What Else for December 29, 2017

Happy New Year and please be safe this weekend. There is so much more gossip to come in 2018. And… we’re out!  This is not going to help my fear of haircuts. I HATE getting my hair cut. I once sat in a stylist’s chair and, without warning, he sliced off an entire ponytail and then left me for hal...

Revisiting Blue Ivy's 2017 freestyle

Is there still time to submit a word of the year? My word of the year is Boomshakala. This word existed before Blue Ivy, first of her name, of House Knowles-Carter, but it will now forever belong to Blue after she used it in her famous freestyle. Blue’s freestyle is a part of the 4:44 song Blue’s...

Smutty Social Media, December 29, 2017

Jay-Z is releasing the video for Family Feud some time today …and it features Beyoncé and Blue Ivy. So now I have to make sure my TIDAL is up to date which I don’t think it is. In the 30 second preview, Jay once again seems to be directly addressing his infidelity and then presenting himself at the ...

Mariah Carey in Aspen with Bryan Tanaka ahead of NYE do-over

Every year, our Christmas Angel, Mariah Carey, spends Christmas in Aspen. Bryan Tanaka is with her in Aspen this year, to hold her hand while she tries to navigate the icy sidewalks and the snow. Here are a few photos from Mimi’s Christmas week. As you can see, she’s really feeling herself right now...

JRod’s first Christmas and New Year’s

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez spent Christmas together, with their families, in Miami. It’s their first holiday season together. And there was some speculation leading up to Christmas that an engagement would happen. Well, it didn’t happen at Christmas, but there’s always New Year’s.  JLO and...

Joe arrives for New Year’s

Taylor Swift and her family arrived in LA last week where they presumably spent Christmas. Joe Alwyn wasn’t with them and I posted at the time that it was looking likely that Joe was back in England with his family and would likely show up for New Year’s. Here he is arriving at LAX yesterday. Party ...

Intro for December 29, 2017

Dear Gossips, 2017 will be remembered as a significant year in gossip. Certainly not my favourite year in gossip, but perhaps one of the most important nonetheless, especially because it was in 2017 that so much underground gossip came to light by the women’s whisper network, resulting in the per...

What Else for December 28, 2017

Are you going to tell me I’m dumb for being excited about the Roseanne revival? And that I’m so happy Dan is back? And that I’m confused about how they’re bringing him back? But I also don’t care all that much because, again, I’m pretty excited that it’s coming back? But only in March. Which still f...

Smutty Social Media, December 28, 2017

It’s been a minute since we talked about Wendi Deng and her fascinating web of friendships and social connections. For the last year, Wendi has been dating Bertold Zahoran, a model. She’s 49, he’s 22. Wendi and Bertold are in St Barts, where the obscenely wealthy spend the holidays, and last night t...

Charlie Hunnam: sick at Christmas

Someone sent this to me on Instagram – a holiday message that Charlie Hunnam sent to one of his fan-friends in bed, because he’s sick. And he references Man Flu, that never-ending debate about whether or not men get it worse when it’s either the cold or the flu. Jacek, my husband, just tried this wi...

Katy Perry’s disappointing 2017

Katy Perry started 2017 with promise. She was selling the promise of evolution, of a star who had evolved from bubblegum teen dreams to “purposeful pop.” The promise was intriguing. Could Katy Perry actually deliver powerful political statements combined with her signature mainstream appeal? Could s...

Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig together in Paris

While we’re making reassurances before the end of the year, here are Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig arriving in Paris a few days ago on Christmas Eve. These two are rarely seen together and, I guess, because they’re so rarely seen together, people don’t start reporting that they’re breaking up when t...

Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux together in Cabo

Where in the world is Jennifer Aniston during the holidays? We should all know the answer to this by now, right? It’s almost always Cabo. This year, Jennifer and Justin Theroux are presumably spending New Year’s in their usual Cabo retreat with Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka who are also semi-regular...

Review: All the Money in the World starring Christopher Plummer and Michelle Williams

When watching All the Money in the World, it is incredible to think that 1) six weeks ago Christopher Plummer was not in this movie, and 2) anyone other than Christopher Plummer was ever cast as J. Paul Getty. Plummer is terrific as oil tycoon and grandfather from hell J. Paul Getty, and his perform...

Intro for December 28, 2017

Dear Gossips, Laura Dern is dating Baron Davis. US Weekly purchased the exclusive pictures yesterday and everybody online was talking about it as soon as they published. But Vulture also published a piece on Laura yesterday that I’ve pitched to Duana for us to talk about on the next episode of Sh...

What Else for December 27, 2017

Tom Brady made biscuits for Christmas dinner. I also made biscuits for Christmas dinner. Jacek loves my biscuits. If that sounds dirty it’s because he makes it dirty because he’s totally “bad joke guy” and walks around the house smirking about how much he loves my biscuits. I’m pretty sure Gisele Bu...

Smutty Social Media, December 27, 2017

Maria’s on holiday until after the New Year so I’m taking over Smutty Social Media. Sorry in advance.  An update on Jenny Slate and Chris Evans – they broke up in 2017, they got back together in 2017, and they’re still together at the end of 2017. Looks like Jenny spent Christmas with Chris’s fam...

Beyonce releases new photos on her website

Beyoncé’s twin pregnancy announcement on February 1 was the most liked Instagram post of the year – and of all time so far. Records are made to be broken. The question is… which Instagram post can beat THAT Instagram post? And who will be the one to do it? Selena Gomez is the most followed person on...

Meghan Markle & Big G make the Queen's Christmas broadcast shortlist

Every year at Christmas, Her Majesty The Queen sends out her annual Christmas broadcast. This year’s broadcast was the highest rated programme of the evening as it’s a tradition in many British households to gather round the TV to hear the Queen’s holiday message. I really enjoyed how Her Majesty sp...

Will Ben Affleck ring in 2018 with Lindsay Shookus

PEOPLE reported yesterday that Ben Affleck spent Christmas with Jennifer Garner and their children in LA. Birdie, the dog, was probably there too. It’s important that we know that because the following day, Boxing Day, yesterday, Ben was seen in Malibu, after having dinner with Lindsay Shookus at No...

Review: 'Bright' starring Will Smith

At first glance, Bright seemed batsh*t crazy, and the combination of director David Ayer, who specializes in down and dirty action movies particularly of the cop variety, and screenwriter Max Landis, who specializes in “this plus that” story pitches, seemed crazy enough to create the perfect storm o...

Meghan Markle’s first royal Christmas

In the moments that immediately followed Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s engagement announcement, I posted information from a source who told me that Meghan would be spending royal Christmas at Sandringham. At the time, many old timey royal experts predicted that there was no way that Meghan would ...

Intro for December 27, 2017

Dear Gossips,  Many of you have been emailing over the last couple of weeks about one of our favourite traditions here at LaineyGossip: the Gingerbread House Annual Cup! The competition was slightly delayed in 2017 due to travel schedules but we’re now ready for your votes.  For several years ...

What Else for December 22, 2017

It’s almost Christmas. And at Christmas here at LaineyGossip we have a little tradition that involves a little competition, which many of you have emailed to ask about. Because of scheduling, the Gingerbread House Annual Cup is not happening until tomorrow – so we’ll be posting the pictures on Wedne...

SZA’s video for The Weekend directed by Solange

My brain is mush. It’s this time of year. All I want to do is sleep, watch sh-tty Chistmas rom-coms and listen to The Preacher’s Wife soundtrack. It’s taking me twice as long to do anything that involves pants. If you’re at work today like I am, you’re probably feeling the same holiday brain mush. Y...

