Jimmy Kimmel Intro for June 24, 2020 Dear Gossips, Cody wrote yesterday about the current Jimmy Kimmel controversy and I posted about Tina Fey and 30 Rock pulling four Blackface episodes. Last week, Howard Stern went on the air to address his past use of Blackface and the n-word. This was in response to Donald Trump Jr By Lainey • Jun 24, 2020 09:02 am
What Else What Else? Maybe you already know that Novak Djokovic has coronavirus and that early on during the pandemic he made some controversial statements about how to protect people from it. But that’s not why you should read this article. You should read it for the opening paragraph which is delightful, especially By Lainey • Jun 23, 2020 04:23 pm
Douchebags Is Jimmy Kimmel cancelled? (Lainey: yesterday we introduced to you our newest contributor, Cody Kreller. His first post about Beyoncé can be read here. We haven’t yet had the chance to build him his own profile on the site and we won’t be able to get to that until the weekend so By Cody • Jun 23, 2020 04:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Disclosure: The Documentary the Everyone Needs to Watch We’re nearing the end of Pride Month, and although the cancellation of Pride parades and festivities due to the pandemic has been disappointing, it’s also been a great opportunity to read and reflect about queer history. About Black history. Pride month commemorates the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, By Prem • Jun 23, 2020 03:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Here for The King’s Man, whenever it comes out Here’s another “we’ll see it when we see it” movie: The King’s Man, the prequel to the Kingsman movies, is supposed to come out this fall. To that end, a new trailer was released yesterday, touting that it will be “Only in theaters September 18”. You know By Sarah • Jun 23, 2020 03:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 23, 2020 What happens when Leonardo can’t summer in St. Tropez? He brings St. Tropez to Malibu. Well, kind of. For his girlfriend Camila Morrone’s 23rd birthday, Leo and a reduced Wolf Pack (Lukas Haas, Kevin Connelly) went on a daytime cruise. It was Western themed, so some people also By Maria • Jun 23, 2020 02:17 pm
Music Noname, J. Cole, and Toxic Power Dynamics (This is the latest entry to our Long Reads section. For more Long Reads, please visit the Long Reads page.) Last week, through music and tweets, we witnessed what some are calling a rap beef, what others are calling healthy discourse, and what I am calling Black men inserting themselves, By Melayna • Jun 23, 2020 01:25 pm
Lili Reinhart The Accusations against the cast of Riverdale Last Friday, Ansel Elgort was accused of sexual assault by a girl called Gabby. He has denied the allegations claiming that he had a “consensual relationship” with her. The next day accusations against Justin Bieber were posted on social media. And then accusations against four members of the Riverdale cast, By Lainey • Jun 23, 2020 12:21 pm
Selena Gomez Justin Bieber accused of sexual assault If you are reading this post, please be aware there is triggering language because this post is in part about language. Justin Bieber was accused on Saturday by a woman called Danielle wrote on social media that she met Justin Bieber in March 2014. She has since deleted her tweet By Lainey • Jun 23, 2020 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael Keaton may return as Batman Today in I Didn’t Even Know That Was An Option news, Michael Keaton may return as Batman in The Flash, the movie centered on Ezra Miller’s speedster. The Wrap first reported that Keaton is in talks to reprise the role, but then Deadline jumped in to clarify that By Sarah • Jun 23, 2020 10:38 am
TV Updates Tina Fey’s Intent As I wrote yesterday in my apology post, in this moment, power structures are being challenged, everyone is being challenged, and those of us who have been complicit and complacent are facing a reckoning – and that’s a good thing. Institutionalised racism and misogyny is being confronted. This is happening By Lainey • Jun 23, 2020 10:06 am
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 22, 2020 (Lainey: this is yesterday’s version. A fresh edition will be posted later today.) In a new interview with The Times, Naomi Campbell said she is friends with all of her exes except “the last one.” Some people think she was referring to Skepta but it’s not him. She By Maria • Jun 23, 2020 09:22 am
Intro for June 23, 2020 Dear Gossips, Yesterday after I posted my apology for past heinous content on the site my intention was to leave it up for the rest of the day and all of today so that my shame could be on display for as long as possible, not post any new content By Lainey • Jun 23, 2020 08:38 am
Top Reads Megan Amram and me Megan Amram is a comedy writer whose work has been featured on The Good Place and she also created the webseries An Emmy For Megan. She was called out on Twitter a few days ago for past problematic tweets. You can read about the situation here. Megan has apologised and By Lainey • Jun 22, 2020 02:37 pm
Music Beyoncé’s “Black Parade” (Lainey: This post has been written by Cody Kreller, our newest contributor. I know Cody from Etalk through his work as a producer. And I had originally planned to introduce Cody later but then Beyoncé dropped a new song, without warning, as she does, and it accelerated our initial rollout. By Cody • Jun 22, 2020 11:24 am
Amazingness K-pop, Elijah Daniel, and the BBC Every time I think that I’ve seen the most outrageous, unbelievable headline, 2020 is like, “oh, so you thought??” and slaps me with another one. This weekend’s story was “professional troll and internet prankster Elijah Daniel tells the world to stan BTS and stream Stay Gold on the By Prem • Jun 22, 2020 10:33 am
