My obsession with the union of Sam Taylor-Johnson and actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson is tinged with awe and guilt. I hate that I even notice their 24-year age gap because no one would even care if the genders were reversed. I hate that we’re all kind of waiting to see when his 20-something crisis will kick […]
See what’s inside Lainey Lui’s bag » With the September crazies beginning tomorrow both at home and abroad, we could use a few pointers about getting through the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Fashion Week alive. Look no further than Lainey Lui, the multitasking blogger and television host who manages both Laineygossip.com, reporting […]
Teri Hart and Lainey Gossip’s Elaine Lui shot by George Pimentel
The rain couldn’t keep gossipmongers away from Lainey Gossip’s 9th Annual Smut Soiree. The self appointed Dean of the Faculty of Celebrity Studies opened her dirt discussion, moderated by entertainment reporter Teri Hart, with the promise of “gossip jizz” and we all leaned in (not in the Sheryl Sandberg way), eyes widening. Herewith, the revelatory highlight reel:
We don’t want to call it a Snowmageddon, but we did have to wear over-the-knee boots just to make it into work this morning. While most of Southern Ontario and New York is covered in up to 25 centimetres of snow (that’s almost 10 inches, for our American friends) we’re not going to let this almost-blizzard bring us down. Whether you’re at the office or cuddled under your duvet, everyone deserves a few diversions on a snow day. As such, here are 17 things we’ve been enjoying online that will make your snow day more stylish, hilarious, and overall, just better.
Image courtesy Lainey Gossip17. Blair Waldorf is dating Seth Cohen, there is basically nothing better than that [Lainey Gossip]
Dirt diehards came from Thunder Bay, Ottawa, London and even Montreal for Toronto’s 7th Annual Smut Soiree to hear Elaine “Lainey” Lui dish with Dan Levy as her wingman. Held at Evergreen Brickworks, and hosted by The Society and Laineygossip.com, the event was rampant with girls putting on their try, with a sea of jersey, towering heels and neon accessories as far as the eye could see. Stations offering press-on manicures by Broadway nails, lashes by Ardell, makeup applications by Stila and hair primping by John Frieda stylists were being mobbed like a Twilight premiere.
But gossip was the main event, and promptly at 8:30 p.m., the talk was flowing. Among the revelations:
Vancouver’s most enthusiastic gossip hounds headed to the city’s first, and hotly anticipated, SMUT Soiree at Vancouver Urban Winery last night, hosted by The Society and LaineyGossip.com. The cocktail party and panel discussion, led by eTalk correspondent and famed gossip Elaine “Lainey” Lui and television host-slash-actor, Dan Levy, dished the dirt for a hungry audience, finally served after envying Toronto’s six-year SMUT streak. For Lainey, it was only fitting that she indulge her adopted home and have Levy join her in moderating the panel, because Vancouver is where the two originally “fell in love” when covering the city’s 2010 Olympic Winter Games. “That’s when we became boyfriend and girlfriend,” she joked.
The proud friend told both me and the audience that her BFF had just returned from filming Admission, a film starring Tina Fey, Paul Rudd and Michael Sheen, but despite her beaming endorsement, Levy modestly added, “I don’t have a very big part, so let’s not inflate things.” Related: Dan, sharing the big screen with Tina Fey (!!!) needs no inflating.
For our final vintage Mother’s Day tribute, we reached out to Man Repeller‘s Leandra Medine, who passed on this delightful photo of her mother back in the day. We may never know what mama Medine was pondering in said photo, but what we do know is that whatever patent top action she’s got going on right there is seriously amazing. Happy Mother’s Day!
Canada’s gossip queen is opening her back pages to share some very stylish family history. Elaine Lui—known as Lainey Gossip to the celebrity-obsessed masses—has often blogged about her darling mother, and it seems we could all learn a thing or two about fashion trends from her:
T’was the Night we dressed in our finest holiday attire for a fully-fledged mall party to celebrate the multimillion dollar TD Square/Holt Renfrew renovations at Calgary’s CORE Shopping Centre. The CORE lit up indoor fireworks and a 45-foot tree, sprinkled fluffy fake snow from the balconies, and a threw a mini concert with Canadian songstress Chantal Kreviazuk, all on top of some lofty holiday sales and prizes.
Greeting guests on the red carpet was the queen of smut, Elaine Lui of Lainey Gossipand eTalk, who posed for fan photos in a form-fitting, blue and white Yigal Azrouël number. The belle of the mall-ball, however, was Kreviazuk, who got pampered at Eveline Charles before taking the stage in a whimsical, feathered Paul Hardy gown, and later, at the VIP lounge, where she signed autographs and posed for photos with Mr. Hardy himself.
