Top Reads Rachel Bilson and Rami Malek’s Oscar Stress Rachel Bilson was on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast on Monday and told a story about Rami Malek that’s been making the rounds. So Rachel and Rami went to high school together and they were friends, they did plays together, they hung out with the same friends. During By Lainey • Mar 31, 2021 03:09 pm
Style Gwen Stefani: Forever Dorm Style Gwen Stefani was on Good Morning America today promoting her new single “Slow Clap”. It’s the second single off her upcoming album – and that was my first question: when is this album coming out? They haven’t announced yet…because she’s actually still working on it. And she By Lainey • Mar 31, 2021 11:05 am
Business of Hollywood The Oscar “Hubs” An Oscars meeting took place yesterday between the show’s producers, Steven Soderbergh, Jesse Collins, and Stacey Sher, and the nominees after many of the nominees raised concerns about not being able to be in Los Angeles on April 25 as COVID cases are surging in many places around the By Lainey • Mar 31, 2021 10:36 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 31, 2021 Dear Gossips, I got an email yesterday with the sender including a link to the video of the 65-year-old East Asian woman who was beaten in New York City while walking past an apartment building and told that “you don’t belong here”, while the people in the By Lainey • Mar 31, 2021 10:04 am
What Else What Else? Lady Gaga’s birthday was a couple of days ago and she received a huge basket of roses from her boyfriend. It’s huge. And beautiful. But my mind immediately went to clean up. Like when they’re not fresh anymore, that will be a pain in the ass to By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 04:16 pm
Gorgessity How Rihanna goes for groceries I haven’t been to a grocery store in a long time. I do, however, try to make it to the butcher every weekend and when I do… this is not what I look like. I actually don’t look at what I look like because it’s a real By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 03:45 pm
Equality Issues BTS Supports #StopAsianHate This past weekend, there were anti-Asian racism protests in several major cities across Canada and the United States. In Los Angeles, a youth group performed towards the end of the rally to BTS’s “Dynamite”. For some time now, BTS members RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 02:45 pm
Royals The Royal “Spin Doctors”? It was reported a couple of days ago that the British senior royals have hired new staff – specifically communications staff. Which is interesting because for the last few weeks, much of my posts about them have been about their piss poor comms strategy and their need for effective crisis management By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 12:25 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina goes teen shopping Angelina Jolie was out yesterday with Vivienne. They went to FOREVER 21 which… yeah… of course they did. Vivienne is 12 years old. And even though she’s the child of celebrities, it doesn’t mean she doesn’t share common ground with other kids her age. FOREVER 21 went By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 30, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Canadian Screen Award nominations were announced this morning. The full list can be accessed here. The CSAs celebrate the best in Canadian film and television and on the film side, Tracey Deer’s Beans, which I profiled during TIFF last September, received five nominations. Beans is Tracey’ By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 09:08 am
What Else What Else? I posted earlier about Viola Davis and Issa Rae and what the NAACP Image Awards means to the Black community. They expressed that sentiment through words… and fashion. The looks at this event were show-stopping, the best we’ve seen through award season. Because that’s how you show By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Two Sides of Noah Centineo Did you see everyone talking about Noah Centineo a few days ago? That was the intention all along when he and his trainer posted videos and photos of him in the gym and how he’s transformed his body. Noah has been getting into superhero shape. And, well, he’s By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 02:23 pm
Relationship Assumption JLo & ARod: For the Money Last week I posted about how Alex Rodriguez was in the Dominican Republic to spend time with Jennifer Lopez while she shoots her new rom-com but that they’d both not shared pictures of themselves together since the reports that they had ended their engagement and their subsequent statement By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 01:36 pm
Top Reads Viola Davis: “We’re dope” Viola Davis was a double winner at the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, recognised for her performances in How To Get Away With Murder and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, for which she’s been nominated for an Oscar, becoming the most-nominated Black woman in Academy history. This factored By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 11:52 am
Equality Issues Issa Rae’s Awards Perspective The NAACP Image Awards took place this weekend, hosted by Anthony Anderson. Issa Rae won her first NAACP Image Award for lead actress in a comedy. She was nominated alongside Regina Hall, Folake Olowofoyeku, Yara Shahidi, and Tracee Ellis Ross. And she hilariously shouted out Tracee in her acceptance speech. By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 10:38 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Jodie and Joshua’s Badass Baby Stroller No better way to start the week – here are Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson in New York this weekend out for a walk with their baby who is almost a year old now?! Howwwwww….? I know, I know we’ve all been talking about how it’s been a By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 09:43 am
