Royals Meghan Markle, Mental Health, and the British Royal Institution This post may be triggering for those suffering with mental health issues. One of the most disturbing revelations that came out of Oprah’s interview with Meghan Markle was that Meghan’s mental health was so fragile during her pregnancy that she “didn’t want to be alive anymore” and By Lainey • Mar 08, 2021 08:08 am
Royals Intro for March 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, Last week, I kept calling it the Television Event of the Year. And, well, that wasn’t an exaggeration, was it? Now that we’ve finally seen Oprah’s two-hour special with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, it was clear from the very first block that it would By Lainey • Mar 08, 2021 07:38 am
Top Reads Oprah Asks Meghan: Why Now Is The Right Time? Are you ready for the television event of the year on Sunday? I was talking to someone yesterday who isn’t even into royal sh-t and she was like, I need to watch this interview, and I don’t have cable, I have to figure out how I can make By Lainey • Mar 05, 2021 01:36 pm
Top Reads “If There’s An Active Role That The Firm Is Playing” “Were you silent or were you silenced?” is the question that featured prominently in the first teaser for Oprah’s two-hour Prince Harry and Meghan Markle special that CBS released on Sunday. As we’ve now seen, it was enough to panic the British royal family who have now retaliated By Lainey • Mar 04, 2021 11:00 am
Royals Royals Investigating Royals For all the times that we’ve heard about the British royal family staying above the fray, and never complaining or explaining, the events of this week should shut that sh-t down forever, non? The British royals are out here doing the MOST right now, as we get closer and By Lainey • Mar 04, 2021 09:36 am
Royals Intro for March 4, 2021 Dear Gossips, “Could this whole night have been an email” is what Tina Fey jokingly asked at one point during the Golden Globes the other night. In retrospect, probably quite a few people would have preferred the email? The SAG Awards will not be an email. But by award show By Lainey • Mar 04, 2021 08:58 am
Royals The Curious Case of Meghan’s Earrings If it wasn’t obvious that the new report in The Times, featuring information provided by royal aides, was part of a smear campaign against Meghan Markle, the story about the earrings, packaged in along with allegations that she bullied staff members, pretty much drives the point home. It has By Lainey • Mar 03, 2021 11:53 am
Top Reads The Royals On The Attack We are now just four days away from Oprah Winfrey’s exclusive two-hour special on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, featuring their first sit-down interview together since their engagement. And, if the previews are to be believed, Oprah is going there. “Were you silent or were you SILENCED?” Not surprisingly By Lainey • Mar 03, 2021 10:35 am
Golden Globes 2021 The Crown: A Royal Sweep Not the best night for the actual British royals was it? Before the Golden Globes started, CBS dropped their first teaser for Oprah’s exclusive with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle which is all they’re talking about in the media in England today, and then during the Globes, The By Lainey • Mar 01, 2021 08:14 am
Golden Globes 2021 Intro for March 1, 2021 Dear Gossips, Ordinarily in this space on Golden Globe Monday, we’d be leading with a note about the Globes to kick off our Globes package. That… is not what’s happening today. And it’s not just because the Globes were virtual-ish. After all, we had a whole Emmys By Lainey • Mar 01, 2021 05:00 am
Amazingness Prince Harry’s Carpool Karaoke Thirst Trap What a major score for CBS and the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle exclusives. Their Oprah Winfrey special with the Sussexes airs on March 7 and they also air James Corden, which means Carpool Karaoke is theirs too. Before we get to the Harry specifics though, let me just get By Lainey • Feb 26, 2021 09:58 am
Top Reads A Royal Ratings Battle A week ago today, CBS announced that it had secured Oprah Winfrey’s exclusive interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, their first sit-down, together, since their engagement. This followed news that the Sussexes are expecting their second child. The week ended with the Queen’s confirmation that Harry and By Lainey • Feb 22, 2021 11:39 am
Royals Harry and Meghan: We Won’t Be Back What a week it’s been for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle headlines. On Sunday they announced that they’re expecting their second child. On Monday CBS announced that they’re doing an interview with Oprah for a 90-minute special. All week there’s been speculation about the end of By Lainey • Feb 19, 2021 10:31 am
Royals Prince Harry: “Loved and Led Astray”? Well, it’s been the talk of the week, as it usually is where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are concerned and this week has been a big one with the news that Meghan is pregnant with their second child and that they’re to be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey By Lainey • Feb 18, 2021 01:01 pm
Douchebags Oprah Gets the Meghan Treatment Since Monday, when CBS announced that it will air the 90 minute Oprah Winfrey in conversation with Meghan Markle special on March 7, there’s been a lot of angst about it over in the UK. The tabloids, as usual, are accusing Prince Harry and Meghan of hypocrisy; they’re By Lainey • Feb 17, 2021 11:16 am
Royals Oprah and the Sussexes Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have dominated the headlines with their pregnancy announcement on Valentine’s Day, revealing their happy news a few days after Meghan’s legal victory over the Daily Mail. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of saltiness happening. Even more so since it was By Lainey • Feb 16, 2021 10:49 am