What Else for July 31, 2017

Here’s what I’m most excited about in this video: the coat she’s wearing (obsessed) that she’s wearing over cut off jeanshorts (love) and … the Cheetos. I’ve been squinting at this video for 10 minutes trying to figure out if she’s got a bag of original or jalapeno cheese. I change my mind all th...

Show Your Work: Angelina Jolie and the child star “momager”

Here’s what happens every week behind the scenes when we record Show Your Work: Duana and Jacek speak passive aggressively to each other about the positioning of her microphone. He tells her that it’ll work best like this, she tries to adjust it herself, he doesn’t want her to adjust it, she insi...

Jennifer Lopez in the side chair with Alex Rodriguez at National Sports Collectors Convention

Alex Rodriguez was in Chicago this weekend at the National Sports Collectors Convention. During this signing session, guess who showed up. And sat in a side chair to watch him collect up to $150 per autograph? Thanks to Nicole for sending me this photo. Of Jennifer Lopez. In a side chair...

Ben Affleck and Lindsay Shookus spotted at liquor store in Maine

Ben Affleck and Lindsay Shookus were in Maine this weekend. We know this because a Twitter user posted a photo of Ben and Lindsay at a liquor store: The one time I don't look up at the customer AT ALL 😭😂 http://pic.twitter.com/HjyqiHI3bh — Jenna Noyes (@jennanoyess) July 30, 2017 Tu...

Smutty Social Media, July 31, 2017

Whimsy Philipps. This is really a perfect anecdote because it’s silly but not embarrassing, just the right amount of McConaughey charm.   Wait. I didn't get to tell this story cause when you're hosting, you know, ITS NOT ALL ABOUT YOU But years ago, at a pre-oscar p...

#NoConfederate trends on Twitter to protest upcoming production Confederate

Last night during Game of Thrones, while Cersei unleashed her full cruelty and Jon Snow wondered exactly how Daenerys got her waves so even and perfect, the hashtag #NoConfederate trended #1 across the US, and #2 worldwide, for most of the 9 – 10 PM hour. It was the result of a concerted effo...

Blake Lively espouses feminism in Glamour cover profile

Back when Blake Lively was trying to make Preserve happen, I wrote about her genteel treatment of Antebellum South and the way she reduced and glamourized a very problematic era. At the time, she got a ton of blowback from the article but she was still in her lifestyle bubble, convinced she was p...

Prince William and Catherine attend Passchendaele Commemorations during major royal staffing shakeup

Prince William and Princess Kate are in Belgium to attend the Passchendaele Commemorations on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele. They joined King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium at the ceremony and walked through Tyne Cot cemetery, the largest Commonwealth burial ground ...

Jennifer Lawrence in first teaser trailer for Mother!

A teaser for the highly anticipated Mother!, the collaboration between Darren Aronofsky and Jennifer Lawrence, has been released, and it’s a horror movie? It’s hard to tell for sure, because it’s just thirty seconds of disjointed scenes and dialogue with no context—you know, a real teaser and not...

Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 3 recap

Daenerys Targaryen had three major allies to begin the season. All three have now been picked off. But oh look, Samwell Tarly has fixed Jorah Mormont and just in time. So guess who’s riding up to Dragonstone to be a hero? F-cking Jorah Mormont, I hate him so much, and while I don’t hate Sam, not ...

Intro for July 31, 2017

Dear Gossips, I love Sundays right now. And it’s not just Game Of Thrones. It’s the combination of Game Of Thrones followed by Insecure. Also John Oliver came back last night. So, for me, it was two and a half hours of face-masking – two masks back to back for extra hydration! Someone needs t...

What Else for July 28, 2017

Duana and I usually record Show Your Work on Friday nights but this week, we’re pushing it to Sunday night. There will be no change in the post schedule though. Monday as usual. Lately our lineups have been directly determined by your emails and suggestions – thank you! There was a question earli...

Celine Dion's daily Paris fashion shows ending soon

Celine Dion will only be in Europe for another week or so. Her Vegas residency doesn’t start up again until September 19. I wonder if she’ll stay in Paris for August. Or whether or not she’ll go on holiday somewhere. And if she does, whether or not she’ll keep giving us access to her wardrobe. Ma...

Oprah reveals Mindy Kaling is 5 months pregnant to People

Mindy Kaling was at the TCA yesterday in support of the upcoming final season of The Mindy Project. It was reported a couple of a weeks ago that Mindy is pregnant with her first child. Mindy has yet to personally confirm the news and she didn’t talk about it at all at the TCA but she didn’t have ...

Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks film The Papers in NYC

Meryl Streep is playing Katharine Graham, Tom Hanks is playing Ben Bradlee, Steven Spielberg is directing. The film is called The Papers, about the Washington Post taking on the White House over the publication of the Pentagon Papers, which preceded Watergate, which then resulted in Richard Nixon...

Smutty Social Media, July 28, 2017

Willa Ford, a real who’s who (no seriously, who????) has been making headlines for talking about 9/11 tanking her career. This time last year, a few of us here were talking about her maternity shoot that featured a headdress. I dug up the old emails and to quote Sarah, “she looks like she bought ...

Jennifer Aniston returning to TV with Reese Witherspoon in new project

Over the last few years, Reese Witherspoon has become an industry power player, almost as active behind the scenes as a producer as she has been on camera and in both film and television. Reese’s 2017 has been all about Big Little Lies, a major contender at the upcoming Emmys and one of the major...

Atomic Blonde review starring Charlize Theron

Set on the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and choreographed to a thumping Euro-pop synth beat, Atomic Blonde is the best action movie this year since John Wick: Chapter 2. That makes sense, as Atomic Blonde comes from the same production/stunt company as John Wick, and is directed by David L...

Prince Harry visits kids and Grenfell volunteers

It’s Friday and the site open today wasn’t very “Friday”. In fact, it was a f-cking bummer. So here are some really, really cute photos of Prince Harry today participating in the Fit and Fed campaign in London at Central Park East Ham. The program provides kids with access to activity sessions in...

July 28, 2017 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Paula! Happy Birthday! Carolina tells me it’s going to be a big year ahead – and she wants you to know she’ll be cheering for you the entire time. By request, here’s Colin O’Donoghue at Comic-Con last weekend. And for Allison from your sister Michelle – Happy Birthday! Since you’re her favour...

Intro for July 28, 2017

Dear Gossips, “I lost something that night all those years ago and I’ve been searching for it ever since. I’ll let you know how it goes. The reality is this doesn’t get to be over for me. I don’t get to know who I would be today had this not happened to me, and I mourn for that person. Sh...

What Else for July 27, 2017

I have some draconian opinions about driving. For example: I believe everyone should learn how to drive manual. And that all drivers’ tests should be administered in manual transmission. I promise you there would be a lot less distracted driving if more people drove stick. Exceptions can be made,...

Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, and Alexander Skarsgard at Emmys For Your Consideration event for Big Little Lies

Earlier this week, Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, and Alexander Skarsgard were in Hollywood for a FYC Big Little Lies event in support of the show’s Emmy nominations. Casey Bloys, the head of HBO, confirmed earlier this week that they’re hoping to do a second season and Liane Moriarty, who wro...

Justin Timberlake could be back for another award season with Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel

Justin Timberlake was part of the Oscar season last year because of that song from Trolls. We’ll come back to the song in a minute. For now, this is about JT’s acting. He worked with Woody Allen last year on Wonder Wheel. Wonder Wheel will be closing film at the New York Film Festival in October....

Smutty Social Media, July 27, 2017

Orlando Bloom missed out on Leonardo DiCaprio’s gala because he is in Bangladesh doing work with Unicef. I’m thinking he probably has some control over his travel schedule with Unicef, so interesting that he’d skip it. Maybe not officially a Wolf Pack member after all?   ...

Channing Tatum's weird TV show, Comrade Detective, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

So here’s a surprise: Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt made a TV show and it’s a parody of a Romanian 1980s cop show. That’s a lot to digest. Let’s break it down. The trailer for Comrade Detective, an Amazon Prime show, was just released and it pretty much broke my brain. It opens with CTa...

