What Else for January 31, 2019

There was no Show Your Work this week because we were snowed out on Monday. This is not an exaggeration. It was snowing so hard it would have been dangerous for Duana and me to get together. We’ll be back next week with a brand new episode. And here’s the brand new episode for What’s Your Drama as S...

Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible – Fallout recognized at the Lumiere Awards

As proof that are more award shows than you could ever possibly know of or care about, Tom Cruise made an appearance at the Lumiere Awards this week. Isn’t that a French award show, you ask, like the Golden Globes to the French Oscar, the César? No, that’s the Lumières Award. The Lumiere Award is fo...

Playing Photo Assumption with new pictures of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in a meeting together

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were papped on Wednesday at a meeting for three hours in an office building with an identified man. According to The Blast, it was a “heated discussion” which is basically Photo Assumption. I’ve seen the pictures, I just can’t buy them. And while it certainly isn’t a par...

Zoë Kravitz stars in Super Bowl ad for Michelob Ultra Pure Gold

The Super Bowl is happening soon. It’s supposed to be a football game but, obviously, it’s also become a three hour competition between companies trying to put out the best ads featuring horses, dogs, other animals, and, of course, celebrities. Several Super Bowl ads featuring celebrities have alrea...

Celebrity Social Media, January 31, 2019

There’s a lot to process in this photo.          View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Willis (@kidcudi) on Jan 30, 2019 at 11:30pm PST Speaking at Sundance about a new ...

Meghan Markle's first high bun at the ACU

Meghan Markle stepped out today, for the second day in a row, for a meeting with the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). She’s attended an ACU meeting before but this is her first appearance since it was formally announced that the ACU is one of her four royal patronages.  Today T...

Ben Affleck is officially done as Batman

Once upon a time, Ben Affleck was going to make a Batman movie. A lot of us assumed he took the Batman gig specifically because he would get to make a Batman movie. Then, as his run of movies as the caped crusader started rolling out and dividing audiences and each movie got worse than the last, he ...

Lana Condor filming in Vancouver and on the hunt for ramen

Lana Condor was in Vancouver yesterday, per her tweet searching for the best takeout ramen. She then shared a pic of said ramen, right before live-tweeting the new episode of Deadly Class.  Does anyone have any good recs for ramen TAKEOUT in Vancouver? — Lana Condor (@lanacondor) January 30,...

Justin Timberlake wants attention in birthday video on Instagram

And it’s the most Justin Timberlake birthday video. Exactly what you would expect from him on his birthday. Which is today. He’s 38 and he’s performing in New York tonight so he and Jessica Biel went out last night instead to celebrate.          View this post on I...

Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger take their engagement tour to London

Chris Pratt has been in London this week on the Lego Movie 2 press tour. Katherine Schwarzenegger is with him. Like an engagement tour. Not officially, obviously, but it’s not uncommon now, for celebrities to go unofficially on tour after they get engaged. Remember Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes got en...

Intro for January 31, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Oh, so have you heard? The Masked Singer, the crazy ass show I’m obsessed with, is the highest rated new show this season and Fox’s highest rated non-scripted debut in seven years. So of course it’s been renewed for a second season. Now that people know how it works, and how popula...

What Else for January 30, 2019

I saw this yesterday – Ashton Kutcher giving out his phone number because he craved more “personal connection”. As IF. That was my first thought. As IF he would. And… well… it doesn’t seem like that was his actual motivation. Some thing that this might have been a scam. A data extraction. And if it’...

Anne Hathaway shows her work in PEOPLE Magazine interview while promoting Serenity

Anne Hathaway covers the new issue of PEOPLE as part of her promotion for Serenity which Sarah reviewed earlier this week and in a f-cked up way, it might actually be kind of her favourite movie of year? That might be hyperbole but she didn’t hate it, not at all. And the experience of seeing it was ...

Naomi Campbell and Liam Payne reportedly had date night in London

A few weeks ago, Naomi Campbell and Liam Payne left some comments on each other’s Instagram pages and they were interpreted by some to be flirty. The two are friends. They have friends in common. So if that was it, we probably wouldn’t be talking about it today. We’re talking about it today because ...

Celebrity Social Media, January 30, 2019

Instagram has finally figured out how much I love Jason Statham and Beyoncé and blessed me with this clip on the explore page. What took so long? And why isn’t this scene nominated for an Academy Award every year?         View this post on Instagram    ...

Rihanna celebrates three year anniversary of her best album, ANTI

Rihanna’s album ANTI, the best album of her career, was released three years ago. Over the last few weeks, people on social media have been celebrating the milestone, as a response to the impatience over R9, her next album, which she teased would be out at some point this year. We are on Rihanna tim...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle work separately on the same day in London

Prince Harry is the Commonwealth Youth Ambassador and joined a roundtable discussion with young people from around the Commonwealth to continue discussion on strategies and targets for the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2020, encouraging the youth to stay focused on their commitmen...

Michelle Pfeiffer teases her Maleficent 2 character on Instagram

Maleficent came out in 2014. That’s so long ago! Now that we live in a nightmare where every year feels like a decade, five years ago is a lifetime. Maleficent 2 comes out in 2020, making six whole ass years between movies. There are children who will go see Maleficent 2 who were not alive when Male...

Celine Dion addresses rumours surrounding relationship with Pepe Munoz

Celine Dion was interviewed by Dan Wootton for the Sun this week, likely in support of her concert in Hyde Park this summer, and she addressed all those rumours about her and Pepe Munoz. Can we all take a deep breath and roll our eyes together because… well…  Let’s just get to her response first,...

Jussie Smollett: The reality of living as a gay person of colour

Trigger warning: assault, lynching, gay bashing I feel blocked as I’m trying to write this article. There are so many emotions that well up as I try to share my feelings about the attack on Jussie Smollett yesterday. My heart is heavy. I’m incensed, depressed, upset, and frustrated all at the sam...

Intro for January 30, 2019

Dear Gossips, On New Year’s Day a few weeks ago, my ma was hospitalised with pneumonia. She was there for almost two weeks and in that time, dad and I were rotating shifts to visit her. One day, after picking up food, just before heading downtown to see her, dad fell on the sidewalk and busted up...

What Else for January 29, 2019

I feel like I’m falling behind on everything these days. I’m behind on TV shows. I’m behind on reading. And I’m definitely behind on Vegas residencies. The one I desperately want to get to is Celine Dion’s before it’s over this summer. I’ve never seen Mimi in Vegas. That needs to happen. Everyone sa...

Serenity starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway movie review with spoilers

Oh boy, is this one of the craziest movies I’ve seen in recent memory. I mean, we’re talking Book of Henry levels of insane. There will be spoilers, because to fully appreciate how bugf-ck bonkers Serenity is, you have to know the twist. It is almost indescribable, but I am going to try because Sere...

Monét X Change and Monique Heart were the stars of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 4 design challenge

The latest episode of All Stars 4 was certainly something. The challenge was a HUGE step up from previous weeks. Not only did the queens have to come up with a themed club night, decide on décor, music, entertainment, and a signature cocktail, they also had to build the sets themselves! To be honest...

Celebrity Social Media, January 29, 2019

I haven’t seen Bohemian Rhapsody because it doesn’t appeal to me, but I don’t keep up with award show films in general (I’m too low brow). What I might start doing is watching scenes from prestige films out of context, like this one posted to Twitter. It is (unintentionally) hilarious and it makes t...

Michael B Jordan and Kiki Layne reportedly "super flirty" at Sundance

I can’t think of anyone who would be against this, not even Kathleen. And the only reason she’d be against it is because she believes it can happen between her and Michael B Jordan. Until MBJ decides to fall in love with Kathleen, however, he’s spending his time with other people. And when he’s spen...

Margot Robbie is back as Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey trailer

The only good things to come of Suicide Squad is Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Viola Davis as Amanda Waller. We can—and probably will—pretend like the rest of that mess never happened, but Harley Quinn and Amanda Waller can stick around for the DC Extended Universe Mark II. There’s no word yet o...

Hype builds for Annette Bening in The Report during the Sundance Film Festival

Annette Bening has not yet won an Oscar. Sure, she’s been nominated four times, but that statue has yet to be engraved with her name. To many, it’s most definitely “too early” to tell, but for a few hours yesterday, Annette’s latest film The Report was the biggest sale at Sundance, going to Amazon f...

Angelina Jolie to star in Taylor Sheridan's Those Who Wish Me Dead

Deadline reported yesterday that Angelina Jolie is “finalising a deal to star” in Those Who Wish Me Dead, Taylor Sheridan’s next film. He also wrote the screenplay adapted from Michael Koryta’s novel. This is newsworthy not just because it’s Angelina but the combination of her fame and this particul...

January 29, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Kelly! Congratulations on your early Oscar with love from Ciaran who requested Steve Carell for you and told me not to ask. Girl, I don’t even want to know but people are thirsting for him now so, if that’s you, you’re not alone. 

Intro for January 29, 2019

Dear Gossips,  You know what movie came out 20 years ago today?  She’s All That. Laney Boggs and Zack Siler topped the box office on its first weekend, went on to make over $100 million, and became a 90s teen classic. Like so much of pop culture from the era, it doesn’t hold up all that well. ...

What Else for January 28, 2019

Ha! You thought that was it. OK, fine. I thought that was it too. We all did. Didn’t we all think that Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas were finished getting married? Wrong. They are still getting married! There was yet another wedding this weekend. Do you think Joe and Sophie Turner are going to get ...

Drag queens Shangela and Willam attend the SAG Awards

I’m not mad, I just want to talk to whoever was in charge of Shangela’s look at the SAG Awards yesterday. Although it wasn’t a big night for A Star is Born, it was a big night for Shangela and Willam, two of my favourite drag queens who walked the red carpet. The two joined the ASIB team at the SAG ...

Margot Robbie at the 2019 SAGs in gold and white Chanel

Margot Robbie did not present at the SAGs since, apparently, the Academy is insisting on exclusivity for their show. But she was on hand as a nominee for Best Supporting Actress, and she showed up in a sunny golden Chanel dress that feels like a warmup for the main event at the Oscars. Lainey thinks...

