What Else for November 29, 2019

I was about to say that the next headline after this already bonkers headline about Johnny Depp producing a musical about Michael Jackson’s glove was going to be that Johnny Depp himself would be playing the glove but then I remembered, would Johnny Depp actually have the discipline for a Broadway s...

Duana Names: Those You Forgot You Already Loved

Dear Duana,   I am expecting my first child in February, a girl. Every name I used to love now seems lackluster at best. The current front runner is Zoe, but the Social Security Administration reports it is one of the most popular names of the 2010s. I don't relish the thought of my child being "Z...

Celebrity Social Media, November 29, 2019

Nothing says Thanksgiving gratitude quite like a photo from Lea Michele’s wedding rehearsal dinner.         View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Lea Michele (@leamichele) on Nov...

Outfit of the Week: Lizzo

No other look was as special this week as the one Lizzo wore to the American Music Awards. I can’t stop thinking about it - and not just because of the tiny bag and its viral moment.  First of all, the colour is spectacular. And it never looked the same shade. On the carpet it read like cantaloup...

Sasha Finds: Seamless Leggings

The one thing that always bewilders me is why there are no workout leggings that don’t have the seam right down the middle. I mean, we can 3-d print a goddamn home but you’re telling me someone can’t figure out how to de-camel toe a pair of leggings? It drives me mental. And look, it’s not like I wa...

Watchmen Season 1 Episode 7 preview

Over six episodes of Watchmen, a pattern has emerged. There are two central story tenets, one grounded in the expanded world of the show, centering on Angela Abar and the thematic exploration of race in America. The other grows outs of the original graphic novel and revolves around the plot—still so...

Justin Theroux attends Jennifer Aniston's Friendsgiving dinner

Jennifer Aniston’s Friendsgiving guest list is almost like an award show. She’s friends with a lot of famous people. Courteney Cox, of course, was there. And Jason Bateman and Will Arnett. Sandra Bullock showed up too. (Will posted and deleted this on Instagram stories.) And Jen shared this on her o...

November 29, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Simon! Happy Birthday! Devin is so excited for your upcoming Ottawa adventure – now I’m intrigued. What’s happening in Ottawa? What’s the wardrobe? Can I turn this into a TV show? By request, here’s Beyoncé setting the stage for what will be an unforgettable year. Have the best birthday weekend!

Intro for November 29, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Mimi took a short break from Christmas yesterday to celebrate American Thanksgiving, sharing a message of gratitude with her followers and photos of her Thanksgiving gathering. The shot of her at the table (fifth pictures in the carousel) made me laugh – Mimi didn’t bother with any...

What Else for November 28, 2019

I had no idea what this meant – Al Roker’s rival is butter? Turns out butter is being represented by an actual person at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade who decided to become Al Roker’s nemesis. Which… clearly this person doesn’t understand butter because butter is everybody’s friend. (Dlisted)  ...

Show Your Work: What is Ryan Reynolds?

Did you see Ryan Reynolds on Saturday Night Live last weekend? Will Ferrell hosted – and Ryan showed up in the opening monologue and on Weekend Update and Duana sent me a note at 140am, after the show ended, and this was her question: What is Ryan Reynolds? The next day, it was announced that he’...

Celebrity Social Media, November 28, 2019

Because it is Thanksgiving in the US, there’s a lot of social media posts about food. It’s too bad that turkey is the weakest main dish possible. I have heard the arguments for smoking it, deep frying it, brining it, shooting it from a cannon ball into a vat of butter, but the end result is the same...

Dark Waters starring Mark Ruffalo movie review

In Dark Waters, Mark Ruffalo is at his most disgruntled-professorial as Robert Bilott, a lawyer who devotes his life to pursuing DuPont for knowingly poisoning the water supply in a small town in West Virginia. Dark Waters is basically unsexy Erin Brockovich, which is to say it’s a similar story—big...

Camila Cabello tells the LA Times that she and Shawn Mendes are "just two kids in love"

Camila Cabello’s new album, Romance, is due out next Friday, December 6. A few tracks have already been released including, of course, her smash hit with Shawn Mendes, “Senorita”, and there’s no mistaking what the music on her second album is about: love...specifically being in love with him.  It...

November 28, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Enchie! Happy Birthday from Billie who loves you so much, Kanye West has been requested to be included in your shout-out! 

Intro for November 28, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Today is American Thanksgiving and to celebrate the occasion, Harry and Meghan of House Sussex, who are currently taking a break from royal duties, posted a Thanksgiving message on Instagram:          View this post on Instagram     ...

What Else for November 27, 2019

I was really, really excited to click on this link and find out what Miley Cyrus’s “modern mullet” looks like and I was expecting to love it. But this …is not it. I wonder if it would be different if her hair was darker? The way it’s been cut, you can see the damage, how dry her hair is from all the...

Duana Names: All The Things In A Name

Hi Duana, I am expecting my third baby boy, he is a rainbow baby as we lost our second over a year ago, at 28 weeks. Truth be told, I am not crazy about the term “rainbow baby” but appreciate it for its meaning and honouring the journey one goes through after experiencing such a loss. My oldest s...

21 Bridges starring Chadwick Boseman movie review

21 Bridges is a standard police thriller, the type that comes chock-a-block full of recognizable character actors and used to do middling business at the theater and then find a long, healthy second life on cable. It’s what I call a “weekend afternoon movie”, the sort of thing you have on while you ...

Carly Rae Jepsen's Tiny Desk Concert

Carly Rae Jepsen appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert (TDC) series on Monday. CRJ just kicked off the fourth and final leg of her Dedicated tour yesterday, performing in Sydney, Australia. The tour finishes a week from today after a total of four shows in Australia and New Zealand, and it marks the e...

What’s Your Drama: Justin Timberlake is a Heat Score & Texting with an Ex

Boy oh boy is Justin Timberlake in trouble! Well, f-ck, at least I thought he would be. But since the news broke that he was holding hands with his co-star I feel like the story hasn’t had the staying power it would with any other celebrity. Why does he always manage to escape scandals? Fine, if no ...

Celebrity Social Media, November 27, 2019

Priyanka Chopra surprised Nick Jonas with a puppy, and you know how they say dogs look like their owners? Flip to the second photo – Gino (great name!) already looks like his new dad.         View this post on Instagram             ...

Royal watchers think Prince Andrew debacle could accelerate Prince Charles's ascension to King

As established, Prince Andrew’s friendship with the dead rapist pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein, and how he badly handled his interview with BBC Newsnight is the biggest crisis the British royal family has faced in decades. Andrew, for sure, and deservedly, is taking most of the heat, but his ongoing f-c...

Disney's stock closes at record high after Disney+ launch

When Disney+ launched a couple weeks ago, some people laughed because there were some technical issues, with people struggling to sign in or maintain a decent connection with the platform. Well who’s laughing now, because Disney’s stock closed yesterday at a record high. Now, this is not going to be...

Kristen Stewart and Dylan Meyer prepare for their first Thanksgiving together

Kristen Stewart and girlfriend Dylan Meyer were seen running errands together in LA yesterday and the day before ahead of American Thanksgiving. Kristen told Howard Stern a few weeks ago that Dylan is the one. That she already knows how she’ll propose. That she’s ready to get married. This, then, is...

Scarlett Johansson puts her foot in her mouth again in Vanity Fair Oscar issue

Vanity Fair released its Oscar issue yesterday featuring Scarlett Johansson on the cover and an interview with Scarjo that dives into her work on two Oscar contenders, Jojo Rabbit and Marriage Story, as well as details about the upcoming Black Widow solo movie, her recent divorce, and the difficulti...

Intro for November 27, 2019

Dear Gossips,  It was confirmed last week that Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough would not be returning to America’s Got Talent after one season of judging. The show renewed the male judges, Simon Cowell, Terry Crews, and Howie Mandel, but the two women were cut. Last night Variety reported that...

What Else for November 26, 2019

Well here’s a heartwarming story just in time for Thanksgiving! Bill Cosby isn’t sorry. I don’t know that anyone was sitting around thinking he would be but he wants it to be known, publicly, that’ it’s bullsh-t that he’s in prison, a giant conspiracy. Even though over 50 women came forward to share...

