Celebrity Gossip, News, Rumours, and Photos, and Advanced Pop Culture Analysis | LaineyGossip

Sign In Sign Up

Lanterns and late nights

What Else

Lanterns and late nights

Aaron Pierre and Kyle Chandler were at Jimmy Kimmel Live! on back-to-back days this week and I take this personally, the two of them doing promotion for the same show, representing my range. As in… yes to Aaron Pierre but also yes to Kyle Chandler. Lanterns premieres on

By Lainey • Aug 13, 2026 04:00 pm

Intro for August 13, 2026

Intro for August 13, 2026

Dear Gossips, For Variety, it’s a huge get – to have both Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys on the cover of the latest issue, joint photo shoot, joint interview, and it’s Emmy season. They have five nominations between them, repping The Diplomat, The Beast in Me, and of course

By Lainey • Aug 13, 2026 09:28 am

Nicole Kidman at the club

Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman at the club

All the magazines are releasing their September issues this week. The reaction that I’ve seen online, in response to American Vogue’s cover story featuring Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere, has been mostly underwhelmed, to put it generously. They are the stars of The Shards, a series with a

By Lainey • Aug 13, 2026 11:58 am

Annabelle is back to work

Annabelle Wallis

Annabelle is back to work

It was reported just last week that Annabelle Wallis and Sebastian Stan are now parents. The pregnancy was pretty low-key, just like the baby’s arrival, at least in terms of publicity. They were papped in April and then they were together in Cannes a month later. And then

By Lainey • Aug 13, 2026 11:00 am

Netflix loves Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck

Netflix loves Ben Affleck

It feels like Ben Affleck has been really busy as a director, but Air, the last film he directed, came out in 2023. How has it already been three years since the time Ben Affleck made a biopic for a shoe? In other areas, he has stayed busy, acting in

By Sarah • Aug 13, 2026 10:05 am

Halle Berry: Multiple 60th Holidays

What Else

Halle Berry: Multiple 60th Holidays

Halle Berry will be 60 years old on Friday. In Chinese culture, the 60th is a big deal, like back in the old old olden days, they didn’t celebrate birthdays until the 60th birthday. As in… 25? Nobody cares. If you make it to 60, everybody cares, the whole

By Lainey • Aug 12, 2026 04:05 pm

Jeremy Strong won’t change

Jeremy Strong

Jeremy Strong won’t change

It’s been almost five years since Michael Schulman profiled Jeremy Strong in The New Yorker. We were all still mostly stuck at home during COVID. And that may have had something to do with the chaos that ensued over that piece. The internet devoured it. And that followed him

By Lainey • Aug 12, 2026 01:37 pm

ShopMy

Top Reads

If you only have time to read a handful of updates, read these.

Nicole Kidman at the club

Nicole Kidman at the club

All the magazines are releasing their September issues this week. The reaction that I’ve seen online, in response to American Vogue’s cover story featuring Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere, has been mostly underwhelmed, to put it generously. They are the stars of The Shards, a series with a

By Lainey • Aug 13, 2026 11:58 am

Jeremy Strong won’t change

Jeremy Strong won’t change

It’s been almost five years since Michael Schulman profiled Jeremy Strong in The New Yorker. We were all still mostly stuck at home during COVID. And that may have had something to do with the chaos that ensued over that piece. The internet devoured it. And that followed him

By Lainey • Aug 12, 2026 01:37 pm

MBJ and RAYE?!

MBJ and RAYE?!

Even their letters look good together. If ever there was a possible new celebrity couple alert that lived up to the expression “the world is healing”, it would be this: Michael B Jordan and RAYE were seen together at Six Flags in California and while there isn’t official confirmation

By Lainey • Aug 10, 2026 11:23 am

Tom and Zendaya’s good timing

Tom and Zendaya’s good timing

In case you forgot, Tom Holland and Zendaya got married secretly. And that’s literally all we know. It’s truly a secret. No one can specify a time or a place, and the only reason we started talking about it is because Law Roach was strategically sent out to

By Lainey • Aug 06, 2026 02:45 pm

Rocky & Rihanna: Walgreens and Walmart

Rocky & Rihanna: Walgreens and Walmart

A$AP Rocky’s interview with Jason Lee was posted yesterday. It’s almost two hours long, I’m still making my way through it, but it’s a great freewheeling conversation about Rocky’s life and upbringing, his career, and his relationships. One part that’s going viral is

