Gossip Nostalgia Intro for May 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, If not for the pandemic, tonight would be one of the biggest pop culture nights of the year, the Met Gala. The photos and videos and gossip that come out of the Met Gala can sustain us for months. The Met Gala is where Taylor Swift and Tom By Lainey • May 04, 2020 09:03 am
What Else What Else? I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again – I grew up idolising Madonna, so there’s a part of me that is always going to be pro-Madonna, because it’s almost like shunning a part of your identity when you have such attachment to a certain time By Lainey • May 01, 2020 04:07 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Hollywood Baby Boom Is it just be or is there a celebrity baby boom happening? We began the week with Lea Michele’s pregnancy, which was then eclipsed by Gigi Hadid’s. And the rollout of Gigi’s pregnancy has been in stages. First we heard that she’s pregnant and how far By Lainey • May 01, 2020 11:16 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Gigi confirms she’s pregnant Gigi Hadid confirmed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night that she’s pregnant which… I don’t think there was any doubt at this point since her ma, Yolanda, also did an interview earlier this week and said she was excited about being a grandmother in September. By Lainey • May 01, 2020 10:10 am
Relationship Assumption Ben-Ana: Instagram Official It’s not like it wasn’t official before though, right? After several weeks of almost-daily photographs outside of his home as they’re sheltering-in-place together, Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas have been “official” for a while now. These days though, going “Instagram Official” is a whole other thing, By Lainey • May 01, 2020 09:09 am
Music Intro for May 1, 2020 Dear Gossips, Drake was productive before the pandemic lockdown. So it’s not surprising that he continues to be productive now that there are no parties to fly to, no basketball games to fly to, no impromptu holidays to fly to. This might be the longest stretch that Drake’s By Lainey • May 01, 2020 08:38 am
What Else What Else? There have been a lot of Zoom and FaceTime f-ckups the last few weeks as people are working from home and either not wearing pants or having their kids interrupt their interviews or not closing out all the tabs on their laptops during a lecture. Now it’s come to By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 04:01 pm
Relationship Assumption Channing Tatum and Jessie J: Round Three Channing Tatum and Jessie J were together for a year or so, then broken up in November 2019, got back together a few weeks later, went super public with their love on Grammys weekend, and three weeks ago broke up again. But Chan was just seen outside her Jessie’s By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 03:44 pm
Twilight Twilight 2020? Stephenie Meyer’s book, Twilight, was released 15 years ago this coming October. I’m sure you know the rest – the sequel books, the movie, the sequel movies, etc. Twilight was all about fan service – in terms of the “give them what they need, not what they want” principle of By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 02:54 pm
Simon Cowell Celebrity Quarantine Face Panic Yesterday I linked to a story in What Else? about celebrities not being able to keep up with their Botox and other treatments during lockdown. Dr Harold Lancer told Page Six that his celebrity clients are calling him daily, panicked because as this continues, they’re more and more overdue By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 01:15 pm
Top Reads That time Katie Couric interviewed Denzel Washington Here in Canada, I’m an entertainment reporter on an entertainment news program called ETALK. This summer will mark my 15th anniversary on the show. Part of my job is to interview actors, singers, writers, etc. And if you’ve been visiting this site over the years, you know that By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 11:55 am
Quiveration Jake and his Sourdough Everybody is baking. Everybody’s into this sourdough thing. I have a few friends who are so obsessed with sourdough, it’s taken over their social media. They’re doing sourdough every day and meeting people online who are also sourdoughing. I get it. Not specifically about sourdough but about By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 10:02 am
Music Intro for April 30, 2020 Dear Gossips, Guess who just showed up out of the blue, no warning, and sent the internet into panic last night? Who else? The Queen, of course. Megan Thee Stallion dropped the remix for her song “Savage” yesterday, which has been going viral on TikTok, and it features THREE verses By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 09:15 am
What Else What Else? See? This is what I was wondering about when lockdown first started! Beauty upkeep! And no, not haircuts and colouring your roots, but the face, as in Botox. We’re almost two months into restrictions which means we could be coming up on having to go back in for tweaks, By Lainey • Apr 29, 2020 04:01 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Last Dance and Taylor tries to dunk I always love recording the Show Your Work podcast but I was having more fun than usual this episode because Duana had to talk sports with me which is not usually where she lives. She also had to endure all my sports puns. And while she didn’t enjoy the By Lainey • Apr 29, 2020 02:49 pm
Business of Hollywood The Big Oscar Rule Change Nobody’s going to the movies because the theatres are closed. Which means, up to yesterday, the only films that were eligible for Oscars this year would have been the ones released up to mid-March. So like Bad Boys For Life, Doolittle, Sonic the Hedgehog, The Way Back. Can you By Lainey • Apr 29, 2020 12:54 pm
