Equality Issues Lizzo & Taraji: A Golden Open for Reproductive Rights Dripping in gold, Lizzo opened the BET Awards last night with a performance of her new hit “About Damn Time” after making this announcement on social media on Saturday: I’m pledging $500k from my upcoming tour to Planned Parenthood and Abortion Rights. Live Nation agreed to match— to make By Lainey • Jun 27, 2022 11:07 am
TV Updates Intro for June 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, The Umbrella Academy is among the most popular series on Netflix. Season three premiered yesterday on Netflix and it’s the first time Elliot Page is promoting the show as who he really is. Elliot’s character, Viktor, transitions this season, in parallel with Elliot in real life, By Lainey • Jun 23, 2022 09:36 am
TV Updates Intro for June 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, Issa Rae is in Cannes this week and yesterday spoke on a panel at the Cannes Lion festival, a marketing and advertising convention. Issa challenged the ad industry to promote diversity in their work and on their teams by confronting their biases and by also following up and By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 09:24 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 21, 2022 Dear Gossips, I recently interviewed Shanese Indoowaaboo Steele for ETALK presents: IMPACT & INFLUENCE – Celebrating Indigenous Changemakers, a 30-minute special airing and streaming tonight at 7pm on CTV and CTV.ca. Shanese is a public speaker, an advocate and an activist, a writer, a culture critic. She facilitates workshops that By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 09:39 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Pronouns and a new On The JLo Still don’t regret signing up for On The JLo and whatever it is that Jennifer Lopez will do eventually with my email. Because when a new installment of her newsletter arrives in my inbox, I can’t open it quickly enough – since we know, from experience, that she delivers! By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 10:06 am
Jock Smut Intro for June 20, 2022 Dear Gossips, Lewis Hamilton won his first Formula 1 at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal in 2007. He was back on the podium yesterday, finishing third, and it was clear that it was a special moment given what Montreal means to him, and also what his result represents, hopefully, By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo’s Halftime: Who is it for? I’ve been reading some of the mainstream reviews of Jennifer Lopez’s documentary, Halftime, and one of the questions that keeps coming up is …why does she need to prove to us that she’s JLo when we all know already how successful she is and how hard it By Lainey • Jun 16, 2022 01:04 pm
Douchebags Rebel Wilson: “A very hard situation” As Sarah wrote last week, Rebel Wilson’s Instagram post about her “Disney princess”, designer Ramona Agruma, seemed like it was just straight up happy news, and during Pride Month too. Rebel was warmly embraced, people celebrated her love announcement…and then over the weekend we found out that it By Lainey • Jun 14, 2022 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Neve Campbell knows her worth Earlier this year, Scream, the fifth movie in the Scream franchise and sadly not titled 5cream, was a hit, earning $140 million against a $25 million budget. Even by non-pandemic standards, that is a solid success story. A successful reboot means the franchise has new life and Scream 6 is By Sarah • Jun 08, 2022 10:28 am
Douchebags Angelina vs Brad’s “false narrative” Brad Pitt used the media to advance his position earlier this week when it was somehow leaked through the press that he’s suing Angelina Jolie for selling her shares in Chateau Miraval to a company, Tenuto del Mondo, that happens to have initiated court proceedings against him for failure By Lainey • Jun 08, 2022 09:37 am
Amazingness Intro for June 8, 2022 Dear Gossips, This one’s for our site manager, Emily, who may still be recovering from watching Kristen Stewart grab her tit, and you too if you meet the criteria: Are you gay? Do you see ghosts? Can you communicate with the lingering spirits beyond the barrier? If so, KStew By Lainey • Jun 08, 2022 08:55 am
TV Updates Iman Vellani is an instant star in Ms. Marvel Ms. Marvel is a series with split personality, at least for the first two episodes premiering this Wednesday on Disney+. On one hand, it is shameless nostalgia on behalf of Marvel Studios, celebrating their own decade-plus of films in the MCU, and there is no denying that there's By Sarah • Jun 07, 2022 02:19 pm
Top Reads Like Johnny, Like Brad? And we were juuuuust talking about DARVO in Melayna’s previous post today about the Johnny Depp Amber Heard verdict. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender – it worked in court for Johnny Depp and now another lawsuit featuring two superstars is making headlines as, somehow, Brad Pitt’s accusations against By Lainey • Jun 07, 2022 10:52 am
Top Reads Amber Heard's legal defeat is an enormous loss for victims Last week, Johnny Depp won his defamation civil lawsuit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard. It was a highly publicized and publicly consumed trial that played out live for weeks on the internet, resulting in a verdict that legal experts called strange and unexpected. “She’s begging for total global humiliation. By Melayna • Jun 07, 2022 10:10 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for May 31, 2022 Dear Gossips, Today marks the end of Asian Heritage Month in Canada and AAPI Heritage Month in the United States. BTS will be meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House this afternoon. And at the Cannes Film Festival this past weekend, Song Kang-ho was named Best Actor for By Lainey • May 31, 2022 09:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Billy Eichner’s Bros Rom-coms are in full blown revival mode, but unlike the rom-com trends of the past, queer people—and/or queer-coded people—are no longer relegated to the sidelines. The gay rom-com is here, from Fire Island, Joel Kim Booster's contemporary queer take on Pride & Prejudice, starring Booster By Sarah • May 19, 2022 01:53 pm
