Celebrity Lifestyle Brands Intro for July 15, 2020 Dear Gossips, Rihanna’s FENTY is dropping a limited edition footwear release today. The collection has yet to be posted at the time of this writing and it’s not like I’m buying designer shoes right now but… I like to watch. Especially when it’s Rihanna. Rihanna dominated By Lainey • Jul 15, 2020 08:52 am
Equality Issues Rihanna gives again It’s just been announced that in partnership with Jack Dorsey’s #startsmall, Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation is donating more than $15 million to communities of colour struggling who have been disadvantage by racism during the COVID-19 pandemic: This is an important and specific point – to remind people of By Lainey • Jun 19, 2020 10:27 am
Rihanna Intro for May 14, 2020 Dear Gossips, The Sunday Times released their Rich List this week and Rihanna came in at #3 with an estimated fortune of £468 million which shouldn’t be news, really, since last year Forbes reported that she’s the world’s wealthiest female musician. You wouldn’t know it from By Lainey • May 14, 2020 08:53 am
Gossip Nostalgia Intro for May 4, 2020 Dear Gossips, If not for the pandemic, tonight would be one of the biggest pop culture nights of the year, the Met Gala. The photos and videos and gossip that come out of the Met Gala can sustain us for months. The Met Gala is where Taylor Swift and Tom By Lainey • May 04, 2020 09:03 am
Rihanna Rihanna is busy, OK?! Diddy wasn’t the only one dancing on IG live this weekend. As mentioned last week, Rihanna hosted a virtual party to promote Fenty on Friday night (while making multiple million dollar donations in support of those affected by COVID-19). Social media freaked out seeing her coordinate choreography with Lil By Lainey • Apr 13, 2020 10:10 am
Top Reads Rihanna Pulls Up – again Last week, Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation donated $5 million to support COVID-19 relief efforts. A few days later, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo thanked her on Twitter for donating Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to New York State. Today there’s been another announcement: View this post on Instagram A By Lainey • Mar 31, 2020 01:40 pm
Music Rihanna goes viral… for five words But first – earlier this week, Rihanna donated $5 million through her foundation to help with COVID-19 relief efforts. And she’s not done giving. Yesterday Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, publicly thanked for her another contribution: I want to thank @rihanna and the Rihanna Foundation for donating Personal Protective By Lainey • Mar 27, 2020 11:05 am
Top Reads Drake and Rihanna’s SD Flirting Celebrities are really coming through for us during lockdown, aren’t they? They’re doing chain-songs and giving us cringe, they’re resuscitating old beefs that no one was asking for, they’re giving us confessionals from their bathtubs, they’re falling in love, they’re reading to us, they’ By Lainey • Mar 25, 2020 10:47 am
Rihanna Rihanna Comes Through Today is the start our second week of social distancing and self-isolation in Canada and it’s been fascinating to see the variety of responses that people, especially celebrities, have had to the global pandemic. Some, like the Biebers, are learning TikTok dances at home and enjoying isolated walks in By Prem • Mar 23, 2020 10:23 am
Gorgessity Rihanna: “tell your friends to pull up” Rihanna was honoured with the President’s Award at the NAACP Image Awards this weekend for philanthropic and social justice efforts. She made her speech all about what others are doing and what others can do – and the way she put it, it’s not complicated. “Tell your friends to By Lainey • Feb 24, 2020 12:22 pm
Relationship Assumption Rihanna: Drake or Rocky? It was reported late last week that after three years, Rihanna and Hassan Jameel had broken up. Rihanna spent time with Hassan and his family. She spent time with him in London. She mentioned him in interviews – not extensively but she did acknowledge that she had a “boyfriend” and seemed By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 03:55 pm
Style Janet steps out for Rihanna Rihanna’s fashion house, Fenty, isn’t even six months old yet. And already it’s winning awards. Last night Rihanna accepted the Urban Luxe Award for Fenty at the Fashion Awards in London. She wore her own label, of course, and she received the honour from a legend, Janet By Lainey • Dec 03, 2019 11:44 am
Style Rihanna, Zendaya, Olivia, Charlize, and Celine This is a straight up fashion post – four looks from last night that are really, really good, that could have been contenders, but not as good as Celine Dion’s Outfit of the Week that I posted yesterday and, besides, we’ve retired Zendaya in all consideration for “Best” because By Lainey • Nov 15, 2019 01:25 pm
Rihanna Rihanna’s smell Before we get into the smell of Rihanna, I just want to take a moment to point out how fickle we are – like the internet, we are f-ckle assholes, always looking for the next hit, never loyal to the last hit. A few days ago, after Rihanna showed up at By Lainey • Oct 25, 2019 12:25 pm
Ex Games Drake & Rihanna: “God’s Plan” During Rihanna’s “Go Ask Anna” segment for Vogue recently, Anna Wintour asked her if she planned to have a baby soon. Rihanna’s response: “God’s plan”. And our eyebrows went up. (You can watch it here, around the 3:05 mark.) As we allllllll know, Rihanna and Drake By Lainey • Oct 23, 2019 09:20 am
Rihanna Rihanna’s personal space Rihanna was at Rolling Loud supporting A$AP Rocky the other day and hung out with him backstage. At one point, someone comes up and puts his arm around her. She did not want his arm around her. And she made that very clear – NSFW language (source: Buzzfeed) Rihanna says By Lainey • Oct 16, 2019 04:23 pm
