Music Intro for February 13, 2017 Dear Gossips, Since the midpoint of last year, I’ve been Gossip Genie-ing for a Grammy collaboration between Beyoncé and Adele. A conventional collaboration did not happen. But could you call what actually did happen a collaboration? In the end, what wasn’t televised is the moment Adele accidentally broke By Lainey • Feb 13, 2017 07:00 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Clooney Twins 2017: the announcement Vox posted an article yesterday after it was confirmed that Amal and George Clooney are expecting twins comparing Amal’s “announcement” to Beyoncé’s, and how each woman’s pregnancy announcement style reflected their respective approaches to celebrity. Many of you have tweeted or emailed me about how Amal and By Lainey • Feb 10, 2017 12:03 pm
BFFs When Gwyneth speaks of the Blessing Gwyneth Paltrow was in New York for Fashion Week yesterday, seated front row at the La Perla show. Gwyneth and La Perla’s creative director, Julia Haart, are collaborators. La Perla is sold on goop. So she was there to fulfill her business obligations, and part of that involved talking By Lainey • Feb 10, 2017 10:39 am
Beyoncé Intro for February 10, 2017 Dear Gossips, We are 48 hours away from the Beyoncé-Adele Grammys. Both Beyoncé and Adele are expected to perform during the show. Reportedly Beyoncé’s performance will feature a few cameos but, come on now, the Avengers she’s growing inside of her are really the only cameos required. When By Lainey • Feb 10, 2017 09:38 am
Douchebags Intro for February 7, 2017 Dear Gossips, I read an article at the New York Times yesterday that enraged me. So, like any good friend, I passed my rage onto Duana right before bedtime and then promptly fell asleep. Didn’t help. When I woke up I was still pissed. The article is about the By Lainey • Feb 07, 2017 09:02 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Beyoncé’s blessing, Ben's admission, and the mothers of superheroes Duana and I had always intended for this week’s episode of Show Your Work to be about Beyoncé, because this weekend was the one year anniversary of Formation. Then, well, Beyoncé released the Beyoncé Pregnancy Package and so, obviously, we had to discuss the rollout of the announcement, and By Lainey • Feb 06, 2017 03:42 pm
Beyoncé Intro for February 3, 2017 Dear Gossips, Are we done talking about Beyoncé yet? When Lemonade came out it was followed by a Lemonade Syllabus. The Pregnancy Package imagery is now being analysed too. Here’s Spencer Kornhaber writing about Beyoncé’s “High Art” for The Atlantic. But today, instead of more reading links, I By Lainey • Feb 03, 2017 09:34 am
BFFs Harry Styles’s overshadowed birthday I received an email yesterday at 12:40pm from a reader called Stephanie: Probably too late for today, but in honor of his birthday, can we get an update or any details on what Harry Styles is up to? It was too late, at the time, but you know what By Lainey • Feb 02, 2017 04:37 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Super Beyoncé? The Super Bowl is happening on Sunday, in case you haven’t heard. The Super Bowl is part football, commercials, and the halftime show. Already many brands have released their Super Bowl commercials online. And the ones who haven’t released the commercials online will release them online 30 seconds By Lainey • Feb 02, 2017 03:09 pm
BFFs Beyoncé and all her friends As well documented, the general public had a meltdown yesterday when Beyoncé gave her blessing. But many celebrities too. Even Brie Larson: NO - YOU ARE CRYING BECAUSE BEYONCÉ IS HAVING TWINS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭— Brie Larson (@brielarson) February 1, 2017 I’ve mentioned this before, that among very famous people, who hang By Lainey • Feb 02, 2017 11:57 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Beyoncé Pregnancy Package Turns out the initial post yesterday … you know, this photo: We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over. We are incredibly grateful that our family will be growing by two, and we thank you for your well wishes. - The Carters A By Lainey • Feb 02, 2017 10:18 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Intro for February 2, 2017 Dear Gossips, What else is there to talk about? This is your official heads up that Beyoncé will be talked about today, A LOT. On the 1st of February, the first day of Black History Month, after weeks of ass and sh-t, Beyoncé came with the light. And there’s By Lainey • Feb 02, 2017 09:28 am
Baby and Bump Obsession BLESSINGS WHY AM I STILL WORKING? We should have taken this entire day off to celebrate and worship! So. As you know, because how could you not know, this happened: We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over. We are incredibly grateful that By Lainey • Feb 01, 2017 05:18 pm
Music Taylor didn’t know Taylor Swift thought today would be a good day to start hyping you up for her upcoming pre-Super Bowl appearance. She’s been pretty low key on social media lately. And this afternoon she posted a video of her and Gigi Hadid hearing I Don’t Wanna Live Forever for By Lainey • Feb 01, 2017 04:08 pm
Beyoncé Miss Tina in the New York Times Did you read the Tina Knowles Lawson profile in the New York Times this weekend? I probably don’t have to say this but Miss Tina, as she likes to be called, is the mother of the Beyoncé and Solange. As noted in the piece, Miss Tina’s daughters “became By Lainey • Jan 23, 2017 03:20 pm
Music Adele is in… and Beyoncé? It was confirmed today that Adele will perform at the Grammys. She’s nominated for 5 awards, including Album of the Year and, well, even though there are other others who are supposedly a factor at the Grammys, my focus on the Grammys is pretty much just Adele. And Beyoncé. By Lainey • Jan 20, 2017 04:54 pm