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
What Else What Else? A few weeks ago, a squirrel came by our yard with a peanut. We didn’t know he was out there when we opened the back door and our beagles immediately charged. The squirrel had to leave her peanut behind. But she ten minutes later she tried to come back By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 04:31 pm
Style Outfit of the Week: Andie MacDowell Maybe it’s because I’ve been thinking about St Elmo’s Fire since they’re developing a St Elmo’s Fire series but doesn’t Andie MacDowell still look like she did in St Elmo’s Fire? That hair. It’s gorgeous. And she’s doing more for this By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 03:38 pm
Robert Downey-Jr Mr Stark and the kid play with our hearts One of the biggest pop culture headlines of the week, aside from the Great Chicken Sandwich Beef, was that Disney/Marvel and Sony cannot resolve their Spider-Man love triangle which means that, as Sarah has covered extensively, Peter Parker may not be an Avenger anymore, which also means that By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 03:14 pm
Relationship Assumption Miley goes off Since it first broke almost a couple of weeks ago that Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth had separated, and Miley was seen making out with Kaitlynn Carter on holiday in Italy, public opinion, at least from what I’ve seen, has been in favour of Liam. I guess it should By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 01:31 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s long Lover Taylor Swift’s seventh album, Lover, was released last night, a few hours after the release of the video for the song “Lover”. “Lover” is, presumably, about Joe Alwyn and there’s been all kinds of speculation, because of the lyrics, whether or not she and Joe might be married By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 12:40 pm
