What Else for February 28, 2018

Liz Trinnear is our special guest this week on Sasha Answers, millennial edition. We talk about Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, and atoning for small dick shaming, and we throw in a few makeup tips too.  Yesterday we were jazzing about the Spice Girls possibly performing at Prince Harry and Meghan M...

Natalie Portman's great styling on the set of Vox Lux in New York

Natalie Portman is currently in New York shooting a new film called Vox Lux. She plays Celeste who per Variety “rises from the ashes of a major national tragedy to pop superstardom. The film spans 15 years and traces important cultural moments from the singer’s perspective, starting in 1999 and endi...

Game Night movie review starring Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, and Jesse Plemons

My biggest issue with the Scarlett Johansson’s dead body comedy, Rough Night, is that it doesn’t commit to its premise and go as far as it needs to in order to actually work. Essentially, it chickens out. Going into Game Night, another high-concept R-rated comedy, I wondered if we’d have the same pr...

Smutty Social Media, February 28, 2018

Demi Lovato’s mother Dianna has written a book (this isn’t a case of a rogue relative – Demi appears on the cover and wrote the forward). I read the excerpt in PEOPLE and I’m very interested in the rest because both Demi and Dianna have been through treatment, so there’s insight into addiction and m...

Prince William, Catherine, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle attend Royal Foundation forum together

Prince William, Catherine, Prince Harry, and Meghan Markle attended their first public engagement all together today at the first annual Royal Foundation forum, discussing the role and the priorities of the foundation and presenting their plans going forward. All four spoke at the event, sharing the...

Barbra Streisand reveals she was the victim of male mutiny on set in Variety cover profile

Duana and I won’t be able to record a new episode of Show Your Work on Friday because we are travelling. If we were able to do it though, I’m pretty sure we’d be talking about Barbra Streisand’s new interview with Variety, published just ahead of Oscar weekend, specifically because this award season...

Alexis Ohanian dedicates four billboards to Serena Williams to welcome her back to playing tennis

Get you a person who loves you like Alexis Ohanian loves Serena Williams. After I saw Alexis’s four billboards welcoming Serena back to tennis after giving birth, I turned to my partner and said, “What have you done for me LATELY?” It’s not that I want a billboard or even a public declaration of lov...

Benedict Cumberbatch dances as he hosts the Laureus World Sports Awards

I have so many questions. The first one is why was Benedict Cumberbatch hosting the Laureus World Sports Awards in Monte-Carlo yesterday? Apparently, this is his third year in a row. OK. Why though? My second and most important question is WHO decided it was a good idea to do this?   Guys, g...

Armie Hammer is still holding a grudge against Anne Helen Petersen as he claps back at her on Twitter

Back in November, Armie Hammer, while still campaigning for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in Call Me By Your Name, did an interview with Vulture that went great. Then he was featured in The Hollywood Reporter and it was kind of a fumble. After that, Anne Helen Petersen analysed h...

February 28, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Dear Sharon, I’m sorry to hear about your ma. I know the last few years have not been easy. And it never is as our parents age, as we become the worriers. I think of you often this time of year, as we approach Canada Reads. I think of you now as you’re getting through your first weeks after such a m...

Intro for February 28, 2018

Dear Gossips, Four more sleeps until the Oscars. Oscar voting closed yesterday. How’s your ballot looking? Don’t forget there’s a bag and a phone on the line – please click here if you’ve not yet entered our Annual Red Carpet Contest! And if you haven’t submitted your entry yet, some things to co...

What Else for February 27, 2018

Have you read the allegations against Ryan Seacrest by his former stylist that were published yesterday in Variety? Ryan tried to get ahead of the story in November and a few weeks ago E! said they conducted their own internal investigation that found no wrongdoing. He continues to deny that he did ...

Chris Pine is still fine at the Hollywood premiere of A Wrinkle In Time

I get to see A Wrinkle in Time today. I GET TO SEE A WRINKLE IN TIME TODAY. Chris Pine is not going to be the most memorable part of A Wrinkle in Time. Like in Wonder Woman, he is probably going to be about the seventh best thing about this movie. I don’t think he cares, as he shouldn’t. But some ac...

Ryan Coogler supports Ava DuVernay at A Wrinkle In Time Hollywood premiere

A Wrinkle In Time opens next week, on March 9th. The premiere was last night in Hollywood. And this is giving me the saps. You’ll recall, Hollywood came out strong for Black Panther earlier this month. Specifically Black Hollywood came out strong for Black Panther earlier this month. Ava DuVernay su...

Smutty Social Media, February 27, 2018

The first activity that came to mind for me was “nap.” Parents of 2 yr olds: what’s something fun you guys did together recently — Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) February 25, 2018   Waiting for a ‘Guns ‘N’ Roses is overrated’ meltdown.  What’s inappropriate is Ivanka Tru...

Will the Spice Girls be at Prince Harry's wedding?

Mel B was on The Real this morning. And… she was asked about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s upcoming wedding. Just watch what happened and what she said:  Today in #GirlChatLive, Mel B shares if she is going to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s wedding, and if the SPICE GIRLS ARE PERFORMING!...

Sponsored: Join the Audible Book Club with LaineyGossip!

One of the best things my parents ever did for me was to encourage me to read. I read a lot. And this was especially important when I was growing up in Canada because I didn’t speak English at home. My introduction to much of my vocabulary was through books and not through conversation. Which makes ...

Drunk Jennifer Lawrence promotes Red Sparrow on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

As anticipated, when Jennifer Lawrence is on a press tour, there’s a headline every day. During this press tour, she’s talked about taking a break from acting, dropping out of high school, her crush on Timothee Chalamet, people getting too worked up about her jokes, and last night on The Late Show w...

Kelly Clarkson saves The Voice

I like The Voice. I’ve watched almost every season. Somewhere, Sarah is making fun of me right now for all the sh-tty TV I watch. For the most part, The Voice is not sh-tty TV. Even though the show has yet to discover a star artist, for entertainment’s sake, it’s the best incarnation of the reality ...

Princess Kate giggles during visit to Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in London

Princess Kate visited the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in London today; she is their new royal patron. While there she reunited with Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, the midwife who apparently helped deliver Princess Charlotte. They greeted each other warmly, like super excite...

Gemma Chan’s big year with upcoming projects including Captain Marvel

If you watch any amount of British television, you’ve seen Gemma Chan. Sherlock, Shetland, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Humans—and that’s only stuff where she has leading or featured roles. She’s a side character in a LOT of stuff, too. Or maybe you remember her from Richard Ayoade’s superb Submarin...

Intro for February 27, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Last year’s Oscar envelope f-ckup – do you care about it anymore? It was amazing the night of. But then, after all that’s happened this year, I don’t know that I still care all that much about what went down and who messed up and why. This is not the most interesting part of the st...

What Else for February 26, 2018

I’ve become obsessed with wigs lately. I feel like an idiot asshole for not embracing wigs earlier. Because you can try so many different hairstyles without permanence. Good wig game is a pain in the ass though. Your hair has to be braided super tight. And then sewn together. Like with needle and th...

Show Your Work: Comeback actors, Olympics, and Janelle Monae

We begin this week’s podcast with a discussion about what Duana and Megan Fox have in common. There’s a scientific name for it too – even though the name sounds ridiculously made up and not real at all: Brachydactyly Type D, pronounced “bracky-dact-ily”. Come ON!  From there, we move to Encino Ma...

The Annual Red Carpet Contest

You ready?  This is an annual tradition here at LaineyGossip.com – you fill in the ballot with your predictions in the 24 Oscar categories and, if you get the most correct, and your entry is submitted the earliest, I send you a gorgeous designer bag and some other amazing prizes.  I look forwa...

Michael B. Jordan burns everything down in Fahrenheit 451 trailer

First he was the Human Torch, then he burned the garden of the heart-shaped herb, now he’s burning all the books—Michael B. Jordan seems to like movies where he gets to burn sh*t on screen. Kathleen calls him Michael Bae Jordan but maybe we should call him Michael B. Burnin’. (I’ll show myself out.)...

Jameela Jamil’s Instagram Outrage

As we discussed recently on Show Your Work, there are lots of reasons to be fascinated by The Good Place actress Jameela Jamil. Mostly, I’m amazed at how different she is from every other first-time-on-a-surprise-hit-network-show star. Obviously,  she’s 5’11 (hence the descriptions of her character,...

Smutty Social Media, February 26, 2018

In celebration of their 9th wedding anniversary, Gisele posted photo from her and Tom’s wedding. It’s not the first one – she did this a few years ago (I’ll circle back to that in a minute). This photo is definitely from the church ceremony in California– I looked up the St. Monica Catholic Church (...

