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
Music Intro for October 17, 2022 Dear Gossips, Waking up on Saturday at 4am to livestream a BTS concert felt familiar. Can’t even count anymore how many times I’ve done this over the last two-plus years. As it turns out, this time was the last time for a long time. Because when I woke By Lainey • Oct 17, 2022 09:33 am
Top Reads Presenting Mr & Mrs Affleck There was a Ralph Lauren show in LA last night and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez showed up, both wearing Ralph Lauren, of course, just like they did for their wedding back in August. You’ll recall, JLo wore not one, not two, but three Ralph Lauren bridal looks on By Lainey • Oct 14, 2022 12:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Wilde after DWD ELLE Magazine has released their annual Women in Hollywood issue, with eight different covers featuring eight women who have made an impact in the industry this year. Among them are Michelle Yeoh, Sigourney Weaver, Issa Rae, Anne Hathaway, Selena Gomez, Ariana DeBose, Zoë Kravitz, and Olivia Wilde. During her interview By Lainey • Oct 14, 2022 11:29 am
Top Reads How do we say “bYE”? In Canada earlier this year, an audit found record levels of antisemitism in the country and also that “post-secondary institutions were ‘significant breeding grounds for antisemitism’, with Jewish students increasingly reporting vandalism and threats of violence”. It’s the same in other countries and, evidently, at other academic institutions, including By Lainey • Oct 14, 2022 10:36 am
Top Reads If Brad Pitt sells Plan B, what is Plan C? Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston founded Plan B Entertainment in 2001, just months after their marriage (along with super-producer Brad Grey, who would go on to run Paramount for over a decade). When they divorced in 2005, Pitt kept Plan B, and ever since he and Dede Gardner, along with By Sarah • Oct 13, 2022 12:05 pm
Douchebags Brad Pitt: The Artist in his favourite playsuit You want more examples of how cunning Brad Pitt is with his public image? He is suing his ex-wife, Angelina Jolie, for lawfully selling her share of Chateau Miraval, compelling her to reveal in a cross-complaint how he cockblocked her for years over the property and how he tried to By Lainey • Oct 12, 2022 09:59 am
Gorgessity Michaela Coel covers Vogue Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opens exactly five weeks from today on November 11. Sarah posted the trailer earlier this week, and promotion for the film is now underway with Michaela Coel on the cover of the November issue of Vogue. Michaela is new to the MCU. She plays Aneka, captain By Lainey • Oct 07, 2022 11:58 am
Media Manipulation Brad Pitt on Damage Control On Tuesday this week, the New York Times’s coverage of Angelina Jolie’s cross-complaint detailed explosive allegations against Brad Pitt about how he abused her and their six children on that private flight in September 2016 that preceded her filing for divorce. Since then, Brad and his representatives have By Lainey • Oct 07, 2022 11:09 am
Royals The Wales Cocktail-Off needs a DJ British royals behind a bar – it’s a thing. A common photo op whenever they’re in Ireland, and typically it involves them pulling a pint which at this point has been overdone. So now we have an update on this regular royal move as Prince William and Kate are By Lainey • Oct 06, 2022 12:08 pm
Break Ups Tom and Gisele: is this the end(zone)? There are four marriage stories dominating pop culture this fall: Brad and Angelina (sad and dark), The Try Guys (emotional), Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo (embarrassing but expected), and Tom and Gisele, which I think is the most nuanced split we’ve seen in a long time. Tom Brady and By Maria • Oct 05, 2022 02:06 pm
Douchebags Angelina Jolie: The Counterclaim Angelina Jolie filed a counterclaim against Brad Pitt yesterday that included details about how Brad Pitt allegedly abused her and their children on that private plane in 2016. Breaking News: A new court filing by Angelina Jolie details allegations that Brad Pitt abused her and their children on a plane By Lainey • Oct 05, 2022 12:52 pm
Gorgessity Jennie and Kristen at Chanel The Chanel show at Paris Fashion Week today and the arrival that elicited the most screaming… BLACKPINK’s Jennie who’s been a Chanel brand ambassador for the last five years and shutting down a Chanel presentation isn’t new – as Vogue documented last March, she did it for the By Lainey • Oct 04, 2022 11:35 am
