Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 15, 2020 As Lainey mentioned the other day, Ashley Benson and G-Eazy have been spotted canoodling. (That’s not a word we hear much anymore but in the early 2000s, when club culture ruled Hollywood, canoodling was thrown around quite liberally.) Ashley moved on from Cara Delevingne quite quickly and it’s By Maria • May 15, 2020 02:01 pm
Top Reads Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, and Netflix We started the week with a post about Prince Andrew’s sketchy financial dealings so why not end the week with a post about a new docuseries that he and the British royal family might be worried about. The four-part Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich series drops on Netflix on May By Lainey • May 15, 2020 12:52 pm
Sasha Lifestyle Sasha Finds: The Collection by Nicole Purdy This week I’m inching us back into “real” clothes. Not to say I’m not sticking with the theme of extreme comfort, I just think it’s important that we hold on to the hope that we might get the chance to see what the outside looks like one By Sasha • May 15, 2020 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Avatar 2: Who cares? Lainey asked me this question—who cares about the Avatar sequels? It is the eternal debate of Avatar, how big is it REALLY, when it left no cultural footprint? Sure, it’s the second biggest movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation), and it was a technological marvel when By Sarah • May 15, 2020 11:02 am
Break Ups MK’s Divorce Is “Not Essential” As Maria covered yesterday, Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy have broken up and he’s apparently trying to throw her out of their apartment by terminating the lease without telling her so she’s petitioned the court to issue an emergency order on her divorce file which would give her By Lainey • May 15, 2020 10:27 am
Music Katy Perry’s “Daisies” Katy Perry dropped her new song, “Daisies” with an accompanying video that marvel at the power of human resilience and visually manifested through her naked, pregnant body. “Daisies” is meant to join “Firework” and “Roar” in her catalogue and as an empowerment anthem it does the job but I’m By Lainey • May 15, 2020 09:22 am
Gossip Nostalgia Intro for May 15, 2020 Dear Gossips, Oops…I Did It Again. Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary. On May 16, 2000 Britney Spears released her second album, and the title track became a monster hit; she was already, by that point, the biggest superstar in the world after the success of ...Baby One More Time. By Lainey • May 15, 2020 08:54 am
What Else What Else? This is a gossip staple: gossiping about celebrity demands, which is why back in the day, we were all obsessed with celebrity riders and what colour candies had to be removed from their candy bowls because they’re such assholes they can't be bothered to just avoid the By Lainey • May 14, 2020 04:12 pm
Music BTS goes WWE I never imagined that I’d be able to put BTS and World Wrestling Entertainment together in a sentence, let alone a post, but here we are. Almost all live entertainment around the world has been cancelled because of the pandemic. The at-home concerts we’ve been seeing are not By Lainey • May 14, 2020 03:15 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben-Ana, oh thank GOD Not lying, I was juuuuuuust thinking to myself, hey, have we seen Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas out together this week? And the answer was no, and I felt disappointed, and oh look, here they are, out for a dog walk, THANK GOD. This is not sarcasm. I’m By Lainey • May 14, 2020 02:09 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 14, 2020 André Leon Talley’s upcoming book, The Chiffon Trenches, is reviewed in the NYT today. Journalist Vanessa Friedman (who briefly worked at Vogue in the 90s) pulls together the threads of what was (Andre as a diva in a hedonistic and power-hungry world) and what is (an industry gutted by By Maria • May 14, 2020 01:26 pm
Equality Issues Entertainment Weekly’s Pride Cover June is Pride month. And while many of the parades and celebrations have been cancelled due to COVID-19 (and corporations can breathe a sigh of relief because they can stop pretending like they care), Entertainment Weekly’s June issue is dedicated to LGBTQ+ artists that have played a central role By Prem • May 14, 2020 12:58 pm
What's Your Drama Podcast What’s Your Drama: Confronting a Copycat Welcome Back! Before we dive in we need to talk about Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas’s matching half-heart necklaces. Is it cute? Is it corny? Is it okay to be both? Then it’s time to get into you drama! Our first writer has come to a turning By Sasha • May 14, 2020 11:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy in Capone There is a line between “good” and “bad” where quantifiable binary judgments don’t matter because the thing itself is so interesting. Great filmmakers like David Lynch and David Cronenberg frequently walk this line, creating works that are unpleasant, indecipherable, possibly in bad taste and yet are captivating regardless of By Sarah • May 14, 2020 10:56 am
Justin Bieber Bieber Skin When Justin and Hailey Bieber first launched their Face Watch series The Biebers on Watch a few weeks ago, I wrote that this is about as unfiltered as it’s going to get where celebrities are concerned. They’re shooting it themselves, they’re not surrounded by producers, and yes, By Lainey • May 14, 2020 10:20 am
Break Ups Mon Dieu, Mary-Kate! Yesterday, TMZ broke the news that my favourite Olsen (tied with Ashley) Mary-Kate is getting divorced from French millionaire Olivier Sarkozy. (Note: I didn’t Google his net worth, I just assume he’s a millionaire.) These two had a legendary wedding not because of the dress or guest list By Maria • May 14, 2020 09:22 am