Appreciation post for Princess Anne's unimpressed faces in The Crown season 3

Erin Doherty stars in the third season of The Crown as grown-up Princess Anne, and she is MAGNIFICENT. She is also, unfortunately, criminally underused. (They skipped the kidnapping attempt! HOW do you skip a princess foiling her own kidnapping attempt?!) But for the brief time Doherty is on screen,...

Appreciation post for Prince Charles's hangdog faces in The Crown season 3

In the third season of The Crown, Josh O’Connor steps in as grown-up Prince Charles. O’Connor gives a wonderful performance, capturing Charles’s awkwardness and latent vindictiveness, all while cultivating audience sympathy for Charles’s uneasy position in the family and spiky relationship with his ...

Celebrity Social Media, November 26, 2019

Reese Witherspoon must have a new social media team, because her Instagram feed has a lot of Reese Witherspoon memes. Is this meta? I just find it kind of annoying. It’s like she’s her own fan account.         View this post on Instagram         ...

According to E! News Justin Timberlake feels guilty after being photographed with co-star Alisha Wainwright

After being photographed holding hands with his co-star this weekend, Justin Timberlake is back at work on the set of Palmer. The film is about a former athlete who, upon his release from prison, goes home for a fresh start but things get complicated when he can’t put away his past and ends up havin...

Billie Eilish's Vanity Fair Time Capsule video might be the best thing you'll see this week

I’ve been thinking a lot about time capsules recently. Last weekend, I deep-cleaned my whole room and stumbled upon this time capsule I made when I was in Grade 1. It has clear instructions to open in 2022, so I still don’t know what’s in it, but I’m fascinated by what six year old me thought was im...

Brad Pitt and Alia Shawkat together at Kanye West's opera Nebuchadnezzar in LA

There were a lot of celebrity guests at Kanye West’s opera Nebuchadnezzar the other night. Brad Pitt was there – which, now, isn’t a surprise, considering he was at one of Kanye’s Sunday Services a few months ago. Back then, the conversation was about how Brad and Kanye became friends in the first p...

A confrontation between Prince Charles and Prince Andrew is imminent

Prince Charles and Camilla have been on tour over the last couple of weeks in India, New Zealand, and the Solomon Islands, though you wouldn’t know it because their travels have been totally overshadowed. Charles has been overshadowed before. Princess Diana used to overshadow him and he wasn’t all t...

Intro for November 26, 2019

Dear Gossips,  We are three weeks away now from the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The final publicity push is now underway. Do you have your tickets yet? I do. Please, I was so parched I got mine as soon as they came out – and I feel pretty smug about it because I just checked and ...

What Else for November 25, 2019

Halsey was not nominated for any Grammys last week so when she gave a speech last night at the American Music Awards, many wondered if she was referring to the Grammys when she talked about the awards that meant most to her. Which I appreciate – and, yet, at the same time, the reason the Grammys and...

Duana Names: One Vowel To Rule Them All

Hi Duana,  Here’s the sitch: We’re expecting a baby boy in late December. Big sister Elena will be 3. But: My husband is an immigrant from Japan and, perhaps understandably (yes, okay, totally understandably) insists that our children’s names be pronounceable in Japanese. Most of his family still...

Watchmen Season 1 Episode 6 review

Spoilers Somehow, Watchmen keeps getting better, which should be impossible given this show’s high standard from the jump. But building off last week’s stellar episode, the latest Watchmen, “This Extraordinary Being”, ups the ante again, giving us an episode full of answers, yes, but also the str...

Celebrity Social Media, November 25, 2019

The Rock and Danny DeVito crashed a wedding and sang a song for the bride and groom. Very charming duo. But I wonder how spontaneous it was because it was filmed for IGTV. That means there had to be a little bit of planning, to ensure that there were microphones for them etc. If you had a celebrity ...

Breaking down Justin Hartley and wife Chrishell's divorce announcement

Writing the Celebrity Social Media column has given me a smutty sense for celebrity splits.  I can’t do long division or parallel park, but if you need to know which B-list couple is going to break up, I am your person. For many couples, there isn’t a dramatic unfollow, which would be too obvious; i...

Taylor Swift named Artist of the Decade at the 2019 American Music Awards

For all the speculation and rumouring ahead of Taylor Swift’s appearance at the American Music Awards last night related to her ongoing dispute with Big Machine Label Group, Scott Borchetta, and Scooter Braun, the end result wasn’t dramatic at all. Taylor hinted at going through some difficult times...

Prince Andrew reportedly "booted" from Buckingham Palace and the Queen has cancelled his 60th birthday celebration

Amazingly, though some reporters here and there have tried it, the UK tabloids haven’t let up on Prince Andrew to resume their attacks on Meghan Markle. Probably because the public isn’t having it. It’s now been just over a week since Andrew’s interview about his friend, the dead rapist pedophile Je...

Elizabeth Banks shocks audience on The Graham Norton Show with Prince Andrew joke

We’re going to get to Prince Andrew later – what we’re talking about here, in this post, is the fact Prince Andrew, the beloved second son of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, known for years for his reportedly boorish behaviour and my-sh*t-don’t-stink attitude, has become a punchline, a joke, a joke tha...

Drunk Justin Timberlake caught on video holding hands with Palmer co-star Alisha Wainwright

In case you missed it, and I’m pretty sure if you’re here today you haven’t missed it, the Sun secured first rights on Saturday to paparazzi video and photos of Justin Timberlake in New Orleans, where he’s been shooting a movie, on the balcony of a bar holding hands and getting knee-touched by co-st...

November 25, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Donna – I’m sorry to hear about William. You keep asking me if it gets better. I don’t know that I can say it does because you will miss him forever but I can say that eventually you’ll be able to laugh about him. You’ll laugh at the “giant, stupid, happy, beautiful boy” who was your life for 12 yea...

Intro for November 25, 2019

Dear Gossips,  I did not expect to get that hype over Green Day’s performance at the American Music Awards last night. But Billie Joe Armstrong looked so good in that white jacket and sounded even better and then all those lyrics just came back to me like it was 1994 all over again. I suspect it ...

What Else for November 22, 2019

What do you do when you’re officially a royal disgrace and have to quit being royal in public because of your friendship with a dead rapist pedophile? Well, if you’re Prince Andrew, you continue being very royal in private with your mother, the Queen – on horseback, of course. He went riding with He...

Duana Names: It Can Be Both (Even The Second Time)

Hi Duana, My friend is a long time reader and suggested I reach out to you regarding the trouble my husband and I are having settling on a name for our baby girl (due in November). Having read through so many of your columns I think she is right! This is our second baby and first girl. We had ...

Outfit of the Week: Chrissy Teigen

I just realised that I don’t pay a lot of attention of Chrissy Teigen’s clothes. Maybe it’s because she’s a model and, well, style isn’t supposed to be hard for them – exception: Heidi Klum. That said, I don’t think of her as a model anymore…? She’s a lifestyle brand. She’s a Twitter master. She’s a...

Watchmen Season 1 Episode 6 preview

I really only have one pressing question after the last episode of Watchmen and that is: Is Wade okay?! We’re heading into the back half of Watchmen, and things are coming together, though Wade’s fate remains unclear. We might not get an answer to this question, as episode 6 looks like a trip into W...

Sasha Finds: More Noize

Last year I told you guys all about Noize, a Montreal based company that is churning out all kinds of amazing outerwear. I picked up the Katy puffer parka last winter and it still remains one of the best fashion decisions I’ve made to date. It’s so light, warm, and most importantly to me, cruelty-fr...

Celebrity Social Media, November 22, 2019

Scooter Braun has issued a statement on AMA-gate (click here to refresh on the details). He says he was compelled to make it because of death threats to his wife and kids (which he has a screenshot of) and a particular threatening phone call they received. Beyond that, Scooter’s clients (like Demi L...

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Finale review

Yesterday (at least in Canada) was the finale for the first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. In many ways, the finale was satisfying. We got a lot of screen time with AJ Pritchard, who is HOT AF. I saw a lot of “flooded my basement” in comments about him and honestly? Same. Also, if you’re wondering...

Will Ferrell and Jimmy Fallon reminisce about famous Cow Bell sketch on Saturday Night Live

Will Ferrell is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend with musical guest King Princess. I can’t figure out what he’s promoting, if he’s promoting anything, or maybe he’s just cruising by for a visit for old times, to do Lorne a favour. Is it Succession? For some reason when his name comes up duri...

