Relationship Assumption Angelina and The Weeknd: Just questions no answers A friend of mine texted me last night – are Angelina and The Weeknd really dating?! That’s the question, and nobody knows. They were out for dinner together a couple of weeks ago. This past weekend they were at a private show together, only 500 people or so were there, By Lainey • Jul 14, 2021 09:40 am
Maple Leaf Angelina & The Weeknd: Week Two? Just before the Independence Day long weekend, Angelina Jolie and The Weeknd were seen leaving Giorgio Baldi, not together, but around the same time. And according to the paps, they were having dinner together. That was never officially confirmed and it’s not like the restaurant came out and was By Lainey • Jul 12, 2021 10:54 am
Relationship Assumption Angelina…and Abel?! Last Wednesday, Angelina Jolie and Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, were papped leaving Giorgio Baldi separately, but right after the other, and it’s been confirmed that they were having dinner together. When two beautiful and famous people have dinner together, the assumption, always, is that it was more than By Lainey • Jul 05, 2021 10:52 am
Abel Tesfaye The Weeknd, The Idol, The Actor Really interesting news about The Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, who we all know, of course, as a musician, but it’s just been reported that he’s getting into television. Per Deadline: “The Weeknd will try his hand at acting with a drama series from Sam Levinson in development at By Lainey • Jun 30, 2021 12:29 pm
Music Intro for May 28, 2021 Dear Gossips, The iHeartRadio Music Awards were last night and it was The Weeknd and BTS leading the way with the most wins. BTS took the named Best Music Video, Best Fan Army, and Favourite Choreography. So it’s been a big week for the band, because they’ve once By Lainey • May 28, 2021 09:13 am
Music Drake’s Stadium Party When I last posted about Drake, it was on Thursday, ahead of Drake receiving the Billboard Artist of the Decade award on Sunday night. He had his whole crew on stage with him (“started from the bottom now we’re here”) and his parents, and he brought out his son By Lainey • May 25, 2021 01:43 pm
Music The Weeknd and Ariana Grande Are Back I was SO excited when I heard that The Weeknd was dropping a remix of “Save Your Tears” with Ariana Grande. The song came out early this morning and just as expected, it is amazing. Here’s the music video! The original “Save Your Tears” from his album After Hours By Anastasia • Apr 23, 2021 09:23 am
Abel Tesfaye Intro for March 12, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Grammys are happening on Sunday and I’m excited about the show itself, about how they’re going to pull it off, or not. In all the promotion leading up to the event, show producers have gone out of their way to make it clear they’ve By Lainey • Mar 12, 2021 09:13 am
Maple Leaf Super Bowl Weeknd The moment The Weeknd opened his mouth to scream “Tampa Bay,” as he kicked off his Super Bowl LV halftime performance, I thought to myself, I wonder who’s responsible for his audio levels because they’re about to lose their job. As he sung the first few bars of By Cody • Feb 08, 2021 09:43 am
Music The Weeknd’s Super Bowl Storytelling It’s been years since I’ve really been invested in the part of the Super Bowl that is about football. For me, the Super Bowl is the commercials and also the halftime show. This will be the second halftime show produced by Jay-Z after his creative partnership with the By Lainey • Feb 05, 2021 10:18 am
Music The Weeknd’s Had Work done Have you seen The Weeknd’s new music video? I ask because he debuted a bonkers post-plastic surgery look. There’s a new chiseled (literally!) jawline, cheek implants, crooked results of a nose job, fillers everywhere. It’s like watching an episode of Botched. I’m fascinated by bad cosmetic By Cody • Jan 06, 2021 10:36 am
Music The Weeknd: War on the Grammys Why do we keep seeing the music industry’s biggest honour sh-tting on the music industry’s biggest artists? We’re not just talking Grammy nomination snubs here. We’re talking about the Recording Academy allegedly mudslinging behind closed doors. This year it’s The Weeknd’s turn to take By Cody • Nov 25, 2020 10:12 am
Music Beyoncé Leads the Grammy Nominations The Grammy nominations were just announced today. Beyoncé received the most nominations with nine for “Black Parade”, “Savage” with Megan Thee Stallion, and “Brown Skin Girl”. And she wasn’t even trying. That’s not to say she doesn’t try with her music – obviously, no one works harder than By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 02:32 pm
Music Intro for August 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, A lot of new music today. And the gossip timing of some of these releases! As you may have heard, BLACKPINK dropped “Ice Cream” featuring Selena Gomez last night, the second single off the first full-length album of their career, coming in October. We’ll get to “Ice By Lainey • Aug 28, 2020 08:59 am
Maple Leaf The Weeknd is a chatterbox? Many things come to mind when I think of The Weeknd: vocals… iconic hair… elusive… Canadian! I don’t, however, think of him as somebody who’d want to talk for hours. But apparently, I am mistaken. The singer recently spoke to Variety for a piece they called The Weeknd By Cody • Jul 02, 2020 09:21 am
Equality Issues Abel, Drake, and Showing the Receipts When we think of the expression, “show the receipts”, especially online, it often refers to gossip evidence. This week it’s taken on a different meaning. A better meaning. While some celebrities have been called out for the amount of their donations to Black Lives Matter related organisations, including bail-out By Lainey • Jun 02, 2020 09:49 am