TV Updates The Golden Globes are back on their bullsh-t After all the hand-wringing about shortcomings, accountability, and whether or not publicists would even encourage their clients to go, it’s back to business as usual for the Golden Globes, or at least an attempt at returning to such. The nominations for the 2023 Golden Globes were announced this morning, By Sarah • Dec 12, 2022 11:24 am
Gorgessity Bennifer: Winter Catalogue Season Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were papped outside a Starbucks yesterday looking close and cute and very, very happy. They are, after all, still newlyweds. Finally newlyweds. This will be the second holiday season in a row in the time of Bennifer 2.0 and their first ever holiday season By Lainey • Dec 12, 2022 10:10 am
TV Updates Harry & Meghan: Volume One and Villain One Volume One of Netflix’s docuseries Harry & Meghan targets the British media, particularly the tabloid media in the UK, and the relationship between the royal institution and the royal rota, which is the press pool that covers the royal family. It’s a more detailed explanation of the “invisible By Lainey • Dec 09, 2022 10:11 am
Maple Leaf Celine Dion: A Very Sad Update Over the last year and a half or so, Celine Dion has maintained a pretty low profile. She’s also cancelled shows - and not just because of Covid. Celine had previously revealed that she’d been having some health issues but today is the most specific she’s been By Lainey • Dec 08, 2022 12:56 pm
TV Updates Harry & Meghan: Rom-Com-Drama-Reality I’m writing this at a desk while, a few feet away, my husband Jacek is in bed with his iPad, headphones on, watching Harry & Meghan on Netflix. It’s because I got up earlier than he did today to stream the first two episodes and now he wants By Lainey • Dec 08, 2022 09:58 am
Royals Harry and Meghan’s New York “Date Night” As expected, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped out in New York last night to accept their honour at the Ripple of Hope Gala hosted by the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights organisation. They both joked that it was “date night” for them, with Harry quipping that they don’t By Lainey • Dec 07, 2022 09:57 am
TV Updates Naomi, Simone, and Suki in Silver The looks last night at the British Fashion Awards, overall, were outstanding. And if the upcoming award season is anything like it; we’re in for some really fun carpets. That said, the Fashion Awards are for fashion people and generally fashion people show up for fashion events in more By Lainey • Dec 06, 2022 02:55 pm
TV Updates Harry & Meghan: The Winner is Netflix Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have arrived in New York – Page Six has the photos here – where tonight they will receive the Ripple of Hope Award from the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights organisation. It’ll be a big deal because they are a big media draw and even though By Lainey • Dec 06, 2022 09:51 am
Royals Oh Harry & Meghan is GOING there Following last week’s teaser trailer, Harry & Meghan, the Netflix docuseries about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, dropped a full trailer this morning. So…they bookended the Prince and Princess of Wales’s anticlimactic trip to America with H&M. Someone in the Netflix marketing department is By Sarah • Dec 05, 2022 02:19 pm
Royals Will and Kate’s (remote) Super Bowl Prior to their arrival in Boston last week for the Earthshot Prize on Friday, the event had been described as William’s “Super Bowl” – and not by the media, but his own team. They were the ones who built it up that way. Per PEOPLE citing a source “close to By Lainey • Dec 05, 2022 01:48 pm
Style Robert, Suki, and Simu: First and Quick Carpets Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse have been together since at least the summer of 2018, so it’s been four years or more. They were already quite serious before COVID, spent much of lockdown together when COVID started, and while they’ve never been super public about their situation, they By Lainey • Dec 05, 2022 10:19 am
Royals Will, Kate, and Reverend Mariama White-Hammond Prince William and Kate are in Boston for their third and final day today for the Earthshot Prize awards. Part of their itinerary yesterday included a walk with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Reverend Mariama White-Hammond to observe rising sea levels and the impact that’s having on Boston’s By Lainey • Dec 02, 2022 09:52 am
Relationship Assumption Ben Affleck and His Wife This was supposed to be a post about Jennifer Lopez’s interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music but then Ben Affleck came along with all his wife-ing. But first a quick few words on JLo with Zane because, well, this is pure JLo in that her instinct is never By Lainey • Dec 01, 2022 01:05 pm
TV Updates Harry & Meghan: The Trailer The title of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s upcoming Netflix docuseries, premiering this month, was originally supposed to be called Chapters. At some point they changed the name – and we’ve learned today that it’s simply called Harry & Meghan. Much better. To the point. And also probably By Lainey • Dec 01, 2022 10:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will talks to Trevor Will Smith’s new movie, Emancipation, comes out in theaters this weekend, before debuting on Apple TV+ on December 9. Smith is, in a limited way, doing press for the movie. Earlier this week, he stopped by The Daily Show for a long conversation with Trevor Noah, one of his By Sarah • Nov 30, 2022 12:40 pm
Royals Harry and Meghan: New Games and New Validation Earlier today I posted about Lady Susan Hussey, one of Queen Elizabeth’s favourites and the godmother to Prince William, racialising Ngozi Fulani at the Buckingham Palace reception yesterday. Hussey has since stepped down, or was asked to step down, from her position as Lady of the Household. As mentioned By Lainey • Nov 30, 2022 11:40 am