Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Hailee’s lavender cutouts This is not an easy colour. In certain situations, it’s actually a super corny colour. Corny. Or tacky. The way Hailee Steinfeld’s wearing it here? I’m gonna say it’s a corny-tacky combination. Mall at the prom. What you’d like to be forgiven for the By Lainey • May 08, 2017 12:33 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Tracee’s sequined patches Sasha emailed me last night freaking out about Tracee Ellis Ross’s look at the MTV Movie and TV Awards last night. It’s her “favourite for all of 2017”. I like it too, though I’m not sure I would say it’s my favourite for the entire year By Lainey • May 08, 2017 11:58 am
Gwyneth Paltrow Gwyneth Paltrow’s “smart” kitchen It’s been almost a week since Gwyneth Paltrow showed up at the MET Gala and decided not to participate – in my opinion because, as a member of the establishment, she cannot and refuses to represent the counterculture as it would undermine the status quo, which exists in her favour. By Lainey • May 08, 2017 11:42 am
TV Updates Chris Pine, “The Boy Is Mine” On Friday in Smutty Tingles, I wrote about my unexpectedly high expectations for Chris Pine hosting Saturday Night Live after seeing him get loose in the promo. Before that, in no world would I have imagined looking forward to Chris Pine on SNL. And then he delivered! I’ll go By Lainey • May 08, 2017 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Moonlight kiss In my earlier post about Emma Watson and how MTV has gone gender neutral with their acting awards, I wondered about the impact – specifically whether or not this kind of decision will encourage diversity in storytelling and diversity in storytellers, creating more opportunities for women in the industry. The MTV By Lainey • May 08, 2017 09:29 am
Emma Watson Emma Watson makes history MTV announced a few weeks ago that for the first time in history, the acting categories at the MTV Movie and TV Awards would be based on performance only, not separated by sex. Last night Emma Watson became the first to win the Best Actor in a Movie award. Others By Lainey • May 08, 2017 08:25 am
Intro for May 8, 2017 Dear Gossips, Here in Canada, The Handmaid’s Tale airs on Sundays on Bravo. The first two episodes premiered last week – the network’s most watched series premiere in 5 years. In the US it was the most watched series premiere on Hulu. It is the show everyone is talking By Lainey • May 08, 2017 07:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bradley Cooper’s only appearance Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2 opens today. Sarah reviewed it yesterday and prefers it to the first movie. It’s generally well-liked by other critics too. So the question isn’t whether or not it will be big. It’s about HOW big. As in how many millions By Lainey • May 05, 2017 11:48 am
Mariah Carey Intro for May 5, 2017 Dear Gossips, Last night in Vancouver, a group of mothers slept outside on the cold pavement in support of at-risk and homeless youth. Fifty moms participated in The Sleep Out: Mothers Edition to send a message to “young people that they are worthy of unconditional love and absolute respect, By Lainey • May 05, 2017 10:21 am
Top Reads Johnny Depp: earpieces and sound engineers One of the first headlines I saw in my feed this morning was from the Telegraph: Earpieces, islands, and eccentricities: is Johnny Depp slowly morphing into Marlon Brando? Um, obviously it was an immediate click. Yes, I want to read this. In fact, I think I NEED to read this. By Lainey • May 04, 2017 04:54 pm
Maple Leaf ALL THE FEELINGS, ALL THE SONGS Sorry. I don’t mean to yell at you with the capitals. But… the only way I can convey my feelings or, more specifically, the feelings that Celine Dion is allowing me to feel IS BY SHOUTING AT YOU WITH THESE WORDS. You thought we were done with Celine at By Lainey • May 04, 2017 03:41 pm
Faux Gossip #goinventsh*taboutyourmother The new issue of Star Magazine is about how Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello are getting a divorce because she cheated on him recently in Rome. That is not what this post is about. This post is about Sofia’s response to the story. The editor of this magazine is By Lainey • May 04, 2017 12:28 pm
Royals The Royal Retirement I woke up this morning and my phone had blown up overnight. The Daily Mail reported that Buckingham Palace called an emergency meeting last night. And so everyone started freaking out about what that could mean. As we all now know, Prince Philip has announced that he’ll be stepping By Lainey • May 04, 2017 11:37 am
Hook Ups Rihanna and the fencer? Are you watching The Handmaid’s Tale? There is a lot to think about when watching or re-reading The Handmaid’s Tale. But … do you think about Rihanna? Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. Don’t let the bastards get you down Turn By Lainey • May 04, 2017 10:49 am
Faux Gossip Intro for May 4, 2017 Dear Gossips, This is the cover of the new issue of US Weekly - what really happened on the plane last September to kick off World War Brange. The most interesting thing about this story, however, has nothing to do with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. As you know, Wenner Media By Lainey • May 04, 2017 09:59 am
MET Gala 2017 Justin Bieber, Hailee Steinfeld, and TMZ TMZ reported yesterday that Justin Bieber and Hailee Steinfeld have been dating for a month but that it’s still “fresh”. Immediately afterwards her reps denied it. Also, she has a boyfriend. His name is Cameron Smoller. He just Instagrammed a shot of them together a couple of days ago: By Lainey • May 03, 2017 04:16 pm