Celebrity Social Media, January 28, 2019

This is my Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, Grammys and MET Gala all rolled into one. Do you recognize the expression on John Mayer’s face? It’s the same one he used to have when he went out in public with Jessica Simpson - a mix of shame and gratification.           ...

Hugh Grant and Timothee Chalamet seated together at the SAG Awards

At one point during the broadcast last night, the camera cut away to Hugh Grant and Timothee Chalamet, sitting next to each other, and I immediately needed more. I needed a microphone at that table recording the conversation. Was there even a conversation?  Hugh Grant is famously awkward. Duana l...

Black Panther wins Best Ensemble SAG Award

All award season, no one has really expected Black Panther to win. Just being nominated IS the win, when the trophy club is so stacked against superhero movies. But the SAGs broke rank and actually gave Black Panther a trophy, awarding the cast Best Ensemble, the equivalent of Best Picture. This is ...

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper attend SAG Awards and perform Shallow in Vegas

Bradley Cooper was at Lady Gaga’s show in Las Vegas on Saturday night. She invited him on stage to sing “Shallow” with her. Naturally it went viral. If you haven’t seen it yet, here are two angles. I prefer the second angle because…  Well…  We all know Gaga is extra. But the kneeling at his fe...

Emily Blunt's surprising Supporting Actress SAG win for A Quiet Place

This was a surprise. Regina King was one of the biggest snubs when the Screen Actors Guild announced their nominations a few weeks ago and, since she was contending, most people thought it would go to Amy Adams. Instead it was Emily Blunt who ended up winning the SAG for Supporting Actress. She look...

Rami Malek did not mention Bryan Singer during SAGs acceptance speech

Not like we expected him to, but let’s never forget that Bohemian Rhapsody did not direct itself, and though Bryan Singer is nowhere to be found this award season, he benefits from all the trophies being thrown at his movie. He remains empowered because he makes people money and now, wins people awa...

Emma Stone attends the SAG Awards with boyfriend Dave McCary

There are many ways to go “official” now. It used to be just “red carpet official”. “Instagram official” is now a thing. And there are different levels of “Instagram official” – you can go “official” on an Instagram story but when it shows up on your feed, well, then it’s locked.  What do you cal...

Sandra Oh's emotional win at the 2019 SAG Awards

They say the mark of a good actor is that they’re able to continually surprise you. It’s not surprising that Sandra Oh won the SAG award last night, as she has swept every award this year, and I’m sure there are people who want to retroactively go back and award her the Emmy last year, too.  It’s...

Chris Pine in a cream tuxedo and velvet slippers at the SAG Awards

Chris Pine is not my Best Chris—that would be Hemsworth—but maybe he’s yours. He is enough people’s Best Chris that I accept him as A Best Chris. Maybe not THE Best Chris, but definitely A Best Chris. He made a case for being THE Best Chris by showing up to the SAG Awards in a cream tuxedo and velve...

Mahershala Ali makes history with SAG win for Green Book

Mahershala Ali made history at the SAG Awards last night. He became the only actor to win the Best Supporting Award twice in the show’s 25-year history. At this point, you can already put Mahershala’s name down on your Oscar ballot for your office pool. He’s the safest bet in a season full of tight ...

Momentum continues for Crazy Rich Asians cast following SAGs loss

Crazy Rich Asians was not nominated for Oscar last week so the SAGs was the last awards season stop for the cast, at least until the sequel comes out. Which won’t be for a while since director Jon M Chu is working with Lin-Manual Miranda on the film adaptation of In the Heights and that doesn’t go i...

Vanessa Hudgens was so fantastic as Maureen in Rent: Live

Here’s what Kathleen and I decided, after we wiped our tears, yelled at each other, and squeezed hands with all of our new virtual bffs on the LiveBlog: there was the show we were supposed to see…and the show we actually saw. And she wrote about the former, and I’m writing about… well, this.  Whi...

Rent: Live wasn't the live production we were promised

Expectations were high. At least, *my* expectations for Rent: Live on Fox were almost as high as my inevitably maniacal range of emotions. Hysterics were expected. This is a groundbreaking musical about young people taken too soon by a senseless disease. It’s about the magic that can happen when you...

Double-nominee Alison Brie at the 2019 SAGs

Alison Brie was, once again, a double-nominee for her role on GLOW. GLOW is set in the 1980s. Ever since she started getting nominated for GLOW, she has really embraced the Eighties glam of GLOW, and regularly wears dresses that are sort of tacky in that over-the-top 80s way (see also: last year’s l...

Megan Mullaly did her best as SAGs host

It’s not like she was given a lot to work with. As host of the 25th SAG Awards—the silver anniversary, as SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris pointed out—Mullaly should have been working with top-tier material, to make SAG’s biggest night shine extra bright on their milestone. And it’s not like M...

Intro for January 28, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Busy night last night with the SAG Awards and Rent: Live and Sundance happening at the same time. So we’re starting with some SAG content with me and Sarah, then switching over to Rent for a couple of posts from Duana and Kathleen, then going back to the SAGs, concurrent with Sunda...

Rent Live Blog January 27, 2019

Dear Gossips, And musical theatre nerds! Tonight is Rent: Live! Duana and Kathleen texted me before Christmas with a request: We want to live blog the broadcast.  They each claim to love Rent more than the other.  They've been looking foward to this night for a long long time and in that time the...

What Else for January 25, 2019

PROGRAMMING REMINDER: Duana and Kathleen are liveblogging Rent: Live on Sunday night right here on the main page at 745pm ET. Join them for the chat while you nerd out over the broadcast!  On this week’s episode of What’s Your Drama, Sasha and I talk about threesomes and then we talk about embarr...

Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova's UNHhhh is the best show on the internet

The two best queens are back with a brand-new season of UNHhhhh, the hit show where Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova talk about whatever they want, because it’s their show and not yours. If you haven’t heard of UNHhhh, your life up until this point has been objectively worse for it. UNHhhh has...

Season 5 of Broad City kicks off with an excellent first episode

I am so obsessed with Comedy Central’s Broad City that I have alerts on my phone for when new episodes air. If you haven’t seen the show, I’d highly recommend it. Broad City is about two women, Ilana (Ilana Glazer) and Abbi (Abbi Jacobsen), living in New York in their twenties, trying to live their ...

Celebrity Social Media, January 25, 2019

Last night I messaged Lainey about Mo’Nique’s newest interview in Vulture, which is a must read. The interviewer, Malcolm-Aimé Musoni asks all the right questions, and she doesn’t skimp on her answers. Even if you don’t agree with her tactics, Mo’Nique has never had widespread support and we have to...

Selena Gomez opens up about mental health struggles in new song, "Anxiety", with Julia Michaels

On September 23, 2018, Selena Gomez announced that she was taking a break from social media. In her Instagram post, she wrote, “As much as I am grateful for the voice that social media gives each of us, I am equally grateful to be able to step back and live my life present to the moment I have been ...

Only two of the five Oscar-nominated songs will reportedly be performed live

The Oscar nominations happened on Tuesday and the Academy is now moving forward, after several weeks of controversy over hosting and presenter drama, trying to turn the story around as we get closer to the big show. Now another headline that might be problematic – Variety is reporting that “only two...

The Season 11 Ruveal was a trainwreck

At noon yesterday, VH1 announced the new lineup of queens for the upcoming season of RuPaul’s Drag Race via YouTube livestream. If you haven’t watched it, do yourself a favour and don’t because that Season 11 Ruveal was a trainwreck. Here’s everything that went wrong: 1.    It was live. Previous ...

Shia LaBeouf and FKA twigs arrive in Park City for Sundance

As Sarah wrote in her Sundance preview post the other day, Shia LaBeouf’s Honey Boy (he wrote the script based on his relationship with his father) is one of the most anticipated films of the festival, probably on curiosity. It is, after all, Shia LaBeouf. Ahead of tonight’s world premiere, Shia arr...

Sebastian Stan promotes Destroyer in cozy couture

Sebastian Stan has been doing a lot of promotion for Destroyer. He has maybe fifteen minutes in the whole movie, but based on the amount of promotion he’s done, you’d think he was co-leads with Nicole Kidman. I get it—he’s Marvel famous (like internet famous but people only know you from Marvel movi...

Sarah Ramos reveals photos of Angelina Jolie selling dog treats at the park with her kids

I wonder if this will go viral today… Thanks to those of you who sent this over after seeing it on actress Sarah Ramos’s Instagram. As Sarah explains on her Instastory, back in November, she took her dog to the dog park. And when she was there, she saw some kids with their mom selling organic dog...

Intro for January 25, 2019

Dear Gossips,  PROGRAMMING NOTE – PLEASE READ:  Rent: Live is happening on Sunday. Duana and Kathleen will be LIVEBLOGGING Rent right here, at LaineyGossip, throughout the show. Old school! The liveblog widget will appear on the main page of the site. So heads up, musical theatre nerds – join ...

What Else for January 24, 2019

Pretty much exactly a year ago, Justin Timberlake, during an interview to promote his new album, something something about plaid, that no one f-cking cared about, said that doing a Las Vegas residency was like “planning your retirement”. Then Lady Gaga announced a Vegas residency a few months later,...

Prince William speaks at the Davos World Economic Forum about mental health

Prince William spoke at the Davos World Economic Forum yesterday. This is the annual event with, perhaps, the most exclusive and competitive badge hierarchy. Like even if you have the money, it might not get you the badge you want. Badges represent levels of access. The hologram badge is the one tha...

Breaking down effortless Vanity Fair 25th Anniversary Hollywood issue

As Lainey mentioned earlier, we’ll be unpacking more of our thoughts about the 25th anniversary of the Vanity Fair Hollywood issue as we get through all the features. The cover is GREAT. You know what strikes me most? It’s effortless. It looks so relaxed, so EASY. No one is posed weird. There is no ...

Matthew McConaughey appears to be playing himself in The Beach Bum trailer

Harmony Korine, who is the filmmaking equivalent to Florida, is finally following up his last feature, 2012’s Spring Breakers, with The Beach Bum, which actually looks like a real movie? At least, it looks about as straight forward as anything Korine has made. This is the guy, after all, who made Tr...

