Gabby Sidibe Gossip

Lee Daniels, Taraji P Henson, Gabourey Sidibe, and Jussie Smollett represented Empire yesterday at the FOX Upfronts. And, bonus, Terrence Howard wasn’t there to ruin the pictures. The big question was how many episodes. Empire’s first season had 12 episodes. Next? 18 split in 2 half seasons. Full Story

I have a quick story to tell, and it's going to be very annoying of me, but I think it serves an important point. That point is that I, like the rest of you, cherish the teen witch archetype and it is only out of deep disappointment that I'm going to crap all over these new images from the set of American Horror Story. Full Story

Gabourey Sidibe was nominated for, like, every award during award season. Oprah saluted her on stage at the Oscars. And she gets invited everywhere now. She hosted SNL. She attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Which totally means she’s allowed to be an asshole, a proper card-carrying member of the Hollywood Stupid Generation, right? Well. Full Story

E!'s Marc Malkin is reporting that Gabourey Sidibe will be hosting Saturday Night Live before the end of the season. Love this choice. And not because Gabby's so great. Full Story

Post By Duana She interrupted her interview with Ryan Seacrest to yell "HIII HONEYYYYY!" at Woody Harrelson. I COULD NOT LOVE HER MORE. She also said "If fashion was porn, this dress would be the money shot". Gabby is SELLING herself on the carpet and looking for that next job and showing that she can be someone other than Claireece Precious Jones. Full Story

Today was the annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon. Notably absent: George Clooney. It’s a non-campaign year for Clooney. Looks like he’s conceding early to Jeff Bridges. But enough of the boys. Let’s talk about our girls. GO Kathryn Bigelow, poised to become the first woman ever to win an Oscar for directing and a movie about war, no less. Full Story

The Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue features skinny white girls on the front and actor/director portraits inside, all of them by Annie Leibovitz and much more interesting than the banality on the cover. Not to say that individually, those girls are delightful, but again, the lack of diversity was troubling, a reflection of that industry and also our own tastes. Full Story

Because everyone loves her. Because she’s so charming. Gabourey Sidibe, the star of Precious, hit up the Me & Orson Welles afterparty last night and chatted up LipGloss Zac Efron, some Hills twats, and even the incomparable Joan Collin who seemed rather taken with her Full Story

There were a few of them last night at the Hollywood Film Festival awards gala last night. Let’s start with Jeremy Renner. Because I’ve been remiss in not giving The Hurt Locker enough love. It deserves a lot of love. After all these months though, The Hurt Locker is still getting the love. Full Story