Royals A Royal Pandemic Promenade How lovely! The lights are so beautiful this time of year, aren’t they? I really, really love holiday lights. And in London especially, they really do know what they’re doing with the lights. I’ve been in London a couple of times during the holiday season and the By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 10:43 am
Equality Issues Intro for December 22, 2020 Dear Gossips, Joyce Echaquan is the Atikamekw woman who died in a hospital in Quebec after live-streaming hospital staff verbally abusing her with racial slurs and generally not taking her condition seriously. Her death exposed once again the inequalities in all Canadian institutions, from education to community infrastructure to healthcare By Lainey • Dec 22, 2020 09:48 am
What Else What Else? I will read anything that Allison P Davis produces but this piece, what’s presumably her final major piece of the year, is why she’s one of the best culture writers right now. It’s about how a Black family had to deal with a racist neighbour and covers By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 02:56 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 21, 2020 What is the Jason Mantzoukas couple doing for the holidays? If you don’t remember, it was a Reddit thread about a husband who was catfishing his wife as her celebrity hall pass, Jason Mantzoukas. I think about them all the time. Will the summer of 2021 belong to Zola? By Maria • Dec 21, 2020 02:31 pm
Top Reads The BTS Magazine Effect Did you do your assigned homework? On Friday, in What Else, I linked to CNN’s article about the BTS effect on the American magazine industry this year as assigned reading. If you read it then you know that the piece reported on the magazine sales of four publications that By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 01:57 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Small Axe: Education is a fitting end to the anthology Education is the final installment in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology—which collectively won Best Picture from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association—and like Lovers Rock, it is not based on a specific person, but on a specific event that occurred in the Afro-Caribbean community in London in By Sarah • Dec 21, 2020 11:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Mandalorian became small SPOILERS From the beginning of The Mandalorian, when Mando hooked up with Baby Yoda, he was charged with returning the tyke to “his kind”, but “his kind” turned out not to be the mysterious species to which Baby Yoda belongs, but to the Jedi. In and of itself, this is By Sarah • Dec 21, 2020 11:30 am
Katie Holmes Katie’s Instagram Birthday Gift Katie Holmes’s birthday was last Friday, December 18. I always remember because it’s also Brad Pitt’s birthday and at one point I tried to Gossip Genie the two of them together. But then Emilio Vitolo Jr came along. What did Emilio give Katie for her birthday, her By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 10:30 am
Weddings Ariana Grande is Engaged Dalton Gomez put a ring on it. Ariana Grande broke the news on Instagram yesterday with a collection of photos captioned “forever n then some.” Mixed in with the candid shots of her and her fiancé were some closeup looks at her new hardware. The ring is simple and extra By Cody • Dec 21, 2020 10:08 am
Shout-Outs December 21, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs Rebekah! I’m SO sorry I missed this last week, especially since it’s been such a f-ck of a year and you’ve had so much going on. As for the crying, girl, same. Same, same, same. So I’m thinking of you in your pyjamas while I’m By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 09:58 am
Kristen Wiig Intro for December 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was so good to see Maya Rudolph and Kate McKinnon join Kristen Wiig onstage for the opening monologue on Saturday Night Live this weekend. They’ll go down as all-time greats on the show for sure. Actually, they already are. The women of SNL have always held By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 09:18 am
What Else What Else? Well now I really have to go watch some Nancy Meyers movies because reading about these f-ckwits at the Denny’s who refused to wear a mask, claiming civil rights and religious freedom is making me rage. The fact that they went in there with their phones recording the whole By Lainey • Dec 18, 2020 03:11 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 18, 2020 Alicia Silverstone is a long-time vegangelist and that’s great, it works for her. She wants it to work for other people, too. She often uses her son Bear as vegan poster child, telling US Weekly that he doesn’t get sick or get ear infections (and has never taken By Maria • Dec 18, 2020 01:55 pm
Best Of 2020 My Favorite Things of 2020: Rom-Coms Movie theaters were closed most of 2020, but this was not a year without movies. There have been many good and a few great movies this year, with more yet to come in the early months of 2021 to qualify for the adjusted awards season schedule. Eventually, I’ll get By Sarah • Dec 18, 2020 12:40 pm
Outfit of the Week Jennifer Garner: Outfit of the Week What do you call these … spikes on Jennifer Garner’s sweater? To me they look like the blades on the Iron Throne from Game of Thrones. Is that what you’re seeing too? That’s mostly what I’m seeing. The other part, because vaccines have been so much in By Lainey • Dec 18, 2020 11:47 am
Best Of 2020 My Favourite Things of 2020: Boman Here’s a name you need to know: Boman Martinez-Reid. For better or worse TikTok become even bigger in 2020. We were locked inside and looking for even more entertainment than usual, a distraction from our increasingly serious problems and anxieties which are being shared worldwide. One person providing a By Cody • Dec 18, 2020 11:24 am
