Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 31, 2020 PEOPLE is capitalizing on Finding Freedom with a special Charles/Diana/Camilla love triangle cover. The headline promises “the untold story” but I can’t imagine what that would be. We’ve all read the transcript about the tampon. A friend of mine just developed a deep crush on Chris By Maria • Jul 31, 2020 04:03 pm
Sasha Lifestyle Sasha Finds: MUMGRY I know I've never written about snacks or food and while I admit it's a bit off brand for this column....Oh well? But stay with me for a sec because the reason why I have to tell you about MUMGRY is because a) it' By Sasha • Jul 31, 2020 03:05 pm
Music The value in Black is King By now you know Beyoncé dropped her stunning visual album BLACK IS KING overnight to the delight of Beyoncé fans around the world. It’s a stunning piece of film, in a way that surpasses her previous two visual albums, but I think Beyoncé knows the real value in this By Cody • Jul 31, 2020 02:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Singing teen Lady Macbeth Between Hamilton and Six, the musical that imagines Henry VIII’s wives as a girl group, historical revisionism with songs is having a moment. Now, that moment is stretching into previously existing historical revisionism, in this case, Macbeth (already revisionist thanks to Shakespeare). Channing Tatum and Scooter Braun are partnering By Sarah • Jul 31, 2020 01:26 pm
Equality Issues Black and Latinx Emmy Inclusion (and lack thereof) This week the Emmy nominations were released and there was a lot of Black talent recognized. Regina King is going for a possible 4th win in 6 years. Zendaya scored her first nomination. Insecure’s Yvonne Orji got some long overdue love. And Yahya Abdul-Mateen II scooped up his first By Cody • Jul 31, 2020 11:59 am
Music BLACK IS KING: A Beyoncé Solar System The MTV VMA nominations were announced yesterday. A few hours later, Beyoncé released the visual album, BLACK IS KING, on Disney+, and ….well. Not that we needed one but it was yet another reminder that there is one game, and then there is another universe that belongs to Beyoncé, so By Lainey • Jul 31, 2020 10:21 am
Douchebags Ellen DeGeneres responds Almost five months ago, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Ellen DeGeneres was called out in a Twitter thread about how in real life, she is supposedly the opposite of “Be Kind”, which has become her slogan. For years now, these rumours have been circulating in the entertainment industry By Lainey • Jul 31, 2020 09:30 am
Beyoncé Intro for July 31, 2020 Dear Gossips, “She says less as she has more power.”– Treva Lindsey, Associate Professor of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University I don’t think I need to tell you who Professor Lindsey is talking about. Beyoncé doesn’t have to speak and some people are getting By Lainey • Jul 31, 2020 08:51 am
What Else What Else? Demi Lovato and Max Ehrich are engaged. Apparently he was waiting for the ring to be ready until he proposed and it was a special design. I mean, I think the “special design” part here is the size. It’s enormous, even by celebrity standards. Anyway, now we’re finding By Lainey • Jul 30, 2020 04:01 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 30, 2020 For 20 years, O, The Oprah Magazine has been about Oprah - deservedly so. No one is telling her to lose weight to be on her own cover (unlike Anna Wintour, who allegedly told Oprah to drop 20 for a Vogue cover in 1998). As soon as she took off By Maria • Jul 30, 2020 02:42 pm
What's Your Drama Podcast What’s Your Drama: Free Breasts & Third Wheeling We start this week's podcast like most days and that's with a COVID rant. This time around though, I share my personal adventure on getting tested. As you can imagine, this was not ideal for me. In fact, going to get a COVID test was and By Sasha • Jul 30, 2020 01:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele’s and Issa Rae’s scary sinkhole Jordan Peele and Issa Rae are partnering on a…I guess we’ll call it a supernatural thriller, called Sinkhole. They will co-produce the project, and Rae might star in it. Based on Leyna Krow’s short story of the same name, it’s about a couple who move into By Sarah • Jul 30, 2020 11:36 am
Jennifer Aniston The Virtual Emmys In yesterday’s site open, I wrote about Zendaya’s Emmy nomination and how I hoped that the Emmys and the red carpet could still happen this year but that it wasn’t looking likely since California is one of six states reporting record spikes in COVID-19 deaths and the By Lainey • Jul 30, 2020 11:03 am
Royals Harry & Meghan: “Hey Boo” and The Secret Engagement PEOPLE Magazine is the American media outlet where the publishers of Finding Freedom, by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, have chosen to place advance excerpts of the book ahead of its release on August 11. The British counterpart to this was The Sunday Times. To me, PEOPLE’s coming through By Lainey • Jul 30, 2020 10:03 am
Royals Harry & Meghan: The Tiara Drama As part of the advance promotion for Finding Freedom, the new book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, excerpts were released to the Sunday Times and the Times in the UK last weekend and in the United States, PEOPLE Magazine is the American outlet By Lainey • Jul 30, 2020 09:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 30, 2020 Dear Gossips, Tonight’s the night, you ready? Beyoncé’s BLACK IS KING premieres on Disney+ tonight at 3am ET/12am PT and a new trailer dropped yesterday to get people primed for her latest masterpiece: #BLACKISKING — A Film by Beyoncé. July 31st at 12AM PST // 3AM EST on @disneyplus. By Lainey • Jul 30, 2020 09:00 am
