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Bridgerton begins

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Bridgerton begins

Bridgerton season four premieres on January 29 with the first installment, followed by the second on February 26, as Netflix hopes to win back some of the horny women demographic from Heated Rivalry. Sarah is our resident Bridgerton expert since she knows the books so well so we’ll leave

By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 04:13 pm

Intro for January 14, 2026

Intro for January 14, 2026

Dear Gossips, As promised, BTS yesterday announced the dates for their upcoming world tour. As expected, the tour is massive – 79 shows so far taking them across the planet, with more stops in 2027 “coming soon”. I thought I did what I could do to prepare for the confirmation. A

By • Jan 14, 2026 09:17 am

Ben and Matt are not the VIPs

Marcus and Friends (dogs)

Ben and Matt are not the VIPs

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s film, The Rip, premieres on Netflix on Friday and as Sarah wrote in her post about it recently, this looks like a solid crime drama, an action movie with a real plot starring big name movie stars that’s disappearing from theatres, which is

By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 02:52 pm

It Is Still Very Heated

Heated Rivalry

It Is Still Very Heated

I am that person who will remind you that I told you, before the holidays and after the holidays and again last week that Heated Rivalry is still on the ascent, as viral as it was around Christmas, that there was more to come because other territories had yet to

By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 01:57 pm

A Different Euphoria

Euphoria

A Different Euphoria

The hottest series on television right now is Heated Rivalry, produced by Crave in Canada and broadcast in America on HBO Max. If there is a series that can rival the virality of Heated Rivalry, it’s another HBO title, Euphoria. When the first images of season three were released

By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 01:09 pm

Teyana Time

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Teyana Time

As Sarah noted in our post-Globes coverage about Teyana Taylor and the Best Supporting Actress race, up until Sunday night, it was Amy Madigan’s performance in Weapons who was considered the frontrunner in the category. And she still is, I think, but she’s also not running away with

By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 11:52 am

Dreading Doomsday

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Dreading Doomsday

Just before Christmas, when Avatar: Fire & Ash hit theaters, Marvel dropped the first of four teasers for Avengers: Doomsday. I was already halfway to the liminal space, so I told Lainey I would deal with it when all four teasers were available online. I regret to inform you, that

By Sarah • Jan 14, 2026 09:47 am

Cillian Murphy is not thrilled to be here

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Cillian Murphy is not thrilled to be here

Here’s something I completely disposed of while suspended in the year-end liminal space, the sequel to 28 Years Later, itself a late entry into the 28 Days Later franchise, opens this week. The premiere for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple was held in London tonight/this afternoon (time

By Sarah • Jan 13, 2026 04:06 pm

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Teyana Time

Teyana Time

As Sarah noted in our post-Globes coverage about Teyana Taylor and the Best Supporting Actress race, up until Sunday night, it was Amy Madigan’s performance in Weapons who was considered the frontrunner in the category. And she still is, I think, but she’s also not running away with

By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 11:52 am

Connor’s first time

Connor’s first time

It’s been a seemingly endless series of first times for Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie of Heated Rivalry the last few weeks. They are celebrities now, they are more famous than they probably ever imagined. They just had their first award season experience during Golden Globe week. They just

By Lainey • Jan 13, 2026 12:07 pm

Podcasting at awards shows

Podcasting at awards shows

The Golden Globes handed out their first-ever Best Podcast award, a bizarre inclusion for an awards show about film and television. I previously wrote about this category and its suspicious, potentially payola marketing scheme, but in the end, the Globes picked the least offensive person to win their inaugural award,

By Sarah • Jan 12, 2026 12:45 pm

Heated Rivalry Cannot Be Cooled

Heated Rivalry Cannot Be Cooled

I won’t lie, I had very, very high expectations. After all the excitement and hype of the last month, and the last week, knowing that Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie would appear at the Golden Globes, I anticipated big moments and much celebration. It’s not like it was

By Duana • Jan 12, 2026 07:19 am

Hudson and Connor: A frenzy on both coasts

Hudson and Connor: A frenzy on both coasts

It was impossible to know and/or predict what Heated Rivalry would become – and is still becoming. A Canadian production, made on muuuucchhh less money than an American counterpart would have done, starring two unknown actors in a gay hockey romance, as smutty as its source material is THE pop

By Lainey • Jan 08, 2026 01:24 pm

Ben and Matt in January

Ben and Matt in January

A trailer for Joe Carnahan’s The Rip, premiering on Netflix next week, was released yesterday. The movie stars Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Steven Yeun, and Teyana Taylor and as Sarah noted back in September, it’s a cool looking action heist (this combination of talent generally can be counted

By Lainey • Jan 06, 2026 11:40 am

New Year, New Look - LaineyGossip Relaunch!