Mary Elizabeth Winstead reportedly broke up with Ewan McGregor

So far I’m only seeing this covered by UK outlets – perhaps because the original source of the report is usually so full of sh-t. That would be Star Magazine. Star reports in its latest issue that Mary Elizabeth Winstead broke up with Ewan McGregor because she didn’t want to be called a “homewrecker...

Mark Wahlberg on the men-first marketplace of Hollywood

A few weeks ago, it was revealed that Mark Wahlberg made $1.5 million for reshoots on All The Money In The World while Michelle Williams got per diem. His initial salary for the film was $5 million and she was paid $650K. Eventually he and WME, the talent agency that represents both Mark and Michell...

Britney Spears' Fantasy In Bloom named Fragrance of the Year at Hollywood Beauty Awards

We don’t see Britney Spears very often anymore on red carpets, at award shows, at major events. Over the last few years, Britney appears to have been able to rebuild a relationship with her fame in a way that works for her. And the results have been largely positive. She’s pretty active on social me...

February 26, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Chris! Congratulations on your accounting designation – here’s a message from Jenn: “You did it! The long hours and hard work paid off!” HAPPY BIRTHDAY! By request, here are Cosima and Delphine from Orphan Black.  via GIPHY

Intro for February 26, 2018

Dear Gossips, Something really exciting happened this weekend: several members of the Crazy Rich Asians team gathered in LA to screen the film for the first time. Kevin Kwan, the author of the book series, shared a photo on Instagram. He called it “one of the most unforgettable nights of my life”...

What Else for February 23, 2018

Ashton Kutcher is another This F-cking Guy for me. Sure. He’s cut down on his f-cksh-t now that he’s with Mila Kunis and is a father but now he’s trying to revisionist his old f-cksh-t and it’s still the same f-cksh-t. Have you heard about how he told Dax Shepherd that after he got busted for cheati...

Smutty Social Media, February 23, 2018

Victoria Beckham’s line has seen an uptick in menswear-inspired suiting – trousers, button downs, tuxedo jackets. This particular Chloe Grace Moretz suit is Fendi but I did a quick check and she does indeed wear VB sometimes (Harper’s Bazaar did a little story on VB’s influence on Chloe’s style – yo...

Lupita Nyong'o to star in film adaptation of Trevor Noah's autobiography, Born a Crime

Every actor in Black Panther (except for maybe living legends Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker) can look at their careers in two parts: BBP and ABP, as in Before Black Panther and After Black Panther.  Sure, Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Daniel Kaluuya and my man Michael B. Jorda...

Gossip Genie-ing Jennifer Aniston and Joshua Jackson

Have you seen those photos of Jennifer Aniston’s sad face leaving the Game Night premiere earlier this week? It’s obviously Photo Assumption. But it works with the current narrative: poor Jen, alone once again. If they’re not talking about how lonely Jen is, they’re trying to figure out why she and ...

Oprah surprises Tiffany Haddish on Ellen

About 20 minutes after I watched the PURE JOY that is Tiffany Haddish meeting Oprah Winfrey for the first time, I saw this tweet from my favourite ex-Grantland writer, Rembert Browne.  i'd watch 100 episodes of the show "Oprah Surprises Famous Black People Who Never Thought They'd Meet Oprah"...

Zendaya and Tom Holland say they are just friends as they have lunch together in LA

Kathleen posted about Zendaya and Tom Holland in London the other day and then they flew back to LA together and she insisted that the portmanteau for this maybe-couple is Zomdaya even though Sarah thinks it should be Zendalland. So then a poll happened. And Sarah won.  SETTLE THE DEBATE, TWI...

Jared Leto’s emo Yakuza movie, The Outsider

When looking for something to watch, literally no one has ever said the words, “But what I’d really like to see is an emo Jared Leto Yakuza movie.” Literally no one. Has ever. Said that. And yet HERE WE ARE, with an emo Jared Leto Yakuza movie. What have we done wrong? Which gods have we offended? W...

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Charlie Hunnam on set of A Million Little Pieces

Charlie Hunnam gave an interview last year while promoting The Lost City Of Z, casually dropping into conversation that he’s close with My Obsession, Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and as a I wrote at the time, my head exploded. Charlie and Sam know each other from Fifty Shades Of Grey, when he quit ...

Intro for February 23, 2018

Dear Gossips,  A couple of days ago, Johnny Weir, while broadcasting during the Olympic women’s figure skating short program, described the marks like this (with minor paraphrasing):  “Anything between 70 and 75 points is good; 75 to 80 is great; a score over 80 is Russian.”  Did you watch ...

What Else for February 22, 2018

Every curling headline over the last couple of weeks during the Olympics has made me laugh. Especially this one about Curling vs Scientology … sort of. But, seriously, the obsession with curling, or the obsession with tweeting about curling, has been amazing. Curling is on TV in Canada all winter. B...

'A Wrinkle in Time' to feature Sade's new track 'Flower of the Universe'

It feels like the pop culture gods are showering gifts upon us to make up for A) ignoring people of colour for years and B) to give us relief from the equals parts horrific and demoralizing 24-hour news cycle. Sade is here to save us. SADE!!! What a time. Ava DuVernay, the patron saint of pop cul...

Trying to get on board with the Jelena love reboot

Lainey has been trying to convince me and our site manager, Emily, to get on board with Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez’s rekindled romance since they were spotted hanging out again in October. Lainey’s been all about that same old Jelena love since day one but this time around, she’s positing that J...

Smutty Social Media, February 22, 2018

As Lainey mentioned this morning, Rachel McAdams didn’t attend the Game Night premiere. But Street was there to support Coach and Landry.    A post shared by skittishkid (@skittishkid) on Feb 21, 2018 at 7:03pm PST The town of Pawnee and Leslie Knope would like to be exclu...

Review: 'Annihilation' starring Natalie Portman

Alex Garland follows his directorial debut, Ex Machina, with Annihilation, a film so deeply weird and disturbing it’s destined to polarize audiences (once seen, it is crystal clear why Paramount had no f*cking clue what to do with it). It’s similar to Darren Aronofsky’s mother! in that it uses very ...

Timothée Chalamet thanks Kid Cudi in GQ for his career turning point

Kid Cudi may be the reason we have Timothée Chalamet. Yes, that is just as random as it sounds. In a new interview with GQ, Timothée details how the rapper/actor saved his career at a point when he almost quit.    At a critical juncture when the walls were closing in, Timothée spent a couple hours...

Fure sure Brad Pitt left love notes on POST-IT notes!

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux announced their separation exactly a week ago today. America was heading into a long weekend. But there was still one full business day remaining. Instead of burying their release on a Friday afternoon, at 5pm, when many outlets have packed up to enjoy a few days ...

Lorde and Jack Antonoff look like more than friends in Auckland

In January, when Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff broke up, I mentioned that my friend casually predicted that he’d move on with Lorde. In my previous post, I chose to keep my friend anonymous. She works in media too so I didn’t think she’d want her name attached to an off-the-cuff prediction that may ...

Rachel McAdams not at Game Night premiere with Jason Bateman and Kyle Chandler

Game Night opens this weekend, a comedy for those who might not want to see Black Panther (for the third or fourth time). I posted about Game Night when the trailer came out in November – it looked good! And, so far, the reviews aren’t bad. It’s currently sitting at over 80% on Rotten Tomatoes and a...

Intro for February 22, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Several times last year I wrote about how it’s become impossible to separate gossip from politics and, in particular, politics from the tabloids. Last summer, The New Yorker published a piece by Jeffrey Toobin about how Donald Trump has benefitted from the National Enquirer’s suppo...

What Else for February 21, 2018

Jay-Z spent a lot of money on his friend’s birthday this weekend. Apparently he was giving bottles away. Bottles worth more than $1,000. And he “only” tipped 15%. Which still amounted to $11K. If you’re the recipient of an $11K tip that represented 15%, are you bitching that it was “only” 15%? Or… t...

Rihanna celebrates her 30th birthday

Rihanna celebrated her 30th birthday yesterday. Rihanna has accomplished more by 30 than most of us will in our entire lives. No disrespect. She’s a 9-time Grammy award winner, one of the best-selling artists of all time and the boss of a beauty empire. BY 30. We’re basically the same age. It’s depr...

Tiffany Haddish to voice lead character in Netflix cartoon, Tuca and Bertie

She’s in Super Bowl commercials, she’s acing Drunk History, she’s a best-selling author, P.T. Anderson wants to work with her, she will be presenting at the Oscars—ever since breaking out in Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish is everywhere. And among the many projects she has in the offing, she can now add...