Apple cancels The Banker premiere after "potentially damaging" allegations against producer Bernard Garrett Jr. surface

Earlier this month, we got a trailer for The Banker, Apple’s first foray into award season. The movie stars Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson as black bankers who hire a white guy to represent them in real estate deals. The story sounded interesting, the movie looked decent, and The Banker had a ...

November 22, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Anna! Carey says you’ve been a total boss this year, showing the sh-t out of your work. As the Squawking Chicken would say, you can be the hardest worker, you can be the most prepared – and that’s the kind of achievement that no one can take away from you. This is the source of your resilience, what...

Intro for November 22, 2019

Dear Gossips,  “I got us a caramel brulee latte.” This is the line where I lost it and couldn’t recover – have you seen Benny Drama’s take on Shawn Mendes? It’s not just that he nails the imitation, it’s that some of this dialogue is so exactly right. Watch it again, or for the first time, so ...

What Else for November 21, 2019

I’m always going click on a headline about Dolly Parton. I’m always going to click on a headline about Dolly Parton talking about her plastic surgery and/or her breasts. I love it when she talks about her breasts. But you know what doesn’t get as much attention as her breasts (LOL, does anything?)? ...

Show Your Work: Interviewing Prince Andrew

It’s pretty obvious that Team York did not show their work preparing Prince Andrew for his interview with Emily Maitlis for BBC Newsnight. On the other side of the interview though, it was Emily and her colleagues coming through with the work porn. And, fortunately for us, both she and producer, Sam...

The Crown season 3 review

In its third season, The Crown experiences a reset, with a new cast coming in to play the royal family at a later stage in life. The Queen, now played by Olivia Colman, is in her middle life, older and no wiser as she navigates a changing world. The transition to the new cast is seamless, though the...

Celebrity Social Media, November 21, 2019

Lea Michele’s new video for “Christmas in New York” has dropped. While it’s supposed to have the feel of a bustling city, it’s clearly a soundstage mixed in with generic shots of “New York,” complete with a hokey taxi cab ride. Rebecca Alter at Vulture astutely points out it has the vibe of a Macy’s...

Sam Hunt walks out of jail after posting bond for DUI arrest

Not even going to pretend to know a lot about Sam Hunt, like his music. I do know that when he comes up in conversation, at least in my circle, it’s about how hot he is. There’s some gossip that floats around about him from my sources in Nashville but before we get to that, let’s cover the breaking ...

Brenda Song says she didn't get to audition for Crazy Rich Asians because she's not Asian enough

Brenda Song is currently promoting the Hulu series Dollface and gave an interview to Teen Vogue about her career – she’s 31 years old and has been in the business almost her entire life. Most people know her, of course, as London Tipton on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody who some call the OG Crazy Ric...

The Charlie's Angels cast attends London premiere despite box office bomb

As you probably heard, Charlie’s Angels bombed last weekend. Like seriously tanked. Franchise-killer flopped. Even with a sub-$100 million budget, an $8 million opening weekend is bad news. But, the movie is still rolling out overseas, including a premiere in London yesterday. I am always curious ab...

Taylor Swift receives three Grammy nominations but not for Album of the Year

Grammy nominations yesterday and Lizzo, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, and Lil Nas X, emerged as the Recording Academy’s new pop superstars cohort. For Taylor Swift, however, who received three nominations, including for Song of the Year (“Lover), most of the headlines after the announcement were tha...

Multiple sources report that Brad Pitt and Alia Shawkat are just friends

To recap: Brad Pitt and Alia Shawkat were seen together at an art exhibit last Saturday. They were also spotted at the gallery restaurant seated at a table alone together. In September, Brad was photographed leaving a play in LA with Alia. And in October they were backstage at Mike Birbiglia’s show....

Intro for November 21, 2019

Dear Gossips, Everyone is still talking about Prince Andrew announcing yesterday that he would be stepping down for the “foreseeable future” from public duties on behalf of the British royal family. In the letter that was released confirming the decision, Andrew says that he was the one who decid...

What Else for November 20, 2019

Kirsten Dunst was apparently asked to “fix” her teeth for Spider-Man. She does have distinctive teeth. And what’s wrong with distinctive? Her teeth are cute. Sexy even. Super sexy in Marie Antoinette. I love her whole look in that film. But, of course, this goes back to the generic-ness that was onc...

Duana Names: The Gumshoe Factor

Hi Duana! I'm a name nerd and love your column I'm such a name nerd I never thought I'd have trouble coming up with one myself, but now that the time is actually here nothing has that spark for us and we're stumped. We're due with our second and have about a million girls names but need a boy name. ...

Entertainment Self-Care: More Soft TV

We stand on the cusp of the holiday season, when you might be looking to lock yourself in a linen closet for JUST A MOMENT’S PEACE, JANET, CHRIST. Which means you could probably use some soft TV to take the edge off in between holiday parties and family dinners. Here are the latest gems in super-sof...

Prince Andrew stepping back from royal duties for the foreseeable future

The British royal family released a statement today about Prince Andrew. I know that you don’t need me to tell you why Prince Andrew is in the news but, you know, maybe in a hundred years, if the internet is still around and someone stumbles across this site, they might need the context. And the con...

What's Your Drama: How are Pete and Kaia a Thing & Falling in Love with a Taken Woman

Before we get started I need Lainey to help me wrap my mind around Pete Davidson and Kaia Gerber.  And before that Ariana Grande (above his pay grade), Kate Beckinsale (same and hot as f-ck), Margaret Qualley. The list goes on. Big dick, no dick...I. JUST. DON'T. GET. IT. If you understand the appea...

Celebrity Social Media, November 20, 2019

Cindy Crawford posted a WCW (woman crush Wednesday) that’s also a major throwback. Thank you for the tags, Cindy – yes that’s Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher, Fran Drescher, Gabrielle Union, Allison Janney, Nancy O’Dell, Deidre Hall, Nancy O’Dell, Amber Valletta, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Love Hewitt a...

Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney photographed for the first time since getting married

Jennifer Lawrence was photographed for the first time yesterday since marrying Cooke Maroney last month. They were seen at MOMA in New York exactly a month after their wedding. Everyone’s been trying to eyeball her wedding band. I’m still curious about her wedding dress which we’ve yet to see, just ...

Entertainment Weekly marks one month countdown to release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker with cover feature

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker opens in exactly one month. To mark the final countdown, Entertainment Weekly has a special Star Wars edition with three covers featuring the casts of the three movie trilogies. I am not here for the revisionism that the prequel trilogy was good—it wasn’t, those are ...

Prince Andrew reportedly wants to do another interview since appearance on Newsnight was a bust

It’s been an epically sh-tty week for Prince Andrew. His interview on BBC Newsnight was a bust. Then he was alleged to have said the n-word during a business meeting. Yesterday former Labour minister Jacqui Smith alleged that he “made racist comments about Arabs" at a state dinner for the Saudi roya...

Brad Pitt and Alia Shawkat photographed at comedy show in October

I posted yesterday about Brad Pitt and Alia Shawkat leaving a play together in September and at an art gallery yesterday and seen at the gallery’s restaurant afterwards. In that post, I described another photograph taken by a patron at the restaurant that showed Brad and Alia sitting together at a t...

November 20, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

For Melanie and Milo and 17 and a half years of history. As you shared, that was a lot of life that she was a part of – and she was there from the very beginning. You were all babies at the beginning! First year university? Maybe she was the bond, the heart around which everything else grew around, ...

Intro for November 20, 2019

Dear Gossips,  “Let's have a toast for the douche bags” Pitchfork was first last month, releasing their list of the Best Songs and Albums of the 2010s to much debate - as it should be. Now it’s Billboard’s turn with their staff pick list of the 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s. Needless to say...

What Else for November 19, 2019

We’ve received some emails about this today – did you hear about the politician who may or may not have farted on TV? Duana has pitched it for Show Your Work this week, which we are posting a day later this week because of scheduling. There is a lot to discuss in a broadcast fart, especially with th...

Awkwafina is in fourth and fifth place for Best Actress nomination odds for The Farewell

Lulu Wang’s The Farewell premiered at Sundance to outstanding reviews and already, back then, people were talking Oscar potential. The film was released in July and remains one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year with strong specialty box office performance to back it up. And through...

