Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 7, 2018 Into The Gloss’s Top Shelf, which features celebrities, socialites, and influencers explaining their beauty routine, is often eye-roll inducing because so many famous people love to claim that their skin is flawless from “drinking water” and using a $6 drug store face wash. This week the featured person is… By Maria • Dec 07, 2018 02:42 pm
Lifestyle Sasha Finds: NOIZE outerwear Thank you so much for all the feedback from my Dr Martens post last month - whether you eat meat or not I appreciate the open mind. So simmer on that while I talk winter coats. A lot of you guys emailed asking me what I’m wearing in the By Sasha • Dec 07, 2018 02:05 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Q&A The other day my ‘little cousin’ (who is now in grade 12) asked me to answer some questions for her English project and it was interesting reading what she was asking. I got the sense that she, and maybe her peers, have a one or two dimensional view of health By Hayley • Dec 07, 2018 01:02 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Saoirse Ronan's Outfit of the Week This is what I love about great style – it often happens by turning your opinions against you. If you showed me this colour, for example, for a red carpet look, I wouldn’t be impressed, especially not in combination with this material. Normally, I hate this material. 99% of the By Lainey • Dec 07, 2018 12:33 pm
Scarlett Johansson Avengers: Endgame The trailer for Avengers 4, officially titled Avengers: Endgame has finally arrived and we have some things to discuss. First, that title. After much overdone secrecy, it is revealed to be “Endgame”, a reference to Doctor Strange’s line in Infinity War. It’s fine. It hardly justifies the amount By Sarah • Dec 07, 2018 12:02 pm
Top Reads Jennifer Aniston covers ELLE Jennifer Aniston is featured in the January 2019 issue of ELLE. The title of the profile: Jennifer Aniston doesn’t need a happy ending. And this has been Jen’s strategy since her split from Justin Theroux last February, a different tone than the one we saw when she split By Lainey • Dec 07, 2018 11:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dolly & Jen on the carpet and tequila shots with Sandy Here are Dolly Parton and Jennifer Aniston, along with Danielle Macdonald, at the premiere of Dumplin’ last night. As we’ve seen, since they’re the marquee names, Dolly and Jen have been leading most of the promotion for Dumplin’ so far. I’m curious though, once people start seeing By Lainey • Dec 07, 2018 11:07 am
Game of Thrones Game of NOTHING Game of Thrones’ final season begins in April 2019, as told to us by the first official teaser which tells us NOTHING. This is NOTHING. It’s not even foreplay, it’s a cute person maybe smiling at you but you’re not quite sure because they didn’t actually By Sarah • Dec 07, 2018 10:40 am
Douchebags Kevin Hart is not hosting the Oscars Two days ago it was announced that Kevin Hart would host the Oscars and I wrote, “…everyone likes Kevin Hart. He’s the Platonic ideal of an Oscar host: popular, funny but not offensive…” And then a lot of you emailed to let me know that you don’t like By Sarah • Dec 07, 2018 09:48 am
Shout-Outs December 7, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs The Community Run for the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre in Vancouver is happening this Sunday, December 9 starting at 9am at Olympic Village Square. Last year, $5,000 was raised to provide warm meals for women and children. Everyone is welcome – bring your kids, your strollers, your neighbours, your By Lainey • Dec 07, 2018 09:26 am
Sports Intro for December 7, 2018 Dear Gossips, Best read on the internet this week? For me nothing come close to the piece Allen Iverson wrote about Allen Iverson in The Players’ Tribune published yesterday. I read it the first time, sent it to almost everyone I know, read it a second time, then woke up By Lainey • Dec 07, 2018 09:06 am
What Else What Else? OK. So I know there might be some plot problems here. And still. I don’t care. I am willing to use my imagination because I can’t hate this idea. I cannot hate the idea of Tiffany Haddish and Awkwafina in a movie together. Tiffany broke out in 2017. By Lainey • Dec 06, 2018 05:21 pm
BFFs Dolly & Jen in black leather Dolly Parton’s song from Dumplin’, "Girl in the Movies", was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song this morning. Dolly’s on her way. Her goal, as she’s made explicitly clear, has been to get nominations, in particular an Oscar nomination. The Globes aren’ By Lainey • Dec 06, 2018 03:21 pm
Award Season Campaigning A mixed bag of filmmaker inclusion It’s been a great year for black American cinema, as evidenced by the Golden Globes nominations which include Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, and If Beale Street Could Talk for Best Picture. (Sorry to Bother You is too weird for award shows, but let us not forget it is one of By Sarah • Dec 06, 2018 02:31 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 6, 2018 Lainey and I briefly talked about the Jessica Simpson/Natalie Portman “feud” last night, which is actually a nothingburger sparked by thirsty headlines. In the original interview with USA Today, Natalie Portman was referring to how the media tried to make virginal sex pots out of young female pop stars. By Maria • Dec 06, 2018 01:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jake joins Instagram Jake Gyllenhaal is now on Instagram. It’s not necessarily news anymore, when a celebrity is on social media. Even Julia Roberts is on IG now. I don’t know that Jake, though, over the last few years, falls under the category of the “sharing” celebrity. He keeps his sh-t By Lainey • Dec 06, 2018 12:16 pm