Dumbass Intro for January 10, 2022 Dear Gossips, My entertainment priority last night was Euphoria, so I totally forgot that the Golden Globes were happening – and by happening, they were not televised or streamed, but the winners were announced via live tweets, which turned out to be a mess. “Chaotic mess” is 100% on brand with By Lainey • Jan 10, 2022 09:01 am
TV Updates Brace yourself for Tiger King 2 Tiger King is unquestionably one of the biggest hits of 2020, benefitting from both the true crime moment in pop culture, and its arrival on Netflix just as the first wave of COVID sent everyone home last spring. It succeeds in being a “wait WHAT” true crime documentary with more By Sarah • Oct 28, 2021 01:05 pm
Douchebags Jesy Nelson, Blackfishing, And Why it Needs to Stop There has been lots of chatter around former Little Mix member, Jesy Nelson, after her first single as a solo artist came out on Friday. After the song and music video for “Boyz”, featuring Nicki Minaj, dropped, conversations around blackfishing, cultural appropriation, and fetishizing started, but these conversations are some By Anastasia • Oct 15, 2021 12:59 pm
Dumbass Intro for September 15, 2021 Dear Gossips, Met Gala hangover. For those of us who were covering the Met Gala and the VMAs before that and TIFF before that…yes. For the people who were actually at the Met Gala? Never. They partied again, last night. That includes Rihanna, who hosted her own Met Gala By Lainey • Sep 15, 2021 09:19 am
Dumbass Prince Charles, Climate Change, and the Invisible Contract Prince Charles has long been a champion for the environment, calling for climate conscientiousness long before it was a major headline. So the fact that the future king of England has written an essay calling on business leaders to be more responsible with the planet and our resources is not By Lainey • Aug 23, 2021 02:29 pm
Dumbass Prince William’s Black Friend If you are a public relations and/or crisis management specialist, and I know you’re out there because I’ve been hearing from a lot of you these days, heads up that you might want to, well, smash your head into your keyboard if you haven’t seen this By Lainey • Mar 22, 2021 11:39 am
Douchebags The Talk Unravels in Real Time We are seeing talk show The Talk unravel in real time. It might not be a bad thing; I think it’s good for talk TV in general and good for the public to see what happens when white fragility is accepted, centered, and in this case, upheld. Of course, By Melayna • Mar 16, 2021 11:15 am
Dumbass Gwyneth Paltrow: The #1 Masker Gwyneth Paltrow was featured in The New York Times the other day to promote goop vibrators. She actually brings up some good points – we’re alone a lot more now, and female sexuality has been stigmatised for so long, and sexual health should be a priority. Also, it’s true, By Lainey • Feb 22, 2021 09:37 am
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
Famewhores Midnight in the Garden of DMs and Thirst Traps Last night Lainey texted me about the Alex Rodriguez story and I jumped on it because I’m quite certain I am the only on Team LG who watches Southern Charm. Usually this is part where I’d express some shame and embarrassment about watching this trash but I will By Maria • Feb 04, 2021 10:28 am
Royals Will and Kate: The Train Must Go On Back in December, when COVID-19 cases were surging in the UK (which was a prelude to what we’re seeing there now with beyond-alarming case numbers and hospitals overwhelmed) and people were being advised to stay home and stop the spread, Prince William and Catherine embarked on a train tour By Lainey • Jan 12, 2021 01:42 pm
Dumbass Drag Race Drama: Dragdemic We’re only on Day 7 of the new year, and I’m already looking forward to 2022. If, like me, you’ve been continuously doom-scrolling through Twitter, you may have witnessed some simmering tensions in the Drag Race fandom. In case you missed it, here’s the breakdown: Unfortunately, By Prem • Jan 07, 2021 12:27 pm
Dumbass Cardi B and Celebrity Thanksgiving Thirst Last week on the Show Your Work podcast, Duana and I talked about Cardi B and how she answered those who were dragging her for being named Billboard’s Woman of the Year. At one point during the show, we noted that just because we loved how Cardi clapped back By Lainey • Nov 30, 2020 03:15 pm
Dumbass Justin Bieber Has a Category Question Well this, this is a RICH. The big news in entertainment today is the Grammy nominations. I posted some quick thoughts about it earlier, specifically focusing on the biggest snub of the year: The Weeknd’s album, After Hours, and all of its hits – there are several of them, and By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 04:04 pm
Music The COVID-ness of the CMAs Every award show over the last many months, since the start of the pandemic in North America, has been about pre-taped segments, no audience, and using as much tech as possible to go live to people where they are instead of gathering all together in one place and risking further By Lainey • Nov 12, 2020 10:38 am
Royals Prince William’s Coronavirus Secret The secret here is that he had coronavirus and it’s only just being revealed now. Yesterday the Sun reported that Prince William had a bad case of COVID-19 back in April and “struggled to breathe”. Apparently he told someone at a public engagement recently even though it was never By Lainey • Nov 02, 2020 09:26 am
