Top Reads Joss Whedon’s surprise exits Hello, it is I, your resident American correspondent, corresponding to you from America, on America’s second-greatest holiday: Thanksgiving, the day we stuff our faces with turkey so we don’t have to talk to each other. (The best holiday is July 4, because fireworks.) In honor of my By Sarah • Nov 26, 2020 11:42 am
Relationship Assumption Katie & Emilio’s First Thanksgiving Last Thanksgiving Katie Holmes did the Turkey Trot with her sister and her brother-in-law. This is an event that’s common in many cities across North America. I’ve done two of them in Vancouver. Basically you sign up to go for a 5-10k (depending on the By Lainey • Nov 26, 2020 10:58 am
Relationship Assumption Ben and Ana: Home for Thanksgiving The last we saw of Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas they were in New Orleans on reshoots for their film Deep Water. They were seen back in LA yesterday in time for the American Thanksgiving holiday. Which would make sense since of course Ben would want to be with By Lainey • Nov 26, 2020 10:31 am
Hook Ups Michael B Jordan: Not Single for Thanksgiving? Michael B Jordan was named PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive last week, a universally celebrated selection. He also just made the NYT’s Greatest Actors of the 21 Century (so far) list which is exactly why he’s such a force in Hollywood. MBJ has it all – the looks, the By Lainey • Nov 26, 2020 09:34 am
Maple Leaf Intro for November 26, 2020 Dear Gossips, As we approach the end of the year, the lists keep coming. I do love a list. I like the discipline of holding myself back from scrolling to the bottom of it so as to not spoil #1. I like the reward of reading through each entry – and By Lainey • Nov 26, 2020 08:48 am
What Else What Else? I had no idea that there was an Instagram account dedicated to a rescue raccoon and that this raccoon is… adorable. And obsessed with water. I’ve just spent 15 minutes watching his videos. But it doesn’t change the way I feel about raccoons in the wild. And by By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 04:23 pm
TV Updates On Pointe on Disney+ Knows What It’s Doing The other day I wrote about a show whose concept was so well-known I figured with help, eleven-year-olds could pitch it. In the trailer for Disney+’s new ballet documentary series, On Pointe, about the lives of dancers at the School of American Ballet in New York By Duana • Nov 25, 2020 03:43 pm
Music BTS: The Nomination and the Talk Show Standard As I’ve been writing about for months now, BTS has been quite vocal about their hopes for a Grammy. It’s a whole Grammy package, actually. They performed at the Grammys last year as guests of Lil Nas X which means they’ve yet to be invited to showcase By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 02:35 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, November 25, 2020 Gigi Hadid is inching closer and closer to showing us her baby’s face, but I don’t think it will be an Instagram reveal. I think, if she and Zayn do decide to show a full photo of her, it will be an ad campaign or editorial. I liked By Maria • Nov 25, 2020 01:15 pm
Rihanna Rihanna: One More Dinner Effective tonight, LA is banning indoor dining due to the spike in COVID-19 cases. There’s also speculation that they’ll soon be moving to “safer-at-home” orders that may not be as strict as the lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic but certainly it means that By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 12:15 pm
Music Taylor Swift: folkore for Disney+ …and the Grammys It was no surprise that Taylor Swift’s folklore received five Grammy nominations yesterday (she has six in total with a nomination for her Cats song “Beautiful Ghosts”). The surprise release of folklore was a major moment for the music industry and became the first album of 2020 to sell By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 10:53 am
Music The Weeknd: War on the Grammys Why do we keep seeing the music industry’s biggest honour sh-tting on the music industry’s biggest artists? We’re not just talking Grammy nomination snubs here. We’re talking about the Recording Academy allegedly mudslinging behind closed doors. This year it’s The Weeknd’s turn to By Cody • Nov 25, 2020 10:12 am
Royals Intro for November 25, 2020 Dear Gossips, In a piece for The New York Times, Meghan Markle has revealed that she suffered a miscarriage in July. She writes in her essay that through the experience, she and Prince Harry learned that “in a room of 100 women, 10 to 20 of them will have suffered By Lainey • Nov 25, 2020 09:29 am
What Else What Else? Another member of the royal family has COVID-19. It’s Princess OfMichael. And of course they wanted us all to know where she allegedly got it which… well… that’s lovely, isn’t it? As if that person doesn’t already have a rough time of it, working for By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 04:16 pm
Dumbass Justin Bieber Has a Category Question Well this, this is a RICH. The big news in entertainment today is the Grammy nominations. I posted some quick thoughts about it earlier, specifically focusing on the biggest snub of the year: The Weeknd’s album, After Hours, and all of its hits – there are several of them, and By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 04:04 pm
Hook Ups Vanessa and Austin Moved On Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler were together for nine years. Their breakup was confirmed back in January so, like, eleven months ago. She was on a red carpet pretty much right after the split was reported wearing white and it was basically a Carrie Bradshaw moment: she’s marrying herself! By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 02:58 pm