Are Jennifer Lawrence & Darren Aronofsky back together

Recently on The Social, we talked about holiday proposals. It’s a popular time of the year to get engaged. And the peg was an article at Brides about what people really think of holiday proposals. Some people are all over it. But they can be dangerous too. Because of the sentimentality that takes ov...

Smutty Social Media, December 22, 2017

I’m officially winding down for the holidays – this will be my last post for 2018. So I’ve been thinking about the celebrities who have been giving me gifts all year. Beyoncé gave us many visual gifts in 2017, from the February pregnancy announcement to her baby shower to Blue Ivy, along with fashio...

Chloe Moretz and Brooklyn Beckham can't stand to be apart

I think, if I’m understanding Instagram correctly, and it’s entirely possible that I’m not because I’m too grown, Chloe Moretz and Brooklyn Beckham have been apart the last few days because family holiday time, or something. As Maria mentioned yesterday in Smutty Social Media, at some point, before ...

Cardi B's genuine-tivity in Billboard

One of my favourite celebrity profiles of the year was Allison P. Davis’s piece for New York Magazine on Cardi B. It delightfully captures Cardi’s rags-to-riches come-up while also giving a delicious glimpse into the whimsical mind of rap’s brightest breakout star. If you haven’t read it, you should...

Taylor & Katy: a Christmas reconciliation?

Taylor Swift was in Miami earlier this week shooting the video for End Game with Future. TMZ has pap footage from that night that shows Taylor on a yacht with her backup dancers and one of those dancers has short bleached hair like Katy Perry. Katy Perry also happened to be in Miami around the same ...

Review - Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

The lasting impression of the comedy Central Intelligence is that Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson are a terrific screen duo. They must have known that, too, because just eighteen months later, they’ve reunited for the Jumanji sequel/reboot, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. They wasted no time in findin...

December 22, 2017 – Smutty Shout-Outs

For Heather and Rosebud, who was a faithful friend – we’ve so enjoyed hearing about her over the years. She was a true personality. Please know how sorry we are. But as Luke told Leia, “No one’s ever really gone”. Rosebud forever.  By request, here are Richard Armitage and love to you from Barney...

Intro for December 22, 2017

Dear Gossips,  As this is the last site intro before Christmas, let’s open today on a couple of “bests” from 2017. Back in November, on Show Your Work, Duana and I talked about Radhika Jones, the new editor at Vanity Fair, and how she wore a pair of fox-print tights to her first major company mee...

What Else for December 21, 2017

You know what else I love about the Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engagement portraits? The timing. Because if they hadn’t come out today, this pregnancy would have been the big headline. I mean I know the news dropped late yesterday but what we all woke up to this morning in North America was Harr...

Janet Jackson and Jermain Dupri are back together

Maria mentioned yesterday that Janet Jackson and Jermain Dupri may be back together. Whenever I think of Janet and Jermaine (not to be confused with her brother Jermaine), I think of Chris Rock’s opening monologue of the 2003 MMVAs. It’s one of my favourite Chris Rock bits, ever. “We all had a shot!...

Shawn Mendes and Hailey Baldwin seen together in Toronto

Sasha and I forgot to mention something on the Sasha Answers podcast a few weeks ago after the American Music Awards. We have a text thread going with Duana and our two other friends, Amy and Lara. That night Lara started it because it was when Selena Gomez went blonde and we were all into the hair....

Smutty Social Media, December 21, 2017

“Despite their 13-year age difference” is part of this PEOPLE headline. George and Amal are 16 years apart, right? Blake and Ryan, 11. Jay and Bey have a 12 year gap. “Despite their 13-year age difference” okkkkkkkkkk.   A post shared by Hugh Jackman (@thehughjackman) on Dec 20, 2017...

Review: Pitch Perfect 3 is not good but still funny

Look. Pitch Perfect 3 is not good. Not by any reasonable metric of filmmaking. There are no character arcs, there is no narrative arc—there is BARELY a narrative. Pitch Perfect was a nice little surprise, a college comedy wrapped up in a capella/girl band trimmings, and as a one-and-done, it’s great...

Chris Martin and Dakota Johnson in Paris

When Chris Martin was dating Annabelle Wallis, they went to Paris and danced in the street together. Chris Martin is now dating Dakota Johnson. They were photographed earlier this week at Chales De Gaulle airport, arriving in the same van but heading inside separately. No kissing and dancing in the ...

Gringo: Come for Charlize, stay for Sharlto

Just in time for the holidays, like a little present from the universe, comes a trailer for Gringo, a movie starring Sharlto Copley. I love Sharlto Copley, and he is not in nearly enough movies to satisfy me, which would be all the movies. Sharlto Copley should be in all the movies. He is delightful...

Princess Michael of Kent's racist jewelry greets Meghan

I don’t want to take away from the excitement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s official engagement photos. It’s super exciting. The photos are glorious. And what’s even more glorious is that someone like Meghan Markle, a biracial woman, is a joining a family that… well… like all families, really,...

Harry & Meghan engagement photos belong in a fragrance ad

We’ve been waiting for them… and they’re here! Just in time for Christmas! The royals have been giving this week, haven’t they?  So, as I mentioned last week, Prince William and Kate released their official engagement portraits four weeks after they announced the engagement. Prince Harry and Megh...

December 21, 2017 – Smutty Shout-Outs

The Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity curriculum in British Columbia, Canada is a Ministry of Education endorsed initiative that supports LGBTQ+ youth and aims to encourage more inclusion and safety in schools and reduce bullying. Which… what’s the problem, right? The problem is that there’s be...

Intro for December 21, 2017

Dear Gossips, One of the funniest celebrity stories I can remember from this year is a little inside baseball and it didn’t happen to me, it happened to Danielle Graham, the host of etalk. Danielle was assigned to cover the First They Killed My Father red carpet at TIFF. That’s Angelina Jolie. It...

What Else for December 20, 2017

We’re not supposed to be recording any new episodes of Show Your Work until 2018. But. But. This is tempting. Because Catt Sadler’s situation is exactly what we get jacked about on the podcast. It’s apples to apples. Same level of responsibility, same skillset, same same same same same. EXCEPT where...

Michelle Williams cast in Venom and I'm in!

Tom Hardy has been in Atlanta the last few months working on Venom. Venom is a Spider-Man villain. Apparently he starts off as Eddie Brock and some sh-t happens to him – as it does in these stories – and he becomes a bad guy. I’m not a comic book nerd so please don’t ask me to tell you more than tha...

Surprise! TJ Miller accused of sexual assault

Did you think it was over? Did you think the Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar had spat out its last name? Well Merry F*cking Christmas, we’ve got another one: TJ Miller. Remember him? Of Silicon Valley and Deadpool fame, and, oh yeah, The Emoji Movie. And also one of the most intolerable personali...

Smutty Social Media, December 20, 2017

Yesterday, Kathleen wrote about the issues between Selena and her mother and now they have unfollowed one another on Instagram. For all the world to see. (Her mom still follows The Weeknd.) It’s definitely high drama. But I want to go back to Selena and Justin’s Seattle date for a minute. When the s...

Mindy Kaling names her daughter Katherine and here's why it's perfect

You know how there’s a word for all kinds of things in German that English doesn’t have a reference for? What’s the word for ‘I kind of got played and I think I like it’? Please advise.  Okay, ‘played’ is too strong a word, probably. But the way the story (or non-story) of Mindy Kaling’s pregnanc...

Review: Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman

Even if you know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about PT Barnum, The Greatest Showman is not a great movie. It has going for it Hugh Jackman, truly a Great Entertainer, and he is determined to greatly entertain the sh*t out of his audience. And the musical numbers aren’t that bad, honestly. It’s no The Lure, th...

