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
TV Updates What should Keke Palmer do next? Page Six is reporting Keke’s Palmer’s latest gig as co-host of Strahan, Sara & Keke has come to an end. Sources say ABC has no plans to resume production on the Good Morning America spinoff, after it was put on hiatus to make room for pandemic news programming By Cody • Jul 10, 2020 02:23 pm
Douchebags 50 Cent, Lil Wayne, and the misogyny in rap Last weekend, a clip began to circulate of 50 Cent on Lil Wayne’s radio show where he was ranting about Black women’s reaction to him dating “exotic women”, which kicked off a stream of consciousness that is very difficult to follow. Here’s some of what he said: By Melayna • Jul 10, 2020 10:39 am
Top Reads Thandie Newton: A career shaped by pain When we analyze an actor’s career, we often look at what common threads can be found among the projects they’ve been a part of and what does it say about that artist. This week we learned that the common thread of Thandie Newton’s career is pain. E. By Cody • Jul 09, 2020 12:43 pm
Music V is #1 Earlier this week in the site intro, I wrote about BTS’s latest record. Their song “Black Swan” hit #1 on iTunes in its 103rd country, the most of any song in history, breaking Adele’s five year record with “Hello”. Since then, “Black Swan” added another country to its By Lainey • Jul 08, 2020 01:23 pm
Royals Prince Andrew’s Royal “Affluenza”? LOLOLOLOLOLOL, this is rich. Now that Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested, people are wondering about a possible list of names, and who she’ll sell out to save herself. Did you watch Filthy Rich on Netflix? If you did, you’ll remember, in the last episode, it was strongly suggested By Lainey • Jul 07, 2020 02:05 pm
Royals Prince Harry on the colonial past Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are the President and Vice President of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust. “The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust is a growing network of young changemakers across the Commonwealth. A platform where smart ideas and insights are shared, to show that change can be brought about by By Lainey • Jul 07, 2020 10:33 am
Royals Prince Andrew: No Spain, No Golf According to Page Six, Prince Andrew won’t be going on his annual summer golf trip to Spain this year. Poor Andrew. Spending some time in the hot Spanish sun might have done some good for his defective sweat glands. You’ll recall, last year, after Jeffrey Epstein was found By Lainey • Jul 06, 2020 11:03 am
Royals “Unprotected” Meghan Markle There’s been an update in the lawsuit that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have filed against the Mail on Sunday. Apparently the Mail keeps asking Meghan’s legal team for more information. In a f-cked up way, this helps the Daily Mail generate more content. Because every time they By Lainey • Jul 02, 2020 11:23 am
Top Reads Ghislaine Maxwell arrested?! “Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and heiress who became a confidante of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and was later accused of involvement in his alleged sexual crimes, has been arrested by the FBI, two senior law enforcement sources tell News 4 New York. She was arrested in New Hampshire on By Lainey • Jul 02, 2020 10:10 am
Amazingness Queen Bey announces Black is King Last week I wrote about Beyoncé flexing her brilliance on the surprise Juneteenth song, “Black Parade”. Who knew that a such an important piece of her discography would set the stage for ‘something way bigger? After being honoured with the Humanitarian Award at Sunday’s BET Awards, Beyoncé used her By Cody • Jun 29, 2020 09:26 am
Music “March March” with The Chicks The artists who used to go by The Dixie Chicks announced a name change yesterday and released a new song. They are now “The Chicks”. The reason being that the word “dixie” is, like “antebellum”, associated with a time in the South when Black people were oppressed. It romanticises an By Lainey • Jun 26, 2020 11:07 am
Hook Ups Timmy and Eiza: the new hot couple People were sending me this all night, my friends, you gossips, and on social media, and I know that because Timothee Chalamet is an Internet Boyfriend, and I exist online, he’s obviously a big deal in my bubble but I wonder, beyond that online popularity (which for many feels By Lainey • Jun 24, 2020 10:13 am
Top Reads Megan Amram and me Megan Amram is a comedy writer whose work has been featured on The Good Place and she also created the webseries An Emmy For Megan. She was called out on Twitter a few days ago for past problematic tweets. You can read about the situation here. Megan has apologised and By Lainey • Jun 22, 2020 02:37 pm
Top Reads Lonnie Chavis: Growing up Black Lonnie Chavis is one of the stars of This Is Us, he plays the young version of Sterling K Brown’s character, Randall. He has written an essay about the experience of growing up Black, and please, particularly if you are not Black or Indigneous, please read it because right By Lainey • Jun 18, 2020 11:23 am
Music BTS’s Lockdown Innovation COVID-19 has disrupted every industry and where the entertainment industry is concerned, even though musicians are in a better position to release new content than those in television and film, it’s the live experience that artists are still trying to figure out and how to make technology work in By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 02:45 pm
