Maple Leaf Intro for July 3, 2024 Dear Gossips, The thing I complain about the most – and I complain a LOT about a LOT of things – is traffic. A study released in January of this year revealed that Toronto is ranked third in the world for slowest traffic and the WORST city in North America. In other By Lainey • Jul 03, 2024 09:20 am
Maple Leaf Celine strong Celine Dion attended a screening of her new documentary, I Am: Celine Dion, yesterday in New York. She was accompanied by her eldest son, René-Charles Angélil, and others in attendance included director Irene Taylor, Laverne Cox, and Candace Bushnell. But let’s be real, wherever Celine Dion goes, Celine Dion By Sarah • Jun 18, 2024 10:17 am
Maple Leaf Celine Dion: Coming back to us now If you haven’t yet watched the first trailer for Celine Dion’s upcoming documentary, I Am: Celine Dion, let me just give you a heads up – you’re going to need some time to recover. I’m hosting a luncheon today, I’m about to leave in half an By Lainey • May 23, 2024 12:34 pm
Maple Leaf Celine is grateful I couldn’t write about this yesterday because the Queen of all Feelings gave ME all the feelings. Seriously, I cried reading the interview, I cried watching the videos, I’m still crying – and there’s more! Celine Dion covers the new issue of Vogue France, styled by Law Roach. By Lainey • Apr 23, 2024 02:29 pm
TV Updates Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough in Under the Bridge Another term for a destructive cycle is a whirlpool, something with so much centrifugal force it pulls everything in its proximity downward, into destruction. A whirlpool sits at the heart of Under the Bridge, an adaptation of Rebecca Godfrey’s haunting book about the 1997 murder of teenager Reena Virk By Sarah • Apr 18, 2024 10:01 am
TV Updates A new season of Lily Gladstone Lily Gladstone was one of the best parts of the award season that just was. It was the way she met the moment with grace and generosity, how she carried her responsibility with respect but also with joy. And of course her fashion! Now that she’s wrapped up her By Lainey • Apr 16, 2024 12:47 pm
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