What Else for March 29, 2019

We’ve received a few emails this week asking for commentary on Cardi B and #survivingCardiB. Duana and I will be covering this on the next episode of Show Your Work.  There are thousands of takes on Alec Baldwin – he’s a douchebag, he has a temper, he talks too much, he thinks too highly of himse...

What really went down between Shangela and Mimi Imfurst on RuPaul's Drag Race

We’re going to need a lot of paper towels because a whole bunch of tea from RPDR Season 3 just spilled this week. If you’re a Drag Race fan, you’ll probably be able to lip sync to the iconic Untucked fight between Shangela and Mimi Imfurst. If you’re not a Drag Race fan, I promise it’s worth your ti...

Hotel Mumbai movie review starring Dev Patel and Armie Hammer

Hotel Mumbai is a docu-drama that recreates the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, with a particular focus on the siege of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. It is technically a very good movie. It is very well made, tightly written by John Collee and Anthony Maras, who also directs. Maras delivers a raw, sear...

Harold in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark trailer looks exactly like the illustration

The Super Bowl teasers for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark movie left a mixed impression. The images in the teasers that are recreated from Stephen Gammel’s f-cking nightmare illustrations are enough to revive my childhood trauma left over from the books. But the suggestion of a plot about tee...

Celebrity Social Media, March 29, 2019

Whitney Port has a YouTube channel and in a recent episode (is that the word?) she said she was “mom bullied” at an event earlier this week. (It must have been a private brand or charity event because I checked for photos and couldn’t find the event.) What I want to point out here is the way we talk...

Mindy Kaling's new Netflix show will focus on the life of a modern day Indian American teenage girl

A week ago, Deadline announced that Netflix ordered a 10 episode coming-of-age series co-created and co-written by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, inspired by Mindy Kaling’s childhood. The show focuses on the life of a modern day, first generation, Indian American teenage girl.  This is exciting fo...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Veep comeback is everything you could want and she knows it

The seventh and final season of Veep premieres this Sunday, and it’s just as sharp, biting, and brilliant as ever. The searing joke-and-insult-per-second ratio is still as high as we’ve come to expect. Julia Louis-Dreyfus knows it’s a winner too. She’s been making the media rounds promoting the seri...

Jake Gyllenhaal's look of hate as he has dinner in New York with Adele and Tom Sturridge

Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge met up with Adele for dinner last night. As already established earlier this week when Adele and Jennifer Lawrence hung out at Pieces, celebrity friendship is good for gossip. Adele does her friendships a lot less ostentatiously than, ahem, some other people but the...

Jordan Fisher is John Ambrose in Netflix's PS I Still Love You

Production on Netflix’s PS I Still Love You, the sequel to To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, is now underway in Vancouver. And the biggest question about the movie has been…who’s John Ambrose McClaren?!  He as revealed yesterday:  John Ambrose McClaren will be played by @Jordan_Fisher in ...

Gwyneth Paltrow at the GLAAD Media Awards

When Gwyneth Paltrow was announced as one of the presenters at the GLAAD Media Awards earlier this week, many people assumed that she’d be presenting to Beyoncé and Jay-Z. They’re friends – but it’s been a while since we’ve seen evidence of that friendship.  Gwyneth was indeed at the event last n...

Beyoncé and Jay-Z honoured at the GLAAD Media Awards

Our Queen and her husband were honoured last night with the Vanguard Award at the GLAAD Media Awards last night. Janet Mock, HIV activist Morris Singletary, Lena Waithe, and Ty Hunter, who’s worked with Beyoncé since 1999, when she and Miss Janet met him at a mall and invited him to help out with st...

Intro for March 29, 2019

Dear Gossips, Have you noticed lately how many 20th anniversary movie celebrations there have been this year? And it’s only the end of March. Jawbreaker came out in January 1999. I posted about She’s All That a few weeks ago. I linked to a piece on Cruel Intentions in What Else the other day. We’...

What Else for March 28, 2019

On this week’s episode of What’s Your Drama, Sasha and I commiserate over not being married to men who can pull off the “baby”, like Channing Tatum. My husband insists he can handle it. He would be wrong.  So this sounds like a marriage that’s getting off to a really good start. Nicolas Cage is m...

Game of Thrones Winning Odds: The Night King

Previously, we’ve examined the odds of House Greyjoy and House Lannister ending up on the Iron Throne. This week, we’re going to see what it would take for the Night King to prevail and become the King of All Dead Westeros. Here’s the thing about the Night King’s chances—it’s not impossible. It’s ba...

Mariah Carey celebrates her (maybe) 50th anniversary

Our Elusive Butterfly Chanteuse of Rainbows celebrated her anniversary yesterday. Not a birthday, as you know, because she doesn’t do birthdays, only anniversaries, an annual festive event that honours her a little more than she’s honoured every other day – which is already a lot. What was especiall...

Celebrity Social Media, March 28, 2019

Kate Hudson is launching something – my guess is a clothing line. She’s here with celebrity stylist, Chris McMillan. He’s most famous for his relationship to Jennifer Aniston (and The Rachel), but he has a lot of celebrity clients, from Kris Jenner to Denise Richards to Ellen to Mariska Hargitay. Ha...

Kate Beckinsale is surprised by the interest people have in her relationship with Pete Davidson

Remember when three weeks ago, Lainey wrote about how Kate Beckinsale was paying attention to the gossip surrounding her? After kissing in public, becoming a meme, and then commenting on said meme, Kate flexed her gossip game by remaining the headline for an entire week with just one incident.  A...

Enjoying Andrew Garfield's life-giving outfit

Emily, our site manager, is based in Vancouver. Every night before she wraps up, she sends over a photo list from our agencies that I look at in the mornings to start setting the posting order for the day. Today the last item on the list was:  After Edward press night – Andrew Garfield, Tom Stuar...

Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx are still together

Last month, right after the Oscars, it was widely reported that Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx had broken up because he said onstage at an Oscar party that he was single. Does what he says, particularly about his dating status, really mean anything though? The whole time they’ve been together, they’ve ...

Priyanka Chopra’s YouTube Special is Both Fun and Uplifting

As part of YouTube’s new “Single Slate” strategy, which seeks to create original content for the free, ad-based side of the platform, their newest Originals production was a 30 minute special hosted by Priyanka Chopra called “If I Could Just Tell You Just One Thing.” Chopra has wide, global appeal, ...

Princess Kate looks comfortable and relaxed as she visits the Scouts

Catherine Cambridge stepped out today to hang out with the Scouts, spending time with kids as they participate in life skills programmes from kayaking to coding to cooking.  The Duchess now trying out some of the programme ideas for the early years pilots. #SkillsForLife pic.twitter.com/MYMSo...

Angelina Jolie in talks to star in Marvel's The Eternals

I heard a while back that Angelina Jolie was seen touring Marvel’s spot on the Disney campus, but I assumed it was to talk about directing. Though she is starring in Mistress Maleficent— it’s a better title, don’t @ me—it just seems like her focus is more behind the camera days. However, it turns ou...

March 28, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

For Kristin from Jennifer – I’m sorry to hear about little Maarifa but also, at the same time, I’m grateful I know who she was after reading Jennifer’s note and learning more about Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. I’ve also spent a lot of time on their Instagram now. Hopefully this can be her legacy, that ...

Intro for March 28, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Last Friday, Adele showed up in New York at a gay bar with Jennifer Lawrence. When I wrote about that earlier this week I wondered if she was just in town for her friend Jen, or whether or not there was work to do.  Well, here she is, still in NYC, heading into a recording studi...

What Else for March 27, 2019

More information on LaRenner (that would be Lady Gagy + Jeremy Renner) is now leaking out, conveniently. Apparently it has to do with her ex-fiancé Christian Carino and how he treated her which was not well and so she found solace with Hawkeye instead of Rocket. Or maybe all of this is just a distra...

RuPaul's Drag Race contestants Brooke Lynn Hytes and Miss Vanessa Vanjie Mateo milk their romance on social media

Miss Branjie. That’s what I’m naming the surprising, yet titillating romance between Brooke Lynn Hytes and Miss Vanessa Vanjie Mateo. Honourable mention for a ship name goes to Branessa Lynnjie Hyteo. So far, Drag Race Season 11 has been the gift that keeps on giving, and last Thursday’s Untucked wa...

Channing Tatum calls Jessie J "baby" in Instagram post for her birthday

I feel like a have a crystal ball right now – like a work crystal ball. These moments don’t happen often, and they’re small, but when they come up, they can bring an unexpected high, especially for a content creator and editor. Last May, for Mother’s Day, Channing Tatum wished Jenna Dewan a Happy Mo...