Jennifer Aniston at Jason Bateman's Walk of Fame ceremony with Justin Theroux

After Brange became Brange and Jennifer Aniston rounded out one of the most infamous love triangles in Hollywood history, it used to be that when one showed up somewhere or did something, the other would inevitably counter back with an appearance or a quote or a moment. They went on like this for...

Matt Damon vs. The Mob in George Clooney's Suburbicon trailer

I didn’t really have an impression of George Clooney’s new film, Suburbicon. I knew Matt Damon was in it, I knew Joel and Ethan Coen co-wrote the script (with Clooney and his partner, Grant Heslov). But other than that, it wasn’t really on my radar. Well, the first trailer just came out and MESSA...

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, and Billy Zane have Titanic reunion at annual Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation gala

The annual Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation gala happened last night in St Tropez. This is when Leo invites some very wealthy people to his party and encourages them to make a donation by seating them with models and a few of his celebrity friends. This year, those celebrity friends, in addition to h...

Mahershala Ali to star in True Detective season 3

The summer TCA—the biannual meeting of television critics and industry in which networks tout their wares—is going on right now, and one piece of news to come from the HBO presentation is that Mahershala Ali is locked in for the third season of True Detective. We’re all fans of Ali here, of his t...

Intro for July 27, 2017

Dear Gossips, Yesterday the President of the United States told the people, via Twitter, that transgender Americans were no longer welcome in the military. That can’t serve their country because they are too much of a “burden”. At the same time, the new issue of Rolling Stone was released, wi...

What Else for July 26, 2017

In this week’s Sasha Answers podcast, Sasha remembers, not all that fondly, what it was like working for Tara Reid. That leads to a question about what it takes to work for a celebrity. Is it worth it? There are definitely bonuses… but it takes a certain person. Will you pick up their underwear? ...

Angelina Jolie covers Vanity Fair in first significant interview since split with Brad Pitt

As mentioned in today’s open, Angelina Jolie is back in the game, with two films confirmed at TIFF and, though it’s not official yet, she’s expected in Telluride with First They Killed My Father. Now look at the timing – 24 hours after TIFF’s announcement, Vanity Fair has released their September...

Let Lupita Nyong'o dancing at Comic-Con lift you up on day filled with bad news

Today has been a sh*tstorm of bad and worse news. From the moment I opened my Twitter feed during my morning commute to you reading this right now, it’s just been a parade of garbage. I’m afraid to go on social media because it’s one of those days where everything makes me some combination of sad...

Smutty Social Media, July 26, 2017

This photo has been floating around on Reddit and made it to Twitter. It can’t be real, can it? How did no one in this picture think, “Someone’s going to post this on the Internet, guys.” Not often you see a collection of Rock's like this http://pic.twitter.com/cBRguZX2Et — Justin Taylor (@The...

Jessica Biel is good at charades during appearance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon

Jessica Biel’s series, The Sinner, premieres on USA Network on August 2nd. Am so curious to see how it does, whether or not The Sinner will be spoken of as Peak TV, and if, a year from now, Jessica Biel will be part of an Emmys conversation. To promote the show, Jessica was on The Tonight Sho...

Jon Hamm plays plays a hologram of a dead guy in Marjorie Prime trailer

A few years ago Jon Hamm starred in an episode of Black Mirror (“White Christmas”), and now he is taking the creepy technology act on the road, as it were, with Marjorie Prime, a Sundance favorite and possible Oscar contender. The first full trailer has been released, and now you, too, can be hau...

Kate Hudson debuts shaved head for upcoming role in Sia film

Kate Hudson is shooting a new film called Sister, written by Sia who is also directing. Not much is known about the project other than the fact that it’s based on a short story that Sia wrote about 10 years ago and that, like most of Sia’s work, Maddie Ziegler will be involved.  ...

Jessica Chastain remains great advocate for women in film in ELLE Canada cover interview

No surprise here: Jessica Chastain will premiere (at least) one of her three upcoming projects, Woman Walks Ahead, at TIFF this September. A Jessica Chastain movie is always an all-caps event for me and so is her new ELLE Canada cover, timed perfectly to coincide with the launch of her Ralph Laur...

Expectations for Halle Berry's Kings are high as it's announced film will premiere at TIFF

Halle Berry is currently promoting a movie called Kidnap, opening on August 4th. She plays a mother desperately chasing down the people who’ve kidnapped her son. The movie was shot almost three years ago but it got caught up in the Relativity drama and was only recently acquired for release. Kidn...

Intro for July 26, 2017

Dear Gossips, Not that I'm in any rush for the summer to be over but film festival season started yesterday which always means that fall is near. The Toronto International Film Festival made its first announcements on Tuesday, revealing an impressive list featuring some of the biggest names i...

What Else for July 25, 2017

It’s true. I have never loved Nicolas Cage more than I love him in this bonkers photo. I have spent a lot of time over the years thinking about Nicolas Cage and his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley. He was reportedly obsessed with Elvis. And while Graceland is open to tourists, going upstairs at Gr...

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez throw joint birthday party in Miami

Jennifer Lopez turned 48 years old yesterday. Alex Rodriguez is 42 on Thursday. They threw a joint birthday party in Miami on the weekend. And it was all over Instagram.   Happy Birthday to Us!!! #leos 🇩🇴🇵🇷 #305 A post shared by Alex Rodriguez (@arod) on...

Robert Pattinson calls TwiHards "crack group of crazies" in Howard Stern interview when discussing relationship with FKA twigs

Robert Pattinson is promoting Good Time which will be released in the US on August 11. The film was very well received in Cannes with most critics agreeing that this is the best performance of his career. Robert was in New York today and was interviewed by Howard Stern. As you know, if you agree ...

First look at Johnny Depp in costume for Richard Says Goodbye

Johnny Depp is shooting a new movie called Richard Says Goodbye in Vancouver. To mark the start of production, they’ve released a photo of him in character. It’s so much better when other people dress him, non? He looks like how people want to remember Johnny Depp. Or, rather, he looks like a rem...

Aubrey Plaza and Alison Brie in The Little Hours movie review

A loosely-derived mash-up of a couple stories from Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron—the first and second tales from Day Three—The Little Hours is a raunchy sex comedy by way of a fourteenth century Italian convent. Written and directed by Jeff Baena (Life After Beth), and starring a cohort of t...

Smutty Social Media, July 25, 2017

Mariah Carey… complimented the work… of other women. She is talking about other people’s success. What. Is. Happening.   Congratulations ladies! #GirlsTrip is one of the best movies I've seen all year! Honored to be included 😘❤ #ItsLikeThat #FlossyPosse Thank you @...

Macaulay Culkin looks healthy while out for dinner at Craig's in LA

Macaulay Culkin was seen in LA last night at Craig’s which is where a lot of celebrities go out for dinner but Mac isn’t exactly like other celebrities who go out for dinner at Craig’s. Paps hang out almost every day at Craig’s and celebrities know that paps are always at Craig’s. And that’s not ...

Justin Bieber cancels remainder of Purpose tour due to "unforeseen circumstances"

TMZ broke the story yesterday that Justin Bieber was cancelling the remainder of his tour dates (14 shows) because, as they put it, he was “over it”. TMZ followed up on their exclusive a few hours later with another exclusive – video of JB in Santa Monica explaining why he was bailing. Let’s star...

Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn cover up as they are photographed together in New York

Taylor Swift was finally seen in New York on Friday – the photos aren’t great but it’s clearly her. You’ll recall, last week a photo agency claimed that Taylor was hiding in suitcases while leaving her NY apartment so as to avoid being photographed. That agency subsequently had to retract the rep...

Kristen Stewart crashes wedding in Winnipeg with Stella Maxwell

Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, and Diane Kruger are currently in Winnipeg, MB, Canada shooting JT Leroy. Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about my obsession with the JT Leroy story and the Jeff Feuerzeig documentary about how Laura Albert pulled off the scam. Back then it was a major scandal. Now...

