What Else for May 29, 2020

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again – for those of us who grew up on Madonna, it’s no fun watching her not understand what to do with herself right now and not understand what to do on social media. There are worse things in the world than Madonna’s tone deafness, sure, but I repeat, she is ...

The first two episodes of the compelling and bingeable Normal People are finally available in Canada

First of all, let me be clear – here in Canada we’re still in the first sweaty, horny blush of consuming Normal People. We know the rest of you have had it for weeks and we were frustrated and jealous. Now the first two episodes have finally been released here (on CBC Gem), and so we’re going to bra...

Celebrity Social Media, May 29, 2020

Taylor Swift pulled up on Twitter - she posted about George Floyd’s murder on Instagram and took to Twitter with a specific message for the US president with the words “white supremacy” and “racism” …and there’s not “both sides” to her point. She is being specific in her language. It’s a very effect...

America's Sweetheart Julia Roberts uses her platform for allyship and sends political message wearing Obama mask

The last time we checked in on Julia Roberts she was “passing the mic” to Dr Anthony Fauci on her Instagram about COVID-19, using her platform to help educate and inform. Today she’s using her platform in allyship:  Julia Roberts has been America’s Sweetheart for 30 years. Think of the people who ar...

Sasha Finds: 2020 Overalls

Horses Atelier is quite the little Canadian fashion gem that’s been a local favorite in The Six for many years. The line is filled with beautiful pieces produced in small batches and why that’s so important is because it means no overproduction and best of all, no subscription to trends. And it’s in...

Kelly Rowland is ready to address some of the deepest cuts in her life in The Cut profile by Phillip Picardi

I LOVE this new profile of Kelly Rowland by Phillip Picardi for The Cut. A quick note on Phillip – he was part of the Teen Vogue team, alongside the leadership of Elaine Welteroth, that broadened the magazine’s content to include politics and social activism as well as fashion and beauty. Here is wh...

Emilia Clarke and Jessica Chastain remain committed to their West End plays when live performances resume

To the stage, that is. Both women were to front revivals on London’s West End this summer, but the theater season was, of course, cut short by COVID-19. Emilia Clarke is to star in an adaption of The Seagull from Anya Reiss, and Jessica Chastain will lead Frank McGuiness’s take on A Doll’s House, an...

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas appear to be packing up for a road trip in LA

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas were photographed, as usual, yesterday. What wasn’t usual was that they were packing up the car, with both dogs, and a few backpacks and what looked like overnight bags. Also plenty of refreshments. Seems like it could be a road trip? Or a beach trip?  They went on a roa...

Intro for May 29, 2020

Dear Gossips, Yesterday on The Social, our friend Tyrone Edwards joined us to talk about mental health. What followed was a personal and powerful expression of grief and anger as he shared his fears and frustration about the racism and the violence Black people continue to experience. Here’s a clip ...

What Else for May 28, 2020

This is… the most Keanu Reeves story ever. It’s the origin story of John Wick, not the origin story you might think in terms of storyline or a puppy (sob!), but an origin of name – and if I’m playing Duana here, I would say that it always begins with a name. John Wick originally wasn’t supposed to b...

Ana de Armas on trend in tie dye while out for another dog walk with Ben Affleck

We are two days behind on Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas photos! The last time we checked in on Ben-Ana it was just after they’d spent part of Memorial Day weekend with his kids. Ana was seen the other day out with a friend and their baby and at one point, she was seen FaceTiming with Ben and the chil...

Celebrity Social Media, May 28, 2020

Sofia Richie is 21 and reportedly single – finally! Who can we Gossip Genie her with? My first pick is Noah Centineo (he seems to be single, too). Come on. This would be great.  Page Six continues to have the scoop on Mary-Kate and Olivier Sarkozy, the latest story being that MK didn’t want to quara...

What's Your Drama: Shorts, Friends, and a Question from Karen

Welcome back to What's Your Drama. I'd explain what today's opening discussion is about but… it’s x-rated. Spoiler alert: Lainey’s body parts in shorts. Then it's time to get to your drama and this was a fun week of questions! Our first letter writer is stuck in quarantine and thinking about her sum...

Henry Cavill in talks to reprise Superman role in upcoming DC movie

Here we go. Following the announcement that the “Snyder Cut” of Justice League would be released on HBOMax, there is more Zack Snyder-adjacent DC movie news. No, Ben Affleck is not returning as Batman—let the poor man take endless walks with his girlfriend and eat carbs—but Henry Cavill is returning...

Looking back on Tom Cruise's maniacal couch-jumping on Oprah fifteen years later

I’ve never been to the Smithsonian but sometimes I will read about an exhibit piece from pop culture, like Dorothy’s red shoes or the hazmat suits from Breaking Bad. You know what belongs in the Smithsonian of my mind? Oprah’s couch circa 2005, the year Tom Cruise jumped up and his public image cras...

Hulu releases trailer for Love, Victor that essentially resets the story of Love, Simon

It’s been over two years since Love, Simon came out (get it?), a time when adult gay men all cried in the theatre because our collective mom, Jennifer Garner, told us all that we could all exhale. Let’s just re-watch this clip because I think we could all use some Jennifer Garner wisdom right now.  ...

Lady Gaga and BLACKPINK's "Sour Candy" from upcoming album Chromatica is a bop

How you doing, Blinks? It’s a big day. Lady Gaga’s new album, Chromatica, drops tomorrow. “Rain On Me”, her first collaboration with Ariana Grande, was released last week. Today we got “Sour Candy”, the song with BLACKPINK. This is a BOP. Gaga promised that Chromatica would be a dance celebration – ...

Intro for May 28, 2020

Dear Gossips, As we near the end of Asian Heritage Month in Canada and Asian and Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States, big ups to Andrew Phung of Kim’s Convenience who won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor last night! Congratulations Andrew!  Andrew plays Kimc...

What Else for May 27, 2020

Chrissy Teigen has given us an update on Chrissy Teigen’s breasts. Like with an entire timeline: the age at which they were first installed, what happened to them when she had children, and what she plans to do with them now that she’s tired of them because they limit her comfort. I never knew I nee...

Duana Names: Update – Poultry In The Time Of Coronavirus

Once again, I can’t possibly improve on the title that appeared in my inbox – here is the exciting conclusion to the saga of Chicken Matilda. In case you missed it, this story – nay, this case – already had an update so entertaining I’m considering hiring this letter writer as a sub-contractor (chec...

Show Your Work: The Last Dance was a Rom-Com

On this episode of Show Your Work, now that The Last Dance has concluded, Duana and I unpack all the work that went into those Chicago Bulls championships and the work that did – or didn’t – go into this docuseries. No doubt it was entertaining. And it was definitely super gossipy. But that’s just i...

Celebrity Social Media, May 27, 2020

There’s been plenty of self-distance divorces (and a few hookups), but Lisa Kudrow is not one of them. She told Jimmy Kimmel that she and her husband are apart for their 25th anniversary because they were quarantining together in Palm Springs and it got too hot, so she went back to LA while he staye...

Tatler releases a statement defending their Catherine the Great cover after Kensington Palace claims the story is false and inaccurate

Over the last year and a half, as the British tabloids have stepped up their attempts to discredit Prince Harry and Meghan Markle of House Sussex, in part by clearly shooting stars and sunshine up House Cambridge, Catherine Cambridge has repeatedly been held up as the Best Duchess Ever. And, certain...

Scott Derrickson to direct sequel to beloved 1986 classic Labyrinth

Months after leaving Marvel and his Doctor Strange sequel, director Scott Derrickson has landed a new project—the sequel to the beloved 1986 David Bowie classic Labyrinth (I suppose this now supplants the previous iteration being written by Nicole Perlman). Perhaps this can be the gothic horror fant...

