What Else Timmy on a bike Timothée Chalamet was not at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opening gala the other night in Los Angeles, attended by so many celebrities it seemed like it was a major award season stop, like the Oscar Academy’s Governors Awards. I’m talking about the Oscars because there’s By Lainey • Sep 21, 2026 04:03 pm
Taylor Swift Taylor Swift’s husband scores a touchdown It’s basically the three year anniversary of TNT this week – flashback to Sunday 24 September 2023, Taylor Swift showed up to watch Travis Kelce and Kansas City play against Chicago, confirming the rumours that they were dating. That was the beginning of phase one, a great gossip era, all By Lainey • Sep 21, 2026 01:26 pm
Brad Pitt Brad and Quentin double down If you’ve been reading this site over the years, from at least before the pandemic, you might remember our reaction to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood when it came out. Sarah’s review is here and it’s only gotten better over time. This paragraph By Lainey • Sep 21, 2026 11:29 am
Royals Intro for September 21, 2026 Dear Gossips, Charles Spencer’s book, Swan Song, about his sister Princess Diana, releases tomorrow and as you may have seen, he’s been doing a series of interviews to promote it. Much of what’s been shared so far in the book has not been flattering towards King Charles By Lainey • Sep 21, 2026 09:26 am
Sienna Miller Sienna Miller is at WAR Never heard about this series until yesterday but now that I know, I’m in. Also, it’s HBO Max, and George Kay (Lupin etc) is the showrunner so it’s giving prestige…but with a healthy amount of trash. And it should be a little trashy considering the subject By Lainey • Sep 18, 2026 10:28 am
Royals A Royal Haunting One of the most anticipated Midnight Madness world premieres at TIFF this year was Anna Biller’s The Face of Horror. Anna Biller’s The Love Witch, released a decade ago, is now a cult classic. She is a thrilling filmmaker, an auteur in every sense, with her own signature By Lainey • Sep 17, 2026 04:13 pm
Michael B Jordan Michael B Jordan: Same quote, a different way Most of us probably agree that the September 2026 issue of American Vogue was a flop, right? The cover stars were Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere to promote The Shards – and this isn’t a personal criticism, not directed towards their performances, not a judgement about them as actors or By Lainey • Sep 17, 2026 01:34 pm
Tom Cruise Tom Cruise: Greatest stunt choreo incoming As Sarah wrote in yesterday’s site open, Tom Cruise’s greatest role is that of “Tom Cruise”. She is right in saying that his GQ cover story, both in print and on video, is for all the gossip hounds. Pretty sure we’re all still screaming about it. Tom, By Lainey • Sep 17, 2026 11:07 am
TV Updates Intro for September 17, 2026 Dear Gossips, A couple of weeks ago, I posted in this space about The Early Spring, the Chinese drama available in international markets on Netflix that was blowing up around the world. After almost a month, The Early Spring remains at #2 on the Netflix non-English chart, where it By Lainey • Sep 17, 2026 09:17 am
Emmy Awards 2026 Lainey's Best Dressed - Claire Danes as Juliet in 2026 My first view of Claire Danes on the Emmys red carpet last night was from the side. Kinda like this photo below, except she was moving, it wasn’t a still shot… and immediately, with the shape of that shoulder, which I didn’t know at the time was just By Lainey • Sep 15, 2026 01:30 pm
Emmy Awards 2026 Zendaya & Taylor & Two Toms If you’re new to this site, please know that we know that whenever Zendaya shows up anywhere, she will be best dressed. Which is why she’s no longer eligible – it’s just not fair to anybody else. She showed up at the Emmys last night in custom Prada By Lainey • Sep 15, 2026 10:19 am
Emmy Awards 2026 Flo and Julia: Two Madonnas Last night was the first time Florence Pugh has been to the Emmys. We have, of course, seen her on award show red carpets before, but always in a film capacity. And we will see her again on the red carpet in a film capacity before the end of the By Lainey • Sep 15, 2026 08:31 am
Emmy Awards 2026 Mariska Hargitay: Ten Dresses and All the Sincerity Mariska Hargitay won two Emmys last week for My Mom Jayne, the documentary about her mother, Jayne Mansfield, at the Creative Arts Emmys. Last night she hosted the Primetime Emmys on NBC, the network that’s been airing her show, Law & Order: SVU, for 27-soon-to-be-28 By Lainey • Sep 15, 2026 07:02 am
Top Reads Learning from Céline At some point on Friday or Saturday, during the chaos of TIFF and running from interview to interview and prepping in between, I saw an article pop up on my feed about Céline Dion, ahead of her first show in Paris…something something about how she would require a backing By Lainey • Sep 14, 2026 10:53 am
Sabrina Carpenter All the Jonathan Andersons It is officially fashion month in the industry. New York Fashion Week begins today, the fashion people head over to London next week, then Milan the week after, culminating in Paris at the end of the month, which is where Jonathan Anderson’s next collection for Dior spring/summer 2027 By Lainey • Sep 10, 2026 12:45 pm
What Else Maitreyi Ramakrishnan: The Best of Everything Maitreyi Ramakrishnan is in New York today making the talk show rounds to promote her new Netflix movie Best of the Best. It’s a dance movie… and right on time, because it’s been a while, we were overdue. This is Step Up and Pitch Perfect and Bring It By Lainey • Sep 09, 2026 04:54 pm