Show Your Work: The View of Kit Harington’s hair

We mentioned Brian Stelter’s book, Top of the Morning, a lot on the Show Your Work podcast. And now Duana and I can’t wait to read what will likely be our next frequent reference text, Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of The View by Ramin Setoodeh, out next week. You’ve probably read som...

Chris Evans covers The Hollywood Reporter to promote Avengers: Endgame

In advance of Avengers: Endgame, Chris Evans is covering The Hollywood Reporter in a profile he jokes is his “last cover interview”. He says it as a joke about his looming post-Marvel career, but this is his last run of magazine interviews as Captain America. No, he’s not retiring, which he reiterat...

Celebrity Social Media, March 27, 2019

John Cleese didn’t get a call back from Netflix so he’s sh-tting on people, like Nicole Byers, who did get a call back. Interesting that he chose her – why not Ricky Gervais, who recently released a Netflix special? John laments the state of comedy while giving everyone his resume. But he’s also som...

Alex Rodriguez visits Jennifer Lopez on Hustlers set as he's accused of cheating with another woman

A couple of days ago, a British Playboy model called Zoe Gregory told The Sun said that she was introduced to Alex Rodriguez by a friend over text around Christmas. According to Zoe, he then started sexting her and also sent her a dick pic. Zoe says she’s sharing all of this because Zoe deserves bet...

Looking forward to the Downton Abbey movie as character posters are released

Have you missed Downton Abbey? I kind of have. I feel like part of our current nightmare dystopia is that we don’t have a weekly genteel break anymore, in which even the most serious problems are resolved with a whisper-fight in the study. But we will not be without new Downton Abbey forever, as the...

Beyoncé sings for Diana Ross at her 75th birthday party

Beyoncé is Beyoncé. And because Beyoncé is Beyoncé, she can hold on to the mic for as long as she wants. There are few people Beyoncé has to take the mic for and pass the mic to. One of those people would be Diana Ross. Diana Ross performing her own birthday celebration at the Grammys six weeks b...

Noah Centineo in Netflix's Perfect Date trailer in a role that was made for him

I know better than to pine after f-ckboy and thirstmaster Noah Centineo, but also apparently I don’t because I’m currently the human embodiment of the heart eyes emoji after watching the new trailer for Netflix’s Perfect Date which dropped yesterday. Noah plays Brooks Rattigan (what a name), a high ...

Tom Cruise's daughter Bella says Scientology auditing has changed her life

Last we heard of Tom Cruise he was working on Top Gun: Maverick which isn’t due out until July 2020. As we’ve seen over the last decade or so, Tom will emerge for a few weeks to promote a movie but otherwise stays deep undercover working and, well, Scientologising. He doesn’t talk much about the Chu...

Intro for March 27, 2019

Dear Gossips, All charges against Jussie Smollett were dropped yesterday because 2019 continues to be a total mindf-ck. Speaking of mindf-cks though, I’m about to link you to another one if you haven’t yet read it.  Vanity Fair’s piece published yesterday on the Disappearance of Fan Bingbing -...

What Else for March 26, 2019

Nicolas Cage is not giving up on love and marriage. I totally forgot that his second marriage was to Patricia Arquette! The name is his next wife is Erika Koike. She’s apparently a makeup artist. She’s also blonde in this photo and looks Asian which is my obsession right now (because, as mentioned, ...

Shane West supports Mandy Moore during her Walk of Fame ceremony

Mandy Moore received her star on the Walk of Fame yesterday. Her This Is Us costars were there to celebrate with her. But another costar made a surprise appearance: Shane West aka Landon Carter from A Walk to Remember.  Look, that movie was my WHOLE SH-T for a year. That movie was sh-t too, yes, ...

Keanu Reeves organizes bus for fellow passenger after being stranded on a flight in California

Here’s a Tuesday treat for us all. Behold Keanu Reeves, stranded somewhere in California, organizing a van to get everyone’s trip back on track. Can you even imagine being stuck in a terminal somewhere and KEANU REEVES appears to get your trip moving again? I would never go anywhere ever again, for ...

Celebrity Social Media, March 26, 2019

If you have ever sneezed in an enclosed workspace, chances are one of your coworkers has wailed, “I can’t get sick!” I’ve never understood this. Who can get sick? No one has time to get sick, Susan? And heaven forbid someone around you catches a cold within two weeks of that sneeze, because you know...

Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph talk SNL and Wine Country in joint-profile for Vanity Fair

Amy Poehler has added so much to the girl talk lexicon, from Galentine’s Day to a whole slew of compliments for your best friend. Now she adds “witchy circle” to her contributions, and if you think I’m not having custom paper products printed with “witchy circle” for my next girls’ weekend you are a...

Rumours of an affair between Prince William and Rose Hanbury come to the surface

Yesterday I posted about the story that took over royal gossip circles this weekend – it’s been brewing for months, originating in the English countryside, with the “Turnip toffs”. As I said, it’s Big Little Lies, royal edition. Supposedly Princess Kate used to be good friends with Rose Hanbury, the...

David Jenkins publishes dishy piece about Meghan Markle in Tatler

“One Year of Meghanomania” is the title of a new dishy piece by David Jenkins published in Tatler yesterday. It’s basically a summary of the last six months of gossip about Meghan Markle – whether or not she’s difficult, whether or not she made Kate Middleton cry, along with a couple of pieces of ne...

Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston promote The Morning Show during Apple event

As Sarah just wrote, Apple brought out the stars yesterday at its big TV presentation. Apple TV+ will be launched this fall, which is the old-school television model, and probably its most highly anticipated series is The Morning Show, produced by and starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston,...

Steven Spielberg revealed to be involved with Apple's streaming platform during star-studded event

After the Oscars, word got out that Steven Spielberg is agitating for a rule change that would effectively block Netflix from competing for Oscars as they don’t much believe in distributing their movies in theaters when the whole point of their company is to make movies available instantly at home. ...

Intro for March 26, 2018

Dear Gossips,  Next year marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most acclaimed films of all time, a film that appears on virtually every “best film” list compiled: Wong Kar-Wai’s In The Mood For Love. Last week, Kar-Wai revealed that after a six year break, he’s finally working on a new project...

What Else for March 25, 2019

Please give Stanley some respect. He’s a conniving bitch. Watch, because he times it perfectly. If he was out of control, he would have been lunging at the mic before it was put in his face. The fact that he waited for it to be shoved in his face, giving him the perfect angle to perform his trickery...

James Corden confirms Celine Dion episode of Carpool Karaoke on Twitter

Celine Dion is doing Carpool Karaoke. James Corden confirmed as much on Twitter:  oh hey @celinedion pic.twitter.com/FbZ1ardKRS — James Corden (@JKCorden) March 22, 2019   Makes sense. She has a lot of hits. The challenge will be to narrow down which ones to sing along to. But also? ...

Lana Condor and Noah Centineo at the Kids' Choice Awards

The Kids’ Choice Awards happened this weekend. Not surprisingly, the kids made Noah Centineo their Favourite Movie Actor. Just for fun, let’s take a look at the other nominees in this category: Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther Chris Evans, Avengers: Infinity War Chris Hemsworth, Avengers: Infini...

Celebrity Social Media, March 25, 2019

Per the Apatow Accord, celebrity parents require verbal consent to procure the rights to any image. Gwyneth Paltrow would surely be aware of this stipulation and has broken the agreement, thus earning two days of attitude from Apple Martin.          View this post ...

Jon Hamm supports friend Bob Odenkirk at his show in LA

Mad Men concluded its run in 2015. At the Emmys that year, the expected favourite for Best Drama Actor was Jon Hamm. He’d never won up to that point and, well, it seemed like it was time, time for Don Draper to finally get up on stage. But there was a slim chance of an upset: Bob Odenkirk in Better ...

Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge's afternoon walk in New York

Famous friendships seem to be theme of the day. We started with Princess Kate’s alleged friend drama. And Ginger and Scary Spices’ friendly sex. And Adele and JLaw at the club. So here are a few more quick picture posts of celebrity friends. There will be two or three to follow this one. Here are...

Jennifer Lawrence and Adele's drunken night in NYC at a gay bar

“Squad”-ing got annoying in 2016/17, due in part to Taylor Swift. And the fact that it had to be named. But we’ve always been obsessed with celebrity friendships, from Jean Harlow and Myrna Loy to Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor, to the Rat Pack, to the Brat Pack, to Friends, to Oprah and Gayl...

Mel B reluctantly confirms she and Geri Halliwell had sex

Mel B was on Piers Morgan’s new show for an episode that will air later this year and confirmed – seemingly reluctantly – when he asked that she and Geri Halliwell, now Horner, aka Ginger Spice, had sex one night. Piers aired the clip on Good Morning Britain:  EXCLUSIVE: In @piersmorgan’s Lif...