Celebrity Social Media, January 24, 2019

Be right back, my eyes rolled out of my head.         View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by iansomerhalder (@iansomerhalder) on Jan 24, 2019 at 12:08am PST You think the...

Charlize Theron in LA without Brad Pitt

Charlize Theron was also photographed yesterday in LA after lunch but not with Brad Pitt. Because, disappointingly, as we all now know, they’re not dating, no matter how hard the gossip ecosystem tried to make it so.  So until we do actually have something legit to talk about, let’s focus instead...

Brad Pitt seen out in LA as Charlize Theron relationship rumours continue to change

As I’ve been saying, it’s the story we all desperately want to be true, but never seemed to have a chance at being true from the start, because of the goddamn source – the Sun. Which is frustrating. I know I’m repeating myself but when the Sun says that they were “all over each other” at the Chateau...

Celine Dion gets emotional at the Valentino show during Paris Fashion Week

Celine Dion was at two shows yesterday for Paris Haute Couture Week – RVDK Ronald Van Der Kemp and Valentino. Pepe was with her and, of course, she gave us a lot of good face. Let us never take this for granted.  At Valentino, Celine sat next to Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti during the presen...

Playing Hollywood Sliding Doors with Beyoncé

Rolling Stone published an interview with Michael Caine yesterday that hasn’t yet been widely covered, probably because social media isn’t all that interested in Michael Caine (and many people might not care for his political and social views) but there is an anecdote in there that might pick up som...

Vanity Fair releases the 25th Hollywood Issue

This has been an issue fraught with drama in the past. And it’s not hard to see why as Vanity Fair celebrates the 25th anniversary of its annual Hollywood Issue, released always in the run-up to the Oscars, featuring actors who are often in play during award season; a look-back at its previous cover...

Intro for January 24, 2019

Dear Gossips,  At this point it’s obvious: the Bee on The Masked Singer is totally Gladys Knight. And this is what I meant a couple of weeks ago when I said I was starting to get anxiety about her being on the show because she’s clearly the class of the competition and every time she sings, you h...

What Else for January 23, 2019

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. You know how I feel about gender reveal… events. And this, well, this just happened. It’s a gender reveal abomination of a meal. They’re going to start doing this with, like, egg rolls next. Or bbq pork buns. Anything at dimsum that can be wrapped. And when that happens I will g...

Looking forward to Elizabeth Banks's Charlie's Angels reboot

I don’t even have to ask Duana and I know that she’d agree with me when I say that I can’t wait to talk about Elizabeth Banks on Show Your Work – and Duana is nothing if not contrarian. But there’s nothing she could be contrary about here. Light promotion has already started on The Lego Movie 2 and ...

Sundance Preview 2019: 10 to Watch

Sundance is this week, which is impossible because New Year’s was just like, yesterday. January is going so fast! (After the ninety-year slog of 2018, this is a blessing.) For once, sparing everyone, Oscar nominations were before the festival, so we’ve dealt with that, and now we can move onto focus...

Celebrity Social Media, January 23, 2019

David Beckham joined Victoria in New York for the launch of her Reebok line. David is closely tied with Adidas (which owns Reebok) and I would think this is a strategic move on their part to each have their own brand collaborations, but under the same umbrella. As the UK tabloids insist that David i...

Bryan Singer accused of sexual abuse in exposé released in The Atlantic

In the fall of 2017, when the double-barrel Harvey Weinstein exposés hit, the first reaction was, FINALLY. And as the enormity of what was happening sank in, that a powerful, abusive bully, protected for decades by an industry built on a system of exploitation and silence, was finally experiencing a...

Show Your Work: What Would Samuel L Jackson Do At Fyre Fest?

I know that sounds like something out of a drug-induced dream, but honestly, isn’t that what Fyre Fest was?  Like everyone else, we gorged ourselves on the Netflix documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened and whether you watched this one or the competing doc on Hulu, you’ve been f...

TMZ reports that Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin's wedding has been postponed again

Is it weird to be calling them the Biebers? They are the Biebers now, Justin and Hailey.  A couple of weeks ago, it was reported that JB and Hailey had sent out save the date wedding notices for February 28 to family and friends. It’s the day before his 25th birthday, so a double celebration. Dou...

Kristen Stewart and Tessa Thompson at Chanel show during Paris Fashion Week

The Chanel Haute Couture show happened yesterday in Paris. Kristen Stewart, one of the brand’s ambassadors, was there and for the first time in a long time, I’m not super excited about her in the clothes. And it’s not the clothes themselves – I quite like this combination – but the fit of them on he...

Celine Dion is back at Paris Fashion Week and is bonkers

Celine Dion at Paris Fashion Week has become one of my lifetime joys. And yours too, right? It started in 2016, the summer she started working with Law Roach. She returned the next summer and posed as often as possible, stunted as often as possible, and it gave us what we needed to carry on. Since t...

Intro for January 23, 2019

Dear Gossips,  As noted yesterday in this space, posted before the Oscar nominations were announced, history was possible and we saw it happen for several nominees including Yalitza Aparicio, the star and the heart of Roma, representing one of the film’s 10 nominations. I heard from a few of you ...

What Else for January 22, 2019

Well this a headline. And in my head I’m reading it like Bill Hader’s Stefon. This story has everything: an artist, an athlete, a porn star, a threesome, and a baby. How they’re all connected is the issue. Apparently the baby isn’t connected to the athlete. But I’m not sure if the other parts still ...

Sex Education is not a pioneer for gay representation as originally thought

I binged the rest of Sex Education this weekend. It’s an amazing show. Sex Education manages to strike the incredibly fine balance between comedy and intrigue. It’s a balance that makes the show feel lighthearted, but still enticing, enough to keep clicking the “Next Episode” button. When I first he...

Multiple news outlets try to make Charlize Theron and Brad Pitt dating rumours true

As I mentioned yesterday, the Brad Pitt-Charlize Theron dating story originated from a pretty sketchy source – the Sun in the UK. But everyone wants it to be true, so much so that of course other outlets are trying to make the story true. My favourite is E!’s attempt and their headline: “Here’s Why ...

Celebrity Social Media, January 22, 2019

This commercial has a better plotline than both Sex and the City movies.          View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by SJP (@sarahjessicaparker) on Jan 22, 2019 at 6:30am PST ...

Melissa McCarthy's surprising and deserved Oscar nomination for Can You Ever Forgive Me

Maybe the title above isn’t fair. Melissa McCarthy got an Oscar Best Actress nomination for playing Lee Israel, an irascible crank in her 50s who pulled off an incredible scam, and Can You Ever Forgive Me is completely worth your time. The nomination is completely deserved and also kind of surprisin...

Barry Jenkins and Regina King receive Oscar nominations for If Beale Street Could Talk

All of us who write on this site have written repeatedly about how much we love If Beale Street Could Talk. It’s so … much. This is a film that will hold up, there will never be a time, in 10 years, 20 years, 100 years, when it won’t be relevant, when it won’t be seen as a masterpiece from the story...

A Star Is Born earns 8 Oscar nominations

There are always snubs on Oscar nomination day. Some snubs are bigger than others. Because they’re so unexpected. This year’s #1 Oscar snub is Bradley Cooper for Best Director. And yet, it was not a bad morning for A Star is Born. ASIB earned 8 nominations, including Best Picture, tied with Vice for...

Black Panther earns seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture

Black Panther was the biggest movie of 2018. Oh sure, Avengers: Infinity War made more money, but Black Panther was right behind as the #2 moneymaker of the year, and there is no denying that it was THE cultural film moment of 2018. No movie made a bigger impact last year than Black Panther. And sti...

The Academy got most Oscar Nominations right

With one big exception, which Duana will be posting about later, this morning’s Oscar nominations are almost entirely acceptable. 2018 was a GREAT year for film, so for sure one of your faves didn’t get nominated. Eighth Grade got shut out, for instance. And Won’t You Be My Neighbor? and Three Ident...

Chris Pine on GMA and Patty Jenkins on bringing him back in Wonder Woman 1984

We kicked off the site yesterday with photos of Chris Pine heading to New York for promotional appearances for I Am the Night. Here he is yesterday on Good Morning America. He decided on an oatmeal clingy-ish sweater tucked into brown pants. The sweater is textured but it reads more casual, to me at...

Intro for January 22, 2019

Dear Gossips,  It’s Oscar nomination day. By the time you read this we will know whether or not Black Panther will make history as the first comic superhero movie to be nominated for Best Picture. We’ll find out whether or not Roma will be the first Netflix film nominated for Best Picture. Which ...

What Else for January 21, 2019

Dame Helen Mirren was nominated for a Razzie. It’s for the movie Winchester. Didn’t see. Don’t think anyone saw it? Apparently enough people saw it to rate her performance. It was indeed poorly reviewed. And maybe that’s why she’s on this list. Because you expect someone like, say, Adam Sandler to b...

I’m Sorry I Ever Doubted Naomi Smalls

Even if you don’t watch RuPaul’s Drag Race, you HAVE to watch this clip.  I’ve been meaning to write a “why is everyone sleeping on Naomi Smalls?” post for a while, but I was waiting for the right time. After last week, when I re-evaluated the standings, I said that Naomi was out of her league in...

Why LaLaPaRUza Was a Genius Decision

Canada, I am GOOPED! The latest episode of All Stars 4 was INTENSE, and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. If Manila had not been immune this episode, I might have had a heart attack.  I liked the episode for three reasons.  1.    Gagworthy lip syncs  2.    RuPaul’s reactions. I’m no...

Celebrity Social Media, January 21, 2019

Madonna’s butt has made an appearance on Instagram! I can’t really see if it’s different from this short clip though.          View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Madonna (@mad...

Brad Pitt & Charlize Theron?

Look. I’m excited about this too. Or the idea of it. I’ve been trying to call this since July of 2017 when Charlize Theron was on Howard Stern talking about dating and, as I noted then, it’s a perfect pairing considering who they are and the places they occupy in Hollywood. For Brad Pitt, almost any...

Is Noah Centineo Cancelled?

