Intro for November 6, 2025

Dear Gossips,   

Millie Bobby Brown covers the new issue of British Vogue and an inflection point in her personal and professional life. She is now 21 years old, a new mother, and by the end of the year the show that made her super-famous will be concluding. Millie’s been working on Stranger Things for literally half her life, since she was eleven or so, which of course is the name of her character.

There are a few parts of the Vogue interview making headlines, including what she says about the media, calling out – as she’s done before – the Daily Mail in particular for how they’ve bullied her. Earlier this year, when she was promoting The Electric State, she says she was crying every day over what the Daily Mail was publishing about her, specifically her appearance. 

It’s that publication’s favourite pastime, targeting women, tearing down women, from Victoria Beckham to Meghan Sussex, to Millie Bobby Brown – and they are rewarded for it, with big traffic and so many comments. Why would they need to stop? The internet is programmed now in their favour to not have to stop. When TikTok creators are using the Daily Mail’s bullsh-t stories to make content, and contribute to the churn, the Daily Mail doesn’t have to worry about celebrity pushback. Because they’ve made everyone an accomplice. 

More and more, trash media outlets like the Daily Mail are looking in the comments to generate stories. For example, a celebrity posts a photo of themselves on Instagram. A large majority of people praise them, tell them they look great. There are always a couple of dickheads however who’ll say something sh-tty, “why does your face look like that?” And this becomes the one the Daily Mail will pluck out and blow up, splashing it above the cut on their page, and thereby suggesting that *everyone* thinks like this when it’s actually one f-cking loser among thousands. This is distortion, and it skews perception. And it’s not like we haven’t already been losing our grip on the truth. 

As gossip students then, at the risk of sounding pedantic, and repetitive, it’s important to be that much more discerning about which stories we engage with and amplify. Because there’s no reason a nothingburger one-off comment buried in the comment section should result in two weeks of headlines. 

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Yours in gossip, 

Lainey