Music A Proclamation by the Queen I wondered last week if we were clowning ourselves because where Beyoncé is concerned, well, we clown ourselves a lot. But this was not a false alarm. The Queen of Culture was indeed planning a Super Bowl takeover – we are blessed with new music, a new album, and the beginning By Lainey • Feb 12, 2024 11:56 am
Quiveration Intro for February 12, 2024 Dear Gossips, As I wrote last week, for some of us, and we are not a small number, we watched last night’s tv show for a concert and the Queen’s announcement – both of which, by the way, were critical to the actual event, labelled as part of the By Lainey • Feb 12, 2024 10:13 am
Style Outfits of the Week: Marisa, Camila, and Kelly Camila Mendes’s Upgraded, co-starring Marisa Tomei, is now available to stream on Prime. I saw it a few days ago because I covered the junket for ETALK, since I consider myself a rom-com expert, and it’s fun, it hits all the beats that you want out of a By Lainey • Feb 09, 2024 01:22 pm
Music Usher: Coming Home to Halftime I will be approaching the Super Bowl the way I always do – because I don’t care about the game, and if there is any TNT content, I can catch up on Monday morning. Sunday, for me, is a 13-15 minute concert, this year headlined by Usher. And he’s By Lainey • Feb 09, 2024 12:18 pm
TV Updates A Casual Cate Blanchett Last year around this time, Cate Blanchett was campaigning for her third Oscar as Lydia Tár. It was between her and Michelle Yeoh and it was a tight race. Michelle won the SAG but Cate won the BAFTA, Critics Choice, the Gotham, and several more. It was Michelle in the By Lainey • Feb 09, 2024 10:55 am
What Else What Else? British Vogue released Edward Enninful’s final issue cover feature today and… what a f-cking flex. Imagine the logistics of gathering all these women together and for those of you who’ve been asking whether or not this a composite – no, and they gave us the proof, posting a video By Lainey • Feb 08, 2024 04:05 pm
Gorgessity Fo Shiz and Lori Harvey There was a Chanel fine jewellery party last night in New York that brought out a lot of celebrities, including Lori Harvey – so this one is for Jacek who has barely slept since Monday because we’re still struggling after our dog Barney’s surgery. You don’t need all By Lainey • Feb 08, 2024 03:00 pm
Sports TNT: Media Day and Other Distractions It’s Super Bowl week aka Swift Bowl week, which means that for the players involved, part of their work this week was off the field, for media day. I’m starting here with Travis Kelce for a couple of reasons. First, he is such a natural with the media By Lainey • Feb 08, 2024 01:36 pm
Style Team Dune cares about the looks I’ve been calling them the Dune Fab Four – Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Florence Pugh, and Austin Butler, the young cast of Dune: Part 2, who just kicked off the press tour last week – because of the place they each occupy in pop culture, all of them internet fixations in their By Lainey • Feb 08, 2024 11:56 am
Beyoncé Intro for February 8, 2024 Dear Gossips, Beyoncé, the Queen of Culture, decided yesterday that break time is over. When she is active, it often happens in February, during Black History Month. It’s been long rumoured that she would be launching her own hair care line and the Queen of Culture confirmed yesterday that By Lainey • Feb 08, 2024 10:59 am
What Else What Else? Usher’s set at the Super Bowl will be longer than standard halftime shows. Two minutes longer, which is huge, because the NFL and the broadcaster are notoriously strict about the runtime of the performance. Usher is teasing that he figured out a creative way to extend his halftime though By Lainey • Feb 07, 2024 04:14 pm
TV Updates Ayo and JLo work it out Or do they? I’m a few days late on this because Grammys and Barney but I also think it’s been overlooked by the gossip ecosystem at large because of the Grammys, even though there really could be some interesting gossip here. Let’s start with Ayo Edebiri who By Lainey • Feb 07, 2024 02:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews How Ryan Became Ken Ryan Gosling covers the new issue of Variety, just as SAG voting is underway and, of course, ahead of the Oscar voting period, to finally talk about his preparation for playing Ken because as the magazine points out, even though there was obviously extensive marketing for the Barbie movie ahead By Lainey • Feb 07, 2024 01:28 pm
Sports Jennifer Aniston and the Beckham Backlash Last week when it was first revealed that Beckhams would feature in an Uber Eats Super Bowl ad, Jennifer Aniston’s name came up, sort of: I actually didn’t think it was really Jennifer, or Jessica, Aniston, I thought maybe that was part of the joke? It was not By Lainey • Feb 07, 2024 11:30 am
Equality Issues Intro for February 7, 2024 Dear Gossips, I was tied up yesterday with our dog, Barney, who had surgery on Monday to repair a ruptured ligament in his leg. When I finally opened up social media to get an update, Drake’s meat was staring me in the face – and I swear, I wasn’t By Lainey • Feb 07, 2024 09:54 am
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Intro for February 6, 2024 Dear Gossips, Apologies about today because we will not be posting. Our dog, Barney, tore his CCL last week and had major surgery yesterday to repair it at a veterinary hospital out of town. This didn’t have an impact on the work schedule yesterday during the operation but we By Lainey • Feb 06, 2024 09:41 am
