What Else for February 28, 2020

Lady Gaga’s new song and video “Stupid Love” came out last night. I listened to it three times this morning and… it’s fine, but I don’t know that it’s a go-to bop for me. That said, my colleague, Sandra, insists that’s a “grower”. So I’ll have it on repeat later when I’m walking the dogs and maybe b...

Outfit of the Week: Sandra Oh

Before we get into her outfit, some Sandra Oh work news. Her next project was announced this week. Of course, Killing Eve is still happening and season three will premiere soon but she’s also signed on to star in and executive produce a Netflix series called The Chair. Amanda Peet is showrunning the...

Sasha Finds: Caftans

My S.A.D.S has kicked in, in a major way this week. We just got another sh-t pile of snow, everyone is sick, and I’m officially over wearing fabrics that come up to my neck. The only thing keeping me sane is fantasizing about my next sunny destination and what I will be wearing at said sunny destina...

Review: Emma. starring Anya Taylor-Joy

Music video director Autumn de Wilde (GREAT name) makes her feature film directorial debut with a luscious new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. This Emma is lavish, detailed, eye-poppingly gorgeous, and unapologetically sexy. There are butts! Between this and Sanditon, butts are all the rage in Aus...

Celebrity Social Media, February 28, 2020

Gwyneth Paltrow recently interviewed Julia Louis-Dreyfus for her podcast and I just listened to it yesterday. JLD is so talented and so accomplished and so humble, she really is just about the day-in-day-out grind of the work, rather than the fame side. Also, she’s a true blue blood (G kept referrin...

Show Your Work: The Power of Jessica Simpson and BTS

Sorry we’ve delayed this week – our schedule has been at the mercy of travel commitments and a bad cold but we have this week's episode ready for your weekend. And if you happen to be reading Jessica Simpson’s Open Book this weekend, even better, let this be your companion.  Duana is obsessed wit...

Prince Harry and Jon Bon Jovi support the Invictus Games at Abbey Road Studios in London

Prince Harry and Jon Bon Jovi were together today as they’ve partnered in support of the Invictus Games. Jon’s recording a song for the games. Speaking of songs though, when we were killing time on set the other day at etalk, we started belting out "Livin’ On A Prayer", undeniably an all-time great ...

Ben Affleck is blonde on the set of The Last Duel with Matt Damon

What have I been telling you about this movie?!  The movie is The Last Duel, starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Adam Driver, directed by Ridley Scott, about a couple of 14th century Frenchmen who fight each other over whether or not the other raped his wife – already a problematic premise. Als...

First trailer for Jordan Peele's Candyman is super creepy and the use of "Say My Name" is spectacular

Candyman legitimately terrified me when I was kid, to the extent that I white-knuckled a second viewing in a college folklore class ten years later, still as freaked out by it as the day I first saw it. I once threw a bottle of shampoo at a cabinmate at summer camp because she was pulling that “Cand...

Intro for February 28, 2020

Dear Gossips,  We must protect Caity Weaver.  Caity Weaver, outstanding writer, outstanding writer of celebrity profiles, humorist, and gossip champion always shows her work, we have adored her from afar for years here at LaineyGossip, and she has delivered once again – this time a piece for T...

February 28, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Chris! How has it been 12 years?! How did you forget about you? About us?! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We’ve been together longer than Brad and Jen and Brad and Angelina. And most celebrity couples. So I’m counting on you for next year – BE ON TIME. Have the best 2020. Let’s do this again in 12 months. 

What Else for February 27, 2020

Nicolas Cage is in love again. We know this because he’s holding hands with a woman and, well, for Nic, who never dates casually, this means it’s serious. Also they’re dressed in matching leathers. And he took her to visit what might be his final resting place? I mean they’re calling it his “tomb” s...

Alanis Morissette's new video for "Reasons I Drink” is devastating

It’s music video week. Here’s another one and I think, of all the videos we’ve talked about today, including BTS, and I do LOVE BTS so much, and their video is epic and wonderful, but this one might be the one that affected me most. That’s what Alanis has been doing to us for a long, long time thoug...

Celebrity Social Media, February 27, 2020

Remember flash mobs? And surprise wedding dances? That used to be a thing, OK! These TikTok dances are not that different, except teens have more access to eye-roll them. (Not that I think it’s eye-rolly, I like it. Miguel is going hard.)         View this post on ...

BTS's new video for "ON" had 3 million views in 15 minutes

It’s music video day so let’s keep it going. Not that it’s a competition but what was the biggest video that’s dropped today? It depends on how you measure “big”, right? And there’s no one right way to measure it. Taylor Swift is a global superstar. In the western world, she’s dominating the headlin...

Harry Styles promotes new album, Fine Line, with mini concert on The Today Show

I would like to go back and rewrite today’s open and take out the word “apparently” and replace it somewhere with definitely because it IS in fact music video release week. Taylor Swift, BTS, SZA and Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga tonight at midnight. And also Harry Styles.  FALLING. TOMORROW. ...

Macaulay Culkin joins upcoming season of American Horror Story

Macaulay Culkin has become steadily more visible over the last couple years, most recently covering Esquire for no real reason except to let everyone know he is doing okay. Now, however, he has taken his biggest step back into the spotlight yet as he is joining American Hororr Story for season ten. ...

Thanks to SZA, Justin Timberlake gets some swagger back in “The Other Side” music video

The sequel to Trolls, Trolls World Tour, is coming out in April. I didn’t see the first movie. I don’t plan on seeing the second movie. But I am, like you, familiar with the song that came out of Trolls: Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop The Feeling”, which went on to receive an Oscar nomination but i...

Taylor Swift nails the in-your-face approach in "The Man" music video

Taylor Swift’s strength is not subtlety. And she leans all the way into that – or away from it – in her video for “The Man”, which she directed, wrote, owns, and stars in. Sure, there may be some Easter eggs for her fans throughout, but for those who don’t obsessively comb every shot for hidden clue...

Intro for February 27, 2020

Dear Gossips,  Apparently it’s music video release week. BTS will drop another video for “ON” today after already breaking YouTube records with the Kinetic Manifesto visual for “ON” that came out last week. Taylor Swift’s video for “The Man”, which she directed herself, will likely be trending by...

What Else for February 26, 2020

Apparently these two have been a thing for at least six months. I don’t remember knowing about this but it’s also possible that I didn’t commit it to memory because it’s been a while since anyone cared about Adrien Brody. But he and Georgina Chapman are still a thing. Remember when he and Elsa Patak...

Celebrity Social Media, February 26, 2019

Gwyneth Paltrow is taking precautions (remember, she was patient zero in Contagion). She’s heading to Paris Fashion Week, I would guess for Chloe. She’s been very tight with creative director Natacha Ramsay-Levi, even if the collaboration hasn’t been that exciting. Remember the yellow gown for the M...

BTS is irresistible on Carpool Karaoke with James Corden

I feel vindicated today. Sasha’s been mocking my BTS obsession for weeks. This morning she texted, probably after watching them on Carpool Karaoke with James Corden. Her message:  “I do think my goal is to laugh as much as BTS.”  Exactly. That’s exactly why, as I wrote yesterday, that to assum...

Taylor Swift directed upcoming music video for "The Man" to be released on Friday

Taylor Swift made an announcement yesterday. She’s releasing a new video – and that’s noteworthy for sure, but what makes it even more noteworthy is that, well, this:         View this post on Instagram                   ...

Prince Harry asked to be called “Harry, just “Harry” at Travalyst event in Edinburgh

Prince Harry was in Edinburgh today working with Travalyst, the sustainable travel initiative he launched last year. He arrived direct to Scotland from Canada where, as we know, he and Meghan Markle have been living since the end of 2019.  The Sussexes have been a major heatscore – they always ar...

