Smutty Tingles for September 30, 2016

I really need to know how hair is styled this way. I want to try it. (Dlisted)  Great dress on Shailene Woodley (Just Jared) Are we sure Tom Hiddleston isn’t behind this story? (Cele|bitchy)  Love these photos of Miranda Lambert (TooFab)  Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are selling t...

Angelina Jolie granted temporary full custody of the children as Brad is subject to random drug and alcohol testing

Last Friday the situation was nuclear. Angelina Jolie had filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, requesting full custody of the children. Two days after it, news breaks that the precipitating incident was a dramatic argument on a private plane involving one of their children during which Brad was drun...

Idris Elba DJs at a club in Sydney and posts shirtless photo on Twitter

Idris Elba wanted us to start our weekend right – so he tweeted out a photo of himself without his shirt on: The legend Nigel "The Dark Destroyer" Benn put me though my paces today on pads... Masterclass. http://pic.twitter.com/9WDfsR2j9D — Idris Elba (@idriselba) September 30, 2016 O...

Mark Wahlberg in Deepwater Horizon movie review

At this point, no one is making better true-life disaster movies than Peter Berg, and Deepwater Horizon is the most visceral and realistic disaster recreation since James Cameron sank a fake Titanic. In 2010 the oil rig Deepwater Horizon suffered a methane gas explosion that kicked off the worst ...

Smutty Social Media, September 30, 2016

There is some drama on Dancing with the Stars today because Amber Rose says judge Julianne Hough body shamed her. Julianne said it’s just a soundbite that has been taken out of context. The other day, I commented again on Julianne’s blackface Halloween costume and a reader wrote in to defend her....

Joshua Jackson and Margarita Levieva out for a walk together in New York

Joshua Jackson was papped the other night walking around New York with Margarita Levieva. Joshua ended a 10 year relationship with Diane Kruger earlier this year. Margarita was last known to be dating Sebastian Stan and while there’s been no word about a breakup, neither one is a major gossip hea...

Goat movie review starring Nick Jonas and produced by James Franco

One of the approximately one million projects James Franco is producing this year is Goat, an adaptation of Brad Land’s memoir of the same name, recounting his experience with hazing in a fraternity at Clemson University. (The school’s name has been changed in the film, undoubtedly to avoid legal...

The Wall Street Journal profiles Beyoncé, the CEO, as it's reported she's invested in startup app, Sidestep

Last week, the Wall Street Journal profiled Beyoncé, the CEO. Naturally she did not speak. Her dad did, though, because, well, nobody listens to him. The piece was all about how Beyoncé’s been making changes at Parkwood Entertainment to expand and diversify her business. Already we are seeing som...

Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange in costume as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford on set of Feud

Ryan Murphy’s latest anthology series, Feud, is currently filming, which means set photos. Which means seeing Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange in costume as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, respectively. Super into how they look and the only way this could get better is if Judy Davis showed up as H...

Bon Iver fans listen to new album on cassette in a laneway in Melbourne

I got the best email this morning from a reader called Eleanor. Thank you Eleanor. I love starting my day off laughing. So Bon Iver’s just released a new album 22, A Million. The reviews have been excellent. I’ve not listened to it yet but I’ve no doubt it’s excellent. To promote the release ...

Lupita Nyong'o promotes Queen of Katwe on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert who calls it his favourite film of the year

There are certain celebrities who do press tours that feel WAY too long. Halfway through a Blake Lively press tour I’m like, “can this movie open already so I don’t have to see her face every time I turn on my television or hear about how many times her baby burped that day?” Same goes for Kate H...

Angelina Jolie consulting with real-life Olivia Pope, Judy Smith in divorce negotiations from Brad Pitt

PEOPLE reported exclusively yesterday that Judy Smith, the real-life Olivia Pope, is consulting with Angelina Jolie as she negotiates the terms of her divorce from Brad Pitt. It’s been a quiet week for Angelina as Brad Pitt’s sources have presented his side to the public: Brad is sad and crying, ...

Tim Burton's disappointing response when asked about lack of diversity in his films

Tim Burton is out promoting his new movie, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, and he’s been asked the #Diversity question. Specifically, he was asked by Rachel Simon at Bustle why Miss Peregrine has only one person of color in a prominent role (Samuel L. Jackson, playing the bad guy), a...

September 30, 2016 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Jilly! Happy Birthday! Congratulations on the new phase in your career! Stacy is so proud of you and loves you and misses you so much. By request, here’s Jon Hamm wearing the sh-t out of his suits.

Intro for September 30, 2016

Dear Gossips, If you’ve been visiting this site a while, you know I love gross sh-t. Duana, Dylan, and I have a gross sh-t text thread that’s going on three years now where we update each other on new gross sh-t videos and photos and discuss their grossness. For a while there, back in late 20...

Smutty Tingles for September 29, 2016

On this week’s Sasha Answers podcast, Sasha has issues with my Instagram narcissism, we discuss the degrees of douchebaggery, and Jacek tries to insert himself into the conversation.  Courteney Cox wants you to know that it’s not about Jennifer Aniston (Dlisted)  A Saturday Night Live ske...

Prince George loves the bubble maker and Princess Charlotte sits on a dog while in Victoria, BC with their parents, William and Catherine

After several days of being boring by themselves in Canada, Prince William and Catherine decided to stop our collective yawning by bringing out their royal children, Big G and Charlotte, the wild child. They all attended a public playdate with military families at Government House in Victoria. ...

Rihanna's Fenty X Puma collection the main event at Paris Fashion Week

Paris Fashion Week last night. And Rihanna was the main event as she presented her second Fenty X Puma collection. “I would never expect that I would be allowed in Paris to show a collection this early as a designer”, she said. But she was a major draw with major names in the audience and so much...

Winona Ryder and boyfriend Sott Mackinlay Hahn at PEN Centre USA’s Annual Literary Awards Festival

Winona Ryder was in LA last night to present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Isabel Allende at the PEN Centre USA’s Annual Literary Awards Festival. Winona was one of the stars of the film adaption of Allende’s The House Of The Spirits. She was there with Scott Mackinlay Hahn, her boyfriend. Th...

Anna Kendrick's terrific zebra print outfit and toe cleavage

This skirt is delightful. Is it zebra print? Wait let me Google. Yes, it appears to be. I get confused sometimes which print belongs to which animal because I’m an ignorant f-ck. Is there a cheat sheet for this? Anyway, this outfit is terrific and I like the shoes too. They are the perfect sh...

Smutty Social Media, September 29, 2016

I would very much like to go for lunch at Oprah’s house.   Look who came for lunch!@kofisiriboe . Gettin' ready for SUGAR time tonite.#GimmeSugar #QueenSugar A photo posted by Oprah (@oprah) on Sep 28, 2016 at 3:40pm PDT Brit is definitely...

Taylor Swift has slow-motion face and is reportedly texting Calvin Harris again

Taylor Swift stepped out yesterday in New York in plaid, flats, and a cross-body and it’s the perfect outfit for “what to wear to class on a fall day”, the only minor issue being the size of the bag. I wonder if that’s how Taylor approaches her wardrobe choices, which is not unlike how some of us...

Justin Theroux talks about his dog and feminism in interview with ELLE for The Girl On The Train

Justin Theroux is currently promoting The Girl On The Train and he was interviewed by ELLE. Everyone who interviews Justin Theroux is going to try to get a quote about Jennifer Aniston. Justin knows this game. He has played it very well with his wife. So he talks about what the first year of marr...

Attractive Garrett Hedlund in New York ahead of New York Film Festival premiere of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

I find Garrett Hedlund really attractive. I find his hair really attractive. Check him out in New York yesterday looking really attractive with really attractive hair. The New York Film Festival opens tomorrow. Garrett is in Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk which will premiere at the fes...

Remembering Justin Timberlake's ramen noodle hair as it's announced Nathan Keyes will play him in Lifetime's unauthorised Britney Spears movie

Lifetime is working on an unauthorised Britney Spears movie. It will most definitely be sh-t. But I think I might watch: Justin Timberlake. Specifically the fact that Britney Spears MADE Justin Timberlake. Also the way they’ve styled Justin Timberlake. In the role of Justin Timberlake is Nath...

September 29, 2016 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Tomorrow, September 30, in Canada is Orange Shirt Day. Orange Shirt Day “recognises the effects and intergenerational impacts of the residential school system” on First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities. For too many years, children were taken away from their homes, forced away from their fam...

Intro for September 29, 2016

Dear Gossips, The cover of the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter features author Paula Hawkins and Emily Blunt ahead of the premiere of The Girl On The Train. Paula ranks at #19 on THR’s 25 Power Authors list. As you know, The Girl On The Train is one of the most successful books of all tim...

Smutty Tingles for September 28, 2016

Justin Bieber’s fans understand him the most, obviously. The rest of us take him at face value (Dlisted)  I can’t wait to see Lupita on Billy On The Street (Just Jared)  Kiefer Sutherland understands why Julia Roberts Runaway Brided him (Cele|bitchy)  James Corden joins the Backstreet...

Variety reviews Sarah Jessica Parker's Divorce as she launches line of little black dresses

Sarah Jessica Parker was photographed at LAX yesterday, presumably to do more press for Divorce, premiering on HBO October 9. I just read a really great review of Divorce at Variety. And I don’t mean the show is great but the review itself, the way is written, is great. “Divorce” was created ...

New trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them does not include owls

But it does have a really cool golden bird. A new trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has come out and this one gives a better look at Newt Scamander’s many fantastic beasts, among them, a golden bird that is maybe a thunderbird. There are, however, no owls. Am very disappointed a...

Smutty Social Media, September 28, 2016

Protect the face!   ....Think I broke my nose (spellchecked edit)....or it definitely feels like it..... 😩👊🏾👊🏾 A photo posted by 7dub (@7dub) on Sep 27, 2016 at 5:21am PDT Dr. Oz is the new Dr. Drew.   D...

Taylor Swift has dinner in New York with Cara Delevingne, Brooke Shields, Lorde, and more as Kanye West performs in Nashville

Taylor Swift is back in New York. On the weekend she was in LA for Liberty Ross’s birthday. Liberty is married Jimmy Iovine. And everyone has to be nice to Jimmy Iovine. Here’s Taylor dancing with Mick Jagger (you can see the backs of their heads):   That time w...

Benedict Cumberbatch interviews Tom Hiddleston for Interview magazine cover feature

Tom Hiddleston covers the new issue of Interview, interviewed by his friend Benedict Cumberbatch. The conversation basically goes like this: Benedict thanks Tom for taking the time. Tom thanks Benedict for taking the time. Benedict asks a question. Tom thanks Benedict for asking the question,...

Lin-Manuel Miranda covers Variety in his natural habitat of New York

This is more like it, KATHLEEN. Not only is this Variety cover of Lin-Manuel Miranda much more representative of what he actually looks like than certain fashion covers from a week ago, it’s also him in his natural habitat of New York (if by ‘natural’ you mean casually leaning against lamppos...

US Weekly's new cover featuring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie split is demonstrably and undeniably pro-Pitt

Check out the cover of the new issue of US Weekly. If you only saw the headline “Her Plot To Destroy Brad”, would you have guessed it was US Weekly? I would have thought it was STAR Magazine. Or In TOUCH Weekly. Or Life & Style. But Brange has always been a moneymaker, no more so than now, now th...

Netflix's new show, The Crown, about the early years in Queen Elizabeth II’s reign looks gorgeous

Netflix is having a helluva year. Stranger Things dominated summer, though The Get Down was the better show— and a pretty incredible six hours of storytelling—Luke Cage premieres this Friday and is sure to inspire a thousand thinkpieces, and yesterday they released a trailer for their fall drama,...

Intro for September 28, 2016

Dear Gossips, Have you seen Ali Wong’s breakout comedy special Baby Cobra on Netflix yet? Ali is also a writer on Fresh Off The Boat. She is funny, she is smart – SO smart – and she is a hustler. Much has been made of Ali’s decision to perform onstage pregnant, not hiding her pregnancy, or av...

Smutty Social Media, September 27, 2016

Great styling here for Hilary Duff. She looks younger now than she did 5 years ago. (The top here is a standout, it’s Johanna Ortiz.)   Had a great press day yesterday❤️ thank you @cynthiavanis for my hair and @jeanqueennetti for my purdy makeup @oliviaivey for all ...

Tom Ford wouldn't let Jake Gyllenhaal "manscape" for role in Nocturnal Animals

We missed a lot when World War Brange took over the celebrity news cycle last week. This week’s tabloid are about to drop. I suspect we might be getting another round of Brange ugly very soon. Before that happens, let’s catch up on one of the most important but overlooked issues from last week: J...