Princess Kate reportedly wants former friend Rose Hanbury "phased out"

Prince William and Catherine spend a lot of time at Anmer Hall, their home in Norfolk. Apparently the social circle there is called the “Turnip toffs”. Kate’s BFF among the Turnip toffs used to be Rose Hanbury. Supposedly, according to the Sun, they’ve now fallen out. Rose is the Marchioness of Chol...

Intro for March 25, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Jordan Peele’s Us exceeded box office projections this weekend, opening with $70.3 million and setting several records, proving that Get Out wasn’t a fluke (not that anyone thought it would be) and establishing him as an event filmmaker, the kind of storyteller who can deliver a co...

What Else for March 22, 2019

Joe Alwyn, who is dating one of the most famous women in the world, does not want to be a celebrity – which is why their relationship works. I don’t know if I buy this, but it has nothing to do with Taylor. In today’s open, I mentioned Kit Harington’s interview with Variety. He says something at one...

Entertainment Self-Care: Sleep Podcasts

(For previous installments in our Self-Care entertainment series, click here. And since Us is out this weekend and you might seeing it, you might need what is being shared here.) Sleep is important. Obvious, I know, but if you’ve ever experienced a lack of sleep, you know how big of an impact it ...

Celebrity Social Media, March 22, 2019

Bruce Willis and Emma Heming renewed their vows and Demi Moore was there (in the yellow dress she has worn before – it’s Vita Kin). Obviously she would be there; she was at the wedding 10 years ago, and she and Bruce have always been publicly supportive of one another’s relationships. That Charlie’s...

Gemma Chan covers April issue of Allure

I’m exaggerating here. It’s two magazine covers, that hardly qualifies as a month conquered. At the same time, it feels like a big deal to me. One day, maybe it won’t feel like anything at all because it won’t be unusual. For now, though, it’s something to highlight.  Lana Condor covered the Marc...

First look at Constance Wu on the set of Hustlers

Sarah wrote earlier this week about Hustlers, the movie based on The Hustlers at Scores who scammed the wealthy men patronising the establishment. With casting now complete, filming is underway – here’s Constance Wu in costme today in New York fully looking the part. This is not Rachel Chu. This is ...

PEOPLE Magazine releases their own Lady Gaga and Jeremy Renner story with no additional details

Yesterday Us Weekly came out with a nothing story about Lady Gaga and Jeremy Renner “hanging out”. Their source “doesn’t believe it’s romantic” right now but made sure to mention that the “hanging out” also involves Jeremy’s daughter Ava, as if to suggest that if Ava’s there, it must mean that Gaga ...

Jordan Peele's Us movie review starring Lupita Nyong'o

After a stunning debut like Get Out, anything less than equal success is bound to seem like a disappointment. Such is the case for Jordan Peele’s sophomore feature film, Us. Is it bad? Emphatically NO. But it’s not as deep or thematically grounded as Get Out, which is bound to feel like a disappoint...

March 22, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

There’s a humanitarian crisis happening that isn’t getting much attention around the world this week. Cyclone Idai made landfall in Mozambique last Thursday killing at least 500 people and forcing thousands onto rooftops and into trees. Many of them are still waiting to be rescued. Rescuers are havi...

Intro for March 22, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Ahead of the final season of Game of Thrones, Kit Harington covers the new issue of Variety. For Kit though, this isn’t just about promoting the show – the show, really, doesn’t need promotion and, besides, none of the actors can actually tell us anything about what’s happening any...

What Else for March 21, 2019

On this week’s episode of What’s Your Drama, Sasha and I talk about our favourite mom jeans and a “coffee and condo” situation that sounds super f-cking sketchy.  For whatever reason, our back deck is very attractive to raccoons. And the thing is, they must know it’s a house with two dogs and the...

Game of Thrones Winning Odds: House Lannister

Counting down until the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones, we’re reviewing the winning odds for the remaining great houses of Westeros. Last week, we looked at the (pitiable) odds of House Greyjoy, and this week, we are examining the chances that House Lannister retains their control o...

Celebrity Social Media, March 21, 2019

There was a small piece on PEOPLE.com today about how Joe Alwyn “has zero interest in being a celebrity,” despite the fact that he has chosen to be a film actor and is dating one of the most famous pop stars in the world. Still, he wants to remain private, says a “Swift source,” and that has worked ...

The dialogue in new John Wick 3 trailer is equal parts insane and delightful

It’s a Keanu kind of day. First we have confirmation that Bill & Ted 3 is actually happening for real this time, and now we have a new trailer for John Wick Chapter 3 (I still refuse to acknowledge the stupid subtitle). This trailer builds on the first, still showing off primarily action, but with a...

Lady Gaga and Jeremy Renner reportedly "hanging out"

This is a nothing story (right now) that is going to turn into a big gossip headline. Us Weekly is reporting that Lady Gaga and Jeremy Renner have been “hanging out”, according to a source: The insider “doesn’t believe it’s romantic at this point,” but says Gaga has “been spending a lot of time” ...

The Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez engagement interview in PEOPLE

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez got engaged last week. This week they happen to be promoting their new sunglasses collaboration. I love it when a plan comes together.  Here are the sunglasses – a his and hers collection.          View this post on Instagram ...

Noah Centineo in talks to play He-Man in film adaptation of Masters of the Universe

This was my favourite celebrity headline yesterday, for the laughs. We must take the joy where we get it. The Wrap was the first to report that Noah Centineo is in talks to play He-Man in Sony’s new film adaptation of Masters of the Universe. They want their own superhero franchise. And they think N...

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter announce Bill & Ted 3

File this under “I’ll believe it when I see it”, but it seems like the long-fabled Bill & Ted 3 might actually happen. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have been talking about it for years—last year they appeared in Entertainment Weekly teasing the project—but now things are looking super official as Wi...

Intro for March 21, 2019

Dear Gossips,  As I’ve been saying, this has been the Year of the Scam - scams have been our collective obsession and lately, everyone’s obsessed with Elizabeth Holmes. I first started writing about Elizabeth Holmes back in 2016 (comparing the Silicon Valley ecosystem to the celebrity ecosystem),...

What Else for March 20, 2019

Julia Roberts talks about Pretty Woman, the movie that made her famous. And she's right about the story - that it probably is not a story that would play today, if you tried to tell it today. That said, even with what we know now, when you watch that movie back, you enjoy it for what it was - which ...

First look at Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Assuming Quentin Tarantino actually retires after ten films, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is his second-to-last film. Today, a teaser trailer was released—with those boring ass posters coming out I figured a trailer wasn’t far behind—which gives us our first look at QT’s penultimate movie (if you b...

Emma Roberts and Garrett Hedlund reportedly dating

Emma Roberts and Evan Peters have been together since 2012. They’ve broken up, gotten back together, gotten engaged, and now it’s over. According to Us Weekly she’s now dating Garrett Hedlund. Apparently they were seen holding hands recently in LA. When Us followed up on that tip, a source told them...

Celebrity Social Media, March 20, 2019

This photo is supposed to highlight Ben Schwartz dancing with James Corden, but what is the standout? What is pulling focus? Julia Roberts, of course, sitting there with her grin and movie star halo. She can’t help it.          View this post on Instagram   ...

Celebrity Social Media, March 2019

This photo is supposed to highlight Ben Schwartz dancing with James Corden, but what is the standout? What is pulling focus? Julia Roberts, of course, sitting there with her grin and movie star halo. She can’t help it.          View this post on Instagram   ...

Loving the first trailer for Stranger Things 3

Stranger Things 3 premieres on July 4, and now we have a trailer to look at and guess things. ST2 was a little divisive—I like it, as it has stronger character development than the first season—but season three was not rushed out, and as a result, it looks like the best Stranger Things yet. All the ...

Show Your Work: College Scams and Old Magic

I am bigging up my colleague: Duana’s post on the college admissions scam last week was the most comprehensive piece on the scandal because, as she has since shared, she’s been studying schools and applications and elite admissions for 25 years. If she has a PhD in anything, it’s this – which is why...

Kate Beckinsale and Pete Davidson have dinner with Kate's family in Malibu

Pete Davidson joined Kate Beckinsale and her family, including her ma Judy Loe, and her stepfather Roy Battersby, both actors, for dinner last night in Malibu. Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the passing of Kate’s dad, Richard. He was only 31 at the time, also an actor:      ...

Lili Reinhart, Keke Palmer, Cardi B joining Hustlers starring Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu

Jennifer Lopez is a producing a movie based on that NY Mag article about the exotic dancers who scammed some of their clientele. It’s called Hustlers—from the article’s title, “The Hustlers at Scores”—and earlier this year JLo was joined by Constance Wu. Now, with the movie scheduled to shoot this m...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visit New Zealand House in London

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle visited New Zealand House in London yesterday to offer condolences and pay respect to the victims of the terror attack in Christchurch last Friday. As they are the last members of the family to have visited New Zealand (last fall), they were chosen to represent the Bri...