Prince Harry asked to be called “Harry, just “Harry” at Travelyst event in Edinburgh

Prince Harry was in Edinburgh today working with Travelyst, the sustainable travel initiative he launched last year. He arrived direct to Scotland from Canada where, as we know, he and Meghan Markle have been living since the end of 2019.  The Sussexes have been a major heatscore – they always ar...

Disney drops bombshell announcement that CEO Bob Iger is stepping down immediately

Late yesterday afternoon, Disney dropped a bombshell when it was announced that CEO Bob Iger is stepping down immediately and will be replaced by Bob Chapek, chairman of Disney Parks, as the new CEO. First of all, this is real-life Sucession and the HEAD OF PARKS got the CEO gig—go Tom Wambsgans! “B...

Intro for February 26, 2020

Dear Gossips,  I can’t help it. I love Drake. And not just because he’s from Toronto but because… what else do you want in an entertainer?  The Milwaukee Bucks played the Raptors in Toronto last night. The Bucks have been doing a kind of WWE-inspired pre-game routine. Given that the they’re at...

What Else for February 25, 2020

There are so many things I love about this post. First of all, the Golden Girls reference. And then the part where there was a high demand of interested participants but couldn’t get the link to work. Sorry, sorry. It’s just that my parents are around that age and… well… yeah. They wouldn’t be able ...

BTS performs at Grand Central Station and plays Subway Olympics on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon

BTS took over The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon last night and also Twitter. They were trending before the show started and then as soon as the show began, several hashtags related to their appearance dominated on the platform, including #JungkookEnglish because at one point, during Jimmy’s int...

Danai Gurira talks to Entertainment Weekly about becoming a showrunner for ABC Studios

Danai Gurira joined The Walking Dead in its third season, before its particular brand of brutality grew tiresome. In the time since she joined the show, The Walking Dead’s popularity has peaked and waned, she’s gone on to be a fan-favorite character in the MCU, and she’s made history on Broadway. Da...

Celebrity Social Media, February 25, 2020

I haven’t listened to the Pete Davidson interview with Charlamagne tha God, choosing instead to read the recaps and there are two things I want to touch on. First up is his work life at SNL. He says, “I personally think I should be done with that show because they make fun of me. They think I’m f–ki...

Beyoncé's team reportedly banned photographers from taking pictures of her at Kobe Bryant memorial

Back in 2013, when Beyoncé headlined the Super Bowl halftime show (the first time), Buzzfeed heard from her publicist demanding that “unflattering” photos of her be taken down. It was the beginning of Beyoncé’s press shutdown, when she stopped giving interviews, stopped engaging with the media. At t...

Chris Evans in talks to star in Little Shop of Horrors

Ever since leaving Captain America behind, Chris Evans seems determined to shed the mantle of superhero by playing villains. His first role post-Cap was in Knives Out; sometime this year he has an Apple TV show about a dad whose son maybe killed a classmate, which isn’t exactly a villain role but is...

Alexandra Grant joins Keanu Reeves on The Matrix 4 set after attending goop event with Gwyneth Paltrow

Keanu Reeves has been in San Francisco the last few weeks working on Matrix 4. Not much is known about the next movie in the franchise, only that Neo and Trinity are back, and Neo looks more like John Wick, but we don’t know the timeline. Some are speculating that this could be a prequel. Some are s...

Intro for February 25, 2020

Dear Gossips, Did you see that tweet a couple of weeks ago, a marked-up Tom and Jerry essay that looked like it had been posted by an English professor and went viral? Super viral.  Teaching my first English course this semester has been rewarding but I don’t know what to do with this stud...

What Else for February 24, 2020

Lil Nas X crashed a Disney wedding this weekend and he was super cute about it and I would have been like the lady to the right all, “WHAT THE F-CK IS HAPPENING?” too so it’s a good moment all around but here’s one of my favourite celebrity wedding crasher questions: which celebrity would you want t...

Review: The Call of the Wild starring Harrison Ford

The Call of the Wild is another movie Disney inherited when they bought Fox, but this one they threw some effort into releasing. A family-friendly revision of Jack London’s novel fits The Call of the Wild into Disney’s wheelhouse, so they did not treat this movie like a turd left on their doorstep, ...

Beyoncé performs "XO" and "Halo" at memorial for Kobe and Gianna Bryant

The Kobe Bryant memorial is happening right now and Beyoncé opened. Not much is known about the relationship between the Bryants and the Carters but it was evident today during B’s performance that they were close – and that’s not a surprise; Vanessa Bryant, even before Kobe’s passing, wasn’t out th...

Celebrity Social Media, February 24, 2020

Last week, Leonardo DiCaprio’s stardom was being debated on Twitter because of this article in Slate, “Was Leonardo DiCaprio Already A Star Before Titanic?” There seems to be a generational fault line here. I, a Gen Xer, think he was absolutely famous – he built his buzz on Basketball Diaries and so...

Zendaya and Jacob Elordi are inseparable as they arrive in Sydney

I don’t know that they’re actually inseparable since it’s not like I have access to their daily schedules. But Zendaya and Jacob Elordi do seem to have been spending a LOT of time together the last few months. He’s hung out with her and her family in LA. She’s been with his family in Australia (for ...

Rihanna delivers powerful speech at NAACP Awards where she accepted President’s Award

Rihanna was honoured at the President’s Award at the NAACP Image Awards this weekend for philanthropic and social justice efforts. She made her speech all about what others are doing and what others can do – and the way she put it, it’s not complicated. “Tell your friends to pull up.” Prepare...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are accused of being spiteful over the use of royal title

“The Slow Fade” was an expression that came to use a few years ago online when referring to breakups. It’s basically the opposite of ghosting someone. And while I’m not saying that there’s an exact “slow fade’ happening between House Sussex and the British Royal Family, the timeline feels excruciati...

Gigi Hadid calls out Jake Paul for dissing Zayn Malik on Twitter

It’s a distant memory now, but when Twitter first became popular, there were so many petty celebrity skirmishes that would happen, like Pink calling Kanye West “the biggest piece of sh-t on Earth” in 2009. The candidness, immediacy, and access was so new, so fresh, that Rihanna telling Ciara “good l...

What Else for February 21, 2020

Pamela Anderson and Jon Peters were married for less than two weeks even though before marrying her (but not legally), Jon was engaged to someone else. Well now he and his ex, Julia Faye West, are back together. Julia, apparently, is a lot like Pam. So, obviously, these two are totally going to make...

Duana Names: The Name That Begins At The End

Dear Duana, Guess how many people in this world have the surname Lee? Over 100 million people, and my partner for life is one of these Lees. We are expecting twin girls at the beginning of March, but are at risk of delivering sooner due to a high risk pregnancy, and we are faced with finding not ...

Outfit of the Week: Anya Taylor-Joy

Before we get to Anya Taylor-Joy’s Outfit of the Week, please see Thoroughbreds if you haven’t already. Sarah reviewed it a couple of years ago and she was right about Anya and co-star Olivia Cooke’s “grand slam performances”. Anya is the new Emma, and she is about to blow up, so it’s time to get fa...

BTS crushes social media as they release new album, Map of the Soul: 7

If you’re new to BTS, one of the most basic things to know about the band is that their career has progressed through eras. I don’t want to get too granular about this but an era for BTS isn’t exactly limited to a one album cycle – sometimes an era spans two or three thematically connected albums. L...

Celebrity Social Media, February 21, 2020

It’s Friday, so I’ll start with the most convoluted story at the top. Justin Bieber appeared on James Corden and played Spill Your Guts: eat something gross or answer a question truthfully. Justin Bieber was asked to rank Hailey’s friends (Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Cara Delevingne) or eat bull pen...

Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton to reunite for Family Jewels

The First Wives Club is superior cinema. On this, we can all agree. I know we can all agree because this morning I was emailing with Lainey and Emily, our site manager, and we’re all different ages, and yet, we all love The First Wives Club. It transcends generations, and remains popular with all ag...