Justin Theroux on the Brange split and why his marriage with Jennifer Aniston works while promoting The Girl On The Train

Justin Theroux is currently on promotion for The Girl On The Train. A reporter from Business Insider (via PEOPLE) asked him about World War Brange and instead of being thrown out of the room, they actually got an answer: "As a child of divorce all I can say is that's terrible news for those c...

Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in first trailer for Fences

The first trailer for Fences was released today, based on the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson and directed by Denzel Washington. Both he and Viola Davis won Tony Awards themselves for their work on the stage production a few years ago. As you know, the Oscar race is st...

Molly Shannon and Jesse Plemons in Other People movie review

The “indie cancer dramedy” is a well-established sub-genre populated by films like 50/50, The Fault In Our Stars, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and of course the granddaddy of them all, Terms of Endearment. This is such a specific type of film that if you watch the trailer and think it looks li...

Emily Blunt and John Krasinski have dinner at Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux's apartment in New York

Emily Blunt and John Krasinski went over to Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s for dinner last night. Emily and Justin are in The Girl On The Train together. But they’ve all been friends for a while, having been on holiday together in Mexico with Jimmy Kimmel and Howard Stern and some other fa...

Smutty Tingles for September 27, 2016

Heads up about the Sasha Answers podcast this week. We are a couple of days behind so it’ll post on Thursday. Thanks for listening! Would you eat this if it delivers on its promise? (Dlisted)  Miley and Liam split up the takeout (Just Jared)  Hate the length of Princess Kate’s red dre...

Netflix drops final trailer for Marvel's Luke Cage

“The world is ready for a bulletproof black man.” That’s what Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker said at Comic-Con in July. I would watch the show based on that statement alone but Netflix’s Luke Cage looks like it’s actually going to live up to the hype. Ahead of the show’s release on Fr...

First trailer for Justin Timberlake's concert film, Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids

Oh hey. I’m back from my procedure. It was fine at the time. But now I’m home and the freezing has worn off so this is where I find Justin Timberlake in the extended trailer for his concert film, Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids, premiering on Netflix October 12. Would I be more receptive t...

Disney reportedly exploring possibility of buying Twitter

Yesterday Bloomberg reported that Disney is exploring the possibility of buying Twitter and adding it to the already huge pile of other corporations that they own. It’s early in the process—they’re just exploring the option—but it does feel like Disney is chasing specific pieces and that when the...

Robert Pattinson and FKA twigs not breaking as the two are photographed arriving at LAX

It's an epidemic of breaks! Who else? What's the next break? Who ISN'T breaking? Not sure if this was the answer you were looking for but FKA twigs and Robert Pattinson are still together. Here they are at LAX yesterday. It's been a while since we've seen these two. Once a week or so I'll get...

Drake releases short film, Please Forgive Me, and it's embarrassing

We need to forgive Drake for making us sit through his new “short film,” Please Forgive Me. This film has propelled his album Views back to No. 1 on the Billboard charts so he’s probably not sorry but he should be. The first thing he should be sorry for is that he chose a Rihanna knock-off as his...

Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber announce separation in joint statement

Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber announced yesterday that they’re over releasing a statement confirming the end of their romantic relationship: "Over the past few months we've come to the conclusion that the best way forward for us as a family is to separate as a couple. It is with great love, ...

Intro for September 27, 2016

Dear Gossips, “Game on.” If you know The West Wing, you know the episode and if you know the episode you know why it’s coming up today. And The Atlantic was remembered it yesterday too, arguing in this post that the reason why The West Wing, and that episode in particular, was effective –...

Smutty Tingles for September 26, 2016

As IFFFFF Adele would have time for Pippa Middleton! (Dlisted)  Liam Hemsworth surfing for my birthday (Just Jared)  Guillaume Canet defends Marion Cotillard (Cele|bitchy)  Reese Witherspoon’s youngest is already four years old (TooFab)  Leo is unloading property (TMZ)  Britn...

Brad Pitt likely to come out swinging hard in second week since split with Angelina Jolie as tabloids attempt to elicit public's sympathy

As you know, several celebrity weeklies missed the Brange breakup on their covers because Angelina Jolie decided to let the Emmys breathe before dropping the news that she filed for divorce. PEOPLE’s original cover last week was about Michael Strahan which, unfortunately for him, nobody gave a sh...

Prince George shades Prime Minister Trudeau during royal tour of Canada's West Coast with parents Prince William and Catherine and sister Charlotte

All four Cambridges are in Canada right now on a royal tour of our country’s west coast. Will and Kate will be homebasing in Victoria with day trips here and there while Big G and Charlotte hang back at Government House. Kate wore a white and red Alexander McQueen on Sunday – one of her best outf...

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have breakfast together in LA

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner went for dinner last Thursday without their children. Today they stepped out together for breakfast. Like you needed reminding that their sort of maybe/maybe not separation is classy and not ugly, in contrast to, well, you know. Does that have anything to do wi...

Smutty Social Media, September 26, 2016

While the Cambridges are in Canada, Princess Eugenie is entertaining Marky Mark and his funky bunch for tea at Buckingham Palace.   Went to Buckingham palace today and had tea w/ Princess Eugenie. 👑Thank you so much!! A photo posted by @rheawahlbergblog on ...

President Obama to meet with Leonardo DiCaprio for climate change discussion at South by South Lawn

It was announced today that President Obama will be meeting with Leonardo DiCaprio next week as part of the inaugural South by South Lawn: A White House Festival of Ideas, Art, and Action. Leo will be part of the climate change discussion, although someone sent me this on Twitter and I’m pretty s...

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux out for dinner in New York in first photos together since Brange split

I was talking to a friend of mine this weekend and we played a game called “how long before Brad Pitt gets papped having a friendly lunch with Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux?” He thinks two months. I’m not sure what to think. You? Jennifer and Justin spent the weekend in New York. He’s b...

Regina Hall and Morris Chestnut in When the Bough Breaks movie review

If ever a movie needed to be rated R, it’s When the Bough Breaks, the evil-surrogate “thriller” from Screen Gems, the latest in what has become their annual fall tradition of releasing a bad genre movie aimed at black audiences (see also: The Perfect Guy, No Good Deed). I like the idea of a studi...

Beyoncé and Blue in matching monogrammed Gucci bombers at Dallas Cowboys football game with Jay Z and Tina Knowles

A week ago yesterday, Sunday, September 18th, Beyoncé was nominated for some Emmy awards and they were clearly expecting her to show up because they put her in the second row. Unfortunately for them, Beyoncé wasn’t about to sit in the second row on her night off. She had another night off last ni...

Tom Hiddleston for Gucci's Cruise ready-to-wear collection

Gucci is having a GREAT year. I could give you several examples of why this is, with a long list of celebrities who’ve been all about Gucci in 2016. But you only need one name: Beyoncé, the Formation video. The latest celebrity to rep Gucci is Tom Hiddleston. He is the face and body of Gucci’...

Idris Elba appears at Superdry in Sydney on my birthday

Well here’s an unexpected gift: new photos of Idris Elba in Sydney making an appearance at the Superdry store to fulfill his partnership obligations but also, unofficially, to celebrate my birthday. Idris, as you know, has been in Australia shooting Thor 3. He skipped the Emmys last week presumab...

September 26, 2016 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Young! “Hi from Jen” and … since there was no request for photos, can I give you some Mimi for some extra joy? Look what she posted this morning. Michael K at Dlisted calls them Titty Balls. May you have a Titty Ball kind of Monday. Which is the best kind of Monday.   ...

Intro for September 26, 2016

Dear Gossips, Today is Serena Williams’s 35th birthday. Happy Birthday to the Greatest Of All Time! And Happy Birthday to me! Please know that I am increasingly one of those people who turns her birthday into a f-cking spectacle. I never take the day off on my birthday. Because then everyone ...

Smutty Tingles for September 23, 2016

So it's my birthday soon and Jacek is "whisking" me away somewhere tonight. I don't often get "whisked" because I am a control freak. This trip is a surprise. All I know is that I'm supposed to meet him at the airport. Since I'm a dick who can always find something to complain about, even though ...

Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo name daughter Dusty Rose

The rumours are true. Dusty Rose. Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo named their baby Dusty Rose. Incredibly, this is not the first Dusty Rose I have been acquainted with. As a teenager, I was a day camp counselor, and one session, a girl walked in and announced her name was Dusty Rose*. Math-wise, ...

Owen Wilson and Ed Helms in Bastards trailer

It’s fall, which means it’s time for trailers for award bait films, holiday-season tent poles, and the utter dreck that gets buried out back during January. This post is about a road-comedy movie starring Owen Wilson and Ed Helms—guess which category it falls into? The movie is called Bastards an...

Smutty Social Media, September 23, 2016

Idina Menzel’s first magazine cover, which is kind of crazy.   Hanging at Billboard listening to my new album and they have my first magazine cover ever! #memories A video posted by Idina Menzel (@idinamenzel) on Sep 23, 2016 at 8:36am PDT ...

PEOPLE's character defence of Brad Pitt from "family source"

PEOPLE.com has new post up, yet another in favour of Brad Pitt, this time a character defence of Brad from a “family source". Basically the source is saying, and repeating, that Brad is an amazing father and would never want to hurt his children: "He is one of the best dads I have ever known,...

Scarlett Johansson in first Ghost in the Shell teaser trailer

I know Ghost in the Shell comes from a super famous manga comic from the 1980s, but the teasers just released for the movie make it look like a knock-off Matrix. The teasers, which you can watch below in one video, are just a few seconds each and reveal distinct visuals with no context. We get a ...

Hillary Clinton joins Zach Galifianakis on Between Two Ferns

I don’t think I’ve gotten quite enough people yelling at me about politics and the election, so let’s talk about Hillary Clinton’s appearance on Between Two Ferns. Yesterday the twentieth episode of Between Two Ferns came out and it features Hillary Clinton doing some #MillennialOutreach by way o...

Beyoncé’s Ivy Park Fall/Winter 2016 collection now available featuring camo print

Beyoncé’s Ivy Park Fall/Winter 2016 collection is now available. I feel like we would have been talking more about it this week but, you know, Brange imploded. Vanity Fair says that the point of the Ivy Park second collection is denim and mesh. That wasn’t my takeaway. My takeaway from the collec...

Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt in The Magnificent Seven movie review

Antoine Fuqua’s remake of the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven—itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai—was the opening film at TIFF. I missed the press screening, so I had to wait a couple days to see it, and during that time everyone kept telling me how horrible it is. But ...

Brad Pitt hires divorce lawyer and uses PEOPLE as outlet to release his side of what happened in drunken incident on plane leading to divorce filing from Angelina Jolie

It’s now been 24 hours since the allegations against Brad Pitt and what may have happened on that plane were reported. As of this writing (7am Friday) he has yet to release an official statement vehemently denying that he was drunk and may have gotten violent with his children. He does, however, ...

Intro for September 23, 2016

Dear Gossips, What’s your Patronus? If I were single and that was the opening line, I’d be inclined to stay for at least a drink. Pottermore introduced Patronus discovery yesterday. Here’s mine:   My #Patronus is not My Sharona. A photo posted by Ela...

Smutty Tingles for September 22, 2016

Megan Fox’s new business …is kinda perfect (Dlisted)  Michael B Jordan, big tipper (Just Jared)  Kevin Hart works out a lot (Cele|bitchy)  People write mean tweets about Ryan Gosling? (TooFab)  Is Tori Spelling social media-spying on KFed Jr? (Celeb Dirty Laundry)  Ellen Pompe...

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen gaze lovingly at each other during Years Of Living Dangerously premiere

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen were together last night at the Years Of Living Dangerously premiere. It’s been a while since we’ve seen them on a red carpet together. And he’s been as visible as ever during his suspension with interviews and appearances and details about his food preferences. So, ...

Chelsea Handler calls Angelina Jolie a lunatic and makes racially insensitive joke about her kids speaking 15 different languages while defending Jennifer Aniston

Chelsea Handler has never liked Angelina Jolie. Google it. Chelsea Handler is also very good friends with Jennifer Aniston. So here’s Chelsea Handler giving her opinion, because we were all waiting for her opinion, on the breaking of Brange: Chelsea weighs in. #brangelina pic.twitter.com/...

Smutty Social Media, September 22, 2016

Paulina Gretzky’s passive-aggressive Instagram post.   Well if the shoe fits..💁🏼 A photo posted by Paulina Gretzky (@paulinagretzky) on Sep 21, 2016 at 5:19pm PDT Katy Perry leaves comments like “DILF” on most of Orlando’s posts. ...

Tom Hanks in Sully movie review

In 2009 airline pilot Captain Chesley Sullenberger successfully landed a passenger jet on the Hudson River, saving the lives of everyone on board. It was a truly amazing feat, and “Sully” became an overnight hero. The predictable media wave followed—interviews, book deal, and, now, a feature film...