Kathleen’s Top 5 Albums of 2017

If 2017 felt confusing, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and generally emotionally sporadic on your timelines, that same perplexity was reflected in the music it produced. I’m not mad at the art 2017 delivered but I don’t think I was expecting most of it. Aside from two hip-hop legends m...

Was Eminem joking about using Grindr in Vulture Interview?

The fact that Eminem admitted to using dating apps would probably make headlines on its own but it’s the specific dating apps he mentioned that have turned his quotes into clickbait. EMINEM USES GRINDR! Those are the headlines. You’re clicking on that, right? Tell me you wouldn’t click on that. If y...

Meghan and Harry at the Queen’s Christmas lunch

It’s an annual tradition. The Queen hosts a Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace. And for the first time, Prince Harry has an official plus one. Here he is arriving with Meghan Markle. They always drive themselves on this occasion, right? Prince William was also seen pulling in today with Kate in th...

Intro for December 20, 2017

Dear Gossips,  Do you remember what we were doing a year ago? Do you remember what we were talking about a year ago?  Lopizzy.  It never took. Both the portmanteau and the relationship, if it really was a relationship. But exactly a year ago this week, it was the second week of Jennifer Lop...

What Else for December 19, 2017

Did you see Ryan Gosling in Lars And The Real Girl? His girl was called Bianca. Bianca has now become Justin Bieber. Only it doesn’t look like Justin Bieber at all. I think it actually looks like Zac Efron. Or maybe that’s just the hair. Definitely the old hair of Zac Efron and the face of… Andie Mc...

Leo has a new model named Camila Morrone and likes tougher roles than Jack in Titanic

It’s 6 days to Christmas. And I know what you’ve been thinking. You’ve been wondering how it’s possible that almost a month has passed and there hasn’t been an update on whether or not Leonardo DiCaprio has a new model. Please. Leo being seen with a new model is like getting your period. He’s regula...

Hong Chau is the heart & soul of Downsizing

As mentioned in the Matt Damon post earlier today, he was not at the LA premiere of Downsizing last night. He was supposed to be though. He is, after all, the lead of the film. He gets top billing. You’ll recall, however, that when Sarah reviewed the film at TIFF, her issue with the story was that i...

Selena's mom hospitalized after dispute over Justin Bieber

Well, this just took a turn. TMZ is reporting that Selena Gomez's mother, Mandy, was hospitalized after a "heated convo" with her daughter over her rekindled relationship with Justin Bieber. According to TMZ, police were called to check in on Mandy last week at the request of a family member and as ...

Smutty Social Media, December 19, 2017

The Office gifs are pretty popular on Twitter, and a few weeks back this clip was making the rounds as an example of a perfect piece of comedy. A revival may be in the works with some of the original cast members (but definitely minus Steve Carell). In my opinion, the two seasons without him were me...

Matt Damon wants to celebrate men who don't harass women

The Downsizing premiere happened last night in LA. Matt Damon wasn’t there. Matt Damon hasn’t been generating a lot of great press lately. Coincidence or conspiracy? Maybe he was never expected at the premiere. Maybe he was never going to begin with, or had prior commitments. But the timing…  I p...

Prince Harry appointed Captain General Royal Marines by The Queen

Most of the attention on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding day will be on Meghan’s wedding dress. I posted earlier about her wedding dress auditions. It’ll be months before we find out about Meghan’s designer. Whether or not she goes with a ball gown or something more fitted. Whether or not t...

Ocean's 8 trailer reminds us heists are f-cking cool

Ocean’s 11 is one of the movies that propelled Matt Damon into permanent A-list capital-letter Movie Star status. And now, when he can’t stop the diarrhea flowing from his mouth on a daily basis, comes the trailer for Ocean’s 8, the all-lady spin-off featuring a slew of fabulous women, looking fabul...

Inbal Dror submits sketches for Meghan Markle's wedding dress and likely blew that chance by going public

Yesterday the Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli designer, Inbal Dror, might be auditioning to be Meghan Markle’s official wedding dress designer and that the label had submitted several sketches to the palace for consideration. Click here to see those sketches at TMZ.  A spokesperson for Inbal...

White rappers are dominating hip-hop and Nicki Minaj is not allowed to point this out

Nicki Minaj posted a comment on Instagram about the number of white rappers sitting comfortably atop the iTunes rap chart that became so “controversial,” she deleted it. Good thing the Internet lasts forever. Nicki’s post is below.   A post shared by The Shade Room (@theshaderoom) on...

Intro for December 19, 2017

Dear Gossips, No spoilers in this post, I promise, but can we talk about Star Wars: The Last Jedi? Specifically about Rose Tico, played by Kelly Marie Tran? There are some people who weren’t into Rose and Finn’s part of the story. That’s one of the things the fanboys are complaining about, in add...

What Else for December 18, 2017

You know what I thought of when I saw this? Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon at the Emmys. Feeling pretty proud of that one, don’t kill my buzz. But also? Our dogs do this all the time…except they’re way less persistent. Usually it only lasts 30 seconds max, and then the older one will start hump...

Show Your Work: Award season fashion and drama

Did you hear last week that many actresses will be wearing all-black for sure at the Golden Globes and maybe through award season as a sign of solidarity to protest sexual harassment in the industry? On the new episode of Show Your Work, Duana and I discuss the implications – this is a symbolic gest...

Are we being set up for a Brad Pitt dating story?

Today is Brad Pitt’s birthday. He’s 54. Interestingly, PEOPLE posted a story about his birthday today with the title: Brad Pitt Turns 54! He's 'Doing OK' After Angelina Jolie Split and 'Casually Dating' Casually dating? Let’s come back to that in a minute.  A year ago on his birthday, we we...

Angelina Jolie honoured as UNCA Global Citizen of the Year

Sorry. I’ve had Star Wars on my mind since Saturday. Can we please talk about it tomorrow? There are some things I need to ask you. You can’t be mad about spoilers after the first weekend, can you?  Anyway, Angelina Jolie did a little Star Wars-ing herself this weekend. She was in New York and to...

Smutty Social Media, December 18, 2017

This is the pajama set of my nightmares. First off, its sports paraphernalia. Second, the top isn’t a pajama top, it’s just a t-shirt. Third, and most critical, is that the top is black. I can’t sleep in black pajamas or on dark sheets. The good thing about that is dark sheets are not very popular, ...

Justin Bieber + Selena Gomez 3.0 is totally high school and I'm into it

I remain the only one repping Justin Bieber + Selena Gomez 3.0 at this site. Emily, our site manager, and Kathleen are resolutely against it because they’re worried for Selena will get f-cked over again. The others claim to be too grownup to care. That leaves me, over here in the corner, living for ...

Are you excited Justin Timberlake is releasing a new album?

Justin Timberlake is about to release new music. There was a time in my life when I would have been excited about this. Some people are still excited. To those people, I have one question: what has Justin Timberlake done for you lately? I mean musically. When was the last time Justin Timberlake put ...

Colin Jost's green toque isn't a good sign for Scarjost

Scarlett Johansson showed up on the final 2017 episode of Saturday Night Live this weekend to play Ivanka Trump in the cold open. Afterward she joined cast members and host Kevin Hart on the Rockefeller Centre ice rink, standing beside her boyfriend Colin Jost. Everyone skated around as the credits ...

Happy Christmas from the Cambridges

I was hoping that we’d get the Prince Harry-Meghan Markle official engagement portraits today. Looks like we’ll have to wait a while longer for it. What we did get today was the Cambridge Christmas card. Here they are, Prince William, Catherine, Big G, and Charlotte wishing you a Happy Christmas and...