Intro for March 20, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Jann Arden is a Canadian treasure. Her album Living Under June, that includes the hit singles “Good Mother”, “Could I Be Your Girl”, and “Insensitive”, came out 25 years ago this year. You know what’s amazing about Jann though? She’s about to turn 57 – and she has spent the last de...

What Else for March 19, 2019

I love a good pronunciation debate. You’ve probably heard of this by now? How do you say “squirrel”? It seems to be a matter of region. Americans mash the letters together and the English draw it out more. I’ve been trying to figure out if Canadians are somewhere in between – and I think that’s wher...

The Toy Story 4 trailer is embracing and leaning into its nightmare roots

The Toy Story franchise has always been a secret nightmare, but now the full trailer for Toy Story 4 is embracing it and leaning straight into its nightmare roots. This trailer has so much nightmare fuel, I don’t even know where to start. There’s Forky, the kindergarten craft project turned toy, thr...

Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield to star in Stella Meghie's The Photograph

I already have a moderate size LaKeith Stanfield problem. On April 19th, at precisely 1030pm, I will experience a full-blown LaKeith Stanfield crisis. That’s the day Someone Great comes out on Netflix – it’s a Friday, I’ll get home from work, walk my dogs, participate in a conversation with my husba...

Celebrity Social Media, March 19, 2019

Rachel Bilson is on a new show, which made me realize her other show, Take Two, had been cancelled. Her co-star was Eddie Cibrian, who has been on a lot of cancelled TV shows. Professionally, Rachel hasn’t totally floundered but she hasn’t had her own hit – she’s kind of in the same career position ...

Queen Elizabeth and Catherine open Bush House at King's College London

The Queen was joined by Princess Catherine today at King’s College London to open Bush House: Her Majesty The Queen and The Duchess of Cambridge arrive at @KingsCollegeLon to open Bush House – the latest education and learning facilities on the university’s Strand Campus. pic.twitter.com/AOGu...

Lupita Nyongo's scary eyes while promoting Us in New York

I am probably going to see Jordan Peele’s Us this weekend. Not happy about this. Us is getting strong reviews. Get Out was not a fluke. So it’s not like I’m going to walk out of there all like, what a sh-t movie. I will probably walk out with sh-t in my pants though because scary movies are not my t...

Pete Davidson and Kate Beckinsale's date night at The Dirt premiere

Kate Beckinsale and Pete Davidson arrived separately to the premiere of The Dirt last night. The Dirt is Netflix’s Motley Crue biopic that begins streaming on Friday. I can’t say I’ve ever been a Motley Crue fan. But going by the trailer (below), I don’t think I’ll mind watching big hair, eyeliner, ...

Florence Pugh joins Scarlett Johansson in Black Widow standalone movie

As we’ve already discussed, Florence Pugh is everywhere. Now, Pugh is ascending to the next level by joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as she is in talks to join Scarlett Johansson in the Black Widow standalone movie. Apparently, Marvel was looking at her last year, but then went to look at oth...

James Gunn rehired by Disney

In a move that surprised EVERYONE, late Friday word got out that Disney has rehired James Gunn, eight months after firing him for bad old tweets. This even after Disney insisted that they would not, despite considerable public and internal pressure, rehire Gunn. Refresher: Gunn, politically outspoke...

March 19, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Emily! Happy Birthday! And Happy 9th Anniversary to us! Sorry, I don’t mean to jam myself into your celebration but we are approaching a decade of this. I feel like we’ve grown up together. As for the way your requests have changed…dude, pop culture has been a mindf-ck, hasn’t. Remember how we used ...

Intro for March 19, 2019

Dear Gossips,  On Friday, Glastonbury announced its lineup for this year’s festival. They put the poster up on Twitter, the headliners listed top row. From left to right, it’s The Killers, The Cure, Stormzy, Kylie, and Janet Jackson.  Here is the first Glastonbury Festival 2019 line-up pos...

What Else for March 18, 2019

Last week there was a rumour going around that Diddy and Lori Harvey were a thing now because they were seen at a party together and social media made the eyes emoji. Now Diddy wants us to know that the eyes emoji was wrong and that there’s nothing to see here because they’re just family friends. Is...

Nicole Kidman’s throwback hair on the set of HBO's The Undoing

Nicole Kidman is currently in New York shooting a new series for HBO called The Undoing based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s book You Should Have Known. She plays Grace Sachs, a woman who appears to have it all together – husband has a successful medical practice, son is enrolled at an elite school, and s...

Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood movie poster

Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, has a poster for us to Look At and Assume Things. It has Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio with a vintage car, and the Hollywood sign in the far background. This movie is set in 1969 so I am calling bullsh-t on that Hollywood sign. By 19...

Celebrity Social Media, March 18, 2019

Alec Baldwin has posted a few throwbacks over the last couple of days and this one is not an accident. I kind of hate myself for wanting to hear Alec’s opinion on the college admission scandal but Alec is in that same sphere of celebrity as Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy - actor’s actors and w...

Michael B Jordan's grownup truth about getting older and going to the club

Originally this post was just going to be me telling you, look, new photos of Michael B Jordan, out with his frinds and who can ever complain about that so why do I need to write any more words? But then I checked his Instagram – and there is more to say about growing up and that moment many of us a...

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez's damage control in Page Six article following cheating rumours

Page Six published an interesting article about Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez this weekend. It’s been a week since their engagement and, as you know, Jose Canseco tried to ruin it with his claims on Twitter that ARod was cheating on JLo with Jose’s ex-wife Jessica – claims that Jessica then deni...

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid will make you wish you wrote it

The minute I started reading Daisy Jones & The Six I wish I wrote it. The book is set up as an oral history, the kind Vulture and Entertainment Weekly and other entertainment sites have been doing for movie and music and TV retrospectives – a really clever narrative structure that could only have be...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attend Lena Tindall’s christening

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were seen this weekend at Lena Tindall’s christening. Lena is the second child of Zara and Mike Tindall. The Queen was there too – clearly she doesn’t play favourites with her grandkids. Or, more accurately, she doesn’t just show up for the super senior ones.  Harry...

Prince William and Catherine step out for the Irish Guards St Patrick’s Day parade

Prince William and Catherine, per tradition, stepped out for the Irish Guards St Patrick’s Day parade yesterday in Hounslow. Kate wore green Alexander McQueen and her brooch is Cartier, a piece that belonged to the Queen Mother. Throughout the day, Will and Kate met with service members and showe...

March 18, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Mariale! Happy Birthday! And thank you for the update – I enjoyed all the details, especially the paragraph about work and the feedback you received. Isn’t that the best way to *not* get a promotion? By finding out what improvements you can make? This is what we try to get at on Show Your Work – you...

Intro for March 18, 2019

Dear Gossips,  The Juno Awards happened last night in Canada. These are our Grammys, a showcase of Canadian talent, much of which, as you have seen if you live outside Canada, has had undeniable global impact – and in many cases, the support begins at home.  Sarah McLachlan hosted the show and...

What Else for March 15, 2019

I LOVE Rosario Dawson. You know how we always talk about how nice Hugh Jackman is? She’s his equivalent. She is SO nice. She is really fun. She is interesting. She is smart. And she is now dating Cory Booker. I’m happy that she’s happy and in love. But he’s a politician. These are polarising times. ...

Mark Ruffalo makes Noah Centineo look good

Here is something we could all use today: the irrepressible charm of human sunshine, Mark Ruffalo. He was on The Tonight Show doing some early hype for Avengers: Endgame, and Jimmy Fallon brought up Noah Centineo and how everyone thinks he looks like Mark Ruffalo. (OF COURSE Fallon brought it Noah C...

Jordan Peele's Us is already building Oscar buzz

I really think there needs to be a three-month moratorium on Oscar talk following the Academy Awards, but life is inherently unfair so here we are, just a few weeks after the Oscars, already talking about next year’s Oscars. The subject? Jordan Peele’s Us. Just the trailer has people quaking in thei...

Celebrity Social Media, March 15, 2019

The Good Fight, a spinoff of The Good Wife, gets amazing reviews. It’s one of those hot shows that no one seems to actually watch because it’s not super accessible. I finally found where it’s playing in Canada but season 3 is starting. I can’t find seasons 1 and 2. If you are the rare unicorn who ha...

A.I. Katy Perry at the iHeartRadio Music Awards

Taylor Swift walked the carpet at the iHeartRadio Awards last night without giving interviews because that’s her thing now. It’s also a status thing. The big ones can breeze in, take some photos, and bypass the press line. Katy Perry doesn’t have that option though. As one of the judges on American ...