Prince William rides a motorcycle at Triumph Motorcycles and MIRA Technology Park in Hinckley

Yesterday Prince William visited Triumph Motorcycles and MIRA Technology Park in Hinckley. I know a little about motorcycles because a friend of mine went through 3 of them in 3 years. He started with a Harley and then ended up with a Triumph. Here’s my amateur assessment – Triumph bikes are way mor...

Smutty Social Media, February 21, 2018

Ryan Reynolds has purchased an ownership interest in Aviation Gin (you can read more about the deal here). After seeing how Clooney’s Casamigos blew up, I’m sure a few celebrities are looking into this type of business. Ryan will be so hands on, he’s even made an email address public: Ryan@aviationg...

Jessica Chastain in talks to star in It sequel

As soon as It premiered last year, the internet began fantasy casting Jessica Chastain in the sequel as the adult Beverly. If you’re not aware, It is a story in two parts, the first in the past—the 1950s in the TV miniseries, the 1980s in the movie—and the second in the present, with the characters ...

Cara Delevingne and Paris Jackson holding hands in London

Paris Jackson was in London this week for Fashion Week and she was hanging out with Cara Delevingne. They were photographed leaving some parties and holding hands. At one point, according to the paps, Paris was seen wearing Cara’s clothing. Which is a thing that the kids do all the time. Back in Nov...

Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin photographed together in Vancouver

Dakota Johnson has spent a lot of time in Vancouver because most of the Fifty Shades movies were shot there. She’s back in Vancouver on a new film called Bad Times At The El Royale (with Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, and Chris Hemsworth) and she was photographed this week at Heirloom Juice Co with her boy...

Zendaya and Tom Holland resurface together on social media

I’m sticking with Zomdaya as the couple name for Zendaya and Tom Holland. The rest of you (Sarah) are wrong. Say something. The last time I wrote about Zomdaya, they were spending U.S. Thanksgiving together, refueling rumours that they’re more than friends but I wasn’t exactly buying it.  In hind...

Jennifer Lawrence reveals her crush on Timothee Chalamet

Yesterday I posted about Jennifer Lawrence’s bombshell wardrobe in London while promoting Red Sparrow. As noted, the styling is in line with her character, she’s selling a character and the movie. But also…was there a secondary motivation? Someone she was targeting?  Was she setting a thirst trap...

Benedict Cumberbatch is a little teapot for Omaze charity campaign

Benedict Cumberbatch is doing an Omaze campaign for the Avengers: Infinity War premiere. If you’re not familiar with Omaze, it’s a charity platform that partners with celebrities—maybe other people, too? I only see it with celebrities, though—for fan experiences driven by giving campaigns. You donat...

Intro for February 21, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Like I’ve been saying, every day they update the Black Panther numbers, and every day they keep going up. The Black Panther 4 day long weekend box office is now sitting at $242 million, behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the biggest opening ever. Even more than The Last Je...

What Else for February 20, 2018

Farts on a plane! Has this ever happened to you? Some flatulence drama went down on a flight from Dubai to Amsterdam recently and several people ended up getting kicked off and banned for life from flying on that airline. This is a very important issue about travelling. If you know you’re going to b...

Queen Elizabeth II sits front row at London Fashion Week with Anna Wintour

Literally! The Queen made a surprise appearance today at London Fashion Week to present the first ever Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design to Richard Quinn. The Award, initiated in recognition of the role the fashion industry plays in society & diplomacy, will be awarded annually t...

Jennifer Lawrence promotes Red Sparrow in London

Jennifer Lawrence’s Red Sparrow is due out next week, Oscar weekend. She’s been in London the last few days promoting the film. I wondered about Red Sparrow and how it would be received. So far, the reviews have been pretty medium. I don’t think we’re looking at a critical bomb. And, given that it’s...

Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre kissing in the front row at Burberry show in London

Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre are engaged. They’re based in London. It was London Fashion Week this past weekend. So they attended a couple of fashion week events together, making the social rounds for the first time as an engaged couple. And definitely acting like an engaged couple. You know how it...

Smutty Social Media, February 20, 2018

We need a new FOMO acronym for people who miss out on Black Panther. (And far be it for me to comment on Jo’s process but she should have definitely have gone to see Black Panther.) My whole family's out watching #BlackPanther and I stayed here to work on the novel and I'm currently full of a...

Shipping Tessa Thompson and Janelle Monae

Janelle Monae joined Tessa Thompson at the Annihilation premiere last week. They also went to the Black Panther premiere together. For a while now there’s been speculation as to whether or not they’re dating. And a lot of people who really want them to be dating. This is a conversation I’ll be pitch...

Oscar Isaac opens up in GQ Style cover story

Oscar Isaac on the cover of GQ Style. Well, between this and Lupita and MBJ, the universe is taking a dump on my productivity. In the spirit of sharing then, let me take a dump on your productivity.  This is a good read. Oscar isn’t…skittish… the way some of these celebrity profiles have read lat...

Lupita Nyong'o and Michael B. Jordan flirt on social media

If by the end of this post, you feel the need to come in with some real talk … don’t. Do not take away my joy. Don’t take away your own joy. Let us all live in possibility for a while because, sure, this may be too good to be true, but it’s a lot better than believing that Robsten and Virtue Moir ar...

Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup photographed holding hands after the BAFTAs

Last week, when Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux announced their separation, the tabloids dug up some year-old photos of Justin with his old friend Naomi Watts, suggesting that Naomi may have had something to do with the breakup.  Naomi and Liev Schreiber announced their split in September 201...

February 20, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Three years ago, I championed Raziel Reid’s book, When Everything Feels Like The Movies, on Canada Reads. Canada Reads is an annual book throwdown on CBC to determine, through debate, which book best exemplifies the theme of the show that year. I came in second but I feel like I still won because I ...

Intro for February 20, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Holy sh-t, that Olympic free dance competition last night. But this is what you want when the gold is on the line, right? You want everyone to f-cking bring it. There is nothing I’m better at than choking in the moment, especially when it requires physical performance. So to see th...

What Else for February 19, 2018

Lionel Richie has three children. Which mean he’s been through the teens twice and has almost completed his third lap as Sofia Richie is 19 years old. So he knows the tricks, presumably. Or maybe he’s forgotten. Because when a 19 year old in love hears her DAD call her relationship “a phase”, the fi...

Angelina Jolie at the BAFTAs following Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux's separation announcement

Gossip doesn’t work without timing. And since the Brange-Aniston Triangle became one of the biggest stories of the modern Hollywood gossip era, the timing has always been… well… conveniently coincidental. Or conspiratorial. One would always show up when the other was in the news. Like clockwork.  ...

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux had issues before getting married according to PEOPLE magazine

I’m curious about what this week’s US tabloids will look like. You’ll recall, when I wrote about Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s breakup timeline last week, announcing their separation on a Thursday gave the “gossip industry”, and all the gossip magazines, enough time to get it into their new ...

Smutty Social Media, February 19, 2018

Have you watched Fergie’s performance of The Star-Spangled Banner at the NBA All-Star game yet? It will take you through a range of emotions: discomfort, bewilderment, distress, amusement. But most of all, fontrum. Unbearable fontrum. Meanwhile back in the states... I leave for a couple of da...

Show Your Work: The Work of Wakanda

Black Panther is the biggest story in Hollywood coming out of the weekend. The numbers have already gone up from when I logged on this morning. We’ve now gone from $218 million domestically over the 4 day long weekend to an estimated $235 million, adjusted a couple of hours ago. So of course we’re t...

Blue Ivy Carter and Beyoncé sit courtside at the NBA All-Star game

There were a lot of celebrities courtside at the NBA All-Star game last night. The celebrity who made the biggest entrance: Blue Ivy Carter, obviously. With her mother, Beyoncé. And Miss Tina and Richard Lawson. Miss Tina’s responsibilities last night included holding on to Blue’s juice box. And Bey...

Jennifer Lawrence wants to know what's going on with Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss

Jennifer Lawrence has always been good for a one-liner. She’s quick-witted and unfiltered. Those two things have always been a part of a Jennifer Lawrence press tour. So, when J.Law started promoting Red Sparrow, I knew we’d be in for a few headline-grabbing cracks. Let’s start with Jennifer inserti...

Princess Kate and Frances McDormand at the 2018 BAFTAs

The BAFTAs happened in London yesterday and, ahead of the event, since the BAFTAs are the first major red carpet after Time’s Up was launched, attendees were encouraged to wear black in support of the movement, just like they did at the Golden Globes. Leading up to the BAFTAs, there was all kinds of...