By Lainey • Aug 06, 2026 01:28 pm

The “insatiable curiosity” for Aaron Pierre

The “insatiable curiosity” for Aaron Pierre

That’s the polite way of saying it: “insatiable curiosity”, a euphemism for the, um, drip that materialises whenever Aaron Pierre shows up. He can be the classy one, I’ll be over here in the gutter. The expression is his own, “insatiable curiosity” is how he’s chosen to

By Lainey • Aug 05, 2026 12:54 pm

The Hudson (Skin) Factor

The Hudson (Skin) Factor

We probably all knew it was only a matter of time. Last December, just as Heated Rivalry was blowing up, and became the present that everyone opened for the holidays in 2025, Hudson Williams did an interview with The Cut about his skincare routine that went viral immediately – credit to

By Lainey • Aug 05, 2026 11:46 am

Tomdaya’s new record

Tomdaya’s new record

I saw Spider-Man: Brand New Day on Friday afternoon, loved it so much. Loved it so much I behaved like Duana, a theatre kid, in the theatre during certain key moments – gasping (I am not usually a gasper) and sighing audibly and also deep breathing at parts, plus at

By Lainey • Aug 04, 2026 12:44 pm

Bradley and Gigi: Matching rings, matching everything

Bradley and Gigi: Matching rings, matching everything

Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid have been in Paris together the last few days. And quite visible, as the paps have photographed them several times walking around together, including when they were walking back from the gym, with matching water bottles… and also rings. Rings on the gossip finger, which

By Lainey • Aug 04, 2026 11:11 am

Tomdaya: at home at last?

Tomdaya: at home at last?

My bad, I was wrong, I’m the problem… when I said that the LA premiere of Spider-Man: Brand New Day would be the last because I actually thought they were already in London, and they were, but for The Odyssey, three weeks ago. There have been so many

By Lainey • Jul 29, 2026 03:54 pm

Jeremy Strong won’t change

Jeremy Strong

Jeremy Strong won’t change

It’s been almost five years since Michael Schulman profiled Jeremy Strong in The New Yorker. We were all still mostly stuck at home during COVID. And that may have had something to do with the chaos that ensued over that piece. The internet devoured it. And that followed him

By Lainey • Aug 12, 2026 01:37 pm

Katy Perry and the KatyCat Boyfriend

Justin Trudeau

Katy Perry and the KatyCat Boyfriend

Today’s site open was about the BTS Boyfriend, and Tyler Chin’s piece for GQ about being the partner of an ARMY and the other BTS boyfriends who have been accompanying their girlfriends and wives to see the band. Rather than mocking his girlfriend’s devotion to RM, Jin,

By Lainey • Aug 12, 2026 11:41 am

MBJ and RAYE’s mixed signals

Michael B Jordan

MBJ and RAYE’s mixed signals

Michael B Jordan and RAYE were seen at Six Flags the other day with some friends and we all assumed, happily, that they are dating. Yesterday, however, there were some mixed signals about whether or not that’s actually true. First PEOPLE reported that their day at the park wasn’

By Emily Huffman • Aug 12, 2026 10:48 am

Is Verity a secret comedy?

Movie Reviews and Previews

Is Verity a secret comedy?

We are two-thirds of the way through Anne Hathaway’s Big Year. Her penultimate film of 2026, The End of Oak Street, opens this Friday, and in October comes her final film, Verity, Michael Showalter’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel of the same name. A new trailer

By Sarah • Aug 12, 2026 10:03 am

@LaineyGossip on Instagram

Intro for August 12, 2026

BTS

Intro for August 12, 2026

Dear Gossips, GQ published a great piece yesterday, written by Tyler Chin, about BTS ARMY Boyfriends. Excellent pitch, such a good story idea, and from his own POV because Tyler is, himself, an ARMY boyfriend. That is – a companion to a fan of BTS who supports their partner’s devotion

By Lainey • Aug 12, 2026 09:30 am

Rihanna and Tomdaya: More Lore

What Else

Rihanna and Tomdaya: More Lore

Rihanna’s been at home in Barbados for over two weeks now, and it’s been a full schedule. She’s been seen at state events, she was at Crop Over, she went to the club, there was a birthday party for Riot (we’ll get back to that in

By Lainey • Aug 11, 2026 04:10 pm

MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Karol G Has No Regrets

Music

MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Karol G Has No Regrets

It’s been a great year to be KAROL G. She’s already headlined Coachella, won the International Artist Award of Excellence at the AMAs, is in the midst of headlining a stadium tour and now has released her sixth studio album. No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto comes just

By MC • Aug 11, 2026 01:44 pm

Our Community

The Squawk

Our Books

Listen to the Squawking Chicken by Elaine Lui

The Name Therapist by Duana Taha