Those of you who read The Saturday Fashion News Catch Up posts every weekend will know how much I love the gossip blog, Lainey Gossip. It’s my go-to-source for breaking celebrity news, fabulous entertainment analysis and laugh-out-loud commentary. It’s the one website (other than Coco’s Tea Party, obviously) that I always tell people to bookmark. Lainey, aka Elaine Lui, was invited to speak at TEDxVancouver, last October, and the Lainey Gossip TED Talk video has just been posted on Youtube. Even if you’re not big on celebrity news I urge you to take 20 minutes out of your evening to watch Elaine speak. She makes some really smart points and raises many interesting questions…
You may not think ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics have much in common with The National Enquirer, but Elaine brilliantly shows how similar they are. She also touches upon some heavier topics – from feminism through to infidelity. And speaking of the latter, why is it we punish Kristen Stewart for cheating on Robert Pattinson, yet Ashton Kutcher’s career has gone from strength-to-strength since he cheated on Demi Moore? There are definitely some double standards there. Which, as Elaine points out, says more about us as a society than it does about Kristen and Ashton.
Let me know what you think after watching the Lainey Gossip TED Talk. And remember to bookmark Lainey’s blog now!
