Sometimes, when I want to watch the history of pop culture unfold from the days of tying up the landline to this bunghole we have here, I take a trip down the Wayback Machine to a destination which I think best captures the most innocent to misogynistic hours of the Internet, BritneySpears dot com. In 1999, Britney…
Britney Spears—miniature burger-lover, infrequent live-singer, mom—not-so-quietly owns a fragrance empire. Since 2004, Spears has churned out perfumes and colognes for women and men at Kohl’s across America and now she’s prepping her 24th (!!!) scent and first-ever gender-neutral fragrance, Prerogative. (At least its…
In an “exclusive” interview with Entertainment Tonight, a show that has spent the past decade clinging to life like Rose blowing that whistle at the end of Titanic, Britney Spears promoted her upcoming Piece of Me tour by discussing her diet and workout routine with host Nancy O’Dell. (While it’s more than a little…
Britney Spears, from the outside, seems to be living an independent life. She performed a successful Vegas residency for four years and has continued to release music over the past decade, all while updating her Instagram with pictures of her workouts and kids. She’s still Britney (bitch) but she also appears to be a…
Britney Spears is the face of fashion brand Kenzo’s latest campaign (dropped on Tuesday), titled La Collection Memento N0. 2. Here are the photos, shot by Peter Lindbergh.
The prophecy came true this morning when Savannah Guthrie revealed that NBC’s best employee Hoda Kotb had officially taken over for Matt Lauer as the permanent co-anchor of Today. “This has to be the most popular decision NBC News have ever made and I’m so thrilled,” Guthrie said.
Icon and activist Britney Spears bid farewell to the Las Vegas show life Sunday night, giving the final performance of her four-year Britney: Piece Of Me residency. All of her sequined outfits during this period were spectacular, and it is very sad to see them go.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight that’s currently making the rounds, Ed Sheeran revealed the process by which his new duet with Beyoncé (“Perfect”) came to be. “I have an email address that I email...that actually changes every week,” Sheeran said. “So I emailed that and then we got on the phone. It’s…
Anna Paquin says she was there when Brett Ratner allegedly looked at a woman standing next to Ellen Page and said: “you should fuck her to make her realize she’s gay”–while Page was only 18, before she had publicly come out. Page alleges Ratner said this at a “meet and greet” before filming X Men: The Last Stand, in…
Remember when Britney Spears was placidly wearing at least two bras while painting on a canvas propped up in some ivy? It was nice! What’s even nicer is that once the Mozart ended and the millions of paints were packed up, Spears donated one of her masterpieces to Vegas Cares, an auction to benefit the victims of the…
Lars von Trier has denied allegations that he sexually harassed Björk in 2000 while filming the musical drama Dancer in the Dark.
Do you know what is nice? This!
On this date ten years ago, September 10th, 2007, in the depths of the Simon Cowell era, Chris Crocker broadcast his howls of pain out through our desktops, with his creation “Leave Britney Alone!,” which briefly pierced the internet’s cold black heart. Crocker posted on the day following Britney’s infamously limp and…
Britney Spears performed at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on Monday night for 55,000 concertgoers. Spears arrived in Israel on Sunday, coming from her tour in Asia. It doesn’t seem like anyone was prepared for what she would be facing.
Earlier this week, Britney Spears moaned, “A lot of people think that I don’t sing live. Because I’m dancing so much I do have a little bit of playback, but there’s a mixture of my voice and the playback. It really pisses me off because I am busting my ass out there and singing at the same time and nobody ever really…
Read her lips: Britney Spears is pissed and she wants credit. In a recent interview that ran on Israeli TV, the pop diva decried those who accuse her of lip-syncing. “A lot of people think that I don’t sing live,” Spears said. “Because I’m dancing so much I do have a little bit of playback, but there’s a mixture of my…
Britney Spears needed to travel to Thailand for a performance in Bangkok, so she (like any great mom and friend) brought her family and some other loved ones to make a fun vacation out of it. In an Instagram video uploaded Wednesday, Spears shared that the experience has been an “incredible” one thus far while…
Britney Spears’s iconic Instagram page has reportedly been compromised by a group of Russian hackers.
After some nasty legal drama, Ariel Winter emancipated herself from her mother, Chrisoula Workman, last year. (Among other things, Winter had accused Workman of “vile name calling, personal insults about [her and her weight], attempts to ‘sexualize’ [a] minor, and deprivation of food.”) We hadn’t heard from Workman…
