Kayleigh Donaldson
@ceilidhann.bsky.social
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Pop culture writer and critic.
https://gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/
Tonight's film.
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Listen I'm Scary OK
about 18 hours ago
the Colbert cancellation is a labor issue, to my mind. Colbert’s show employed hundreds of union employees working nightly. Byron Allen’s non-union show costs CBS nothing (literal zero), and costs Allen very little as well since comics provide their own material for a nominal fee and exposure
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News: OpenAI had a negative 122% operating margin in Q1 2026, and ChatGPT growth has stalled. Based on its current trajectory, OpenAI is on course to lose over $36 billion in 2026.
www.wheresyoured.at/news-openai-...
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Stephen Colbert spent over 2 decades being a "leader" in late-night amid political turmoil. It was way too much to ask of him, but he did do a good job weathering that pressure. He deserved a better ending. I wrote this for
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Colbert’s Late Night Legacy: Did We Ask Too Much of Him? | Commentary
Whether he liked it or not, Stephen Colbert spent decades being late night's clear voice in torrid political times.
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/tv-shows/late-show-colbert-ending-commentary/
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I'm starting a new regular segment on the Gossip Reading Club, where we do deep dives into the many marriages and romances of celebrities known for their colourful love lives. First up: the eight marriages of Elizabeth Taylor!
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Let’s Talk About All Eight of Elizabeth Taylor’s Husbands!
Nobody married like Elizabeth Taylor. Which of her seven husbands was the least worst?
https://gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/lets-talk-about-all-eight-of-elizabeth-taylors-husbands/
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It's been 12 years since Miles Teller was eviscerated in an Esquire interview wherein the writer could barely hide her disdain for him. He's still haunted by it. So, let's talk about it!
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Profiled: Miles Teller Is Still Haunted By That Esquire Profile
Miles Teller gave a notorious interview in Esquire, wherein the journalist clearly hated him. He's still bothered by it, 12 years later.
https://gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/profiled-miles-teller-is-still-haunted-by-that-esquire-profile/
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The Salt Path scandal makes watching the film adaptation an impossible task, but it's only through that lens that its odd plot holes and narrative issues make sense. I wrote about it for
@avclub.com
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The Salt Path doesn't make any sense until you understand its scandal
The failures of the feel-good biopic The Salt Path are rooted in the deceit of Raynor Winn's phony source material.
https://www.avclub.com/the-salt-path-scandal-explains-its-failures-raynor-winn
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It's been 15 years since a teenage Courtney Stodden married a 50 year old man and the world shamed *her* for it. I wrote about the shaming of Courtney last year.
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Do You Remember: The Teen Marriage and Cultural Humiliation of Courtney Stodden
A victim of a predator became a public joke. Why?
https://gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/do-you-remember-the-teen-marriage/
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New on the newsletter. Dominique Dunne was killed by her boyfriend. The light sentence he received inspired her father to become one of Hollywood's most famous true crime writers.
gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/hollywood-cr...
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Hollywood & Crime: The Death of Dominique Dunne (And Her Father’s Reporting on Her Murder)
A rising star was murdered by her boyfriend. His light sentence caused outrage among Hollywood, and her father's reporting broke new ground in true crime.
https://gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/hollywood-crime-the-death-of-dominique-dunne-and-her-fathers-reporting-on-her-murder/
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The A.V. Club
4 days ago
Nine months after its source author's lie-riddled downfall, The Salt Path comes to American audiences with a hell of a lot of baggage
www.avclub.com/the-salt-pat...
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The Salt Path doesn't make any sense until you understand its scandal
The failures of the feel-good biopic The Salt Path are rooted in the deceit of Raynor Winn's phony source material.
https://www.avclub.com/the-salt-path-scandal-explains-its-failures-raynor-winn
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The Salt Path scandal makes watching the film adaptation an impossible task, but it's only through that lens that its odd plot holes and narrative issues make sense. I wrote about it for
@avclub.com
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www.avclub.com/the-salt-pat...
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The Salt Path doesn't make any sense until you understand its scandal
The failures of the feel-good biopic The Salt Path are rooted in the deceit of Raynor Winn's phony source material.
https://www.avclub.com/the-salt-path-scandal-explains-its-failures-raynor-winn
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New on the newsletter. Dominique Dunne was killed by her boyfriend. The light sentence he received inspired her father to become one of Hollywood's most famous true crime writers.
gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/hollywood-cr...
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Hollywood & Crime: The Death of Dominique Dunne (And Her Father’s Reporting on Her Murder)
A rising star was murdered by her boyfriend. His light sentence caused outrage among Hollywood, and her father's reporting broke new ground in true crime.
https://gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/hollywood-crime-the-death-of-dominique-dunne-and-her-fathers-reporting-on-her-murder/
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Tonight's film.