Celebrity Social Media, November 19, 2019

Swifties are claiming a partial victory for the AMAs, but there’s still the Netflix documentary. And Shawn Mendes is a target now, too – not because he has anything to do with Taylor Swift’s master recordings, but because he was on John Mayer’s Instastories talk show, “Current Mood with John Mayer"....

The second trailer for Cats is terrifying and leaves us with even more questions

Since July, I have been conducting a thorough scientific inquiry into What Is Cats? So far, I have only questions, no answers, as I try to determine What Is Cats, a question seemingly designed to boggle even the sharpest minds. My first hypothesis is that Cats is a coke-induced mania, but I am worki...

Robert Pattinson supported by friends John David Washington and Rami Malek at the GO Gala

As mentioned a few times recently, Robert Pattinson is a possibility for an Oscar nomination for his performance in The Lighthouse and he’s been campaigning. Robert was at the Academy Governors Awards a few weeks ago, he’s attended pre-awards Hollywood Foreign Press Association events, and he was pa...

Prince Andrew reportedly thinks his Newsnight interview was a great success

The fallout from Prince Andrew’s shambolic interview with Emily Maitlis on BBC Newsnight continues. It was a unanimous bomb. A major disaster. A total sh-t show to the point where even the British tabloids can’t avoid it as, you know, they prefer another royal target. But it’s undeniable that there’...

Brad Pitt and Alia Shawkat spotted together at art exhibit in LA

Two names you wouldn’t have predicted to be in a headline together, right? Brad Pitt and Alia Shawkat were seen together at the “LA on Fire” art exhibit on Saturday showcasing the work of over 50 artists telling the story of how Los Angeles has burned through the years. Photos of them at Wilding Cra...

November 19, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Andrea! It’s that time. It’s the tradition. Happy Birthday from Lori! Can’t tell you how comforting it is to me to see your name show up in this space year after year. So… here’s to this year and let’s connect again next year. Have the best day! 

Intro for November 19, 2019

Dear Gossips,  As you know if you’ve been visiting this site over the last year or more, Duana and I love Daisy Jones & The Six so much we dedicated two whole episodes of Show Your Work to the book and its author, Taylor Jenkins Reid. If you haven’t already – why haven’t you read it?! Reese Withe...

What Else for November 18, 2019

I don’t understand the premise of the new movie Nicolas Cage is doing – just that it’s about Nic Cage playing Nic Cage. Which totally makes sense in how little sense it makes. Which means it’s a very good idea and a very bad idea at the same time. (Dlisted) You know would also be a very good idea...

Duana Names: Don’t Give In To Temptation!

Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting baby number two at the end of November and despite being oh-so-close to the “it’s a ——” moment that we’re hoping will live up to the hype, our inability to find a boy name we love has us almost ready to tear open the envelope stowed in our bedside table wi...

Watchmen Season 1, Episode 5 review

THINGS. ARE. HAPPENING. An episode devoted to Looking Glass (Tim Blake Nelson) pulls together a few more threads on Watchmen, bringing us closer to the answers about Will’s grand conspiracy. This is the best episode of Watchmen yet, in no small part thanks to Nelson who gives us the most laid-back, ...

Celebrity Social Media, November 18, 2019

Modern Family is filming its final season, and the show has done several family trips as a storyline. It’s actually a great way to go on vacation on the company dime – the network makes plenty of money off them, so a trip to Paris seems reasonable.         View thi...

Gal Gadot and Ben Affleck call for release of Snyder Cut of Justice League

In case you think Martin Scorsese vs. Marvel is the worst, most pointless ongoing argument on Film Twitter, allow me to introduce you to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut. It has been going strong for two years and counting, ever since Justice League was released with significant material added by Joss Whedon fo...

Prince Andrew's Newsnight interview was a unanimous and unmitigated disaster

As noted in the previous post, Prince Andrew and Team York did a piss poor job preparing for their interview with BBC Newsnight and Emily Maitlin. It was a unanimous and unmitigated disaster. There is absolutely no one, except for Lady Colin Campbell, who can find one shred of positivity from the co...

Prince Andrew and his team display their incompetence with release of Newsnight interview

It is the year 2019. And we are talking about the sweat glands of a member of the British royal family, the beloved second son of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England. We have already talked extensively about his fat fingers. Now we’ve moved onto his sweat glands. So next time some posh f-ck tr...

The Evening Standard reports on Prince Andrew's use of the n-word during meeting in 2012

This f-cking idiot. Before we even get to his interview with Emily Maitlis on Newsnight this weekend, we have to address another one Prince Andrew’s messes – this time his alleged use of the n-word. The Evening Standard reports that he said it at a meeting back in 2012.  “Rohan Silva, who was Dav...

Prince Harry prioritises mental health at the first ever Onside Awards

Prince Harry stepped out for the first ever Onside Awards on Sunday to honour young activists and the volunteers and the mentors who are helping youth who are trying to make a difference. For a change, though, he wasn’t the top royal headline this weekend. That, of course, would be his uncle, and we...

Intro for November 18, 2019

Dear Gossips,  This weekend Beyoncé was in Florida supporting Jay-Z at the Shawn Carter Foundation Gala. And we STILL don’t know who/what she was as for Halloween this year! Remember, Beyoncé and Jay-Z hosted a Halloween party. All kinds of celebrities showed up. No one has revealed what her cost...

What Else for November 15, 2019

In other Taylor Swift news, while she was calling out Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun, again, and telling her fans to plead with Ariana Grande etc to help her out, the new song she and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote together for Cats was released. It’s definitely a song from a musical and probably the ...

Duana Names: Help You School Me

Hi Duana, I'm a bit of a name nut, and so enjoy your column! My husband and I are due with our first, and we have decided not to find out the sex. We have both agreed that incorporating family names are important to us, and I'm hoping to get your opinion on both options! My grandmother's maiden n...

Watchmen Season 1 Episode 5 preview

A co-worker of mine shared a Watchmen theory this week that Looking Glass, the masked detective played by Tim Blake Nelson, could be a secret racist like (maybe) Judd. That sounds entirely logical to me, because through four episodes Tim Blake Nelson hasn’t done a whole lot, and you do not hire an a...

Sasha Finds: A Crisp White Shirt

I think we can all agree everyone needs a crisp, white shirt in their closet. It will save you on those days when you want to set fire to all your clothes. Now, if you already have a good quiver then move on to the next post, but if you’re like me and are always on the lookout then feast your eyes o...

Forky Asks a Question is Disney+’s best new series

Disney+ arrived with fanfare, technical problems, and its flagship series, The Mandalorian. But after The Mandalorian was over, I started digging into the various menus on Disney+ to see what else I might want to watch—the National Geographic “channel” is full of interesting stuff— and I found a sho...

Celebrity Social Media, November 15, 2019

Last night I was on high alert, keeping tabs on absolutely everyone connected to Big Machine, Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun, which Lainey covered this morning. And you know what I mostly saw? Halsey, Camila Cabello and Selena Gomez all had her back, they are artists but they are also her friends. T...

Sarah Michelle Gellar to star in Sometimes I Lie, produced by Ellen Degeneres

I’ll be honest – Sarah Michelle Gellar’s career is fascinating to me. In the past, I’ve had trouble understanding why she’s not much, much busier.  But the announcement that she’s slated to star in a limited series called Sometimes I Lie, executive produced by Ellen Degeneres, makes me feel like ...

Rihanna, Zendaya, Olivia, Charlize, and Celine's great looks

This is a straight up fashion post – four looks from last night that are really, really good, that could have been contenders, but not as good as Celine Dion’s Outfit of the Week that I posted yesterday and, besides, we’ve retired Zendaya in all consideration for “Best” because it’s Zendaya and any ...

Chris Evans in white corduroy at the Knives Out premiere

Knives Out premiered last night, and that extremely good cast showed up, looking extremely good. I am missing Lakeith Stanfield, an underrated hottie, but check out Chris Evans in that winter white suit with the striped knit tie. I stared at this suit in close zoom for a long time, trying to determi...

Prince Andrew's desperate and mortifying interview with BBC Newsnight about association with Jeffrey Epstein

BBC Newsnight announced this morning that they’d landed an exclusive interview with Prince Andrew about his friend, the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. And they clearly have enough here to turn it into a one hour special on Saturday night.  WORLD EXCLUSIVE: In a #Newsnight @BBCTwo inte...

