What Else for February 28, 2019

My parents used to own a Chinese buffet restaurant so I have seen buffet violence firsthand. Eggrolls and chicken balls used to be the contentious items and people would wait for a fresh batch and push others out of the way to get there first. This is the mistake that people make at a buffet though ...

Are Ariana Grande and Big Sean back together?

Ariana Grande and Big Sean started dating some time in 2014 when he may or may not have been engaged to Naya Rivera, according to Naya. By October of 2014, Ariana and Sean were public. They walked the carpet together at the Grammys in 2015. Two months later it was over, supposedly because she was pi...

Carly Rae Jepsen, The Queen of Bops, strikes again with two new singles

Tired of listening to “Party for One” yet? I’m kidding, that’s impossible, but nevertheless, our beloved Queen of Bops has graced us with not one, but TWO new surprise singles! We don’t deserve her. Yesterday, Carly Rae Jepsen released “Now That I Found You” and “No Drug Like Me” and my song repeat ...

Idris Elba in first trailer for Netflix's Turn Up Charlie

Did you remember that Idris Elba made a comedy series for Netflix? I kinda forgot, then Lainey emailed me about the trailer for Turn Up Charlie and was like, Oh yeaaaaah, Idris Elba made a comedy series for Netflix. We’re living in Andy Warhol’s future, where everyone is famous for fifteen minutes—t...

Celebrity Social Media Round-Up for February 28, 2019

Duana sent this to me this morning and it was a real mood lifter. It’s Tyra Banks taking a minute to celebrate herself. There’s no promo, no reboot announcement, no link – just Tyra in a the perfect 90s outfit with the baggy jeans and cinched waist and crop top. A woman after her own heart.  ...

Lady Gaga continues to promote A Star is Born on Kimmel

Blair, our production coordinator at The Social, just walked into my office while I was watching Lady Gaga on Jimmy Kimmel last night. He raised his eyebrows, and I told him that “the A Star is Born Oscar campaign is still happening and the Oscars were four days ago”.  Lady Gaga was on Kimmel to ...

Original cast coming back for Beverly Hills 90210 revival

The video teaser I’m posting below is only 10 seconds long. It has exactly zero familiar faces in it.  So how, exactly, is it so satisfying?    Kathleen and I were talking this weekend about songs that get stuck in your DNA. Mostly Christmas carols or hymns – and pop songs that mimi...

New Dark Phoenix trailer released and it looks horrible

Sometimes you look at a trailer and think it can go either way—the movie might be better than this, or might be exactly as bad as this trailer is making it seem. Marvel trailers tend to be like that. Between their habit of cutting around any potentially plotty scenes and a standardized edit template...

Pop Angel Taylor Swift covers ELLE UK Magazine

I really think I nailed it with the title of this post, but that would be starting at the end and not at the beginning. So let’s go to the beginning… Taylor Swift’s fans have been speculating for days that Something Was Up. Taylor was posting on Instagram and it was supposedly a countdown from se...

Pop Angel Taylor Swift covers ELLE UK Magazine

I really think I nailed it with the title of this post, but that would be starting at the end and not at the beginning. So let’s go to the beginning… Taylor Swift’s fans have been speculating for days that Something Was Up. Taylor was posting on Instagram and it was supposedly a countdown from se...

February 28, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Gabriela – I heard about what happened at work from Angie and that is some f-cksh-t, obviously, and I’m sorry that, once again, you and your colleagues, and so many women out there, continue to be disappointed by people in leadership. Change is slow, frustratingly slow. But at the risk of sounding t...

Intro for February 28, 2019

Dear Gossips,  This is what I meant all those weeks ago when I said I was anxious about Gladys Knight being the Bee on The Masked Singer. SHE CAME IN THIRD. It’s what happens when you leave things up to the “people”. The people don’t know sh-t! How are you putting Gladys Knight – THE Gladys Kn...

What Else for February 27, 2019

I don’t care that this is a rat – look at her sad face in distress! How could you not help? Especially when the reason she got stuck is so relatable!? Winter flab! Also… the final thought in Michael K’s post is, as usual, f-cking brilliant. Relating Jon Hamm to a chubby sewer rat is a genius piece o...

Jennifer Lawrence reveals engagement ring front row at Dior

Jennifer Lawrence stayed away from LA on Oscar weekend. I wonder if they called her though, if the Academy invited her to present this year and she was like, nah, I’m all about the New York life right now. She’s on an extended break from acting. There may be some promo to be done for X-Men, but as w...

Ben Affleck and Lindsay Shookus together on Oscar weekend

Oscar weekend, for most, is a work weekend. Actors and producers and writers try to be in LA if they can so that they can show up at the parties, strike up conversations with the people they need to be talking to so that they can set up their next jobs or make new connections that might lead to the ...

Show Your Work: How To Be Joe Zee

You guys. We have been so excited to share this episode with you, and it’s only the first of two delicious, long, fast-as-hell-paced deep-dive conversations with the incredible Joe Zee. Part of the reason we started Show Your Work is because, especially (but not only) in show business, people ten...

Celebrity Social Media, February 27, 2019

We know Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Oscars after-party was packed with A-listers, so who went to Madonna’s party? (Besides Lady Gaga, who probably hit up multiple spots.)         View this post on Instagram                   ...

Detective Pikachu is still real, new trailer released

Defying all expectations, Detective Pikachu continues to be a real movie that exists. I halfway expected the first trailer to be revealed as a hoax, but no, Detective Pikachu is absolutely a Real Movie that you will be able to buy a ticket for with real human dollars and see with your real human eye...

Jamie Foxx apparently seen with Katie Holmes in Victoria, BC

The story about Jamie Foxx after the Oscars was that he said on stage at an event that he was single which is why everyone’s been talking about him and Katie Holmes breaking up. As I wrote yesterday in my post, it’s hard to get a read on their relationship since Jamie’s always ducking and denying wh...

Prince William and Catherine get sporty in Belfast

Prince William and Catherine are in Northern Ireland for the next two days. It was a previously unannounced trip, for security reasons. So right after the Sussexes’ mini tour to Morocco, the Cambridges are now front and centre, keeping the young royals in the headlines.  Kate arrived in Belfast i...

There is no Bradley Cooper, Irina Shayk, Lady Gaga love triangle

Oh my God, please, can this stop?  As you know, Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga performed “Shallow” at the Oscars, directed by Bradley Cooper. This is an important point, because people seem to have lost their goddamn minds about their chemistry and how undeniable it is that they’re in “true love” w...

Emma Thompson quits latest project, Luck, because of John Lasseter

If you recall, John Lasseter, impresario of Pixar, left Pixar last year amid allegations of inappropriate conduct with female staff. He got an exceptionally kind and gentle send off from Disney, being given months to ease out the door, golden parachute dragging behind him. He was almost immediately ...

February 27, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Chris! Happy Birthday! Have the best day with your coworkers and your fiancé – CONGRATULATIONS – and the best YEAR with all the people in your life! Tell mom I said hi! (But not in a Marky Mark way.)   

Intro for February 27, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Yesterday in this space, I wrote about the hierarchy of Oscar parties, how the Vanity Fair party has become the appetiser instead of the main course, and former VF editor Graydon Carter’s Importance Index and Seven Room theories of fame. Trevor Noah addressed the very same themes d...

What Else for February 26, 2019

Katy Perry was on Kimmel last night telling the story of how Orlando Bloom proposed to her and where. It was in a helicopter. Duana, Kathleen, and I were just in LA for a few days and last night, after all all-nighter, since our red-eye was delayed, we went up the hill to Yamashiro for dinner. The r...

Nicollette Sheridan threatens to expose truth about ex Harry Hamlin after Real Housewives drama

In terms of entertainment news, the farthest you can get from the Oscars is reality TV. And that’s where I am living right now, in the muck of confessionals and C-list Twitter feuds. Not that I’m complaining, I love it! Over the last week, a very late 80s/early 90s feud bubbled up between Lisa Ri...

Jamie Foxx says he's single at Oscars weekend gala

Like everyone else, Jamie Foxx was in LA for Oscar weekend and hit up several parties, including a benefit gala, where he was the host, and while on stage at one point, referring to couples and romance, he decided to just casual mention, with a microphone in his own face, that “I’m single”, which ma...

Celebrity Social Media, February 26, 2019

This is my favourite post-Oscars day of the week because I’ve been able to catch up on my reading but don’t have total fatigue yet. This is when we can connect and compare moments. For example, this short video of Russell Wilson adjusting Ciara’s dress for the Vanity Fair step-and-repeat. Not only d...

Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams are perfectly cast in Fosse/Verdon

During the Oscars, FX dropped a new trailer for Fosse/Verdon, the engineered-to-win-ALL-the-awards drama they have coming later in the spring. Sam Rockwell went into the Oscars the reigning Best Supporting Actor and a back-to-back nominee on the night. Now he’s being set up to win an Emmy. It’s like...