Sarah’s Top 10 of 2017

First, we must acknowledge that the true and correct Top 10 is the Michael Shannon Christmas Bigfoot Movie ten times. But after that, here are my next Top 10 Films of 2017. As always, it’s alphabetical, not ranked. A Ghost Story David Lowery’s tone poem about grief and time is the most unusual h...

December 18, 2017 – Smutty shout-Outs

This for Rebekah who can’t wait to tell 2017 to f-ck off…and who’s been reminded to persist. Happy anniversary to our tradition – how long has it been now? I was very moved by how you described our “relationship”. This is so important to all of us who write on this site. It’s why we persist. Please ...

Intro for December 18, 2017

Dear Gossips, Did you see Star Wars: The Last Jedi this weekend? Did you love it? Or are you one of those fanboys bitching about it because it was too funny, or something?  I LOVED it…but it didn’t start off that way. You know how it starts off, literally? Close-up on BB-8. And he gets to s...

What Else for December 15, 2017

I posted earlier about Matt Damon. Now connect the dots between Matt’s mansplaining and man-worries to Russell Simmons and his bullsh-t #NotMe movement. While we’re at it, let’s talk about lie detector tests. Or the “polygraph test”. I listened to an episode of This American Life this past summer ab...

Kevin Hart f-cked up and expects to be forgiven

Kevin Hart cheated on his wife Eniko Parrish. He officially owned up to his infidelity in a new interview with The Breakfast Club but we already knew this. If you’ve been following Kevin Hart at all this year, you know that he’s been embroiled in multiple cheating scandals. In October, he posted an ...

Smutty Social Media, December 15, 2017

Will Smith has joined Instagram with some help from Ellen. You know what I’m curious about? How did he get “willsmith” as his username. Was his team holding it for all these years? Or does Instagram have a policy where celebs get first rights to their name?    A post shared by Will S...

Calvin Harris or Tom Hiddleston: who made Taylor hunch?

See? As much as she claims to not want to be “part of the narrative”, Taylor Swift is just so great for gossip.  Todrick Hall, a good friend of Taylor’s, was interviewed on the Kidd Kraddick Morning Show yesterday – video is below – and he talked about hanging out with her and how happy she is no...

Sarah Paulson is Rihanna's biggest fan but should know she uses emojis

Hollywood is full of unlikely friendships. Tiffany Haddish and Barbra Streisand. Jessica Williams and J.K. Rowling. Martha and Snoop. There’s a new celebrity friendship around that we didn’t know we needed. It’s a celebrity friendship as random as any of the above famous people whose names make no s...

Matt Damon's the guy in the office who's worried he can't flirt anymore

Between Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, usually it’s Ben Affleck who’s the f-ckup, right? We know Ben to be the sloppy one. His personal life is all drama and he swings between comebacks and messes. Matt Damon, on the other hand, has enjoyed a much better reputation. He’s presumably more stable. He does...

Deadpool trolls the Disney-Fox merger

Yesterday it was announced that Disney and 20th Century Fox are merging, after a month of speculation and on/off talks. The deal comes as Fox spins off its movie and TV divisions, handing Disney their studio and television package which includes the FX networks, National Geographic channel, stakes i...

Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My Father left off Oscar short list

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released its shortlist of films contending for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar yesterday: Chile, A Fantastic Woman Germany, In the Fade  Hungary, On Body and Soul  Israel, Foxtrot Lebanon, The Insult Russia, Loveless Senegal, Félicité So...

December 15, 2017 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Ashley! Happy Birthday on Sunday from Kate who requested your Five: John David Washington, Taika Waititi, Oscar Isaac, Lenny Kravitz, and Jason Momoa.

Intro for December 15, 2017

Dear Gossips, I wrote yesterday about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle joining the Queen at Windsor Castle on Monday night to celebrate the holidays with the royal household. Apparently champagne was served and everyone drank from champagne flutes. I would love to sip champagne from a champagne flu...

What Else for December 14, 2017

It was Taylor Swift’s birthday yesterday. And she posted a message to thank her fans. She also said she had the best year. And, well, the general consensus is that 2017 was a pretty f-cking bullsh-t year that will not stop giving us more and more f-cking bullsh-t. This brings up an interesting quest...

Oceans 8 is exactly what we need right now

Sarah Paulson shared the first poster for Ocean’s 8 today on Twitter.  Get Ready: http://pic.twitter.com/ShGu4L90Gw — Sarah Paulson (@MsSarahPaulson) December 14, 2017 I’m ready!!! I have my hand up in the air, waving it around. I AM READY. You know, no matter how cynical I get, timing neve...

George Clooney gave 14 buddies $1 million each as a thank you

There are two stories currently circulating about George Clooney’s generosity. One is about his babies. The other is about his friends. We’ll come back to babies.  The story about George Clooney’s friends goes like this: in 2013, George invited 14 of his closest buddies over for dinner. The point...

Smutty Social Media, December 14, 2017

A few months after making it Instagram official, Halle Berry and Alex Da Kid have broken up. He was seen at Catch with another woman (and Catch is not a place you go if you are on the down-low). Halle is (presumably) single. I’m going to Gossip Genie her again because my first attempt, Alexander Ska...

Meghan Markle attends Royal Household Christmas party without Harry with The Queen in attendance

Meghan Markle did not join Prince William, Catherine, and Harry today at the Grenfell memorial. It would have been too distracting, not appropriate for the occasion. There is, however, a story about her in the UK papers today. Writing for the Daily Mail longtime royal correspondent Richard Kay repor...

Royal Family among celebrities honouring Grenfell Tower victims

It’s been six months since the Grenfell Tower tragedy and a multi-faith memorial service took place this morning at St Paul’s Cathedral to remember and honour victims and survivors. Several senior members of the royal family were there, including Prince Charles and Camilla, Prince William, Catherine...

Chrissy Teigen keeps Instagramming Luna and I can't get enough

The captions of these photos of John Legend, Chrissy Teigen and their daughter, Luna, have her identified as Luna Stephens. I guess that’s John’s real last name. I’m too lazy to look it up and I just really want to call this child Luna Legend because it’s a wonderful name, she is pure delight and ap...

Selena's Bad Liar is Billboard's #1 & JB decorates in dad pants

Billboard yesterday released its list of the 100 Best Songs of 2017. The #2 song on the list was Cardi B’s Bodak Yellow which you’ve been hearing everywhere now for months non-stop. The #1 song on the list? Selena Gomez’s Bad Liar. Not that it doesn’t belong on the list, it’s a cute song, but does t...

Sadly all signs point to 'Annihilation' being a bad movie

We’ve seen a trailer for Annihilation, Alex Garland’s follow-up to Ex Machina, which stars Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, and Oscar Isaac. That was a promising trailer, and I was way into it. Now we have a second trailer, expanding on the plot and emphasizing ...

Intro for December 14, 2017

Dear Gossips, Salma Hayek’s essay in The New York Times about Harvey Weinstein – like all of the other stories about predators we’ve heard over the past couple of months and well before that too, the details are disturbing and her pain is real.  But, as Salma suggests, near the end of her piece, ...

What Else for December 13, 2017

Please know that I do not want to be made responsible and should not be held accountable for what Sasha says about Beyoncé on this week’s episode of Sasha Answers. I take full responsibility and accountability, however, for what I say about ear zits and smelling them.  Matt Lauer is apparently tr...

Kit Harington sells Christmas trees and parks cars as a side gig

Game of Thrones hasn’t even wrapped its final season yet and Kit Harington has already found a side hustle to help him through unemployment. Earlier this week he was pictured selling real Christmas trees in Scotland. WHY? That was my first reaction. Then I read that his fiancé Rose Leslie’s parents ...