July 25, 2017 – Smutty Shout-Outs

As of yesterday, there are still 154 fires burning across British Columbia and 19 new fires that started on Sunday. Over 20,000 people are still evacuated. The weather isn’t helping either as there’s no major rain expected in the forecast. Over the last several weeks, firefighters from all ac...

Intro for July 25, 2017

Dear Gossips, People are talking about TJ Miller today. Because the whole point of TJ Miller’s f-cksh-t is to get people talking about his f-cksh-t while he promotes The Emoji Movie which I wasn’t planning on seeing, f-cksh-t or not. A few weeks ago, TJ Miller was interviewed by The Hollywood...

What Else for July 24, 2017

Remember Brad Pitt’s Make Brad Pitt Great Again interview with GQ Style? He namechecked Frank Ocean. And now he’s emoting for Frank Ocean. Live. I’ll say this: Brad Pitt performance art > James Franco performance art. The way I see it, Brad gossip performance art represents not only his story but...

Show Your Work: Girl Talk, Mindy’s New Project, and ‘Tante Céline’

Our podcast is always fun to record and often we’re having a celebratory beverage as we record – but this week we were recording moments (well… several moments) before running out the door to see Girls Trip. The movie had the best live-action comedy opening of the year, it was (spoiler) funnier t...

Smutty Social Media, July 24, 2017

That is indeed a big ass dog Leslie, but what does it mean?! That's a big ass dog!! http://pic.twitter.com/mOhn1tpK4R — Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 24, 2017 Twitter has verified a James Van Der Beek as Diplo. Both the official and the parody account share the same photo. I’m kind of in...

Selena Gomez and The Weeknd have lunch to celebrate her 25th birthday

Selena Gomez turned 25 years old on Saturday. She celebrated with her “people” and two birthday cakes with a promise that this year would be “epic”:   Thank you for all of my bday love. I couldn't be more blessed. A lot of you don't realize how much you mean to me. ...

The cast of Stranger Things wants to thrill us with Comic-Con unveiling of Season 2 trailer

They couldn’t make it any clearer. The new Stranger Things season two trailer, unveiled at Comic-Con, features Michael Jackson’s Thriller, particularly Vincent Price’s creepy narration. The first season leaned on a Spielbergian tone, invoking Close Encounters and E.T. and Poltergeist, and playing...

Tom Hiddleston at Comic-Con one year after relationship with Taylor Swift

We missed a very important anniversary in gossip last week. One of the most important gossip events in the history of recent gossip. It was the Day of the Receipts. It was July 17, 2016. When Kim Kardashian body-slammed Taylor Swift on social media – the effects of which we are still a year later...

Taika Waititi and Thor: Ragnarok cast premiere new trailer at Comic-Con

Every year people are like, Who “won” Comic Con? And every year the answer is: Marvel. No one puts on a better show, and you know they’ve got the magic touch when they don’t actually have to release anything online and they STILL get the most hype. They screened a scene from Black Panther and a n...

Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 2 recap

As I’ve mentioned many times over the years, I love gross sh-t. It’s a friendship bond between me and Duana. We often send back and forth the nastiest pictures of bodily grossness to each other. It was like Christmas when she discovered Figure 1 a few years ago. And, of course, we live for Dr Pim...

Ben Affleck forced to answer questions about Batman during Comic-Con Justice League panel

As predicted, the report that Ben Affleck could be “phased out” as Batman put a dent in in the DC Films presentation at Comic-Con on Saturday. They were on the defensive, Affleck forced to answer again and again that he loves playing Batman and isn’t going anywhere any time soon. His comment duri...

July 24, 2017 – Smutty Shout-Outs

"Buzz! You have worked so hard and we are so proud of you for taking this leap! You have also done great things for the less fortunate in our community, and we know whatever comes after this ridiculous test, you are going to make the world a better place. We love you! From Megan, Scott and Norm...

Intro for July 24, 2017

Dear Gossips, The New York Times had a very important question for us this weekend: How Quiet Should You Be During Game Of Thrones? I’m pretty quiet during GoT. I don’t like watching with anyone else. I will text other people during the episode but I’m watching alone. Jacek and the do...

What Else for July 21, 2017

I have a teenage niece. If you’ve spent any time with teenagers, you are probably familiar with the fact that their happiness is fleeting. Most of the time they’re telling you they hate you. And so you cling to the five minutes of the week, or month, where they actually put aside their contempt f...

Ben Affleck to be phased out as Batman in DC's Extended Universe because he's not in good enough shape

In what can only be described as a “PR nightmare”, The Hollywood Reporter is saying that Ben Affleck’s tenure as Batman is coming to a premature end and he will be phased out of the DC Extended Universe. We’ll talk more about it next week, in the context of their (now totally f*cked) Comic-Con co...

Mariah Carey in LA with Bryan Tanaka ahead of All The Hits tour kickoff with Lionel Richie

Lionel Richie and Mimi’s All The Hits tour was supposed to start earlier this year but was postponed after Lionel had knee surgery. So now the kickoff is tonight, in Oakland. They’ll be performing 22 shows in 22 cities until September 5. It’s not unmanageable for most artists…but we’re not talkin...

Smutty Social Media, July 21, 2017

Sean Spicer has resigned. We’ll always have, “That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period.” And the hiding in the bushes – remember when he hid in the bushes? Melissa is on vacation but I’ll bet she pops up for a farewell when SNL starts up again.   ...

Kit Harington and Rose Leslie are living together but not engaged

For those of you new to this site, I know it’s not Gidget. I just can’t ever remember or properly say it the right way. Kit Harington and Rose Leslie were photographed together in Capri yesterday. Also they are NOT engaged. They are not engaged because it was Life & Style that reported that t...

Jennifer Lawrence rumoured to be on VOGUE's September cover ahead of Mother! release

It was confirmed yesterday that Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem, originally scheduled to be released October 13th, will now come out a month earlier, on September 15th. No reason was given for the change. And some are speculating that Mother! could be hitt...

Gwyneth Paltrow and Blythe Danner in matching outfits at goop event in the Hamptons

It’s been a week since Gwyneth Paltrow’s goop published an open letter in defence of their wellness recommendations with commentary from their doctors. Both Maria  and Sarah addressed goop’s mansplainey clapback last Friday. Goop took issue with Dr Jen Gunter, MD, FRCS(C), FACOG, DABPM, ABPM (pai...

Will Smith, wand cop, is the hero we need in Comic-Con premiere of Bright trailer

Earlier this year we saw a teaser trailer for Bright, the Netflix movie directed by David Ayer and starring Will Smith. It looked sort of interesting, with Smith playing an LAPD officer in a world where trolls and fairies are real, and seemed like a decent-ish rebound chance for both Smith and Ay...

Halle Berry chugs whiskey at Comic-Con presentation of Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Comic-Con got underway yesterday, and kicking off the festivities in Hall H was Fox as the studio trotted out the cast of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, including Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Jeff Bridges, Channing Tatum, Pedro Pascal, and Halle Berry, who won over the crowd when she chugged an over...

July 21, 2017 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Leslie! Happy Birthday from Michelle who misses you so much and can’t wait to see you in August. As she said, “here’s the sexy beast himself to ease into your big day!” To Michele from Staci – Happy Birthday! By request, here are Idris Elba and Jason Momoa, aka “the hottest man alive”. Wait, ...

Intro for July 21, 2017

Dear Gossips, Are you going to the movies this weekend? Are you going to see Girls Trip? Duana and I podcast Show Your Work on Friday nights. Tonight, after we tape, we’re meeting up with Kathleen and a couple of other friends for an 11pm showing. Kathleen, as mentioned earlier this week, has...

What Else for July 20, 2017

Nothing good happens after 2am. And also, obviously, even as a grownup, there’s something about the backseat that none of us can grow out of. What is it about the backseat? Like when you’re parked outside a goddamn hotel, why are you still stuck in the backseat? I guess because some people see mo...

