Top Reads JLo & ARod: A Slow(er) Engagement As Maria wrote earlier this week about Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez, any possible breakup will be complicated, given that they’ve combined so much of their personal and professional lives. Whatever happened last week that resulted in the initial report that they’d ended their engagement clearly de-escalated, to By Lainey • Mar 18, 2021 12:21 pm
Top Reads #StopAsianHate Here are some photos of Olivia Munn out in LA yesterday, before she would have found out about the shooting in Atlanta. Eight people are now dead, six of them Asian women, as the murderer targeted multiple locations, all of them either spas or massage parlours. Authorities have not declared By Lainey • Mar 17, 2021 02:27 pm
Top Reads Prince Harry & Meghan Markle: Gayle Gives Us a Royal Update If you’re CBS, on the downside, there’s the mess with The Talk. And the Grammys ratings. On the upside though, the ratings from the Television Event of the Year, Oprah’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, are a huge win. And they’ve established themselves as By Lainey • Mar 16, 2021 12:56 pm
Grammy Awards 2021 BTS’s Endless Grammys Generosity If you’ve been paying attention to the Grammys, especially this past week, as noise about the Grammys’ lack of transparency and glacial rate of change were dominating the headlines, it shouldn’t have been a shock that BTS did not win on their first Grammy nomination. For the Recording By Lainey • Mar 15, 2021 04:45 pm
Top Reads Beyoncé Blessed the Building….and Left Like I said in the open today, I thought the Grammys were well-produced and I appreciate that they put in the effort to make good TV. But like I also said in the open, that was a long ass show. And while I can happily binge eight hours of a By Lainey • Mar 15, 2021 11:49 am
Break Ups JLo and ARod: We Were on a Break In a classic Friday news dump that made me legit scream, Page Six broke the news of Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez’s breakup. On Friday night, I wrote the first version of this piece, which I subsequently had to scrap and rework several times over the weekend. Let’s By Maria • Mar 15, 2021 10:48 am
Maple Leaf Keanu’s Comic Did you know that Keanu Reeves has just released his own comic book? It’s called BRZRKR and I wouldn’t have known about it if I didn’t google his name just now because there are new pap shots of him on his bike, which I’ll get into By Lainey • Mar 10, 2021 01:35 pm
Top Reads The Queen of Culture Supports Meghan Markle It’s not like there haven’t been all kinds of celebrities lining up one after the other in support of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. But Beyoncé is THE celebrity whose support of Meghan Markle generates much more attention than the rest, even making headlines on CNN. Because, of By Lainey • Mar 10, 2021 11:55 am
Top Reads Harry and Meghan’s “New Era” Buckingham Palace released a statement on behalf of the Queen yesterday addressing (inadequately) what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle told Oprah Winfrey about their mental health struggles and the racism they experienced as senior members of the British royal family. Basically they’re claiming they didn’t know how serious By Lainey • Mar 10, 2021 10:12 am
Royals The Queen Responds to Harry and Meghan As I noted in my previous post about Prince Charles, there was word that Buckingham Palace could be coming out with a statement by EOD addressing what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said during their interview with Oprah Winfrey. Shortly after that article went live, a statement on behalf of By Lainey • Mar 09, 2021 03:11 pm
Top Reads Prince Charles: After the Television Event of the Year It’s been two days since the Television Event of the Year, hosted by Oprah and starring Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Prince Charles stepped out today in London to visit a vaccine clinic and was reportedly in good spirits. And the photo op was…interesting: You guys, Prince Charles By Lainey • Mar 09, 2021 12:49 pm
Royals Prince Harry’s non-Cameo: A British Monarchy 101 That was… a very clever and deliberate misdirect, wasn’t? In the days leading up to Oprah’s special with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, most people, probably everyone, thought this was going to be Meghan going in hard on the British royals, that this would mostly be about Meghan, By Lainey • Mar 08, 2021 01:36 pm
Royals Harry, Meghan, and Royal Racism Going into the broadcast, most of us were expecting a certain kind of tea, right? Maybe some sh-t about Prince William and his relationship with Harry, and yes, by extension Kate would come up too. She did come up. But as I mentioned, she came up EARLY. And I think By Lainey • Mar 08, 2021 10:26 am
Top Reads Oprah Asks Meghan: Why Now Is The Right Time? Are you ready for the television event of the year on Sunday? I was talking to someone yesterday who isn’t even into royal sh-t and she was like, I need to watch this interview, and I don’t have cable, I have to figure out how I can make By Lainey • Mar 05, 2021 01:36 pm
Award Season Campaigning Minari’s Oscar Campaign Features the Star of Award Season Oscar nomination voting begins today and runs until March 10. The nominations will be announced March 15. Right now, if there’s a frontrunner, it’s probably Nomadland, off the strength of director Chloe Zhao’s lead in the director race and its universal acclaim. Heading into the Globes, Nomadland’ By Lainey • Mar 05, 2021 11:45 am
BFFs Angelina & Ellen Celebrity friendships are often just as interesting as celebrity romances, maybe more. And there’s a new celebrity friendship now that’s just emerged. It may not be new to them, obviously, but this is the first time they’ve been photographed together publicly – Angelina Jolie and Ellen Pompeo. They By Lainey • Mar 04, 2021 03:46 pm
