Sam Smith Sam and Brandon’s separate Pride Sam Smith and Brandon Flynn spent Pride weekend apart. PEOPLE is reporting that Sam was in Boston “having a good time” and dancing all night at a club called Candibar on Sunday while Brandon was at the Pride parade in New York with his 13 Reasons Why co-stars. When Lainey By Kathleen • Jun 26, 2018 09:41 am
Intro for June 26, 2018 Dear Gossips, Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Sleepless in Seattle. There are all kinds of retrospectives online, and a new Blu-ray coming out today, to commemorate the milestone. Rita Wilson talked to EW about the scene that she says changed her career. Moviefone lists 9 things By Lainey • Jun 26, 2018 09:12 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Start-of-Summer Updates I am delighted that it is finally summer and that I can become uncomfortably sweaty by working outside… and also quite cognizant that I am already fighting off freefall despair about the fact that the days actually start getting shorter (in the Northern Hemisphere) from here. So to counteract that By Duana • Jun 25, 2018 05:11 pm
What Else What Else? Cardi B and Offset are already married. And they were married a while ago. So Ariana and Pete Davidson may not actually hold the record for fastest dating to engagement to marriage record. However, it appears that Pete did come up with a ring before Offset did. That said, Cardi By Lainey • Jun 25, 2018 04:57 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Finding the Sexy…Amy Adams aside The theme of this week’s episode of Show Your Work is finding the sexy in the unsexy. Or reframing what used to be considered the “unsexy” work of Hollywood. Which is basically everything that happens behind the camera. Let’s start with the money. Usually the celebrity money stories By Lainey • Jun 25, 2018 04:30 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Ashanti’s caramel corduroy I don’t know if this is really corduroy but it looks to me like it has the texture of corduroy. Wait, no. It doesn’t have ridges. So it’s velvet. Are velvet and corduroy basically the same sh-t? I will Google, stand by. Google has learned me that By Lainey • Jun 25, 2018 04:04 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben & Lindsay’s family time Lindsay Shookus’s parents were in LA for the weekend. She and Ben Affleck were photographed having dinner with them and here are some shots of all of them, including her kid, on a hike on Sunday. Family time then. Just your ordinary weekend family activity, no drama. Except, well, By Lainey • Jun 25, 2018 03:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Your Monday cry The first trailer for The Hate U Give dropped during the BET Awards last night. If you’ve been reading this site, you know how I feel about Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give. You know how Lainey feels about it. We’ve haven’t been subtle about By Kathleen • Jun 25, 2018 03:00 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, June 25, 2018 What are the odds on Yoko’s World Cup prediction? Who will win the World Cup? A child who believes in a peaceful world.— Yoko Ono (@yokoono) February 14, 2017 I usually like to let Liam Gallagher speak for himself but this thread is confusing, even by his standards. He By Maria • Jun 25, 2018 01:41 pm
BFFs Gwyneth on holiday, Chris at home Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk spent the weekend on holiday with Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti on their yacht in Capri. Here’s what brunch looks like when you’re guests of Valentino and Giancarlo – or Garavani and Giammetti, GG, as monogrammed on their plates: A post shared by @bradfalchuk on By Lainey • Jun 25, 2018 01:06 pm
Weddings Kit & Rose get married Kit Harington married Rose Leslie in Scotland on Saturday. The ceremony happened at Rayne Church and, as noted on Friday, they returned to Wardhill Castle for the reception, a castle that has been in Rose’s family for 900 years. This is where Rose grew up. Is it hard to By Lainey • Jun 25, 2018 12:00 pm
Dumbass Ryan Coogler saves BET Jamie Foxx did a lot of things wrong last night but his worst offence was a Black Panther parody skit called “Wanda in Wakanda” featuring Michael Blackson. After the atrocity that is this sketch, the only Michael I recognize is Bae Jordan. Jamie Foxx plays Wanda, a warrior enlisted to By Kathleen • Jun 25, 2018 10:59 am
Donald Glover Donald Glover’s BET awkward It wasn’t his fault. Donald Glover was involved in one of the most awkward moments of the BET Awards last night but the person responsible for the discomfort was unequivocally Jamie Foxx. If Jamie had a script, he wasn’t reading it. A few times throughout the night, he By Kathleen • Jun 25, 2018 10:20 am
Girlcrushes Janelle’s BET vagina monologue Janelle Monae’s Dirty Computer is one of the best albums of 2018. Janelle Monae has become one of the most influential artists of the year not only because of the strength of her work but also because she came out as a queer woman in Rolling Stone in April. By Kathleen • Jun 25, 2018 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette: an extraordinary plea for empathy Jokes, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby tells us, are a two-part structure: set-up and punchline. And the problem with jokes, she goes on, is that they have no resolution. In her new comedy special, Nanette, Gadsby tells us how she “sealed off” her coming-out story at its “trauma point” by turning By Sarah • Jun 25, 2018 09:18 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 25, 2018 Dear Gossips, Hannah Gadsby’s name has been coming up in my feeds for a few weeks now. Then Sarah texted me this weekend, OH MY GOD YOU HAVE TO WATCH NANETTE ON NETFLIX. The timing was perfect. I watched it yesterday, Pride Sunday. Last week, it was Beyoncé taking By Lainey • Jun 25, 2018 08:55 am
