Media Manipulation Shawn & Camila: the error and the conspiracy Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello will be performing “Señorita” for the first time at the MTV VMAs on Monday night. They’ve not yet, like, officially confirmed that they’re dating but they’ve also been making out in almost every city in North America all summer so, they’re By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 10:54 am
Royals Did House Cambridge troll House Sussex? For almost two weeks now, the British tabloids have been dumping on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle for flying on private jets on holiday. This has been as big of or an even bigger scandal than Prince Andrew being BFF with and namechecked in a lawsuit against a registered sex By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 10:28 am
Douchebags Prince Andrew’s Foot Massage I have to update my list from yesterday about how, in SNL Stefon’s voice, this Prince Andrew-Jeffrey Epstein story has everything: -a pedophile -a madam -girls who say they were sex slaves -billionaires -politicians -government corruption -a beachside lair -country estates -New York mansion -private jets -mystery death … a By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 09:37 am
Music Intro for August 23, 2019 Dear Gossips, There is only one music video that belongs in this space on top of the site today and all weekend – that would be the video for “Throw It Back”, by Dr Melissa “Missy” Elliott who released her first collection of new music in 14 years last night ahead By Lainey • Aug 23, 2019 08:52 am
What Else What Else? I’m coming at you with the most generic, weak ass analogy, are you ready? The Avengers assembled…and they couldn’t take out The Rock. The Rock is Thanos. I told you. The Rock is the highest paid actor. Not even Robert Downey Jr, with all his back end By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 04:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A cure for your Spider-Man blues The news that Sony and Marvel are dissolving their deal to co-produce Spider-Man hit fans hard. Spider-Man is popular unto himself, the MCU version of the character is particularly popular, not least because he is the protégé of Tony Stark, one of the MCU’s most beloved characters. People are By Sarah • Aug 22, 2019 03:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Timothee Chalamet’s royal bowl cut Like I said the other day, movies are coming at us from everywhere right now as we get closer to fall movie season, prestige movie season. Last week Timothee Chalamet was part of that conversation when the first trailer for Little Women was released and people got into their feelings By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 02:30 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 22, 2019 The viral Instagram hoax continues, but there has been one winner. A reader called Kari wrote in about John Mayer and I have to agree that he is very good at this. And I miss him on Twitter. View this post on Instagram A post shared by John Mayer 💎 (@johnmayer) By Maria • Aug 22, 2019 01:49 pm
Media Manipulation Taylor becomes Tom’s story Tom Hiddleston has been in New York the last few weeks performing on Broadway. He’s received great reviews for his work in Betrayal and that should be the focus. When you’re doing theatre in New York, when it’s your Broadway debut, what you want is coverage in By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 01:10 pm
Royals Prince Andrew is “having fun” Well that’s reassuring. Are you comforted by the fact that Prince Andrew is “totally chilled” and “having fun” on the golf course in Spain despite … you know… all that Jeffrey Epstein business? That’s what the Sun is telling us in their latest story about the Queen’s favourite By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 12:31 pm
Top Reads Angelina Jolie, college mom Angelina Jolie’s oldest son, Maddox, is off to college now. Maddox turned 18 on August 5. He and his ma are in South Korea this week as she dropped him off on campus at Yonsei University. She and Maddox were seen together in Seoul last November when they spent By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 11:34 am
Music Taylor Swift: albums 1 to 5, v 2.0 Lover, the album, drops tonight. Apparently the video for “Lover”, the song, will drop tonight too. Right now I’m more excited about the video, because of the lyrics, because of all the speculation about Joe Alwyn and their relationship, I’m wondering what Taylor Swift will be showing us, By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 11:03 am
Bad Style Taylor made, but for who? Taylor Swift performed in Central Park this morning on Good Morning America. Lainey will be posting about that soon. Here we focus on her collaboration with Stella McCartney. There comes a time in a very famous woman’s life when she escapes LA (or New York) for a life in By Maria • Aug 22, 2019 10:11 am
Intro for August 22, 2019 Dear Gossips, The celebrity of the week, at least across all my feeds, isn’t an actual person. Can an “issue” become a celebrity? Maybe it’s not even an issue. Can a “sandwich” be an “issue”? Not just any sandwich, but the chicken sandwich. I’m in Canada, and By Lainey • Aug 22, 2019 09:30 am
What Else What Else? I don’t know what’s wrong with me that I didn’t expect that this sh-t would be that dirty, but it is. When money is involved, it’s always f-cking dirty. Dirty enough for sons to turn on mothers or mothers to turn on sons and husbands to By Lainey • Aug 21, 2019 04:28 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: What’s This? August Updates?! You guys know I usually wait and do a giant roundup of name updates. And I will freely confess that I have earlier updates than these still waiting for their day in the sun. But, but, but ... Remember I said that August people were in a class of their own? By Duana • Aug 21, 2019 04:08 pm
