Music Intro for May 26, 2021 Dear Gossips, Did you see Victor Solomon’s performance on The Voice earlier this week? He’s on John Legend’s team and John afterwards called it the best performance in the show’s history. Victor’s song was Beyoncé’s “Freedom” and what’s extra amazing is that he By Lainey • May 26, 2021 09:18 am
What Else What Else? I tried the other day to watch every angle I could of Simone Biles doing the Yuchenko Double Pike in combination. It’s historic. But apparently the gymnastics federation isn’t all that impressed. For…whatever …reasons. Here’s an athlete who spent the COVID year improving, elevating the sport, By Lainey • May 25, 2021 04:01 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 25, 2021 Sometimes a sports story (even for a subjectively boring sport like golf) turns into a gossip story, and this is exactly what happened here. Spiked cleats and a long-simmering feud and an epic eye roll (seriously, Brooks Koepka has a talent) turned this interrupted interview into a Twitter story. The By Maria • May 25, 2021 03:26 pm
Top Reads Taika, Tessa, and Rita Taika Waititi and Rita Ora are dating. Which has elevated Rita to the celebrity status that she may have been thirsting for for a while now. When I was texting about this with Sarah last week, though, she made an observation that isn’t getting quite as much play – it’ By Lainey • May 25, 2021 02:30 pm
Music Drake’s Stadium Party When I last posted about Drake, it was on Thursday, ahead of Drake receiving the Billboard Artist of the Decade award on Sunday night. He had his whole crew on stage with him (“started from the bottom now we’re here”) and his parents, and he brought out his son By Lainey • May 25, 2021 01:43 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chloe Zhao’s Eternals are here A few weeks after a Phase 4 teaser gave us our first glimpse of Chloe Zhao’s Eternals, a teaser trailer has arrived showing us the Eternals in action throughout human history. The sweeping opening shot of a pre-historic cliff is lovely, the crashing waves contrasted with the simplicity of By Sarah • May 25, 2021 01:02 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben Affleck’s Love Box There were no updates on Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez last week after they were seen together in Montana. JLo was in Miami, Ben was in LA, photographed a couple of times with his children, and while there was all kinds of reporting and speculation about their situationship, it was By Lainey • May 25, 2021 12:10 pm
Equality Issues Lil Nas X’s wardrobe malfunction Lil Nas X was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend on the season finale hosted by Anya Taylor-Joy. The big headline coming out of his performance was how he split his pants when he dropped it low on the pole. My big takeaway was how adorable he By Lainey • May 25, 2021 10:51 am
Equality Issues Intro for May 25, 2021 Dear Gossips, A year ago today, George Floyd was murdered by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis. His daughter, Gianna, has been without her father for a year – because of racism, one individual’s racism shaped by institutional racism. Derek Chauvin has been convicted for killing George Floyd but as By Lainey • May 25, 2021 09:36 am
What Else What Else? Here we go… it’s not even remotely close to Halloween but we have to talk about Hocus Pocus. The movie I have never seen and I get told about it by the youngs (including our site manager Emily) about what I’m missing all the time. I watched the By Lainey • May 21, 2021 04:06 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 21, 2021 A few days back, SJP posted a video of a large wardrobe room to her Instagram stories and it was clearly from Sex and the City, although she purposely didn’t show too much detail. Page Six is reporting that Patricia Fields, the designer whose work was integral to Sex By Maria • May 21, 2021 02:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews High School Musical Sweethearts Lifetime has given us an early holiday gift by announcing a movie starring Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman. If you aren’t familiar with the pair, they were the actors who played probably one of the most influential couples of my generation: Chad and Taylor from the High School Musical By Anastasia • May 21, 2021 02:18 pm
TV Updates The Underground Railroad reaches its nadir but offers (some) hope Spoilers for episodes 4-7 of The Underground Railroad After the odyssey of the first three episodes, The Underground Railroad shifts into a contemplative mood for its middle episodes. Episode four, “The Great Spirit” (once again, all episodes are directed by Barry Jenkins, and this episode is written by Adrienne Rush) By Sarah • May 21, 2021 01:47 pm
Equality Issues BTS in Pole Position Motor racing is one of the things on my mind this weekend because it’s the Monaco Grand Prix, the jewel of the F1 circuit, arguably the most prestigious race in the world. And while I have never paid much attention to this event, Drive to Survive changed all that By Lainey • May 21, 2021 01:07 pm
What's Your Drama Podcast What's Your Drama: True Colors Revealed & Strict Life Schedules Today we kick things off with my poo dreams. Yes, my poo dreams. If there are any dream analyzers out there my email is wide open to you. First up on the hit list is "Carla". Carla's best bud Molly has gone dark since getting a By Sasha • May 21, 2021 12:46 pm
Royals Diana, William, and Harry: Past and Present Man, what a collision of royal news the last 24 hours, all of it connected and complicated, with the past coming back to haunt the present and the present folding itself into the past. Let’s start there with the release of the Dyson report that found that Martin Bashir By Lainey • May 21, 2021 11:23 am
