Top Reads Thandie Newton: A career shaped by pain When we analyze an actor’s career, we often look at what common threads can be found among the projects they’ve been a part of and what does it say about that artist. This week we learned that the common thread of Thandie Newton’s career is pain. E. By Cody • Jul 09, 2020 12:43 pm
Relationship Assumption Chris & Lily: Ice Cream in the Park We received a (possible) New Hollywood Romance alert earlier this week when Chris Evans and Lily James were seen in London leaving a private members’ club and heading back to his hotel. After that, I posted about the timeline of their situation considering quarantine requirements for overseas travel. That situation By Lainey • Jul 09, 2020 12:13 pm
Equality Issues Reframing Cancel Culture (This is the latest installment in our Long Read series. For previous entries, please visit the Long Reads archive.) Yesterday morning, Harper’s Magazine published a letter written and signed by 50 public figures including J.K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, Gloria Steinem, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, and so many more. By Prem • Jul 09, 2020 11:20 am
Sports Intro for July 9, 2020 Dear Gossips, Yesterday, July 8, 2020, marked the tenth anniversary of The Decision, when LeBron James announced that he was leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat. The NBA’s best player was “exercising his right to free agency”. In the decade since then, LeBron has won multiple titles, By Lainey • Jul 09, 2020 10:14 am
What Else What Else? Oh well maybe Us Weekly’s Jennifer Aniston story from earlier today makes more sense now because PEOPLE has their own exclusive about Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Apparently they’re getting along much better now after a lot of family therapy. Brad was even seen leaving Angie’s home By Lainey • Jul 08, 2020 04:08 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: About Your Work As promised last week, this new episode of Show Your Work is all about YOUR work. As we’ve seen from Hollywood work, many work issues are relatable across industries, whether you’re a production manager on a film or a project manager for the launch of a new product By Lainey • Jul 08, 2020 02:55 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 8, 2020 Kanye West talked to Forbes about his Presidential run and it’s classic Ye – part troll, part freestyle, all egomaniac. The thing with Kanye is that he positions himself as a free thinker while he’s spouting off the same arguments you’d find in a certain kind of mom By Maria • Jul 08, 2020 02:07 pm
Music V is #1 Earlier this week in the site intro, I wrote about BTS’s latest record. Their song “Black Swan” hit #1 on iTunes in its 103rd country, the most of any song in history, breaking Adele’s five year record with “Hello”. Since then, “Black Swan” added another country to its By Lainey • Jul 08, 2020 01:23 pm
Relationship Assumption Timmy and Eiza at the Oscars? Apologies for beginning this post with some gushing. I don’t say this enough to the people who visit this site and reach out to me with insights, recommendations, or just to yell because I’m an asshole. I love how smart and resourceful and well gossip-researched you are. By Lainey • Jul 08, 2020 12:16 pm
Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Aniston in Quarantine Us Weekly sent out a press release this morning because they have an exclusive. I saw the words “exclusive” and “Jennifer Aniston” pop up in my inbox and was interested immediately. Turns out it’s a make-a-story, and one that’s worth a discussion but not the discussion By Lainey • Jul 08, 2020 10:43 am
Dumbass Terry Crews is Trash: An Update Yesterday, I wrote about Terry Crews’ commitment to fighting an imaginary threat to society known as “Black supremacy.” After submitting my piece, two things happened. Terry Crews started trending on Twitter after a late night interview with CNN’s Don Lemon, and a reader sent me this message: Hi Cody, By Cody • Jul 08, 2020 10:03 am
Intro for July 8, 2020 Dear Gossips, My favourite non-controversial controversy this week is whether or not “irrregardless” is a word. LOL, my spellcheck evidently doesn’t consider it a word, because it just underlined it in red. But that’s been the debate the last few days because Merriam-Webster includes it in By Lainey • Jul 08, 2020 09:19 am
What Else What Else? Ahem. Let’s kick off today’s edition of What Else? with BTS. Maria has already written her Celebrity Social Media post for today which is why this Instagram post by Chrissy Teigen didn’t make her column but that works out better for me anyway because, well, BTS is By Lainey • Jul 07, 2020 04:00 pm
Hook Ups Sebastian Stan & Alejandra Onieva: Another Avenger Romance Chris Evans isn’t the only member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to be making the rounds on social media this week for his love life. In Chris’s case it’s a possible love life at this point since we don’t know for sure if he and Lily By Lainey • Jul 07, 2020 03:45 pm
TV Live Blog I May Destroy You and the Nuance of Sex (This post contains spoilers.) “It’s wholesome, uncomfortable, hilarious but terribly sad and then awkward … I’ve never felt so many emotions at once! Absolutely fantastic. Michaela Coel bloody SMASHED it.” That how Adele described Michaela Coel’s new series, I May Destroy You in a rare Instagram post last By Cody • Jul 07, 2020 02:47 pm
Royals Prince Andrew’s Royal “Affluenza”? LOLOLOLOLOLOL, this is rich. Now that Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested, people are wondering about a possible list of names, and who she’ll sell out to save herself. Did you watch Filthy Rich on Netflix? If you did, you’ll remember, in the last episode, it was strongly suggested By Lainey • Jul 07, 2020 02:05 pm
