Top Reads Awkwafina doesn’t apologise Nora Lum, aka Awkwafina, for years has been criticised for appropriating AAVE (African American Vernacular English) and using what’s called a blaccent, and specifically speaking with a blaccent as part of her comedic persona and in her comedic roles, only to take it off for her dramatic roles, which By Lainey • Feb 07, 2022 11:09 am
Dumbass Taylor Swift and The Man Taylor Swift has a song called “The Man” with the following lyrics: “’Cause if I was a man, then I’d be the man I’d be the man I’d be the man They’d say I hustled, put in the work They wouldn’t shake their heads and By Lainey • Jan 25, 2022 01:02 pm
Top Reads Angelina at the Virtual Rally Yesterday was the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Day of Action as bipartisan lawmakers in the US are “pushing to reauthorise the 1994 VAWA for the first time in almost a decade… [after] it lapsed in 2019 when the Republican-dominated Senate did not pass it”. It is f-cked up to By Lainey • Jan 20, 2022 11:00 am
Equality Issues Olivia Culpo wears another sports bra Olivia Culpo was in the news last week because her sister Aurora posted on Instagram an outfit that Olivia wore on an American Airlines flight on their way to their holiday – a sports bra with bike shorts – and was told to put on a blouse and cover up. If you By Lainey • Jan 18, 2022 01:24 pm
Top Reads The Only Fox News After taking over Hollywood for a couple of weeks, Julia Fox was back home in New York yesterday for her son’s first birthday. She and her ex, Peter Artemiev, were papped in Manhattan, having resumed amicable relations after she cussed him out on Instagram just before Christmas for being By Lainey • Jan 18, 2022 11:06 am
Equality Issues It’s Janet Jackson Season I’m so excited because Janet Jackson season is upon us. Before her two-night documentary event hits Lifetime and A&E at the end of the month, the icon is covering Allure’s February issue. I know Janet’s executive producing the doc, so it’s a bit of By Cody • Jan 12, 2022 11:14 am
TV Updates Lily James talks Pamela Anderson and privacy Lily James is on the cover of Net A Porter’s digital magazine this month—is it more accurate to say that she is the face of the digital magazine? There is no “cover”—to promote the upcoming Pam & Tommy series on Hulu. The interview, conducted by Eva Wiseman, By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 10:37 am
Gorgessity Hoyeon covers Vogue! Hoyeon Jung, the breakout star of Squid Game, covers the February issue of Vogue. This is a surprise but not a surprise… Not a surprise because Hoyeon started her career as a model, and worked in New York for a few years, right up until she had her last callback By Lainey • Jan 05, 2022 01:09 pm
TV Updates Dear The Bachelor, I’m Bored. Last night was the premiere of The Bachelor, this season’s lead is Clayton Echard who is a former football player and was a contestant on Michelle Young’s season that LITERALLY JUST FINISHED AIRING TWO WEEKS AGO. It’s the franchise’s fourth show in just six months. We By Anastasia • Jan 04, 2022 01:23 pm
Award Season Campaigning West Side Story and Rachel Zegler, a contender? There’s been a LOT of hype about Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. It’s currently sitting at 95% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes so far. The film opens this Friday and if it can do a solid box office, it’s almost guaranteed, not just for a Best Picture By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 12:22 pm
Style Ava, Shamier, and Celebrating Black Cinema In the previous post about Drake, I wrote about him devaluing the Grammys and assigning value elsewhere. That’s what Shamier Anderson and his brother Stephan James are attempting to do with The Black Academy, measuring success on new terms, reframing the benchmark of success in entertainment, and who gets By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 11:19 am
Equality Issues Intro for December 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, PEOPLE Magazine has released its People of the Year covers. There are four of them, including the legend Dolly Parton. Dolly could be a person of the year every year and at 75 she’s as busy and as booked as ever – as PEOPLE says, she has her By Lainey • Dec 02, 2021 09:17 am
Equality Issues Sandra Bullock’s Red Table Talk Look, I know that Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are a LOT. Especially lately with all the revelations coming out from his book, and on top of the whole “entanglement” thing that they told us about last year. At the same time, we can also talk about the influence of By Lainey • Dec 01, 2021 10:42 am
Top Reads Jennifer Lawrence’s Pay Gap Ahead of the release of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up next month, Jennifer Lawrence covers the new issue of Vanity Fair, her first magazine profile in a long time. Over the last couple of years, almost every time I’ve posted about JLaw, I’ve written about her By Lainey • Nov 23, 2021 12:02 pm
TV Updates Simu Liu: Tuesday night before Saturday night Saturday Night Live is all about tradition. There’s a schedule to the week that, by now, is probably familiar to pop culture enthusiasts. On Tuesday night, the week’s guest host goes out for dinner with the SNL team. Simu Liu is the host this coming Saturday and last By Lainey • Nov 17, 2021 02:31 pm
Music A New Kind of “Man of the Year” I’m waiting for someone to look at me the way Lil Nas X looks at Lil Nas X. Named one of GQ’s Men of the Year, he’s sharing the cover with himself, showing off the duality of his masculine and feminine energies in a couture photoshoot. In By Cody • Nov 16, 2021 11:13 am
