TV Updates Intro for April 10, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Sympathizer premiere happened in Hollywood yesterday with Robert Downey Jr and Sandra Oh as the most high-profile cast members in attendance. This series is a major priority for HBO, an ambitious project, based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. And the By Lainey • Apr 10, 2024 10:02 am
Maple Leaf Show MY Work: NEAR OR FAR – Pride, Joy, and The Hard Part Of all the show business idioms we collectively overuse, probably the most annoying is “be careful what you wish for”. Why? Honestly, you’ve been wishing – and beyond that, sweating and grinding and revising when it’s not good enough, so then why do we need to bring insecurity into By Duana • Apr 09, 2024 01:47 pm
Maple Leaf Celine being Celine! It’s been almost two months since Celine Dion, styled by Law Roach, walked on stage in a buttery Valentino coat, looking healthy and beautiful, to present Album of the Year at the Grammys. We were united in relief. And now, more relief and, of course, joy. This is who By Lainey • Mar 22, 2024 10:53 am
Maple Leaf Intro for February 15, 2024 Dear Gossips, Earlier this week I interviewed Camille Dundas for ETALK. Camille is a public speaking and corporate diversity consultant, a television producer, a writer, and the founder and editor-in-chief of ByBlacks.com, an award-winning online magazine covering stories of interest to the Black Canadian community, spotlighting the efforts and By Lainey • Feb 15, 2024 10:04 am
Maple Leaf Return of the Queen… of All Feelings! We can talk about the other thing in a minute, this post is reserved for the Queen of All Feelings, Celine Dion, who made a surprise return to the Grammys last night after a two year absence from the public eye due to Stiff Person Syndrome. And while nobody needs By Lainey • Feb 05, 2024 09:56 am
Maple Leaf Intro for October 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, As Lainey mentioned in What Else? yesterday, SAG-AFTRA has issued guidelines for Halloween costumes during the strike, which basically amount to “don’t dress up as a movie or TV character”. It sounds sort of killjoy-ish, but I wonder if they did so because they’re getting questions By Sarah • Oct 20, 2023 09:08 am
Maple Leaf Intro for September 11, 2023 Dear Gossips, Why did everything happen everywhere all at once this weekend? Some celebrities got married, others flaunted their relationships at the tennis, a couple posted apology videos that they looked annoyed about, a talk show host announced her controversial return, and there was a lot going on at the By Lainey • Sep 11, 2023 08:59 am
Maple Leaf Harry, Jodie, Rami: A Couples Roundup Some celebrity love updates to kick off the weekend. The Harry Styles and Taylor Russell rumours started in June after the two were seen spending time together in London. Then Taylor showed up in an exclusive access area during one of his shows, sitting with members of the crew. Following By Lainey • Aug 11, 2023 10:01 am
Maple Leaf Carly Rae’s perfect blonde Carly Rae Jepsen, I think, has been blonde for a while. But when I call up memories of Carly Rae in my mind, I never picture her as a blonde. It’s either brown or red. Just me? Here’s Carly in New York today after an appearance on Good By Lainey • Aug 10, 2023 12:52 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for August 4, 2023 Dear Gossips, It’s been an excellent week of PR for Taylor Swift. There was the news that she’s given out bonuses amounting to $55 million to the people working the US leg of her The Eras tour. And she’s just made history, again. .@taylorswift13 simultaneously charts 11 By Lainey • Aug 04, 2023 09:43 am
Maple Leaf Taylor Swift is coming… to Canada? Everyone in Toronto is buzzing about this this morning. As I mentioned the other day, DeuxMoi posted a tip about Taylor Swift: that she will perform ten shows in Toronto at Rogers Centre in November 2024, an extension of The Eras tour. The person who sent in the tip also By Lainey • Aug 03, 2023 09:49 am
Maple Leaf Margot’s Stripes and Strawberries As Sarah just noted in her Afterparty post, tomorrow is the deadline – we could know by tomorrow if a new deal is not reached whether or not the actors will be on strike alongside the writers. And if that really is the case, one of the most anticipated red carpets By Lainey • Jun 29, 2023 12:45 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for April 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, Let’s begin the week in the most wholesome, controversy-free way possible (no jinx): with Keanu Reeves. Didn’t expect him to be among the celebrities at the Daily Front Row Fashion Awards this weekend but the reason he was there is so very Keanu. Jeanne Yang was By Lainey • Apr 24, 2023 09:11 am
Maple Leaf Make Emily Hampshire a rom-com queen With movies finally and consistently rebounding in theaters, we’ve recently been wondering if R-rated comedies can return to cinemas, too. The genre has been relegated to streaming over the last few years, but once upon a time, comedies, even R-rated ones, could consistently deliver solid box office (Seth Rogen By Sarah • Apr 12, 2023 02:22 pm
Hook Ups Shawn Mendes & Sabrina Carpenter? For the last few weeks, there’s been all kinds of speculation that Shawn Mendes, 24, who’s been single since he and Camila Cabello broke up almost 18 months ago, is dating his chiropractor, Dr Jocelyne Miranda, 54. There have been multiple sightings of them since last summer hiking, By Lainey • Feb 28, 2023 01:04 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for February 21, 2023 Dear Gossips, Yesterday was a holiday in many parts of Canada and President’s Day in the United States so I held this story to talk about today – Jully Black singing the Canadian national anthem at the NBA All-Star Game in Salt Lake City on Sunday night. Jully is considered By Lainey • Feb 21, 2023 09:43 am