Brad Pitt can't go on record denying allegations when Angelina Jolie might have more receipts

Angelina Jolie filed for divorce on Monday citing last Thursday, September 15 as the date of separation, one day after Brad Pitt allegedly was a mess on a private plane. On Tuesday of this week, news broke that she was asking for sole physical custody of the children. At the time of this post, Br...

Brad Pitt reportedly denies abusing his children as case is referred to FBI

As mentioned earlier, the LAPD denied that they were investigating Brad Pitt for an incident on a private plane last week during which he was allegedly drunk and verbally abusive. And then the reaction was, oh look, she’s a f-cking liar. But PEOPLE also corroborated the report. And PEOPLE continu...

Brad Pitt denies abusing his children as case is referred to FBI

As mentioned earlier, the LAPD denied that they were investigating Brad Pitt for an incident on a private plane last week during which he was allegedly drunk and verbally abusive. And then the reaction was, oh look, she’s a f-cking liar. But PEOPLE also corroborated the report. And PEOPLE continu...

Jared Leto to play Andy Warhol in biopic titled Warhol

This week in “Of Course, Of F*cking COURSE” news, it’s been reported that obnoxious dickhead actor Jared Leto will portray Andy Warhol in a biopic of the artist titled simply Warhol. Leto will not be pissing out this performance as he did all his previous performances, since being the Third Worst...

The LAPD denies investigating Brad Pitt for child abuse following allegations originally reported by TMZ

TMZ posted a story last night about Brad Pitt’s alleged behaviour on a private plane with Angelina Jolie and their kids that supposedly went down last week. He was allegedly “wasted” and was shouting and getting “physical”. TMZ says it happened last Wednesday, at 8pm, the night before the officia...

Lin-Manuel Miranda looks hot on the cover of GQ but Duana doesn't think so

As Lainey would say, “picture him on top of you.” Is something happening? Are you feeling it? I mean, I’ve always wanted to share a life with Lin-Manuel, just holding each other every night watching rom-coms, coming up with cute rhymes about our love and listening to the Hamilton soundtrack while...

Marion Cotillard addresses Brad Pitt cheating rumours on Instagram and confirms pregnancy

Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet have a child called Marcel. Marion is in a movie about married spies with Brad Pitt called Allied due out in November. Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt. Marion is pregnant. The easy gossip here was to assume that Marion came between Brange w...

Intro for September 22, 2016

Dear Gossips, Tom Cruise has a movie coming out a month from tomorrow. It’s the Jack Reacher sequel, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. That title. Why is that title? Because Tom Cruise still lives in the 80s. The 90s were great for him too, actually. And the early part of the millennium. We’ll com...

Smutty Social Media, September 21, 2016

I’m so shallow that I saw this picture and realized Jane Goodall was at the UN a few weeks ago with Leo and I wonder if he came up.   What an inspiring woman! Thank you Jane @janegoodallinst for all that you are and for all that you do to make the world a better pla...

George Clooney reacts to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie divorce news and a Brange podcast with Duana

Amal and George Clooney have been in New York this week at various United Nations meetings. Amal recently announced that she will be suing ISIS, explaining to NBC News that, "ISIS can just be reborn under a different name if you don’t actually change the narrative and change people’s minds". Her ...

John Mayer branches into lifestyle with jewellery line and laundry detergent collaboration

When I read Gwyneth Paltrow’s interview in Lenny Letter, it reminded me of Leonardo DiCaprio. Or rather, Lainey’s characterization of Leonardo DiCaprio. You know how Lainey loves to refer to Leo’s STRUGGLE filming The Revenant? How he STRUGGLED? How that STRUGGLE won him an Oscar? Well this i...

US Weekly reports Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes married in secret but TMZ and NY Daily News shoot down story

US Weekly is reporting exclusively that Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes got married in secret earlier this year: “Multiple sources reveal in the new issue of Us Weekly” that Gosling and “his love of five years, Eva Mendes, quietly tied the knot earlier this year among a small group of family and ...

Joss Whedon launches star studded PSA called Save The Day encouraging people to register and vote in upcoming election

Joss Whedon founded a Super PAC (America’s campaigning rules are Byzantine and insane) called Save The Day and announced it today with a PSA filled with his celebrity friends. There are the Avengers, repped by RDJ, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Clark Gregg, Don Cheadle, and Cobie Smulders; an...

Leah Remini working on Scientology series with A&E focusing on families

Back in 2013, Leah Remini was fresh out of Scientology, getting ready for a stint on Dancing with the Stars. At the time, I said it was a smart move – and aggressive. Leah Remini may have been privately scared of the implications of leaving the Church, but publicly she was tough. And it paid off....

Smutty Tingles for September 21, 2016

Taylor Swift and Katy Perry want your attention back (Dlisted)  FLOTUS’s impression of POTUS (Just Jared)  Kanye West: fashion loner (Cele|bitchy)  Lady Gaga in the desert (TooFab)  My God, this man is fertile (Evil Beet)  Sofia Vergara Wonder Woman (The Superficial)  Thi...

A happy Jennifer Aniston covers the NY Post as US Weekly reports she always knew Brange would come to an end

I mean, the cover of the NY Post today: Today's cover: Jennifer Aniston knew Brangelina would end one day https://t.co/JvMlGzXP0A http://pic.twitter.com/uwVam0Glr1 — New York Post (@nypost) September 21, 2016 I laughed. It’s funny. It’s so f-cking bitchy which is probably why I laughe...

Miley Cyrus works really well as a coach on The Voice

How is Miley Cyrus doing on The Voice? That's the question of the season, isn't it? When it was first announced that Miley would be a coach on this season of The Voice, the response wasn't great. Let's just say The Voice fans were not on Team Miley. Alicia Keys also joined the show this seaso...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's performative parenting, together and apart

I was asked last night why I thought Brange was so once in a lifetime, beyond the obvious: their looks, their matched mega-fame as individuals, the scandal that marked the inception of their relationship, and the internet. Also their family. The children. The Brange children were introduced to th...

Multiple JonBenet Ramsey murder shows on different networks competing with each other for ratings feels gross

I don’t know how it’s possible, but when I wrote about CBS's then-upcoming JonBenet miniseries, I didn’t know about the JonBenet specials on A&E, TLC, and Dateline, not to mention Dr. Phil’s 3-part interview with Burke Ramsey. Everyone wants to capitalize on the “20th anniversary” of the crime, b...

Brad Pitt reportedly furious with Angelina Jolie for making divorce news so public claiming she's put a bounty on their kids

As I reported yesterday, Angelina Jolie got the jump on Brad Pitt. She filed for divorce. Laura Wasser is repping her. And her side of the story about Brad Pitt’s alleged drinking and “anger issues” was posted on TMZ first, before noon ET, which meant that Brad had to scramble to figure out his n...

Gabrielle Union talks about white privilege, sexuality, consent, and Nate Parker with xoNecole.com

Yesterday, Gabrielle Union tweeted out what she called, “One of [her] favorite interviews of [her] career.” She sat down with Zon D’Amour of xoNecole.com to talk about white privilege, sexuality, consent, The Birth of a Nation and her op-ed on the controversy surrounding her co-star alleged rapis...

New trailer for Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard's Allied focuses on characters' romance in wake of Angelina Jolie divorce news

As you know, Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in Allied, due out November 23. That’s around US Thanksgiving. That’s a favourable movie release date. It means they have some hopes for it at the box office and, perhaps, for awards consideration. Allied is about two spies who are married to each ...

New trailer for Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard's Allied released, focusing on characters' romance, in wake of Angelina Jolie divorce news

As you know, Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in Allied, due out November 23. That’s around US Thanksgiving. That’s a favourable movie release date. It means they have some hopes for it at the box office and, perhaps, for awards consideration. Allied is about two spies who are married to each ...

September 21, 2016 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Allison! Happy Birthday from Janet and Nick Jonas! “To our darling Hope on her birthday, The blessings of Queen Virgo Beyoncé are truly upon you, with a plethora of JonBenet specials AND Gossip Christmas delivered just in time for your special day. You may be blonde racist, and defini...

Intro for September 21, 2016

Dear Gossips, Exactly a week ago today, I opened the blog on Vanity Fair’s Hollywood divorce piece featuring commentary from Laura Wasser about why celebrity splits get played out in the media. She claimed that, “Most of my clients, for better or for worse, are not interested in that kind of ...

Smutty Tingles for September 20, 2016

The Sasha Answers podcast is back! We talk about asshole bridesmaids and rebounds. Also, does a tattoo hurt more than getting your bush lasered off? Maggie Smith’s very English clapback at Jimmy Kimmel (Dlisted)  Miley and Jimmy together again (Just Jared)  God these two are cute (Cel...

Smutty Social Media, September 20, 2016

Honestly, how are any of us supposed to concentrate on anything else today. Brad and Angelina. How am I supposed to go to work today ? — christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 20, 2016 Love the look of the oversized sequins on this outfit.   @so...

Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence in Passengers first trailer

As 2016 continues its quest to destroy everything we love, let your feelings over #JolieSplitt (h/t Dianna) be soothed by Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, America’s Sweethearts, coming to save you, literally, in the first trailer for their movie Passengers. The never-ending cycle of franchise m...

Brad Pitt was blindsided by Angelina Jolie's decision to file for divorce since there was still a lot of love between the two

So it’s been bad for a while, well before my post in June. Brange have always maintained a sexy kind of tension between them. It was a passionate relationship. They fought, they made up. All these years my sources have never worried that that was a problem, because it was just the nature of their...

Justin Bieber and Sofia Richie break up, were never all that serious to begin with

It’s the breakup heard ‘round the world. It’s the breakup that made us scream, “LOVE ISN’T REAL!” Just kidding. It’s the breakup that you scrolled passed on your Twitter timeline and kept scrolling because you didn’t give a f-ck. Justin Bieber and his girlfriend of 6 whole weeks, Sofia Richie (da...

Angelina Jolie reportedly fed up with Brad Pitt's consumption of weed and alcohol and his anger problem

Angelina Jolie is being represented by Laura Wasser. When Laura Wasser was handling Johnny Depp, it seemed like TMZ had minute-by-minute updates on the situation from Johnny’s perspective. So far this morning, they are also coming hard with exclusives about the Brange split. The latest is a quote...

Marion Cotillard and Brad Pitt cheating rumours not the story in Angelina Jolie's divorce filing despite Page Six report of affair

Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet were photographed with their son and some friends last week in France. Fortuitous that these photos were released just yesterday. Because now that Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce  from Brad Pitt there will be a lot of speculation about whether or not Mari...

Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt

This is Angelina Jolie telling Taylor Swift and Kanye West’s wife that their pathetic excuse for Gossip Christmas was BARELY Gossip Christmas. So, in case you haven’t heard, TMZ broke the news that Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt. Her lawyer is Laura Wasser – and this is k...

Cara Delevingne at Burberry show during London Fashion Week with black line painted down the middle of her body

It’s fashion week in London. Yesterday was the Burberry show. And Cara Delevingne showed up in a wonderfully dramatic black dress with a cloaked back that I wish I could afford. Still, that wasn’t the highlight of her look. The highlight of her look is what appears to be a black line painted from...

September 20, 2016 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Saraah! Happy Birthday! I’m sorry about your cell phone. I’m overjoyed that Emma has a little brother. And Matt wanted me to toast you with RuPaul’s drag race. This is a delightful request.

Intro for September 20, 2016

Dear Gossips, I am in love. I have just spent the last half an hour in my office, incapable of working, because I have fallen in love. With an academic, a true intellectual. His name is Eric Monkman. Eric Monkman took over Twitter last night during his performance on UK quiz-show Univ...

Smutty Tingles for September 19, 2016

Thanks for all your emails and tweets about the Emmys – keep them coming! And if you’re just joining us, the content today covered five pages, so scroll down and keep hitting “VIEW MORE” to find the posts you might be wondering about. My eye has to sleep now. Back tomorrow. Well f-ck. What a ...

Smutty Social Media, September 19, 2016

As Lainey mentioned, the FNL alumni were in full force at The Emmys. Luke, Six and Saracen were representing the night before.   6. 7. 44. #FNL #EveningBefore @zachgilford713 @mattlauria #TexasForever A photo posted by skittishkid (@skittishkid) on S...

Kerry Washington is Lainey's Best Dressed at 2016 Emmy Awards

You hope for it, at these events. You hope that there will be one look so bad that will make you gasp in…let’s face it… c-nty joy. And then you hope that there will be another look that is the complete opposite, that will made you sigh, with relief, that someone got it right. This is as right...

Sarah Paulson is Duana's Best Dressed at 2016 Emmy Awards

Let’s just get this out of the way: this dress is spectacular, and I knew the second she appeared on my screen that she would be my best dressed. I love the emerald colour and the chunky texture and the deep v-neck and the nod to breasts lying in a dress naturally, instead of hitched up for no re...

