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Counting Down to Céline

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Counting Down to Céline

PROGRAMMING NOTE before we get to Céline – we are heading into the Labour Day long weekend early so we are dark tomorrow and on Monday for Labour Day and returning at full strength on Tuesday heading into TIFF and then the Emmys the following week. After this weekend, it’s

By Lainey • Sep 03, 2026 04:22 pm

Intro for September 3, 2026

Intro for September 3, 2026

Dear Gossips, Last night at the Venice Film Festival opening night gala, George Clooney received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. As mentioned earlier this week, Venice is a special place for him, and he said emphatically during his speech that it’s his favourite festival – he spends a lot

By Lainey • Sep 03, 2026 10:10 am

Jack O’Connell feels like “the bollocks”

Jack OConnell

Jack O’Connell feels like “the bollocks”

Now that the Venice Film Festival is underway, we are allowed to fully speculate on the award season race since so many of the expected Oscar contenders will be screened in Venice this week and next week Telluride and Toronto. One of those films on the list is Danny Boyle’

By Lainey • Sep 03, 2026 02:46 pm

At least East of Eden looks gorgeous

Florence Pugh

At least East of Eden looks gorgeous

We’ve made much of Anne Hathaway’s Big Year, but Florence Pugh is also having a big year, appearing as Yelena Belova in Spider-Man: Brand New Day before she returns for Avengers: Doomsday, and just as Annie did double duty press this summer with The Odyssey and The

By Sarah • Sep 03, 2026 01:28 pm

Jennifer Aniston: Someone who speaks her love language

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston: Someone who speaks her love language

As Jennifer Aniston has said many times, we’ve had a front row seat to her love life for the last 30 years. Not because she’s personally invited us to the show, at least not all of the time, but she’s not lying about the fact that we

By Lainey • Sep 03, 2026 12:19 pm

Being Heumann will kick off TIFF

Mark Ruffalo

Being Heumann will kick off TIFF

The Venice Film Festival has begun, and next week, TIFF begins. We’re in the fall festival crunch, with Venice, Telluride, and TIFF running concurrently (Telluride is this weekend). The opening night film of TIFF is Being Heumann, Siân Heder’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning film, CODA. Being

By Sarah • Sep 03, 2026 10:47 am

Saoirse and Jack: Never mind about Bond!

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Saoirse and Jack: Never mind about Bond!

Every two weeks there’s a fresh rumour about who will be the next Bond. But it’s not really all that fresh because every “new” story about the new Bond always recycles the same names that have been speculated about for months. One of those names is Jack Lowden

By Lainey • Sep 02, 2026 04:03 pm

Sydney Sweeney: Back in Venice

Sydney Sweeney

Sydney Sweeney: Back in Venice

I’m not necessarily talking about Sydney Sweeney being back in Venice for the film festival, it’s Venice in general, for other reasons, including Scooter Braun. Because last year she was in Venice for the Bezos wedding and Scooter was there too and that is presumably when their relationship

By Lainey • Sep 02, 2026 02:47 pm

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Jennifer Aniston: Someone who speaks her love language

Jennifer Aniston: Someone who speaks her love language

As Jennifer Aniston has said many times, we’ve had a front row seat to her love life for the last 30 years. Not because she’s personally invited us to the show, at least not all of the time, but she’s not lying about the fact that we

By Lainey • Sep 03, 2026 12:19 pm

Miley: BASS PERSUADES but not Coachella

Miley: BASS PERSUADES but not Coachella

As MC has mentioned several times recently, Miley Cyrus, now just Miley, is preparing for the release of her next album on September 18. We’ve known about the new music for a couple of weeks now, and she’s with a new label after her last album, Something Beautiful,

By Lainey • Sep 02, 2026 11:40 am

Wendy Peffercorn Kelce Swift: The Only Showgirl

Wendy Peffercorn Kelce Swift: The Only Showgirl

Travis Kelce was seen in New York City back in April working on a Tommy Hilfiger campaign at the Plaza Hotel in New York. The campaign has now launched and he is not the main character, the clothes are not the main character, the wedding is not the main character,

By Lainey • Sep 01, 2026 11:42 am

Daisy Chain Fields: The Highlights

Daisy Chain Fields: The Highlights

Olivia Rodrigo made some real girl power history over the weekend at the inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival in Irvine. It’s her answer to the legacy of Lilith Fair that Sarah McLachlan founded back in the 90s. More than 45,000 fans gathered together to celebrate female empowerment, through

By MC • Aug 31, 2026 10:53 am

The Clooney Met Gala?

