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 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 By Lainey • Jun 16, 2020 02:45 pm
Top Reads Brad Pitt at the protest and Alia Shawkat apologises Brad Pitt was seen at the Black Lives Matter protest in LA on Sunday. The Daily Mail has exclusive rights to the photo that was taken by another protester. “Protester Aree Khodai, 42, said she saw the star riding with the crowds. 'The amount of people there was amazing. By Lainey • Jun 09, 2020 01:24 pm
Legal issues Team Andrew on the Unfair Treatment of Prince Andrew I mean, let’s just all go ahead and get the LOLs out of the way. LOLOLOLOLOLOL. These are bitter LOLs though. You’ll learn why soon. Prince Andrew was reportedly ordered by US authorities to provide testimony in the ongoing investigation into the crimes of his friend, the dead By Lainey • Jun 09, 2020 10:02 am
Music BTS and the Avengers I’m sure you’ve seen it but there was a clip that went viral the other day after Jemele Hill tweeted it and many of you sent it to me because it checks all my boxes. As you know, I’m super into the Avengers. Not too long ago, By Lainey • Jun 08, 2020 04:45 pm
Dumbass JK Rowling isn’t just Transphobic – she’s a Troll Let me raise my hand as one of those who was shocked by JK Rowling’s tweets on Saturday evening. Not because of her transphobic views, which erase, diminish, and harm the trans community – though it’s important to be clear that they do, especially since Rowling has such an By Duana • Jun 08, 2020 01:56 pm
Top Reads The (Paid) Royal Leaks? Many months ago, as far back as October 2019, I wrote about an interesting item that appeared in the Popbitch newsletter about the Sun’s Dan Wootton and his relationship with a member of Prince William and Catherine’s communications team. The item read as follows: “It was curious seeing By Lainey • Jun 08, 2020 10:02 am
Top Reads Meghan Markle, the British Royal Family, and Black Lives Matter A video message from Meghan Markle to the students of Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles was released yesterday featuring Meghan voicing outrage over the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others and declaring her support for Black Lives Matter. Dickie Arbiter, who used to be By Lainey • Jun 05, 2020 09:54 am
