Royals Royals and rogue relatives TMZ first broke the story yesterday afternoon that Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle Sr, who’d been confirmed to walk her down the aisle, was pulling out of the wedding because he was embarrassed about being busted for setting up his own pap shots. Which… I mean… it’s By Lainey • May 15, 2018 08:59 am
Intro for May 15, 2018 Dear Gossips, I mean…we all expected it would be an exciting week leading up to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding on Saturday but I don’t think anyone imagined that, with four days to go until the event, we’d find ourselves here, with so many unknown By Lainey • May 15, 2018 08:38 am
What Else What Else? Ummm… is anyone else totally into this “new hot hookup”? It’s Christie Brinkley and Michael Avenatti. Who? Maybe you don’t recognise the name but I know you know his face because his face is everywhere – he’s Stormy Daniels’s lawyer. The one who makes for GREAT TV. By Lainey • May 14, 2018 04:51 pm
Royals Holy royal pre-wedding drama I posted earlier about Meghan Markle’s father’s paparazzi drama. To recap: Thomas Markle Sr gets papped, then he gets busted for working with the paps to get papped, then his other daughter, Samantha, admits that she was the one who arranged for him to get papped. And now By Lainey • May 14, 2018 04:16 pm
Weddings The Clooneys at the royal wedding? Amal and George Clooney have apparently been invited to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding – according to Amal’s hair stylist, Miguel Perez. Miguel told HOLA! that while he could not confirm whether or not he’s doing Meghan’s hair, “What I can confirm is that I will By Lainey • May 14, 2018 12:11 pm
Royals Harry and Meghan: the night before Kensington Palace confirmed today where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will spend the night before their wedding. As expected, they won’t be together. Harry and William will be at Coworth Park. Meghan and her ma, Doria Ragland, will stay at Cliveden House Hotel. Google it. Google both, actually. Both By Lainey • May 14, 2018 11:42 am
Royals Rogue relative royal wedding drama Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are getting married in 5 days. After this, we won’t be seeing a major senior royal wedding in a while. Big G, Charlotte, and Trey Louis are tiny. It’ll be years before it’s their time. And, yes, while Princess Eugenie’s wedding By Lainey • May 14, 2018 09:57 am
Ali Wong Intro for May 14, 2018 Dear Gossips, Ali Wong’s Hard Knock Wife premiered yesterday, Mother’s Day in North America, on Netflix. Just as she was in her previous Netflix comedy special, Baby Cobra, Ali is pregnant during the performance. The easy and lazy assessment of that would be that she’s recycling herself. By Lainey • May 14, 2018 08:35 am
What Else What Else? I’ve just spent too much time watching this over and over again. It’s mesmerising. And… I’m not a cat person. But these cats just turned into the Avengers for me. Only I think these cats have better moves. Like the moves are so f-cking good, I’m By Lainey • May 11, 2018 05:06 pm
Music Butterfly at the festival When you picture a music festival, what comes to mind? It’s outside, right? And there’s grass everywhere? Like actual grass and the kind you smoke? If the festival is in England, probably some mud, wellies? OK. So now that you have that in your mind… is Mariah Carey By Lainey • May 11, 2018 04:34 pm
Style “Find someone who looks at you…” You know that meme, right? “Find someone who looks at you the way X looks at Y…”? The Cannes Film Festival kicked off earlier this week. And this is my favourite photo so far. Had it not been for the Met Gala on Monday, it would have probably been my By Lainey • May 11, 2018 04:22 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, May 11, 2018 Maria’s down with a spring flu today so I’m stepping in for her … And taking advantage of the situation to shamelessly promote myself. Jessica Goldstein came to Toronto to gossip with me for a couple of days in March. And now she’s written about why gossip is By Lainey • May 11, 2018 01:39 pm
Style Amber Heard & Cannes tailoring The Hollywood Reporter posted an article yesterday about Aline Buffet, the “fashion fixer” of Cannes. Aline has been working Cannes for 24 years. She’s the one they call when a zipper breaks or when a hemline needs to be shortened or lengthened. This is fascinating to me because you By Lainey • May 11, 2018 11:57 am
Music Donald Glover’s great week Six days ago, Donald Glover hosted Saturday Night Live, performing two new songs as Childish Gambino and the video to one of those songs, “This Is America”, has been the most-watched and most-talked about four minutes of pop culture this week as people break down all the hidden references and By Lainey • May 11, 2018 11:33 am
Relationship Assumption Bella and Abel kissing in Cannes Bella Hadid and The Weeknd were seen at Coachella making out but then he was also seen with another model, Chantel Jeffries. A month later, Bella and Abel are both in Cannes. And they were at a party together last night. And photographed kissing. Back together? Is it this just By Lainey • May 11, 2018 10:29 am
Celebrity Lifestyle Brands Intro for May 11, 2018 Dear Gossips, As I’m writing this, I have two windows open on my laptop right now and another window open on my phone, in queue for Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty, her new line of lingerie. The site officially launched at midnight in 210 countries and, clearly, a lot By Lainey • May 11, 2018 09:02 am