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Javier Everywhere

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Javier Everywhere

How many of Spain’s World Cup matches did Javier Bardem attend? Was it all of them? It felt like all of them to me because … he was at so many! And it’s not like they all happened in the same place. The matches were played in various cities

By Lainey • Jul 21, 2026 04:03 pm

Intro for July 21, 2026

Intro for July 21, 2026

Dear Gossips, A great movie doesn’t always deliver a great press tour. And a great press tour doesn’t necessarily mean the movie will be great. The Odyssey, however, hit it on both counts. The film, as we have seen, has been embraced by (most) critics and audiences after

By Lainey • Jul 21, 2026 09:40 am

MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE – The Art of Patience

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MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE – The Art of Patience

When music becomes disposable it loses its value in the minds of its consumers in ways that most people do not even realize. We’re a culture that’s obsessed with “what’s next” and pushing for the next best thing means musical projects can come and go without the

By MC • Jul 21, 2026 02:54 pm

Colman does it all

Colman Domingo

Colman does it all

Jimmy Kimmel is on holiday for the summer so there are celebrity guest hosts filling in for him during the break and this week it’s Colman Domingo. Here is an incomplete list of why Colman is the ultimate guest host. -He’s using this opportunity as a victory lap.

By Lainey • Jul 21, 2026 12:55 pm

Tomdaya: Will it be a record?

Tom Holland

Tomdaya: Will it be a record?

The Odyssey just opened, it continues to be the talk of the film industry, with Matt Belloni noting in his latest Puck newsletter that “45% of American moviegoers this weekend saw The Odyssey in Imax or another premium format when the usual share for a film on opening weekend is

By Lainey • Jul 21, 2026 11:38 am

Contemplate mortality with Avengers: Doomsday

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Contemplate mortality with Avengers: Doomsday

Luke Winkie wrote an article last month for Slate about aged Beach Boy Mike Love performing with, essentially, a new band also called the Beach Boys and doing it at the age of 85. You can, and should, read it here, and let the specter of an octogenarian singing teenaged

By Sarah • Jul 21, 2026 10:22 am

World Cup Fates and Futures

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World Cup Fates and Futures

In the days leading up to the World Cup 2026 final, amid all of the controversies etc, one of the loveliest storylines was about That Photo. The one from almost 19 years ago where a baby Lamine Yamal, with his mother Sheila, was being bathed by a young Lionel Messi

By Lainey • Jul 20, 2026 04:02 pm

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Tomdaya: Will it be a record?

Tomdaya: Will it be a record?

The Odyssey just opened, it continues to be the talk of the film industry, with Matt Belloni noting in his latest Puck newsletter that “45% of American moviegoers this weekend saw The Odyssey in Imax or another premium format when the usual share for a film on opening weekend is

By Lainey • Jul 21, 2026 11:38 am

BTS, Bieber, and Speed

BTS, Bieber, and Speed

Many of the football purists hated the existence of the first ever FIFA World Cup final halftime show and the performance itself didn’t change their mind. On the other side of that conversation, there are people who watched the event just for halftime. And still others who argue that

By Lainey • Jul 20, 2026 11:18 am

Living wives in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

Living wives in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

No one in modern cinema loves a dead wife more than Christopher Nolan, whose oeuvre is littered with dead women, haunting their men, sometimes literally, from the beyond. These spectral spouses—in the case of Oppenheimer, it is a dead mistress—drive Nolan’s protagonists through his timey-wimey narratives

By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 11:12 am

Dine out on my Batman conspiracy theory

Dine out on my Batman conspiracy theory

I really, really liked Matt Reeves’ The Batman when it came out in 2022, since then, it has only risen in my estimation. I think it’s one of the best superhero movies ever made, and arguably the best Batman movie ever made. The film, released into the only-just-

By Sarah • Jul 16, 2026 12:10 pm

Beyoncé & Rihanna on the same stage

Beyoncé & Rihanna on the same stage

Jay-Z’s three shows at Yankee Stadium this week featured what could also be described as a major mega celebrity wedding guest list and giving us one of the rarest occurrences in pop culture: Beyoncé and Rihanna in one show? It’s a unicorn event. But let’s start