Kate Mara announces pregnancy at Elton John's Oscar party with Jamie Bell

Kate Mara prefers to share her personal and relationship milestones on her own terms. And when she does, we get just a taste. When she and Jamie Bell tied the knot about 18 months ago, the wedding snap caption read simply, "Nuptials."  And now, she's confirmed she's pregnant with their first child t...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in Morocco

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have wrapped up their trip to Morocco. For all the drama that’s been swirling around Meghan lately, as I keep saying, this is the one thing her critics can’t drag her for: work ethic. And by all accounts, the weekend went well, yet another successful tour in the books....

Rihanna, Adele, and more attend Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Gold Party

As I mentioned in the open, the Vanity Fair Oscar party can still draw an impressive list of stars. Beyoncé and Jay Z’s now annual Gold Party, in its second year, held in the Chateau Marmont parking lot, brings in even bigger names. And many of those big names bypass the VF party entirely to just go...

Intro for February 26, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Last Friday I posted about Oscar parties and how the Vanity Fair Oscar party may be losing its claim to being the place to be after the Oscars. On Thursday, The New York Times published a piece – “It Was the Hottest Oscar Night Party. What Happened?”– that VF clearly took exception...

What Else for February 25, 2019

I can’t stop watching this video of Lady Gaga at Madonna’s annual Oscar party, going forehead to forehead like they were….trying to recreate whatever it was that Gaga and Bradley Cooper did at the end of their “Shallow” performance at the Oscars?! As always, though, Michael K nails it – the final pa...

Awkwafina: Oscars Best Dressed (Duana)

I loved this the moment I saw it, and then it grew on me from there. It was kitschy! It was sparkly! It was totally Awkwafina, and also not like anything we’d seen her wear before – or, if it is, it feels new, and that’s part of it.  I remember thinking last night how lucky it was that Awkwafina ...

Lady Gaga: Oscar Worst Dressed (Duana)

Yes, it is glamourous. Some would say it’s a 7-year-old girl’s version of glamorous, what with the long gloves, but let’s not quibble.  Yes, it is ‘appropriate’ to win your first Oscar in, as proven.  Yes, it is slightly more unusual because it has the black ‘hips’ on it. I quite like them, ev...

Julia Roberts: Oscar Worst Dressed (Kathleen)

Whatever Julia Roberts’ equivalent of the Beygency is, Duana is its president. Duana and her Best Friend’s Wedding Party (I just made this up since Duana says Julia stans are too old for a fan nickname) will want to come for me based on the headline of this post alone. OK, bring it. I can handle it....

Charlize Theron: Oscar Worst Dressed (Lainey)

It’s because her bar is so high. Like, was Charlize Theron’s dress as bad as, say, Kacey Musgraves’s? Well, no. But also they’re not playing on the same field, at least not yet. Kacey’s still getting to her style level. Charlize is at the top already. So a dress like this, by her established standar...

Amandla Stenberg: Oscar Best Dressed (Kathleen)

The Oscars took my advice on one of my past pet peeves of the show. There weren’t endless montages featuring movies that the show didn’t recognize. It’s annoying when the Academy snubs great films for ones like Green Book but then will cycle through the good ones in a fleeting montage. In the one mo...

Jason Momoa & Lisa Bonet: Oscar Best Dressed (Lainey)

Probably they could have worn anything and been Best Dressed, right? I just don’t see how it’s possible for Lisa Bonet to show up at the Oscars and not claim one of the Best Dressed spots. This woman’s fashion influence on what we’ve been wearing for the last 25 years cannot be overstated. And this ...

Chadwick Boseman Knows What Oscar Wants

Everyone on social media is using the same picture of Chadwick Boseman on the red carpet, in front of that weird corridor-photo wall they had this year. It’s this one:  Partly, it’s because you can clearly see his floor-length caftan jacket of awesome, it was tough going to get a good look o...

What’s In JLo’s Oscar Mirror?

Let’s get one thing very, very clear here. Jennifer Lopez looked stunnnning last night.  It’s not just that she’s beautiful, which she is – but that dress is a treat for the eyes. I never, ever got tired of looking at it, from every multi-faceted angle, which of course is the point but also becau...

I'd allow Tessa Thompson and MBJ if Kiki Layne wasn't already there

Shockingly, no one in this triangle with Michael Bae Jordan is me but only because it’s not a real love triangle. You know how people seem to think that Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper are f-cking? Their chemistry seems as contrived as two theatre kids who learned what falling in love looked like from ...

Emma Stone brings Dave McCary to 2019 Oscars

Emma Stone and Dave McCary have been pretty undercover since they started dating. At least they were. This award season though we’ve seen them step out together much more – front row at a basketball game and he joined her at the SAG Awards. That hasn’t been Emma’s move, to make her relationship a he...

Constance Wu’s marigold and Henry Golding’s cheese at the Oscars

Crazy Rich Asians only came out six months ago and since then it seems that CRA has been represented on every major carpet, capping off their run at the Oscars last night. We’ve already talked about Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan, and Constance Wu, with Jon M Chu, and Henry Golding were also invited. ...

What did Chris Evans do that was so impressive?

Regina King won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar – her first— for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk. Somehow, Chris Evans is now in almost every story about Regina King’s win because the man sat beside her mom and… looked in her direction a few times? Because he did the bare minimum decent thi...

Regina King wins Oscar for Best Supporting Actress

There were a lot of “Queens” in attendance last night. Queen, the band. Queen Latifah. Olivia Coleman and Helen Mirren in spirit. The Queen of Wakanda, Angela Bassett. Billy Porter if we’re still saying “yasss Queen!” And then there was Regina King. Lainey schooled me that “Regina” means “Queen” in ...

Melissa McCarthy Won’t Let Me

I wanted to be annoyed.  Melissa McCarthy was the long-shot nominee for a fantastic performance in Can You Ever Forgive Me, and even though I knew, and you knew, and she knew, that it was never going to happen, I wanted more people to treat it like it was a possibility.  She was wearing a real...

Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig came separately to the 2019 Oscars

Rachel Weisz was at the Oscars as a nominee last night for Best Supporting Actress for The Favourite and Daniel Craig was there as a presenter and they’re married so… you’d think they’d come together, right? They walked the carpet together not too long ago at the Golden Globes but they did not arriv...

Stephan James and Brian Tyree Henry hustled at the 2019 Oscars

In October, I wrote “if you don’t already know Stephan James, you will soon.” He was weeks away from the release of Homecoming and If Beale Street Could Talk, his two breakout roles of 2018. A whole awards season later and Stephan James is definitely a name you know. Not to negate Stephan’s work at ...

Rami Malek’s Epic One-Night Story

God, that kiss was hot. We’ll get to the kiss, I promise.  On Show Your Work, and here, I’ve wished nominees would prepare their speeches, have something to say if they get up there and win – not everyone can be flummoxed as adorably as Olivia Colman.  But they don’t. Fear that they’ll jinx th...

Glenn Close still goes to the party despite not winning Best Actress Oscar

Here’s my theory about Oscar dresses: if you’re a favourite to win, your Oscar fashion is going to be on the safe side. Because the pictures you take that night, in that outfit, are forever. They’ll be used for a long time. And you don’t want to take the risk on a dress that doesn’t hold up. That’s ...

I adored every minute of Olivia Colman's Oscar speech

I really don’t understand Twitter sometimes.  I know a statement like that makes me sound too young, naïve, sheltered and privileged to be allowed chocolate milk, let alone unaccompanied access to one of the internet’s most reliable joke factories that sometimes doubles as a dumpster fire.  Bu...

The Black Panther Wins: A long time coming

“This has been a long time coming.” Ruth E Carter started her first Oscars acceptance speech with these seven words, and to me, they sum up all of Black Panther’s historic wins. It’s been a long time coming for black women behind-the-scenes in Hollywood to get their recognition. They’ve been doing t...

Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan: Crazy Rich Oscars Couture

A quick aside before we get to Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan’s red carpet looks – remember all that business about fighting over presenters and the Academy telling people that if they presented at any other award shows, they wouldn’t be able to come to the Oscars? One of those people was supposed to ...

Sarah Paulson, Queen of the Not-Pretty Pinks

You will not catch me complaining that the surprise trend colour of the night was hot pink. There were furrowed-brow debates on the pre-shows as experts discussed which would be the surprise colour of the night, earnestly wondering whether navy’s time had come or if it might be a silver-grey year.  ...

Spike Lee wins Best Adapted Screenplay and honours his ancestors at 2019 Oscars

The Oscars did right by Spike Lee in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. As we’ve established, it did not “do the right thing” in its choice for Best Picture. The most outspoken critic of Green Book’s win was Spike himself, who many outlets are reporting “stormed out” of the Dolby theatre when the...

Green Book is the Oscars’ worst Best Picture winner

It’s not like we didn’t know it was coming. Awards season has been preparing us for the inevitable: Green Book as the 2019 Best Picture winner. America, and its almost comically disrespectful Black History Month of bad news, has been preparing us for this too. Since it won the People’s Choice Award ...