Brad Pitt wears his hair in a shag as he talks to Flea in LA

When someone refers to a hairstyle as a “shag”, my mind immediately associates with Winona Ryder because that’s my generation – Winona, as “Lelaina Pierce”, in Reality Bites. She is what defines a “shag” for me. You may have a different shag in mind. Meg Ryan, for example. And, interestingly enough,...

Review: Hannah Gadsby's Douglas is very funny though she isn't trying to win over anyone who did not like Nanette

Two years after her not-comedy special Nanette made her a household name, Hannah Gadsby is back with Douglas, a stand-up special/one-woman show/glorified Ted Talk/lecture—whatever you want to call it, she really does not care. Gadsby herself compares the arc of Douglas to a romantic comedy in a fift...

Intro for May 27, 2020

Dear Gossips, What is the future of movie theatres? Bilge Ebiri attempted to answer the question at Vulture yesterday as restrictions begin to lift across North America and authorities are making plans to reopen the economy. Some people think that after all these weeks of being at home and watching ...

What Else for May 26, 2020

Who is fine as f-ck and is 56 years old today? He’s currently, for the next few weeks, the same age as Johnny Depp except Lenny Kravitz can wear as many scarves as he wants and never look ridiculous whereas Johnny… well… you know. (Dlisted) If you were on Twitter last night and also today, you would...

Multiple sources report that Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart have broken up and haven't been in lockdown together

I was going to write about Cole Sprouse yesterday because of these new pictures but then I ran out of time and it ended up working out because then Page Six reported that he and Lili Reinhart broke up and PEOPLE confirmed it and then E! News followed both of those outlets with sources telling them t...

Celebrity Social Media, May 26, 2020

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas have only been together for a couple of years? It really does feel like a lifetime.  A few of you have messaged me about Lea Michele’s photo shoots and yes, of course. What did we expect? Subtlety was never an option.Lana Del Rey has posted a video to go with her comme...

Dwyane Wade and daughter Zaya show off newly dyed hair on social media

I’ve considered dyeing my hair in quarantine. I’ve always wanted to, but now if it looks terrible, I don’t have to see anyone, and there won’t be any evidence of it. Dwyane Wade apparently has the opposite idea since he’s been documenting his hairformation on social media. Over the weekend, he poste...

Town & Country releases gross details about what we're going to get on Prince Andrew in Jeffrey Epstein docuseries, Filthy Rich

We are just one day away from the release of Filthy Rich, the Jeffrey Epstein docuseries on Netflix. Are you watching? What’s your strategy? One episode a night or will you binge it all straight through? These last few months in lockdown, I’ve been cooking every night. But we have not been eating at...

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas are so in love during another dog walk in LA

After spending part of the weekend with his kids, and letting us know that everything is all cool with Jennifer Garner and the children and his girlfriend, Ben Affleck went out for a regular dog walk with Ana de Armas, returning to their usual routine, a comfort to us all. A gossip comfort. One day,...

Princess Catherine covers Tatler in feature that crowns her as saviour of the British royal family

Didn’t the OG Catherine the Great overthrow her husband? I say this because the new cover of Tatler made me laugh, because that’s what they’re going for with this title, “Catherine the Great”, about Catherine of House Cambridge, evoking of course Catherine the Great of history, who plotted a coup ag...

Intro for May 26, 2020

Dear Gossips, Bong Joon-ho and Parasite won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival a year ago, kicking off the film’s run to the Oscars, where it would eventually go on to make history and take the Best Picture Oscar. We know that now. But back then, much of the focus in Cannes was on Quentin Ta...

What Else for May 25, 2020

I was about to dump on this but then I kept reading and it turns out these inflatable costumes are being used in senior homes to protect the residents so that they can also hug their family members so now I feel like an asshole. Still, there are some drawbacks. One of them being that it must get SO ...

Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin return to LA as Drake shows off lake-sized pool in Toronto

By now we all know about Drake’s Toronto home, right? He calls it The Embassy and it was featured recently in Architectural Digest. After the spread in AD, there were all kinds of other stories about the extravagance of Drake’s … palace. From the bed, which cost several hundreds of thousands of doll...

Grimes and Elon Musk change their baby's name but it's not better or even different

You know what’s a tease? Reading that Elon Musk and Grimes have ‘changed’ their baby name, after the inexplicable X Æ A-12 failed to crown them as the visionaries of the future they obviously hoped they’d be.  So, a name change. Relatable! Human! ….or not, given that the ‘change’ is that the name is...

Celebrity Social Media, May 25, 2020

“Physical alterations” was a big topic on social media over the weekend and of course it was done purposefully to maximize attention. But Cheyenne Jackson’s post is different because it cuts to they WHY of it – why was he ashamed about his hair transplants? Why did he do it in the first place? In hi...

Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy's divorce could get uglier and he could get "more French" according to Page Six source

During this pandemic, we’ve seen many examples of consciously uncoupled couples continuing to manage their families with care and consideration even under the strange stress of being in lockdown. But there have also been a few examples of nasty uncoupling: Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler, Jaime Kin...

Review: The Lovebirds starring Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani would be completely forgettable without its leads' chemistry

Once bound to premiere at SXSW followed by theatrical distribution, The Lovebirds, a romantic comedy starring Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani, instead dropped on Netflix over the weekend (where it trended in the US’s Top 10). Honestly, Netflix feels like the right place for this movie, a slight but win...

Jon Hamm photographed getting takeout and playing tennis with actress Anna Osceola

This September will mark the tenth anniversary of Ben Affleck’s The Town. Does it hold up? I haven’t seen it in a minute but I remember, I really enjoyed it. I remember I think I might have said I thought it was better than Argo. Anyway, Ben directed and starred in the movie which also featured perf...

Killing Eve fan Taylor Swift proud to have cover of her song “Look What You Made Me Do” featured on the show

A cover version of Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” played during last night’s episode of Killing Eve. Taylor has said many times that she loves the show. And she’s friends with Phoebe Waller-Bridge. So, naturally, she was proud to have her song featured:  But it wasn’t just excitement abou...

Intro for May 25, 2020

Dear Gossips,Many of you have emailed over the last few weeks asking about our Normal People coverage since I wrote about the book so much last year. The show hasn’t aired yet in Canada but that changes this week. CBC Gem will air two episodes a week beginning Wednesday, May 27. CBC Gem is a free st...

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas out for a walk with Ben's kids kills conspiracy theory that Ben-Ana wasn't real

Well here’s a setback for the conspiracy theorists who thought that Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas were a fauxmance. Ben and Ana spent time, together, with his kids this weekend. And all the dogs were there. Ben and Ana’s dogs we’re by now already familiar with, but they also had Jennifer Garner’s fam...

What Else for May 22, 2020

On the off-chance you think Matt Lauer has changed, his alleged revenge plot against Ronan Farrow means he hasn’t. Because this is a lingering vestige of the kind of power trip he was on when he was at the top. Remember the secret button under his desk? Remember the swagger of invincibility? The san...

For Your Fitness: Working Out While Watching TV

Hi Hayley, I have recently saw my doctor for my son’s appointment. At the end of the appointment I asked her what my weight was the last time I had my checkup and she said it was 130 pounds. That was late February of this year before going back to work from maternity leave. Anyways, I have now gaine...

Steven Spielberg is bringing SMASH to Broadway, as it was meant to be

I have no emotional reserves anymore so it could be that I’m just extra in general, but I got absolute goosebumps when I discovered that SMASH, the ridiculous, inexplicable television spectacle of 2012 which I and everyone else wrote about ad nauseum, which confounded an entire television-watching g...

New trailer for RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 5 reveals a twist and who some of the guest judges will be

With Season 12 of RuPaul’s Drag Race wrapping up (and only the virtual reunion and finale left), we’re of course ready to jump back in on June 5th with All Stars 5 right? RIGHT?Last week, I wrote about the potential for All Stars to be the best season because of its apparent twist. In a promo, RuPau...

