What Else for October 31, 2019

As I’ve been saying all week, Halloween is a lot of work for a lot of people, including those who work in television since it’s a visual medium and there’s nothing more visual than Halloween. Which is why I was busy AF this week in Halloween rehearsals and shoots for the two shows I work on, etalk a...

Celebrity Social Media, October 31, 2019

The other day I was wondering when jack-o’-lanterns got so complicated? It used to be triangle eyes and the toothy grin, and now pumpkin carving requires a kit, cutouts, and maybe some power tools. The designs have gotten so complicated, like the Joker shaking hands with Kylo Ren or something. Who c...

Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Cox dress up as Marvel characters for Halloween

If you play a superhero, is it gauche to dress as that superhero for Halloween? I think so. I would think less of Chris Hemsworth if he showed up at a party as Thor. Tom Hiddleston and the cast of Betrayal on Broadway have been teasing a Halloween surprise, telling fans to come by last night by the ...

What’s Your Drama: What Lainey Cannot Unsee (or Unhear)

Welcome back to What’s Your Drama! Thank you again for the support and feedback on Season 5!     On today’s show: First we hash out the drama that is Miley Cyrus. The girl always keeps us on our toes and for that, we are thankful. So what’s going on with her and Cody Simpson? Why the f-ck does ...

Meghan Markle called MP Holly Lynch to thank her for support

Earlier this week, 72 female British Members of Parliament wrote an open letter to Meghan Markle, offering their support and solidarity “against the distasteful and misleading” stories about her in the British tabloids. It was MP Holly Lynch who led the initiative and she was interviewed yesterday a...

Page Six reports that Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are getting married soon

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton have been together four years. Apparently their official anniversary is, like, right around now. But it might not be the anniversary they celebrate for much longer because, according to Page Six, they’ll soon be married. A source says: “We’re all expecting a wedding...

Intro for October 31, 2019

Dear Gossips,  As of this writing, Beyoncé Halloween 2019 hasn’t happened yet. Last year she posted on the 30th. Is she skipping this year? I’m f-cking sweating.  While we wait to find out who or what Beyoncé will be for Halloween, or if she’s even doing Halloween, we do have a temporary winne...

What Else for October 30, 2019

Last week we had a neuroscientist on The Social who was telling us about brain research and why sometimes, when you think your brain isn’t working, it’s actually doing exactly what it should be doing. The brain is a great editor. Our brains are constantly receiving so much information, it makes no s...

For Your Fitness: A Personal Story

I’ve been writing this column for a long time, 7 years if we are counting, and I’ve covered probably every topic possible in regards to healthy living – fitness is physical and also mental. We’ve talked body image disorders, training for your first 10km, exercising while battling cancer, and the imp...

A forensic pathologist says Jeffrey Epstein's death could have been homicide instead of suicide

When Jeffrey Epstein died in August, apparently by suicide, there were a lot of questions about what happened, exactly. And there are a lot of people who think that it may not have been a suicide – including members of his family and legal team, who subsequently hired their own forensic pathologist ...

Show Your Work: Is Selena Gomez The Michael Jordan Of Her Era?

On this week’s Show Your Work, it may not surprise you to know that the showrunners of Game Of Thrones made a mess… again. And worse, they’re… kind of not that sorry, or at least, they weren’t before this week started. Now, however… Last Friday, at the Austin Film Festival, the two participated i...

Celebrity Social Media, October 30, 2019

Meg Ryan has “had enough” of John Mellencamp and the engagement is off. She was married to Dennis Quaid in the 90s, so can you imagine what ‘enough’ looks like for Meg Ryan? Or maybe because she’s 57, she’s over the bullsh-t and recognizes ‘enough’ much sooner.          ...

Billy Crudup is enjoyable and attractive in The Morning Show

Apple TV+ launches on Friday and the big push the last few weeks has been behind The Morning Show produced by and starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon who should get most of the attention and they have. There are, however, other actors on the series like Steve Carrell (Steve’s done a coup...

Last Christmas is a perfect choice for Emilia Clarke after Game of Thrones

I was in New York on Sunday and Monday for the Last Christmas press screening and junket. It was my Christmas 2018 wish come true – last year, I wrote that I really wanted to be assigned to this movie for etalk because, well, everything about this movie checks my boxes: I love rom-coms, I love Londo...

Shawn Mendes confirms relationship with Camila Cabello during Q&A in Australia

It’s not like it’s new that Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello are dating. In fact, it’s quite obvious that they’re dating. They just haven’t said out loud that YES WE ARE 100% DATING. But I don’t know why we need it to be vocalised. People are confusing and I don’t blame children for being like, growi...

Zac Efron shows off his sauna on social media

Before we get to this photo of Zac Efron in the sauna, can we talk about how he was supposed to be an Oscar contender? No, I didn’t just pull this out of my ass – at the beginning of 2019, after Sundance and the premiere of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, the film in which Zac plays Ted ...

HBO cancels planned Game of Thrones prequel starring Naomi Watts

Okay, it’s not precisely Game of Thrones’ fault that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss left their Star Wars trilogy. But even if it’s not a direct impact on GOT itself, that event does contribute to the overall tainting of GOT’s legacy, which is still muddied with fan ire and the perception t...

Intro for October 30, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Tomorrow is Halloween. I’m never all that excited about Halloween but I am excited about the Queen’s Halloween. Because there is one legend who does Halloween better than anyone else – that would be our Queen, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter. She has now trained us, every year, to w...

What Else for October 29, 2019

I forgot to mention something in my Taylor Swift post from earlier. This is because it’s Halloween week, a notoriously busy week for those of us who work in entertainment broadcasting. Somewhere in the mid-2000s, Halloween became A HIGH PRIORITY THING on television because television is a visual med...

Entertainment Self-Care: Super Soft Reading recommendations

After a self-care break of my own, we are back with new entertainment self-care recommendations , because we all need a goddamn mental vacation every now and then. This time, we’ve got reading recommendations for you, and yes, my break entailed re-reading a lot of romance novels. That’s our theme th...

72 British Member of Parliament support Meghan Markle in calling out UK tabloids

Holly Lynch, a British Member of Parliament, along with 71 other MPs, has released a letter in support of Meghan Markle calling out the UK tabloids. They share that they too have been treated unfairly by many of the same newspapers and House Sussex is suing but they point out that Meghan has been ta...

Celebrity Social Media, October 29, 2019

I’m curious as to why Ellen had Bob Iger on her show (or if she had a choice, given who he is). He’s obviously a powerful executive, but she typically focuses on celebrities’ feel-good stories – this is definitely a departure from her regular lineup. I wonder how her audience felt when he came out i...

Modern Love starring Dev Patel and Anne Hathaway series review

Amazon’s new anthology Modern Love takes some of the most memorable essays from the New York Times column of the same name and adapts them into charming little vignettes about love in the big city. Or, well, most of them are charming. One is a straight up nightmare. We’ll get there. For most of its ...

Taylor Swift begins Oscar campaign for Cats

Last Friday in the site open, I wrote about Cats and whether or not Entertainment Weekly and Oscar experts were sleeping on Cats as an Oscar contender. They’d just released a promo video featuring Taylor Swift, revealing that she’d co-written a song with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the new movie. Obviou...

Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss abandon their Star Wars trilogy

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, showrunners of Game of Thrones, have left their planned Star Wars trilogy because they are just too dang busy. Last night news broke that Benioff and Weiss have split with Lucasfilm, and statements came from both Benioff and Weiss, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kenne...

Selena Gomez opens up about past toxic relationships and complicated alliances while promoting her new singles in New York

Big week for Selena Gomez last week with the release of two new singles after a lengthy absence. But as she’s been saying while promoting the music, she was hurting and she was struggling and now that she says she’s moved past it, she’s ready to share her experience, to put all those feelings into h...

Intro for October 29, 2019

Dear Gossips, The Queen’s dressmaker, Angela Kelly, has published a new book, The Other Side of the Coin, the Queen, the dresser, and the Wardrobe. Excerpts from the book have been published in HELLO! and making headlines today is the story Angela shares about doing a photoshoot with the Queen a ...

What Else for October 28, 2019

Remember Lady Gaga’s dress from the Golden Globes earlier this year? It was blue, an homage to Judy Garland with some Cinderella vibes. Gaga didn’t get to keep the dress. Or she didn’t want to keep the dress? Something happened and the dress was either left behind at the hotel or it was stolen, and ...

Duana Names: My Name is GOTCHA!

Hi there,   Long time reader of the blog, but first time emailer here. My husband and I received the shock of our lives when we found out at the beginning of my second trimester that instead of the one baby we thought we were having (and, frankly, were told we were having at the 8 week ultrasound)...

Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon promote The Morning Show as early reviews come in

Apple TV+ launches in a matter of days and, as you may have heard, the marquee release is The Morning Show, produced by and starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. They’ve been out here promoting the series hard – magazines, talk shows, Instagram, tonight is the premiere in New York City. A...

Watchmen Season 1 Episode 2 review

Spoilers The second episode of Watchmen, “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship”, deepens our understanding of this alternate America, while setting up the mystery of the show: Who is Will, and, Who is Angela, really? Building off the first episode, “Horsemanship” is also directed by Nicole Kass...

Celebrity Social Media, October 28, 2019

The Casamigos Halloween party happened over the weekend and the biggest name was George Clooney; it’s a work event for him. Amal didn’t join him this year and as a whole, the guest list seems pretty lacklustre. I don’t know if exclusivity is the goal though as it’s a marketing event that gets tons o...

Awkwafina begins Oscar campaign for The Farewell at the Governors Awards

As mentioned, if an actor is in the race for the Oscars in the given year, chances are they’ll be at Academy’s Governors Awards – even Eddie Murphy showed up at one of the most critical stops on the campaign trail. So it’s here where we can get a sense of how the studios will be strategising and pos...

Marvel not likely to dump Jeremy Renner after abuse allegations by ex-wife Sonni Pacheco

Jeremy Renner has had A Year. It started with rumors of a romance with Lady Gaga—which did not materialize, but I would like to visit the alternate universe where Jeremy Renner/Lady Gaga and Brad Pitt/Charlize Theron happened—and then he released his completely mediocre karaoke album, and finally, h...

Eddie Murphy and Jamie Foxx steal the show at the Governors Awards

When you give Jamie Foxx a microphone at the Governors Awards, and let him know he has three to four minutes to adlib remarks while in a room with this year's Oscar contenders like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio and Scarlett Johansson, you have to know the hype-man is going to dole out the shout-outs....

Jennifer Lopez makes first campaign stop for Hustlers at the Governors Awards

The Academy’s Governors Awards happened this weekend. On this night, every year, the Academy hands out its honorary Oscars. It’s the pre-Oscars. And it’s the first major event, the most important early event, on the award season calendar – because this is the ACADEMY. Golden Globes and SAG Awards ar...

Prince Andrew enlists help of forensics experts to prove Virginia Roberts Giuffre is a liar

Well I’m definitely not conflicted about writing about this one. This f-cking joker… Prince Andrew, the beneficiary of all the drama between House Cambridge and House Sussex last week, is trying to capitalise on his nephews’ bad press by going back to the “fat fingers defence”, like somehow peopl...

Ben Affleck directly addresses his relapse this weekend when questioned by the paps

Ben Affleck has been out of rehab for a year now. Last week all the headlines about Ben were related to his romantic life – how he may or may not be using the Raya dating app to meet people. On Saturday, seemingly addressing the rumours, he posted this on social media:  Join me in supporting ...

Intro for October 28, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Jane Fonda announced recently that she’d be living in Washington DC for a few months to protest climate change. She intends to get arrested every Friday for “Fire Drill Fridays”. When it first happened, I was wondering how she’d keep up the interest week after week. The first time ...

What Else for October 25, 2019

If you’re one of those people hoping for an Adele+Drake situation, there’s competition. Apparently Kylie Jenner was also at Drake’s birthday and there may be something going on between them, even though they were just talking. This….would be complicated, over and above the Kanye West connection beca...

Anticipating what's coming next on HBO's Watchmen following the first episode

In the wake of Game of Thrones, we’re all looking for the next Game of Thrones. I don’t think there will ever be a television show as culturally dominant as GOT again, but we’ve got some contenders for your new weekly obsession. Succession is all family drama and backstabbing politics, and Watchmen ...

Sasha Finds: Blume Period Products

Lainey loves to say I’m “tampon poor”. But in my defence, it’s not that I don’t have them ....it’s just that I don’t always have them when I need them. Fine. F-ck. I’m tampon poor. Look, it’s no way to live. But all this is about to change because I finally heard about this super rad company, Blu...

Megan Mullally will reportedly miss two episodes of Will & Grace

Remember when The Good Wife ended and many of us obsessed over the split screen goodbye scene between Julianna Marguiles and Archie Panjabi? That feud didn’t come out of nowhere – the two characters spent three seasons on the phone because the actresses wouldn’t appear in a scene together. When thin...

Rihanna has dinner at Giorgio di Baldi as the internet tries to guess her scent

Before we get into the smell of Rihanna, I just want to take a moment to point out how fickle we are – like the internet, we are f-ckle assholes, always looking for the next hit, never loyal to the last hit. A few days ago, after Rihanna showed up at Drake’s party, everyone was like… OMG, is it poss...

Outfit of the Week: Cynthia Erivo

Cynthia Erivo is promoting her lead role in Harriet, the first ever film about Harriet Tubman. As Sarah wrote in her TIFF review of the film, “there should be a million movies about Harriet Tubman”. Right now, though, Cynthia is celebrating her performance, which could be in contention for an Oscar ...

Adele attends Drake's birthday party in LA

It was Drake’s birthday yesterday. He’s been celebrating all week. I have no issues with this. I’m a birthday whore too. My birthday was a month ago and I’m still trying to squeeze out every last ounce of juice from it.  Drake was feeling pretty sentimental on his birthday. He posted an Instagram...

Meghan Markle participates in One Young World roundtable discussion with Prince Harry by her side

The Queen’s Commonwealth Vice President, Meghan Markle of House Sussex, participated in a roundtable discussion today at Windsor Castle with One Young World to discuss gender equality and inclusion with young leaders from around the world. She brought along a surprise guest.  1/ We're here an...

Comedian Kelly Bachman is the hero of the week for confronting Harvey Weinstein at Actor's Hour in New York

You may have heard that Harvey Weinstein poked his head above the surface of his slime pool the other day, attending a performance event in New York called Actor’s Hour. At this event, billed as “the first pop-up speakeasy dedicated to artists”, comedian Kelly Bachman threw off her cloak, bared her ...

October 25, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Kamarhi is only 4 years old and he’s battling leukaemia. He really, really wants to go to Disneyland. This is his wish. You can make his wish come true.  The 5th Annual Gala Fundraiser in collaboration with Make-A-Wish Quebec (at Le Chateau Classique in Montreal, QC) is on Saturday. November 16th...

Intro for October 25, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Entertainment Weekly published its early predictions for the 2020 Oscar nominations yesterday. It’s actually not early anymore to talk about the Oscar race. This is when the race starts taking shape. What’s really exciting to me is that, right now, EW thinks that Awkwafina will be ...

What Else for October 24, 2019

Sean Combs has had a lot of names. We met him as Puff Daddy. That became Puffy. Then it was P Diddy. Then it was just Diddy. I think at one point Sean John was in there. And now he’s changing it again. Like he has a lawyer and he’s filing paperwork. Can you guess what the name is? It is not, unfortu...

Greta Gerwig's Little Women confirmed to be an award season contender

This week on Show Your Work, Duana and I talked about Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and whether or not it would become the definitive movie version of the book. We’ve been leaving room for Little Women in the Oscar race and last night it screened at SAG-AFTRA to a full house. The reaction is as expect...

Pete Davidson and Kaia Gerber spotted having lunch together leading to dating speculation

It was recently confirmed that Pete Davidson and Margaret Qualley had broken up. Before we move on to the next part of this story, can we go backwards for a second? Because it’s pretty much exactly the one year anniversary of the end of Pete and Ariana Grande’s engagement. They split in mid-October ...

Living With Yourself starring Paul Rudd television review

Living With Yourself, the Paul Rudd Netflix show, exists on a continuum between Russian Doll and Maniac. Living With Yourself is high concept and has some strong quirks, but it’s not as openly weird as Maniac. And it’s a show that uses its high concept to examine an existential crisis, though it is ...

Celebrity Social Media, October 24, 2019

Kathy Griffin was on a morning show to promote her new movie and that’s usually a pretty soft environment, but she can roll with any crowd and she knew exactly what weatherman Mark was trying. Of course there are 58-year-old comedians that are working, and if given the chance I’m sure he would have ...

PEOPLE's report that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are seeking help outside of the royal household is not new information

PEOPLE posted a story yesterday about how Prince Harry and Meghan Markle “are not going through the traditional route of using people from within the household". And by “household” they mean the royal household. Given what we’ve seen recently with a leaks coming from those viper courtiers, this is n...

What’s Your Drama: Anna Wintour's Coffee Breath & a Constant Bailer

Welcome back to a new season of What’s Your Drama! We've missed you! Thank you for all your patience during our hiatus and if you’re new to the podcast - we are so happy that you’ve tuned in! On today’s show we kick it off by unpacking our interview with Anna Wintour.  This is the first time that...