By Lainey • Jul 13, 2026 11:02 am

Cardi B: The Best Kind of Heatwave

Cardi B: The Best Kind of Heatwave

The heat has been an issue during Paris Fashion Week but here’s a heat story that has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with gossip… good gossip. The gossip that’s been lighting up so many timelines and algorithms has to do with Cardi B

By Lainey • Jul 09, 2026 03:14 pm

Madonna’s Studio Albums, Ranked

Madonna’s Studio Albums, Ranked

Madonna has been a pillar in pop music for more than 43 years, creating timeless hits and opening doors for countless performers that have followed the path she laid out for them. We’ve known her as “queen of pop” but we should remember that a title like that is

By MC • Jul 08, 2026 11:37 am

Prince Harry loses the case

Prince Harry loses the case

Prince Harry and six other claimants, including other celebrities like Elton John, Elizabeth Hurley, and Sadie Frost, have lost their case against the tabloid the Daily Mail. The claimants were accusing the publication of obtaining information illegally and the high court has ruled that they did not prove the Daily

By Lainey • Jul 07, 2026 12:21 pm

Zendaya: Famous Among the Gods

Zendaya: Famous Among the Gods

It is one of the lines I’ll always remember from my Greek mythology course in universe – said by Athena but also often used to describe Athena: that she is famous among the gods for her wisdom but also for her cunning, which is why she was partial to Odysseus,

By Lainey • Jul 06, 2026 02:58 pm

Not just a sleepover at dad’s

Not just a sleepover at dad’s

I went to bed much later than I intended to last night because I was too wired after that wild World Cup match between England and Mexico. Everything about it was entertaining, from the dramatics on the pitch to what was happening before the game to Scotland hilariously entering the

By Lainey • Jul 06, 2026 01:17 pm

World Cup Couples and Capris

Beyoncé

World Cup Couples and Capris

Two of the biggest celebrity power couples were at the World Cup final yesterday. We should always start with Beyoncé, who actually allowed herself to be photographed while arriving with Jay-Z. We’ll come back to her outfit in a minute. They’ve been in New York for a

By Lainey • Jul 20, 2026 02:13 pm

New Football Couples?

Austin Butler

New Football Couples?

The FIFA World Cup final brought out an award show/Met Gala list of celebrities, but not Cardi B, although she was still getting some football action because she was seen in Venice with Maduka Okoye … again! Remember, Cardi and Maduka were the gossip and the drama at Paris Fashion

By Lainey • Jul 20, 2026 12:33 pm

BTS, Bieber, and Speed

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BTS, Bieber, and Speed

Many of the football purists hated the existence of the first ever FIFA World Cup final halftime show and the performance itself didn’t change their mind. On the other side of that conversation, there are people who watched the event just for halftime. And still others who argue that

By Lainey • Jul 20, 2026 11:18 am

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Shout-Outs for July 20, 2026

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Shout-Outs for July 20, 2026

Carolina! Happy Birthday from Paula who tells me your “latest crush” is Josh O’Connor… girl, same. You’ve just given me an excuse to post some more photos of him and his fits from the Disclosure Day press tour because I wasn’t able to get it while it

By Lainey • Jul 20, 2026 10:37 am

Intro for July 20, 2026

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Intro for July 20, 2026

Dear Gossips, It was a weekend for the pop culture gods. The World Cup, of course, is the Olympus of sport – and since the final was set in the United States, the event brought together global superstars from almost every entertainment stream, from football to music to movies and television

By Lainey • Jul 20, 2026 09:08 am

Seth and Jonah at the beach

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Seth and Jonah at the beach

Filming for The Studio continues, this time in Venice, California, with Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill filming scenes involving electric scooters. I really enjoyed The Studio, but then, I am the target audience, a person who loves films and filmmaking. I often tease Lainey about The Morning Show, a series

By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 04:05 pm

The Uprising trailer

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The Uprising trailer

Just as we’re getting through The Odyssey, let’s look to another historical epic: Paul Greengrass’s The Uprising. The trailer dropped yesterday, showing off Andrew Garfield as 14th century rebel Wat Tyler, in a film that promises to be viscerally violent. Paul Greengrass doesn’t do it any

By Sarah • Jul 17, 2026 03:07 pm

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