Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: College Scams and Old Magic I am bigging up my colleague: Duana’s post on the college admissions scam last week was the most comprehensive piece on the scandal because, as she has since shared, she’s been studying schools and applications and elite admissions for 25 years. If she has a PhD in anything, By Lainey • Mar 20, 2019 11:32 am
Relationship Assumption Kate & Pete’s family dinner Pete Davidson joined Kate Beckinsale and her family, including her ma Judy Loe, and her stepfather Roy Battersby, both actors, for dinner last night in Malibu. Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the passing of Kate’s dad, Richard. He was only 31 at the time, also an actor: View By Lainey • Mar 20, 2019 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews All your faves are scamming Jennifer Lopez is a producing a movie based on that NY Mag article about the exotic dancers who scammed some of their clientele. It’s called Hustlers—from the article’s title, “The Hustlers at Scores”—and earlier this year JLo was joined by Constance Wu. Now, with the movie By Sarah • Mar 20, 2019 09:59 am
Royals The Sussexes step out for New Zealand Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visited New Zealand House in London yesterday to offer condolences and pay respect to the victims of the terror attack in Christchurch last Friday. As they are the last members of the family to have visited New Zealand (last fall), they were chosen to represent By Lainey • Mar 20, 2019 09:33 am
TV Updates Intro for March 20, 2019 Dear Gossips, Jann Arden is a Canadian treasure. Her album Living Under June, that includes the hit singles “Good Mother”, “Could I Be Your Girl”, and “Insensitive”, came out 25 years ago this year. You know what’s amazing about Jann though? She’s about to turn 57 – and she By Lainey • Mar 20, 2019 08:32 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Define – okay, no, SPELL ‘Synonymous’ Hi Duana, My partner and I are expecting our first child in a few weeks and, though we’re happy with where we’ve landed if baby turns out to be male, we’re at an impasse on the female side of things. We both LOVE Ursula but I’m By Duana • Mar 19, 2019 04:07 pm
What Else What Else? I love a good pronunciation debate. You’ve probably heard of this by now? How do you say “squirrel”? It seems to be a matter of region. Americans mash the letters together and the English draw it out more. I’ve been trying to figure out if Canadians are somewhere By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 03:55 pm
Maple Leaf Toy Story 4: Homeward Bound The Toy Story franchise has always been a secret nightmare, but now the full trailer for Toy Story 4 is embracing it and leaning straight into its nightmare roots. This trailer has so much nightmare fuel, I don’t even know where to start. There’s Forky, the kindergarten craft By Sarah • Mar 19, 2019 03:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews An Issa-LaKeith love story I already have a moderate size LaKeith Stanfield problem. On April 19th, at precisely 1030pm, I will experience a full-blown LaKeith Stanfield crisis. That’s the day Someone Great comes out on Netflix – it’s a Friday, I’ll get home from work, walk my dogs, participate in a By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 02:51 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 19, 2019 Rachel Bilson is on a new show, which made me realize her other show, Take Two, had been cancelled. Her co-star was Eddie Cibrian, who has been on a lot of cancelled TV shows. Professionally, Rachel hasn’t totally floundered but she hasn’t had her own hit – she’ By Maria • Mar 19, 2019 01:56 pm
Royals The Queen and Kate The Queen was joined by Princess Catherine today at King’s College London to open Bush House: Her Majesty The Queen and The Duchess of Cambridge arrive at @KingsCollegeLon to open Bush House – the latest education and learning facilities on the university’s Strand Campus. pic.twitter.com/AOGubc8BcY— The By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 12:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita’s scary eyes I am probably going to see Jordan Peele’s Us this weekend. Not happy about this. Us is getting strong reviews. Get Out was not a fluke. So it’s not like I’m going to walk out of there all like, what a sh-t movie. I will probably By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kate & Pete: Metal Date Night Kate Beckinsale and Pete Davidson arrived separately to the premiere of The Dirt last night. The Dirt is Netflix’s Motley Crue biopic that begins streaming on Friday. I can’t say I’ve ever been a Motley Crue fan. But going by the trailer (below), I don’t think By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 10:22 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Florence Pugh joins Marvel As we’ve already discussed, Florence Pugh is everywhere. Now, Pugh is ascending to the next level by joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as she is in talks to join Scarlett Johansson in the Black Widow standalone movie. Apparently, Marvel was looking at her last year, but then went to By Sarah • Mar 19, 2019 09:54 am
Douchebags James Gunn Rehired In a move that surprised EVERYONE, late Friday word got out that Disney has rehired James Gunn, eight months after firing him for bad old tweets. This even after Disney insisted that they would not, despite considerable public and internal pressure, rehire Gunn. Refresher: Gunn, politically outspoken on social media, By Sarah • Mar 19, 2019 09:35 am
Shout-Outs March 19, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs Emily! Happy Birthday! And Happy 9th Anniversary to us! Sorry, I don’t mean to jam myself into your celebration but we are approaching a decade of this. I feel like we’ve grown up together. As for the way your requests have changed…dude, pop culture has been a By Lainey • Mar 19, 2019 09:16 am
