Relationship Assumption The Beckhams in New York It was pretty much exactly four years ago that the Beckhams were making headlines for what the UK tabloids were reporting at the time to be an imminent divorce. This started because Victoria and David attended Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding and Victoria wasn’t smiling which… standard, By Lainey • May 26, 2021 10:08 am
Music Intro for May 26, 2021 Dear Gossips, Did you see Victor Solomon’s performance on The Voice earlier this week? He’s on John Legend’s team and John afterwards called it the best performance in the show’s history. Victor’s song was Beyoncé’s “Freedom” and what’s extra amazing is that he By Lainey • May 26, 2021 09:18 am
What Else What Else? I tried the other day to watch every angle I could of Simone Biles doing the Yuchenko Double Pike in combination. It’s historic. But apparently the gymnastics federation isn’t all that impressed. For…whatever …reasons. Here’s an athlete who spent the COVID year improving, elevating the sport, By Lainey • May 25, 2021 04:01 pm
Top Reads Taika, Tessa, and Rita Taika Waititi and Rita Ora are dating. Which has elevated Rita to the celebrity status that she may have been thirsting for for a while now. When I was texting about this with Sarah last week, though, she made an observation that isn’t getting quite as much play – it’ By Lainey • May 25, 2021 02:30 pm
Music Drake’s Stadium Party When I last posted about Drake, it was on Thursday, ahead of Drake receiving the Billboard Artist of the Decade award on Sunday night. He had his whole crew on stage with him (“started from the bottom now we’re here”) and his parents, and he brought out his son By Lainey • May 25, 2021 01:43 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben Affleck’s Love Box There were no updates on Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez last week after they were seen together in Montana. JLo was in Miami, Ben was in LA, photographed a couple of times with his children, and while there was all kinds of reporting and speculation about their situationship, it was By Lainey • May 25, 2021 12:10 pm
Equality Issues Lil Nas X’s wardrobe malfunction Lil Nas X was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend on the season finale hosted by Anya Taylor-Joy. The big headline coming out of his performance was how he split his pants when he dropped it low on the pole. My big takeaway was how adorable he By Lainey • May 25, 2021 10:51 am
Equality Issues Intro for May 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, A year ago today, George Floyd was murdered by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis. His daughter, Gianna, has been without her father for a year – because of racism, one individual’s racism shaped by institutional racism. Derek Chauvin has been convicted for killing George Floyd but as By Lainey • May 25, 2021 09:36 am
What Else What Else? Here we go… it’s not even remotely close to Halloween but we have to talk about Hocus Pocus. The movie I have never seen and I get told about it by the youngs (including our site manager Emily) about what I’m missing all the time. I watched the By Lainey • May 21, 2021 04:06 pm
Equality Issues BTS in Pole Position Motor racing is one of the things on my mind this weekend because it’s the Monaco Grand Prix, the jewel of the F1 circuit, arguably the most prestigious race in the world. And while I have never paid much attention to this event, Drive to Survive changed all that By Lainey • May 21, 2021 01:07 pm
Royals Diana, William, and Harry: Past and Present Man, what a collision of royal news the last 24 hours, all of it connected and complicated, with the past coming back to haunt the present and the present folding itself into the past. Let’s start there with the release of the Dyson report that found that Martin Bashir By Lainey • May 21, 2021 11:23 am
Equality Issues Intro for May 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, Bela, Eloise, Lucia, and Mila are known as The Linda Lindas, and yesterday they went viral. If you’ve already seen this video, you know what a fist-pumper it is. And if you haven’t, well, this is the perfect start to the weekend, which happens to be By Lainey • May 21, 2021 09:31 am
What Else What Else? Totally agree with the Fug Girls here and their public service announcement about Alessandra Ambrosio’s footwear and the dangers presented in wearing them. I actually thought, before I clicked on the image, that they were talking about flip-flops. Because flip-flops are a hazard. I know because I broke my By Lainey • May 20, 2021 04:05 pm
Ryan Reynolds Ryan Reynolds: Creating Ownership Content One of these days we’ll need to dedicate an episode of Show Your Work to Ryan Reynolds because… he has been doing a LOT of good work over the last couple of years. Ryan has a LOT going on. Multiple film projects which, alone, could keep him full time By Lainey • May 20, 2021 01:07 pm
BFFs Drake’s week of partying Drake partying for a whole week isn’t an extraordinary occurrence. The artist formerly known as The Boy lives large, rolls deep, and has been on a decade-plus streak that does not seem to be coming to end any time soon. He just invested in a chicken meat substitute that’ By Lainey • May 20, 2021 12:00 pm
TV Updates Friends…in Canada Yesterday in What Else?, I wrote that in Canada there wasn’t word yet on whether or not we’d be getting the Friends reunion. Today, super fresh, Crave has confirmed it: the Friends reunion will stream exclusively day and date a week from today on Thursday May 27th. Friends By Lainey • May 20, 2021 11:09 am