Roma wins everything BUT Best Picture as The Academy isn't quite ready for Netflix

This was always going to be a possibility and from the moment the Oscar nominations were announced in January, I wondered if “the Academy’s solution might be to give Alfonso Cuaron and Roma their day in the director category but Best Picture…well…” Well.  That is exactly what happened. Alfonso...

Amy, Tina, and Maya MeanGirled the Academy

You may think that term has been overused and doesn’t mean much anymore, but how often do you get to use it on the O.G.s anyway?  As Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, and Tina Fey pointed out, they were not the Oscars hosts, despite being the first people to actually speak live on air, not counting Quee...

Intro for February 25. 2019

Dear Gossips,  As we usually do, Duana, Kathleen, and I watched the Oscars together and at no point, as we usually do during award shows, did we say to each other… what? We’re only at XYZ category? It’s only been an hour? The Oscars went by quickly and I’m still trying to decide whether or not th...

What Else for February 22, 2019

Mary J Blige’s marriage ended in a mess. And afterwards he came for her money because even though he didn’t respect her during their marriage, he felt she owed him the respect of keeping him in that lifestyle. Understandably she never wants to find herself in the same position again. Mary sounds lik...

How Beyoncé and Jay Z's Oscars Gold Party is shifting the Hollywood hierarchy

As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Roc Nation’s annual Grammys brunch has become one of the most well-attended events on Grammys weekend, perhaps THE most well-attended event, especially this year since the Grammys seemed lighter on megastar power than in years past. The brunch serves multiple purp...

Rihanna attends LA Lakers game with Hassan Jameel

Even Rihanna’s in town for the Oscars. Well, not specifically for the Oscars. But the action is definitely in LA this weekend and RiRi’s always down for a party and a basketball game, especially when LeBron James is playing. As we’ve seen over the years, Rihanna is LeBron loyal. She was at the Laker...

Celebrity Social Media, February 22, 2019

They Beyhive might not forgive and forget, but Ms. Tina is too regal to hold a grudge.           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Tina Knowles (@mstinalawson) on Feb 21, 201...

Gisele Bundchen in white at the 2019 Hollywood For Science Gala

As it is every year, everyone comes to LA for Oscar week, whether they’re involved in the Oscars or not. Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady were in LA last night as she was honoured by the UCLA IoES for her environmental activism. Sure, they’re not just there to party, and this is a legit reason to be in...

The Lonely Island announces their first ever tour

I grew up watching Lonely Island sketches on SNL and YouTube, to the point where I can still sing/rap nearly every one of their tracks. In fact, this used to be my desktop background in high school for the longest time: That’s the original file too, I’m not kidding. Don’t judge me. I was 16...

Fighting With My Family starring Florence Pugh movie review

Do you have to care about professional wrestling to enjoy Fighting with My Family? No. Though set in the world of the WWE, and based on the life story of professional wrestler Saraya-Jade Bevis, known in the ring as “Paige”, Fighting with My Family is a classic sports underdog story. It’s about an o...

February 22, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

For Zoe from “the girls” – good luck to you on Monday. I know staying positive is easier said than done, and it can be annoying when you hear it because of course it’s scary and of course you worry. At the same time, you got this. This f-cking asshole “spot” is nothing. It’s no match for you, a “war...

Intro for February 22, 2019

Dear Gossips,  It’s finally Oscar weekend! And just as it’s been this entire Oscar cycle, the unpredictability continues as Variety broke the news yesterday that Kendrick Lamar and SZA will not perform “All The Stars” from Black Panther, nominated for Best Song, due to “logistics and timing”. Thi...

What Else for February 21, 2019

On this week’s episode of What’s Your Drama, Sasha and I debate whether or not it’s a friendship dealbreaker if you don’t go to your best friend’s wedding - for a really good reason. Also Sasha tries not to judge me for the beauty treatment I really want to get.  Gwyneth Paltrow doesn’t appreciat...

Rocketman trailer doesn't shy away from Elton John's queerness

Earlier this week, we got a featurette from Rocketman meant to sell us on Taron Egerton’s Elton John karaoke. Now, we have the first full trailer to get our best feel yet for Rocketman and its potential. I am most curious about the dance numbers and fantasy sequences, which are a bit more interestin...

Jason Reitman's problematic comments about Ghostbusters reboot

You guys, I am tired. It’s FEBRUARY and I am already exhausted. Here’s the latest sh-tf-ck ruining the mood. Last month we learned Jason Reitman is re-rebooting Ghostbusters in 2020. The announcement left a bad taste in my mouth in re: the 2016 reboot starring women, and of the new film I wrote, “it...

Celebrity Social Media, February 21, 2019

I’m inclined to believe Spencer Pratt over Walmart Batman. Spencer is acutely aware of his place in the celebrity eco-system, whereas Walmart Batman once thought he could try it with the Beyhive.    this never happened but i love the story https://t.co/p5pC3uIbgy — Pratt Daddy (@spencerprat...

Prince Harry visits the 42 Commando Royal Marines in Bickleigh ahead of Morocco tour

Prince Harry, Captain of the General Royal Marines, visited the 42 Commando Royal Marines in Bickleigh for a Green Beret presentation yesterday. Through the drama of the last few months, with all the rumours about tensions between the palaces and the princes, and separating households, and who’s to ...

Chris Hemsworth cast as Hulk Hogan in biopic to be directed by Todd Phillips

Today in I Mean, Okay news, Chris Hemsworth is going to star as Hulk Hogan in a biopic to be directed by Todd Phillips. This project reunites Phillips with The Joker screenwriter Scott Silver, and Hemsworth is also on board as a producer. This is a strange mix of people and topic, yet I can’t quite ...

This year's anonymous Oscar voters reveal no consensus pick for Best Picture

It’s that time of year, when anonymous Oscar voters show their asses by explaining their votes to entertainment outlets. It is interesting to see the patterns that emerge, how many people confess to voting for friends, mention the preferential balloting system, and talk about “throwing away” votes. ...

Beyoncé recognises Meghan Markle in BRIT Award acceptance speech with Jay Z

Well this broke the internet, didn’t it? It certainly broke my internet. Not to make it all about me but I think this might be the most retweeted and liked tweet I’ve ever posted. If it isn’t (I don’t know how to check those stats), it’s definitely up there:  Meghan Markle is now under the pr...

Amal Clooney attends Meghan Markle's baby shower in New York

As mentioned yesterday, Meghan Markle’s baby shower was actually Wednesday and not Tuesday in New York City at the famed penthouse at The Mark. It was originally thought that the event, attended by friends, was being co-hosted by Serena Williams and Amal Clooney. Amal was there, seen arriving in a r...

Intro for February 21, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Jussie Smollett turned himself into to police this morning in Chicago. He reportedly made a statement to police and was taken into custody. The police are expected to hold a press conference at some point today which is when they’ll likely lay out all their evidence. Jussie’s attor...

What Else for February 20, 2019

Just when you thought Miranda Lambert was taking the Mess Crown this week, the Kardashian-Jenners and all their side players showed up to remind you that they know trash storylines better than anyone else. And you know what? Respect. No sarcasm. Somehow they continue to come old new-old narratives a...

Entertainment Self-Care: Your Super-Soft Recommendations

Last month we kicked off Entertainment Self-Care with “super-soft” TV, the shows and programs that help us wind down after a long, probably bad, day in our nightmare dystopia reality. Your response was overwhelming, with lots of great suggestions pouring in for more super-soft watching. So here are ...

Whoopi Goldberg rumoured to be surprise Oscars host

This messy AF Oscar season will never end. The latest, with just four days until the ceremony, is that maybe the Oscars have a host after all, it’s just a SECRET HOST. This theory comes from Peter Knegt, who pondered on twitter whether or not Whoopi Goldberg might actually be hosting the Oscars on S...

HBO releases first look at final season of Veep

It’s finally here! HBO has released our first glimpse of Veep’s farewell season, which promises its loveable mix of vulgarity, governmental hijinks, and Selina’s ragtag group of idiots who often stumble ass backwards into political success.    This time around, Selina (the one and only Julia Louis...

Celebrity Social Media, February 20, 2019

Ben Stiller reposted this from Ethan Hawke, and then Ethan commented, “There’s no secret handshake. There’s an IQ prerequisite, but no handshake.” Underrated line. It’s interesting to imagine where these characters would be today (not that I’m asking for a reboot or sequel), but Troy would definitel...

Lucas Hedges seems very aware of himself in GQ cover feature

Lucas Hedges is on the cover of GQ’s spring fashion issue. The interview is nice, and Hedges comes off well, if a bit in-his-head, the way young artists can be. The photo spread is fun, with looks ranging from “1980s triple-divorcee” to “thrift store grandpa”. I appreciate the younger generation hav...

Show Your Work: Brie Larson Puts Money Where Captain Marvel’s Mouth Is

It’s the week of the OSCARS! We’ve been doing this for a while, so we didn’t expect to be quite this excited, but between the honest-to-goodness race, the who-knows-what’s-gonna-happen, and Lainey’s new friend who might go with us to LA (check out her Instagram to be introduced), it promises to be a...

