Equality Issues Intro for June 2, 2020 Dear Gossips, Black Lives Matter was founded in 2013 by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi because Trayvon Martin was murdered but justice was not served. Today is Blackout Tuesday, an initiative conceived by Brianna Agyemang and Jamila Thomas, two Black women in music, calling for the music industry By Lainey • Jun 02, 2020 09:00 am
TV Live Blog Issa celebrates Black life On Sundays we watch Insecure, a show that celebrates Black life, Black love, and Black excellence. But if you’re Issa Rae, and Black people are on the streets protesting injustice, protesting racism, fighting for their lives, how do you promote your television show while honouring and respecting the cause? By Lainey • Jun 01, 2020 01:25 pm
Equality Issues Blake Lively’s “bias, blindness”, and donation As I wrote in today’s open, in order to end racism and push for a more just and equal society, white people and non-black people of colour have to pull up. We can begin by acknowledging our mistakes and understanding that we’ve been shaped by institutionalised and systemic By Lainey • Jun 01, 2020 10:35 am
Equality Issues Beyoncé & Jay-Z call for action Beyoncé posted a video on Instagram this weekend encouraging her followers to sign one or all of the petitions being circulated demanding justice for George Floyd. The petitions can be accessed through her website. Beyoncé, as we know, has been supporting front line workers during the pandemic and has donated By Lainey • Jun 01, 2020 10:02 am
Equality Issues Intro for May 29, 2020 Dear Gossips, Yesterday on The Social, our friend Tyrone Edwards joined us to talk about mental health. What followed was a personal and powerful expression of grief and anger as he shared his fears and frustration about the racism and the violence Black people continue to experience. Here’s a By Lainey • May 29, 2020 09:13 am
TV Updates New Trailer for Love, Victor It’s been over two years since Love, Simon came out (get it?), a time when adult gay men all cried in the theatre because our collective mom, Jennifer Garner, told us all that we could all exhale. Let’s just re-watch this clip because I think we could all By Prem • May 28, 2020 10:25 am
Hair Dwyane and Zaya’s Red Hair I’ve considered dyeing my hair in quarantine. I’ve always wanted to, but now if it looks terrible, I don’t have to see anyone, and there won’t be any evidence of it. Dwyane Wade apparently has the opposite idea since he’s been documenting his hairformation on By Prem • May 26, 2020 01:18 pm
Equality Issues Lana Del Rey’s Glamorous Drama As I wrote a couple of months ago when she and Sean Larkin broke up, I was never a Lana Del Rey believer until Norman F-cking Rockwell. That album is her masterpiece and it ruled the back half of 2019 for me. So I’m excited that Lana’s just By Lainey • May 21, 2020 12:37 pm
Equality Issues Entertainment Weekly’s Pride Cover June is Pride month. And while many of the parades and celebrations have been cancelled due to COVID-19 (and corporations can breathe a sigh of relief because they can stop pretending like they care), Entertainment Weekly’s June issue is dedicated to LGBTQ+ artists that have played a central role By Prem • May 14, 2020 12:58 pm
Equality Issues Intro for May 12, 2020 Dear Gossips, There’s an added layer of pain-in-the-assness when celebrities f-ck up and that’s because writing about their f-ckups requires more work and thought put into an essay when you could be using that energy for something else. Like a book idea or your next pitch. Today I By Lainey • May 12, 2020 08:49 am
Equality Issues Issa Rae wants to be The One Issa Rae covers the June 2020 issue of Cosmopolitan and it’s Ira Madison III who interviews her so everyone else better come correct with their June magazine offerings because how are you going to top this? Issa is currently promoting … well… SO much. Insecure Season 4 is currently in By Lainey • May 07, 2020 02:39 pm
Business of Hollywood Hilarie Burton writes about Ben Affleck Hilarie Burton’s book The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on the Mischief Farm was released this week. You may recall, a few years ago, a clip surfaced from when Hilarie was working at MTV and Ben Affleck groped her. She then retweeted it with her By Lainey • May 07, 2020 10:23 am
Maple Leaf Is Lilly Singh listening? (This is the latest installment in our Long Reads series. Previous entries can be accessed here). Last Monday, Lilly Singh, late night talk show host, YouTuber, comedian, and relentless cultural appropriator of Caribbean culture dropped a “remake” of dancehall track ,“Badman Forward, Badman Pull Up” by Ding Dong with this By Melayna • May 05, 2020 10:43 am
Top Reads That time Katie Couric interviewed Denzel Washington Here in Canada, I’m an entertainment reporter on an entertainment news program called ETALK. This summer will mark my 15th anniversary on the show. Part of my job is to interview actors, singers, writers, etc. And if you’ve been visiting this site over the years, you know that By Lainey • Apr 30, 2020 11:55 am
Equality Issues Intro for April 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, I live for Sundays again, at least for the next few weeks. The Last Dance is on Sundays. Killing Eve is on Sundays. And Insecure is on Sundays. Here’s the promo for next week’s episode, “Lowkey Thankful”. Wait for the joke that comes at the end By Lainey • Apr 21, 2020 08:54 am
Equality Issues How Diddy disrespected Lizzo This past Easter Sunday, Diddy hosted a “Team Love” Dance-a-Thon for frontline workers, a fundraiser for COVID-19 relief. This idea already suspiciously looked like a billionaire asking other people for money instead of just donating it himself. He did recruit and court other celebrities to dance on his Instagram live By Melayna • Apr 15, 2020 10:58 am