The Clooney Met Gala?

The Hollywood Reporter published a story yesterday reported by Merle Ginsberg about the 2027 Met Gala with some curious details. According to Merle’s sources at Condé Nast, Anna Wintour was so bothered by the backlash to the Bozos Bezos Ball earlier this year, “she convened an all-hands Vogue

By Lainey • Aug 27, 2026 03:21 pm

Practical Magic Nostalgia

Practical Magic Nostalgia

Let me make it about myself for a moment – what’s new – because I am stressing about Practical Magic 2. The movie comes out September 11… which is the first weekend of TIFF… so I’m working non-stop. There is no way I can go see it when it

By Lainey • Aug 27, 2026 11:22 am

Tom Brady, the rizzless wonder

Tom Brady, the rizzless wonder

Maybe to a certain section of sports fan Tom Brady is a god, but in pop culture circles he continues to be the most divorced man who ever divorced. JLo has been divorced four times and she is far less divorced than Tom Brady. What is it about Tom? He

By Maria • Aug 26, 2026 11:41 am

Dolly Parton, always

Dolly Parton, always

Dolly Parton has passed away. Her death was confirmed by her nephew, Bryan Seaver, earlier today on her social media channels. Icon, legend, superstar – all of these words apply. But also, in spite of her fame, Dolly Parton never seemed inaccessible. It’s why even for those who don’t

By Lainey • Aug 25, 2026 04:01 pm

Harry and Meghan on the cover

Harry and Meghan on the cover

The news that Prince Harry and Meghan Sussex were returning to England last week is still a major story in what’s otherwise a slow time in entertainment news. These two have always been a gift to gossip, ever since they started dating ten years ago – WTF IT’S BEEN

By Lainey • Aug 25, 2026 11:43 am

Tracee Ellis Ross questions why Girlfriends was ignored

Tracee Ellis Ross questions why Girlfriends was ignored

Tracee Ellis Ross was a recent guest on Trevor Noah’s What Now? podcast. While the pair had a fascinating conversation that covered everything from the pressure women face in society to the reality of aging, it was Tracee’s pointed question about the late night snub of her hit

By Stephanie • Aug 24, 2026 02:57 pm

Sydney Sweeney: Back in Venice

Sydney Sweeney

Sydney Sweeney: Back in Venice

I’m not necessarily talking about Sydney Sweeney being back in Venice for the film festival, it’s Venice in general, for other reasons, including Scooter Braun. Because last year she was in Venice for the Bezos wedding and Scooter was there too and that is presumably when their relationship

By Lainey • Sep 02, 2026 02:47 pm

Ariana Madix, now

Ariana Madix

Ariana Madix, now

A few years out from finding herself at the centre of arguably the most sensational scandal to ever unfold in the reality TV landscape, Ariana Madix sat down with Vanity Fair to peel the curtain back on what life has been like lately. And between being in a Broadway production

By Stephanie • Sep 02, 2026 12:39 pm

Miley: BASS PERSUADES but not Coachella

Miley Cyrus

Miley: BASS PERSUADES but not Coachella

As MC has mentioned several times recently, Miley Cyrus, now just Miley, is preparing for the release of her next album on September 18. We’ve known about the new music for a couple of weeks now, and she’s with a new label after her last album, Something Beautiful,

By Lainey • Sep 02, 2026 11:40 am

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Intro for September 2, 2026

Taylor Swift

Intro for September 2, 2026

Dear Gossips, Apart from BTS, and they are the standard, it’s rare that what’s trending in western pop culture, or from western pop culture, is similar to what’s trending in pop culture that’s coming out of East Asia. This week there’s common ground – a dog

By Lainey • Sep 02, 2026 09:21 am

She’s back, she’s really, really back!

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She’s back, she’s really, really back!

Can you believe it’s been ten years since Céline Dion took over Paris Fashion Week with an assist from Law Roach and gave us one of the most delightful weeks in gossip history? I am not exaggerating. Every day she’d come out of her hotel and step on

By Lainey • Sep 01, 2026 04:05 pm

MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Pop en français

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MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Pop en français

So much of the history of pop music is centered around artists who sing in English, but we’re starting to see a shift. Just look at how Bad Bunny has had one of the most incredible few years in terms of commercial success. Something like that may have been

By MC • Sep 01, 2026 03:28 pm

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