Gorgessity Rihanna: “tell your friends to pull up” Rihanna was honoured with the President’s Award at the NAACP Image Awards this weekend for philanthropic and social justice efforts. She made her speech all about what others are doing and what others can do – and the way she put it, it’s not complicated. “Tell your friends to By Lainey • Feb 24, 2020 12:22 pm
Royals Sussexit: The Slow Fade “The Slow Fade” was an expression that came to use a few years ago online when referring to breakups. It’s basically the opposite of ghosting someone. And while I’m not saying that there’s an exact “slow fade’ happening between House Sussex and the British Royal Family, the By Lainey • Feb 24, 2020 10:49 am
Equality Issues Intro for February 24, 2020 Dear Gossips, I’ve had a bad cold for a week now and maybe it’s because I’m “vulnerable”, as Duana described it, but tears sprung to my eyes on Friday when I saw that Ali Wong had interviewed Lana Condor for Interview. It’s not just because they By Lainey • Feb 24, 2020 09:00 am
What Else What Else? Pamela Anderson and Jon Peters were married for less than two weeks even though before marrying her (but not legally), Jon was engaged to someone else. Well now he and his ex, Julia Faye West, are back together. Julia, apparently, is a lot like Pam. So, obviously, these two are By Lainey • Feb 21, 2020 04:05 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Anya Taylor-Joy Before we get to Anya Taylor-Joy’s Outfit of the Week, please see Thoroughbreds if you haven’t already. Sarah reviewed it a couple of years ago and she was right about Anya and co-star Olivia Cooke’s “grand slam performances”. Anya is the new Emma, and she is about By Lainey • Feb 21, 2020 03:36 pm
Quiveration BTS: The Dirty Hair Era If you’re new to BTS, one of the most basic things to know about the band is that their career has progressed through eras. I don’t want to get too granular about this but an era for BTS isn’t exactly limited to a one album cycle – sometimes By Lainey • Feb 21, 2020 03:21 pm
Siblings Kate Hudson’s Tom Cruise story It used to be that when Kate Hudson was on a talk show, she was promoting a movie. What would you consider to be her best known movie? Like, I say “Kate Hudson” and the first movie that comes to mind? I think most people would probably say How To By Lainey • Feb 21, 2020 12:27 pm
Royals The Prince Andrew school bus Prince Andrew, who was friends with the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has reportedly not yet cooperated with investigators about Epstein’s crimes, despite insisting in an interview with BBC Newsnight that he’d be willing to participate. This morning in New York, Gloria Allred, who is representing a few By Lainey • Feb 21, 2020 11:05 am
Gossip Nostalgia Ben Affleck: Jennifer Lopez “should have been nominated” We’ve just passed the 16 year anniversary of the end of Bennifer, one of most significant couples of the modern gossip era. Think back to that time, it was a new millennium, and here were (some of) the celebrity couples we were obsessed with back then: Britney Spears and By Lainey • Feb 21, 2020 10:28 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Intro for February 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, Beyoncé has been pretty quiet since the IVY PARK x adidas drop. That’s the way of our Queen. She never lets us know what she’s doing until she’s good and ready to let us know what she’s been doing. If she’s doing anything. By Lainey • Feb 21, 2020 09:39 am
What Else What Else? Wait, what? You had me at “soccer player” and “biting penis”. This actually happened during a game, requiring 12 stitches. Which means there will be a scar. Which means that at some point, this person is going to be telling the story of the time he was playing a soccer By Lainey • Feb 20, 2020 04:15 pm
Music ARMY, are you ready? I’m not f-cking ready and I’m not even technically a member of the BTS ARMY. My friends are As IF-ing me right now because all I ever do, every day and multiple times now for weeks, is text them or make them come over and talk to me By Lainey • Feb 20, 2020 03:56 pm
Break Ups Ben Affleck on the pain of divorce Ben Affleck’s candid interview with The New York Times came out yesterday and today the first part of his interview with Diane Sawyer aired on Good Morning America and he’s equally as forthcoming about alcoholism and dealing with the breakdown of his marriage. Can we do a little By Lainey • Feb 20, 2020 03:15 pm
Royals Sussexit Countdown Did you know it was Prince Andrew’s birthday yesterday? The palace social media accounts posted birthday messages to celebrate the occasion, with a caption reminding people that he’s “the first child born to a reigning monarch for 103 years”. Like somehow that’s supposed to replace the thing By Lainey • Feb 20, 2020 11:03 am
Equality Issues Intro for February 20, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was great seeing Sinead Burke sitting front row at the Gucci show in Milan yesterday and wearing Gucci, obviously. Sinead was also all over London Fashion Week last week. Here she is hanging out with Victoria Beckham: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sinéad By Lainey • Feb 20, 2020 09:35 am
What Else What Else? I have questions. How is “stunt porn” different from regular porn? Isn’t all porn… stunty? Like all porn is made to be watched and accessed, to elicit a reaction, right? Why I am I dedicating valuable brain time thinking about this? This would be the “stunt porn” that happened By Lainey • Feb 19, 2020 05:14 pm