What Else What Else? “Approximately 900 Karens ago”, LOLOLOLOLOLOL, God that’s a great way to start a sentence, God, Michael K is so f-cking good. This is not actually a post about a Karen but it is an appreciation post about a time when a Karen tried to Karen and Dlisted’s HSOTM By Lainey • Jun 19, 2020 04:13 pm
Music Red Carpet for Teyana Taylor As I mentioned a few days ago, the first red carpet in almost four months (five? who can remember anymore?) happened earlier this week for a show I’ve never heard of and I only recognised two names on the guest list: Bai Ling and Ian Ziering. Last night’s By Lainey • Jun 19, 2020 03:07 pm
Equality Issues Rihanna gives again It’s just been announced that in partnership with Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall, Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation is donating more than $15 million to communities of colour struggling who have been disadvantage by racism during the COVID-19 pandemic: This is an important and specific point – to remind people of By Lainey • Jun 19, 2020 10:27 am
Music Intro for June 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, The best thing on Twitter yesterday was #Beethoven. By the time I noticed it was trending there were hundreds of thousands of tweets. If you missed it, it started with this thread earlier in the week… https://twitter.com/howtopless/status/1272919623189463040 Which then went viral. And, as By Lainey • Jun 19, 2020 09:00 am
What Else What Else? Michelle Williams and Thomas Kail have welcomed their first child together, her second. Matilda Ledger is now 14 years old! So far there are no additional details about the baby but as Emily from Dlisted points out, the confirmation that Michelle and Thomas were together and no longer with their By Lainey • Jun 18, 2020 04:00 pm
Relationship Assumption MGK loves Megan Megan Fox was photographed leaving Machine Gun Kelly’s home late last night – TMZ has the photos. Their relationship is progressing quickly. To recap: they met shooting a movie last year. A few weeks ago, Brian Austin Green confirmed that they’d separated after Megan and MGK were seen together By Lainey • Jun 18, 2020 02:50 pm
Top Reads Lonnie Chavis: Growing up Black Lonnie Chavis is one of the stars of This Is Us, he plays the young version of Sterling K Brown’s character, Randall. He has written an essay about the experience of growing up Black, and please, particularly if you are not Black or Indigneous, please read it because right By Lainey • Jun 18, 2020 11:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Princess Diana and Kristen Stewart: Social Media Freaks Out Sarah wrote yesterday about the news that Kristen Stewart has been cast to play Princess Diana in an upcoming biopic. Following the announcement by director Pablo Larraín Twitter freaked, as it does. Some people could see it and supported it. Others were like… WTF? Few people imagined it, that’s By Lainey • Jun 18, 2020 10:10 am
Books Intro for June 18, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was announced earlier this week that Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro’s next book will be released next year. Klara and the Sun tells the story of “an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behaviour of those By Lainey • Jun 18, 2020 08:55 am
What Else What Else? Just in case you were thinking of adding Aunt Jemima to your grocery list, there are so many other good syrup options. Since I’m Canadian, I recommend a Canadian maple syrup. By now you’ve probably heard about why Quaker Oats is making headlines – because all the racists in By Lainey • Jun 17, 2020 04:05 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Racism and the Barriers to Creativity After last week’s episode about workplace inequality pegged to Lea Michele and her behaviour on Glee (and on other projects), we received an email from a listener called Ashley who wondered whether or not, on top of the fact that Hollywood, like most industries, prioritises earnings above everything else, By Lainey • Jun 17, 2020 01:02 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Megan & Brian: Old School Tit for Tat? Brian Austin Green confirmed a few weeks ago that he and Megan Fox have separated. She, as you know, is with Machine Gun Kelly although they’ve tried to be coy about their relationship status. The other day, Brian was papped hanging out with Courtney Stodden. I don’t know By Lainey • Jun 17, 2020 10:26 am
Keanu Reeves Intro for June 17, 2020 Dear Gossips, I mentioned yesterday in What Else? that a Zoom call with Jeremy Piven is available to you for the bargain price of $15K and it appears that he pockets that money. Or if you have all that cash kicking around… You could have a Zoom date with Keanu By Lainey • Jun 17, 2020 09:11 am
What Else What Else? Well, not everyone is BTS. As we know, COVID-19 has really f-cked up the economy, especially the celebrity economy. While BTS is out here innovating, others who are lower on the celebrity hierarchy pole need to get creative. Jeremy Piven, whose career wasn’t exactly on fire before the pandemic, By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 04:12 pm
Music BTS’s Lockdown Innovation COVID-19 has disrupted every industry and where the entertainment industry is concerned, even though musicians are in a better position to release new content than those in television and film, it’s the live experience that artists are still trying to figure out and how to make technology work in By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 02:45 pm
Royals Prince Andrew wants an “olive branch” It’s now been over six months since Prince Andrew stepped down from public duty. Word is they’ve permanently retired him now because he’s such an embarrassment to the British royal family. If you need a reminder, the reason for this is friendship with the dead rapist pedophile By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 11:21 am
