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 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
Relationship Assumption Jen & Brad and Gwyneth & Brad Jennifer Aniston hosted a Christmas party at her place this weekend. The paparazzi were there and got photos of her celebrity guests: Tom Hanks, Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson, Lisa Kudrow, Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk were seen pulling up, and another Brad too – Brad Pitt. A Pitt and two exes By Lainey • Dec 17, 2019 11:31 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Jodie and Jodie are having a baby, right? Jodie Turner-Smith and Joshua Jackson walked their first red carpet together last month at the premiere of Queen & Slim and, as I predicted in that post, there was going to be some Bump Watch. Here they are yesterday at the airport in Berlin and… well… They’re having By Lainey • Dec 16, 2019 09:35 am
Music Taylor Swift: the “Artist of the Decade” is 30 Today is Taylor Swift’s 30th birthday. I can’t believe it’s gone by so fast. I feel like it was just two years ago when all that sh-t went down between her and Kanye West at the MTV VMAs. We’ll come back to Taylor’s big By Lainey • Dec 13, 2019 11:29 am
Amazingness The Holiday Spirit with Mimi and Alison The dark side of the Force has been challenging my holiday spirit the last couple of days. But I’ve had an assist from an Angel and a Butterfly. Went to see Celine Dion on Tuesday night and the Queen of All Feelings gave me all the feelings to sustain By Lainey • Dec 12, 2019 03:58 pm