It's Chadwick Boseman's time as he covers Rolling Stone magazine to promote Black Panther

At a certain point in his interview with Rolling Stone, Chadwick Boseman tells journalist Josh Eells that he’d rather not respond to a particular question because, as he explains: "I'd love to answer that. But I don't want to give him Panther time." Who he was talking about is irrelevant. The ...

The Audacity of Black Panther

When I was three, my big brother Sam smacked me on the head with a mini model car. He was five and frustrated that I kept stealing his toys. The incident left a small but permanent scar in the middle of my forehead. Throughout my childhood and into my early adulthood, I was ashamed of my scar. I hid...

Intro for February 19, 2018

Dear Gossips,  I was obsessed all weekend with checking the box office for Black Panther. As noted last week, the projections kept going up every day. And the numbers kept climbing every few hours this weekend and breaking all kinds of records. By Saturday morning they seemed certain the movie wo...

What Else for February 16, 2018

This cat though. I want a day in this cat’s life to be narrated by the dude who narrated the honey badger video. Maybe my mother could narrate a day in this cat’s life. Actually, no. My ma also has no f-cks to give, like this cat. So she would definitely not give up any of her time narrating a video...

A source close to Justin Theroux says he was bored of Jennifer Aniston's Hollywood crowd

We’ve been talking about the Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux separation announcement timeline. Page Six is now claiming partial responsibility:  Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux announced Thursday that they were splitting up — suspiciously just two hours after Page Six asked their reps to ...

Gabrielle Union speaks openly about her trauma in ELLE Canada cover story

Gabrielle Union is more than her PTSD. She is so much more than what happened to her. She knows this. And yet she continues to speak about her trauma openly and often. In every feature on Gabrielle Union, the words “sexual assault” are used. With every interview, she is taking the shame and stigma a...

Smutty Social Media, February 16, 2018

The sweater dress is not new this season, but I do like this particular look. It’s like Taylor’s reputation style, and before that Rihanna was doing it. Blake’s is less athleisure (has she ever done athleisure?) but the high flat boots certainly are worthy of working an outfit around. (They are Vale...

Everyone is hoping Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt will get back together now that they are both single

As soon as the Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux separation announcement came out late yesterday, the gossip world immediately went to Brad Pitt and how he and Jen are both single again at the same time. And everyone’s hoping for a sequel. Nostalgia is having a moment right now. Stranger Things...

Robert Pattinson's yellow pants at the Berlin Film Festival

Let’s interrupt our Jennifer Aniston divorce coverage with some shots of Robert Pattinson in yellow pants at the Berlin Film Festival with Mia Wasikowska. He does this once in a while… actually no, he does this specifically at this time. In Berlin! I just went back to last year and Robert’s appea...

Managing Jennifer Aniston's brand now that she's single

As noted in the previous post, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux’s breakup announcement timeline seems …curious? They release a statement that suggests they don’t want to be the focus of the attention. But they drop the news yesterday instead of today, pretty much guaranteeing that the gossip indu...

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux's breakup timeline

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux were in Cabo for New Year’s with Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka. In their separation statement they say that they made the decision to separate at the end of 2017. There had been rumours around that time that they were heading for a divorce. This is not unusual. Ov...

Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux announce separation

There’s a lot to discuss here so we’ll break it out over a few different posts, starting now with the news itself: late yesterday, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux announced that they have separated. Here’s the statement in full:  "In an effort to reduce any further speculation, we have decide...

Intro for February 16, 2018

Dear Gossips, GUNG HAY FAT CHOY! Happy New Year! We went out last night for Lunar New Year’s Eve. Ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken, ordered some romaine lettuce, stir fried with chillies which, I know, doesn’t sound all that special. But it was important that we each have a piece. In Cantones...

What Else for February 15, 2018

I’m not saying I qualify for the Drake Scholarship Program that also includes shopping sprees to Saks but it’s still a fun game to play. That said, Odalie Paret, the recipient of Drake’s latest public generosity was only given 45 minutes in the store. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth (is that t...

Review: 'Black Panther' is everything we’ve waited for

Among a host of amazing things, maybe the most amazing thing about Black Panther is that it’s a superhero movie. For all the weight and expectation and political pressure and representative issues that come with being the first black superhero movie released by Marvel Studios—and the first black sup...

Oscar Isaac on Kimmel discussing fatherhood and eating Cheetos with chopsticks

I’ve been trying to be less ragey this week because it’s Lunar New Year tomorrow. And we’re trying to create harmony and welcome good luck, or at least better luck. It helps then that Oscar Isaac made an appearance because he’s not always around. He hasn’t been around since just before Star Wars: Th...

Smutty Social Media, February 15, 2018

Yesterday, in a post about #Robstenisunbroken, Kathleen mentioned Poot Lovato. I have been giggling about it for a good 12 hours and don’t want to stop. #freepoot   A post shared by Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) on Feb 9, 2018 at 3:03pm PST Amy Schumer got married? Ok then. ...

Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber together on Valentine's Day

Selena Gomez was in New York earlier this week for fashion week and Coach. She didn’t say long. Last night Selena and Justin Bieber went to church. After that they went out for dinner. The photo agency is calling it a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner. My Photo Assumption concurs that it was a romanti...

Kanye West spends Valentine's Day Instagramming pictures of famous celebrity couples

Kanye West hasn’t been on Instagram since May 2017. Yesterday was Valentine’s Day though. And Valentine’s Day is the anniversary of the release of The Life Of Pablo (2016) so Kanye returned to IG with a message to wish his wife a Happy Valentine’s Day and then… SPENT THE NEXT 7 HOURS posting picture...

I'm into the Harry & Meghan Lifetime movie but not the title and the bad wig

That’s not the title of Lifetime’s movie about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle but it should be. Instead, they went with Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance. BORING. The good news is that the first photos from the Vancouver set of the TV movie are not boring at all. They are AMAZING. They are amazingly h...

SJP's silence said everything about Kim Cattrall getting blamed for SATC 3 not happening

I wrote yesterday about Sarah Jessica Parker on the cover of the new issue of PEOPLE promoting her new GAP collaboration. PEOPLE’s initial post about SJP was focused on her kids and her marriage, a piece to butter up the MiniVan Majority. Later on in the day, PEOPLE followed with another article, th...

Jennifer Garner's post-marriage path is only similar to Jennifer Aniston's in certain ways

Pop quiz: Do you remember the original unsinkable Jennifer? Lainey revisited that headline 12 years later, a moment in gossip history.  But the role Jennifer Aniston occupied then – the nice girl abandoned by the handsome movie star – has most recently been occupied by Jennifer Garner. There are ...

February 15, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Beth! Happy Birthday with love from Josie who tells me you’re obsessed with CMBYN. I know, right?!? Here are Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer – Elio and Oliver forever. 

Intro for February 15, 2018

Dear Gossips, Most of you probably know Sandra Oh best as Cristina Yang, one of the greatest characters in television history and if you call this hyperbole, we can never be friends. Some of us, however, first met Sandra in Double Happiness, a 1994 film directed by Mina Shum about a young Chinese...

What Else for February 14, 2018

A lot of my focus the last two weeks has been on my Chinese New Year health rituals. Which means my doctor has been seeing a lot of me lately. And I’ve been all over her about the vaccines I need. Like the chicken pox vaccine and/or the shingles vaccine. Ask your doctor about shingles! You don’t wan...

Blake Lively and Emily Blunt arrive hand in hand at the Michael Kors show in New York

New Hollywood BFF alert! Blake Lively and Emily Blunt attended the Michael Kors NYFW presentation  together today. They arrived together in an Uber and held hands heading into the show. Apparently they’re also having Valentine’s dinner tonight because John Krasinski is out of town. Do you know when ...

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson hilariously rumoured to have been spotted together by fans on Twitter

Here we go. This is when all the delusional Twi-Hard truthers still holding on to the conspiracy theory that Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are secretly married and raising two children on a farm in Montana yell “I TOLD YOU SO” at those of us who live in the real world. As if they needed the e...

Ethan Hawke to star as Nikola Tesla in upcoming biopic

Nikola Tesla is ripe for a biopic. His story has everything: Genius, madness, rags-to-riches-to-rags, world-changing inventions, and a tragic ending. Tesla is one of the smartest people to ever live—if that sounds like exaggeration, x-rays are just some sh*t he discovered on accident and we’re still...

Smutty Social Media, February 14, 2018

How many TV shows can say they created a holiday? Because Galentine’s Day comes from Parks & Rec, which was above all a show about female optimism, ambition and friendship.   A post shared by Rashida Jones (@rashidajones) on Feb 13, 2018 at 10:38pm PST The Harris-Burka famil...

