Maple Leaf Intro for September 5, 2025 Dear Gossips, What is your favourite John Candy movie? For me, like probably most people, it’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I can’t get through the final scene without sobbing. John’s subtle expression changes at the end… it’s too much, it’s too good, he was SO By Lainey • Sep 05, 2025 09:32 am
Hook Ups The Right Honourable Fanboy I wrote at the end of my post yesterday about Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry that she was performing in Montreal last night and asked whether or not you thought he would show up. I mean, OF COURSE HE SHOWED UP. Both JT and Katy are well aware that their By Lainey • Jul 31, 2025 12:21 pm
Hook Ups Justin & Katy’s Two-Parter Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry are now the new most random entry into our celebrity summer of love 2025 – and, I’m sorry, if you’re a gossip, and I assume you are if you’re here, who is complaining about this?! Anyway, for those of us who can readily By Lainey • Jul 30, 2025 11:32 am
Hook Ups KP + JT?! The summer of love continues with perhaps the most random hookup we’ve had, not just in 2025, but in years! TMZ broke the story this morning – Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau had dinner last night in Montreal at a Le Violon. They were there for a couple of hours, By Lainey • Jul 29, 2025 12:48 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for July 23, 2025 Dear Gossips, I was at BLACKPINK’s first show in Toronto last night – the weather was perfect, after a couple of weeks of extreme heat; getting in and out of the venue was smooth, after a controversial start last month when the new stadium opened; I saw my friends, I By Lainey • Jul 23, 2025 09:32 am
Jock Smut Intro for July 17, 2025 Dear Gossips, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won everything this year: the NBA championship, NBA MVP, NBA Finals MVP, Conference Finals MVP, the NBA scoring title, and as of last night, the ESPY Awards for Best NBA player and Best Male Athlete of the Year. Pretty much a total sweep at the By Lainey • Jul 17, 2025 09:34 am
Maple Leaf Bieber Stands On Swag Justin Bieber just surprise-dropped his seventh studio album Swag overnight after a more than four-year hiatus from the music industry. JB announced the album through a series of billboards around the world, either with the track list, or the album cover, or his now infamous “it’s not clocking to By MC • Jul 11, 2025 11:07 am
Maple Leaf Intro for June 19, 2025 Dear Gossips, Pixar’s Elio premieres tomorrow and as I mentioned last week in my post about Celine Song and Materialists, this will be the second weekend in a row that a Hollywood film directed by an Asian Canadian woman opens in wide release. Which is historic! Domee Shi co-directed By Lainey • Jun 19, 2025 09:22 am
Maple Leaf Intro for June 12, 2025 Dear Gossips, I just bought my tickets for Materialists, seeing it on Saturday and there are layers to my excitement. First of all, I will always sign up for a summer rom-com and if you’ve been following this site for the last few months, you’re probably aware that By Lainey • Jun 12, 2025 09:32 am
Maple Leaf Pedro Pascal prefers Canada Materialists comes out on Friday and earlier this week, Vogue released an “off the cuff” interview with Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal promoting the movie – the whole thing was really cute, their chemistry is fun, the way it’s fun when two friends, who are super comfortable with each other, By Lainey • Jun 11, 2025 04:12 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for May 7, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. As a Canadian, based in Toronto, working in the entertainment industry, TIFF feels like home to me, I am so proud of the reputation the festival has built among filmmakers and what it means to By Lainey • May 07, 2025 09:20 am
Maple Leaf Intro for April 1, 2025 Dear Gossips, It’s April 1st, aka April Fool’s Day, so let’s talk about the artist widely considered to have been the biggest fool over the last year: Drake. We don’t need to rehash how 2024 and the early part of 2025, with the Super Bowl halftime By Lainey • Apr 01, 2025 09:25 am
Maple Leaf Intro for February 10, 2025 Dear Gossips, Coming to you from the nuked remains of Toronto after what can only be described as total annihilation last night – even though the city has no business at the Super Bowl. We’ll get to the halftime show later… Let’s stay in Canada, just on the opposite By Lainey • Feb 10, 2025 09:19 am
Maple Leaf Endless Bieber Speculation The immediate impetus for this post is the internet popping off because Justin Bieber seemingly unfollowed Hailey Bieber on Instagram. And if this was an isolated incident, sure, there’d be cause for concern. In context though, it’s probably not as big of a deal. Because over the last By Lainey • Jan 21, 2025 10:40 am
Maple Leaf Jim and Keanu: A Canadian Double Photos like this, where I’m from, are kind of a big deal. I’m off from ETALK until the New Year but if I had to guess what would be leading our show content today, it would be that Jim Carrey and Keanu Reeves were at the premiere of By Lainey • Dec 17, 2024 02:04 pm
Maple Leaf Taylor Swift’s Toronto I live in the city that Taylor Swift is about to take over. We are now just 48 hours away from Taylor’s first of six shows here in Toronto but the city has been talking about it, and preparing for it, for weeks. Last week ceremonial streets signs for By Lainey • Nov 12, 2024 10:51 am
