Douchebags Intro for July 26, 2018 Dear Gossips, I’m sorry to have to do this today but there’s a chance some of you may not have heard about it so we have to talk about Brock Allen Turner, the convicted sex offender. The last time Brock Turner came up in this space, it was By Lainey • Jul 26, 2018 09:44 am
Douchebags Zac Efron on brand On April 3rd, 2017, the LaineyGossip team answered the question “When did Zac Efron go full douche?” By then, Zefron had already been exhibiting douche-y behaviours for years. I called him the “human embodiment of Matthew McConaughey doing yoga shirtless on a beach in 2007.” You know what the hair By Kathleen • Jul 06, 2018 10:59 am
Dumbass Scarlett Johansson doubles down Deadline reported yesterday that Scarlett Johansson and Rupert Sanders are working together again on a film called Rub & Tug, based on the real life story of Dante “Tex” Gill. As The Verge pointed out, “all of the major trades, however, managed to misgender Gill, despite the fact that he By Lainey • Jul 04, 2018 12:05 pm
Dumbass Ryan Coogler saves BET Jamie Foxx did a lot of things wrong last night but his worst offence was a Black Panther parody skit called “Wanda in Wakanda” featuring Michael Blackson. After the atrocity that is this sketch, the only Michael I recognize is Bae Jordan. Jamie Foxx plays Wanda, a warrior enlisted to By Kathleen • Jun 25, 2018 10:59 am
Douchebags Johnny Depp’s nighttime “truths” The cover of this month’s Rolling Stone features Cardi B and Offset. Underneath their headline is a Rolling Stone exclusive, “The Troubled World of Johnny Depp”. The article was published online today. It is over 10,000 words. There was a time when a 10,000 word exclusive interview By Lainey • Jun 21, 2018 01:48 pm
Dumbass Shailene Woodley is now a feminist My favourite thing ever written about Shailene Woodley is Duana's epic post-Emmys takedown of Shailene's audacity to imply that watching television is a waste of time, while at the EMMYS as an actress on a TV show! Is the “I Can’t” nickname up for grabs? By Kathleen • Jun 01, 2018 02:45 pm
Douchebags Johnny Depp’s lizard cologne goes Native I have been extraordinarily patient with Johnny Depp and his interest in Native culture. He may or may not be of Native descent—he’s unsure of his exact heritage—but he has always been sincere and generally respectful in his interest. The Lone Ranger didn’t work, at all, By Sarah • May 30, 2018 11:34 am
Dumbass Timothy Olyphant joins Tarantino’s bad idea In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s apology tour earlier this year, I’ve been revisiting his movies, and it occurred to me, while re-watching Pulp Fiction, that the pitch for that movie would have sounded INSANE. There is no way to describe Pulp Fiction in a few sentences that By Sarah • May 14, 2018 03:08 pm
Dumbass Kanye: what’s next? Unless you’ve been living in a cave with no Wi-Fi for the past week, you know that Kanye’s return to Twitter has been a piping hot mess. Since Kanye tweeted his support for Fox News pundit Candace Owens and doubled down on his admiration of Donald Trump, the By Kathleen • Apr 26, 2018 09:55 am
Douchebags TJ Miller got arrested No, you don’t say! Whoever could have seen it coming? Who could have predicted that this guy would end up in some kind of official trouble? What warning signs did we overlook besides all of them? How could we have seen this totally foreseeable mess arriving right on cue? By Sarah • Apr 11, 2018 09:33 am
Dumbass Intro for March 28, 2018 Dear Gossips, “There is pride to be had where the prejudicial is practiced with precision in the trenchant triage of tactile terminations.” Remind me, if I ever forget, to never alliterate again. That sentence, if you want to call it a sentence, is from Sean Penn’s new book Bob By Lainey • Mar 28, 2018 08:56 am
Baby and Bump Obsession About Ben’s back It was the summer of 2015. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner had just announced their separation. Nanny Chrissy O was part of the conversation. And so was Ben Affleck’s new back tattoo, an enormous, colourful phoenix rising from the ashes. Which Jennifer referenced in her now infamous interview with By Lainey • Mar 19, 2018 01:08 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Intro for February 22, 2018 Dear Gossips, Several times last year I wrote about how it’s become impossible to separate gossip from politics and, in particular, politics from the tabloids. Last summer, The New Yorker published a piece by Jeffrey Toobin about how Donald Trump has benefitted from the National Enquirer’s support. (Harvey By Lainey • Feb 22, 2018 07:57 am
Douchebags Quentin Tarantino apology tour At the beginning of the week, we heard from Uma Thurman about her history of abuse by Harvey Weinstein and, let’s say, reckless endangerment from Quentin Tarantino. It was a perfect combination of a serial predator and tyrannical director combining forces to make sure no part of a woman’ By Sarah • Feb 09, 2018 11:26 am
Douchebags Justin Timberlake: the Prince of Average Remember when Justin Timberlake claimed a few weeks ago that he and Janet Jackson worked things out and that he just never talked about it out of respect for her? Bullsh-t. Yesterday was #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay on social media. And of course it was timed specifically to remind Justin Timberlake that many By Lainey • Feb 05, 2018 11:21 am
Dumbass Gwyneth’s interloper The In goop Health New York summit happened last weekend. Did you hear about Dr Jennifer Gunter MD, FRCS(C), FACOG, DABPM infiltrating the summit? You can read her post here. Sounds like her experience was similar to Sarah’s when Sarah went to the LA summit, only with more By Lainey • Feb 02, 2018 08:54 am
