Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Stella’s pearly dress I would be nervous wearing this dress with all these pearls. Of course they’re not real. But they’re still hazards, non? Like they could easily catch on something? Also… is it heavy? No matter, I’m into it all the same. It’d be worth the risk. Not By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 10:23 am
Music Taylor Swift redirects Most headlines about Taylor Swift yesterday, just three days before the release of reputation, were about how she tried to legally intimidate a blogger and ended up getting scolded by the ACLU. As Spencer Kornhaber wrote yesterday for The Atlantic, this was a consequence of her “anti-PR campaign”. Taylor has By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 09:47 am
Douchebags Ed Westwick under investigation Kristina Cohen shared on Facebook earlier this week that three years ago, she was at Ed Westwick’s house and he allegedly raped her. When I posted about this yesterday, Ed had yet to respond. He eventually did. And this is what he said: A post shared by Ed Westwick By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 09:26 am
Dumbass Disney’s dumb power play Disney has had quite the week. On the one hand, Thor: Ragnarok is champagne-toasting success, but on the other hand, they stumbled into an incredibly stupid and ill-timed power play with the LA Times. As Lainey mentioned briefly yesterday, it all started with an investigative report about Disney’s dealings By Sarah • Nov 08, 2017 08:58 am
Intro for November 8, 2017 Dear Gossips, A year ago today, people were making predictions. One major prediction. That prediction didn’t happen, and it sucked. I’m going to do what we did a year ago today on this site – which is make another kind of prediction. That prediction ended up coming true. And By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 08:00 am
What Else What Else? Yesterday I posted about Ben Affleck and how he’s looking at his own behaviour and pledging to support more women in the industry after being connected to Harvey Weinstein. Now he’s saying he’s donating his Weinstein-associated earnings to charity. Some of those earnings are from Good Will By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 04:29 pm
TV Updates More for Gina Gina Rodriguez is promoting an animated movie called The Star, in which she voices the Virgin Mary. Aside from Annihilation, an ensemble fantasy adventure co-starring my girl Tessa Thompson and Oscar Isaac that I am SO excited for, she’s got three voice roles on the docket. And that’s By Kathleen • Nov 07, 2017 03:59 pm
Style Chloe and Brooklyn in matching denim On September 1st, 2016, Maria declared, “Young Love in the Age of Instagram is Dead” in the wake of the breakup of Chloe Grace Moretz and Brooklyn Beckham. She mourned their matching posts and corresponding clothes. She mourned young love lost. As of September, a year after they broke Maria’ By Kathleen • Nov 07, 2017 02:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Fifty Shades: Lifestyle Porn Remember when Fifty Shades of Grey was described as “mommy porn”? And then, I guess, “let down porn” because despite talking a big game about being a 21st century Last Tango In Paris, the Fifty Shades movies have been, so far, mildly horny at best. (My theory is that Dakota By Sarah • Nov 07, 2017 02:13 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, November 7, 2017 Sia’s taking her ass off the market. Janet posted her a photo from her 2004 Essence cover shoot with Beyoncé and Mary J. Blige, which happened two days after the Super Bowl. But then she deleted it. Why? @Essence did that with this cover! Three Black music LEGENDS posted By Maria • Nov 07, 2017 01:42 pm
Relationship Assumption Sean Penn’s puppy love Last we heard from Sean Penn, he was panicking about Kate del Castillo’s El Chapo documentary. The documentary has been released and beyond his whinging, there hasn’t been a huge amount of buzz (this could be because we are in such a disastrous news cycle all the time, By Maria • Nov 07, 2017 12:44 pm
Douchebags Chuck Bass too? Like I said yesterday, at this point we need a Daily Sexual Harassment/Abuse/Assault Roundup. Some of the offenders are very powerful men. Some of them are moderately powerful men. Others are relatively powerful. And even B/C list stars are predators. Not all men, sure. But, at the By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 11:36 am
TV Updates The Crown season 2: Elizabeth On Edge I enjoyed season one of The Crown for the most part, especially the domestic drama happening behind closed doors at Buckingham Palace. So I am incredibly into the trailer for season two, which is almost entirely tidbits about the domestic drama that went down in the 1960s. There’s only By Sarah • Nov 07, 2017 11:19 am
Dumbass Alec Baldwin throws a fit in the Twitter sandbox Ugh. That’s how I feel having to talk about Alec Baldwin today. It’s just a big bag of ugh. I’m not referring to his social media gender reveal (Alec, at 59, is expecting his 5th child, his fourth with Hilaria. He’s going to have 4 children By Maria • Nov 07, 2017 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gorgeous Joe for Prada Joe Alwyn is the new face of Prada’s Ascension campaign. Aptly named, non? A year ago Joe was the rising star lead of Ang Lee’s overhyped and underwhelming Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk which was supposed to be an Oscar contender with new technology and camera work, By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 09:50 am
Music Taylor Swift: release week drama Taylor Swift’s new album, reputation, is out on Friday. So far she’s released four songs. I’m not super into any of them. But she’s already pre-sold 400,000 units of the album, and it’s Target’s biggest music pre-sale of all time. As of now, By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 09:09 am
