Equality Issues Abel, Drake, and Showing the Receipts When we think of the expression, “show the receipts”, especially online, it often refers to gossip evidence. This week it’s taken on a different meaning. A better meaning. While some celebrities have been called out for the amount of their donations to Black Lives Matter related organisations, including bail-out By Lainey • Jun 02, 2020 09:49 am
Maple Leaf Drake stayed for the lake (but Justin didn’t) By now we all know about Drake’s Toronto home, right? He calls it The Embassy and it was featured recently in Architectural Digest. After the spread in AD, there were all kinds of other stories about the extravagance of Drake’s … palace. From the bed, which cost several hundreds By Lainey • May 25, 2020 03:17 pm
Music Intro for May 1, 2020 Dear Gossips, Drake was productive before the pandemic lockdown. So it’s not surprising that he continues to be productive now that there are no parties to fly to, no basketball games to fly to, no impromptu holidays to fly to. This might be the longest stretch that Drake’s By Lainey • May 01, 2020 08:38 am
Maple Leaf Intro for April 27, 2020 Dear Gossips, Canada’s frontline workers were honoured last night during a historic broadcast, #StrongerTogether #TousEnsemble, across all major networks last night featuring some of our country’s greatest talent in support of Food Banks Canada. It was announced early in the day that Drake would be closing out the By Lainey • Apr 27, 2020 08:49 am
Drake Drake Fly on Air Drake I wrote yesterday about the All In Challenge in a post about Justin Bieber. Justin’s offering to come to your place to sing “One Less Lonely Girl” at you for a donation. I said I would enter for Sasha since they style-share so that she could be a little By Lainey • Apr 16, 2020 02:33 pm
Music Drake’s new record sets a record Well, this shouldn’t be a surprise. Drake knows how to capitalise on social media almost better than anyone else, with the exception of maybe BTS, in ordinary times so he obviously knows how to take advantage of it right now, when everyone’s on lockdown and on their devices By Lainey • Apr 14, 2020 02:51 pm
Maple Leaf Chateau Drake Well he and OVO call it The Embassy and it’s featured in the new issue of Architectural Digest. The Embassy is Drake’s Toronto… mansion? Estate? That’s why I called it a “chateau” in the title. Because mansion and estate don’t seem extra enough for what we’ By Lainey • Apr 08, 2020 11:18 am
Music Drake’s new dance There is no other celebrity who can manipulate social media as well as Drake. Drake’s superpower is social media. He makes himself available to be memed. He knows what will get him trending. When he plays video games he goes viral. And even when it’s not his intention By Lainey • Apr 03, 2020 09:32 am
Maple Leaf Meet Adonis Graham Drake must have had a hard time sleeping last night. Because at around 5am ET, and he’s been in Toronto since the start of isolation, he decided it was time to introduce us to his son, Adonis. And he included a photo of Adonis’s mother, Sophie Brussaux. View By Lainey • Mar 30, 2020 09:50 am
Top Reads Drake and Rihanna’s SD Flirting Celebrities are really coming through for us during lockdown, aren’t they? They’re doing chain-songs and giving us cringe, they’re resuscitating old beefs that no one was asking for, they’re giving us confessionals from their bathtubs, they’re falling in love, they’re reading to us, they’ By Lainey • Mar 25, 2020 10:47 am
Maple Leaf Intro for March 18, 2020 Dear Gossips, I haven’t stepped outside my home since Saturday. Maybe today I’ll go for a walk, while maintaining a three meters or six feet distance from the next person, with the exception of my husband and our dogs. This seems ridiculous, of course, in normal times. But By Lainey • Mar 18, 2020 09:46 am
Jock Smut 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 routine. Given By Lainey • Feb 26, 2020 09:20 am
Relationship Assumption Rihanna: Drake or Rocky? It was reported late last week that after three years, Rihanna and Hassan Jameel had broken up. Rihanna spent time with Hassan and his family. She spent time with him in London. She mentioned him in interviews – not extensively but she did acknowledge that she had a “boyfriend” and seemed By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 03:55 pm
BFFs Adele is Drake’s birthday present It was Drake’s birthday yesterday. He’s been celebrating all week. I have no issues with this. I’m a birthday whore too. My birthday was a month ago and I’m still trying to squeeze out every last ounce of juice from it. Drake was feeling pretty sentimental By Lainey • Oct 25, 2019 10:49 am
Ex Games Drake & Rihanna: “God’s Plan” During Rihanna’s “Go Ask Anna” segment for Vogue recently, Anna Wintour asked her if she planned to have a baby soon. Rihanna’s response: “God’s plan”. And our eyebrows went up. (You can watch it here, around the 3:05 mark.) As we allllllll know, Rihanna and Drake By Lainey • Oct 23, 2019 09:20 am
Top Reads What Drake and Meghan have in common Thirsty dads! There are a lot of people out there who hold it against Meghan Markle that she has a sh-tty relationship with her father, Thomas. Like she should forgive him simply because “family comes first”. Family SHOULD come first. But then again, life doesn’t always work the way By Lainey • Oct 09, 2019 09:16 am