In the second half of 2018, we talked a lot about Noah Centineo on LaineyGossip, and for good reason. As Kathleen has pointed out on numerous occasions, he is a thirst trap master. His oh-so-perfectly messy hair and cheeky smile are enchanting, and we all wish we were Lara Jean Covey, I know. But Te...

Emma Stone and Dave McCary’s first public appearance

Let’s first go back to the summer, when Emma Stone and Justin Theroux were in France, both Louis Vuitton ambassadors promoting the brand. They hung out with friends in Antibes. They extended their holiday, with friends, for a couple of weeks. So it was rumoured that they were a thing. Even though th...

Chris Pine and Annabelle Wallis are still together

It is currently somewhere between minus 19 or minus 25 degrees Celsius in Toronto depending on what part of the city you’re in. Basically it’s cold AS F-CK. A lot of people couldn’t get to work because their cars won’t start. Some of the streetcars are frozen on the tracks. My dogs are too precious ...

Intro for January 21, 2019

Dear Gossips, Today is Martin Luther King Jr Day and it’s a perfect day to celebrate the achievement of Kayla Grey. A year ago today, right at midnight, as she signed off from TSN’s SportsCentre, Kayla Grey became the first black woman to anchor a national sports show in Canada. Kayla is, as Shon...

What Else for January 18, 2018

I know 2018 is long gone but there’s one piece of business that needs our attention: Dlisted Hot Slut of 2018 is down to the final three and … I’m torn. I’m torn between Mary Halsey, aka Missy Elliott’s “funky white sister” and Super Bitch because, first of all those pink boots, and second the moves...

George Clooney’s four hour dinner

As you know, the Academy’s in a bit of skirmish over Oscar presenters, with the Screen Actors Guild calling them out earlier this week about supposedly giving the stars a “them or us” ultimatum at award shows. I’m guessing the Academy would probably love to secure George Clooney as a presenter. They...

Shyamalan’s homegrown superheroes: Glass brings it all together

A direct sequel to Split and a shared-universe continuation of Unbreakable, Glass is the culmination of M. Night Shyamalan’s home-grown superhero universe within the Eastrail 177 trilogy. It unites strong-man David Dunn (Bruce Willis), evil mastermind Elijah Price/Mr. Glass (Samuel L. Jackson), and ...

Celebrity Social Media, January 18, 2019

I hate to admit this, but I’m still curious about Madonna’s butt. What was that? A bad angle? An awkward shadow? An enhancement? Am I bad feminist for caring about Madonna’s butt, or is Madonna someone who welcomes it? We might not see a new full body shot of her until the Met Gala (which she typica...

John Wick: Chapter 3 trailer released and it's badass

The first trailer for John Wick: Chapter 3 is here (I refuse to acknowledge the subtitle “Parabellum” because it remains incredibly stupid). As much as I need my entertainment to be gentle and soft right now, I do consider John Wick to be part of my self-care routine. These movies are just awesome, ...

Taylor Swift records in NYC and featured in Bluebird Café anniversary doc

Taylor Swift was seen at Electric Lady Studios in New York yesterday. Maybe gives us some insight about her schedule and plans. Taylor was working on Cats near the end of 2018. Production continues in London. It’s a large ensemble so she’s obviously not required to be there the whole time. She was i...

GQ profiles John Mayer's style

If you could take a guided tour through any celebrity’s closet, who would it be? (Besides Beyoncé, because one day her costumes will be hanging in a museum so we aren’t allowed to wander around in there.) Two come to mind for me: Rihanna and Solange, because both have an inherent sense of style, whi...

Rihanna to partner with LVMH to launch own fashion house

More than any other celebrity, Rihanna has shown that she can create trends, drive taste, shape fashion, and define and redefine style – through a wide range of products that have range within the range. For example, where clothing is concerned, Rihanna covers party clothes, cocktail, athleisure, an...

7 Rings: Ari’s Guide to Surviving Breakups

So, you’ve just come out of a messy breakup and you’re wondering how you’re going to survive afterward. Don’t worry! Ariana Grande is here to help you make it through. If you’ve been paying attention, Ariana has been carefully crafting a foolproof, step-by-step, get-over-your-breakup guide in the fo...

Intro for January 18, 2019

Dear Gossips,  The Academy has not commented on the host situation for the Oscars but yesterday they did confirm two hosts for Oscar nominations announcement day:  Who's excited for #OscarNoms? Join @KumailN and @TraceeEllisRoss on Tuesday at 5:20 am PST. https://t.co/cZbmfjsA1S pic.twitte...

What Else for January 17, 2019

We’re back! With a new name! The Sasha Answers podcast is now What’s Your Drama? We still get into the family sh-t and the boy sh-t and the girl sh-t though. And we still sh-t talk each other. We also talk about Netflix’s You and talk about whether or not we need to care about Joe/Penn Badgeley. Tha...

The Cardi Brand™

Yesterday, Cardi B posted a video about how she was driving around with her pants down because they were too tight. The video is hilarious, in all its expletive filled, tell-it-like-it-is glory that has come to define Cardi herself – NSFW language if you haven’t seen it already:     ...

Shyamalan’s homegrown superheroes: The Split comeback

Yesterday, we looked back at M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable, the film that was supposed to spawn a sequel but didn’t because no one liked it when it came out. But over time, even as Shyamalan’s reputation as a filmmaker nose-dived, Unbreakable rose in estimation and cult status, until finally he w...

What Gillette's new ad means to me

I wonder if Gillette anticipated the response their new campaign would receive when they released their new campaign on Sunday – both the support and the backlash. The company, after thirty years of relying on a certain type of masculinity to sell its product, has now pivoted to a modified version o...

Celebrity Social Media, January 17, 2019

Last night Lainey sent me this post by Devany Amber Wolfe, whose tarot cards were sold by Goop shop (you can find her product here); Devany says she was continually f-cked over in the process. If Goop acknowledges this (which I doubt), the blame will fall on “haters” because as Goop has shown (over ...

Miley rocks in tribute

Miley Cyrus performed twice at the Chris Cornell tribute concert last night. I know we all have some Feelings about Miley, in particular her take-on-taking-off of cultures, exploitatively and arbitrarily. So, being that there are so many conflicted feelings about Miley, I posit that often her actual...

Bradley Cooper in a bow tie

The last time Bradley Cooper wore a bow tie it was at the Golden Globes, but with a white suit and, well, it wasn’t his best look. Here he is in Switzerland this week at a watch launch. Bow tie with dark suit, much better. Scruff still in place and hair mussed, also much better. The scruff and the h...

Chris Pine at Chris Cornell tribute concert without Annabelle Wallis

Chris Pine was also at the Chris Cornell tribute concert last night where Brad Pitt introduced one of the performances. No sign of Annabelle Wallis – they’ve been dating nearly a year now – although they were together at a party in London back in December in matching outfits and there’s been no reas...

Ghostbusters III coming and hopefully it won't represent progress lost

The 2016 Ghostbusters is one of the most divisive movies of recent years. From the moment it was announced, it was a magnet for the worst behavior on the internet, and it was the target of ratings-tanking and downvote campaigns—the kind of toxic fan behavior we’re used to seeing around comic book mo...

Brad Pitt introduces Chris Cornell's daughter at tribute concert

Brad Pitt was at the Chris Cornell tribute concert last night in LA. He introduced Toni Cornell, Chris’s daughter, who performed “Redemption Song” with Ziggy Marley. Brad and Chris were close and since his death, Brad has been seen spending time with Toni and her brother Christopher Nicholas.  ...

January 17, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

“Happy Birthday, WBB! You bring so much joy to my life. To bring a little joy to you on your day, here are Jessie Ware and Jessie J. Love you the most. Xo Huff”

Intro for January 17, 2019

Dear Gossips, By now, probably, you’ve heard of or participated in the #10YearChallenge. And by now you may have heard of or participated in an angsty debate about how the #10YearChallenge is basically just a reason to show off how much better people look now than then. Which … I mean…isn’t that ...

What Else for January 16, 2019

I was just talking about how celebrities seem to be trying to out-consciously uncouple each other but, of course, there are exceptions. Ewan McGregor’s divorce is not a conscious uncoupling. His daughter, Clare, is here to remind of us it. (Dlisted)  This dress does fit Penelope Cruz beautifully....

Double Duchess Day: Meghan day and night

Meghan Markle visited animal charity Mayhew today, one of her four official patronages as announced last week to meet with staff, volunteers, and of course spend time with one of the animals. She bonded with one dog in particular – Minnie, a Jack Russell terrier. Here’s Minnie in the arms of royalty...

Shyamalan’s homegrown superheroes: Revisiting Unbreakable

(Ahead of the release of Glass this Friday, we are running a miniseries of posts on the Unbreakable trilogy, or the Eastrail Trilogy, by M Night Shyamalan. This is the first, on Unbreakable. Tomorrow we will follow with Split.) It’s easy to forget, because he’s become a pop culture punchline, tha...

Celebrity Social Media, January 16, 2019

Katharine McPhee is getting fitted for her wedding dress (this isn’t it) so the wedding must be soon. This is David Foster’s 5th go, and he must be an absolute pro at this point – he knows the perfect time to start serving dinner and cut the cake and where to seat family members who don’t get along....

Chris Pratt & Anna Faris: next level conscious uncoupling

Is it really a surprise that Chris Pratt is marrying Katherine Schwarzenegger? As we’ve mentioned several times since they started dating, this was inevitable. He’s not that guy, the one who’d blaze into single Hollywood with an erection and become the newest member of DiCaprio’s wolf-pack. So, yeah...

A Bieber Vogue wedding?

Justin and Hailey Bieber were married in a New York courthouse last year. A wedding hasn’t happened yet. Page Six is now reporting that they’ve set a date – February 28th – and save the date notices have been sent to friends and family.  It’s not a leap year, right? Which means that if the weddin...

Show Your Work: How Patty Jenkins made the Best Chris

As noted last week a couple of times in What Else, we wanted to take some time to process and reflect before addressing Lifetime’s Surviving R Kelly docuseries. Thanks for your emails and tweets about it. We want to be sensitive about how to contribute and add to the conversation. On this episode of...

