Royals Princess at the screening We’ve been getting new visitors to the site – Hi! Welcome! – and one of the common questions that comes up is why I call her Princess Kate and it’s wrong and I am mistaken and she’s actually Duchess Kate. First, I hate the word “duchess”. It’s such By Lainey • Nov 03, 2016 04:54 pm
Music 10 years of award show Taylor When she first started attending award shows, Taylor Swift would be in the audience, getting her photo taken with other artists by event photographers for mass release. Backstage too. That was before Bad Blood. When Taylor and Katy and Rihanna and Selena and Nicki, they would happily get in place By Lainey • Nov 03, 2016 04:33 pm
Bad Style Carrie and Brad start strong… Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley have hosted the CMAs for the last 9 years. And you know what? I like their chemistry. I liked it last year and I quite enjoyed their opening monologue this year. I mean it was corny, but also, they know their audience. And it worked By Lainey • Nov 03, 2016 03:18 pm
Music Chest thumping at the CMAs Some people weren’t feeling Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks’ performance at the CMAs. (I see you, Kenny Chesney. But I also understand that no one wants to follow Beyoncé.) Other people were feeling it hard. Faith Hill knew all the words and was singing along. Miranda Lambert was getting By Lainey • Nov 03, 2016 01:19 pm
Music Beyoncé & the Dixie Chicks A few weeks ago, we had a memory scientist on The Social who talked about how sometimes we remember things that we can’t possibly remember. Like your dad feeding you a piece of chocolate when you were 14 months old and you spat it out and it’s the By Lainey • Nov 03, 2016 11:47 am
Winona Ryder Intro for November 3, 2016 Dear Gossips, Duana sent over an article this morning to us on group chat that I can’t stop thinking about. It’s about Soul Asylum’s Runaway Train. Remember the song? And, in particular, the video? In addition to the band, the video featured photos of real missing kids. By Lainey • Nov 03, 2016 10:25 am
Music Beyoncé. Tonight. CMAs. “This is not a drill” … is what you say, what you hear, when something like this happens. That is, when Beyoncé happens. The CMAs are tonight. And while some people cared at the start of the day, a LOT of people are caring a lot more now because it’s By Lainey • Nov 02, 2016 04:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jessica Chastain too We’ve been hearing over and over again that this year’s Best Actress Oscar race is the most competitive it’s been in a while, much more competitive than Best Actor. We’ve been hearing over and over again that Emma Stone (La La Land) is currently the frontrunner, By Lainey • Nov 02, 2016 04:01 pm
Quiveration Jake’s promise to Ellen Said this before, will say again, I love watching Jake Gyllenhaal on Ellen. They have a really cute chemistry. My favourite is from years ago when he kept calling her on his birthday. Have you watched that back lately? His voice is hilarious, the way it gets more and more By Lainey • Nov 02, 2016 02:12 pm
Music Nils Sjoberg’s second hit That would be a question on any gossip exam: What is the true identity of Nils Sjoberg? Answer: Taylor Swift, of course. We first met Nils a few weeks after Taylor Swift and Calvin Harris broke up. She ghostwrote This Is What You Came For under the pseudonym and she By Lainey • Nov 02, 2016 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp, wizard Deadline dropped a major exclusive yesterday: Johnny Depp will be in the sequel to Fantastic Beast And Where To Find Them. This is what they call f-cksh-t. It is f-cksh-t. It is total complete f-cking f-cksh-t that he is joining the world of By Lainey • Nov 02, 2016 09:29 am
Hook Ups Hot Harry & Meghan Markle: a Toronto romance US Weekly’s new cover with a new exclusive: Prince Harry was actually in Toronto this past weekend with Meghan Markle, just as news was breaking that they are dating. As I posted on Monday, the UK’s Daily Express was the first to report that Harry and Meghan were By Lainey • Nov 02, 2016 08:24 am
Serena Williams Serena Williams and Lewis Hamilton Serena Williams and Lewis Hamilton on Monday for Halloween. His costume is freaking me out. It’s too real. Anyway Page Six is reporting that they were hanging out all night and they were also together last week when Lexis won the Mexican Grand Prix, seen holding hands. So they By Lainey • Nov 02, 2016 07:36 am
Intro for November 02, 2016 Dear Gossips, This is usually the space where I link to articles and recommended reads. Today I am shamelessly linking to an article in the new issue of Flare Magazine that I wrote about LaineyGossip. We started out as a newsletter to two people in 2003. And we became a By Lainey • Nov 02, 2016 06:56 am
Style I blinked and it’s gone I keep missing out on sh-t today. It’s a first world problem, I KNOW. But I thought maybe you’d want to hear me bitch about it? Gwyneth Paltrow, as you know, has launched a clothing line, goop Label. Edition 03 just launched. And the first item? Maybe By Lainey • Nov 01, 2016 05:15 pm
Hook Ups Did Xenu hurt our Butterfly? Mimi is no longer engaged. And she will not hide from it, goddamn it. Most celebrities would be living undercover in a situation like this. Not our butterfly. Our butterfly has been more visible than ever, waving that $10 million ring around like a declaration of war: I will not By Lainey • Nov 01, 2016 04:19 pm