Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, October 6, 2025 Here’s Mae Whitman’s stylist giving her a cut, and she refers to the heavy layers as “petals” (I had always referred to as curtain bangs). Whatever they are called, they look great on her. I’m very easily influenced by bangs. Feeling slightly attacked that a vintage-themed Instagram By Maria • Oct 06, 2025 03:37 pm
TV Updates Good Girls: there’s more to life than Game of Thrones SPOILERS Watching the season finale of NBC’s breakout dark comedy Good Girls was certainly an experience. The show has been so good, I was expecting to just love it and wait for season 3. But as the writers told us before the season began, season 2 was deeper, darker, By Melayna • May 27, 2019 03:21 pm
TV Updates Mae, Christina & Retta are Good Girls I only lasted 18 seconds. I watched the trailer for Good Girls, which premieres on NBC next February, and liked it almost instantly – but I only lasted 18 seconds before I punched the space bar to pause in some kind of rage-endorsement, and wrote the following in an email to By Duana • Dec 05, 2017 01:43 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, April 10, 2017 Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin took their son Moses and a few of his friends to LEGOLAND for Mo’s birthday. Do you think they drove or took a private plane or helicopter? She also marveled at the tofu bao buns –they are in Ninjago World. Birthday happiness #legoland #moses By Maria • Apr 10, 2017 04:50 pm
BFFs Jenny & Mae The premiere of Gifted last night. And of course all the intrigue here is that Jenny Slate and Chris Evans were on the red carpet together and they’re not together anymore, more often than not a good starting place to find good gossip. Doesn’t always work out that By Lainey • Apr 05, 2017 05:43 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, March 17, 2017 After reading Sarah’s review of Beauty And The Beast, all I can think about is poo and beastiality. So. With that in mind, Emma Watson plays with kittens. 😻😻😻😻😻😻 @bestfriendsanimalsociety @buzzfeed @beautyandthebeast A post shared by Emma Watson (@emmawatson) onMar 16, 2017 at 4:56pm PDT Dolly Parton wishes you By Lainey • Mar 17, 2017 03:52 pm
TV Updates Mae Whitman pilot “Good Girls” Around the LaineyGossip offices (read: email threads) I am the go-to for Mae Whitman stuff. This was mostly a holdover from falling in love with her on Parenthood, combined with the knowledge that she and Lauren Graham had kind of adopted each other (more on this later). I am the By Duana • Feb 23, 2017 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bravermans, Fug Girls, and Kate Middleton. Yesterday was a fine day to be Lauren Graham (as if all the others aren’t). Because in addition to the news that Gilmore Girls is set to have a series of special episodes on Netflix, it was announced that Graham and her other, more recent, perhaps more realistic TV By Duana • Oct 20, 2015 03:25 pm
LifestyleArticle Carpets & Candids: Mae’s topknot I love a halter. I find it almost always flattering. And it’s very flattering here on Mae Whitman. Good choice too to have the hair in a topknot, which I also love a lot. I topknot at least once a week on The Social. A topknot, to me, is By Lainey • Jun 01, 2015 12:09 pm
Dumbass Mae Whitman denied a role that was already hers Have you heard about this one? So Mae Whitman played the President’s Daughter in Independence Day. In 1996. She was 8. Now they’re making Independence Day 2 to come out next year, a full 20 years later. All bets should be off, cast-wise, 20 years later. Who knows By Duana • Apr 30, 2015 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Go Mae! Ha. Look at Mae Whitman. In the best outfit she’s ever worn. For the premiere of The DUFF in NYC last night. The DUFF opens this weekend. Mae plays The DUFF– Designated Ugly Fat Friend. Robbie Amell is her childhood best friend, next door neighbour, nemesis, and, well, I By Lainey • Feb 19, 2015 12:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The DUFF trailer…whelms. When I started to write this article I wrote that I had last written about The DUFF in the summer. Turns out I’m wrong – it was only October 8th. It seems like much longer ago. Maybe because I’ve been trying to fight my way through the book since By Duana • Nov 19, 2014 11:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The DUFF Mae Whitman stars in The Duff, an upcoming movie for which you need to know two pertinent pieces of information: first, it’s based on a book written by an author, Kody Keplinger, who was 17 at the time of publication; second, and the one you’ll hear most about, By Duana • Oct 08, 2014 10:40 am
LifestyleArticle Duana Names: Occupational Hazard Hi Duana, I'm finally writing after nearly 9 mos. of toiling over what to name our first baby and I'm really hoping you can help. We are due in two weeks and the baby's gender is a surprise. We have a girl's By Duana • Jan 21, 2014 01:18 pm
Parenthood Parenthood 5? Parenthood panelled at PaleyFest yesterday. Deadline reported on the discussion. Needless to say, for fans of the show, the big question is whether or not the show will be back for Season 5. Is Jason Katims used to it by now? Because it was like this with Friday Night Lights By Lainey • Mar 08, 2013 02:53 pm
LifestyleArticle Duana Names: Mae Is Not The Middle We're having a girl and have decided to name her Mae. The thing is that although we both like this name, it is a compromise chosen through a process of elimination. My first choice would be Lisa and my husband's would be Celia. These two names By Duana • Mar 07, 2013 01:26 pm