Month: July 2020

Taylor Swift’s new album Folklore dropped July 24, and despite the last-minute notice, it immediately became something of a pop culture flashpoint. The intrigue stems both from its high-quality songs and its departure from the blanket self-absorption found on previous Swift albums. Folklore, fans and critics agreed, is a stand-out in Swift’s catalogue and beyond. Swift’s attempts to move away from lyrical navel-gazing resulted in an album largely focused on third-party narratives, which also serve as allegorical and metaphorical reflections on Swift’s own life and emotions. So, naturally, Folklore’s songs about other people are stirring up the biggest rumors and debate about Swift. Most of the album’s tales about other people also feel like coded confessions — the kind that Swift t...

The singer opened up for the first time about being the victim of sexual abuse as a child in her recent memoir, "Open Book," published earlier this year. It was just earlier this year that Jessica Simpson opened up for the first time about sexual abuse she suffered as a child at the hands of another girl considered at the time a family friend. Now, she's talking about why she decided to seek out that woman and confront her years later. Simpson told Katherine Schwarzenegger on her "The Gift of Forgiveness" podcast that she came to this moment shortly after her break from Nick Lachey. Getty Jessica Simpson Reveals Sexual Abuse, Drinking and Pill Problem and Hitting Rock Bottom ...

On July 28, 2020, Mattel announced it would be releasing its seventh presidential Barbie. They have released one in nearly every cycle since 1992, but of course, America has yet to see Barbie in the Oval Office. But this year, for the first time, Mattel gave her a campaign team. Candidate Barbie 2020 came with a campaign manager, a fundraiser, and one (1) voter. There was renewed hope in the Barbie camp that this could be the year she won. Flash forward to Nov. 4, 2020. In an alternate universe somewhere, the four women discuss with NPR how Barbie lost the presidency yet again. Candidate Barbie and Campaign Manager Barbie speak from a hotel lounge in downtown Miami, shortly after the concession speech. Fundraiser Barbie talks via Zoom from her home in Connecticut. ...

Photo credit: Jamie McCarthy - Getty ImagesFrom Cosmopolitan One of our favourite models (and total body confidence powerhouse), Ashley Graham, has shared a new set of entirely non-Photoshopped pictures from a swimwear campaign, and of course she looks incredible. The range is her very own line at Swimsuits For All, which has an ethos of showing 'real' bodies rocking the bikinis and suits on offer, and being inclusive. Ashley, who gave birth to an adorable little boy named Isaac back in January, is well and truly back to work – and proudly normalising the new stretch marks on her stomach. Speaking to PEOPLE magazine about the shoot, she said, "There's always a question of what do you want us to retouch, and what do you want us to take out?' and I said, 'Nothing,’ except from a clamp hold...

After months of silence, “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Denise Richards is finally responding to rumors that she hooked up with Brandi Glanville. On Wednesday’s episode of the Bravo show, Richards, 49, broke down in tears as the women confronted her about the affair, which Glanville claims took place during an April 2019 trip to Northern California. “Are you f–king kidding me? Are you f–king kidding me?” Denise responded with tears in her eyes as her co-stars asked if Glanville’s allegations were true, adding that her husband Aaron Phypers, as well as one of her daughters and three other children were also on the trip. When Teddi Mellencamp and Dorit Kemsley pushed Richards to explain her side of the story, she responded, “Guys, I’m going through so much stuff. It h...