Kate Hudson shares a story about Tom Cruise at a house party on Ellen

It used to be that when Kate Hudson was on a talk show, she was promoting a movie. What would you consider to be her best known movie? Like, I say “Kate Hudson” and the first movie that comes to mind? I think most people would probably say How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days, right? It came out 17 years ag...

Illiterate Donald Trump takes a shot at Parasite during creepy rally in Colorado

Last night, Donald Trump held one of his creepy f-cking rallies in Colorado. During his speech, he took a shot at the Oscars and Parasite because, you know, they gave the top prize to a movie not in English, made by furriners, and that you have to READ on top of everything else. You can watch the cl...

Gloria Allred sends message to Prince Andrew with school bus driving around Buckingham Palace

Prince Andrew, who was friends with the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, has reportedly not yet cooperated with investigators about Epstein’s crimes, despite insisting in an interview with BBC Newsnight that he’d be willing to participate.  This morning in New York, Gloria Allred, who is re...

Ben Affleck says that Jennifer Lopez should have been nominated for Hustlers

We’ve just passed the 16 year anniversary of the end of Bennifer, one of most significant couples of the modern gossip era. Think back to that time, it was a new millennium, and here were (some of) the celebrity couples we were obsessed with back then:  Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake Brad ...

Intro for February 21, 2020

Dear Gossips, Beyoncé has been pretty quiet since the IVY PARK x adidas drop. That’s the way of our Queen. She never lets us know what she’s doing until she’s good and ready to let us know what she’s been doing. If she’s doing anything. Maybe she is actually not planning much, other than the next...

What Else for February 20, 2020

Wait, what? You had me at “soccer player” and “biting penis”. This actually happened during a game, requiring 12 stitches. Which means there will be a scar. Which means that at some point, this person is going to be telling the story of the time he was playing a soccer game and his penis got attacke...

The BTS ARMY prepares for release of new album Map of the Soul: 7 tomorrow

I’m not f-cking ready and I’m not even technically a member of the BTS ARMY. My friends are As IF-ing me right now because all I ever do, every day and multiple times now for weeks, is text them or make them come over and talk to me about BTS. The album, Map of the Soul: 7, comes out tomorrow. By th...

Ben Affleck talks to Diane Sawyer about the pain of divorce and struggles with alcoholism on Good Morning America

Ben Affleck’s candid interview with The New York Times came out yesterday and today the first part of his interview with Diane Sawyer aired on Good Morning America and he’s equally as forthcoming about alcoholism and dealing with the breakdown of his marriage. Can we do a little Gossip Nostalgia for...

Celebrity Social Media, February 20, 2020

Gwyneth Paltrow held a “makeup free” party for Goop because expensive skin care is the new makeup. (Because it’s obvious and many people in the comments were pointing it out, yes Rachel Zoe said in her story that she is wearing eye and lip makeup and it was hard for her to go bare.) Of course GP is ...

Margot Robbie and Idris Elba in costume on set of Suicide Squad sequel in Panama

James Gunn’s not-a-reboot-but-not-really-a-sequel-either Suicide Squad movie is filming in Panama, which means set photos are emerging that show characters old and new suited up for their do-over. There are blurry shots of Margot Robbie sporting a new look as Harley Quinn, and she is joined by David...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will join the royal family in London for multiple engagements in early March

Did you know it was Prince Andrew’s birthday yesterday? The palace social media accounts posted birthday messages to celebrate the occasion, with a caption reminding people that he’s “the first child born to a reigning monarch for 103 years”. Like somehow that’s supposed to replace the thing you kno...

HBO docuseries McMillions is essentially guilt-free true crime

I am OBSESSED with McMillions. I loved it two years ago when it was a dramatic long read on The Daily Beast, and now that it is a documentary series I adore it even more. In case you’ve been under a rock for the last few weeks, McMillions is an HBO docuseries about the McDonald’s Monopoly scandal, i...

Intro for February 20, 2020

Dear Gossips, It was great seeing Sinead Burke sitting front row at the Gucci show in Milan yesterday and wearing Gucci, obviously. Sinead was also all over London Fashion Week last week. Here she is hanging out with Victoria Beckham:         View this post on I...

What Else for February 19, 2020

I have questions. How is “stunt porn” different from regular porn? Isn’t all porn… stunty? Like all porn is made to be watched and accessed, to elicit a reaction, right? Why I am I dedicating valuable brain time thinking about this? This would be the “stunt porn” that happened at a library and every...

Duana Names: Embrace The Clonk

Dear Duana, Before finding out we were having a girl, we had two very solid boy names selected which, although I am very excited to be having a girl, am a little bummed I will not be using these names I love so much. The first is Jack Wallace (Jack after my PopPop) and the second Jonathan Rupert ...

Lizzo and Harry Styles are the internet's new favourite after the Brit Awards

The BRIT Awards happened in London last night and I’m not talking about anyone else’s fashion other than Lizzo because… LIZZO. Everything Lizzo. All the outfits. But especially when she decided she was a snack. THE snack. Levels, as they say in England. Levels. Lizzo owns all the levels. Lizzo IS th...

Review: Downhill starring Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Poor Downhill. If ever there was an example of the dangers of remaking a nearly perfect foreign-language film into English, it is the case of Downhill. Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure is a pitch-black comedy that is almost pure drama, about a family that crumbles when faced with a staggering act of co...

Celebrity Social Media, February 19, 2020

The read of the day is Vulture’s Anonymous in Hollywood, tales from assistants in NYC and LA. All of the players work in entertainment (film, TV, news) and some of the stories (assistants lasting no longer than 3 months) sound typically nightmarish, but even more diabolical is the boss who made thei...

The Daily Mail reports the Queen has banned Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from using "royal" in their Sussex title

Since Sussexit was confirmed last month, much speculation has focused on whether or not Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would be able to keep “Sussex Royal” as their brand. Prince Harry will always be a prince. House Sussex, which includes Harry, Meghan, and Archie Harrison Mountbatten Windsor, will ...

Matt Damon's horrible mullet on the set of The Last Duel in France

As noted in the previous post, Ben Affleck is currently promoting The Way Back. When that’s done, he’ll likely return to production on The Last Duel, alongside Matt Damon. It’s scheduled to be released at Christmas which is ambitious. Because Christmas movies are either for the box office or for the...

Ben Affleck gives most candid interview of his career to The New York Times ahead of release of The Way Back

Ben Affleck’s new film, The Way Back, comes out in a month. He plays a former high school basketball player who’s lost everything to addiction and is finding his “way back” by coaching the team from his alma mater. Obviously he knows something about his character, Jack Cunningham. And, as he tells T...

Intro for February 19, 2020

Dear Gossips,  One of the unexpected stars to emerge from this recent award season was not, technically, a star at all. But she definitely is now. Award season is over but we are still obsessed with Sharon Choi, right? Not surprisingly, after Parasite’s successful Oscar run, everyone wanted to ta...

What Else for February 18, 2020

Another day, another celebrity face tattoo – and this one is matching, as in it’s the other half of a couple, girlfriend and boyfriend. Twenty years ago it was Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee getting their ring fingers tattooed. Now it’s faces. What will it be in another twenty years? (Dlisted)  Ta...

The 2020 Cannes selection committee includes five women and five men

The Cannes Film Festival is just a few months away—Spike Lee was announced as the first black jury president last month—and the festival has just announced their selection committee which features four men, and five women, giving women the majority say in selection for the first time. Cannes has a r...

Bong Joon-ho's Parasite crosses $200 million mark globally

No matter how 2020 turns out, this year did something right when Parasite won Best Picture, among other awards, at the Oscars. Parasite’s Oscar wins are the good vibes we need, and the good vibes keep going as Parasite is extending its hit theatrical run in the wake of its victory. Every year someon...

Celebrity Social Media, February 18, 2020

This is JLo on vacation, after she probably let loose and ate the food she couldn’t while training. This is her in her relaxed state, or as relaxed and “let go” as she allows herself to be.          View this post on Instagram           ...