Sebastian Stan is still hot on the set of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will be the first Marvel television show to hit Disney+ next fall. Well, it will be the first new Marvel television show, you can find The Inhumans on Disney+ now. Remember The Inhumans? No? That’s okay, no one does! I’m actually surprised it’s there, I assume Kevin...

Taylor Swift irresponsibly asks fans for help in ongoing battle with Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta

This past summer, at the end of June, Big Machine Label Group, Taylor Swift’s former label, the label she was signed to at the beginning of her career, and the label that released her first six albums, right up to reputation, was acquired by Ithaca Holdings, led by Scooter Braun who manages Justin B...

Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith make red carpet debut at Queen & Slim premiere in LA

Queen & Slim premiered last night in Hollywood. The film is Melina Matsoukas’s feature film directorial debut, from a script written by Lena Waithe, starring Oscar nominee Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith in her first lead role – and there’s been Oscar buzz about it for months, building on posi...

November 15, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Yesterday was Simone’s “6 year cancer survival day”. As Simone told me in her email, “I know breast cancer awareness month is over but for me that month is every minute and day of the year”.  Simone has written about her cancer survival on her website Breasts in the City and she’s asked me to sha...

Intro for November 15, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Earlier this year, Jeremy Renner partnered with Amazon to promote a list of camping products, or fishing, I can’t remember. Then it was Jennifer Lawrence’s wedding registry recommendations. More and more celebrities are putting together themed shopping lists on Amazon and, as we’ve...

What Else for November 14, 2019

This story has… everything. It has dancing and teens. It happened in a night club. And there’s a baby involved! Are we sure this isn’t the setup for a Netflix rom-com next year? Kate is pregnant, like nine months pregnant after her boyfriend f-cked off months ago and left her all by herself. Her koo...

Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter, Erin Doherty attend The Crown season 3 premiere

The Crown season 3 drops this Sunday on Netflix. Early reviews are really good. It’s not like I expect a drop in quality, not from one of the most lavish and meticulously crafted dramas on television. I just wonder whether or not the issues currently surrounding the real Windsors will have any effec...

Kate Hudson enters into the spirits market with King St. Vodka

It’s common to hear that we are in a rom-com resurgence, which is bringing some joy to the streaming wars. But it’s a new kind of rom-com that is slightly less blonde. It’s not the marquee movie stars like Cameron Diaz, Reese Witherspoon, and Kate Hudson making these movies and the new style of rom-...

Celebrity Social Media, November 14, 2019

Katy Perry dresses very literally for the Met Gala theme – remember when she went as an angel? With wings? When I first saw these Christmas boots, I assumed the bow was a decoration, not part of the shoe. But it’s Katy Perry so of course it’s part of the shoe. But sometimes being literal works for h...

Charlie's Angels starring Kristen Stewart movie review

Elizabeth Banks resurrects Charlie’s Angels for a new generation, not so much rebooting the franchise as expanding it, making room for new Angels to have new adventures. Charlie’s Angels is slick and fun and glamorous, and has a similar fizzy appeal as Ocean’s 8. Banks, who writes and directs, bring...

Kacey Musgraves and Willie Nelson perform "Rainbow Connection" at the CMA Awards

Kacey Musgraves’s Golden Hour won Album of the Year last night at the CMAs. It also won AOTY at the ACMs and the Grammys so she has a triple crown, despite the fact that Golden Hour was largely ignored by country radio - even after she took home the biggest award at the Grammys!  I love Golden Ho...

Celine Dion's new single and Outfit of the Week

Is courage a feeling? Because if it is, it now belongs to the Queen of All Feelings, Celine Dion. It is the title of her new album, out tomorrow. It is the title of the new song, with a new video, just released. Celine is shot in black and white, sometimes in silhouette. She is alone on stage, with ...

Prince Charles's family celebrates his birthday with baby photos on social media

Prince Charles celebrates his birthday today. The future King of England is now 71 years old. You’ll recall, it was around now, last year, as he approached his milestone 70th birthday, when all the mess started about his two sons. He covered Vanity Fair and the feature story included all kinds of te...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle skipping Royal Christmas at Sandringham this year

It’s been speculated for days that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would not be joining the Queen and other members of the royal family for Royal Christmas at Sandringham. Buckingham Palace confirmed in a statement yesterday that the Sussexes will indeed be skipping it this year:  "The Duke and Du...

November 14, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Heather! Happy Birthday from your best friend Meg who shared with me her memories from your time spent drunk-gossiping after the bar. I approve. Gossip is great for a hangover. By request, here’s Bryan Greenberg (well done – I have never gotten over him in Prime) from his How To Make It In America d...

Intro for November 14, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Jennifer Nettles made a statement last night with her outfit on the red carpet at the CMA Awards.  “Equal Play” “Play Our F-cking Records” “Please & Thank You” This is about country radio and the long ongoing conversation about the fact that it’s dominated by men becaus...

What Else for November 13, 2019

Demi Lovato has a new boyfriend. It’s not the dude from The Bachelor. Austin Wilson is a model. He’s apparently popular on Instagram and now he and Demi are IG-official. When I first saw this I was like....is Demi Lovato dating Jaden Smith? Because doesn’t he look, like from afar, like Jaden Smith? ...

Duana Names: Does The Spelling Change The Meaning?

Hey Duana! I hope this is the shortest, most succinct email you receive all day (I’d have said week, but let’s not get carried away). My husband and I are expecting our second, sex unknown (but to be determined). Our first is Mary. If second is a girl, do you like the name Roux? How’s that for...

Renee Zellweger revisits her most memorable roles in InStyle cover feature

Over the last couple of weeks, it’s been Charlize Theron in the spotlight, campaigning for Best Actress Oscar for her work in Bombshell as Megyn Kelly. There is another frontrunner, however, who is also an Oscar winner – that would be Renee Zellweger and I’m curious as to how she’s going to approach...

Jennifer Lopez hilariously calls Robert Pattinson "Bobby" in Variety interview

Sarah and I wrote about Variety’s Actors on Actors series yesterday - she posted about Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans interviewing each other and I posted about Brad Pitt and Adam Sandler. Neither one was all that exciting, and neither had the randomness that makes these features interesting. Je...

Celebrity Social Media, November 13, 2019

Starting a petition to have Sarah review American Christmas. Is this a play on American Pie, without being a part of the franchise? My new movie American Christmas is out now on Amazon prime!!! I had so much fun filming this it’s truly a great feel good and funny Christmas movie, I really lov...

Show Your Work: The Morning Show

On this week’s episode of Show Your Work, we are all in on The Morning Show, Apple TV+’s flagship series, starring and produced by Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.  People are already predicting that this series WILL for sure contend at the Golden Globes. That Jennifer could be back onstag...

English actor Jonah Hauer-King cast as Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid

Over the summer, pieces for the live-action Little Mermaid steadily came together, with Halle Bailey signing on to play Ariel, and Melissa McCarthy joining as Ursula, followed by Daveed Diggs as Sebastian, Jacob Tremblay and Awkwafina as Flounder and Scuttle, respectively, and Javier Bardem as King ...

Sonic the Hedgehog looks much, much better in new trailer

Last spring we saw a trailer for Sonic the Hedgehog, a live-action movie based on the classic video game. In that trailer, Sonic was revealed to be a nightmare-inducing hell beast with HUMAN TEETH. The internet screamed as one: Thanks, we hate it! And Sonic the Hedgehog was delayed three months so t...

Nicole Richie to star in Quibi comedy series, Nikki Fre$h

Every time I see a new story about Quibi, I’m reminded that 1. It exists, kind of and 2. It isn’t quite anything yet.   It hasn’t launched, but the money behind it has been busy acquiring talent and picking up shows with Chrissy Teigen, Zac Efron, Justin Timberlake, and Steven Spielberg. Quibi has...

Disney+ launches with The Mandalorian

Disney+ launched yesterday with much fanfare and crashing servers. People struggled to log on all day (my first attempt failed, but it was smooth sailing after attempt number two), and headlines screamed all day about how overwhelmed the service was with new users signing on. I am sure the struggle ...

