Top Reads House Party with House Cambridge and… the social media manager mystery Prince William and Catherine video-chatted with teachers and students at Casterton Primary Academy yesterday to check in with the staff and the kids during the lockdown. They likely weren’t on House Party. Zoom is the daytime platform, and certainly more on brand with House Cambridge. So the title here By Lainey • Apr 09, 2020 09:39 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
Royals Harry & Meghan V 2.0 After months of gossip and drama, these are the last days of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as senior members of the British royal family. After putting up their final post on the SussexRoyal Instagram account yesterday, signing off as “Harry and Meghan”, perhaps a sign that they’re now By Lainey • Mar 31, 2020 11:13 am
Royals Sussex (Royal) Update As I wrote earlier, since tomorrow is the final day that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be considered senior royals, we should have been anticipating some updates…and we now have them. View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Duke and Duchess of Sussex (@sussexroyal) on By Lainey • Mar 30, 2020 12:18 pm
Royals Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: security and diplomatic status Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were trending worldwide on Twitter yesterday for a few hours. They were not the reason why they were trending. It’s because Donald Trump tweeted about them, along with boasting about his “ratings” and comparing how popular his COVID-19 press conferences have been to The By Lainey • Mar 30, 2020 10:29 am
Maple Leaf Meet Adonis Graham Drake must have had a hard time sleeping last night. Because at around 5am ET, and he’s been in Toronto since the start of isolation, he decided it was time to introduce us to his son, Adonis. And he included a photo of Adonis’s mother, Sophie Brussaux. View By Lainey • Mar 30, 2020 09:50 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Joshua gives Jodie a pre-baby gift The original title of this post was “Jodie Gets a Push Present”. And then I wondered… is the term “push present” offensive? So then I googled “is push present offensive” and I didn’t even have to complete the search term, it just came up automatically, because I guess at By Lainey • Mar 27, 2020 10:32 am
Royals Sussex in America PEOPLE broke the news yesterday that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have left Canada and are now settled in Los Angeles. They’re apparently living now in a “secluded compound”. “A person in their circle previously told PEOPLE that they were “looking at houses in L.A.” “Harry is looking By Lainey • Mar 27, 2020 09:16 am
Royals Meghan Markle’s SD content Everyone out there right now is providing recommendations about what you can binge during social distancing while we’re all on lockdown trying to flatten the curve. We’ve created our own “SD Recommendations” tag here with content suggestions. And now we have one more to add to the list: By Lainey • Mar 26, 2020 01:42 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina + Six in Isolation Angelina Jolie plus all six of her kids are in isolation together. But first, Angelina’s $1 million donation to No Kid Hungry was announced yesterday. In a statement posted to the organisation’s website, Angelina wrote: “As of this week, over a billion children are out of school worldwide By Lainey • Mar 26, 2020 12:15 pm
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
Relationship Assumption Shawn & Camila: Love in Isolation Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello are together during lockdown. They went live on Instagram the other day for the Global Citizen Together at Home concert series, featuring artists performing while social distancing, encouraging people to stay in, keep their distance, and help flatten the curve. During their broadcast, Shawn and By Lainey • Mar 24, 2020 11:03 am
Girly Throw Downs Taylor vs Kim: A Social Distancing Petty-Off The full video of the phone call between Taylor Swift and Kanye West leaked a few days ago, resulting in a gossip revival– during this time of uncertainty, three of the most dramatic pop culture players of our time have come to provide us with a distraction. And it’s By Lainey • Mar 24, 2020 09:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pretty Woman: a Feminist Icon on film Oh, yo. Oh, yo. Catch this… Today is the 30th anniversary of the release of Pretty Woman! If you, like me, were forever changed and shaped by this film, then I wish you a happy anniversary, and apologies that we can no longer deny the march of time. Although given By Duana • Mar 23, 2020 12:19 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben and Ana: Coronavirus Cohabitation? You know what profession might be well-suited to social distancing? Paparazzi. If they’re using long lens and keeping three meters away, it looks like they can still do their jobs. Here are Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas out for a morning walk with her dog this weekend. They’ By Lainey • Mar 23, 2020 10:49 am
Music Swift vs West: This Beef Will Survive the Apocalypse During social distancing and isolation, some of us have been going back to “comfort content”, watching old shows and movies, re-reading books, nostalgia playlists. Is this story gossip version of that? No matter what happens, Taylor Swift vs Kim and Kanye West will go on. It will be in the By Lainey • Mar 23, 2020 09:52 am