Rihanna's lawsuit against father for Fenty trademark infringement sounds familiar

TMZ broke the news yesterday that Rihanna is suing her father, Ronald Fenty. Ronald has started an entertainment company and is allegedly leveraging Rihanna’s fame for profit, without her consent:  In a new lawsuit -- obtained by TMZ -- Rihanna claims her father, Ronald Fenty, recently started a ...

Duchesses Kate and Meghan make appearances on the same day

Today is Double Duchess Day – both Catherine Cambridge and Meghan Markle are on official duty. Princess Kate went first for a visit to The Royal Opera House where costuming was the big focus as she checked out the costume department, met with the costume designers, and watched a rehearsal for Two Pi...

January 16, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Myrna! Welcome back to work! Teresa, Heather, Samantha, Alexander, and Vivian are all supporting you on what might be a bittersweet day and we’re all hoping there’s no bitter, just sweet. Because you worked hard for your career. Because you are great at your career. Because you being awesome at work...

Intro for January 16, 2019

Dear Gossips, My ma came back from Asia recently with a gift for me, a gorgeous jade bangle. We Chinese are big on jade bangles. You often see them on babies. I was wearing a jade bangle around my fat wrist in my first baby portraits. Jade is supposed to protect babies in their early days and whe...

What Else for January 15, 2019

Is it possible to not necessarily agree with someone but, at the same time, appreciate their honesty? When Nina Agdal turned 25, she became too old for Leonardo DiCaprio. She’s now dating someone younger than she is with a lot of money and, well, she’s pretty upfront about whether or not she would b...

Tessa Thompson’s little movie

Yesterday a trailer dropped for a new Tessa Thompson movie, co-starring Lily James, called Little Woods. It looks like a miserable, slice-of-sad-life drama, with Thompson and James playing friends—family?—who have to Get Back Into The Game in order to stave off homelessness (financial ruin has been ...

Bad Boys For Life starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence started shooting and I'm not scared of it

Bad Boys 3 aka Bad Boys For Life (what else would the title be?) began shooting yesterday. Here are new shots of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence on set in Atlanta today. Bad Boys, the original, came out in 1995. This was Michael Bay’s first feature film, made for under $20 million, and a success at t...

Netflix's Sex Education is unlike most shows when it comes to gay representation and I'm into it

I am obsessed with sex. I don’t mean in a creepy way, but rather in a nerdy, intellectual-curiosity way. I constantly read articles and watch videos about the biology of sex, the dynamics of sex, consent, history of sex, and literally anything else. So, when I read about Netflix’s new show Sex Educa...

Spiderman: Far From Home trailer doesn't excite me

The teaser trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home has (finally) been released (after some wrangling with Disney about timing). I ADORE Spider-Man: Homecoming, but this teaser? It doesn’t excite me. There’s not anything in it that grabs me and makes me sit up straight. This is not necessarily a refere...

Celebrity Social Media, January 15, 2019

The Celebrity Big Brother cast is, as usual, a mess. What are the chances of Dina Lohan and Anthony Scaramucci hooking up? How does the law of attraction work with scammers – would they repel or gravitate towards each other?         View this post on Instagram ...

Princess Catherine visits King Henry’s Walk Garden spending time with kids

Catherine Cambridge visited King Henry’s Walk Garden today in Islington. She spent time with the children outside and she also made pizza with the kids inside the school. Kate is good with kids, I like how relaxed she is when she’s speaking to them – takes them seriously, doesn’t talk to them like t...

Anne Hathaway's McConaughey impression while promoting Serenity

Anne Hathaway is currently promoting Serenity, in theatres January 25, co-starring Matthew McConaughey. The film was originally supposed to be out last September. Then it got pushed to October. And now it lives in January, not usually a good time for movie releases. The industry is trying to change ...

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 4: All Predictions are Out the Window

Everybody knows that there’s going to be a twist on All Stars, but I was still gagged by the end of last week’s episode. In my last article, I presented a few possibilities on what I thought the big twist was going to be. Somehow, all my theories were right: no one was eliminated, RuPaul made the de...

Tom Cruise’s Mission: Exhausting

Mission: Impossible – Fallout is the most successful installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, which turns twenty-three years old this year, to date. (You guys, M:I is getting its master’s degree, aww! Time flies!) It also brought in over $790 million worldwide, making M:I exactly the kind o...

Bradley & Gaga’s 'Midnight Special'

Oscar nomination voting ended yesterday. Exactly a week from now we will know who’s going to the Oscars when the Academy makes their nomination announcements. Next Tuesday we’ll find out which film gets the most nominations and how many nominations Bradley Cooper will be able to claim. It’s going to...

January 15, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

For Rebecca who, after 15 years, is moving on without Lucy. As you said, you did the right thing. As you know, it was a full, well-travelled life. She had dual citizenship. She was by your side on so many of your adventures. She showed the world who she was. And…she waited until after her quinceaner...

Intro for January 15, 2019

Dear Gossips, SAG-AFTRA, the union representing actors, publicly criticised the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences yesterday, accusing them of intimidating actors into not presenting at other award shows, including the Screen Actors Guild Awards on January 27th. Read the statement here. ...

What Else for January 14, 2019

It’s happening. The Coming to America sequel is happening. So I need you to tell me how to feel. Because… I think I might be excited? Last year was the 30th anniversary of Coming to America. It came out in 1988, I watched it in the theatre. Then I watched it over and over and over again when it came...

Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse's relationship update on her birthday in London

Suki Waterhouse’s birthday is January 5 which also happens to be Bradley Cooper’s birthday; they used to date. That has nothing to do with anything in this post. I just kinda wanted to mention it and then realised it was going nowhere but now I don’t want to take it out because if I do, I’ll probabl...

Logan Paul's problematic gay jokes teach his young fans to trivialize homosexuality

Twitter erupted in outrage on Friday when on his Impaulsive Podcast, Logan Paul said that he was going to practice “Male only March” and attempt to “go gay” for one month. If you don’t know who Logan Paul is, I am envious of your blissful unawareness. Logan Paul first became famous on the now defunc...

Needing to see Connie Britton in Dirty John

We live in a time where revealing truths horrify us daily, so I’m just going to lay it on the line: Sometimes Canadians have to do some shady sh-t to watch what we need to see. And we don’t need any judgment about it, okay?  See, Handmaid’s Tale, Queen Sugar, Love Is… and Killing Eve all arrived ...

Elsie Fisher’s gloriously awkward speech at the Critics' Choice Awards

What’s my cardinal awards show rule? The one I carp about at least once every show? “If we’re watching you at a big glamorous party, look like you’re having fun.” I stand by it, too. Almost unimpeachable. Leave it to Elsie Fisher to break my rule and totally follow it at the same time.  Guys, ...

Celebrity Social Media, January 14, 2019

To the surprise of no one, Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger are engaged. We could see these two were on the fast track to marriage (which we noted here, here, and here. And here. Oh here as well. They’ve been exclusive and serious from early on and she has spent time with his son, Jack and h...

Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born scruff is coming in at the Critics's Choice AwardsScruffy Bradley Cooper supported by Julia Roberts at the Critics' Choice Awards

Roma won Best Picture and Best Director last night at the Critics’ Choice Awards but that doesn’t mean it’s the Oscar favourite. The Critics do not speak for the Oscars when it comes to Netflix. And the Oscars have a complicated relationship with Netflix. What will be interesting to see then is how ...

Regina King gives the best speech of the night at the Critics' Choice Awards

That was my poor attempt at a play on If Beale Street Could Talk, but seriously, no one talks like Regina King. In an award season that refuses to give us a break from insufferable, worse-than-Hathaway twee speeches from Lady Gaga (I like Gaga but can she DO LESS please?), we’ve been saved by Regina...

Meghan Markle reveals her due date during appearance in Birkenhead with Prince Harry

The Sussexes made their first official joint appearance of the year today in Birkenhead, unveiling a plaque at Hamilton Square to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Wilfrid Owen and visiting with community groups and local businesses. During the walkabout, Meghan Markle apparently rev...

Emily Blunt and John Krasinski win at the Critics' Choice Awards for The Quiet Place

Emily Blunt and John Krasinski arrived together to the Critics’ Choice Awards last night but sat apart – she was with the Mary Poppins Returns table and he was seated with the A Quiet Place team. And then she joined the A Quiet Place team onstage for their win in the Best Horror/Sci category, holdin...

Dissecting third teaser for Game of Thrones season 8

The first Game of Thrones season eight teaser gave us nothing. The second gave us three whole seconds. This third teaser is over ninety seconds long of atmospheric Stark scenery, and though it’s clearly not actual footage from the show, let’s dissect it as if it contains all of the answers for seaso...

Crazy Rich Asians wins Best Comedy at the Critics' Choice Awards

Lainey and I watched The Critic’s Choice Awards together over text. Sometimes she was ahead and sometimes I was, depending on bathroom breaks, dog walk breaks, etc. When Crazy Rich Asians won Best Comedy, Lainey texted me about a minute before I heard the reveal with an “Omgggggggg!!! Kathleenn!!!!!...

Glenn Close and Lady Gaga tie for Best Actress win at Critics' Choice Awards

There were two ties at the Critics’ Choice Awards last night: Amy Adams and Patricia Arquette for Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television and Glenn Close and Lady Gaga for Best Actress. The Critics also have a category for Best Actress in a Comedy – Olivia Colman won that so, t...

Issa Rae celebrates her birthday weekend at the Critics' Choice Awards

Every January, I remind you that all the best people were born in January. Issa Rae turned 34 on Saturday. On Sunday, she celebrated at the Critics’ Choice Awards.  I don’t love her black Jason Rembert dress at all – it’s one of those outfits that probably looks better in person than it photograp...

Intro for January 14, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Best presenters last night at the Critics’ Choice Awards?  Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy. Catherine should also be considered one of the night’s best dressed. That suit was magnificent.  Catherine and Eugene were there celebrating Schitt’s Creek with the entire team. They ...

What Else for January 11, 2019

This Jeff Bezos divorce is big news – because he’s the richest man in the world and also because, for me anyway, it’s because Amazon is now a major content player in Hollywood. And this is the most Hollywood story ever. Funky timelines and overlapping relationships, so much money at stake - also… di...