Lady Gaga talks about building a friendship with Ariana Grande while promoting their new single "Rain On Me"

I liked it as soon as I heard it when I got up this morning. Lady Gaga’s highly anticipated Chromatica drops next week and she and Ariana Grande over the last couple of days have been thirst-building hype for their new song, “Rain On Me”, the first collaboration between the two artists. This is a so...

Celebrity Social Media, May 22, 2020

No, let’s leave Glee alone. Cursed show. (Ryan Murphy can cast the hell out of a show but the plot doesn’t even sound that interesting. Competitive misfits finding friendship through song is what Glee was about the first time around.) John Krasinski has sold his heartwarming and homemade hobby, Some...

Carly Rae Jepsen releases surprise album, Dedicated: Side B, and it's even better than the original

It’s a surprise album from Carly Rae Jepsen! Sort of. As Carly admitted in her tweet, she’s bad at keeping secrets. Which is why the (what do you call CRJ fans? Jepsens? Emotions? Call me babies? Hold on, I’m going to look this up….) jepsies have known about the arrival of Dedicated: Side B for some...

Charlize Theron trolls us with her immortal status in trailer for Netflix's The Old Guard

You MIGHT say that this is just a trailer for Charlize Theron’s next movie, The Old Guard, a comic book movie about a small group of immortal badasses who kick major ass. You might ALSO say that Highlander is just a movie, and not, in fact, an instructional manual for how to survive the centuries as...

Sasha Finds: Hair Help – Jus by Oreya

How’s your hair looking these days? Like a pile of dry-ass hay ready to catch fire at any moment?  Cool, me too. It’s week 10 of Rona and my mop ain’t looking cute, but don't worry because I’m here to save the day. Well, technically I’m not, but Jus by Oreya is… Before I blow my load on how amazing ...

The release of new Tenet trailer in Fortnite likely to try to get The Youths interested in going to the movies

A new trailer for Tenet dropped last night, released first inside Fortnite, because when I think “Christopher Nolan”, I totally think “e-sports”. Lainey pointed out that there is probably some overlap between Nolan, Batman fans, and online gaming, and dropping a trailer in Fortnite is a way to engag...

BTS's Suga dominates Twitter with new mixtape, D-2, and video under solo name Agust D

I don’t think I’ll ever stop being astonished at the creative output of BTS, not just during this pandemic lockdown but for the last seven years since the band debuted in 2013. The albums, the tours, the promotional appearances, the music videos, the multiple reality series, the documentary series, ...

Intro for May 22, 2020

Dear Gossips, This was not supposed to be today’s open. But I realised that what I was writing as today’s open wasn’t a true open and then I got preoccupied with a question I just asked myself so now today’s open is about Brian Austin Green.  Never would have thought if you asked me a week ago that ...

What Else for May 21, 2020

Amy Schumer called up Jennifer Lawrence while she was cooking and they had some judgments to make about white wine – basically that it’s sh-t. I disagree. I don’t drink red wine, it’s too classy for me, I guess. And it doesn’t make me feel good. White wine is better but for me, it’s always rosé. Als...

TV Review: The Great starring Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult explores what it takes for a woman to succeed in a man’s world

Tony McNamara, Oscar-nominated co-writer of The Favourite, is back with another anachronistic tale of a woman in power. This time he focuses on Russia’s Catherine the Great (Elle Fanning), in a Hulu series titled The Great. It’s not as dark as The Favourite, and overall has a tone as sharp and brigh...

Julia Roberts goes full fangirl over Dr. Fauci during #PassTheMic campaign conversation

#PassTheMic is a campaign where celebrities “pass the mic” aka their social media accounts and expose their followers to experts and frontline workers so that they can share ACCURATE information about COVID-19 since, um, certain leaders aren’t. Some of the big names participating are Hugh Jackman, D...

Celebrity Social Media, May 21, 2020

Vogue covered Lizzo’s quarantine style, specifically her collaboration with Quay, a brand that works with big-name celebrities like Chrissy Teigen and Jennifer Lopez. In the piece, Liam Hess writes, “Lizzo’s embrace of high fashion has also marked a step forward in visibility for size-inclusive fash...

Lana Del Rey announces new album in signature LDR glam-dram fashion and addresses claims she glamourises abuse

As I wrote a couple of months ago when she and Sean Larkin broke up, I was never a Lana Del Rey believer until Norman F-cking Rockwell. That album is her masterpiece and it ruled the back half of 2019 for me. So I’m excited that Lana’s just announced that she’s releasing another album in September. ...

What's Your Drama: Dating a Dummy

Welcome back to What's Your Drama. Now before we get into this week's letters we have to talk about Normal People, coming to Canada on CBC Gem next week. Have you seen it? Lainey and I of course skim over the direction, the writing, and go straight into the hot-ass chemistry between the two main cha...

Vanity Fair gives us first look at Stephen King's The Stand which contains eerie similarities to the current COVID-19 pandemic

One of Stephen King’s most enduring novels is The Stand, a book about humanity attempting to rebuild—or just go full-end times—after 99% of the population is wiped out by a virus. When the COVID-19 pandemic began in earnest earlier this year, people immediately leapt to The Stand, so much so that Ki...

Bradley Cooper photographed at his home with wellness chef Kristin O’Connor

Here are some new photos of Bradley Cooper outside his NY apartment this week. And apparently he’s not staying there alone. Of course he’s parenting his daughter, but there was a woman seen bringing in groceries at the door – and according to the paps, it’s Kristin O’Connor, a wellness chef. They’ve...

Mary Kate-Olsen's husband Olivier Sarkozy described as "party boy" and "big spender" as more details about their split are released

As the quarantine divorces pile up, the chicest couple of the bunch is Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy.  The latest story in PEOPLE is about a big issue that’s contributed to the split: to have a baby or not to have a baby. According to the sources (who we get to in a minute), Mary-Kate went fro...

Intro for May 21, 2020

Dear Gossips, Jason Derulo has been doing the most these last couple of months in lockdown. And I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, I just never expected at the start of this that he’d be one of the people consistently lighting up the timeline. It’s because of his TikToks – most recently the one with...

What Else for May 20, 2020

When it comes to Britney Spears, there are a lot of people who don’t believe anything. Or, rather, what they believe is the opposite of the thing they think they’re supposed to be believe. There’s a lot of mistrust where the fans are concerned. They don’t trust the management, they don’t trust the f...

The fabled “Snyder Cut”, Zack Snyder’s director cut of Justice League is being released after all

I admit it: I was wrong. The fabled “Snyder Cut”, Zack Snyder’s director cut of Justice League is actually being released, expected to drop on HBOMax in 2021 after years of toxic fan bitching. I did not think it would happen for many reasons, but following a regime change at Warner Brothers and the ...

Megan Fox helps Machine Gun Kelly sell his record by appearing in "Bloody Valentine" music video

A few days ago, after weeks of speculation, Brian Austin Green confirmed that he and Megan Fox have separated. She’s been seen with Machine Gun Kelly, after working on a movie with him late last year, and while Brian said on his podcast that there are no villains or victims in this situation, and no...

Celebrity Social Media, May 20, 2020

It’s been a month and a half since Quibi launched. And it hasn’t taken off. But Quibi is still in early days. Now there’s chatter that another well-funded TV platform isn’t doing very well: according to this report, Apple TV+ is underperforming. As the first season of The Morning Show ended, so did ...

Jude Law is expecting his sixth child with Phillipa Coan and is one child away from a quidditch team

Jude Law, the young Dumbledore, is soon to be one child away from an entire quidditch team. Here are Jude and his wife Phillipa Coan on Sunday. Jude and Phillipa were married last year and this is their first child together, and the baby will be Jude’s sixth. He’s father to Rafferty (23), Iris (19),...

Halle Berry set to star in upcoming film, Moonfall, which sounds like it will be her version of Geostorm

Geostorm (GEOSTOOOOOOORM) is one of the great dumb movies of the 2010s—maybe THE great dumb movie of the 2010s—but if you’ve ever said to yourself, “What I’d REALLY like is Geostorm but with a hot lady,” then boy, have I got the movie for you. Halle Berry is set to star in Moonfall, the latest film ...

