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Tessa Thompson, relaxing alone

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Tessa Thompson, relaxing alone

Programming note: We will be dark on Monday, August 3, for Canada’s Civic Holiday. Have a great long weekend, gossipers! We are steaming right into August and the last days of summer because the sun is an asshole that never slows down, but for now, it is still Celebrity

By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 04:03 pm

Intro for July 31, 2026

Intro for July 31, 2026

Dear Gossips, The Shards, a Ryan Murphy-produced adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel of the same name, is coming to the FX/Hulu/Disney+ conglomerate next week. Lainey wrote about it here, it’s notable in part because the series stars Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere, the children

By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 09:02 am

Alexander Skarsgård is the OTHER wicker man

Alexander Skarsgard

Alexander Skarsgård is the OTHER wicker man

Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård are two actors I enjoy immensely, so I am delighted that they’re co-starring in a twisted romantic comedy/fantasy film, Wicker. It premiered at Sundance earlier this year and is due in theaters in October, a sort of spooky season rom-com about

By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 02:48 pm

Monica B in NYC

Monica Barbaro

Monica B in NYC

But wait! Ladies going outside is a coast-to-coast phenomenon! While Kristen Stewart and Dakota Johnson were holding it down in LA, Monica Barbaro is in New York City, undoubtedly getting ready for the One Night Only (aka “the Purge sex movie”) press run. Honestly, a woman in a

By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 01:07 pm

The Odyssey in China

Christopher Nolan

The Odyssey in China

Earlier this week, I posted about Christopher Nolan’s popularity in China. Even though his films often feature an ensemble of A-listers, including The Odyssey, for a large segment of the Chinese audience, he’s the actual superstar. Which is why almost all IMAX screens in China will be

By Lainey • Jul 31, 2026 11:30 am

Tom Holland

Tom Holland in Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Even as Marvel has struggled with the unwieldy MCU post Avengers: Endgame, one remaining bright spot are the Spider-Man films fronted by Tom Holland. In 2021, Spider-Man: No Way Home saddled Peter Parker with almost unbearable circumstances, to sacrifice not his life but his heart, by allowing the

By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 10:49 am

Ladies in LA

Kristen Stewart

Ladies in LA

Kristen Stewart will be hitting the press circuit soon for her new film, The Wrong Girls, a stoner comedy written and directed by her wife, Dylan Meyer. But first: coffee. Here she is in Los Angeles on a coffee run. Her hair lately is bringing me back to the days

By Sarah • Jul 31, 2026 09:55 am

Spider-Man Epikase

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Spider-Man Epikase

I mentioned last week all the press that Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon have been doing to promote Spider-Man: Brand New Day – and that one of those interviews was with Epik High, aka Tablo, Mithra, and Tukutz. The full video just dropped today…and it’s hilarious. In

By Lainey • Jul 30, 2026 04:03 pm

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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

BTS Transcends

BTS Transcends

The Recording Academy introduced several new Grammy categories last month – among them the Best Asian Pop Music Performance award, better known as the BTS Grammy. Let’s not pretend that the award wasn’t created for BTS, because as I wrote at the time, even in the description of the

By Lainey • Jul 29, 2026 01:13 pm

Tom and Zendaya’s Last Stop (for now)

Tom and Zendaya’s Last Stop (for now)

Tom Holland and Zendaya have been on a full-time press tour for a couple of months now with both The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Last night’s LA premiere was the last red carpet and they can head back inside soon… for now. Because for her

By Lainey • Jul 28, 2026 12:31 pm

Tomdaya: almost there

Tomdaya: almost there

Tonight is the Hollywood red carpet premiere of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the final red carpet stop on what’s been a worldwide press tour. And for Tom Holland and Zendaya, it’s between two press tours, happening concurrently, since they’re also in The Odyssey, currently the #1