Preparing for a Ben Affleck comeback as Page Six reports on his dating life

Page Six published a story last night about Ben Affleck and his single life. Their source says he’s been on the dating app Raya and that he was seen at the Hotel Bel-Air a couple of weeks ago with a “young brunette”. Apparently they seemed into each other but there was no PDA during their dinner.  ...

Selena Gomez releases second single, "Look at Her Now" following Justin and Hailey Bieber drama online

Selena Gomez is giving no one any time to breathe this week. People still hadn’t come down from the drama of “Lose You To Love Me” yesterday and Hailey Bieber’s reaction to it, which she claims was no reaction at all, and then, without warning, Selena dropped a follow-up track last night. “Look At H...

Intro for October 24, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Zoe Kravitz was photographed for the first time since being cast as Catwoman in the new Batman movie – she and husband Karl Glusman were seen in New York yesterday. Karl, by the way, posted this on Instagram when the news first broke about Zoe playing Selena Kyle:   ...

What Else for October 23, 2019

Sofia Vergara and Nick Loeb haven’t been together in a long time but this asshole has been haunting her for years. Happily a judge has ruled against him in their frozen embryos case but my big takeaway here is… I didn’t know this prick was so f-cking rich. So basically he’s been using his money, and...

Duana Names: Retrofitting Name Joy

Dear Duana, I am in a real pickle. We named our newborn son Francis... and I hate it. So much so that whenever I think about it I get a pit in my stomach. I know this makes me sound like a terrible person and that I could/should have named him something else, but my husband so badly wanted this n...

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil starring Angelina Jolie movie review

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil opened over the weekend, taking the top box office spot, but still coming in under expectations. https://bit.ly/2MIAtLn It’s the first Disney disappointment since Dumbo earlier this year, though it will not likely lose money like Dumbo did. We’re just so used to seeing D...

Show Your Work: How Jared Got Jokered and the Sussex Endgame

So many games, actually! In this episode of Show Your Work, Duana and I begin with Jared Leto and the story in The Hollywood Reporter the other day about how he had a suck attack over Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker. What do you do you when someone is better at your job than you are? Because, well, that’...

Celebrity Social Media, October 23, 2019

If Axl Rose shows up at Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch, the preferred spot for C-list celebs to do their casual (but totally pre-planned) pap photoshoots, it would probably be iconic. LONG LIVE THE GREAT PUMPKIN!!🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃 — Axl Rose (@axlrose) October 23, 2019 A little more o...

Justin Theroux says he's proud of Jennifer Aniston for joining Instagram while promoting Lady and the Tramp

Tessa Thompson and Justin Theroux are currently promoting Lady and The Tramp. I can’t with some of these pictures of them on the carpet with their “characters”. It’s too much. Look at these faces! Look at Lady and the Tramp! LOL the Tramp’s body language. Like he just found out what Justin Th...

RuPaul’s Celebrity Drag Race miniseries greenlit by VH1

If you didn’t already have enough Drag Race content, you’re in luck because Deadline announced a new addition to the RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise yesterday. A new miniseries, RuPaul’s Celebrity Drag Race, has been greenlit by VH1 and will air sometime in 2020.  When All Stars 5 and Season 12 were...

Michael B Jordan begins Oscar campaign for Just Mercy and bakes cookies on Instagram

Michael B Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Bryan Stevenson cover the new issue of Variety to promote the upcoming film Just Mercy based on Bryan’s work with the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit based in Alabama that “challenges poverty and racial injustice, advocates for equal treatment in the criminal...

Selena Gomez releases new single “Lose You To Love Me” that is clearly about Justin Bieber

Selena Gomez released her new song “Lose You To Love Me” last night. When Prem wrote about the rollout of this last week, he noted that there were some hints that it would be a love song – and speculated if we’d be hearing about Justin Bieber or The Weeknd. Um, definitely Justin Bieber. She didn’t b...

Rihanna reportedly showed up to Drake's birthday party in LA

During Rihanna’s “Go Ask Anna” segment for Vogue recently, Anna Wintour asked her if she planned to have a baby soon. Rihanna’s response: “God’s plan”. And our eyebrows went up. (You can watch it here, around the 3:05 mark.) As we allllllll know, Rihanna and Drake were close and then they weren’t...

Intro for October 23, 2019

Dear Gossips, Here in Toronto, the Raptors got their rings and the city got our banner last night ahead of the season opener. And then we beat the Pelicans. WORLD CHAMPS! I thought Drake would be in his seat – he wasn’t, but we’ll get to him later this morning.  Outside of Toronto though, the ...

What Else for October 22, 2019

There are two things about this Patti LuPone interview that I love: the first is that she called Andrew Lloyd Webber a “sad sack” because that’s such a specific insult, you don’t just hurl it around randomly; it applies to a specific type of person. Google Andrew Lloyd Webber now with that in mind. ...

Zendaya could be nominated for Golden Globe for Euphoria

Law Roach, whose work has given us so much life the last few years, was named InStyle’s Stylist of the Year at last night’s InStyle Awards. Zendaya was there to present to him. And, well, with their partnership, he could win Stylist of the Year every year. You’ve seen what they’ve created together. ...

Zombieland: Double Tap starring Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg, and Abigail Breslin movie reivew

Ten years after Zombieland was a sleeper hit, the gang reunites for a sequel to mixed results. In the decade since Zombieland, its stars have gone onto greater and greater success. Jesse Eisenberg became an Oscar nominee, Woody Harrelson added two more Oscar nominations to his collection, and Emma S...

Celebrity Social Media, October 22, 2019

I hope I’m not giving anything away for our Australian readers, but this has been on Instagram for 24 hours so I assume it’s OK. Cody Simpson won The Masked Singer Australia and Lindsay Lohan said she guessed correctly. (Is that true? Can I get a confirmation on that from someone who watched the sho...

Regina King is outstanding in HBO's Watchmen

A groundbreaking graphic novel in the 1980s, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen remains today one of the most influential pieces of 20th century speculative fiction. A deconstruction of superhero comics and the geopolitics of the Cold War, Watchmen is a kind of adaptation holy grail. Its rich ico...

Prince Andrew gets very little coverage by UK papers after documentary released about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

Channel 4 in the UK aired a documentary last night about Prince Andrew’s friendship with dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. It was a 12 year relationship and they travelled in style from Europe to the Caribbean to the US, surrounded by girls, many of whom were underage. Andrew has always insiste...

Miley Cyrus messes up with problematic "you don't have to be gay" rant in Instagram Livestream

Yesterday, Miley Cyrus made headlines after hosting an Instagram Live with her new boyfriend/roommate(?), Cody Simpson. Lainey wrote last week that the pair are unafraid of showing their lust, and this Livestream was no different. There were pet names, heart eye filters, and an endless stream of com...

Prince William reportedly furious at Prince Harry and worried about him following release of ITV's documentary

As expected, after Harry & Meghan: An African Journey aired on ITV in the UK on Sunday night, during which Meghan Markle said that it’s been a struggle to cope with the relentless attack of the British tabloids and Prince Harry revealed that worrying about his wife and child and their safety was aff...

The final trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker looks amazing

The final trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker dropped last night, and I have a very serious question: What if the movie doesn’t live up to this trailer? This is a GREAT trailer. It’s hitting all the right notes—thrilling, mysterious, nostalgic (Carrie!), exciting, gorgeous visuals. I am int...

Intro for October 22, 2019

Dear Gossips,  We had our general election here in Canada last night. So let’s stay Canadian in this space today with a beloved Canadian who generally keeps a low profile, Rachel McAdams. She was seen yesterday doing some shopping in LA.  It’s been a quiet year for Rachel. A couple of months a...

What Else for October 21, 2019

Canada! There’s still time to vote if you’re reading this when I’m posting it. And you don’t need to be registered – you can register at your polling station. GO VOTE!  Oprah took a selfie with a fan who had a cracked phone screen. And she pointed out that he had a cracked phone. LOL at her face ...

Duana Names: Game Of Jones, Mother Of Zeldas

Hi Duana,   Despite being an avid reader, I didn’t think I would need your advice when it came to naming my daughter (due middle of October). My partner and I are both big F. Scott Fitzgerald fans and early on fell in love with the name Zelda.  It’s a touch old fashioned so she won’t feel out of p...

Queen & Slim's breakout star Jodie Turner-Smith covers ESSENCE

Melina Matsoukas’s debut feature film, Queen & Slim, from a screenplay written by Lena Waithe, doesn’t open until November 27 but, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, people are already talking about it as a possible award season contender. They’ve been screening the film for select critics and gu...

Keanu Reeves and girlfriend Alexandra Grant link arms in LA

Thanks to Casey for giving me the heads up about these photos, I needed them. It’s Election Day here in Canada and everyone is saying it’s too close to call. There’s been stress for days. So…how about a Canadian we can all agree on?  Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant went out for sushi the other n...