The Women of Black Panther cover Essence Magazine

Sarah saw Black Panther last night. Her first e-mail to me after her screening was, of course, about Okoye. I’ve BEEN telling y’all about Danai Gurira’s Okoye. People are going to lose their sh-t over Okoye. They are going to be demanding a standalone Okoye film. The same can be said for Letitia Wri...

The (early) Anonymous Oscar Voter predictions in The Daily Beast and IndieWire

Around this time of year, the Hollywood Reporter usually does a feature with an Anonymous Oscar voter to give some sense of how certain Oscar voters might be leaning. THR’s feature usually happens during the voting period though, and not before. Oscar voting doesn’t open until February 20th and runs...

Sebastian Stan sits front row at Calvin Klein show during New York Fashion Week

In 2011, if I was taking bets on the Captain America star most likely to co-headline an Oscar-nominated film and sit front row at NY Fashion Week while schmoozing with Nicole Kidman, I would have bet on the Sometimes Second Best Chris, Chris Evans. I would not have bet on the guy best known then as ...

Sarah Jessica Parker covers PEOPLE Magazine

How fortuitous…and at the same time …not? Sarah Jessica Parker covers this week’s issue of PEOPLE Magazine. It’s an interview that seems like it would have been scheduled ahead of time. Divorce is on HBO right now. And, as PEOPLE notes, she’s launching a limited-edition children’s collection with...

Tessa Thompson to play infamous jewel thief, Doris Payne, in upcoming film

If you’re worried about Annihilation, you probably should be. Sarah has written extensively about why Annihilation is most likely going to fail, despite its promising trailers and stacked cast. When I first heard that Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson and Oscar Isaac (and Natalie Portman, sure) would b...

Intro for February 14, 2018

Dear Gossips, Through last year, whenever I wrote about Ben Affleck, I often assessed whatever gossip situation he was involved with at the time from the perspective of his Chinese zodiac sign. Ben Affleck is a Rat, the quintessential Rat. Go back and read last year’s Rat profile – it exactly for...

What Else for February 13, 2018

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom might be back together and here’s the evidence for it. All you need to know is the Maldives. I’ve been to the Maldives. It’s beautiful. It’s quiet. It’s pretty far. I’m not sure you go to the Maldives to be just friends with someone especially someone you used to f-ck. B...

The cast of Black Panther attends New York Fashion Week

Every day the opening weekend box office projections for Black Panther keep going up. The movie has already broken all kinds of records for advance ticket sales. And some experts even think the current projection might even be on the low side. Variety reported yesterday that industry experts don’t t...

Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus go apartment hunting in New York

Every celebrity couple has its Twi-Hards. Some of them are more bonkers than others. The ones who still believe Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are secret-married are at one end the spectrum and, in general, in my experience, I’ve found the Emma Stone-Andrew Garfield stans to be pretty chill, r...

Smutty Social Media, February 13, 2018

What’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve been corrected on as an adult? Mine, which I mention often, is not realizing that Flo Rida is from Florida.   Just sat here and mind fucked myself into embarrassment by thinking of how recent it was when I found out it’s not “lack toast and tolerant”...

Beyoncé out in Miami with Jay Z two months ahead of Coachella

Today is February 13. It’s Coachella in exactly two months. That would make it Friday, April 13. So we’re exactly two months plus a day before Beyoncé returns to the stage at Coachella. Which means be ready. Be ready for the alarm. She could drop something new before Coachella. Or maybe nothing new ...

Andy Cohen defends Sarah Jessica Parker but not Kathy Griffin

As I wrote yesterday in my post about Kim Cattrall’s Instagram message to Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim is in a lot of pain, because of the death of her brother, of course, but also because, for 20 years, she feels she was meangirled by SJP who hasn’t really ever stood up for Kim whenever people tried t...

Jennifer Aniston celebrates her birthday with friends in LA

Jennifer Aniston’s birthday was on Sunday, February 11. She hung out with a group of friends at Courteney Cox’s.   A post shared by aleenkeshishian (@aleenkeshishian) on Feb 12, 2018 at 7:50am PST Aleen Keshishian is Jennifer’s manager. She also manages Jen’s husband, Justin...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visit Scotland

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visited Scotland for the first time together today. She wore Burberry tartan and carried a green bag. And pants, again. Pants a lot, non? I like that pants have become her thing. That we’ve seen her so often in pants. It’s practical. It’s business. It’s just…  These...

Leonardo DiCaprio dances at Ellen Degeneres' 60th birthday party

Ellen DeGeneres celebrated her 60th birthday this weekend. So many celebrities showed up for the party. Feels like every celebrity showed up for the party. Any time there’s a party, Leonardo DiCaprio always shows up to party.  Lately though, every time he shows up somewhere, Leo’s always with Cam...

February 13, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Tania! Happy Birthday! Sounds like you need a quiet year after last year’s sh-tty one. Which is not a bad idea. Sometimes, staying undercover is the best way to grow your luck. Think of it like an orchid. It goes to sleep for a while. But when it finally blooms, it’s exhilarating. Here’s Jake Johnso...

Intro for February 13, 2018

Dear Gossips,  If you missed it yesterday and if you continue to have questions about Chinese zodiac and the corresponding elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, water) and why my ma’s list may not match up to the lists you’re seeing elsewhere online, we get into this on this week’s episode of Show ...

What Else for February 12, 2018

As noted today in Smutty Shout-Outs, Craig McMorris’s commentary during the slopestyle Olympics snowboarding events is one of the advantages we have here in Canada on CBC over other countries’ Olympic broadcast. The advantage that NBC has in America over everyone else in figure skating is Johnny Wei...

Victoria Beckham on touring with the Spice Girls

Last week, TMZ published an exclusive about the Spice Girls getting back together and going on tour. Then they followed up a few hours later with a dumbass story about why Victoria Beckham agreed to it – because she’s “bored with being on the sidelines” in David’s shadow and wants to build her “self...

Camila Cabello seeing dating expert Matthew Hussey

Can you get away from Camila Cabello’s Havana? I can’t and I’m not mad at it. It’s a good song.  Camila Cabello is a big deal with the youths. There’s still all kinds of lingering drama behind her departure from Fifth Harmony. And factions, of course. Fan factions fighting is fuel for social medi...

Show Your Work: The Hermione Granger of Feng Shui

I can’t take credit for the “Hermione Granger of Feng Shui”. That’s all Duana. And she came up with it off the top of this week’s episode of Show Your Work, during a discussion about my Ma’s annual Chinese zodiac and feng shui forecasts. Many of you have written over the last couple of weeks about t...

Smutty Social Media, February 12, 2018

Over the last month or so there have been several “Dane Cook and his 19-year-old girlfriend” headlines. First off, who cares who Dane Cook dates (unless it’s Miley Cyrus – remember that?).  Second, why is her age always highlighted? Sure it’s a big gap but again, it’s Dane Cook. No one has any expec...

The importance of Black Panther's embrace of natural black hair

Lupita Nyong’o is on the cover of Allure’s March issue. The words “The Culture of Hair” are emblazoned across an image of Lupita rocking braids wrapped in small jewels and beads.   A post shared by Lupita Nyong'o (@lupitanyongo) on Feb 12, 2018 at 5:10am PST Hallelujah, inde...

The importance of Black Panther's embrace of natural black hair

Lupita Nyong’o is on the cover of Allure’s March issue. The words “The Culture of Hair” are emblazoned across an image of Lupita rocking braids wrapped in small jewels and beads.   A post shared by Lupita Nyong'o (@lupitanyongo) on Feb 12, 2018 at 5:10am PST Hallelujah, inde...

Kim Cattrall lashes out at SJP for her fake sympathy

Those are Kim Cattrall’s words, not mine.  So a quick recap: Kim Cattrall’s brother passed away last week. It’s obviously a terrible time for her and her family. A few days ago she posted a message of appreciation to her Sex And The City colleagues for reaching out. In particular, she even wrote ...

Idris Elba gets publicly engaged to Sabrina Dhowre

Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre are engaged. It happened on Saturday in London at a screening for his film Yardie at the Rio Cinema. Yardie is Idris’s directorial debut. So he must have been all into his feelings, with a major career achievement, and his love by his side. This is what happened:  ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding schedule announced

Kensington Palace this morning confirmed more details about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding. It’s happening at 12 noon local time on May 19th. So if you’re in the Eastern time zone in America, that’s 7am. Very reasonable on a Saturday morning. Get up at 6am. Go poo if you’re lucky, make som...

JT's Man Of The Woods sales show he's in decline

Last week on The Social, after the Super Bowl, I said that Justin Timberlake was the perfect halftime performer for the NFL of 2018. The NFL is a league in decline. And Justin Timberlake is an artist in decline. It’s a Valentine’s match. Some people disputed my use of the word “decline”.  JT’s Ma...

