What Else for October 31, 2018

Since I work on two shows, etalk and The Social, Halloween is always multiple costumes for me. And I’m never “hot” for Halloween. So far, for the last six years, ever since the launch of The Social, I’ve managed to wear pants every Halloween. Am very proud of his. Here I am as Big G today on The Soc...

Taylor Swift posts third election message on Instagram with mom Andrea

Taylor Swift is currently on tour in Australia. Which is why she voted early. Yesterday Taylor posted her third election message on Instagram. The first time, she identified her preferred candidates and criticised the candidate she would not be voting for. The second time she PSA’ed about early voti...

First look at Henry Cavill’s luxurious mane as Geralt in The Witcher

Last month we learned that Henry Cavill will star in a Netflix series based on The Witcher, a fantasy book series and even more popular fantasy video game series. Thanks to the games, we have a visualization of the Witcher, Geralt of Rivia, as a grizzled, scarred man. But now, Netflix is giving us o...

Celebrity Social Media, October 31, 2018

Have you felt a great disturbance in the Force? It’s because Steve Harvey shaved his moustache.         View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by jake johnson (@mrjakejohnson) on Oct...

Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse together at Chiltern Firehouse in London

Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse were at Chiltern Firehouse last night in London, if you were wondering whether or not Chiltern is still a thing. You probably weren’t. Some of you, however, may have been wondering whether or not Robert and Suki were still a thing. Clearly they are.  The last ...

Natalie Portman covers Vanity Fair as she campaigns for Oscar for Vox Lux

Back when she was campaigning for her Black Swan Oscar, I dubbed Natalie Portman “Natalie Never” because I couldn’t handle her cloying campaign persona. Over the years, though, I’ve mellowed toward Portman, and in the last year I’ve actually kind of liked her. It’s mostly thanks to her openly “f-ck ...

Show Your Work: Megyn, Money, and Sex

To be clear, which we repeat several times on this week’s episode of Show Your Work, Megyn Kelly’s blackface comments last week were gross and the fact that she claims she didn’t know is gross and all of it is gross. That said, Megyn Kelly’s time at NBC, how she got there, and how all that led up to...

Jenna Dewan’s new boyfriend identified as Steve Kazee

This past weekend, Jenna Dewan was seen kissing a “mystery man” at the Casamigos Halloween party. It’s not that he was wearing a mask. It’s just that whoever was inside spying couldn’t ID him. If you’ve been online the last few days, you know that the Casamigos party, now an annual celebrity Hallowe...

Nick Scratch is the devil in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Whenever I watch a television show I am always on the lookout for the devil. There is always one character who is obviously the devil, it’s just a matter of whether or not the show is willing to admit that character is the devil. Ross Geller? The devil. Jim Halpert? The devil (before you argue re-wa...

Intro for October 31, 2018

Dear Gossips,  We ended the day yesterday with Beyoncé. We’re going to start the day by appreciating Beyoncé, which is what we do every day here at LaineyGossip. It’s basically our mission statement. I’m sure you’ve seen some of the headlines: Beyoncé won Halloween, Beyoncé saves Halloween, Beyon...

What Else for October 30, 2018

When I sent this to Kathleen a few minutes ago, she announced that Halloween 2018 is cancelled. By Beyoncé. Everyone can now go home. Right?!? Phoni Braxton! This is working out so great for me.           View this post on Instagram         ...

Katy Perry, dressed as a sloth, is the perfect popstar for Halloween

Oh hi, it’s me, the Halloween scrooge back to scrooge all over Halloween. You don’t have to scrooge all over it with me but can we agree it’s a pain in the ass? No? Fine. I’ll keep my sh-tty attitude to myself and give you some Halloween cheer.  Here’s Katy Perry in New York today dressed as a sl...

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas's wedding could be featured in Vogue

It’s been a year of fast celebrity flames. One of those flames has already burnt out. Am I the only one holding out hope that Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson will get back together? As for Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin, PEOPLE posted a story the other day about how he’s scaling back on work so th...

The emotional journey of reading the Rent: Live! casting announcement

Reading the casting announcement for Rent: Live! was a journey of emotions –five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred journeys to be exact. That is just the first of many cringe-inducing Rent references I will make in this post. I am not sorry. Normally, I don’t love judging casts before we’ve s...

Celebrity Social Media, October 30, 2018

Last week, I mentioned that Sofia Vergara is TV’s highest paid actress. And while we often equate money with power, it hasn’t bought her any peace from her ex, who continues to use legal manoeuvers to harass her. He is trying to take away her choice and control her life. This report, that her marria...

Prince William described as "a little grand" in Robert Jobson’s biography about Prince Charles

As mentioned in the previous post about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, royal reporter Robert Jobson has written a new biography about Prince Charles (Charles at Seventy: Thoughts, Hopes, and Dreams) and remember, he researched the book over 18 months while travelling on official tours with the futu...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle save their charm for day 15 of royal tour

Almost there. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have just completed their second-to-last day of events on their first overseas tour. They visited the Northshore Riding Club where they competed against each other in a “wellie wang” (tossing rainboots), and planted a tree for the Queens Canopy, and met w...

Cardi B and Nicki Minaj continue their messy beef on social media

At this point, the Cardi B and Nicki Minaj beef is going to go on for as long as 50 Cent and Ja Rule’s. Twenty years from now, which one is going to be the 50, hanging on to the petty for dear life and buying out stadium seats for the sole purpose of being an immature dick? Nicki, right? The compari...

Kiernan Shipka in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina review

In some ways, Netflix’s new Riverdale spin-off, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, is similar to Sabrina the Teenage Witch, both being inspired by the same Archie Comics book. Sabrina Spellman is still a high school student living with her spinster aunts, she is half-witch, half-mortal, she has an ador...

Intro for October 30, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Stop it, Netflix. Stop it with this algorithm f-ckery.  The Netflix algorithm has helped to revive the romantic comedy. And it’s contributed to the popularity of true crime. Now that algorithm is coming for our hearts. They’re making dog documentaries. The trailer for Dogs, the ...

What Else for October 29, 2018

I spent last week insisting to my colleagues that this was fake and that it wasn’t a story. Like even on Friday afternoon, several hours after several sites questioned the identity, Kathleen was still in my office all like, what? It’s not him. It was never him. And if it wasn’t him and just a random...

Zoë Kravitz covers Rolling Stone like mom Lisa Bonet 30 years earlier

!!!!!!! Zoë Kravitz covers the new issue of Rolling Stone. This cover! If you’re old enough to remember, you will remember. You will know that this is meant to remind you of another cover. I posted about this last year, one year ahead of the 30th anniversary of when Lisa Bonet covered Rolling Sto...

Noah Centineo and Ross Butler dance in Instagram video in Halloween costumes

The rest of Team LG seems to be over Noah Centineo. Maria called him just a crush. Lainey accused him of having “f-ckboy hair” and put him in third place in the hair-off.  I told you the “Internet Boyfriend” title is fleeting. While the rest of you move on to the next hot dude of the moment, (I nomi...

Celebrity Social Media, October 29, 2018

Over the weekend, the two splashy Halloween parties (Casamigos and Kate Hudson’s) both went down. I have seen so many costumes on Instagram (yes, including Rita Ora as Post Malone – how could I miss it, she posted it several times), but these two are my fave, and both happen to be real-life couple c...

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck together again at World Series Red Sox and Dodgers game

I mean, it’s not that they were ever apart, but we don’t see them together a lot these days. We see Matt Damon with Chris Hemsworth, often. A Matt and Ben Affleck sighting, however, has become more rare. The Matt + Ben thing, though, well it’s still a thing. This is all kinds of Gossip Nostalgia. Th...

Prince Harry and Prince William reportedly considering creation of "separate courts"

The Times reported this weekend that we are about to see a major change in the young royal ecosystem.  They have long appeared to be the closest of brothers, bonded in tragedy and an inseparable element in the worldwide appeal of the royal family. Yet the pressures of monarchy, marriage and their...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on days 12, 13, 14 of their royal tour

Two more days to go. As you know, by all accounts, the Sussexes’ first overseas tour has been a smash hit. Exactly two weeks ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrived in Australia and announced that they’re expecting their first child. From there it’s been an ambitious schedule of events taking th...

Diddy gets corny for Cassie with "The Lady in my Life" song dedication on Instagram

Diddy and Cassie have been broken up publicly for over a week. When their split was announced, Cassie’s rep confirmed that they hadn’t been together for months. While the rumours were that Diddy left Cassie heartbroken without a ring and moved on with a model, I wrote that we shouldn’t be so quick t...

Diddy gets corny for Cassie in new song dedicated to her

Diddy and Cassie have been broken up publicly for over a week. When their split was announced, Cassie’s rep confirmed that they hadn’t been together for months. While the rumours were that Diddy left Cassie heartbroken without a ring and moved on with a model, I wrote that we shouldn’t be so quick t...

