Royals Harry at the anniversary and is Meghan moving? Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip celebrated their 70th anniversary last night at Windsor Castle. There was a private family dinner. When I have a private family dinner, I wear sweatpants. At THAT private family dinner, you get loaned Her Majesty’s pearl choker. That’s what Princess Kate was seen By Lainey • Nov 21, 2017 10:22 am
Dumbass Lena Dunham’s impulses Duana and Kathleen have both posted their takes today on Lena Dunham. Both wrote about how Lena’s privilege has been the source of her myopia. Which is why she is always f-cking up and apologising. Both wondered whether or not the answer was to cancel Lena Dunham. In Zinzi By Lainey • Nov 21, 2017 09:58 am
Dumbass Divesting from Lena Dunham Lena F-cking Dunham. I know, I know, I swear too much and I’ll have to apologize to my mother later for starting this piece with an expletive but the first words that come to mind when I think of Lena Dunham these days are cuss words. Author Zinzi Clemmons By Kathleen • Nov 21, 2017 09:24 am
Dumbass Lena Dunham Cold Take I scrolled Twitter endlessly this weekend, after the first part of the Lena Dunham story broke – that is, when Dunham and her partner Jenni Konner released a statement in The Hollywood Reporter, defending Girls writer and producer Murray Miller against rape allegations by then-17-year-old actress Aurora Perrineau, and referring to By Duana • Nov 21, 2017 08:49 am
Equality Issues Intro for November 21, 2017 Dear Gossips, For a couple of weeks now I’ve been calling it a Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar. Every day it opens a door and spits out another one. Yesterday it was Charlie Rose’s turn. The Washington Post spoke with 8 women who shared their experiences with Charlie, 3 By Lainey • Nov 21, 2017 08:29 am
What Else What Else? I think I love this man and want to be his friend. First of all, he’s at a Janet Jackson concert which automatically, at least to me, means he understands #NeverForget. Next, he has no f-cks to give about what you think of his moves. All he cares about By Lainey • Nov 20, 2017 04:29 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Hollywood post-Harvey and a pair of fox print tights This week on the Show Your Work podcast, which also happens to be the first episode of Season 2: We come back to a Hollywood in crisis – across all entertainment divisions. Many of you have written to ask about Sarah Silverman’s response to the Louis CK revelations and that By Lainey • Nov 20, 2017 04:11 pm
TV Updates Chance The Rapper, future 5-timer Chance The Rapper hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend and if you saw it, you know what I mean in the title of this post. There’s no way he won’t be invited back. They’ll invite him back as many times as he wants to come back. Chance By Lainey • Nov 20, 2017 03:40 pm
Top Reads Harvey’s list, Jeffrey quits, and Terry’s receipts As if we could go a single weekend without adding to the Hollywood Predator population. Let’s start, though, with the first perp, Harvey Weinstein. The Guardian this weekend reported that Harvey had a “secret hitlist” of names that he and his investigators were targeting in an attempt to kill By Lainey • Nov 20, 2017 03:04 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, November 20, 2017 Our site manager Emily sent me a story on Friday: “No one recognized Rita Ora on The Voice in Germany.” The more succinct and evergreen headline is, “No one recognized Rita Ora.” This is her below by the way. A post shared by Rita Ora (@ritaora) on Nov 19, 2017 By Maria • Nov 20, 2017 02:41 pm
Music Diana & Tracee It all started with Diana Ross, who was receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the AMAs last night, staying on her feet during Tracee Ellis Ross’s entire opening monologue. That’s Miss Diana Ross. Not a legend in that moment but a proud mother, refusing to sit down. It By Lainey • Nov 20, 2017 12:15 pm
Music Kelly’s greatness Have you listened to Meaning of Life yet? It has been almost a month exactly since I asked you nicely to listen to Meaning of Life. Well, now I’m yelling. If you didn’t believe me that Kelly Clarkson’s new album is GREAT, her AMAs performance was essentially By Kathleen • Nov 20, 2017 11:33 am
Style Selena’s blonde feelings Selena Gomez returned to the American Music Awards for what was promised to be her only television performance of the year. I like the song. But everybody’s talking about the lip syncing. In Kathleen’s post about Pink that just went up, she mentioned that she’s not one By Lainey • Nov 20, 2017 10:56 am
Music HOW? Moments before Pink’s AMA performance, Lainey and I were sh-tting on it over text. Lainey texted me, “Why does Pink always have to wire stunt?” To which I responded, “I have no idea. It’s f-cking tired.” Well, you know what Pink has never done before? DANCE-RAPPEL DOWN A By Kathleen • Nov 20, 2017 10:13 am
Music For Whitney Viola Davis walked on stage at the AMAs to a standing ovation, as she should, to pay tribute to Whitney Houston and introduce Christina Aguilera. Viola Davis hadn’t finished speaking and I was already crying. The tribute marked the 25th anniversary of The Bodyguard and its soundtrack, the best-selling By Kathleen • Nov 20, 2017 09:41 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia’s Wonder weekend As Sarah just posted, Justice League’s opening weekend box office is being called a disaster. On the surface, $96 million might not seem to so sh-tty. But, again, as Sarah noted, when you factor in how much it cost to make, and all the terrible publicity surrounding the franchise, By Lainey • Nov 20, 2017 09:10 am
