TV Updates Intro for April 12, 2019 Dear Gossips, There is so much to watch this weekend. Of course the big watch is the return of Game of Thrones, beginning its six-episode run to the end. But that’s not until Sunday night (9pm on Crave in Canada). Tonight Kathleen and I are seeing Little, starring Regina By Lainey • Apr 12, 2019 08:48 am
Game of Thrones Show Your Work: The want and the need of Game of Thrones But first… We spend the first few minutes of this latest episode of Show Your Work stressing over #BeyoncéHomecoming. This is a Beyoncé documentary by Beyoncé about the work of Beyoncé. This is pretty much why our podcast even exists. So, of course, we will be dedicating a special episode By Lainey • Apr 10, 2019 12:49 pm
Music Beyoncé’s Homecoming Coachella is this weekend and next. Which means it’s the first anniversary of Beychella now known as Homecoming. Homecoming, usually, is in the fall. Beyoncé’s basically trying to change the calendar. Great. My calendar has been changed and marked: April 17th, Netflix made the announcement this weekend: pic. By Lainey • Apr 08, 2019 11:30 am
Celebrity Lifestyle Brands Intro for April 5, 2019 Dear Gossips, Beyoncé’s favourite number is 4. Yesterday April 4, 4/4, was also the Carters’ wedding anniversary. She celebrated by making a major announcement: a creative partnership with adidas, what she called the “partnership of a lifetime”, and what the New York Times said is “perhaps the most By Lainey • Apr 05, 2019 08:33 am
Music Beyoncé: Entertainer of the Year Beyoncé went to Beychella last year and basically changed the name of the festival. Then she and Jay-Z, the Carters, released an album, Everything is Love. After that they went on tour. At the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday, Jay received the President’s Award and Beyoncé was named Entertainer By Lainey • Apr 01, 2019 11:27 am
BFFs Gwyneth was there too When Gwyneth Paltrow was announced as one of the presenters at the GLAAD Media Awards earlier this week, many people assumed that she’d be presenting to Beyoncé and Jay-Z. They’re friends – but it’s been a while since we’ve seen evidence of that friendship. Gwyneth was indeed By Lainey • Mar 29, 2019 10:55 am
Top Reads The Carters honoured at GLAAD Our Queen and her husband were honoured last night with the Vanguard Award at the GLAAD Media Awards last night. Janet Mock, HIV activist Morris Singletary, Lena Waithe, and Ty Hunter, who’s worked with Beyoncé since 1999, when she and Miss Janet met him at a mall and invited By Lainey • Mar 29, 2019 09:49 am
Music Intro for March 28, 2019 Dear Gossips, Last Friday, Adele showed up in New York at a gay bar with Jennifer Lawrence. When I wrote about that earlier this week I wondered if she was just in town for her friend Jen, or whether or not there was work to do. Well, here she is, By Lainey • Mar 28, 2019 09:00 am
Amazingness Beyoncé passes the mic Beyoncé is Beyoncé. And because Beyoncé is Beyoncé, she can hold on to the mic for as long as she wants. There are few people Beyoncé has to take the mic for and pass the mic to. One of those people would be Diana Ross. Diana Ross performing her own By Lainey • Mar 27, 2019 11:27 am
Tiffany Haddish The Gold Party guest list As I mentioned in the open, the Vanity Fair Oscar party can still draw an impressive list of stars. Beyoncé and Jay Z’s now annual Gold Party, in its second year, held in the Chateau Marmont parking lot, brings in even bigger names. And many of those big names By Lainey • Feb 26, 2019 11:19 am
Business of Hollywood Beyoncé & Jay-Z’s Gold Party As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Roc Nation’s annual Grammys brunch has become one of the most well-attended events on Grammys weekend, perhaps THE most well-attended event, especially this year since the Grammys seemed lighter on megastar power than in years past. The brunch serves multiple purposes. First, By Lainey • Feb 22, 2019 04:08 pm
Amazingness Beyoncé and Royal Meghan: Queen recognises Queen Well this broke the internet, didn’t it? It certainly broke my internet. Not to make it all about me but I think this might be the most retweeted and liked tweet I’ve ever posted. If it isn’t (I don’t know how to check those stats), it’ By Lainey • Feb 21, 2019 11:29 am
BFFs Beyoncé is her own Grammys Remember the story that Lin-Manual Miranda told about the time Beyoncé came to see Hamilton and what happened when she met Jonathan Groff backstage? She loved his performance. And in particular she loved Jonathan’s King George walk, so much that she imitated him to him, telling him that, “You By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 07:21 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for February 1, 2019 Dear Gossips, By the time most of you read this, I’ll have gotten a haircut. Taking an inch off this morning ahead of the Lunar New Year, per tradition – you cut away the old year and get ready for the growth of the new year. Haircuts are hard for By Lainey • Feb 01, 2019 08:57 am
Gossip Nostalgia Hollywood Sliding Doors: Beyoncé Rolling Stone published an interview with Michael Caine yesterday that hasn’t yet been widely covered, probably because social media isn’t all that interested in Michael Caine (and many people might not care for his political and social views) but there is an anecdote in there that might pick By Lainey • Jan 24, 2019 11:08 am
Beyoncé Intro for December 28, 2018 Dear Gossips, It’s almost the end of the year…and we still don’t know who’s hosting the Oscars, which is happening in less than two months. Could be because it’s slow right now, and the Academy is holding back on the announcement until next week, when By Lainey • Dec 28, 2018 10:26 am