Celebrity Social Media, October 21, 2019

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez have already blended their families, so blending their brands is of course the next logical step. They started with a line of sunglasses (alongside Quay) and have now moved on to partnering with a company that creates frozen meals, available at Walmart. It’s certain...

Olivia Colman is a queen facing mid-life crises in The Crown season 3 trailer

The Crown season three is dropping at an interesting time. Peter Morgan, Netflix, everyone involved with The Crown could not have known that, of course, but as it happens, The Crown arrives at an existential crisis at the same moment that the British royal family is knee-deep in another kind of cris...

A new documentary airing tonight in the UK will give more details about Prince Andrew's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

Speaking of royal documentaries! Let’s give equal coverage to the documentary about Prince Andrew as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s. Tonight on Channel 4 in the UK, there will be a documentary about Prince Andrew’s friendship with dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. According to “court paper...

Prince Harry and Meghan's ITV documentary focuses on rifts with British media and the Cambridges

There are two moments from ITV’s Harry & Meghan: An African Journey taking up most of the headlines today. The first is Prince Harry’s answer to host Tom Bradby’s question about whether or not it’s true that he and Prince William are not getting along. The second is Meghan Markle’s reveal that her B...

How Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's work in South Africa shaped their perspective

There is so much to cover after Harry & Megan: An African Journey aired last night in the UK on ITV I’m doing it in two separate posts. As you’ve probably seen, the British tabloids are in a frenzy about what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s comments – about the tabloid media, about the pressure of ...

Intro for October 21, 2019

Dear Gossips, Jennifer Lawrence married Cooke Maroney in Rhode Island this weekend. Many, if not most, of the expected celebrity guests were there: Emma Stone, Adele, Amy Schumer, Kris Jenner, and some who weren’t on the prediction list, like Sienna Miller, Cameron Diaz, Nicole Richie, and Ashley...

What Else for October 18, 2019

The Show Your Work podcast came back this week – click here for our first episode back, or listen wherever you get your podcasts – and What’s Your Drama is returning next week so if you have any advice questions, hit up Sasha at sasha@laineygossip.com.  Diddy and Lori Harvey may or may not have b...

Noah Centineo has joined bad hair club with a full shave

It’s been a rough couple of months for hair. In August, Timothee Chalamet traded his luscious locks for a bowl cut in The King. Lainey liked it. I was pretty lukewarm. Harry styles went through some bang complications, as did Joe Keery. (Joe’s was an even worse combination of bad hair and a bad phot...

Duana Names: To Know Him Is To Love Him… Who Is He?

Hi Duana, We need your help. I am being induced October 21st at 7:15 AM and my husband and I cannot agree on a name that we love. This is my third boy. Owen and Nolan are his siblings’ names. We would love for his name to go well with Owen and Nolan. We would like to stick with an Irish/Gaelic na...

Review: Little Monsters is only good as music video for Lupita Nyong’o

Five years after the apogee of zombies in pop culture, Little Monsters arrives from Australia, a zombie comedy (zom-com) with little in the way of either zombies or comedy. Lupita Nyong’o does what she can with her natural luminous presence, but she cannot rescue an entire movie from the doldrums so...

Sasha Finds: The New Ela Handbags

I’m not a handbag whore. I don’t care about the latest or greatest. I don’t need a collection of different styles. And I certainly don’t want to spend a lot of money. I just want it to look real pretty and hold some stuff. But when I heard that Ela was doing a relaunch this month, all of a sudden I ...

Review: The Lighthouse will certainly make an impression, and you will not easily forget it

I saw The Lighthouse at TIFF, and five weeks later, I am still not sure I actually like this film. I admire it, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it, but did I enjoy it? Does enjoyment even matter when a film is so specifically evocative and provoking? “Like” is too small a concept for a film as ...

Celebrity Social Media, October 18, 2019

It’s kind of amazing The Rock hasn’t written (or “written”) his biography yet. His story is perfect for it, but maybe he’s waiting until he launches a political career? Curious to see if he endorses anyone for 2020.         View this post on Instagram   ...

Hailee Steinfeld wore the Outfit of the Week

Such a good outfit. And I don’t really like sheerness. But the sheer in these pants doesn’t really read true sheer and like OMG IT’S SEE-THROUGH because of how heavy and thick the material is up top. So let’s go there.  This sweater, really, is the centerpiece of the outfit. It’s a gorgeous sweat...

Elton John and Taron Egerton perform at a special screening with the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra

It wouldn’t be awards season without a big splash, and who’s splashier than Elton John?! Following the release of his juicy memoir Me this week, he’s putting the spotlight not just on his life story on the page, but on the screen too. Last night, he and Rocketman star Taron Egerton performed at a sp...

Jennifers Lawrence and Lopez in real and fake weddings

One is real, one is for show. Let’s start with the Jennifer who’s really getting married. Jennifer Lawrence will reportedly marry Cooke Maroney this weekend in Rhode Island. According to PEOPLE the wedding is happening at Belcourt of Newport, a chateau modelled after the hunting lodge at Versaill...

William and Kate wrap tour of Pakistan with a rare interview

Catherine Cambridge rarely does interviews. On the last day of House Cambridge’s tour of Pakistan, we’re getting an interview. Before that though, let’s talk about the last 24 hours, because it was terrifying. Their plane encountered such bad turbulence on the way to Islamabad that they had to abort...

William and Kate wrap tour of Pakistan a rare interview

Catherine Cambridge rarely does interviews. On the last day of House Cambridge’s tour of Pakistan, we’re getting an interview. Before that though, let’s talk about the last 24 hours, because it was terrifying. Their plane encountered such bad turbulence on the way to Islamabad that they had to abort...

Selena Gomez is releasing new music

At the time of writing this, no new songs have been released. But a release is imminent, so stay alert. From pulling back from the public eye to a brand new album, Selena has come quite far in the past few years. A few days ago, Selena Sleuthers predicted that new music was on its way because Sel...

Harry’s “wound that festers” and Meghan’s “vulnerability”

ITV will air Harry & Meghan: An African Journey on Sunday night in the UK. The documentary, about their recent tour of southern Africa, will be broadcast in the US on ABC that same night. A couple of clips from Harry and Meghan’s interviews with Tom Bradby have been released. Tom promised a couple o...

Intro for October 18, 2019

Dear Gossips,  On the To Do List this weekend: buy a new golf shirt, play golf, see Maleficent, screen The Morning Show, and read Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life, Ali Wong’s new book!  The conceit here is that she’s writing to her two daughters but...

What Else for October 17, 2019

A$AP Rocky says he’s a sex addict. And it’s not a secret. He lives openly and raps openly about being a sex addict and is talking about he refuses to be shamed for it. Who was shaming him for it?! Men don’t get shamed for sex addiction. I don’t know that a woman could be as candid about the same tho...

Saoirse and Timothee: one of two love stories

You know how we’ve been having that “leave room for” conversation at this site the last couple of weeks about the Oscar race? Sarah started it with Sam Mendes’s 1917, and then there’s Queen & Slim, and of course Bombshell, and we must also leave room for Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. It comes out at ...

Paul Dano is an upgrade to play the Riddler over Jonah Hill

There was a report circulating for the last month that Jonah Hill was in talks for a villainous role in The Batman, with everyone guessing who he could be playing and how much he would get paid (the Penguin and $10 million were betting favorites). But yesterday, Hill passed on The Batman—didn’t get ...

Celebrity Social Media, October 17, 2019

On October 4, PEOPLE confirmed that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynold’s third child was born, but there was no mention of boy or girl, or date or time. With this new photo he posted, the assumption is that the new baby is a girl. Maybe, but the picture could be from any time and, as some of you have alr...

Harry Styles’ Sweaty New Single "Lights Up" is more layered than his past work

I have so much to say and not enough words to say it, so let’s get right down to business. Last Friday, Harry Styles released his new single and video “Lights Up” at 12:14am EST. I was still awake when it dropped (#WestCoastPrivilege) and basically couldn’t sleep for another three hours. http...

Jennifer Aniston on Kimmel after record setting Instagram launch

As I wrote when I dedicated a full post to Jennifer Aniston joining Instagram a couple of days ago, it’s not newsworthy when just any celebrity jumps on the platform, but it is newsworthy when a celebrity of her status, who has previously insisted she would resist it, jumps on the platform. And, ind...

Taylor Swift’s Tiny Desk Concert released as she campaigns for Lover

Taylor Swift’s Tiny Desk Concert, recorded a couple of weeks ago, was just posted by NPR yesterday. She performed three songs (“The Man”, “Lover”, and “Death By A Thousand Cuts”) off her new album, Lover, and her classic, “All Too Well” – you know, the one about Jake Gyllenhaal, which is considered ...