Lorde reveals exciting details about upcoming album in letter to fans

Yesterday, Lorde was trending #1 on Twitter, and it’s because she announced that she’s working on a new album. On June 16th, it’ll be three years since she released Melodrama, the genius album that we’ve all cried to. Since then, Lorde has been pretty quiet, and the fans have been restless.  Lorde r...

Prince William and Catherine licence photos of their children to the Daily Mail

PEOPLE put up an article yesterday about the “soft power” of House Cambridge’s Kate: her photography. A more accurate description would be the subjects of her photographs, which are her children. Citing royal historian Lucy Worsley:  “For 200 years the British monarchy has used photography,” she add...

Intro for May 20, 2020

Dear Gossips, There were several anniversaries happening yesterday. It was Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s second wedding anniversary. It was also the one year anniversary of Katy Cambridge’s Chelsea Nature Garden which she commemorated on Instagram today with a new photo:  The Cambridges have also...

What Else for May 19, 2020

We are nine or ten weeks (who can keep track anymore?) into the pandemic lockdown and you know what hasn’t changed? Celebrity egos. Being #1 is still important. Which, you know what?, I find reassuring. Pride is virus-proof. I know mine is. And Tekashi69’s pride is virus and prison proof because he ...

Ana de Armas updates points out that Ben Affleck and Ana are sharing clothes one month after being blocked by her

It’s been a month since Ana de Armas blocked Ana de Armas Updates on Twitter! AJ, the Ana de Armas fan who runs the Ana de Armas Updates Twitter account, was interviewed by Jezebel about what the last month has been like for them. Being blocked by Ana de Armas has made Ana de Armas Updates the defin...

Brian Austin Green seems to confirm that Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are dating following their split

Brian Austin Green confirmed yesterday that he and Megan Fox have separated. It’s their second separation. Megan filed for divorce in 2014 but then they reconciled and had another baby. Recently there’s been speculation about them being over for weeks as they’ve been seen separately during lockdown....

Celebrity Social Media, May 19, 2020

Gossip nostalgia is powerful because it links us to a place and time that happened collectively, but feels personal. What kind of jeans did you wear in the Bennifer era? Where did you live when Brangelina started? You can probably remember these details, while the gossip acts as a backdrop to our ow...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's low-key 2nd anniversary commemoration

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were married two years ago today in Windsor. I was wondering whether or not they’d do something to mark the occasion and if so, how we’d see it because they don’t have social media accounts right now or a website. And as much as I support the Sussexes in their fight ag...

First trailer for Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga starring Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams is really something

Eurovision, the delightful annual summit that pits (mostly) European countries against each other in a bonkers singing competition, was cancelled earlier this year, along with basically everything else, due to the pandemic. I love anything that is countries competing against each other, and I firmly...

Harry Styles releases horny as f-ck music video for "Watermelon Sugar"

WARNING: If you have been touch-starved for two months because of social distancing and self-isolation, Harry Styles’s new video may cause you to feel exceedingly hot and bothered and there may be some flooding in your basement (iykwim). Yesterday, Harry Styles released the video for his song “Water...

The Prince Andrew drama continues within royal family as new book called Prince Andrew: The End of The Monarchy and Epstein by Nigel Cawthorne to be released next week

Roya Nikkhah reported in The Sunday Times this weekend on the British royal family’s reaction to the highly anticipated upcoming book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Finding Freedom, by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, already a bestseller on preorders. So what’s the scoop from inside the palac...

Leonardo DiCaprio shows up in The Last Dance and instantly starts trending on Twitter

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLIf you’ve been watching The Last Dance episodes as soon as they drop, you know exactly what this is referring to. For the rest of you – newsflash: Leonardo DiCaprio showed up and instantly started trending on Twitter. Leo met Michael Jordan after the Bulls won the NBA champion...

May 19, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Ali! Happy Belated Birthday! Hope you had a great weekend. I’m sure at some point you were on Honey FM at some point? I’m thinking of it as your birthday episode. My birthday wish for you is that you will be able to see Yoongi again live in concert again. Until then, by request, here’s the “man who ...

Intro for May 19, 2020

Dear Gossips, I would have watched another ten episodes of The Last Dance, it’s been such a highlight every weekend for the last month. And now that it’s over, probably a lot of us have withdrawal, not unlike the withdrawal that the NBA and basketball as a whole must have felt when Michael Jordan re...

What Else for May 15, 2020

PROGRAMMING NOTE: It’s a statutory holiday weekend here in Canada as we observe Victoria Day on Monday so we’ll be dark that day and returning to regular gossip schedule on Tuesday. Please stay safe and wishing all of you in Canada a healthy long weekend. There’s going to be a Mad Max: Fury Road pre...

For Your Fitness: When you want to be healthier…

Hi Hayley,I’m a 49-year-old woman, average height, average bone size, but have been overweight by about 30 pounds for 15 years. I LOVE food. I know my portions are probably too big, and my willpower is not fantastic. If there is cheesecake, I will have a piece. When I’m in a restaurant, I want the f...

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas kiss in new music video for Residente's "Antes Que El Mundo Se Acabe”

Residente’s video “Antes Que El Mundo Se Acabe” ("Before the World Ends") features 113 couples from 80 countries and it’s pretty much just seven minutes of people making out and all these kisses, linked from one to the next, are supposed to represent the connecting power of love.  I don’t know much ...

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas kiss in new video for Residente's "Antes Que El Mundo Se Acabe”

Residente’s video “Antes Que El Mundo Se Acabe” ("Before the World Ends") features 113 couples from 80 countries and it’s pretty much just seven minutes of people making out and all these kisses, linked from one to the next, are supposed to represent the connecting power of love.  I don’t know much ...

Celebrity Social Media, May 15, 2020

As Lainey mentioned the other day, Ashley Benson and  G-Eazy have been spotted canoodling. (That’s not a word we hear much anymore but in the early 2000s, when club culture ruled Hollywood, canoodling was thrown around quite liberally.) Ashley moved on from Cara Delevingne quite quickly and it’s bee...

Netflix's four-part series, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, could be a problem for Prince Andrew and the royal family

We started the week with a post about Prince Andrew’s sketchy financial dealings so why not end the week with a post about a new docuseries that he and the British royal family might be worried about. The four-part Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich series drops on Netflix on May 27 and a trailer was rele...

Sasha Finds: The Collection by Nicole Purdy

This week I’m inching us back into “real” clothes. Not to say I’m not sticking with the theme of extreme comfort, I just think it’s important that we hold on to the hope that we might get the chance to see what the outside looks like one day. So today, I’m giving small business love to west coast de...

Avatar 2 is really, finally happening, but does anyone care?

Lainey asked me this question—who cares about the Avatar sequels? It is the eternal debate of Avatar, how big is it REALLY, when it left no cultural footprint? Sure, it’s the second biggest movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation), and it was a technological marvel when it came out in 2009. Bu...

Judge denies Mary-Kate Olsen's petition for emergency divorce filing from Olivier Sarkozy

As Maria covered yesterday, Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy have broken up and he’s apparently trying to throw her out of their apartment by terminating the lease without telling her so she’s petitioned the court to issue an emergency order on her divorce file which would give her some more time...

Katy Perry drops new song, "Daisies" with accompanying video but the song doesn't quite land

Katy Perry dropped her new song, “Daisies” with an accompanying video that marvel at the power of human resilience and visually manifested through her naked, pregnant body. “Daisies” is meant to join “Firework” and “Roar” in her catalogue and as an empowerment anthem it does the job but I’m not sure...

Intro for May 15, 2020

Dear Gossips,Oops…I Did It Again.Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary. On May 16, 2000 Britney Spears released her second album, and the title track became a monster hit; she was already, by that point, the biggest superstar in the world after the success of ...Baby One More Time. But as famous as she a...