John Legend is PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive 2019

Didn’t see this one coming – but probably it’s because I’d already decided back in May/June that Keanu Reeves should be PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive for 2019 which is why I didn’t bother running the prediction feature we do every year here on the site. Even if I did though, I don’t think I would have ...

Intro for November 13, 2019

Dear Gossips,  If you’ve been visiting this site a while, you know how much I love gross sh-t. Dr Pimple Popper is just my appetiser. My self-care is panda videos and looking for the gnarliest, nastiest ooze and goo and body fungus I can find. Which is something I share with Duana. When a stye tu...

What Else for November 12, 2019

When I saw this headline I thought maybe it was an archived link. From like 2005? Next year will mark the 15th anniversary of Kate Moss and Pete Doherty. And those of us who remember those times...don’t necessarily want to remember those times. And the thing is, it would seem that Pete hasn’t moved ...

Watchmen Season 1 Episode 4 review

Even though episode four, “If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own”, adds another new character to the Watchmen pile, several threads also start coming together. The cold open introduces a nice childless farming couple who live next door to a giant and mysterious clock that is under construction....

Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes make out courtside at the Clippers and Raptors game in LA

What did I tell you last week when I posted about Camila Cabello being papped while on the phone, assuring us that she and Shawn Mendes were still together? I wrote that Shawn was on break from his tour soon and that we’d be imminently getting another relationship update - with fresh photos. And it ...

Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson pair up for Variety's Actors on Actors series

The working title of this piece was “Evans and ScarJo circle jerk”; I cleaned up the headline because I am a PROFESSIONAL. But make no mistake, any interview format that involves actors interviewing each other is a circle jerk, and the Variety “Actors on Actors” series is no different. It’s Variety’...

Variety pairs Brad Pitt and Adam Sandler together for Actors on Actors series

Variety’s Actors on Actors series is hit and miss for me. And it all depends on the actors. Sarah’s got Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans coming up next and there’s some intrigue and insight there because of the Avengers connection and for me, I’m always curious about how Scarjo engages with people...

Celebrity Social Media, November 12, 2019

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is one of those shows that might not have the biggest audience, but the fans are diehards – it was basically saved by a social media campaign. It’s gone through changes, too - what happened with Chelsea Peretti’s character Gina? When she left the show, she gave an interview to The...

Ricky Gervais returning to host the Golden Globes for the fifth time

Despite a host-less Oscars working out well, the HFPA are sticking with a host for the Golden Globes, and announced this morning that Ricky Gervais will return for the fifth time as the host in 2020. Because of the Oscars accelerated schedule, the Golden Globes will air on January 5, which means we ...

Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, and Emma Thompson attend Last Christmas premiere in London

In the previous post about Charlie’s Angels, I posted about the movies that aren’t for critics but people love them anyway. Here’s another example – Independence Day, the original, from 1996 starring Will Smith. Critics weren’t into it. I regularly watch the sh-t out of that movie and I won’t apolog...

Kristen Stewart is comfortable as leader of Charlie's Angels cast at LA premiere

Charlie’s Angels opens this weekend and director Elizabeth Banks and stars Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska were in Hollywood last night for the premiere. At post time reviews for the film have not yet been released which, normally, is not a good sign. At the same time, I’m not sure t...

Noah Centineo wins Best Comedy Movie Star at the People's Choice Awards

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.  Remember what I just said in the previous post about the People’s Choice Awards? That they mean nothing. Well… Here’s a good example. Noah Centineo was the People’s Choice for Best Comedy Movie Star. Not any of the stars of Booksmart, one of the funniest movies of the year....

Jennifer Aniston channels her Morning Show character at the People's Choice Awards

I say this every year about the People’s Choice Awards – they don’t mean anything. And it’s comical how little they mean. Like it’s always been unclear who actually votes for them. And if you see the list, some of the categories and their winners are as basic and hilarious as the MTV Movie and (now)...

November 12, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

A reminder that the 5th Annual Gala Fundraiser in collaboration with Make-A-Wish Quebec (at Le Chateau Classique in Montreal) is this coming Saturday November 16th. The goal is to raise at least $12,000 to make a child’s wish come true. And that could be Kamarhi’s wish to go to Disneyland. Kamarhi h...

Intro for November 12, 2019

Dear Gossips,  IndieWire reported late on Friday that Universal told the New York Film Critics that Cats wouldn’t be ready for review until mid-December. The NY Film Critics vote on their best films of the year on December 4 which means that, if this is indeed true, Cats will miss out on consider...

What Else for November 8, 2019

As mentioned earlier, Monday is a holiday in many parts of Canada. We will be dark on Monday and returning on Tuesday.  Reading about Ric Ocasek cutting Paulina Porizkova out of his will made me sad. Then, because I’ve watched too much Dateline and 20/20, a terrible thought came to mind. That mad...

Celebrity Social Media, November 8, 2019

This came up in my feed and I’ve had Two Princes in my head for three days. Now you do, too.  In my case, this is definitely true. https://t.co/qSSO8ZLBt5 — Chris Barron (@thechrisbarron) November 6, 2019 Solange’s Garage Magazine cover is spectacular, which is kind of a given when it’s...

Duana Names: Is This Name Actionable?

Hi Duana, I am currently expecting a baby girl and have found myself in the middle of some family drama. My husband and I are planning to name our daughter Caroline which greatly upset his brother and his brother's wife. They currently have a six-month-old boy (Andrew) but before the baby was bor...

Watchmen Season 1, Episode 4 preview

Watchmen episode 4 preview   In the last episode, Watchmen both brought us closer to the original graphic novel, and expanded the world of the show. Now that the show is not just about Angela Abar, but also Laurie Blake, the questions just keep mounting. We have to find out about Will, and the con...

Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson in Doctor Sleep movie review

Doctor Sleep has an impossible task. It has to be a sequel to The Shining, the Stephen King story, and it has to be a sequel to The Shining, the Stanley Kubrick film, widely regarded as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It is totally possible to adapt a King novel, there is an entire cine...

Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant make headlines after holding hands at the LACMA gala

We’re not going to make the “couple of the week” a regular feature. The reason there’s a couple of the week this week is because, well, of the all the celebrity couples you would have expected to be the most-talked-about couple this would, you would have never predicted that it would have been Keanu...

The Met Gala 2020 theme will be About Time: Fashion and Duration

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York opened in April 1870 so next year the Met celebrates its 150th anniversary and many of its exhibits will commemorate the milestone. Which means the Costume Institute Gala, aka the Met Gala, will also be a birthday party on the first Monday in May 2020. It’s...

Outfit of the Week: Sharon Stone

THIS HOT BITCH is what I’ve been calling Sharon Stone for years now because… well… look at This Hot Bitch. She was in Berlin last night accepting the Woman of the Year Award from GQ Germany. She’s big in Europe. Several times in Cannes, I saw people lose their minds over her. Like reporters and fans...

James Dean to be resurrected via CGI for role in Vietnam War movie called Finding Jack

This week in Utterly Ghoulish News, we learned that a pair of directors have “cast” “James Dean” in an upcoming Vietnam War movie called Finding Jack. The directors, Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh, are making their feature film directorial debut, and they have found the perfect way to guarantee their f...

Elisabeth Moss in first trailer for The Invisible Man

Tom Cruise’s The Mummy tanked, and Universal’s would-be Dark Universe collapsed. That meant no Russell Crowe Dr. Jekyll movie, no Javier Bardem Frankenstein, and no Johnny Depp Invisible Man. Earlier this year, Universal pivoted with their classic monster franchise and handed it to Jason Blum and hi...

November 8, 2019 - Smutty Shout-Outs

In memory of Catherine Grace Walsh who served her family and her community with integrity and honour and is remembered all the time, every day, but especially this time of year by those who were blessed to love her. And for Shirley who remembers her most - I heard something yesterday that reminds...

Intro for November 8, 2019

Dear Gossips, Monday is Remembrance Day in Canada and the UK and many parts of Europe and Veterans Day in the US. Yesterday the Cambridges and the Sussexes stepped out in the first of what is expected to be a series of public appearances to observe Remembrance, although Kate Middleton wasn’t init...

What Else for November 7, 2019

Kerry Washington went to school with Gwyneth Paltrow and even then, G, as Kerry says, was GWYNETH PALTROW, all emphasis. The Queen. Great. But I can’t take my eyes off Kerry’s hair on Ellen DeGeneres, her hair is SO good right now, and this gorgeous dress. I love this dress on her so much. I love th...

