What Else Forever Melanie C This one goes out to our site manager, Emily, who I’m sure has already seen these photos of Melanie C aka Sporty Spice, in London tonight at the Nordoff and Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards looking healthy and happy and fit as f-ck forever. Which she humble-flexed By Lainey • Jul 09, 2026 04:03 pm
Cardi B Cardi B: The Best Kind of Heatwave The heat has been an issue during Paris Fashion Week but here’s a heat story that has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with gossip… good gossip. The gossip that’s been lighting up so many timelines and algorithms has to do with Cardi B By Lainey • Jul 09, 2026 03:14 pm
Anya Taylor-Joy Anya continues the Canadian trend The trend is Canadian authors and their books being adapted into successful streaming series. It hasn’t even been a year and already there are three high-profile shows that have taken up a lot of cultural space. Of course the loudest among them is Heated Rivalry, which premiered last By Lainey • Jul 09, 2026 12:08 pm
Margaret Qualley “Break free and leave us in ruins” If you gather together all the rumours about Jack Antonoff, the reputational portrait that can be pieced together by Lena Dunham’s anecdotes and, of course, the social media projections that have infested our timelines, Taylor Swift’s “tolerate it” from the evermore album might work as the soundtrack for By Lainey • Jul 09, 2026 10:54 am
BTS Intro for July 9, 2026 Dear Gossips, It won’t just be Madonna, Shakira, BTS, and Justin Bieber on stage for the first-ever FIFA World Cup halftime show. They will also be joined by Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel, the PS 22 Chorus featuring Coldplay …and the Muppets. Also the performance is supposed to be By Lainey • Jul 09, 2026 09:23 am
Rihanna and all the babies I know we should never talk about Rihanna in terms of “just like us” but seeing these pictures of her heading to CVS with all three of her babies in New York when she could have totally asked a member of her team to go get whatever it was that By Lainey • Jul 08, 2026 04:18 pm
Zendaya Coleman The Tower of Zendaya I don’t know how much more we’ll be able to handle from Zendaya and Law Roach on The Odyssey press tour. It’s only been two stops – London and Paris – and our necks are completely flattened, it feels impossible to recover, and there is barely any time between By Lainey • Jul 08, 2026 01:36 pm
Margaret Qualley Margaret and Jack: is it over? Jack Antonoff was at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding. The surprise is that he was there with his sister and not his wife, Margaret Qualley. After all, Taylor was a guest at their wedding a few years ago, so Margaret’s absence has sparked days of online speculation By Lainey • Jul 08, 2026 10:38 am
Hudson Williams Intro for July 8, 2026 Dear Gossips, Balenciaga is one of the bigger draws during Paris Fashion Week, even when Demna was still the creative director, despite all his controversies. Now that the house is under the stewardship of Pierpaolo Piccioli, with his long established relationships within the industry and also with celebrities, Balenciaga remains By Lainey • Jul 08, 2026 09:38 am
What Else L'uragano più bello Alexa Demie was at Paris Fashion Week today, the first time she’s been a guest of Chanel. Which is notable because unlike so many stars of her generation, she doesn’t show up everywhere and anywhere. In fact, you can actually say that it’s rare to see her By Lainey • Jul 07, 2026 04:03 pm
Anne Hathaway Mother Ithaca and The Odyssey As promised, more on The Odyssey and the premiere in London last night… I screened the film in New York last week in IMAX and if you’ve been a longtime regular reader of this site, you may know that unlike most cinephiles, I’m not a Christopher Nolan sycophant By Lainey • Jul 07, 2026 02:45 pm
Harry Windsor Prince Harry loses the case Prince Harry and six other claimants, including other celebrities like Elton John, Elizabeth Hurley, and Sadie Frost, have lost their case against the tabloid the Daily Mail. The claimants were accusing the publication of obtaining information illegally and the high court has ruled that they did not prove the Daily By Lainey • Jul 07, 2026 12:21 pm
Rihanna RiRi and Rocki: Stripes and Hearts Rihanna stepped out last night for dinner with Rocki in her arms and my first reaction is: stop it! It’s too much, too much, too precious, too delicious! The baby is the main character! Her little face, her chubby little fist, those tiny sneakers, the puffy dress with the By Lainey • Jul 07, 2026 11:13 am
BTS Intro for July 7, 2026 Dear Gossips, In 2019, BTS became the first South Korean act to sell out Wembley Stadium, one of London’s most iconic venues, in just over an hour. On June 2, 2019, during the second show, ARMY surprised RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook, pulling off By Lainey • Jul 07, 2026 09:01 am
What Else The Viking Baby Mochi There’s a lot of synergy happening between BTS and the World Cup on the European leg of their Arirang World Tour. The tour kicked off a couple of weeks ago in Madrid, when Spain was playing Uruguay. The following week they were in Brussels performing when Belgium played that By Lainey • Jul 06, 2026 04:18 pm
Zendaya Coleman Zendaya: Famous Among the Gods It is one of the lines I’ll always remember from my Greek mythology course in universe – said by Athena but also often used to describe Athena: that she is famous among the gods for her wisdom but also for her cunning, which is why she was partial to Odysseus, By Lainey • Jul 06, 2026 02:58 pm