Taika Waititi to produce and direct Showtime series The Auteur starring Jude Law

Taika Waititi, fresh off an Oscar win and with two (2) film projects on the go at the same time, has every excuse to slow down. And yet, he does not. Taika never stops. With Next Goal Wins due out later this year, and Thor: Love and Thunder set for production in the same frame, Taika has signed on t...

According to the Israeli Times Al Pacino dumped by younger girlfriend because he was cheap

Didn’t expect to wake up today and have this be the headline that jumped out at me but here we are:  Savage, as the kids say. But it’s not an exaggeration, at least not if she actually said what she said.  So Al Pacino and Meital Dohan were dating about two years. They’re no longer toge...

It was unrealistic to think PS I Still Love You would be as good as To All The Boys I've Loved Before

What qualifies as a good rom-com? Well, for starters, you need to care about your central character – that’s a basic, right? (This, by the way, was my central problem with Serena van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl. I was never invested in Serena like I was in Blair. Because, as Duana clocked right from ...

Merritt Weaver and Domhnall Gleeson are the perfect onscreen duo in Run trailer

I am still trying to make Domhnall Gleeson an Internet Boyfriend, and he continues to not cooperate by showing up places and doing things. I can’t even be sure that starring in an HBO comedy series co-produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge will be enough to get Gleeson some Internet Boyfriend traction, th...

Intro for February 18. 2020

Dear Gossips, Have you seen the video of Justin Bieber getting emotional while talking about Billie Eilish? He’s one of the few people who’d understand what she’s experiencing, what fame can do to a young person, the downside of success and spotlight.  It must have been a surreal moment for Bi...

What Else for February 17, 2020

I love this star print blouse. I like how crisp it looks with the white pants, although they’re not cut for a person as short as me. But the red belt is a nice touch for a pop of colour. The second, third, and fourth looks in this gallery though are my dream. Stars and lightning and sequins and leis...

Princess Kate's podcast appearance provides moment of candour from someone who is usually pretty rigid

We’ve heard Kate of House Cambridge speak in public before. Public speaking isn’t second nature to her – she’s worked at it, she’s improved, but I wouldn’t say she’s the greatest, and I’m not trying to be a bitch about that; public speaking is hard, not everyone is cut out for it, some people say th...

Robert Pattinson tells Allure about his smell, which I am not curious about

Robert Pattinson is currently shooting The Batman – a first look at him in the suit was released last week and Sarah was very much onside. There’s all kinds of time for us to talk about RP as Bruce Wayne later so let’s talk instead about him being an ambassador for Dior (it’s been a few years now) a...

Jodie Turner-Smith praises Joshua Jackson as new Little Fires Everywhere trailer drops

Today is Family Day in many parts of Canada. Many schools are closed. Many parents have taken the day off. In the United States it’s President’s Day. Government offices and banks are closed. Schools and most offices are closed. So it’s a lighter one – and maybe this is exactly the content you need: ...

BTS promotes new album Map of the Soul: 7

Dear Gossips, It’s been about four years since I started mentioning BTS on this site. And, generally, I’ve been able to keep my obsession in check. But, man, the last few weeks have been out of control as we approach the release of their new album, Map of the Soul: 7. The way they engage their fa...

What Else for February 14, 2020

Billie Eilish’s song for Bond: No Time To Die has been released. It’s definitely a Bond song, it has the vibe, kinda like a 80s throwback to what you think Bond songs sounded like then but also, at the same time, very Billiie. I don’t hate it. I suspect it’ll grow on me – and you know what happens l...

Duana Names: Latest (ish) and Greatest Updates

Okay, this has been such a pleasurable run of updates! You know I have feelings about including siblings in the choosing of their new little family member’s names, but I support the writer of Why Is This So Hard for choosing to look for other options besides ‘Donna The Boss’:  Hi Duana, I wrote ...

Outfit of the Week: Kerry Washington

Sometimes, when a look is so good, I feel violent. Like I want to whip around a room smashing things to properly express how f-cking rad an outfit it. Because a fist pump just doesn’t seem like it’s enough, you know?  This is what happened when I saw Kerry Washington show up at the Vanity Fair Os...

Sasha Finds: The Changemaker Complexion System

I am a pretty die-hard fan of Bite Beauty so when I heard they finally launched their first ever foundation and powder range I near lost my damn mind. I’ve been waiting for this moment for years and boy oh boy did they ever deliver the goods with their Changemaker Complexion system. What I love so m...

Celebrity Social Media, February 14, 2020

Cameo is the weirdest place on the Internet: a mix of nostalgic acts, reality TV people, retired athletes, YouTubers and breakout stars (like Jerry from Cheer). But it got me thinking about Fyre Festival – outside of the festival, wasn’t the point of Fyre (the website) to be a booking portal for cel...

Review: Sonic the Hedgehog starring James Marsden and Jim Carrey

I emerge from the theater with but one question: What did James Marsden do to deserve starring in Sonic the Hedgehog? I have no other questions about Sonic the Hedgehog, it’s a movie made for children and their unformed brains. It is, at least, acceptable entertainment for children and their unforme...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle flew commercial to visit Stanford for brainstorming session

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been making headlines all week, like every week. The latest, this just in, is that they won’t be returning to England for Prince Andrew’s 60th birthday – and the Daily Mail, naturally, is making it out to be like this is some kind of insult to the Queen. Really? W...

According to The Sun Jennifer Aniston and Jon Hamm spent time together on Oscar night

I’d planned on writing about this yesterday but interest/forgot and it turns out that worked out because now we have new photos to go with this post about Jon Hamm. Here he is out for coffee yesterday in LA.  Anyway, according to The Sun, Jennifer Aniston did not spend much time at all with Brad ...

Robert Pattinson's jawline is perfect in first look at The Batman

Matt Reeves’ The Batman started filming last month, and now Reeves has dropped a tease on the internet for the world to gawk at: the first look of Robert Pattinson in the new Batsuit. Pattinson has never been my preferred flavor of tea, but, um, he looks HOT in this suit. It’s the jawline, it is 100...

Intro for February 14, 2020

Dear Gossips, Kathleen came over last night and we finally watched PS I Still Love You. It’s a good thing it’s on Netflix and not in theatres because the amount of squealing that was happening, mostly on her part, would have been a nuisance for people, even in an environment that’s rom-com friend...

What Else for February 13, 2020

Airplane drama – and it wasn’t even on Ryanair! This is over reclining your seat which… is a controversial move. Some people are like, well, if the seat reclines, I should be able to use that option. Others are like, you only recline your seat at certain times. And still others are like, reclining i...

Dev Patel proves he's hot in every era in teaser for The Green Knight

Dev Patel can get it. It is known. What we have just learned, however, is that Dev Patel can get it in every era. This knowledge comes to us from the trailer for The Green Knight, a medieval fantasy epic by David Lowery, the director of A Ghost Story and Pete’s Dragon. The Green Knight is based on t...

Celebrity Social Media, February 13, 2020

US Weekly has story about Brad and Jen “laughing” about people’s thirst for them to get back together. I think it’s a nothing story but over the years there have been thousands of nothing stories about them, anything to get their name together and an excuse to run a photo of them. If they were ever ...

Taika Waititi discusses what's next after his Oscar win for Jojo Rabbit with Variety

There were three joyous things about this awards season: 1) it was short. I know this was hard on the nominees/participants, but for everyone else the brevity was a bonus; 2) Bong Joon-ho and Parasite are the feel-good entertainment story of the year. It’s so fun and wonderful when the Best Picture ...

Natalie Portman responds to criticism about not working with female directors after championing them with her Oscars cape

We’ve been talking about Natalie Portman’s Oscar dress for four days now, and not necessarily in the way she intended it to be talked about. Duana wrote about it on Monday after the Oscars and appreciated the effort. Maria mentioned the controversy yesterday in Celebrity Social Media as many people,...