Katie Holmes's boots look like they're painted on at FilmAid Power of Film Benefit

Katie Holmes stepped out again last night in New York, this time attending the 2019 FilmAid Power of Film Benefit. As we’ve seen, in the three months since her split from Jamie Foxx, Katie’s social life has gotten a lot more active, at least publicly. There’s a lot going on all the time in NYC, for ...

Celebrity Social Media, November 7, 2019

There’s an update on the Will & Grace social media merry-go-round. Based on follow/unfollow patterns, there was speculation that Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally were not on good terms. These photos, a post and a repost, quash that, right? It seems fine.          View...

Camila Cabello FaceTimes Shawn Mendes in LA

What does it take to believe something? This, for our purposes here, is about celebrity but it’s a question we’re all wrestling with beyond Hollywood. In Hollywood though, it’s fascinating to me what take to be the truth and what we doubt. Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper have been consistently insistin...

What's Your Drama: Ghosting Henry Golding & Relationship Deal Breakers

Welcome back to this week's What's Your Drama!  Thank you all for your feedback and support!   On today's show: First up, Lainey gives us all the play by play on her elevator run-in with Henry Golding and how he will basically be haunted by her for the rest of his days on earth. Lainey never d...

Oprah interviews Lady Gaga for ELLE cover feature

We’ll get to Bradley Cooper in a minute. Let’s first talk about this conversation between Lady Gaga and Oprah for the new issue of ELLE. How did this happen? For all the things she has going on, how did Oprah end up interviewing Gaga for a magazine? When she has her own magazine. Like, yes, this job...

Pete Davidson and Kaia Gerber have dinner at Nobu in Malibu

Pete Davidson and Kaia Gerber were seen together last month, prompting speculation about whether or not they’re dating, especially since at that time it had just been revealed that he and Margaret Qualley had broken up after a few months – and, given Pete’s romance history the last year or so, well,...

Whitney Houston's best friend Robyn Crawford promotes new book, A Song For You: My Life With Whitney Houston

If you are a fan of Whitney Houston, you know about Robyn Crawford. Robyn was Whitney’s best friend from adolescence to adulthood. Robyn was Whitney’s creative director for a while and toured with her often. Where there was Whitney, there was always Robyn, until Robyn quit and left in 2000 because s...

November 7, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Amy! Happy 30th Birthday from Nick! Welcome to your new era! This your time now. I’m not saying it gets any easier, because it never does, but the difference here is that you know yourself. And you keep knowing yourself – not to sound all Carrie Bradshaw or anything but it’s so different meeting cha...

Intro for November 7, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Colin Firth was trending yesterday and some people panicked because that’s how we live now – when someone trends, it’s often bad news, either tragic or they’ve f-cked up and there are calls that they should cancelled. Colin Firth, fortunately, is not cancelled. He was trending beca...

What Else for November 6, 2019

Duana and I podcasted last night so we did not watch The Little Mermaid Live. I saw it was trending near the end of the night and for a minute I wondered whether or not we missed out. Sounds like… we did? But maybe not in the way they wanted? What the F-CK is John Stamos doing?! (Dlisted) This Ho...

Duana Names: What’s My Name, Though?

Hi Duana! First-time writer, long-time reader. I believe you are the perfect person to help solve my voicemail dilemma as I am not sure which name to use. It’s currently automated, but I would like to use something more personalized. I go by Ali with friends but Alison at work. I like Ali, but I ...

Show Your Work: On Angelina Jolie and Taylor Swift

On this week’s episode of Show Your Work, we analyse the “rewilding” of Angelina Jolie. She’s been one of the savviest celebrities in the business in image management; as Duana says Angie will always be A++++ list and even though there’s been a pivot in her vibe the last few months, which she’s been...

Chris Evans's Billy on the Street episode is a waste

Billy on the Street is now on Netflix (not every episode, but a lot of them), and so host Billy Eichner took the streets of New York along with Chris Evans to shout at strangers about his new streaming home, and to do some marketing for Knives Out. Two things can be true: 1) Billy Eichner is funny a...

Celebrity Social Media, November 6, 2019

This celebrity birthday wish is so good because I had to scan for Kevin Jonas. Considering Nick and Priyanka’s wedding and the JoBros tour, they must have dozens of photos together. Hundreds. And she chose this one. Ha!         View this post on Instagram   ...

Charlize Theron in talks for an Oscar nomination for role in Bombshell

We are about a month away from the Golden Globe nominations. The Globes don’t often align with the Oscars but they can set the tone for Oscar nominations a month later as the Globes happen during the Oscar nomination voting period.  As we’ve been reporting, races look pretty tight across the boar...

Mariah Carey uses "All I Want For Christmas Is You" to sell Walkers crisps

This came out a few days ago. But I got an update yesterday. Let’s start with the main event. Mimi declared last week that it’s officially HER season, Christmas season. “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is already climbing the charts. It has never hit #1. Every year it keeps getting closer and close...

Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell in talks to play villains in The Batman

The main cast for Matt Reeves’ The Batman is rounding out, with Colin Farrell added to the list of names on the villain call sheet. He is in talks to play the Penguin, joining Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman and Paul Dano as the Riddler. (Andy Serkis is also in talks to play Alfred and, in a particularly go...

Katie Holmes doesn't say much in cover interviews with ELLE UK and SHAPE

Katie Holmes is promoting Brahms: The Boy II. I assume this is a sequel. If so, I’ve never heard of the first one but, then again, scary movies are not my thing. It comes out in February and Katie covers two magazines – the December 2019 issue of ELLE UK and SHAPE. Not surprisingly, she doesn’t say ...

Kristen Stewart “can’t f-cking wait” to propose to girlfriend Dylan Meyer

I can’t f-cking wait to see Charlie’s Angels starring Kristen Stewart. She’s currently promoting the movie and was on Howard Stern yesterday doing the kind of interview she probably would have avoided during the Twilight era. It’s now been over a decade and, as we’ve seen, as Kristen has figured out...

Intro for November 6, 2019

Dear Gossips, The Amy Robach hot mic leak yesterday kept Prince Andrew’s friendship with the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in the headlines. For almost six months now, Andrew has remained in the headlines  because of his association with the Registered Sex Offender who died under mysterio...

What Else for November 5, 2019

First of all, we here in Toronto, we love Serge Ibaka. We would love to get Serge Ibaka on The Social but he’s kinda busy right now with his regular job and his side hustle. The side hustle is a YouTube show where he cooks for his guests and he gets to interview them. Even Kawhi Leonard agreed to be...

Chris Evans promotes 'Knives Out' on The Tonight Show

I did not order the articles this way today on purpose, I SWEAR. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, never mind.  Knives Out, directed by Rian Johnson, due out on November 27th. I saw this at TIFF – and I LOVED it. Every minute. I can’t wait to see it again. It’s so smart, it’s really funny...

Review: Jenny Slate’s stand-up special 'Stage Fright'

Jenny Slate’s first stand-up special, Stage Fright, is not going to work for you if you don’t like Jenny Slate. A traditional stand-up set combined with a personal mini-documentary about Slate’s life, Stage Fright is maximum Jenny Slate from every direction. If you’ve ever seen (or read) a Slate int...

Celebrity Social Media, November 5, 2019

To quote Kelly Kapoor, “Yeah. I have a lot of questions. Number one: how dare you?” High pony > High stakes pic.twitter.com/hbszUDrOuC — Karlie Kloss (@karliekloss) November 5, 2019 Yesterday I wrote about Harry Styles releasing his new album, but I misread that date as November 16 (tha...

The Banker starring Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie is BlacKkKlansman for the banking industry

Yesterday the first trailer for The Banker dropped. The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie as a pair of would-be bankers who, because of racial prejudice, train a white guy (Nicholas Hoult) to stand in for them as the owner of their bank, so it’s BlacKkKlansman for the banking industry...

Amy Robach's juicy hot mic about ABC's Epstein muzzle

Duana and I are planning an upcoming episode of Show Your Work about The Morning Show. As I wrote last week, The Morning Show isn’t perfect – but it’s really, really watchable, it’s compelling, we burned through all of it FAST, and partly the reason we’re so obsessed is because it’s porn for those o...