February 12, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Did you watch the Olympics over the weekend? I know a lot of you did because we’ve gotten several requests for coverage of Mark McMorris. Sasha and I were texting each other on Saturday night during the slopestyle final. It was second and third place for Canada, with Mark taking bronze… after, liter...

Intro for February 12, 2017

Dear Gossips, A quick note before we get to the Tiger today. Some of you have been emailing to ask about how the years and the elements (Wood, Earth, Water, Fire, Metal) have been lining up to the signs of the Chinese Zodiac because you’ve seen it listed differently elsewhere. I asked my ma, the ...

What Else for February 9, 2018

To those of you who’ve emailed all “WHAT ABOUT THE TIGER?”, you’re right. It’s actually the Tiger’s turn on Monday to be profiled and not the Ox. I’m an Ox. So, narcissistically, I was trigger-happy. Monday is the Tiger, Tuesday is the Ox. Wednesday will be the Rat, Thursday the Pig, and Friday… on ...

Chris Pine on the set of One Day She'll Darken

Here’s Chris Pine in LA yesterday on the set of One Day She’ll Darken, an upcoming 6 episode series on TNT that he’s also executive producing with Patty Jenkins who is directing at least the first two episodes. As you know, Chris and Patty worked together on Wonder Woman. So this is how they’re cont...

Peter Rabbit starring Domhnall Gleeson movie review

The Peter Rabbit screening I attended was on a Saturday morning, when I would otherwise be asleep. The movie theater was crawling with children. They handed out paper bunny ears at the door. THERE WAS FACE PAINTING. What I’m saying is, the environment was not conducive to encouraging my better angel...

Smutty Social Media, February 9, 2018

Beyoncé was the first non-model to cover the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. I know in her long list of accomplishments this might not seem like a big deal, but what’s most interesting to me is how far her media strategy has evolved in the last few years.    A post shared by Brook...

Gugu Mbatha-Raw's impressive range

Gugu Mbatha-Raw is an LG favourite. We’ve been writing about how much we love her for years. For years, she’s been putting in the work. After Belle and Beyond The Lights, two excellent films that should have propelled her into superstardom, I’ve been waiting for Gugu to blow up. I’ve been waiting fo...

Joaquin Phoenix out in LA as it's reported he could be the next Joker in standalone movie

Joaquin Phoenix was making headlines all over the place yesterday because of reports that he could be the Joker in a new standalone movie. Sarah is our resident comic nerd so I asked her if we needed to talk about this. It’s very confusing. Jared Leto is still the Joker but there’s going to be anoth...

Quentin Tarantino apologizes for defending Roman Polanski in 2003 Howard Stern interview

At the beginning of the week, we heard from Uma Thurman about her history of abuse by Harvey Weinstein and, let’s say, reckless endangerment from Quentin Tarantino. It was a perfect combination of a serial predator and tyrannical director combining forces to make sure no part of a woman’s life was s...

Black Panther style porn takes over London at European premiere

Sarah just posted her review of Fifty Shades Freed and the movie should win the box office this weekend with a projected take of $33 million. It’s been a successful franchise, for sure, but it’s also a steadily declining franchise, like the NFL and Justin Timberlake. When the first movie opened, you...

Fifty Shades Freed movie review starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson

Fifty Shades Freed is the final movie in the Fifty Shades trilogy, and the tone of this movie is “palpable relief”. The whole movie has the energy of the last day of school, teetering between the monotony of just going through the motions and the anxiety of almost, finally, being completely done. Ev...

February 9, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Shanna! Happy wedding weekend! And, girl, THANK YOU SO MUCH for giving me all those details about your cyst removal. I am so proud of you for taking them up your offer to look at it after it was removed. How did you “play” with it? What kind of sh-t can you do with it? Also, have you heard about the...

Intro for February 9, 2018

Dear Gossips,  The Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony happened tonight in Pyeongchang. The flagbearers for Canada were Olympic and world champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, the first time both a woman and a man carried Canada’s flag together into the Olympics. Did you watch figure skating last n...

What Else for February 8, 2018

I guess I’m too old…or not old enough? Because I thought “forking” was a euphemism for something else. But it’s actually a facial treatment using forks. And Madonna is doing it. There are some other details here about her daily beauty routine, which sounds exhausting – and I say this not because I w...

Angelina Jolie covers the March 2018 issue of ELLE

Angelina Jolie covers the March 2018 issue of ELLE, timed for International Women’s Day on March 8th so it’s definitely not a standard celebrity interview. It’s a transcript of a conversation between Angelina and John Kerry; she’s not there to simply answer questions, she asks a few questions of her...

Charlie Hunnam in fancy sweatpants in LA

This is our first post about Charlie Hunnam of 2018. Lainey is usually the one bringing you the thirst when it comes to Charlie Hunnam but she’s busy with one of her 16 jobs so here I am, attempting to feel some type of way about Jax Teller. I understand that he’s good looking but I only watched Son...

Katy Perry and Taylor Swift's best friend Karlie Kloss photographed at dinner together

Just two days into 2018, Karlie Kloss gave us some possible girl sh-t with (former?) BFF Taylor Swift (read Lainey’s post on Swish Swish-gate and the end of, or continued covering up of, #Kaylor here. ). A little more than a month later we have pictures of Karlie hanging out with Katy Perry, Taylor’...

What's in the Spice Girls reunion for Victoria Beckham?

Duana and I discussed the Spice Girls reunion on the latest episode of Show Your Work. Specifically we talked about what’s in it for Victoria Beckham. VB’s been all about her fashion line the last few years. The flagship store opened in London in 2014. She shows consistently at New York Fashion Week...

Smutty Social Media, February 8, 2018

“Kind of” like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? I read the article and the premise is exactly the same, but it’s set in a different city and the genders are reversed. (And The New Yorker’s TV critic and Pulitzer winner Emily Nussbaum makes the point that a man following a woman to another city isn’t exactly the...

Jennifer Aniston’s interior design in Architectural Digest

Jennifer Aniston covers the new issue of Architectural Digest. It’s a profile of her Bel Air home, with photos of her office and the pool and the living room and bathtub and one of the bathrooms which seems really dark, as in very little light. How do you feel about a dark bathroom? Specifically the...

Tom Hardy has demons in Venom teaser trailer

The teaser for Venom, the supervillain movie starring Tom Hardy, has been released and it’s certainly a series of moving images. I’m honestly not sure what to make of this. It’s just Hardy narrating about how everyone has their THING and his THING is DEMONS, and he’s Doing A Voice—because Tom Hardy ...

Kendrick Lamar and SZA's All The Stars music video

 8 Days. We are 8 days away from the wide release of Black Panther. 8 DAYS. Every day, the Black Panther press tour blesses us with new content to obsess over. The other day it was Michael B. Jordan and Chadwick Boseman doing karaoke in Korea. Yesterday, it was Danai Gurira radiating perfection in T...

Krysten Ritter in first trailer for Marvel's Jessica Jones season 2

Jessica Jones is arguably the best season of television put out by the Marvel/Netflix partnership. All of these shows have too many episodes, but JJ is sustained by the most cohesive plotting anyone has managed in a Marvel/Netflix show, and also, an all-time great villain courtesy David Tennant. The...

February 8, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

For Amanda who’s worried about Ozzy, by request, here’s a “scruffy or bearded brunette Eminem” to help with the stress. Even though he’s clean-shaven in this video, I have always enjoyed this Eminem interview with Colbert. It’s how hard he tries not to laugh:  

Intro for February 8, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Quincy Jones is turning 85 years old next month. He was born under the sign of the Rooster. I posted the Rooster advisory for the Year of the Dog a few days ago. But, for Quincy, if you believe Chinese astrology and feng shui, it kinda doesn’t matter. Ma says that once you’re 70, l...

What Else for February 7, 2018

Sasha and I start a conversation about Kylie Jenner which was my plan all along because what I really wanted to talk about was ear blackheads and squeezing all the sh-t out of them. Also we role-play a situation in which you find out that your husband made mixtape for and deletes texts from a “sport...

New Super Bowl trailer for A Quiet Place uses loud noises to scare people

When the first trailer for John Krasinski/Emily Blunt horror movie, A Quiet Place, came out, I pondered whether or not the film would avoid using LOUD NOISES to scare people. In a partial answer, it turns out the ads can’t avoid it—the Super Bowl spot uses a LOUD NOISE for a jump scare. This is a pr...

Danai Gurira on The Social in Toronto

My day job is producing a daytime talk show. Lainey is one of the co-hosts of that show. I am our celebrity and entertainment producer so crafting segments featuring celebrities, pre-interviewing them and talking to them is my job. I do it all the time. I scream at all of you in all caps a lot and I...

