BFFs Chris Martin’s birthday guests Chris Martin’s birthday was on Saturday. There was a party and a lot of celebrities were at the party, including his ex-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, who also wished him Happy Birthday on Instagram. Right after wishing her husband, Brad Falchuk, Happy Birthday the day before – his bday is on March By Lainey • Mar 04, 2019 11:46 am
Douchebags Johnny Depp sues Amber Heard Johnny Depp has filed a $50 million defamation suit against Amber Heard objecting to the op-ed she wrote in the Washington Post in December about what she says she experienced when she came forward as a survivor of domestic violence. According to Johnny, it was all an “elaborate hoax” that By Lainey • Mar 04, 2019 10:40 am
Models Zendaya conquers Paris That’s a hyperbolic title. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration. No other fashion show this weekend in Paris got the attention and the buzz that Zendaya generated for Tommy Hilfiger. And…ummmm… it’s Tommy Hilfiger. When’s the last time anyone’s been excited about Tommy By Lainey • Mar 04, 2019 09:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben and Lindsay’s weekend in New York As mentioned last week in the post about Ben Affleck’s glow-up in progress, he’s been getting ready for the Triple Frontier premiere (available on Netflix this week) which happened in New York last night after the junket. Lindsay Shookus was seen leaving the junket and also at his By Lainey • Mar 04, 2019 09:14 am
Nicolas Cage Intro for March 4, 2019 Dear Gossips, Let’s start the week with my favourite set of photos from the weekend. There were a lot of good photos released this weekend and we’ll get to most of them soon. But none of them are as delightful as these shots of Nicolas Cage at something By Lainey • Mar 04, 2019 08:36 am
What Else What Else? I’m sure you know what’s blowing up right now. The whole ass internet, actually but this is what Twitter was made for. It’s Friday. It’s perfect Friday content. It’s comedy hour. And some of you have been sending me some hilarious tweets. Since this happened By Lainey • Mar 01, 2019 04:24 pm
Ben Affleck Ben Affleck’s glow-up? I put a question mark behind that because I don’t know yet that it’s an official “glow-up”. So can we call it a “glow-up in progress”? I posted the other day about Ben Affleck and how tidy he looked on his night out with Lindsay Shookus last weekend. By Lainey • Mar 01, 2019 01:05 pm
Royals Is Priyanka mad at Meghan? Priyanka Chopra, as we know, was friends with Meghan Markle before she met Prince Harry and was invited to the royal wedding in May. Meghan did not attend Priyanka and Nick Jonas’s wedding in India in December. And Priyanka was not at Meghan’s New York Takeover baby shower By Lainey • Mar 01, 2019 11:57 am
TV Updates Leaving Neverland premieres this weekend After Sundance, many of you emailed for commentary about Leaving Neverland, the new documentary directed by Dan Reed that “explores the separate but parallel experiences of James ‘Jimmy’ Safechuck and Wade Robson” with Michael Jackson, alleging that he sexually abused them as children. I’ve not written about it because By Lainey • Mar 01, 2019 10:30 am
Shout-Outs March 1, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs On Monday night in Vancouver, a car jumped the curb and crashed into lawyer Rachel Blarsky and her friend. Rachel has a “severely fractured pelvis, hip fracture, back fracture, some internal bleeding, and two broken fingers”. She’s had surgery and will require extensive rehabilitation. Rachel is a longtime LGBTQ+ By Lainey • Mar 01, 2019 10:03 am
Music Intro for March 1, 2019 Dear Gossips, I woke up this morning to see Solange trending on Twitter, exactly what we need to coast into the weekend. When I Come Home is the follow-up to the Grammy-winning album A Seat at the Table, the best work of her career to that point, released in 2016. By Lainey • Mar 01, 2019 09:48 am
What Else What Else? My parents used to own a Chinese buffet restaurant so I have seen buffet violence firsthand. Eggrolls and chicken balls used to be the contentious items and people would wait for a fresh batch and push others out of the way to get there first. This is the mistake that By Lainey • Feb 28, 2019 05:02 pm
Photo Assumption Ariana & Big Sean Part 2? Ariana Grande and Big Sean started dating some time in 2014 when he may or may not have been engaged to Naya Rivera, according to Naya. By October of 2014, Ariana and Sean were public. They walked the carpet together at the Grammys in 2015. Two months later it was By Lainey • Feb 28, 2019 03:59 pm
Music A Star is Born…and lives on forever Blair, our production coordinator at The Social, just walked into my office while I was watching Lady Gaga on Jimmy Kimmel last night. He raised his eyebrows, and I told him that “the A Star is Born Oscar campaign is still happening and the Oscars were four days ago”. Lady By Lainey • Feb 28, 2019 01:26 pm
Music Taylor Swift: Pop Angel I really think I nailed it with the title of this post, but that would be starting at the end and not at the beginning. So let’s go to the beginning… Taylor Swift’s fans have been speculating for days that Something Was Up. Taylor was posting on Instagram By Lainey • Feb 28, 2019 11:03 am
Shout-Outs February 28, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs Gabriela – I heard about what happened at work from Angie and that is some f-cksh-t, obviously, and I’m sorry that, once again, you and your colleagues, and so many women out there, continue to be disappointed by people in leadership. Change is slow, frustratingly slow. But at the risk By Lainey • Feb 28, 2019 10:43 am