Richard Madden in Netflix's Bodyguard review

First of all, in this household we only recognize one bodyguard and that is Frank Farmer. But recognized as one stressful motherf-cker is David Budd, protagonist of the BBC/Netflix show Bodyguard. Portrayed by Richard Madden in a life-after-Game-of-Thrones role, David Budd is a PTSD-afflicted vetera...

Intro for October 29, 2018

Dear Gossips,  How do you feel about Halloween? In my experience, you’re either not into Halloween or you are super into to Halloween. And in the subgroup of those who are into Halloween, you’re either silly, scary, or sexy where costumes are concerned. If I HAVE to get into Halloween (and my job...

What Else for October 26, 2018

I am not at all bothered that Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are pulling an engagement stunt. She has a movie coming out soon. She’s always been good at maximising the f-ck out of every opportunity. Also, as far as engagement stunts go, Ben Affleck vomited rose petals all over the house and lit c...

A Noah Centineo, Shawn Mendes, and Timothee Chalamet hair-off

As Kathleen mentioned in her Shawn Mendes post earlier today, we are DISTRACTED. Shawn Mendes is distracting us in his "Lost in Japan" music video. I got on a group chat today with Sasha, Duana, and our other two friends Lara and Amy today to make them join the distraction. Amy was in. So was Sasha....

Kit Harington and Richard Madden support Maisie Williams at her play in London

HBO has still not officially announced a premiere date for Game of Thrones. We know it’s next year. We *think* it’s probably late spring when it always used to premiere with the exception of last season which aired in the summer. But this isn’t yet confirmed. I wonder if they’re just waiting to conf...

Smutty Social Media, October 26, 2018

“Sexy Dora and Diego.”         View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Jessica Alba (@jessicaalba) on Oct 25, 2018 at 5:35pm PDT Are you following Rose IV You? There’s spe...

Michael B Jordan's great boots at the Lakers game

Kathleen namechecked Michael B Jordan in the previous post about Shawn Mendes’s new video. God he is so f-cking cute in that video. That reminded me that we have new photos of MBJ heading to the Lakers game last night. And I’m not going to pretend that I have anything to say about him here other tha...

Shawn Mendes releases music video for "Lost In Japan"

We’ve been raving about Shawn Mendes’s song “Lost in Japan” since it dropped in March. The song kicked off a new grown and sexy era of Shawn, transforming him from baby-faced tween dream to bona fide heartthrob for the 21+ set. With every awards show performance and every press stop in this album cy...

Getting excited about Busy Philipps's talk show, Busy Tonight

I have been banging on about Busy Philipps's This Will Only Hurt a Little all week on Smutty Social Media and judging by my inbox, Busy is reaching what I will call the CTZ (Chrissy Teigen Zone). That’s when a famous woman’s career gels into a persona that is authentic/relatable/hilarious/opinionate...

Gerard Butler in Hunter Killer movie review

Before a screening of Gerard Butler’s new submarine thriller, Hunter Killer, I tried to guess which Gerard Butler clichés would make an appearance. I made the following guesses: •    Gerard Butler will have an opportunity to kill someone but will not, proving his superior morality •    Everyon...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle head back to Sydney on day 11 of royal tour

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are now back in Australia where they will close the Invictus Games tomorrow before heading off to New Zealand. Before returning to Sydney, they had a meeting at the St George Government Building with the Prime Minister of Tonga and other government officials and visite...

October 26, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Natasha! Happy Birthday from Nancy who says your move this year is the best thing that happened to her. And hopefully you too. By request, here’s your fave Jake Gyllenhaal. Even though he was mean to me, he should still be your fave. Because he needs all the love he can find to help him with those m...

Intro for October 26, 2018

Dear Gossips,  As you may have heard, Mariah Carey will be joining The Voice this season as an advisor. Yesterday they released a video with all the judges fangirling over her. Near the beginning, when Adam Levine is all like, “OMG it’s Mariah f-cking Carey”, Mimi tries to be modest, all “oh stop...

What Else for October 25, 2018

This is a f-cked up situation, people getting explosives sent to them. Not just politicians but celebrities too. On top of all the other very serious consequences, which are far more sinister - please note that, before getting huffy - that will result from this, there’s a Hollywood angle too. Celebr...

First trailer for Natalie Portman's Vox Lux released

The Oscar machine for A Star is Born would have you believe that award season is over and they are going to walk away with everything, but it’s just October—award season is a little helpless baby at this point. We’re still solidifying the December release slate! We don’t even know for sure what will...

Cardi B turned down seven figures for first pictures of baby Kulture

Cardi B was interviewed on Beats 1 to promote her new single “Money” this week and revealed to Ebro Darden that:   "Me and my husband [Offset]...We just don’t wanna show our baby right now," Cardi said before adding "I got offered seven figures [for baby pictures]." What year are we in? Is it ...

Smutty Social Media, October 25, 2018

We’ve talked about fast flames a lot over the past few months, but I don’t know if we’ve really reckoned with our own fast flame: Noah Centino. It’s been two months (almost to the day) that Kathleen captured our enthusiasm about Noah being named “The Internet’s Latest Boyfriend.” But but but – and h...

Rami Malek’s Oscar odds for Bohemian Rhapsody

I have seen Bohemian Rhapsody. I loathe it. I’ll have a full review as soon as I can wrangle my incoherent fuming into something more orderly, but I need a minute to just be in my feelings about how much I hate this movie. There’s a new trailer out today that “addresses” Freddie Mercury’s sexuality,...

Julia Roberts holds hands with Homecoming co-star Stephan James at LA premiere

Julia Roberts was at the premiere of her Amazon series Homecoming last night holding hands with co-star, and Canadian, Stephan James. As Kathleen posted earlier this month, Stephan James is about to break out. Homecoming premieres on November 2 and then, later in the month, Barry Jenkins’s If Beale ...

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry visit Fiji and Tonga during royal tour

Is it Day 10? I can’t keep track anymore. And they probably can’t either.  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle departed Fiji today for Tonga. There were three outfits. Let’s start with the final outfit because that’s the meat of the story. After landing in Tonga today, Harry and Royal Meghan went to C...

Drake celebrates his birthday with 2000s themed party

Not many things make me feel old because I’m SO young, as you know. The 20th anniversary of “...Baby One More Time” didn’t make me feel old. The fact that High School Musical: Senior Year  came out 10 years ago yesterday didn’t faze me either. As important as those moments in pop culture were to me ...

Jennifer Garner reportedly dating businessman John Miller

Us Weekly’s new cover story is about Jennifer Garner and her new boyfriend. Major scoop for a magazine that is not what it used to be and has dropped in tabloid hierarchy. According to Us, Jennifer has been dating businessman John Miller, who owns a chain of burger restaurants, for six months and “i...

Intro for October 25, 2018

Dear Gossips,  “Sub-500.” This is John Mayer’s sex number. He claims he hasn’t slept with as many people as you think. Like definitely “sub-500”. And supposedly, these days, he can’t get a girl to take his number. So his sex number isn’t rising as quickly as it used to.  All this was told on I...

What Else for October 24, 2018

Lainey’s on a shoot so you’re stuck with me for What Else. I wanted every story to be a link to a tweet proving that I’m right about “I’ll Never Love Again” but our site manager Emily wouldn’t let me do that because she’s on the wrong side of history too. - Kathleen There are days when scrolling ...

Sandra Bullock in first trailer for Netflix's Bird Box

What a great day to be trying to go about your normal routine like nothing is happening or anything is wrong! Totally typical Wednesday over here, how about you? Everything is fine, why do you ask! Hey you know what would be great? An anxiety-inducing trailer about a movie where you can’t look at an...

Smutty Social Media, October 24, 2018

Is this reigniting the Lady Gaga/Lana Del Rey feud from years ago? It was never that deep, but their stans go at it on Twitter all the time. I don’t make movies about my life. I live my life like a movie — Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) October 23, 2018 Do you think Jake Gyllenhaal would ev...

Show Your Work: Nicole Kidman’s feedback and professional breakups

Thanks for all your responses last week to Season 3 of our Show Your Work podcast. For those of you who missed and who keep asking me about my Jake Gyllenhaal story from TIFF, check out the episode here.   This week: What’s it like directing Nicole Kidman? You know what people say about cars? ...

Princess Catherine wears Princess Diana's earrings and tiara at state banquet hosted by Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen hosted a state banquet last night in honour of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima. Can we call it a ball? It was totally a ball. A super royal ball. Royals everywhere, including Prince William and Catherine. Earlier this week, I referenced Tom Sykes’s piece in The Daily Mail about the ...

Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time" turns twenty

They are three of the most recognizable opening words in pop music. All it takes is “oh baby, baby,” sung in that classic Britney Spears way – “oh baybin, baybin” – to transport me back to 1998. “… Baby One More Time” is one of those songs that is such a snapshot of specific era not only because it ...

