Douchebags Prince Andrew: “You know what you did” I was never an obsessive fan of The Hills but even I know enough about The Hills to remember arguably its most well-known moment: “You know what you did!” That’s Lauren Conrad accusing Heidi Montag of rumouring that there was a sex tape of LC and Jason. Everyone I By Lainey • Aug 28, 2019 09:47 am
TV Updates Intro for August 28, 2019 Dear Gossips, I predicted back in July that Lizzo would be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live’s season premiere. I was wrong. It’s going to be Billie Eilish and the host is Woody Harrelson to promote Zombieland: Double Tap which opens in October. When SNL announced their By Lainey • Aug 28, 2019 08:52 am
What Else What Else? So… the host of the MTV VMAs last night, Sebastian Maniscalco, what did you think? At one point he namechecked Bruce Springsteen and I wonder if Bruce was like, dude, take my name out of your mouth. The good news is James Woods and Jon Voight probably want to be By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 04:41 pm
Quiveration Thank you, Harry Styles The one thing Duana hates the most about me is that I can read and write in a moving car and she gets motion sickness and doesn’t understand how it doesn’t bother me. What does bother me is heat. When I’m hot I get nauseous and yesterday By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 03:37 pm
Music Lizzo, Normani, Rosalia: the future As I wrote in the open today, the MTV VMAs have stayed relevant even in years when the show is sh-tty because it can be a showcase for the future, for who we will be obsessed with in the near future, the artists who’ll be the culture in the By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 12:48 pm
Quiveration Timothee Chalamet: the bowl cut has an accent We interrupt MTV VMAs coverage because… Timothee Chalamet has an accent. I wrote about Timothee Chalamet’s bowl cut when the poster for The King was released last week and just the sight of him, with his jawline, and the frustration on his face, was enough to distract me for By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 11:37 am
Music Taylor in a decade Ten years ago, at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Taylor Swift was interrupted by Kanye West in a moment that kicked off one of the most significant chapters in celebrity gossip history – and it’s a chapter that may not have reached its conclusion. A decade later, during her first main By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 11:10 am
Shout-Outs August 27, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs “Dear Maddy, Happy 30th Birthday from your Boast Bitches! We are lucky to be included in your narrative and hope you continue to question the official story! Here’s a picture of your youthful inspiration Shakira. Her and your hips don’t lie. From The Boast Bitches aka Ais, Al, By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 08:49 am
Music Intro for August 27, 2019 Dear Gossips, If you’ve watched Missy Elliott’s performance from last night’s MTV VMAs more than once, that is correct. Here’s me sounding like a bitter old aunt, quoting Kathleen who, by contrast (in her mind), is forever young: these kids don’t deserve. She was actually By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 08:34 am
What Else What Else? The MTV Video Music Awards are happening tonight. For pop culture students, the VMAs have historically been a major event on the gossip calendar. Those of us from a certain generation grew up on VMAs moments. In the last decade or so, the VMAs make up for two or three By Lainey • Aug 26, 2019 04:33 pm
Relationship Assumption David and Victoria kiss I’ve worn down my nails already on the word count for the blog, it’s only Monday, and the VMAs are tonight so can I just throw some pictures at you right now and call it a post? The Beckhams are on holiday with Elton John. All their kids By Lainey • Aug 26, 2019 03:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina’s Marvel-ous, Maleficent weekend Angelina Jolie dropped Maddox off at university in South Korea last week. (I’m still not over the fact that Maddox is now off to college. Why are we so old?). She couldn’t linger though because she had to go back to work. Angelina showed up at D23 to By Lainey • Aug 26, 2019 01:46 pm
Royals House Cambridge’s backfired environmentalism For days and days and even more days, the British tabloids shouted about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s private jets – first to Ibiza and then to Elton John’s in the South of France. Elton then clarified that he sent his own plane to pick them up and paid By Lainey • Aug 26, 2019 12:06 pm
Style Emma Cruella Disney’s D23 expo happened this weekend and… it was a LOT. Sarah’s going to get into most of it throughout the day but it seemed like every hour, something Disney or Marvel was trending on social media because … they have a LOT. They have everything. They have so By Lainey • Aug 26, 2019 10:56 am
Royals Prince Andrew writes a messy letter Most people seem to agree that Buckingham Palace courtiers had no hand in the statement that Prince Andrew released on Saturday August 24, 2019, almost exactly two weeks, to the day and hour, after Jeffrey Epstein “died by suicide”. Not only because the writing is a mess (which is so By Lainey • Aug 26, 2019 09:54 am
Royals Intro for August 26, 2019 Dear Gossips, Where do you think Prince Andrew was when he wrote the letter that was released on Saturday, his latest attempt at “clarifying” his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein? Apparently Andrew is still on holiday in Spain, but what I’m curious about is where he was, exactly, when he By Lainey • Aug 26, 2019 08:38 am