Will & Kate in Pakistan: Day Four in Lahore

It’s a full schedule for Prince William and Catherine today as they continue their tour of Pakistan in Lahore. They were the birthday surprise for kids at SOS Children’s Village where Kate gave a speech and they both participated in storytime. I like the faces Kate’s making as she’s reading.  ...

Prince Andrew posts about his family while judge rules Virginia Roberts Giuffre's defamation suit can move forward

It’s time to catch up with Prince Andrew. Even though Prince William and Catherine are in Pakistan dominating British royal headlines this week, and Prince Harry and Meghan Meghan are keeping it low-key until the release of their documentary this weekend, we shouldn’t forget about Andrew, as much as...

October 17, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Dinner with Dignity is dinner program run through Roncesvalles United Church in Toronto providing nutritious homemade meals to about 250 people in need every Sunday. Meals are created and served by volunteers and the weekly gathering builds community and understanding, bringing together people from ...

Intro for October 17, 2019

Dear Gossips, There were all kinds of posts online yesterday about Adele releasing a new song featuring Nicki Minaj, because that’s what Nicki said. I was about to say that we posted about it too since I actually wrote the article and sent it off to be uploaded but when I checked yesterday’s link...

What Else for October 16, 2019

This Matt Lauer mess now has a royal angle. Because apparently he was trying to get Pippa Middleton a job at NBC at one point? Based on….the fact that he thought she’d be great TV? A great broadcaster? Look, I know we all have different tastes. You might love watching the person/people I can’t stand...

Duana Names: Their Dead Chicken Stole My Baby Name

Hi Duana, I love your naming articles and I hope you can share your wisdom. My email subject says it all really. After three years of multiple losses and general sh-ttiness, I am the proud owner of a first time 29 week bump and a baby who loves to boogie woogie in there. Baby is a girl and a t...

Rihanna defends her personal space and addresses pregnancy questions

Rihanna was at Rolling Loud supporting A$AP Rocky the other day and hung out with him backstage. At one point, someone comes up and puts his arm around her. She did not want his arm around her. And she made that very clear – NSFW language (source: Buzzfeed)  Rihanna says nah 😂😂 #RollingLoud...

Show Your Work: Streaming Jennifer Aniston

We’re back! Thanks so much for all of your messages the last few months during our hiatus. We’re back –just in time for award season and the imminent launch of Apple TV+ which is supposed to challenge for streaming service supremacy right out of the gate with The Morning Show starring and executive ...

Review: The Addams Family doesn’t understand Wednesday

The latest cinematic outing for the first family of weird is the animated The Addams Family, an attempt to rebrand the Addamses for the new millennium, or possibly just an exercise in brand management, as the whole thing feels like it exists solely to renew an IP license. The Addams Family is from d...

Celebrity Social Media, October 16, 2019

She means the video game Fortnite, not the British term for two-weeks time. And the former is impossible to explain. But she also said at one time she was a gamer?  What’s fortnight — Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) October 15, 2019 Celebrities (like Reese Witherspoon and Busy Philipps) are joini...

Miley Cyrus and Cody Simpson aren't hiding their lust

Miley Cyrus and Cody Simpson haven’t exactly been subtle about their relationship, especially not on social media. They’ve taken bathroom selfies. They’ve made out over soup: They’ve made out over breakfast:         View this post on Instagram   ...

House Sussex: An Emotional Night at the WellChild Awards

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were at the WellChild Awards last night. WellChild helps children and youth who are living with serious illnesses and the caregivers who support them. The event honours the kids who, despite living with chronic disease, are giving back their communities – like Emilie: ...

William and Kate: Pakistan and Princess Diana Nostalgia

So far on their tour of Pakistan, Prince William and Catherine have leaned in hard to the Princess Diana nostalgia which was expected, as Diana made several trips there and was very well received. Several of Kate’s outfits so far on the trip have been subtle or not-so-subtle tributes to her mother-i...

Intro for October 16, 2019

Dear Gossips, Gina Rodriguez was trending on Twitter yesterday afternoon and not for the same reason as Jennifer Aniston, although it came from the same location. With Gina, it’s been a compound situation – click here for a recap of the Gina Rodriguez Controversy at The Cut from January 2019. Whi...

What Else for October 15, 2019

Jeremy Renner was trending on Twitter yesterday which is where I first heard about the latest mess between him and his ex-wife, Sonni Pacheco. She’s accusing him of being a violent, manipulative f-ck and putting a gun to his head and threatening her and getting way out of control on drugs and alcoh...

Jungle Cruise trailer released and I prefer The Mummy

The first trailer for Jungle Cruise, starring Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson, has arrived and I do not have time for this half-dressed bullsh-t, do not try to fool me, I know The Mummy (the good one) when I see it. This is just The Mummy (the good one) dressed up for the jungle instead of the desert...

Dolittle just looks like your average effects-heavy adventure film

Despite being one of the world’s biggest movie stars, outside of Marvel, Robert Downey. Jr. hasn’t had a lot of luck. His cold streak does not look set to end any time soon as his first post-Endgame role is playing Dr. Dolittle in a movie called, simply, Dolittle. There is a growing air of tragedy h...

Celebrity Social Media, October 15, 2019

The biggest story in social media today is Jennifer Aniston joining Instagram, which Lainey wrote about here. Jen was one of the biggest holdouts and as Lainey mentioned, there’s now a short list of A-listers who don’t partake: Brad, Angelina, George, Sandra, Keanu. Then there are the ones you don’t...

Bombshell trailer strategically released on Ellen

Last week at LaineyGossip, we played “Leave Room For” in the Oscar race. Sarah wrote that award season has to leave room for 1917 and in my post about leaving room for Queen & Slim, I mentioned that we also have to leave room for Bombshell. Bombshell comes out December 20 but there was a screening t...

Zoe Kravitz cast as Catwoman in the upcoming The Batman

Multiple outlets reported yesterday that Zoe Kravitz has been cast as Catwoman in the upcoming The Batman aka Millennial Batman aka RBattz (per Sarah) starring Robert Pattinson. Director Matt Reeves has since confirmed: pic.twitter.com/Bi9bY5FhWb — Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) October 14, 201...

Jennifer Aniston joins Instagram

A celebrity joining Instagram is only newsworthy if the celebrity is a celebrity you weren’t expecting to join Instagram. Jennifer Aniston has said multiple times in the past that she didn’t want to be on social media because she wanted to keep something of herself to herself. But The Morning Show i...

Trailer for Harry and Meghan's ITV documentary released

At the end of their tour of southern Africa, it was announced that Prince Harry and Meghan had participated in the filming of a documentary with ITV, hosted by Tom Bradby, about the work they were doing there. A trailer for the doc was just released and the highlight is a shot of Harry holding Archi...

William and Catherine tour Pakistan

Prince William and Catherine are now on a five-day tour of Pakistan. Here’s a great photo posted to their Instagram account of them arriving with more details about their visit.          View this post on Instagram               ...

Intro for October 15, 2019

Dear Gossips,  On Friday, just before Thanksgiving here in Canada, I posted about Mariah Carey in this space. Mimi was one of the women honoured at Variety’s Power of Women luncheon that day. Which gave her an opportunity to throwback herself:      PSA: a luncheon takes place during ...

What Else for October 11, 2019

PROGRAMMING NOTES: as mentioned, it’s Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada and Monday is a holiday. We will be dark on Monday, not posting. Back to regular gossip schedule on Tuesday.  Also, those of you visiting the site over the weekend on your phones will see the old version of our mobile site....

Sasha Finds: A Puffer for 2019

You've got your duster coat, your bomber, your trench....but do you have your puffer?  I hate to tell you need something but the puffer, much like last season, is a must.  Sorry, it just is.   There are a lot on the market but the one I'm feeling the most right now is by Montreal label, Norden.  ...

Celebrity Social Media, October 11, 2019

Some personal news: I will not be able to watch El Camino until Sunday, maybe even Monday. Keep me in your thoughts.          View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Aaron Paul (@a...

Charlie’s Angels reboot of reboot trailer released

When the first trailer for Elizabeth Banks’s reboot (of a reboot) of Charlie’s Angels was released, I said, “I hope the next one gives us more of the Angels interacting.” Well guess what? It does! A new trailer has arrived and it focuses more on the trio of new Angels just hanging around, being lady...

I'm not ready for a buzz cut on Tom Holland

Dearly beloved, We are gathered here today to mourn the loss of Good Hair. Here at LaineyGossip, we appreciate Good Hair. We respect Good Hair. We love Good Hair. But today, we mark its loss in the form of Tom Holland’s haircut. (I thought I was extra, but someone literally made a montage set ...

Succession is a dark and uncomfortable series you need to watch

Succession is our best boy, but it’s also a revolting little worm, a Tomlette (made by breaking a few Greggs), and French baguette upside the head. There is no doubt that Succession is our collective Game of Thrones rebound – just as that show was falling apart, Succession was there to pick up th...