Channing Tatum shows up on Jessie J's IG story almost one year after split with Jenna Dewan

In April it’ll be a year since Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan announced their separation. By all accounts, it’s been entirely amicable. They’re currently working out their divorce and custody agreement. A couple of weeks ago there were reports that Channing is asking for an official custody schedule...

The story surrounding Miranda Lambert's new husband gets messier by the day

We are halfway through the work week and Miranda Lambert and her messy new husband continue to rain gossip down upon us. First there was the surprise wedding announcement and then there were details about an ex-fiancée (Jackie), a newborn baby from another relationship, and some very tight relations...

Lady Gaga ends engagement to Christian Carino ahead of the Oscars

The last time we checked on Lady Gaga’s love life was last week, when she wasn’t wearing her ring at the Grammys leading to speculation that she and Christian Carino may have broken up. She also hasn’t been following him on Instagram even though he was following her. Yesterday, just before Oscar vot...

Meghan Markle in New York with friends including Serena Williams

Meghan Markle has been in New York City since Friday to see friends and for her baby shower. It was initially reported that the baby shower took place yesterday. According to Tatler though, the shower is happening today around lunchtime at the penthouse at The Mark, co-hosted by Amal Clooney and Ser...

Intro for February 20, 2019

Dear Gossips,  It’s been quiet(ish) the last week or so in Hollywood. Because many celebrities are getting ready for the Oscars. And it’s not just the Oscars proper but all the events leading up to the Oscars. Things started picking up last night with the Costume Designers Guild Awards and the Va...

What Else for February 19, 2019

In today’s installment of Things That Stick With You From Childhood: I worshiped Mallory Keaton. I should ask Duana why “Mallory” isn’t a more common name. Is it the “Mal” thing? Whatever. I really love saying “Mallory” and I loved her. And I still love her. Which is why I will always and forever lo...

The Annual Red Carpet Contest 2019

As we all know by now, this is the tightest most unpredictable Oscar race in years. Normally I’d be telling you to study. But I don’t know that studying actually matters here. The preferential ballot could really come into play and a film that’s placing in third or fourth could surge ahead if the to...

Macaulay Culkin and Devon Sawa's staggeringly honest assessment of their roles as Nostalgia Objects in Vulture interview

Macaulay Culkin and Devon Sawa were two of the biggest teen beat heartthrobs of the 1990s. Generation X got Johnny Depp, River Phoenix, and Then Keanu—who is pretty much the same as Now Keanu, to be fair. But for those of us slightly too young for Gen X’s heartthrobs, missing out on 21 Jump Street, ...

Armie Hammer shuts down rumours he will be the next Batman

Since it’s now finally, officially, confirmed that Ben Affleck is no longer Batman, and Warner Bros and DC are moving ahead with a younger version of Bruce Wayne, everyone’s all eager to find out who that might be. Nerds hotlines were blowing up yesterday because of this rumour: "BREAKING: Ar...

Celebrity Social Media, February 19, 2019

This… is… impossible… to answer?! It would totally depend on my mood and I crave pho more often than ramen, but I crave ramen more intensely than pho. I didn’t need to go this deep on soup, Wale.  Ok let’s see what it is. 🍲 or 🍜 — Wale (@Wale) February 19, 2019 Taking a cruise is a pe...

Miranda Lambert's new husband's secretive and scandalous past revealed through social media

Miranda Lambert announced her wedding 4 days ago and it has already given us an abundance of good gossip. If we go back to the rollout (which was only on Saturday!), PEOPLE had the jump on an exclusive wedding photo, along with the first pap shots from the weekend. PEOPLE posted those pictures a ...

Gwyneth Paltrow covers Variety on Oscar week

I wasn’t expecting to see Gwyneth Paltrow on the cover of Variety this week, this of all weeks. It’s Oscar week. Gwyneth is not involved at all at this year’s Oscars, at least not yet, unless, of course, she’s to be announced as a presenter. Which is possible. Because it’s the 20th anniversary of Sh...

Taron Egerton fully inhabits spirit of Elton John in Rocketman featurette

We’ve already gotten a look at Taron Egerton playing Sir Elton John in Rocketman, but here comes a new featurette meant to convince us he is not just doing Elton karaoke but is FULLY INHABITING THE SPIRIT OF SIR ELTON. This featurette is dedicated to showing off his singing—which is really good, to ...

Meghan Markle in New York for baby shower ahead of Morocco trip with Prince Harry

Meghan Markle is currently in New York for her baby shower with 15 or so close friends. Royal reporter Omid Scobie has the details for Harper’s Bazaar - she flew in on Friday, is staying five nights, and there will be another shower in England at some point too.  Today’s baby shower is the fi...

February 19, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

J – this is from your little sister who misses you: here’s Keith Richards from “back in his heyday” because you are his biggest fan. The story about you going to the trial KILLS ME. Hoping this makes you smile and lifts your spirits. 

Intro for February 19, 2019

Dear Gossips,  They’re calling it the end of an era – and this is not an overstatement. Chanel will change after Karl Lagerfeld, just as it did when Karl first took over. As he said when he took over, “What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.” And also, “If you ...

Jussie Smollett situation does not look good and What Else for February 18, 2019

This Jussie Smollett situation….does not look good for Jussie Smollett. And we will definitely write about it once everything is presented, once the case is laid out, and people are ready to go on the record publicly about what really happened, even though it’s looking more and more like what really...

The Mystery of the Drag Race AS4 Finale

The finale of All Stars 4 was some f-ckery, with a helping of bulls-t on the side. Instead of crowning one queen as the winner of the crown, Ru decided that for the first time in Drag Race herstory, there would be two winners. Understandably, people were upset with the result, feeling that it both “...

Celebrity Social Media, February 18, 2019

The Beckhams were on display at Victoria’s London Fashion Week show, including Harper’s bob, which Anna Wintour must have loved. After the show, the kids horsed around with hair extensions backstage, then family went for lunch with her parents and sister and David’s mum, along with all of the kids, ...

Rogen + Theron = unlikely rom-com

Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron made a movie with the unlikely working title “Flarsky”. The movie was known to be a comedy, but the title was so WTF everyone sort of wondered if Rogen and his creative partner, Evan Goldberg, had maybe pushed things too far. Turns out: No. Retitled The Long Shot, the ...

Shawn Mendes Poses in His Calvins and I’m 100% Okay With That

Fortune has smiled down at all of us this weekend with the release of Shawn Mendes’s Calvin Klein campaign photos. I’m honestly still recovering. If you haven’t seen them, here’s what he posted:         View this post on Instagram          ...

Miranda Lambert: Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?

There’s messy, and then there’s Miranda Lambert. This woman is a hurricane. Last week, Lainey mentioned that Miranda had a salad tossing (no double entendre intended) incident at a Nashville steakhouse. She got very fired up because someone insulted her “friend.” In the TMZ video, shot by another...

William and Harry: imminent household division

Back in the fall, the Sunday Times reported that Princes William and Harry were looking into separating their households, now that Harry is married and expecting a child and he and Meghan Markle will be moving away from Kensington Palace. All of which is understandable. These are two individuals wit...

Intro for February 18. 2019

Dear Gossips,  It’s Oscar week! It’s also Family Day for half of Canada and President’s Day in the US – if you’re joining us, it means you’re working too. We’ll try to get you through a light day.  As for the Oscars, the Academy reversed yet another decision late Friday after protest from much...

What Else for February 15, 2019

On this week’s episode of What’s Your Drama, Sasha nails on why serenading is so… awkward. It’s not just because it was Kenny G. There’s another thing you don’t think about until it’s actually happening to you. As for your drama: politics and sex, good or bad idea? And also… can someone be “destined...

Will Smith hilariously explains why he turned down The Matrix

If there was an Oscar for Best Performance on Social Media – and there probably will be one day – the inaugural winner should be Will Smith. He is so f-cking good at this and…so repeatedly good at it. You remember his #InMyFeelings challenge. All the times he punks his kids. His willingness to be th...

Predictions for the Finale of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 4

Tonight is the grand finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 4. Let’s talk winners. The final challenge this episode is like the end of every Drag Race season: it looks like the queens will have to add their own verse to RuPaul’s song, "Super Queen", with the help of Todrick Hall, and then dance to i...

Ben Affleck promotes Netflix's Triple Frontier on Kimmel

Ben Affleck was on Kimmel last night to premiere a new trailer for Triple Frontier. The film premieres on Netflix March 13, also starring Charlie Hunnam, Oscar Isaac, and Garrett Hedlund. It looks like a hard movie, like they’re going through some SH-T. What I’m trying to say is that even though you...

Celebrity Social Media, February 15, 2019

Christmastime is when Mimi expends all of her energy – I imagine she spends most of January recovering in some kind of hyperbaric skinny chamber. That’s why her Valentine’s Day is so subdued. How do we even know this photo was specifically taken for Valentine’s Day? Lounging in a red dress while bei...

Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge's fashion moment at opening night of Sea Wall/A Life

Here are Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge last night in New York at The Public Theatre for their play(s) Sea Wall/A Life. The reviews I’ve read so far have been solid and both actors are being praised for their performances, with critics noting that Jake, who’s been focusing his attention on the st...

Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk have Valentine's dinner at Giorgio Baldi

Bradley Cooper was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, likely pre-taped because he was out for dinner last night in LA with Irina Shayk for Valentine’s Day. Colbert presented Bradley with his Grammy for “Shallow” and, of course, they talked about A Star is Born, during Oscar voting wee...

Has Lady Gaga called off engagement to Christian Carino?

Lady Gaga was not wearing her engagement ring at the Grammys and her fiancé – or possible ex-fiancé – Christian Carino, was not there with her and he’s been at her side through award season. So there’s been speculation this week that they’ve ended their engagement.  A source tells E! News the A S...

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are engaged

A week ago Katy Perry was making headlines telling Paper Magazine that: "I'm very pragmatic and logistical and I am less fantastical about things. I mean, I was married when I was 25. I'm 34. It was almost 10 years ago. I was like, 'One person for the rest of my life,' and I'm not so sure that th...

Intro for February 15, 2019

Dear Gossips,  We are now inside ten days until the Oscars. Earlier this week the Academy confirmed its second round of presenters including Angela Bassett, Chadwick Boseman, Laura Dern, Samuel L Jackson, Jason Momoa, and more. Also Daenerys Targaryen will be there as Emilia Clarke begins her pos...

What Else for February 14, 2019

You know one more angle we should consider re: Brad Pitt going to Jennifer Aniston’s 50th birthday party? What’s in it for him? Winning back the MiniVan Majority, right? And here’s the next phase of that – “sources” letting it be known that while he doesn’t look back, he also realises he could have ...

Unsinkable Jennifer Lopez promotes new tour on Kimmel after Grammys criticism

That was a famous magazine title about another Jennifer – Jennifer Aniston. It was the Vanity Fair article, the one after she and Brad Pitt divorced. I feel like that word, “unsinkable”, applies also to Jennifer Lopez. Last year, we featured JLo on Show Your Work and what’s amazing about JLo through...

Isn't It Romantic starring Rebel Wilson and Liam Hemsworth movie review

Isn’t It Romantic has a slightly tortured concept, with a meta romantic comedy tucked inside a regular, straightforward romantic comedy. It’s part of the recently resurgent “brain damage leads to fantasy scenario” sub-genre of romantic movies (see also: Yesterday), and stars Rebel Wilson as the reci...

Celebrity Social Media, February 14, 2019

Valentine’s Day has always been a performative holiday and social media has only enhanced that. Today there are two kinds of people: the ones who wear red in earnest and the ones who scroll through Instagram muttering “give me a f-cking break.” Sam Smith, who I suspected would be the former, is actu...

More information about the Johnny Depp kissing photos

A little inside baseball about those photos I posted yesterday of Johnny Depp kissing an identified woman in Belgrade. It’s surprising to me that there’s been no follow-up on this. Not very many mentions in American entertainment media. As of post time, I’ve not seen it on E! or PEOPLE or Us Weekly....

The Big Mouth Valentine’s Day Special

If you’re looking to watch something other than predictable and cliched rom-coms this Valentine’s day, try Big Mouth’s Valentine’s Day Special which was released on Netflix last week. If you haven’t heard of Big Mouth, it’s an underrated show that gets lumped into the same category as other raunchy,...

Prince Harry spends Valentine's Day in uniform in Norway

Prince Harry is in Norway today in his capacity as Captain General of the Royal Marines, spending time with service members and observing training exercises, in particular Exercise Clockwork. Participants learn how to continue with operations in extreme weather conditions and difficult terrain.  ...

Prince William and Catherine's coordinated work day

Busy day for Princess Kate yesterday. She spent the early part at the Royal Foundations Mental Health in Education conference. In the evening, as patron, she attended the 100 Women in Finance Philanthropic Initiatives gala at the V&A Museum. To promote the event, Amanda Pullinger, the CEO of 100 Wom...

Aaron Paul confirmed to star as Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad sequel

When the news about a Breaking Bad movie came out, we decided to hold off until there was information on the cast, because what is Breaking Bad without Walt and Jesse? We now have more info, with reports that the series will move forward as a film with Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman in– it is a sequel....

Intro for February 14, 2019

Dear Gossips,  I’m not saying this to be smug… but …didn’t we always know that Ryan Adams was a douchebag? From way back in 2008, when he and Mandy Moore first broke up. At the time, supposedly, he couldn’t handle all the attention. So he released a statement to the tabloids explaining why he bro...

What Else for February 13, 2019

I wish someone would do the very important work of putting together a scientific research study about tattoos and regrets, and specifically tattoos, regrets, and former lovers. What is the percentage of people who get a lover’s name tattooed on their body and DO NOT get it removed? What I’m trying t...

Brie Larson covers The Hollywood Reporter to promote Captain Marvel

Brie Larson’s press tour for Captain Marvel has been solid. It’s the most interesting she’s been, and she has spoken astutely about what these kinds of big franchise roles mean when it comes to representation, as well as the cross-section of promotion and representation. She’s aiming to make sure th...

Show Your Work: How Sean Penn is Like The Worst Kanye

We’re back! Thanks for bearing with us during our unscheduled break due to various Crimes Of Winter. After a quick announcement about some big moves in my appearance (Megalyn Echikunwoke was the actress I couldn’t think of here, btw), we get to the truth – the balmy weather of LA and the Oscars are ...

Celebrity Social Media, February 13, 2019

PEOPLE had a small piece today about Brad Pitt sending Jennifer Aniston a birthday gift. The story notes that many of her friends sent gifts directly to her home, which makes sense: no one wants to leave a party after a few drinks and pack up the car, even if there are helpers to do it. What do you ...

First look at Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson in The Hustle trailer

Yesterday, MGM released a trailer for The Hustle starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson. It’s a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and the trailer looks smart and entertaining. Rebel is coming hot off Isn’t It Romantic, opening today. While the movie itself has received lukewarm critical reviews, m...

Spike Lee reveals Prince Harry had secret Facebook account and used his name as alias

When I wrote the other day about Prince William and Catherine at the BAFTAs, I wondered what Spike Lee said to William during the meet and greet. As mentioned in that post, Spike got pretty animated when Will approached him. And now he’s revealed what they talked about:  Prince Harry used Spi...

Bradley Cooper's Oscar campaign appears to be to play defence

Last Friday, Sean Penn decided to grace us once again with his genius prose, writing a piece for Deadline about how his friend Bradley Cooper has a problem because he’s made the best film of the year and one of the greatest films of all time (according to Sean) but no one will give him credit for it...

Bradley Cooper

Last Friday, Sean Penn decided to grace us once again with his genius prose, writing a piece for Deadline about how his friend Bradley Cooper has a problem because he’s made the best film of the year and one of the greatest films of all time (according to Sean) but no one will give him credit for it...

Johnny Depp photographed kissing new young girlfriend in Belgrade

Johnny Depp has been in Europe lately shooting a movie. A couple of weeks ago, he was seen boarding a private plane in Nice heading to Belgrade, surrounded by his usual entourage and there was also a young, attractive woman who was part of the group. In Belgrade, Johnny and the woman, still unidenti...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attend The Wider Earth Gala at the National History Museum

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped out last night for the National History Museum’s production of Wider Earth in support of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust. The Sussexes held hands, as usual. Meghan belly-cupped as usual. She is officially, at this point, the most prolific famous belly-cupper. Li...

February 13, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Bella, I’m sorry to hear about Bianco. Bianco is such a good name. I respect that you’re doing all you can, giving him the best because he always gives you his best. As you said, he came to you when you needed him the most. Isn’t that so often the story with our animals? People who don’t have pets h...

Intro for February 13, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Here’s a debate that will rage on forever: Beatles or Stones?  I’m Team Beatles. Always. You can tell me I’m basic, go ahead, I said what I said. For those of us who are Team Beatles, this movie trailer, OMGGGGGGG. Yesterday was written by Richard Curtis. You know him from Love ...

What Else for February 12, 2019

Sarah just posted about Slow TV and I need the f-ck out of it right now because there’s a winter storm happening in Toronto today with snow and freezing rain and ice pellets and I just drove home in that sh-t. That might not mean anything to you if you don’t have experience living in this kind of cl...

Entertainment Self-Care: Slow TV

Last month we kicked off a new feature we’re calling “entertainment self-care”, the things we’re watching to unwind from the nightmare dystopia we call reality. The first installment covered super-soft TV, and this time we’re going to talk about Slow TV. I found this category by accident just after ...

Celebrity Social Media, February 12, 2019

As Lainey noted, Justin Theroux wasn’t at Jennifer Aniston’s A-list birthday party. Yesterday in this space, I wondered if he would “like” Amy Sedaris’ birthday tribute to his ex, but he did much more than that – many of you sent me the post below. Fierce is the word of choice. An affectionate nickn...

Exploring Russian Doll’s labyrinth of trauma

You have now had two entire weekends to watch Russian Doll, so the spoiler-gloves are off. If you still haven’t seen it, stick with the spoiler-free review, but if you have, let’s dig into the show’s serpentine coil of story and allegory. This show’s repeating-day structure proves not to be a gimmic...