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 4 elimination strategies

“For the first time in Drag Race Herstory, All Star rules are suspended.” RuPaul dropped that bomb on us last week when he previewed clips of tonight’s episode. I can’t wait, especially because the drag roast is one of my favourite challenges. But what do we think the twist is going to be?  Ru ha...

Celebrity Social Media, January 11, 2019

It feels like everyone on Twitter is watching You, which is interesting because the entire series has already played on Lifetime. Soon after the series ended, it was put on Netflix and that is why it’s getting so much attention now. Basically, the series has played back-to-back, but Netflix has the ...

Troye Sivan can do better than new Lucky Strike music video

Troye Sivan’s music video for “Lucky Strike” dropped yesterday. Not to pull hipster rank on this one, but I was stanning Troye Sivan in 2012, BEFORE his music career, and BEFORE his coming out video, when he was a wee YouTuber that I had a huge crush on (and still do). Look at how little he is here!...

Lupita Nyong'o and Michael B Jordan's flirty social media squats

As Joanna just posted in her article about Emily Blunt previous to this one, there’s been a lot of Oscar campaigning happening in New York this week. Bradley Cooper’s screening A Star is Born for voters during nomination week and last night Lupita Nyong’o and Michael B Jordan were supporting Black P...

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively support Emily Blunt at screening of Mary Poppins Returns

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively hosted a special screening of Mary Poppins Returns in New York last night, fêting Emily Blunt and director Rob Marshall. The photos are sweet: lots of hugging, schmoozing, and big smiles. And they couldn’t have had better timing. See photos from tonight’s specia...

Taylor Swift's girls night with Selena Gomez and Cazzie David

During the reputation era, unlike the 1989 era, Taylor Swift wasn’t all that public about her friendships. There was very little friend time on display on her social media. Now that the reputation era is over, Taylor’s showing us a little more hashtag friendship. There was her New Year’s Eve costume...

Brooklyn Nine Nine Season 6, Episode 1 review

*SPOILERS*  Season 6 of Brooklyn Nine Nine premiered yesterday after a dramatic cancellation by Fox. It found a new home on NBC after the flood of support from both celebrities and fans on Twitter. I know this is a retroactive outrage but who makes these decisions? “This show that we produce is g...

January 11, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Tomorrow, Saturday January 12, is Kiss a Ginger Day! And it’s the 10th anniversary! Kiss a Ginger Day is an anti-bullying holiday founded by Canadian comedian and activist Derek Forgie. Derek is a redhead. And he created Kiss a Ginger Day because ginger kids were and still are getting bullied in sch...

Intro for January 11, 2019

Dear Gossips,  According to The Hollywood Reporter, the producers of the Oscars are trying to assemble the Avengers, as many of them as possible, to suit up for the show on February 24, resulting in many people online asking if “the Avengers can save the Oscars”. Is that ironic?  No superhero ...

What Else for January 10, 2019

Lady Gaga has issued a statement about R Kelly. She apologises for her poor judgement and says she will be pulling the song from iTunes and other streaming platforms. Which is probably why the song just entered the top 20 on iTunes. Because people are trying to download it before it disappears. And ...

Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone celebrate one year anniversary in Phuket, Thailand

It was just over a year ago that Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone were confirmed to be dating. Last year they spent New Year’s together in Aspen. This year then went to Phuket for a little flashback of The Beach. The Beach (film) turns 20 years old next year. Camila was just 2 years old when it ...

Marsai Martin executive producer and star of new film, Little

I’ve talked about how I feel about black-ish, right? If you’re new here, do a site search for “black-ish”. You should find reading material that will take up a couple of hours. I almost had a black-ish crisis the other night when I thought that the show would be preempted for Donald Trump’s primetim...

Celebrity Social Media, January 10, 2019

January 12 is “quitters day” – the day people are most likely to give up their New Year’s resolutions. Ellie Kemper is ahead of the curve.         View this post on Instagram                       A post sha...

Natasha Lyonne in first trailer for Netflix's Russian Doll

In 2017 we learned of a Netflix project coming from Amy Poehler, Natasha Lyonne, and Leslye Headland. It had no title, we just knew Lyonne would star as a woman named Nadia, trapped at an “inescapable party”. “What makes it so inescapable,” I wondered. “…is she lost in time and space?” It turns out,...

Did Samuel L Jackson confirm that Captain Marvel can time travel

If you’ve been visiting this site over the years, you know that I don’t know anything about superhero comic books. The only comic I’ve ever read is Archie. I care a lot about superheroes though because I love (most of) the movies, especially the Avengers movies. I love the Avengers so much. This com...

Anne Hathaway joins Mark Ruffalo in Todd Haynes's new film

Anne Hathaway is responsible for my first entertainment mirage of 2019, something that seems too good to be real and news that made me do a few double-takes. Variety reports she’s joined the cast of Todd Haynes’s upcoming legal drama about the DuPont chemical scandal, opposite Mark Ruffalo. Word is ...

Meghan Markle visits Smart Works as first royal patronages are announced

Meghan Markle’s first royal patronages were announced this morning. As expected, she is taking over the National Theatre patronage from the Queen, an excellent fit given Meghan’s career background. She will also be working with the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the only accredited organi...

Variety reports the Oscars will not have a host

The Oscars are six weeks away this Sunday. That’s not long. And there’s been all kinds of speculation about what they’re going to do about this host situation now that Kevin Hart has definitively said he won’t do it and remains in the headlines for how he’s going about explaining why he isn’t doing ...

Intro for January 10, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Yesterday Sarah kicked off her new Entertainment Self-Care series with a post on what she calls “super soft TV”. You know what’s become entertainment self-care for me?  The Masked Singer.  Like I said last week , it’s batsh-t. I know. And, yes, the judges …even Ken Jeong, who...

What Else for January 9, 2019

Michael K is totally right – of course he is – about Lady Gaga’s accessory looking like a turkey and I didn’t notice it until I read his post. BUT. I’m still into this look. So much more than her Golden Globes look. Because this tuxedo dress is beautiful. It’s so good on her. The fit is perfect on h...

Entertainment Self-Care: Super Soft TV

Everything is a lot right now. Sounds like an understatement, but it’s true. We just got out of 2018, a year that lasted forever, and, honestly, 2019 isn’t looking any better. Things are still Pretty Bleak. We’re stressed, we’re tired, everything is happening all of the time, and there’s no end in s...

Princess Catherine celebrates her birthday with a tea party with her family

Today is Catherine Cambridge’s 37th birthday. Here are some shots of Kate and Prince William on Sunday that I’ve been saving for today. They were in Sandringham, heading to church with the Queen. She’s been super into those headbands the last few months and as I noted a couple of months ago, it’s al...

Bandersnatch: Choose Your Own Gossip

Two weeks ago, Netflix released a new episode of Black Mirror called Bandersnatch. Its interactive format where viewers choose between options to direct the plot was an instant hit, trending on Twitter and quickly becoming a highly contentious and discussed topic. Allegedly, there are so many possib...

Celebrity Social Media, January 9, 2019

I’m already over the Fiji water person. Her name is Kelleth. It’s just not a gag that has legs. And Jamie Lee Curtis is not the one.         View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by...

Margot Robbie reportedly declined to present at Golden Globes in favour of presenting at the Oscars

Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter came out with some delicious award season inside baseball this morning.  So the Golden Globes happened on Sunday. Since the show takes place right after the new year and since they honour both TV and movies, and since it’s the show where people drink at th...

Show Your Work: Emily and John, Hollywood’s New Power Couple?

Duana and I recorded this week’s episode of Show Your Work on Monday, right after our Golden Globes all-nighter. And we could have kept going. This is award season – there’s so much to unpack! We start with the show itself, inside baseball on the production value and why the Globes, especially th...

Gwyneth Paltrow promotes cookbook, The Clean Plate, in New York

I came back to work on Monday and practically everyone in the office is either “eating clean” or doing a “dry January” or substituting everything with cauliflower or doing Peloton. It’s January. It happens every January. We go bonkers in December with the parties and the holiday gatherings and sudde...

Gerard Butler in The Vanishing movie review

When I first learned that there is a barely-advertised Gerard Butler movie about lighthouse keepers opening on demand this month, I thought for sure this would be a fun watch like Geostorm or Hunter Killer. Boy was I wrong. Turns out, this movie, The Vanishing, is about the Flannan Isles Mystery, in...

Intro for January 9, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Lin-Manuel Miranda was not at the Golden Globes on Sunday because he’s in Puerto Rico, preparing for Hamilton’s opening night on Friday. LMM will be playing Alexander Hamilton again for 3 weeks to raise money and spirits for those affected by Hurricane Maria. If you’d like to make ...

What Else for January 8, 2019

I just watched something that BLEW MY F-CKING MIND. Maybe it won’t blow your mind because you’re experienced in the kitchen and know all about cooking. Well, that’s not me. I mean, I’m OK and I make the things I know how to make really well. But cooking and baking and all that sh-t, they still scare...

RuPaul bans Manila Luzon's period-themed dress because it was in "bad taste"

(Lainey: this post was written by Prem, our newest writer. If you missed his introduction, please revisit his first post from a few weeks ago. We are working on some upgrades to the site which is why Prem’s bio isn’t up yet. In the meantime, you can message Prem on Twitter @psramani95 or check out h...

Spike Lee and Bradley Cooper nominated by Directors Guild of America

The Directors Guild of America announced their nominees today and Spike Lee is on the list – his FIRST ever DGA nomination. Which...probably isn’t a surprise considering Spike has never been nominated for Best Director at the Oscars and many of the members of the DGA are also members of the Academy....

An update on Joshua Jackson and Ryan Gosling's love lives

It’s the beginning of 2019 – let’s check in on two Canadians and their love lives. Should we start with Joshua Jackson?  It was confirmed back in November that Joshua Jackson is dating Jodie-Turner Smith. Here they are out for dinner the other night. Then they went shopping. He sat and waited pat...

