Name Nerd Duana Names: What If She Shares A Name With...? Hi Duana, We're expecting our first child, a girl, in mid-August. My husband and I are on a bit of a stalemate with names - he has one he loves (Elodie) and I have one I love (Imogen, which oddly enough has cropped up a few times in By Duana • Aug 05, 2020 03:28 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Emmys and Ellen I couldn’t wait to talk to Duana for this week’s episode about the Emmys after the Television Academy and Jimmy Kimmel announced that the ceremony would be virtual. Duana’s produced a lot of live award television and the work that’s happening right now behind the scenes By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 02:51 pm
Top Reads Rihanna does it again Rihanna launched Fenty Skin a couple of weeks ago. It’s a three product range, each is multi-purpose, with more to come in the months ahead. To the surprise of no one, much of it, if not all, is already sold out and they’re promising to restock quickly. By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 02:07 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 5, 2020 Is Katy Perry’s caption a bit of a knock on PEOPLE? Flip to see the second slide, a mock cover with an album announcement (Smile, coming out at the end of this month). There’s also the bigger question of how to package a baby and a new album By Maria • Aug 05, 2020 12:48 pm
Royals Prince Andrew’s Perverted Puppet This story has everything: fat fingers, defective sweat glands, a possibly bogus pizza defence, and now a perverted puppet in the likeness of Prince Andrew that was allegedly used to grope victims. Reminds me of a piece by Amanda Marcotte last year for at Salon, “Are we breeding depraved billionaires” By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 11:40 am
Music Miley Cyrus teases new music, reintroduces herself? Miley Cyrus just sounded the alarm bells. New music is almost here. Back in 2019, the original plan was to release 3 EPs: She Is Coming, She Is Here, and She Is Everything. The trio of short projects would be combined to create her 7th studio album, but so far By Cody • Aug 05, 2020 10:47 am
BFFs Ben and Ana hang with Matt and Luciana at the beach A couple of years ago, Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso lived in Australia for a few months and were often seen with their kids on the beach hanging out with their good friends Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky and their children. Matt’s most famous friendship, however, is with Ben By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mulan shocker In an absolutely shocking move, Disney has announced it will make Mulan, one of the oft-delayed movies affected by COVID-19, available on September 4 via its streaming platform, Disney+. I literally did not think this was possible—no one did! Mulan cost a rumored $300 million to make By Sarah • Aug 05, 2020 09:24 am
Intro for August 5, 2020 Dear Gossips, Even before yesterday’s tragedy in Beirut, the people of Lebanon were struggling through an economic crisis and the healthcare system was overwhelmed by COVID-19. Today there are hundreds still missing from the explosions and hundreds of thousands of people are now displaced and homeless. Recovery efforts By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 08:50 am
What Else What Else? This story is so random and so hilarious and so…sly and cunning? I have a thing for foxes right now because there was a litter of foxes making headlines in our neighbourhood this summer as the mother fox decided that the rocks at the beach were a good place By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 03:40 pm
BTS BTS is Returning to America Before we get to what BTS is up to now, because as we’ve established, this band never f-cking stops, I just want to show you why I felt seen on Twitter this weekend. Here’s what was trending worldwide on Sunday afternoon: That’s right – the two most By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 02:27 pm
Weddings Ryan Reynolds: The Movie Star Marketing Executive Ryan Reynolds has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business 2020 and this is a profile of his work as a marketing executive who happens to be a movie star as opposed to a movie star who’s really good at marketing. As we have By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 01:29 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 4, 2020 Martha Stewart celebrated her birthday in Maine over the weekend with lobster and orange creamsicle cake and some people are pissed she’s traveling because she already lives on an estate. Do you think this kind of online criticism gets to Martha? I don’t think she gives a solitary By Maria • Aug 04, 2020 12:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Remember a Real President and Weep Good morning, I’m crying. Why? Because of the trailer for The Way I See It, a documentary about former White House photographer Pete Souza and his time working for two (very different) presidents: Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. Based on Souza’s bestselling book of the same name, The By Sarah • Aug 04, 2020 12:14 pm
Hook Ups Tiffany Haddish Confirms She’s Dating Common Tiffany Haddish has finally confirmed she’s in a relationship with Common during an appearance on Steve-O’s podcast. They’ve been friends since co-starring in The Kitchen, but the dynamic changed when the world went into lockdown and now she admits she’s in love. Back in By Cody • Aug 04, 2020 11:48 am
Style Katie Holmes’s Secret Summer Sweater Katie Holmes has a movie out right now – I only found this out today. The Secret: Dare to Dream is on Premium VOD and is based on the book from like 15 years ago made wildly popular by Oprah Winfrey about, I think, manifesting your dreams and desires. Right? I By Lainey • Aug 04, 2020 11:29 am