Miley Cyrus stands in for Liam Hemsworth at Isn't It Romantic premiere

As Maria mentioned yesterday in Celebrity Social Media, Rebel Wilson revealed during press for Isn’t it Romantic that Liam Hemsworth had been hospitalised. He wasn’t with Miley Cyrus at the Grammys the other night. And he wasn’t well enough to attend the premiere last night. So Miley went to represe...

Emily Blunt and John Krasinski support The Rock at Fighting With My Family screening

Emily Blunt and John Krasinski showed up to a screening of Fighting With My Family last night in New York. The film is written and directed by Stephen Merchant and produced by Dwayne The Rock Johnson who also plays a small role. As The Rock keeps saying, he doesn’t just work on movies that feature m...

The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part movie review

The LEGO Movie was a surprise hit—no one expected an obvious and crass commercial ploy like this would ever work—which, naturally, started a franchise. 2017 saw two LEGO spin-offs, The LEGO Batman Movie and The LEGO Ninjago movie, which was an up-and-down experience. Batman did fine, but Ninjago und...

George Clooney defends Meghan Markle during Winter TCA panel

George Clooney was at the Winter TCA yesterday to promote his upcoming Hulu series Catch-22. Just a word on the Winter TCA – this used to be my assignment at etalk. I used to spend several days there every January working on coverage for our show. Most of the press events happen at the Langham, whic...

Intro for February 12, 2019

Dear Gossips, After wrapping the site yesterday and recording a new episode of Show Your Work with Duana, I saw a tweet that changed my plans for the night. Maybe I was extra raw from the Grammys/BAFTA/Aniston 50th all-nighter but I really felt it. I really felt the space left behind by this elec...

Celebrity Social Media, February 11, 2019

Pink feathers, a bejeweled belt and strappy silver shoes with a ponytail that is not quite high and not low – this whole look on Anna Kendrick screams 2008. It’s aggressively out of date.         View this post on Instagram             ...

What Else for February 11, 2019

Help me out with an analogy here. I haven’t slept in a long time and I’m having a hard time nailing down if there even is one. But when a scammer goes on a reality show and then creates the potential on that show to get on another reality show about scammers is that like the snake eating its own tai...

Taylor Swift attends the BAFTAs with Joe Alwyn instead of the Grammys

Taylor Swift was not at the Grammys last night. She didn’t win any either. And her fans are pissed because it means that the reputation era is Grammy-less. Apparently some of them are threatening a Grammys boycott. Ohhhh kayyyyy. I get it. We’re all mad when our faves don’t win. The thing is though?...

Diana Ross and Jennifer Lopez perform tributes at the 2019 Grammys

We stan a shameless birthday queen! If you’re paying attention every year around the time of our birthdays, you know that Lainey and I are brazen in our birthday celebrations. We hijack whole weeks like we’re Offset. Diana Ross has taken over a whole ass two months for her birthday. Last night, the ...

Miley Cyrus makes it really difficult to dislike her at the Grammys

Miley Cyrus makes it difficult to dislike her. It’s annoying. I’m constantly annoyed by how likeable Miley can be because she is, as the kids say, a #problematicfave. But there are certain things about Miley I can’t deny, no matter how much I want to.  Last night at the Grammys, Miley’s talent wa...

Jennifer Aniston's impressive 50th birthday A-list party guests

Like I said earlier in the post about Brad Pitt and John Mayer being at Jennifer Aniston’s 50th birthday party, it was the most impressive A-list guest list of any event this year, more than any award show. Her birthday party was what the Oscars want to look like. And it’s what the best Vanity Fair ...

Janelle Monae's Dirty Computer deserved to win Grammy for Album of the Year over Kacey Musgraves's Golden Hour

Kacey Musgraves won Album of the Year. Lainey and I were gushing over Golden Hour all night. We both love the album. I was defending her performance of “Rainbow” to friends over text because while it did feel like it dragged during the broadcast, “Rainbow” is a gorgeous song with a beautiful message...

Offset couldn't let Cardi B shine at the Grammys

That’s a direct message to Offset. I hate that Offset’s name is in the first sentence of anything I’m writing about Cardi B, let alone a post about her first Best Rap Album win for Invasion of Privacy, her FIRST album. Cardi became the first female solo artist EVER to win Rap Album of the Year at th...

Bradley Cooper thanks Irina Shayk in BAFTA acceptance speech

Bradley Cooper was honoured at the Palm Springs International Film Festival back in January and he gave an acceptance speech there but those awards are pre-determined. As we’ve seen, he hasn’t been up on stage very much this award season – until last night when he won two awards. He now has a Grammy...

Lady Gaga stays on brand at the Grammys

Lady Gaga has always been extra. That word doesn’t seem large enough for what Gaga has always brought to her performances and to her overall aesthetic. She does everything BIG. She FEELS. She LIVES when she’s on stage. She’s Celine like that. Yes, Celine Dion is now a verb for feeling all the feels ...

Prince William and Catherine attend the BAFTAs in London

Prince William is the President of BAFTA so this of course is a regular event for him and Kate. They seemed a lot more engaged this year than they were last year at the event, but that’s probably because she was pregnant and did not want to extend their evening.  Kate wore an Alexander McQueen dr...

Liar and opportunist Thomas Markle releases letter Meghan wrote him to the British press

I mean, it’s not like you weren’t expecting it, right? I was expecting it. Last week, when PEOPLE’s “The Truth About Meghan” cover story dropped, with comments from five of her friends advocating on her behalf, I wrote that: The upside is that Meghan’s circle is getting to address the f-cksh-t th...

Drake got cut off during acceptance speech at the Grammys

This is the Grammys. Set those words to the tune of Childish Gambino’s “This Is America.” The track won Song of the Year and Record of the Year last night, making it the first rap song in HISTORY to win those categories. In its 60-year history, the Grammys only now found a rap song they deemed worth...

Brad Pitt and John Mayer attend Jennifer Aniston's 50th birthday party

Today is Jennifer Aniston’s 50th birthday. Her party was on Saturday, at the Sunset Tower. And as you’ve probably heard, it was probably the most A list guest list of any party in a long time. It could have been an awards show. It may have been more well-attended that any award show this season when...

Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz win BAFTA awards for The Favourite

Roma and The Favourite have the most Oscar nominations (10) this year. And, since it’s the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, The Favourite was always expected to do well at the BAFTAs. Roma took Best Picture, maintaining its position as the frontrunner with two weeks now to go before the ...

Beyoncé and Jay Z host Roc Nation brunch instead of attending the Grammys

Remember the story that Lin-Manual Miranda told about the time Beyoncé came to see Hamilton and what happened when she met Jonathan Groff backstage? She loved his performance. And in particular she loved Jonathan’s King George walk, so much that she imitated him to him, telling him that, “You were y...

Intro for February 11, 2019

Dear Gossips,  There are going to be all kinds of think-pieces today about whether or not the Grammys are still relevant and/or how they can stay or become relevant again going forward. There’s no easy answer to that question. But no one can deny that the talent has to be there. Much of the conve...

Michelle Obama opens the Grammy Awards with Alicia Keys, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jennifer Lopez, and Lady Gaga

Well, if you want to start your award show strong, starting with Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is one way to do it. I know that the only First Lady we acknowledge didn’t actually open the Grammys (Camila Cabello did with a performance I forgot about immediately after it happened) but it felt like...

What Else for February 8, 2019

Tori Spelling has a problem with how her marriage is characterised. People keep saying she’s having marriage problems. Apparently everything is fine even though… everything. Do you think she would object to me describing it as “tumultuous”? Or are we just supposed to go with “stable” and call it a d...

Richard E Grant is Oscar’s newest fanboy

Award season’s best fanboy is a role typically occupied by Timothee Chalamet – at least it was last year and for part of this year. And it’s not even an official “role” since we only made it up for Timmy. Still. There was a vacancy, since Timmy is not nominated for Oscar. And it has since been fille...

Idris Elba in Squarespace ads directed by Spike Jonze

Been saving this for today, it’s a Friday thing, came out a week or so ago, but he just posted about it on Instagram – Idris Elba fronting a Squarespace ad that was released in time for the Super Bowl. There’s a regular spot and a short film, both directed by Spike Jonze and… well…it’s kind of adora...

Celebrity Social Media, February 8, 2019

I’m not watching Celebrity Big Brother but couldn’t miss the headlines about Dina Lohan’s “boyfriend”. They have been talking on the phone for 5 years but have never met because he lives in the remote city of… San Francisco. Oh and they haven’t seen each other because he doesn’t use FaceTime. But he...

Barbara Broccoli hosts star studded pre-Bafta party in London

In the previous post about Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, I mentioned that this weekend in London is kind of like Oscar weekend in LA – you want to be seen, you want to hit the parties, to catch up with the right people, to line up your next opportunity, to be seen on the scene. Obviously the London ...

