Music Rihanna: Halftime and the Globes Just under five weeks to go now until Rihanna’s 12-minute concert. She posted a video on Sunday to start the countdown and, hilariously, didn’t put much into it. Because she doesn’t need to. It’s not like the anticipation isn’t already high. It’s been a By Lainey • Jan 10, 2023 10:21 am
Royals The Prince Harry Media Bonanza All the details coming out of Prince Harry’s memoir, Spare, are creating a content bonanza for the media. The last I checked, Page Six had at least a dozen articles related to the revelations in the book; over at the Daily Mail, it feels like Spare has basically taken By Lainey • Jan 06, 2023 10:41 am
Royals Harry’s Spare: The First Reveal For a long time now there have been rumours that Prince William has a very bad temper and perhaps some anger issues. It’s been reported that he blows up in rage, yelling at his father to the point where Camilla, allegedly, once told close friends and family that she By Lainey • Jan 05, 2023 10:44 am
Media Manipulation Brad Pitt’s Holiday Photos I posted yesterday about PEOPLE’s exclusive report that Brad Pitt spent New Year’s in Cabo San Lucas with Ines de Ramon. PEOPLE had no photos though – and they still don’t – but they were able to get the jump on the story without them. In fact, they had By Lainey • Jan 04, 2023 10:04 am
Amazingness Leonardo DiCaprio 2023… but no Gigi? Same time last year, the start of 2022, Leonardo DiCaprio was dating Camila Morrone. She was 24 at the time. Six months later, in June, she turned 25 and a few weeks after that it was confirmed that they’d split, resulting in Leo getting widely mocked for the aging By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 01:20 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Brad Pitt’s Romantic Deflection Early last year, as we approached award season and contenders emerged one after another, critics always left room for Babylon, understandably. For the last decade Damien Chazelle has been regarded as Hollywood’s wunderkind filmmaker, with the Oscar Academy making him in the youngest ever to win the Best Director By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 11:33 am
Royals Prince Harry: One week to Spare In one of my last Prince Harry posts of 2022, I wrote about promotion for the release of his upcoming memoir, Spare, and the publisher’s presumed expectation for him to go out and drive sales. A book deal is a business deal. They paid him a lot of money, By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 10:02 am
Royals Report: King Charles to pay for Andrew’s security Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been telling people for years that they are at risk from attack by white supremacists who’ve been encouraged by the tabloids spreading disinformation about them. Neil Basu, the former head of counter terrorism for the Met Police, recently confirmed that those threats were By Lainey • Dec 20, 2022 10:22 am
Douchebags The Sun and Jeremy Clarkson prove the point of Harry & Meghan The British tabloid media is the main villain in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s docuseries, and while there are definitely parts of the show that aren’t as strong as others, they do a great job of establishing how closely the British Monarchy is tied to colonialism and the By Lainey • Dec 19, 2022 11:18 am
Amazingness Happy Holidays from Tom Cruise Tom Cruise is ABSURD. Tom Cruise is always, absurdly, Tom Cruise. So what else did we expect a holiday message from him to look like? It is exactly what you would expect – because Tom Cruise is consistently and dependably absurd. Which is why he’s sending us his holiday wishes By Lainey • Dec 19, 2022 10:22 am
Music An Invitation from Beyoncé As mentioned yesterday in What Else?, the Hive was buzzing yesterday just after 3pm, when we all checked our inboxes and saw that we had an invitation from Beyoncé: And by “all”, I mean those of us who subscribe to Beyonce.com, obvs. So our phones were blowing up, and By Lainey • Dec 16, 2022 11:38 am
Royals Harry and Meghan: Titles and Futures Ever since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped down as senior members of the British royal family there have been people trolling for them to be stripped of their titles…even though Prince Andrew is, like, RIGHT THERE. Not surprisingly, now that their Netflix documentary has been released, with Harry By Lainey • Dec 16, 2022 10:24 am
Royals Harry & Meghan: The Leaks, Briefs, Reveals, and Screams There is a LOT to unpack in volume two of Netflix’s Harry & Meghan. And a LOT of it is new – which was what some people criticised after volume one dropped last week: that a lot of what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle talk about in the first three By Lainey • Dec 15, 2022 01:12 pm
Top Reads Remembering tWitch (Please note that this post is about mental health and please mind the trigger warning.) It was confirmed yesterday that beloved professional dancer, actor, television producer, and television personality Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss died by suicide. He was 40 years old. In 2008, tWitch finished in second place on So You By Melayna • Dec 15, 2022 11:26 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Diddy's dating (un)accountability When it was revealed earlier this week that Diddy had welcomed a seventh child, it left a lot of people scratching their heads. There was no mention of who the mother was, and the baby was reportedly born back in October. But it seems the most visceral reaction to the By Stephanie • Dec 14, 2022 11:16 am
Royals Meghan & Harry: On the “Freedom Flight” from “Institutional Gaslighting” Back in late November, Merriam-Webster announced that their Word of the Year for 2022 is “Gaslighting”. Let’s give credit where credit is due though because the word really started picking up cultural use exactly around this time six years ago, in December 2016, with Lauren Duca’s piece in By Lainey • Dec 12, 2022 01:07 pm