Emilia Clarke is Duana's Worst Dressed at 2016 Emmy Awards

I don’t dislike Emilia Clarke, and I like the Khaleesi, but I do find her totally unremarkable sometimes – especially when she doesn’t have her trademark white-blonde hair. Very pretty, but not very memorable, maybe. This is possibly patently unfair, and I once read a print interview where she se...

Robin Wright is Lainey's Worst Dressed at 2016 Emmy Awards

It was shocking to me, seeing Robin Wright, whose style is normally so crisp and edgy, show up in a dress that looked so… cheap. This the first time I’ve used the word today. And I’ve saved it specifically for this dress. The tag might read thousands of dollars but the read on the dress is low cl...

Aziz Ansari & Alan Yang win 2016 Emmy for Writing 'Master of None'

Everything about this win made me so happy. The fact that they won at all, which we’ll come back to. The fact that when they gave their acceptance speeches, Ansari took second place, letting the much less famous, and much less likely to get a platform from day to day, Alan Yang, have the first tu...

Tatiana Maslany wins Best Actress in a Drama at 2016 Emmy Awards

So? Now that the Best Actress in a Drama award has gone to Tatiana Maslany for playing ALL – or, okay, most – of the characters in Orphan Black, are you more inclined to try it? This is an award where previous winners include, you know, Viola Davis, Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies – the kind of ...

Tom Hiddleston twirls Priyanka Chopra on stage at 2016 Emmy Awards

If I asked you, before the Emmys, who’d be involved in an onstage “twirl” during the broadcast, who would you have a nominated. OF COURSE Tom Hiddleston. OF COURSE. Walking into work tomorrow morning like... #Emmys https://t.co/Oa5QLT0LBR http://pic.twitter.com/9f90D19WcV — Us Weekly (@usweekl...

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys snubbed at the 2016 Emmy Awards for The Americans

You know, it’s not even about explaining how much of a loss it was that The Americans – who are, in name, Rhys and Russell – got so snubbed last night. Remember Coach and Mrs. Coach? Remember that marriage, and how hot-but-real it felt? Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings are much hotter, far more...

Jill Soloway and Jeffrey Tambor at the 2016 Emmy Awards

What did you think of Kimmel giving the statuette to Jeffrey Tambor right off the top? Was it funny, or did it rob the eventual win of its…you know, moment-ness? To me, it implied the win was a given, and I think that was more true inside the room than on TV, you know? That is, I know some of the...

John Travolta and Kelly Preston are the Osmonds at the 2016 Emmys

For real, I looked at these pictures of John Travolta and Kelly Preston at the Emmy last night and thought to myself, “Oh, what are Donny and Marie Osmond doing there?” Right? Once you know it, now that I’ve put it into your mind, you can’t un-know it. You can’t un-see it. SEE IT! ...

Sterling K. Brown wins Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie at the 2016 Emmy Awards

If you watched American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson, you thought to yourself, of the actual Christopher Darden, “Man, I don’t remember a lot about that guy at all”, and then the real guy faded into the performer and it became “I really wish he would kiss Marcia Clark already, let’s GO”...

America Ferrera's great earrings at the 2016 Emmy Awards

Also a pale lip. See what I mean about all those pale lips? Didn’t bother me as much on America Ferrera as the others though with her beachy hair and that beachy glowing skin over a beachy-ish dress, and besides, I was distracted by those earrings. On the carpet, they looked red. I kept think...

Tracee Ellis Ross had a blast at the 2016 Emmy Awards

If you took yearbook-style snapshots of the night last night, Tracee Ellis Ross would be in the middle of all of them having a blast, like the most popular girl at school. She’s having a great time at this thing, her Ralph Lauren dress looks great and – and this is key – effortless, and she’s bri...

Yara Shahidi's white and gold dress at the 2016 Emmy Awards

If I had my pick of any Emmy dress last night, for my own personal style, it would be Yara Shahidi’s dress. Worn with my silver stacked combat boots and a really tight topknot. The question is: would I wear it two nights in a row? On Saturday, Yara wore a very similar dress to the BAFTA Tea P...

Mandy Moore at the 2016 Emmy Awards ahead of new show This Is Us

Of course it’s a comeback. Mandy Moore was not on anybody’s mind, even though she was working a lot. I clicked by John Krasinski on TV the other day, and it turned out to be some horrible horrible movie where he was trying to marry Mandy Moore, and I thought how merciful for both of them that nob...

Claire Danes's terrible spray tan at the 2016 Emmy Awards

It wasn’t just your TV. Duana and I were comparing TVs. I thought maybe Jacek had f-cked around with the colour on ours for his game console. But when Duana said that Claire Danes looked the same on hers, and all the TVs on Twitter were seeing the same thing, well, it wasn’t a problem with the TV...

Laverne Cox's graceful 2016 Emmy Awards appearance

You know what a premium we put on awkward these days? Coltish, beautiful young people who have never looked or been awkward in their lives love to use the word as a catch-all that’s supposed to mean ‘I’m a little more interesting than the average person.’ But awkward is not always charming, and a...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus's misinterpreted reaction to Kate McKinnon win at the 2016 Emmy Awards

Photo and Video Assumption, the favourite game of gossips – drawing baseless conclusions from photos or video moments – but as unreliable as bump watch. And, sometimes, as was the case last night, it can make you feel like a f-cking asshole. This is what happened after Kate McKinnon won the E...

Kate McKinnon did not expect to win at the 2016 Emmy Awards

This woman really, really did not expect to win. Those are always the most fun to begin with (and it was really the night to be a long-shot to win wearing a red column, huh?), but when you add that the person who surprise-wins is incredibly talented, it makes things even more charming, especially...

Taraji P Henson in a boring yellow dress at the 2016 Emmy Awards

I look forward to seeing Taraji P Henson on a carpet. I was really, really looking forward to seeing her on this carpet. I thought for sure she’d be a contender for best dressed. And then she showed up, in the most boring yellow dress ever, and it seemed like she opted out. The monogrammed clutch...

The Stranger Things kids at the 2016 Emmy Awards

Is there nothing they can’t do? Honestly, this is the kind of thing I usually hate—kids being brought into an adult situation to capitalize on being cute. You can see them, eyes whirling in their heads, trying to figure out how to get everyone to laugh and smile at them again. Looking for a h...

Kristen Bell's nice 2016 Emmy dress could have used better lipstick

So… Kristen Bell is not my favourite. And she’s never my favourite on a red carpet. I actually look forward to this; I look forward to not liking whatever she wears on a red carpet. But this did not happen at the Emmys. Her dress was nice. Too flouncy and maybe even a little too busy for my taste...

Cuba Gooding Jr at the 2016 Emmy Awards

I’m pretty shocked at the number of people who didn’t see American Crime Story about OJ, although to their credit, a lot of people conflated it with either American Horror Story, American Crime, or the OJ documentary. Far be it from me to tell Ryan Murphy what to do, but dude, maybe diversify you...

Amanda Peet's flawless style at the 2016 Emmy Awards

If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you know about Amanda Peet – so beautiful and *could* be SO stylish but she makes the weirdest, most fascinating fashion choices sometimes. Like, oftentimes the outfit is almost good. But it’s either an inch too long or an inch too short or there’s a ...

Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner at the 2016 Emmy Awards

If you’ve never watched an episode of Game of Thrones, you still have to appreciate the cuteness of these two. They’ve grown up together in the spotlight of this ridiculous behemoth of a show, and despite the fact that, as far as I can tell, they haven’t had a scene together in about five years, ...

Kit Harington and Andy Samberg funny together at the 2016 Emmy Awards

All the photos I saw of Kit Harington before the show, on the carpet, were of him making his squinty-eye, brooding face, also known as his Jon Snow face. So it was going to be that kind of night. I thought…wrong. Because they paired him as a presenter with Andy Samberg. And they did a goofy, stup...

Viola Davis at the 2016 Emmy Awards and remembering her speech on opportunity

I don’t love this dress on Viola Davis, but I’m always grading on a curve for people who wear colour. Still, this one feels a lot more prom-y than some of the showstoppers she’s worn before. So did she choose this because she knew it wasn’t her year? Did she know there wouldn’t be a repeat wi...

Michelle Dockery's 2016 Emmy Awards dress is still a sketch

I was bitching earlier about so many pale lips at the Emmys. Michelle Dockery did not go with a pale lip. And her lip colour is probably my favourite thing about her look. This dress was a favourite for many of you. You tweeted and emailed about it. I guess we’re fighting. Because this dress ...

Why was John Mayer in the band at the 2016 Emmy Awards

Do we know why…? I read an article that was like “Here’s why John Mayer was at the Emmys…he was part of the house band!” Yeah, thanks. But whyyyyy was he in the house band? Did he write the music? Did he just want a semi-anonymous gig to, like, try out a new guitar? Did he know that I had...

Regina King in taffeta at the 2016 Emmy Awards

I will never not complain about taffeta at an award show. Unless it’s the People’s Choice Awards. And Kaley Cuoco is wearing it. Because that’s where taffeta belongs. But at the Emmys? On Regina King? Regina King, the winner for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie? Look at...

Anna Chlumsky in a daring cape dress at the 2016 Emmy Awards

I am not mad at it. (Lainey: me neither.) If you are, let’s take a second. What are you mad at, exactly? Here’s what I love about this amazingly ballsy dress: it’s not trying to be something else. It’s not like “Oh, but no, I am a sleek and wonderful chemise!” Not that there’s anything wr...

FNL Alumni at the 2016 Emmy Awards and Kristen Dunst gets grouped in for dating Landry

Duana and I laughed about this when we were deciding on how to group some of these posts. I mean, when Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Jesse Plemons, and Aimee Teegarden are all there, of course I’m putting them in one post and labelling it FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS…OBVIOUSLY. What was funny, then, was ...

Minnie Driver at the 2016 Emmy Awards

Every so often I check to see if I still feel an unusual kinship with Minnie Driver, and the answer is yes. This is based on not much besides similar colouring, an outspoken-ness that sometimes doesn’t come out right, and secret ringlets that haven’t seen the light of day unchecked in over a deca...

Constance Wu's ponytail at the 2016 Emmy Awards could use help but the dress was great

This dress on Constance Wu was even better on television. The way it moved, the way the shimmer in the material caught the light, the effect was gorgeous. I need someone to create a nail polish in exactly this print. It’s not just the material and the colours though. It’s everything – the cut, th...

James Corden's Carpool Karaoke bit at the 2016 Emmy Awards was predictable

We all know it’s coming. The wages for being universally popular all at once are that you will then get a wave of backlash and unpopularity all at once. This, of course, is directly proportionate to the number and breadth of high-profile people who say they love you. Not that I don’t love Car...

Judith Light's great look at the 2016 Emmy Awards

I was so frustrated with all the pale lips last night. No one really came out with a strong, bold lip colour. And several people could have used a strong bold lip colour. We will get to them soon. Judith Light did not go with a strong bold lip. But her pale lip was one of the few I appreciate...

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele's bittersweet win at 2016 Emmy Awards

That’s the word The Atlantic used when Key & Peele ended last year: “bittersweet”. The show was just award an Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series for its fifth and final season and if you’re a fan, you almost wish it was still around now, especially now, with everything that’s happened and...

Rami Malek wins first Emmy for Mr. Robot at the 2016 Emmy Awards

I still have to pinch myself that the name ‘Rami’ is now approaching household-name status. I shouldn’t be, it’s fun to say; it’s just that for so long, none of the names and phrases I grew up hearing from my Egyptian dad seemed real. I half thought I made them up sometimes, and now there are pra...

Courtney B Vance and Angela Basset at the 2016 Emmy Awards

When Duana and I were splitting up this list of who would write which names, and Courtney B Vance came up, I told asked her, “You think it’s OK if my entire Courtney B Vance post is gonna be about Angela Bassett, because goddamn”. And she was like, “Isn’t that the point?” It’s true. And I thi...

Constance Zimmer and Shiri Appleby at 2016 Emmy Awards

People are widely divided on this look. I don’t hate it, but it’s definitely not Quinn, and I think that’s what people do hate about it. The bob keeps it on the right side of things for me but I think if she had romantic hair we’d need to have a serious talk. Zimmer was nominated against muc...

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler complement each other in green at 2016 Emmy Awards

If you’re the Schumer sisters, you go to the Emmys as twins. If you’re Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, and you’ve just won an Emmy together for co-hosting Saturday Night Live, and you’re presenting at the Emmys together, you choose outfits that are not the same but that complement each other, and the h...

Amy Schumer and sister Kim arrive at 2016 Emmy Awards looking like twins in black Vivienne Westwoo dresses

So a lot of people are talking about Amy Schumer and her sister Kim looking like twins on the Emmy red carpet. The rolled-necks of their black dresses do look very similar, they’re both Vivienne Westwood, and even the hair looked the same. I saw the whisper that this was supposed to be some subve...

