TV Updates Intro for August 28, 2019 Dear Gossips, I predicted back in July that Lizzo would be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live’s season premiere. I was wrong. It’s going to be Billie Eilish and the host is Woody Harrelson to promote Zombieland: Double Tap which opens in October. When SNL announced their By Lainey • Aug 28, 2019 08:52 am
What Else What Else? So… the host of the MTV VMAs last night, Sebastian Maniscalco, what did you think? At one point he namechecked Bruce Springsteen and I wonder if Bruce was like, dude, take my name out of your mouth. The good news is James Woods and Jon Voight probably want to be By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 04:41 pm
TV Updates The Mandalorian got me I have not been 100% sold on Disney’s upcoming streaming service, Disney+. Mainly it’s an issue of money, with more and more streaming services coming online, the savings of cord-cutting are being wiped out. But also I don’t have kids so about two-thirds of the potential content By Sarah • Aug 27, 2019 04:23 pm
Quiveration Thank you, Harry Styles The one thing Duana hates the most about me is that I can read and write in a moving car and she gets motion sickness and doesn’t understand how it doesn’t bother me. What does bother me is heat. When I’m hot I get nauseous and yesterday By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 03:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Widow’s new duds The Black Widow movie continues teasing us, making a stop at D23 the other day where some footage was screened—sounds like the same kitchen fight scene between Natasha Romanov and Yelena Belova—though the cast, still filming, was not present for this one. We do have, however, some new By Sarah • Aug 27, 2019 03:13 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 27, 2019 Last night Lainey posted a divisive question on Twitter: Is Diplo hot? I can’t answer that for her, or for you. The “is Diplo hot?” is a personal journey. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Thomas Wesley (@diplo) on Aug 27, 2019 at 8:13am PDT By Maria • Aug 27, 2019 02:36 pm
Music JoBros return to the VMAs Back when the Jonas Brothers first announced their reunion with the release of Sucker, I was skeptical of its success, the need for their reunion, or whether they’d last at all. I even posed the question, “are we really going to still be talking about the Jo Bros by By Prem • Aug 27, 2019 01:56 pm
Music Lizzo, Normani, Rosalia: the future As I wrote in the open today, the MTV VMAs have stayed relevant even in years when the show is sh-tty because it can be a showcase for the future, for who we will be obsessed with in the near future, the artists who’ll be the culture in the By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 12:48 pm
Quiveration Timothee Chalamet: the bowl cut has an accent We interrupt MTV VMAs coverage because… Timothee Chalamet has an accent. I wrote about Timothee Chalamet’s bowl cut when the poster for The King was released last week and just the sight of him, with his jawline, and the frustration on his face, was enough to distract me for By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 11:37 am
Music Taylor in a decade Ten years ago, at the 2009 MTV VMAs, Taylor Swift was interrupted by Kanye West in a moment that kicked off one of the most significant chapters in celebrity gossip history – and it’s a chapter that may not have reached its conclusion. A decade later, during her first main By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 11:10 am
Music Lil Nas X Spans Generations Which demographic does the MTV VMAs appeal to? I watched the show with my cousins and their children, so we had an age range of like 7 years old to late 40s, with myself right in the middle. That meant that I heard the question “who’s that?” directed at By Prem • Aug 27, 2019 10:16 am
Music Miley Cyrus’s Surprise Performance at the VMAs 2019 I have been obsessed with Miley’s “Slide Away” since she first released it a week and a half ago. It’s catchy as hell, I’ve been listening to it on the drive to and from work, which is partly a depressing way to start your day, but it’ By Prem • Aug 27, 2019 09:32 am
Shout-Outs August 27, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs “Dear Maddy, Happy 30th Birthday from your Boast Bitches! We are lucky to be included in your narrative and hope you continue to question the official story! Here’s a picture of your youthful inspiration Shakira. Her and your hips don’t lie. From The Boast Bitches aka Ais, Al, By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 08:49 am
Music Intro for August 27, 2019 Dear Gossips, If you’ve watched Missy Elliott’s performance from last night’s MTV VMAs more than once, that is correct. Here’s me sounding like a bitter old aunt, quoting Kathleen who, by contrast (in her mind), is forever young: these kids don’t deserve. She was actually By Lainey • Aug 27, 2019 08:34 am
What Else What Else? The MTV Video Music Awards are happening tonight. For pop culture students, the VMAs have historically been a major event on the gossip calendar. Those of us from a certain generation grew up on VMAs moments. In the last decade or so, the VMAs make up for two or three By Lainey • Aug 26, 2019 04:33 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: In Honour Of Hogwarts Hi Duana, We are expecting our third child in a few weeks. Our older children are named Lucie and James, who we always call Jamie. We had lots of name ideas for our daughter but when we were naming our first son James/Jamie was the ONLY name that I By Duana • Aug 26, 2019 04:21 pm
