Equality Issues Intro for November 3, 2021 Dear Gossips, Following the breakout success of Framing Britney Spears, The New York Times Presents is debuting a new documentary on FX/Hulu on November 19 called Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson. We’ve seen a spate of documentaries focused on famous women of the aughts, from Britney By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 08:58 am
TV Updates Jessica Biel’s True Crime Turnaround This morning, Lainey sent me a clip of Jessica Biel on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and before I watched it, I told myself I was going to write this post without mentioning Justin Timberlake. I thought that with so much emphasis on him, all the time, why not shine a By Maria • Apr 19, 2021 01:31 pm
Janet Jackson Justin Timberlake’s Apology In the days since the release of the NYT documentary Framing Britney Spears, and as we’re all confronting and meditating on our complicity (the media, the public, everyone) with how Britney was treated, one name has come up more often than others: Justin Timberlake. He only shows up for By Lainey • Feb 12, 2021 02:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Justin Timberlake’s Baby News A year ago on Monday, January 20, 2020, was my first post about Justin Timberlake in the new year. He and Jessica Biel were sighted in New York two months after he was photographed super drunk and holding hands with a co-star at a bar in New Orleans. You’ll By Lainey • Jan 18, 2021 10:21 am
Gossip Nostalgia Outfits of the Week : Britney & Justin, 20 Years Later You cannot call yourself a pop culture enthusiast if you don’t know this photo, I’m sorry. Britney Spears is a popstar beyond borders, famous around the world, no matter the culture. And her relationship with Justin Timberlake is known around the world, no matter the culture. There would By Lainey • Jan 08, 2021 01:34 pm
Justin Timberlake Intro for November 24, 2020 Dear Gossips, Posting about Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas yesterday on a balcony in New Orleans triggered a memory about another balcony in New Orleans: the biggest gossip story a year ago this week was when Justin Timberlake was photographed by paparazzi on the balcony of a bar in By Lainey • Nov 24, 2020 08:56 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel welcome second child In late November 2019, Justin Timberlake made headlines when he was seen very drunk at a bar New Orleans, where he was shooting a movie, holding hands and looking pretty intimate with a costar. He subsequently apologised and took the opportunity to promote that movie. As I wrote at the By Lainey • Jul 20, 2020 10:25 am
Equality Issues What about the other Pop Justin? There have been a lot of problematic celebrities during the COVID-19 lockdown and in the aftermath of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery joining the long list of Black people dying because of anti-Black racism. Tell me if I’m out of line here but… you By Lainey • Jun 08, 2020 12:15 pm
Brian Austin Green Intro for May 22, 2020 Dear Gossips, This was not supposed to be today’s open. But I realised that what I was writing as today’s open wasn’t a true open and then I got preoccupied with a question I just asked myself so now today’s open is about Brian Austin Green. By Lainey • May 22, 2020 09:16 am
Top Reads Britney Spears is here to save us If I’d presented you with a hypothetical before the lockdown about which celebrities would make you cringe on social media, how close would it look to the actual list after lockdown, when the cringe came forward and took off its mask? Could you have predicted Ellen DeGeneres? How about By Lainey • Apr 16, 2020 10:27 am
Top Reads Cameron Diaz’s self-quarantine life…and career? Didn’t expect to see Cameron Diaz come up in my feed today. Because, as we all know, Cameron Diaz has kinda retired from being a celebrity. But she was on Instagram live with Katherine Power of Who What Wear yesterday and she talked about being a parent (her daughter, By Lainey • Apr 15, 2020 11:40 am
Douchebags #LetHerTalk Justin Timberlake is promoting Trolls World Tour. He did a song with SZA for the movie called “The Other Side”. And Anderson .Paak is also on the film soundtrack. As I wrote a couple of weeks ago when “The Other Side” came out, the song is good because of SZA. By Lainey • Mar 12, 2020 12:18 pm
Music SZA: JT’s better side The sequel to Trolls, Trolls World Tour, is coming out in April. I didn’t see the first movie. I don’t plan on seeing the second movie. But I am, like you, familiar with the song that came out of Trolls: Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop The Feeling” By Lainey • Feb 27, 2020 09:46 am
Music Intro for February 27, 2020 Dear Gossips, Apparently it’s music video release week. BTS will drop another video for “ON” today after already breaking YouTube records with the Kinetic Manifesto visual for “ON” that came out last week. Taylor Swift’s video for “The Man”, which she directed herself, will likely be trending by By Lainey • Feb 27, 2020 08:44 am
Douchebags Justin Timberlake: Troll season Justin Timberlake stepped out earlier this week to support Jessica Biel at the season 3 premiere of The Sinner. How gracious and sweet of him. He always shows up for her projects, you know? Maybe he’s extra inclined to show up now though because… you know. A couple of By Lainey • Feb 06, 2020 09:15 am
Douchebags When Jessica kissed Justin Jessica Simpson is currently promoting her book Open Book. It comes out on February 4, I can’t wait to read it. Because clearly she gets it. She gets that if she’s writing this kind of book, there’s no point holding back on the stories. And she’s By Lainey • Jan 30, 2020 04:02 pm