A Globe and Mail photographer captures Raymi in her element. For you cave dwellers, 26-year-old Toronto “blogebrity” (who even says that?) Lauren White has been running her widely read personal blog since “before you even knew how to attach a photo in email” (says her Twitter). From the time she was seventeen, she’s been amassing [...]

Images via Twitter and zacktaylor.ca. Disney’s live-action tween projects, like High School Musical and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, are some of the most lucrative entertainment franchises in recent history. Kids get to nurse their meaningless prepubescent crushes, while parents are comforted by Disney’s squeaky clean role models—and as Miley Cyrus and Vanessa [...]

We’ve (mercifully) not covered Perez Hilton since Monday morning, after he accused Will.I.Am of assaulting him following the Much Music Video Awards (which he would later explain was not Will.I.Am but the Black Eyed Peas’ manager, Polo Molina). But in case you haven’t been following along since, go go Gawker copter: Molina was charged with [...]

“I was assaulted by Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas and his security guards. I am bleeding. Please, I need to file a police report. No joke.” So tweeted infamous gossip blogger Perez HIlton from the SoHo Metropolitan Hotel last night, following both his and the Black Eyed Peas’ appearances at the Much Music Video [...]

Gossip no longer, culture vultures. We’ve finally got confirmation on CanStage’s upcoming season. Like it or not, it looks like the rumours are true. As we reported before, the Bluma Appel Theatre’s rather commercial lineup is entirely free of any Canadian-written shows, which has some folks in quite a tizzy. And as we suspected, CanStage [...]

These days, everyone and their grandmother has a celebrity gossip blog. Perez Hilton became a millionaire by outing Lance Bass and defacing paparazzi photos, while TMZ.com (named for the Thirty Mile Zone surrounding Hollywood) came out of nowhere in 2005 and almost instantaneously became the top site to see celebrities behaving badly. Sassafraz may be [...]

Bad news if you’re a lacrosse fan: the 2008 National Lacrosse League season has been cancelled. Pick your joke: 1) “I’m sure all three of you are very disappointed”; 2) “Players are refusing to play until they get reimbursed for their bus tickets”; 3) “My God, this is the national sport we’re talking about here! [...]

In the wake of TIFF celebritymania, it’s hard to imagine any Torontonian giving a Big Name the cold shoulder. But The New York Daily News reports that chef Guy Rubino of Rain threatened to kick Nelly Furtado and her entourage out of the elite pan-Asian fusion restaurant after her manager got uppity in the kitchen. [...]

Amidst the swirl of sensationalism surrounding the death of a “caretaker” at the Brentwood home of actor Ving Rhames last week, many Torontonians were unaware that the victim, 40-year-old Jacob Adams, was a local actor and screenwriter. “If hard work was enough to make it in Hollywood, then Jacob should have been a superstar,” says [...]

It was a whirlwind friendship that began in the summer of 2003 between two of Canada’s more notable singers. Chantal Kreviazuk and Avril Lavigne had a lot in common from the start: they both left their hometowns to launch careers in Toronto; they each have a contract with Ford models; both are represented by the [...]