Disney considering rebooting Pirates of the Caribbean

We are currently living in a nightmare vortex where every day feels like a week, a week feels like a year, and it seems like our dystopian present has always been and will always be. Time has lost all meaning, so the news that Disney is considering rebooting Pirates of the Caribbean just one year af...

Intro for October 24, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Remember back in March, when Drake went viral for playing Fortnite on Twitch with Ninja? As I wrote at the time, Drake consistently finds new ways to make new media – an unpredictable organism – work for him.  A little over six months later and it’s just been announced that Drak...

What Else for October 23, 2018

Enrique and Iglesias and Anna Kournikova are still together. Jacek and I go to the Dominican Republic every year. Julio Iglesias is known to spend a lot of time there. I am always looking for Enrique and Anna when I go there. Always. I don’t even know if they ever actually do go, I just know that I’...

Steve Carell joins Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon's Apple TV show

Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon’s TV show about a morning show is an item of excitement around the virtual LaineyGossip office. Like this might actually get me to subscribe to Apple TV, as Apple’s plan to be, basically, broadcast television for streaming sounds boring as f-ck. BUT. Reese With...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrive in Fiji to huge crowds

It took a week. A week from the time of the initial pregnancy announcement to the first belly-cupping. And now Meghan Markle has become a chronic belly-cupper.  Prince Harry and Royal Meghan arrived in Fiji today. The crowds were huge. Apparently 15,000 people turned out to greet them. The Sussex...

Smutty Social Media, October 23, 2018

Drake texting with his favourite high school teacher is peak Drake.          View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi) on Oct 22, 2018 at 11:24pm PDT ...

Orlando Bloom reportedly ready to "settle down" with Katy Perry

Katy Perry was honoured by amfAR last week and Orlando Bloom was there to support her. Then PEOPLE came out with this story yesterday that they might get married.  “He is ready to settle down with Katy,” the source says of the pair, who just attended the amfAR Gala together in L.A. on Thursday. ...

Will Jennifer Aniston and Dolly Parton campaign for Dumplin' together?

As covered in the previous post, Dolly Parton started her Oscar campaign yesterday for the Dumplin’ soundtrack. Last week, when I wrote about Dumplin’, there had yet to be a release date. We have one now – the movie will start streaming on Netflix December 7th and also have a limited theatrical run....

Dolly Parton begins Oscar campaign for songs from Dumplin' soundtrack

I am EXCITED.  As I posted yesterday, even though A Star is Born is currently the Oscar frontrunner across most major categories, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Bradley Cooper, they’re not letting them run away with it. Nobody is standing aside, not yet. Why would they? It’s October. P...

"I'll Never Love Again" could be Lady Gaga's Best Original Song at the Oscars

“I’ll Never Love Again” has been insulted on this site by Lainey Lui multiple times now. Yesterday, she dared to call it “sh-t". That was the last straw. I refuse to stand by and let the most impressive song on the A Star Is Born soundtrack be disrespected like this.  Before I start my 6-part TED...

Wonder Woman 1984 release date pushed back to 2020

Today in “But we might not live that long!” news, Wonder Woman 1984 has been kicked back seven months, from November 1, 2019 to June 5, 2020. The shuffle comes as Warner Brothers dropped Mark Wahlberg’s Six Billion Dollar Man from their slate (that beleaguered film was acquired last year in the Wein...

October 23, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

For Shannon – I’m sorry to hear about your grandfather. As requested, here’s Dave Grohl. My condolences to you and your family. Take care of each other the way he took are of all of you.  And for Beca who said goodbye to Critter. I know you’ve lost your best friend but, remember, for 18 years, th...

Intro for October 23, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Sarah Silverman apologised yesterday after stepping in it on The Howard Stern Show when she was asked about Louis CK. Rebecca Corry called her out. I get it if you want to dump on Sarah. While you do that, I’m going to dump on Louis CK. Because on top of all the gross sh-t he did a...

What Else for October 22, 2018

Wait…WHAT? Imagine the precedent this would set if this woman’s lawsuit is successful. Julianna Berg is a Billy Idol superfan. Yes. I am actually talking about Billy Idol. She wanted to spend the night with him in Vegas and she says he wanted to spend the night with her in Vegas, until he didn’t. An...

A love check-in with Chris Pratt and Chris Hemsworth

Let’s start with Chris Pratt. Chris and Anna Faris’s divorce was just finalised last week He’s been dating Katherine Schwarzenegger since at least June. Here they are on Saturday in Santa Monica. Chris’s son, Jack (not pictured), was with them too. At some point they met up with her brother, Patrick...

A check-in with Chris Pratt and Chris Hemsworth

Let’s start with Chris Pratt. Chris and Anna Faris’s divorce was just finalised last week He’s been dating Katherine Schwarzenegger since at least June. Here they are on Saturday in Santa Monica. Chris’s son, Jack (not pictured), was with them too. At some point they met up with her brother, Patrick...

Timothee Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp kissing in New York

Not that there was any doubt. Earlier this month, Timothee Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp were seen together by fans looking super into each other in New York. They worked together on a film this summer. And now they’ve been papped kissing. These are the first paparazzi shots of them, right? That’s lik...

Smutty Social Media, October 22, 2018

This weekend I read “This Will Only Hurt A Little.” It’s dishy, yes. And it’s dishy in a way I didn’t expect; sometimes Busy Philipps gives us the dirt straight-up (like naming a Cougar Town cast member who shamed her for not having a nanny) and then there are other instances when I think she is try...

Viggo Mortensen, Ethan Hawke, and Willem Dafoe could challenge Bradley Cooper at the Oscars

Viggo Mortensen was the Middleburg Film Festival promoting Green Book this weekend. Green Book won the People’s Choice at TIFF last month. And Viggo is definitely a contender for Best Actor for his performance in the film, alongside Mahershala Ali. Ethan Hawke, meanwhile, was at the London Film Fest...

Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk in New York following another successful weekend for A Star Is Born

A Star is Born just had another great weekend. The film is holding well at the box office. The soundtrack is number one again. And everybody is talking about the “butt song”, “Why Did You Do That?” Diane Warren, who wrote it, is now defending it, telling The New York Times that the song was never in...

Meghan Markle is predictably a belly-cupper during visit to Fraser Island in Australia with Prince Harry

The Invictus Games were the focus of the royal tour itinerary this weekend. On Monday, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visited Fraser Island. As previously announced, they travelled there together and Royal Meghan then went to rest, rejoining Harry later in the day.  As I wrote last week, Meghan’s...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle support the Invictus Games in Australia

Sundays are for Thomas Markle. Every time he wants to put out a press release, and he seems to be favouring UK outlets these days, it’s on Sundays, because if you’re his daughter, the one who married into the royal family, seeing your famewhore dad making headlines again, that’s exactly how you want...

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie still not officially divorced two years after split

Last month marked the two year anniversary of when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced their separation. Two years later and they’re still not officially divorced because they’re still figuring out their custody situation. It was reported last week that custody evaluations have started. Dr Stan K...

October 22, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Tate! Happy Birthday from Mia! I hear you’re missing your wine right now so, as a ginger distraction, here are Prince Harry and Sam Heughan. 

Intro for October 22, 2018

Dear Gossips,  I mentioned last week that I was worried about my binge bone, like maybe it had stopped working because I have so many shows paused through two or three episodes. Well. Not a problem anymore. All it took was a mandatory weekend of rest and Elite on Netflix. I started on Friday nigh...

What Else for October 19, 2018

Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner got married and now I’m looking forward to how the #Kaylor shippers will rationalise this wedding. Maybe the wedding was a cover for the fact that Karlie and Taylor Swift recently brought home their adopted baby and they needed the media to be distracted. Allison brin...

Michael B Jordan surprises Naomi Osaka for her birthday

Naomi Osaka turned 21 on Tuesday. What do you get a 21-year-old who beat the GOAT at the US Open? If you’re Ellen DeGeneres, you get her crush– MY Michael Bae Jordan—to send her a shirtless photo. I stan a generous King. The last time I wrote about Naomi and Michael B Jordan, he was surprising he...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle barefoot on Bondi Beach

Is it only Day 4 of this tour? It feels long for me, can you imagine how it feels for them?  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were back in Sydney today and started their Friday schedule with a visit to Bondi Beach where they kicked off their shoes and walked barefoot in the sand and sat in an energ...

Robert Pattinson and Orlando Bloom honour Katy Perry at amfAR Gala

Katy Perry was honoured by amfAR last night in LA with the Courage Award, recognising her “profound commitment to the fight against AIDS, as well as countless other humanitarian causes”. Her boyfriend, Orlando Bloom, was there. And so was her rumoured boyfriend, for years, Robert Pattinson. Orly and...

Smutty Social Media, October 19, 2018

Julia Roberts is working with Alexi Lubomirski again. He’s the photographer who shot Prince Harry and Royal Meghan for their engagement and wedding portraits. Also Julia wants to have lunch with you and send you shopping. Rodeo Drive. And “big mistake, huge”. I mean… after all these years, it still ...

