Baby and Bump Obsession The Never-ending Royal Baby Name Drama Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born last Friday, June 4, 2021. She was named after her great-grandmother, the Queen of England, who was called by the nickname when she was young, and her late grandmother Princess Diana. We have been told by her parents, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, By Lainey • Jun 09, 2021 11:14 am
Equality Issues Ellie Kemper, cotillions, and romanticizing the antebellum South Last week, the internet lit up when a tweet about Ellie Kemper, alum of The Office, Bridesmaids, and best known as Kimmy Schmidt, told everyone about the time she was crowned the Queen of Love and Beauty at the Veiled Prophet Ball, held by the Veiled Prophet Organization, in St. By Sarah • Jun 08, 2021 11:00 am
Royals Lilibet Diana, Royal Congratulations, and Excellent Timing Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor was born on Friday, June 4. Archie now has a sister. Archie and Betty! LOL. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have already told us what Lilibet’s nickname will be, a nickname from a nickname – Harry and Meghan’s daughter will be called Lili, at least By Lainey • Jun 07, 2021 11:43 am
Top Reads Simu Liu’s Big Day There was a lot of Simu Liu in the headlines yesterday. Here’s how it started – with a Facebook post, ahead of the release of season five of Kim’s Convenience on Netflix, which of course as we all know now is the show’s final season, and not because By Lainey • Jun 03, 2021 10:52 am
Relationship Assumption Multiple Bennifer Reunions When I last posted about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez a couple of days ago, I wondered, after seeing the photos of them together in Miami last week when we’d next get an update, predicting that they might make us wait a couple of weeks. Wrong. In retrospect… how By Lainey • Jun 02, 2021 01:05 pm
Relationship Assumption Bennifer Staying Connected? Obviously it’s impossible to say who Ben Affleck was talking to on the phone in these photos, but according to the paps, it was a “happy” phone call, and I’ve seen video from the moment and he does look like he’s in good spirits, speaking and moving By Lainey • May 28, 2021 12:17 pm
Top Reads Don’t Forget About Diddy! We don’t often agree on gossip – and that’s one of the reasons why gossip is so illuminating: our take on any given celebrity story can reveal much more about who we are than the people we’re ostensibly talking about. Once in a while, though, there comes a By Lainey • May 28, 2021 11:30 am
Top Reads The Curious Case of the Brange Custody Battle One of the big celebrity stories that broke yesterday was about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and the ongoing custody case. The media coverage is a story unto itself. The timing is certainly curious and some of the coverage has been misleading. Let’s start with how the information was By Lainey • May 27, 2021 11:41 am
Top Reads Ariana’s Wedding Photos It was just over a week ago that news broke that Ariana Grande had married Dalton Gomez in a secret ceremony at her home with just about 20 guests in attendance. Ariana is a major superstar and while COVID protocols have certainly made it easier in some respects for celebrities By Lainey • May 26, 2021 01:35 pm
Top Reads Prince Harry and the Success of The Me You Can’t See Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry’s Apple TV+ docuseries, The Me You Can’t See, premiered last week and since then there’s been headline after headline about how Harry talks about his past, about his family, and about breaking the cycle of silence with respect to mental health. Critics By Lainey • May 26, 2021 12:56 pm
Relationship Assumption Bennifer: Lounging, Stretching, and Working? Time for our daily check-in with the best gossip of 2021. Just want to reiterate here that…it’s 2021. And we are talking about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. And it’s not 2003, it’s 2021! To recap: Ben flew to Miami on the weekend to see By Lainey • May 26, 2021 11:33 am
Top Reads Taika, Tessa, and Rita Taika Waititi and Rita Ora are dating. Which has elevated Rita to the celebrity status that she may have been thirsting for for a while now. When I was texting about this with Sarah last week, though, she made an observation that isn’t getting quite as much play – it’ By Lainey • May 25, 2021 02:30 pm
Relationship Assumption Ben Affleck’s Love Box There were no updates on Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez last week after they were seen together in Montana. JLo was in Miami, Ben was in LA, photographed a couple of times with his children, and while there was all kinds of reporting and speculation about their situationship, it was By Lainey • May 25, 2021 12:10 pm
Equality Issues BTS in Pole Position Motor racing is one of the things on my mind this weekend because it’s the Monaco Grand Prix, the jewel of the F1 circuit, arguably the most prestigious race in the world. And while I have never paid much attention to this event, Drive to Survive changed all that By Lainey • May 21, 2021 01:07 pm
Royals Diana, William, and Harry: Past and Present Man, what a collision of royal news the last 24 hours, all of it connected and complicated, with the past coming back to haunt the present and the present folding itself into the past. Let’s start there with the release of the Dyson report that found that Martin Bashir By Lainey • May 21, 2021 11:23 am
Style Swoon! Rocky loves Rihanna Disney and fairytale romance conditioning is strong. Like I wonder if I’ll ever be fully rid of it. Not that A$AP Rocky and Rihanna are anything resembling a conventional fairytale but this declaration, this trope of the player who falls in love and finds the one… it’s By Lainey • May 19, 2021 01:56 pm
