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Intro for May 11, 2026

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

Intro for May 8, 2026

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 • May 08, 2026 09:22 am

Let’s see who showed up to support the ballet

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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

Crime-solving sheep in The Sheep Detectives

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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

TNT: A Day in London and the Fictional Predictions

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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

Ben Stiller and Jessica Chastain’s divorce drama

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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

Superfake Lucy Liu

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 is warming up

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

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TNT: A Day in London and the Fictional Predictions

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

Blake and Barbie 'met' boring again

Blake and Barbie 'met' boring again

Let me try to avoid landmines and mess in this post, LOL. The fact that I’m pairing Blake Lively and Margot Robbie, though, probably isn’t helping. But I have editorial and narrative justification for it, so can we ignore the internet conspiracy theories and just focus on the

By Lainey • May 05, 2026 12:06 pm

Intro for May 5, 2026

Intro for May 5, 2026

Dear Gossips, It was the screaming that gave it away that Beyoncé had arrived at the Met Gala last night – and she made us wait. Not way past the wrap, unlike Rihanna LOL (as usual), but late enough to be near the end… which is not usually how it works

By Lainey • May 05, 2026 06:55 am

HudCon to the Met Gala

HudCon to the Met Gala

Exactly a year ago at this time, Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie were in Toronto, having just secured their leading roles in a small Canadian-produced drama with a tiny budget, and no one had ever really heard of them before. Now, a year later, they’re invited to everything, including

By Lainey • May 04, 2026 12:05 pm

EJAE, Audrey, and Rei: The Women of the Year

EJAE, Audrey, and Rei: The Women of the Year

Billboard’s Women in Music event was last night in LA and their “Golden” streak continues, because EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami were there to receive the Women of the Year honour which, honestly, not that it’s about me but I’ve been emotional about this since it

By Lainey • Apr 30, 2026 11:10 am

Taylor Swift: Song notes and striped dresses

Taylor Swift: Song notes and striped dresses

She’s been quiet but there’s been all kinds of Taylor Swift news today – starting with the work. The New York Times just published a feature on The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters, an unranked list chosen by over “250 music insiders and six New York Times critics”. I

By Lainey • Apr 28, 2026 04:25 pm

Channing Tatum is going through it

Channing Tatum is going through it

It’s not that I don’t care that Zoë Kravitz and Harry Styles might be engaged, or are probably engaged, since PEOPLE is even reporting it now, but as Maria said in one of her Celebrity Social Media roundups last week, ring-watch is almost too pedestrian for someone as

By Lainey • Apr 28, 2026 11:38 am

The Heartbroken Hottie

The Heartbroken Hottie

Megan Thee Stallion posted on Instagram on Saturday, and then confirmed in a statement afterwards, that she and Klay Thompson are over because he cheated on her. “Cheating” was the first word in her story, and she went on to explain his other shortcomings. “Cheating, had me around your whole

By Lainey • Apr 27, 2026 11:43 am

The Devil is Everywhere

The Devil is Everywhere

It’s not just the cast of The Devil Wears Prada 2, there were so many celebrities outside yesterday promoting various projects in a wide range of looks, but we’ll start with the Devil doing double last night, because right after the London premiere, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily

By Lainey • Apr 23, 2026 02:08 pm

Rihanna presents Rocki

Rihanna presents Rocki

Rihanna covers the latest issue of W Magazine and she’s not alone. But before we get to the muffin in her arms, let’s talk about this feature because it’s “The Pop Issue” which made me laugh because I can almost hear the clickety clack of her Navy

By Lainey • Apr 21, 2026 02:31 pm

Intro for May 8, 2026

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

Baby Elle, but not Baby Elle

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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

Charlize and Katie: Denim and Suede

Charlize and Katie: Denim and Suede

Yesterday in the site open we posted photos of Charlize Theron wearing a denim zipped shirt and I had a few people ask about it, both over email and DMs and also in the daily chat thread over at our Substack, The Squawk. Then I saw new photos of Katie

By Lainey • May 07, 2026 02:57 pm

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Dominic Sessa returns as young “Tony” Bourdain

Dominic Sessa

Dominic Sessa returns as young “Tony” Bourdain

You know what is so weird is that on Monday night during the Met Gala, I randomly wondered what Dominic Sessa, breakout star of The Holdovers, is up to, and then boom, a trailer for Tony, starring Dominic Sessa, dropped. Tony is a biopic about the late Anthony Bourdain, set

By Sarah • May 07, 2026 12:23 pm

The Former Marty Supreme

Timothee Chalamet

The Former Marty Supreme

As predicted earlier this week, Timothée Chalamet was not at the Met Gala, not only because he’s not a regular there but because between the Met Gala and the Knicks playoff game, there was no doubt where he’d prefer to be. He was courtside for the Knicks game

By Lainey • May 07, 2026 11:27 am

The Real Marty Supreme

Martin Short

The Real Marty Supreme

It’s so good to see Martin Short, last night at the premiere of his upcoming documentary, Marty, Life is Short, premiering on Netflix next week. And he was there with his family and so many of his friends. Well now I’m crying already. The film is directed by

By Lainey • May 07, 2026 10:37 am

Intro for May 7, 2026

BTS

Intro for May 7, 2026

Dear Gossips, BTS will perform the first of three concerts tonight in Mexico City GNP Seguros Stadium and the stop in Mexico felt like a state visit – not hyperbolic. Yesterday they were invited by President Claudia Sheinbaum to the National Palace, where the person who holds the highest office in

By Lainey • May 07, 2026 09:31 am

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