The writers for Ryan Murphy Presents the Actual Year 2020 must be totally out of ideas because they’ve written in yet another online fight between Charmed co-stars Rose McGowan and Alyssa Milano, and we already did that!!
This Charmed Reunion Sucks Ass
Brandy and Monica Are Finally Gonna Figure Out Whose Boy This Is
Since the beginning of time (1998), one question has haunted humanity: Is the boy Brandy’s, or is he Monica’s? Next week, we might just find out once and for all.
Selling Sunset Has Some Fucking Explaining to Do
When I asked Selling Sunset’s self-proclaimed bad bitch Christine Quinn if producers on the show fucked around with the timeline of events, she told me: “I can’t comment on production, but I know you’re a smart person, Joan.” Her words ring in my ear now, considering a new bombshell report that Oppenheim Group lessers …
Jamie Lynn Spears Is Taking On a Bigger Role in Her Sister Britney's Conservatorship
Just a week after news came out that Britney Spears’s lawyers had requested that her father, Jamie Spears, no longer have sole conservatorship over her estate and person, new court records show that Britney’s sister, former Nickelodeon star Jamie Lynn Spears, is starting to play a more significant role in Britney’s…
Britney Spears Sees You, #FreeBritney
Britney Spears and her court-appointed attorney Samuel D. Ingham III filed papers this week in Los Angeles requesting several changes to her conservatorship, most notably that Spears wants a “voluntary” conservatorship, and that she wants her conservatorship court battle to be made public. In other words, she sees…
Britney Spears Isn't 'Scary' Says Boyfriend, She's Just Being Herself
The unglamorous legal battle over Britney Spears’s conservatorship has been playing out in full view of the public for months now, exposing the grisly struggle between the singer and her family over who should maintain control of her estate. It’s a sad state of affairs — one that has prompted an entire #FreeBritney…
Remember When Bob Dole Was Considered Too Old to Be President?
In the summer of 1995, Senator Bob Dole was the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, competing against the likes of conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan and Senator Arlen Specter. But the chances of a White House takeover appeared slim from the outset: The economy experienced a brief …
Britney Spears Loses Bid to Remove Her Father From Her Conservatorship
Sorry, #FreeBritney protesters—the battle wages on. According to the BBC, Britney Spears has lost her court bid requesting her father Jamie Spears be removed from her conservatorship. Jamie has been her legal guardian for 12 years and views the #FreeBritney movement—which consists of fans who believe she has been held…
Free Britney
We tell ourselves Britney Spears wants our attention. From the very outset of her fame, the idea that Britney wouldn’t put it out there if she didn’t want us to look made her audience feel better about gawking at the exposed midriff of a 17-year-old girl. But the three-note opening hook of “...Baby One More Time,” the…
Tom Cruise Reportedly Launched Into Yet Another Tirade Against Mission Impossible Crew, 5 Members Quit
Looks like the only Mission Impossible is getting actor Tom Cruise to stop yelling at crew members—and getting those crew members to adhere to strict covid-19 safety protocols put in place to keep everyone safe. U.K. tabloid
The Sun reported that Tom Cruise launched into a second rant on Tuesday, causing five crew…
Somewhat Unsurprisingly, Britney Spears's Shittiest Ex-Husband Is an Anti-Masker Who Also Attended the Trump Riot
Britney Spears' Former Assistant Isn't Sure What a Conservatorship Is, But She's Pretty Sure Britney Doesn't Deserve It
No conservatorship has ever been so discussed as the one that hangs over Britney Spears. But what is a conservatorship, anyway? In the forthcoming Framing Britney Spears documentary, Spears’s former assistant, Felicia Culotta, admits that honestly, she has no idea. Per Us Weekly,
Justin Timberlake Is Just One Villain in Framing Britney Spears
The two things I’ve watched tonight—Framing Britney Spears and, currently, the Super Bowl—have one person in common, and that person is Justin Timberlake, who is under fire once again for effortlessly maintaining his A-list celeb status while permanently damaging the reputations of Britney Spears and Janet Jackson.