Kit Harington sells Christmas trees and parks cars as a side gig

Game of Thrones hasn’t even wrapped its final season yet and Kit Harington has already found a side hustle to help him through unemployment. Earlier this week he was pictured selling real Christmas trees in Scotland. WHY? That was my first reaction. Then I read that his fiancé Rose Leslie’s parents ...

Smutty Social Media, December 13, 2017

John Stamos is going to be a dad. And I don’t know why but I thought of George Clooney. Probably because there are a few similarities – bachelor reputation, second marriages, later-in-life babies. And the hair. Both George and John have really solid hair. John is the TV sitcom Sliding Doors version ...

Kensington Palace informally uses "Meghan" in statement about Christmas Day festivities

We’ve been talking about this for weeks – that Meghan Markle will spent Christmas with Prince Harry at Sandringham at the invitation of the Queen, even though it’s not usual protocol because they’re not married yet – but now it’s official as PEOPLE has an official statement from Kensington Palace, w...

Princes William and Harry with BB8 at The Last Jedi London premiere

It’s Star Wars week, right? The movie opens very, very soon. Everybody’s talking about how good it is. So if everyone’s talking about Star Wars, why is no one f-cking talking about R2-D2? R2 is the OG.  The OG! An OG should always take precedence over a new jack! Unless the new jack is fame...

Oscar Isaac and Elvira Lind at The Last Jedi London premiere

I called it Oscar Isaac Week yesterday. I should also have called it I Saw Him First Week because I did. And in about five days, when all of us have seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi, at least once, you’ll all be dialed up over Oscar Isaac and I’ll be standing here fuming. But why be petty when there ar...

SNL adding Colin Jost and Michael Che to head writing team

Taking a lesson from Scarlett Johansson, Saturday Night Live is now Josting us, adding Colin Jost to a head writing team that already includes other people. At the winter break, SNL is adding Jost and his Weekend Update partner, Michael Che, to the head writing team, joining Kent Sublette and Bryan ...

Lupita Nyong’o's fourth Vogue means something to me

Lupita Nyong’o covers the January 2018 issue of Vogue. January is my birthday month so this feels like a gift just for me. Thanks, Vogue. This is Lupita’s fourth Vogue cover. We’ve written a lot about who gets to cover Vogue. If you’re a woman of colour, you have to be exceptional. If you’re white, ...

Rihanna's new Fenty Beauty lipstick shades and a ring on her finger

Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty came out in September and it’s been winning awards all over the place for the quality of the products and for its inclusivity of its range. Also? It’s Rihanna who is a boss, and perhaps underappreciated for her business strategy. She marketed the sh-t out of the line and the r...

Intro for December 13, 2017

Dear Gossips, Is the needle moving?  The NYT Times needle was a thing on Twitter all last night. That needle was STRESS.  On my tombstone please write: “He’s here because of the New York Times election needle.” — Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) December 13, 2017 But maybe the need...

What Else for December 12, 2017

As you know, we don’t talk much here about the Kardashians. My favourite thing about them, though, is probably what they did to Paris Hilton. Ebola Hilton. There was a time when no one was spared. Once you were seen with Paris, that was it, the contamination was near permanent. Except… the Kardashia...

Jimmy Kimmel’s emotional return with son Billy

It feels insensitive. Everything I am thinking of writing about Jimmy Kimmel’s return to his show last night feels insensitive. Not because I don’t think his emotional monologue was great – it was. It was necessary and powerful and even though he put his 7-month old baby on television, it didn’t see...

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the Star Wars for a generation

After an original trilogy, a prequel trilogy, a spin-off, and the first installment in a sequel trilogy, it didn’t seem that Star Wars could still surprise. They could create new creatures and amaze with effects, be they practical or elaborate CGI, and they could give us new versions of beloved arch...

Smutty Social Media, December 12, 2017

I really, really want Tiffany Haddish to get an Oscar nomination.  Tifffffffff! Congrats mama!!! Could this mean an Oscar nomination???? @melissamccarthy did it... can't see why you couldn't!!! #NYFCC — Jada Pinkett Smith (@jadapsmith) December 1, 2017 Oh... btw Hollywood Foreign Pr...

Thom Yorke and girlfriend Dajana Roncione at Star Wars: The Last Jedi premiere

I mentioned Thom Yorke at the end of the previous post about Oscar Isaac and how he’s rarely on a red carpet. Which is why I’m turning this into a standalone post. Thom Yorke showed up at the Star Wars: The Last Jedi premiere in LA this weekend. Thom Yorke on a red carpet, not an everyday occurrence...

Star Wars Week kicks off Oscar Isaac Week

I’ve been holding some Oscar Isaac photos to post this week because the biggest movie of the year is coming out in 48 hours which I’m seeing on Saturday and that would be Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Sarah’s review of The Last Jedi will be posted this afternoon, as soon as the embargo is lifted. She sa...

William and Kate to host Harry and Meghan at Sandringham for Christmas

Princess Kate stepped out today to attend the Magic Mums community Christmas party at Rugby Portobello Trust in London. As I mentioned earlier in the Meghan Markle post, Prince William and Kate released their official engagement portraits exactly 7 years ago today on December 12, 2010. I wonder if s...

Issa Rae hosts Art Basel in Miami ahead of second Globe nomination

Aspirational. It’s a word typically reserved for celebs behind the goops and the Draper James and the Maisie Jasper Asher Imogens or whatever the latest celebrity lifestyle brand is. We’re supposed to look at Gwyneth or Reese or Jessica Alba and want their life, then subsequently want their advice o...

Will Meghan Markle switch to British fashion labels for engagement photos?

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced their engagement three weeks ago yesterday. I’m still waiting on those official engagement portraits. Prince William and Kate Middleton released their official engagement portraits exactly 7 years ago today on December 12, 2010. And it was four weeks after th...

Review: Phantom Thread is a work of tremendous focus from Daniel Day Lewis and director Thomas Anderson

In a career littered with great performances, it’s not hard to see why Daniel Day-Lewis would choose Phantom Thread’s Reynolds Woodcock to be his final performance (for now). For one thing, he looks like himself. There’s no facial hair or affected gait or prosthetics or other device to obscure him f...

Intro for December 12, 2017

Dear Gossips, Tiffany Haddish was not nominated for a Golden Globe yesterday. As we’ve seen over the years (decades?), the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is a bizarre organisation with their own objectives and priorities. The Globes certainly help build award season momentum but, as demonstr...

What Else for December 11, 2017

I was about to write in today’s open that the Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar (which Saturday Night Live borrowed on Weekend Update this week) has been pretty quiet. Then I changed my mind because… well… it was only a matter of time. And then Mario Batali popped out, Crocs first. Mario has apolog...

Show Your Work: JLaw, JK, Gabrielle, and Stannis Baratheon

Despite her popularity, and those weirdos at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association love them some Jennifer Lawrence, she was not nominated for a Golden Globe. Helen Mirren came out of nowhere for a nomination though and Michelle Williams was included too, even though THEY’RE STILL SHOOTING THAT MO...

Jessica Biel nominated for Golden Globe for The Sinner

Jessica Biel received her first Golden Globe nomination this morning for her work in the series The Sinner, which she also produced. Conveniently she also went out for breakfast with a friend, giving us new pictures to go along with the story. This is a super cute outfit and I like every part of it,...

Breaking down Zac Efron's Instagram flirtation with Rebecca Ferguson

I thought it was going to be Zendaya. The co-star rumoured to be dating Zac Efron during The Greatest Showman press tour is not Zendaya but I was sure it was going to be. She plays his love interest in the movie and I would have bet that we’d all take a break from obsessing over Zendalland to specul...