What Else for May 14, 2020

This is a gossip staple: gossiping about celebrity demands, which is why back in the day, we were all obsessed with celebrity riders and what colour candies had to be removed from their candy bowls because they’re such assholes they can't be bothered to just avoid the f-cking brown M&Ms, or whatever...

BTS Announces BANG BANG CON The Live which is kind of like WWE

I never imagined that I’d be able to put BTS and World Wrestling Entertainment together in a sentence, let alone a post, but here we are. Almost all live entertainment around the world has been cancelled because of the pandemic. The at-home concerts we’ve been seeing are not live. The performances h...

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas have become a regular part of the gossip routine as they step out for another walk in Venice

Not lying, I was juuuuuuust thinking to myself, hey, have we seen Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas out together this week? And the answer was no, and I felt disappointed, and oh look, here they are, out for a dog walk, THANK GOD.  This is not sarcasm. I’m telling you, they’ve become a source of comfort ...

Celebrity Social Media, May 14, 2020

André Leon Talley’s upcoming book, The Chiffon Trenches, is reviewed in the NYT today. Journalist Vanessa Friedman (who briefly worked at Vogue in the 90s) pulls together the threads of what was (Andre as a diva in a hedonistic and power-hungry world) and what is (an industry gutted by the internet,...

Entertainment Weekly's June issue features 18 LGBTQ+ celebrities for Pride month including Dan Levy, RuPaul, and Ellen

June is Pride month. And while many of the parades and celebrations have been cancelled due to COVID-19 (and corporations can breathe a sigh of relief because they can stop pretending like they care), Entertainment Weekly’s June issue is dedicated to LGBTQ+ artists that have played a central role in...

What’s Your Drama: Confronting a Copycat

Welcome Back! Before we dive in we need to talk about Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas’s matching half-heart necklaces. Is it cute? Is it corny? Is it okay to be both? Then it’s time to get into you drama! Our first writer has come to a turning point in her life when it comes to her career. As a frontli...

Review: Tom Hardy is completely untethered as Al "Fonzo" Capone in Capone

There is a line between “good” and “bad” where quantifiable binary judgments don’t matter because the thing itself is so interesting. Great filmmakers like David Lynch and David Cronenberg frequently walk this line, creating works that are unpleasant, indecipherable, possibly in bad taste and yet ar...

Justin Bieber opens up about his skin insecurities in latest episode of The Biebers on Watch with wife Hailey

When Justin and Hailey Bieber first launched their Face Watch series The Biebers on Watch a few weeks ago, I wrote that this is about as unfiltered as it’s going to get where celebrities are concerned. They’re shooting it themselves, they’re not surrounded by producers, and yes, of course, they’re a...

Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy are getting divorced and it's already reportedly gotten very ugly

Yesterday, TMZ broke the news that my favourite Olsen (tied with Ashley) Mary-Kate is getting divorced from French millionaire Olivier Sarkozy. (Note: I didn’t Google his net worth, I just assume he’s a millionaire.) These two had a legendary wedding not because of the dress or guest list or venue (...

Intro for May 14, 2020

Dear Gossips, The Sunday Times released their Rich List this week and Rihanna came in at #3 with an estimated fortune of £468 million which shouldn’t be news, really, since last year Forbes reported that she’s the world’s wealthiest female musician. You wouldn’t know it from the headlines over in En...

What Else for May 13, 2020

It was reported last week that Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson are over. They were seen isolating together at the start of the lockdown I think. Not sure you can call it a casualty of quarantine though because they’d tried to break up late last year. Looks like the split is going to stick though b...

Duana Names: The Name Is(n’t) Ajar

Hi Duana,Long-time listener, first-time caller! We're expecting baby 2 in two weeks  - the first was a boy and this one's a girl.My husband's last name is quite long/Slavic and starts with an O. So we're looking for names that don't jar with this - probably avoiding any names ending in "a" though wi...

Kate Beckinsale commits to her high booties during a quarantine outing with boyfriend Goody Grace

Kate Beckinsale and her boyfriend, Goody Grace, stepped out together in LA yesterday. As you can see, she’s still committed to her high booties. I don’t know about you but in isolation, I have no interest in anything other than sweatpants and sneakers. The idea of even putting on a heel, or anything...

Show Your Work: Michelle, Adele, and the Food Fight

As mentioned earlier this week, on this episode of Show Your Work, Duana and I get into the whole Alison Roman situation after her interview with The New Consumer went viral for her remarks about Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo. But let’s begin with the real work stars of the show, Michelle Obama and...

PEOPLE Magazine reports on the details of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor's first birthday party in LA

Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor turned one last week and celebrated in lockdown with his parents Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at their home in Los Angeles. There have been various reports lately about where exactly the Sussexes have been staying. A few days ago, the Daily Mail claimed that the...

Celebrity Social Media, May 13, 2020

Are you watching Insecure this season? I’m going to assume the answer is yes (and if it isn’t, why not???). The breakdown of the show’s central relationship has been fascinating because both Issa and Molly bear responsibility for the way it has gone down. In friendship breakups, maybe even more than...

Robert Pattinson cooks the worst quarantine meal in history for GQ cover profile

With potential summer movie savior Tenet still due in July (when some theaters will be open at a fraction of their capacity, good luck, Tenet), Robert Pattinson is doing promotion for the movie from quarantine. He covers GQ this month as “The King of Quarantine” and his profile is titled “A Dispatch...

The New York Times' oral history of Mad Max: Fury Road is a great read about a great film

Mad Max: Fury Road was released on May 5, 2015 – 5.15.15. To mark its fifth anniversary on Friday, The New York Times has published an oral history of Mad Max: Fury Road featuring commentary from several of the key players, including director George Miller, lead stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy, ...

Dakota Johnson talks about the "Cry Cry Cry" music video she directed for Coldplay in new Marie Claire profile

Last month, Lainey sent me a Twitter thread by ridiculing a specific type of celebrity profile – the daughter of a famous parent. Here’s just some of it:  Dakota Johnson’s new profile in Marie Claire has so many shades of this (one might say… 50 shades), from the gushing over her glamorous pedigree ...

Matt Damon calls in to radio station Spin 1038 in Ireland and compliments Ireland's president, Leo Varadkar

As we know, Matt Damon and his family have been in Ireland during lockdown because production on The Last Duel moved there. Apparently there’s been a local radio station, Spin 1038, trying to get him to call in. So he finally called in. And complimented Ireland’s president, Leo Varadkar for being a ...

Intro for May 13, 2020

Dear Gossips, History was made this week on the Billboard Hot 100. Doja Cat and Nicki Minaj’s “Say So” remix has topped the chart, the first #1 of their careers. And the first #1 of Nicki’s career. The #2 song on the Hot 100 is Megan Thee Stallion and Beyoncé’s “Savage” remix making Beyoncé “the fir...

What Else for May 12, 2020

I wish I came up with the following sentence: “Stanley Tucci is a smokeshow”. That is correct. But I can’t own it because Kristy Puchko is the wordsmith. This is your favourite link to click on today. It’s Stanley Tucci being a smokeshow and also Miriam Margoyles being a total delight. And if you do...

Canada’s Drag Race is nearly here and I can't wait

Even though we learned about the Canadian version of Drag Race almost a year ago, it has felt like some sort of dream or conceptual project because we’ve heard nothing about it. Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly gave us our first look at the show, as well as an interview with judges Brooke Lynn Hytes,...

Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas are not confirming their pregnancy

I’ve been writing about the Hollywood Baby Boom the last couple of months but one of the first couples to kick off the 2020 boom haven’t actually confirmed it.   Sophie Turner’s pregnancy was reported by JustJared back in February, right after the Oscars. And though there haven’t been denials from e...

Celebrity Social Media, May 12, 2020

If you’ve been following the Alison Roman/ Chrissy Teigen story (Lainey and Duana are breaking  it down this week on Show Your Work) and are familiar with online “cancellation,” then you probably knew a second apology was coming. We could talk about the machinations of this all damn day because it’s...

