Top Reads Nicole Kidman: Emmys Best (and most controversial?) Acceptance Speech As Kathleen just wrote in her post about Alexander Skarsgard and the on-the-mouth kiss he shared with Nicole Kidman in front of Keith Urban when he was heading up to stage to accept his award, everybody calm down. In North America, we are too f-cking pearl-clutchy about these kisses. If By Lainey • Sep 18, 2017 10:19 am
Top Reads I’m more disappointed in myself than Louis C.K. In 2012 rumors began with a Gawker blind item that identified a “beloved comedian” who, allegedly, jerked off in front of women, citing an incident at a comedy festival involving two female comedians. It was widely believed to be Louis C.K. (Gawker would eventually explicitly name C.K.) Those By Sarah • Sep 18, 2017 09:21 am
Top Reads Gwyneth tries to rescue retail and print The first issue of goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s quarterly “wellness”-themed magazine in partnership with Conde Nast, was released this week. She’s on the cover, lying in mud, probably high quality organic mud. (Is that redundant?) G is also featured in the new issue of Architectural Digest ahead of By Lainey • Sep 15, 2017 08:57 am
Top Reads Selena Gomez’s kidney transplant The major headline this morning is Selena Gomez’s major revelation: she had a kidney transplant. Her friend Francia Raisa was the donor. It happened earlier this summer. Apparently Selena’s fans have been wondering why she was “laying low” at the time and it’s because, well, she was By Lainey • Sep 14, 2017 02:34 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Jolie Monday There have been some big names at TIFF this year. George Clooney. Nicole Kidman. Drake. As soon as Angelina Jolie arrived in town though, she’s been the main event. And there have been several events. As mentioned yesterday, she was at The Breadwinner premiere on Sunday night followed by By Lainey • Sep 12, 2017 10:40 am
Top Reads Reese attempts to check her privilege Reese Witherspoon wrote an essay for Glamour’s October issue about ambition and women in Hollywood. In it, she addresses the gender pay gap, her production company’s goal to create female-driven projects and reveals a conversation she had with Mindy Kaling about women of colour in Hollywood that requires By Kathleen • Sep 08, 2017 02:04 pm
Girly Throw Downs Stop, Maria I was so relieved last week when Maria Sharapova was knocked out of the US Open. It was legitimate anxiety every time she advanced. For me, and perhaps for many of you, it’s more than just sports stanning. Celebrity is more than just who’s f-cking who and who’ By Lainey • Sep 08, 2017 11:17 am
Royals Prince Harry’s tears Prince Harry is in Northern Ireland for his first official visit today. As usual, he was great with the crowds, at one point joking with school children that they should have been in class instead of waiting around for him. While Harry’s at work over in the UK, production By Lainey • Sep 07, 2017 11:44 am
Xenu Smut Katie & Jamie for the first time Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx have been together undercover since 2013. He’s tried to deny though that they’re dating. And they’ve managed to avoid the paps …until now? Click here to see Katie and Jamie holding hands on the beach in Malibu on the weekend. Malibu! Like By Lainey • Sep 06, 2017 09:25 am
Music Taylor Swift knocks out Taylor Swift Well. This is getting meta upon meta. Let’s start with Look What You Made Me Do, Taylor Swift’s first single off of the upcoming album, reputation – also, by the way, like mother!, styled in all lower case. Because it’s already not hard enough to avoid typos. LWYMMD By Lainey • Sep 05, 2017 05:08 pm
Royals Meghan Markle is “in love” with her “boyfriend” I f-cking love coming back from a long weekend with so much great gossip. There are several big stories to get to. But the biggest story this morning is the new issue of Vanity Fair featuring Meghan Markle on the cover, shot by Peter Lindbergh – and the photos are unreal, By Lainey • Sep 05, 2017 08:47 am
Gossip Nostalgia Gossip Nostalgia: When Gwyneth f-cked it up with Brad FINALLY. A Gwyneth Paltrow quote that is not about wellness. Now this we can work with. G was on the Girlboss podcast with Sophia Amoruso this week and she was asked about f-cking up relationships and what she did to fix it. Her response: "Oh my God. I' By Lainey • Aug 31, 2017 02:43 pm
Amazingness Nic & Crispin I have to show you these photos, my favourite photos of the day – at least so far. Because they’re batsh-t. Nicolas Cage went out for dinner last night with Crispin Glover. That’s it. Right?!? Batsh-t. But there’s more. Here’s how these shots are captioned by the By Lainey • Aug 30, 2017 12:57 pm
Music Taylor Swift vs Taylor Swifts Many of the world’s most famous popstars have practised reinvention. Some reinventions are more clever and more memorable than others. Back in 1990, George Michael burned his leather jacket, his guitar, and his jukebox in Freedom 90 video. He was torching the symbols that he created. And he did By Lainey • Aug 28, 2017 12:19 pm
Girly Throw Downs The old Taylor is dead Duana and I are recording the final episode of the first season of our Show Your Work podcast tonight. Guess who the lead story is? Well who else could it be? And she was already just the lead two weeks ago. Taylor Swift, of course. Taylor Swift has given us By Lainey • Aug 25, 2017 10:08 am
Music Taylor Swift: approaching Snake hour As promised yesterday, Taylor Swift will be releasing the first single off her new album, Reputation, some time tonight. As I noted yesterday, I’m thinking it’ll be late. Late enough that it could technically be considered Friday. Not only to get the jump on the weekend and, possibly By Lainey • Aug 24, 2017 02:09 pm
