Celebrity Social Media, August 27, 2025

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco recently had their bachelor/bachelorette parties (him in Vegas, her in Cabo) and this means the wedding is close, right? I believe September has been floating around.

 Are Steve Martin and Martin Short going to officiate? Multi-generational work friends are the best.

My post earlier today about celebrity fashion was all pants, BIG pants. Not a skinny jean or even a straight leg pair in the request list. BIG pants are back and it makes my 90s heart swell. But I won’t say “leggings are for boomers” like this WSJ article.

Every generation thinks they invented fashion, so I get it. It’s impossible to understand how cyclical fashion is until you’ve lived it. Leggings will be back. It will take a Hadid or a Hailey Bieber or someone cool I’ve never heard of to wear them once and then everyone under 30 will want leggings… again. 

Social media almost feels claustrophobic this week because of the wall-to-wall TNT news. But please, I’m here for every second of it, I’m fully seated. And I agree with Lainey, I don’t think this is a sponcon play or, the most baffling theory, PR for his football season or her album. In what world does Taylor Swift need anyone for PR?! Why would a Super Bowl winner need more support from fans? It’s low-level gossip to think this is a conspiracy. There may be some calculating behaviour, but that’s not a conspiracy. That’s show business. 

“Even Seth Rogen” hahahhaha. He’s right, it’s a bit shady. 

I’ve thought a lot about Serena Williams’s GLP-1 ad and read Sarah’s thoughts on it last week. I agree with Sarah in that the game is rigged: we demonize anything that isn’t thinness, then judge the way people choose to achieve that thinness. How do we talk about celebrities advertising medication for weight loss that they directly profit off of (yes, her husband is an investor in the company) in a way that doesn’t infantilize Serena (she is ultra wealthy and made a choice here) but takes into account the relentless pressure for women in the public eye have a specific body type? I don’t know. But it feels like this kind of endorsement is an escalation from the weight loss gummies and teas and Kardashian shapewear. You can drill it down to pretty much any beauty or wellness product that is advertised by a celebrity to make a woman “feel” better. How do women feel better, according to marketing? By looking better, of course. Is there any celebrity who ever says, “nah I’m not doing that. I don’t want to perpetuate that beauty standard”. I’m sure there are, we just don’t ever hear about them because they aren’t in the ads.