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
Golden Globes 2026 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
Golden Globes 2026 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
Maple Leaf 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
Top Reads 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
Top Reads 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
Style 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
Movie Reviews and Previews 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
Maple Leaf 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
Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart’s voice Kristen Stewart’s feature directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, opens in limited theaters this weekend before expanding nationally in January. The film’s distributor, indie outfit The Forge, is also mounting a little-engine-that-could awards campaign for the film and Stewart. Serving both the film’s release and the trophy By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 12:56 pm
BFFs Gwyneth aims to please Gwyneth Paltrow is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment issue as this year’s recipient of the publication’s Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. GP was also at a morning event yesterday celebrating the women who’ve been recognised by the trade. By Lainey • Dec 04, 2025 11:09 am
Maple Leaf Justin Bieber: Strangers, birthdays, and golf Justin Bieber is heading into the Grammys this year with four nominations, including Album of the Year. Over the course of his career, while he’s been nominated many times, he has two wins. Both of those wins, however, for “Where Are Ü Now” and “10000 Hours" are not By Lainey • Nov 25, 2025 01:23 pm
Style Kate Beckinsale and the two eggs Kate Beckinsale is promoting a movie called Wildcat that opens today in select theatres. As you can see from the poster and the trailer below, she’s in her action bag, playing a character who might have been a former assassin and her daughter gets kidnapped and maybe there are By Lainey • Nov 25, 2025 11:51 am
Royals Fashion Meghan Meghan Sussex’s With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration will premiere on Netflix on December 3. Typically, for a show like hers, which is about hosting, the usual promotional strategy would involve the talk show circuit, daytime in particular. There’s always hosting content on daytime – cooking and decorating and crafting, By Lainey • Nov 20, 2025 11:22 am
Quiveration The Vanity Fair All-Men Hollywood Issue Up until last year, Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood issue was always released in February-ish timed for around the Oscars. Last year, a scheduling departure – the Hollywood issue came out in November, joining all the other “of the year” issues that other magazines put out around the season. One of By Lainey • Nov 19, 2025 02:29 pm
Style Cynthia goes home I knew nothing about Wicked before I saw the movie last year – and I went with the best possible person, the most theatre kid in my life, Duana. For many of us, loving something means wanting to share the thing that you love with people you love. For a theatre By Lainey • Nov 19, 2025 11:51 am