Taylor Swift makes surprise appearance at NME Awards in London with Joe Alwyn

You wouldn’t think the NME Awards would be an awards show where Taylor Swift would show up but since she spends so much time in London now, she made a surprise appearance last night to receive the Best Solo Act award and Joe Alwyn was with her.  The NME Awards are not the Oscars. It’s pretty much...

Pete Davidson reveals carefully guarded joke in trailer for Netflix special, Alive From New York

Pete Davidson makes audiences at his stand-up shows sign an NDA with a one million dollar penalty if they reveal his jokes to the public. Pete Davidson’s jokes are among the best protected jokes in the world, precious, rare joke-gems that can only be viewed at select times and places and then never ...

Intro for February 13, 2020

Dear Gossips,  Janet Jackson this week announced a new album, Black Diamond, and a new world tour kicking off in June in Miami. Tickets go on sale today. To promote the album and the tour, she made a surprise appearance on The View to invite Whoopi Goldberg to the show – and the rest of the audie...

What Else for February 12, 2020

Have you seen the video of Brad Pitt in the press room backstage at the Oscars after he was asked about Maddox’s review of Once Upon a Time in …Hollywood? Anyway, we’re still talking about Brad and he’s on the cover of the new issue of PEOPLE because why not capitalise on all that MiniVan Majority l...

Duana Names: The Almost-Updates, And Updates-Plus!

Welcome back to another round of name updates – I love how excited you guys have been to read these, and I especially want to thank people who have sent their own updates after seeing some of last week’s columns! One glorious thing that happens in the writing of this column is that people write i...

Show Your Work: Negotiating the Oscars

On this week’s bonus, special episode of Show Your Work, we take you BTS – and I don’t mean the band, but behind the scenes of our Oscar coverage and how Duana and I negotiated and bargained with each other through the process of selecting which celebrities to write about and how we split the assign...

First trailer for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch looks almost too twee

Wes Anderson’s latest film, The French Dispatch, is set for a summer release and is expected to premiere at Cannes. If it does, it will bring a collection of stars to the Croisette unlike any other ensemble that could be assembled. Few directors can attract such high-wattage stars to play even the s...

Celebrity Social Media, February 12, 2020

New York Fashion Week is on, and it’s a strange one. The shine has considerably dimmed; Vogue Business points to the decline of New York City as a fashion and design hub. I think it became a magnet for hanger-on brands positioning themselves around the big shows (but not on the official schedule), c...

Jennifer Aniston interviewed by Sandra Bullock for Interview magazine cover feature

A couple of years ago in The New York Times, Jon Caramanica wrote an obituary for the celebrity profile, declaring it dead after a series of celebrity magazine interviews in which the subjects either interviewed themselves or were interviewed by their friends. We talked about that a lot, about wheth...

Lana Condor tells James Corden how Lara Jean Covey changed her life

As of this writing, it’s 1030am EST, so not all that deep in the day. And To All The Boys: PS I Still Love You, which dropped today on Netflix, is already trending in the #2 position. It would be #1 not for the biggest band in the world distracting us all with their new concept photos ahead of the r...

Macaulay Culkin still has his Movie Star magnetism and draw in Esquire cover feature

Macaulay Culkin is not someone I gossip about, but every once in a while, he sticks his head above the waterline and it’s worth observing, like Punxsutawney Phil checking for his shadow. The last time we heard from Mack was almost exactly a year ago. He and Devon Sawa were hashing out their fake 90s...

Intro for February 12, 2020

Dear Gossips, You know that photo of Adele at Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Oscar party, which has become the Oscar party that everyone most wants to get into? It was posted to Instagram by a Polish television host called Kinga Rusin who, in addition to sharing her picture with Adele – which immediately we...

What Else for February 11, 2020

I have read this several times and, maybe it’s because I’m fried right now but I still have no idea what Tyra Banks’s Modelland is. So it’s not a fashion runway theme park? Is it a modelling school? Is it a photo studio? Like basically a glamourised glamour studio? F-ck it, I don’t care. I’m going a...

Brad Pitt tells Variety he gets speech writing assistance from "very, very funny friends"

One of the questions many of us were asking leading up to the Oscars had to do with Brad Pitt’s acceptance speeches; they were so sharp, the jokes so precise, that we wondered whether or not he’d hired a speechwriter – and there were some reports that his team had made some inquiries.  Brad was a...

Celebrity Social Media, February 11, 2020

If you haven’t seen, Presley Gerber (son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber) got a face tattoo. “Misunderstood.” And maybe, at 20, he does feel misunderstood. Face tats have definitely worked for Post Malone’s image – people dress up like him for Halloween. As many people point out, Presley is a mod...

Taika Waititi hires collaborator Jennifer Kaytin Robinson for Thor: Love and Thunder

Taika Waititi is an Oscar winning screenwriter now, and his first official move as an Oscar winning screenwriter is to hire another writer to collaborate on Thor: Love and Thunder. Many auteurs would have you believe that filmmaking is a solitary craft and great films result from a single voice, but...

Timothee Chalamet hung out with Billie Eilish and Camila Morrone at the Oscar parties

When it was announced that Saoirse Ronan was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Little Women and that Timothee Chalamet would be presenting, the corner of the internet that lights up for their friendship (Joanna is one of them) was expecting that there’d be at least a shot of them togethe...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will return to the UK in March for Commonwealth service at Westminster Abbey

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were in Miami last week to speak at the private JP Morgan Summit. Harry apparently talked about mental health, coping with his mother’s death, and his decision to take his family out of senior royal status. There are conflicting reports about whether or not they were p...

Prince William and Catherine joined by Prince Charles and Camilla at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre in Leicestershire

It hasn’t been a good start to the new decade for the British royal family. Their biggest problem right now – or at least it should be – is Prince Andrew. Andrew was friends with Jeffrey Epstein, the dead rapist pedophile, and he apparently hasn’t made himself available to help with US investigators...

Intro for February 11, 2020

Dear Gossips,  For the last few weeks, we’ve all been thirsting for the least thirsty person – which is probably why we can’t get enough of her.  You know who I’m talking about: it’s Sharon Choi, the filmmaker and interpreter who’s been showing the sh-t of her work this award season alongside Bon...

Janelle Monae: Oscars Best Dressed (Duana)

Last year, at the Emmy Awards, Lainey and I made the difficult decision to retire Zendaya from competition in any sort of fashion capacity. It was this epic green dress that did it, but to be honest, she’d been problematically excellent for some time, and we risked a can’t-be-caught situation at eve...

Saoirse Ronan: Oscars Personal Worst (Duana)

This is going to hurt.  Well, for me. It’s going to hurt me.  I am, of course, a huge fan of Saoirse Ronan. I think she’s skillful, clever, and nuanced as an actress, and I like watching her play the red carpet game. I’m just going to come out and say it – I think she knows she’s smarter than ...

Margot Robbie: Oscars Worst Dressed (Lainey)

There’s nothing wrong, really, with Margot Robbie’s Oscar 2020 dress. It’s fine. It’s black. It’s strapless. There’s chiffon wrapped around her forearms leaving a trail down the length of her body. And I suppose that’s a pretty-ish effect, but also not really all that special?  And that’s been th...

Joaquin Phoenix wins Actor in a Leading Role and Renee Zellweger wins for Actress in a Leading Role at the 2020 Oscars

Joaquin Phoenix and Renee Zellweger have had the dubious distinctions, this awards season, of being the de facto winners in their categories almost as soon as the season started. Like, everyone sort of agrees on the Golden Globes being a pace setter, but other shows having the ability to move the ne...

Brad Pitt delivers emotional and political speech at 2020 Oscars

Hollywood is high school. That’s why everyone wants Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston to get back together – don’t we want to see the Prom King and Queen together forever and ever, happily ever after?  Brad was finally crowned last night at the Oscars and while we were all wondering about his assume...