Bradley Cooper's best acting in A Star is Born happens without dialogue

Before we get to all of Bradley Cooper’s looking, he was seen a few times in New York yesterday. Here he is out for lunch and he was also photographed out for a walk with Irina Shayk and their daughter Lea. About a week ago, Page Six reported that Coop and Irina looked miserable at dinner. The co...

Zayn releases new angst-ridden single, "Fingers"

That sounds dirtier than I intended. Zayn Malik has a new single called “Fingers” and it’s all angst-ridden and rife for interpretation. The song isn’t great but I wish it was because the lyrics are perfect for 2018. This should be a young millennial/Gen Z anthem.  'Cause I'm f-cked and I want ya...

Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz considered top contenders for Oscar for The Favourite

A Star is Born is a big movie. It has emerged as the Oscar Best Picture frontrunner – for now. Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga will receive multiple nominations. But that doesn’t mean that they’re running away with it. And they shouldn’t run away with it. Anybody running away with anything is no fun fo...

Melissa McCarthy is at her best in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Melissa McCarthy is best known as a comedienne, but really she’s a good actress with a talent for playing cranks and borderline unpleasant, blunt characters. She excels when she’s playing someone who says and does as she pleases, so Can You Ever Forgive Me? is right up her alley. Marielle Heller’s s...

Halloween movie review starring Jamie Lee Curtis

Director David Gordon Green continues his hopscotch through genre with a sequel to Halloween, John Carpenter’s 1978 horror flick that basically launched the slasher sub-genre. Forty years later, the baton passes to Green who, along with collaborators Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, brings back the c...

Intro for October 19, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Something really exciting happened this week: Judy Blume has finally agreed to have Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret turned into a movie. Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen, a movie I loved) will write the screenplay and direct. James L Brooks will produce. Kelly told De...

What Else for October 18, 2018

A porn star went into the bathroom with a flight attendant is actually the plot of this actual porn only it’s now become a workplace ethics scandal which is a total boner killer. Michael K, however, has now turned it into a comedy. By the time I got to the part about “keep climbing”, I was actually ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle happy and affectionate in Melbourne

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spent the day in Melbourne. There were several stops on the schedule, including a visit at Government House, a tram ride to the beach, learning about volunteer cleanup on the beach, watching sport demonstrations with ambassadors from the This Girl Can campaign, and a m...

Bad Times at the El Royale movie review

Bad Times at the El Royale, Drew Goddard’s follow-up to The Cabin in the Woods is at once completely like that movie and nothing like that movie. Getting into the specifics of how El Royale works would spoil it, but one important thing to know is that despite the ominous trailer and Goddard’s previo...

Diddy and Cassie break up after 11 years together

Sean “Diddy” Combs and Cassie Ventura were together for 11 years. That number is higher than I expected and every time I’ve read it in a story about their breakup, I’ve had to pause and be like, “11 YEARS? Damn.” As Lainey pointed out, that timeline makes Cassie REAL young when they got together. Sh...

Smutty Social Media, October 18, 2018

I love a celebrity birthday message, but here Barbra Streisand is putting on a clinic in how to do it. It’s a full shot of her good side. John Mayer is in the corner of the shot, looking at her adoringly. She posted it a day late. And he’s still insanely grateful to even be acknowledged by her. This...

A Star is Born crosses $100 millon at box office as the soundtrack tops the charts

A Star is Born just crossed the $100 million mark at the box office after twelve days. And, as we’ve been saying, it’s one of those movies that has been able to sustain its earnings weekend after weekend as people go back to see it again and again or as other people, through word of mouth, go to see...

Jennifer Aniston is low key in New York ahead of release of Netflix's Dumplin'

Jennifer Aniston was photographed leaving the Good Morning America studios on Monday in New York. Since then I keep expecting to see the interview, or some headline about why she was there and what she was promoting. There hasn’t been anything. The next day, Courteney Cox was photographed heading to...

Taylor Swift encourages fans to vote early on Instagram ahead of Australian tour

Two weeks ago, Taylor Swift made headlines for her voter registration appeal and revealing exactly who she would be voting for in Tennessee. She followed up at the American Music Awards with a reminder to her fans to get out and vote. And yesterday she posted a note on Instagram about early voting: ...

Chris Pine in gorgeous grey suit at London premiere of Outlaw King

Earlier, I suggested that Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth were making me re-evaluate my Chris rankings. I even had the audacity to imply that Hemsworth could outrank Pine. For this, I sincerely apologize. My Best Chris attended the European premiere of his new movie Outlaw King at the London Film...

First look at Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth on set of Men in Black

If there’s anyone who could make me re-evaluate my Chris rankings, it’s Tessa Thompson. Pine is still my number one but watching Tessa and Chris Hemsworth hang out while shooting the new Men in Black is really strengthening Hemsworth’s stock. He only slightly edged out his brother Liam as my best He...

Intro for October 18, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Mariah Carey is releasing a new album November 16 called Caution. Which means she’ll be on a promotional push for it through the holidays, her favourite season. Her own season. The first two songs off the album, “GTFO” and “With You”, didn’t do much. A third song, “The Distance”, d...

What Else for October 17, 2018

Is it considered an act of violence to throw food in someone’s face? I suppose it matters, what kind of food. This reminds me of the new season of American Vandal and the “Fruit Ninja”. I’m only two episodes in. Don’t tell me what happens. For some reason, I’m having such a hard time bingeing TV thi...

Pusha T brings the receipts for his side to Drake beef during Joe Budden interview

The tea is hot and the plot is THICK. Pusha Tea is delivering on his nickname once again. On Monday, I wrote about Drake’s version of the events leading up to best rap beef of summer ‘18 (I’m putting Cardi and Nicki squarely in the fall season). Drake heavily implied that it was Kanye West who told ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visit Dubbo, Australia

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were in Dubbo today. As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, there’s been two years of drought in Dubbo and it rained on the day that the Sussexes visited. Which is why the headlines have been all about how Harry and Royal Meghan makin’ it rain on a community that much needs ...

Smutty Social Media, October 17, 2018

In late September, I wrote about two positive stories that popped up regarding Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan’s divorce, predicting that they would both start dating publicly very soon and the stories were laying the groundwork for that. It has happened – Channing has been spotted with Jessie J and ...

Show Your Work: royal babies, stars are born, and bad interviews

We’re back! The first episode of Season 3 of the Show Your Work podcast is now available. And look – we have new artwork! We are so honoured to have a Paco May original in our likeness – thank you Paco! Paco’s been showing his work too. His illustrations were just featured in The Booth at the BET...

Busy Philipps releases her gossipy book, This Will Only Hurt a Little

Busy Philipps’s book, This Will Only Hurt a Little, came out yesterday. I can’t wait to read it this weekend. And I was trying to avoid reading the excerpts but some of these are so good that it’s impossible to look away. This is a gossipy book because Busy is a gossipy person – a redundant statemen...

Natalie Portman advocates for gossip during Variety’s Power of Women speech

Natalie Portman was honoured at Variety’s Power of Women event last Friday alongside Tiffany Haddish, Emma Gonzalez, Regina King, and Lena Waithe. She said something during her remarks that I really appreciate and Natalie Portman hasn’t, in the past, exactly been an all-star on this site. That said,...

Tom Holland and Zendaya wrap shooting on Spider-Man: Far From Home in New York

Tom Holland and Zendaya just wrapped filming Spider-Man: Far From Home. They were shooting abroad for most of the summer but for the past couple weeks they’ve been back in New York City. I’ve gotten a few emails about the photos of Zomdaya filming because a) you all know me so well and b) they are s...

Director Bryan Singer issues preemptive strike against upcoming exposé in Esquire

Last year Bryan Singer’s name emerged from the Hollywood Predator Advent Calendar when he was sued for allegedly assaulting a minor. Many of us were not surprised, having expected something from that quarter as soon as the scandal moved past Harvey Weinstein and into deeper, industry-wide waters. It...

Intro for October 17, 2018

Dear Gossips,  It was reported yesterday that Idris Elba is in talks to join the cast of the live-action film adaptation of Cats to be directed by Tom Hooper, also starring Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellen, James Corden, and Taylor Swift. Idris is apparently considering the role of Macavity, the bad...

What Else for October 16, 2018

Kathleen here. Lainey is all about ending period stigma. Knowing that, I don’t think she’ll mind if I tell you that she’s dealing with some period f-ckery today which is why I’m stepping in for What Else. No shame. No stigma.  Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson are now in the ‘who gets what’ phase o...

Shonda Rhimes proudly brags about financial success during Elle Women in Hollywood speech

Shonda Rhimes is great at bragging. Shonda brags like she writes: confidently, bravely and exceptionally well. When Shonda brags, I cheer. I love when she declares that her “pen has power” and proudly accepts her role as the woman who owns Thursday nights. She’s a black woman who became the Queen of...

