Royals Hot Harry moves to the beat Prince Harry visited Nottingham Academy today in support of the Full Effect and Coach Core programmes offering mentorship and support to young people and at-risk youth transitioning into high school. Harry previously visited the school last year and has continued to be a champion of the work being performed there. By Lainey • Feb 01, 2017 11:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Courtney Love as Kitty Menendez As audiences have had their fill of OJ and JonBenet, the next logical step in 90s murder nostalgia is the story of Erik and Lyle Menendez, with Lifetime announcing a new project featuring Courtney Love (a Law & Order anthology is happening this fall, and ABC and HLN have aired By Maria • Feb 01, 2017 10:22 am
Books Intro for February 1, 2017 Dear Gossips, Yesterday Roxane Gay tweeted out a link to the full text of the keynote address she recently delivered at Winter Institute about diversity – or, rather, how conversations about diversity have instead become conversations about absolution and will be meaningless without active learning and work, which requires us to By Lainey • Feb 01, 2017 10:00 am
The Affair Aftermathing The Affair Season 3 Episodes 9-10 finale recap So here we are…in Paris. Now we know what we know. ‘Do you think you’re some kind of expert on affairs’, Juliette wants to know, and at the end of three seasons, well, do you? I have been skeptical about By Duana • Jan 31, 2017 04:48 pm
Music John Mayer’s Search For Everything A press release went out yesterday to announce that John Mayer’s The Search For Everything tour will kick off in New York on March 31. The release was forwarded to me and Duana by our friend M, who offered to buy each of us a ticket - a joke By Lainey • Jan 31, 2017 04:38 pm
Shoes Katy Perry Footwear This is Katy Perry in Footwear News talking about her upcoming line of shoes. Katy Perry Footwear launches in the spring and she says she’s been working on the project for about 4 years. My favourite part of the article is when she explains how she uses her accessories, By Lainey • Jan 31, 2017 04:20 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Isabelle Huppert pre-Oscar Isabelle Huppert was honoured at the Lumieres Awards last night in Paris. These are referred to as the Golden Globes of France. And you know that Isabelle upset Natalie Portman at the Golden Globes earlier this month in Hollywood. The Oscars of France are the Cesar Awards. Isabelle holds the By Lainey • Jan 31, 2017 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews John Wick is coming John Wick: Chapter 2 had its premiere last night in Los Angeles and it reunited Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne on the red carpet. Reeves is, of course, John Wick, and Fishburne is playing a new character named “The Bowery King”. The obligatory reference here is “Neo and Morpheus together By Sarah • Jan 31, 2017 03:32 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, January 31, 2017 UnREAL season 3 is set to begin filming in Vancouver. I don’t know if I should hold out a little hope for this show; even Friday Night Lights had a shaky second season (which was mostly due to the writers’ strike). It’s not that season 2 was bad, By Maria • Jan 31, 2017 02:56 pm
Lifestyle Sasha Answers Podcast: Problem Friends Welcome back to the Sasha Answers Podcast! Today on the show it’s all about friend dramz! How to make your friend have your back, how to de-leach a friend, and how to fade out a friendship. So if you’ve been listening long enough to this podcast you can By Sasha • Jan 31, 2017 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Beauty and The Beast…and Celine Dion The final trailer for the upcoming live action Beauty and The Beast was released yesterday. The movie comes out March 16th. And I think we can all agree it will make so much money? Because it’s not just for kids. Grown ass adults who used to be kids will By Lainey • Jan 31, 2017 01:15 pm
Amazingness Dear Development Executives Dear Development Executives, Sometimes what Lainey refers to as my ‘contrariness’ is actually just saturation fatigue. If you’re not into something, or someone, and people keep talking about them, it can feel straight-up aggressive. So you, who are constantly scouring for new talent, could be forgiven for maybe feeling By Duana • Jan 31, 2017 12:58 pm
Anne Hathaway The hierarchy of Ocean’s Eight I am very excited about Ocean’s 8. The film, as you know, is the femme version of Ocean's Eleven, most recently led by George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Initial rumours had Sandra Bullock playing George Clooney’s sister. Matt Damon is expected to make a cameo though By Lainey • Jan 31, 2017 12:06 pm
Dumbass Rihanna vs. a troll If Azealia Banks didn’t have social media as an outlet for her obnoxious rants, would she even exist? It’s the internet troll version of “if a tree falls in a forest…” The reason we are even acknowledging Banks’ existence today is because she crawled out from under the By Kathleen • Jan 31, 2017 11:40 am
Music Selena & The Weeknd are social media official It’s not love until the love is validated on social media. Selena Gomez and The Weeknd spent the weekend in Florence. They’ve been photographed holding hands, hugging, and kissing while visiting museums and having dinner. Click here and here to see the shots. As expected, many are comparing By Lainey • Jan 31, 2017 11:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck sheds some Bat-responsibility Continuing the “something is rotten in the state of Denmark” trend, Ben Affleck released a statement last night that he will not, after all, direct The Batman, the stand-alone Bat-movie he’s been developing. There were already questions about what is actually going on with this movie, and now it By Sarah • Jan 31, 2017 09:31 am