By Lainey • Jul 27, 2026 10:54 am

Marvel bounces back with good news

Marvel bounces back with good news

Marvel’s Hall H presentation happened Saturday night, and though Kevin Feige was focused on the future of the MCU, it felt like a blast from the past, with stunts and a huge assemblage of famous people to promote upcoming films. Kayleigh Donaldson called it a “recession indicator” in the

By Sarah • Jul 27, 2026 10:19 am

Katie Holmes and not Joshua Jackson

Katie Holmes and not Joshua Jackson

Fourteen years ago this summer, the scandal that had the gossip ecosystem in a chokehold was the Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise divorce. It was a bombshell – not just on the public but, reportedly, on him too, because she exited herself out of his life with the stealth of a

By Lainey • Jul 23, 2026 01:13 pm

Travis Scott’s Odyssean ambitions

Travis Scott’s Odyssean ambitions

There are so many storylines related to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – within the film itself and orbiting the film if you expand the conversation to include its cast, and the gossip, whether it’s about the box office or Tomdaya or award season chances. Probably not surprising given the

By Lainey • Jul 22, 2026 02:58 pm

Tom Holland on his wife and his tenure

Tom Holland on his wife and his tenure

Before we get to the ooey gooey, let’s talk about where Tom Holland is right now, metaphorically. As Telemachus in The Odyssey, he’s just given the best we’ve seen of his career so far. Which means I vehemently disagree with Variety’s cast and character ranking of

By Lainey • Jul 22, 2026 12:04 pm

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

Spider-Man Epikase

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Spider-Man Epikase

I mentioned last week all the press that Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Jacob Batalon have been doing to promote Spider-Man: Brand New Day – and that one of those interviews was with Epik High, aka Tablo, Mithra, and Tukutz. The full video just dropped today…and it’s hilarious. In

By Lainey • Jul 30, 2026 04:03 pm

Sandy in the City

Sandra Bullock

Sandy in the City

This is very exciting for those of us, and it’s not just a few, who can’t wait for Practical Magic 2. Not that we need September to be here any sooner than it needs to be, but the release of the movie in September, just after Labour Day,

By Lainey • Jul 30, 2026 03:04 pm

Rami Malek and striped shorts

Rami Malek

Rami Malek and striped shorts

There were parts of the internet that were obsessed last week with photos of Rami Malek and his twin brother Sami walking around London. It’s the twin thing. People have always been fascinated by twins, especially identical twins. Duana, for example, has an unofficial PhD in twins, like she

By Lainey • Jul 30, 2026 12:29 pm

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Scarlett Johansson

Scarjo’s UK summer

There was a joke going around social media after Comic-Con last weekend about Avengers: Doomsday and how big the cast is but also the OG Avengers who are coming back, like Chris Evans and Hemsworth at Steve Rogers and Thor respectively. Many jokes, actually. One of them being that

By Lainey • Jul 30, 2026 12:00 pm

Nicole and Zoe: Lioness 3

Zoe Saldana

Nicole and Zoe: Lioness 3

Lioness season three premieres next week on Paramount. This is a Taylor Sheridan show, and Taylor Sheridan is big business. And Paramount’s television business is basically Taylor Sheridan, so it’s not surprising that there are now three seasons of this series even though I’m not sure it’

By Lainey • Jul 30, 2026 11:10 am

Intro for July 30, 2026

Zendaya Coleman

Intro for July 30, 2026

Dear Gossips, I can’t be alone in this – like still not over Zendaya’s makeup in London last night for the final Spider-Man: Brand New Day red carpet. As I said in my post yesterday, how much more of this can we handle? It’s been relentless, it’

By Lainey • Jul 30, 2026 09:45 am

What’s on the playlist?

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What’s on the playlist?

Julia Roberts was in Idaho for Emma Roberts’s wedding the other day and has since been seen a few times in New York, which is also where she was before the wedding. It’s been weeks, actually. She has a home there but we don’t typically associate Julia

By Lainey • Jul 29, 2026 04:42 pm

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