Madeleine Davies
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What Will Reality TV Do Without Offensive People?
Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute have made careers out of being the kind of reality TV star viewers love to hate—or hate to love. On Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules, they’ve lied to their friends, cheated on their partners, and brutally bullied their coworkers at SUR, an L.A. restaurant owned by former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Vanderpump. Both Schroeder and Doute have been… → Read More
2 Former Jezebel Staffers Wrote a Book About Men. Wow
Yes, Tara Jacoby and Madeleine Davies, erstwhile Jezebel employees, have written a book about the thing they know the most about: men! Excerpt below. → Read More
Horny Valentines for Your Friends, Your Lovers, and Yourself
For the past several years, Tara Jacoby and Madeleine Davies have teamed up to create Valentines aimed at our uniquely troubled times. In 2018, they made them for the current administration and, in 2017, it was anti-Valentines for the person you love to hate. In that tradition, here they come again, this year in honor of Fuck Week. Romantic! → Read More
My iPhone is trying to make me a better person. It won't work.
Screen Time and other chiding parental features are too effective of a reminder that much of what I believe about myself are (perfectly fine) delusions. → Read More
Seriously, Stop Blaming Ariana Grande for Mac Miller's Death
As news hit on Friday, September 7 that rapper Mac Miller passed away at 26 of a reported drug overdose, news outlets and fans implicated ex-girlfriend Ariana Grande as the cause for blame. Here's why they're wrong. → Read More
Later, Sluts
Looking back at the circumstances, it’s a surprise that I was hired at Jezebel. When I first sat down with Editor-in-Chief Jessica Coen to talk about joining the staff as Editorial Assistant nearly seven years ago, little lined up: I had arrived to meet her at a café on Houston after working an eight-hour breakfast and lunch shift at a restaurant in the West Village; I didn’t have time to clean… → Read More
They're Here, They're Queer, They're Buying Lemonade from Suri Cruise
Far be it from me to criticize an enterprising young woman who takes to the New York City streets on an 85-degree day to sell the LGBTQ community and allies cups of lemonade at $2 a pop, even (or especially?) if that young woman is 12-year-old celebrity progeny Suri Cruise. → Read More
I'm Starting the Oscar Campaign for Vanderpump Rules' Lala Kent Now
Vanderpump Rules’ Lala Kent is a modern-day renaissance woman: She is SUR hostess, a beauty mogul, a reality TV star and recording artist; she once announced that she had “taken up reading books”; she drinks her anxiety medication from a baby bottle; and says a daily empowerment prayer where “I look in the mirror and I literally talk to every part of my body and I’m like, ‘I love you.’” She has… → Read More
I Love You, But I Love Me More
For the 20th anniversary of Sex and the City—which premiered on HBO on June 6, 1998 and went on to become iconic prestige television—Jezebel is doing a week of posts dedicated to our favorite band of sexual women friends. → Read More
Her Hair, It's Down
Continuing the recent celebrity trend of being entirely unrecognizable on the cover of a magazine, Ariana Grande let’s her hair down—both literally and, perhaps, figuratively—on British Vogue’s July cover. → Read More
A Broke (to Not-So-Broke) Woman's Guide to Dressing Like Villanelle From Killing Eve
If you’ve been watching Phoebe Waller Bridge’s brilliant BBC America crime drama Killing Eve (which concludes this Sunday), then you’ve likely become obsessed by the 1.) insanely gorgeous hair of Sandra Oh and 2.) wardrobe of trained assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer), and one frothy pink dress in particular. → Read More
Will NBC's Next Live Musical Show Dong?
NBC has announced that its next live musical—a follow up to star-studded productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, Hairspray, Peter Pan, and Sound of Music—will be Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. So now the real question: Will the cast hang brain? → Read More
Catfish Gets Suspended Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Nev Schulman
MTV has suspended production of Catfish, the world’s most depressing dating show, after host Nev Schulman—known for his woke elevator selfies and punching a woman in the face while he was a student at Sarah Lawrence—was accused of sexual misconduct. → Read More
Our Suggestion: Make the Live-Action Dora the Explorer Grittier
¡Hola! As you may or may not be aware, the popular cartoon Dora the Explorer is being adapted into a live-action feature by Nickelodeon and casting is underway. But while a parent might have the patience to plop their kids in front of the TV for a couple hours of Dora at home, the idea that they will sit through a full-length Dora feature in theaters (a place where you cannot/should not read,… → Read More
Watch What Happens When Two Dementors Meet (Live)
It is said that a kiss from a dementor is a sentence worse than death, the receiver becoming a “shell of a person” doomed to wander the mortal coil for the rest of its days—free from sadness, yes, but also barred from joy, from excitement, from contentment. Teach that shell of a person how to make bad spicy margaritas and he becomes Vanderpump Rules’ Jax Taylor. → Read More
I Will Only Watch the Halsey Biopic If It Includes This Clip
In what I’m sure will be the biggest news in women’s media on this sleepy April Thursday, Deadline is reporting that singer Halsey is developing a movie about her life with Sony. Wow! → Read More
I Believe YouTubers Are the Future
Like with any age demographic, it’s hard to characterize teens with one blanket description. Some are smart and some are dumb. Some are polite and some gather in groups and heckle you (okay, me) on the subway. There are those, like the Parkland teenagers, who are informed and brave activists and then there are others who...are Jake and Logan Paul. → Read More
In Season 2 of The Handmaid's Tale, We All Pay a Blood Price
The first 15 minutes of The Handmaid’s Tale, Season 2—the first episode to deviate completely from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel—is equal parts gripping and stomach turning. How will anyone—handmaids and viewers alike—survive this? → Read More
Sister Duo First Aid Kit Let Their Soulful Wails Loose on Kimmel
First Aid Kit, the folk duo composed of Johanna and Klara Söderberg, performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Thursday night and—oh my Lorde—can these two play a beautiful tune. → Read More
The Jezebel Staff's Third* Most Discussed Film Will Be a Television Series
In our rare moments of downtime, the Jezebel staff—a collection of high-minded and creative writers and critics, definitely NOT a group of idiots—often finds itself debating fine art and culture, particularly the popular horror series, The Purge. Just like they did at the Algonquin Round Table, I imagine! → Read More