Maple Leaf Intro for June 30, 2022 Dear Gossips, Tomorrow is a federal holiday in Canada so we’ll be dark and will return to regular posting schedule on Monday. Since it’s the Canada Day long weekend though, let’s talk about Canada – we did a segment yesterday on The Social with information I’m not By Lainey • Jun 30, 2022 09:58 am
Douchebags Lewis gets an excuse, not an apology Former F1 champion Nelson Piquet did an interview last year and, while commenting on race performance between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, used a racial slur in reference to Lewis, multiple times. His racism only came to light on Monday and Lewis addressed the situation yesterday: It’s more than By Lainey • Jun 29, 2022 12:32 pm
Music Hungry for Brandi Carlile’s Story Back in January on a night I couldn’t sleep, I took a break from life and work worries by googling if Brandi Carlile was touring. Brandi Carlile songs were a big part of our 2021 New Year’s Eve soundtrack. I rarely am one to really party it up By Violeta • Jun 28, 2022 12:37 pm
Sports Intro for June 28, 2022 Dear Gossips, Wimbledon is now underway and Serena Williams is playing singles tennis again for the first time in a year. I’m so nervous for her I might sh-t myself, can’t even imagine what it’s like having to compete at that level with that kind of spotlight. By Lainey • Jun 28, 2022 09:28 am
Equality Issues Janelle, Jazmine, and Latto for Reproductive Rights Best dressed for me at the BET Awards is Janelle Monae. Because before the show I would never have predicted that this would be her look. Not that it doesn’t suit her – look at her, of course it suits her. The bondage energy on top, the zigzag cut around By Lainey • Jun 27, 2022 11:45 am
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
Sports 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