Bradley Cooper heads to London for the BAFTAs and Lady Gaga will attend the Grammys

Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk were seen at the airport in New York, presumably heading to London for the BAFTAs where Coop’s going in with several nominations and could pick up his first win of the season. The BAFTAs can be a good indication of how the Oscars might swing since many are crossover me...

Ariana Grande releases new album and music video and confirms that she will not perform at the Grammys

Ariana Grande, just 7 months after the release of her previous album, Sweetener, dropped a new album, thank u, next last night. I thought Sweetener was fine. It didn’t make me want to hit repeat, I wasn’t listening to it on every car ride, so already for me, thank u, next is better. I went through a...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to visit Morocco later this month

But first, let’s talk about the reaction to the PEOPLE Magazine cover story this week featuring five of Meghan Markle’s friends defending her anonymously. When I wrote about this on Tuesday, at the end of that post, I noted that “British press will probably not react well to it. They’re already piss...

February 8, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Valentine’s Day is next Thursday and it’s not too late to send your CandyGram. The CandyGram Campaign supports A Loving Spoonful which helps those suffering from HIV and other chronic illnesses in Vancouver’s Lower Mainland. Their meal programs feed approximately 100,000 individuals and families, so...

Intro for February 8, 2019

Dear Gossips,  The way I remember it, back in the day, billionaires preferred to live in the shadows, reclusive figures who avoided the spotlight. Or at least the most famous ones were the ones who were, ironically, the most reclusive. I’m thinking of course of Howard Hughes. Paul Allen was known...

What Else for February 7, 2019

I got the flu shot for the first time in my life this year. And kinda reluctantly. They offer it for free here and I know it’s highly recommended, I was always just lazy and I really hate needles. But my doctor, who I adore, reminded me: your ma is immune-compromised and she can’t get it so since yo...

Is Serena Williams one of the friends who spoke out about Meghan Markle in PEOPLE Magazine feature?

PEOPLE Magazine’s cover story this week is about Meghan Markle, featuring exclusive – but anonymous – commentary from five of Meghan’s close friends defending her against all the sh-t talk she’s been taking the last few months. I wrote about this yesterday, about how her friends were spilling the te...

Tom Brady's victory shave after the Patriots Super Bowl win

If you’ve been reading this site a while, you know how I feel about hair luck. Back in 2008, I covered the Super Bowl in Glendale, AZ when the New England Patriots lost to the New York Giants. It’s probably one of the best Super Bowls of all time, even though it wasn’t all that high-scoring, because...

Taron Egerton back together with girlfriend Emily Thomas at BAFTA event

Taron Egerton was at a BAFTA event last night joined by Emily Thomas, his girlfriend. They broke up some time last year but, obviously, are back together. As the older generation would say, this is quite a handsome couple. Some of these shots are like prom portraits, which feels about right.  BAF...

Celebrity Social Media, February 7, 2019

Cardi B got into a fight with Nicki Minaj at a Harper’s BAZAAR party and now she’s on the cover of Harper’s BAZAAR and it’s honestly cooler than anything Vogue would have done. She stays winning.         View this post on Instagram         ...

My Best Friend's Wedding cast reunites for Entertainment Weekly cover

I don’t have much to say about this. I just want to scream and squeal and jump up and down with you, like all of us all together, looking at this magazine cover. And in the corniest, cheesiest move ever, burst out into a singalong. You know the song. I just gave you the first line.  Ahead of Vale...

Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney step out after announcing engagement

It’s not really an engagement walk, they just went out for dinner in New York last night, after it was confirmed that they are engaged. So it’s the first time the public has seen them since the news. Here they are leaving the restaurant and, as you can see, well, you can’t see.  Her ring, I mean....

Billy Eichner to write and star in new gay romantic comedy

It’s rom-com season with Valentine’s Day just around the corner and I’m a sucker for both rom-coms and queer movies so a mushy, funny, gay, romantic comedy is right up my alley. As Kathleen would say, inject that sh-t directly into my veins.  Billy Eichner, from Billy on the Street and Friends fr...

Brad Pitt's World War Z sequel is no longer happening

Today in I Knew This Sh-t Was Never Happening news, Paramount has officially put the kibosh on World War Z 2, the would-be sequel to Brad Pitt’s disastrous World War Z adaptation. Originally slated to be directed by JA Bayona and released in 2017, the project ended up passing to David Fincher, where...

Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin predictably cover March issue of Vogue

As I predicted back in January, Justin and Hailey Bieber cover the March issue of Vogue, timed to come out before their wedding that was supposed to happen at the end of this month until it got postponed, and his birthday on March 1. And while I know it’s only February, this might be the celebrity p...

Intro for February 7, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Many of you have emailed me about Ian Parker’s piece on bestselling author Dan Mallory in The New Yorker. Seems to be the talk of literary circles. If you haven’t read it yet, it’s worth your 15 minutes. As Ian Parker writes, Mallory is like The Talented Mr Ripley of the publishing...

What Else for February 6, 2019

I know some people were mad at Cardi B because it was like she was flaunting how much she makes but I like the money talk, and especially the detailed money talk. What, are they supposed to walk around pretending like they don’t make money and that their fees are modest? Cardi’s like, my monthly bil...

Charming Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman present truce ads for each other's companies

Prem wrote last week about Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds calling a “truce” and agreeing to cross-promote Hugh’s coffee and Ryan’s gin. Not that anyone actually believed that there really was a “feud”. As a joint marketing plan though, for their respective brands, it’s a fun bit. Especially since th...

Lana Condor is a boss-ass bitch in Cosmopolitan cover feature

Yeah you are.  Lana Condor is on the cover of the March 2019 issue of Cosmopolitan.  I can’t remember the last time an Asian woman was on the cover of Cosmopolitan. At the same time, I know that over the course of the last six months or so, I’ve seen more Asians in media, featured in more English...

Timothee Chalamet fan shares experience of meeting him on a plane in hilarious Twitter thread

We love Timothee Chalamet here at LaineyGossip. He’s talented, he’s so pretty, and he has great hair. Can you imagine what it would be like to meet him in person? One incredibly lucky Twitter user did, and she shared her story in a hilarious Twitter thread after sitting next to him on a 3-hour fligh...

Celebrity Social Media, February 6, 2019

Courteney Cox has only been on Instagram for a few days and I’m already hovering over the unfollow button.         View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Courteney Cox (@courteney...

Netflix's Russian Doll starring Natasha Lyonne television review

It’s only eight, half-hour episodes. Extremely bingeable. Have you watched yet? In case you haven’t the in-depth, spoiler-laden review will be coming next week, giving more people a chance to see it. For now, let’s just talk about Russian Doll as an achievement in allegorical storytelling. The Groun...

Bradley Cooper tells Oprah that he was embarrassed about Oscars snub

Bradley Cooper was in New York yesterday, continuing to campaign for Oscar for A Star is Born, and sat with Oprah for an interview. The quote making headlines today is about the “snub”. I’m putting that in quotes because… well… let’s get to what he said first.  Of not being nominated for Best Dir...

Brie Larson promotes Captain Marvel in InStyle cover feature

I had a lot of doubts about Brie Larson from the moment she was cast as Captain Marvel. Not doubts about her acting—she is a good actress. But she’s much younger than Carol Danvers is normally portrayed, and she didn’t seem like Carol, not the messy Carol I knew from my childhood or the revamped bos...

Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney are engaged

Page Six was on this first – they reported late yesterday that Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney were seen at a restaurant recently and she was wearing a “massive ring”. Shortly after, her reps confirmed to Page Six that it’s true, she’s getting married.  It was also Page Six that broke the new...

Meghan Markle's closest friend reveal the truth in PEOPLE Magazine cover story

That’s the headline on the cover of the new issue of PEOPLE Magazine featuring Meghan Markle. And it’s a direct rebuttal to the way the British tabloids have been reporting on her. As you know, the last few months have been a sh-tshow, with the UK papers going ham on the Cambridge-Sussex situation f...

Intro for February 6, 2019

Dear Gossips,  The Academy officially confirmed yesterday what was already common knowledge: the Oscars will not have a host. This after Karey Burke, the new president of ABC Entertainment (ABC airs the Oscars) spoke at the TCA, addressing media questions about this year’s show. She said there wa...

What Else for February 5, 2019

This year’s most unlikely celebrity is not the Fiji water girl from the Golden Globes but the unexpected star of the Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix: Andy. Don’t pretend you don’t know Andy. Andy’s the one who said he went to take a shower, and you were nodding along, because of course he’d wan...

Princess Kate makes friends with Herbie the school dog in London

In support of Children’s Mental Health Week in the UK, Princess Kate visited Lavender Primary School today to speak with children, parents, and teachers about mental health awareness and self-care. Mental health, as we know, has been a priority for both the Cambridges and the Sussexes and experts ha...

Ben Affleck and Lindsay Shookus are reportedly talking again and might be back together

E! News, PEOPLE, and Us Weekly are all reporting that Ben Affleck and Lindsay Shookus are talking again. All stop short of saying the two are back together, but all three are saying that they’re in touch or spending time together or exploring a friendship, basically setting the groundwork that it mi...