Gina Rodriguez is an action hero in Miss Bala trailer

She’s been trying with stuff like Deepwater Horizon and Annihilation, and Gina Rodriguez now has a leading action role in Miss Bala, an English-language update of the 2011 Mexican thriller of the same name. We can debate forever the value of adapting foreign-language films into English—yell about re...

Richard Madden rumored to be in talks for next Bond movie

The James Bond casting carousel continues to revolve, even though Daniel Craig is locked into one more appearance as 007 and we don’t need a new Bond for at least 3-4 years, AT LEAST. Still, speculation runs rampant, and the latest rumor is that Bond producer Barbara Broccoli is set to offer the pos...

Smutty Social Media, October 16, 2018

Subtext: we are going to be the Fast Flames that last.          View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Nick Jonas (@nickjonas) on Oct 16, 2018 at 12:56am PDT Do you think...

Solange featured in T Magazine to promote upcoming album

Solange is about to release her next studio album. It’s her follow-up to A Seat At The Table, one of my all-time favourite albums, one of the best of 2016, and undoubtedly the best of Solange’s discography. It’s not the first time Solange has had to face pressure to live up to impossibly high standa...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's baby talk during Australian tour

Just hours after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle arrived in Australia yesterday, Kensington Palace made the announcement that they are expecting their first child. As we’ve established, this jacked up the excitement level about the tour, as intended. Harry and Royal Meghan’s final engagement today wa...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's "signature Sussex PDA" in Australia

By now we’ve seen that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have developed their own style. From the very beginning, at their “public debut” a year ago in Toronto at the Invictus Games, when they arrived hand in hand, they’ve always been the most tactile royals. And they didn’t dial it down, not after the...

Intro for October 16, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Thanks for all your emails yesterday in response to the posts about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal baby. Thanks also for all your predictions/suggestions in response to Duana’s post about potential royal baby names. One of the most interesting prediction-suggestions came fr...

What Else for October 15, 2018

Michael K, as usual, brings up an excellent point: you know those people who start camping out outside the hospital whenever a royal birth is imminent? Days ahead. You’ve seen the pictures. Be happy that you can’t smell the pictures. Because imagine? Anyway, when Prince Harry and Royal Meghan’s baby...

Drake opens up about Kanye and Pusha T beef of summer 2018

Oh, he’s GOOD. Drake is telling his side of the infamous Drake/ Pusha T/ Kanye beef of summer ‘18 and if there was any question about who would win this feud in the long run, the answer is here.  I stand by my initial track by track assessment of “Duppy Freestyle” vs “The Story of Adidon.” Bar fo...

What will Prince Harry and Meghan Markle name their baby?

So the new royal baby is coming in ‘Spring 2019’, and as Lainey pointed out earlier, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s child won’t necessarily be a prince or princess – unless the Queen decides they will be. Protocol, you know. Protocol also says they also won’t be announcing the sex of the baby unti...

Smutty Social Media, October 15, 2018

Do you think Diane Keaton and Nancy Meyers talk about their turtlenecks? Do they have their favourite brands/fabric/cut and that’s that, or are they both continually searching for the perfect one? Are turtlenecks proprietary information?         View this post on I...

Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson call off engagement

Here is one truth that will never change, no matter the era, no matter the technology: you can’t talk reason to people when they’re in love. Like that kind of love. You know. Because you’ve tried to talk to someone deeply in love or you’ve been so deeply in love it made you stupid. I was once so stu...

Timothee Chalamet's fans are wild during Q&As for Beautiful Boy

Here’s Timothee Chalamet at the London premiere of Beautiful Boy inspired by Harry Styles. Timmy was in great spirits – perhaps he knew that the movie was doing very well stateside at the box office.  Beautiful Boy posted one of the highest per-screen averages of the year, with around $55,000 per...

Queen Elizabeth appoints Prince Harry as a Personal Aide-de-Camp

It’s been a big day for Prince Harry. In addition to the confirmation that he will be a father for the first time, the Queen has announced that she’s given him a new ceremonial title:  "The Queen has been pleased to appoint The Duke of Sussex as a Personal Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty with effect ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle revealed pregnancy to family at Princess Eugenie's wedding

So. As noted in the open today, Princess Eugenie (and Prince Andrew and Fergie) had precisely the weekend in the spotlight. Just the weekend. First thing this morning, as soon as the weekend was over, Kensington Palace made the announcement:  Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Sus...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce pregnancy

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are now in Australia head of the Invictus Games. You remember what happened last year at the Invictus Games in Toronto? This: It was their public debut. We knew they were dating. But they’d yet to step out together in any official capacity. That was the moment t...

Intro for October 15, 2018

Dear Gossips,  I opened this site on Friday with a note about royal egos and pettiness when writing about Princess Eugenie’s wedding and how it was also a moment for Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. As you know, for years there have been rumours about Andrew’s relationship with his older brother...

What Else for October 12, 2018

So were you more interested in Princess Eugenie’s wedding than you thought you would be? But also…not THAT interested? Like, how much do you care about Jack Brooksbank? How much do you know about Jack? Did you know what Jack’s grandma said about him? Is his grandma Maggie Smith? It’s a very Maggie S...

Issa Rae to star in rom-com, American Princess

Well, I assume it’s a rom-com. Issa Rae will be starring in a movie called American Princess about an American woman who moves to London and falls in love “in a very unexpected way”. I assume that means she falls in love with a royal. And I assume it’s a romantic comedy because we need something to ...

Getting to Know If Beale Street Could Talk's Stephan James

If you don’t already know Stephan James, you will soon. He’s at the point in his career I like to call the Oprah Burn. You know the Oprah quote. The one she says Quincy Jones said first but no one remembers that.  “Your future is so bright it burns my eyes.”  Stephan James is staring down a bl...

Ryan Coogler returns to Wakanda to direct Black Panther 2

Marvel is recovering nicely following the clusterf-ck firing of James Gunn, hiring new directors including a pair of women, Cate Shortland and Chloe Zhao, and now they have locked down Ryan Coogler for Black Panther 2. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and Coogler made Marvel’s best movie to date—hav...

Smutty Social Media, October 12, 2018

Have you read Bradley Cooper’s NYT profile, written by the inimitable Taffy Brodesser-Akner? It’s complicated and insightful – thanks to Taffy. She does all the heavy lifting here. She has to justify the value of her work vs his idea that his work is so important and precious it will only be sullied...

Love for Lana Condor as she promotes Deadly Class at New York Comic Con

Noah Centineo owes all of the love he’s been getting to two women: Jenny Han for creating Peter Kavinsky and Lana Condor for making him look so good by being so damn good herself. In the aftermath of the To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before hype, Noah Centineo’s stock has risen at exponential rates. He...

Scarlett Johansson to make $15 million for Black Widow movie

Once upon a time, Marvel was called cheap, largely because they didn’t pay their actors massive contracts (and also famously serving Subway sandwiches at their press junkets). Then, The Avengers happened and RDJ pulled in $50 million. So the story became that Marvel was cheap, except for RDJ, who ge...

The Cambridges and Sussexes show PDA at Princess Eugenie's wedding

I was wrong. Princess Kate did not recycle today for Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbanks’s wedding. This pink dress is McQueen, her favourite designer and wedding designer. Great colour on her. Again, not entirely out of her style wheelhouse but the strong shoulder is basically Kate’s version of a...

Prince George picks his nose at Princess Eugenie's wedding

The children. Always a highlight for (most) people at weddings. You know who’s emerging as the reliable royal mischief-maker though? Savannah Phillips. You remember when she did this at Trooping the Colour? Savannah Phillips😂 pic.twitter.com/N1os7QWrFR — Omid Scobie (@scobie) June 9, 2018 ...

Princess Eugenie's spectacular wedding tiara

I’m thinking of Duana right now, for two reasons. First, at the beginning of the year, when it was announced that there would be a red carpet blackout at the Golden Globes to launch Time’s Up, Duana predicted that since the celebrities wouldn’t be able to go all out with fashion, the makeup and the ...

October 12, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Haley! Happy 30th Birthday! It’s the annual traditional shout-out from Kim who is so proud of what you’ve done this year. I hear you’re going on holiday next week. Good. Because you can’t show your work without rest. Have a great time in Palm Springs! And the best birthday weekend!  

Intro for October 12, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Princess Eugenie married Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle today. It’s their day but, you know, when we’re talking about royal egos and pettiness, it’s also Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s day. And the mother of the bride took full advantage of the moment. THIS HAT.  It’s a g...

What Else for October 11, 2018

Today is International Day of the Girl. And every day in the world, do you know what’s normal for girls? To be denied “equality”. This is f-cked up. Plan Canada encourages girls to be “defiant” in the face of this “normal” and urging us, men and women together, to join these Defiant Girls as they de...

