Royals Intro for August 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, Today is Meghan Markle’s birthday. A couple of weeks ago, when the British royal family was celebrating Big G’s birthday, I wondered whether or not they’d do social media posts for the next royal birthday. The question has been answered: all three senior British royal By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 08:58 am
Music BLACK IS KING: A Beyoncé Solar System The MTV VMA nominations were announced yesterday. A few hours later, Beyoncé released the visual album, BLACK IS KING, on Disney+, and ….well. Not that we needed one but it was yet another reminder that there is one game, and then there is another universe that belongs to Beyoncé, so By Lainey • Jul 31, 2020 10:21 am
Douchebags Ellen DeGeneres responds Almost five months ago, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Ellen DeGeneres was called out in a Twitter thread about how in real life, she is supposedly the opposite of “Be Kind”, which has become her slogan. For years now, these rumours have been circulating in the entertainment industry By Lainey • Jul 31, 2020 09:30 am
Beyoncé Intro for July 31, 2020 Dear Gossips, “She says less as she has more power.”– Treva Lindsey, Associate Professor of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University I don’t think I need to tell you who Professor Lindsey is talking about. Beyoncé doesn’t have to speak and some people are getting By Lainey • Jul 31, 2020 08:51 am
What Else What Else? Demi Lovato and Max Ehrich are engaged. Apparently he was waiting for the ring to be ready until he proposed and it was a special design. I mean, I think the “special design” part here is the size. It’s enormous, even by celebrity standards. Anyway, now we’re finding By Lainey • Jul 30, 2020 04:01 pm
Jennifer Aniston The Virtual Emmys In yesterday’s site open, I wrote about Zendaya’s Emmy nomination and how I hoped that the Emmys and the red carpet could still happen this year but that it wasn’t looking likely since California is one of six states reporting record spikes in COVID-19 deaths and the By Lainey • Jul 30, 2020 11:03 am
Royals Harry & Meghan: “Hey Boo” and The Secret Engagement PEOPLE Magazine is the American media outlet where the publishers of Finding Freedom, by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, have chosen to place advance excerpts of the book ahead of its release on August 11. The British counterpart to this was The Sunday Times. To me, PEOPLE’s coming through By Lainey • Jul 30, 2020 10:03 am
Royals Harry & Meghan: The Tiara Drama As part of the advance promotion for Finding Freedom, the new book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, excerpts were released to the Sunday Times and the Times in the UK last weekend and in the United States, PEOPLE Magazine is the American outlet By Lainey • Jul 30, 2020 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 30, 2020 Dear Gossips, Tonight’s the night, you ready? Beyoncé’s BLACK IS KING premieres on Disney+ tonight at 3am ET/12am PT and a new trailer dropped yesterday to get people primed for her latest masterpiece: #BLACKISKING — A Film by Beyoncé. July 31st at 12AM PST // 3AM EST on @disneyplus. By Lainey • Jul 30, 2020 09:00 am
What Else What Else? I don’t know about you but in COVID times, not a day goes by where there isn’t some kind of delivery. Or multiple. Not because I’m online shopping a lot because I’m not but because that’s how a lot of work is happening. I’m By Lainey • Jul 29, 2020 04:01 pm
Royals Harry and Meghan: The Finding Freedom Rom-Com and Ghost Emojis Finding Freedom, the new book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle by royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, was excerpted in the UK this past weekend, resulting in all kinds of outrage from most UK press outlets. It’s been interesting to see what parts of the excerpts people By Lainey • Jul 29, 2020 12:58 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Prince William: The Podcast Prince Ahead of the FA Cup Final this weekend in England, Prince William showed up on BBC Radio Live Five’s That Peter Crouch Podcast to talk about football and mental health. William is the President of the Football Association and this year’s event has been renamed the Heads Up By Lainey • Jul 29, 2020 11:12 am
Break Ups Brad & Jen: Emmys Gossip Genie? Back in January, when so many of us were stupidly oblivious to the sh-t that 2020 would be bringing, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston dominated celebrity gossip headlines because of the “moment” they shared at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. They both won that night – he took home Best Supporting By Lainey • Jul 29, 2020 10:15 am
Shout-Outs July 29, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs Paula! Happy Birthday with love from Carolina who calls you a true “superwoman”. Congratulations on the new home and by request, here are Darren Barnet and Jaren Lewison aka Paxton Hall-Yoshida and Ben Gross from Never Have I Ever. Oh and Paula? You’re popular today because Domenico is also By Lainey • Jul 29, 2020 09:46 am
TV Updates Intro for July 29, 2020 Dear Gossips, Last month, Zendaya participated in The Hollywood Reporter’s Drama Actress roundtable, now a regular award season campaign stop. Zendaya was representing her work in Euphoria, which aired last summer and thus was ineligible for Emmys consideration. One year later though and, clearly, the Television Academy still remembers By Lainey • Jul 29, 2020 09:23 am
What Else What Else? Can you believe that the “Ellen DeGeneres might not be very nice” story happened at the beginning of the pandemic? And now, four months later, it’s still a conversation…because of all the reports that the workplace culture at her show is toxic. So there’s a third party By Lainey • Jul 28, 2020 04:44 pm
