Relationship Assumption Swoki-free Comic-Con Comic-Con happened this weekend. We’ll get to all the Comic-Con content through the day. But let’s start with Swoki. Swoki did not make an appearance at Comic-Con this weekend. Here they are arriving in LA from Australia on Thursday. Tom Hiddleston was in San Diego on Saturday while By Lainey • Jul 25, 2016 07:32 am
Maple Leaf To cap off a great week in gossip Celine Dion showed us her New York catwalk yesterday. Last night she was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Many of you have been emailing me this video all day. And I agree. It’s pure Celine joy. I’ve attached it below for those of you who haven’ By Lainey • Jul 22, 2016 05:00 pm
Top Reads Swoki in LA Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston are back in LA. These are the first photos we’ve seen of Taylor since Gossip Christmas. As Sarah wrote earlier this week, Tom is expected at Comic-Con this week. They’re both heading to the gym but separately, and separate gyms. Word is they By Lainey • Jul 22, 2016 04:30 pm
Media Manipulation Taylor Swift and the media As I mentioned the other day, one of the best side bonuses of Gossip Christmas, or the Day Of The Receipts, has been all the great writing this week about Taylor Swift Incorporated. Some of it has been straight up prescient. Five full days before Mrs West unloaded, The Ringer By Lainey • Jul 22, 2016 11:27 am
Media Manipulation Taylor’s burn book Before we get to that, let’s talk about this mural. An artist called Lushsux created a mural in Melbourne. In loving memory of… Taylor Smith. The recent passing of @taylorswift is heart wrenching. Come and leave some flowers and light some candles at her memorial in Hosier lane in By Lainey • Jul 21, 2016 11:10 am
BFFs Jennifer Aniston post-crusade Here’s Jennifer Aniston arriving back in LA yesterday. It’s been a week since Jennifer Aniston told us that she is “fed up” with tabloid culture and impossible beauty standards and you wondering if she’s pregnant. You’ll recall, Jennifer wrote her op-ed for The Huffington Post. Not By Lainey • Jul 20, 2016 11:45 am
Break Ups Josh & Diane are broken… for Norman Reedus? Late last year, while Joshua Jackson was on a trip around the world, Diane Kruger was reportedly messing around with Norman Reedus at a dive bar in New York. Both subsequently denied that she was cheating on Josh but. But. Last week, Norman Reedus fans were sending me emails about By Lainey • Jul 19, 2016 10:14 am
Top Reads The case of Swift v Kanye? Will Taylor Swift sue Kanye West? His wife revealed in her GQ interview that her lawyers had already sent him a warning to try and shut down the release of that video. And she claims she didn’t know that she was being recorded. And over the last 24 hours By Lainey • Jul 19, 2016 09:39 am
Media Manipulation After the Gossip Christmas I call it Gossip Christmas. There can be many Gossip Christmases throughout the year though. Duana tells me that some people are now calling it the Day Of The Receipts. I like that too. And whatever you want to call it, it was a day that was GREAT for Gossip. By Lainey • Jul 19, 2016 09:24 am
Girly Throw Downs Mrs West’s Gossip Power I'm living' in that 21st century Doing something mean to it Do it better than anybody you ever seen do it Screams from the haters, got a nice ring to it I guess every superhero need his theme music Those are the opening lyrics to Kanye West’ By Lainey • Jul 18, 2016 12:07 pm
Girly Throw Downs Mrs West’s Good Morning Good Morning is one of my favourite Kanye West songs. It’s the first song on Graduation. And Good Morning is so perfect for this morning because this is how I woke up this morning. With a gossip gift, courtesy of Kanye West’s wife who has, today, given us By Lainey • Jul 18, 2016 10:23 am
TV Updates “Don’t show us the Winona eyes” Stranger Things starring Winona Ryder premieres on Netflix today. Are you watching? Like, after you see Ghostbusters? I already told you I am. Because Winona Ryder. Winona was everything and it to me in the 80s and 90s and…still, forever, always. As Matt Duffer, co-creator of Stranger Things, tells By Lainey • Jul 15, 2016 12:49 pm
Maple Leaf Gwyneth’s celebrity sale 2016 Gwyneth Paltrow was in Toronto yesterday at Holt Renfrew promoting her beauty line. Sasha was there and talked to her for etalk and afterwards her first email to me was, “omg omg omg I have to tell you everything”. When I wrote back to her with all caps and exclamation By Lainey • Jul 15, 2016 12:07 pm
Amazingness Swoki: the nomination and the confirmation Duana posted about the Emmy nominations earlier. And at the end of the post, yes, Tom Hiddleston received a nomination for his work in The Night Manager. Which means… Swoki Love has to last until the Emmys, right? Beyoncé and Taylor Swift on the Emmys red carpet, can you imagine? By Lainey • Jul 14, 2016 04:34 pm
Girly Throw Downs Girl Sh-t of the Summer When celebrities become gossip fixtures, they always manage to blame it on the media or the tabloids or the blogs – see Jennifer Aniston. Taylor Swift has been a gossip fixture all summer. And, well, it was entirely her own doing. How did a random pap manage to get such great By Lainey • Jul 14, 2016 11:29 am
Relationship Assumption The Afflecks remain the Afflecks? Almost exactly a year ago this week, this was the cover of US Weekly: Twelve months later they’re going with Swoki Love and inside the issue, the Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner situation is much, much different. US reports exclusively that Ben and Jennifer have “put (their) divorce on By Lainey • Jul 13, 2016 04:25 pm