Dakota Johnson confirms she is not pregnant with Chris Martin's baby on Ellen

On Monday, TMZ blasted out an alert about Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin having a gender reveal party which resulted in everyone screaming that OMG DRAMAAAAAA DAKOTA JOHNSON IS PREGNANT FOR CHRIS MARTIN AND IS THAT WHY HE WASN’T AT GWYNETH PALTROW’s WEDDING?!?  Not long afterwards, Dakota’s reps...

First trailer for Stephen King's Pet Sematary remake

Following the success of It, Castle Rock, and to a lesser extent Gerald’s Game—and totally ignoring The Dark Tower—the Stephen King resurgence continues with a new adaptation of Pet Sematary, aka That Movie That Made You Afraid of Cats. Pet Sematary is not my favorite Stephen King movie because it i...

Smutty Social Media, October 11, 2018

Remember yesterday, when I wrote about Lana Del Rey and Azealia Banks’ feud? This is why. These insults will have legs and I want us all to be informed.  Damn girl, I'm sorry. I let you down. I let myself down. https://t.co/rz8Ilv1wnx — Elizabeth Banks (@ElizabethBanks) October 10, 2018 ...

Princess Catherine at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London

Princess Catherine stepped out last night at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where she is a patron, to tour the photography exhibit. Kate, as we know, is an amateur photographer and in the past her portraits of the children and Lupo – WHERE IS LUPO!? – have been released to the public. I wonder if she...

The Women of Wakanda are honoured in ELLE’s Women in Hollywood issue

I think about the Black Panther press tour a lot. Mostly, I think about how much I miss it and how much joy it brought into my life. Well, awards season is coming, and the Black Panther press tour is getting a second leg. Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira, and Lupita Nyong’o are honoured in ELLE’s Women ...

Millenial Shauna Sexton uses Instagram to send Ben Affleck messages after reports of a split

It was reported earlier this week that Ben Affleck and Shauna Sexton were no longer dating and that it wasn’t serious to begin with, even though they’d just gone fishing or something last weekend. A “friend” of Ben’s apparently told PEOPLE that the two were “just casual”. E! News also reported that ...

Channing Tatum reportedly dating Jessie J

Channing Tatum and Jessie J are dating, according to multiple outlets. PEOPLE is reporting that “it’s very new.” Six months ago, Channing and Jenna Dewan announced their separation. This day was inevitable. Channing and Jenna have remained friendly and drama-free. They are moving on. Who guessed tha...

Josh Radnor to play Meredith Grey's new love interest in Grey's Anatomy

Fifteen seasons. I have given Shonda Lynn Rhimes and Grey’s Anatomy almost 15 whole seasons of my life. Fifteen seasons of plane crashes, tumour ghosts, death, heartbreak, more death and more heartbreak. FIFTEEN SEASONS and yet, Shonda and her staff seem to have no respect for my time and my emotion...

October 11, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Kendra! Happy Birthday from Alix who calls you an “awesome friend, woman, gossip, and Beyoncé lover”. Excellent descriptors. Here’s Beyoncé to help with that pregnancy nausea.   

Intro for October 11, 2018

Dear Gossips, BTS performed in London at the O2 for the first time on Tuesday, the first of two sold out shows. Two hours before it started, it was announced that Jungkook (my fave) was injured after sound-check and would not be able to participate in choreography but that he would instead be sea...

What Else for October 10, 2018

It’s been weeks – maybe even months?! – since we’ve heard from TMZ, the Thomas Markle Zone. I’m actually kinda surprised. While Thomas Markle is, I dunno, trying to control his impulses, I guess, his other daughter rolled up to Kensington Palace the other day and was turned away…although she’s calli...

Met Gala 2019 theme: Camp

The Costume Institute announced the theme of next year’s Met Gala yesterday: “Camp: Notes on Fashion”, based on Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on ‘Camp’”, published in 1964. Well. This should be fun. Because, you could argue, the Met Gala should always be more campy than not, being that it’s a costume ...

James Gunn to write script for DC's Suicide Squad 2

There was no doubt he would, and in a move pretty much everyone—including me—predicted, he is going to work for Marvel’s arch-rival, DC. James Gunn has been tapped to write a new script for Suicide Squad 2, and maybe he will direct it, too. The directing gig probably depends on whether or not the br...

Smutty Social Media, October 10, 2018

Halloween is coming up – do you have your costume ready? It’s on a Wednesday this year, which means the big party night will be the Saturday, October 27th, right? (I would have to confirm this with a youth.) Kate Hudson throws a Halloween party every year, though it stands to reason that with a new ...

Amandla Stenberg's great look at the 2018 American Music Awards

Amandla Stenberg presented an award to Taylor Swift at the American Music Awards. I’m happy she was there for a couple of reasons. One, I LOVE her outfit. She’s wearing a Ralph Lauren blazer and karla x Levi’s jeans that I need in my life. The high waist is perfect and the cut is nice for those days...

Shawn Mendes at the American Music Awards confirms why we don't need Justin Timberlake

I think I might be going off Peter Kavinsky Noah Centineo. It’s my lifelong fickleness, makes it hard for me to maintain a celebrity crush. And I have a theory about the Noah Centineo types that I’ll share with you tomorrow because I’m trying to acquire some new shots of him. Anyway, this post is no...

Ciara and Missy Elliot reunite for performance at the American Music Awards

Most of the time when I’m writing about Missy Elliott, I’m yelling at MTV to give her a damn Video Vanguard Award already or I’m trying to hype up her latest projects that always seem to go relatively unnoticed. Missy reunited with Ciara last night during her AMA performance and it was the first tim...

Camila Cabello forced me to like her at the 2018 AMAs

Camila Cabello has been at almost every music awards show in the past year. She’s been accepting awards for her debut album which I still couldn’t sing a single song from unless it was “Havana.” I know every word of that song and I don’t know how. “Havana” is that song you find yourself singing out ...

Cardi B was the shining star of the AMAs

There wasn’t a single other artist on Cardi B’s level last night at the AMAs. You could argue that there were better performances (the Aretha tribute is the only one I will accept) or better outfits (again, the only correct contender here is Tracee Ellis Ross) but you cannot argue that anyone else h...

Jennifer Lopez debuts new single "Limitless" at the 2018 American Music Awards

Too obvious? Too on the nose there?  Jennifer Lopez debuted a new song called “Limitless” at the American Music Awards. The track isn’t all that special. The way she performed it though, with all that energy, in a silver sequined suit, made it better than it might deserve. How is it possible that...

Mariah Carey barely moves during American Music Awards performance

Mariah Carey performed at the American Music Awards last night for the first time since 2008. I feel like I’m in tune with our butterfly’s moods. My butterfly mood tuner last night was telling me she was nervous. The song was “With You”. I don’t love the single. And…well…I didn’t love the vocals. I’...

Taylor Swift encourages people to vote at the 2018 American Music Awards

Taylor Swift was one of the first to arrive on the American Music Awards red carpet. She showed up punctually and unquestionably on time – the same cannot be said for when she showed up to speak out against racism, homophobia and women’s rights in America . Did she miss her Party Lyft to the resista...

Tracee Ellis Ross hosts 2018 American Music Awards

Tracee Ellis Ross hosted the American Music Awards for the second year in a row. Once again, she brought her signature infectious energy and knockout style to the show. Tracee’s opening dance number wasn’t the first performance of the night, but it should have been. Tracee hit her choreography harde...

Intro for October 10, 2018

Dear Gossips,  My personal favourite outfit at the American Music Awards last night: Constance Wu. Totally my jam – high collar, long, pretty sleeves, not tight to the body, lots and lots of leg…and the colour pattern of those sequins, MY GOD. Also her skin looked flawless.  In other Constance...

What Else for October 9, 2018

For about an hour yesterday, TMZ had everyone believing that Dakota Johnson was pregnant for Chris Martin. Turns out it was a birthday party and not a gender reveal party. There is no pregnancy. You know what was the strongest evidence that there was no baby? The presence of Julia Roberts and Sean P...

Pretty Timothee Chalamet in red Louis Vuitton suit while promoting Beautiful Boy

Goddamn Timothee Chalamet is pretty. Look at that bone structure. It’s just… such a pretty face. Also I love him in this red suit. Louis Vuitton, styled similarly to how it was sent down the runway, with just a plain red t-shirt underneath but with crisp, sharp white sneakers instead of boots. Which...

Brad Pitt and Leonardo Dicaprio look like a Ken doll and a Goodfella on set of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

But first, let’s talk about this New York Times interview with Dr Neri Oxman. Great read. She is fascinating. Much too fascinating, probably, for Brad Pitt. And yet. Somehow earlier this year there were suggestions that they were spending time together, originated by Page Six. Page Six is not known ...

Busy Philipps reveals James Franco physically assaulted her on set of Freaks and Geeks

Busy Philipps has a book coming out later this month called This Will Only Hurt a Little. In a leaked excerpt she details a Freaks and Geeks on-set confrontation with James Franco in which he shoved her so forcefully she fell and had the wind knocked out of her. As Philipps herself says, it’s “well ...

