Maple Leaf Intro for November 26, 2020 Dear Gossips, As we approach the end of the year, the lists keep coming. I do love a list. I like the discipline of holding myself back from scrolling to the bottom of it so as to not spoil #1. I like the reward of reading through each entry – and By Lainey • Nov 26, 2020 08:48 am
What Else What Else? I had no idea that there was an Instagram account dedicated to a rescue raccoon and that this raccoon is… adorable. And obsessed with water. I’ve just spent 15 minutes watching his videos. But it doesn’t change the way I feel about raccoons in the wild. And by By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 04:23 pm
Music BTS: The Nomination and the Talk Show Standard As I’ve been writing about for months now, BTS has been quite vocal about their hopes for a Grammy. It’s a whole Grammy package, actually. They performed at the Grammys last year as guests of Lil Nas X which means they’ve yet to be invited to showcase By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 02:35 pm
Rihanna Rihanna: One More Dinner Effective tonight, LA is banning indoor dining due to the spike in COVID-19 cases. There’s also speculation that they’ll soon be moving to “safer-at-home” orders that may not be as strict as the lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic but certainly it means that people will not By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 12:15 pm
Music Taylor Swift: folkore for Disney+ …and the Grammys It was no surprise that Taylor Swift’s folklore received five Grammy nominations yesterday (she has six in total with a nomination for her Cats song “Beautiful Ghosts”). The surprise release of folklore was a major moment for the music industry and became the first album of 2020 to sell By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 10:53 am
Royals Intro for November 25, 2020 Dear Gossips, In a piece for The New York Times, Meghan Markle has revealed that she suffered a miscarriage in July. She writes in her essay that through the experience, she and Prince Harry learned that “in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them will have suffered By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 09:29 am
What Else What Else? Another member of the royal family has COVID-19. It’s Princess OfMichael. And of course they wanted us all to know where she allegedly got it which… well… that’s lovely, isn’t it? As if that person doesn’t already have a rough time of it, working for this By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 04:16 pm
Dumbass Justin Bieber Has a Category Question Well this, this is a RICH. The big news in entertainment today is the Grammy nominations. I posted some quick thoughts about it earlier, specifically focusing on the biggest snub of the year: The Weeknd’s album, After Hours, and all of its hits – there are several of them, and By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 04:04 pm
Hook Ups Vanessa and Austin Moved On Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler were together for nine years. Their breakup was confirmed back in January so, like, eleven months ago. She was on a red carpet pretty much right after the split was reported wearing white and it was basically a Carrie Bradshaw moment: she’s marrying herself! By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 02:58 pm
Music Beyoncé Leads the Grammy Nominations The Grammy nominations were just announced today. Beyoncé received the most nominations with nine for “Black Parade”, “Savage” with Megan Thee Stallion, and “Brown Skin Girl”. And she wasn’t even trying. That’s not to say she doesn’t try with her music – obviously, no one works harder than By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 02:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Natalie Portman Takes a Break It’s been a while since we posted about Natalie Portman. She’s been in Australia for a while now working on Thor: Love and Thunder. When she’s not shooting, she’s spent time with her family at the beach and at the park, which is where these shots By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 11:33 am
Brad Pitt Emma Stone’s Dinner with Brange Emma Stone is currently promoting The Croods. She’s also pregnant. And she was on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night, so instead of talking about her pregnancy, which is her right to avoid, she gave us a good nugget about the time she took her mother to By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 10:38 am
TV Updates The Crown: Missed Lesson Almost all of the coverage about season four of The Crown has been focused on the introduction of Princess Diana and Prince Charles and how their marriage was doomed, and the ways in which the British royal family failed their youngest and most popular member at the time. Over the By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 10:09 am
Justin Timberlake Intro for November 24, 2020 Dear Gossips, Posting about Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas yesterday on a balcony in New Orleans triggered a memory about another balcony in New Orleans: the biggest gossip story a year ago this week was when Justin Timberlake was photographed by paparazzi on the balcony of a bar in By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 08:56 am
What Else What Else? It’s tricky having tomato red hair when the backdrop of the photo wall is also tomato red. This is what happened with Bebe Rexha last night at the AMAs. She performed with Doja Cat and this is what I meant earlier in my post about BTS when I talked By Lainey • Nov 23, 2020 04:00 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s AMAs Message Last year, ahead of the 2019 American Music Awards, Taylor Swift dominated the headlines when she called out Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta for not signing off on her performing her own music at the event while receiving the Artist of the Decade award. Everything worked out for her in By Lainey • Nov 23, 2020 02:19 pm
