Maple Leaf Intro for April 15, 2016 Dear Gossips, I mentioned in yesterday’s Drake post that he was in Toronto for Rihanna’s first concert in town. And they hung out together afterwards. And that, well, the expectation, and we were all expecting it, was that he would come on for night two. Which happened. But By Lainey • Apr 15, 2016 10:00 am
Maple Leaf Drake’s date drama Drake announced a couple of weeks ago that his new album Views From The 6 would be dropping April 29th. Yesterday a countdown clock appeared online for a new mixtape from Meek Mill. Also April 29th. After people started commenting about it, the clock disappeared, replaced by “coming soon”. And By Lainey • Apr 14, 2016 01:39 pm
Maple Leaf Rachel undercover We got a glimpse of Rachel McAdams in Sarah’s Doctor Strange post just before this one. It was big news when she was cast in the movie, with all kinds of speculation about her character, etc. Totally another Hollywood Sliding Doors situation too. Because there were rumours years ago By Lainey • Apr 13, 2016 12:29 pm
Quiveration Ryan Reynolds is MTV Hot Dad Ryan Reynolds showed up at the MTV Movie Awards to collect an award for Best Comedic Performance and Best Fight (with Ed Skrein) for Deadpool, which apparently now counts as a 2015 movie. He got a very hype entrance with a bunch of dancing Deadpools and Salt-N-Pepa performing “Shoop”, so By Sarah • Apr 11, 2016 11:51 am
Maple Leaf Justin Bieber’s hair and cultural appropriation Justin Bieber has been wearing his hair in dreads for about a week now. In that week, there have been headlines, think pieces, backlash and outrage over Bieber’s hair, calling him out for cultural appropriation. A piece in JET calls the dreads “an insult to [his] black fans.” I By Kathleen • Apr 11, 2016 11:16 am
Maple Leaf Intro for April 6, 2016 Dear Gossips, If Duana’s not trying to harass the people in her life with non-stop wall-to-wall Hamilton she’s harassing all of us about Drake. Few people feel Drake like Duana. And, yesterday, in honour of the release of her first book, Drake dropped two new singles, Pop Style By Lainey • Apr 06, 2016 09:19 am
Douchebags Justin Bieber new hair, old attitude? Justin Bieber opened the iHeartRadio Music Awards in LA last night which is why he wasn’t in Canada at the JUNOs. But he won the Fan Choice Award at the JUNOs. So he sent a message. Of thanks? I’m not sure. Watch the video: What happens after that By Lainey • Apr 04, 2016 11:18 am
Maple Leaf Alessia Cara’s first Alessia Cara opened the JUNO Awards in Calgary last night. I’ve attached video below of what it sounded like not from the television broadcast but in the arena, her pure voice, live, and killing it. Impressive, right? SO impressive that by the time she won for Breakthrough Artist there By Lainey • Apr 04, 2016 10:14 am
Maple Leaf Intro for April 4, 2016 Dear Gossips, The Weeknd was the big winner last night at the JUNO Awards in Calgary going 4/5, accepting one of those awards from Buffy Sainte-Marie, the coolest ever. No one is cooler than Buffy Sainte-Marie. No f-cking one. The Weeknd’s performance was also simulcast at the iHeartRadio By Lainey • Apr 04, 2016 07:33 am
Maple Leaf Justin Bieber feels too much It’s been exactly a year since Justin Bieber said sorry over and over again. It’s also been almost exactly a year since Where Are U Now was released, kicking off a major career restart that transitioned him from teen boy singing boy crush songs to young punk singing By Lainey • Mar 23, 2016 09:49 am
Maple Leaf Rihanna’s Miami grind Rihanna’s ANTI tour played Miami last night. And Drake joined her on stage for Work. And by joined her on stage I mean his groin had a meeting with her ass resulting in a song-long rub, just like they did in the Work video. So. Now we’re all By Lainey • Mar 16, 2016 01:21 pm
Maple Leaf Your move, BB-8 Many people thought Jacob Tremblay deserved an Oscar nomination for his performance in Room. Brie Larson won the Best Actress Oscar for Room. And what she gave us in that film could not have happened without the other person in that room – Jacob. Jacob was named Best Actor (over Christopher By Lainey • Mar 14, 2016 04:39 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Missy’s CSA hair What if you like your dress but you don’t love it? You make it about the hair. This is what I see happening here. The dress is fine. It’s black, it’s tight, it doesn’t offend but it doesn’t delight. The hair, however, is amazing. Especially By Lainey • Mar 14, 2016 02:57 pm
TV Updates Schitt’s Creek at the CSAs Full re-disclosure: Dan Levy, who writes, produces, and stars in Schitt’s Creek is my friend. He’s now an award-winning showrunner because Schitt’s Creek was named Best Comedy at the Canadian Screen Awards last night. Earlier last week, Dan also won a CSA for writing. I am so By Lainey • Mar 14, 2016 10:59 am
TV Updates The CSA Message Dress The Book Of Negroes is of the most important literary works to come out of Canada. It’s about a woman called Aminata, born in West Africa, kidnapped and sold to slavery in America – a difficult but necessary read. The story was turned into a miniseries airing in Canada on By Lainey • Mar 14, 2016 09:51 am
Maple Leaf Intro for March 14, 2016 Dear Gossips, Martin Short was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Canadian Screen Awards last night – now, maybe, nicknamed the “Candy”, by this year’s host Norm MacDonald. Like you know how the Academy Award is called the Oscar? The Canadian Screen Awards are Canada’s version of By Lainey • Mar 14, 2016 09:08 am