Angelina Jolie wears her reclaimed crown in London

Just gonna go ahead and pat myself on the back for this one… The other day, in my post about Angelina Jolie at the London premiere of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, where she wore the best dress she’s ever worn, I wrote that this press tour has felt like a reclamation, that Angie’s been like, “hey...

Meghan of House Sussex on International Day of the Girl

Today is International Day of the Girl. The United Nations 2019 theme for International Day of the Girl is GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable. Today, girls’ movements are stopping child marriage, promoting girls’ education, standing up against gender-based violence, demanding action on climate...

Queen Elizabeth opens veterans housing development

The Queen returned to London earlier this week after her summer break. She’d probably been hoping to have a quiet one but two buffoons, Boris Johnson and her second son, Prince Andrew, f-cked with that plan. Why aren’t the British tabloids more pissed about the fact that Andrew, with all his shenani...

October 11, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

On October 18th and 19th long-time reader Melanie will be participating in Cape Ann Animal Aid’s Night Without A Family, where she will spend 24 hours living, sleeping, eating and playing like a typical shelter dog. That means living in a kennel unless she's "taken out" for a play group or a potty b...

Intro for October 11, 2019

Dear Gossips, This weekend is Thanksgiving in Canada. I’ve been holding this post for today so that we can properly give thanks to our Elusive Chanteuse Butterfly, the one and only Mimi. Mimi’s one of the six women honoured in Variety’s 2019 Power of Women issue for her work with The Fresh Air Fu...

What Else for October 10, 2019

Today is World Mental Health Day to raise awareness and support about mental health issues and for those who need it and to encourage all of us to talk more about what can be done to improve access to mental health resources and care. Please visit the World Health Organisation website for more infor...

Mindy Kaling calls BS on Television Academy's credit justification explanation

Yes, I intentionally styled that title to look like a new offering from MasterClass. I would take this class. We all should.  Yesterday, while everyone was focused on a certain other celebrity profile, Elle dropped their cover story with Mindy Kaling. It focuses, like many of her interviews tend ...

Timothee Chalamet drops his fashion porn promoting The King

Timothee Chalamet continues to promote The King all over the world. And continues to drop fashion porn all over the world. There have been several great outfits this week, one after the other, all of them worn with his signature steeze = style with ease. That’s him, right? Nothing ever looks forced....

Celebrity Social Media, October 10, 2019

The replies to this are amazing. “Let It Go” has a whole new meaning.  Tip: When making a sex tape, play Disney music in the background. That way, if it gets leaked online, Disney attorneys will have them all taken down. — /dan/null (@NoTalentAC) October 8, 2019 We’ve been writing about...

ELLE profiles team behind Queen & Slim

Pitchfork released its list of Best Songs of the 2010s earlier this week. ELLE yesterday released its 2019 Women in Hollywood issue. This is just the beginning, it’s unavoidable now. I guess we have to start talking about the end of the year, the end of a decade. Are you ready for this? I know it’s ...

Rihanna tells Vogue she's not quitting music and disagrees with Jay-Z on NFL stance

Rihanna covers the November issue of Vogue, looking stunning, as expected. A lot of ground was covered in the accompanying article, including her politics, music, and fashion. Enough material to spawn several different Twitter arguments, even about her nationality.  Jamaicans, you know, if we...

Not buying Ellen Degeneres' cringe-worthy George Bush response

Last weekend, Ellen DeGeneres was seen at a football game with former US president George W. Bush. The backlash came quickly as many consider Bush to be a war criminal with an abysmally harmful record with the LGBTQ community. It’s a record that has shaped much of the continued difficulties the quee...

Intro for October 10, 2019

Dear Gossips, Our site manager, Emily, is on holiday. This is very hard for me because 1. She picks the best pictures to go with our posts and 2. Jacek is posting while she’s away and… well… he just doesn’t have her gift with gossipy photo selection.  Anyway, Emily and her girlfriend, Kaitlyn,...

What Else for October 9, 2019

Have been seeing #FreeLorde pop up on social media? It has nothing to do with Lorde – she hasn’t been arrested – but it’s a f-cking bonkers piece of legislation that has been proposed in New Zealand as a way to keep kids in school: fine the parents of high school dropouts. Lorde dropped out of high ...

Duana Names: Do Not Go Gentle!

Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting our second child in December, and are struggling mightily with his name. Our daughter, Quinn, will be three next month and although we struggled with names right up until her birth (and for a few days after), I love her name now. This time, we're expecting...

Angelina tops herself

WOW.  On Monday, I already posted that Angelina Jolie wore the Outfit of the Week at the beginning of the week…and not she’s topped herself.  Here she is at the London premiere of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, saving the most spectacular dress she’s worn this press tour – and over the last few...

Scarjo, Adam, and Laura Dern: primed for award season

Scarlett Johansson got stuck in traffic on her way to the New York Film Festival press conference for Marriage Story the other day but her seven minute absence only bolstered the crowd's enthusiastic appreciation for the film, and her performance. Her sweet hug with co-star Alan Alda right after she...

Celebrity Social Media, October 9, 2019

We all know a guitar party guy - you can find him in the corner playing Stairway to Heaven. Cody Simpson is taking that to the next level by bringing a rose and his strings to Miley Cyrus’s hospital room. They’ve been hanging out for just the right amount of time that she finds this sweet. Yo...

Renee Zellweger's awards season head start

The upcoming Oscars will be awarded on February 9, 2020, two weeks earlier than when the Oscars took place in 2019. An earlier date means the campaign season is squeezed into a shorter timeline, so the strategy shifts for the contenders. Celebrity endorsements and honours will soon start flowing at ...

Princess Catherine visits the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity in culottes

Catherine of House Cambridge is a patron of the National History Museum and she visited today to highlight the wildlife protection work at the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity. This is a great outfit. I like the colour combination – oxblood and olive – and I like that she’s been ever so sli...

Martin Scorsese doesn't like Marvel movies and we shouldn't care

Sometimes a thing happens and I think, Please, please can we just let that slide? We don’t have to get worked up about everything, and some things really, truly, are not that important. Sometimes it’s okay to not have an opinion, or to let others have a different opinion. There are important things ...

What Drake and Meghan have in common

Thirsty dads!     There are a lot of people out there who hold it against Meghan Markle that she has a sh-tty relationship with her father, Thomas. Like she should forgive him simply because “family comes first”. Family SHOULD come first. But then again, life doesn’t always work the way it “shoul...

Apple TV+ likely overpaid for A Christmas Carol starring Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell

Apple TV+ has not yet launched, but they are the winners of a bidding war over a musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol, starring Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell. The exact number is not known, but when have we ever heard a reasonable number for a streaming deal? They probably paid nine figures for ...

Intro for October 9, 2019

Dear Gossips, The 2019 Variety Power of Women list was released yesterday. This year the magazine honours Chaka Khan, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Aniston, Dana Walden, and two women born in 1989, Brie Larson and Nora Lum, aka Awkwafina.  Brie won her Oscar three years ago. Three years ago, nobody k...

What Else for October 8, 2019

Dakota Johnson celebrated her 30th birthday this weekend. Last year, for her 29th birthday, remember the paps got it wrong when they saw the balloons and thought she was pregnant with Chris Martin’s baby? Chris Martin was at her birthday this year and it looks like he ordered her a cake – not a gend...

Julia Roberts in amazing polka dot outfit at Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic in LA

If it wasn’t for Angelina Jolie yesterday, Julia Roberts might have been the Outfit of the Week. Here she is at the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic in LA this weekend in a f-cking amazing polka dot outfit that I know, I don’t even have to ask, Duana is obsessed with – and she’s already obsessed every da...

Producer Bradley Cooper could be back at the Oscars if Joker is nominated for Best Picture

Last year at this time, Bradley Cooper was enjoying the success of A Star is Born. The film picked up heat out of award season and went on to several Oscar nominations. Which meant months of campaigning and, well, that can wear on a person. There didn’t seem to be a lot of fun in Bradley’s campaign ...

Celebrity Social Media, October 8, 2019

A story appeared over the weekend about Henry Winkler and Tom Hanks having beef and I am intrigued. Both of these men have a reputation for being kind and professional, and that is not something either of them could fake for decades. But they worked on Turner and Hooch together and there were some i...

Angelina Jolie joined by children Shiloh and Zahara at European premiere of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Angelina Jolie was joined by two of her six children, Zahara and Shiloh, in Rome for the European premiere of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil last night. Earlier in the day she wore the Outfit of the Week and for the red carpet she went back to bombshell black, Versace, not a new silhouette for her, su...

Hailey Bieber reveals her Virgil Abloh wedding dress on social media

I’ve been a bride and I’m vain as f-ck so I know how it is when you get married. You try and make that wedding last as long as possible. Weeks after it’s over, when nobody else cares anymore, you’re still trying to extend the life of the wedding well past its sell-by point. And these days, with Inst...

Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul reunite at El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie premiere with series creator Vince Gilligan

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie premieres on Netflix this coming Friday, just in time for Canadian Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is all about gathering with family and/or friends and last night in Hollywood, Team Breaking Bad reunited at the premiere in support of the film. People got really into their...

Keanu Reeves shows up to support Ali Wong at her Milk & Money tour date in LA

The Golden Globe nominations will be announced two months from tomorrow. You know how every year the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is good for at least one WTF nomination? It would be not at all WTF if Always Be My Maybe got a nomination for Best Comedy and I think Keanu Reeves should be nomin...

October 8, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Laurie Petrou! It’s your book release day – congratulations on the publication of your first YA novel, Love, Heather! I’m going away in November and am planning to take it with me on my trop, can’t wait to read. By request from Nicole, here are Winona Ryder and Christian Slater from the Heathers era...

Intro for October 8, 2019

Dear Gossips,  As we near the imminent end of another decade, which I am not ready to acknowledge goddamn it, Pitchfork released its list of the 200 Best Songs of the 2010s yesterday and naturally, people are fighting. Some people are happy and surprised but the whole drama of these kinds of list...

What Else for October 7, 2019

Demi Moore’s been making headlines the last couple of weeks because of her memoir which is now a New York Times bestseller. Now it’s Elton John’s turn – and you KNOW Elton must have some STORIES. He told a story about seeing the Queen playfully slap nephew while telling him that she’s the Queen. I j...

Duana Names: -Ith/Then/Else

Hi Duana,   We are expecting baby girl #2 in October.  Our first is Edith Maud (Edie, colloquially), and my husband is trying desperately hammer home Judith (Judy).  Her middle name will be Yvonne, so on its own, I quite like Judith Yvonne - but I'm struggling with EdiTH and JudiTH - are they not ...

Joaquin Phoenix's Joker sets new October opening weekend record at the box office

It’s official, Joker is a hit, setting a new October opening weekend record with a $96 million opening weekend. This is more than Justice League ($93.8 million). Joker is a hit, Justice League is a flop, and the difference lies mostly in their budgets and a little bit in their ratings. R-rated movie...

Celebrity Social Media, October 7, 2019

Victoria Beckham was one of the first celebrities Derek Blasberg recruited for YouTube to create a fashion channel. It’s not working and is being shut down (or whatever you do to a YouTube channel to cancel it). I don’t put this on Victoria as much as I do the idea of high-end fashion on YouTube. Vi...

Outfit of the Week: Angelina Jolie in Givenchy

If you’re a regular visitor of this site, you know that we normally post the Outfit of the Week on Fridays, because it is the best outfit we’ve seen all week. I’m not waiting this week because I’m betting that we’ve already seen the best outfit of this week – on Angelina Jolie, today in Rome to prom...

Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Taylor Swift's episode of Saturday Night Live

The season premiere of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Woody Harrelson, wasn’t great. In fact, the whole episode was embarrassing, except for Aidy Bryant cracking up when a crew member came in at the wrong time. So, as I wrote last week, it was going to be interesting to see how the show bounced back...

Breaking down Miley Cyrus's romantic history following Kaitlynn Carter split

It’s been a wild couple of months in Miley Cyrus’s world. In August, she ended things with Liam Hemsworth, who filed for divorce a few weeks later. At the same time the breakup was confirmed, she started dating Kaitlynn Carter, who had just split up from her husband Brody Jenner a week prior. In the...

Prince George gets excited about goal scored by Aston Villa at game with Prince William, Catherine, and Charlotte

Before we get to Big G at the football, House Cambridge and House Sussex have reunited for an Every Mind Matters PSA in support of mental health. The voices of William and Catherine of House Cambridge and Harry and Meghan of House Sussex can be heard in the longer version that will air in the UK ton...

Prince Andrew's sources tell The Sunday Times that he visited Jeffrey Epstein in 2010 to end the friendship

Um, Prince Andrew needs better crisis management. Because whoever’s advising him is as hapless as he is. Straight up idiotic, actually.  At the end of August, Prince Andrew released a poorly written letter trying to explain his friendship with dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. It was a mess....

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle prepare to go to war against the British press

House Sussex made some big moves last week. First, on the second to last day of their tour of southern Africa, Prince Harry launched Love Shield 2019 and announced that Meghan Markle was suing the Daily Mail. It was his letter that made the most headlines, a passionate, angry scolding of the “press ...

Intro for October 7, 2019

Dear Gossips,  It seems like most of Black Hollywood was in Atlanta this weekend for the grand opening of Tyler Perry Studios. Oprah and Stedman walked the carpet together. Halle Berry and Whoopi Goldberg shared a moment on the red carpet. Samuel L Jackson, Viola Davis, and Tiffany Haddish were t...

What Else for October 4, 2019

My main takeaway from this Ansel Elgort story is that… Ansel Elgort has that many fans? Apparently. And his fans evidently share DNA with TwiHards and Beliebers and, well, fandoms in general who get f-cked up over fiction and fact and now they’ve chased his co-star off of social media because they’r...

Leaving room for Sam Mendes's 1917 in the Oscar conversation

1917 is a World War I movie directed by Sam Mendes. I keep getting this confused with Peter Jackson’s colorized documentary about World War I, They Shall Not Grow Old. I don’t know why, they don’t really look anything alike beyond the surface similarities of setting, but I keep forgetting 1917 is a ...

For Your Fitness: Exercises for low mobility

Hi Hayley! I wanted to ask what you would suggest for exercises for someone with low mobility? I am in the process of being diagnosed with MS and I use a walker as my balance is a bit off (I sway slightly when I walk and get tired out). While I need my walker for balance (specifically for distanc...

Outfit of the Week: Timothee Chalamet

Timothee Chalamet wore a sequined hoodie to the premiere of The King in London. It makes me want to kiss him – because he’s so pretty but also out of gratitude. He and Chadwick Boseman and Ezra Miller and LeBron James and sometimes even Robert Pattinson are making men’s fashion so interesting.  C...

Sasha Finds: Fall Bronzer

My friend and I were talking the other day and she told me about a friend of hers who had passed away really quickly after finding a mole on her leg. Like, within weeks. So scary. Especially because earlier that week I had found this weird brown spot on my arm appear out of nowhere. I know this intr...

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK premiere shows real potential

Translating a show across the pond is often a tricky task. Despite a shared language and history, British and North American audiences have different senses of humour, use different cultural references, and even have different sensibilities. Jokes that are acceptable on one side might offend the oth...

Ryan Reynolds presents Free Guy at New York Comic-Con

New York Comic-Con has begun, starting the hype train for projects that weren’t ready in time for San Diego Comic-Con. This includes Free Guy, the mostly-under-the-radar action comedy Ryan Reynolds shot over the summer with Night at the Museum and Stranger Things director Shawn Levy. (Free Guy is wr...

Celebrity Social Media, October 4, 2019

Last week, Lainey wrote about Katie Holmes and Brad Pitt being birthday twins and asked “Gossip Genie or nah?” It’s a no from me but I do want to Gossip Genie Katie… with Tom Hiddleston. Hear me out: both have had very high profile relationships and abrupt break-ups with mega A-listers. Both are now...

Taylor Swift on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon ahead of tomorrow's appearance on SNL

Taylor Swift is the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend. They keep lubing up her fans by posting throwbacks of her previous appearances on Twitter. And here’s the promo she shot with this week’s host, Phoebe Waller-Bridge: 🎉 Phoebe Waller-Bridge hosts the show this weekend with...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly now suing The Sun for phone hacking

Holy sh-t! I’m still trying to find if this is legit – it looks legit but I’m not familiar with this source and at the time of this writing it hasn’t been picked up by any other media outlets yet so stand by for that and I’ll update this post if it does turn out to be a fraud but…for now… WOR...

A documentary is reportedly in the works following Prince Harry and Meghan's tour of South Africa

Yesterday I wrote about what may have been happening internally, in the background, when Prince Harry launched Love Shield 2019. Externally I’m sure you know what’s been happening. Harry criticised the British “press pack”. The “press pack” snarled back. Some of them even take exception to the term ...

Angelina Jolie attends Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Tokyo premiere with Maddox and Zahara and is wild and free on Madame Figaro cover

Angelina Jolie has reunited with her eldest child, Maddox, in Tokyo at the premiere of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. You’ll recall, she dropped him off in South Korea a few week ago at university. The other day, at the Hollywood premiere, she told reporters that he’d be flying the short distance to ...

Intro for October 4, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Celine Dion kicked off her Courage world tour a couple of weeks ago in Quebec City. Her next stop was supposed to be in Montreal but she’s postponed the shows because of a throat virus and released an apology video to fans explaining that she hasn’t gotten better in time. The Montr...

