TV Updates Intro for May 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, I would have watched another ten episodes of The Last Dance, it’s been such a highlight every weekend for the last month. And now that it’s over, probably a lot of us have withdrawal, not unlike the withdrawal that the NBA and basketball as a whole By Lainey • May 19, 2020 08:40 am
What Else What Else? PROGRAMMING NOTE: It’s a statutory holiday weekend here in Canada as we observe Victoria Day on Monday so we’ll be dark that day and returning to regular gossip schedule on Tuesday. Please stay safe and wishing all of you in Canada a healthy long weekend. There’s going By Lainey • May 15, 2020 04:03 pm
Music Ben-Ana and Residente’s kissing video Residente’s video “Antes Que El Mundo Se Acabe” ("Before the World Ends") features 113 couples from 80 countries and it’s pretty much just seven minutes of people making out and all these kisses, linked from one to the next, are supposed to represent the connecting power By Lainey • May 15, 2020 02:48 pm
Top Reads Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, and Netflix We started the week with a post about Prince Andrew’s sketchy financial dealings so why not end the week with a post about a new docuseries that he and the British royal family might be worried about. The four-part Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich series drops on Netflix on May By Lainey • May 15, 2020 12:52 pm
Break Ups MK’s Divorce Is “Not Essential” As Maria covered yesterday, Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy have broken up and he’s apparently trying to throw her out of their apartment by terminating the lease without telling her so she’s petitioned the court to issue an emergency order on her divorce file which would give her By Lainey • May 15, 2020 10:27 am
Music Katy Perry’s “Daisies” Katy Perry dropped her new song, “Daisies” with an accompanying video that marvel at the power of human resilience and visually manifested through her naked, pregnant body. “Daisies” is meant to join “Firework” and “Roar” in her catalogue and as an empowerment anthem it does the job but I’m By Lainey • May 15, 2020 09:22 am
Gossip Nostalgia Intro for May 15, 2020 Dear Gossips, Oops…I Did It Again. Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary. On May 16, 2000 Britney Spears released her second album, and the title track became a monster hit; she was already, by that point, the biggest superstar in the world after the success of ...Baby One More Time. By Lainey • May 15, 2020 08:54 am
What Else What Else? This is a gossip staple: gossiping about celebrity demands, which is why back in the day, we were all obsessed with celebrity riders and what colour candies had to be removed from their candy bowls because they’re such assholes they can't be bothered to just avoid the By Lainey • May 14, 2020 04:12 pm
Music BTS goes WWE I never imagined that I’d be able to put BTS and World Wrestling Entertainment together in a sentence, let alone a post, but here we are. Almost all live entertainment around the world has been cancelled because of the pandemic. The at-home concerts we’ve been seeing are not By Lainey • May 14, 2020 03:15 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben-Ana, oh thank GOD Not lying, I was juuuuuuust thinking to myself, hey, have we seen Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas out together this week? And the answer was no, and I felt disappointed, and oh look, here they are, out for a dog walk, THANK GOD. This is not sarcasm. I’m By Lainey • May 14, 2020 02:09 pm
Justin Bieber Bieber Skin When Justin and Hailey Bieber first launched their Face Watch series The Biebers on Watch a few weeks ago, I wrote that this is about as unfiltered as it’s going to get where celebrities are concerned. They’re shooting it themselves, they’re not surrounded by producers, and yes, By Lainey • May 14, 2020 10:20 am
Rihanna Intro for May 14, 2020 Dear Gossips, The Sunday Times released their Rich List this week and Rihanna came in at #3 with an estimated fortune of £468 million which shouldn’t be news, really, since last year Forbes reported that she’s the world’s wealthiest female musician. You wouldn’t know it from By Lainey • May 14, 2020 08:53 am
What Else What Else? It was reported last week that Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson are over. They were seen isolating together at the start of the lockdown I think. Not sure you can call it a casualty of quarantine though because they’d tried to break up late last year. Looks like the By Lainey • May 13, 2020 04:03 pm
Kate Beckinsale Kate’s lockdown booties Kate Beckinsale and her boyfriend, Goody Grace, stepped out together in LA yesterday. As you can see, she’s still committed to her high booties. I don’t know about you but in isolation, I have no interest in anything other than sweatpants and sneakers. The idea of even putting By Lainey • May 13, 2020 03:07 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Michelle, Adele, and the Food Fight As mentioned earlier this week, on this episode of Show Your Work, Duana and I get into the whole Alison Roman situation after her interview with The New Consumer went viral for her remarks about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo. But let’s begin with the real work stars of By Lainey • May 13, 2020 02:42 pm
Siblings Archie’s Birthday Cake and his “best friends” Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor turned one last week and celebrated in lockdown with his parents Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at their home in Los Angeles. There have been various reports lately about where exactly the Sussexes have been staying. A few days ago, the Daily Mail claimed that they’ve By Lainey • May 13, 2020 02:02 pm