Smutty Social Media, October 9, 2018

Now that Taylor has stepped into the conversation, who remains the most apolitical pop star? My pick is Britney - I don’t think she’s commented on politics since Bush 43. Maybe that’s why this tweet, which is from 2011, was floating around Twitter this weekend. Between A Star is Born and an alarming...

Prince William and Princess Catherine are full of life at Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit in London

They can be dull sometimes, the Cambridges, non? Of course sometimes they have to be. Prince William and Catherine will be King and Queen one day. They’re probably held to a standard and a set of expectations even higher than other royals. Today, though, as they stepped out in London for the Global ...

Michael Sheen and David Tennant in Good Omens trailer

Authors and Nerd Gods Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman once collaborated on a novel, Good Omens. It’s about an angel and a demon who got a little too comfy on Earth to tolerate the apocalypse and try to thwart it. It’s been in development almost as long as Gaiman’s Sandman comics series, and it is, a...

Riverdale's Camila Mendes and Charles Melton go Instagram official

The third season of Riverdale premieres tomorrow. Season two was so embarrassingly bad even my teen-drama-loving-ass couldn’t get through it. I’m still not caught up. If it wasn’t for Sarah’s insistence, and the fact that my general interest in Riverdale’s cast of extremely pretty people hasn’t wane...

Taylor Swift shows support for democratic candidates in first political post on Instagram

Taylor Swift wrapped the US leg of the reputation stadium tour on Saturday night. She next plays seven dates in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, closing out the album cycle by mid-November. On Sunday, a day after playing to American audiences, Taylor posted this message on Instagram – it’s as clea...

Intro for October 9, 2018

Dear Gossips, Welcome back to those of you in Canada returning from Thanksgiving weekend. Let’s start today by acknowledging two women in entertainment who were the highlights in what could have been a total bummer weekend for women. Awkwafina hosted Saturday Night Live, the first Asian woman to ...

What Else for October 5, 2018

Steven Seagal got pissy during an interview. Not surprising at all. I mean, has Steven Seagal ever seemed like the kind person who can handle any challenge? I guess that’s the irony? Is he supposedly all tough and sh-t and the baddest motherf-cker? Also… have you ever taken Steven Seagal seriously? ...

Michaela Coel returns with Netflix's Been So Long

It has been a while since Michaela Coel first wowed us with Chewing Gum, one of the most unique and refreshing comedies of recent TV history. It’s been a while since Michaela Coel was at the forefront of pop culture consciousness as a new face and voice to watch in television. She’s been working ste...

Bright and colorful extended trailer for Aquaman released for New York Comic Con

New York Comic Con is happening right now, and while San Diego is still THE Comic Con, NYCC has been creeping closer in importance for years, with big movie and TV presentations and new trailers released every year. This year, Aquaman brought a five-minute extended trailer that gives a more comprehe...

Smutty Social Media, October 5, 2018

Gisele is promoting her new book, Lessons: My Path to a Meaningful Life, and a lot of the stories being picked up by outlets center around her life with Tom Brady. But we know before Tom, there was Leo. She is the supermodel who set the standard in his romantic life, which probably explains why he c...

Twitter reacts after Chris Evans tweets that he's wrapped on Avengers 4

Yesterday afternoon I checked Twitter and saw that “Avengers” was trending. And I think maybe Chris Evans. I thought maybe it was a trailer for Avengers 4 and that we’d finally get some hint about what happened to everyone after they broke into little pieces of black nothing like Voldemort. Turns ou...

Lady Gaga promotes A Star is Born on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Before we get to that… As we’ve seen, Warner Bros is positioning A Star is Born for a run at the Oscars. In several categories. Given the reception the film has received, the studio is obviously also hoping for the money. To make money, you want to attract the audience, you don’t want to turn off...

Bradley Cooper in New York ahead of opening weekend for melodramatic A Star Is Born

Warner Bros initially projected that A Star is Born would open somewhere between $25-$30 million. That estimate has now moved. Some are saying it could go as high at $40 million, maybe even more. Presales have been strong. Word of mouth is strong. With that kind of combination, it’s been hard to gau...

Tom Hardy in Venom movie review

When a movie fails, there are two possible outcomes. One is that it’s bad and boring, and thus forgettable, because there is nothing about it to make an impression other than its overall badness. Or, it’s bad yet entertaining, because while it doesn’t work, it fails in some interesting way that make...

Intro for October 5, 2018

Dear Gossips, Most of the conversation around the box office this weekend is about Venom and A Star is Born and whether or not, together, they can set an October record. There’s another film opening this weekend though, in limited release, that’s actually coming in with a fresher rating (96% at p...

What Else for October 4, 2018

Do you think that there’s a relationship between how often Brad Pitt’s “sources” leak information to the tabloids about what an asshole Angelina Jolie is allegedly being to him and how often he gets his picture taken on set or at a charity event? At this point, it’s pretty obvious that he’s winning ...

David Beckham rumoured to have had a hair transplant

Here’s David Beckham arriving in Barcelona with his best friend Dave Gardner. Dave’s the guy who, allegedly, Victoria isn’t fond of. Because he and David party too much, or something. And ….that’s supposed to make her look like a nagging bitch of a wife, miserable c-nt who just won’t let her man liv...

First full trailer for The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina looks great

Last month we got a teaser for Netflix’s Riverdale spin-off, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Now, we have a full trailer and yes, please, I want to put this show in my eyeballs like, yesterday. This is hardcore my aesthetic, from the vintage birthday party to the necromancy ritual out in the woo...

Smutty Social Media, October 4, 2018

In a new interview with PEOPLE, Justin Timberlake promotes his new capsule collection with Levi’s, Fresh Leaves. (Get it? He’s a man of the woods now.) So what happened to JT’s denim line, William Rast? In 2013, there were reports that he left the brand, but in 2016 it re-launched and he was still a...

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly re-team for terrible Holmes & Watson trailer

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly have made two funny movies together: Talladega Nights and Step Brothers. They are re-teaming for Holmes & Watson, a comedy riff on Sherlock Holmes. The first trailer is terrible. I mean, it is so bad, it’s almost artful, how bad it is. That selfie joke? TERRIBLE. The ...

Christian Bale enters the Oscars Best Actor ring with first trailer for Vice

Last Friday, it was quietly announced that Adam McKay’s film about Dick Cheney, starring Christian Bale, would be released on Christmas Day. Before then, the film didn’t even have a title. Now we know it’s Vice and we also know that, given the timing of the opening (Christmas Day almost always means...

Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling promote their movies on the late night talk show circuit

The Oscars are still five months away. It’s early. I know it’s early. But if you’re an award season nerd, and I know you’re out there, it doesn’t feel too early this year to be talking about the races. Because at this point in the game, it feels like there is a legitimate race across several categor...

Lady Gaga fans apparently trying to sabotage Venom at weekend box office

Lady Gaga was out in New York last night, 48 hours away from the wide release of the much-hyped, much-anticipated A Star is Born. Do you have your tickets yet? I’m going again this week for a re-watch and then I can’t wait to talk about certain moments, specific scenes, and reaction to them next wee...

Mischa Barton joins cast of The Hills reboot

Ever wonder what happened to Brody Jenner? No, of course not. But new ideas are expensive and risky and reality TV reboots are cheap and easy, so The Hills is being rebooted with a twist: Mischa Barton is the new Lauren Conrad, who was a reality TV version of Marissa Cooper, a fictional character Mi...

Intro for October 4, 2018

Dear Gossips, Am I the only one obsessed with this Drew Barrymore “interview”?  Here’s what happened, in case you missed it: a couple of days ago, political analyst Adam Baron was flipping through EgyptAir’s in-flight magazine, Horus, and started reading an article about Drew Barrymore. This i...

What Else for October 3, 2018

I posted yesterday about Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin being legally married.  Apparently it’s not real yet to them because they haven’t had their wedding, and until they pledge themselves to each other before God, it doesn’t count. Dlisted brings up an excellent question though – if it doesn’t c...

Michael B Jordan covers Vanity Fair

After reading the opening sequence of Michael Bae Jordan’s Vanity Fair cover, which reads like a scene from the OG Fast and the Furious and succeeds in turning me on, I looked up Joe Hagan, the writer of said piece. He’s white. Maybe that shouldn’t matter. In a perfect world, it wouldn’t. But in thi...

Justin Theroux and Laura Harrier in Paris for Louis Vuitton fueling dating speculation again

Justin Theroux and Laura Harrier (Spider-Man: Homecoming, BlackKklansman) were both in Paris last night for the Louis Vuitton spring/summer 2019 Fashion Week show. The day before, they were spotted shopping together along the Champs-Élysées. There was speculation that Justin and Laura were dating ar...

