Royals Prince Harry: The Royal Closer From 2001 to 2011, Prince Andrew was the UK’s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment, in other words, the trade ambassador. He rolled with the high rollers, swaggering around making deals. According to the BBC in 2011 just before he stepped down: Questions have been raised over the By Lainey • Sep 11, 2019 01:27 pm
Royals A letter to Prince Andrew Prince Andrew played golf on Monday at Royal Portrush while on his visit to Northern Ireland. The course hosted the Open Championship back in July so it would probably still be in top condition, as in quite difficult. I haven’t been able to find out what he shot. Do By Lainey • Sep 11, 2019 11:32 am
Top Reads Rihanna disrupts NY Fashion Week There is no such thing as hyperbole when it comes to Rihanna, the business. Her makeup line set a new standard. She has her own luxury fashion house. And she took over NY Fashion Week with her Savage x Fenty show last night that changed the game in how lingerie By Lainey • Sep 11, 2019 10:09 am
Intro for September 11, 2019 Dear Gossips, Back in February, I called 2019 the Year of the Scam. There have been so many f-cking scams, OMG. Now the scams are scamming out sequels. In my corner of Twitter, one scam was dominating the conversation yesterday. Have you read Natalie Beach’s essay in The Cut By Lainey • Sep 11, 2019 09:25 am
What Else What Else? Just when you thought the whole Popeye’s chicken sandwich frenzy had finally died down, someone’s shown up late to the party to try and claim the crown. I wonder if this is like when a figure skater doesn’t do anything in their program except jump – quad triple, By Lainey • Sep 10, 2019 05:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lopez should be a contender Hustlers opens on Friday. I hope you see it. I hope you see it as many times as you can. I saw it a couple of weeks ago at a press screening ahead of TIFF and I’m hoping to see it again this weekend with my own money because By Lainey • Sep 10, 2019 04:18 pm
BFFs Bradley Cooper’s side-part shows up for Joaquin Phoenix Bradley Cooper was not on the list of expected attendees at last night’s TIFF premiere of Joker, which just won the Golden Lion in Venice and is now an Oscar contender in several categories, including Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix. There are many layers to this Bradley Cooper relationship By Lainey • Sep 10, 2019 03:46 pm
Royals Kate wears her garden Princess Kate stepped out today to support her “Back to Nature” garden at RSH Wisley. She’d previously unveiled her garden at the Chelsea Flower Show back in May – this is the permanent version, meant to encourage kids to spend more time in nature and build a healthy lifestyle from By Lainey • Sep 10, 2019 12:15 pm
Music Were Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun at Ed Sheeran’s wedding? Taylor Swift was in Paris last night for her “City of Lover” show continuing to promote Lover, her sixth consecutive #1 album. She’s been hinting that she might not tour Lover the way she toured reputation and 1989, that she might want to scale it back, perform in more By Lainey • Sep 10, 2019 10:08 am
TIFF 2019 Coverage Intro for September 10, 2019 Dear Gossips, It was great to see Yalitza Aparicio last night at the first ever TIFF Tribute Gala. The event will now happen every year and, since TIFF is where Oscar campaigns begin, The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg called it “the first awards ceremony of the long awards season” By Lainey • Sep 10, 2019 08:40 am
What Else What Else? Last year Roma won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and went on to be a major contender during award season. Alfonso Cuaron won Best Director at the Oscars but Roma came up short for Best Picture because of Netflix and Green Book. This year the Golden Lion By Lainey • Sep 09, 2019 05:16 pm
TIFF 2019 Coverage Kristen Stewart: Dance parties, Hooters, and Taika Waititi Kristen Stewart is kind of a TIFF regular. I interviewed her here last year for JT LeRoy. She was here for Certain Women in 2016 and Equals in 2015 and On the Road in 2012. There are probably more but you get the point – she knows the festival and she’ By Lainey • Sep 09, 2019 04:04 pm
Maple Leaf Shawn and Camila on his home-stage Shawn Mendes concluded the North American leg of his tour with a show at home in Toronto on Friday night. And it was an emotional night. He played Rogers Centre. It’s a stadium, where the Blue Jays play, it’s where we won our back to back World Series By Lainey • Sep 09, 2019 11:53 am
BFFs Meghan Markle at the US Open Meghan Markle was in New York this weekend to cheer on Serena Williams in the US Open finals. Serena lost, it was her fourth grand slam loss since coming back after pregnancy as she’s still looking for that closing magic. Afterwards Serena said she was upset with herself because By Lainey • Sep 09, 2019 10:54 am
Royals Prince Andrew’s “verbal dispute” Meghan Markle was in New York on Saturday for the US Open women’s final, supporting her friend Serena Williams. There’s been a LOT of coverage of Meghan’s trip, and a lot of controversial reaction to Meghan’s trip in the British media, which we’ll get to By Lainey • Sep 09, 2019 09:57 am
Sports Intro for September 9, 2019 Dear Gossips, I love technology. Maybe, one day, I along with all humankind will regret loving technology, but this weekend technology made me so happy. I was locked in on TIFF red carpets during both finals at the US Open this weekend and while waiting for the arrivals, I was By Lainey • Sep 09, 2019 08:59 am
