Equality Issues Hasan speaks up Hasan Minhaj has responded to the September New Yorker article about his “emotional truth” in comedy. He does a really good job laying out the three biggest “charges” in the article, that he made up incidents involving racism, racial profiling, and personal threats against his family. He has audio and By Sarah • Oct 27, 2023 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Flower Moon discourse has arrived And I am already exhausted. Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, star of Reservation Dogs, took to the platform formerly known as Twitter on Monday to share her reaction to Killers of the Flower Moon. It was not positive. Particularly, she highlights how “underwritten” the Indigenous characters are compared to the white men By Sarah • Oct 25, 2023 10:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese has long been interested in crime, America, and the intersections of greed, entitlement, and the American dream. In David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon he has a perfect subject, the conspiracy of the Osage Murders that occurred in Oklahoma in the early 20th By Sarah • Oct 23, 2023 02:43 pm
TV Updates Intro for October 17, 2023 Dear Gossips, Ken Jeong is developing a talk show to launch next year; the plan is for him to host and executive produce. I have to admit… I was surprised when I read the headline. And I’m not sure if I should be embarrassed for being surprised. But the By Lainey • Oct 17, 2023 09:45 am
TV Updates The Real Housewives double standard After being away from Real Housewives of Orange County for two seasons, veteran cast member Tamra Judge made a bold re-entry to the show and ended the season with a bang at this week’s reunion, at one point telling Andy Cohen to “f-ck off” and instructing him to “be By Stephanie • Oct 13, 2023 11:29 am
Break Ups Kayla Nicole is just trying to live Kayla Nicole, the model and sports broadcaster that dated Travis Kelce from 2017 through 2022, recently published a video with an encouraging message for Black women. The video comes after enduring weeks of online bullying and harassment after news broke about Travis’s situationship with Taylor Swift. In the video, By Stephanie • Oct 11, 2023 11:47 am
Sports Taylor Swift: The Dude Bros are mad I get why some people don’t love the expression “making someone their bitch” but considering that that’s exactly the expression that the people who are big mad about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce would respond to, I’m going to use it here to say that… The dude By Lainey • Oct 03, 2023 12:37 pm
Books Kerry Washington shares her abortion story Kerry Washington is currently promoting her memoir, Thicker Than Water, which came out today. Excerpts and other details have been making headlines over the last few days but I want to talk about her abortion story. Of the decision to include this in the book, Kerry tells PEOPLE: "I By Lainey • Sep 25, 2023 01:12 pm
TV Updates Vanna secured her bag (for now) Just two months after securing a lawyer amid her fight for fair compensation for her long-standing role on Wheel of Fortune, Vanna White has officially inked a deal to remain on the show through the summer of 2026. Last week, the show returned for its latest season as Vanna demanded By Stephanie • Sep 20, 2023 11:27 am
Music Maren Morris is making moves Maren Morris released two new songs on Friday. She also made the announcement that she is leaving the country music scene for good. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, she revealed that moving forward, she’d be releasing music through Columbia Records instead of Columbia Nashville. This comes By Stephanie • Sep 18, 2023 11:20 am
Break Ups Joe and Sophie’s “united decision” There were fans who refused to believe it this past weekend when TMZ broke the news that Joe Jonas had engaged divorce lawyers. But as I wrote yesterday, if it’s TMZ reporting it, there had to have been something to the story. And late yesterday it was confirmed, with By Lainey • Sep 06, 2023 02:01 pm
Music Ciara remains Ciara recently clapped back at a critic who insinuated that the quality of her music has decreased, and that at this point in her career, she is now making “TikTok music”. The criticism was directed at one of the songs featured on CiCi, an EP she recently released. And the By Stephanie • Aug 24, 2023 01:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Inside Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein Backlash Bradley Cooper dons a larger, prosthetic nose to play the late composer Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, a biopic he also directs and co-writes, but does this make him problematic? Well, it depends who you ask, and if you dip into Twitter today, his name is still trending, and not just By Joanna • Aug 16, 2023 02:06 pm
Equality Issues The ugly truth of The Blind Side Michael Oher, the subject of the 2009 film The Blind Side, starring Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy and Quinton Aaron as Michael Oher, has come forward with allegations that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, the mom and dad of the rich white family that took him in, misled him By Stephanie • Aug 16, 2023 12:05 pm
Douchebags Save it, Iggy A Los Angeles reporter is exposing actors, musicians and hair transplant doctors for writing letters of support for disgraced musician Tory Lanez who was recently sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the summer of 2020. The reporter’s name is By Stephanie • Aug 11, 2023 12:07 pm
Equality Issues Jen's gaffe, Regina's grace Jennifer Garner has caught some heat on social media the other day after a 2017 clip from a dinner with Chelsea Handler, Regina King and some others resurfaced. The clip is from Chelsea Handler’s Dinner Party: My American Experience, and Regina is asked by Chelsea to kick off a By Stephanie • Aug 09, 2023 12:18 pm
