Music BET Highlights: Teyana, Victoria, Usher, and more The 24th annual BET Awards took place this past weekend, hosted by Taraji P. Henson and featuring an all-star cast of women who left it all on stage. It was a night to remember and here are some of the night’s biggest moments. Teyana Taylor and Victoria Monet’s By Stephanie • Jul 02, 2024 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys: Ride or Die Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and so is whether or not you’re going to enjoy Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the fourth entry into the Bad Boys franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as a pair of wise-cracking but tough Miami detectives. Ride or Die By Sarah • Jun 07, 2024 01:07 pm
Break Ups Jada in her own words, at last Jada Pinkett-Smith recently shared a video to Instagram in which she claimed that she contributed to a “false narrative” about herself. Today, thanks to excerpts from a few bombshell interviews with PEOPLE and TODAY, fans are starting to understand exactly what she was referring to. Ahead of the release of By Stephanie • Oct 11, 2023 03:54 pm
Dumbass Selective Outrage: The Same Old Chris Rock Chris Rock's new comedy show, Selective Outrage, aired Saturday on Netflix. It was Netflix’s first live show ever (they are also shooting the SAG awards like this next) and Chris’s first standup special since The Slap. The special confirms what many of us already anticipated: Rock By Melayna • Mar 06, 2023 03:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will talks to Trevor Will Smith’s new movie, Emancipation, comes out in theaters this weekend, before debuting on Apple TV+ on December 9. Smith is, in a limited way, doing press for the movie. Earlier this week, he stopped by The Daily Show for a long conversation with Trevor Noah, one of his By Sarah • Nov 30, 2022 12:40 pm
BFFs Will Smith & Friends Almost seven months to the day and ninety billion takes after The Slap disrupted the Oscars, Will Smith is on the comeback trail, sort of. He has a new film coming out in early December, Emancipation, screening in a limited theatrical run before debuting on Apple TV+ a week later. By Sarah • Oct 25, 2022 03:25 pm
Break Ups Jada Pinkett-Smith gets candid (again) Jada Pinkett-Smith hosted another thought-provoking conversation about “toxic forgiveness” on her web series, Red Table Talk. In the show’s most recent episode, Will Smith’s ex-wife Sheree Zampino sat down with Jada and her cohost (and mom), Adrienne Banfield Norris, to discuss the history and current state of Sheree By Stephanie • Oct 21, 2022 04:03 pm
Will Smith Intro for August 30, 2022 Dear Gossips, Will Chris Rock host the Oscars next year? That’s what we’re talking about because that’s what he’s talking about. At a show in Arizona on Sunday, Chris claims that the Academy asked him to host the 95th Oscars in 2023 but he declined. Chris By Lainey • Aug 30, 2022 09:29 am
Equality Issues The Final Slap After moving up their meeting regarding Will Smith slapping Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars which feels like 14 years ago, the Academy leadership (“leadership”) has taken the step of banning Smith, who has already resigned his membership from the Academy, from the Oscars and all Academy events for By Sarah • Apr 11, 2022 09:37 am
Oscars 2022 Will Smith resigns from the Academy We enter week two of The Slap with the news that Will Smith has resigned his membership from the Academy. Facing a potential suspension that could be a decade or more, Smith decided to just resign and not wait for the Academy’s decision regarding discipline on April 18. They By Sarah • Apr 04, 2022 11:59 am
BFFs Will, Bradley, and Leaving the Oscars As Sarah wrote earlier today, the Academy claimed last night that Will Smith was asked to leave the Oscars after slapping Chris Rock and he refused. Sarah was skeptical about this in her post, pointing out that his publicist was seen approaching Will several times after the incident but that By Lainey • Mar 31, 2022 01:18 pm
Dumbass The Slap drags on The story of The Slap continues as the Academy is dragging its feet on doing anything and Chris Rock returns to work on the theater circuit, performing at the Wilbur Theater where he was greeted with a standing ovation and some guy trying to start a “F-ck Will Smith” chant. By Sarah • Mar 31, 2022 10:27 am
Top Reads Will Smith’s Oscars debacle follow-up and the Academy’s dithering “leadership” Fallout from The Slap, as it is now known, continues as the Academy board of governors and leadership had an emergency call on Monday about Will Smith and what to do since he struck Chris Rock in front of 1000+ of his peers and also a live television audience of By Sarah • Mar 29, 2022 11:11 am
Oscars 2022 The highs and lows of Will Smith Obviously, this was not how anyone wanted the night to go. Will Smith has long been admired and beloved by his peers, goodwill you could feel every time he was nominated for and then won an award for his performance in King Richard. This was an “it’s his time” By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 11:56 am
Oscars 2022 Predicting the Chaoscars This awards season has been 1) INTERMINABLE, and 2) CHAOTIC. Dramatic momentum shifts, wild nominations at precursor award shows, races too close to call—these Oscars are so chaotic, they should be called the Chaoscars . Predicting Oscar wins is tougher than usual for a number of reasons, ranging from the By Sarah • Mar 25, 2022 03:02 pm
Award Season Campaigning Will Smith’s pre-Oscar speeches… “and Bradley Cooper” Sarah wrote the other day after his win at the Critics Choice Awards that Will Smith seems unstoppable at this point, just a day before Oscar voting begins. Will has the SAG, the BAFTA, the Critics Choice, the Golden Globe, and last night he attended the National Board of Review By Lainey • Mar 16, 2022 02:04 pm
