Equality Issues Mel B’s relationship journey Mel B recently caught up with Attitude magazine, revisiting the group’s 1998 cover. The interview was to mark the new updated version of her bestseller, Brutally Honest, a memoir that chronicled the abuse she says she suffered at the hands of her ex-husband, Stephen Belafonte, which I covered here. By Stephanie • Apr 24, 2024 01:11 pm
Top Reads Beyoncé shows her hair Since Beyoncé launched CÉCRED, her haircare line, there’s been a lot of excitement and praise but also some side-eying and criticism. Most women, most people, have a deep relationship with their hair – it’s mood and identity, it’s expression and it’s presentation. For Black women in particular By Lainey • Apr 22, 2024 10:47 am
Douchebags Morgan Wallen’s latest trouble Morgan Wallen was all smiles in his most recent mugshot, taken after he was arrested for allegedly throwing a chair off a rooftop bar in Nashville, six stories above busy Broadway Street. The chair landed a few feet away from a group of police officers standing near the entrance of By Stephanie • Apr 10, 2024 11:10 am
TV Updates Intro for April 10, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Sympathizer premiere happened in Hollywood yesterday with Robert Downey Jr and Sandra Oh as the most high-profile cast members in attendance. This series is a major priority for HBO, an ambitious project, based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. And the By Lainey • Apr 10, 2024 10:02 am
Music “Blackbiird”, Tattoos, and Cowboys Tanner Adell, Tiera Kennedy, Reyna Roberts, and Brittney Spencer presented together at the CMT Music Awards last night. They are the four emerging country artists featured on Beyoncé’s “Blackbiird” off her most recent masterpiece album, COWBOY CARTER. Since the release of COWBOY CARTER all four of these women have By Lainey • Apr 08, 2024 12:52 pm
Music Beyoncé: Stocks, Boosts, and a Countdown? The rumour for days has been that there would be some kind of announcement today. It is 10am ET at the time of this writing, all my alerts are on… and so far, nothing. Well, not nothing. But not a confirmation of anything either. Still, we have some new developments. By Lainey • Apr 05, 2024 11:45 am
TV Updates Hunter Schafer prepares for post-Euphoria Say what you will about Euphoria and the controversial way Sam Levinson runs that series – but you cannot deny that his show gave rise to a cohort of actors who are and will continue to be the class of their generation, and I’m not even including Zendaya in this By Lainey • Apr 02, 2024 02:17 pm
Music Beyoncé: An Innovator in Vintage Beyoncé accepted the Innovator Award last night, in Versace 1992, at the iHeartRadio Music Awards after ruling our lives since the release of COWBOY CARTER on Friday. My thought as I was listening to the album at midnight when it dropped – every artist out there is doing the same thing. By Lainey • Apr 02, 2024 01:24 pm
Music Shakira and Barbie Last week, Lainey posted in What Else? that she was really enjoying the new Shakira album. It was just a couple of days before Cowboy Carter would drop, I’d already stopped obsessing about eternal sunshine, and I got curious. I was on my way home from work and I By Violeta • Apr 02, 2024 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dev Patel Week Monkey Man opens on Friday, and I am VERY ready for this movie. Dev Patel was on The Today Show on Friday talking it up, and I bring this up for two very specific reasons: 1. General Handsomeness 2. He talks about wanting to see himself and his culture reflected By Sarah • Apr 01, 2024 12:35 pm
Style The Power Stylists 2024 The Hollywood Reporter just dropped its annual Power Stylists issue for this year, now that award season is over. Colman Domingo, with his stylists Wayman + Micah is on one of the covers and Colman, as you can see, has been crowned… AS HE SHOULD BE. What Colman served on every By Lainey • Mar 27, 2024 12:36 pm
Equality Issues Halle Berry's Unreasonable Conversation Superstar Halle Berry recently shared how she discovered she had entered into perimenopause during a conversation with First Lady Dr. Jill Biden at the fourth annual “Day of Unreasonable Conversation”. Halle described her doctor taking her symptoms as an indication she had herpes and flat out told her she’d By Stephanie • Mar 27, 2024 10:36 am
Music Beyoncé counts down I am going to resist the urge to punctuate every sentence in this post with an exclamation mark… but COWBOY CARTER is ten days away. The Queen, Beyoncé, is counting down to act ii with an epic album cover reveal… And we’re talking about Beyoncé here, so the standard By Lainey • Mar 19, 2024 02:31 pm
Equality Issues Regina King's reflections In an exclusive interview with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America, Regina King for the first time is talking about the loss of her 26-year-old son, Ian, who died by suicide in January 2022. Regina reflects on the impact of his death and describes the series of emotions she’s By Stephanie • Mar 15, 2024 10:09 am
TV Updates Lily, onward and upward Awards season is over, and with it, the end of Lily Gladstone’s campaign for Killers of the Flower Moon. I have a feeling this Best Actress result will be litigated for a while, but Lily Gladstone’s career is already moving on. She is booked, she is busy, she By Sarah • Mar 12, 2024 02:19 pm
Equality Issues What Rita, Mary J, and Wendy have in common Rita Moreno spoke at a panel in New York this week and reflected on the “big, deep lesson” she learned in her marriage to a “very controlling” Leonard Gordon and spilled some tea on her relationship with Marlon Brando. “Things began to get very tense. And if it were not By Stephanie • Mar 08, 2024 01:25 pm
