Douchebags Drake: Using Meg Thee Stallion for Clicks, Streams and Clout There are two sides to Drake: the nice guy, in-his-feelings, emo-rapper, who’s equally praised and clowned for being in touch with his sensitive side; and the bad guy, who’s all bravado, misogyny, and seeking revenge for his broken heart. On Friday, Drake dropped his new album, Her Loss By Cody • Nov 07, 2022 10:50 am
Gross John Mayer and Kiernan Shipka? There have been rumours about John Mayer and Kiernan Shipka for over a year now. She was seen leaving his album listening party last summer and then early this year, in February, they were photographed after hugging each other goodbye at the Sunset Tower. This weekend it was a four-hour By Lainey • Nov 07, 2022 10:24 am
Dumbass Rihanna’s baffling decision One of the big headlines yesterday was about Rihanna’s new Savage x Fenty Vol 4 fashion show, premiering next week on Prime, which features Johnny Depp. I’ve seen it, he is indeed featured. And now there’s backlash. Black Twitter is not amused. https://twitter.com/MediumSizeMeech/status/ By Lainey • Nov 04, 2022 12:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Lawrence on the old Jennifer Lawrence With Jennifer Lawrence, it’s always going to be a candid interview. She is currently promoting Causeway, the first film she’s ever produced, in which she also stars, and in a new profile with Kyle Buchanan for the New York Times, she talks about how the project is the By Lainey • Nov 03, 2022 12:52 pm
Break Ups Tom Brady “didn’t want” this Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen are officially divorced. As mentioned earlier this week, their divorce was legal the day they filed the paperwork, and even though the confirmation was preceded by weeks of speculation, when it finally happened, it was swift and efficient – or at least it seemed to be By Lainey • Nov 02, 2022 11:40 am
BFFs RM + Pharrell The cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone features RM and Pharrell as part of their Musicians on Musicians issue. This is a meeting between two prolific and highly successful producer-performers, one who has already been through multiple stages in his career and another who’s in the process By Lainey • Nov 01, 2022 12:18 pm
Break Ups The End of Tom and Gisele Friday felt like a gossip classic – a power couple breakup announcement at the end of the week, just before Halloween weekend, in the hopes that people would be preoccupied with their weekend plans and lose interest. But Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen have been big interest ever since he took By Lainey • Oct 31, 2022 10:49 am
Style Wakanda Forever, the premiere I saw Black Panther: Wakanda Forever this morning and while official reviews are still embargoed, reactions are allowed. Here’s my reaction: I SOBBED. Hard. And I don’t cry a lot but I cried a lot during this movie. Also laughed a lot. And did that corny thing were By Lainey • Oct 27, 2022 03:19 pm
Douchebags Don’t Come for Keanu Matthew Perry’s memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, has been making headlines the last week or so because of his candid revelations about addiction and mental health. It is making headlines today because of Keanu Reeves: “Why is it that the original thinkers like River Phoenix and By Lainey • Oct 27, 2022 10:58 am
Royals SPARE Prince Harry Penguin Random House issued a press release earlier today. I got the email at 634am ET which means it was still morning in the UK – basically ensuring that this news would be a top story both in North America and in England. And the news is that Prince Harry’s By Lainey • Oct 27, 2022 09:58 am
Top Reads Angelina and Zahara on campus As we know, Angelina Jolie is a Spelman Mom since her daughter, Zahara, began school at Spelman College, an HBCU, in August. This past weekend was the combined “Spelhouse” homecoming of Spelman College and Moorehouse College in Atlanta (they are not co-ed schools). Angie showed up for Zahara: Angelina Jolie By Sarah • Oct 26, 2022 12:31 pm
Top Reads James Corden apologises on camera James Corden told the New York Times last week that he would address his “behaving-badly-at-a-restaurant” scandal on his show on Monday. As noted on Friday, he seemed defensive and deflective in that NYT interview but, as we know, people change on camera. Hosting a talk show is a performance. But By Lainey • Oct 25, 2022 03:47 pm
Music The Taylor Swift Video Game Taylor Swift's Midnights is the biggest selling album of the year. It has already crossed the one million units sold mark and she briefly crashed Spotify. There are very few artists who can do that consistently, especially in these turbulent content-consuming times, so some of the big records By Lainey • Oct 25, 2022 01:06 pm
Music Taylor Swift: Midnights of Fountain and Glitter Gel Taylor Swift released her new album, Midnights, last night and the “chaotic surprise” she promised was not a livestream as I’d predicted but seven extra songs she calls “3am tracks”. So basically there are 20 new Taylor Swift songs to listen to but it’s the first 13 on By Lainey • Oct 21, 2022 12:07 pm
Top Reads BravoCon returns to mixed results This past weekend, thousands of day-drinking reality TV junkies took over the Javits Convention Center in New York to see hundreds of stars from the Bravo network. There were stars from Real Housewives, Below Deck, Married to Medicine, Southern Charm, Vanderpump Rules and more – all presented to a bevy of By Stephanie • Oct 20, 2022 02:44 pm
Royals Meghan Markle’s Delayed Power Meghan Markle covers the new issue of Variety but this was supposed to be last month. As revealed in the story, Meghan was initially supposed to be one of the women honoured in this year’s Power of Women event in September, in recognition of her philanthropic work through Archewell By Lainey • Oct 19, 2022 10:57 am
