Top Reads Drake and MBJ: BFFs at the High School Game You’re looking at these shots of 2021 BFFs Drake and Michael B Jordan courtside at a basketball game and I think most of us might assume they’re watching professional players, right? Drake and MBJ were actually at a high school basketball game. I mean, the two high schoolers By Lainey • Jun 18, 2021 11:32 am
Relationship Assumption Ryan and Eva in France Here are some photos of Eva Mendes in Chantilly this week. Looks like she’s taking in some of the sights, because of course after over a year of restrictions, some places around the world are reopening and travel is permitted in certain regions for those who are vaccinated – although By Lainey • Jun 18, 2021 10:38 am
Relationship Assumption Intro for June 18, 2021 Dear Gossips, I’m still laughing about Katy Perry’s Instagram post from the other day that Maria shared in Celebrity Social Media. If you missed it, here’s the carousel and it looks like a holiday photo album, because Katy and Orlando Bloom are in Italy right now but By Lainey • Jun 18, 2021 10:11 am
What Else What Else? I am very, very, VERY into this Thom Browne Mary Poppins aesthetic and I would wear almost every single one of these looks. And definitely most of the shoes. My favourite, I think, are the ones in the third photo, the grey and white mary-janes, what a lovely combination, and By Lainey • Jun 17, 2021 04:19 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 17, 2021 Kevin Hart sometimes conflates “cancellation” with criticism of his work as the “comedians can’t be funny anymore” discussion continues online. I think celebrities who started in clubs have it tough because stand-up comedy is such a rarified world that requires an abundance of both ego and self-loathing. And when By Maria • Jun 17, 2021 04:00 pm
Relationship Assumption Irina’s week without Kanye It’s been a week since photos confirmed that Kanye West and Irina Shayk have indeed been spending time together. There’s not much more information than that – other than she was with him for his birthday trip to France with some other friends, and that sources say they’ve By Lainey • Jun 17, 2021 02:51 pm
Equality Issues In The Heights: The Conversation Continues As Cody just wrote, In The Heights has been criticized (and rightfully so) for its casting of light-skinned actors to portray the leads in a show about Washington Heights. He mentioned Felice León’s interview with Jon M. Chu and the cast for The Root and it’s worth nothing By Violeta • Jun 17, 2021 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews In The Heights Colourism and Rita Moreno’s Foot-in-Mouth Defence (Lainey: please note, this is the first of two back-to-back posts about In The Heights and the colourism conversation that’s been happening about representation in the film. Cody will start and Violeta’s perspective will follow.) The highly anticipated film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical, In The By Cody • Jun 17, 2021 01:20 pm
Relationship Assumption Daily Bennifer: Ben fits right in As we saw, Ben Affleck joined Jennifer Lopez’s family to celebrate her sister Lynda’s 50th birthday a few days ago and they were photographed kissing and hanging out with her kids. More images from that day have now been released (see them here) – this time of the entire By Lainey • Jun 17, 2021 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zoë Goes to Pussy Island with Channing Tatum The Cannes Film Festival is happening soon, so there’s been a lot of deal-making that’s either happening or about to happen, and many projects positioning themselves to land deals during the festival. One of those projects is called Pussy Island – at least that’s what it’s called By Lainey • Jun 17, 2021 11:23 am
Music H.E.R. Wants Her EGOT The name H.E.R. keeps popping up, right? At the Super Bowl, Grammys, Oscars, with her long black tousled curls and signature shades. I feel like she is steadily carving out a space for herself in the mainstream consciousness. Sort of like Janelle Monáe did a few years ago By Cody • Jun 17, 2021 10:48 am
Music Intro for June 17, 2021 Dear Gossips, BTS dropped an album yesterday. BTS: The Best, a Japanese compilation album, has already broken chart records in Japan to go along with “Butter” staying at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for a third week in a row, which represents their longest #1 streak so far. By Lainey • Jun 17, 2021 10:04 am
What Else What Else? There have been rumours for months about Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner getting back together and they saved their official confirmation of it for the red carpet, naturally. The star here though is Stormi, who is SO cute in that dress and those sneakers. Also that’s a pretty amazing By Lainey • Jun 16, 2021 04:04 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 16, 2021 Alec and Hilaria Baldwin have launched a podcast, “What’s One More”, which is a nod to their large family. I believe they are at seven together, and Alec is at eight with Ireland. Will they go for double digits? Hilaria has been back on Instagram for a while and By Maria • Jun 16, 2021 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew and Alexandra flirt for Boom The first trailer for tick, tick…Boom! came out last week – read Duana’s post about it here – and despite the fact that the film is scheduled for release later this year (how is half the year over already?!), it looks like Lin-Manuel Miranda (who is directing) and the cast By Lainey • Jun 16, 2021 01:14 pm
TV Updates Jon Bernthal: Romantic lead at last, sort of Jon Bernthal has a very intense and intimidating screen presence. He broke out as loose-cannon Shane on The Walking Dead, is best known for playing the Punisher in the Netflix-Marvel shows—and maybe again in the MCU proper, there is a persistent rumor they’d like to keep Bernthal around— By Sarah • Jun 16, 2021 12:25 pm