Celebrity Social Media, January 8, 2019

Who will scoop Fiji water woman up first, Ellen or Jimmy Kimmel? There could be 100 Fiji waters on the red carpet... but it only takes one to quench your thirst pic.twitter.com/Z1GpKiI2w5 — Jamie McCarty (@JamieMcCarty) January 7, 2019 It’s incredible to me that some people in the comme...

Ethan Hawke moonwalks on Colbert and receives Best Actor award at Film Critics Circle Awards

Ethan Hawke was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards last night to collect his award for Best Actor for his performance in First Reformed. He was also on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to promote the revival of Sam Shepard’s True West opening soon on Broadway and it happened to be the firs...

Lana Condor attends Golden Globe events ahead of Deadly Class release next week

Syfy’s Deadly Class, of which Lana Condor is one of the stars, premieres next week. Lana’s been doing some press to promote the series and she was a presence at several events during Golden Globe weekend, now that she’s the star of one of the most watched and rewatched movies on Netflix of 2018 and ...

Jeremy Renner reportedly collaborating on new music with Dave Grohl

Lainey sent me this item from Page Six the other day knowing it would appeal to two of my hobbies: a 20-year crush on Dave Grohl (yes, I’m old as hell) and making fun of Jeremy Renner’s nascent music career.  The two were spotted talking in Vegas, which Page Six spun into a possible collaboration...

HBO's new Game of Thrones teaser gives us three second of new material

The last time we saw a teaser from Game of Thrones’ final season it showed us nothing. On Sunday an HBO teaser played during the Golden Globes which includes THREE WHOLE SECONDS of new footage from season eight of Thrones. Three seconds! The first three seconds we’ve seen! It’s Daenerys rocking up t...

Brie Larson looks amazing as Carol Danvers in new trailer for Captain Marvel

It is insane to me when I go back and read my early posts on Captain Marvel and Brie Larson, because now that I can see her in action, I’m like, WHY DID I EVER DOUBT? When has Marvel ever been wrong? Besides Ed Norton and Terrence Howard, when has Marvel ever been wrong? With but a few exceptions, t...

January 8, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

For Tina who did the best for Ember – you consulted the experts, you got informed, you made a difficult decision, but it was the right one. I know it’s raw and of course it’s horrible, so sudden, of course you’re doubting yourself. You shouldn’t though. Because you’re the one taking all the pain tha...

Intro for January 8, 2019

Dear Gossips,  As an award season junkie, I’m still not over how wide open this Oscar race is and how the Golden Globes shook up the situation – which probably makes the Hollywood Foreign Press Association very happy. They love that they’re actually a factor this year, especially since Oscar nomi...

What Else for January 7, 2019

Thanks for staying with us through the night and today as we’ve rolled out our Golden Globes coverage! We LOVE our award show all-nighters. And we’re building towards the Oscars – and it’s looking like it’s going to be a year. An unpredictable year! Please keep sending us your thoughts on email and ...

Anne Hathaway is Lainey's Golden Globes Best Dressed

This is one I suspect we’ll be fighting about. There’s a lot of online hate for this look on Anne Hathaway. USA Today is calling it a “misguided travesty”. Um, they also put Rosamund Pike on their Worst Dressed List and, as Duana has already established, no one came close to Rosamund Pike last night...

Michelle Yeoh and Crazy Rich Asians cast are Duana's Golden Globes Best Dressed

As Sandra Oh pointed out, this year’s Golden Globes – while still overwhelmingly Caucasian – had exponentially more Asian representation than ever before, due in part to the cast of Crazy Rich Asians, who really didn’t get enough play, but came out hard in the fashion game nonetheless. I could go on...

Lupita Nyong’o and Black Panther cast are Kathleen's Golden Globes Best Dressed

The cast of Black Panther almost cost me a laptop, my friendship with Lainey Lui, and probably my job. I was ready to tear apart her entire basement. I was ready to throw whatever I could at the TV screen. As soon as I saw Danai Gurira, Michael Bae Jordan and Lupita Nyong’o, I was ready to risk it a...

Lady Gaga: Worst Dressed at the GlobesLady Gaga is Lainey's Golden Globes Worst Dressed

If I’m not here tomorrow it’s because I’ve been taken out by the Little Monsters. Please know I LOVED Lady Gaga in A Star is Born, more than Bradley Cooper, actually. I just can’t get behind Lady Gaga at the Golden Globes, dress and all.  By now we all know that Lady Gaga’s dress was a tribute to...

Emily Blunt: Globes Worst Dressed (Duana)

Look, can we not have this get ugly? I’m sorry, okay?! I was nervous enough writing that name at the top of the page – I like Emily Blunt, I think she’s selling the hell out of Mary Poppins Returns, and this dress on someone else might have been a showstopper.    But you know it isn’t. It’s Alexan...

Gina Rodríguez is Kathleen's Golden Globes Worst Dressed

This hurts. I don’t want to do this. Gina Rodríguez is slowly starting to suffer from the Jameela Jamil condition of being charming and wonderful on television and well-meaning but grating in person. To put it simply, they both say dumb sh-t sometimes. So, Gina Rodriquez might not be your thing. I g...

Idris Elba and Taylor Swift: Golden Globe Cats

Seriously. That’s how Idris Elba and Taylor Swift were introduced at the Golden Globes last night – as co-stars of the upcoming Cats. Again and again, what even is this movie? At some point, in some scene, are Idris and Taylor going to start, like, purring at each other? He was actually asked about ...

Best friends Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet

Lainey has crowned Timothee Chalamet and Lily-Rose Depp as the reigning It Couple of Young Hollywood. I’m not trying to mess with that. I’m OK with Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet just being best friends forever. They worked together on Lady Bird, of course, and now they’re starring in the new L...

Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk’s birthday Globes

Do you remember, for about five minutes last year, the Academy tried to introduce a “Popular Movie” category? If they’d insisted on moving forward with that (bad) idea, Black Panther, A Star is Born, and Bohemian Rhapsody would all qualify. Now all three are heading towards the Oscars as Best Pictur...

Old Chris Pine + Young Jeff Bridges

Chris Pine is my Chris. You know this. My allegiance to him is mostly unwavering. I’ve been riding for Chris Pine since Just My Luck and The Princess Diaries: Royal Engagement. Those movies were definitively in the Young Chris Pine era. Last night, Lainey decided that she likes “Older looking Chris ...

Julia Roberts at the Globes – Chicken or Egg?

I’m a Julia Roberts stan. I don’t have anything to hide. One of the saddest moments this fall was realizing she’d had her birthday and I couldn’t pretend to be Oprah interviewing her all “Julia is FIFTYYYYYY” anymore.  I take immense pleasure in everything she does and says (and wears – I’ll get ...

Janelle Monae at 2019 Golden Globes had me questioning my sexuality

Janelle Monae wore Chanel’s 2019 pre-fall collection, including a leather gold couch crown I think may just be the greatest piece of headwear I have ever seen on a red carpet. I believe Vogue when they write that Karl Lagerfeld crafted this hat for his Egyptian-themed Metiers d’Art collection and no...

Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman have more in common than being tall at the 2019 Golden Globes

So we’re sitting around LaineyGossip HQ last night, trying to arrange all the articles and picking out the perfect pairings – people who it makes sense to talk about together – all while navigating dogs and narrowly avoiding ‘that person is MINE’ skirmishes. Then someone (Kathleen?) says, “Oh, Duana...

Richard Madden’s Fiji Water photobomb

Richard Madden’s face is a distraction. I found his face distracting in The Bodyguard. I mainlined the series in about a day so it’s not that his distractingly attractive features took away from my viewing experience, it’s just that Richard Madden’s got a face that you can’t stop staring at. It’s DI...

Olivia Colman's "Bitches" Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz at the 2019 Golden Globes

That’s what Olivia Colman called them when she was accepting her award for Best Actress Drama last night at the Golden Globes: Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz are her “bitches”, with much more affection than how Chrissy Metz allegedly referred to Alison Brie, a situation that Duana has already solved – ...

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys smelled of chemistry at the 2019 Golden Globes

Look, let’s get it out of the way. This is not going to be an insightful post about the way entertainment reflects our world. It’s an astounded, curious, scientific one, as in “WTF is it about these two?” You would have to be a total stranger reading this site for the first time not to know that ...

Regina King’s Golden Globes promise

We need to talk about Regina King. Specifically, we need to talk about what an epic display of Showing Your F-cking Work Regina King displayed at the Golden Globes. First, there’s her work in If Beale Street Could Talk. As Lainey told you a few days ago, Regina King is extraordinary in it. It’s a pe...

Elisabeth Moss & Rachel Brosnahan are Globes Wallflowers

A humble prediction: these two are going to be the least talked-about Globe attendees – and one of them won.  Not that I think anything should have gone down differently. Elisabeth Moss was deservedly beat by Sandra Oh, which got us one of the greatest moments of the broadcast. And Rachel Brosnah...

Amy Adams and Claire Foy knew better at the Globes

What I mean by “knew better” is that they knew what would happen – or that they dressed for what they knew would happen. What happened is that neither of them won anything. In Claire’s case, that was expected. For Amy Adams… well…  I guess, at this point, it’s also kind of expected? She often doe...

Rosamund Pike was nearly my Best Dressed at 2019 Golden Globes

Rosamund Pike, wearing Givenchy Haute Couture, was very nearly my best-dressed of the night. By rights, she should be. Look at what is happening here.  First of all, her black dress made me care about black dresses, which I never do. It is perfectly tailored, it is the perfect black matte fabric,...

Thandie Newton was stunning at 2019 Golden Globes in Michael Kors

I just realized what the Golden Globes was missing: Tracee Ellis Ross. Tracee can SHUT DOWN a red carpet. When Tracee shows up, I know more times than not that she’ll automatically be in the running for Best Dressed. Her consistency is something I always look forward to – it’s also something I take ...

Rami Malek’s big move at the Golden Globes

Rami Malek’s win for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Drama at the Golden Globes last night over Bradley Cooper was one of the night’s biggest surprises, along with Bohemian Rhapsody winning Best Drama, also over A Star is Born. Because, of course, ASIB has been the presumed frontrun...

