Royals Did the Queen know about Prince Andrew and his sweat glands? The fallout from Prince Andrew’s shambolic interview with Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight continues. It was a unanimous bomb. A major disaster. A total sh-t show to the point where even the British tabloids can’t avoid it as, you know, they prefer another royal target. But it’s By Lainey • Nov 19, 2019 10:36 am
Relationship Assumption Brad Pitt & Alia Shawkat: Art Lovers Two names you wouldn’t have predicted to be in a headline together, right? Brad Pitt and Alia Shawkat were seen together at the “LA on Fire” art exhibit on Saturday showcasing the work of over 50 artists telling the story of how Los Angeles has burned through the years. By Lainey • Nov 19, 2019 09:25 am
Royals Prince Andrew’s “honourable” sweat glands As noted in the previous post, Prince Andrew and Team York did a piss poor job preparing for their interview with BBC Newsnight and Emily Maitlis. It was a unanimous and unmitigated disaster. There is absolutely no one, except for Lady Colin Campbell, who can find one shred of positivity By Lainey • Nov 18, 2019 12:11 pm
Royals Prince Andrew’s “no holds barred” interview BBC Newsnight announced this morning that they’d landed an exclusive interview with Prince Andrew about his friend, the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. And they clearly have enough here to turn it into a one hour special on Saturday night. WORLD EXCLUSIVE: In a #Newsnight @BBCTwo interview recorded yesterday By Lainey • Nov 15, 2019 12:01 pm
Girly Throw Downs Taylor Swift asks for help This past summer, at the end of June, Big Machine Label Group, Taylor Swift’s former label, the label she was signed to at the beginning of her career, and the label that released her first six albums, right up to reputation, was acquired by Ithaca Holdings, led by Scooter By Lainey • Nov 15, 2019 10:25 am
Royals House Sussex to skip Royal Christmas It’s been speculated for days that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would not be joining the Queen and other members of the royal family for Royal Christmas at Sandringham. Buckingham Palace confirmed in a statement yesterday that the Sussexes will indeed be skipping it this year: "The Duke By Lainey • Nov 14, 2019 09:21 am
Award Season Campaigning JLo and Bobby Sarah and I wrote about Variety’s Actors on Actors series yesterday - she posted about Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans interviewing each other and I posted about Brad Pitt and Adam Sandler. Neither one was all that exciting, and neither had the randomness that makes these features interesting. Jennifer By Lainey • Nov 13, 2019 03:03 pm
Maple Leaf Courtside with Shawn and Camila What did I tell you last week when I posted about Camila Cabello being papped while on the phone, assuring us that she and Shawn Mendes were still together? I wrote that Shawn was on break from his tour soon and that we’d be imminently getting another relationship update By Lainey • Nov 12, 2019 03:21 pm
Maple Leaf Keanu & Alexandra: The Couple of the Week We’re not going to make the “couple of the week” a regular feature. The reason there’s a couple of the week this week is because, well, of the all the celebrity couples you would have expected to be the most-talked-about couple this week, you would have never predicted By Lainey • Nov 08, 2019 01:48 pm
Top Reads Lady Gaga and Oprah talk about Bradley Cooper We’ll get to Bradley Cooper in a minute. Let’s first talk about this conversation between Lady Gaga and Oprah for the new issue of ELLE. How did this happen? For all the things she has going on, how did Oprah end up interviewing Gaga for a magazine? When By Lainey • Nov 07, 2019 11:38 am
Relationship Assumption Pete and Kaia: another “just friends” dinner Pete Davidson and Kaia Gerber were seen together last month, prompting speculation about whether or not they’re dating, especially since at that time it had just been revealed that he and Margaret Qualley had broken up after a few months – and, given Pete’s romance history the last year By Lainey • Nov 07, 2019 11:03 am
BFFs Whitney according to Robyn If you are a fan of Whitney Houston, you know about Robyn Crawford. Robyn was Whitney’s best friend from adolescence to adulthood. Robyn was Whitney’s creative director for a while and toured with her often. Where there was Whitney, there was always Robyn, until Robyn quit and left By Lainey • Nov 07, 2019 10:16 am
Top Reads Angelina Jolie: Her Wild Identity Over the last few months, as she’s stepped back into the spotlight with the announcement that she’s part of Marvel’s Eternals and during promotion for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, it feels like we’ve been watching the rebirth of Angelina Jolie. She’s been more accessible than By Lainey • Nov 05, 2019 11:33 am
Sports Prince Harry in the locker room Prince Harry was in Tokyo for the Rugby World Cup 2019 Final this weekend between England and South Africa. There was also time on his schedule for him to meet with local schoolchildren. This moment of him interacting with a group of girls who told him he was handsome has By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 10:13 am
Royals Prince Andrew loses an aide Prince Andrew spent the weekend at the ASEAN Summit in Bangkok, promoting his Pitch@Palace initiative. Here he is posing with Mr Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, Prime Minister of Vietnam. I’m including it because it reminds me of an email I got last week from a reader called Deborah who By Lainey • Nov 04, 2019 09:22 am
Royals Meghan’s Thank You Call Earlier this week, 72 female British Members of Parliament wrote an open letter to Meghan Markle, offering their support and solidarity “against the distasteful and misleading” stories about her in the British tabloids. It was MP Holly Lynch who led the initiative and she was interviewed yesterday about the letter By Lainey • Oct 31, 2019 10:43 am
