Sebastian Stan Intro for July 31. 2019 Dear Gossips, I would like to talk about snacks. I consider myself an expert on snacks. If you visit this site often, you may be familiar with my passion for Oreos and Cheetos. I have found so many creative ways to incorporate Cheetos and Cheeto dust into my food that By Lainey • Jul 31, 2019 08:41 am
What Else What Else? As we enter the second half of 2019, the Year of the Scam, is it fitting that Woodstock 50 might end up being free? They tried to make it a new generational event. Not unlike how Fyre Fest was supposed to be an event to remember forever. And, in a By Lainey • Jul 30, 2019 04:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews They’re fixing Lord of the Flies Luca Guadagnino continues to not make that Call Me By Your Name sequel as he is in talks to direct an adaptation of Lord of the Flies. This is not the gender-bent version previously announced, but a more traditional take on William Golding’s book. GOOD. A female-led By Sarah • Jul 30, 2019 04:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RBatz is a crusty lighthouse keeper One of the outliers in this year’s Oscar race is The Lighthouse, the sophomore feature film from Robert Eggers. His previous film, The Witch, is a near-masterpiece, but Eggers, like Ari Aster, makes films in the horror tradition, so the Academy blows them off. This year, Eggers’ destined- By Sarah • Jul 30, 2019 04:04 pm
Douchebags Antoine Fuqua is the one who’s married Last week, we saw a messy cheating scandal unfold. Paparazzi caught Nicole Murphy kissing director Antoine Fuqua, husband to actress Lela Rochon, in Italy. We are thirsty in these Black gossip and Twitter streets so we immediately judged the kiss as romantic, and just as quickly as Nicole put out By Melayna • Jul 30, 2019 03:33 pm
TV Updates Kevin Hart is also joining Quibi Earlier, Prem wrote about Sasha Velour’s upcoming show on Quibi, the “bite-sized” streaming platform designed for quick hit entertainment. Whenever Quibi comes up in my social media, there’s a real air of condescension and thinly veiled contempt for it surrounding the news releases. But as Prem pointed By Sarah • Jul 30, 2019 02:59 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 30, 2019 Goop’s trying to tangle with Dr. Jen Gunter, again, but this time it’s through Chief Content Officer Elise Loehnen. In a new interview, Loehnen says that they are “on the same side,” a classic white feminism WOMEN SUPPORTING WOMEN tactic. Dr. Jen Gunter vigorously disputes the same side- By Maria • Jul 30, 2019 02:09 pm
Relationship Assumption Shawn and Camila in the water I wrote yesterday about Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello and how they clearly have no f-cks to give right now about what a heatscore they are together. They’ve been inseparable, she’s joined him on tour, the fans keep finding them, they don’t hide. And now they’ By Lainey • Jul 30, 2019 12:05 pm
TV Updates Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns to Appear on Quibi I love me some provocative, gender-bending art, and someone who consistently delivers that is Sasha Velour, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9. Yesterday, when Deadline announced that Sasha would executive produce an eight episode series on Quibi based on her insanely popular Brooklyn revue, Nightgowns, I was By Prem • Jul 30, 2019 11:08 am
Royals Meghan Markle gets the Michelle Obama treatment British Vogue confirmed yesterday that Meghan Markle is the first ever to guest-edit the magazine’s September issue. They released the cover featuring the 15 women who are “Forces for Change” and Royal Meghan’s interview with Michelle Obama. One of the women featured on the Vogue cover is By Lainey • Jul 30, 2019 10:43 am
Music Intro for July 30, 2019 Dear Gossips, It’s official: Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” has set the record for the most weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts, surpassing Mimi’s “One Sweet Day” and “Despacito” by Luis Fonzi and Daddy Yankee. This is history – and it’s fitting. When I first By Lainey • Jul 30, 2019 09:03 am
What Else What Else? Have you seen Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood yet? There are a LOT of feet shots in the movie because, as we know, Quentin Tarantino has a thing about feet. Armie Hammer is not, as far as I know, in a QT movie and he did not post a By Lainey • Jul 29, 2019 04:24 pm
TV Updates Jodie Comer will kill her creator? Are you caught up yet on Killing Eve? As Duana wrote in her post following the Emmy nominations, we have a few weeks to do our homework, so that we can be informed on Emmy night when we’re yelling at the TV about who got robbed. Sandra Oh is By Lainey • Jul 29, 2019 03:46 pm
TV Updates Veronica Mars Season 4 Review I waited. I wanted to watch all the episodes at once, and without getting spoiled so I was incredibly flattered that there were people who wanted to hear my thoughts, and I thought I’d need to organize my ideas into categories and things. But it turns out there’s By Duana • Jul 29, 2019 03:00 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 29, 2019 There’s another positive story about Princess Eugenie, featuring her mom Sarah Ferguson and mentioning her dad, Prince Andrew, in PEOPLE magazine. The story is about her not being pregnant (in fact, it was Fergie who brought the topic up to reporters at an event). Obviously, there’s a Markle By Maria • Jul 29, 2019 01:44 pm
Relationship Assumption Shawn and Camila are inseparable I just read an article at Billboard featuring Andrew Gertler, Shawn Mendes’s manager, about his career strategy for the next couple of years. It’s work talk, my favourite. For Shawn and his team, the short and long range plan is to position him as a “touring… artist who’ By Lainey • Jul 29, 2019 11:34 am