Florence Pugh committed to her prom queen aesthetic at the 2020 Oscars

You know the one awards show custom I totally don’t get? Changing into a totally different look for the after party – or parties.  I mean, I do get it, of course: why limit yourself to one outfit if you could choose two? I would have so much fun if I didn’t have to make one ultimate choice for ev...

Leonardo DiCaprio attends 2020 Oscars with girlfriend Camila Morrone

The last time Leonardo DiCaprio went to the Oscars with a date who wasn’t a relative was in 2005, Gisele Bundchen. It was kind of a big deal back then because up to that point, and mostly still now, Leo’s method has been to never put his love life on display. That year, though, he and Gisele walked ...

Gal Gadot, Brie Larson, and Sigourney Weaver present together at the 2020 Oscars

Points to the producers who put this grouping together; I don’t know which of these women was secured as a presenter first or last, and of course there don’t have to be obvious links between the celebrities who present an award – like, what’s the connection between Ray Romano & Sandra Oh? – but I li...

Timothee Chalamet's glorified Oscar tracksuit wasn't safe and it worked

What I like most about Billie Eilish’s approach to fashion is that she doesn’t compromise her style identity for quality. She’s been wearing luxury brands on every carpet while avoiding a ball gown. Everything is an oversized designer label, and completely in tune with her current fashion personalit...

Taika Waititi won Best Adapted Screenplay and tucked his Oscar under his seat

I’m not apologizing for the exclamation points because Parasite won Best Picture and my heart is still light with joy this is the energy I am taking into 2020! But I have to tell you I am more than a little disappointed that Taika Waititi wore a plain tuxedo to the Oscars! I was really hoping for so...

Lin-Manuel Miranda had to play big brother to Anthony Ramos at the Oscars and I'm annoyed about it

The following account of Block… let’s say six, of the Oscars, reads like one of those brain-teaser riddles in logic puzzles, where you have to extract one piece of verifiably true information and use it to determine the rest can or can’t be true.  (I think it’s also the kind of puzzle you find on th...

Kristen Wiig & Maya Rudolph's Oscar 2020 presentation likely had the Academy in the dark

You know what we never really talk about, even when we talk about it? Televised awards shows have a built-in power imbalance – and that’s why they work. The Academies, hosting the shows, know they need talented performers, amusing enough to hold the audience’s attention. And those performers – ac...

Scarlett Johansson wears two similar metallic gowns on Oscars night

I’m always interested in celebrity schedules. Scarlett Johansson was at the Spirit Awards in Santa Monica on Saturday. Colin Jost was in New York for Saturday Night Live. So to join her at the Oscars last night, he would have had to fly out of NYC, probably Teterboro via private jet, right after the...

Proof that Ray Romano is in fact hot from the 2020 Oscars

Two things have been constant during this awards season – Ray Romano appearing on the red carpet, and my friends mocking me for thinking Ray Romano is attractive.  Oh, and actually there’s one more thing that’s been going on for weeks:  Ray Romano actually being hot as hell.  Exhibit A:  ...

Diane Keaton & Keanu Reeves were reunited at the 2020 Oscars

Every year, the etalk team spends days ahead of the Oscars working on questions and talking points for our Oscars pre-show live broadcast. Basically we run down the list of nominees and presenters and memorise the research packs and pick out which points we want to drop in when they arrive. And this...

Natalie Portman's female director cape at the 2020 Oscars

History would not claim me as a Natalie Portman fan – which is something I’ve often felt bad about, because I like the projects she does, but somewhere between her acting and her interviews, I’ve just decided she’s just not my particular cup of tea.  However, it may be time to reconsider.  I a...

Olivia Colman was feeling herself at the 2020 Oscars

Last year, Olivia Colman gave one of the best acceptance speeches of the night when she won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in The Favourite. She is also an excellent presenter. Last night she got up there and talked about her sex life which was adorable and delightful because, of course,...

James Corden & Rebel Wilson were funny CATS at the 2020 Oscars

Okay, I’m gonna go ahead and say it – I might be a convert to the ‘no host’ method, because it allows more room for more stuff. The musical performances happened more spontaneously, for the most part, which actually made the show more like a musical… which is maybe why this happened:  Rebel W...

Utkarsh Ambudkar took advantage of an opportunity at the 2020 Oscars

Many people have been critical of the Oscars this year for the lack of inclusion in its major categories and trying to make up for it with its presenters criticising the Oscars for the lack of inclusion. Like is it enough to acknowledge that you can do better without actually doing better? Whatever ...

Billie Eilish was too young to appreciate Eminem at the 2020 Oscars

It was impossible to miss Billie Eilish last night on the show, and I am currently pouring one out for all of you whose parents called or texted to ask, “Who’s the one with the green hair? It’s green at the roots!” I’m not one of Billie Eilish’s devoted fans (don’t call them ‘Avocados’, it’s pass...

Cynthia Erivo brought it at the 2020 Oscars

It’s not that Cynthia Erivo hasn’t been to the Oscars before so, technically, it’s not her first Oscars. But it is her first Oscars as an Oscar nominee. Which is another level of special – to be invited to the show because you’ve been singled out for your performance alongside four other actors, rec...

Bong Joon-ho's multiple Oscar wins was the best of all possible outcomes

Parasite was an exceptional movie, by which I mean it was a literal outlier. I don’t know anyone who saw it who didn’t like it, including those grumps at the Honest Oscar Ballot – it was an actual feat in filmmaking.  Which is why it won Best Picture, even if everyone who puts money on this stuff...

Intro for February 10, 2020

Dear Gossips,  The Oscars, obviously, aren’t perfect. Far from perfect. And after what happened last night, it doesn’t make its shortcomings any less… short. But something special did happen. History happened. The first South Korean film to be nominated for Best Picture actually won Best Picture ...

What Else for February 7, 2020

I’ve never been attracted to John Mulaney… but I’m wondering if I should be attracted to him now? This is the best picture of him ever taken. And I’m about to ruin it for you because I feel like he sort of looks like Rivers Cuomo in the late 90s. Sorry? But Emily, dlisted’s newest writer, makes a go...

Duana Names: Friday Feeling The Updates

You know, I’m considering just running updates, because frankly, the letters make us all feel so good. I mean, this is the beauty of what we do, the search for the perfect name becomes the person, who then becomes the embodiment of everything we love about the name… it’s basically alchemy and magic ...

Outfits of the Week: Ella and Lulu

For the second week in a row, there are two outfits of the week that share a similar style vibe and I can’t choose between them. But before we get into it, let’s do a throwback. One of my favourite dresses of the last ten years is from the Emmys in 2018. Taraji P Henson was my pick for Emmys Best Dr...

Jerry from Cheer has signed with UTA and influencer management company, Digital Brand

Certain people around these parts have not finished watching Cheer, and I have chastised said people, who are named Lainey, about it for several weeks now. (Lainey: I have 20 mins left! It’s just that I got caught up in some BTS hysteria.) Luckily, she’s not a baby about spoilers, but she’s gonna...

Review: Birds of Prey starring Margot Robbie is a hugely fun, stylish comic book movie that works

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is juggling a lot. It’s a sequel/spin-off hybrid of Suicide Squad, a movie it does not drop-kick out an open window but one it does have to push off stage and make the audience forget. It’s a reimagining of Harley Quinn and an intr...

Celebrity Social Media, February 7, 2020

Page Six has a follow-up on Pamela Anderson’s latest split (I’m not calling it a divorce because it’s unclear if they were legally married). A source told the paper, “Pamela does not operate on the same wavelength as other people. She has a huge heart and she loves big, fast and hard.” Pamela loves ...

Bong Joon-ho shares early sketches for Parasite with The Hollywood Reporter

Parasite is breaking ground as the first South Korean film nominated for Best International Feature, Best Director, and Best Picture Oscars—and it will be the first South Korean film to win an Oscar, for Best International Feature, if nothing else—but it’s also remarkable for another reason: Parasit...