Smutty Social Media, February 7, 2018

Rinaldo’s frosted tips match his new sneakers.   A post shared by Cristiano Ronaldo (@cristiano) on Feb 5, 2018 at 2:30pm PST Halsey and Sebastian Stan at Tom Ford. I’ve always wondered when two people are dressed in very different clothing, who is more comfortable with the ...

Scott Speedman is joining Grey's Anatomy

Scott Speedman is joining Grey's Anatomy. It's not confirmed how long his run will be or if he's even playing a doctor at Seattle Grace Mercy Grey Sloan West Whatever (I still watch every episode of this show I have no idea what the hospital's current name is) but that is not going to stop me from c...

Will Smith parodies son Jaden on Instagram

Will Smith hasn’t been on Instagram very long. Not all celebrities were made for Instagram. Some celebrities were born for Instagram. What was the first sign for you that Will Smith would be great on Instagram? I nominate this, for obvious reasons:    A post shared by Will Smith (@wi...

Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin in first Deadpool 2 trailer

Is there any movie better at marketing than Deadpool? If you have to do a huge comic book movie press campaign, you might as well have fun, right? That seems to be the attitude of Ryan Reynolds and everyone at Deadpool, Inc. They have a LOT of fun with their press obligations. Yesterday Lainey said ...

Jennifer Lawrence's strong wig game in Red Sparrow trailer

Jennifer Lawrence was in New Orleans this past weekend for the Unrig the System summit at Tulane University. She sits on the board of Represent.Us, a non-profit “dedicated to ending political bribery”, which hosted the event; she participated in panel discussions, moderated interviews, and presented...

Timothee Chalamet fan-boys over Frank Ocean in V-Magazine interview

Frank Ocean disappears. It’s what he does. He drops dope sh-t, blows our minds and goes away for a while until he drops his next mind-blowing piece of artistic genius. He doesn’t show up unless he wants to, or as Lainey put it this morning, he doesn’t do anything unless he loves it. Frank Ocean inte...

Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to develop new Star Wars films

In the interest of building a self-perpetuating franchise machine, the Star Wars universe is expanding. Solo, the second of the “Star Wars Stories” is due this summer, and Rian Johnson is following up The Last Jedi by developing a new, unrelated trilogy for Lucasfilm. Yesterday, the latest element o...

Intro for February 7, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Half the dialogue of last night’s episode of Fresh Off The Boat was spoken in Mandarin. Half! In Mandarin! Jeff Chiang, a writer on the show, wrote a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter about the significance of the “universality of specificity”, a concept Duana and I have disc...

What Else for February 6, 2018

Do you have any home reno plans this year? We had to put off our reno plans last year because Jacek went through a low luck streak. Ma says this year is free and clear though so there’s a sh-tload of work to do in the basement – new bathroom, new carpeting, new tiling in the mudroom. It seemed like ...

Robert Pattinson works out on the beach in Antigua

When I first saw these photos of Robert Pattinson yesterday, working out on the beach, I was just going to write about him being outside and exercising. I can’t do it. I cannot be hot. We’ve already talked about how I’m a fainter and the only thing I can manage in the heat is lying down, with a book...

Gugu Mbatha-Raw in The Cloverfield Paradox movie review

 A couple of years ago, JJ Abrams sprung a new Cloverfield movie on us after only a few months of hype. That movie, 10 Cloverfield Lane, turned out to be pretty good. And then began the hype for the next Cloverfield movie, which was, by that point, assumed to be a project called God Particle, which ...

Natalie Portman's Annihilation faces distribution problems

Despite a couple good-looking trailers, there have been warning signs that things are not all well with the upcoming Natalie Portman-fronted sci-fi flick Annihilation. The film is due to be released on February 23 in North America and China, but its studio, Paramount, has sold all other internationa...

Smutty Social Media, February 6, 2018

Diane Kruger is learning to ride a motorcycle. Do you think she is getting lessons from Norman?   A post shared by Diane Kruger (@dianekruger) on Feb 5, 2018 at 1:22pm PST Have you read Stacy London’s piece in Refinery 29?  She delves into not just her health issues (she had...

The Oscar Nominees Luncheon

You know who wasn’t at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon yesterday? Frances McDormand. At least I don’t see her in any of the photos. And maybe this isn’t surprising. Remember at the SAGs when Frances won for Best Actress and got up on stage all like, hey, younger actresses need doorstops too? She was bas...

This Is Us wins with emotional Super Bowl episode

Why do we do this to ourselves? If you’re a crier like me, the Super Bowl episode of This Is Us was not fun to watch. It was good television – if you like emotional network TV dramas –but enjoyable? Gratifying? I mean, is sobbing into your laptop fun? Then I’m having a f-cking blast right now. I’ll ...

Barbra Streisand and Gwyneth Paltrow in talks to star in Ryan Murphy's The Politician with Ben Platt

One of the best celebrity facts of all time is that Barbra Streisand has a mall in her basement. An actual mall. We have written about Barbra’s mall several times here on this blog. And for some reason, people don’t pay attention – TO THE FACT THAT SHE HAS A MALL IN HER MANSION! If that’s you, pleas...

Sarah Silverman and Michael Sheen break up

We liked Sarah Silverman and Michael Sheen together, right? We did.  In 2016, Lainey celebrated Sarah and Michael making it through another year and we have been continually entertained by his relationship with his ex, Kate Beckinsale, and her relationship with Sarah (they love each other) on soc...

Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl ratings down from Lady Gaga's last year

Back in October when it was finally confirmed, after weeks of speculation, that Justin Timberlake would headline the Super Bowl halftime show, I wrote that it wasn’t all bad:  The NFL’s ratings have been on the decline. And players continue to kneel during the national anthem. These have been the...

Mathew Knowles on colorism in interview with Ebony

Mathew Knowles is known mostly as our Queen Beyoncé’s Rogue Relative. When no one in Beyoncé’s camp is talking, Mathew talks. Mathew f-cks with Beyonce’s master plans and announces things before they should be announced. He’s also a philanderer who had secret love children while he was married. Math...

Intro for February 6, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Sharon Lewis is the first woman of colour to host two national live TV programs in Canada. She’s a broadcaster, an author, a playwright, an actor, and a director. Her new film, Brown Girl Begins is screening this month and next across Canada to celebrate Black History Month, only S...

What Else for February 5, 2018

In the days leading up to the Super Bowl, there was a lot of hand-wringing about the fans in Philadelphia, about how they have the worst reputation of any sports city. Then Philly fans tried to defend themselves – sure, we have a few sh-theads among us we’re not that bad and this myth about our beha...

Show Your Work: Katie, Manny, Baby, Sporty, Scary, Ginger, and Posh

It was announced last week that Katherine (Katie) Heigl has joined the cast of Suits. On this episode of Show Your Work, we revisit Katherine’s work history, particularly on Grey’s Anatomy, and how that will or won’t be a factor as she begins work on another show, with an established cast. What is t...

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom trailer looks like the other Jurassic sequels

I was not super impressed by the first trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, a trend which continues following their Super Bowl spot. I like the opening shot of the dinosaur shadow juxtaposed against the little girl’s toy horse—it’s dream and nightmare in one, and it screams Juan Antonio Bayon...

Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet at the Santa Barbara Film Festival ahead of Oscar Nominees Luncheon

The Oscar Nominees luncheon is happening right now in Beverly Hills. The photos haven’t been posted yet so we’ll have that for you tomorrow. But for sure Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet will be there. First though, last night they were together at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Look how cute! ...

Dwayne The Rock Johnson in Skyscraper trailer

If you’ve missed the news, Jumanji is tearing up the box office, becoming one of the biggest movies of 2017 (by making most of its money in 2018). As if we needed any more evidence, Dwayne Johnson is a huge f*ckin’ star who can do whatever the f*ck he wants. And what he wants to do is punch things, ...

Smutty Social Media, February 5, 2018

Tiffany Haddish should star in a movie about Cardi B’s first bikini wax.  I’m bout to wax my vagina and I’m soo fuckin scared 😰 — iamcardib (@iamcardib) January 20, 2018 Anyways i was only able to wax one side of my coochie cause i couldn’t handle the pain 😪My pussy looks so crazy...

Donald Glover's Lando is the best part of Solo: A Star Wars Story's Super Bowl trailer

After teasing it during the Super Bowl, the full first trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story—I hate these subtitles and wish they would just let the anthology titles stand on their own—has finally been released this morning on Good Morning America. Like Rogue One, this is a Frankenstein movie, with ha...

