Books Intro for June 10, 2024 Dear Gossips, We have the honour today to be the first to reveal the cover of Elizabeth Renzetti’s upcoming book, What She Said: Conversations About Equality. Elizabeth is one of the most respected journalists working in Canada, a two-time Landsberg Award winner for her reporting on gender equality. By Lainey • Jun 10, 2024 09:32 am
Books Intro for May 28, 2024 Dear Gossips, It’s beach read season and there are few novelists right now who are better at giving beach read than Kevin Kwan whose new book, Lies and Weddings, was just released last week. You know the style if you’ve read the Crazy Rich Asians series. Yes, of By Lainey • May 28, 2024 10:07 am
Amazingness Ronda Rousey’s most badass move Ronda Rousey has had a storied career. She’s an Olympian, she’s held countless UFC titles. She’s in the UFC Hall of Fame. She’s a first-class athlete, a legend in her sport… but for me, in my personal opinion, her most badass move has been out By Lainey • May 03, 2024 01:57 pm
TV Updates Britney: The TV Series? Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me, was released last Tuesday and has been a smash hit. People are reading the book, listening to the book, talking about the book, meme-ing details from the book… We can’t get enough of the book. Which is why Hollywood wants By Lainey • Nov 01, 2023 10:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me, releases today and, as mentioned last week in my post when allllll the revelations started coming out, I’d like to read it front to back for context, to really get a sense of how these recollections fit into the By Lainey • Oct 24, 2023 09:53 am
Break Ups Don't forget about John Stamos's memoir John Stamos is opening up about his and Rebecca Romijn’s early 2000s divorce ahead of the release of his memoir, If You Would Have Told Me. The memoir features a very candid recounting of the ups and downs of their marriage. In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE, he tells By Stephanie • Oct 20, 2023 01:47 pm
Books A Justin Timberlake Conspiracy Theory It hasn’t been a good week for Justin Timberlake. Britney Spears’s book is about to come out – and the excerpts haven’t been kind to him. So he’s getting clowned all over social media as people have been revisiting her old songs, her videos, his old interviews… By Lainey • Oct 19, 2023 11:40 am
Douchebags Justin Timberlake on blast The biggest entertainment story yesterday, by far, was the reveal from Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me – that she got pregnant when she was 18 and dating Justin Timberlake, and had an abortion in late 2000. TMZ is now reporting that the JT section of the book will By Lainey • Oct 18, 2023 12:17 pm
Books Britney’s First Bombshell Britney Spears’s memoir, The Woman in Me, releases next Tuesday and the anticipation over what, exactly, she’ll reveal in the book has been building for weeks. PEOPLE has been releasing advance excerpts but they were scooped today by TMZ breaking the story: that Britney got pregnant when she By Lainey • Oct 17, 2023 03:19 pm
Amazingness Intro for September 28, 2023 Dear Gossips, Julia Fox’s memoir, Down the Drain, releases next Tuesday so she’s currently on her book tour. Look what she wore to promote it on Good Morning America. She kills me. I actually love this outfit, it might be my favourite look of hers because it’s By Lainey • Sep 28, 2023 09:21 am
Books Kerry Washington shares her abortion story Kerry Washington is currently promoting her memoir, Thicker Than Water, which came out today. Excerpts and other details have been making headlines over the last few days but I want to talk about her abortion story. Of the decision to include this in the book, Kerry tells PEOPLE: "I By Lainey • Sep 25, 2023 01:12 pm
Music The BTS Barbie Crossover I just gloated about this during our morning meeting at The Social – the BTS fanbase, aka ARMY, is so desirable to marketers that even the Barbie press tour is trying to engage them. And that’s why Ryan Gosling is trying to talk to Jimin. Ryan gosling send a message By Lainey • Jul 20, 2023 11:34 am
Exclusives Intro for June 27, 2023 Dear Gossips, In my work on television I try to talk about my period as often as I can. I do this because I am a person who menstruates and for those of us who menstruate, we’re dealing with this for at least five days out of every month. By Lainey • Jun 27, 2023 09:30 am
TV Updates Intro for June 16, 2023 Dear Gossips, Veteran television critic and entertainment journalist Maureen Ryan published a show biz book this month, Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood. It is at once an intimate portrait of the power discrepancies, discrimination, abuse, and toxicity behind the scenes of some of By Sarah • Jun 16, 2023 08:54 am
Sex & the City SJP Lit Sarah Jessica Parker has been in the headlines recently because of the (brief) return of Kim Cattrall to the Sex and the City universe. But it’s also the 25th anniversary of the show and she’s been doing some events to mark the milestone which does feel a little By Lainey • Jun 08, 2023 01:38 pm
Books Intro for June 1, 2023 Dear Gossips, Elliot Page’s memoir, Pageboy, will be released next Tuesday, June 6. When he revealed the cover back in December, Elliot shared on Instagram that books helped him in his lowest moments, when he was confused and scared, and although he’s often in the past thought about By Lainey • Jun 01, 2023 08:46 am