Smutty Social Media, October 3, 2018

This is the problem with the comments Leah Remini made about Tom Cruise’s relationships with Katie Holmes and Nicole Kidman – it gives lower-tier tabloids (which, unfortunately, US Weekly now is) a reason to post these recycled headlines.          View this post on...

Johnny Depp’s recycled garbage profile in GQ

The last time we heard from Johnny Depp, he gave a rambling interview to Rolling Stone that exposed more than could ever have been intended. Now he’s back with a new interview, this time in British GQ, which is not quite as long or quite as rambling but which is exponentially more damaging and ugly....

Robert Pattinson's shorts suit at New York premiere of High Life

A few months ago, during the NBA Finals, LeBron James was making headlines, both for his performance, as usual, but also for his fashion. Everybody was talking about it. Talking about his shorts suit.  Suited up... the @Cavs arrive for Game 1 of the #NBAFinals (9pm/et #NBAonABC)! #NBAFinals p...

Timothee Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp spotted making out in New York

On Monday, Lainey wrote about Timothee Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp, the possible new first couple of Young Hollywood. At the time, all we had to go on were a couple of more-than-friendly looking photos. Well the next day we got this…          View this post on Inst...

Brad Pitt attends event in LA with jewellery designer and holistic therapist Sat Hari

Brad Pitt stepped out in LA on Saturday night in support of the Silverlake Conservatory of Music annual benefit and art auction, raising money for music education and programs. Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers founded the organisation and Brad knows Flea through artist Thomas Houseago, with whom ...

The Avengers cast and March For Our Lives join forces for voting PSA

The last time I wrote about a celebrity PSA encouraging people to vote, it was before the 2016 election when Joss Whedon launched his campaign to get people out to vote. He relied on his Avenger pals to drum up interest, and now, two years later, here we are again on the precipice of an important Am...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle relaxed and engaged during visit to Sussex

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Harry and Meghan, stepped out in Sussex today. And as you can see, the people showed up. I love this shot of Harry stepping up to greet schoolkids, the way he makes goofy monster hands above the barricade before squatting down to talk to them.  Meeting children...

October 3, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Lucie! Happy Birthday with love from Camille who so admires your dedication to equality and women’s rights and learns from you every day. By request, here’s Noah Centineo. Also… a post on Meghan Markle is coming up. There are new photos of her today and I’m dedicating them to you. 

Intro for October 3, 2018

Dear Gossips, I looked at my watch when Beyoncé and Jay-Z came down the elevator last night to open the show in Vancouver. It was exactly, exactly 930pm. And from there, everything else was just as precise.  There’s now only one more show left – in Seattle tomorrow night. If you’re going then,...

Noah Centineo reportedly joins Charlie's Angels reboot

Variety reported today that Noah Centineo has been cast in the upcoming Charlie’s Angels, directed by Elizabeth Banks and starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska as the Angels. He will apparently be one of the love interests. So, like, an Angel’s boyfriend. Like what Matt LeBlanc wa...

Dustin Johnson and Brooks Koepka reportedly get into fight at Ryder Cup party

As Maria wrote last week, Paulina Gretzky accompanied Dustin Johnson to the Ryder Cup in France this weekend. Paulina’s presence was supposed to silence rumours about their troubled relationship, which started when Paulina deleted him from her Instagram. But almost all of the other players were join...

Smutty Social Media, October 2, 2018

Do you know Kirby Howell-Baptiste? She is on Barry, Killing Eve, and The Good Place. Three really, really great shows. And she makes them better because she is delightful. So if you don’t know her, you will soon, because Vanity Fair or The Cut or Vulture must be working on a profile of her. ...

Pamela Anderson sits front row at Chanel show during Paris Fashion Week

Every day the universe gives us a new reason to ask… What is the world?!  Pamela Anderson sat front row at the Chanel show today at Paris Fashion Week. There was a time where that would have seen impossible. But Pam lives in Europe now. She’s dating a French soccer player. Her Instagram is all...

Ben Affleck looks brawny on a break from rehab

As we know, Ben Affleck over the last few weeks has been in treatment for addiction. During this time, he’s been seen visiting his children and Jennifer Garner and also hanging out with his new girlfriend, Shauna Sexton. Last week, he was photographed at Warner Bros for a meeting, prompting speculat...

Michelle Williams admits money is a consideration when taking certain roles

Back when I first started writing for this site, I covered a lot of high-profile actors signing up for superhero gigs. A decade ago, it was still surprising when a Big Name Star agreed to lower themselves and grudgingly accept millions of dollars to be in a silly kids’ movie about people with laser ...

Princess Kate returns from maternity leave to visit visit to Sayers Croft Forest School and Wildlife Garden

Catherine Cambridge returned today from maternity leave for a visit to Sayers Croft Forest School and Wildlife Garden today, meeting with children who are learning about their local community and the environment. As you can see, she was greeted very warmly by the kids. Check out this spontaneous hug...

Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin are married with no pre-nup and possibly expecting a baby

Earlier this month, Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin were seen at a courthouse in New York getting a marriage licence. PEOPLE reported that they’d actually gotten married. Alec Baldwin then confirmed it on the red carpet at the Emmys. But then TMZ said that they were still working on a pre-nup and t...

Intro for October 2, 2018

Dear Gossips, Beyoncé and Jay-Z are wrapping up the On the Run II tour on Thursday in Seattle. Before that though, tonight they play Vancouver. It’s their only Canadian stop. Which is why I’m here. I’ve been waiting for this since March 14 when I bought the tickets. Beyoncé has my money, for the...

What Else for October 2, 2018

Charlie Sheen was once the highest paid actor on television. During his final season on Two and a Half Men, he was paid $1.8 million an episode. It was reported that he made $200 million on Anger Management. Now he’s behind on his tax payments and is having a suck attack about the IRS not being nice...

Taron Egerton as Elton John in first teaser for Rocketman

Last month we saw Taron Egerton on the set of Rocketman dressed as Elton John, and Kathleen dubbed him “Hot Elton”. Well, now we have a teaser trailer for Rocketman that shows Egerton in action as Sir Elton and I’m less into the hotness of it and more struck by the transformation. Not unlike Rami Ma...

Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried attend Givenchy show in Paris

What comes to mind when you see Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried together? For me it’s Les Miserables, Fantine and Cosette. And then, where fashion is concerned, well, it’s the Oscars, isn’t it?  Anne Hathaway won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as Fantine in a pink Prada d...

Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Paris for Givenchy

Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, aka My Obsession, were in Paris for the Givenchy presentation this weekend at Paris Fashion Week. Aaron is the face of Givenchy for men and Sam directed his fragrance ad last year. I’ve not yet written about interviewing them at TIFF. Let’s do that now. They were in ...

Smutty Social Media, October 1, 2018

Not only is it impossible to find the time on the box, but I usually find the suggestion off by at least 2 minutes, which is a lifetime in pasta time. LEMME HIRE A PI TO FIND THIS PASTA COOKING TIME ON THE BOX — Chelsea Peretti (@chelseaperetti) October 1, 2018 Rita Ora is back from wha...

Justin Theroux wore sunglasses at screening of The Favourite

Justin Theroux was also at the premiere of The Favourite in New York on Friday. Because he’s friends with Emma Stone. But also because it was obviously the party of the night in NY and Justin is so f-cking cool he has to be at the best party. Why isn’t he friends with Leonardo DiCaprio yet?  Just...

Jennifer Lawrence attends ex Nicholas Hoult's movie premiere for The Favourite in New York

This is a thing in Hollywood, something you can count on reliably to generate gossip. In Hollywood, where everyone knows everyone and social circles are small, and friends dates each other’s exes, and there’s a premiere or a party or an award show every weekend, the logistical management of lovers a...

Taylor Swift attends premiere of Joe Alwyn's The Favourite on their anniversary

Earlier this year, Taylor Swift released a cover of Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September”. She changed the first lyric from “Do you remember the 21st of September” to the “28th of September”, which all her fans took to mean that that’s the anniversary of when she and Joe Alwyn started dating.  This pa...

Matt Damon plays Brett Kavanaugh in Saturday Night Live cold open

Adam Driver hosted Saturday Night Live’s season premiere this weekend but the headlines have so far been all about Kanye West, currently the world’s second most effective attention-whore, and Matt Damon in the cold open as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, aka the f-ckboy judge. I laughed at th...

Are Timothee Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp dating?

Timothee Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp were both at TIFF a couple of weeks ago. They were also both at the San Sebastian Film Festival last week. And they are worked together this summer on a film called The King, for Netflix, written and directed by David Michôd with Joel Edgerton, which will premier...

Intro for October 1, 2018

Dear Gossips,  How did this happen? Another season of Insecure is behind us. And I feel like this season went by quicker than the previous ones? We’ll talk about it more tomorrow, gives you a chance to watch if you haven’t already so all I’ll say now is…  OMG Andrew with his hair down.  We ...