Rian Johnson's Knives Out officially has a sequel in the works

During Golden Globes weekend, Rian Johnson teased us with the news that he is developing a sequel to Knives Out, and now, following a Lionsgsate earnings call, studio chief Jon Feltheimer confirmed the studio has greenlit a sequel, which is hardly surprising given the movie’s success as it will cros...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were reportedly keynote speakers at JPMorgan event in Miami

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have kept it pretty undercover the last couple of weeks. Last night, however, according to Page Six, they were hustling in Miami.  "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were the keynote speakers at an exclusive JPMorgan event — in their first public appearance since leavi...

Deadline reports that a one hour unscripted Friends reunion is happening

Friends ended nearly 16 years ago in May 2004. Since then, it’s experienced a resurgence in popularity because of Netflix as original viewers tapped into the nostalgia and the show reached a new generation of viewers who were too young to know Joey, Chandler, Ross, Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, and the Ce...

February 7, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Selene! Rachel is missing you and says you’re the Dr Mindy Lahiri to her Morgan, but you’re even better dressed! More importantly though, working with you made her better – because you’re a physician who sees the potential in people which makes you a workplace leader. Rachel wants you to know how mu...

Intro for February 7, 2020

Dear Gossips,  It’s Oscar weekend! The overwhelming favourite as we get closer to the show is 1917 but… there are still some people who think that there could be an upset. Keep this in mind as you fill in our annual contest ballot – you’re playing for a gorgeous Valentino bag! What’s definitel...

What Else for February 6, 2020

Some people are upset about Billy Porter’s appearance on Sesame Street, specifically what he wore. Those people obviously don’t understand Sesame Street. Billy’s Oscar dress is exactly what Sesame Street is all about. And children should learn the value of fashion early! It’s a form of expression! I...

What's Your Drama: Miley the Zit Popper & a Broke Boyfriend

How do we open the show today?  Well, with Lainey's favorite topic on earth - popping zits.  Which then somehow flows into why she thinks it makes sense for me to show her my vulva. So I guess...enjoy? Then it's time for you drama. Our first writer has started dating a guy that she really likes. ...

Celebrity Social Media, February 6, 2020

Open Book is shaping up to be a juicy read (like Lainey, I’m slightly worried that they are giving all the juice for media). But there’s also collateral press, and Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo are feeling the brunt of that. They are not big enough stars to make demands to the Today Show about wh...

First trailer for Chris Rock's Saw spin-off, Spiral, is not that weird and a little stylish

Chris Rock is a huge fan of the Saw movies. How do we know? Because in one of the weirder entertainment stories of 2019—which is saying a lot, because 2019 was goddamned WEIRD—he pitched his own spin-off to Lionsgate, keeper of the keys of Saw. That spin-off is called Spiral, and there is now a trai...

Pedro Pascal's upcoming year will be as busy as 2019 with The Mandalorian season 2 and Wonder Woman 1984

Pedro Pascal has been around for a while now, having broken out in Game of Thrones season four, back when Game of Thrones was still beloved. That was more than half a decade ago, it’s not like Pedro Pascal is new, but it feels like this year is something of a Pedro Pascal renaissance, thanks to his ...

Princess Beatrice and Edoardo Mozzi to be married in the spring at Buckingham Palace

PEOPLE reported yesterday that Princess Beatrice and fiancé Edoardo Mozzi will be married on May 29. Beatrice was engaged in September – it was the one piece of good news for House York in the second half of 2019. British royals don’t usually hold off too long before announcing their wedding date. I...

Jennifer Aniston isn't on the list to present at the Oscars

For the people hoping that the Oscars could be a replay or a sequel to the SAGs where Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt are concerned, yesterday would have been a disappointment as the Academy announced its final flight of nominees and Jennifer wasn’t on the list. Then again, she could be a surprise pr...

The Annual Red Carpet Contest 2020

If you’re new to this, we have an annual tradition here at LaineyGossip. I think maybe this is our 15th year? Correctly predict the most winners in the 24 Oscar categories and win a designer bag. This year should be easy…right?  The acting categories are locked up. Renee Zellweger, Joaquin Phoeni...

This year’s honest Oscar ballot is a doozy

The “brutally honest Oscar ballot” is an annual tradition, when The Hollywood Reporter gets anonymous Oscar voters to show their asses explain their vote process to us mere plebes. Sometimes, this peek behind the curtain is interesting, but mostly it’s just infuriating as often the honest voters exp...

Justin Timberlake promotes himself at Trolls World Tour press conference

Justin Timberlake stepped out earlier this week to support Jessica Biel at the season 3 premiere of The Sinner. How gracious and sweet of him. He always shows up for her projects, you know? Maybe he’s extra inclined to show up now though because… you know.  A couple of days ago, Justin was back d...

Intro for February 6, 2020

Dear Gossips,  Our Annual Contest – you predict the award winners and I send you a prize (a designer bag) – is still happening either today or tomorrow so look out for it!  The Academy yesterday announced its final round of presenters. Jane Fonda is on the list and if you include all of the pr...

What Else for February 5, 2020

Let me let you know, again, that I have never been on jury duty but I desperately want to be a juror, like so bad. And I don’t understand by I’ve never been invited to perform my civic duty and serve in the name of justice! You know how badly I want to be a juror? I want to be a juror so bad that I ...

Duana Names: The Update Parade Continues…

Update week continues, and part of the fun is getting to see that the fun tone in letters continues in the updates, like this one from the writer of Astounded/Euphoric/Blunt/True:  DUANA! Sincerely thank you for your incredible response. If you are ever in Nebraska, or Ann Arbor (I go to work ...

Celebrity Social Media, February 5, 2020

Selena Gomez is launching a makeup line, Rare. She announced it on Instagram because, as she said, the news was about to leak. In the voiceover, she talks about uniqueness and individuality and says, “You’re not defined by a photo, a like, or a comment.” Selena has continually spoken about the toxic...

Show Your Work: Miss Americana and The Assistant

On this episode of Show Your Work, we’re talking about Taylor Swift’s documentary, Miss Americana, and whether or not it meets Taylor’s objective: to reach beyond her fanbase, to people who don’t care about her, haven’t followed her career, are relatively unaware of much about her beyond the headlin...

Jessica Simpson reveals details about her relationship with John Mayer in new book, Open Book

Jessica Simpson’s book, Open Book, came out yesterday – and as promised, she has been OPEN. This is what you want out of a celebrity memoir: not just the tea but also the context; it has to be more than X and Y was an asshole, it’s better when you fill in the emotion behind it, when you colour in th...

Jay-Z tries to explain why he and Beyoncé stayed seated for the national anthem at the Super Bowl

Jay-Z tried to explain his partnership with the NFL in the days leading up to the Super Bowl. Then he went to the Super Bowl and was seen sitting during the US national anthem. After that Love B Scott reported that he and Roc Nation were pressuring Jennifer Lopez to remove the political messaging fr...

A Quiet Place Part II gives fans what they want in Big Game Spot released during Super Bowl

A Quiet Place Part II dropped a new teaser on Super Bowl weekend, which is more high-strung drama and stress. We got a reference to “Dad” in the first trailer, and the new TV spot actually shows John Krasinski returning, for at least the part of the movie that is set on the first day of invasion. We...

Jennifer Lawrence and Margot Robbie have dinner in Hollywood on Oscar week

It’s Oscar week in Hollywood which means parties every night starting tonight for the next few days. Even those who aren’t nominated or invited to present show up in LA for Oscar week – a lot of work happens at the cocktails, the private dinners to celebrate production companies/studios, the fundrai...

Intro for February 5, 2020

Dear Gossips,  There was a headline circulating yesterday about Robert Pattinson being declared the “most beautiful man in the world” because of science. Something something about a formula that determines facial perfection. RP scored over 92%. Here are the other men whose faces made the math:  ...