Sandra Oh covers ELLE Canada with the "large set of eggs" that we all need

So far in June, we’ve seen Issa Rae cover Cosmopolitan, Dame Judi Dench cover British Vogue, and now it’s Sandra Oh on the cover of ELLE Canada. All excellent decisions.Having interviewed her myself a year ago, I can tell you that Sandra Oh is a thoughtful, considerate conversationalist. And this is...

Kristen Wiig sparks pregnancy speculation with Mother's Day comments on SNL @ Home

I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the Hollywood Lockdown Baby Boom and the growing list of celebrities who’ve announced their pregnancies over the last few weeks. Are we adding Kristen Wiig to it?  During the season finale of Saturday Night Live @ Home this weekend, Kristen was the sort-of host fo...

Gossip Nostalgia: Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe at the 2000 Blockbuster Entertainment Awards

Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine is a major player in Hollywood now. In the last three years alone, well, you know about the success of Big Little Lies, and The Morning Show, and Little Fires Everywhere just finished late last month. She’s producing Daisy Jones and The Six. She has several other b...

The Friends reunion will reportedly shoot at the end of summer and be released in the fall

The Friends reunion was supposed to happen with the launch of HBO Max in two weeks but has now been pushed back because of the pandemic. Since then though, everything and everyone is reuniting virtually. The latest reunion was Back To The Future which just happened yesterday courtesy Josh Gad.  Frie...

Intro for May 12, 2020

Dear Gossips, There’s an added layer of pain-in-the-assness when celebrities f-ck up and that’s because writing about their f-ckups requires more work and thought put into an essay when you could be using that energy for something else. Like a book idea or your next pitch. Today I don’t want to give...

What Else for May 11, 2020

I’m interested in the different reactions to this video of Jake Gyllenhaal singing his quarantine love song because it divided my friend group. Certain people were all about it. And probably if you were already attracted to Jake, you didn’t mind this at all. For me, I already sometimes have a hard t...

Celebrity Social Media, May 11, 2020

Lainey and Duana will take you through the Chrissy Teigen/Alison Roman drama on Show Your Work – there’s a lot to dig into. As for me, I’m keeping an eye on social media to see when Alison comes back (she hasn’t posted on Twitter or Instagram since her apology to Chrissy) and also to see when Chriss...

New questions about Prince Andrew's shady money moves are being asked in new Financial Times article

Last week, Prince Andrew made headlines not for his friendship with the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein but because he and Sarah Ferguson are being sued for getting behind on payments on an £18 million Swiss holiday chalet they bought back in 2014. The Yorks reportedly owe £6.7 million and, as...

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas display puppy love with matching heart necklaces

Ben Affleck wasn’t photographed out walking the dogs this weekend with Ana de Armas, or if he was, I haven’t seen those shots. This may have just been coincidental – he was busy, he was out but the paps didn’t catch him. Or maybe it was deliberate. Maybe he was thinking ahead about the optics and no...

RuPaul's Drag Race announces cast of All Stars 5 and it could be the best season yet

On Friday, RuPaul’s Drag Race announced the cast and premiere date for All Stars 5.  If you’ve read my previous Drag Race articles, you’ll know about my feelings toward the endless stream of content that is the RuPaul brand. Nevertheless, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited about AS5. Call me op...

During chat with Reese Witherspoon about anxiety Emma Stone hints that she might already be married to Dave McCary

Emma Stone and Dave McCary announced their engagement last December. They were reportedly supposed to marry in March in LA but cancelled the wedding because of the pandemic lockdown. This weekend Emma joined a video chat with Reese Witherspoon to talk about anxiety as part of Mental Health Month. Em...

May 11, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Molly! Happy Birthday! It always kills me when you write to tell me that you were in high school when this started – and of course you know what I always say and I’ll say it again: I raised you on gossip! Which is why I’m so happy that you have FINALLY come around to My Obsession. What’s next? In an...

Intro for May 11, 2020

Dear Gossips, Cameron Diaz hasn’t worked in years, has repeatedly said that she has no plans to return to acting, and I believe her. But over the last few weeks, during this lockdown, she’s been as visible as she’s been since her retirement, appearing on her friends’ podcast and social media and, mo...

What Else for May 8, 2020

Oh FFS. It’s what? Day 3? 4? And we are still talking about this name! Because now it’s not about how to spell it and whether or not the paperwork people will allow it (I’m sure a billionaire like Elon Musk can fix the paperwork), it’s about how to say it. And even the parents can’t agree on the pro...

Why watching College Admission videos will make your heart grow three sizes

A few years ago, when Dr. Pimple Popper and her imitators suddenly became famous, I developed a theory about ‘popping videos’ that I’d tell to anyone who would listen (so what else is new?): I think people are addicted to popping videos – and popping zits in general – because they have perfect drama...

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas appear to be going between his house and hers as they walk the dogs in Venice again

It’s totally a ritual now, right? Ending the week with a Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas sighting? I don’t think sighting is the accurate word anymore though because there’s an element of rareness that’s built into a sighting and, well, not sure anyone would say that seeing Ben-Ana together is rare any...

For Your Fitness: A Workout That Stretches the Body

Here’s another workout for another week of self-isolation. I’ve had some requests for a workout that stretches the body after a long day of work at home so here it is! It’s 20 minutes long and you can do it anytime. You’ll also get a bit sweaty!Thanks again for all the emails and requests for workou...

Taylor Swift releases City of Lover trailer featuring live performances and personal photos and video

Yesterday I wrote about Taylor Swift and her Instagram post and many people wondered if there was an announcement coming. As I said, Taylor doesn’t leave bows untied. And now we know what she was teasing:  So, as the trailer promises, the City of Lover concert broadcast will feature live performance...

Celebrity Social Media, May 8, 2020

Lainey and I have both mentioned how painful Madonna’s Instagram has been during this time. We aren’t the only ones who have noticed. Since the last round of headlines, Madonna posted an update because she knows what people are saying about her – she always has, for better and worse. She used to be ...

Sasha Finds: 19/99 Beauty

So I had something else planned for today's column, but I got a delivery yesterday that I've been waiting for so I had to kick my original plan to the curb. OK dudes, I'm so stoked because nothing thrills me more than to give two young powerhouse entrepreneurs some love. Now I know I've been focused...

Prince Andrew is reportedly being sued for not paying bill for Swiss property

Is anyone curious about Prince Andrew’s finances?! It was reported yesterday that Prince Andrew is being sued for not paying a bill. Per Sky News:“Prince Andrew is caught in a dispute over a Swiss chalet amid reports legal proceedings have been launched against him over an unpaid bill of £5m. Le Tem...

Gossip Nostalgia: Jennifer Aniston’s orange cargo pants

Jennifer Aniston posted to Instagram yesterday and a reader called Greta wrote to me about the orange pants knowing that I have written in the past about those orange pants so specific to a time in gossip history, when Jen and Brad Pitt were still together. Here’s an example from back in 2014 when I...

Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber collaborate for the first time on new song "Stuck With You"

Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber, who are both managed by Scooter Braun, released a new song called “Stuck With You” along with a socially distant compliant video. This, apparently, is the first time they’ve ever collaborated.  And it’s for a great cause – proceeds from “Stuck With You” will benefit ...

Intro for May 8, 2020

Dear Gossips, A couple of weeks ago, I posted about Tenet and its status now as the “Last Blockbuster Standing” because, at the time, Warner Bros had yet to push back its release date, July 17, 2020. Tenet’s director, Christopher Nolan, is one of the leading crusaders for the theatrical experience, ...

What Else for May 7, 2020

It’s been a hard time for everyone, some more than others. How we deal with stress and anxiety differs from person to person. Some people – a lot of people – are baking. Others are gardening. Others are binge-watching. Michelle Obama’s documentary was self-care for me last night. You may have prefer...

