Reality TV A new, summery Bravo scandal If I didn’t know any better, I’d say network executives across the board have offered private payouts to the reality TV stars who can generate the most scandal - and now they’re all in a competition to out-scandal each other. Because how else do you explain the By Stephanie • Apr 01, 2026 12:29 pm
Jack Harlow Jack Harlow is not “getting Blacker” Jack Harlow found himself in hot water after remarks he made on the New York Times’ Popcast. He was there to discuss his latest album, Monica, but a few of the remarks he made during the conversation have kicked off a recurring discourse about cultural appropriation, identity, double standards and By Stephanie • Mar 26, 2026 11:44 am
Reality TV Reality TV double standards: Taylor Frankie Paul edition The fallout over the failed season of The Bachelorette continued this week with rumours of lawsuits, multi-million dollar network losses and a Nick Viall connection that, in the grand scheme of things, totally tracks. This all follows the premiere of the show being cancelled at the eleventh hour, just before By Stephanie • Mar 25, 2026 11:59 am
Reality TV Taylor Frankie Paul is the latest red flag from clout-chasing legacy media Taylor Frankie Paul is addressing the bombshell news of an open domestic assault investigation into her and her ex, Dakota Mortensen. Earlier this week, PEOPLE reported that a spokesperson for the Draper City Police Department confirmed the investigation, saying allegations were made against both parties and contact was made with By Stephanie • Mar 18, 2026 02:24 pm
Equality Issues Teyana Taylor and Oscar’s respectability politics To no one’s surprise, Teyana Taylor appears to have stolen the post-Oscar show after a video of her verbally accosting a security guard who she claimed put his hands on her went viral Monday. Reports of the incident - and ultimately the recording of it - emerged as word By Stephanie • Mar 17, 2026 03:26 pm
Whoopi Goldberg Revisiting Mo’nique's career drama Mo’Nique is making headlines again – and some people don’t seem to be too happy about it. Much to the dismay of the internet, she’s doing the thing she’s come to be known for, which is calling people out over things that happened in the past. And By Stephanie • Mar 11, 2026 12:03 pm
Charlamagne’s nuanced move to Netflix In a video circulating on social media, The Breakfast Club host Jess Hilarious is getting candid about how the show’s move to Netflix is going. If you recall, back in December it was announced that Charlamagne Tha God had snagged a $200-million five-year contract with iHeartMedia. The deal meant By Stephanie • Mar 04, 2026 11:56 am
Ex Games That trifling man won't leave Teyana Taylor alone By all appearances, 2026 is Teyana Taylor’s year. In January, she won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in One Battle After Another. She just graced the cover of TIME magazine for their Women of the Year edition, and in just over two weeks, she could win her By Stephanie • Feb 27, 2026 01:35 pm
Reality TV Reckoning with America’s Next Top Model One week after its release, reaction is still pouring in online about Reality Check: America’s Next Top Model, which, as I wrote about here, finally got the Netflix treatment in the form of a three-part documentary. And while it was initially teased as an in-depth look into the infamous By Stephanie • Feb 23, 2026 01:14 pm
America’s Next Top Model gets the Netflix treatment This week, the trailer for a documentary coming to Netflix next month dropped, and the mere trailer incited more of a reaction online than some entire, full-length documentaries have. And that’s because of the subject matter. The trailer was for a documentary called Reality Check: Inside America’s Next By Stephanie • Jan 30, 2026 03:11 pm
Nicki Minaj The Collapse of the Barbz To top off what can only be described as increasingly questionable and mind-boggling behaviour on social media, Nicki Minaj has now gone the distance in cementing her stance as a pro-Trump supporter. Her tweets and videos over the last two or three years got so bad that they raised speculation By Stephanie • Jan 29, 2026 02:57 pm
Music Detecting an AI songstress The internet is divided over whether the woman claiming to be the artist behind the much-loved music of Sienna Rose is, in fact, her, or whether the songs so many have come to know and love are all the product of a ‘worryingly convincing’ AI artist by the same moniker. By Stephanie • Jan 26, 2026 11:22 am
Reality TV Queer Eye’s last-season drama Earlier this week, Queer Eye star Karamo Brown was notably absent from several press appearances in the morning show circuit that had been lined up for the cast to help promote the tenth and final season of the show. In a statement shared by his assistant, Karamo attributed his eleventh-hour By Stephanie • Jan 23, 2026 11:55 am
Golden Globes 2026 Glambot operator controversy A few days ago, the operator of the famed Glambot, best described by PEOPLE as a ‘high-speed camera that captures slow-motion videos’ made a video in defence of JLo. A clip of her at the Glambot station that was set up on the Golden Globes red carpet led to people By Stephanie • Jan 21, 2026 11:15 am
Keke Palmer Is Keke in love with a streamer? Keke Palmer has been raising some eyebrows lately. First, she invited Offset, who many turned their backs on after his poor treatment of Cardi B, onto her podcast, Baby, This is Keke Palmer. I wrote about that here. Then, she launched a show on KeyTV, her digital network, called Southern By Stephanie • Jan 19, 2026 10:59 am
Kai Cenat Kai Cenat’s new direction One month after the harsh online reaction to his video about mental health and desire to create, livestreaming sensation Kai Cenat has broken his silence on social media. This time, he shared another video that seems to suggest he is quitting streaming for good - and that he’s setting By Stephanie • Jan 16, 2026 02:39 pm
