Bono Intro for December 27, 2011 Dear Gossips, Many thanks to the major players for their Christmas kindness - no eloping, no divorcing, no adopting, no getting caught cheating, no super scandal to interrupt the long holiday weekend giving the gossip business an extended break. Is Matthew McConaughey considered a Major Player anymore? Was he ever? Not By Lainey • Dec 27, 2011 10:25 am
Royals Catherine Cambridge’s First Christmas Senior royals traditionally spend Christmas at Sandringham. Despite the worrying news that 90 year old Prince Philip was recovering from heart surgery, a crowd of thousands, the biggest it’s been in recent years, greeted Her Majesty’s Family on their walk to church on Sunday, Catherine’s first time. By Lainey • Dec 27, 2011 10:18 am
Smutty Surgery Tom’s beauty routine I don’t like the word “regimen”. I think because it’s often confused with “regiment” and I hate when people sound dumb. Like when they add a “d” in “whirlwind” and make it “worldwind”. Britney used to do this all the time. And Justin Timberlake too, until he started By Lainey • Dec 23, 2011 11:20 am
Hook Ups New girl to end the year When the year began, Ryan Phillippe was dating Amanda Seyfried. OMG, remember that? By summertime it was over and in July it was reported that he’d hooked up with Demi Lovato. At the time he was 36, she 18. Sounds about right where he’s concerned. According to E! By Lainey • Dec 23, 2011 10:50 am
Media Manipulation Who decided to drop a trailer after Batman? There’s a marketing misstep if ever I saw one. Summer 2012 is stacked with high-profile franchise releases including The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man, and one of the more mysterious entries, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Set in the same universe as Scott’s classic Alien, it’ By Sarah • Dec 23, 2011 10:42 am
Misfits Misfits Series 3 MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD. Please click away if you haven’t yet caught up on Misfits Series 3. And if you’re not watching Misfits, I’m telling you, this is your holiday addiction. DO IT. Seasons 1 and 2 are available on iTunes. I’ll give you another chance to By Lainey • Dec 23, 2011 09:55 am
Intro for December 23, 2011 Dear Gossips, Thank you for your messages yesterday re: Your Voice In My Head by Emma Forrest as my best book of 2011. For those of you asking, my review of the book, originally posted in February, is here. What’s your favourite Christmas song? Oh so many, right? There By Lainey • Dec 23, 2011 09:30 am
Book Review Best of 2011: Your Voice In My Head by Emma Forrest My favourite book of the year. Forrest is an awesomely gifted writer. It’s not just the story, but the way she tells it, the words that describe it, so that you can feel so acutely her joy and her sadness and her gratefulness for the person who helped her By Lainey • Dec 22, 2011 03:07 pm
Books Best of 2011: Your Voice In My Head by Emma Forrest My favourite book of the year. Forrest is an awesomely gifted writer. It’s not just the story, but the way she tells it, the words that describe it, so that you can feel so acutely her joy and her sadness and her gratefulness for the person who helped her By Lainey • Dec 22, 2011 03:03 pm
Rooney Mara Managing “Aloof” behind the scenes I could never be a publicist or a personal assistant for a celebrity. It’s not the hard work I’m afraid of; it’s the adult babysitting. They are SO fragile and insecure and narcissistic, it’s an exhausting experience. And, frankly, it can be really, really sad. I’ By Lainey • Dec 22, 2011 12:37 pm
Douchebags James Franco’s defence calls...another professor James Franco’s reputation was pissed on this week as a former professor is suing NYU for firing him because he gave the actor a D in his class. Dr Santana says Franco only attended 2 out of 14 lectures. Click here for the background. NYU has now responded publicly By Lainey • Dec 22, 2011 12:06 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Planning the birth I still don’t understand the people who don’t believe that Beyonce is actually pregnant. Something about her faking it because she didn’t want to gain weight? Check her out here in New York yesterday. That looks like a full face to me. In fact, B is fuller By Lainey • Dec 22, 2011 11:23 am
Ashton Kutcher First free holiday... In many years for Ashton Kutcher. He’s now officially single, having publicly humiliated and driven away Demi Moore with infidelity, Ashton was spotted in Berlin enjoying his freedom while in town for “business meetings”. That this f-cking loser is considered an entrepreneur... It’s a joke is what By Lainey • Dec 22, 2011 10:31 am
Quiveration Hot Harry’s holiday open shirt While his brother was bringing holiday cheer to homeless youth yesterday, Prince Harry hit up the club, seen leaving the Arts Club in Mayfair after a night out with, among others, David Beckham, newly arrived from Los Angeles. What is it about a young aristocrat and an open collar? Or, By Lainey • Dec 22, 2011 10:09 am
Royals Will’s feeling like a pimp...on video Most of you have probably seen the photos of a Jay-Z inspired Prince William yesterday during his visit to Centrepoint with Catherine. But he also drops some other moves in a video. Click here to see.SO cute, right? Like a perv I’m also including a few shots By Lainey • Dec 22, 2011 09:44 am
Intro for December 22, 2011 Dear Gossips, Today is the Winter Solstice, “Dong Zhi” in Chinese. Loosely interpreted, it’s like Chinese Christmas, one of the most important days on our calendar, when we celebrate the longest night of the year surrounded by family and a lot of food, marking the end of the annual By Lainey • Dec 22, 2011 09:30 am
