Music Taylor’s folklore timing Wanted to put this in a separate post so that we could focus properly on the speculative drama. As mentioned earlier, Taylor Swift announced this morning that she’s surprise-dropping a new album tonight. Timing is always a factor where gossip is concerned, especially now that we’re living in By Lainey • Jul 23, 2020 11:47 am
Hook Ups Will and Jada talk about her “entanglement” That was definitely the gossip word of the weekend: “entanglement” is how Jada Pinkett Smith characterised her relationship with August Alsina. This all started a couple of weeks ago when August confirmed in an interview with Angela Yee that he and Jada were indeed dating and that Will Smith gave By Lainey • Jul 13, 2020 10:05 am
Top Reads Harry and Meghan call the Queen: why we know Queen Elizabeth’s real birthday was yesterday, she turned 94 years old, and even though it was her day, she had her team post a message to her social accounts to send love to the people of Nova Scotia and to all Canadians after the worst mass shooting in our By Lainey • Apr 22, 2020 09:16 am
Top Reads House Party with House Cambridge and… the social media manager mystery Prince William and Catherine video-chatted with teachers and students at Casterton Primary Academy yesterday to check in with the staff and the kids during the lockdown. They likely weren’t on House Party. Zoom is the daytime platform, and certainly more on brand with House Cambridge. So the title here By Lainey • Apr 09, 2020 09:39 am
Media Manipulation Ben-Ana and the paps Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas stepped out again yesterday for their dog walk and, once again, in the presence of the paparazzi, couldn’t keep from touching each other. If you’re here often, and if you spend any time consuming gossip online, you’ve likely been side-eyeing this By Lainey • Apr 02, 2020 09:40 am
Royals Sussex (Royal) Update As I wrote earlier, since tomorrow is the final day that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be considered senior royals, we should have been anticipating some updates…and we now have them. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Duke and Duchess of Sussex (@sussexroyal) on By Lainey • Mar 30, 2020 12:18 pm
Royals Sussex in America PEOPLE broke the news yesterday that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have left Canada and are now settled in Los Angeles. They’re apparently living now in a “secluded compound”. “A person in their circle previously told PEOPLE that they were “looking at houses in L.A.” “Harry is looking By Lainey • Mar 27, 2020 09:16 am
Royals Prince Andrew’s backdoor comeback Earlier this week, it was revealed that Prince Andrew had hired some big time extradition lawyers to help him avoid participating in the US investigation into his friendship with the dead rapist pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. It’s worth remembering that Andrew hung out with Epstein AFTER Epstein became a REGISTERED By Lainey • Mar 11, 2020 12:20 pm
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
Royals House Cambridge and the Curious Calendar Sussexit is official. Prince Harry left England last week to rejoin Meghan Markle and Archie Harrison Mountbatten Windsor in Canada. There have been a few stories here and there are about how everyone is coping but, for the most part, the royal family is about moving forward and carrying on. By Lainey • Jan 27, 2020 11:25 am
Media Manipulation Brad Pitt: “Blissfully Naïve” Oh look. Just when I thought yesterday that we wouldn’t be able to stretch the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston SAG Awards reunion any further, he’s giving the story at least another day! Brad was in Santa Barbara yesterday accepting the Maltin Modern Master Award and was asked By Lainey • Jan 23, 2020 03:43 pm
Media Manipulation The Business of Brad and Jen The pictures of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston greeting each other warmly backstage at the SAG Awards on Sunday pretty much broke the internet and gave the celebrity industrial complex a major infusion. The entire ecosystem benefitted from their moment, including other celebrities themselves who tweeted like fangirls and boys By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 11:09 am
Royals Prince Charles’s private jet to Davos Prince Charles is in Davos today to address the delegation and speak about climate change, urging world leaders and billionaires to get serious about saving the planet. On the Clarence House Instagram page, it says that Charles travelled by electric Jaguar after landing in Switzerland: View this post on Instagram By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 10:20 am
Royals Sussexit and “The Cartel” As mentioned in the previous post about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s announcement that they’ll be stepping down from their position as “senior” royals, it came with a fully functional, content-heavy updated website. Back in October, when Harry launched his Love Shield of 2019, the letter defending his By Lainey • Jan 09, 2020 11:05 am
Media Manipulation Gigi and Zayn together again? Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik broke up for a second (or third?) time in 2018 and up until recently, it looked like they were out of each other’s lives for good. Gigi, for a few weeks in the summer, looked like she was dating The Bachelorette’s Tyler Cameron. By Lainey • Dec 30, 2019 11:16 am
Weddings Gwen and Blake: a wedding glitch The new cover of PEOPLE this week features Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton. The headline on the cover tells us that after dating for four years, the two are ready to get married. In the article posted at PEOPLE.com, however, we find out that there’s a glitch: while By Lainey • Dec 11, 2019 11:30 am
