Royals Big G’s 8th Birthday Prince George turns eight years old tomorrow and, per tradition, his parents have released a new portrait ahead of his big day. The photo, as usual, was taken by Kate, and shows G sitting on a Land Rover, a tribute to his late great-grandfather, Prince Philip. Big G was By Lainey • Jul 22, 2021 10:23 am
Shout-Outs July 22, 2021 – Shout-Outs Michele! It’s that time! Happy Birthday with love from Staci! Wishing you a wonderful year, a healthy year, and for both of you, may this beautiful friendship and tradition continue. Looking forward to hearing from you in 2022. By request, here’s Jacob Elordi. By Lainey • Jul 22, 2021 09:34 am
Style Intro for July 22, 2021 Dear Gossips, Did you set your alarm? FLEX PARK, Beyoncé’s new Ivy Park x Adidas collection goes on sale online at 2pm. This is the all-orange collection, the perfect shade, bright and fun and cool and cute and intended for everyone from size XS to 4X. From the By Lainey • Jul 22, 2021 09:06 am
What Else What Else? I could watch this video of Dolly Parton recreating her Playboy cover for her husband’s birthday over and over again. Actually, no, I could LISTEN to this video – because it’s not actually the outfit that’s entertaining, it’s what she’s saying and how she says it. By Lainey • Jul 21, 2021 04:01 pm
Music BTS: Permission to Travel Yesterday in my opening post about BTS, I wrote about their success over the last year: they’ve just unseated themselves at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, knocking out their own song “Butter” with their new song “Permission to Dance”, their fifth #1 in ten months. And yet, By Lainey • Jul 21, 2021 02:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate Beckinsale: Back in Outfits For some people, in certain territories, reopening doesn’t necessarily mean giving up everything we did during lockdown. Fashion habits, for instance, have changed. I don’t want to go back to what fashion was before COVID. Joggers and slouchy pants were always part of my wardrobe pre-pandemic, and By Lainey • Jul 21, 2021 01:07 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Monroe Cannon is a model Monroe Cannon, known in the culture as one half of “Dembabies”, which is what her mother calls her and her twin brother, Moroccan, is now a model. Her mother, of course, is Mariah Carey, the elusive butterfly chanteuse and light of our lives. Monroe is now ten years old – and By Lainey • Jul 21, 2021 10:50 am
Relationship Assumption Bennifer covers PEOPLE It’s Bennifer Summer! And PEOPLE has made it official in their new issue as their top story for the week is Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez and their “second chance at love”. In terms of content, there’s nothing much that’s new or noteworthy here, nothing exclusive. But By Lainey • Jul 21, 2021 10:30 am
Shout-Outs July 21, 2021 – Shout-Outs Carolina! Happy Belated Birthday from Paula and congratulations on your promotion! By request, here’s your OG celebrity crush, Elijah Wood. And PS…nothing is temporary. Keep killing it and your work will be permanently recognised! By Lainey • Jul 21, 2021 09:48 am
Royals Intro for July 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, No surprise that the news about Prince Harry’s memoir is a major fixation for the UK tabloids. And no surprise that the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee next year is coming up by association. As this tweet suggests… https://twitter.com/PaganTrelawney/status/1417518125378113536?s=20 Harry’s By Lainey • Jul 21, 2021 09:35 am
What Else What Else? Naomi Osaka is on the cover of Sports Illustrated and she looks amazing and her documentary is definitely on my watch list, I’m just trying to finish Never Have I Ever right now, and there should be no problem with this because Naomi is sports and her body is By Lainey • Jul 20, 2021 04:06 pm
Style Storm Reid’s Tennis Dinner Storm Reid went for dinner the other night at Giorgio Baldi and the topic here is her dinner outfit. Maybe she was coming straight from a tennis match or a tennis lesson and things got late so she didn’t have time to go home and shower. Or maybe there By Lainey • Jul 20, 2021 12:04 pm
Top Reads Harry: His True Story The big royal headline of the week landed yesterday afternoon ET – Prince Harry is writing his memoir, to be published through Penguin Random House, “tentatively scheduled for late 2022”. As I wrote yesterday in What Else? , I’m not convinced that they’d always intended to make the announcement when By Lainey • Jul 20, 2021 09:26 am
Music Intro for July 20, 2021 Dear Gossips, At this point, it was expected, although it’s never a guarantee. Maybe it is now? After seven weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Butter”, BTS has knocked their own song out of the top spot with their new song, “Permission to Dance”. Billboard made By Lainey • Jul 20, 2021 08:52 am
What Else What Else? BREAKING NEWS! Penguin Random House just announced that Prince Harry is writing a memoir! The release date is late 2022 so we’re still a year away from publication. So now the UK tabloids have a headline for tomorrow’s papers, and I wonder if there’s a scramble now By Lainey • Jul 19, 2021 04:07 pm
Style Rosamund’s Red Cannes Moment According to JustJared, this was Rosamund Pike’s Cannes debut because even though she’s been there before, many years back, she was never photographed. Now though… Rosamund Pike is 100% a red carpet presence and to commemorate the moment, she showed up on the red carpet in a red By Lainey • Jul 19, 2021 02:18 pm