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Pajiba
4 days ago
A Horrific Scandal Has Hit One of the UK's Biggest Reality TV Shows
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A Horrific Scandal Has Hit One of the UK's Biggest Reality TV Shows
The British edition of the reality series Married at First Sight has faced multiple accusations of rape. Two women, who had appeared on the show, told the BBC investigative show Panorama that they were assaulted by their on-screen husbands. Channel... Read more...
https://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/two-women-allege-assault-by-onscreen-husbands-on-married-at-first-sight-uk.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Pajiba
4 days ago
How 'Outlander' Changed Scotland
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How 'Outlander' Changed Scotland
After 12 years and eight seasons, Starz's epic time-travelling romantic drama Outlander came to an end. Fans' reactions seem, from what I've seen, mixed to positive, with Jamie and Clare Fraser's grand love story concluding in a reasonably satisfying manner.... Read more...
https://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/how-outlander-changed-scotland.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Aidan Comerford
5 days ago
JK Rowling referred to Posie Parker as a "genius" years ago, in her capacity as an an anti-trans leader in her movement. Posie appeared at a Tommy Robinson march on the weekend calling for Islam to be banned in the UK. You'd think a mainstream journalist might seek a quote from Rowling on it, right?
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When you think you've found a fun new lofi playlist to sleep to then realise it's fucking AI.
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Ralph Wiggum Says No
ALT: Ralph Wiggum Says No
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Last four watched.
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Tonight's film.
6 days ago
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New on my newsletter! Meryl Streep was heralded as the greatest actress of her generation from almost the very beginning of her career. After winning her 1st Oscar, Time Magazine interviewed her. Let's talk about it!
gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/issue-35-the...
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Issue 35: The Rise of Meryl Streep
The "greatest actress of all time" was heralded as such from the early years of her career, and Time was there to make the declaration.
https://gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/issue-35-the-rise-of-meryl-streep/
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I intend this as an insult to both parties: I would rather vote for Keir Starmer than Wes Streeting.
10 days ago
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Pajiba
8 days ago
Auditions for the Next James Bond Have Officially Begun (and We Have a Suggestion)
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Auditions for the Next James Bond Have Officially Begun (and We Have a Suggestion)
What's that? It's time for yet another "who's going to be the next James Bond" story? It must be a day ending in Y. Look, we know that the endless hypothetical search for a new 007 is as familiar to... Read more...
https://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/auditions-for-the-next-james-bond-have-officially-begun-and-we-have-a-suggestion.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Pajiba
8 days ago
Drake Will Continue Releasing New Albums Until Morale Improves
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Drake Will Continue Releasing New Albums Until Morale Improves
What's worse than a new Drake album? How about three of them, all released on the same day? That's right, we've got 43 new songs by the OV-hoe and some people are excited, I imagine. Following his absolute annihilation at... Read more...
https://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/drake-drops-three-albums-in-the-same-day-iceman-habibti-and-maid-of-honor.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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JenVegasInNY
8 days ago
I wrote about this "conservative Cosmo" and the role it's playing in the destruction of social progressivism.
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I have decided who should be the next James Bond. Jamie Bell. MGM-Amazon, no need to thank me.
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Fuck Eurovision.
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I was on CBC's Commotion to discuss the success and legacy of Outlander alongside
@kvanaren.bsky.social
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www.cbc.ca/arts/commoti...
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Why Outlander is ‘a very complicated example’ of the romance genre’s appeal | CBC Arts
Culture critics Kathryn VanArendonk and Kayleigh Donaldson join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to talk about how the series has managed to stick around despite never quite going mainstream.
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/commotion/why-outlander-is-a-very-complicated-example-of-the-romance-genres-appeal-9.7197794?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAb21jcARx0T5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAaeaf0sLzBp3cMCPF3GM3C-ZJzRYRo2cuFVWetwICq6kaszbr0tK6jaQUaPY5A_aem_1S7Y01SLhgf4FpUucf3APQ
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I was on CBC's Commotion to discuss the success and legacy of Outlander alongside
@kvanaren.bsky.social
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www.cbc.ca/arts/commoti...
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Why Outlander is ‘a very complicated example’ of the romance genre’s appeal | CBC Arts
Culture critics Kathryn VanArendonk and Kayleigh Donaldson join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to talk about how the series has managed to stick around despite never quite going mainstream.
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/commotion/why-outlander-is-a-very-complicated-example-of-the-romance-genres-appeal-9.7197794?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAb21jcARx0T5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAaeaf0sLzBp3cMCPF3GM3C-ZJzRYRo2cuFVWetwICq6kaszbr0tK6jaQUaPY5A_aem_1S7Y01SLhgf4FpUucf3APQ
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Liz Shannon Miller
10 days ago
Wrote about the apparent end of Neil Gaiman's TV empire, something that I (along with a lot of other people, I'm sure) have a lot of complicated feelings about!
consequence.net/2026/05/neil...
