Shout-Outs December 11, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs Jennifer Scott and her friends from the Roncesvalles Holiday Cookie Exchange are participating in the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre DIY fundraising challenge. Jennifer is doing this to honour her sister, Julie, her father, Herb, and her mother-in-law Pat, all of whom are desperately missed. Pat was treated at By Lainey • Dec 11, 2020 09:18 am
Best Of 2020 Intro for December 11, 2020 Dear Gossips, Before I went to bed last night, I was considering several content options for this space. There was so much information dropped last night for Disney Investor Day (Sarah is covering the various Marvel and Star Wars updates) and I can always write about BTS (that’s coming By Lainey • Dec 11, 2020 08:51 am
What Else What Else? Ana de Armas went shopping in a pair of paisley print pants and while I’m all over printed pants, printed anything actually, and clashing prints too… I’ve actually never been fond of paisley. Maybe it’s because every time I see paisley print, the colours are kinda boring. By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 04:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Evans Swabs Himself Adam McKay’s upcoming Netflix film, Don’t Look Up, already had a crazy high-profile cast. I posted about Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio on set last week, and Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Ariana Grande, Timothee Chalamet, Kid Cudi, and so many more are also joining. One more big By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 02:47 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s Evermore No matter how you feel about her, no one can deny that Taylor Swift is one of the music industry’s biggest players. Commercially she’s a big deal – all of her albums have reached million-plus milestones that few, if any, artists ever achieve. She’s also established herself By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 01:01 pm
Books Clooney + Affleck v 2.0 George Clooney and Ben Affleck worked together on Argo – they co-produced, along with Grant Heslov, George’s producing partner, and Ben starred and directed, and the film went on to win Best Picture. That was almost ten years ago. And now they’re teaming up again. Deadline reported yesterday By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 11:35 am
Top Reads Johnny Depp: Bots and “Former Romantic Partners” Maria linked to The Hollywood Reporter’s new Johnny Depp cover story yesterday in Celebrity Social Media. It’s a deep-dive piece and at the time of that post, many people hadn’t had a chance to read it and fully absorb all the bombshells. And there are, indeed, By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 10, 2020 Dear Gossips, Sarah texted me about Promising Young Woman on Saturday night with her reaction. She didn’t know at the time but I was just about to text her with mine. Turns out we were screening it at the same time which meant we were processing all the excellence By Lainey • Dec 10, 2020 08:54 am
What Else What Else? OK so I want to go to a concert too, desperately. I’ve never been to an in-person BTS concert and I don’t know how long we’ll have to wait before that happens but the point is, I get the desire to listen to live music, be By Lainey • Dec 09, 2020 04:08 pm
Style Cher’s First Voiceover? I just saw these new shots of Cher in London heading to the BBC and what I first wanted to write about is this outfit because her half black, half white coat is amazing. And then she matched it with a half black, half white beret and now I don’ By Lainey • Dec 09, 2020 12:47 pm
Royals Will and Kate’s Royal Tour Money Shot The final stop on Prince William and Kate’s royal train mini tour yesterday was Windsor Castle. All week we’ve seen them travelling around the UK to thank people for their service during the pandemic – and, also, to generate some good headlines about the family after almost a month By Lainey • Dec 09, 2020 11:59 am
Shout-Outs December 9, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs Judy Chiao is a teacher at Burnaby North Secondary. She and her students with diverse abilities have published a book! The book is called 1, 2, 3 Count With Me: A Bug Can Count If You Believe! All the students participated – colouring, rhyming, drawing. This is a wonderful achievement and By Lainey • Dec 09, 2020 09:07 am
Amazingness Intro for December 9, 2020 Dear Gossips, A few weeks ago on her BBC Show, Nigella’s Eat, Cook, Repeat, Nigella Lawson made headlines in the UK and then around the world because she butters her toast twice. She adds the first layer when the bread comes out of the toaster and then a second By Lainey • Dec 09, 2020 08:55 am
What Else What Else? Regina King is one of PEOPLE’s People of the Year. No debate on this one, right? And she may be one of the People of Next Year too because of her work directing One Night in Miami, one of the contenders for Best Picture. Regina just might receive a By Lainey • Dec 08, 2020 04:01 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben Affleck Wears His Drama Wearing your drama, as words on a t-shirt, is way better than living the drama. And despite the fact that 2020 has been a f-cking prick of a year, Ben Affleck, as least publicly, didn’t have a bad one. While Ben may not have been involved in By Lainey • Dec 08, 2020 01:09 pm
Royals Will and Kate’s Medium Mini Tour What’s in between a bomb and a hit? That’s the word I’m looking for to describe Prince William and Kate’s royal train mini tour of the UK to visit frontline and essential services workers who’ve given so much during the pandemic. Royal tours like this By Lainey • Dec 08, 2020 11:13 am