Lindsay Shookus came to play as she is photographed with Ben Affleck in New York

Ben Affleck and Lindsay Shookus were photographed together last night in New York after checking out of the Ritz-Carlton. They were later seen again as he dropped her off at her apartment before he left the city, presumably to head back to LA. So we’re at the point in their relationship where the...

Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara in A Ghost Story movie review

Filmmaker David Lowery’s last two feature films, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Pete’s Dragon, could not be more different. Saints is a crime drama infused with Southern Romantic flare, and Pete’s Dragon is a live-action remake of the Disney cartoon. They do have something in common, though, and th...

Smutty Social Media, July 20, 2017

Even Serena, who is still working on the court, gets stuck in bed sometimes. When I was pregnant I called this the Teletubby phase. Any tips on how to turn over at night? 😰I'm having trouble from going from my left ....to my right.... to my left side. 🤰🏾 — Serena Williams (@serenawil...

Jenny Slate and Harry Styles on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

Harry Styles is currently on press tour for Dunkirk. Sarah reviewed the film earlier this week and was into the technical aspects of it but beyond that, she wasn’t feeling the film in her gut. She did, however, note that Harry Styles is quite effective as an actor. Happiness, then, for all you st...

Rami Malek to star as Freddie Mercury in biopic that will focus on Queen instead of Mercury

A Freddie Mercury biopic has been percolating for literally a decade, when rumors that Sacha Baron Cohen would play Freddie Mercury on the big screen began emerging. Then, in 2010, came confirmation that Baron Cohen would indeed play Mercury, only for that deal to fall apart a few years later bec...

Has Celine Dion found love again with dancer Pepe Munoz?

That title is corny as f-ck. But you know what? She would love it. Celine Dion would love it. And I do it all for her. So, as Kathleen would say, don’t @ me. If you’re @-ing me, you don’t understand the Feeling. A new Feeling is what we’re here to talk about. The most important Feeling in the...

Celine Dion grinding in couture in new VOGUE Instagram videos

Drop everything. Because, right now, there’s nothing else you need to care about. VOGUE just posted 6 new short videos on its Instagram account, all featuring our Queen of Feelings, Celine Dion, from the couture shoot she did with them a couple of weeks ago in Paris. It’s a smart move on thei...

Suki Waterhouse and our boyfriend Diego Luna still on in New York

After Rogue One, Diego Luna became our boyfriend. Is he still your boyfriend? He’s definitely Suki Waterhouse’s boyfriend. They were last seen together at the beginning of the year, in January. Here they are in New York yesterday clearly still on. As previously mentioned, Suki and Diego worke...

July 20, 2017 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Carolina! Happy 29th Birthday from Paula who asked me to post some pictures of Lin-Manuel Miranda because you are obsessed. It’s an understandable obsession.

Intro for July 20, 2017

Dear Gossips, As mentioned yesterday in What Else?, Game Of Thrones is so popular that some people even put off their porn last Sunday to watch the season premiere. GoT will no doubt be the main television event this Sunday too. But… what about after? After episode 2, it’s the season 2 premie...

What Else for July 19, 2017

Sasha and I start this week’s podcast by bitching about Middleton style. And also the only man who can wear a manbun. Then, it’s micro-aggressions from friends and a boyfriend who’s fat-shaming a dog. Oh look. Messy Ben Affleck can’t stay out of the news. This time he’s making news for someth...

Jennifer Lawrence reportedly threw up while watching 1984 on Broadway

Page Six reported today that Jennifer Lawrence went to see 1984 on Broadway (starring Olivia Wilde and Tom Sturridge) on Monday and was sick during the performance. Apparently this show is so intense that audience members have been fainting midway through. Jennifer didn’t faint. But she vomited: ...

Charlize Theron tells Howard Stern about being impressed on a recent date

Charlize Theron was in New York today after promoting Atomic Blonde in Berlin. Everyone I know who’s seen it loves it. The movie opens next weekend and the only other major release that weekend is the Emoji Movie… which… is a different kind of programming altogether but it would be great, non? It...

Prince William and Catherine in Berlin with an excited Charlotte and Sleepy George

The Cambridge Four arrived in Berlin today for the second leg of their trip this week to Poland and Germany. As was the case when they touched down in Warsaw, Princess Charlotte seemed excited by the adventure, happily smiling for the crowds, and she looks curious too, as you can see her looking ...

Smutty Social Media, July 19, 2017

I haven’t bought a physical CD in years and I don’t think I could go back from streaming, but you know what I miss? Liner notes. Those personal, coded letters that artists used to include in their album or cassette tape or CD. We would spend hours pouring over those notes – it was analogue social...

Mariah Carey producing scripted series about her life with Brett Ratner

It was confirmed this week that a scripted series based on the life of Mimi is being developed at Starz and produced by Mimi herself, along with Brett Ratner. The story will start when Mimi is 16 and track the course of her career, showing us how she became Mimi, the thinnest, most beautiful, mos...

Imagining Chris Pine is the father of Mindy Kaling's baby

DISCLAIMER: Chris Pine is probably not the father of Mindy Kaling’s baby.  Mindy Kaling has not announced that she is having a baby with The Best Chris. Once more for the people in the back, there has been no confirmation from either of their camps that Chris and Mindy have procreated. However, s...

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux have dinner in New York ahead of wedding anniversary

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux will have been married for two years on August 5. They’ve been spending time in New York recently. On Monday night they had dinner at the restaurant where they got engaged. Last night they stepped out for Italian. Some were wondering if Justin would be nomi...

Comic-Con 2017 preview

Last year in my Comic-Con preview I wrote, “Comic-Con’s dominance as an industry event is definitely waning.” That is blatantly apparent this year, as four studios—Paramount, Universal, Lionsgate, and Sony—are sitting out the festivities in Hall H, and an increasing number of studios and networks...

Intro for July 19, 2017

Dear Gossips, Since Sunday’s premiere of Game Of Thrones season 7, obviously I’ve been reading everything I can online about the series – analysis, speculation, predictions, not necessarily for actual storyline purposes but because shows like GoT bring out some terrific writing. Like Hillary ...

What Else for July 18, 2017

There’s a reason why Charlize Theron is so valuable to Dior. Of all their ambassadors, only she could have pulled off this look. The look itself is… well, there’s really not much to it, but on her, especially given the character she’s playing and the movie she’s promoting, it’s actually perfect. ...

Celine Dion poses under a pedestrian underpass in a pyjama suit in Paris

It seemed weird to me yesterday, to not have a post about Celine Dion’s Parisian style porn. I’ve come to need it. I neeeeeeed it. So here she is, yesterday, in a pyjama suit, posing, like, anywhere, even a pedestrian underpass. That works. There’s a certain grungy juxtaposition here, right? ...

Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup reportedly dating

I like saying the name Billy Crudup. Crew-Dupp. I wonder if Billy Crudup introduces him as Billy. Hi, I’m Billy. Or is it Bill? Anyway, Page Six broke the news last night that Billy and Naomi Watts are dating. They were seen in New York holding hands at a café. Following Page Six’s report, PEOPLE...

Rihanna in pink at Los Angeles premiere of Valerian

I went to the movies last weekend and there was a preview for Valerian before it started. It was mostly Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan talking, not very compellingly to be honest, about why people should go see it. And then something about how Valerian is Star Wars before Star Wars, what? I just...

Smutty Social Media, July 18, 2017

After his Game of Thrones appearance, Ed Sheeran deleted his Twitter account. (He had already been on a break from posting.) His cameo was bullsh-t and the entire scene was weak and stilted. It added nothing to the story, and on a show with so many characters and storylines, why waste time on Ed ...

Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk movie review starring Tom Hardy and Harry Styles

The opening scene from Saving Private Ryan is the gold standard of cinematic depiction of World War II. Recreating the Omaha Beach landing in searing detail, Steven Spielberg brought to life one of the most harrowing and horrifying chapters in that war’s history. Christopher Nolan now attempts to...