Is Taylor Swift dropping clues with her latest Instagram post featuring snakes, wine, and daisies?

Taylor Swift posted a new photo on Instagram and as she’s known to drop clues all over the place for her fans to decipher, people are wondering whether or not a post is just a post, or if a post is about something that might be coming. Especially because of her use of emojis.  Those snakes, right? F...

Revisiting wildly uneven Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

SPOILERSWith Star War: The Rise of Skywalker hitting Disney+, and since it’s May the 4th week, it is time now to revisit The Rise of Skywalker, a movie that is not even five months old and already aging poorly. At first watch, TROS is an uneven movie that provides some big, satisfying spectacles whi...

In Cosmopolitan cover interview Issa Rae tells Ira Madison III she wants to be The One

Issa Rae covers the June 2020 issue of Cosmopolitan and it’s Ira Madison III who interviews her so everyone else better come correct with their June magazine offerings because how are you going to top this?  Issa is currently promoting … well… SO much. Insecure Season 4 is currently in progress – an...

Celebrity Social Media, May 7, 2020

Did you read about author Emily Giffin’s attack on Meghan Markle? It was bizarre but the sentiment is not surprising – if you’ve ever perused the comments section on an article about the Duchess of Sussex, you’ve seen stuff like this (and worse). The implication that often comes from a certain type ...

What’s Your Drama: Cheap-ass Family Members

Welcome back! Before we jump into YOUR drama Lainey would like to drag me back into her favorite topic: Korean bands. Thankfully, we are not talking about BTS this time.  Our first letter writer is trying to heal the wounds of a recent breakup and being cooped up solo during COVID-19 is not making t...

Sarah Ferguson hilariously reads Duck and Goose on social media

Just wanted to alert you to this in case you haven’t seen it because it made me laugh. Yesterday was Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor’s first birthday and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle shared a video of him reading with Meghan. The book was Duck! Rabbit!  Cut to today and Sarah Ferguson, who’s b...

Hilarie Burton recalls "MTV top brass" complimenting her for how she handled being groped by Ben Affleck

Hilarie Burton’s book The Rural Diaries: Love, Livestock, and Big Life Lessons Down on the Mischief Farm was released this week. You may recall, a few years ago, a clip surfaced from when Hilarie was working at MTV and Ben Affleck groped her. She then retweeted it with her own comment: Ben then twee...

Ben Affleck's new haircut is likely the work of Ana de Armas as the two walk their dogs in Venice

After spending a few days away to celebrate her birthday, Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck are back in LA and back to their dog walks in Venice. It looks like Ben’s had a haircut, right? Did Ana cut his hair? I can picture it. I mean, probably I shouldn’t picture it, but I think she could do it. I’d wag...

Intro for May 7, 2020

Dear Gossips, Did you watch Michelle Obama’s Becoming last night? I did. I cried. Didn’t take much. Any time they played footage of the Obamas during the campaign, on election night, during the Obama presidency, when she spoke about how leaders have to be responsible with their words, the tears came...

May 7, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs

This is Mental Health Week in Canada and according to the Canadian Mental Health Association, 50% of Canadians are seeing their mental health worsen during these unprecedented times. I’m sure it’s probably the same in every country.  For me personally, I have found that my stress levels are higher t...

What Else for May 6, 2020

One of the bigger celebrity stories during this lockdown has been about Bruce Willis and his wife Emma Heming and why he was isolating with Demi Moore and their daughters and Emma wasn’t around. People were suspicious, even though there was obviously no drama. And then when the no drama-ness of it w...

Duana Names: Eyerolling THAT Name, and Puff Daddy Energy

Okay. Before we get to today’s letter writer, yes, I have to address that baby name. I kept wanting to write ‘alleged’ because I really don’t believe it, but they’ve both confirmed it’s true – their baby is named X Æ A-12, which I would wager is the most copy-and-pasted item over the last 24 hours. ...

Show Your Work: Tracee and Maitreyi

On this episode of Show Your Work, Duana declares her post-pandemic dream. She’s already made the request with all our friends that this is what she wants for her birthday, in August, when hopefully the lockdown restrictions will have been lifted and we can actually go on a joyride with our friends....

Chris Hemsworth's dog, Sunny, makes him hotter on the cover of GQ Australia

I know it’s a conversation that’s probably expired by now: who’s the Best Chris? But if we were still having this conversation, based on dogs, up to this point, Chris Evans would have taken it, because he and Dodger had been providing good, wholesome content on social media even before this global h...

Celebrity Social Media, May 6, 2020

Did Grimes and Elon Musk really name their baby X Æ A-12? I don’t know. How do you pronounce it? I don’t know. And neither does the Internet. I really don’t have much to add. I wasn’t expecting them to name the baby Isabella, but I didn’t think I wouldn’t be able to spell it without using the copy +...

Daniel Radcliffe is the perfect choice to read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

I think we can all agree that so far, 2020 has sucked. But it’s at times like these that people turn to nostalgia and comforts to help them get through it. Which is great because now it feels like I’m reliving my childhood/adolescence. There are High School Musical reunions, a new Twilight book, a p...

Steve Carell reunites with The Office producer Greg Daniels for Netflix's Space Force

Remember 50 million years ago when Trump created “Space Force”, the intergalactic branch of the Air Force that will patrol space or something, I don’t know, f-ck it was so long ago and so stupid and this whole thing is making me insane and if we get four more years of this my hair WILL turn complete...

Adele looks dramatically different in new photo celebrating her 32nd birthday

Not going to lie, I am not looking forward to writing this post. And I didn’t want to write the post but there’s no choice, really. Because Adele is one of the most important musicians, a superstar, and superstars are our business here. Adele has been trending for hours on social media. It was her 3...

Prince Harry and Meghan release video of Meghan reading Duck! Rabbit! to Archie on his 1st birthday

Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor celebrates his first birthday today. In the weeks leading up to this day, obviously a big day for all babies and their parents, we’ve been wondering whether or not Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would be sharing new photos of Archie with us, and how, given that th...

Intro for May 6, 2020

Dear Gossips, It’s been seven weeks in lockdown and I’m afraid all the time. One thing that helps, for me, is having a schedule. Before the pandemic I was already a super scheduled person. Maybe even over-scheduled. I have alarms set throughout the day for shoot times, meeting times, and/or task tra...

What Else for May 5, 2020

Elon Musk might be working with Tom Cruise to do a space movie. Also he and Grimes welcomed their baby yesterday and I’m not sure if this is a joke but supposedly this is the baby’s name: X Æ A-12 Musk. Well thank God for the “copy and paste” function because I could not be bothered to type that out...

Flashing back to Julia Roberts at the Met Gala 2008 as she shares photo on Instagram to honour the occasion

As we know, yesterday was supposed to be the Met Gala. So last night, all kinds of celebrities and civilians were sharing their Met Gala memories or giving us some insight into what they might have worn if there was a Met Gala this year. Maria covered some of that in Celebrity Social Media earlier. ...

A "friend" of Prince Andrew tells The Telegraph that Andrew's lack of cooperation with the authorities over Epstein case

Well this is rich. Or, maybe, this is royal.Prince Andrew, who was friends with the dead rapist pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, has refused to cooperate with authorities investigating the Epstein case and with the lawyers representing Epstein’s victims. One of those lawyers, David Boies, gave an intervi...

Celebrity Social Media, May 5, 2020

Chris Evans joined Instagram (or he just started posting) a few days ago and I kind of missed it. To be honest, I thought he was already on Instagram because he’s pretty active on Twitter. Anyway, he’s already giving people the content they want: his dog. But he’s done Dodger wrong with that haircut...

Nicolas Cage to play Joe Exotic in new series based on Texas Monthly story published in 2019

Ever since Tiger King aired, people have been fantasy-casting the inevitable narrative adaptation of the show. We already had one project in the works, based on the Wondery podcast, starring Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin. There is now a second project officially on the go, this one technically deri...

