Top Reads Drake and Rihanna’s SD Flirting Celebrities are really coming through for us during lockdown, aren’t they? They’re doing chain-songs and giving us cringe, they’re resuscitating old beefs that no one was asking for, they’re giving us confessionals from their bathtubs, they’re falling in love, they’re reading to us, they’ By Lainey • Mar 25, 2020 10:47 am
Royals Prince Charles tests positive for COVID-19 Top news story today, trending #1 around the world on social media: Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, has tested positive for COVID-19. Clarence House released a statement confirming: “The Prince of Wales has tested positive for Coronavirus. He has been displaying mild symptoms but otherwise remains in By Lainey • Mar 25, 2020 09:56 am
Sports Intro for March 25, 2020 Dear Gossips, As expected, it was announced yesterday that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The last time there was an Olympics it was just over two years ago, in 2018 in South Korea. And if you recall, two of the biggest By Lainey • Mar 25, 2020 08:53 am
What Else What Else? This is… peak Covid-19 irony, right? Is it ironic? That THIS particular person wants to keep his social distance? Why? Because the people he has to spend time with now aren’t his target demographic? I’m amazed that he hasn’t already been forced to social distance since dudes By Lainey • Mar 24, 2020 04:03 pm
Relationship Assumption Shawn & Camila: Love in Isolation Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello are together during lockdown. They went live on Instagram the other day for the Global Citizen Together at Home concert series, featuring artists performing while social distancing, encouraging people to stay in, keep their distance, and help flatten the curve. During their broadcast, Shawn and By Lainey • Mar 24, 2020 11:03 am
Photo Assumption Ben & Ana: Love in Isolation I got an email yesterday that made me laugh – the reader is pregnant and she can’t get enough of this Ben Affleck-Ana de Armas storyline. Her message was pretty much, “they’re so in love, they’re so hot, I need more!” So to that person, I am at By Lainey • Mar 24, 2020 10:36 am
Girly Throw Downs Taylor vs Kim: A Social Distancing Petty-Off The full video of the phone call between Taylor Swift and Kanye West leaked a few days ago, resulting in a gossip revival– during this time of uncertainty, three of the most dramatic pop culture players of our time have come to provide us with a distraction. And it’s By Lainey • Mar 24, 2020 09:46 am
Shout-Outs March 24, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs Anna! This space is YOURS today, dedicated to you by Shannon because she is so proud of you – your strength, your grace, your tenacity, your determination. Congratulations on your Masters degree! This song is for you. Say yes I will, yes I can. By Lainey • Mar 24, 2020 09:02 am
Self Care TV Recommendations Intro for March 24, 2020 Dear Gossips, Exactly a year ago today, Miss Tina had a special guest join her for Corny Joke Time on Instagram. It was the Blue Ivy Carter – or, rather, Blue’s hand and voice. What more do you need, really? View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tina By Lainey • Mar 24, 2020 08:50 am
What Else What Else? Did you see that tweet about Ellen DeGeneres that went viral this weekend? It was lighting up all my group chats. There’s been all kinds of sh-t going around about Ellen for years. But she’s one of those people – there’s an opinion about her online and then By Lainey • Mar 23, 2020 04:19 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: How Reese Witherspoon built her empire As promised, Duana and I have been trying to produce more “bonus” episodes of our Show Your Work podcast each week while we’re all on lockdown. We’re still recording on FaceTime though and even though we’ve tried to fix the audio issues in post, there may be By Lainey • Mar 23, 2020 01:01 pm
Kristen Stewart Kristen Stewart’s SD Hike Social distancing doesn’t mean you can’t go outside for a walk with members of your household. Jacek and I took the dogs for a walk on Saturday and went for what I called quarantine-safe community visits. We stopped at Sasha’s first, and stood just off her porch By Lainey • Mar 23, 2020 11:52 am
Relationship Assumption Ben and Ana: Coronavirus Cohabitation? You know what profession might be well-suited to social distancing? Paparazzi. If they’re using long lens and keeping three meters away, it looks like they can still do their jobs. Here are Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas out for a morning walk with her dog this weekend. They’ By Lainey • Mar 23, 2020 10:49 am
Music Swift vs West: This Beef Will Survive the Apocalypse During social distancing and isolation, some of us have been going back to “comfort content”, watching old shows and movies, re-reading books, nostalgia playlists. Is this story gossip version of that? No matter what happens, Taylor Swift vs Kim and Kanye West will go on. It will be in the By Lainey • Mar 23, 2020 09:52 am
Shout-Outs March 23, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs As you may have seen, there are a lot of people who still aren’t social distancing. Here in Canada, one of the big news stories from the weekend is about how people in Vancouver, and particularly younger people in Vancouver, have still been out to the beach, clustered in By Lainey • Mar 23, 2020 08:54 am
Self Care TV Recommendations Intro for March 23, 2020 Dear Gossips, Now that we’re all (supposed to be) social distancing, does FOMO even exist anymore? Can you miss out on anything if everyone is doing nothing? And is it possible, in these times, that everyone can do the same thing? Over the last few days, a lot of By Lainey • Mar 23, 2020 08:47 am