Ben Affleck acknowledged for philanthropic efforts with Starkey award but the focus is on relationship with Lindsay Shookus

Ben Affleck was in Minnesota on Sunday to receive an award from the Starkey Hearing Foundation recognising his humanitarian work with the Eastern Congo Initiative. He spoke to PEOPLE at the event. Needless to say, the questions were focused specifically on his philanthropy. But, of course, the ar...

James Franco and Seth Rogen in The Disaster Artist teaser trailer

I’ll never forget the first time I saw The Room, arguably the worst movie ever made. (It’s up against Manos: The Hands of Fate, a spectacularly bad movie.) I was in college and a friend was talking about this terrible movie playing at a theater in Fairfax, going on and on about how bad it was. Ev...

Mindy Kaling is pregnant

Yesterday, multiple sources confirmed that Mindy Kaling is with child. There are no concrete details (like how far along she is) or any juicy details (like who the father is). Obviously Mindy is entitled to her privacy when it comes to her health and her possible pregnancy but let’s be real: it’s...

Intro for July 18, 2017

Dear Gossips, I know you probably don’t want to, but you need to, if you haven’t already, read Buzzfeed’s article yesterday about how R Kelly is allegedly holding several women “against their will” and degrading them for his own sexual perversion. The reporter is Jim DeRogatis who has been co...

What Else for July 17, 2017

You watched The Handmaid’s Tale, right? And you remember Aunt Lydia? Aunt Lydia was played to perfection by Ann Dowd. But I wonder, if Activist Mommy had submitted a tape to the casting director, if there would have been a major casting debate. Because, my GOD, this woman is like a real life Aunt...

Show Your Work: Charlize Theron is not cute

There’s nothing cute about Charlize Theron in these two oufits in Berlin to promote Atomic Blonde. But that doesn’t mean she’s not wearing the sh-t out of these two outfits. I don’t love a red dress, normally. This red dress, however, the way it’s loose around the waist, and the wide lapels, and ...

Kate Mara and Jamie Bell get married

Surprise! Kate Mara and Jamie Bell tied the knot recently, and shared the photos on Instagram and Twitter minutes apart this afternoon. In other words, Zoe Barnes is now happily ever after (and alive), if you believe that getting married is the only way to have a happy ending. It’s still fun ...

Smutty Social Media, July 17, 2017

Miranda Kerr is showing off her Dior wedding dress in Vogue, saying she chose this design for the “purity and mystery".   Thank you Maria Grazia Chiuri and @dior for creating my dream wedding dress ✨❤️🙏🏻😍 A post shared by Miranda (@mirandakerr) on ...

Ryan Gosling's Blade Runner 2049 continues to look awesome with new trailer

A new trailer for Blade Runner 2049 has just been released, and in case you’re wondering, yes this movie continues to look f*cking awesome. (Blade Runner is at Comic-Con on Saturday, so we might be getting even more to look at soon.) This trailer shows more of Jared Leto, playing what seems to be...

Prince William and Catherine arrive in Poland with a pouting Prince George and Princess Charlotte

Prince William, Catherine, Big G, and Charlotte are touring Poland and Germany for the next five days. They kicked off the trip today in Warsaw. I love the shots of Big G and Charlotte with their heads at the window on the plane before they came out to meet everyone. What are they told in those m...

Game Of Thrones Season 7 Episode 1 recap

There’s really nothing like a Game Of Thrones Sunday, is what I texted to Sarah last night when the episode was over. She wrote back like, I KNOW! It feels so good! All that family drama and suspense and posturing and dragons and… fashion! Game Of Thrones is now a proper fashion show! We’ll come ...

The cast of Avengers: Infinity War reunites at D23

Also at Disney’s D23 over the weekend was a sizeable chunk of the cast of Avengers: Infinity War, including Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sebastian Stan (those three, by the way, got the biggest ovations from the crowd), Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Don Chead...

D23 premiere of Star Wars: The Last Jedi teaser focuses on family

This past weekend was Disney biennial fan convention, D23, and among the many things they showed off—they see Universal’s Harry Potter Land and will raise you Avatar Land, Star Wars Land, and Marvel Land—was Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Star Wars is not expected to be among Disney’s Hall H panels at...

July 17, 2017 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Juliana! Happy Birthday from Tara and Dragana who asked me to tell you about the billionaire who throws the best sex parties in Hollywood – “best” because of the VIP guest list that includes his girlfriend and her good friends, most of them very, very famous. Some of them participate, others are ...

Intro for July 17, 2017

Dear Gossips, I went to the movies this weekend and saw the new Jumanji trailer which reminded me of all my “nevers”. I never saw Jumanji. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve also never seen Hocus Pocus. And I’ve never seen Blade Runner. Blade Runner 2049, with Harrison Ford returning alongside Ry...

What Else for July 14, 2017

A couple of years ago, when Jennifer Lawrence wrote about the gender pay gap in Hollywood, Jeremy Renner was asked to comment and he offered his contribution by saying “that’s not my job” to participate in wage equality. Jeremy Renner is raising a daughter. And now he’s saying that he doesn’t wan...

Selena Gomez's celebrity friends help promote her new single Fetish

Selena Gomez released a new song called Fetish this week. I don’t hate it. It’s better than Bad Liar. Does Taylor Swift think it’s better than Bad Liar? Because Taylor posted on Instagram for the first time in over two months yesterday to wish Selena an early happy birthday and promote the song. ...

Alexander Skarsgard and Toni Garrn go on blind date but don't hit it off

Alexander Skarsgard received his first Emmy nomination yesterday in the limited series supporting actor category for his excellent work as Perry in Big Little Lies. As noted the other day, BLL did more for his career than Tarzan, which was supposed to make him a big movie star. And some experts t...

Ruminations on Beyoncé's twins’ names

As Lainey said earlier, we can officially celebrate the birth of the twins because they were officially acknowledged by Bey – and by her mother Tina. But I am not going to surprise anyone when I say that I didn’t feel like celebrating. I’m going to be honest— I was hoping the names weren’t tr...

Smutty Social Media, July 14, 2017

Everyone is loving Girls Trip. Confirming a rumor: @girlstripmovie is so so so funny. I haven't had that much fun watching a movie in a looooong time. — Elizabeth Banks (@ElizabethBanks) July 13, 2017 Cole Sprouse had a confrontation with a busker in Vancouver and then later smash...

Zendaya and Tom Holland rumoured to be dating

At around 5pm eastern standard time yesterday, PEOPLE reported that Spider-Man: Homecoming co-stars Zendaya and Tom Holland are dating. At around 6pm eastern standard time yesterday, Lainey sent me a link to this news and when I read it, I dropped my phone out of my hands (it didn’t break, thank ...

Beyoncé officially introduces us to twins Rumi and Sir on Instagram

I mean we heard that they were born. And we even heard about their names. But it’s not official until Beyoncé says it’s official, right? Last night, Beyoncé finally made it official. Because she wanted us to have a good weekend. A #blessed weekend.   Sir Carter ...

Goop expert Dr Steven Gundry mansplains to critic Dr Jen Gunter in open letter

Earlier Maria covered the goop open letter that challenged Dr Jen Gunter and whether or not it was good business strategy. I name-checked Dr. Gunter in my write-up of the In Goop Health event held last month, as she has been one of the most vociferous and articulate critics of goopology. The goop...

Gwyneth Paltrow and goop take on critic Dr Jen Gunter in open letter

This week, goop decided to start a fight. And the fight isn’t with spray can cheese or on sugar, but Gwyneth Paltrow and co. want to take on Dr. Jen Gunter, a vocal critic of goop’s medical recommendations. As Lainey said, it’s a RUMBLE! First, if you want to read Dr. Gunter’s goop analys...

July 14, 2017 – Smutty Shout-Outs

There are wildfires burning across British Columbia. The devastation has been unimaginable. Click here to see satellite images of the damage that’s been caused so far. As of Tuesday, 14,000 people have been evacuated, many of them from indigenous communities. The situation has been overwhelming f...