Paparazzo Whose Car Britney Spears Attacked in 2007 Absurdly Claims He Didn't Know She Wanted to Be Left Alone
In addition to a rather damning look back at Justin Timberlake’s behavior regarding his ex Britney Spears, the New York Times-made/FX-Hulu-aired documentary Framing Britney Spears featured a galling interview with former paparazzo Daniel Ramos. Regardless of the piles of footage of Spears so surrounded by strobing…
And Now, All the Britney Spears Sources Speak
Since The New York Times/FX/Hulu documentary Framing Britney Spears premiered on Friday, the pop culture world has been abuzz with #FreeBritney conversation. How serious are the parameters of her conservatorship? Does Spears have any autonomy? Does she need saving, or is this the public once again projecting their…
Britney Spears Is 'Hopeful' in Aftermath of Framing Britney Spears
On Friday, The New York Times/FX documentary Framing Britney Spears debuted, leaving in its aftermath new support for the #FreeBritney movement, disappointment in pop culture’s treatment of young women, and confusion about the legitimacy of her conservatorship and the role of Britney Spears’s father and…
Celebrity Apologies Get Britney Spears Exactly Nothing
In the days following the release of the New York Times/FX/Hulu documentary Framing Britney Spears—or, what I like to think of as a very helpful visual explainer for the essay I wrote back in November—there’s been a wild rush online by women’s magazines, celebrities, and fans to parse who owes Britney an apology and…
Britney Spears's Dad Will Continue to Be Her Co-Conservator
Despite the growing popularity of the #FreeBritney movement, Britney Spears’s father Jamie Spears will remain her co-conservator, a judge ruled Thursday. As Page Six reports, lawyers for Britney filed a petition to have Jamie removed, which was deemed “unclear and ambiguous.”
Like Most Women in Their Late 30s, Britney Spears Has Received a Halfhearted Apology From Her Terrible High School Boyfriend
There comes a time when the bullshit misdeeds of straight women’s Jordan Catalanos—that handsome yet all-round emotionally stunted high school boyfriend—catch up with them, and they get divorced or go to rehab or, in Justin Timberlake’s case, have the entire world simultaneously wake up to the fact they’ve built a…
You Can See It Everywhere
A clip of an interview David Letterman conducted with Lindsay Lohan in 2013 has resurfaced on the heels of the release of Framing Britney Spears, the New York Times doc that seems to have sparked a mini-reckoning with how the media treats women celebrities.
Perez Hilton Would Also Like to Apologize to Britney Spears
Because it is now in vogue to apologize to Britney Spears, the king of convenient, years-too-late apologies would like to get a word in as well.
The Rise and Fall of Joss Whedon, and the Myth of the Hollywood Feminist Hero
“I hate ‘feminist.’ Is this a good time to bring that up?” Joss Whedon asked. He paused knowingly, waiting for the laughs he knew would come at the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer making such a statement. It was 2013, and Whedon was onstage at a fundraiser for Equality Now, a human rights organization dedicated to…
Lady Gaga's Dogs Are Safe, but I Have Approx. One Million Follow-up Questions
Lady Gaga’s dogs are safe! But the ends on this story... They’re just so loose.....
Alec Baldwin Isn't Taking Questions On Where His Latest Baby Came From!
Hilaria Baldwin, the non-Spanish wife of Alec, dropped a new baby yesterday on Instagram, debuting a new bundle of joy merely five months after she produced Eduardo. Naturally, the timing of the fresh baby’s arrival has raised some questions from the general public. Naturally, the Baldwin family is not interested in…
Paris Hilton Says David Letterman Was 'Purposely Trying To Humiliate' Her in Invasive 2007 Interview
The New York Times/Hulu’s Framing Britney Spears film has had an unexpected outcome: a mini-reckoning with how the media treats women celebrities, beyond its abuse of Spears. Mid-aughts media coverage, viewed retroactivity, is especially heinous: the recent resurfacing of a David Letterman interview with Lindsay Lohan…