Smutty Social Media, December 11, 2017

She might not know JLo, but she definitely knows Santa Claus. Personally. (And she’s a Golden Globe nominee today.)    A post shared by Mariah Carey (@mariahcarey) on Dec 8, 2017 at 2:50pm PST I love celebrity trivia, like finding out who used to be roommates in college or w...

Golden Golden Globes TV nominations aren't boring this year

This is when being ‘contrary’ gets you into trouble.  For the record, I don’t think I choose the alternate perspective all the time, but some people, like 90% of the staff of this blog, seem to think I do, and usually I can mount a rousing defense.   Today though, when looking at the HPFA nomi...

Joe Alwyn watches Taylor Swift perform and is photographed holding hands

Taylor Swift wasn’t on tour when she dated Tom Hiddleston. Let me say that another way: Tom Hiddleston didn’t date Taylor Swift when she was on tour. Can you imagine what that would have been like? Tom Hiddleston in head to toe tour merch waving his arms and legs around in VIP. I feel sad that we ne...

Get Out nominated for two Globes as Jordan Peele is shut out of director categories

The Golden Globe nominations are out, and Get Out—one of the best movies of the year—only got two nominations: Best Musical or Comedy Motion Picture and Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical for Daniel Kaluuya. Those are not insignificant nominations, but Jordan Peele went 0-0 on directing and writing. Tha...

Nick Jonas nominated for Golden Globe and I can't believe it

When you first heard the 2008 pop classic Burnin’ Up, featuring lyrics like “Baby who turned the temperature hotter?/ Cause I'm burnin' up, burnin' up/ For you baby,” did you think that almost a decade later, 2 of the 3 Jonas Brothers would still be relevant? Did you think that baby Jonas, Nick, wou...

Angelina Jolie nominated for two Golden Globes after weekend with kids at the flea market

Angelina Jolie was seen with her kids at the flea market this weekend. The twins, Vivienne and Knox, they don’t look so little anymore, do they?  It’s been a good morning for Angelina. First They Killed My Father was nominated for Best Motion Picture Foreign Language and The Breadwinner, which sh...

Mary J Blige nominated for two Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actress and Original Song

TWO! Mary J. Blige was nominated for two Golden Globes this morning. I was expecting the nod for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. Last month, after she attended a party for75th anniversary of the Golden Globes, I wrote that Mary J. was working the award season circuit on her way ...

The Big Sick completely shut out of Golden Globe nominations

The Golden Globes have always been much more interesting in how they recognise achievements in television. We’ll get to some of their TV nominations in a separate post. Where film is concerned, even though you think that with the drama and the musical/comedy categories separated, there’s still room ...

Intro for December 11, 2017

Dear Gossips, By the time most of you read this, the Golden Globe nominations will have been announced and we’ll have a much clearer picture of what award season will look like in the new year, who’s a proper contender and whose campaigns will shut down. While the conversation will predominantly ...

What Else for December 8, 2017

Last year I wrote about the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp divorce settlement and broke down their joint statement because the wording was SO specific. And see? It was that specific for a reason, for Amber’s reasons. Amber Heard appears to be responding to JK Rowling. Many of you have written to ask fo...

Smutty Social Media, December 8, 2017

Hamilton has premiered in London – how many celeb posts will I get out of this? So far, two.    A post shared by Stephen Merchant (@stephenmerchant) on Dec 8, 2017 at 7:17am PST       A post shared by Annabelle Wallis (@annabellewallis) on Dec 8, 2017 at 4...

Robert Pattinson hustles for Oscar nomination for Good Time at the GQ Men of the Year Awards

Robert Pattinson gave his best performance to date this year in Good Time. He’s gotten a Gotham Award nomination for it, and an Independent Spirit Award nod, too. People have noticed him doing Good Work this year (he also gave a solid performance in James Grey’s Lost City of Z). And RPattz, noticing...

Bryan Singer being sued for allegedly assaulting 17 year old boy in 2003

Well, it’s not like we didn’t have a clue. Just days after getting sh*t-canned from Bohemian Rhapsody, Bryan Singer has been sued for allegedly assaulting a seventeen-year-old boy in 2003. Wow that’s an ugly sentence. But we knew it would be. For those of us who have tracked Singer’s name over the y...

Carina Lau debuts clothing line, Anirac, at Shanghai Fashion Week

Carina Lau is a very famous Chinese actress. She’s married to a very famous Chinese actor, Tony Leung Chiu Wai. I grew up watching their Hong Kong soap operas. And every time I write about them I tell you that they literally look exactly the same now as they did then. Tony Leung is 55. It’s Carina L...

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard in first trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

In 2015, Jurassic World made a billion dollars, so a sequel was inevitable. And now we have the first trailer for that sequel, which is officially titled Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, but if you’re not getting Speed 2: Cruise Control vibes from this, then you have never seen Speed 2: Cruise Contro...

Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman makes AFI's Top 10 list of 2017

As Sarah just wrote in the previous post about all the angst going on at DC after Justice League underwhelmed critically and commercially. Underwhelmed, I think, is a generous way to put it. This was the first movie in which all of their superheroes were gathered together, their answer to the Avenge...

DC Films' executive holiday shuffle

It was inevitable, and like clockwork, it arrived just before the holidays, when Warner Brothers likes to do their firing: an executive shuffle at DC Films. Jon Berg, who was co-president of production and oversaw DC, is exiting his executive role to become an on-the-lot producer. Apparently, he sta...

Charlie Hunnam spills his money as Garrett Hedlund appears at the GQ Men of the Year event in LA

A quick picture post to start the day… Charlie Hunnam was photographed yesterday with cash spilling out of his wallet after having lunch with a friend. Sarah always makes fun of Canadian money (and Canadians get huffy at her, which always makes me laugh) when she’s here because of all the differe...

December 8, 2017 – Smutty Shout-Outs

For Fanci before we go to VIP for fried pickles on Sunday – HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And because you told me to, and I always do what you tell me to do, here are Rihanna, The Bodyguard, Khaleesi with a dragon…and your “pride”:  Lauren! Happy 30th Birthday tomorrow! Thank you for being such a wonderful...

Intro for December 8, 2017

Dear Gossips,  The American Film Institute (AFI) released its Top 10 of 2017 yesterday. We’ll discuss some of the entries through the day but in this space I want to once again spotlight The Big Sick, co-written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V Gordon and, by alphabetical order, the first title to ...

What Else for December 7, 2017

This is not a very charitable question to ask but… is anyone really all that upset about R Kelly getting robbed? How much innocence has he robbed? And, you know, it’s been 20 f-cking years since the allegations against R Kelly were made known. Let’s definitely stay outraged at all the pervs and pred...

Selena Gomez says privatising her Instagram was an accident as Justin Bieber smiles when asked about proposing

I posted the other day about Selena Gomez privatising her Instagram account after sharing with her followers that she was pissed about a quote in her recent Billboard Woman of the Year interview. Her IG was reopened early Wednesday and according to The Blast: Sources close to the “Wolves” singer ...

Kristen Stewart responds to rumours she will star in Charlie's Angels reboot

This is my favourite ice breaker question: what are the movies you always watch if you flip past them on cable TV? It’s very telling. This question is going to be outdated soon. I still have cable. Many of my friends no longer have cable. For now, my friend Manny and I talk about our favourite movie...

Smutty Social Media, December 7, 2017

Billboard posted an interview with producer Walter Afanasieff, the co-producer on Mariah’s Merry Christmas album and the co-writer of All I Want for Christmas is You. It’s a super interesting read because it dives into the business of Christmas music. Everyone is trying to get a hit like All I Want ...

