Royals Intro for May 22, 2018 Dear Gossips, Welcome back to those of you returning from long weekend in Canada. We were open for business yesterday so if you were offline, please scroll down to get caught up on Royal Wedding and Billboard Music Awards posts. Almost 30 million people watched Meghan Markle marry Prince Harry By Lainey • May 22, 2018 08:34 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Royal Wedding Edition What else would we be talking about this week on Show Your Work? Because a fairy tale requires WORK. There was a lot of love on display when Prince Harry married Meghan Markle at St George’s Chapel in Windsor. But there was also So.Much.Work, so much impressive By Lainey • May 21, 2018 02:03 pm
Royal Wedding 2018 Did Chelsy hug Meghan? Big events like the Oscars and royal weddings wouldn’t be the same without Twitter. I almost can’t enjoy an event anymore without watching live and following on Twitter. Someone out there is angsting about how this means we – or just I – can’t live in the present anymore By Lainey • May 21, 2018 01:40 pm
Name Nerd The Joys of Dragging Miles Theodore Stephens’ Dad The problem with adoring a celebrity couple is not that you might go too easy on them. The problem is that you collect up all kinds of information, in kind of the same way you did about an eighth-grade crush, and can’t keep yourself from spitting it out at By Duana • May 21, 2018 01:17 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, May 21, 2018 Money moves. Who did this ? I hate yaaaa😂😂😂😂😩😩😩 pic.twitter.com/QOhU7P8gA4— iamcardib (@iamcardib) May 19, 2018 Do you ever see those adverts for Master Classes taught by celebrities, like Ron Howard teaches directing and Helen Mirren teaches acting and Shonda Rhimes teaches TV writing? Michael B. Jordan’s “baby By Maria • May 21, 2018 01:04 pm
Music BTS x BBMAs BTS were at the Billboard Music Awards last year and it was the first time those of us who weren’t up on our K-Pop got a real understanding of how f-cking huge these guys were. They were getting bigger screams than Celine Dion. This year, the screams only got By Kathleen • May 21, 2018 12:24 pm
Taylor Swift Misunderstood Taylor Swift Please allow me to start with the Taylor Swift news of the weekend that has nothing to do with the Billboard Music Awards. I will get to those but first, please enjoy the glory of the English language in the form of the co-writer of “September” commenting on Taylor’s By Kathleen • May 21, 2018 12:07 pm
Music Janet Jackson at the Billboard Music Awards Janet Jackson became the first black woman to win the Billboard Icon Award last night. When do I get to stop writing the words “the first black woman to…”? Of course, Janet deserves all the things so it’s about time she was given this award. Janet performed for the By Kathleen • May 21, 2018 11:19 am
Royals Harry & Meghan: three wedding portraits As mentioned in the previous post, Kensington Palace has released three official wedding portraits taken by Alexi Lubomirski at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Here’s a black and white shot of the royal couple sitting on some steps at Windsor Castle: The Duke and Duchess would By Lainey • May 21, 2018 10:45 am
Royals Meghan’s wedding dresses If my inbox and Twitter mentions are any indication, Meghan Markle’s wedding dress, by Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy, was not a total slam dunk. It wasn’t for me either but, as I wrote on Saturday, while I didn’t love the dress, I did love the look, By Lainey • May 21, 2018 10:05 am
Royals A Black Royal Wedding “Two young people fell in love and we all showed up.” That was Bishop Michael Curry addressing the newly-minted Duke and Duchess of Sussex on their wedding day. Leading up to the royal wedding, I wanted desperately to just show up and watch two young people in love. I wanted By Kathleen • May 21, 2018 09:29 am
Royal Wedding 2018 Intro for May 21, 2018 Dear Gossips, I’m not over the Royal Wedding yet, are you? Today is a holiday in Canada – it’s Victoria Day, honouring Queen Victoria, which always lands on the Monday preceding her birthday, May 25th. This seems fitting. A statue of Queen Victoria stands on Castle Hill in Windsor, By Lainey • May 21, 2018 08:17 am
Royal Wedding 2018 The Royal Carriage Ride I was assigned to cover William and Catherine’s wedding in 2011. My position was along the Mall, by the Duke of York. It was definitely a sight to see, the carriage approaching Buckingham Palace and thousands of people lining the road, majestic and grand. That said, now that I’ By Lainey • May 19, 2018 09:43 am
Royal Wedding 2018 Just Royally Married! Holy f-ck, Duana and I are going to Show Your Work the sh-t out of this wedding. There’s a lot to break down. And we will. But today, let’s have some fun with it. Because that was too good. And my heart hasn’t recovered from the way By Lainey • May 19, 2018 09:13 am
Royal Wedding 2018 GOAT at the wedding Really enjoying seeing the celebrities in the outer chamber of St George’s. Serena Williams and Alex Ohanian are hanging out with the Beckhams and the Clooneys and Idris Elba. Well. They were. Now it’s quiet because the royals are on the way. But Serena threw it down with By Lainey • May 19, 2018 06:45 am
Royal Wedding 2018 Amal & George at the Royal Wedding Amal Clooney is GOING for it. This is the most standout look we’ve seen today. Not that, um, she has much competition. This is not the Met Gala. But there are more eyeballs on this than the Met Gala. And clearly Amal wanted to be seen. How could you By Lainey • May 19, 2018 06:16 am
