Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Harry Styles and the Secrets of (teen) Pop Success Duana and I don’t agree on much when it comes to fangirling. She’s Ray Romano and I’m Timothee Chalamet. She’s Spring Awakening and I’m BTS. But we do intersect somewhere and his name is Harry Styles. This surprised me. I’m more likely to get By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 01:19 pm
Music BTS is trying to kill me The BTS team, which includes the band members themselves, and their managers, and their social media marketing experts, are taking western artists to school right now because, Jesus, the amount of content that they’ve been dropping with the release of their new album, Map of the Soul: 7, is By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 11:56 am
BFFs Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s phone call Ben Affeck stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! yesterday as he continues to promote The Way Back. The film was directed by Gavin O’Connor who did an interview recently with 34th Street, the student-run University of Pennsylvania magazine, about the project and working with Ben. He said that he By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 11:21 am
Royals Will and Kate: Day 2 in Ireland After arriving in Dublin yesterday and then meeting with President Michael D Higgins, Prince William and Catherine had an evening engagement at Guinness Storehouse. Kate stayed with the green theme in a dress by The Vampire’s Wife. She hit pause on the green style vibes today as they toured By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 10:18 am
Shout-Outs March 4, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs If you’re in Toronto, there’s an event happening tomorrow for a great cause. The St Joe’s Neighbourhood Throwdown is taking place Thursday, March 5 at the Junction Craft Brewery, 150 Symes Road, Toronto, at 7pm. This is a community fundraiser featuring three bands, each representing a local By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 09:33 am
Music Intro for March 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, Last week Lady Gaga released a new song, with video, called “Stupid Love”, the first track off her upcoming album Chromatica.This week she confirmed that it’s dropping April 10 and already there are rumours about possible collaborations. Fans are looking at social media activity and Ariana By Lainey • Mar 04, 2020 09:19 am
What Else What Else for March 3, 2020 I feel better already watching this video of Lucky, who clearly has no f-cking interest in being a YouTube star, demonstrating why she’s a YouTube star - by not cooperating. Or, maybe, reliably cooperating. We have two dogs. Even though I’ve seen this multiple times, I still crack By Lainey • Mar 03, 2020 04:26 pm
Douchebags Mandy Moore’s Silver Landings Mandy Moore has a new album coming out this week called Silver Landings. This is a great time for her, the last few years, and now, with the success of This Is Us, she’s been able to leverage some of her accumulated capital into her music. And I don’ By Lainey • Mar 03, 2020 02:54 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, March 3, 2020 WWHL is the last great talk show because they still have call-in questions that can’t be controlled. On the aftershow, a woman asked Elisabeth Moss (who is a Scientologist) about Tom Cruise (it’s at 3:38 in this video). She laughs it off but I wish Andy By Maria • Mar 03, 2020 02:07 pm
Game of Thrones Emilia after Westeros A year ago today we were all still anticipating the return and the eventual end of Game of Thrones. Do you kind of wish we could go back to that time? To a time when you didn’t know and therefore weren’t disappointed? People were DISAPPOINTED. There were petitions! By Lainey • Mar 03, 2020 12:35 pm
Royals House Sussex: Movies and the Met Gala Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be together in London for the first time since Sussexit was confirmed tomorrow for the Endeavour Fund Awards. On Friday they’ll attend the Mountbatten Festival of Music at Royal Albert Hall. And on Saturday Meghan is rumoured to be making an appearance at By Lainey • Mar 03, 2020 11:52 am
Royals William and Kate go green in Ireland Prince William and Catherine arrived in Dublin today to kick off a three day tour of Ireland. The trip will “focus on the relationship between the two countries, and build on the theme of remembrance and reconciliation.” They’re meeting with President of Ireland Michael D Higgins and then visit By Lainey • Mar 03, 2020 10:17 am
Intro for March 3, 2020 Dear Gossips, Best thing I read online yesterday was Matthew Schneir’s Fran Drescher appreciation piece for The Cut - and I don’t think I’ve watched two whole episodes of The Nanny, like ever. Which, yes, is one of my pop culture gaps… and still, it’s a testament By Lainey • Mar 03, 2020 09:30 am
What Else What Else? Daniel Craig is 52 years old and that’s great and all but I just want to talk about this amazing photo that Michael K posted of him because it’s just so specifically of an era. In that era, it was OK to pose with no shirt on under By Lainey • Mar 02, 2020 04:09 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Can It Be This Simple? Hi Duana! We are expecting a baby girl in March and while we have some ideas, we haven't settled on one yet. My husband is Indian and his last name starts with an M and ends with an A. I am generic white person (mix of European stuff) By Duana • Mar 02, 2020 04:02 pm
Royals Ben Affleck and Janina Gavankar at the premiere It’s been a good year for Janina Gavankar. She has a role in The Morning Show, one of the most talked-about new series of 2019 and they’re working on the second season. And she co-stars with Ben Affleck in The Way Back, playing his ex-wife. By Lainey • Mar 02, 2020 03:50 pm