What Else for February 4, 2020

Thank you for your emails about Amber Heard and Johnny Depp. I’m trying to get to it. But the audio is almost an hour long! I have trouble with a song that’s over three minutes and the Super Bowl just happened, and the BAFTAs, and the Oscars are six days away, and I’m putting all my thrusters into g...

Lady Gaga and boyfriend Michael Polansky go Instagram official

Lady Gaga’s new boyfriend is Michael Polansky. He’s a Harvard graduate, works with Sean Parker (Napster) on Parker Foundation, an organisation that supports philanthropic efforts in science, social justice, and the arts. They were first seen together on NY Eve, making out, though his identity wasn’t...

F9 brings #JusticeForHan at last

Jason Statham started out in the Fast/Furious universe—dubbed “The Fast Saga” because everything is a goddamn saga now and I BLAME YOU, MARVEL—as a villain. His character, Shaw, killed a member of the original Fast Family, Han, played by Sung Kang. Han died in a crash in Tokyo Drift, the third Fast/...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus to make her Oscars debut as Downhill creates buzz

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is presenting at the Oscars this weekend – for this first time. Sunday night will mark her Oscars debut, as a guest or presenter. You’re surprised, right?  Sure, Julia has never been nominated, but she came pretty close during the 2013-2014 awards season with Nicole Holofcener...

Celebrity Social Media, February 4, 2020

Gwyneth did a Q&A on Instagram stories the other day and talked about The Goop Lab. Two answers stuck out for me. First, what practices from the TV show does she still use? Over 6 episodes of learning, she sometimes takes cold showers. The other question was about season 2; she said she doesn’t know...

Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, and Jordan Fisher attend PS I Still Love You premiere

Next week, I’ll be hitting pause on the C-drama I’m currently obsessed with on Netflix (it’s called Find Yourself and the lead actor, Song Wei Long, is GORGEOUS) to reunite with Lara Jean Covey. PS I Still Love You drops on February 12 and this time, Lara Jean and Peter Kavinksy’s love will be teste...

Megan Thee Stallion and G-Eazy got close after the Super Bowl

I have to say this sorry in advance but… how did we go from Hot Girl Summer to Douchebag Winter?!  G-Eazy was trending on Twitter yesterday morning. Like so many others on Twitter, I was really disappointed to find out why.  Megan and G Eazy....... pic.twitter.com/5JLTofjXwH — dee (@deesh...

Marvel drops surprise teaser for Marvel TV shows on Super Bowl Sunday

An actual surprise drop on Super Bowl Sunday was an unexpected teaser for the first slate of Marvel TV shows coming to Disney+. “Marvel-Disney+” and “Marvel Studios TV” are both a mouthful, so let’s agree to call this new venture “Marvel+” and move on, yes? This is not the first time television show...

Zendaya and her "best friend" Jacob Elordi look like they could be on a date in New York

Are they? Best friends? Does that also mean he’s her boyfriend?  Zendaya and Jacob Elordi have been spending a lot of time together since they met on Euphoria. They’ve gone on holiday together. He’s taken her sightseeing in Australia and to his hometown. They’ve been spotted out at the movies. He...

Keanu Reeves playing mystical tumbleweed in upcoming SpongeBob movie, Sponge on the Run

Keanu Reeves is everywhere, up to and including the Oscars this weekend. It should come as no surprise, then, that Keanu is in the new SpongeBob movie, Sponge on the Run. Even less surprising should be the news that Keanu is playing a piece of mystical tumbleweed. I mean, of course he is. What else ...

Intro for February 4, 2020

Dear Gossips,  Right on schedule, BTS released another preview for their upcoming album, Map of the Soul: 7 yesterday. This is the second of two planned “comeback trailers”, the band’s usual teaser during the rollout of a new album cycle and obviously their definition of “comeback” is a little di...

What Else for February 3, 2020

When you’re a genius at one thing, does that mean you’re a genius at all the things? There are a lot of people who consider Elon Musk a science genius. Apparently he’s also a musical genius? Elon has released a new song. It’s called “Don’t Doubt Ur Vibe”. I hate it when a word isn’t spelled up. I do...

Duana Names: The Week You’ve Been Waiting For!

It’s finally here – the week of the Oscars is upon us, and the excitement is matched by the number of things to do that demand attention (even if none of those is, you know, wondering what actually might win what). So, welcome to Update Week! Lots of you ask for updates on what names are eventual...

Disney releases final trailer for Mulan and it looks like a straight-up wuxia action fantasy

Mulan dropped its final trailer yesterday, and it does not look like a Disney movie AT ALL. Mulan looks like a straight-up wuxia action fantasy, in the vein of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The Forbidden Kingdom. I am a little worried Mulan will suffer for not appealing to fans of the Disney ca...

Top Gun: Maverick Big Game Spot released during the Super Bowl

Maverick: Legend of the Skies (aka Top Gun: Maverick, the lesser title) had a spot during the Super Bowl that shows off heavy breathing and everyone being Out To Get Maverick (Legend of the Skies). We see more of that amazing flight footage while getting voice-over from Miles Teller as Gosling (that...

Marvel releases Black Widow Big Game Spot during the Super Bowl

The Super Bowl has become a major drop day for movie trailers and this year, even with a couple studios sitting it out (Sony and Warner Brothers), is no different. Over the course of game day—spiraling ad costs have driven some studios to slate their TV spots in the pre- and post-game hours—we got a...

Celebrity Social Media, February 3, 2020

Did you read about Pamela Anderson’s split? There’s a question of whether or not she and producer Jon Peters were officially married, but they did announce their union. Twelve days in, they are pulling the pin. And this is what makes Pam an underrated celebrity. Think of her trajectory: 90s sex bomb...

Prince William expresses disappointment about lack of diversity at the BAFTAs

As you saw in the Brad Pitt post, there were a couple of jokes about the drama in the British royal family last night during the BAFTAs. Brad’s cheeky comment about Prince Harry actually wasn’t the most pointed. The funniest royal-related moment came from Rebel Wilson before she presented the Best D...

Taika Waititi claims Best Screenplay award at the BAFTAs for Jojo Rabbit

Taika Waititi was a surprise winner at the BAFTAs, claiming Best Screenplay (Adapted). Jojo Rabbit has been frequently nominated this award season, but Team Jojo hasn’t been winning of the big prizes (though editor Tom Eagles did win an “Eddie” award for best comedy editing from the American Cinema ...

Margot Robbie delivers Brad Pitt's speech at the BAFTAs

At the start of this award season, no one would have predicted that it would be Brad Pitt coming through with the best speeches, but here we are now as week after week, on his way to his first acting Oscar, which he will 100% win next Sunday for his performance in Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood, he’s...

Beyoncé and Jay-Z stay seated during national anthem at the Super Bowl

Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and the Blue Ivy Carter were at the Super Bowl yesterday in Miami. But first, please enjoy this viz of Blue bossing on the sidelines with her phone. She’s probably playing a game. But in my mind, she’s seeing something that needs improvement and, like her ma, is sending a note to her...

Joaquin Phoenix calls out film industry's systemic racism in BAFTAs speech

Joaquin Phoenix is the undisputed Best Actor of the 2019/20 award season, cleaning up everywhere he goes, and the BAFTAs were no different. Since he is the undisputed champ, he actually prepared an acceptance speech in advance of his latest win. His Golden Globes speech was clearly unprepared, the s...

Jodie Turner-Smith was the best dressed at the BAFTAs

No surprise, 1917 won Best Picture at the BAFTAs last night. This was expected and it now goes into the Oscars, with voting ending tomorrow, the overwhelming favourite after taking the PGA, the DGA, and the BAFTAs. But remember, La La Land did the same so Parasite still has a chance, especially amon...

Intro for February 3, 2020

Dear Gossips,  Was there any doubt that Jennifer Lopez and Shakira would deliver last night in Miami at the Super Bowl? Nobody’s ever accused either of coasting. And, frankly, women at their level, women of colour at their level, wouldn’t have gotten to that level had they coasted.  Their half...