What Else What Else? On this week’s episode of What’s Your Drama, Sasha tells me what I looked like when I was interviewing Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton for The Sun is Also a Star. I am not ashamed. Each and every one of you would have behaved the same way. Also, By Lainey • May 16, 2019 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 16, 2019 Dear Gossips, I saw a film last weekend that I can’t stop thinking or talking about, even though it made me uncomfortable, especially since it made me uncomfortable – and on so many levels. The Grizzlies, based on a true story, is about the determination and resilience of a group By Lainey • May 16, 2019 08:59 am
What Else What Else? Is it 2007? Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan probably wish it could be 2007. Back in 2007, Kim Kardashian wasn’t a thing yet and Lindsay Lohan, well, you know. And now? Now Kim Kardashian has eclipsed Paris’s fame in a way even she couldn’t have imagined and By Lainey • May 15, 2019 04:28 pm
Game of Thrones Queen of the Ashes HBO has only released two promotional photos from the final episode of the series. One of them is of a grim looking Tyrion, obviously traumatised af from what he’s just seen. Understandable. I hope in the episode we’ll also see him looking embarrassed, or at least a little By Lainey • May 15, 2019 04:05 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Can Constance Wu Take a Lesson From the Fug Girls? I wish you could hear how excited I am to tell you this… But we got Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, aka the FUG Girls, on Show Your Work!!! Let’s start at the beginning of the episode though because, as promised, on this episode, we begin by unpacking the By Lainey • May 15, 2019 12:20 pm
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
