Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Laura Dern, teen secrets, and Blue Ivy Carter It’s the first episode of Show Your Work of 2018! We begin by identifying a vortex in my pop culture experience. What happened was that a few days ago, our friend Dean sent over the link to an episode of the Worst Ever podcast featuring guest Staci Keanan. I By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 02:33 pm
Music #BEYchella Cowboy Timberlake is trying to make his album release the music event we’re supposed to be waiting for. Truth: the music event everyone is waiting for is Coachella. Or, more accurately, #BEYchella. A post shared by Beylite (@beylite) on Jan 2, 2018 at 6:18am PST By the time By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 12:59 pm
Relationship Assumption JRod is not engaged … yet It’s a new year. And while people have been waiting for it, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are not engaged. They did, however, work out together on New Year’s Eve. And had to each post about it on Instagram. A post shared by Jennifer Lopez (@jlo) on Jan By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 12:28 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, January 2, 2018 How could New Year’s Eve be complete without a Happy New Year greeting from Choupette? For those of you who live in Paris and can afford to sleep 8 hours a night, Choupette has shared her 2018 resolutions. She wants to take up boxing and walk the runway. Wait. By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 12:03 pm
Sarah Silverman Sarah Silverman Is Probably Better Than Me Happy New Year! You guys, I’m loving the optimism I’m seeing online. Obviously Time’s Up has been a real jolt of positivity, but even the New Year memes are all about how things have got to look up this year. I’m into it. In fact, I’ By Duana • Jan 02, 2018 11:50 am
Music Wild West Timberlake Kathleen wrote about the Justin Timberlake Man Of The Woods rumours a couple of weeks ago. Today he confirmed that his new album will be called Man Of The Woods, to be released on February 2, and the first single is expected to drop this Friday. This is all happening By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 11:27 am
BFFs New Year Girl Sh-t Girl Sh-t is the Best Sh-t. So is this a promising beginning to 2018? Every day I get emails from people shouting at me for a variety of reasons: I love Beyoncé too much, I don’t hate Beyoncé enough, I don’t hate Angelina Jolie enough, I don’t By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 11:14 am
Amazingness Mimi’s NYE tea Mimi returned to Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on Sunday night. And … well…as she would say, it was a moment. Not just because she actually performed this time instead of tottering around the stage bitching about everything but because while she did hit most of her By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 10:34 am
BFFs So…will Louis CK be back soon? Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy special premiered on Netflix on New Year’s Eve. He’s making headlines now because of the way he addressed the Hollywood sexual harassment situation and, specifically, his bit about his friend Louis CK. Entertainment Weekly has a good summary of his comments which you By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 10:10 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for January 2, 2018 Dear Gossips, Welcome back! To a new year in gossip! A year that’s already unavoidably being shaped by the events of 2017 and the endless revelations of the Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar – but we begin with a resolution. A resolution announced yesterday, on the first day of the year, By Lainey • Jan 02, 2018 08:54 am
What Else What Else? Update: We've rolled out a few changes that we hope you'll like. Other than the styling changes that are apparent at first glance (fonts, navigation, etc), please note that photos are now zoomable. Tap/click to hide and show menus, and pinch/expand to zoom. Happy By Lainey • Dec 29, 2017 12:07 pm
Best of 2017 – Blue Ivy, the prodigy Is there still time to submit a word of the year? My word of the year is Boomshakalaka. This word existed before Blue Ivy, first of her name, of House Knowles-Carter, but it will now forever belong to Blue after she used it in her famous freestyle. Blue’s freestyle By Kathleen • Dec 29, 2017 11:47 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, December 29, 2017 Jay-Z is releasing the video for Family Feud some time today …and it features Beyoncé and Blue Ivy. So now I have to make sure my TIDAL is up to date which I don’t think it is. In the 30 second preview, Jay once again seems to be directly By Lainey • Dec 29, 2017 11:09 am
Mariah Carey Mimi’s NYE do-over Every year, our Christmas Angel, Mariah Carey, spends Christmas in Aspen. Bryan Tanaka is with her in Aspen this year, to hold her hand while she tries to navigate the icy sidewalks and the snow. Here are a few photos from Mimi’s Christmas week. As you can see, she’ By Lainey • Dec 29, 2017 10:56 am
Ben Affleck JRod’s first Christmas and New Year’s Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez spent Christmas together, with their families, in Miami. It’s their first holiday season together. And there was some speculation leading up to Christmas that an engagement would happen. Well, it didn’t happen at Christmas, but there’s always New Year’s. JLO and By Lainey • Dec 29, 2017 10:38 am
Taylor Swift Joe arrives for New Year’s Taylor Swift and her family arrived in LA last week where they presumably spent Christmas. Joe Alwyn wasn’t with them and I posted at the time that it was looking likely that Joe was back in England with his family and would likely show up for New Year’s. By Lainey • Dec 29, 2017 09:47 am