Beyoncé Intro for October 23, 2020 Dear Gossips, “Where is your beast mode?” Beyoncé showed us her beast mode yesterday in an IVY PARK Drip 2 video posted on her channels yesterday after releasing still images of the collection. The still images were already enough – but as she intended, the video hyped it all up even By Lainey • Oct 23, 2020 08:51 am
What Else What Else? OMG the premiere of Interview With The Vampire and all the men had long hair. Tom Cruise had long hair. And facial hair. And Brad Pitt had long hair and facial hair. Although that’s not as much of a departure since he’s looked like a variation of this By Lainey • Oct 22, 2020 04:06 pm
Royals The Royal and Powerful Redactions As mentioned earlier today, 400+ pages of deposition testimony from a now-settled civil suit between Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffery Epstein’s alleged madam, were unsealed and made public this morning. Journalists are now poring over details. Not surprisingly, Ghislaine denies any wrongdoing, denies seeing any wrongdoing, and By Lainey • Oct 22, 2020 02:19 pm
Top Reads Shonda Rhimes and the Disneyland Pass Shonda Rhimes’s new cover story in The Hollywood Reporter is so much Show Your Work and I’ve already pitched it to Duana for our next podcast episode because we could spend the whole time talking about what Shonda gives us here. But the detail in the piece that’ By Lainey • Oct 22, 2020 10:26 am
Royals How’s Buckingham Palace Feeling Today? Rudy Giuliani’s in the headlines right now because Sacha Baron Cohen punked him in Borat 2, now streaming on Amazon Prime, and there’s a scene in the film in which Rudy’s in a hotel room with an underage girl posing as a journalist and at one point By Lainey • Oct 22, 2020 09:17 am
Style Intro for October 22, 2020 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week Beyoncé announced the release date for “DRIP 2”. The new IVY PARK x Adidas collection is coming on October 30. But we hadn’t seen any gear yet. Well, now we know. As Kathleen wrote on our group text this morning, “Take all my money By Lainey • Oct 22, 2020 08:48 am
What Else What Else? Surprise! A Dominic West update! He’s still doing unofficial press conferences and insisting his marriage is fine, explaining that his wife, Catherine, is in Ireland on a “work trip”. And that it’s none of our business what went down in Rome with him and Lily James. Well that’ By Lainey • Oct 21, 2020 04:15 pm
Music BLACKPINK on Kimmel Part of my job as a television presenter is to interview celebrities – and for those of us in this profession, no matter what it is, be it news, or entertainment, or sports, we all have lazy fallbacks. A good example is the “how” question. You hear it ALL THE TIME. By Lainey • Oct 21, 2020 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Legally Blonde: A Reunion and a New Chapter There’s a reunion around every corner! That’s how we’re trying to get through the pandemic, I guess. With nostalgia – and all kinds of cast reunions. The latest: Legally Blonde, which turns 20 next year which means this year is the 20th anniversary of when the movie was By Lainey • Oct 21, 2020 10:40 am
Music Intro for October 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, The thing that broke me this morning was what broke Stephen Colbert: Dolly Parton’s singing. It’s the first clip I watched when I got up. Here it is if you haven’t yet seen it: .@DollyParton sings “Bury Me Beneath The Willow” and I think somebody By Lainey • Oct 21, 2020 08:51 am
What Else What Else? Well I guess we’re doing this again. I see pink and white. Jacek just told me he sees pink and white. Billie does not see pink and white. And science has an explanation but it’s more fun to pretend that we’re all either pink and white people By Lainey • Oct 20, 2020 04:00 pm
Top Reads Jennifer Garner Tells Us More Jennifer Garner was on PBS’s Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan this week (thanks to Anna for the heads up and the transcription) and as the title of the show suggests, this is a program where guests open up about …well… more. In Jennifer’s case, these are topics By Lainey • Oct 20, 2020 03:05 pm
Relationship Assumption Katie Holmes: “Authentically Herself” Katie Holmes and Emilio Vitolo Jr were seen in New York City yesterday, as they do, and after weeks of constant togetherness, going from oh he’s engaged to oh he’s no longer engaged, he’s making out with Katie on the sidewalk, and questions about how quickly their By Lainey • Oct 20, 2020 09:54 am
Music Intro for October 20, 2020 Dear Gossips, Yesterday BTS released the first concept photo for their upcoming new album, BE (Deluxe Edition), dropping November 20. For the initiated or the newly initiated, hair colour is a big deal for BTS and its ARMY and you’ll note as we’re being introduced to the BE By Lainey • Oct 20, 2020 08:50 am
What Else What Else? I don’t have a problem with Hailey Bieber’s coat. It’s obviously intended to be a statement, it looks comfortable, and it looks light, which I appreciate because winter coats often feel like a workout. So the coat is fine, whatever. I object to the baseball cap. Wearing By Lainey • Oct 19, 2020 04:19 pm
Dominic West Lily James cancels It’s been a week since Lily James and Dominic West returned to London from Rome together, where they were photographed rather… romantically. Photos of the two were already published by the time they were heading back, on the same flight. And then the next morning, Dominic showed up outside By Lainey • Oct 19, 2020 02:32 pm
