Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 20, 2020 You’s third season is in production and cast a bunch of new characters, including the neighbour we glimpsed at the end of season two. The first two seasons were based on the books You and Hidden Bodies, but there is no guide for the third season, it could go By Maria • Nov 20, 2020 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Making Sense of Music This Music trailer landed in my inbox in dispute, which I am here to settle. Lainey isn’t feeling it, but our site manager Emily (who is way nicer than the rest of the team) is feeling it (Emily: Sia and Maddie have done incredible work together for years). I By Maria • Nov 19, 2020 03:14 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 19, 2020 This week Lainey wrote about George Clooney who is, in my opinion, the last movie star as we’ve known movie stars. This Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn profile in New York Times Arts is similar because they are so lovely and because they appreciate the amazing life their profession By Maria • Nov 19, 2020 01:53 pm
Celebrity Lifestyle Brands Jennifer Aniston’s Pretty Decent Year Technically, I’m supposed to be writing about Jennifer Aniston joining Vital Proteins as CCO (Chief Creative Officer) and global partner. This is a celebrity lifestyle word salad that means she’s the spokesperson and likely invested in the business. There are different tiers of celebrity spokespeople: usually the bigger By Maria • Nov 19, 2020 09:17 am
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 18, 2020 The big story today is of course Michael B. Jordan for Sexiest Man Alive (read Lainey’s analysis from this morning here). This year I didn’t have a solid guess, but in mid-October MBJ posted a voting thirst trap and I wrote, “But why would you ever count out By Maria • Nov 18, 2020 01:56 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 17, 2020 This isn’t the top story in entertainment, but it is my top story in entertainment. Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Grammer are working on a sitcom together. What in the tossed salad and scrambled eggs?! What happened to the Frasier reboot? That aside, this could be a behind-the-scenes battle of By Maria • Nov 17, 2020 01:10 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 16, 2020 The Masters were on all weekend and I watched the last five minutes to see Paulina Gretzky, who congratulated her fiancé Dustin Johnson in her own green jacket. It was Adidas, because that’s his sponsor. It got a lot of play on Twitter but is no longer available in By Maria • Nov 16, 2020 03:17 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 13, 2020 Mary J. Blige and Diddy have one of the most enduring relationships in music – they made it through the 90s and reconciled after a feud. In late 2019, it was reported that they are working on a documentary about her but there’s no set release date. Until then, there’ By Maria • Nov 13, 2020 03:24 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 12, 2020 Cameron Diaz sold out her sister Nicole Richie, telling the world that Nic watches old Newlyweds episodes on YouTube. Nicole acknowledged as such in her Instagram stories and said she refuses to be shamed by her love of 2003 reality TV. So now I’m curious – did Nicole read Jessica By Maria • Nov 12, 2020 01:32 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 10, 2020 There is nothing haughtier than a Martha Stewart comment, even when it’s factual. For example, someone commented on her tagines in the background and she responded, “I actually had a dinner for sixty guests and I own sixty Tagines.” That "actually" is doing so much work. And By Maria • Nov 10, 2020 01:32 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 9, 2020 Derek Blasberg and Gwyneth Paltrow posted the same photo they took with Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, but GP cropped Derek out. I love politics! Chrissy Teigen and John Legend rode around the streets on Saturday in celebration. Like her, I also look forward to Instagram going back to some level By Maria • Nov 09, 2020 02:35 pm
Douchebags The Pastor Posse in Crisis Last night Prem and I were DM’ing about Carl Lentz’s affair and an important question was raised: why is it coming out now? Gossip has a tipping point, the moment it goes from insider information to public domain. For Carl, that moment came when the first leak appeared By Maria • Nov 09, 2020 12:41 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 6, 2020 Another update on the Carl Lentz situation (here’s my post from this morning) comes from an insider. Esther Houston is married to Joel Houston, son of Hillsong leaders Brian and Bobbie Houston (Joel grew up with Laura Lentz and he co-founded the NYC branch with Carl). The screenshot is By Maria • Nov 06, 2020 01:35 pm
Cheating Loins Forgive Me Bieber, For I Have Sinned Yesterday I wrote about pastor-to-the-stars Carl Lentz’s firing from Hillsong Church (you can catch up here). Even a dumdum like me could discern from the language of the statement that it was something scandalous. So it’s cheating. Affairs, in North America at least, are scandalous. Look how we By Maria • Nov 06, 2020 10:11 am
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 5, 2020 Instagram’s algorithm is all kinds of f-cked up, which is why I’m consistently getting posts about voting and staying in line three days after the election. It’s too late to vote, but Instagram hasn’t figured this out, and I think this will be the death of By Maria • Nov 05, 2020 03:17 pm
Top Reads Carl Lentz, Hashtag Blessed No More In between refreshing news feeds I found a tasty nugget on DeuxMoi about Pastor Carl Lentz of Hillsong. Meet me on the other side of this screenshot. OK so, a DeuxMoi disclaimer: as stated on their Instagram feed, they distribute gossip but they do not verify it. It’s up By Maria • Nov 05, 2020 09:56 am
