What Else Savannah and Wordle Every headline about Savannah Guthrie this year has been horrible. I don’t think I need to explain why. Obviously she and her family will never recover from what happened – on top of the loss of someone so dear, there are so many unanswered questions, so much that may never By Lainey • May 11, 2026 04:39 pm
Youn Yuh-jung Maggie Kang: The Ultimate Honour I mentioned Gold House’s Gold Gala in today’s site open today recognising and celebrating AAPI talent and, of course, one of the artists who’s been the most prominent this year is Maggie Kang – she’s basically won every award, including the Oscar, and returned home to Toronto By Lainey • May 11, 2026 03:22 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 11, 2026 Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw wrote a comprehensive piece on the chaos behind Kevin Hart’s production company, which has pretty much laid off its TV and podcast staff. It is specific to Kevin, who recently signed a branding deal with Authentic Brands Group (David Beckham, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley By Maria • May 11, 2026 02:09 pm
Demi Moore Demi will serve (and serve) in Cannes The Cannes Film Festival totally snuck up on me. Didn’t even realise it starts tomorrow until I saw these shots of Demi Moore arriving. How is it already Cannes? How is the Met Gala already over? My brain and my body are still back at the week after the By Lainey • May 11, 2026 01:42 pm
BTS BTS Loves Mexico As we saw last week, 50,000 people showed up outside the National Palace in Mexico City to catch a glimpse of BTS on the balcony when President Claudia Sheinbaum welcomed RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook to the country ahead of their three sold-out shows. Demand for By Lainey • May 11, 2026 12:41 pm
Rihanna Celebrity Mother’s Day Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are still in New York after the Met Gala. I wonder if NYC will be their official home base now since, understandably, they probably don’t want to f-ck around in LA after what happened outside their house. Whatever issues there may or may not By Lainey • May 11, 2026 11:54 am
Bowen Yang Intro for May 11, 2026 Dear Gossips, In the United States, May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. In Canada it’s Asian Heritage Month. This is one month before June which, among other things, is Pride, or gay month. Which is when Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang host the annual Las Culturistas By Lainey • May 11, 2026 09:54 am
What Else Let’s see who showed up to support the ballet During awards season all the dance and opera girlies got mad at Timothee Chalamet for basically calling ballet and opera dying arts (statistics show he’s not entirely wrong, they’re definitely financially challenged on an institutional level). Well, everyone who got mad at Timmy for saying ballet is not By Sarah • May 08, 2026 04:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crime-solving sheep in The Sheep Detectives Advancements in animation and technology means that we can now make photorealistic, hybrid live-action and animated movies about animals going on adventures entirely guilt free. Generations of us were scarred for life by learning of the fates of animals in such films as Free Willy, Homeward Bound, and Heaven’s By Sarah • May 08, 2026 03:13 pm
Top Reads TNT: A Day in London and the Fictional Predictions Taylor Swift has resurfaced with Travis Kelce in London. This is happening five weeks before one of her rumoured wedding dates – June 13, because it’s a Saturday and 13 is her favourite number – and eight weeks before her other rumoured wedding date, July 4, because it’s Independence Day By Lainey • May 08, 2026 03:07 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 8, 2026 I don’t think the Met Gala red carpet is influential in any meaningful way, there’s not a lot of “cerulean” trickle down into regular clothing. And that’s fine, it’s supposed to be one extra night of fashion, not street style. But I am noticing Kate Moss By Maria • May 08, 2026 02:16 pm
TV Updates Ben Stiller and Jessica Chastain’s divorce drama Ben Stiller is in New York filming a new Apple TV+ series, The Off Weeks, with Jessica Chastain and Arian Moayed, which is how I learned that he is not expected to direct episodes of Severance for season three. Instead, Kogonada will take over directing duties. Low key incredible? Ben By Sarah • May 08, 2026 12:58 pm
Lucy Liu Superfake Lucy Liu I always love checking in with Lucy Liu, it warms my Millennial heart to see an Angel thriving. Lucy is in New York, filming a new series called Superfakes. It’s billed as a mystery-thriller and it’s about a working-class mom who sells counterfeits for cash and who gets By Sarah • May 08, 2026 11:28 am
Pedro Pascal Pedro Pascal is warming up Well, I guess here is one middle-aged heartthrob, though I don’t think we really talk about Pedro Pascal in those terms, but he is fifty-one now. He has that certain timelessness that comes almost exclusively for men who don’t get famous until their thirties. Like Mark Ruffalo has By Sarah • May 08, 2026 10:10 am
Brendan Fraser Intro for May 8, 2026 Dear Gossips, One of the most heart-warming elements of pop culture over the last few years is all the comebacks we’ve gotten to see, including Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Fraser, both of whom capped off their returns to Hollywood with Oscar wins. Brendan Fraser has been keeping busy By Sarah • May 08, 2026 09:22 am
What Else Baby Elle, but not Baby Elle The first trailer for the Legally Blonde prequel, called Elle, was released yesterday starring Lexi Minetree in the Elle Woods role made famous by Reese Witherspoon. This story is set in 1995, obviously before Elle went to law school…but the beats are the same. In the original movie, Elle By Lainey • May 07, 2026 04:03 pm
