What Else What Else? I forgot to mention something in my Taylor Swift post from earlier. This is because it’s Halloween week, a notoriously busy week for those of us who work in entertainment broadcasting. Somewhere in the mid-2000s, Halloween became A HIGH PRIORITY THING on television because television is a visual medium By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 04:15 pm
Royals Meghan and the 72 MPs Holly Lynch, a British Member of Parliament, along with 71 other MPs, has released a letter in support of Meghan Markle calling out the UK tabloids. They share that they too have been treated unfairly by many of the same newspapers and House Sussex is suing but they point out By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 03:23 pm
Music Taylor Swift gossips …and is coming for Oscar Last Friday in the site open, I wrote about Cats and whether or not Entertainment Weekly and Oscar experts were sleeping on Cats as an Oscar contender. They’d just released a promo video featuring Taylor Swift, revealing that she’d co-written a song with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 12:34 pm
BFFs Selena Gomez: toxic relationships and complicated alliances Big week for Selena Gomez last week with the release of two new singles after a lengthy absence. But as she’s been saying while promoting the music, she was hurting and she was struggling and now that she says she’s moved past it, she’s ready to share By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 10:49 am
Queen Elizabeth II Intro for October 29, 2019 Dear Gossips, The Queen’s dressmaker, Angela Kelly, has published a new book, The Other Side of the Coin, the Queen, the dresser, and the Wardrobe. Excerpts from the book have been published in HELLO! and making headlines today is the story Angela shares about doing a photoshoot with the By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 09:11 am
What Else What Else? Remember Lady Gaga’s dress from the Golden Globes earlier this year? It was blue, an homage to Judy Garland with some Cinderella vibes. Gaga didn’t get to keep the dress. Or she didn’t want to keep the dress? Something happened and the dress was either left behind By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 04:20 pm
TV Updates Jennifer & Reese’s first reviews Apple TV+ launches in a matter of days and, as you may have heard, the marquee release is The Morning Show, produced by and starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. They’ve been out here promoting the series hard – magazines, talk shows, Instagram, tonight is the premiere in New York By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 02:57 pm
Award Season Campaigning Awkwafina, The Contender As mentioned, if an actor is in the race for the Oscars in the given year, chances are they’ll be at Academy’s Governors Awards – even Eddie Murphy showed up at one of the most critical stops on the campaign trail. So it’s here where we can get By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 01:11 pm
Style JLo’s first official campaign stop The Academy’s Governors Awards happened this weekend. On this night, every year, the Academy hands out its honorary Oscars. It’s the pre-Oscars. And it’s the first major event, the most important early event, on the award season calendar – because this is the ACADEMY. Golden Globes and SAG By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 10:30 am
Royals Prince Andrew’s “forensics” Well I’m definitely not conflicted about writing about this one. This f-cking joker… Prince Andrew, the beneficiary of all the drama between House Cambridge and House Sussex last week, is trying to capitalise on his nephews’ bad press by going back to the “fat fingers defence”, like somehow people By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 09:53 am
Top Reads Ben Affleck’s “difficult and elusive” sobriety Ben Affleck has been out of rehab for a year now. Last week all the headlines about Ben were related to his romantic life – how he may or may not be using the Raya dating app to meet people. On Saturday, seemingly addressing the rumours, he posted this on social By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 09:12 am
Ted Danson Intro for October 28, 2019 Dear Gossips, Jane Fonda announced recently that she’d be living in Washington DC for a few months to protest climate change. She intends to get arrested every Friday for “Fire Drill Fridays”. When it first happened, I was wondering how she’d keep up the interest week after week. By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 08:34 am
What Else What Else If you’re one of those people hoping for an Adele+Drake situation, there’s competition. Apparently Kylie Jenner was also at Drake’s birthday and there may be something going on between them, even though they were just talking. This….would be complicated, over and above the Kanye West By Lainey • Oct 25, 2019 04:20 pm
Rihanna Rihanna’s smell Before we get into the smell of Rihanna, I just want to take a moment to point out how fickle we are – like the internet, we are f-ckle assholes, always looking for the next hit, never loyal to the last hit. A few days ago, after Rihanna showed up at By Lainey • Oct 25, 2019 12:25 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Cynthia Erivo Cynthia Erivo is promoting her lead role in Harriet, the first ever film about Harriet Tubman. As Sarah wrote in her TIFF review of the film, “there should be a million movies about Harriet Tubman”. Right now, though, Cynthia is celebrating her performance, which could be in contention for an By Lainey • Oct 25, 2019 11:41 am
BFFs Adele is Drake’s birthday present It was Drake’s birthday yesterday. He’s been celebrating all week. I have no issues with this. I’m a birthday whore too. My birthday was a month ago and I’m still trying to squeeze out every last ounce of juice from it. Drake was feeling pretty sentimental By Lainey • Oct 25, 2019 10:49 am
