Dilraba Dilmurat Dilireba: A Red Carpet Princess The Tencent Video Star Awards happened in Nanjing, China earlier this week. If you’ve never heard of Tencent and you care about pop culture, you should start getting familiar. Tencent is a major multimedia Chinese conglomerate. It is the world’s biggest gaming company and has a stake in By Lainey • Dec 23, 2020 12:29 pm
Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt: Holiday 2020 Brad Pitt was making headlines exactly a year ago this week for a few reasons. First, he was the frontrunner for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood which he would go on to win. But also, he was seen at Jennifer By Lainey • Dec 23, 2020 10:49 am
Mariah Carey Intro for December 23, 2020 Dear Gossips, For a lot of people this year, the holidays are nothing like what we’re used to which is why, where we can, we are improvising, figuring out how to keep some traditions, only modified according to guidelines. In an ordinary year Jacek and I would be in By Lainey • Dec 23, 2020 09:19 am
What Else What Else? Would you have tried the McDonald’s Oreo Spam burger if it was available where you live? I would. I f-cking love Spam. Spam isn’t as big in China as it is in Korea (Koreans are obsessed with Spam) but in Hong Kong, where I half grew up, they By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 03:53 pm
Amazingness Hugh for the Holidays How does a man who so famously hates everything bring out the opposite emotion in us? Hugh Grant is delightful! Does he know how delightful he is? Does he know that the more he curmudgeons, the more joy he brings? Does he know that his self-loathing makes us love him By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 12:07 pm
Royals Harry & Meghan Before the Holiday Card Prince Harry and Meghan Markled were papped in Beverly Hills on Sunday (Page Six has more photos) heading into an office building. It is not known specifically which business they were visiting. It was 27˚C/81˚F in Beverly Hills that day. Harry is dressed for it. Meghan, however, By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 11:16 am
Royals A Royal Pandemic Promenade How lovely! The lights are so beautiful this time of year, aren’t they? I really, really love holiday lights. And in London especially, they really do know what they’re doing with the lights. I’ve been in London a couple of times during the holiday season and the By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 10:43 am
Equality Issues Intro for December 22, 2020 Dear Gossips, Joyce Echaquan is the Atikamekw woman who died in a hospital in Quebec after live-streaming hospital staff verbally abusing her with racial slurs and generally not taking her condition seriously. Her death exposed once again the inequalities in all Canadian institutions, from education to community infrastructure to healthcare By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 09:48 am
What Else What Else? I will read anything that Allison P Davis produces but this piece, what’s presumably her final major piece of the year, is why she’s one of the best culture writers right now. It’s about how a Black family had to deal with a racist neighbour and covers By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 02:56 pm
Top Reads The BTS Magazine Effect Did you do your assigned homework? On Friday, in What Else, I linked to CNN’s article about the BTS effect on the American magazine industry this year as assigned reading. If you read it then you know that the piece reported on the magazine sales of four publications that By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 01:57 pm
Katie Holmes Katie’s Instagram Birthday Gift Katie Holmes’s birthday was last Friday, December 18. I always remember because it’s also Brad Pitt’s birthday and at one point I tried to Gossip Genie the two of them together. But then Emilio Vitolo Jr came along. What did Emilio give Katie for her birthday, her By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 10:30 am
Shout-Outs December 21, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs Rebekah! I’m SO sorry I missed this last week, especially since it’s been such a f-ck of a year and you’ve had so much going on. As for the crying, girl, same. Same, same, same. So I’m thinking of you in your pyjamas while I’m By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 09:58 am
Kristen Wiig Intro for December 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was so good to see Maya Rudolph and Kate McKinnon join Kristen Wiig onstage for the opening monologue on Saturday Night Live this weekend. They’ll go down as all-time greats on the show for sure. Actually, they already are. The women of SNL have always held By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 09:18 am
What Else What Else? Well now I really have to go watch some Nancy Meyers movies because reading about these f-ckwits at the Denny’s who refused to wear a mask, claiming civil rights and religious freedom is making me rage. The fact that they went in there with their phones recording the whole By Lainey • Dec 18, 2020 03:11 pm
Outfit of the Week Jennifer Garner: Outfit of the Week What do you call these … spikes on Jennifer Garner’s sweater? To me they look like the blades on the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones. Is that what you’re seeing too? That’s mostly what I’m seeing. The other part, because vaccines have been so much in By Lainey • Dec 18, 2020 11:47 am
Jennifer Lopez JLo’s Full-Body Check Jennifer Lopez stepped out yesterday or what the paps are calling a dermatologist appointment, apparently for the second day in a row. JLo recently launched a skincare line and as Maria wrote in her post about the products, of course we all want JLo’s skin – but it’s more By Lainey • Dec 18, 2020 10:00 am
