Sports Intro for February 26, 2020 Dear Gossips, I can’t help it. I love Drake. And not just because he’s from Toronto but because… what else do you want in an entertainer? The Milwaukee Bucks played the Raptors in Toronto last night. The Bucks have been doing a kind of WWE-inspired pre-game By Lainey • Feb 26, 2020 09:20 am
Amazingness Intro for February 25, 2020 Dear Gossips, Did you see that tweet a couple of weeks ago, a marked-up Tom and Jerry essay that looked like it had been posted by an English professor and went viral? Super viral. Teaching my first English course this semester has been rewarding but I don’t know By Lainey • Feb 25, 2020 09:20 am
Royals The Prince Andrew school bus Prince Andrew, who was friends with the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has reportedly not yet cooperated with investigators about Epstein’s crimes, despite insisting in an interview with BBC Newsnight that he’d be willing to participate. This morning in New York, Gloria Allred, who is representing a few By Lainey • Feb 21, 2020 11:05 am
BFFs Lizzo & Harry Styles: The Internet’s New Favourite The BRIT Awards happened in London last night and I’m not talking about anyone else’s fashion other than Lizzo because… LIZZO. Everything Lizzo. All the outfits. But especially when she decided she was a snack. THE snack. Levels, as they say in England. Levels. Lizzo owns all the By Lainey • Feb 19, 2020 03:53 pm
Amazingness Matt Damon’s mullet As noted in the previous post, Ben Affleck is currently promoting The Way Back. When that’s done, he’ll likely return to production on The Last Duel, alongside Matt Damon. It’s scheduled to be released at Christmas which is ambitious. Because Christmas movies are either for the box By Lainey • Feb 19, 2020 11:28 am
Music Mimi just keeps giving It’s five days until Christmas! And our generous Christmas Butterfly just keeps giving! This, after all, is the season of Mimi. Mariah Carey IS Christmas, a fact. As we know, Mimi’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first By Lainey • Dec 20, 2019 10:47 am
Amazingness Intro for December 17, 2019 Dear Gossips, It’s a week to Christmas Eve and…she did it, lambs! She did it! On the 25th anniversary of “All I Want For Christmas Is You”, Mariah Carey has the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 for the VERY FIRST TIME. I mean, of course, the By Lainey • Dec 17, 2019 09:00 am
Cringe Leo dances 2019 Are we celebrating five year milestones today? In the open, I marked the fifth anniversary of Beyoncé attending Taylor Swift’s birthday party. It has also been five years since Leonardo DiCaprio went to Coachella (in 2014) and did this – you remember, don’t you? Total nerd. And it’s By Lainey • Dec 16, 2019 09:06 am
Amazingness The Holiday Spirit with Mimi and Alison The dark side of the Force has been challenging my holiday spirit the last couple of days. But I’ve had an assist from an Angel and a Butterfly. Went to see Celine Dion on Tuesday night and the Queen of All Feelings gave me all the feelings to sustain By Lainey • Dec 12, 2019 03:58 pm
Quiveration The Harry Styles Strategy Guide Harry Styles’ new album called Fine Line comes out tomorrow and I am obsessed, both with Harry and with the album itself. The weird thing is that for me this obsession came out of nowhere, like a wintertime cold where I feel a little hot one day and by next By Prem • Dec 12, 2019 10:43 am
Maple Leaf Intro for December 11, 2019 Dear Gossips, Celine Dion prefers performing with a wired microphone. I’m sure there’s a technical reason for this but also, when she’s using a wired mic, she can swing it around like a lasso and do the mic drop move from one hand to the other and, By Lainey • Dec 11, 2019 10:50 am
Amazingness Intro for December 5, 2019 Dear Gossips, Mariah Carey is Christmas. Mariah Carey is Christmas. I wrote that twice because the first is a statement, a fact. And the second is the title of a new …film?... based on the above fact about the making of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is By Lainey • Dec 05, 2019 09:31 am
Royals Elizabeth Banks and Prince Andrew’s hand We’re going to get to Prince Andrew later – what we’re talking about here, in this post, is the fact Prince Andrew, the beloved second son of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, known for years for his reportedly boorish behaviour and my-sh*t-don’t-stink attitude, has become By Lainey • Nov 25, 2019 09:52 am
Maple Leaf Intro for November 22, 2019 Dear Gossips, “I got us a caramel brulee latte.” This is the line where I lost it and couldn’t recover – have you seen Benny Drama’s take on Shawn Mendes? It’s not just that he nails the imitation, it’s that some of this dialogue is so exactly By Lainey • Nov 22, 2019 09:56 am
Music A Skinny Queen Needs Her Crisps This came out a few days ago. But I got an update yesterday. Let’s start with the main event. Mimi declared last week that it’s officially HER season, Christmas season. “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is already climbing the charts. It has never hit #1. Every By Lainey • Nov 06, 2019 12:13 pm
Douchebags Hero of the Week: Kelly Bachman You may have heard that Harvey Weinstein poked his head above the surface of his slime pool the other day, attending a performance event in New York called Actor’s Hour. At this event, billed as “the first pop-up speakeasy dedicated to artists”, comedian Kelly Bachman threw off her By Sarah • Oct 25, 2019 09:22 am
