TV Updates Bridgerton gets its first spin-off I say “first” because the Bridgerton book universe includes prequels, so there was always a high potential for spin-offs with Bridgerton. The first spin-off, though, will not be based on a Julia Quinn book but is inspired by Queen Charlotte, played in the series by Golda Rosheuvel. Shonda Rhimes is By Sarah • May 17, 2021 10:00 am
Relationship Assumption Taika and Rita get papped It’s been a few weeks since it became known that Taika Waititi and Rita Ora are dating. Rita has been in Australia for months working on The Voice and she posted a photo with Taika on Instagram, included among other photos in a carousel, which is when people really By Lainey • May 17, 2021 09:29 am
Equality Issues Intro for May 17, 2021 Dear Gossips, The MTV Movie and TV Awards happened last night. And the winner for Best Movie… To All The Boys: Always and Forever. This is important. This is a movie about an Asian American young woman starring an Asian American young woman, which sounds redundant because why wouldn’t By Lainey • May 17, 2021 08:52 am
What Else What Else? We really, really don’t need to talk about Alex Rodriguez anymore now that Jennifer Lopez is done with their relationship but ….ARod keeps trying. And while I’m not here to give him what he wants, at the same time, his latest post made me laugh. It was posted By Lainey • May 14, 2021 04:04 pm
TV Updates The Underground Railroad ep 1-3 Spoilers for episodes 1-3 of The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, arrives on Amazon Prime today, with all ten episodes available to stream at once. This is completely the wrong way to absorb it. The Underground By Sarah • May 14, 2021 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kathryn Hahn also has her Knives Out On the heels of Janelle Monae joining the cast of Knives Out 2, Kathryn Hahn has also joined the sequel cast. Hahn is officially ascending to her final form, going from “everyone’s secret fave” to “widely acknowledged superstar”. The entire MCU is worth it just to get Kathryn Hahn By Sarah • May 14, 2021 02:15 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 14, 2021 A few days ago I took a crack at writing a Daily Mail caption for Sarah Silverman and as a reader called Julie pointed out, I missed a key word: flaunting. No one uses the word “flaunting” more than the DM caption writers – if a celebrity is showing anything from By Maria • May 14, 2021 02:01 pm
Good for Gossip Jennifer Lawrence Feels the Bennifer Glow It’s not just Twitter and Nostalgia Internet getting wrapped up in Bennifer 2021. And, by the way, as I just wrote in the previous post, it doesn’t seem like Jennifer Lopez is particularly bothered by it either. We are all riding this high ride now, and hopefully it’ By Lainey • May 14, 2021 12:36 pm
Relationship Assumption JLo’s Troll-Glow LOLOLOLOLOL That’s the best way I can describe how I’m feeling right now, how happy Bennifer is making me – no, how happy Jennifer Lopez is making me. And many of you. Because she is trolling us. Since it’s JLo though, I’m calling it troll-glow: Jennifer Lopez By Lainey • May 14, 2021 11:32 am
Hook Ups John Mulaney and Olivia Munn: A Gossip Blindside Gossip has been buck wild lately, all the pent-up energy of the pandemic bursting out with hookups and breakups and “what the f-cks?” In the latter category is this: the Internet’s best boy John Mulaney and fashion blog nemesis Olivia Munn are dating, per PEOPLE, which broke the story By Maria • May 14, 2021 10:48 am
Music Nicki & Drake: Hip-Hop’s Siblings Reunite Last night Nicki Minaj hopped on Instagram Live shortly before midnight to introduce the new music she’s been teasing all week. I was expecting the release of a new single, but she actually announced that she’d be making her critically acclaimed 2009 mixtape, Beam Me Up Scotty, available By Cody • May 14, 2021 09:58 am
Equality Issues Intro for May 14, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2021 this year and the list includes Tina Turner. Tina was previously inducted in 1992 but not as a solo artist. So this honour represents her career from 1976 and onward, after her divorce. In those early By Lainey • May 14, 2021 09:28 am
What Else What Else? Holy sh-t, how was this four years ago? This f-cking pandemic has stretched and shrunk time and I have zero perspective on time anyway. But this was four years ago – Cara Delevingne’s platinum buzz cut and I don’t even have to go back into the archives to know By Lainey • May 13, 2021 04:31 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Madonna’s Truth or Dare Vulture’s Oral History of Madonna’s Truth or Dare was the best thing on the internet last week, in my opinion. And Duana’s. And I’m pretty sure we’re not alone. Those of us who were around at the time devoured that piece and maybe watched Truth By Lainey • May 13, 2021 04:15 pm
TV Updates Friends…and BTS A surprise today, and it was done quite cleverly: an update on the Friends reunion. It had previously been reported that they’d been working on it, after a delay of nearly a year, but there was no information about when, like how long HBO Max would hold it before By Lainey • May 13, 2021 03:56 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 13, 2021 This morning I wrote about the tentative “cancellation” of Chrissy Teigen and I want to talk about a different kind of cancellation now – The Ellen DeGeneres Show, which is ending after 19 years. A lot of people are crediting the social media conversation about her but I don’t think By Maria • May 13, 2021 02:16 pm
