 02:48 pm
Music BLACKPINK Summer Begins Now How you doing, Blinks? It’s a big day. Lady Gaga’s new album, Chromatica, drops tomorrow. “Rain On Me”, her first collaboration with Ariana Grande, was released last week. Today we got “Sour Candy”, the song with BLACKPINK. This is a BOP. Gaga promised that Chromatica would be a By Lainey • May 28, 2020 09:36 am
Maple Leaf Intro for May 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, As we near the end of Asian Heritage Month in Canada and Asian and Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States, big ups to Andrew Phung of Kim’s Convenience who won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor last night! Congratulations Andrew! WHAT IS By Lainey • May 28, 2020 08:46 am
What Else What Else? Chrissy Teigen has given us an update on Chrissy Teigen’s breasts. Like with an entire timeline: the age at which they were first installed, what happened to them when she had children, and what she plans to do with them now that she’s tired of them because they By Lainey • May 27, 2020 04:07 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Last Dance was a Rom-Com On this episode of Show Your Work, now that The Last Dance has concluded, Duana and I unpack all the work that went into those Chicago Bulls championships and the work that did – or didn’t – go into this docuseries. No doubt it was entertaining. And it was definitely super By Lainey • May 27, 2020 02:26 pm
Royals Catherine the (new) Great and the Tatler Dispute Over the last year and a half, as the British tabloids have stepped up their attempts to discredit Prince Harry and Meghan Markle of House Sussex, in part by clearly shooting stars and sunshine up House Cambridge, Catherine Cambridge has repeatedly been held up as the Best Duchess Ever. And, By Lainey • May 27, 2020 01:17 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Brad Pitt’s lockdown shag When someone refers to a hairstyle as a “shag”, my mind immediately associates with Winona Ryder because that’s my generation – Winona, as “Lelaina Pierce”, in Reality Bites. She is what defines a “shag” for me. You may have a different shag in mind. Meg Ryan, for example. And, interestingly By Lainey • May 27, 2020 11:05 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 27, 2020 Dear Gossips, What is the future of movie theatres? Bilge Ebiri attempted to answer the question at Vulture yesterday as restrictions begin to lift across North America and authorities are making plans to reopen the economy. Some people think that after all these weeks of being at home and watching By Lainey • May 27, 2020 08:48 am
What Else What Else for May 26, 2020 Who is fine as f-ck and is 56 years old today? He’s currently, for the next few weeks, the same age as Johnny Depp except Lenny Kravitz can wear as many scarves as he wants and never look ridiculous whereas Johnny… well… you know. (Dlisted) If you were By Lainey • May 26, 2020 04:09 pm
Break Ups The End of Bughead I was going to write about Cole Sprouse yesterday because of these new pictures but then I ran out of time and it ended up working out because then Page Six reported that he and Lili Reinhart broke up and PEOPLE confirmed it and then E! News followed both of By Lainey • May 26, 2020 03:06 pm
Gross Prince Andrew: Countdown to Filthy Rich We are just one day away from the release of Filthy Rich, the Jeffrey Epstein docuseries on Netflix. Are you watching? What’s your strategy? One episode a night or will you binge it all straight through? These last few months in lockdown, I’ve been cooking every night. But By Lainey • May 26, 2020 12:43 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Ben-Ana: back to the usual After spending part of the weekend with his kids, and letting us know that everything is all cool with Jennifer Garner and the children and his girlfriend, Ben Affleck went out for a regular dog walk with Ana de Armas, returning to their usual routine, a comfort to us all. By Lainey • May 26, 2020 11:51 am
Royals The (new) Catherine the Great Didn’t the OG Catherine the Great overthrow her husband? I say this because the new cover of Tatler made me laugh, because that’s what they’re going for with this title, “Catherine the Great”, about Catherine of House Cambridge, evoking of course Catherine the Great of history, who By Lainey • May 26, 2020 10:14 am
Self Care TV Recommendations Intro for May 26, 2020 Dear Gossips, Bong Joon-ho and Parasite won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival a year ago, kicking off the film’s run to the Oscars, where it would eventually go on to make history and take the Best Picture Oscar. We know that now. But back By Lainey • May 26, 2020 08:46 am