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Neil Gaiman Limps Away
The end of the writer's once-booming TV empire leaves behind one important lesson.
https://consequence.net/2026/05/neil-gaiman-allegations-tv-good-omens/
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10 days ago
Why is an Auction House Selling X-Rays of Marilyn Monroe's Pelvis?
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Why is an Auction House Selling X-Rays of Marilyn Monroe's Pelvis?
We're never going to let Marilyn Monroe rest, are we? The legendary actress died in 1963 and since then her life has been plundered, mocked, appropriated and commodified in ways that are frequently baffling and occasionally stomach-churning. A company owns... Read more...
https://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/new-auction-of-marilyn-monroes-belongings-includes-xrays-of-her-body.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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I intend this as an insult to both parties: I would rather vote for Keir Starmer than Wes Streeting.
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Scottish baby sloth! He's named Atty, after David Attenborough!
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New on my newsletter. Brooke Shields was the most obsessed over child star of the '70s and '80s. The press, Hollywood & her mother moulded her into a sex object for grown men. She was a teenager. I wrote about the bleak fetishising of Brooke Shields.
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Brooke Shields Versus the World of Adults
Was any child star more creepily gawked over than Brooke Shields?
https://gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/brooke-shields-versus-the-world-of-adults/
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Tonight's film.
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AdMan Markiewicz
12 days ago
Always, ALWAYS listen to John Waters.
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New on my newsletter. Brooke Shields was the most obsessed over child star of the '70s and '80s. The press, Hollywood & her mother moulded her into a sex object for grown men. She was a teenager. I wrote about the bleak fetishising of Brooke Shields.
gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/brooke-shiel...
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Brooke Shields Versus the World of Adults
Was any child star more creepily gawked over than Brooke Shields?
https://gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/brooke-shields-versus-the-world-of-adults/
11 days ago
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The Cannes Film Festival has begun for 2026. I'm not there. Let's talk about it anyway.
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Awards Seasoning: Yes We Cannes Cannes Cannes for 2026!
The 79th Cannes Film Festival is here, and so we begin another year of awards season, whether we like it or not!
https://gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/awards-seasoning-yes-we-cannes-cannes-cannes-for-2026/
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Pajiba
12 days ago
Ew, Did Sarah Ferguson Really Have an Affair With Diddy?
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Ew, Did Sarah Ferguson Really Have an Affair With Diddy?
Sarah Ferguson is still MIA following the stripping of her royal title and the arrest of her ex-husband, the creep formerly known as Prince Andrew. She was kicked out of the home she shared with Andy and nobody is entirely... Read more...
https://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/royal-biographer-alleges-sarah-ferguson-had-affair-with-sean-diddy-combs.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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I bought a Moomin tealight holder.
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Nobody hates women more than transphobes. This is straight-up fascistic talk from a woman whose entire career is built on picking at queer culture.
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Stop everything! Scottish baby capybara!
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Mr. Tyler Crook
13 days ago
Remember when this guy gave the longest filibuster in US history but made sure to schedule it so that could have no impact on the Senate rubber stamping Trumps agenda and then sold his speech as a book?
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Stockholm was gorgeous. I highly recommend it if you love beautiful cities full of fascinating museums, archipelagos, and boats.
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My ice hockey team's captain has abandoned us to go to another team in the league.
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Rabbinstein's Immeasurable Disappointment
ALT: Rabbinstein's Immeasurable Disappointment
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Meredith Borders
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Kayleigh provides one of the best newsletters in my inbox. Reliably great writing, piercing insights and unerring opinions about the Hollywood machine. You should sign up for it!
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Watching old Siskel and Ebert episodes on YouTube.
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New on my newsletter! Meryl Streep was heralded as the greatest actress of her generation from almost the very beginning of her career. After winning her 1st Oscar, Time Magazine interviewed her. Let's talk about it!
gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/issue-35-the...
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Issue 35: The Rise of Meryl Streep
The "greatest actress of all time" was heralded as such from the early years of her career, and Time was there to make the declaration.
https://gossip-reading-club.ghost.io/issue-35-the-rise-of-meryl-streep/
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The A.V. Club
25 days ago
Whether they're from Angel Studios or the actual CIA, film versions of Animal Farm always flinch at the material
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Animal Farm movies have a long history of missing the point
Whether it's the CIA or Angel Studios, George Orwell's adapters never stick to the truth (or the ending) of Animal Farm.
https://www.avclub.com/animal-farm-adaptations-always-miss-the-point-cia-angel-studios
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