TV Updates Intro for June 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, Issa Rae is in Cannes this week and yesterday spoke on a panel at the Cannes Lion festival, a marketing and advertising convention. Issa challenged the ad industry to promote diversity in their work and on their teams by confronting their biases and by also following up and By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 09:24 am
What Else What Else? Ghislaine Maxwell will be sentenced soon and her legal team is asking for leniency based on how she was treated by her father. Right. But for the girls who she sex-trafficked, alongside Jeffrey Epstein, their adolescence was ruined too. Let’s keep their experiences top of mind. (Cele|bitchy) By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 04:46 pm
Break Ups MBJ & Lori: Arms out, Abs out We’ve been living in a post Michael B Jordan + Lori Harvey world for a couple of weeks now. PEOPLE confirmed their breakup and it sounded at the time like he was ready to go to the next level but that’s not where she was at in her life By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 01:07 pm
BFFs Mimi is a Bro Sarah posted last Friday about the new trailer for Billy Eichner’s upcoming rom-com Bros and as she said, “please just give me this movie right now”. This trailer and the one before it too have been great – and I don’t even mind if it ends up being By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 12:08 pm
Music The Beyoncé Solstice Today is the first day of summer 2022. Because Beyoncé told us. Summer officially started last night when she released the first track, “Break My Soul”, off her upcoming seventh album, Renaissance. Last week we found out Beyoncé is going back to the long roll-out instead of the surprise By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 10:43 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 21, 2022 Dear Gossips, I recently interviewed Shanese Indoowaaboo Steele for ETALK presents: IMPACT & INFLUENCE – Celebrating Indigenous Changemakers, a 30-minute special airing and streaming tonight at 7pm on CTV and CTV.ca. Shanese is a public speaker, an advocate and an activist, a writer, a culture critic. She facilitates workshops By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 09:39 am
What Else What Else? It’s Emmy season and the Kardashians are campaigning, they’re pushing for a nomination for the new Hulu show. I really like Khloe’s outfit at this FYC event. It’s my favourite outfit that she’s ever worn, I think. (Go Fug Yourself) There’s a fancy McDonald’ By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 04:15 pm
Style Tom Cruise, Top Gun, and a LOT of Finger Hearts Top Gun: Maverick is nearing a billion dollars worldwide at the box office. As we’ve seen, people are going again and again, including this weekend for Father’s Day as domestically the movie brought in another $44 million… in its FOURTH week, a drop of only 15% from the By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 01:14 pm
Royals Harry & Meghan: Weekend Polo and the Buried Inquiry Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were seen at the polo club in Santa Barbara again on Friday. It’s been a pretty regular occurrence this spring, the most consistently visible the Sussexes have been in a while, though I’m not sure if that will continue since Harry’s team By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 11:52 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Pronouns and a new On The JLo Still don’t regret signing up for On The JLo and whatever it is that Jennifer Lopez will do eventually with my email. Because when a new installment of her newsletter arrives in my inbox, I can’t open it quickly enough – since we know, from experience, that she delivers! By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 10:06 am
Sports Intro for June 20, 2022 Dear Gossips, Lewis Hamilton won his first Formula 1 at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal in 2007. He was back on the podium yesterday, finishing third, and it was clear that it was a special moment given what Montreal means to him, and also what his result represents, hopefully, By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 09:19 am
Style Outfit of the Week: Hall of Fame Mimi It has been a MINUTE since we’ve posted about Mariah Carey, our Elusive Butterfly Chanteuse, the Mimi of our wildest rainbow and animal print dreams. She was in New York last night, the headlining artist inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and as she said while accepting the By Lainey • Jun 17, 2022 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ana de Armas is Marilyn For the last few weeks, ever since the Met Gala, any conversation about Marilyn Monroe is accompanied by Kim Kardashian. And you know how social media works in these times – for a lot of people now, in their minds, Marilyn now will always be connected to Kim. At least until By Lainey • Jun 17, 2022 01:23 pm
Maple Leaf Drake: Sex and Summer It’s been a good week for Drake. First, he and his team won a second championship. This is the intramural three-on-three basketball league, SBL, that he started with his friends but since it’s Drake, you know it has to be extra. First of all, they play By Lainey • Jun 17, 2022 10:51 am
Shout-Outs June 17, 2022 – Shout-Outs Amanda! Happy Birthday with so much love from Melissa. I’ve heard it’s been a challenging year, but I also know that you’ll bounce back and rise up. And besides, BTS gave you an early present right? Proof is on repeat in your life, and you’re consuming By Lainey • Jun 17, 2022 09:50 am
What Else What Else? Chris Evans and Uzo Aduba are shutting down the f-cksh-t backlash over the same-sex kiss in Lightyear. It’s two women showing their love for each other, in a family film – and families are supposed to be rooted in love so what is the goddamn problem? Do By Lainey • Jun 16, 2022 04:59 pm