Ava DuVernay, Niki Caro, and Anna Boden featured in THR as The 100 Club

That’s what they’re called now, it is known. They are the three women directing $100 million-plus movies for Disney: Ava DuVernay, Niki Caro, and Anna Boden. DuVernay, of course, is directing A Wrinkle In Time, due in the spring. Niki Caro is tackling the live-action Mulan, and Boden is co-directing...

Shonda Rhimes and Angelina Jolie seated beside each other at THR's Women in Entertainment breakfast

Shonda Rhimes and Angelina Jolie. They aren’t two names you think of together often – if at all. If I was having a dinner party and Angelina Jolie and Shonda Rhimes were both invited, I don’t think I would seat them beside each other. I’d put Angelina beside Christiane Amanpour and Shonda beside Lin...

Dim sum for Dummies according to goop

I want to shout this entire post, do it in all caps, but then you would shout back at me because of your eyes. So, fine, I won’t. Just please know that I am actually shouting. Because the thing is, if goop and Gwyneth Paltrow were talking about a kale and granola salad served in a mason jar, I would...

Kate Winslet and Justin Timberlake in Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel movie review

Woody Allen’s latest film, Wonder Wheel, is the sixteenth “wonder” movie of the year, and it has everything you’ve come to expect from a Woody Allen film: New York locations, relationships complicated by suppressed misery, uncomfortable dialogue about an uncomfortable father/daughter relationship, a...

Justin Timberlake presents at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment breakfast

Justin Timberlake presented at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment breakfast yesterday, announcing scholarships to young women as part of the mentorship program.  Him? Him.  That’s a thing that actually happened.  Justin Timberlake. At an event meant to honour women, lift up ...

December 7, 2017 – Smutty Shout-Outs

The Pin Project Campaign helps the more than 65 million refugees and displaced people living around the world by giving them long-term self-reliance through meaningful work! Designed by Jenny Bird, each pin is made by hand by refugees, displaced and returnee producers in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, J...

Intro for December 7, 2017

Dear Gossips,  Jennifer Lawrence was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey for The Hollywood Reporter’s Women In Entertainment issue, guest-edited by Shonda Rhimes. She received the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award at the Power 100 breakfast yesterday. Many of you have tweeted and emailed to ask if we’d be...

What Else for December 6, 2017

I couldn’t watch this video. For obvious reasons: I have dogs and… I couldn’t imagine. But the other reason I couldn’t watch this video is because the article ends on suuuuuuuch a great joke, the kind of joke that Michael K is known for, a joke so good you wish you thought of it yourself, that I did...

Celine Dion delivers holiday message from Nordstrom

It’s been almost a month since I last posted about Celine Dion and that feels wrong. But she’s been keeping a pretty low profile – she last performed in Vegas on November 26 and has over a month off until her next show on December 30.  Which is why I’ve been holding on so tightly to what my frien...

Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in The Post movie review

Set during the pre-Watergate Nixon administration, The Post follows the Washington Post back when it was considered a “local paper”. The New York Times is the paper of record, but the Post is under the control of Kay Graham, whose father left the family publishing empire to her husband, who later di...

Hugh Jackman's Oscar campaign for The Greatest Showman in Variety

The Greatest Showman comes out in a couple weeks. Oscar campaigning is in full swing and Hugh Jackman is on the cover of Variety, a favourite read of Academy voters. Is Hugh Jackman a contender? In October, Sarah wrote about his chances and she decided that he doesn’t have a shot. I don’t think Hugh...

Smutty Social Media, December 6, 2017

Alec Baldwin is so tired. (Just a reminder he is in negotiations for his second talk show; the first one at MSNBC was cancelled after he made some homophobic remarks) Talk shows were once promotional pit stops for some blithe chit chat about movies, etc. Now the likes of @iamjohnoliver and @S...

Meghan Markle's former friend Ninaki Priddy releases personal photos and video to UK media

Last week, after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced their engagement, a photo of Meghan and a friend, taken when they were teen tourists in England, outside Buckingham Palace, was published by the Daily Mail. This weekend, that same friend, Ninaki Priddy, made available over 50 photos taken du...

Tonya Harding at LA premiere of I, Tonya with Margot Robbie and cast

I, Tonya is opening this weekend, so there was a premiere and people showed up. Tonya Harding showed up! It’s been so long since I’ve seen Tonya Harding, I almost didn’t recognize her. But there she is, in a black dress with some kind of colorful underskirt. I wonder what she thinks of the movie? On...

ICM commits to 50-50 gender parity by 2020

It’s what we’ve been waiting for, right? For someone to do something, ANYTHING, as the Hollywood sex scandal rolls on. There have been some high profile firings, yes. But real, systemic change? Hasn’t happened yet. In fact, there are signs it might not happen at all. (This is what I fear. That after...

Under new ownership Blind Riddle

Not just celebrity real estate news. It would be major, major celebrity real estate news.  About a piece of property that once belonged to an iconic entertainer. What was once a happy place became associated with controversy and then pretty much abandoned. Someone however, supposedly wants to res...

Beyoncé presents Colin Kaepernick with Sports Illustrated's Mohammed Ali Legacy award

We've written a lot on this site about how little Beyoncé speaks. Where Beyoncé shows up and when she decides to speak reveal so much. Last night, Beyoncé showed up for Colin Kaepernick. She presented him with Sports Illustrated's Mohammed Ali Legacy award. As you know, Colin Kaepernick – former ...

Jennifer Aniston photographed with smartwater bottle at Kimmel after taking over their Instagram account

Jennifer Aniston took over smartwater’s Instagram account this week, did you see? The photos were taken inside her home. My favourite shots, obviously, are the ones with the dogs.    A post shared by smartwater (@smartwater) on Dec 4, 2017 at 2:03pm PST     A...

Intro for December 6, 2017

Dear Gossips,  I meant to write last week about the sale of Time Inc to Meredith Corporation. I mentioned this in mid-November when The New York Times first reported on the negotiations and that the Koch brothers were helping to finance the deal with a $650 million infusion. The deal went through...

What Else for December 5, 2017

I can’t believe I missed this yesterday. Mimi is magic. So of course she has a magical chair with an invisibility cloak. Mimi’s mischief is managed! Some people are trying to apply science to Mimi’s magical chair but, to me, this is a stupid exercise. This is a woman who will find solutions to not w...

Jay-Z celebrates 48th birthday at the movies with Beyoncé

Jay-Z hasn’t called himself Young Hov in a while. It’s been so long, the other day I was asked what Hov meant and I blanked. Jay gave himself a nickname that forever tied him to his youth (and divinity) but I think he’s retired it. Feel free to correct me but I can’t recall Jay calling himself Young...

Selena Gomez makes her Instagram private after Billboard Woman of the Year interview

That sounds like a business deal. It’s not a business deal. I wish it was a business deal. But it’s just old fashioned petty celebrity drama.  Selena Gomez has made her Instagram private. And most people think it has something to do with this:  📷 @selenagomez via Instagram Stories pic.twi...

Smutty Social Media, December 5, 2017

Chris Rock’s Total Blackout tour is currently in LA, and he’s had a lot of celebrity visitors: Kanye, Eddie Murphy, Elon Musk, Dr. Dre, and Issa Rae and Yvonne Orji. But there’s always something a little special about seeing Brad Pitt. It’s that movie star aura around him.    A post ...

Mae Whitman, Christina Hendricks, and Retta in first trailer for NBC's Good Girls

I only lasted 18 seconds.  I watched the trailer for Good Girls, which premieres on NBC next February, and liked it almost instantly – but I only lasted 18 seconds before I punched the space bar to pause in some kind of rage-endorsement, and wrote the following in an email to Lainey and our site ...