New Year, New Look - LaineyGossip Relaunch!

You may have noticed… Things look a bit different this morning, right? It’s because we’ve moved the site to a new platform. If you’re interested, we’ll get into the Show Your Work of it in an upcoming Squawk newsletter, but the idea behind the change, aside

By Lainey • Jan 02, 2026 11:11 am

Taylor: A necklace and a dress

Taylor: A necklace and a dress

Taylor Swift was a four-segment guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, not a surprise. The way it used to work, and pretty much still does, on late night talk shows is that only the mega A-list stars take up three or four blocks, if they’re

By Lainey • Dec 11, 2025 11:24 am

Timmy’s Supreme Backlash

Timmy’s Supreme Backlash

There’s been merch, and a viral Zoom call mocking marketing brainstorm meetings, an entourage of human ping pong balls, dancing to Soulja Boy at CCXP, an orange blimp, and a double orange couple outfit with a girlfriend who’s no stranger to controversy – an incomplete list of the chaos

By Lainey • Dec 10, 2025 01:51 pm

Katy & Justin: An Olympic Dream fulfilled… sort of

Katy & Justin: An Olympic Dream fulfilled… sort of

We’ve been behind on the Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau situation since I’ve been away the last few days but also kinda timely because… well… first, let’s recap. JT joined Katy on tour in Japan, they were seen holding hands after dinner. That was just the beginning

By Lainey • Dec 08, 2025 12:54 pm

Cillian Murphy is not thrilled to be here

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Cillian Murphy is not thrilled to be here

Here’s something I completely disposed of while suspended in the year-end liminal space, the sequel to 28 Years Later, itself a late entry into the 28 Days Later franchise, opens this week. The premiere for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple was held in London tonight/this afternoon (time

By Sarah • Jan 13, 2026 04:06 pm

Mummy stuff

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Mummy stuff

Thanks to a combination of RL Stine’s The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, the 1999 action-adventure film The Mummy, and a formative trip to the Field Museum’s Egyptian display when I was eleven, I am forever cursed to watch every iteration of a Mummy movie that will

By Sarah • Jan 13, 2026 03:19 pm

MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Robyn & Max

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MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Robyn & Max

Max Martin was a young musical protégé when he first started working with Robyn, a Swedish teenager who was on the brink of worldwide prominence. Close to 30 years later, the two are back together crafting quality pop music, which Max Martin himself is no stranger to doing. Robyn, on

By MC • Jan 13, 2026 01:55 pm

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Connor’s first time

Maple Leaf

Connor’s first time

It’s been a seemingly endless series of first times for Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie of Heated Rivalry the last few weeks. They are celebrities now, they are more famous than they probably ever imagined. They just had their first award season experience during Golden Globe week. They just

By Lainey • Jan 13, 2026 12:07 pm

Mandy Moore: Unbothered

Drama

Mandy Moore: Unbothered

The gossip story of 2026 so far—wow, the first of this year has really been a decade—is Ashley Tisdale’s toxic mom group drama. One of the assumed moms in the group is Mandy Moore, but she’s been staying out of it, unlike Hilary Duff’s husband.

By Sarah • Jan 13, 2026 10:14 am

Nicola Peltz Beckham has a January birthday

Nicola Peltz-Beckham

Nicola Peltz Beckham has a January birthday

The slow-moving pop culture car crash we can’t look away from is the Beckham-Peltz family drama. Maria mentioned a round of holiday messiness in which Brooklyn Peltz Beckham unfollowed and/or blocked his family (according to Cruz Beckham, it was a family-wide block). His wife, Nicola Peltz Beckham, also

By Sarah • Jan 13, 2026 09:26 am

Intro for January 13, 2026

Golden Globes 2026

Intro for January 13, 2026

Dear Gossips, The Golden Globes are over, so let’s reflect on the Golden Globes. It was long acknowledged in better days within the industry that the Globes were a bit of a farce. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association was a mysterious cabal of largely unknown international “journalists” who were

By Sarah • Jan 13, 2026 09:07 am

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