Taylor Swift's iHeartRadio acceptance speech felt like an old rerun

Taylor Swift won several awards at the iHeartRadio Awards last night, including best tour. She wore a blue/purple sequined romper, a look she’s done before, in years past, in eras past. And that wasn’t the only thing that felt old, like a rerun. Like we’ve been here before.  During her acceptance...

Scarlett Johansson covers Vogue with global actresses from fourteen countries around the world

Vogue’s April issue has a series of covers featuring actresses from around the world, representing the biggest and/or most promising names from fourteen countries. Lainey emailed me about it and said, “Global actresses…and Scarlett Johansson?!?!” I get it, though, ScarJo is a huge draw around the wo...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's House Sussex officially announced

After nearly six months of speculation, it was formally announced yesterday that the Sussexes Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will have their own household separate from the Cambridges, William and Catherine. House Sussex has been established with the support of Her Majesty and Prince Charles.  Exis...

Intro for March 15, 2019

Dear Gossips, Taika Waititi posted a Bob Marley quote today on Twitter: "The people who are trying to make this world worse aren't taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness." The light in this space today belongs to Lilly Singh. She was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last ni...

What Else for March 14, 2019

The last time we checked in on Lori Harvey, who is Steve Harvey’s stepdaughter, the Beyhive was getting mad at her for smiling a certain way at Jay-Z. Turns out, Jay-Z may not have been the music mogul that Lori was connecting with at that Grammys brunch. She and Diddy are now rumoured to be dating....

Bradley Cooper is not the father of Lady Gaga's music baby

I still don’t get why people are trying to believe in a Lady Gaga-Bradley Cooper romance. Like, separate from shipping their characters in A Star is Born. That people fell for those characters and their chemistry is one thing. But actually believing that Gaga and Coop are an undercover couple IRL, j...

Toronto politics at SXSW with debut of Run This Town

When the photos first emerged of Damian Lewis on-set in prosthetic makeup as late Toronto mayor Rob Ford — whose crack smoking scandal and sometimes debaucherous behaviour became fodder for late night jokes (and a Kimmel interview) and global fascination — it was easy to assume the movie was all abo...

Celebrity Social Media, March 14, 2019

Instagram was down yesterday and Lindsay Lohan grabbed her magnifying glass and threw on a trench coat to get to the bottom of it.  not when russia hacks you. it is not funny kids. this is the real world. — Lindsay Lohan (@lindsaylohan) March 13, 2019 It’s a very specific early-aughts t...

Carol Danvers and Thor in a stare-down in Avengers: Endgame trailer

The best part of the new Avengers: Endgame trailer is right at the end, when Carol Danvers appears in a stare-down with Thor. This was Lainey’s reaction: I AM FREAKING OUT AND OBVIOUSLY UNSTABLE. Thor and Carol’s budding super best friendship deserves its own space. They are two of the most po...

Your favourite mopey superheroes are back in Avengers: Endgame trailer

Everyone’s favorite mopey superheroes are back in the latest trailer for Avengers: Endgame. They’re showing off new hair, new suits, and getting their mope on as they prepare to take on Thanos in round two. I’m not super into the tone of these trailers, which only increase my feeling of “let’s just ...

The year of the scam continues in The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story

Scammers, as we’ve seen this year, are having a moment. That momentum continues with The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story, the satisfying documentary about the late fraudster mogul who discovered Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, Aaron Carter, O-Town, LFO, and most of your favourite 90s and early aughts ...

Jennifer Lopez at the gym with boulder of an engagement ring on her finger

Earlier this week, like a day after Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez announced their engagement, Jose Canseco got on Twitter to accuse ARod of cheating on JLo with his ex-wife Jessica. Jessica has now reinstated her Twitter account to refute Jose’s claims: Those false accusations Jose is mak...

Channing Tatum and Jessie J hold hands in London

We are coming up on the one year anniversary of Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan announcing their separation. Many of you were devastated at the time. “LOVE IS OVER!” proclaimed people on Twitter. “I’LL NEVER GET OVER THIS (celebrity split)!,” said others. Well, the lesson here is that if the celebrit...

Ben Affleck tells Ellen Degeneres his phoenix tattoo is meaningful to him

Ben Affleck’s new interview with Ellen DeGeneres to promote Triple Frontier on Netflix will air today. He looks good, relaxed, acknowledging his troubles of the past couple of years and the work he’s put in to move through them. So much so that he’s ready to take some sassing about the tattoo that’s...

Intro for March 14, 2019

Dear Gossips,  The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story is a documentary about the scammer behind the formation of some of your favourite 90s boy bands that premiered at SXSW yesterday. Like I’ve been saying, 2019 is the Year of the Scam. The scams are endless. Joanna will be posting about the fi...

What Else for March 13, 2019

Sarah’s been doing a series this year about self-care entertainment. One of my favourite self-care watches is Judge Judy. I don’t get to do this enough. But if I’m ever home on a sick day and I can’t write, I am watching Judge Judy. It soothes me to see her telling people about themselves. And once ...

Chris Pine and Annabelle Wallis go for breakfast

That’s basically the post. Chris Pine and Annabelle Wallis were photographed out for breakfast yesterday for a friend so you are updated on their status: still together.  I was just thinking about Kathleen’s Best Chris the other day, though, because Wonder Woman was on. We still have over a year ...

The Hollywood Reporter's 25 Most Powerful Stylists – 2019 edition

Probably my favourite Hollywood Reporter issue of the year, first because it’s good gossip, not for us, but for celebrities, to see who among them, by the work of their stylists, made the list; and for those who didn’t, well, that’s work too – because now they have a whole new year to try to get on ...

Celebrity Social Media, March 13, 2019

To celebrate the JoBro’s new single going to number one, Nick gifted Priyanka with a Maybach, which she put up on Instagram. But in the age of social media, is this braggy or ordinary? Is it any different than showing off a huge ring or a private jet? It’s not like Nick and Priyanka are low-key, but...

Show Your Work: Oprah, Gayle, and Jada’s media takeover

Thank you for your messages over the last week requesting commentary on Leaving Neverland and Michael Jackson. We decided to hold it for Show Your Work and have a full-bodied discussion. That said, if there was any doubt in my mind about the documentary – and there wasn’t – I would not have been abl...

Victoria and David Beckham attend the Portrait Gala as another rumour surfaces

Victoria and David Beckham were at the Portrait Gala last night, seen here leaving hand in hand, reassuring the Beckham worriers out there that all is fine despite yet another rumour about whether or not he’s been faithful. The Beckhams were a heatscore last spring when some story started circulatin...

The Filthy Tragedy of Operation Varsity Blues

“This is a story made for you,” Lainey wrote. Truer words have never been spoken.  I’m obsessed with schools, with education, with the way wanting ‘the best’ shapes and justifies people’s choices. I’m obsessed with the fetishization of the Ivy League and other ‘elite’ colleges. I spend approximat...

Princess Kate’s style modifications at the 2019 Portrait Gala at the National Portrait Gallery

That title serves multiple functions. Since returning from maternity leave after giving birth to Louis, there’s been some extra zip in Kate’s styling, non? I mean, she’s still a Middleton so let’s not go overboard, we’re operating in a narrow lane here, but she’s turned up the dial ever so slightly,...

Jennifer Lopez missing signature glow after engagement to Alex Rodriguez

I had a really good laugh yesterday around noon when this popped up on Jennifer Lopez’s Instagram: photos from her engagement, like literally. Like from the exact moment Alex Rodriguez proposed to her. Because it was so spontaneous there happened to be a photographer there capturing not just one but...

March 13, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Jenn! HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY with so much love from your sister Christine. Have a great time at Captain Marvel today! Higher, further, faster, baby – that’s you, isn’t it? Captain Marvel keeps getting back up. And that’s what you’ve done with your time and, as Christine shared with me, it’s been glorio...

Intro for March 13, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Thanks for all your feedback about our mobile site redesign! We’ve been working on it for months and it’s been exciting to finally see it in operation and your notes have been so helpful. Jacek has added an FAQ section to his introduction the other day that outlined the changes – p...

What Else for March 12, 2019

The biggest story today is obviously the Celebrity College Admissions Scandal HOLY F-CKING SH-T. Thank you for all your messages about it. We’re on it. Or, I should say, Duana is on it. Duana has a PhD in school applications and admissions and everything to do with getting into schools – it’s her li...

Euron Greyjoy's odds for winning Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones’ final season begins next month. Soon, after nearly a decade, we will know who wins the Iron Throne. But before that, let’s speculate wildly about the odds of the remaining great houses of Westeros and which of them will end up ruling the Seven Kingdoms. And I do mean GREAT houses—we...

Drag queen Shea Coulee calls last week's Drag Race challenge tone deaf

Last week’s episode of Drag Race was really good, a sign that the show might be starting to return back to its true form. The main challenge was to act in one of two parodies, based on Black Panther and Get Out. Watching the episode the first time around, I didn’t take any issue with this, but one D...

