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 Lopez 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 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
BFFs Selena Gomez: toxic relationships and complicated alliances Big week for Selena Gomez last week with the release of two new singles after a lengthy absence. But as she’s been saying while promoting the music, she was hurting and she was struggling and now that she says she’s moved past it, she’s ready to share By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 10:49 am
Top Reads Ben Affleck’s “difficult and elusive” sobriety Ben Affleck has been out of rehab for a year now. Last week all the headlines about Ben were related to his romantic life – how he may or may not be using the Raya dating app to meet people. On Saturday, seemingly addressing the rumours, he posted this on social By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 09:12 am
Royals Harry gives Meghan a ride The Queen’s Commonwealth Vice President, Meghan Markle of House Sussex, participated in a roundtable discussion today at Windsor Castle with One Young World to discuss gender equality and inclusion with young leaders from around the world. She brought along a surprise guest. 1/ We're here and we By Lainey • Oct 25, 2019 10:25 am
Music Look At Selena Now Selena Gomez is giving no one any time to breathe this week. People still hadn’t come down from the drama of “Lose You To Love Me” yesterday and Hailey Bieber’s reaction to it, which she claims was no reaction at all, and then, without warning, Selena dropped a By Lainey • Oct 24, 2019 09:59 am
Music Selena loses Justin to love herself Selena Gomez released her new song “Lose You To Love Me” last night. When Prem wrote about the rollout of this last week, he noted that there were some hints that it would be a love song – and speculated if we’d be hearing about Justin Bieber or The Weeknd. By Lainey • Oct 23, 2019 10:00 am
Royals Prince William is “worried” about Prince Harry As expected, after Harry & Meghan: An African Journey aired on ITV in the UK on Sunday night, during which Meghan Markle said that it’s been a struggle to cope with the relentless attack of the British tabloids and Prince Harry revealed that worrying about his wife and child By Lainey • Oct 22, 2019 10:13 am