Media Manipulation Jennifer by the sea You know what I did there. I am a sh-t. Here’s Jennifer Aniston on the cover of Marie Claire. The photo shoot happened on a boat. She looks amazing. I love the shot of her in that grey hoodie, wearing joggers, her freckles visible below her bright blue By Lainey • Nov 07, 2016 12:21 pm
Break Ups World War Brange: Brad files back Late Friday afternoon TMZ reported that Brad Pitt had filed a response to Angelina Jolie’s divorce petition. You’ll recall – how could you forget? – that she asked for sole custody of their 6 children. And that they’re both currently cooperating with the Los Angeles Department of Children and By Lainey • Nov 07, 2016 12:05 pm
Award Season Campaigning Notes from the Hollywood Film Awards The Hollywood Film Awards are about as significant as the People’s Choice Awards which is to say, not significant at all. The difference though is that, somehow, the Hollywood Film Awards actually attract talent and not just the cast of Big Bang Theory. That said, the award categories, every By Lainey • Nov 07, 2016 10:55 am
Intro for November 7, 2016 Dear Gossips, The Hollywood Reporter’s main focus in last week’s issue was China and its growing influence on Hollywood. The China Issue includes an interview with Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan on China rich and the obscene amounts of money being spent by the Chinese billionaire cohort. By Lainey • Nov 07, 2016 09:00 am
Girlcrushes I think I wanna have her baby MC Troublemaker, aka Lupita Nyong’o was on Lip-Sync Battle this week – did you see? Salt’n’Pepa are having a week! Beyoncé honoured them for Halloween and now Lupita doing Whatta Man, and killing it. So good she had to get sprayed down at the end. I love By Lainey • Nov 04, 2016 04:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Johnny Depp’s magical backlash It was revealed the other day that Johnny Depp has been cast in the sequel to Fantastic Beast And Where To Find Them and may have a cameo in the first movie. I called it f-cksh-t. And it’s apparently f-cksh-t a lot of other Wizarding By Lainey • Nov 04, 2016 01:43 pm
Music What Drake and Taylor do well So Taylor Swift showed up at Drake’s 30th birthday party and he spent a lot of time with her and some say it seemed flirty which resulted in all kinds of rumouring that they’re hooking up. Then, earlier this week, Page Six reported that the two are actually By Lainey • Nov 04, 2016 11:27 am
Leonardo DiCaprio Intro for November 4, 2016 Dear Gossips, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet was released 20 years ago this week. To commemorate the milestone, The Ringer’s Allison P Davis revisited the film to ask the question… Are We Sure It’s Good? Obviously I agree with all of her points – that the film is overstimulating By Lainey • Nov 04, 2016 10:12 am
Royals When Meghan met Charles Yesterday I wrote about how Prince Harry was actually in Toronto with Meghan Markle as news was breaking out of London that they are dating. She’s been spending a lot of time in London and was actually with Harry just prior to his trip home with her. And, as By Lainey • Nov 03, 2016 05:23 pm
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
