Ellen Degeneres Taylor Swift drinks white wine Taylor Swift is on The Ellen Show today, her first interview in two years or so. The clips are all over the place – you can find them all here. As we’ve seen, this is accessible Taylor, and it’s supposed to feel like a sharp pivot from reputation Taylor By Lainey • May 15, 2019 11:10 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Master Archie receives the Cambridges Prince William and Catherine visited Prince Harry and Meghan Markle yesterday at Frogmore Cottage for their first visit with Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor. That’s all we know. The only statement released by the royals about it was that “it was a private visit”. Obviously this isn’t going to shut By Lainey • May 15, 2019 10:37 am
Style Intro for May 15, 2019 Dear Gossips, It was great to see Selena Gomez on the Cannes red carpet last night, on opening night, as a member of the cast of The Dead Don’t Die, by Jim Jarmusch. Selena, as we know, has pulled back from the public eye over the last year to By Lainey • May 15, 2019 09:41 am
What Else What Else? Let me put on my Duana hat here for a minute to talk about this Game of Thrones name thing: Khaleesi and/or Daenerys, and people giving these names to their children, and whether or not there’s regret since, you know, the Mother of Dragons did what she did. By Lainey • May 14, 2019 04:25 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Master Archie’s first week Prince Harry was in Oxford today, visiting Oxford Children’s Hospital, spending time with parents and kids with cancer and also the OXSRAD Disability Sports and Leisure Centre. Prince Harry at the @OxChildrensHosp in Oxford this morning. Upon arrival he chatted to staff and Young parents. “[He said] he’s By Lainey • May 14, 2019 01:35 pm
Books Intro for May 14, 2019 Dear Gossips, Ziya Tong (pronounced ZYE-AH) is “one of the world’s most engaging science journalists”. She is vice chair of WWF Canada, an award-winning broadcaster who anchored Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet for 10 years, and former correspondent on PBS’s Nova ScienceNOW. Oh yeah, and she’s the By Lainey • May 14, 2019 09:29 am
What Else What Else? Tom Holland was asked to spell GYLLENHAAL on television and couldn’t get it right. I know why they decided to spend two minutes on this – because, I GUESS, it makes for better television, watching a celebrity try to spell, but what’s good TV to me would have been By Lainey • May 13, 2019 04:08 pm
Girl Sh-t Constance & Gemma?! So far today, we’ve speculated about a queer celebrity hookup and we’re about to get into a possible beef between two Asian actresses. Is this equality? LOL, obviously that’s a joke of a question. Backstory: on Friday, after Constance Wu tantrum-ed on social media about Fresh Off By Lainey • May 13, 2019 12:58 pm
TV Updates Constance Wu breaks character Duana and I will be unpacking the Constance Wu (bad) work situation on Show Your Work this week. I get it though that it was a big story all weekend so here are some thoughts before we get into a more robust discussion about her on the podcast. Much of By Lainey • May 13, 2019 10:10 am
Game of Thrones Intro for May 13, 2019 Dear Gossips, If you can’t please everyone, who do you choose to please? That was the task for the showrunners of Game of Thrones – and after last night’s episode, “The Bells”, the answer, apparently, is The Spectacle. You indulge The Spectacle. In that sense, Game of Thrones, to By Lainey • May 13, 2019 08:27 am
What Else What Else? We are nowhere near Christmas but I’m sure this is what you asked for, right? Mel Gibson is playing Santa. It’s not a feel-good movie, because, well, Mel Gibson. It’s been a long time since the words “Mel Gibson” and “feel good” made sense together. The title By Lainey • May 10, 2019 04:57 pm
TV Updates Chris Pine’s 90s Titanic hair Chris Pines limited series, I Am The Night, aired earlier this year on TNT. Reviews were medium. I don’t know if it made that much of an impact. As we know, television is a crowded space now, and it’s a peak space – there are so many shows, so By Lainey • May 10, 2019 04:46 pm
Style Rihanna breaks history We’ve been expecting this for months now but the confirmation came today – Rihanna is her own fashion house now. Her Instagram post said it best: View this post on Instagram A post shared by badgalriri (@badgalriri) on May 10, 2019 at 6:22am PDT Let’s take a closer By Lainey • May 10, 2019 12:24 pm
Music Taylor Swift + Game of Thrones Taylor Swift covers the new issue of Entertainment Weekly. This is basically a takeover. Taylor is a huge get for EW. They’ve dedicated several features in addition to the cover story to Swift content. And it’s a proper magazine interview – not an essay she’s written about herself, By Lainey • May 10, 2019 11:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 10, 2019 Dear Gossips, A year ago we were talking about Awkwafina right before what would be the biggest summer and then the biggest year of her professional career up to that point. She was, undeniably, one of the breakout stars of 2018 with Ocean’s 8, Crazy Rich Asians, hosting the By Lainey • May 10, 2019 09:29 am
What Else What Else? OMG this Woodstock 50 mess. It’s already a member of the Year of the Scam club – and this only makes it …scammier – is that a word? Can it be a word? Primary investors pulled out because they said the festival was going to be Fyre 2.0. Now the By Lainey • May 09, 2019 04:15 pm
