Shout-Outs March 29, 2022 – Shout-Outs This is for Emily – I know it’s been a f-ck of a time right now because of that f-cking asshole who ruined your birthday. At the same time… and I know it’s hard to see now, maybe it’ll end up being the best birthday gift because you’ By Lainey • Mar 29, 2022 09:33 am
Jada Pinkett Smith Intro for March 29, 2022 Dear Gossips, Yesterday in What Else?, I linked to The Cut’s piece on alopecia, the autoimmune disease that “nearly one-third of women experience, in some form, in their lives”. That includes Jada Pinkett Smith. Specifically Jada is living with alopecia areata which “occurs more frequently among Black Americans”. I By Lainey • Mar 29, 2022 09:09 am
What Else What Else? Saniyya Sidney’s first Oscar dress was perfect. I don’t think she’ll look back on this with regret. The colours are so pretty on her, the fit is terrific, and she just looks so happy to be there. I hope she gets to go back someday soon. Also, By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 03:30 pm
Oscars 2022 Liza and Gaga: A Sweet End to a Messy Night And that’s how we’ll wrap it up too – like the Oscars, after a mess of a night, the show concluded on love and joy: CODA won Best Picture and Liza Minnelli and Lady Gaga made the announcement. Maybe it’s because I saw the Liza and Gaga moment By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 02:30 pm
Oscars 2022 The Men and Tiffany Haddish During the show, it was the Men and Regina Hall. For the purposes of this post, it’s the Men and Tiffany, but we’ll start with Timothée Chalamet because… HOW COULD WE NOT. Timmy was one of the men who Regina called up onstage, along with Bradley Cooper, Tyler By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 01:52 pm
Oscars 2022 Just Let Venus and Serena Party I was happy to see photos of Venus and Serena Williams at the Vanity Fair Oscar party last night because, well, can we just let them party?! That’s all we’re talking about here in this post – and nothing else. Just good vibes and good fashion, the end. Serena By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 01:03 pm
Oscars 2022 Jessica Chastain’s Best Actress Dress Jessica Chastain is finally an Oscar winner – and this is the dress for the occasion. As I always say, an Oscar look is a forever look. A nominee who probably won’t win actually has more opportunity to have some fun with their look than someone who’s expected to By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 11:22 am
Oscars 2022 Kristen, Cynthia, Niecy, and Wanda: Queer Love at the Oscars Look, I wish we lived in a time when it wasn’t particularly noteworthy to see queer couples on Hollywood’s biggest night. I get that dedicating a post to queer love at the Oscars could be interpreted as a form of othering. Because in an ideal world, it’d By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 10:20 am
Oscars 2022 Billie and Zoë: The Oscars could use more cuteness Duana texted me right after this happened – Zoë Kravitz and Jake Gyllenhaal presented Best Original Song to Billie Eilish and Finneas for “No Time To Die” and after their acceptance speech, this happened: BILLIE AND ZOË JUMPING UP AND DOWN IM CRYING THEYRE SO CUTE #Oscar pic.twitter.com/4NDmCOlgTn By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 08:16 am
Oscars 2022 Troy, Yuh-jung, and CODA: Love and Kindness at the Oscars As Sarah just wrote in the previous post, there is a lot of work that has to be done in the days and months ahead to fix the Oscars – and this was the case even before last night after all the controversy about the eight categories that were cut from By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 06:15 am
Oscars 2022 Intro for March 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, It is a truth universally acknowledged that when Beyoncé opens a show, no other point in the show will reach the heights that it did when Beyoncé was in command. That was always going to be the case with the Oscars this year; it’s just that…well… By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 05:10 am
What Else What Else? The Oscars are now just 48 hours away and there are already some possible controversies. First, we don’t know exactly who will show up with reports that there are still some people, and some nominees, who might be out with COVID. Then there’s the whole debate about cutting By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 04:11 pm
Outfit of the Week Outfit of the Week: Classic Gwen Stefani Gwen Stefani was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night to promote her makeup line GXVE Beauty (pronounced “give”). I really want to try the gel liner. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’ve been on a year-long search for brown liquid waterproof eyeliner because MAC discontinued their Liquid By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 02:21 pm
TV Updates Simone Ashley: The New Bridgerton Breakout Hello are you there? Or are you mainlining Bridgerton? I know season two just dropped today on Netflix but in some parts of the world, today is over halfway over and it’s eight episodes, eight hours, it’s very possible that some of you are done. I say this By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 12:38 pm
Top Reads Will and Kate: At Least Stick the Dismount? Prince William and Kate Cambridge’s tour of Belize, Jamaica, and The Bahamas was supposed to be a “charm offensive”, the term used to describe these trips when British royals go abroad and hypnotise the people with their big smiles and good manners. And for over a decade, that’s By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 11:45 am
Relationship Assumption Bennifer: Dropoff and Pickup Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were out yesterday, first dropping off his son, Samuel, at a lesson, running some errands in between, and then picking his son up again. Samuel, you’ll recall, was with Ben and JLo’s daughter, Emme, at the iHeartRadio Music Awards the other night when By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 10:42 am
