Royals The Queen Responds to Harry and Meghan As I noted in my previous post about Prince Charles, there was word that Buckingham Palace could be coming out with a statement by EOD addressing what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said during their interview with Oprah Winfrey. Shortly after that article went live, a statement on behalf of By Lainey • Mar 09, 2021 03:11 pm
Equality Issues The Power Of Bachelor Nation Unionization Bachelor Nation has been going through a lot, even though a lot of people are under the assumption that ignorance in the franchise is a new problem after reports of Rachael Kirckonnell’s racist actions came up. Yeah, no. This mess has BEEN around. Before getting into the why the By Anastasia • Feb 17, 2021 02:23 pm
Douchebags Oprah Gets the Meghan Treatment Since Monday, when CBS announced that it will air the 90 minute Oprah Winfrey in conversation with Meghan Markle special on March 7, there’s been a lot of angst about it over in the UK. The tabloids, as usual, are accusing Prince Harry and Meghan of hypocrisy; they’re By Lainey • Feb 17, 2021 11:16 am
Douchebags The Bachelor Franchise Is In Crisis (We are so pleased to welcome Anastasia, the newest writer to join the team. Anastasia is a journalism student and a member of Bachelor Nation. She can be reached on Twitter @annieanokyee and on Instagram @annie.anokye. and by email at anastasia@laineygossip.com.) Anyone who is a huge Bachelor By Anastasia • Feb 16, 2021 11:56 am
Top Reads Charisma Carpenter Outlines On-Set Abuse By Joss Whedon Charisma Carpenter is a great name. In the late 1990s, in what was then called stuff akin to ‘the teen TV boom’, there were many sudden household names, generally the stars of the show or movie (with a subset of three named stars like Chad Michael Murray, Rachael Leigh Cook, By Duana • Feb 11, 2021 03:38 pm
Dumbass More like Cara DONE Over the last decade, Gina Carano successfully segued from a career as an MMA fighter to a career as an actor, finding mainstream success in action movies before hitting the jackpot by landing a role in The Mandalorian, as ex-Rebel soldier Cara Dune. Carano had it made. She was on By Sarah • Feb 11, 2021 11:24 am
Douchebags Everything is FINE with Adam Driver Yesterday, we went over a story from a Portuguese actress named Lidia Franco about alleged “bad behavior” from Adam Driver on the set of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote in 2017. Franco was around 73 at the time. Franco alleged that Driver “assaulted” her with a chair. The interview By Sarah • Feb 04, 2021 09:34 am
Top Reads Adam Driver’s Bad Gossip To date, Adam Driver has been an unexceptional celebrity. Despite starring in one of the world’s biggest franchises last decade, he is capable of disappearing between projects. He might walk out on the occasional interview, but other than that, if we’re talking about Driver, it’s usually in By Sarah • Feb 03, 2021 10:42 am
Douchebags The Royal Name Change F-ckup This weekend, the Sun, which is one of the British tabloids that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are suing, published an article about the change on Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor’s birth certificate. There’s been a lot of controversy about this so let’s break it down. Archie was born By Lainey • Feb 01, 2021 02:20 pm
Top Reads Prince Williams denounces racism If you’re a regular visitor to this site, you may have read a post or two about how I am married to an English Premier League fanatic. Jacek is Canadian and hockey is not his favourite sport. Over the last decade or so, football or soccer (depending on where By Lainey • Feb 01, 2021 01:36 pm
Douchebags Armie Hammer: Another Bad Week January 2021 has not been Armie Hammer’s best month. Pretty sure you don’t need a refresher on why but just in case, you can revisit Maria’s posts about it here, here, and here. Basically it’s been alleged through leaked messages he supposedly exchanged with former lovers By Lainey • Jan 29, 2021 01:20 pm
Star Wars The Return of Toxic Fandom and #IStandWithKrystina Over the weekend you may have noticed a hashtag trending, #IStandWithKrystina, and wondered, “Is this some Star Wars sh-t?” The answer is yes, it is some Star Wars sh-t as the most infamous toxic fandom in the land reared its ugly head once again, this time coming for actor, table-top By Sarah • Jan 26, 2021 10:26 am
Top Reads Dropping the Hammer I didn’t choose the Armie Hammer life, the Armie Hammer life chose me. This is my third post on him in a week (catch up here and here) and who would have ever thought it would come to this? Certainly not me, but here we are. The latest development By Maria • Jan 14, 2021 11:40 am
Top Reads 50 Shades of Armand Last night, Lainey texted me about writing a followup on Armie Hammer’s DMs (catch up on my first piece here) and I had to ask her what was new. She sent me a link on the cannibalism DMs and I was like oh ya, I read about him wanting By Maria • Jan 13, 2021 12:34 pm
Douchebags It’s Hammer Time There were two lanes on social media on Sunday: processing the events that led to an attempted coup in the world’s most powerful nation and Armie Hammer’s alleged DMs. I will be in the Armand express lane. If you saw “the Michael Phelps of f-cking” on Twitter and By Maria • Jan 11, 2021 11:25 am
Douchebags A Disgraced Pastor and His Lonely Abs One of the most notable celebrity scandals of the year was the fall of Pastor to the Stars, Carl Lentz, formerly of Hillsong Church. Not sure if anyone was shocked? Carl’s drama was actually the second high-profile church leader sex scandal of the year. I was too lazy this By Lainey • Dec 07, 2020 09:22 am
