What Else What Else? I was about to dump on this but then I kept reading and it turns out these inflatable costumes are being used in senior homes to protect the residents so that they can also hug their family members so now I feel like an asshole. Still, there are some drawbacks. By Lainey • May 25, 2020 04:04 pm
Maple Leaf Drake stayed for the lake (but Justin didn’t) By now we all know about Drake’s Toronto home, right? He calls it The Embassy and it was featured recently in Architectural Digest. After the spread in AD, there were all kinds of other stories about the extravagance of Drake’s … palace. From the bed, which cost several hundreds By Lainey • May 25, 2020 03:17 pm
Drama Mary-Kate’s “French ugly” Divorce During this pandemic, we’ve seen many examples of consciously uncoupled couples continuing to manage their families with care and consideration even under the strange stress of being in lockdown. But there have also been a few examples of nasty uncoupling: Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler, Jaime King and Kyle By Lainey • May 25, 2020 01:19 pm
Relationship Assumption Jon loves an Anna too? This September will mark the tenth anniversary of Ben Affleck’s The Town. Does it hold up? I haven’t seen it in a minute but I remember, I really enjoyed it. I remember I think I might have said I thought it was better than Argo. Anyway, Ben directed By Lainey • May 25, 2020 11:38 am
TV Updates Taylor Swift, “Jack leopards & the dolphin club” A cover version of Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” played during last night’s episode of Killing Eve. Taylor has said many times that she loves the show. And she’s friends with Phoebe Waller-Bridge. So, naturally, she was proud to have her song featured: By Lainey • May 25, 2020 11:10 am
Relationship Assumption Ben-Ana and the kids Well here’s a setback for the conspiracy theorists who thought that Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas were a fauxmance. Ben and Ana spent time, together, with his kids this weekend. And all the dogs were there. Ben and Ana’s dogs we’re by now already familiar with, By Lainey • May 25, 2020 10:23 am
TV Updates Intro for May 25, 2020 Dear Gossips, Many of you have emailed over the last few weeks asking about our Normal People coverage since I wrote about the book so much last year. The show hasn’t aired yet in Canada but that changes this week. CBC Gem will air two episodes a week beginning By Lainey • May 25, 2020 09:48 am
What Else What Else? On the off-chance you think Matt Lauer has changed, his alleged revenge plot against Ronan Farrow means he hasn’t. Because this is a lingering vestige of the kind of power trip he was on when he was at the top. Remember the secret button under his desk? Remember By Lainey • May 22, 2020 04:01 pm
Top Reads Gaga + Ariana = “Rain On Me” I liked it as soon as I heard it when I got up this morning. Lady Gaga’s highly anticipated Chromatica drops next week and she and Ariana Grande over the last couple of days have been thirst-building hype for their new song, “Rain On Me”, the first collaboration By Lainey • May 22, 2020 02:26 pm
Top Reads Suga: The Bias-Assassin and Leadership from the Back I don’t think I’ll ever stop being astonished at the creative output of BTS, not just during this pandemic lockdown but for the last seven years since the band debuted in 2013. The albums, the tours, the promotional appearances, the music videos, the multiple reality series, the documentary By Lainey • May 22, 2020 10:08 am
Brian Austin Green Intro for May 22, 2020 Dear Gossips, This was not supposed to be today’s open. But I realised that what I was writing as today’s open wasn’t a true open and then I got preoccupied with a question I just asked myself so now today’s open is about Brian Austin Green. By Lainey • May 22, 2020 09:16 am
What Else What Else? Amy Schumer called up Jennifer Lawrence while she was cooking and they had some judgments to make about white wine – basically that it’s sh-t. I disagree. I don’t drink red wine, it’s too classy for me, I guess. And it doesn’t make me feel good. By Lainey • May 21, 2020 04:00 pm
Top Reads Julia Roberts, the Dr Fauci Fangirl #PassTheMic is a campaign where celebrities “pass the mic” aka their social media accounts and expose their followers to experts and frontline workers so that they can share ACCURATE information about COVID-19 since, um, certain leaders aren’t. Some of the big names participating are Hugh Jackman, Danai Gurira, By Lainey • May 21, 2020 02:01 pm
Equality Issues Lana Del Rey’s Glamorous Drama As I wrote a couple of months ago when she and Sean Larkin broke up, I was never a Lana Del Rey believer until Norman F-cking Rockwell. That album is her masterpiece and it ruled the back half of 2019 for me. So I’m excited that Lana’s By Lainey • May 21, 2020 12:37 pm
Relationship Assumption Bradley Cooper’s lockdown romance? Here are some new photos of Bradley Cooper outside his NY apartment this week. And apparently he’s not staying there alone. Of course he’s parenting his daughter, but there was a woman seen bringing in groceries at the door – and according to the paps, it’s Kristin O’ By Lainey • May 21, 2020 10:27 am
Jason Derulo Intro for May 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, Jason Derulo has been doing the most these last couple of months in lockdown. And I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, I just never expected at the start of this that he’d be one of the people consistently lighting up the timeline. It’s By Lainey • May 21, 2020 08:52 am