Relationship Assumption Ben-Ana: Instagram Official It’s not like it wasn’t official before though, right? After several weeks of almost-daily photographs outside of his home as they’re sheltering-in-place together, Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas have been “official” for a while now. These days though, going “Instagram Official” is a By Lainey • May 01, 2020 09:09 am
Music Intro for May 1, 2020 Dear Gossips, Drake was productive before the pandemic lockdown. So it’s not surprising that he continues to be productive now that there are no parties to fly to, no basketball games to fly to, no impromptu holidays to fly to. This might be the longest stretch that Drake’s By Lainey • May 01, 2020 08:38 am
What Else What Else? There have been a lot of Zoom and FaceTime f-ckups the last few weeks as people are working from home and either not wearing pants or having their kids interrupt their interviews or not closing out all the tabs on their laptops during a lecture. Now it’s come By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 04:01 pm
Relationship Assumption Channing Tatum and Jessie J: Round Three Channing Tatum and Jessie J were together for a year or so, then broken up in November 2019, got back together a few weeks later, went super public with their love on Grammys weekend, and three weeks ago broke up again. But Chan was just seen outside her Jessie’s By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 03:44 pm
Twilight Twilight 2020? Stephenie Meyer’s book, Twilight, was released 15 years ago this coming October. I’m sure you know the rest – the sequel books, the movie, the sequel movies, etc. Twilight was all about fan service – in terms of the “give them what they need, not what they want” principle of By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 02:54 pm
Simon Cowell Celebrity Quarantine Face Panic Yesterday I linked to a story in What Else? about celebrities not being able to keep up with their Botox and other treatments during lockdown. Dr Harold Lancer told Page Six that his celebrity clients are calling him daily, panicked because as this continues, they’re more and more overdue By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 01:15 pm
Top Reads That time Katie Couric interviewed Denzel Washington Here in Canada, I’m an entertainment reporter on an entertainment news program called ETALK. This summer will mark my 15th anniversary on the show. Part of my job is to interview actors, singers, writers, etc. And if you’ve been visiting this site over the years, you know that By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 11:55 am
Quiveration Jake and his Sourdough Everybody is baking. Everybody’s into this sourdough thing. I have a few friends who are so obsessed with sourdough, it’s taken over their social media. They’re doing sourdough every day and meeting people online who are also sourdoughing. I get it. Not specifically about sourdough but about By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 10:02 am
Music Intro for April 30, 2020 Dear Gossips, Guess who just showed up out of the blue, no warning, and sent the internet into panic last night? Who else? The Queen, of course. Megan Thee Stallion dropped the remix for her song “Savage” yesterday, which has been going viral on TikTok, and it features THREE verses By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 09:15 am
What Else What Else? See? This is what I was wondering about when lockdown first started! Beauty upkeep! And no, not haircuts and colouring your roots, but the face, as in Botox. We’re almost two months into restrictions which means we could be coming up on having to go back in for tweaks, By Lainey • Apr 29, 2020 04:01 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Last Dance and Taylor tries to dunk I always love recording the Show Your Work podcast but I was having more fun than usual this episode because Duana had to talk sports with me which is not usually where she lives. She also had to endure all my sports puns. And while she didn’t enjoy the By Lainey • Apr 29, 2020 02:49 pm
Business of Hollywood The Big Oscar Rule Change Nobody’s going to the movies because the theatres are closed. Which means, up to yesterday, the only films that were eligible for Oscars this year would have been the ones released up to mid-March. So like Bad Boys For Life, Doolittle, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Way Back. Can By Lainey • Apr 29, 2020 12:54 pm
Ana de Armas The time Ben Affleck got “busted” A couple of Ben Affleck stories today but first, here are some new shots of Ben and Ana de Armas walking their dogs yesterday. Does she look tall to you in these shots? I say tall because Ben is so tall and while she’s obviously shorter than he is, By Lainey • Apr 29, 2020 10:45 am
Top Reads Gigi and Zayn are having a baby While the other members of One Direction have been trying to produce a 1D reunion, Zayn Malik was producing a baby. TMZ broke the news yesterday - Gigi Hadid is pregnant, she and Zayn are expecting a child together. So far there’s no official confirmation but does Chrissy Teigen count? By Lainey • Apr 29, 2020 09:03 am
Self Care TV Recommendations Intro for April 29, 2020 Dear Gossips, In Sarah’s review of Inferno a few years ago, she wrote that the movie was OK and that the best part of it was Irrfan Khan’s performance, which seemed to be the consensus among all critics, and that’s pretty standard any time Irrfan Khan shows By Lainey • Apr 29, 2020 08:44 am
What Else What Else? Well, we’re talking about UFOs again. Not that I’m trying to be sarcastic, because I’m not. There’s no way that there’s no life in other parts of the universe. And it’s very possible that those life-forms have come to visit us. How come By Lainey • Apr 28, 2020 04:00 pm