Joss Whedon Whitewashed Casting Apologies – and an innovator I’m cranky and I’m officially over retroactive creative decisions – the ‘clarifications’ people make, years or decades after the fact, about what creatives wanted to do in the name of inclusiveness or diversity, but couldn’t, because of The Pressures. Specifically, I’m referring to the headlines running around By Duana • Jun 15, 2020 02:09 pm
Dave Chappelle Dave Chapelle’s 8:46 On Friday Dave Chappelle dropped a surprise stand-up set for free on Netflix’s YouTube page. Titled 8:46 the special is really not comedy, it’s just Chappelle working through the recent events in America. It was probably meant to be comedy, as Chappelle has started workshopping new material By Sarah • Jun 15, 2020 01:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tenet blinked Since the coronavirus lockdown began in the spring, the hopes of the film industry “returning to normal” hung on Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, due to be released on July 17. Warner Brothers and the industry at large so believed in Tenet’s power to lure audiences back to enclosed spaces By Sarah • Jun 15, 2020 11:22 am
Equality Issues What Happened to Sasha Exeter On Friday, Kathleen wrote a piece at Refinery29 about what Sasha Exeter shared on Instagram last Wednesday and how certain media outlets have covered the story. Many of them, from Vanity Fair to The Telegraph to the Canadian Press, have been characterising Jessica Mulroney leaning into her white privilege against By Lainey • Jun 15, 2020 10:43 am
Intro for June 15, 2020 Dear Gossips, Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead yesterday in Mumbai. He was 34 years old. It’s a major loss for the Bollywood community and so many millions of fans still heartbroken after the death of Irrfan Khan just a few weeks ago. It has been reported that Sushant By Lainey • Jun 15, 2020 09:02 am
What Else What Else? If you’ve been visiting this site over the years, you know we’re light on Bachelor content. I think the first post we ever did about it was by Kathleen when Rachel Kathleen wrote a bit about Rachel Lindsay was confirmed as the Bachelorette. Today it was announced that By Lainey • Jun 12, 2020 04:13 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 12, 2020 This morning, Lainey posted about Angelina Jolie and it reminded me that Salma Hayek posted a birthday wish to her (a week late). Angelina, as we know, doesn’t live on social media and her activism is still on-the-ground volunteering, donations, and op-ed in newspapers. Do you think that will By Maria • Jun 12, 2020 03:34 pm
What's Your Drama Podcast What’s Your Drama: Driving For Some D Welcome back to What's Your Drama. Today we start things off a bit differently. With all that is going on with the Black Lives Matter uprising and the collective fight to end anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, it's time to start calling ourselves out for sh-tty behavior. By Sasha • Jun 12, 2020 02:45 pm
TV Updates Garcelle’s a Diamond in the Bravo Rough Over the last week, our site manager Emily and I have been talking offline about the Vanderpump Rules firing of Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute for their treatment of former cast-adjacent friend Faith, who slept with their castmate Jax Taylor while he was dating their friend Brittany (pronounced Brittaaaaaaattttnny). I’ By Maria • Jun 12, 2020 01:54 pm
Sasha Finds Sasha Finds: OKOKO Cosmetiques I interrupt your regularly scheduled loungewear post for the special announcement: OKOKO COSMETIQUES IS THE SH-T. I like many of you are super precious about the brands I choose to slather on my face. So I’ll be honest when I tell you that I wasn’t all that pumped By Sasha • Jun 12, 2020 12:58 pm
Angelina Jolie Angelina by Knox Angelina Jolie is rarely interviewed these days. So this is big news! But also… since we’ve been in pandemic lockdown… photo shoots can’t happen. Or at least they can’t happen the way they used to. Which is why for this interview for Harper’s Bazaar, she’s By Lainey • Jun 12, 2020 11:02 am
Break Ups Kelly Clarkson’s Breakaway… There isn’t a person I’ve encountered who doesn’t like Kelly Clarkson, at minimum. More often than not people adore her for her work on TV as a talk show host or The Voice judge, or her music, or her general goodness when it comes to body acceptance By Maria • Jun 12, 2020 09:57 am
Shout-Outs June 12, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs Elaine! You have been such a wonderful support to Aleksandra – I imagine for both of you it’s been a lot of listening and laughing and crying and talking and caring. That’s how friends hold each other up. I’m so moved that while it’s Aleksandra who’s By Lainey • Jun 12, 2020 09:39 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 12, 2020 Dear Gossips, Since last Friday, alongside my colleagues at CTV, I’ve been working on CHANGE & ACTION: RACISM IN CANADA, a 90 minute special that will air on CTV tomorrow, Saturday June 13, at 8pm. This has been rewarding and challenging work for our entire team as we’ve By Lainey • Jun 12, 2020 09:03 am
What Else What Else? It’s not that I doubt that Disney would want to sign Beyoncé to a major deal. WHO WOULDN’T? She’s the Queen. And she told they would let her sing the holy grail of Disney songs. My problem with this story is the source. It’s the Sun. By Lainey • Jun 11, 2020 04:42 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 11, 2020 As Lainey has mentioned before, Canada doesn’t have a star system like the UK, which produces more Z-listers than Cadbury bars. But we do have a very insular media community and there’s some drama happening. Sasha Exeter, a very popular Toronto influencer was posting about Black Lives Matter By Maria • Jun 11, 2020 04:09 pm
