Movie Reviews and Previews Zola: When Twitter Was Fun Last year at Sundance—the last major film festival before COVID shut everything down for one (1) solid year—Zola was the big divisive hit of the fest. Zola is adapted from that wild Twitter thread about how “me and this bitch here fell out”, which is basically the last By Sarah • Mar 31, 2021 02:05 pm
Break Ups Saweetie & Quavo in the elevator The internet was set ablaze yesterday after TMZ dropped video footage of Saweetie and Quavo having an altercation in an elevator that reportedly happened last year. They just broke up two weeks ago, after a whirlwind interview with Justin LaBoy and Justin Combs (and rumours of a physical altercation between By Melayna • Mar 31, 2021 01:15 pm
TV Updates Ariana Grande Joins The Voice It was announced yesterday that Ariana Grande will be joining season 21 of The Voice as a coach and I don’t think anyone saw this one coming. Ariana will be replacing Nick Jonas, joining Kelly Clarkson, John Legend, and Blake Shelton on her own fun spinny chair. On one By Anastasia • Mar 31, 2021 11:51 am
Style Gwen Stefani: Forever Dorm Style Gwen Stefani was on Good Morning America today promoting her new single “Slow Clap”. It’s the second single off her upcoming album – and that was my first question: when is this album coming out? They haven’t announced yet…because she’s actually still working on it. And she By Lainey • Mar 31, 2021 11:05 am
Business of Hollywood The Oscar “Hubs” An Oscars meeting took place yesterday between the show’s producers, Steven Soderbergh, Jesse Collins, and Stacey Sher, and the nominees after many of the nominees raised concerns about not being able to be in Los Angeles on April 25 as COVID cases are surging in many places around the By Lainey • Mar 31, 2021 10:36 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 31, 2021 Dear Gossips, I got an email yesterday with the sender including a link to the video of the 65-year-old East Asian woman who was beaten in New York City while walking past an apartment building and told that “you don’t belong here”, while the people in the lobby, including By Lainey • Mar 31, 2021 10:04 am
What Else What Else? Lady Gaga’s birthday was a couple of days ago and she received a huge basket of roses from her boyfriend. It’s huge. And beautiful. But my mind immediately went to clean up. Like when they’re not fresh anymore, that will be a pain in the ass to By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 04:16 pm
Gorgessity How Rihanna goes for groceries I haven’t been to a grocery store in a long time. I do, however, try to make it to the butcher every weekend and when I do… this is not what I look like. I actually don’t look at what I look like because it’s a real By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 03:45 pm
Equality Issues BTS Supports #StopAsianHate This past weekend, there were anti-Asian racism protests in several major cities across Canada and the United States. In Los Angeles, a youth group performed towards the end of the rally to BTS’s “Dynamite”. For some time now, BTS members RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook have By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 02:45 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 30, 2021 Gisele Bundchen covers Vogue Hong Kong for April – she has been the “green supermodel” for a long time. Looking back, she’s done several of these kind of jungle-esque covers for Vogue, like this one (July 2018) and this one and this one and this one and, all the way By Maria • Mar 30, 2021 01:30 pm
Music Shawn & Camila On Set Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello were spotted arriving at a music video shoot yesterday in LA. Shawn’s back to his signature hair style after cutting that quarantine mane last month and Camila’s in super casual in ripped denim overalls (I can’t wait for overalls season to start) By Cody • Mar 30, 2021 01:02 pm
Royals The Royal “Spin Doctors”? It was reported a couple of days ago that the British senior royals have hired new staff – specifically communications staff. Which is interesting because for the last few weeks, much of my posts about them have been about their piss poor comms strategy and their need for effective crisis management By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 12:25 pm
TV Updates Amanda Seyfried’s Oscar bump Amanda Seyfried scored her first Oscar nomination this year for Mank (she is the least objectionable part of that film, and gives a legit great performance amidst the wankery), and she is not wasting time cashing in that Oscar bump for buzzy new projects. Seyfried has been tapped to take By Sarah • Mar 30, 2021 11:40 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina goes teen shopping Angelina Jolie was out yesterday with Vivienne. They went to FOREVER 21 which… yeah… of course they did. Vivienne is 12 years old. And even though she’s the child of celebrities, it doesn’t mean she doesn’t share common ground with other kids her age. FOREVER 21 went By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 10:12 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for March 30, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Canadian Screen Award nominations were announced this morning. The full list can be accessed here. The CSAs celebrate the best in Canadian film and television and on the film side, Tracey Deer’s Beans, which I profiled during TIFF last September, received five nominations. Beans is Tracey’ By Lainey • Mar 30, 2021 09:08 am
What Else What Else? I posted earlier about Viola Davis and Issa Rae and what the NAACP Image Awards means to the Black community. They expressed that sentiment through words… and fashion. The looks at this event were show-stopping, the best we’ve seen through award season. Because that’s how you show up By Lainey • Mar 29, 2021 04:02 pm
