Music BTS: Top Charts, Top Stocks Sometimes I wonder if BTS and their label Big Hit have in their possession a crystal ball, or some kind of magical instrument, that helps them manipulate time and space to their advantage. Because their timing is a total mindf-ck, as they build upon their successes, one after another, with By Lainey • Oct 15, 2020 04:07 pm
BFFs Hang out with Matt & Ben We went from seeing Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas every day to… no BenAna, for weeks! Months now? They’re now back in LA after being in Ireland when he was shooting The Last Duel but so far, there have been no paparazzi-documented dog walks or coffee runs, although By Lainey • Oct 15, 2020 01:33 pm
Royals The Unmasked Monarch In the UK, there are various stages of lockdown being imposed as COVID-19 infections continue to climb. Liverpool is at the most restricted level of lockdown and not sure if you saw the footage the other day but people were partying on the streets, in tightly-packed crowds, just before the By Lainey • Oct 15, 2020 11:50 am
Music Demi Lovato takes aim at Trump We’re less than three weeks away from the U.S. presidential election and while some stars are trying to seemingly-apolitically “Rock the Vote,” others are blatantly waving their anti-Trump flag extra hard. Demi Lovato’s literally lending her voice to the chorus with her protest song “Commander in Chief. By Cody • Oct 15, 2020 09:15 am
Dumbass Dominic West: Not a Cheater, Just a “Big Teddy Bear” I wonder if there are a few public relations experts or crisis management specialists out there considering offering their services pro bono to Dominic West right now. F-ck it, I’m not technically in PR but I’m around it enough to be able to provide some guidance and I By Lainey • Oct 14, 2020 10:04 am
Cheating Loins Dominic West’s Cheating Scandal Here’s a celebrity cheating scandal that hits all the triggers. An older married actor, who starred in a series about a couple’s affair, is seen in a lascivious embrace with a younger actress in photos taken by paparazzi… in Rome, no less! Rome, of course, is the setting By Lainey • Oct 13, 2020 09:58 am
Music Harry Styles: Grammys and “Golden”? Harry Styles was seen in LA last night and according the pap who took these photos, it was a “dinner date” with a “mystery girl”. I’m not quite sure who the “mystery girl” is because there are two women – one in red and the other in a white top By Lainey • Oct 07, 2020 02:22 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Lenny & Lisa’s Love Story We kicked off the day with nostalgia. Should we keep it going? Lenny Kravitz has a memoir out called Let Love Rule which… obviously. That album, and the follow-up, Mama Said, ruled my life at the end of high school and through university. Still now, when I hear the first By Lainey • Oct 07, 2020 10:54 am
Top Reads Rihanna’s “Unintentional” Intention Rihanna was a major trending topic on Twitter on Sunday after the release of her Savage X Fenty Vol 2 fashion show on Prime Video. As you may have seen, people were really excited about the collection. So the fact that she was trending was not necessarily a surprise – she By Lainey • Oct 06, 2020 01:11 pm
Music BTS 101 for Grammy Voters As mentioned yesterday, BTS covers the new issue of Variety, which is the Grammy preview issue – so it’s pretty clear the motivation. It’s not like they’ve been hiding it; for a long time RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook have been saying for a long By Lainey • Sep 30, 2020 01:16 pm
Quiveration BTS’s Happy Harvest Moon As mentioned in yesterday’s open and over the years on this site, it’s a holiday week for those of us of East Asian descent. On Thursday October 1 it’s Tet Trung Thu in Vietnamese culture. The Japanese call it Tsukimi. For Chinese people it’s our Mid-Autumn By Lainey • Sep 29, 2020 02:31 pm
Top Reads Chadwick Boseman’s “Donation” to Sienna Miller Empire Magazine’s new issue is dedicated to Chadwick Boseman featuring interviews with his collaborators, colleagues, and co-stars. One of those people is Sienna Miller. They worked on 21 Bridges together and Sienna shares the story of how she came to sign onto the film and what Chadwick did to By Lainey • Sep 29, 2020 10:48 am
Dumbass Eddie Redmayne sticks his foot in Eddie Redmayne is promoting The Trial of the Chicago 7, the upcoming Aaron Sorkin film and one of Netflix’s starriest Oscar hopefuls for the year. In the film, Redmayne portrays activist Tom Hayden, one of the defendants in the trial, and to promote the film, he gave an interview By Sarah • Sep 29, 2020 10:14 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Baby of Kit and Rose Kit Harington and Rose Leslie celebrated their second wedding anniversary back in June. They’d been living in New York for a few years during their engagement and early part of their marriage while she was working on The Good Fight but spent much of last year in England as By Lainey • Sep 28, 2020 01:26 pm
Music BTS: New Album, New Remix, and IPO Up to this point this year, BTS has released a worldwide bestselling album (Map of the Soul: 7), a Japanese-language album, a docuseries and a documentary film, continued with their existing reality show (RUN BTS!) while filming a new series (In The SOOP), performed a virtual concert for an audience By Lainey • Sep 28, 2020 12:14 pm
Books Mariah & Oprah When I heard Mariah Carey was sitting down with Oprah to promote her memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey (which comes out tomorrow) I was ready to inject it in my veins. Mariah Carey’s The Emancipation of Mimi is one of the defining albums of my childhood and The By Cody • Sep 28, 2020 09:47 am
