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 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 By Lainey • Feb 28, 2019 10:43 am
Intro for February 28, 2019 Dear Gossips, This is what I meant all those weeks ago when I said I was anxious about Gladys Knight being the Bee on The Masked Singer. SHE CAME IN THIRD. It’s what happens when you leave things up to the “people”. The people don’t know sh-t! By Lainey • Feb 28, 2019 10:19 am
What Else What Else? I don’t care that this is a rat – look at her sad face in distress! How could you not help? Especially when the reason she got stuck is so relatable!? Winter flab! Also… the final thought in Michael K’s post is, as usual, f-cking brilliant. Relating Jon By Lainey • Feb 27, 2019 04:02 pm
Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Lawrence’s front row ring Jennifer Lawrence stayed away from LA on Oscar weekend. I wonder if they called her though, if the Academy invited her to present this year and she was like, nah, I’m all about the New York life right now. She’s on an extended break from acting. There may By Lainey • Feb 27, 2019 03:53 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben & Lindsay on Oscar weekend Oscar weekend, for most, is a work weekend. Actors and producers and writers try to be in LA if they can so that they can show up at the parties, strike up conversations with the people they need to be talking to so that they can set up their next By Lainey • Feb 27, 2019 03:30 pm
Relationship Assumption Jamie Foxx might not be single The story about Jamie Foxx after the Oscars was that he said on stage at an event that he was single which is why everyone’s been talking about him and Katie Holmes breaking up. As I wrote yesterday in my post, it’s hard to get a read on By Lainey • Feb 27, 2019 12:32 pm
Royals Sporty Will and Kate Prince William and Catherine are in Northern Ireland for the next two days. It was a previously unannounced trip, for security reasons. So right after the Sussexes’ mini tour to Morocco, the Cambridges are now front and centre, keeping the young royals in the headlines. Kate arrived in Belfast in By Lainey • Feb 27, 2019 11:51 am
Faux Gossip Bradley, Gaga, Irina: a new triangle? Oh my God, please, can this stop? As you know, Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga performed “Shallow” at the Oscars, directed by Bradley Cooper. This is an important point, because people seem to have lost their goddamn minds about their chemistry and how undeniable it is that they’re in By Lainey • Feb 27, 2019 10:34 am
Shout-Outs February 27, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs Chris! Happy Birthday! Have the best day with your coworkers and your fiancé – CONGRATULATIONS – and the best YEAR with all the people in your life! Tell mom I said hi! (But not in a Marky Mark way.) By Lainey • Feb 27, 2019 09:41 am
Oscars 2019 Intro for February 27, 2019 Dear Gossips, Yesterday in this space, I wrote about the hierarchy of Oscar parties, how the Vanity Fair party has become the appetiser instead of the main course, and former VF editor Graydon Carter’s Importance Index and Seven Room theories of fame. Trevor Noah addressed the very same themes By Lainey • Feb 27, 2019 09:32 am