Maple Leaf Alessia Cara’s first Alessia Cara opened the JUNO Awards in Calgary last night. I’ve attached video below of what it sounded like not from the television broadcast but in the arena, her pure voice, live, and killing it. Impressive, right? SO impressive that by the time she won for Breakthrough Artist there By Lainey • Apr 04, 2016 10:14 am
Music Katy & Taylor’s identity swap While Taylor Swift was collecting iHeartRadio Awards last night (which some would call #iFakeAwards – like the People’s Choice Awards of music?) her rival, Katy Perry, was at the Academy of Country Music Awards as Dolly Parton’s plus one which, like, can we all agree was the better ticket? By Lainey • Apr 04, 2016 09:36 am
Bad Style Taylor’s boyfriend and golf claps Taylor Swift won some awards last night at iHeartRadio. Justin Timberlake presented one of them to her. We’ll get to him later, if I feel like it, but I am amazed that in his Instagram post from the event, he didn’t include himself in the photo. The patronising By Lainey • Apr 04, 2016 08:52 am
Maple Leaf Intro for April 4, 2016 Dear Gossips, The Weeknd was the big winner last night at the JUNO Awards in Calgary going 4/5, accepting one of those awards from Buffy Sainte-Marie, the coolest ever. No one is cooler than Buffy Sainte-Marie. No f-cking one. The Weeknd’s performance was also simulcast By Lainey • Apr 04, 2016 07:33 am
Bad Style Gwen’s “girl” I am not good at pranks, like coming up with them. At the same time, I’m judgy about them. Taking someone’s underwear drawer and dispersing the contents on the lawn isn’t funny to me. To me it’s weak and unimaginative and boring. My favourite today, because By Lainey • Apr 01, 2016 03:28 pm
Music Taylor falls Yesterday Beyoncé gave us a shot of herself running on the treadmill, in WEDGE HEELS. That’s the Beyoncé brand. Of course she runs and works out in wedge heels. Practically it makes sense, since when she’s on stage, she’s handling choreography in heels all the time. Non- By Lainey • Apr 01, 2016 01:08 pm
Amazingness What it means to “Leo” It’s April Fools’ Day. So all kinds of pranks are showing up on the internet. Oxford Dictionaries is getting in on it too. Most of them are kind of lame. But then there’s this one, a new verb: Leo, verb to achieve something after years of trying: “I By Lainey • Apr 01, 2016 11:56 am
TV Updates If we could all be redeemed by Sarah Paulson If only. Have you been watching The People v OJ Simpson? Duana wrote about it the other day – click here for a refresher. She told me a couple of weeks ago, “this show is so much better than it has any right to be”. As usual, she’s right. The By Lainey • Apr 01, 2016 11:35 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Zendaya’s checked two-piece Love the top. The skirt… I just can’t get with the shiny white material. If it were matte, I wonder if I’d feel differently. If it were just a pair of pants underneath a checked bustier I think I would be a lot more down. By Lainey • Apr 01, 2016 10:31 am
Top Reads Idris’s 5 minutes on Bond Idris Elba is tired of talking about being James Bond. I’m tired of writing about it. But he covers the new issue if UK Esquire and, well, they talk about Bond. And he’s willing to. Sort of. The question comes up because he wants to know from the By Lainey • Apr 01, 2016 10:27 am
Beyoncé Intro for April 1, 2016 Dear Gossips, You didn’t think I’d be opening the blog today with anyone other than Beyoncé, did you? It’s my husband’s birthday, and I’m STILL opening on Beyoncé. Because while we were all waiting for this album to drop, yesterday Beyoncé decided to give us By Lainey • Apr 01, 2016 09:37 am
Hook Ups Wendi & Vlad?!? Best new couple EVER… if it’s true. And I totally, totally believe it. US Weekly is reporting that Wendi Deng and Vladimir Putin are in a serious relationship. Wendi Deng and the greatest bear-wrestler the world has ever seen, f-ck off Leonardo DiCaprio?!?!? The details are not By Lainey • Mar 31, 2016 04:46 pm
Music I’ll Kiss It Better And if I’m not good enough, at this point I’m prepared to offer up my husband to help her out… Because I love him. And I want great experiences for him. So, as promised, Rihanna’s Kiss It Better video dropped today. This is four minutes of Rihanna By Lainey • Mar 31, 2016 04:02 pm
Gwyneth Paltrow Gwyneth’s new watch This is the new promotional photo for Gwyneth Paltrow’s charity campaign for Frederique Constant. The company is pledging $50 from the sale of every ladies’ watch to charities supporting women and children. She also endorses jewellery company TOUS. That was just three or four months ago. So that’s By Lainey • Mar 31, 2016 02:53 pm
Media Manipulation Beyoncé speaks for Ivy Park Beyoncé on the cover of both ELLE USA and ELLE UK. It’s the long-awaited athleisure line. It’s called Ivy Park. The album? Not sure. Maybe tomorrow? But you can see now that it’s all converging. The album is coming. The tour is coming. Ivy Park goes By Lainey • Mar 31, 2016 12:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Still a knucklehead? Buzzfeed’s Anne Helen Petersen wrote a great piece about How Jennifer Garner Went Full MiniVan Majority tracking her career from Alias to Miracles From Heaven. Thank you, Anne, for the LaineyGossip mentions in the article. I came up with that expression almost 10 years ago and, at the time, By Lainey • Mar 31, 2016 11:37 am