Intro for July 14, 2017

Dear Gossips, Beyoncé has officially given us permission to celebrate. Shut it down and call it a long weekend! OK, but if you can’t, we are here for you today and it’ll be a full Friday that will prime us for what will hopefully be a full Saturday. What are you doing tomorrow morning? We...

What Else for July 13, 2017

Do you take this as good news or bad news? On the one hand, good news because he’s available? And you can fantasise? And hold on to hope that it might happen for you if you find yourself at one of the parties he DJs at? Bad news because, well, as Idris Elba has said, he gets into trouble with his...

Harry Styles and Prince Harry at Dunkirk premiere reception

The premiere of Dunkirk tonight in London. Prince Harry hosted a reception for veterans ahead of the event and then went to the screening. Where he met Harry Styles, one of the stars of the film. Harry and Harry, together …again? They’ve met before. But for some reason, this time feels like the f...

Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik cover VOGUE

I can’t deny that I’ve been obsessed with Gigi Hadid and Zayn Malik since Gigi and Zayn became a thing. On the most superficial level, they’re ridiculous to look at. G+Z is just so f-cking pretty, my reaction to them, every time I see them, feels primitive. Like it would be unnatural for me not t...

Game of Thrones not nominated for any Emmys as cast attends season 7 premiere in LA

Game Of Thrones is the Emmys’ reigning Best Drama Series. Game Of Thrones was not nominated for any Emmys this year. Because, of course, season 7 is premiering later than previous seasons, making it ineligible for contention, and opening up space for new shows in its absence. The shows nominated ...

Round up of 2017 Emmy nominations and snubs

Look, we all got here together. We have only ourselves to blame. We all revolted against the domination of vampire series and cop shows, and watched and watched the copious offerings cable had to bring us, and we ran to each new offering with open arms. This is what we wanted – for the Emmy p...

Smutty Social Media, July 13, 2017

How many “Rocks” can run for office at one time?   I have had a ton of emails and texts asking me if this website is real… kidrockforsenate.com The answer is an absolute YES. Stay tuned, I will have a major announcement in the near future - Kid Rock A post s...

Ryan Phillippe and Joey King in Wish Upon movie review

The first thing you need to know about Wish Upon, is that there is a Very Good Dog called Max and SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS. The second thing you need to know is that Wish Upon isn’t remotely good enough to justify it. The third thing you need to know is that Ryan Phillippe plays a dumpster-diving ho...

Jessica Biel describes herself as a phoenix rising from the ashes in Marie Claire interview to promote The Sinner

Jessica Biel covers the new issue of Marie Claire to promote her new series, The Sinner. As I’ve mentioned a few times now, returning to television is a good move for her. I might be more interested in what we’ll see from her in The Sinner than I’ve ever been for any film she’s done. That said, t...

Jennifer Garner all smiles while out for dinner with Chelsea Handler and friends

Jennifer Garner went out last night – dinner with girlfriends, including Chelsea Handler, all smiles, just like we saw the other day when she was leaving a workout, also with a girlfriend. Before meeting up for dinner though, Jennifer was seen in the same outfit, but wearing flats, taking daughte...

Angelina Jolie takes her children to Disneyland to celebrate Knox and Vivienne's 9th birthday

Vivienne and Knox Jolie-Pitt turned 9 years old yesterday. To celebrate, Angelina Jolie took them to Disneyland with their older brothers and sisters. I like that shot of Knox and Maddox seated at the front of the roller coaster. You can see Pax is two rows behind. Later on, Maddox, who turns 16 ...

Intro for July 13, 2017

Dear Gossips, Andy Murray lost in 5 sets at Wimbledon yesterday to Sam Querrey. Following the loss, Andy’s making headlines on two fronts – whether or not he’ll be taking a break from the tour to rehabilitate his hip and also for this: Andy Murray may have lost, but nothing got past h...

What Else for July 12, 2017

First it was sugar. And then now it’s carbon. But I don’t know why the angle is different this time? That said, the way cameras flip back and forth always confuses me. Also… why didn’t she just say it was makeup? Like loose powder? I feel like we all would have believed it was makeup? While we’re...

Celine Dion is a vision in white in Paris

I mean… I mean! We all know what Celine Dion can do at the end of a song. She can push it so powerfully to the point that even the notes might not recognise themselves. And I wonder if Celine is approaching the end of her stay in Paris in the same way she might approach the last bars of a...

Matt Bomer, Sebastian Stan, Chris Hemsworth, and Alexander Skarsgard at Hugo Boss menswear show in New York

The Hugo Boss menswear show happened yesterday in New York with several celebrities in attendance. Where do we start? Let’s start with the most beautiful, the Angel, Matt Bomer. Because on anyone else I don’t think I’d be into the greyish blue shirt under the olive green suit but, well, he’s an a...

The cast of Black Panther looks insane in gorgeous Entertainment Weekly cover feature

Continuing the pre-Comic-Con warm-up is Black Panther, which covers Entertainment Weekly’s special issue. We’ve seen the trailer, and now we have a trove of photos to scan in detail, including T’Challa’s family—his mother, Ramonda, is played by ANGELA BASSET. There’s also Lupita N’yongo as Nakia,...

Smutty Social Media, July 12, 2017

Mimi wants us to know she’s still allowing Bryan to run her bubble baths and pour her champagne.   #justforlaughs @bryantanaka A post shared by Mariah Carey (@mariahcarey) on Jul 12, 2017 at 5:09am PDT Sienna Miller is a huge tennis fan. I...

George and Amal Clooney leave the twins at home to have dinner with friends in Italy

Last week I posted photos of Amal and George Clooney arriving via private jet in Italy, on their way to Lake Como where they always spend the summer. Last night they left the twins at the villa to go out for dinner with friends at one of their favourite restaurants where we’ve seen them in years ...

First look at Ava DuVernay's inspired casting in A Wrinkle in Time photos

We’re about to get hit with a deluge of new movie stuff, with Disney’s biennial fan convention, D23, taking place this weekend, and then Comic-Con the weekend after. As a warm up, Entertainment Weekly has some first-look features in their Comic-Con issue, including Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle In Tim...

Ben Affleck and Lindsay Shookus try to counter cheating rumours with positive story in PEOPLE

What’s most fascinating, at least to me, about this situation, is how certain media outlets are covering the Ben Affleck-Lindsay Shookus-Jennifer Garner story. As you know, PEOPLE’s been all over the cheating angle, going into their files from a few years ago to report that Ben and Lindsay were c...

Jennifer Garner's "bless his heart" smile despite Ben Affleck's new relationship

Jennifer Garner covered Vanity Fair last year. And at the end of the article, when asked about Ben Affleck’s rising phoenix tattoo, she threw out a “bless his heart”. It was explained to me by many of you that this is Southern shade. That in the South, it’s a classy way of saying someone’s an idi...

Intro for July 12, 2017

Dear Gossips, This morning I read an article by Josephine Livingstone for New Republic about Why Cinema Loves The Trailblazing Scientist. There’s a new movie coming out called Marie Curie: The Courage Of Knowledge and the writer compares the film to other recent stories about scientists, like...

What Else for July 11, 2017

This lady may not have the couture of Celine Dion…but I think there’s some shared spirit. As in the no f-cks to give kind of spirit. As in when you love something that much, you want the world to know kind of spirit. As in when you’re that happy, even your brassiere has to come out kind of spirit...

Celine Dion's “image architect” Law Roach speaks to Vanity Fair and WWD about their relationship

It’s not Paris Fashion Week. It’s Celine Couture Week. And it comes to an end on Thursday as Celine plays Nice before heading to Germany on Sunday and then the UK a week later where she’ll perform 7 shows before heading to back to the US. Holy sh-t, will we be getting a Celine Fashion Week in Lon...

Jesse Wiliams' bad timing as he is photographed with Minka Kelly after release of Jay Z's 4:44 footnote

For a hot second this morning, I was feeling bad for Jesse Williams. In Jay Z’s newly released 4:44 footnote video I wrote about earlier, Williams addressed the rumours that he left his wife for Minka Kelly. Those rumours inspired a lot of conversation and speculation about the end of his marriag...

