What Else What Else? I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again – for those of us who grew up on Madonna, it’s no fun watching her not understand what to do with herself right now and not understand what to do on social media. There are worse things in the By Lainey • May 29, 2020 04:10 pm
Julia Roberts Julia’s Masked Message The last time we checked in on Julia Roberts she was “passing the mic” to Dr Anthony Fauci on her Instagram about COVID-19, using her platform to help educate and inform. Today she’s using her platform in allyship: Julia Roberts has been America’s Sweetheart for 30 years. Think By Lainey • May 29, 2020 01:47 pm
Music Kelly Rowland’s Deepest Cuts I LOVE this new profile of Kelly Rowland by Phillip Picardi for The Cut. A quick note on Phillip – he was part of the Teen Vogue team, alongside the leadership of Elaine Welteroth, that broadened the magazine’s content to include politics and social activism as well as fashion and By Lainey • May 29, 2020 12:33 pm
BFFs Ben-Ana: another road trip? Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas were photographed, as usual, yesterday. What wasn’t usual was that they were packing up the car, with both dogs, and a few backpacks and what looked like overnight bags. Also plenty of refreshments. Seems like it could be a road trip? Or a By Lainey • May 29, 2020 10:10 am
Equality Issues Intro for May 29, 2020 Dear Gossips, Yesterday on The Social, our friend Tyrone Edwards joined us to talk about mental health. What followed was a personal and powerful expression of grief and anger as he shared his fears and frustration about the racism and the violence Black people continue to experience. Here’s a By Lainey • May 29, 2020 09:13 am
What Else What Else? This is… the most Keanu Reeves story ever. It’s the origin story of John Wick, not the origin story you might think in terms of storyline or a puppy (sob!), but an origin of name – and if I’m playing Duana here, I would say that it always begins By Lainey • May 28, 2020 05:18 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben-Ana: FaceTime and Tie Dye We are two days behind on Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas photos! The last time we checked in on Ben-Ana it was just after they’d spent part of Memorial Day weekend with his kids. Ana was seen the other day out with a friend and their baby and By Lainey • May 28, 2020 02:48 pm
Music BLACKPINK Summer Begins Now How you doing, Blinks? It’s a big day. Lady Gaga’s new album, Chromatica, drops tomorrow. “Rain On Me”, her first collaboration with Ariana Grande, was released last week. Today we got “Sour Candy”, the song with BLACKPINK. This is a BOP. Gaga promised that Chromatica would be a By Lainey • May 28, 2020 09:36 am
Maple Leaf Intro for May 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, As we near the end of Asian Heritage Month in Canada and Asian and Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States, big ups to Andrew Phung of Kim’s Convenience who won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor last night! Congratulations Andrew! WHAT IS By Lainey • May 28, 2020 08:46 am
What Else What Else? Chrissy Teigen has given us an update on Chrissy Teigen’s breasts. Like with an entire timeline: the age at which they were first installed, what happened to them when she had children, and what she plans to do with them now that she’s tired of them because they By Lainey • May 27, 2020 04:07 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Last Dance was a Rom-Com On this episode of Show Your Work, now that The Last Dance has concluded, Duana and I unpack all the work that went into those Chicago Bulls championships and the work that did – or didn’t – go into this docuseries. No doubt it was entertaining. And it was definitely super By Lainey • May 27, 2020 02:26 pm
Royals Catherine the (new) Great and the Tatler Dispute Over the last year and a half, as the British tabloids have stepped up their attempts to discredit Prince Harry and Meghan Markle of House Sussex, in part by clearly shooting stars and sunshine up House Cambridge, Catherine Cambridge has repeatedly been held up as the Best Duchess Ever. And, By Lainey • May 27, 2020 01:17 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Brad Pitt’s lockdown shag When someone refers to a hairstyle as a “shag”, my mind immediately associates with Winona Ryder because that’s my generation – Winona, as “Lelaina Pierce”, in Reality Bites. She is what defines a “shag” for me. You may have a different shag in mind. Meg Ryan, for example. And, interestingly By Lainey • May 27, 2020 11:05 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for May 27, 2020 Dear Gossips, What is the future of movie theatres? Bilge Ebiri attempted to answer the question at Vulture yesterday as restrictions begin to lift across North America and authorities are making plans to reopen the economy. Some people think that after all these weeks of being at home and watching By Lainey • May 27, 2020 08:48 am
What Else What Else for May 26, 2020 Who is fine as f-ck and is 56 years old today? He’s currently, for the next few weeks, the same age as Johnny Depp except Lenny Kravitz can wear as many scarves as he wants and never look ridiculous whereas Johnny… well… you know. (Dlisted) If you were on By Lainey • May 26, 2020 04:09 pm
Break Ups The End of Bughead I was going to write about Cole Sprouse yesterday because of these new pictures but then I ran out of time and it ended up working out because then Page Six reported that he and Lili Reinhart broke up and PEOPLE confirmed it and then E! News followed both of By Lainey • May 26, 2020 03:06 pm
