Equality Issues Intro for May 21, 2021 Dear Gossips, Bela, Eloise, Lucia, and Mila are known as The Linda Lindas, and yesterday they went viral. If you’ve already seen this video, you know what a fist-pumper it is. And if you haven’t, well, this is the perfect start to the weekend, which happens to be By Lainey • May 21, 2021 09:31 am
What Else What Else? Totally agree with the Fug Girls here and their public service announcement about Alessandra Ambrosio’s footwear and the dangers presented in wearing them. I actually thought, before I clicked on the image, that they were talking about flip-flops. Because flip-flops are a hazard. I know because I broke my By Lainey • May 20, 2021 04:05 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 20, 2021 I feel like we need a Demi Lovato catch up: they came out as non-binary, writing to fans and followers: “I am proud to let you know that I identify as non-binary and will officially be changing my pronouns to they/them moving forward.” They also have a very intriguing By Maria • May 20, 2021 02:22 pm
Ryan Reynolds Ryan Reynolds: Creating Ownership Content One of these days we’ll need to dedicate an episode of Show Your Work to Ryan Reynolds because… he has been doing a LOT of good work over the last couple of years. Ryan has a LOT going on. Multiple film projects which, alone, could keep him full time By Lainey • May 20, 2021 01:07 pm
BFFs Drake’s week of partying Drake partying for a whole week isn’t an extraordinary occurrence. The artist formerly known as The Boy lives large, rolls deep, and has been on a decade-plus streak that does not seem to be coming to end any time soon. He just invested in a chicken meat substitute that’ By Lainey • May 20, 2021 12:00 pm
TV Updates Friends…in Canada Yesterday in What Else?, I wrote that in Canada there wasn’t word yet on whether or not we’d be getting the Friends reunion. Today, super fresh, Crave has confirmed it: the Friends reunion will stream exclusively day and date a week from today on Thursday May 27th. Friends By Lainey • May 20, 2021 11:09 am
TV Updates Billy Porter Shares HIV-Positive Status Billy Porter has opened up about a secret he’s been keeping from almost everyone in his life for the last 14 years. In 2007, he was diagnosed HIV-positive. He’s telling his story for the first time to The Hollywood Reporter because he wants everyone to know, “This is By Cody • May 20, 2021 10:04 am
Gorgessity Angelina Jolie: Queen Bee Today is World Bee Day, meant to “raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face, and their contribution to sustainable development” as designated by the United Nations. As we all know, Angelina Jolie has long been associated with the UN and a special portrait of her, surrounded By Lainey • May 20, 2021 09:40 am
Ben Affleck Intro for May 20, 2021 Dear Gossips, If there was any doubt about how much of a pop cultural impact Bennifer has been from back in the day and in their current form, whatever that may be… well… here’s what the Boston Red Sox did this week: @redsox Miss you, J-Lo ❤️ #redsox #neverforgetyou #jlo By Lainey • May 20, 2021 09:12 am
What Else What Else? The big news yesterday was that Naomi Campbell is a mother now and nobody knew – but now suddenly the tabloids in the UK are all over it with new information about a “secret boyfriend” with whom she’s living in New York. (Dlisted) Pink wore what the Fug Girls are By Lainey • May 19, 2021 04:50 pm
TV Updates Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez are nosy neighbors Yesterday, a teaser was released for Only Murders in the Building, a ten-episode series coming to Hulu (and Star, internationally) on August 31. Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez play nosy neighbors who get caught up in a murder mystery in their apartment building. Short’s character is also, By Sarah • May 19, 2021 03:29 pm
Style Issa Rae: How to Dress While Building an Empire Issa Rae rarely turns a bad look. She’s styled for the June issue of Vanity Fair by Shiona Turini, the costume designer on Insecure, Issa’s HBO show in which she appears equality well dressed — all the time. I’m not crazy about the belt she’s wearing on By Cody • May 19, 2021 03:09 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 19, 2021 Criss Angel is opening a restaurant called Cablp (Criss Angel breakfast lunch pizza, pronounced Ca-blip). Ca-blip isn’t a word or even a logical string of sounds. Now that the name has been released, I wonder if the team will reassess because of public opinion. His stage name includes “Angel” By Maria • May 19, 2021 02:46 pm
Style Swoon! Rocky loves Rihanna Disney and fairytale romance conditioning is strong. Like I wonder if I’ll ever be fully rid of it. Not that A$AP Rocky and Rihanna are anything resembling a conventional fairytale but this declaration, this trope of the player who falls in love and finds the one… it’s By Lainey • May 19, 2021 01:56 pm
Business of Hollywood Merger Mania Part II: Amazon and MGM On the heels of the news that AT&T is dumping WarnerMedia on Discovery comes the news that Amazon is in talks to buy MGM (you can read an un-paywalled version of the story here). It was always inevitable that Amazon would buy out a studio—as it is By Sarah • May 19, 2021 12:17 pm
Business of Hollywood Merger Mania Part I: WarnerMedia & Discovery Over the weekend, word broke that AT&T, just three years after acquiring Time Warner—now called WarnerMedia—in a blockbuster merger, would dump their still-new entertainment sector and pair it with Discovery to make a separate operation as yet to be named. The news sent a shockwave through By Sarah • May 19, 2021 11:42 am