Beyoncé didn't show up to 2016 Emmy Awards and Lemonade lost to Grease: Live

Is it because they had her in the second row? I mean, who the f-ck puts Beyoncé in the second row?! They had Amy Schumer in the front row but Beyoncé in the second row?! In the end, it didn’t matter, because even though everyone was waiting for her – and I do mean everyone because so many celebri...

Intro for September 19, 2016

Dear Gossips, “I just wanted to feel beautiful, y’all!” That was Leslie Jones, making the required “award show accountant moment” the most interesting it’s ever been. The Emmys did a lot of things right last night. And one of those things was to find a way to involve Leslie Jones in the s...

Matt Damon joins Jimmy Kimmel on stage at 2016 Emmy Awards as surprise guest

Sarah always talks about HBO’s Game Of Thrones dragon budget and how many times they can show the dragons based on how much money they have for CGI every time the dragons show up. And then a dragon showed up in the first 2 minutes of the Emmys. How much dragon money does the Emmys have? Matt Damo...

Smutty Tingles for September 16, 2016

It’s the Emmys on Sunday! Duana and I will be live-tweeting @Duanaelise and @LaineyGossip and then we’re staying up all night for full coverage on Monday starting around 2am ET. Get some rest then stay up with us. And have a great weekend! That guy who used to date Taylor Swift before Tom Hid...

Blonde Orlando Bloom "caves" and makes Instagram profile public

About a month ago, Orlando Bloom was photographed on holiday with Katy Perry and he wasn’t wearing any clothes. Those photos were all over the internet. And he didn’t complain. Nobody cried about privacy being invaded, nobody called it a violation. I called it a cock-boost. Because Orlando’s dick...

Mark Walhberg drops request for pardon for assault, regrets asking for it and says he was pushed into doing so

Mark Wahlberg was at TIFF earlier this week to promote Deepwater Horizon. There is one reason I might – might – see Deepwater Horizon and it’s not Mark Wahlberg. It’s Gina Rodriguez. Most people who go see Deepwater Horizon, however, are going for Marky Mark. Because … I can’t finish that sentenc...

Smutty Social Media, September 16, 2016

Naomi Watts, Mark Ruffalo and Olivia Wilde took an art class together.   Fantastic night tonight @nyacademyofart Drawing party, hosted by the brilliant #willcotton Best students here releasing their inner artistic talents @markruffalo @sunriseruffalo 👏🏆🎨👍🙌 #its...

Miley Cyrus covers ELLE to promote The Voice and Woody Allen series, Crisis In Six Scenes

Miley Cyrus’s new ELLE cover feature was released this week ahead of her debut as a judge on the upcoming season of The Voice, beginning on Monday and her new Amazon series Crisis Is Six Scenes beginning September 30. The premiere was last night in New York. Most of the headlines this week coming...

Blair Witch: TIFF movie review

Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett have made two of my favorite genre films of the last several years, You’re Next and The Guest. These guys are really good at remixing genre standards into something fresh and a little weird. So when it came out earlier in the summer that they collabo...

Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid hold hands in New York as it's announced Zayn will release autobiography at 23

Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid held hands on the way out of New York yesterday. They’ve been together in NYC for fashion week where Gigi promoted her collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger. Oh yeah, and Taylor Swift helped with that too. But it’s not just been about Gigi. Because a couple of days ago it wa...

Woody Harrelson in LBJ: TIFF movie review

Bryan Cranston won the Tony for his portrayal of Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way, and he's up for two Emmys this weekend for the televised version of the same role. So, when news broke that Woody Harrelson would also play LBJ in a Rob Reiner film about his life from 1960 to 1964, even Woody thou...

Intro for September 16, 2016

Dear Gossips, I am one of four co-hosts on a live daily talk show in Canada called The Social. Yesterday we aired a segment that’s one of the best pieces we’ve ever done. It was an interview with A Tribe Called Red, the First Nations DJ collective based in Canada. Their new album We Are The H...

Lupita Nyong'o covers Vogue for the third time to promote Queen of Katwe

There’s a quote in Lupita Nyong’o’s new Vogue feature I love so much I want to tattoo it on my body. Her roots are strong, which is why she flies. Lupita’s roots are in Kenya, where Vogue travelled with the star to shoot their October cover. Lupita Nyong’o is on the cover of Vogue for the...

Smutty Tingles for September 15, 2016

My friend Traci has an expression about a man like this: “I want to climb him” (Dlisted)  Lady Gaga’s new album cover (Just Jared)  If people thought Swoki was fake, imagine what they would think of Taylor Swift and Zac Efron?  (Cele|bitchy)  The gorgeous first trailer for Nocturnal A...

Lupita Nyong'o covers Vogue for the second time to promote Queen of Katwe

There’s a quote in Lupita Nyong’o’s new Vogue feature I love so much I want to tattoo it on my body. Her roots are strong, which is why she flies. Lupita’s roots are in Kenya, where Vogue travelled with the star to shoot their October cover. Lupita Nyong’o is on the cover of Vogue for the...

Celebrities including Katy Perry, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jenna Dewan Tatum lose their minds at Beyoncé's LA Formation concert

I already had to make Beyoncé share a post title with Tom Hiddleston so to avoid any further sh-t from the Beygency, we’re starting this post with some Beyoncé news. Beyoncé’s Formation was in LA last night. And there were a lot of celebrities there. These celebrities proceeded to lose their f-ck...

Smutty Social Media, September 15, 2016

There’s been a lot of chatter on Twitter about JT and Jessica splitting up, I guess a popular radio show in the US picked up the story from a lower-tier tab. I’m not saying it’s impossible but I find it hard to believe she would ever give him up.   Good times #Toron...

Gossip Genie-ing Taylor Swift and Prince Harry on Harry's 32nd birthday

Taylor Swift stepped out in stripes yesterday. What do you think she has in her purse? I’m asking because E! posted an article this morning listing all the times Taylor has “carried an empty purse”. I mean…I feel like you could apply this to most celebrities of Taylor’s calibre, you know? Like I’...

Dakota Fanning in Brimstone: TIFF movie review

Though it’s not mentioned in the article about male directors tackling rape narratives that I linked to in the Una review, the last film I saw at TIFF is another instance of a man directing a female protagonist in a rape narrative, and that is Dutch filmmaker Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone. Unlike ...

Scott Eastwood has his own underwear story on Ellen, like Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper was on Ellen the other day and for some reason it came up that he wasn’t wearing underwear. Scott Eastwood is not Chris Pratt. He is also not Bradley Cooper. But on Ellen this week, amazingly!, he too had his own underwear story. Or, rather, he just “casually dropped” into the conv...

Rebecca Hall in Christine: TIFF movie review

According to Rebecca Hall, the challenge of making a movie about Christine Chubbuck — a Florida-based reporter who died by suicide (reportedly on-air) barely a month before her 30th birthday in 1974  — is creating "a film about sensationalism without being sensationalistic." That's what she told ...

Ryan Gosling's spark wasn't as bright as usual while promoting La La Land at TIFF

Ryan Gosling was not in Venice for the world premiere of La La Land. He did, however, show up to support the film at home in Toronto at TIFF. La La Land, as you’ve heard, has bewitched critics and audiences all over the place and is now considered to be the frontrunner for Oscar, with Emma Stone ...

Rooney Mara in Una: TIFF movie review

While standing in line for Una, the film adaptation of David Harrower’s play Blackbird, earlier this week, one of the PR reps for the film told me she had already noticed an audience divide forming around it—men almost uniformly hated it, but women were moved by it. Then, during the screening, th...

Intro for September 15, 2016

Dear Gossips, Yesterday’s theme was “feelings”. Too many feelings. Feelings about raisins. Singing about feelings. Singing about love. Which continues today, specifically about love. And how “love”, the actual word, should sound in a song. Lindsay Zoladz wrote in The Ringer earlier this w...

Diane Kruger and Garrett Hedlund out for dinner and drinks together in New York

Diane Kruger and Garrett Hedlund went out for dinner together on Monday. After dinner, they hit up another bar for a drink. Since two very attractive famous people can’t be friends, we must now discuss whether or not this is good for gossip. Twelve years ago, Diane and Garrett were both in Tr...

Smutty Social Media for September 14, 2016

Ugh, Kelly Osbourne. She’s posted several pictures of this look and is arguing with people in the comments section.   I literally woke up like this as I did not go to sleep last night! #WorkComesFirst #illSleepWhenImDead #NoFilter 🤘🏼 A photo posted by Kell...

Scott Eastwood tells Glamour he didn't get role in Passengers that went to Chris Pratt instead

I know. I’m Captain Obvious with that statement. But first, please enjoy these photos of Scott Eastwood at the NY premiere of Snowden last night and also, earlier in the day, according to the paps, trying to get a girl’s phone number on the street. We’ll never really know what he’s saying but my ...

Tom Brady tells The Cut he's never eaten a strawberry in interview promoting UGGs

Tom Brady was interviewed by The Cut for a new article posted today to promote UGGs. It’s not that interesting. Except for what he says about food. Have you noticed that Tom Brady+Gisele Bundchen+Food makes a lot of headlines? Their chef has given a few interviews over the last year talking about...

Kanye West reportedly helping Drake write a love song for Rihanna

Let me specify: does Drake need Kanye West’s help to write a love song for Rihanna? Because this is what IN TOUCH Weekly is trying to tell me in its latest issue. The headline: Kanye is helping Drake write a love song for Rihanna I don’t believe that Kanye is helping Drake write a love ...

Trailer for Tupac biopic All Eyez On Me released on 20th anniversary of his death

The teaser trailer for the upcoming Tupac biopic All Eyez On Me came out on his 45th birthday. The full trailer was released yesterday, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It has been TWENTY years since Pac died. There are full grown adults of drinking age who don’t remember a music world in wh...

Smutty Tingles for September 14, 2016

Ummm…she looks like she plays a LOT of piano (Dlisted) More tea from Naya Rivera (Just Jared)  I can’t get past the name “Brielle” (Cele|bitchy)  Bradley Cooper talks about his underwear at the White House (TooFab)  Will and Kate, power couple (Celeb Dirty Laundry)  Pamela And...

Tatiana Maslany and Dane Dehaan in Two Lovers and a Bear: TIFF movie review

Tatiana Maslany and Dane DeHaan must have really taken to Kim Nguyen's surreal arctic love story because Two Lovers and a Bear left them out in the cold. The freezing cold, in fact. But to them, it was a very worthy project, and this original Canadian, The Shining-esque lovers-on-the-run story wa...

Justin Timberlake uses Britney Spears, again, to promote himself at Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids TIFF premiere

Justin Timberlake was at TIFF yesterday for the documentary Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids. On the carpet, E!’s Marc Malkin asked JT about the only thing that matters where JT is concerned: Britney Spears. Because she made him. Here’s how it went down:  Funny he mentions headline...

Nick Cannon's The King of the Dancehall: TIFF movie review

Nick Cannon turned up with this allegedly true story about Tarzan Brixton, a Brooklyn transplant who mastered the art of dancing in Kingston, Jamaica and became a dancehall champion in what is basically Step Up 2 Jamaican Streets. The King of the Dancehall is laughably bad, but it’s the kind of r...

Winona Ryder and Millie Bobby Brown front row at Coach show during NYFW

Winona Ryder and Millie Bobby Brown sitting front row together at the Coach show in New York yesterday. Since the theme of the day (see today’s intro) is feelings, my heart is bursting with so many feelings, more feelings than I knew I ever had, looking at these pictures. Nostalgia: for a face ...

Jennifer Garner and Bryan Cranston in Wakefield: TIFF movie review

Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner basically star in a film that should be called Two (Estranged) Lovers and an Attic. Bryan plays Howard Wakefield, a high-end Connecticut-based lawyer who runs away from his idyllic married life to live in isolation on the property. In his mind, it's a valiant ac...

Matt Damon makes sure his influence is felt as he supports Manchester by the Sea at TIFF as producer

Matt Damon was at TIFF yesterday as a producer on Manchester By The Sea, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan. Matt and Kenneth have worked together before – on a film called Margaret, critically acclaimed, but complicated behind the scenes by financial and editorial disputes. Click here for ...

Casey Affleck's Manchester by the Sea: TIFF movie review

Manchester by the Sea is Kenneth Lonergan’s third film, and his strongest result yet. The story centers on Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck), a custodian in Boston who learns of his brother’s death and goes home to the fishing village of Manchester by the Sea to settle his brother’s affairs, including...

Intro for September 14, 2016

Dear Gossips, Two link recommendations today and the common theme here is “feelings”. All that matters is the “feelings”. And as long as one feels the feelings and honours the feelings, one can begin to live their best life. Let’s start with life at university and a story that’s gone vira...

