Books Intro for May 14, 2019 Dear Gossips, Ziya Tong (pronounced ZYE-AH) is “one of the world’s most engaging science journalists”. She is vice chair of WWF Canada, an award-winning broadcaster who anchored Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet for 10 years, and former correspondent on PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW. Oh yeah, and she’ By Lainey • May 14, 2019 09:29 am
What Else What Else? Tom Holland was asked to spell GYLLENHAAL on television and couldn’t get it right. I know why they decided to spend two minutes on this – because, I GUESS, it makes for better television, watching a celebrity try to spell, but what’s good TV to me would have been By Lainey • May 13, 2019 04:08 pm
Girl Sh-t Constance & Gemma?! So far today, we’ve speculated about a queer celebrity hookup and we’re about to get into a possible beef between two Asian actresses. Is this equality? LOL, obviously that’s a joke of a question. Backstory: on Friday, after Constance Wu tantrum-ed on social media about Fresh By Lainey • May 13, 2019 12:58 pm
TV Updates Constance Wu breaks character Duana and I will be unpacking the Constance Wu (bad) work situation on Show Your Work this week. I get it though that it was a big story all weekend so here are some thoughts before we get into a more robust discussion about her on the podcast. Much of By Lainey • May 13, 2019 10:10 am
Game of Thrones Intro for May 13, 2019 Dear Gossips, If you can’t please everyone, who do you choose to please? That was the task for the showrunners of Game of Thrones – and after last night’s episode, “The Bells”, the answer, apparently, is The Spectacle. You indulge The Spectacle. In that sense, Game of Thrones, to By Lainey • May 13, 2019 08:27 am
What Else What Else? We are nowhere near Christmas but I’m sure this is what you asked for, right? Mel Gibson is playing Santa. It’s not a feel-good movie, because, well, Mel Gibson. It’s been a long time since the words “Mel Gibson” and “feel good” made sense together. The By Lainey • May 10, 2019 04:57 pm
TV Updates Chris Pine’s 90s Titanic hair Chris Pines limited series, I Am The Night, aired earlier this year on TNT. Reviews were medium. I don’t know if it made that much of an impact. As we know, television is a crowded space now, and it’s a peak space – there are so many shows, so By Lainey • May 10, 2019 04:46 pm
Style Rihanna breaks history We’ve been expecting this for months now but the confirmation came today – Rihanna is her own fashion house now. Her Instagram post said it best: View this post on Instagram A post shared by badgalriri (@badgalriri) on May 10, 2019 at 6:22am PDT Let’s take a closer By Lainey • May 10, 2019 12:24 pm
Music Taylor Swift + Game of Thrones Taylor Swift covers the new issue of Entertainment Weekly. This is basically a takeover. Taylor is a huge get for EW. They’ve dedicated several features in addition to the cover story to Swift content. And it’s a proper magazine interview – not an essay she’s written about herself, By Lainey • May 10, 2019 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 10, 2019 Dear Gossips, A year ago we were talking about Awkwafina right before what would be the biggest summer and then the biggest year of her professional career up to that point. She was, undeniably, one of the breakout stars of 2018 with Ocean’s 8, Crazy Rich Asians, hosting the By Lainey • May 10, 2019 09:29 am
What Else What Else? OMG this Woodstock 50 mess. It’s already a member of the Year of the Scam club – and this only makes it …scammier – is that a word? Can it be a word? Primary investors pulled out because they said the festival was going to be Fyre 2.0. Now the By Lainey • May 09, 2019 04:15 pm
Models MBJ & Cindy Bruna? I’m worried about Kathleen. I don’t know how she’s going to react to this. At the same time, I REALLY want to see how she reacts to this. Michael B Jordan was in New York last night. He was seen at dinner at Carbone. According to the By Lainey • May 09, 2019 11:16 am
Photo Assumption Katie & Jamie at the Met Gala I was supposed to get to this yesterday and then Archie happened. Do we still care about Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx? Katie Holmes was part of the Zac Posen group on Monday at the Met Gala. They all went together in a party bus. Katie and Jamie didn’t By Lainey • May 09, 2019 11:06 am
Sports Archie & Harry: one day later Now that we’ve been introduced to Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor… when do you think we’ll see him again? As we witnessed yesterday, Meghan Markle is a public relations superstar. She’s not giving up the next shot of Archie without strategy. And besides, we are coming up on By Lainey • May 09, 2019 09:45 am
Sports Intro for May 9, 2019 Dear Gossips, Big day for England yesterday – and I’m not just talking about the introduction of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor of House Sussex, although that was my first English priority. My husband, Jacek, he cared about Archie too, as my partner on this website, but his primary English preoccupation By Lainey • May 09, 2019 08:46 am
What Else What Else? Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor is here. But there’s another celebrity baby name that’s also been announced. I’m not even going to bother asking Duana to write this one because 1. she still needs to recover from the stress and then the excitement of the Sussex’s excellent By Lainey • May 08, 2019 04:42 pm
