Top Reads Brad & Jen: the award season gossip orgasm Anticipation for the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston “red carpet run-in”, as we call it in the business, has been building since the Golden Globe nominations were announced back in December with both receiving nominations. It did not happen at the Globes, although Brad was asked about it and he By Lainey • Jan 20, 2020 09:35 am
Royals Prince Harry and all his friends Prince Harry today was at Buckingham Palace to host the Rugby 2021 World Cup draw. This is his first official engagement since the Sandringham Summit, after which the Queen announced her support for Sussexit. Some are wondering whether or not it might be his last appearance as a senior royal. By Lainey • Jan 16, 2020 09:19 am
Royals The Cambridges post-Sussexit Prince William and Catherine visited Bradford today. It’s been two days since the Queen publicly supported Sussexit and two days since the Sandringham summit, where William gathered with his father and brother and discussed the terms of Prince Harry stepping back from royal duties. As we know, and this By Lainey • Jan 15, 2020 11:25 am
Maple Leaf Meghan Markle and the DTES Meghan Markle was photographed for the first time since she and Prince Harry announced on Instagram last week that they would like to step back from royal duties and spend part of their time living abroad. And this just 48 hours after the Queen’s letter was released confirming that By Lainey • Jan 15, 2020 10:18 am
Royals Sussexit: an early win The Summit at Sandringham has concluded. Here are a few brief thoughts for now and we’ll get deeper into it as the evening progresses. For now, here’s the Queen’s statement following the meeting: First impressions? This was hastily written. It lacks the polish that usually accompanies the By Lainey • Jan 13, 2020 01:09 pm
Royals Sussexit: The Pre-Summit Leaks Buckingham Palace announced this weekend that the Queen has asked Prince Charles, Prince William, and Prince Harry to convene with her at Sandringham today so that they can agree on a Sussexit plan going forward as they consider all the options for Harry and Meghan Markle’s new royal playbook. By Lainey • Jan 13, 2020 10:23 am
Royals Sussexit: The Negotiations It’s only been 48 hours since House Sussex publicly announced their intention to create a new job description for themselves and the story keeps changing and updating. Quick recap: when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle first released their statement, Buckingham Palace soon followed, less than two hours later with By Lainey • Jan 10, 2020 03:52 pm
Royals Sussexit: “Financial Independence” Much of the negative and often inaccurate coverage around the royal family and particularly Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have to do with money. How much it cost to renovate their place, how much it cost for them to go on holiday, how much the baby shower was, how much By Lainey • Jan 09, 2020 01:19 pm
Royals Sussexit and “The Cartel” As mentioned in the previous post about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s announcement that they’ll be stepping down from their position as “senior” royals, it came with a fully functional, content-heavy updated website. Back in October, when Harry launched his Love Shield of 2019, the letter defending his By Lainey • Jan 09, 2020 11:05 am
Royals Sussexit: The Timing Yesterday, January 8, 2020, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle of House Sussex (for now, anyway), announced that they will be stepping back as “senior” members of the British royal family and declared their intention to be “financially independent”. My friend Kayla joked that Meghan basically told Harry to get a By Lainey • Jan 09, 2020 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Kit and Rose at the Golden Globes We didn’t have time to get to Kit Harington and Rose Leslie during our Monday Golden Globes coverage yesterday but it was nice to see them back on the red carpet together, and so happy. Not just happy but… I don’t know if this is exactly the right By Lainey • Jan 07, 2020 04:47 pm
Maple Leaf House Sussex loves Canada Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spent the holiday on Canada's west coast, seen on Vancouver Island and also Vancouver around Christmas and New Year’s. They are now back at home in London and yesterday announced that their first official engagement of 2020 would be a visit to By Lainey • Jan 07, 2020 12:50 pm
Hook Ups Michelle Williams & Thomas Kail: Engaged and Expecting Well here’s an interestingly timed new couple alert. So much to unpack here but let’s start with when and how. PEOPLE.com broke the news last night that Michelle Williams and Thomas Kail are engaged and she’s pregnant with their first child. Michelle Williams Is Pregnant and By Lainey • Dec 31, 2019 10:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Best Films of the Decade (2010s): Part II For Part 1 of The Best Films of the Decade, please click here. The final half of the best films of the decade. As always, this list is alphabetical, not ranked. The Love Witch (2016) A film of singular artistic vision, The Love Witch is produced, written, directed, edited, AND By Sarah • Dec 20, 2019 01:46 pm
Music Mimi just keeps giving It’s five days until Christmas! And our generous Christmas Butterfly just keeps giving! This, after all, is the season of Mimi. Mariah Carey IS Christmas, a fact. As we know, Mimi’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first By Lainey • Dec 20, 2019 10:47 am
Royals The Body Language of Will and Kate For a couple of days now people have been talking about a moment that happened during A Berry Royal Christmas that aired in the UK on Monday. Let’s start with today though. Prince William and Catherine of House Cambridge cover the new issue of PEOPLE, the issue that will By Lainey • Dec 18, 2019 11:43 am
