TV Updates The Bachelorette: are we still having fun? I have repeatedly referred to my devotion to The Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise (never Bachelor in Paradise) as a guilty pleasure. I feel guilty because these shows have always been full of f-cked up, anti-feminist rhetoric, “the marriage plot”, and a significant lack of diversity. Plus, it’s a show where By Kathleen • Jun 28, 2017 05:15 pm
Amazingness Mimi’s political scandal Mimi and Dembabies are overseas while she makes a few paid stops and sings here and there for a million dollars a pop or so. She also spent some time in Israel to promote a skincare line, also likely for a major deposit. Our girl has to hustle, OK? She’ By Lainey • Jun 28, 2017 04:50 pm
Music K’Naan, Riz Ahmed in Immigrants video Well, this was opportune. Earlier today Lainey asked whether politics belongs in gossip—I would say it’s impossible to talk about pop culture, anyway, without it. Sometimes these days we will talk about possible topics for Show Your Work and note that there’s been so much real-life news By Duana • Jun 28, 2017 04:21 pm
Lin-Manuel Miranda #Ham4All Is Somehow For All Last night I was talking with some women who had loved Leonardo DiCaprio. They appreciate him now, but when they were young, they loved him. Loved-loved. That undying teenage passion. They were fans. Now, of course, they’re more like *fans, because they’re older and wiser. But it’s By Duana • Jun 28, 2017 03:00 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, June 28, 2017 2017 has gotten the lifestyle site it deserves – Lindsay Lohan’s Preemium, a subscription service that will offer her personal diaries and photos, beauty and lifestyle tutorials and shopping guides. I have so many questions. Will Dina Lohan have an advice column? Who funded this (and how long until they By Maria • Jun 28, 2017 02:19 pm
Books Brooklyn Beckham, photographer Victoria and David Beckham were at their oldest son Brooklyn’s book launch last night in London. So in case you weren’t feeling old, Posh and Becks are now attending events FOR THEIR CHILDREN. It’s not about them anymore. We are deep in era of Next Gen Celebrity. By Lainey • Jun 28, 2017 12:27 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Julia & Bailey Salinger: A Party Of Five reunion Ever wonder how the Party of Five Salingers are doing now? I do. Well, Julia (Neve Campbell) and Bailey (Scott Wolf) reunited on Watch What Happens Live! last night... and yes, they spilled some "hot goss" that, in Andy Cohen's words, we've spent " By Joanna • Jun 28, 2017 11:29 am
Hook Ups Rihanna’s new man Robyn Rihanna Fenty is living her best life. After photos surfaced yesterday of RiRi poolside in Spain, multi-tasking like a champ with a glass of champagne in one hand, a smoke in the other, and all while making out with a hot mystery dude, it became very clear that Rihanna By Kathleen • Jun 28, 2017 10:56 am
Equality Issues In case you were worried about Johnny Depp… Last week, Johnny Depp made a joke at Glastonbury about assassinating Donald Trump. Also his former managers, The Management Group, revealed in court documents that they were aware that he was allegedly abusing Amber Heard during their marriage. (Thanks for coming forward when it really mattered, TMG! It wasn’t By Lainey • Jun 28, 2017 10:22 am
TV Updates GLOW: A 1980s feminist power ballad SPOILERS Inspired by the real-life “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling” that was briefly popular in the 1980s, GLOW is not a biography, but a fictionalized behind-the-scenes comedy. Alison Brie stars as Ruth, a struggling actress who latches onto professional wrestling as her last best shot at making it. Betty Gilpin (Nurse By Sarah • Jun 28, 2017 10:08 am
Intro for June 28, 2017 Dear Gossips, Does politics belong in gossip? Is “belong” even the right word for it anymore? Two articles for you to read today that might answer that question. The first from this month’s New Yorker, written by Jeffrey Toobin, about The National Enquirer’s Fervor for Trump. You might By Lainey • Jun 28, 2017 09:31 am
Lifestyle Sasha Answers Podcast: Our Rihanna Lady Boner & Shaming a Fool Welcome back to another Sasha Answers Podcast! On today's show: We invite Rihanna onto the show (dear God, please make this happen), Lainey unleashes on a desperate fool, which was really scary yet thrilling to witness, and how to kick a friend to the curb. Thank you for By Sasha • Jun 28, 2017 09:19 am
What Else What Else? Remember when Duana and I, on the last episode of Show Your Work, talked about Emmy campaigns? And how the budgets are getting bigger than the Oscar campaigns? This probably did not cost a lot of money, if any money at all. But what they’re offering cannot be bought. By Lainey • Jun 27, 2017 05:57 pm
Sports Serena Williams: Young, Gifted, Black, and Pregnant Serena Williams on the cover of Vanity Fair… !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I gasped when I saw this this morning. And then I got pissed because I knew I wouldn’t be able to read it for a few hours. Then the magnificence of these photos made me forget my anger. I’ve been By Lainey • Jun 27, 2017 04:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Incredible Jessica Williams One of the biggest hits at Sundance this year was The Incredible Jessica James, starring Jessica Williams. You might recall that at Sundance, Salma Hayek devoured her own foot while talking over Williams at a luncheon for women in the film industry. Kathleen covered it here, and I forgot how By Sarah • Jun 27, 2017 03:01 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, June 27, 2017 Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her husband Brad have been married for 30 years, which is a very long time in real life (and an eternity in Hollywood). And it made me think of JLD and how little we actually see or know of her. She’s been on three successful sitcoms By Maria • Jun 27, 2017 02:43 pm
