Gorgessity Zoë Saldaña’s accents When I say Zoë Saldaña’s name out loud, I pronounce the accent on her last name. This, however, is probably the first time we’ve properly included the accent in her first name. We use it when we’re referring to Zoë Kravitz, but never for Zoë Saldaña because By Lainey • Feb 13, 2025 03:06 pm
Equality Issues Intro for February 13, 2025 Dear Gossips, Last June, the Kennedy Center hosted a weeklong festival called 10,000 Dreams: A Celebration of Asian Choreography, curated by the center and choreographer Phil Chan, president of the Gold Standard Arts Foundation which champions Asian talent across creative disciplines. Phil is also co-founder of Final Bow for By Lainey • Feb 13, 2025 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Questlove and the price of Black excellence Once again, musician and Oscar-winning filmmaker Questlove is reflecting on a struggle that exists in the undercurrent of the lives of Black people, but is rarely articulated. It’s not the well-known concept behind the idea of the “Black tax”, and it’s not the impact white privilege has had By Stephanie • Feb 12, 2025 12:20 pm
Top Reads TNT: The Boos, the Bros, and (perhaps) a Proper Holiday Before we get into the TNT of it, a minute first on Taylor Swift getting booed at the Super Bowl. If you haven’t already, I recommend Stephanie McNeal’s piece for Glamour. Stephanie was at the game, and has excellent insight on that booing moment and why it’s By Lainey • Feb 11, 2025 11:41 am
Equality Issues Karla Chaos Last week, I wrote about Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón and her increasingly off-the-rails, weirdly defiant apology tour for (not so) old racist, xenophobic, homophobic tweets that resurfaced in the wake of her Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Gascón is the first out transgender actor to be nominated for By Sarah • Feb 04, 2025 11:33 am
Books Naomi Watts dares to say it There was a time, not too long ago, when women would try to talk to the media about menopause and nobody would pick up the phone, answer the email, check their DMs, whatever. This is why there’s been so much confusion and fear, and also shame and embarrassment, about By Lainey • Jan 23, 2025 01:54 pm
Equality Issues RHONY’s shocking finale Last night, Real Housewives of New York aired one of the darkest, most explosive season finales we’ve ever seen after a rather dull season. With the episode featuring some shocking allegations, proven by the time the show ended to be untrue, it was a stark reminder of why certain By Stephanie • Jan 22, 2025 02:26 pm
Equality Issues Wendy's Prison Wendy Williams is speaking out after being placed into a court-ordered financial guardianship in 2022. Yesterday, she spoke candidly about her current circumstances on The Breakfast Club with, Charlemagne tha God, an industry peer of hers for about 20 years. Despite the two once having a tense and bitter feud, By Stephanie • Jan 17, 2025 10:57 am
Music Tiny Desk’s not so tiny power This week, Trinidadian musician Machel Montano made history by becoming the first soca artist to appear on NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series. He joined the ranks of musicians like Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish, Usher, Babyface and the hundreds of others to grace the NPR Music headquarters – and more importantly, By Stephanie • Jan 15, 2025 11:41 am
Business of Hollywood Blake Lively’s December Surprise Trigger warning for sexual harassment, bullying, and emotional abuse. This post was co-written by Lainey and Sarah One of the biggest stories in entertainment this year happened back in the summer around the release of the movie It Ends With Us, adapted from Colleen Hoover’s book of the same By Lainey • Dec 23, 2024 08:18 am
Equality Issues Leave Serena Alone, part 1000 Serena Williams is yet again having to defend herself against trolls online. This time, she’s being accused of bleaching her skin after a recent video of her in stage makeup went viral. In the video, she appears beside her husband, Alexis, who is visibly dressed up in what appears By Stephanie • Dec 03, 2024 02:12 pm
Music Intro for November 21, 2024 Dear Gossips, This is Shaboozey at the CMA Awards last night where his fashion theme of the night was green. Repping Elphaba at the country show? He wore a mint green suit on the red carpet, with tricked out Crocs, lol. And then on stage for his performance it was By Lainey • Nov 21, 2024 09:38 am
BFFs David Duchovny’s example (of failure) David Duchovny is admitting he “could’ve handled himself better” in his approach to his friendship with X-Files co-star Gillian Anderson, who starred in the show alongside him for 11 seasons as well as in two spinoff movies. David made the revelation while in conversation with Gillian, who joined him By Stephanie • Nov 12, 2024 01:47 pm
Equality Issues JLo: Back to Vegas The biggest story in the election this week has been Puerto Rico, after a loser at the Trump rally in NYC on Sunday made racist remarks about people of so many different cultures, and called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage”, resulting in what could potentially be major blowback By Lainey • Oct 31, 2024 01:04 pm
Jock Smut Angel Reese’s Shaq disappointment Shaquille O’Neal landed himself in hot water after remarks he made while in conversation with Angel Reese on her podcast, Unapologetically Angel. While the pair were discussing the current state of the WNBA, Shaq began tossing out his ‘solutions’ for what would help increase viewership, popularity, and player salaries. By Stephanie • Oct 28, 2024 12:22 pm
Equality Issues Reality Recap: Brynn’s double standards This week, something big happened on Real Housewives of New York. And for a franchise that has been so plagued by allegations of racism that an internal investigation was launched, which I touched on here, and an entire OG cast was dismissed, the last two episodes have brought a certain By Stephanie • Oct 25, 2024 02:31 pm