Smutty Tingles for September 13, 2016

Retirement rockets (Dlisted) Tea by Naya Rivera (Just Jared)  Angelina Jolie was in Jordan this week (Cele|bitchy)  Sandra Bullock talks about how loud her kids are (TooFab)  Big G was always going to be spoiled though, wasn’t he? No matter what kind of parenting? (Celeb Dirty Lau...

Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in first trailer for Fifty Shades Darker

The first trailer for Fifty Shades Darker dropped today and… I was EXCITED to watch this! When you’ve been immersed in a film festival and you’ve been screening Films with a capital “F” for a few weeks, sometimes it all gets a little too… Filmy. Sometimes you just need some junk. So the timing of...

A United Kingdom TIFF review starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike

There’s a common problem with biopics and historical dramas of trying to do too much. It’s what makes a biopic feel overstuffed and shallow at the same time—there’s a lot of information being imparted, but the constant stream of exposition means less time devoted to story and character. This is w...

Amanda Seyfried steps out in New York as US Weekly confirms engagement to Thomas Sadoski

Amanda Seyfried stepped out today in New York, with her dog, without her fiancé. Her fiancé is now Thomas Sadoski. US Weekly confirmed it yesterday. Amanda and Thomas worked together last year on the play The Way We Get By. He was married at the time. His marriage ended last summer. And he and Am...

Xavier Dolan's It's Only The End of the World TIFF movie review

I have a ton of respect and admiration for Xavier Dolan. It’s hard not to, right? He’s 27. Every profile or review of his work mentions his age. He’s had movie after movie at Cannes, so much acclaim, directed Adele’s Hello video, has an LV campaign and is working on an English-language debut with...

Solange Knowles pens essay about belonging after having trash thrown at her by white women for dancing at a concert

I can remember every racist thing that has ever happened to me. Vividly. Dating back to when I was about five years old, every moment where someone has made me feel lesser than or uncomfortable or out of place because of my race is catalogued in my brain. I can’t remember the periodic table but I...

Smutty Social Media, September 13, 2016

Baby number 3 for Alec and Hilaria, and Alec’s fourth child – two daughters and two sons, which I think is great symmetry. I really like the name and I hope Duana doesn’t convince me otherwise.   Leoncito!!!!! A photo posted by Alec Baldwin (@iamabfalecbaldw...

Jessica Biel to star in and produce new TV series, The Sinner

It was announced the other day that Jessica Biel will be starring in and producing a TV series called The Sinner about a mother who is “overcome by an inexplicable fit of rage and commits a startling and very public act of violence”. She doesn’t understand her own motivation so she teams up with ...

Riley Keough and Sasha Lane in American Honey: TIFF movie review

Kristen Stewart and Alicia Cargile dancing on the famous red steps in Cannes alongside the American Honey cast, including Shia LaBeouf? It was one of the more memorable moments from May's otherwise ultra-formal film festival. The couple attended to show support to Kristen's friends, who are in th...

Sarah Jessica Parker in new trailer for Divorce with Thomas Hayden Church

Here’s a little insider tip—if you want to annoy an agent or broadcast network executive, or hell, even a writer who’s had a rough week, use the word ‘dramedy’.  Say something like, “No, it’s not like, funny, like it’s not three jokes per page, but it’s a comedy. It is!” Hand in a first draft tha...

Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner in Arrival: TIFF movie review

Space movies are making a comeback, thanks to audiences who only turn out for widescreen spectacles (same reason Westerns are coming back), and in Arrival we get one of the better recent space movies, even though technically, it doesn’t take place in space. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, and adapt...

Taylor Swift hangs out with Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik in New York City

Zayn Malik did not participate in #Taymerica. Gigi Hadid was there. And she Instagrammed pictures from the event at the appointed social media dump time but she kicked it solo that weekend. Maybe Zayn was busy. Maybe he had to work. Maybe he’s not into group getaways. Group getaways are not for e...

Rachel Weisz in Denial TIFF movie review

The phrase "never forget" has taken on a sarcastic connotation on social media, or in pop culture, and is often used to memorialize shortlived celebrity couples, fads or memes. But its origins stem from a scarier idea: that we need to remember certain moments in history (the Holocaust, 9/11) so t...

Sienna Miller and Bennett Miller continue tennis love tour at US Open

I posted about Sienna Miller and Bennett Miller back in July when they were seen at Wimbledon together. And, at the time, no major outlets had been reporting on their relationship. This weekend they were together again at the US Open. And now he's being called her "boyfriend". OK. But did everyon...

La La Land starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling TIFF movie review

(Lainey: Sarah texted me right after the La La Land screening yesterday to tell me she liked it. “You liked a musical?” I started laughing. Because if Sarah couldn’t find a way to loathe a musical, it says something about the musical. This is why La La Land and Emma Stone are currently the frontr...

Intro for September 13, 2016

Dear Gossips, Vanity Fair published an article yesterday about celebrity divorces including interviews with Laura Wasser, who recently represented Johnny Depp in his divorce from Amber Heard, and Neal Hersh, whose clients include Brad Pitt and Halle Berry. The piece opens on two delicious bli...

Celine Dion mans the phone at Stand Up To Cancer

It’s been a heavy day on the site today. Jacek might be yelling at me for overloading the server. But I hope you’ve enjoyed all the posts and, as a token of my appreciation for your visit today, I’ve saved the best for last. It’s Celine Dion at Stand Up To Cancer…manning the phones! Pleas...

A Monster Calls TIFF movie review starring Sigourney Weaver and Felicity Jones

AKA, the movie where everyone cries for two hours straight. Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona (The Impossible, The Orphanage) commits another act of emotional terrorism with his latest movie about a little boy learning to grieve with the help of a semi-terrifying tree monster with a weirdly mu...

Katy Perry tweets that she'll collaborate with Taylor Swift if Taylor apologizes

Can you please just take a moment to appreciate the photo I’ve chosen to go with this post? The expression on both their faces? Do I have to keep writing? Isn’t this picture the whole story? Fine. Katy Perry was killing time the other night and decide to tweet her followers. One of them a...

Queen of Katwe TIFF movie review starring Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo

Queen of Katwe is a Disney movie set in Uganda starring an all black cast and directed by a woman. Its heroine is a girl. There are no white saviours. It’s about an 11 year-old chess prodigy who overcomes impossible circumstances to achieve greatness in a game usually reserved for the prep school...

Moonlight TIFF Review directed and written by Barry Jenkins

Moonlight, the second film from writer/director Barry Jenkins, poses a lot of questions about race, class, identity, sexuality, masculinity, what it means to be black in America, to be gay in America, to be black and gay in America, and whether or not we’re ready to admit that Boyhood was sh*t. M...

GigiHadid and Zayn Malik's relationship survived a summer full of break-ups

Through the summer. I mean I know, like, scientifically, summer doesn’t end for another 10 days or so, but the cultural end of summer is Labour Day. And there were so many breakups this summer. And you would have thought that Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik would have made that list, considering how yo...

Theories on why you're not watching The Get Down

I’m part of the problem here, of course. Or, I guess if you want to get really real about it, Netflix and the Golden Age of television and life are the problems. But you know that feeling where you’re super late for work, and breaking your neck to get there while racing through plausible excuses ...

The Bleeder TIFF review starring Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber

Mercury is in retrograde, so yada yada yada, I walked in to my screening of The Bleeder late. The night before, for the red carpet for The Bleeder, Lainey and I had to rush there due to some technical woes. It all worked out, and we got some great interviews with Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, Elis...

Taylor Swift supports Gigi Hadid at Tommy Hilfiger show at New York Fashion Week

Taylor Swift’s post-Swoki media strategy/standard media strategy – friend armour – was played on Friday night at NY Fashion Week as she stepped out to support Gigi Hadid at the Tommy Hilfiger show. Gigi collaborated on a line with Hilfiger and Taylor sat front row, hootin’ and hollerin’ in her re...

Smutty Social Media, September 12, 2016

Sean Lennon thinks the term mansplaining is sexist… towards men. And then he explained why. The term 'mansplaining,' is sexist. — Sean Ono Lennon (@seanonolennon) September 10, 2016 Cartoon villain Martin Shkreli threatens to beat up Captain America. Hahahahahahaha. @patto...

Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals TIFF movie review

Tom Ford’s sophomore film, Nocturnal Animals, is a two-for-one deal. Movie A stars Amy Adams as Susan, a sad, lonely person, being miserable in sad, lonely rooms. Movie B stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Tony, a man bent on revenge in the high desert of West Texas. The sum total of Nocturnal Animals is a...

Tom Ford in a wonderful mood and breathtakingly hot Aaron Taylor Johnson at TIFF premiere of Nocturnal Animals

I covered the Nocturnal Animals red carpet at TIFF for etalk last night. That's Tom Ford. Blaring at me on my schedule for days. Every time I looked at it I felt sick. It's Tom Ford. He can be intimidating. Not forgiving of fools. And I am the goddamn fool. A fool with a f-cking gnarly eye stye. ...

Lady Gaga releases new single, Perfect Illusion, and debuts new crop top and short short aesthetic to accompany the song

Do you like the song? Lady Gaga’s Perfect Illusion? I can’t decide. I know I don’t hate it. But I don’t know if love it. I don’t know if it’s major banger for me. With Gaga, with every release, there’s always an aesthetic, a look that accompanies each creative chapter. Right now, while we don...

Smutty Tingles for September 12, 2016

Is there an epidemic of half dead dicks in Canada? (Dlisted)  Every Lupita TIFF moment was breathtaking, including this one (Just Jared)  Tom Hiddleston thinks he’s going to win the Emmy? (Cele|bitchy)  Gwen Stefani talks about marriage rumours (TooFab)  Beyoncé facilitates an e...

Natalie Portman in Jackie TIFF movie review

If you ask Natalie Portman which performance was more daunting: dancing in Black Swan or mastering Jacqueline Kennedy's poise for Jackie, she might say the former was harder. But on the Jackie red carpet last night, she admitted to our camera crew and my friend and colleague Danielle Graham that ...

Anne Hathaway in Colossal TIFF movie review

Before I saw Jackie — a masterclass in filmmaking, vision and Americana subversion (more on that later)— I was ready to rave about Anne Hathaway's twisted part-addiction movie, part-monster movie, all dark comedy Colossal as being the most unique and memorable movie of TIFF. But, then Natalie gav...

Gwyneth Paltrow's goop launches clothing line, goop Label

Gwyneth Paltrow’s goop launched its very own clothing line today, goop Label. Even though both Vanity Fair and the NY Times are calling it Goop Label. You know what’s annoying about a brand with a lower case name, “goop”? It’s hard to find consistency in the way it’s presented. On the goop websit...

Ewan McGregor's American Pastoral TIFF movie review

Ewan McGregor makes his directorial debut adapting Philip Roth’s novel American Pastoral, and while he doesn’t embarrass himself, he also doesn’t do himself any favors. Working from an adaptation by John Romano (The Lincoln Lawyer), Pastoral manages to feel too long and like not enough at the sam...

Leonardo DiCaprio arrives late, does three short interviews, and blows by rest of press line for Before The Flood TIFF premiere

Leonardo DiCaprio was the big draw here at TIFF on Friday afternoon to screen his documentary Before The Flood. You can imagine the media presence at the theatre. It’s Leo. And, as TIFF’s documentary programmer Thom Powers told the audience, “The man at the centre of this film has a very large ch...

TIFF movie review of Lion starring Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel, and Rooney Mara

Word at TIFF travels fast. Sometimes, a little too fast. And Lion surprised everybody when it premiered on Saturday to "ugly cries" and a standing ovation. It's the based-on-a-true-story Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara adoption movie that is seemingly sponsored by Google Earth, and which ma...

Oscar Isaac at TIFF for The Promise and with Garrett Hedlund at the US Open

Oscar Isaac was at TIFF last night for The Promise. Although, I SAW HIM FIRST, I did not see him in Toronto. Because my assignment on Sunday was Tom Ford and the Nocturnal Animals carpet which, to be honest, I’m not mad at that. It’s Tom Ford. Anyway, before heading to the festival, Oscar was...

Gabrielle Union handles discussion surrounding Nate Parker's rape allegations beautifully at TIFF while promoting The Birth of a Nation

Last week when I wrote about Gabrielle Union’s powerful op-ed for the LA Times where she addressed Nate Parker’s rape allegations, I noted that Gabrielle’s piece made it impossible for the topic to be avoided at TIFF. The cast of The Birth of a Nation did the bulk of their press this weekend at t...

Rihanna joins Drake on stage in Los Angeles and he tells crowd she holds him down

I love it when a Monday begins with Drake and Rihanna. It was like this two Mondays ago after the VMAs. And this weekend, Rihanna joined Drake again on stage at his show in LA and, once again, he told the audience that he loves her, only he switched up the words:   ...