Bryan Singer fired as director of Bohemian Rhapsody

Following his vanishing act from the set of Bohemian Rhapsody, and to the surprise of no one, Fox has fired Bryan Singer as director of the film. A replacement is expected to be named within days, and that person will then finish the film—with about two weeks left on the shooting schedule—and see it...

Taylor Swift covers British Vogue

It’s new editor Edward Enninful’s second issue as the head of British Vogue. For Edward, then, this is quite a coup, having Taylor Swift cover the first issue of 2018. He styled her himself and she was photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott who also shot her for reputation. Here’s what Edward ...

Kaia Gerber is still happening at the British Fashion Awards

Kaia Gerber is still happening. She was the breakout star of last season’s fashion weeks. I wrote about her surprisingly stellar runway walk. Lainey wrote about Kaia opening the Chanel show in Paris in October, an honour Karl Lagerfeld only gives to the Model of the Moment. She’s arrived – definitiv...

Dustin Hoffman tries to defend himself as John Oliver brings up sexual harassment allegations during Wag The Dog panel

Have you seen Wag The Dog? It’s a satirical film about politics and elections and, if I remember correctly, it was released around the time of the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal, about the president running for re-election who creeped on a young girl and hires a Hollywood publicist to create a...

Quentin Tarantino reportedly pitches Star Trek movie to Paramount and JJ Abrams

Quentin Tarantino has been talking retirement recently, stating his intention to retire (from directing) at ten feature films. He has a project—relocated at Sony after splitting from his long-time producer, Harvey Weinstein, for obvious reasons—currently slated for 2019 that may or may not be about ...

Intro for December 5, 2017

Dear Gossips,  If you haven’t already, listen to the Angelina Jolie interview on Scott Feinberg’s Awards Chatter podcast that was just posted yesterday. It’s almost an hour of her talking through her career, sounding more relaxed and casual than she does when we see her on panels and on stage. Th...

What Else for December 4, 2017

True story: I did not know what the Long Island Medium looked like until today, though I have heard that a good number of celebrities have reached out to the Long Island Medium on the low. Is seeing a medium the new plastic surgery? Everyone does it but no one admits to it? Anyway, now that I’ve see...

Prince Harry without Meghan at London Fire Brigade carol service

It was a week ago today that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced that they’re getting married. Four days after that, she joined him for their first official public engagement in Nottingham. Today Harry attended the London Fire Brigade carol service at Westminster Cathedral. Sorry, I have to lau...

Show Your Work: Selena, Meghan, and Matt

Selena Gomez spent the weekend in London. Today she was seen several times in several different outfits promoting her single. Last week Billboard named Selena the Woman of the Year. So we begin the latest episode of Show Your Work talking about Selena’s work in 2017 and how her work now was shaped t...

Smutty Social Media, December 4, 2017

I would like to think I keep up with the Foster sisters more than most, but I had no idea – not one clue – that Danny Fujikawa was Sara and Erin’s stepbrother. Did everyone know this but me?   A post shared by Kate Hudson (@katehudson) on Dec 3, 2017 at 4:48pm PST Busy Phili...

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis were "meh" at the Breakthough Prize Awards

Every year at around this time, The Social does a year-end gossip special. I am knee-deep in recap lists and conversations about who hooked up, who broke up and who made the most headlines in 2017. Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis did not hook up or break up in 2017. They are one of the celebrity coupl...

Channing Tatum photographs Jenna Dewan while on vacation in Los Cabos

It was Jenna Dewan Tatum’s birthday yesterday. Same as Tiffany Haddish. She and Channing Tatum celebrated in Los Cabos. I don’t think I would have posted about this had I not received an email last week from a reader called Krista who was “feeling concerned about Channing and Jenna based on my socia...

Taylor Swift's I Did Something Bad should have been her first single on reputation

Taylor Swift’s reputation is now available on streaming services. Some of you have been listening to reputation for weeks. I refused to pay $13.99 for an album I was convinced was going to be sh-tty because the four singles Taylor released leading up to reputation went from embarrassingly bad (Look ...

Tiffany Haddish's Oscar campaign gaining momentum

Yesterday was Tiffany Haddish’s birthday. On Saturday night she was hanging out with Mary J Blige at DJ Khaled’s birthday party which I think was also a promotional event for The Four, the new talent competition show starring Khaled, Diddy, Meghan Trainor, and Fergie.  Mary, as we’ve seen recentl...

Bohemian Rhapsody on hold as director Bryan Singer pulls disappearing act

In the latest Weird F*ckin’ News, it broke over the weekend that Bryan Singer has vanished, abandoning production on the Queen movie, Bohemian Rhapsody. Fox, the studio behind the film, was forced to release a statement, saying, “Twentieth Century Fox Film has temporarily halted production on Bohemi...

Intro for December 4, 2017

Dear Gossips,  Think of Emily Doe and not her rapist, even though her rapist is the one making headlines. Emily Doe was unconscious when her rapist was discovered by two passersby behind a dumpster – oh, wait, no, I’m sorry, ADJACENT to a dumpster (because location specifics are what make a situa...

What Else for December 1, 2017

Some of you think that Meghan Markle was being extra on Monday when she and Prince Harry were interviewed together. You want extra? Kaley Cuoco’s engagement reaction is… extra. I mean obviously anyone married into the royal family would never video their reaction to being proposed to. But still. T...

Smutty Social Media, December 1, 2017

The point of this photo, I think, is the filter. But it should have been her outfit. Which she’s not showing. Which is too bad because I’m obsessed with it. There’s a cape. And stars. And a Wonder Woman vibe. And only Gwen Stefani could have gotten away with it. And she did. I love everything. ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle make first official public engagement together in Nottingham on World AIDS Day

Today is World AIDS Day. “According to the UNAIDS Data 2017 report from UNAIDS, an estimated one million people worldwide died of AIDS-related illnesses in 2016. By the end of 2015, an estimated 36.7 million people around the world were living with HIV.” Here in Canada, it’s estimated that, in 2014,...

Dwayne The Rock Johnson covers Entertainment Weekly ahead of Jumanji release

Ahead of Jumanji, Dwayne Johnson covers Entertainment Weekly, with an accompanying slightly disturbing sexy Santa-themed photoshoot. (Some things should never be sexy and Santa is one of them.) The cover teases Johnson talking about his imaginary presidential run, though those quotes are left out of...

Beyoncé generously joins Ed Sheeran for Perfect duet

Our Queen is a generous person, a loving, giving, kind soul. She gives back in many ways, to many charitable organizations. This week, she granted the wish of a child in need. In case you were wondering WHY Beyoncé would lend her talents to a duet with Ed Sheeran, the answer is that it’s the season ...

Rihanna attends street naming ceremony in her honour in Barbados

Rihanna was in Barbados yesterday because they named a street after her: Rihanna Drive. She’s from Barbados, as you know, but as far as I’m concerned, they could name a street after her in every country. I mean, it’s Rihanna.  Yesterday I happily spent part of my day on a Twitter thread that my c...

Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost pose together at the 2017 Museum Gala in New York

Scarlett Johansson was at the 2017 Museum Gala in New York last night. She walked the carpet on her own but inside the event, she agreed to pose with Colin Jost. The two have been papped together before, of course, but these represent the first “official” shots of them together. Which, I guess, is s...

Intro for December 1, 2017

Dear Gossips,  The NY Film Critics Circle announced their selections for the best of 2017 yesterday. And guess who just stomped into the awards race?  TIFFANY HADDISH! Tiffany was named Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Girls Trip even though the NYFCC was big on Lady Bird. Lad...