Celebrity Social Media, February 5, 2019

Some people are wondering who took this photo of Nick and Priyanka. I would guess Chord Overstreet. They are in the same room, wearing the same clothes and the “London” is in the background.         View this post on Instagram           ...

First trailer for The Haunting of Sharon Tate starring Hilary Duff is deeply, profoundly tasteless

I’m already not-so-low-key worried about Quentin Tarantino’s take on Sharon Tate and the Tate murders, which will be featured in some fashion in his upcoming film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. But maybe Tarantino isn’t the one we need to be worried about. Maybe we really need to be side-eyeing Dan...

Oscar nominee attends Oscars Nominees luncheon in Louis Vuitton

As people say about the Oscars Nominees luncheon, everyone is a winner. There are no losers (yet). Here’s Lady Gaga, the Oscar nominee, at the event yesterday in Louis Vuitton. We’ll come back to the fashion in a minute. This is about the experience, about the fact that she truly reveled in the expe...

Spike Lee makes the rounds at the Oscar nominees’ luncheon and other award season events in LA

The Oscar nominees’ luncheon happened yesterday in LA. It was a full day of campaign stops as The Hollywood Reporter also hosted an event and the AARP held their annual Movies for Grownups Awards. Spike Lee made the rounds. And it reminds me of a question he was asked on the red carpet at one of the...

Liam Neeson admits he wanted to commit a hate crime after a friend was sexually assaulted

Well this is something no one could have ever seen coming. During possibly the worst interview in history while promoting his latest “middle-aged guy kicks all the ass” action movie, Cold Pursuit, Liam Neeson talked about revenge, and his once-upon-a-time desire to exact it on a black man. If you ju...

Intro for February 5, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Welcome to the Year of the Pig! It’s the first day of the new year and the last day of the 12 Days of Lunar New Year, in more ways than one. Please read to the end for a message to all from my ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken, and for information on her annual lucky charms. For...

What Else for February 4, 2019

There are many reasons why the Super Bowl halftime show isn’t what it used to be. One of those reasons is that the standard has been set so high and most of the marquee performers either don’t want to do it (Rihanna) or might not be suited for it (Adele is not a pyro performer). And or are committed...

Teasers for Guillermo Del Toro's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark released during the Super Bowl

Raise your hand if Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark completely f-cked you up for life. Thanks to the Scholastic Book Fair, I got all of those nightmare tomes long before I should have been allowed to read them—where were the adults in my life?!—and now I have a life-long fear of spiders (THEY WERE ...

Who will win Drag Race All Stars 4 now that Manila is gone?

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to mourn the end of All Stars 4. Although the show ended prematurely, we can rest assured knowing that Manila Luzon would have won the crown if the show had continued. I know that in our hearts, she will always be America’s Next Drag All Star.  I’m k...

Will Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez attend this year's Oscars?

The Academy today announced its first round of Oscar presenters. It’s a pretty good list. And remember, there’s been some presenter drama as the Screen Actors Guild called out the Academy a few weeks ago for supposedly trying to sabotage their presenters list. Constance Wu and Awkwafina are repping ...

Celebrity Social Media, February 4, 2019

Sunny D had a major case of the Sunday Scaries last night.    I can’t do this anymore — SUNNYD (@sunnydelight) February 4, 2019 Goop TV is a go. Elie Loehnen, Goop’s Chief content officer told Variety, “Gwyneth is a highly visual, tactile person. The quality of everything that we produ...

Sassy toys being sassy in Toy Story 4 trailer released during the Super Bowl

We got another look at Toy Story 4 during the Super Bowl, this time introducing new toys Bunny and Ducky, voiced by Jordan Peele and Keegan Michael-Key, respectively, and also a look at revamped Bo Peep (Annie Potts returns!). This is a fun and funny clip, with none of the nightmare dread introduced...

Kate Beckinsale and Pete Davidson photographed holding hands in LA

“Kate” and “Pete” are rom-com characters from the late 90s, early 2000s, non? This is a real-life rom-com featuring real celebrities, Kate Beckinsale and Pete Davidson. We first heard about this situation during Golden Globes weekend when they supposedly hooked up at one of the parties. This weekend...

Captain Marvel releases best trailer yet during the Super Bowl

Captain Marvel released its best teaser/trailer yet during the Super Bowl. I wish we could go back in time and have this be the first teaser, and then build up from there because this is a great tone to strike for Carol Danvers. It’s exhilarating and cool and fun, everything she is at her best in th...

New Avengers: Endgame teaser released during the Super Bowl

A new teaser for Avengers: Endgame dropped during the Super Bowl and I have been thinking about it for several hours and have come to a conclusion: It makes no sense that Captain America shaved his beard. If anything, he should be even more hirsute now than he was in Infinity War. I get that it was ...

Bradley Cooper loses to Alfonso Cuaron and Bo Burnham at the Directors Guild Awards

The Directors Guild Awards happened this weekend. Bradley Cooper was nominated for Best Director and Best First Time Director and lost both to Alfonso Cuaron and Bo Burnham respectively. I’m not sure it was a surprise that he didn’t win the first, especially after the Academy didn’t include him in t...

Game of Thrones and Bud Light team up for surprise Super Bowl commercial

Game of Thrones and Bud Light win the award for Most WTF Super Bowl crossover event. I guess when you need to promote the final season of your smash hit show, but you don’t want to give anything away and sit on as much footage as possible, the only thing you can do is a call a beer company for the a...

February 4, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Tate! I know you’re hoping that your baby will be a Dog but I’m hearing from Mia that you’re having a Pig. Pigs are great. Pigs are thought to be chill and fun and hardworking and Pigs are associated with wealth. Wishing you and your soon-to-be Pig all the best. And to get you there, by request, her...

Intro for February 4, 2019

Dear Gossips,  I’ve never been attracted to Adam Levine. Last night’s Super Bowl striptease didn’t change that. It wasn’t just that he kept taking off his (bad) clothes, it’s mostly because he can’t move. That hip swiveling and the lascivious expression on his face, with his mouth open half the t...

What Else for February 1, 2019

Jussie Smollett has released a statement about the attack, which is in line with the statement his family released yesterday: that he has been “factual and consistent” in what he’s told authorities, that there have been inaccuracies reported about whether or not he’s refused to cooperate, and that h...

Will Manila Luzon stay or go on tonight's episode of Drag Race All Stars?

Tonight is another episode of All Stars 4, so let’s talk about Manila, because I clearly don’t do that enough. Earlier this week, I wrote about Team MoMo, and I also wrote another piece on Medium about Valentina’s elimination. While the Blackhole was more fun in its idea, ClubHive was hands down the...

A movie based on Celine Dion is in the works

It was announced earlier this week that there’s a Celine Dion movie happening and some people are calling it a biopic. It’s not really a biopic…but it is based on Celine. What? Per Variety:  French studio Gaumont said Thursday that its upcoming Celine Dion film will not be a biopic but a fictiona...

Celebrity Social Media, February 1, 2019

The misspelling energy around Ariana is strong right now.  who ariane https://t.co/cyKdsA5qVc — Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) January 31, 2019 John Mayer’s song, "Heart of Life", is being adapted into a series about two sets of siblings who find each other as adults. Back in August, I t...

Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham have great screen chemistry in Hobbs & Shaw trailer

Back when Fate of the Furious came out, I noted that the best part of the movie was the bit with Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham. From that moment, all I wanted from this dumb franchise was more of The Rock and Stath. The Fast Furious gods must have heard me, because soon after a spin-off was annou...

Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds call truce on their "feud" on Twitter

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman have had an ongoing rivalry since time immemorial. Despite the fact that they are good friends, and Hugh Jackman is notoriously a nice guy, the two have been constantly shooting back at each other with tweets, videos, and pictures. Sometimes, they even bring in other p...

Bradley Cooper looks hot in screen test video for A Star is Born with Lady Gaga

Even though the Oscar nominations were announced last week, actual voting for the Oscars doesn’t begin until February 12. The voting period starts two days after the BAFTAs and the Grammys. It lasts a week and ends the Tuesday before the Oscars. Which means there’s still a lot of time to campaign. A...

Breaking down Chelsea Peretti's departure episode in Brooklyn Nine-Nine

The latest episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine was one that tried to walk the difficult balance of funny and emotional. One of the best characters on the show, Gina Linetti, played by Chelsea Peretti, is leaving the precinct and decides to give everyone a “Gina moment” before she leaves. Split into four m...

The Oscars will now reportedly feature all five Best Song nominees after pushback

It was reported last week that Oscar producers only intended to have two of the five Oscar-nominated songs performed on the broadcast: “All The Stars” and “Shallow”. Evidently there was some pushback to the news. Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted his disappointment … The 1st time I stayed up to watc...

Intro for February 1, 2019

Dear Gossips,  By the time most of you read this, I’ll have gotten a haircut. Taking an inch off this morning ahead of the Lunar New Year, per tradition – you cut away the old year and get ready for the growth of the new year. Haircuts are hard for me because I’ve been traumatised so many times i...