Jay Z and friends talk love and infidelity in 4:44 footnotes

Jay Z’s 4:44 is an album that requires dissection. It’s a striking, emotional and vulnerable piece of art that is deserving of all the praise and analysis it has received. It’s got layers on layers of sh-t to process. I’ve listened to it multiple times almost every day since the album dropped and...

Smutty Social Media, July 11, 2017

I didn’t know there was a rumour about Ashton Kutcher cheating on Mila Kunis until Ashton Kutcher posted about the rumour that he cheated on Mila Kunis. So no empty threat to sue over this tomorrow? You should have heard how upset Mila was that I spent the day with our cousin. Sorry aunt ...

Kit Harington's Game of Thrones "audition" tape on Kimmel ahead of Season 7 premiere on Sunday

Are you ready? Only five more sleeps until the penultimate season of Game Of Thrones after an extra-long wait. Three months longer than usual. This Sunday is the first episode of season 7, a shortened season with just 7 episodes. Just 7 weeks. So, basically, the second half of summer. And it ...

Disney's dilemma casting lead role for live-action Aladdin

Disney’s live-action conversion machine rolls on, with the next project up for conversion being Aladdin. The beloved musical is being directed by Guy Ritchie, which sounds like a nightmare. And it’s already proving challenging as a massive worldwide casting search for Aladdin has yielded no resul...

Helen Hunt’s sneaky reinvention as GoldDerby predicts she could be nominated for three Emmy Awards for directing

How do you remember Helen Hunt? She’ll always be Jamie Buchman from Mad About You or an Oscar winner for her great work in As Good as it Gets to me, but now she’s sneaking into the Emmy race with three possible shots at a directing nomination (her first)… and possibly, her first TV acting recogni...

Messy Ben Affleck looks happy while out for dinner with Lindsay Shookus

When Ben Affleck and Lindsay Shookus were first photographed together last Thursday, confirming that they’re together, he looked pretty easy with it but she seemed kind of overwhelmed. The paps also shot her at LAX the next day, heading out of town, and she wasn’t all that comfortable then either...

Nina Dobrev and Glen Powell officially together at Julianne Hough's wedding after checking each other in January

“Checking” – it was an expression we used in high school when we were talking about being into someone. Who’s John with right now? Oh, he’s checking Melissa. It was first reported back in January that Nina Dobrev and Glen Powell were checking each other. They showed up to the same parties, th...

Intro for July 11, 2017

Dear Gossips, The Emmy Award nominations will be announced on Thursday. In the Best Drama Actress category, Elisabeth Moss is the lead contender for her work in The Handmaid’s Tale. The Crown’s Claire Foy is up there too. The name that’s missing from the list: Tatiana Maslany, of Orphan Black...

What Else for July 10, 2017

Hot Felon, Jeremy Meeks, spent time on a yacht with a billionaire’s daughter and now his wife is leaving him. Is this… surprising to anyone? The billionaire’s daughter, Chloe Green, used to date Marc Anthony.  Who used to be married to JLO. So Hot Felon is one step closer to JLO. And this, ultima...

Celine Dion's weekend wardrobe in Paris

Sometimes, when I’m in a style rut and bored of clothes, I worry that clothing will never excite me, ever again. I feel this way about songs too. I worry that all the good combination of musical notes have already been discovered and that there will never be any great songs ever again. And then o...

Show Your Work: Ashton Kutcher, the “feminist” & the Hawaii Five-0 salary dispute

We begin this week’s podcast with a conversation about work posture which somehow devolves into a discussion about sh-tting posture which is a great lead-in to Ashton Kutcher. Today Ashton hosted a live chat on Facebook about gender equality in the workplace, specifically in the tech industry and...

Liam Hemsworth posts about his "little angel" Miley Cyrus on Instagram

Last week, to commemorate International Kissing Day (there are too many goddamn “days” – like “international pretzel day”, which I just made up but I’m totally convinced exists), Miley Cyrus posted a throwback photo from The Last Song, which is the movie she was working on when she met Liam Hemsw...

Smutty Social Media, July 10, 2017

Sofia Vergara is pretty committed to her aesthetic – you don’t see her change it up a lot in terms of hair, makeup or red carpet choices. She’s feeling crazy this summer. Maybe her next dress won’t be mermaid style!   New haircut 😁gracias !!#kellyklain💇🏽 ...

Daniel Craig to shoot another Bond film according to The Daily Mirror

There was a tremendous amount of speculation last year about Tom Hiddleston and James Bond. It was fueled by Hiddleston’s performance in The Night Manager as well as Hiddles’ general thirstiness for the role, and then we spent months arguing over whether or not his relationship with Taylor Swift ...

Ben Affleck has reportedly been dating Lindsay Shookus since 2013 according to PEOPLE Magazine

Last Thursday, Ben Affleck went out for dinner in LA with his girlfriend Lindsay Shookus. As I mentioned at the time, even though the paps were there, Ben didn’t look particularly bothered by the fact that the public would now be aware that he’s dating again after he and Jennifer Garner filed for...

Prince Harry photographed at British Summer Time Festival with a blonde while watching The Killers perform

Prince Harry was in London this weekend, photographed at the British Summer Time Festival on Saturday night during The Killers show. As an aside, did you know that Mr Brightside has charted in the UK every year since its release in 2004? Every single year for 13 years. Most songs only chart the y...

Harper Seven Beckham turns 6

Harper Beckham is 6 years old today. Yesterday the whole family got together to celebrate.   Family day to celebrate Harpers birthday x We love u all so much x kisses @davidbeckham @jackie.adams_ @louisesadams @christianadams_79 @emma.strafford @sandra_beckham49 @ly...

Intro for July 10, 2017

Dear Gossips, The big story at the box office this weekend was Spider-man: Homecoming, the third best opening of the year behind Beauty And The Beast and Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2. The big story at the specialty box office this year, however, continues to be The Big Sick. Two weeks ago, w...

What Else for July 7, 2017

Taylor Swift skipped #Taymerica. And Taylor Swift is still making headlines, even when people are actively trying to avoid making headlines about her. Which is what Lorde is doing here. Last time Lorde talked about Taylor she stepped in it. So now she’s distancing herself from Taylor and this is ...

Celine Dion wanted to be treated like a model for VOGUE photo shoot in Paris

At this point, I don’t know if there are any words left to describe Celine Dion at Paris Fashion Week. We’ve already talked about her earnestness and enthusiasm and her no f-cks-to-giveness and how it has made the too-cool assholes that we usually see at fashion week look like goddamn fools. We h...

Idris Elba covers Esquire to promote The Dark Tower

Idris Elba covers the new issue of Esquire ahead of the release of The Dark Tower. During the interview, when he’s talking about his series, Idris Elba: Fighter, and training to be a professional kickboxer, this is how he describes the experience: "I could have been sitting in a comfortable p...

Smutty Social Media, July 7, 2017

Even in character, was that word really necessary, Ben Stiller? There are other ways to make the joke. How do people not know this?!   Spare me @serenawilliams. Anyway, we're pretty tight-knit here in the tribe, but there's always room for one more squaw… if you dec...

Keanu Reeves in The Bad Batch movie review

There are movies that are not good, there are movies that are bad, and then are movies that are gross. Bad movies are common, but gross movies are few and far between. The last gross movie I saw was the Salma Hayek torture porn debacle Everly, two and a half years ago. My gross-free streak ended ...

Blue Ivy Carter raps on Jay Z's 4:44

It’s the universally recognised sound you hear when someone gets dunked on. It’s the sound you’re hearing today because we all just got dunked on. By Blue Ivy of the House Knowles-Carter, first of her line, the platinum, queen of the Twitter and princess of the Beyhive, goddess of the great celeb...

Sponsored: Win with your #TorontoStyle

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about being the Ambassador of #TorontoStyle for CF Toronto Eaton Centre and its 2017 Reflections of Toronto Style campaign. That post and my Instagram from the mall selfie mirrors are here if you missed it. What I like about the shirt dress I’m wearing in that photo ...

Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal in Okja movie review

First and most important the “animal endangerment” warning: Okja can be hard to watch. While it’s not as bloody as it could be, it’s frank about the slaughterhouse and the treatment of animals raised to slaughter in agri-business abattoirs. It’s not exploitative, but there are a couple scenes tha...

Brad Pitt looks fit while leaving his office in LA

Brad Pitt is currently on the cover of US Weekly with Sienna Miller. They were at Glastonbury together although, supposedly, they weren’t together-together, at least not according to sources from his side who are trying to insist that they’re not a thing. This week Brad’s been papped a few ti...

Ben Affleck dating SNL producer Lindsay Shookus

Exactly two years ago last Friday, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck announced their divorce. In the two years since, there’s been all kinds of speculation as to whether or not they’re getting back together. As recently as last week, when they were on holiday with their children in the Bahamas, a f...

Intro for July 7, 2017

Dear Gossips, Oscar Isaac is currently in New York performing Hamlet at the Public Theatre. Previews began on June 20, opening night is next Thursday, and the play will run until September 3rd. So he’s spending the entire summer playing the tortured prince six days a week – and if you count r...

What Else for July 6, 2017

In full context, Andrew Garfield’s heart is in the right place. But these comments about being gay or not being gay – at best it’s a poor choice of words. At worst, well, it’s all kinds of stereotypes. At worst, it’s gay tourism. And it reads too like gayness can be taken on and taken off. Like I...

Gwyneth Paltrow hosts Despicable Me 3 screening in the Hamptons

Here is Gwyneth Paltrow yesterday in the Hamptons, hosting a screening of Despicable Me 3 to kick off a run of movie-related sh*t at goop MRKT (sidebar: the way goop punctuates drives me nuts). What does goop sell for the movies? Gluten-free candy, definitely. Minion-themed children’s yoga mats? ...

Letter written to Madonna from Tupac uncovered by TMZ

"Tupac Broke Up With Madonna Because She's White!" That's the headline many outlets are going with to describe a recently unearthed letter written by Tupac to Madonna in 1995 about their breakup. While that statement may be accurate in theory, it's a sensational dumbing down of the nuance and com...

Smutty Social Media, July 6, 2017

In a couple of weeks, Kelly Ripa and her family did more fun, outdoorsy stuff in Vancouver than I will do in a year.   #squamish is not for the squeamish, but we made it to the top! Thanks for all the incredible #vancouver recommendations everyone. #lastday #fanada ...

Venus Williams advances at Wimbledon

Venus Williams advanced to the round of 32 yesterday at Wimbledon in 3 sets, not an easy match, and probably a harder match than she would have wanted during the first week. But, given the circumstances, with all that’s going on outside of tennis in her life, probably understandable that Venus to...

Leonardo DiCaprio in Malibu with the Wolf Pack for Fourth of July

Alpha Wolf Leonardo DiCaprio was seen in Malibu this week celebrating the Fourth of July with several members of his Wolf Pack including Kevin Connolly and Tobey Maguire, which means Lukas Haas to be there somewhere. Orlando Bloom, not a founding member of the Wolves-previously-known-as-the-Pussy...

George and Amal Clooney arrive in Milan with newborn twins

Amal and George Clooney's newborn twins, Ella and Alexander, are exactly a month old today. Here they are in white bassinets, arriving via private plane in Milan. Is this fancy? I mean the bassinets, not the plane. Of course the plane is fancy. I don't know a lot about baby gear but I see a lot o...

Margaret Atwood thinks it would be fun for Drake to have cameo in season two of The Handmaid's Tale

I’m SORRY. I HAD TO. I couldn’t stop myself. And you’ve just groaned. And I don’t blame you. But… it was too corny not to! We’re about a week away from the Emmy Award nominations. The Handmaid’s Tale is expected to be a major contender in several categories. Did you watch? Last I checked,...

Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler in The House movie review

Yet another R-rated comedy bit the dust as The House bombed over the July 4th weekend. Following on the heels of Rough Night’s similar disappointment, there’s a lot of hand-wringing over what is wrong with Hollywood, why is this summer bad, do people hate franchises now, is it the fault of Rotten...

Intro for July 6, 2017

Dear Gossips, How Did Johnny Depp Find Himself In A Financial Crisis? is the question Vanity Fair asks in the new issue of the magazine. The article, written by Mark Seal, was posted online yesterday. By now you’ve probably heard about all the back-and-forth allegations between Johnny and...

What Else for July 5, 2017

Sarah and I were emailing back and forth today, feeling like life has been on hold. Beyoncé hasn’t told us yet that we can actually start celebrating the birth of the babies and we have been trained not to move until she gives the all-clear. Also, #Taymerica didn’t happen and we are also waiting ...

Celine Dion front row at Paris Fashion Week 2017

Celine Dion is from Quebec, Canada. And she would never say she “belongs” anywhere else. She has also, as of the last decade or so, been of Las Vegas. But when Celine Dion is in Paris… well… it’s like there’s new life. It’s like she gives herself permission to take her feelings to an even higher ...

Show Your Work: Jay Z’s would-be empire and why we love trucks

And we’re back! Since so many of us had a holiday weekend, it feels good to dig into work talk… even though this week, the talk seemed kind of work-adjacent: In Jay-Z’s case this is because lots of people haven’t yet heard 4:44, since it’s exclusive to TIDAL. So we talked about everything els...

Smutty Social Media, July 5, 2017

Turtle from Entourage got married, so it was quite a reunion. (Adrian Grenier wasn’t there, though.) This story about the boys playing golf with Wayne Gretzky is entertaining because look at Kevin Connolly’s face when Kevin Dillon says he shot a 78 and Wayne beat him by one stroke. ...

Kristen Stewart and Claudia Schiffer's Chanel jumpsuits at Paris Fashion Week

It’s Paris Fashion Week. And, as it was last year, there is only one star of Paris Fashion Week. Her name is Celine Dion. But we’ll catch up with Celine in a post later on. Right now, it’s the celebrities at Chanel and two Chanel jumpsuits in particular that stood out from the rest. I like a ...

US Weekly claims that Brad Pitt and Sienna Miller's relationship is still happening

It’s been over 10 years since we’ve experienced a summer when Brange wasn’t a thing. Last summer there were some indications that sh-t wasn’t right between them …but no one knew at the time that it would result in a mysterious trans-Atlantic flight, a custody battle, and a public relations cage m...

Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled movie review

And what it is, is a dreamily rendered impressionist drawing room drama, a psycho-sexual thriller buttoned up in a prim and proper façade. Sofia Coppola’s latest meditation on privileged femininity is an adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s novel of the same title, and it’s a beautiful idea of a terri...

Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender together in Paris

Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender were in Paris last night, photographed arm in arm after dinner. They were also papped together in Venice a few days ago. So there’s your update if you were curious about whether or not they’re still together: they are. And, evidently, not too bothered about ...

Scarlett Johansson dating both Colin Jost and lawyer Kevin Yorn

Last Wednesday, PEOPLE reported on Scarlett Johansson’s relationship with her lawyer, Kevin Yorn. They were seen holding hands a couple of weeks ago in New York, after she was apparently making out with Colin Jost at the SNL wrap party. According to PEOPLE, Scarjo and Kevin’s situation was a “lon...

July 5, 2017 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Michelle! Happy Birthday! Leslie misses you terribly and can’t wait to see you in August. By request, here’s a photo of David Bowie. This is Anna. She’s 25 years old and she’s lived with cystic fibrosis her entire life. Anna just got married in the hospital chapel on the weekend. She’s been i...

Intro for July 5, 2017

Dear Gossips, Olivia De Havilland turned 101 on July 1st. To celebrate her birthday, she announced on Friday that she’s suing FX and Ryan Murphy over how she was portrayed on Feud. Back in April, a few weeks after the show premiered, The Hollywood Reporter asked Ms De Havilland for her though...