Media Manipulation Shawn & Camila: the error and the conspiracy Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello will be performing “Señorita” for the first time at the MTV VMAs on Monday night. They’ve not yet, like, officially confirmed that they’re dating but they’ve also been making out in almost every city in North America all summer so, they’re By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 10:54 am
Royals Did House Cambridge troll House Sussex? For almost two weeks now, the British tabloids have been dumping on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for flying on private jets on holiday. This has been as big of or an even bigger scandal than Prince Andrew being BFF with and namechecked in a lawsuit against a registered sex By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 10:28 am
Douchebags Prince Andrew’s Foot Massage I have to update my list from yesterday about how, in SNL Stefon’s voice, this Prince Andrew-Jeffrey Epstein story has everything: -a pedophile -a madam -girls who say they were sex slaves -billionaires -politicians -government corruption -a beachside lair -country estates -New York mansion -private jets -mystery death By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 09:37 am
Music Intro for August 23, 2019 Dear Gossips, There is only one music video that belongs in this space on top of the site today and all weekend – that would be the video for “Throw It Back”, by Dr Melissa “Missy” Elliott who released her first collection of new music in 14 years last night ahead By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 08:52 am
What Else What Else? I’m coming at you with the most generic, weak ass analogy, are you ready? The Avengers assembled…and they couldn’t take out The Rock. The Rock is Thanos. I told you. The Rock is the highest paid actor. Not even Robert Downey Jr, with all his back end By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 04:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet’s royal bowl cut Like I said the other day, movies are coming at us from everywhere right now as we get closer to fall movie season, prestige movie season. Last week Timothee Chalamet was part of that conversation when the first trailer for Little Women was released and people got into their feelings By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 02:30 pm
Media Manipulation Taylor becomes Tom’s story Tom Hiddleston has been in New York the last few weeks performing on Broadway. He’s received great reviews for his work in Betrayal and that should be the focus. When you’re doing theatre in New York, when it’s your Broadway debut, what you want is coverage in By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 01:10 pm
Royals Prince Andrew is “having fun” Well that’s reassuring. Are you comforted by the fact that Prince Andrew is “totally chilled” and “having fun” on the golf course in Spain despite … you know… all that Jeffrey Epstein business? That’s what the Sun is telling us in their latest story about the Queen’s favourite By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 12:31 pm
Top Reads Angelina Jolie, college mom Angelina Jolie’s oldest son, Maddox, is off to college now. Maddox turned 18 on August 5. He and his ma are in South Korea this week as she dropped him off on campus at Yonsei University. She and Maddox were seen together in Seoul last November when they spent By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 11:34 am
Music Taylor Swift: albums 1 to 5, v 2.0 Lover, the album, drops tonight. Apparently the video for “Lover”, the song, will drop tonight too. Right now I’m more excited about the video, because of the lyrics, because of all the speculation about Joe Alwyn and their relationship, I’m wondering what Taylor Swift will be showing us, By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 11:03 am
Intro for August 22, 2019 Dear Gossips, The celebrity of the week, at least across all my feeds, isn’t an actual person. Can an “issue” become a celebrity? Maybe it’s not even an issue. Can a “sandwich” be an “issue”? Not just any sandwich, but the chicken sandwich. I’m in Canada, and By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 09:30 am
What Else What Else? I don’t know what’s wrong with me that I didn’t expect that this sh-t would be that dirty, but it is. When money is involved, it’s always f-cking dirty. Dirty enough for sons to turn on mothers or mothers to turn on sons and By Lainey • Aug 21, 2019 04:28 pm
Break Ups Katie Holmes & Jamie Foxx: why ask why? This past weekend, Jamie Foxx was seen holding hands with model-musician Sela Vave in Hollywood. A couple of days later, their breakup was widely reported and Joanna posted yesterday about how that timing checks out for him, as he may be part of the award season conversation with his By Lainey • Aug 21, 2019 02:25 pm
BFFs Gigi’s introductions I wrote last week about Gigi Hadid and Bachelorette runner-up Tyler Cameron and what this means for the celebrity ecosystem as reality show celebrities continue to cross over into other celebrity streams. Gigi and Tyler spent a few days in upstate New York with some friends and last night By Lainey • Aug 21, 2019 12:21 pm
Shout-Outs August 21, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs Kara! Happy 40th Birthday with love from Brian who requested for you Taron Egerton, Michael B Jordan, and Nicholas Hoult. Welcome to your new decade. It’s the best one yet! By Lainey • Aug 21, 2019 10:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 21, 2019 Dear Gossips, The Toronto International Film Festival released its schedule yesterday and, as usual, most of the major titles and, therefore, the big celebrities, are heavily stacked on the first weekend. Saturday night is the one everyone is marking on their calendars though. That’s the night that A Beautiful By Lainey • Aug 21, 2019 09:45 am
