Music Beyoncé: The Ruby Jubilee Begins Beyoncé’s 40th birthday is on September 4 and as I wrote the other day, it means we’re approaching the Queen of Culture’s Ruby Jubilee. To kick off the Ruby Jubilee, Beyoncé is releasing Ivy Park Rodeo, a western-themed collection, on August 19th. A promotional video or the By Lainey • Aug 10, 2021 12:40 pm
TV Updates Nicole Byer finally gets her hour From Girl Code to Nailed It!—for which she just became the first Black woman nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Show—to being one of Conan’s faves to a string of guest appearances on all your favorite comedy series and/or podcasts By Sarah • Aug 10, 2021 11:34 am
Top Reads Virginia Roberts Giuffre sues Prince Andrew The biggest story right now about the British royal family should not be about who was or wasn’t invited to a birthday party and what to a birthday party. What it should be about is the second son of the Queen of England being sued for sexual abuse. Prince By Lainey • Aug 10, 2021 10:50 am
Equality Issues Intro for August 10, 2021 Dear Gossips, Last week belonged to the unshowered. This the week the showered among us are stepping forward and crusading for the shower. As I posted yesterday, Jodie Turner-Smith and Dwayne The Rock Johnson planted their flags on the shower side. And now it’s Jason Momoa who’s letting By Lainey • Aug 10, 2021 09:27 am
What Else What Else? Have you seen this outfit on Iggy Azalea? It is, as the Fug Girls say, all about subtlety and restraint. This must be why it was photographed. And photographed perfectly, I might add. Everything is in place. The straps sit so well on her arm that they look like they’ By Lainey • Aug 09, 2021 04:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 9, 2021 Pete Davidson and Kaley Cuoco are filming a rom-com together and hung out a Six Flags (presumably with other people). TMZ has a video of them going on the Sling Shot together, holding hands as Kaley freaks out. The report makes it a point to note that these two are By Maria • Aug 09, 2021 03:11 pm
Style Jennifer Hudson’s Purple Veil Cynthia Erivo has been nominated for an Emmy for her portrayal of Aretha Franklin in the series Genius: Aretha, and now another Aretha Franklin performance could contend during award season – Jennifer Hudson plays Aretha in Respect, which opens this Friday. Aretha herself wanted Jennifer to play her which is both By Lainey • Aug 09, 2021 02:02 pm
BFFs Bennifer Gossip-tocin and Matt Damon Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s birthday European yacht cruise ended over a week ago, with the two of them leaving separately as Ben went off to Paris to meet up with his daughter Violet and JLo returned to LA a few days later. They were not seen together publicly By Lainey • Aug 09, 2021 12:45 pm
TV Updates Important Stranger Things News: BANGS Today in This Is Important News, a new teaser for Stranger Things dropped and you guys, Eleven has BANGS. We’ve seen her with a shaved head, we’ve seen her with a curly pixie, with a lob, with whatever was happening when she went to Chicago, and now Eleven By Sarah • Aug 09, 2021 12:07 pm
Equality Issues The Rock and Jodie: Celebrities and Showers Just last Friday, in What Else?, I commented on the trend in celebrity shower talk and all these famous people talking about bathing or not bathing their children and/or themselves: Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, and also Jake Gyllenhaal. They’re the anti-shower demo. By Lainey • Aug 09, 2021 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gemma Chan: The First Eternal It has already been a Marvel-heavy year, with WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, Black Widow, whatever else I’ve left off this list, and with less than six months to go before the end of 2021, there are still two major Marvel releases yet to come – and By Lainey • Aug 09, 2021 10:42 am
Boy Sh-t Intro for August 9, 2021 Dear Gossips, Kanye West held another listening event last week at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta for the second week in a row to promote his upcoming, highly anticipated album, Donda. Not sure how surprising it is that even though he’s been camping out there for weeks now to By Lainey • Aug 09, 2021 09:13 am
What Else What Else? Jessie J and Nicki Minaj remember the song “Bang Bang” differently and Nicki is making it clear that she clearly doesn’t hold the song as fondly in her memories. You know what I learned from this story though? That “Bang Bang” was a big song, because when I look By Lainey • Aug 06, 2021 04:01 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 6, 2021 With all due respect to a team of professionals working hard to get our favourite obsession together for a new season, what the F-CK is going on with Succession? We have a teaser, but there’s also casting news. How are they still casting the current season? I’m so By Maria • Aug 06, 2021 02:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu with wet hair Here’s Keanu Reeves in Berlin yesterday heading out of his hotel on his way to the set of John Wick 4. So can we do a “just like us”? Right out of the shower and straight to work. I mean, with actors that’s kinda just the usual. That’ By Lainey • Aug 06, 2021 01:34 pm
Top Reads Jennifer Aniston reads her comments Earlier this week, I posted about Jennifer Aniston’s cover interview for the September 2021 issue of InStyle. As I said at the time, at this point in her career, after all the gossip that’s been written about her for almost 30 years, Jen knows when to give up By Lainey • Aug 06, 2021 12:56 pm