Rihanna joins Drake on stage in Los Angeles and he tells crowd she hold him down

I love it when a Monday begins with Drake and Rihanna. It was like this two Mondays ago after the VMAs. And this weekend, Rihanna joined Drake again on stage at his show in LA and, once again, he told the audience that he loves her, only he switched up the words:   ...

September 12, 2016 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Erica! Happy 30th Birthday with love from Kate who misses those “J Days”! Now that you’ve gotten over that punk Justin Timberlake, here’s Sam Hunt by request. Kate says you’re the kind of friend who’s there on the lights days but also 100% on the tough ones. Thanks for being true.  

Intro for September 12, 2016

Dear Gossips, This weekend, Emma Stone was named Venice Film Festival Best Actress for her performance in La La Land. La La Land screens at TIFF today and, as of this morning, Emma and Ryan Gosling are expected at the premiere tonight. As mentioned last week, La La Land appears to be the earl...

Mariah Carey announces she's working on new music with naked Instagram post from the bath

Did you need this today? I know you did. Mimi wants to tell us that she’s working on new music. What better way to communicate this message than to get in the bathtub, full hair and makeup, 8 sets of eyelashes, full up on the jewels, with bubbles strategically covering her tits. Also, please ...

Smutty Tingles for September 9, 2016

Minka Kelly says she’s not re-dipping (Dlisted)  OMG Zack Siler and Laney Boggs! (Just Jared)  Is Ben Affleck texting JLO? (Cele|bitchy)  Kaia Gerber for Marc Jacobs – stunning (TooFab)  Ummm…I’m here for Celine’s Super Bowl (TMZ)  The name of this superhero gives me back lu...

Kate Mara in Morgan movie review

One of the all-time great good-bad movies is Deep Blue Sea, the movie about the super-shark that eats a bunch of people, and figures out how to turn an oven on in order to kill someone inside it. Deep Blue Sea is just the right amount of terrible, action oriented, and batsh*t insane to make for p...

Smutty Social Media, September 9, 2016

Brooklyn Decker didn’t love her description in this Andy Roddick profile. Aside from being reduced to a "bikini model wife," this article has some very nice things to say about my husband, all of which are true. — Brooklyn Decker (@BrooklynDecker) September 8, 2016 This William Ra...

Ethan Hawke in Toronto for Magnificent Seven TIFF premiere as Winona Ryder attends Tim Burton's hand and footprint ceremony in Hollywood

If you said “who?” I’m mad at you! Troy Dyer and Lelaina “Lainey” Pierce, from Reality Bites, together again! OK, not really. But there are new pictures of both Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder from yesterday and I had them on my list and it was right there, right there! And I don’t think I’ve ev...

Jason Aldean is insulted by "bro country" label and defends blackface in Billboard interview

Even though it’s still officially summer, everyone has fall on the brain. Starbucks is trying to make PSL happen (that’s an abbreviation for Pumpkin Spice Latte) and stores are stacked with Halloween decorations and candy. People who are really into it will start strategizing about their costume....

Jason Aldean is insulted by "bro country" label and defends blackface

Even though it’s still officially summer, everyone has fall on the brain. Starbucks is trying to make PSL happen (that’s an abbreviation for Pumpkin Spice Latte) and stores are stacked with Halloween decorations and candy. People who are really into it will start strategizing about their costume....

Sienna Miller grinds on Ben Affleck in Live By Night first trailer

The last film Ben Affleck directed was Argo. It went on to win Best Picture. Live By Night is Ben’s next directorial feature, due out in January, although many believe that there will be a limited release in December to qualify for award season. The first trailer came out last night, just as TIFF...

TIFF movie review of Certain Women starring Lily Gladstone and Kristen Stewart

My first day at TIFF is a split result. On the one hand, I made it here without losing my phone this time, which is a MAJOR improvement over last year. On the other hand, the first film I saw, Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women is not awesome. It has incredible acting going for it and not a whole lo...

The gossip photo booth blind riddle

There’s a photo booth at one of the most popular celebrity restaurants in LA. And some really, really great gossip goes down, sometimes literally, inside of it. Here are some of the photo booth’s dirtiest stories over the last few months: An actor in a bad mood with his date, not famous. She’...

TIFF movie review of Free Fire starring Brie Larson

Brie Larson went from TIFF to Oscar last year with her phenomenal performance in Room, but at the premiere of her latest film Free Fire last night, she told me that in spite of the "complete whirlwind" of her past 12 months, she's "still the same person." In fact, she insisted her fame has not ch...

Intro for September 9, 2016

Dear Gossips, Last night I read an article that pissed me off. It’s about the obstacles that women face in the United States when they try to access better birth control, specifically the IUD. But it’s not just in America. I have a friend who went to a pharmacy in Toronto a couple of years ag...

September 9, 2016 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Malik! Happy 15th Birthday, “Dude”! No, actually, “Elvis Dude”! I love your mother’s naming journey for you. And she loves you, just you. So here’s Victoria Beckham, your “favourite woman” in New York this week. Have a GREAT weekend!

Smutty Social Media, September 8, 2016

Miley Cyrus has a girls’ night out, so how long before a low-tier tabloid uses this photo as a “Liam Fed up over Miley’s Partying!” headline?   Girlzzzz Nightttttt @katyweaver @sarahbarthel @phantogram ❤️❤️❤️ A photo posted by Miley Cyrus (@mileycyrus) on ...

Brad Pitt interviewed by Marlon James for T Magazine cover profile

Brad Pitt on the cover of T, The New York Times style magazine, interviewed by reigning Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James. The last time we talked about an acclaimed author interviewing a movie star for T, it was Jonathan Safran Foer and Natalie Portman exchanging super-try emails. Since Marlo...

Jason Statham & Jessica Alba in Mechanic: Resurrection movie review

I was really hoping that Mechanic: Resurrection, the five-years-later sequel to The Mechanic, would be at least as insane as last year’s Transporter: Refueled. That movie, rebooted without original Transporter star Jason Statham, would have benefitted from retaining The Stath, so I was hoping tha...

Simone Biles and Channing Tatum fangirl over each other on Ellen

If this video doesn’t make you smile, you should probably re-evaluate your entire life. Channing Tatum and Olympic gold medalist/ all-around badass Simone Biles were on Ellen yesterday adorably fangirling over each other. I can’t decide which one is more adorable: the way Channing says “I’m gonna...

Gavin Rossdale and Elin Nordegren reportedly go on a first date and were set up by mutual friends

US Weekly reported this week that Gavin Rossdale and Elin Nordegren went on a first date recently. Please please please will it be ok for me to just say this one thing because I can't help myself? Gavin and Gwen Stefani got divorced because she caught him cheating with the nanny; Elin used to be ...

Johnny Depp to star in adaptation of book about murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls called Labyrinth

The focus on TIFF is usually centered on the films premiering there, and their Oscar potential, but there’s an active film market going on as well, where movies and the rights to movies—an idea of a movie, really—are for sale. Among the films pre-selling distribution rights, a common way to raise...

Smutty Tingles for September 8, 2016

So this means he can go on to be the new Bachelor right after DWTS, right? (Dlisted)  Ummm…I can’t wait to watch Chris Pratt host Live! with Kelly Ripa (Just Jared)  Michelle Obama looks unbelievable on the cover of InStyle (Cele|bitchy)  I love this song, I love her voice, and now th...

Jamie Dornan in The 9th Life of Louis Drax movie review

(Lainey: Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan were in London yesterday to promote The Fall S3, even though I can’t find a release date. There is a trailer though. And you can currently see Jamie in theatres in The 9th Life Of Louis Drax. Her review is below. Both trailers follow.) I’m going to t...

Garrett Hedlund at Tom Ford show during New York Fashion Week

This is really just a post about Garrett Hedlund being really hot. Because Garrett Hedlund manages a pretty low profile. There’s not that much to say about Garrett Hedlund other than he’s not dating Kirsten Dunst anymore and she’s now with Jesse Plemons. Garrett’s next film is Billy Lynn’s Lo...

Michael Fassbender opens up at TIFF 2016 Soiree fundraiser where he was guest of honour

Michael Fassbender admits he "gets off" on watching his movies for the first time with an audience, and adds that the adrenaline rush is contagious: What turns Michael Fassbender on? Waiting to see his movies for the 1st time w/ an audience. "I get off on it. I get high from it" #TIFF16 ...

Taylor Swift steps out in New York with Lily Aldridge after Tom Hiddleston split as Kanye West presents collection at New York Fashion Week

I mentioned yesterday that for Taylor Swift, her friends are her armour. Here she is last night, back in New York, out for dinner with Lily Aldridge, making sure we can see that she’s all good even though Swoki is no more. Yesterday I received several emails from people who didn’t want to bel...

Patrick Dempsey portrayed as the hero who saved his marriage on the cover of PEOPLE Magazine after allegedly cheating on wife Jillian

Patrick Dempsey “saved” his marriage! His marriage was a baby in a burning building and he strapped an ‘S’ on his chest, busted in there and rescued that sh-t like the McHero he is. Dempsey, the hero, is on the cover of PEOPLE with the headline “I Had to Change My Life” and right under that there...

Drake and Rihanna at The Nice Guy together after his show in LA

Stop mourning Swoki. Rihanna and Drake are still together (this time) so it’s going to be OK. Drake performed last night in LA. And, as I mentioned last week, because I am obsessed with them: Rihanna is scheduled to perform in Philadelphia on Saturday. Then she has a 3 week break before h...

Intro for September 8, 2016

Dear Gossips, You know that Lukas Graham song, 7 Years? Not my favourite. In fact, I think I almost hate it. It’s SO corny. And you can’t get away from it in bathrooms that play the radio. Have you noticed it’s always playing in the bathroom? Also Ed Sheeran songs, always being played in the ...

Smutty Tingles for September 7, 2016

Oh now TMZ, the voice of men, is analysing why a 50 year old woman might not want a divorce (Dlisted)  Drake’s latest achievement (Just Jared)  Lea Michele says anyone can have her body shape (Cele|bitchy)  Cecil Homme is still talking about Taylor Swift (TooFab)  Heathers, the T...

Matthew McConaughey in The Sea Of Trees movie review

(Lainey: have you seen this video? It’s Matthew McConaughey speaking to the Texas Longhorns. Speaking might be the wrong word. He might need his own verb. He’s McConaughey-ing them. McConaughey: to jack yourself up. MM is jacking up the football team. And they won this weekend Sunday aga...

Gwyneth Paltrow joins LinkedIn, says she's a "punk rock kid" in essay

Gwyneth Paltrow has joined LinkedIn and written an essay for it. Also there’s an interview. You can watch that below. G is an entrepreneur now. So LinkedIn is her people. G’s essay is all about how she transitioned from her “old life” to her new one, as the head of goop, and how even though s...

Smutty Social Media, September 7, 2016

This is a couple of days old but an Enquirer cover with an out-of-contex “gotcha” picture and George Wallace’s caption is so simple and perfect. Yeah join the club, buddy. http://pic.twitter.com/Z7ZVmqzbEg — George Wallace (@MrGeorgeWallace) August 31, 2016 Wait, did Kelly Rowland go to ...

Ryan Coogler turns down Academy invitation to become a member

Earlier this year the Academy made good on its promise to become more inclusive by inviting an unprecedented number of new members, many of whom are women and minorities working in film. Among these was Ryan Coogler, writer/director of Fruitvale Station, Creed, and the upcoming Black Panther movi...

Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift's relationship didn't end because of Bond role and rumours that it's going to Daniel Craig, despite speculation

Radar Online came out with a story earlier this week about Daniel Craig being offered $150 million to reprise his role as James Bond and now that Swoki is dead, people are all like, oh Tom Hiddleston exited Swoki because he can’t use Taylor to be Bond anymore… BULLSH-T. Please consider th...

How does Taylor Swift reset after Tom Hiddleston breakup and tumultuous summer?

It started out great, didn’t it? Swoki happened with a romantic Rhode Island kiss on the rocks. Seems appropriate to use the world “whirlwind” to describe what followed the next few weeks with trips to Nashville, New York, LA, London, Rome, back to Rhode Island, and Australia. #Taymerica took ove...

Tom Hiddleston accepts TV Choice Award in Twitter video with Idris Elba and Chris Hemsworth

As we’ve seen the Swift Squad knows how to rally. In good times and bad times, Taylor accessorises with friendship. Her friends have become her armour. They also keep her newsworthy and they enhance her “fun” factor. Look! So many people want to hang out with her, she must be the best! Now th...

Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston break up

A long sigh for the end of Swoki summer, one of the best summers in recent gossip history. But when two famewhores break up, how do you score the split? Taylor Swift is a lot of things but she wasn’t alone in the spectacle. There were two willing participants in the Swoki situation and now th...

Intro for September 7, 2016

Dear Gossips, Today is Leslie Jones’s birthday. And she came back to Twitter this weekend to celebrate her birthday week. Leslie took a break from Twitter for almost two weeks after her website was hacked. Leslie’s first posts upon her return were about the Golden Girls. Then she thanked her ...

