Gawker - Does Liz Truss Wear a BDSM Day Collar?

By Tarpley Hitt

An investigation

It’s been a whirlwind month for U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss. First, she won her election to replace partygater Boris Johnson as PM. Two days after that, the Queen died, sending the entire nation into a royal mourning period that impacted everything from bike lock stations to a David Bowie-themed NFT sale called “Bowie on the Blockchain.” Then, Truss’s new government announced a “mini-budget” that included Britain’s biggest tax cuts in 50 years, slashing $48 billion in revenue largely from the wealthiest brackets, which some called a “gamble” and others called “a simply staggering, huge tax cut for richer households” and ultimately, sent the British pound to lows “not seen since 1985.”

At the same time, Truss set off a quieter, less life-or-death news cycle: the debate over whether her signature necklace — a gold circle on a gold chain which she has worn so often that it earned its own nickname, the “Circle of Truss” — could be a “day collar.” For the uninitiated, a day collar, or a “Ring of O,” is a kind of necklace popular in the BDSM world, inspired by Pauline Réage’s 1954 literary porno, The Story of O, and worn by submissives to discreetly announce that they are “owned” by dominants. These can range from cartoonish props out of Salò to somewhat subtler pieces like this. Truss happens to own a very similar necklace, which you can see in almost every Instagram photo she’s posted this year. She also owns a second, more Salò one; she wore it on her first day as PM. Continue reading

By Kelly Conaboy

And Meredith hints that Lisa might be a sex worker

“If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.” Adam Duritz sang that in a Counting Crows song once. Had he been a Housewives fan, he might have added, “And if memories are films about ghosts, then any episode of Real Housewives is kind of a TV show about ghosts, for example the premiere of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’s third season, in which Jen Shah maintains her innocence, in the past, about something for which she is currently awaiting sentencing in the present.” And he would have been right.

In honor of Coach Shah’s 51st birthday — and last night’s season three premiere — let’s see what’s old with Shah and the rest of our best SLC friends. Continue reading

By Olivia Craighead

There have been some updates

A lot has gone on in the Try Guy world since Tuesday, when news broke that one of the four main Guys (Ned Fulmer) had partaken in an extramarital affair with a female member of the Try Guys extended universe (Alexandria Herring). Ned is out, the podcast is on hold, and Ned’s wife is still wearing her wedding ring. What does this all mean? Your guess is as good as mine, so let’s parse through all of these updates together.

But first, a quick reminder of our cast of characters:

- Ned Fulmer is the Try Guy who cheated, he has now been fired from the Try Guys.

- Alexandria (Alex) Herring is the woman he cheated with.

- Ariel Fulmer is Ned’s wife.

- Will Thayer is Alex’s ex-fiancé.

- The TryPod is the Try Guys podcast.

- The Try Guys are guys who try things for money and internet fame

Glad we got that out of the way, here we go. Continue reading

By Claire Carusillo

Muick the corgi is cooperating with Scotland Yard

The National Records of Scotland released the Queen’s official cause of death, and it’s just what we suspected: a fatal mix of party drugs.

I guess I’m kidding around here. Her Majestina, according to the Scottish government, officially died of “old age” on September 8 at 3:10 p.m., murdered by time. The death certificate is still a lot of fun. It’s a standard, poorly spaced PDF that I’m sure all involved parties had trouble filling out. You think Princess Anne, the “informant” of death, knows how to DocuSign?

The file identifies the sovereign as the widowed “Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor,” whose occupation is “Her Majesty the Queen.” Her home address is simply “Windsor Castle, Windsor.” When you put it all down on paper like that, the Queen doesn’t seem so different from you or I in death, does she? Continue reading

By Allie Jones

She was married to his nephew for two months in 2021

Meghan King, formerly known as Meghan King Edmonds, Meghan O’Toole King, and Meghan King Owens, is the one former Real Housewife that Gawker collectively supports. She is dogged in the face of on-air cancer-faking, a fierce co-parent with her scary baseball ex-husband Jim Edmonds, and an all-around positivity beam who’s never afraid to share her feelings with Us Weekly. This week, our star sat down for an exclusive interview with the tabloid ostensibly to promote her new show HUD App Presents: Reality of Love, which is available on BSpokeTV. (I don’t know; look it up.) Instead, she offered an in-depth look at her 2021 wedding to Cuffe Biden Owens, nephew of President Joe Biden.

King and Owens married at a Biden family home in Pennsylvania on October 11, 2021, after dating each other for three weeks. Continue reading