Why is everyone drinking Hugo Spritzes?
Rare night when I send minutes after Lauren Sherman. 💌
Hello everyone.
Today’s letter is late because I did something very brave: I went on vacation without my laptop. I was on Shelter Island for the weekend at Sunset Beach (perfect place, a few Feed Me readers were there and said hi) and probably biked more than I have in my entire life, and I also got more Hamptons gossip than I could’ve anticipated. Which brings us to…
This week’s Hamptons Edition of Feed Me! Feed Me’s community was invited to beta test Substack’s new live video feature, and I thought it would be exciting to do a live video version of the Hamptons letter (which, if you’re new here, is Hamptons-only news and gossip for paid readers only).
When: Wednesday, July 10th at 11am
How to join:
Download the Substack app: To attend my livestream, download the Substack app and turn on push notifications. Live video is currently not available from desktop so please remember to download the app in advance!
Join the stream: When I go live on Wednesday, you’ll receive a notification to join. Tap that notification. If you’re already in the app, my live video will appear at the front of your reading queue, and you can join from there.
Watch me pretend to be a news reporter :)
Have a juicy Hamptons story or piece of gossip you want to be included? Email emily@readfeedme.com
Today’s letter includes:
More drama at Barstool, including updates on Brianna LaPaglia’s contract
Questions about How Long Gone’s involvement in The Bear universe
Three very different people give me the same exact answer on why I can’t look at my phone without seeing Hugo Spritzes 🍹
NEWS:
A few weeks ago I said it was going to be a hot-girls-with-guns summer. This weekend, Nicolaia Rips,
, and Dasha Nekrasova posted firearms on Instagram… I rest my case. These photos are clearly signaling something — a combination of ruggedness, naughtiness, being in on a joke with MAGA dudes (“It’s giving middle America Trump, not finance Trump,” one friend said), and playing with provocation with one’s audience.
’s Maybe Baby is going through some changes. Haley, who (frankly) put Substack on the map for many writers I know, announced that she’ll be changing up her weekly cadence due to… life. “My life is different now, and rather than approaching that fact with fear, denial, and panic, I need to surrender and start seeing the possibility in it. I trust it’s there! I just need some time and space to find it.” She’s an incredible writer and selfishly I hope there’s a book somewhere on the horizon. I’ve been noticing a lot of people on the platform “announcing” their leaves and vacations and breaks. It’s a funny statement that I can most closely compare to people announcing Instagram breaks.
Milan is becoming a members-club town. Casa Cipriani has a location there. The Core Club has a location there. And now a villa that previously belonged to Santo Versace (brother of Donatella) and his family in central Milan is being turned into the first The Wilde members club. Gary Landesberg is leading the project, and I found out he is also working on a members club in Los Angeles with Gwyneth Paltrow – a West Coast location of London’s Arts Club. Yes, there will be a helipad on the roof for exciting entrances.
Driscoll’s knows that there are people spending $12 for those Oishii strawberries. So they came out with a sweeter, more premium breed of berries called Sweetest Batch. The U.S. berry market is worth about $9B annually, which is up more than 40% over the past five years (if you read The New Consumer, which you should be, you already know this). Strawberries are the most popular berry, but the entire category is one of the most promising areas of growth in the entire grocery store. In fact, berries now sell twice as much as any other fruit.
If you think all your friends are in Greece right now, you’re right. If you think that’s going to save the country’s economy, you’re wrong. The country enacted a new employment law this week that lays out a six-day workweek — at a time when dozens of other countries are increasingly seeing positive results from experiments with four-day workweeks.