What does Captain Marvel mean for the Avengers?

This is mostly for Lainey, who thought Carol Danvers could time travel even though I told her point-blank she cannot time travel. Lainey texted me a bunch of questions about how Carol Danvers is going to fit into the Avengers, especially as Captain Marvel doesn’t really explain Carol’s power set. We...

Tatiana Maslany and Tom Cullen's Pink Wall debuts at SXSW

Tatiana Maslany and her partner of eight years, Tom Cullen, have been in Austin for the past few days for the debut of their latest collaboration, the romantic drama Pink Wall. It's a searing, non-linear portrayal of a relationship between Jenna (Tatiana) and Leon (Jay Duplass) over six years - from...

Celebrity Social Media, March 12, 2019

Lainey low-key worries about Nicole Richie and Joel Madden so this is for her. All good.          View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Nicole Richie (@nicolerichie) on Mar 11, 2...

Seth Rogen's Good Boys starring Jacob Tremblay looks good

Seth Rogen is a busy dude. This month, he has The Long Shot,  which Joanna just saw at SXSW and loved. But he’s also in The Lion King, an episode of Jordan Peele’s reimagined Twilight Zone, and is going to play Walter Cronkite in a movie (there’s Rogen’s Oscar movie!). He’s also producing a movie ca...

Beanie Feldstein shines as Molly in Olivia Wilde's Booksmart

The redband trailer for the bawdy, brassy and very sassy Booksmart dropped yesterday about 12 hours after the film's world premiere at SXSW, where it debuted to raucous laughter and a standing ovation. Standing ovations at SXSW aren't necessarily a thing, unless you're Boyz II Men. Sure, this isn't ...

First trailer for live action Aladdin looks like a joke

We are two months out from the release of Disney’s live-action Aladdin remake, and we are only just now getting a full trailer. Usually, two months out from release, we’d be getting the final of two or three trailers, but Aladdin apparently works in reverse. Now that we have a trailer, though, what ...

Brad Pitt at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris as Angelina Jolie attends Dumbo premiere with the kids

While Angelina Jolie was back in Hollywood at the Dumbo premiere last night with four of their six kids, Brad Pitt was in Paris, seen arriving at the airport and then later at the Musée d’Art Moderne. I just checked the website, the museum is closed until Friday which is when Thomas Houseago’s first...

Angelina Jolie and four of her children attend Dumbo premiere

Dumbo is in theatres March 29th. I am afraid of this movie. Not because Tim Burton directed it. Not because it’s going to suck. There is no way it’s going to suck. The visuals look amazing. Early reaction – at least that I’ve seen – has been positive. But … I’m worried my heart won’t recover. I’m wo...

Gwyneth Paltrow promotes trickle down wellness at In goop Health conference

Lainey sent me this photo from the In Goop Health conference in New York this weekend and it made me think of Heidi Montag’s recent quote about diversity in The Hills cast. “We don’t all look the same. I mean, Audrina has darker hair. I feel like Mischa has darker hair. But yeah, we’re California gi...

Intro for March 12, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Last week, did you hear about this?, some dude decided he’d figured out the formula for how many tampons a woman needs during her period. Amazing, right? After thousands of years of humanity, he comes along with his menstrual math and it turns out, the solution was basic multiplica...

What Else for March 11, 2019

If you missed it, we relaunched our mobile site today. Jacek posted about the changes with information on how to navigate the new features and how to revert back to the classic version. Thanks for all your feedback!  Did you hear about what happened to the woman who decided to not “observe the ba...

Busy Philipps hosts live edition of Busy Tonight at SXSW

Busy Philipps has a lot of schlep. She works hard! In addition to her Friday SXSW panel with Clique Media Group’s Hillary Kerr, she was a part of a Follies show, and hosted a live edition of her talk show Busy Tonight for some VIPs at the NBCUComcast SXSW house on Saturday. Oh, and she ate a ton of ...

The Cambridges and Sussexes at Westminster Abbey for Commonwealth Day service

After visiting Canada House today to celebrate Commonwealth Day, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle joined the Queen and other senior royals, including Prince Charles and Camilla and Prince William and Catherine, at Westminster Abbey for Commonwealth Day service. As you can see, Kate and Meghan greeted ...

Joe Jonas probably finds one of his brother's wives annoying

Last week, the Jonas Brothers took over The Late Late Show with James Corden as part of the publicity tour for their reunion and new single, “Sucker.” When I wrote about it before, I was pretty indifferent to the announcement. But now, after watching them as guests on late night, I’ve kind of fallen...

Celebrity Social Media, March 11, 2019

Deciphering celebrity social media posts is not a science – sometimes we are bang-on and sometimes we have our heads up our asses. But this tweet from Seth Rogen is no doubt a tribute to Julia Roberts. One hundred per cent, no room for interpretation. I feel it in my bones.  #actualfriends. ...

Charlize Theron dances with Boyz II Men during SXSW presentation of Long Shot with Seth Rogen

If you weren’t talking about Us at SXSW, chances are you were talking about the surprise Boyz II Men sing-a-long and dance party with Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen following the world premiere of Long Shot on Saturday. Boyz II Men! ABC! BBD! And the entire Paramount Theatre (about 1,100 people) up ...

New series, Frat Boy Genius, to be made about Snapchat's Evan Spiegel

The Black List is “an annual survey of [300] Hollywood executives’ favourite unproduced screenplays". According to Deadline, “since its inception by feature development executive Franklin Leonard the survey has yielded north of 400 Black List scripts. Of that batch, those produced continued on to ea...

Jordan Peele and Lupita Nyong’o at the Us world premiere at SXSW

When Jordan Peele introduced Lupita Nyong’o at the world premiere of Us in Austin at SXSW on Friday night, she leapt from her seat and started punching the air to cheer for her film and hype up the crowd. She was PUMPED because she knew what we were about to see: the most talked about movie of the f...

Warner Brothers boss Kevin Tsujihara’s sexting mess

What is it with CEOs and sexting scandals? On the heels of Jeff Bezos comes Warner Brothers’ boss Kevin Tsujihara, who landed in hot water after The Hollywood Reporter published a story last week about an affair and text messages exchanged between Tsujihara and actress Charlotte Kirk. Is it gross? Y...

Jose Canseco injects himself into Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez's engagement

I read a few headlines this weekend about Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez’s “surprise” engagement. I’m sorry, excuse me, how was this a surprise? Gossip has been waiting for them to get engaged since the day we found out they were dating. Anyway, let’s talk about this ring.      ...

Captain Marvel lit up the box office on opening weekend

Despite diaper babies crying all over the internet and doing their best to convince themselves that everyone else hates Captain Marvel as much as they do, Captain Marvel had a big debut weekend, racking up an estimated $153 million in its North American debut. It turns out, the only people who did n...

Meghan Markle overperforms while claiming she never looks at Twitter

On Friday, International Women’s Day, Meghan Markle participated in a panel discussion organised by The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust, of which she is now Vice President, to talk about challenges to gender equality and how to create more opportunity for women and girls around the world. At one point sh...

LaineyGossip site update: New Mobile Site Launch

A message from Jacek:  We’re excited to launch a new version of our mobile site this morning. If you’re reading this on a mobile device, you’re probably already aware of that.  The new site is quick, easy to navigate, and relatively intuitive, but we want to point out a couple of things to mak...

Intro for March 11, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Captain Marvel exceeded expectations this weekend with a big take at the box office. Sarah will have the analysis coming up later. I saw it again on Sunday and I liked it even more on second viewing. And, as usually happens with me on repeats with these movies, new observations sta...

What Else for March 8, 2019

Another brawl over crab legs at the buffet!? What is it with crab legs? As you know, I know about a buffet. I love a buffet. My family used to own a Chinese buffet. My birthday party last year was at a Chinese buffet. So I get it, there are some big ticket items. But… crab legs? I guess, because of ...

Brie Larson & Gemma Chan's Outfits of the Week

Of course the Outfit of the Week is going to be Captain Marvel related today. Outfits, plural though! Because I can’t decide between Brie Larson in this blue suit with red trim which… what are the colours you see here?  Get ready to marvel. See Marvel Studios’ #CaptainMarvel in theaters TONIG...

Netflix’s rom-com revival continues with Gina Rodriguez in Someone Great

Last year, Netflix ushered in the rom-com revival with their “summer of love”. This year, they’re keeping the love train running with a new romantic comedy, Someone Great. It stars Gina Rodriguez and LaKeith Stanfield as a twenty-something couple splitting up on the eve of their thirties. But as int...