Smutty Tingles for September 6, 2016

No one but Rihanna could wear this (Dlisted)  Kendrick Lamar in Sia's new video (Just Jared)  How many more babies before they can start making money again? (Cele|bitchy)  Carrie Underwood's athleisure (TooFab)   Are the Cambridge's being called out for being snobs? (Celeb Dirty L...

Minka Kelly and Wilmer Valderrama appear to be back together in Mexico after his split with Demi Lovato

They're in Mexico together. They're back together? Minka Kelly and Wilmer Valderrama dated in 2012 during one of his off phases with Demi Lovato. Now that he and Demi seem to be done for good, he and Minka are trying it out again. Interestingly, he and Minka's best friend, Mandy Moore, dated for ...

Mark Wahlberg on the set of Transformers: The Last Knight in London

“Remember when Mark Wahlberg was a violent racist bully” is the title of a Defamer article that I feel like we should check in with now and again. You’ll recall, Marky Mark asked for a pardon for his teenage f-cksh-t. Because it’s not enough that he’s gone on to become a Hollywood movie mogul, he...

Smutty Social Media, September 6, 2016

Maks doesn’t make sense – why would something with a lot of drama not be a compelling read? Is he saying that tabloids aren’t compelling? Maybe don’t promote your cover then, bro.   Not the most...compelling read, but so much drama!!! LOL @dancingabc #theyshoulddoas...

Janelle Monae, Amy Adams, Emma Stone, and Rooney Mara in "class photo" out of Telluride with other potential future Oscar nominees

Take a look at this low key, chilled out group picture with some of the most buzzworthy stars and filmmakers of 2016, all together, sitting on the ground. And check out Amy Adams’s beaming smile. Pure joy… and stamina. This edition of the #Telluride group photo is a who's who of cinema......

Emma Stone is an early Oscar frontrunner as La La Land is positively received at Telluride and Venice Film Fesitval

After premiering La La Land in Venice last week, Emma Stone spent the weekend screening the film at Telluride. The film was very positively received at both festivals. Several of my etalk colleagues have seen it pre-TIFF and they’re obsessed with it. Which is why Awards Daily is now comparing it ...

Casey Affleck's Manchester by the Sea feels like "the big one" for TIFF 2016

TIFF kicks off this week, and I’ll be filing reviews along with Joanna and Kathleen. It’s a little bit of a weird year, The Birth of a Nation and Nate Parker dominating so much of the pre-festival conversation, but Venice got underway last week, and Telluride went down over the long weekend in th...

Bridget Jones's Baby opens to decent reviews and Emma Thompson brings daughter Gaia to London premiere

Bridget Jones’s Baby premiered in London this weekend. So far, the reviews have been pretty decent with several top critics giving it a solid recommendation score, including Catherine Bray at Variety who writes that “Bridget Jones’s Baby is not a comedy for the ages, but it’s interesting to see a...

Lena Dunham apologizes for "narcissistic assumptions" made about NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. at Met Gala

A couple weeks ago I wrote about Amy Schumer, again, and how she keeps tripping over problems with other women. And now, after a controversial interview/conversation included in last Friday’s Lenny Letter, the conversation is swinging back to Lena Dunham and her recurring issues with race. The in...

Kit Harington and Rose Leslie hold hands in New York where he is shooting The Life And Death Of John F Donovan

Or, as I call them, Jon and Gidget … because I can never remember that character’s name! Here are Kit Harington and Rose Leslie out for a walk in New York the other day holding hands. He’s there shooting The Life And Death Of John F Donovan, Xavier Dolan’s first English language film. Product...

Gabrielle Union releases op-ed about Nate Parker and rape allegations in the LA Times

On Friday, the LA Times released an op-ed written by Gabrielle Union. Its headline: 'Birth of a Nation' actress Gabrielle Union: I cannot take Nate Parker rape allegations lightly. When I first saw this headline, I literally gasped out loud. What follows the headline is a stirring, emotional and ...

Beyoncé celebrates 35th birthday with Soul Train themed party with guests including Usher, Alicia Keys, Kendrick Lamar, and more

Bey weekend, actually. As you know, some people treat Beyoncé’s birthday like it’s a holiday. I’m not sure any other celebrity birthday is acknowledged the way hers is. But, then again, as we saw at the VMAs last week, Beyoncé is singular.  So she spent some time with Michelle Obama at Camp D...

September 6, 2016 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Katya! Happy Belated 31st Birthday! I’m sorry we missed this last week. Please know that your best friend Claire was on it though. She misses you so much. By request, here’s Sophia who should be side-eying my stank eye for this delay. Apologies once again and wishing you the very, very, very best...

Intro for September 6, 2016

Dear Gossips, Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge received a 10 minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival this weekend. Some are calling the film Mel’s “act of atonement”. As you know, Mel’s been accused of being several kinds of “-ists”. And an “-er” too. So here’s another man who’s been gi...

Smutty Tingles for September 2, 2016

Could you cuddle with a raccoon? (Dlisted)  Jennifer Lawrence’s new Dior ads and a great sweater (Just Jared)  Princess Kate did a shot of whiskey? (Cele|bitchy)  Millie Bobby Brown covers Adele covering Nicki Minaj (TooFab)  Sofia’s wearing JB’s pants (TMZ)  Just in case you...

Smutty Social Media, September 2, 2016

When the fortune cookie got it wrong.   They got the wrooooong bitch 🦂 A photo posted by Anna Kendrick (@annakendrick47) on Sep 1, 2016 at 9:26pm PDT When it comes to Rihanna and Drake, what do we know? Everything and nothing. That means ...

Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers in Southside With You

A fictionalization of Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date, Southside With You is a film that straddles several lines. It’s part biopic, part romance, part fan fiction, and it mostly navigates those boundaries with ease, though there’s such a staged quality to it you can’t help but wonder if it...

Leonardo DiCaprio out in LA with Nina Agdal as the Telegraph and NY Post follow up with questions about his foundation and embezzlement scam

Leonardo DiCaprio in LA with his Summer ’16 bonafide, Nina Agdal, earlier this week. And a shot of them side by side. And he’s not covering his face. Please let’s talk about this and not the potential controversy around his foundation and the embezzlement scam? Since The Hollywood Reporter’s ...

Leonardo DiCaprio out in LA with Nina Agdal as talk around potential controversy around his foundation and embezzlement scam dies down

Leonardo DiCaprio in LA with his Summer ’16 bonafide, Nina Agdal, earlier this week. And a shot of them side by side. And he’s not covering his face. Please let’s talk about this and not the potential controversy around his foundation and the embezzlement scam? Since The Hollywood Reporter’s ...

Robert De Niro and Edgar Ramirez in Hands of Stone movie review

Knowing absolutely nothing about boxer Roberto Duran, I was intrigued going into his biopic, Hands of Stone. Biopics often work better the less you know about the subject—dramatic license is less distracting—but then, if the biopic is too broad and messy, you can feel even more lost because you h...

Amy Adams in Venice for Arrival and Nocturnal Animals which are both receiving strong reviews

Sometimes we are a little maybe on Amy Adams here. Duana doesn’t get it. I have real affection for her after interviewing her at the Man Of Steel junket. Joanna has always been pulling for her. Maybe this year it’s Amy’s time. Amy is in Venice with two films: Arrival and Nocturnal Animals. Ar...

Mark Ruffalo responds to backlash against casting Matt Bomer in trans role in new film, Anything

I don’t know if you know this, but the internet can be frustrating. No, but seriously. That whole expression ‘this is why we can’t have nice things’ is always on my mind. When Beyoncé drops LEMONADE, there are people who, instead of appreciating it, say “Yeah but white women are disrespected ...

Winona Ryder promotes Stranger Things on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Winona Ryder on Jimmy Kimmel last night. He says invited her because everyone keeps talking about Stranger Things, the breakout hit of the summer. And the show that, finally, brought Winona back, even though I’m not sure we should call it a comeback because was she really trying to come back? As ...

September 2, 2016 – Smutty Shout-Outs

"Happy birthday to Angelica from her gossipy friends. This has been a year with a lot of endings, which led to a lot of beginnings: from New York (only person alive who would turn down Hamilton tix) to New Orleans (for Halloween no less!), from a Joker in Jessica Simpson jeggings to a new man who...

Intro for September 2, 2016

Dear Gossips, I’ve fangirled Caity Weaver, who used to write for Gawker and now writes for GQ, several times on my blog, to the point where it might be alarming. Caity Weaver has made GQ a reading destination for me, not just a place I go to get some quotes from celebrities talking about them...

Smutty Social Media, September 1, 2016

I absolutely love this dress – the color, the cut, the sleeves, the pockets – on Renee Zellweger. I want this Bridget Jones’s Baby to be a hit; rom-com, as a genre, needs it. Rom-coms are drifting away, turning into nostalgic Saturday afternoon movies. What was the last great rom-com you saw? ...

Britney Spears covers Marie Claire as she continues to push Glory, which is expected to come in 3rd in first week of sales

Britney Spears covers the new issue if Marie Claire UK as she continues to push the new album, Glory. Glory is expected to come in 3rd in its first week of sales, behind #1 Florida Georgia Line and #2… Barbra Streisand! This surprised me. Did it surprise you? So far Glory has received decent ...

Emma Stone at the Venice Film Festival opening of La La Land which is receiving great reviews

To great reviews. A couple of roundups of the critical responses here and here. Even before its premiere, La La Land was expected to be an Oscar contender. It was originally supposed to open this past July. They then pushed it back to December which means that already back in March they knew this...

Smutty Tingles for September 1, 2016

Gisele Bundchen is still rich (Dlisted)  Jessica Biel in Washington (Just Jared) Casper Bear is squatting (Cele|bitchy)  Demi Lovato goes undercover (TooFab)  Princess Kate pregnancy rumours again (Celeb Dirty Laundry)  JB runs shirtless (Pop Sugar)  Oh…so he knew about it...

Chloe Grace Moretz and Brooklyn Beckham reportedly break up

It’s September 1, and while summer doesn’t officially end until September 21 (I looked this up, please don’t yell at me if I’m off), after Labour Day weekend, summer is over. Back to school. No more skipping out of work early on Friday. Packing lunches every day instead hitting the patio. Buying ...

Where will Taylor Swift spend the long weekend now that she is back in New York after jury duty?

We’re coming up on a long weekend here in North America. The last major long weekend in the United States was the Fourth of July, also known as #Taymerica. That’s when Taylor Swift gathered all her friends together at her place in Rhode Island and invited us to join in through pap photos and Inst...

Netflix puts nerds out of their misery by announcing Stranger Things season 2

Yesterday Netflix puts nerds everywhere out of their misery by announcing that Stranger Things will get a second season, due in 2017. The announcement came via video, with what seem to be episode titles for nine new episodes, including “Mad Max”, “The Pollywog”, “The Brain”, and “The Lost Brother...

Beyoncé and Blue go shopping in New York as it's reported Beyoncé will celebrate 35th birthday with Soul Train themed party

At Bergdorf’s yesterday in New York. No bags though. They’d ruin the shots. And also, since when does Beyoncé carry her own bags? Anyway, it’s been four days since Beyoncé demolished the VMAs. And in four days it’s Bey Day. That’s her birthday, her 35th birthday. If you hate Beyoncé – ???? – ...

Shipping Rihanna and Drake as they kiss on stage during Drake's second Miami show

No curving this time… Drake’s second show in Miami last night. And this time, Rihanna joined him on stage. The last time they were on stage together, at the VMAs, the internet lit up with speculation about whether or not she avoided his mouth. There was no avoiding here. In fact, after the ki...

Tom Hiddleston and Idris Elba top The Sun's list of actors potentially up for James Bond role

Earlier this week UK paper The Sun published a list of actors supposedly up for consideration as the next James Bond which includes the usual suspects—Idris Elba and Tom Hiddleston—and also people like Michael Fassbender and Luke Evans. The Sun’s list reads like a cross between Tumblr fan-casting...

Charlie Hunnam looking hot in LA is not helping the eye stye

Appreciate your emails and tweets about my stank eye yesterday. Thank you! It still hurts and it’s probably still gross but I can open it wide enough to ogle Charlie Hunnam. Which is maybe why this happened in the first place. There’s an old wives’ tale in Chinese culture about eye sores – you ge...

September 1, 2016 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Kat! Happy 28th Birthday from Charlsie who misses you so much! By request, here are brand new shots of Jennifer Garner and also not new shots of Dylan O’Brien.  

Intro for September 1, 2016

Dear Gossips, Tomorrow is September 2nd and, you’ll recall, I promised to remind you that that’s when Brock Turner, who raped his unconscious victim behind a dumpster, will be released from county jail. Brock Turner was originally sentenced to 6 months but only had to serve half of that for g...