Justin and Hailey Bieber's new Facebook show, The Biebers On Watch, is like the Newlyweds of 2020

Justin and Hailey Bieber launched a new show on Facebook yesterday, The Biebers on Watch. Interesting to me that this is happening on FB as opposed to YouTube, where JB got his start and where his most recent docuseries aired to promote his album Changes.  The Biebers are currently in isolation in C...

Lilly Singh faces backlash for appropriation of Caribbean culture in “remake” of dancehall track ,“Badman Forward, Badman Pull Up” by Ding Dong

(This is the latest installment in our Long Reads series. Previous entries can be accessed here). Last Monday, Lilly Singh, late night talk show host, YouTuber, comedian, and relentless cultural appropriator of Caribbean culture dropped a “remake” of dancehall track ,“Badman Forward, Badman Pull Up”...

Taika Waititi is now making a Star Wars movie after shooting down reports he was in talks with Lucasfilm to do so

After winning his Oscar for Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi shot down reports that he was in talks with Lucasfilm to make a Star Wars movie. Well guess what? Taika Waititi is now making a Star Wars movie. There is zero information about this film except that he will co-write it with Krysty Wilson-Cairns,...

Deadline reports Tom Cruise and Elon Musk are working with NASA to shoot an action movie filmed in outer space and Intro for May 5, 2020

Dear Gossips, Fifty years ago, there was a race to the moon, a dick swing between two nations that resulted in major advancements in science and tech. Now in Hollywood there’s a race to space. A one man race to space. Because I don’t know that anyone else was out here desperate to get the cameras ro...

May 5, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Today is #GivingTuesdayNow, a global day of unity and giving as an emergency response to the need caused by COVID-19.Oxfam is working to protect the poorest and most vulnerable from COVID-19 and its impacts. With expertise in water, sanitation and public health promotion, Oxfam has been mobilising w...

What Else for May 4, 2020

This is so bonkers random there’s really only one way to react: how are you not laughing at this? The images are hysterical. And it’s only made me realise how uncreative I am because it takes some imagination to come up with an idea like this. How does it even happen? How many edibles must be consum...

Chris Pratt, Katherine Schwarzenegger, and the hilariously stupid headlines about Katherine's pregnancy

Katherine Schwarzenegger and Chris Pratt are expecting their first child (his second) together. This is not surprising – they met, started dating, got engaged, and got married quickly. It was almost expected that she’d be pregnant before their first anniversary. And of course it’s an exciting time f...

Looking back at Chris Pine at the Met Gala in 2010

Here are some new shots of Chris Pine and Annabelle Wallis out for a walk with the dogs this weekend. Since today was supposed to be the Met Gala, I’m looking back on some of the people we’re featuring today and their past Met Gala appearances. As far as I can see, Chris Pine has only been to the Me...

Celebrity Social Media, May 4, 2020

As Lainey wrote this morning, it’s the first Monday in May and while I miss covering my beloved Olsen twins, there is enough history to sustain us for a year. Today is Jessica Simpson’s birthday and the most memorable showing of her was in 2007. She and John Mayer, who had his embarrassed face on, w...

The concept of Amazon's Upload is cool but the show itself is terrible

I am unreasonably fond of the expression ‘our people’. As in, ‘she’s our people’. Once I was really nervous about joining a particular group, and after a couple of people one of the guys there said he’d told someone else about me that, “she’s our people”. As in, she gets it. She has our same outlook...

Stephanie Meyer's website crashes after announcement of Midnight Sun book release

Last week a countdown clock appeared on author Stephenie Meyer’s website and many people anticipated that it would be the release of Midnight Sun, Twilight but from Edward Cullen’s POV. When I posted about it, I asked you to reveal yourself, those of you who still care – do those people exist, are y...

Sandra Bullock packs boxes in great jeans after the 25th anniversary of While You Were Sleeping

You know what I missed? I totally f-cking forgot to write about it on April 21: the 25th anniversary of While You Were Sleeping! It came out in 1995 which… I mean if you asked me before, I wouldn’t have thought it was that long ago but here we are, 25 years later. God I love that movie. And it’s kin...

Mindy Kaling's Never Have I Ever gets off to a rough start but takes on a new life after episode three

It’s been over a year since we first learned about Mindy Kaling’s new project, a TV show loosely based on her life as a rebellious teenager, and even before it aired, it was already subverting expectations left and right. Just making a coming of age show about a South Asian teen was already colourin...

New book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle called FINDING FREEDOM: Harry, Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand to be released in August

Last week, the Daily Mail reported on the imminent release of a new book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle by royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand called Thoroughly Modern Royals: The Real World of Harry and Meghan. For some reason, even though Harry and Meghan are suing the Daily Mail,...

Intro for May 4, 2020

Dear Gossips,If not for the pandemic, tonight would be one of the biggest pop culture nights of the year, the Met Gala. The photos and videos and gossip that come out of the Met Gala can sustain us for months. The Met Gala is where Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston started, remember? The dancing? That...

What Else for May 1, 2020

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again – I grew up idolising Madonna, so there’s a part of me that is always going to be pro-Madonna, because it’s almost like shunning a part of your identity when you have such attachment to a certain time in your life and one artist is so tied to it, you know?...

For Your Fitness: Pilates by the Ocean (or wherever)

Hi again! It’s time for another workout. For previous entries in this series, please visit the fitness page of our site. This one is a Pilates video I filmed down by the ocean, so for all of us who’ve been stuck indoors and for those who don’t live by the water, it will not only work your core but m...

The Parks and Recreation reunion special was perfect and exactly on brand

Last night’s brand-new, shot-from-home reunion episode of Parks and Recreation was the first time in a long while that I can remember sitting down to watch something live, on broadcast, as soon as it was released (that’s not counting the number of times I’ve refreshed to see if there are more episod...

Sasha Finds: The Jane Romper

So far I’ve written about onesies, jumpsuits and today, I’m talking about a romper. So yeah, I’ve basically been talking about the same damn thing week after week. But hey, while every style has a different vibe, the common denominator is the same: comfort! And that’s exactly why I need you to turn ...

Celebrity Social Media, May 1, 2020

Dembabies had a social distancing birthday party – does Mariah set up the Zoom? Is she the one dealing with the logistics of Roc and Roe’s classmates? I just can’t imagine Mariah saying, “Hold on Piper, you’re on mute” to their schoolfriend. This looks like a Roblox-themed party (check out the table...

Review: Netflix's A Secret Love is a tender portrait of queer romance

Here’s my review of A Secret Love, a new Netflix documentary about the seven-decade relationship, most of which was spent in the closet, between Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel: I started crying less than three minutes in and I didn’t stop crying until ten minutes after it ended. A Secret Love is a t...

Hollywood is experiencing a baby boom as celebrities like Ashlee Simpson and Anderson Cooper announce pregnancies and births

Is it just be or is there a celebrity baby boom happening? We began the week with Lea Michele’s pregnancy, which was then eclipsed by Gigi Hadid’s. And the rollout of Gigi’s pregnancy has been in stages. First we heard that she’s pregnant and how far along. Then her ma talked about it. Then TMZ brok...

Gigi Hadid confirms she is pregnant during interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show

Gigi Hadid confirmed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night that she’s pregnant which… I don’t think there was any doubt at this point since her ma, Yolanda, also did an interview earlier this week and said she was excited about being a grandmother in September. A September baby, see!?...

Ana de Armas makes relationship with Ben Affleck Instagram Official for her birthday

It’s not like it wasn’t official before though, right? After several weeks of almost-daily photographs outside of his home as they’re sheltering-in-place together, Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas have been “official” for a while now. These days though, going “Instagram Official” is a whole other thing,...

Intro for May 1, 2020

Dear Gossips, Drake was productive before the pandemic lockdown. So it’s not surprising that he continues to be productive now that there are no parties to fly to, no basketball games to fly to, no impromptu holidays to fly to. This might be the longest stretch that Drake’s spent in Toronto in a whi...