Royals Meghan Markle’s Delayed Power Meghan Markle covers the new issue of Variety but this was supposed to be last month. As revealed in the story, Meghan was initially supposed to be one of the women honoured in this year’s Power of Women event in September, in recognition of her philanthropic work through Archewell By Lainey • Oct 19, 2022 10:57 am
Charlize Theron Intro for October 19, 2022 Dear Gossips, Charlize Theron has kept a pretty low profile this year, we haven’t seen all that much of her; but she did step out in June in support of the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project wearing her hair in the trendiest style of 2022, the wolf cut: Not By Lainey • Oct 19, 2022 09:33 am
What Else What Else? This is so f-cking cute and wholesome so of course it’s a story about animals. A dog called Gue has her own support dog called Chew to be with her during hernia treatments and in our home, our dogs are support dogs for each other too. Because they’re By Lainey • Oct 18, 2022 04:07 pm
Business of Hollywood This could be the Hollywood Issue The ELLE Women in Hollywood event featured several young performers who’ve made major moves in 2022 and whose potential influence in the industry is just coming to light. You know what image or image came to mind? The Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue 2010. Two years before, Vanity Fair August By Lainey • Oct 18, 2022 02:37 pm
Brad Pitt That’s Not Brad Pitt For weeks now people have been rumouring that Emily Ratajkowski and Brad Pitt are casually or secretly or thinking about dating. These rumours surfaced around-ish the same time Angelina Jolie filed her counter-claim including allegations about Brad abusing her and their children on that private jet in September 2016. My By Lainey • Oct 18, 2022 11:51 am
Ellen Degeneres James Corden: Kinda Like Ellen If your feed wasn’t blowing up about Olivia Wilde, Jason Sudeikis, Harry Styles, and the nanny, maybe it was blowing up about James Corden. Or maybe they were all blowing up together since James and Harry are good friends. But this is what started the James situation: Keith McNally By Lainey • Oct 18, 2022 11:20 am
Olivia Wilde Intro for October 18, 2022 Dear Gossips, So this situation between Olivia Wilde, Jason Sudeikis, and their former nanny – is there a reliable narrator in this story? Especially since it’s been told (and/or sold) to the Daily Mail? Olivia is being portrayed as a dickmatised cheater, Jason sounds desperately insecure and manipulative, and By Lainey • Oct 18, 2022 09:38 am
What Else What Else? Cate Blanchett, the presumed frontrunner for the Best Actress Oscar, was not at the Academy Museum Gala this weekend because she was over in London for the BFI London Film Festival in support of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio. But it’s still a campaign appearance because British voters make By Lainey • Oct 17, 2022 04:27 pm
Royals Prince Andrew’s Character Witness: A Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, former girlfriend and associate of the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, also referred to as his “madame”, was found guilty earlier this year of conspiring to help Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. She is serving time in prison pending an appeal. Ghislaine is now speaking out and she’ By Lainey • Oct 17, 2022 03:11 pm
Kerry Washington Sequins, leather and more feathers, and Louis Vuitton at the Academy Gala If the category is sequins, you throw on a tulle cape and you start with Miss Diana Ross who performed at the Academy Museum Gala in a silver sequined set that also functions as athleisure. Between this and the coastal grandmother fashion trend, the seniors are leading the way in By Lainey • Oct 17, 2022 01:48 pm
Style Jodie, Kaia, and Olivia: Sheer and Feathers at the Academy Gala Over the last three months, Jodie Turner-Smith, styled by Wayman + Micah, has made a case for herself to be taken out of contention from any best dressed conversation. This is a short list. Zendaya is at the top of it, because if she shows up anywhere, everybody stands down. And By Lainey • Oct 17, 2022 12:09 pm
Award Season Campaigning Campaigning at the Academy Museum Gala The Oscars are still five months away but it’s never too early to campaign, and when it’s a proper Oscar event, of course you show up to represent. The second annual Academy Museum Gala happened on Saturday, this year honouring the contributions of Miky Lee, Steve McQueen, Tilda By Lainey • Oct 17, 2022 11:40 am
Music Intro for October 17, 2022 Dear Gossips, Waking up on Saturday at 4am to livestream a BTS concert felt familiar. Can’t even count anymore how many times I’ve done this over the last two-plus years. As it turns out, this time was the last time for a long time. Because when I woke By Lainey • Oct 17, 2022 09:33 am
Top Reads Presenting Mr & Mrs Affleck There was a Ralph Lauren show in LA last night and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez showed up, both wearing Ralph Lauren, of course, just like they did for their wedding back in August. You’ll recall, JLo wore not one, not two, but three Ralph Lauren bridal looks on By Lainey • Oct 14, 2022 12:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Wilde after DWD ELLE Magazine has released their annual Women in Hollywood issue, with eight different covers featuring eight women who have made an impact in the industry this year. Among them are Michelle Yeoh, Sigourney Weaver, Issa Rae, Anne Hathaway, Selena Gomez, Ariana DeBose, Zoë Kravitz, and Olivia Wilde. During her interview By Lainey • Oct 14, 2022 11:29 am
Top Reads How do we say “bYE”? In Canada earlier this year, an audit found record levels of antisemitism in the country and also that “post-secondary institutions were ‘significant breeding grounds for antisemitism’, with Jewish students increasingly reporting vandalism and threats of violence”. It’s the same in other countries and, evidently, at other academic institutions, including By Lainey • Oct 14, 2022 10:36 am