Angelina Jolie covers Harper's Bazaar December issue

Over the last few months, as she’s stepped back into the spotlight with the announcement that she’s part of Marvel’s Eternals and during promotion for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, it feels like we’ve been watching the rebirth of Angelina Jolie. She’s been more accessible than she’s been in years. S...

Brad Pitt attends Q&A in LA after visiting parents in Missouri

The Oscars are happening on February 9, 2020, about two weeks earlier than usual. This means that it’s a shorter award season and since the season is condensed, all contenders are stepping up their efforts – it’s going to be balls out from now until mid-December, when everyone goes on break for the ...

Christian Bale and Matt Damon at the Ford vs Ferrari LA Premiere

Ford vs Ferrari opens next week – Sarah reviewed the film in September at TIFF – and there are a lot of people who think it could be an Oscar contender, with both leads, Christian Bale and Matt Damon, submitted in the Best Actor category. Which means they’re going to head to head and not committing ...

November 5, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

For Laisha Rosnau, the author of six books – congratulations on the release of your latest, Little Fortress, from a friend who sends along this message:  "Laisha, you fierce woman! Congratulations on launching Little Fortress in Toronto and Hamilton this week! Love you forever, Nancy” For more...

Intro for November 5, 2019

Dear Gossips, Big day for Selena Gomez yesterday. Her new song, “Lose You To Love Me”, topped the Billboard 100, the first #1 of her career. It’s not my favourite song (and it’s OK to have different preferences, Selenators – we are allowed to like what we like) but I do love how she worked for it...

What Else for November 4, 2019

Remember what I said last week about Heidi Klum’s Halloween being overtaken by celebrities? Instagram has made it so that celebrities are all going ALL OUT for Halloween – and of course no family goes more ALL OUT than the Kardashians. I know the story here is that they photoshopped in one of the ki...

Duana Names: Vicarious Victories

Hi Duana, I’ve loved your column vicariously for years and got the satisfaction of being able to say ‘but I suggested that months ago!’ when my sister and brother-in-law named their firstborn Theodore Joseph. He’s a delight and known to everyone as Teddy. Well! Teddy is getting a baby sister a...

Dakota Johnson presents to stepfather Antonio Banderas at the Hollywood Film Awards

The Hollywood Film Awards don’t really mean anything in that even though they happen during award season – and we are firmly in award season now – they don’t predict real awards. Winning a Hollywood Film Awards doesn’t increase your chances at an Oscar. Showing up at the Hollywood Film Awards, howev...

Timothee Chalamet in The King movie review

What is the point of Shakespeare without Shakespeare? This question is central to David Michôd’s The King, which tells the story of Henry V of England, a story canonized in English literature by Shakespeare’s Henry Cycle of plays. There are other great warrior-kings of England that Shakespeare did n...

Celebrity Social Media, November 4, 2019

Mariah Carey is loving Billy on the Street and she would be an amazing guest. Legendary! The only issue is that part of being a guest involves running alongside Billy as he accosts people on the street. Running is a key part of the comedy, and we know Mimi doesn’t run. Could she make an exception an...

Watchmen Season 1 Episode 3 review

There are many unanswered questions and mysterious premises in Watchmen, but one thing we can say for certain about this show is that it is super into Doctor Manhattan’s big blue dick. Last episode it was Adrian Veidt making his clone-slave hang dong in his play about Manhattan, and this episode we ...

Anna Wintour and Bill Nighy are rumoured to be involved with each other

It was Anna Wintour’s 70th birthday yesterday. Page Six did a whole thing on what an enigma she still is and whether or not she really is as mean as she’s reputed to be and what her life is really like. Someone said she’s “Machiavellian”. Someone else says she’s misunderstood, that she’s actually “s...

Looking forward to Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield's The Photograph

The Photograph, starring Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield, directed by Stella Meghie, comes out on Valentine’s Day. I will be seeing it on Valentine’s Day, not with my husband but probably with Kathleen, because this is the kind of movie you want to go to with someone who appreciates a romance. Most o...

Prince Harry in Tokyo for the Rugby World Cup 2019 Final

Prince Harry was in Tokyo for the Rugby World Cup 2019 Final this weekend between England and South Africa. There was also time on his schedule for him to meet with local schoolchildren. This moment of him interacting with a group of girls who told him he was handsome has now gone viral:  ...

Prince Andrew's communications specialist quits after less than a month

Prince Andrew spent the weekend at the ASEAN Summit in Bangkok, promoting his Pitch@Palace initiative. Here he is posing with Mr Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, Prime Minister of Vietnam. I’m including it because it reminds me of an email I got last week from a reader called Deborah who noted that “the Duke of Yo...

Intro for November 4, 2019

Dear Gossips,  Jane Fonda was arrested again on Friday, the fourth week in a row. As we’ve seen in previous weeks, she was joined by guest stars – this time Catherine Keener and Rosanna Arquette. In a new interview with Jessica Goldstein for Vulture, Jane confirms that she has more guest stars li...

What Else for November 1, 2019

Ten years ago, Heidi Klum used to be the Halloween authority. She goes all out for Halloween – elaborate costumes, hours of makeup, requiring weeks and weeks of planning. That was before Instagram. With Instagram, any and all celebrities are balls to the wall for Halloween, basically going to the sa...

Duana Names: Poker; or, Confessions of A Name Hoarder

Hi Duana, My husband and I are expecting twins this month and I'm so tired this pregnancy that I cannot find the brain power to choose names I like. Or rather, to choose names both my husband and I agree on, or to convince him of the best names :)  We don't know the babies' genders. So that me...

Watchmen Season 1 Episode 3 preview

Watchmen, like Game of Thrones, invites theorizing. We’re two episodes in and this is already a richly detailed world, with big plot setups and seemingly minor background information that may or may not end up being relevant. Unlike Game of Thrones, however, book readers don’t really have an advanta...

Outfit of the Week: Olivia Wilde

I love this dress on Olivia Wilde so much that I’ve been worried the last couple of days that another great look would come along and then I’d have to choose. As it turns out, this week, there is in my opinion no outfit better than what Olivia wore at the Savannah Film Festival.  This is Carolina...

Celebrity Social Media, November 1, 2019

Challenging myself to not throw up any Halloween pictures today, because some celebrities turned out multiple costumes and it is out of control. Unless it’s Beyoncé, do we need to see more? Beyond the costumes, there’s also multiple behind-the-scenes videos cataloguing hair and makeup and fittings –...

Terminator: Dark Fate starring Linda Hamilton movie review

The Terminator franchise gets back on track with Terminator: Dark Fate, which brings back original star Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, and sees James Cameron return as a producer. Terminator: Dark Fate is a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and just by continuing the story of Sarah Conno...

Henry Cavill is unsexy in new trailer for The Witcher

Netflix’s attempt at creating their own Game of Thrones is the Henry Cavill fantasy drama, The Witcher. The first trailer left me a little cold, because while the visuals are good, Cavill is not the most engaging presence and they barely let him, the main character, speak. Now we have a new trailer,...

Lil Nas X attends Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Halloween party but no sign of Beyoncé

I’m writing this at 8:52am ET. As of right now, Beyoncé has not shared a Halloween post. Last year she had “Phoni Braxton” up by October 30. Did Beyoncé skip Halloween?  Jay-Z did not skip Halloween – and we know this because Lil Nas X was with Jay-Z at some point last night: halloween 201...

Meghan Markle shares footage from trip to Luminary Bakery and reveals Archie's nickname

Let’s start with the letter that was signed by 72 female British Members of Parliament earlier this week in support of Meghan Markle. The MPs were objecting to the “outdated, colonial undertones” in the stories by the British tabloids about Meghan. It was revealed yesterday that Meghan called MP Hol...

November 1, 2019 – Smutty Shout-Outs

Devin! Happy Birthday Weekend! Simon is so proud of everything you’ve accomplished this year. By request, something that I’m told is bringing you a lot of joy – a video that went viral this week: Jimmy Kimmel’s Obama-Trump mashup. I know they had a lot to work with here but also? Editing is a gift. ...

Intro for November 1, 2019

Dear Gossips,  “Not yet.” She’s been saying this for weeks. It’s become a signature line. Is it time for Christmas, Mimi? “Not yet.” She even posted a video:          View this post on Instagram                   ...