Bad Bunny Intro for January 16, 2026 Dear Gossips, We are now just over three weeks away from the Benito Bowl on Sunday 8 February in Santa Clara, California so it’s right on time for a promo. And a new one dropped yesterday. It’s short, but it doesn’t have to be extensive to fuel By Lainey • Jan 16, 2026 10:15 am
BTS ARIRANG BTS already broke the internet earlier this week when they announced the dates for their upcoming tour. ARMY is in full meltdown again today because pre-order information is now available for the new album, which means we now have the album title: ARIRANG I know I’m biased but, like, By Lainey • Jan 15, 2026 04:06 pm
Award Season Campaigning RDJ shows up for Timmy As mentioned several times today, it is Oscar nominations voting week, as Academy members decide on which artists will be nominated for the Oscars, happening on March 15. The nominations will be announced a week today, next Thursday. So the contenders and their various studios are doing what they can By Lainey • Jan 15, 2026 12:31 pm
Jacob Elordi Jacob and Olivia… again and again Back in the summer, it was reported that Jacob Elordi and Olivia Jade Giannulli had broken up. Then she showed up with him at the TIFF premiere of Frankenstein, a whole heatscore in white, and it was obvious that their split was brief. A few weeks after that, it was By Lainey • Jan 15, 2026 11:24 am
Leonardo DiCaprio Intro for January 15, 2026 Dear Gossips, We are now exactly two months away from the Oscars, which are happening on March 15, and it’s also nomination campaigning week, as Academy members are currently voting on the nominations, scheduled to be announced a week today on January 22. This means contenders are out there By Lainey • Jan 15, 2026 10:12 am
What Else Bridgerton begins Bridgerton season four premieres on January 29 with the first installment, followed by the second on February 26, as Netflix hopes to win back some of the horny women demographic from Heated Rivalry. Sarah is our resident Bridgerton expert since she knows the books so well so we’ll leave By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 04:13 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Ben and Matt are not the VIPs Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s film, The Rip, premieres on Netflix on Friday and as Sarah wrote in her post about it recently, this looks like a solid crime drama, an action movie with a real plot starring big name movie stars that’s disappearing from theatres, which is By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 02:52 pm
Heated Rivalry It Is Still Very Heated I am that person who will remind you that I told you, before the holidays and after the holidays and again last week that Heated Rivalry is still on the ascent, as viral as it was around Christmas, that there was more to come because other territories had yet to By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 01:57 pm
Euphoria A Different Euphoria The hottest series on television right now is Heated Rivalry, produced by Crave in Canada and broadcast in America on HBO Max. If there is a series that can rival the virality of Heated Rivalry, it’s another HBO title, Euphoria. When the first images of season three were released By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 01:09 pm
Top Reads Teyana Time As Sarah noted in our post-Globes coverage about Teyana Taylor and the Best Supporting Actress race, up until Sunday night, it was Amy Madigan’s performance in Weapons who was considered the frontrunner in the category. And she still is, I think, but she’s also not running away with By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 11:52 am
BTS Intro for January 14, 2026 Dear Gossips, As promised, BTS yesterday announced the dates for their upcoming world tour. As expected, the tour is massive – 79 shows so far taking them across the planet, with more stops in 2027 “coming soon”. I thought I did what I could do to prepare for the confirmation. A By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 09:17 am
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 Jennifer Lawrence: Globes Best Dressed (Lainey) It was accidental, we didn’t even realise it on our post-Globes editorial call and I only just clocked it now having edited Sarah and Duana’s best dressed pieces about, respectively, Rose Byrne and Tessa Thompson, both in green: that my pick for best dressed is also green… ish. By Lainey • Jan 12, 2026 03:31 pm
Golden Globes 2026 Fashion Misses at the Globes Before we get into some of the style disappointments from last night, a quick word on the DJ. Not all of the production elements worked at the Golden Globes this year – the GPS thing was dumb, some of the technical transitions were clunky, the lighting was terrible at times. But By Lainey • Jan 12, 2026 12:12 pm
Golden Globes 2026 Jessie, Hamnet, and the Lead Actresses Sarah has written today about One Battle After Another and how it is now, unquestionably, the frontrunner for Best Picture at the Oscars over Sinners which will likely get many, many nominations but few if any wins. We’ve been anxious about this for months, but this cannot be a By Lainey • Jan 12, 2026 10:05 am
Golden Globes 2026 Leo goes double viral Nikki Glaser’s monologue last night wasn’t the best Golden Globes host monologue we’ve ever seen but it was far from the worst. And, most memorably, she roasted two major movie stars and survived – with their blessing. One of them being Sean Penn. Like she actually told him By Lainey • Jan 12, 2026 07:43 am