Mahershala Ali wins while Green Book and director Peter Farrelly solve racism

The Golden Globes achieved something I thought I wouldn’t see in my lifetime. My parents never dared to believe their kids would get to see this day. My grandparents fought for this day. My children will remember this day in history. Sunday, January 6th, 2019 was the day that racism ended. I know, I...

No, Chrissy Metz did not call Alison Brie at bitch at the 2019 Golden Globes

Didn’t we all agree 2019 was going to be better? Didn’t we all think we were better than this?  Early in the night, Twitter blew up because, in the words of social media, “Chrissy Metz called Alison Brie a bitch, you guys!!” on a Facebook Live Globes preshow hosted by Missi Pyle and AJ Gibson.   ...

Halle Berry and Lena Waithe presented dreams at 2019 Golden Globes

It feels like during every awards show in recent memory, Twitter picks an unexpected presenter pairing to anoint as The Couple Who Should Star in a Rom-Com. Last night, Halle Berry and Lena Waithe were that couple.  Halle and Lena are working together as executive producers on a BET series based ...

Kristen Bell, Jameela Jamil and The Good Place cast attend the 2019 Golden Globes

How much difference a year makes.  Last year when Kristen Bell hosted the SAG awards I said I was the only one banging the Veronica Mars drum, and now? Now there’s a Veronica Mars revival currently in production, and that’s joyful enough on its own, but have you heard that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is ...

I’ll remember the 2019 Golden Globes as the Sandra Oh Golden Globes

That’s how I’ll remember this year’s Golden Globes – the Sandra Oh Golden Globes. On so many levels. Let’s start with history because she made it, twice: first as the first Asian woman to host the Golden Globes and as the first Asian woman to win multiple Golden Globes. In these times, people will f...

Intro for January 7, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Look, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is weird and what they decide doesn’t necessarily mean that’s how Oscar is going to swing. But what last night’s Golden Globes did tell us, or confirm for us, is that this is the most wide-open awards season in a long, long time. Bohemi...

What Else for January 4, 2019

Just a reminder about the Golden Globes on Sunday – Duana, Kathleen, and I will all be tweeting during the show (@duanaelise, @KathleenNB, @laineygossip) and we’re pulling an all-nighter for coverage starting at around 1am ET and posting through until morning. We would love for you to join us. Yell ...

Celebrity Social Media, January 4, 2019

Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo bought Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s house (technically it’s 3 houses on 3.1 acres). I wonder how they will redecorate Ben’s guest cottage. Will they have a smudging ceremony?          View this post on Instagram     ...

Mariah Carey frolicking in St Barts with Bryan Tanaka

Mimi is on a streak. Caution is one of the best-reviewed albums of her career. And just a couple of days ago, “All I Want For Christmas Is You” went to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, the “first holiday song to break the top 5 in 60 years”. Also for New Year’s Eve she performed at Nikki Beach in St Bar...

Emma Stone: easy breezy award season

Duana and I talk about this every year when we recap the Oscars: what goes into a winner’s outfit. When you’re a frontrunner, when you’ve won everything leading up to the Oscars, like the Globes, and the Critics’ Choice, and the SAGs, the Oscar outfit itself is rarely a risk. Emma Stone has given us...

Emily Blunt builds 'Mary Poppins Returns' momentum in Palm Springs

Duana and I will be recording the new episode of Show Your Work on Monday, after we wrap coverage of the Golden Globes. By that point, we won’t have slept for… well… a long time. We’ll be fried – so, yeah, should be a good show. One of the stories I’m pitching hard is “Emily Blunt and John Krasinski...

Bradley Cooper receives Director of the Year award at Palm Springs International Film Festival

It’s Bradley Cooper’s birthday weekend. His birthday is tomorrow. The Golden Globes are on Sunday. Will the Hollywood Foreign Press Association give him a birthday present? Several birthday presents?  His first birthday present, an early one, came from the Palm Springs International Film Festival...

Regina King receives Chairman’s Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival

Last year Regina King did an interview with Variety and she was asked what it means to her, in this stage of her career, her 30 year career, to be getting the parts she’s getting, the nominations, the awards, the hype, and the SHINE. I loved her response:  “It’s interesting because if you would h...

Spike Lee receives Career Achievement Award at Palm Springs International Film Festival

Spike Lee received the Career Achievement Award in Palm Springs last night, presented to him by “the Stallworth Brothers”, John David Washington and Adam Driver. We’ll be seeing a lot of these three in the next couple of weeks. But…will we see them at the Oscars?  BlackkKlansman is one of the mos...

Rami Malek receives Breakthrough Performance Award for Bohemian Rhapsody at the Palm Springs International Film Festival

Forgive me, but don’t stop Bohemian Rhapsody now. The movie’s made over $714 million worldwide as of this writing, and Rami Malek is the face of not just the film, but the campaign. And when he accepted the Breakthrough Performance Award last night in Palm Springs, his speech seemed like a dress reh...

Timothee Chalamet receives Spotlight Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival

Last year at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Timothee Chalamet received the Rising Star Award for his work in Call Me By Your Name. This year he returned to Palm Springs for the Spotlight Award, recognising his performance in Beautiful Boy. He was introduced to the stage by Laura Dern,...

Intro for January 4, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Big weekend! It’s the Golden Globes on Sunday! The Golden Globes do not have a hosting problem. It’s the Oscars that have a hosting problem. Which is why the Oscar host dilemma is making headlines today, just two days before the Globes.  With only 7 weeks to go before the Oscars...

What Else for January 3, 2019

OMG major flashback. Victoria Principal! I was OBSESSED with Victoria Principal and Andy Gibb. It makes me sad that some of you reading this think I’m speaking a foreign language including and probably our site manager, Emily, who’s a baby, and definitely Kathleen, who is even babier. Sarah too, I’m...

Celebrity Social Media, January 3, 2018

Armie Hammer reading a hardcover copy of This Will Only Hurt a Little is in fact a mood.          View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Busy Philipps (@busyphilipps) on Jan 2, 20...

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom's Aspen fashion

Every year at Christmas I wonder if there’s an email that goes out to celebrities giving them their options: hey everyone! This year it’s either – and always – Hawaii, St Barts, or Aspen. Because so many of them end up the same destinations. And the paparazzi ends up there too. What if they went ski...

First look at Noomi Rapace in Netflix's Close

While Netflix has had a lot of success on the TV side, their movie arm is only just gaining real credibility, with films like Roma, Bird Box, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. To date, Netflix movies have largely been seen as a dump site for problem children (Clove...

Bradley Cooper to be honoured at the Palm Springs International Film Festival ahead of Golden Globes

Of 2019, I mean. Tonight Bradley Cooper will receive the director of the year award to kick off the Palm Springs International Film Festival. It’s a big event on the award season calendar because there are a lot of Academy voters who live in Palm Springs (a lot of fusty ones) and show up at the Palm...

Golden Globe presenter Michael B. Jordan's Coach campaign images released

Coach announced in September that Michael B Jordan would be their first men’s global ambassador. Yesterday they released his first campaign images. Per Coach’s press release, “the campaign was shot by Craig McDean and features Jordan dressed in the house’s reimagined iconic American silhouettes alon...

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch review

Written by PREM On December 28th, Netflix released Bandersnatch, a new episode of Black Mirror. The episode is about 19-year old Stefan who is working on a video game called Bandersnatch. The game is a choose your own adventure, where choices that the player makes affect outcomes in the game. Wha...

Intro for January 3, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Do you remember last year when Ryan Reynolds was promoting Deadpool 2 he went on a show in South Korea and sang "Tomorrow" behind a unicorn mask? That was a crazy sentence and I’ve read it back several times not quite believing it happened – but it did. It actually happened. And no...

What Else for January 2, 2019

Does it seem like the most popular celebrity NYE headline was about pregnancy? Andy Cohen is having a baby. Gordon and Tana Ramsay are having another baby, their fifth. Kobe and Vanessa Bryant are having another baby girl, their fourth. And Kanye and Kim Kardashian West are expecting a baby, their f...

Celebrity Social Media, January 2, 2019

In the hazy week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, Justin Bieber got involved in a minor social media skirmish with YouTube star JoJo Siwa (if you don’t know who that is, I envy your innocence). He didn’t make a comment about her personally or even directly to her, but he said something about he...

Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn's Christmas and New Year's Eve together

Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn apparently spent Christmas in Ireland, renting out Glin Castle in County Limerick. Joe posted a photo on Instagram and you can see what looks to be Taylor’s shadow in the background.          View this post on Instagram     ...

Show Your Work: The Work of Writing Part 2

Last month, we posted our first mini-episode on the Work of Writing and we are following up with Part 2, featuring New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch. Duana and I talk to Allison about her work as a magazine writer early in her career and making the transition from magazine to boo...

Tiffany Haddish bombs New Year's Eve performance

Tiffany Haddish performed in Miami on New Year’s Eve. It wasn’t her best set. It sounds like it wasn’t close to her best set. She forgot some of her jokes. She was heckled. People walked out. People who didn’t walk out filmed some of the most awkward moments. At one point, Tiffany acknowledged she w...

Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx holiday together on a yacht in Miami

Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx spent the weekend together in Miami on a luxury yacht. They were seen riding around on jet skis, partying with friends, and kissing and hugging in the cabin. It’s not like they invited the paps on board with them but, knowing that the paps were there on several occasions,...

We Need to Talk about Gia Gunn in RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars 4

Written by PREM Three episodes into this season and Drag Race hasn’t disappointed one bit. I have so much to say about the last three weeks, but unfortunately Lainey won’t let me turn Lainey Gossip into a 24/7 RPDR newsfeed. When I first wrote my primer for season four of All Stars, I predicted t...

January 2, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Kate! Happy Belated Birthday with love from Ashley. You never stop inspiring her with your work and your commitment and your drive – and now I’m in awe of you too, Dr Jones. By request, because you are a badass, here’s another badass, Tessa Thompson. Have the best year ever.   

Intro for January 2, 2019

Dear Gossips,  The Chanel presentation during Haute Couture Week in Paris is always the main event. They’ve turned the Grand Palais into a beach, a grocery store, they’ve also built a rocket into the venue before. And a few years ago, Karl Lagerfeld dedicated the collection to his “petites mains”...