What Else for October 3, 2019

I saw Nickelback trending last night on Twitter and I was like…really? WHY. It quickly became clear. People often joke about Nickelback and then some people defend Nickelback. A lot people who used to joke about Nickelback today are revisiting their position. Nickelback just gained a whole lot of fa...

The Daily Mail reports on Prince William and Catherine's tender moment at Aga Khan Centre in London

Prince William and Catherine were at the Aga Khan Centre in London yesterday ahead of their trip to Pakistan in a couple of weeks. At some point during their visit, Kate touched Will’s shoulder – and the British tabloids had an orgasm.  The Daily Mail called it “tender” and described how the Camb...

Clint Eastwood shows up late to the Oscar conversation with Richard Jewell trailer

It’s practically a rite of passage in Oscar season at this point: Clint Eastwood showing up late with a movie no one realized he had finished already. (He works fast because he gets everything in one take, even if that one take is sh-t, it’s the take, move on.) This year’s late entry is Richard Jewe...

Celebrity Social Media, October 3, 2019

There’s Man Caves (gross) and She Sheds (a Pinterest-driven nightmare) that have reductive gender stereotypes, like football and tea cups, tied up into the idea of domestic relaxation. But what if the next trend is adult treehouses? This could be decent.           ...

Wesley Morris releases essay in The New York Times about loving Gwyneth Paltrow and missing her acting

I feel like there are thousands of you virtually shouting NOOOOO into my face right now. I get it. There are a lot of reasons to be critical of Gwyneth Paltrow. She’s promoted some dangerous ideas and products on goop that undermine science and can have a negative impact on women’s health. This has ...

First trailer for Guy Ritchie's English gangster movie The Gentlemen

Guy Ritchie is following the billion-dollar success of Aladdin by going back to his roots and making an English gangster movie, The Gentlemen. The trailer boasts “From the director of Sherlock Holmes and Snatch”, no mention of Aladdin despite it being Ritchie’s most successful film. It’s almost like...

A Prince Andrew update including Vanity Fair's new piece with insight into the “Epstein Grift”

Harry and Meghan of House Sussex have been making headlines the last couple of days but let’s not forget about Prince Andrew – because why should he be excluded from the fun? It’s one thing to be caught up over the contentiousness between the Sussexes and the media but none of that is anywhere near ...

Prince Harry informed the Queen and Prince Charles about Love Shield before releasing it online

It’s been 48 hours since Prince Harry launched Love Shield 2019 and announced that Meghan of House Sussex was suing the Daily Mail. They dropped the bomb just 24 hours before the end of their southern Africa tour, while on tour with some of the reporters Harry was dragging in his letter. It made for...

Intro for October 3, 2019

Dear Gossips,  You know what award season is good for? Contrasts. People are campaigning, everyone has their own campaign strategy. So from October to the Oscars, we get to see these plans play out, side by side, in real time – an off-screen performance that supports the onscreen performance.  ...

What Else for October 2, 2019

I know I said I’d write about Prince Harry and Meghan of House Sussex and the Love Shield 2019 today but I’m still waiting on a few things so that post is coming tomorrow. In the meantime, the Daily Mail is going to fight the lawsuit. At least that’s what they’re saying now. That said, I don’t know ...

Duana Names: No, Seriously – Now or Never

Hi Duana, I am a week past my due date with baby #2, sex unknown. My husband has taken a sudden interest in names and their meanings (better late than never I guess, but really dude, now??) and thrown a new favorite into the ring. For a boy we are now leaning toward Zachary as a first name. The p...

Ben Affleck has dinner at Giorgio Baldi with "mystery blonde" who is probably billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs

Ben Affleck went out for dinner at Giorgio Baldi last night in LA and the paps say he was joined by a “mystery blonde”. They were there for three hours. So… who’s this “mystery blonde”? I don’t know for sure. But here’s a theory: Unless I am mistaken--and please correct me if I am--but I beli...

Celebrity Social Media, October 2, 2019

No one is more committed to making the square-toe sandal trend happen than Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. But with fall here and winter around the corner, is this an investment worth making? It might be a trend that is put on pause until next summer, just because of weather logistics.   ...

Joker director Todd Phillips blames “wokeness” for current state of comedy

By far the most insufferable part of the Joker press tour has been its director, Todd Phillips, who will not stop blaming “wokeness” for the current state of comedy. His latest comments are included in Joaquin Phoenix’s Vanity Fair profile, and they’re as insightful and thoughtful as you’d expect fr...

Joaquin Phoenix's Vanity Fair cover profile touches on his work life, his love life, his family life

That title in and of itself is newsworthy considering who we’re talking about: Joaquin Phoenix, one of the most press-averse actors in the business, willingly participating in an interview with Vanity Fair that covers his work life, his love life, his family life, including mentions of his late brot...

Joker movie review starring Joaquin Phoenix

If ever there was a movie that does not live up to its hype, it is Todd Phillips’ much debated Joker. A stripped down, deconstructed comic book movie, Joker is supposedly the most inflammatory, dangerous, provocative film of the year—of the era!—a movie that is maybe causing a moral panic and fannin...

The Weeknd and Greta Gerwig support Timothee Chalamet at New York premiere of The King

The King premiered in New York last night and the film’s king, Timothee Chalamet, showed up in a beautifully cut black suit over a yellow mock turtleneck. Like, stop it. STOP. He’s so f-cking pretty, I can’t stand it.  Timmy was there with the film’s cast and crew, including director David Michod...

Intro for October 2, 2019

Dear Gossips,  BTS covers the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter and while this was met with initial excitement before the feature came out, some fans are now unhappy with the final product. There are several reasons for this – one of them being that the writer, Seth Abramovitch, admits in the...

What Else for October 1, 2019

I don’t have children so I don’t get to go to kids’ soccer or hockey or other sports activities and I’m starting to think that maybe that’s the one downside of not being a parent because, apparently, it’s exactly my kind of environment! People are calling other people whores and bitches and threaten...

Prince Harry reveals he and Meghan are taking legal action against The Daily Mail in official letter

Another one! Sorry, all I keep hearing in my head right now is DJ Khaled. “Another one!” Three years ago this coming November, in November 2016, Prince Harry launched what I called a Love Shield, a written defence of his then-girlfriend Meghan Markle, admonishing certain British media outlets for...

Ryan Reynolds in first trailer for Michael Bay's 6 Underground on Netflix

Netflix has gotten in the habit of betting big in December, creating an at-home offer to counter the usual blockbuster cinematic treat (this year: The Last Jedi). Last year it was Bird Box, the year before that: Bright. This year the Netflix holiday bet is a Michael Bay movie starring Ryan Reynolds ...

Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn in first trailer for Birds of Prey

I have two wishes for pop culture in 2020. One is that Dev Patel becomes the next James Bond. The other is that we take Birds of Prey as seriously as we’re taking Joker. I want a full Harley Quinn Discourse. I want us to discuss the emotional, romantic, financial, and sexual liberation of women as f...

Celebrity Social Media, October 1, 2019

As Lainey mentioned this morning in her intro, there’s a stream of Bieber wedding shots being posted on social media. In terms of a specific wedding-day accessory, this leather jacket is too tasteful to be seared into our collective memory like the “Pimp” and “Maids” tracksuits once were. I don’t ev...

The problem with Justin Bieber and his exotic pet kittens

I have a cat named Pancake. She is very beautiful, and wherever she goes people comment on her appearance and her incredibly soft coat. Pancake waits for me at the door and likes to lie on my feet and follows me around and talks to me constantly. Pancake has the most personality of any pet I have ev...

Angelina Jolie at Maleficent: Mistress of Evil premiere with five of her six children

Team Jolie, minus Maddox, who’s at university in South Korea, came out strong at the Maleficent: Mistress of Evil premiere last night. Here’s Angelina with five of her six children, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne, and Knox, celebrating the release of her latest Disney blockbuster. As you can see, the...

The Sun reports Adele and Skepta are dating

If Jacek, my husband, was ever going to ship a couple, it would be this one. Not because he’s a huge fan of either Adele or Skepta (he likes them fine) but because, as I mention often, he is a huge fan of the Tottenham Hotspur. I think our house would be wallpapered in Tottenham colours if he could ...

Prince Andrew arrives in Australia for Pitch@Palace as The Guardian releases podcast about his dodgy reputation

Here’s a tweet I forgot to include yesterday in my post about Prince Andrew and how the FBI is expanding its Jeffrey Epstein investigation to interview more victims that could either further connect Andrew to Epstein’s crimes or completely exonerate him. Andrew and Buckingham Palace have always main...

Intro for October 1, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Justin and Hailey Bieber got married again in South Carolina yesterday and have shared the first photos – from the photo booth at the reception, now a common wedding feature.          View this post on Instagram           ...