Leonardo DiCaprio out with Camila Morrone ahead of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood promo

Earlier this week, The Hollywood Reporter speculated about which films could be screened in Cannes. We are now just two months away from the festival and, since Cannes has always welcomed Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a strong possibility. The film opens wide at the end of July...

Celebrity Social Media, March 8, 2019

Justin and Hailey Bieber are not super active on social media when it comes to posting, but they do keep up with the conversation about them. (That is how Hailey ended up accidentally following a Selena Gomez fan account.) I’m not knocking them creeping on social media– everyone does it, and most of...

Is Tom Hiddleston Taylor Swift's Lesson #16?

Taylor Swift’s American ELLE cover was released earlier this week featuring her essay about the 30 lessons she’s learning before turning 30. It was a full-bodied piece about empowerment and growth, about reflection and self-interrogation in search of improvement AND it came with gossip bonuses, not ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda guest stars on Brooklyn Nine-Nine

On yesterday’s episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Lin-Manuel Miranda guest starred as Amy Santiago’s brother. If you recall, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was cancelled this summer and then saved in 31 hours, partly thanks to the swell of support from celebrities including LMM. I guess his guest appearance is a wa...

Meghan Markle’s feminist bump at The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust

Ahead of her appearance today at The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust panel celebrating International Women’s Day to discuss obstacles to equality and opportunity, it was announced that Meghan Markle is now Vice President of The Queen’s Commonwealth Trust working alongside Prince Harry who is the Presiden...

Captain Marvel’s International Women’s Weekend

Today is International Women’s Day intentionally chosen to be the American opening day of Captain Marvel. Obviously they’re hoping for a big box office this weekend. Projections range anywhere from $80 million to $120 million. She was off to a good start last night with Deadline estimating a $20-$24...

Captain Marvel movie review starring Brie Larson

Captain Marvel is an oddity by way of being the first solo-led superheroine movie produced by Marvel Studios. Eleven years and twenty movies on from Iron Man, they finally entrust a story entirely to a woman, and the result is, much like Black Panther, special by virtue of being different. It’s not ...

Intro for March 8, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Two weeks ago this Sunday, Selma Blair showed up at the Vanity Fair Oscar party and took over the red carpet. I’ve been saving these pictures ever since, saving them for today, International Women’s Day. It was Selma’s first public appearance since revealing her MS diagnosis last f...

What Else for March 7, 2019

Is this the second time this week that I’ve mentioned The Hills in this space? I’ve only just now realised that they’re promoting the new series. And I’ve only just now remembered that Mischa Barton is in it. All these years later, what’s changed? Well. The colour hasn’t. And by “colour” I mean hair...

"The Butt Song" from A Star is Born vindicated in The New York Times Magazine's music issue

This post is a cheat: I could link to it in What Else? but I want to give it its own space. It deserves its own space but also…it’s so perfect all by itself – the choices, the writing, the layout, all of it – that it doesn’t need me writing on top of it. So I’m cheating it by lifting a point out of ...

Celebrity Social Media, March 7, 2019

We can’t get enough of scams right now, but there’s one that hasn’t gotten the same amount of media attention as the showstoppers like Fyre Festival and Anna in New York. This one is about a couple who conspired with a homeless man to create a feel-good story in order to ask people for donations. Th...

Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling's work romance in Late Night trailer

Mindy Kaling’s late night talk show comedy, Late Night, premiered at Sundance and now we have a trailer to assess the fuss and decide if it’s worth it. Going by this trailer, I think the Sundance audience maybe undersold it, because I Am Charmed. Late Night stars Emma Thompson as a late night talk s...

Kate Beckinsale is paying attention to what's being said about kissing photos with Pete Davidson

Kate Beckinsale was with Pete Davidson in New York last weekend. I’m sure you’ve all seen the photos of them kissing at the hockey game. I was going to write about that on Monday but we were having tech issues on the site and I never got around to it. I was going to write about it on Tuesday but the...

Disney releases Maleficent: Mistress of Evil poster

The last time we heard anything from Maleficent 2, it was a tease of Michelle Pfeiffer’s role as “Queen Ingrith”, but yesterday Disney dropped a new poster on Twitter, along with an official title: Maleficent 2: Mistress of Evil, and also a new release date - in October. I’m not sure moving up to Oc...

Brie Larson and Samuel L Jackson's great chemistry in Captain Marvel and Carpool Karaoke

Sarah’s review of Captain Marvel will go up tomorrow. I saw it a couple of weeks ago. Quick reaction: I had a good time as soon as Brie Larson and Samuel L Jackson started hanging out. They are GREAT together. They’re the superhero BFFs I never expected. Maybe the nerds expected it but I had no idea...

Idris Elba replacing Will Smith in Suicide Squad sequel

DC Films is going ahead with a Suicide Squad sequel which will be written, and probably directed, by James Gunn. Though it is currently referred to as Suicide Squad 2, it sounds less like a sequel and more like a soft reboot, as has been the case with DC movies recently that just pretend like the Za...

Intro for March 7, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Last year, after Jennifer Lawrence interviewed Emma Stone for ELLE and Beyoncé interviewed herself for Vogue, Jon Caramanica asked in The New York Times whether or not the celebrity profile was dead. And then in November Allison P Davis took up the mantle with her outstanding piece...

What Else for March 6, 2019

In my post today about Andrew Garfield and Rita Ora, I suggested who could be next for Rita, someone who could match her thirst. Zac Efron initially came to mind but he apparently has a new girlfriend, Danish swimmer Sarah Bro. He probably loves that her last name is his favourite word. These two se...

Taylor Swift namechecks Jameela Jamil in ELLE piece

“I haven’t been this upset since my good friend Taylor was rudely upstaged by my other friend Kanye, who was defending my best friend, Beyoncé.” – Tahani Al-Jamil, The Good Place  If you’ve read Taylor Swift’s piece in American ELLE, you know she namechecked Jameela Jamil, star of The Good Place,...

Andrew Garfield and Rita Ora reportedly no longer together

I don’t know why this has to be such a big headline. It’s not like….well…was there anyone out there who thought this was something lasting?  Andrew Garfield and Rita Ora haven’t been seen together in 2019. The Mirror broke the news today that they’ve split after a “whirlwind romance”. That’s gene...

Kit Harington promotes Game of Thrones on Colbert

Entertainment Weekly’s releasing cover after cover featuring the cast of Game of Thrones. The first full final episodes trailer for Game of Thrones was released yesterday and here’s Kit Harington in New York on Colbert promoting the end so the countdown is on. We’ve a little over a month to go befor...

Celebrity Social Media, March 6, 2019

I wonder which paper this was  - The Province or The Vancouver Sun? Or it might have been a community paper. Ryan Reynolds is 42, so this would have been published around 1980, just at the beginning of the kidnapping panic era. They included his full address with his photo, an interesting editorial ...

Taylor Swift delivers the gossip in essay for American ELLE

Last week, Taylor Swift wrote a piece for ELLE UK about pop music. This week she covers American ELLE, once again in her own words, because like Beyoncé before her, Taylor isn’t doing interviews anymore. The question is – what is this for? The ELLE UK essay came and went with no indication of new mu...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attend WE Day UK

WE Day is for youth. Thousands of young people are recognised for their social contributions and invited to participate in a day of empowerment, with celebrity guest speakers encouraging their efforts as they continue to engage with their immediate and greater communities. Prince Harry is the Presid...

Show Your Work: How To Be Joe Zee Part 2

Thanks so much for all your feedback on Part 1 of our conversation with Joe Zee last week! As we mentioned, he gave us so much great work, and he’s shown us so much amazing work, that we couldn’t keep it to one episode. So here’s Part 2 in which we go back to where Joe started – how a Chinese Canadi...

Gayle King's "Big Gayle Energy" in interview with R Kelly

Credit to Jabari Ali Davis for coming up with “Big Gayle Energy”, the focus of this post. Here’s Jabari’s tweet: Big Gayle Energy pic.twitter.com/P8uVzrqOD6 — Jabari Ali Davis (@JabariDavisNBA) March 6, 2019 I’m focusing on Gayle King, because what’s there to say, really, about R Kelly?...

Intro for March 6, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Here’s what I forgot to mention when I posted about the Chanel presentation yesterday: Janelle Monae wearing Chanel as an homage to herself in Chanel, by Karl Lagerfeld of course. This is Janelle’s most recent Chanel outfit: And this is the Chanel she wore at the Golden Glob...

What Else for March 5, 2019

This is a genius idea and I think they should consider it for all food trucks and festivals and yes, this is a first world problem but sometimes you have a drink to hold and maybe another food item but you don’t want to miss out on your chicken and, this way, you can also send a text to someone abou...

Carpets & Candids: Jennifer and Emma at Louis Vuitton

Jennifer Connelly’s look at Louis Vuitton today is not going to be for everyone. I just… don’t know what you expect from people who are going to a fashion show DURING PARIS FASHION WEEK. Like, why, WHYYYYY would you not want to push style boundaries when that is exactly where you want to push them? ...