Bradley Cooper the Tiger was the Eagles' lucky charm at the Super Bowl

A lot of people last night were mentioning (or at least alluding to) Silver Linings Playbook because of Bradley Cooper. Bradley Cooper was at the Super Bowl cheering on his home team the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles were also part of the story in Silver Linings Playbook. There was a tailgaiting s...

Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B. Jordan, Chadwick Boseman, and Ryan Coogler promote Black Panther in Seoul

There were a lot of things that brought me joy this weekend, like watching Sad Tom Brady lose and watching Twitter drag Justin Timberlake on Janet Jackson Appreciation Day (#NeverForget). The Black Panther press tour continues to be a constant source of joy. This weekend, Lupita Nyong’o and Michael ...

New Avengers: Infinity War TV spot airs during the Super Bowl

Avengers: Infinity War aired a spot during the Super Bowl which is mostly rehashed from the trailer we saw late last year. But there were a few seconds of new footage, so let’s talk about that. The money shot is Captain America standing next to T’Challa and arming his new, Wakanda-designed “shield”....

Justin Timberlake's average Super Bowl halftime performance

Remember when Justin Timberlake claimed a few weeks ago that he and Janet Jackson worked things out and that he just never talked about it out of respect for her? Bullsh-t. Yesterday was #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay on social media. And of course it was timed specifically to remind Justin Timberlake...

Pink performs the Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl despite having the flu

In 1997, Michael Jordan (the OG one, not Bae) played in Game 5 of the NBA finals with the flu. It’s one of the most iconic games in NBA history. Jordan was so sick and physically drained, Scottie Pippen literally had to hold him up. The moment has become so legendary that in every NBA finals, highli...

Uma Thurman on Harvey Weinstein assault and Quentin Tarantino endangerment during Kill Bill car scene

We knew she had one. Since the red carpet interview where she said, “I’ve been waiting to feel less angry. And when I’m ready, I’ll say what I have to say.” Then came her Thanksgiving Instagram, promising, “Stay tuned.” Well, she’s ready, because Uma Thurman has given an interview to Maureen Dowd of...

Intro for February 5, 2018

Dear Gossips, Last night was enraging – and we’ll get to that today for sure – but it was also kind of satisfying. Because much of the reaction to Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl performance that we saw online would not have happened over a decade ago which, you could say, is progress. Those of us...

What Else for February 2, 2018

OMG Elon Musk and Amber Heard totally ARE like Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber. Only, right now, Selena and Justin might actually be more stable than they are. Elon told Rolling Stone that he missed Amber when they were apart. Then they weren’t apart anymore. But now… they’re apart again. And the nex...

Michael B. Jordan’s future is bright

I’ve been obsessed with the Quincy Jones GQ feature for four full days. I can’t stop thinking about it. Lainey told you to read it on Tuesday. If you haven’t read, go read it. Seriously, stop reading this and go read that NOW. Maybe it’s because Quincy Jones has been on my mind lately but there’s a ...

Demi Lovato's "thirst trap" for Henry Cavill

Lainey gave me the honour of writing about Demi Lovato’s “thirst trap” because, in her words, I’m the youngest member of the team and therefore, I’m the perfect person to handle a story involving thirst traps and shameless social media flirting and other things Parents Just Don’t Understand.  As the...

Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliott release new single, Get It

It is almost the three-year anniversary of that time Missy Elliott saved the Super Bowl. I bring this up often because for people who didn’t live through the dominance of the Missy/Timbaland/ Magoo era (fine, I remember Magoo so I’m not THAT young), Missy’s scene-stealing heroics at the Super Bowl a...

Smutty Social Media, February 2, 2018

Spice Girls say what? People think this means there is a reunion in the works but you know what they should also be working on? A biopic.    A post shared by Victoria Beckham (@victoriabeckham) on Feb 2, 2018 at 8:27am PST I had to look the lyrics up and he’s right. Basicall...

Bella Kidman Cruise launches clothing line called BKC

When you see those initials, who do you think of? Beyoncé . Knowles. Carter.  Right?  This post is not about Beyoncé  Knowles Carter or, actually, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter, but about Bella Kidman Cruise, daughter of Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, who has launched a clothing line, BKC. ...

Justin Timberlake releases Man Of The Woods ahead of Super Bowl weekend

Justin Timberlake’s album, Man Of The Woods, is now out. He released a fourth video from the album, for the title track, yesterday. I watched the video this morning. He refers to his dick as “the faucet”.  And… I’m out.  Apparently this kind of junior lyricism is not unique to that particular ...

Meghan Markle in McQueen tuxedo at the Endeavour Fund Awards ceremony with Prince Harry

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were at the Endeavour Fund Awards ceremony last night in London. It was their first evening event together. And most of us were expecting an evening dress, right? Like Princess Kate in Norway, Meghan also wore McQueen. But it was a McQueen tuxedo. A beautifully tail...

Princess Kate in McQueen at royal dinner in Oslo

Prince William and Catherine attended a dinner at the Royal Palace in Oslo last night as part of their tour of Sweden and Norway. Kate wore a McQueen dress, embellished around the neckline, and caped around her shoulders. I like it. I’ve liked her entire wardrobe during this tour – the coats have be...

Dr Jennifer Gunter infiltrates Gwyenth Paltrow's In goop Health Summit

The In goop Health New York summit happened last weekend. Did you hear about Dr Jennifer Gunter MD, FRCS(C), FACOG, DABPM infiltrating the summit? You can read her post here. Sounds like her experience was similar to Sarah’s when Sarah went to the LA summit, only with more official expert medical kn...

Intro for February 2, 2018

Dear Gossips,  I read an article yesterday at The Hollywood Reporter about the Chinese New Year box office. Chinese New Year is getting its own box office analysis now?! That’s because, according to THR: In February 2016, China set a new record for the biggest box-office week ever for a single...

What Else for February 1, 2018

Justin Timberlake, the Man Of The Woods, is calling us stupid for assuming that he’d put out a country album because of the title of his album. Apparently Man Of The Woods is inspired by his kid’s name. So we’re all dumdums for jumping to that conclusion. Because it wouldn’t have had anything to do ...

Celebrating Harry Styles on his birthday

Harry Styles turns 24 today. He’s not a January baby but I’ve decided not to hold this against him. I would have guessed I’d be over Harry by now since his album was underwhelming and I’m back on Team Zayn but as it turns out, my feelings for Harry have carried over into 2018. He’s still the only Ho...

Smutty Social Media, February 1, 2018

Fenty Beauty has a lipstick called Griselda and one was sent to Catherine Zeta-Jones, who just played Griselda in an ill-conceived biopic (the script was probably written on the back of a napkin). But this got me thinking – Rihanna as Griselda. That would be something to see.   A pos...

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan make promotional rounds for Fifty Shades Freed

Did Jamie Dornan find a personality? That was the first question I had before I watched his appearance on Ellen. The answer is "not exactly, but he's trying!" Before you yell at me about how much you love Jamie Dornan, this isn't about how handsome he is. He's handsome, sure, but you can't argue tha...

The DJ who groped Taylor Swift got a new job at Mississippi radio station

David Mueller is the DJ who tried to sue Taylor Swift because he lost his job. Because he put his hand on her ass during a photo opportunity. He denies this. Taylor sued him back and won the case. And, if you recall, she was a boss during that trial.  David Mueller has now been hired by a radio s...

Jenny Slate and Jon Hamm in first trailer for Aardvark

Jenny Slate has a new movie with Zachary Quinto and Jon Hamm. Though these are all people capable of being funny, this does not look like a funny movie. It’s called Aardvark—everyone loves a noun title with no context—and it’s about a therapist (Slate) who starts boning her client’s brother (Quinto ...

Tiffany Haddish on Michael B Jordan, Beyoncé, and Paul Thomas Anderson in Vulture interview

“Okay, so what had happened was…” Tiffany Haddish’s catchphrase is “She Ready!” But it could also be “OK, so what had happened was…” because whenever she drops the “OK, so what had happened was…”, the most amazing stories come out of her mouth. That’s how she started telling Jimmy Kimmel the stor...

Chadwick Boseman featured in Mr. Porter to promote Black Panther

Let’s be real. The countdown to Black Panther has been on since the day it was announced that Ryan Coogler would be directing the film in January 2016. We have been waiting for this for TWO YEARS. I have been waiting for this my whole life. Today, on the first day of Black History Month, in the year...

Intro for February 1, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Exactly a year ago today, Beyoncé set the Instagram record for most likes when she announced that she was pregnant with twins. Beyoncé was born under the sign of the Rooster. Last year was the Year of the Rooster. The Year of the Rooster will end soon, giving way to the Year of the...