Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: College Scams and Old Magic I am bigging up my colleague: Duana’s post on the college admissions scam last week was the most comprehensive piece on the scandal because, as she has since shared, she’s been studying schools and applications and elite admissions for 25 years. If she has a PhD in anything, By Lainey • Mar 20, 2019 11:32 am
Relationship Assumption Kate & Pete’s family dinner Pete Davidson joined Kate Beckinsale and her family, including her ma Judy Loe, and her stepfather Roy Battersby, both actors, for dinner last night in Malibu. Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the passing of Kate’s dad, Richard. He was only 31 at the time, also an actor: View By Lainey • Mar 20, 2019 10:12 am
Royals The Sussexes step out for New Zealand Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visited New Zealand House in London yesterday to offer condolences and pay respect to the victims of the terror attack in Christchurch last Friday. As they are the last members of the family to have visited New Zealand (last fall), they were chosen to represent By Lainey • Mar 20, 2019 09:33 am
TV Updates Intro for March 20, 2019 Dear Gossips, Jann Arden is a Canadian treasure. Her album Living Under June, that includes the hit singles “Good Mother”, “Could I Be Your Girl”, and “Insensitive”, came out 25 years ago this year. You know what’s amazing about Jann though? She’s about to turn 57 – and she By Lainey • Mar 20, 2019 08:32 am
What Else What Else? I love a good pronunciation debate. You’ve probably heard of this by now? How do you say “squirrel”? It seems to be a matter of region. Americans mash the letters together and the English draw it out more. I’ve been trying to figure out if Canadians are somewhere By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 03:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews An Issa-LaKeith love story I already have a moderate size LaKeith Stanfield problem. On April 19th, at precisely 1030pm, I will experience a full-blown LaKeith Stanfield crisis. That’s the day Someone Great comes out on Netflix – it’s a Friday, I’ll get home from work, walk my dogs, participate in a By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 02:51 pm
Royals The Queen and Kate The Queen was joined by Princess Catherine today at King’s College London to open Bush House: Her Majesty The Queen and The Duchess of Cambridge arrive at @KingsCollegeLon to open Bush House – the latest education and learning facilities on the university’s Strand Campus. pic.twitter.com/AOGubc8BcY— The By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita’s scary eyes I am probably going to see Jordan Peele’s Us this weekend. Not happy about this. Us is getting strong reviews. Get Out was not a fluke. So it’s not like I’m going to walk out of there all like, what a sh-t movie. I will probably By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate & Pete: Metal Date Night Kate Beckinsale and Pete Davidson arrived separately to the premiere of The Dirt last night. The Dirt is Netflix’s Motley Crue biopic that begins streaming on Friday. I can’t say I’ve ever been a Motley Crue fan. But going by the trailer (below), I don’t think By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 10:22 am
Shout-Outs March 19, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs Emily! Happy Birthday! And Happy 9th Anniversary to us! Sorry, I don’t mean to jam myself into your celebration but we are approaching a decade of this. I feel like we’ve grown up together. As for the way your requests have changed…dude, pop culture has been a By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 09:16 am
Music Intro for March 19, 2019 Dear Gossips, On Friday, Glastonbury announced its lineup for this year’s festival. They put the poster up on Twitter, the headliners listed top row. From left to right, it’s The Killers, The Cure, Stormzy, Kylie, and Janet Jackson. Here is the first Glastonbury Festival 2019 line-up poster, By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 08:57 am
What Else What Else? Last week there was a rumour going around that Diddy and Lori Harvey were a thing now because they were seen at a party together and social media made the eyes emoji. Now Diddy wants us to know that the eyes emoji was wrong and that there’s nothing to By Lainey • Mar 18, 2019 04:12 pm
TV Updates Nicole Kidman’s throwback hair Nicole Kidman is currently in New York shooting a new series for HBO called The Undoing based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s book You Should Have Known. She plays Grace Sachs, a woman who appears to have it all together – husband has a successful medical practice, son is enrolled at By Lainey • Mar 18, 2019 03:40 pm
BFFs MBJ: a grownup truth Originally this post was just going to be me telling you, look, new photos of Michael B Jordan, out with his frinds and who can ever complain about that so why do I need to write any more words? But then I checked his Instagram – and there is more to By Lainey • Mar 18, 2019 01:14 pm
Cheating Loins J-Rod: damage control? Page Six published an interesting article about Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez this weekend. It’s been a week since their engagement and, as you know, Jose Canseco tried to ruin it with his claims on Twitter that ARod was cheating on JLo with Jose’s ex-wife Jessica – claims By Lainey • Mar 18, 2019 12:01 pm
Advertisement Daisy Jones & The Six The minute I started reading Daisy Jones & The Six I wish I wrote it. The book is set up as an oral history, the kind Vulture and Entertainment Weekly and other entertainment sites have been doing for movie and music and TV retrospectives – a really clever narrative structure that By Lainey • Mar 18, 2019 11:34 am