Drama comes for the drag queens of the Hater’s Roast: Shady Tour

This weekend, a lot of tea was spilled on the Drag Race Twittersphere. If you follow some favourites, like Bob the Drag Queen, or Monet X Change, you may have seen some vague callout posts against a production company called Murray and Peter, or M&P for short.  Currently, many queens from RuPaul’...

Ari Aster is back to ruin summer camp with Midsommar teaser starring Florence Pugh

Don’t recognize the name Ari Aster? He’s the dude who made Hereditary, you know, the scariest and/or most f-cked-up movie. A lot of people thought Toni Collette should be an Oscar contender for her work in Hereditary, which, if the Academy was less genre-biased, she definitely would have been. She g...

The staggeringly sad loss of Luke Perry

Yesterday, like everyone else who came of age in the 90s, I mourned Luke Perry. He was beloved for his arc on Oz, his self-deprecating appearances on The Simpsons and SNL, and his fully-realized three-dimensional Fred Andrews on Riverdale – but, as he said himself, he was, and forever will be, linke...

Celebrity Social Media, March 5, 2019

Pour one out for Ned Rocknroll.          View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Kate Winslet fanpage 💫🇳🇴 (@katewinsletarmy) on Feb 26, 2019 at 2:06pm PST Lainey could ...

Game of Thrones finally comes through with new trailer

I was really starting to think we’d never see a proper trailer for Game of Thrones’ final season. That we would just have to settle for mere seconds doled out like scraps in broader HBO promo materials. But lo, on the fifth day, the great dragon breathed life into the world and there was a full trai...

The Cambridges and Sussexes support Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace

The Cambridges, William and Catherine, and Sussexes, Harry and Meghan, were all at Buckingham Palace today, with the Queen, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Prince Charles’s investiture as the Prince of Wales. Basically he’s now waited, officially, half a century to be king. It’s the first time ...

Sienna Miller travels with new boyfriend Lucas Zwirner

I missed it in January when it was confirmed that Sienna Miller has a new boyfriend. They were photographed together yesterday heading to Paris where she’s expected to attend the Louis Vuitton show. His name is Lucas Zwirner, 27 years old. His family owns art galleries. According to this W profile f...

Kristen Stewart's amazing Chanel catsuit during Fall 2019 presentation in Paris

At Paris Fashion Week today: Chanel’s Fall 2019 presentation, presumably the last Karl Lagerfeld would have worked on extensively, so it was an emotional tribute featuring many of his muses, a moment of silence at the beginning, and then Karl’s voice echoing through the Grand Palais, talking about h...

Kensington Palace announces new social media policy to protect the royals

Kensington Palace yesterday announced their new social media policy for their channels in an attempt to get rid of some of the trash in the comments. If you’ve spent any time at all online, and I’m assuming you have because you are here, I’m sure you’re familiar with the f-cksh-t that goes on in any...

Intro for March 5, 2019

Dear Gossips,  I love the name Dylan. I’d never met a “Dylan” until I “met” Dylan McKay. I was pretty much exactly the age of Dylan McKay and his cohort when they were first introduced to us and while in subsequent years, people always joked about how old the actors were when they were playing hi...

What Else for March 4, 2019

If you are reading this, it means that our site has been restored, which is a relief, because it’s been off and on most of the day and, I know, big picture, it’s not a big deal. For those of us in the online business though, site outages are major stress – this is our work, this is what we pour so m...

Celebrity Social Media, March 4, 2019

“My partner”… “I have ever met”… “You make me”…”more than I knew I could”…”I cherish”…”your huz.” At this point it’s predictiable, the ME-ME-ME I-I-I prose. He also put up 5 photos, not of her, but of the two of them. In one, half her face is cut off and he’s looking directly at the camera. In anoth...

Chris Martin's birthday guests include Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, and Melanie Griffith

Chris Martin’s birthday was on Saturday. There was a party and a lot of celebrities were at the party, including his ex-wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, who also wished him Happy Birthday on Instagram. Right after wishing her husband, Brad Falchuk, Happy Birthday the day before – his bday is on March 1, same ...

Johnny Depp files $50 million defamation suit against Amber Heard

Johnny Depp has filed a $50 million defamation suit against Amber Heard objecting to the op-ed she wrote in the Washington Post in December about what she says experienced when she came forward as a survivor of domestic violence. According to Johnny, it was all an “elaborate hoax” that was meant to ...

Zendaya conquers Paris with 70's themed Tommy Hilfiger runway show

That’s a hyperbolic title. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration. No other fashion show this weekend in Paris got the attention and the buzz that Zendaya generated for Tommy Hilfiger. And…ummmm… it’s Tommy Hilfiger. When’s the last time anyone’s been excited about Tommy Hilfiger? This is the work of Ze...

Lindsay Shookus supports Ben Affleck as he promotes Triple Frontier in New York

As mentioned last week in the post about Ben Affleck’s glow-up in progress, he’s been getting ready for the Triple Frontier premiere (available on Netflix this week) which happened in New York last night after the junket. Lindsay Shookus was seen leaving the junket and also at his apartment. It was ...

Intro for March 4, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Let’s start the week with my favourite set of photos from the weekend. There were a lot of good photos released this weekend and we’ll get to most of them soon. But none of them are as delightful as these shots of Nicolas Cage at something called the Lawyers’ Ball in Vienna. They d...

What Else for March 1, 2019

I’m sure you know what’s blowing up right now. The whole ass internet, actually but this is what Twitter was made for. It’s Friday. It’s perfect Friday content. It’s comedy hour. And some of you have been sending me some hilarious tweets. Since this happened after Maria worked on Celebrity Social Me...

Drag Race Season 11, Episode 1 review

*Spoilers below* *Monique voice* America, I am exhausted.          View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Miley Cyrus (@mileycyrus) on Feb 27, 2019 at 1:55pm PST I fee...

Latest episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine tackles #MeToo

On Wednesday, Sarah wrote about Emma Thompson’s open letter and how her decision to quit Luck because of John Lasseter was privileged because she had the means and the resources to support herself and find work afterward. It was, however, an important step because by being the first person to public...

Celebrity Social Media, March 1, 2019

How is this the first I’m seeing of Renee Zellwegger at the Vanity Fair party, in the perfect black party dress? She looks absolutely lovely and we know Renee doesn’t just show up for anything, she is extremely particular about her events. Her appearance makes me suspect that we’ll be seeing more wo...

Ben Affleck's glow-up in progress

I put a question mark behind that because I don’t know yet that it’s an official “glow-up”. So can we call it a “glow-up in progress”? I posted the other day about Ben Affleck and how tidy he looked on his night out with Lindsay Shookus last weekend. Check him out yesterday, in good spirits, even wi...

Rami Malek to play villain in Bond 25

Now that Rami Malek has an Oscar, what will his career look like? He still has Mr. Robot, but on the movie side, it looks like his first post-Oscar role will be as the villain in Bond 25. In a double-report, Deadline stated that Malek and Lupita Nyong’o were both being pursued—it turns out Lupita wi...

Page Six's weak story that Priyanka Chopra is mad at Meghan Markle

Priyanka Chopra, as we know, was friends with Meghan Markle before she met Prince Harry and was invited to the royal wedding in May. Meghan did not attend Priyanka and Nick Jonas’s wedding in India in December. And Priyanka was not at Meghan’s New York Takeover baby shower last week. Now Page Six is...

The Jonas Brothers reunite with new single, "Sucker"

Yesterday, the Jonas Brothers were trending number one on Twitter after they announced their reunion and new song, "Sucker", which dropped at midnight last night. As part of their promotion, the group will also be taking over The Late Late Show with James Cordon for four days next week.  #Suc...

Oprah Winfrey hosting After Neverland special following premiere of Leaving Neverland

After Sundance, many of you emailed for commentary about Leaving Neverland, the new documentary directed by Dan Reed that “explores the separate but parallel experiences of James ‘Jimmy’ Safechuck and Wade Robson” with Michael Jackson, alleging that he sexually abused them as children. I’ve not writ...

March 1, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

On Monday night in Vancouver, a car jumped the curb and crashed into lawyer Rachel Blarsky and her friend. Rachel has a “severely fractured pelvis, hip fracture, back fracture, some internal bleeding, and two broken fingers”. She’s had surgery and will require extensive rehabilitation. Rachel is a l...

Intro for March 1, 2019

Dear Gossips,  I woke up this morning to see Solange trending on Twitter, exactly what we need to coast into the weekend. When I Come Home is the follow-up to the Grammy-winning album A Seat at the Table, the best work of her career to that point, released in 2016. Back in October, Solange promis...