Maple Leaf Outfits of the Week: Celine NY Runway Normally when Celine Dion turns a city street into a runway, it’s in Paris during Fashion Week. By the way, her tour stops in France, conveniently, during Fashion Week in July – amazing how it worked out that way, non? While that’s still three months away, though, this week By Lainey • Mar 06, 2020 03:50 pm
Royals House Sussex: speeches, a proposal, and PDA Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s return to London last night at the Endeavour Awards was, as expected, the main event. We’ve already talked about how their appearance was practically cinematic. And, as expected, this shot of them was published everywhere yesterday and today too, a major bonus for By Lainey • Mar 06, 2020 11:48 am
Hook Ups Ben Affleck & Ana de Armas? Ana de Armas just covered Vanity Fair and after the success of Knives Out, with several projects in the pipeline, she’s breaking big. Her most recent project is the lead role opposite Ben Affleck in Deep Water, based on the Patricia Highsmith novel about a couple in an open By Lainey • Mar 06, 2020 10:09 am
TV Updates Intro for March 6, 2020 Dear Gossips, Are you watching HBO’s The Outsider? In Canada it airs on Crave. I mean, some of you must be because the show has been steadily climbing in ratings, it’s legitimately a hit. And critically acclaimed. But as Anne Helen Petersen tweeted the other day: Is THE By Lainey • Mar 06, 2020 09:07 am
What Else What Else? Divorce is ugly, yes. But it’s also weirdly hilarious, especially when it comes to division of property and what people want to keep. In William Shatner’s case, what he wants to keep is money, in the form of sexual fluid. Equine sexual fluid. In certain circles (aka rich By Lainey • Mar 05, 2020 05:10 pm
Royals Sussex-IT In pop culture, we often refer to that magical “It” Factor – the intangible ingredient that goes into making a star, a quality you can’t manufacture, what elevates someone who may not be the best at this or that or the other but somehow has a certain lure that no By Lainey • Mar 05, 2020 04:40 pm
TV Updates Demi Lovato is OK Demi Lovato wasn’t OK for a while, as we know. And we know because she’s been candid about relapse and recovery, about her mental health issues. For many people, speaking openly about their personal struggles helps to address shame and stigma; Demi continues to take this approach now By Lainey • Mar 05, 2020 03:20 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Katy Perry is pregnant New music and music video season, right? Katy Perry released a new song with a video last night called “Never Worn White” and, obviously, it’s a power ballad to fiancé Orlando Bloom. The big story here is that they’re expecting. She reveals it at the end. As she By Lainey • Mar 05, 2020 11:12 am
Royals House Cambridge in Ireland: Juggling and Selfies Today is Prince William and Catherine’s last day in Ireland and they’re in Galway learning about the city’s culture and entertainment as Galway is the 2020 European Capital of Culture. While at Tribeton, the Cambridges observed festival acts and other entertainment displays and William showcased what he By Lainey • Mar 05, 2020 10:43 am
Music Intro for March 5, 2020 Dear Gossips, I wrote last week about how it seems to be new music/music video season and that continues this week with new releases from several more artists (and seemingly daily drops by BTS) including… DIXIE CHICKS! “GASLIGHTER!” Gaslighter is also the title of the new album coming in By Lainey • Mar 05, 2020 09:12 am
What Else What Else? Shaq is clearly not ashamed of his hairline, even though the bet was designed to shame him. I don’t know if this is really a thing though, because he wears the no-hair/bald hairstyle anyway because he doesn’t have much hair to grow, so I don’t By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 04:28 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Harry Styles and the Secrets of (teen) Pop Success Duana and I don’t agree on much when it comes to fangirling. She’s Ray Romano and I’m Timothee Chalamet. She’s Spring Awakening and I’m BTS. But we do intersect somewhere and his name is Harry Styles. This surprised me. I’m more likely to get By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 01:19 pm
Music BTS is trying to kill me The BTS team, which includes the band members themselves, and their managers, and their social media marketing experts, are taking western artists to school right now because, Jesus, the amount of content that they’ve been dropping with the release of their new album, Map of the Soul: 7, is By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 11:56 am
BFFs Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s phone call Ben Affeck stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! yesterday as he continues to promote The Way Back. The film was directed by Gavin O’Connor who did an interview recently with 34th Street, the student-run University of Pennsylvania magazine, about the project and working with Ben. He said that he By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 11:21 am
Royals Will and Kate: Day 2 in Ireland After arriving in Dublin yesterday and then meeting with President Michael D Higgins, Prince William and Catherine had an evening engagement at Guinness Storehouse. Kate stayed with the green theme in a dress by The Vampire’s Wife. She hit pause on the green style vibes today as they toured By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 10:18 am
Shout-Outs March 4, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs If you’re in Toronto, there’s an event happening tomorrow for a great cause. The St Joe’s Neighbourhood Throwdown is taking place Thursday, March 5 at the Junction Craft Brewery, 150 Symes Road, Toronto, at 7pm. This is a community fundraiser featuring three bands, each representing a local By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 09:33 am