Lifestyle Duana Names: Name Habits of Secret Book Nerds Hi Duana! We're getting close to the due date and I can no longer tell if something I thought was too gimmicky actually isn't, or if it's just the pressure of not having a name that's making me fuzzy. I need some By Duana • Apr 24, 2019 04:31 pm
What Else What Else? PLEASE! Please let this happen. If *NSYNC launches a comeback without that ringletted pipsqueak, please, can we come together, and make it a mission, give it our all, and turn it into a smash success? LET’S DO THIS. And not just out of spite – but because JC should get By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 04:18 pm
Music Beyoncé’s Challenge By now you’ve watched Homecoming on Netflix, right? And if you didn’t catch the livestream last year, now you know. Well, we all knew. But that’s what Beyoncé does – she lets you think you know, and then she lets you know that you didn’t actually know By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 03:13 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, April 24, 2019 Many male comedians have been lamenting that they have been stifled by “PC culture” and that they can’t make jokes anymore because the social justice warriors are out to get them. This weekend I caught up on Veep and off the top of my head, they touched on mass By Maria • Apr 24, 2019 02:18 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work MASTER CLASS: Taylor Jenkins Reid By now you’ve heard about Daisy Jones & The Six, the sixth book from author Taylor Jenkins Reid, either because of its six weeks and counting on the NYT bestseller list, or because it’s currently being adapted into an Amazon limited series by Reese Witherspoon, or because yes, By Duana • Apr 24, 2019 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Avengers have made their mark Avengers: Endgame opens in two days and I CAN’T WAIT TO TALK ABOUT IT. Infinity War was not a movie I felt compelled to discuss after the fact, but oh boy are we going to be talking about Endgame. One reason to talk about it is that this is By Sarah • Apr 24, 2019 12:54 pm
Bad Style Taylor & the Khaleesi Have you noticed that while everyone on Game of Thrones calls Daenerys “Your Grace” except for f-cking Jorah Mormont who’s still going around calling her “Khaleesi”? (Even Jon Snow, in public, calls her “Your Grace”.) I don’t know the official reason for it but my read is that By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 12:07 pm
Chris Martin Did Chris Martin take this picture? Maria mentions Derek Blasberg often in her Celebrity Social Media posts. He’s the Truman Capote of our time – only there’s no way he’ll sabotage his celebrity friendships with a barely-veiled story outing all their secrets. Derek celebrated his birthday a couple of days ago. And Gwyneth Paltrow By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 10:53 am
Equality Issues Sandra & Beyoncé Sandra Oh was honoured last night at the TIME 100. She’s on one of the magazine’s covers, making the list of the world’s most influential people in the “Pioneer” category. We disagree on many things in these times. But Sandra Oh, I think, is someone who is By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 10:16 am
Books Intro for April 24, 2019 Dear Gossips, This is what surprised me yesterday: Robyn Crawford has written a book about her time with Whitney Houston. A Song For You: My Life With Whitney Houston is due out in the fall. If you followed Whitney’s life and career, you now who Robyn is – in that By Lainey • Apr 24, 2019 09:40 am
What Else What Else? If you’ve ever been to Hong Kong and Japan, you’re probably familiar with the fast food culture. Like, you know how you have to be pretty desperate to go near the “hot food” section at the 7-Eleven? In Hong Kong though? The hot food, the packaged food, all By Lainey • Apr 23, 2019 05:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sebastian Stan’s runner up blue Even though Bucky is, technically, a pile of dust, Sebastian Stan turned up at the Avengers: Endgame premiere. His blue suit is runner up to Taika Waititi’s on my favorite looks of the night roster. The two suits are similar in tone, but Taika’s is definitely lilac, and By Sarah • Apr 23, 2019 05:01 pm
Taylor Swift’s pastel countdown Taylor Swift was spotted a couple of times in New York yesterday – first heading into her apartment in florals and sneakers and then later at Gigi Hadid’s birthday party in florals again and a rose-ish coloured blazer. It’s consistent with the pastels we’ve been seeing during this By Lainey • Apr 23, 2019 04:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Avengers Prom King ….graduates? POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT ALTHOUGH I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WOULD LET IT BE A SPOILER?! They’re calling it Endgame, and most of them are talking like it’s the end of the game in other ways and this is why there’s so much speculation about which Avengers By Lainey • Apr 23, 2019 03:14 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, April 23, 2019 Someone threw a lemon at Ariana while she was onstage at Coachella, which is insane! Do you know what this woman has been through? The fact that she can still perform is amazing so whoever paid money to go to Coachella to throw a lemon at her needs some karmic By Maria • Apr 23, 2019 01:54 pm
Does anyone have more fun than Taika? Rhetorical question, the answer is “no”. Taika Waititi was also at the Avengers: Endgame premiere, in a lilac suit. He is in second place for my favorite suit of the night. I love this shade of lilac, he looks as good as ever, and would you believe it, he actually By Sarah • Apr 23, 2019 12:39 pm