Royals Harry & Meghan: One Year Later Today is the one year anniversary of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s visit to Canada House in London. They’d spent several weeks at the end of 2019 on Vancouver Island and upon their return to England, they wanted to thank Canadians for their hospitality during their stay. Here By Lainey • Jan 07, 2021 11:16 am
Top Reads Happy New Year, Keanu Reeves As we’ve said so many times in the past, where the big name movie stars are concerned, the ones who’ve been familiar to us for so long, it’s Keanu Reeves who we can be most confident will not be trending on Twitter for being problematic. I mean, By Lainey • Jan 06, 2021 03:22 pm
Child Stars We’re Missing the (Worst) Sia Story Sia has had an incredible amount of negative press lately – first about the trailer for her upcoming Music, which was (correctly) criticized for its ableist casting of neurotypical Maddie Ziegler as a teenager with autism, and for Sia’s clapback tantrums on Twitter where she said the role/production would By Duana • Jan 06, 2021 03:11 pm
Top Reads Olivia & Harry: It’s been “a few weeks” As far as new celebrity couples go, Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles were pretty well-received yesterday, right? Especially when you consider that Harry was part of One Direction and band fans can be… pretty emotional when their faves have boyfriends/girlfriends. Especially those who are the “Larry” believers. “Larry” stands By Lainey • Jan 05, 2021 12:29 pm
Top Reads A Brad Pitt Anniversary When I think about Brad Pitt and tropical New Year celebrations, my gossip mind immediately goes to January 7, 2005 – a big day in gossip history. That’s when he and Jennifer Aniston announced that they were separating after ringing in the new year in Anguilla. You remember this photo, By Lainey • Jan 05, 2021 11:52 am
Gossip Genie Olivia Wilde & Harry Styles?! Well. It’s January 4 and already 2021 is giving us some good gossip in the form of a possible new couple: Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles?! Let me start this year with a brag. Because…well… to paraphrase The Weeknd, I felt it coming. Back in November when Olivia By Lainey • Jan 04, 2021 02:50 pm
Break Ups Zoe and Karl: New Year’s Eve, one year later As mentioned in today’s open, were it not for the pandemic, today’s coverage would be all Golden Globes. A year ago, during our Golden Globes wrap-up, we posted about Zoe Kravitz’s Golden Globes polka dots which were not actually the main focus because a few days prior, By Lainey • Jan 04, 2021 11:47 am
Top Reads Buckingham Palace’s Happy New Year to Harry and Meghan Did you watch Death to 2020 on Netflix this weekend? Tracey Ullman plays Queen Elizabeth and, well, I wouldn’t say it’s a flattering portrait of Her Majesty and the British royal family. The film is satire so, you know, if you’re a real person who’s been By Lainey • Jan 04, 2021 10:19 am
Top Reads The BTS Magazine Effect Did you do your assigned homework? On Friday, in What Else, I linked to CNN’s article about the BTS effect on the American magazine industry this year as assigned reading. If you read it then you know that the piece reported on the magazine sales of four publications that By Lainey • Dec 21, 2020 01:57 pm
Royals House Cambridge and the Royal Tea… literally! PEOPLE revealed its new cover story yesterday featuring Kate of House Cambridge, the “royal mom behind the scenes” with her friends and other sources telling the magazine what she’s really like: she’s “not a pushover” and she’s casual, no blowouts only ponytails, when she’s with her By Lainey • Dec 17, 2020 01:38 pm
Xenu Smut George & Tom: The Chairman Supports Captain Hollywood The biggest celebrity headline of the week so far has been the leaked audio of Tom Cruise popping off at crew members on the set of Mission: Impossible 7 in London for violating social distancing protocols. Yesterday in my post about the situation, I wrote that this is the best By Lainey • Dec 17, 2020 10:46 am
Top Reads Tom Cruise: Captain Hollywood Tom Cruise has been shooting Mission: Impossible 7 for months across Europe during the pandemic. Production has been paused a couple of times due to COVID complications and now they’re back in London, shooting interiors, and audio from set this week was leaked to The Sun of Tom losing By Lainey • Dec 16, 2020 10:06 am
Music BTS: Do You Know the Entertainer of the Year? Last week, TIME, ahead of their reveal of the 2020 Person of the Year (Joe Biden and Kamala Harris), also announced their Athlete of the Year (LeBron James), Businessperson of the Year (Eric Yuan, Zoom), and the Entertainer of the Year. The TIME Entertainer of the Year for 2020 is By Lainey • Dec 15, 2020 03:16 pm
Royals Sussex + Spotify Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are shutting down the year with all kinds of new developments. Yesterday we learned that Meghan’s invested in Clevr Blends and got an assist from Oprah to promote it. Today it was announced that House Sussex has partnered with Spotify to produce podcasts – not By Lainey • Dec 15, 2020 11:15 am
Top Reads Taylor Swift: Too Many Eggs and a Non-Egg I’ve now had a few days with Taylor Swift’s evermore. Like folklore before it, evermore has been well-received. Evenly received? Reviews are generally positive though perhaps slightly less effusive because the surprise factor isn’t quite as strong with this one. As Taylor has explained, evermore is a By Lainey • Dec 15, 2020 10:42 am
Top Reads Meghan Markle, Investor Meghan Markle made a surprise appearance on CNN’s Heroes special this weekend to pay tribute to those who gave us hope during this dreadful year – those who sacrificed their wellness and safety to help patients, community leaders who came together to assist their neighbours, help other families, and generally By Lainey • Dec 14, 2020 12:01 pm
