BTS BTS Loves Mexico As we saw last week, 50,000 people showed up outside the National Palace in Mexico City to catch a glimpse of BTS on the balcony when President Claudia Sheinbaum welcomed RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook to the country ahead of their three sold-out shows. Demand for By Lainey • May 11, 2026 12:41 pm
Rihanna Celebrity Mother’s Day Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are still in New York after the Met Gala. I wonder if NYC will be their official home base now since, understandably, they probably don’t want to f-ck around in LA after what happened outside their house. Whatever issues there may or may not By Lainey • May 11, 2026 11:54 am
Bowen Yang Intro for May 11, 2026 Dear Gossips, In the United States, May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. In Canada it’s Asian Heritage Month. This is one month before June which, among other things, is Pride, or gay month. Which is when Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang host the annual Las Culturistas By Lainey • May 11, 2026 09:54 am
Top Reads TNT: A Day in London and the Fictional Predictions Taylor Swift has resurfaced with Travis Kelce in London. This is happening five weeks before one of her rumoured wedding dates – June 13, because it’s a Saturday and 13 is her favourite number – and eight weeks before her other rumoured wedding date, July 4, because it’s Independence Day By Lainey • May 08, 2026 03:07 pm
What Else Baby Elle, but not Baby Elle The first trailer for the Legally Blonde prequel, called Elle, was released yesterday starring Lexi Minetree in the Elle Woods role made famous by Reese Witherspoon. This story is set in 1995, obviously before Elle went to law school…but the beats are the same. In the original movie, Elle By Lainey • May 07, 2026 04:03 pm
Charlize and Katie: Denim and Suede Yesterday in the site open we posted photos of Charlize Theron wearing a denim zipped shirt and I had a few people ask about it, both over email and DMs and also in the daily chat thread over at our Substack, The Squawk. Then I saw new photos of Katie By Lainey • May 07, 2026 02:57 pm
Timothee Chalamet The Former Marty Supreme As predicted earlier this week, Timothée Chalamet was not at the Met Gala, not only because he’s not a regular there but because between the Met Gala and the Knicks playoff game, there was no doubt where he’d prefer to be. He was courtside for the Knicks game By Lainey • May 07, 2026 11:27 am
Martin Short The Real Marty Supreme It’s so good to see Martin Short, last night at the premiere of his upcoming documentary, Marty, Life is Short, premiering on Netflix next week. And he was there with his family and so many of his friends. Well now I’m crying already. The film is directed by By Lainey • May 07, 2026 10:37 am
BTS Intro for May 7, 2026 Dear Gossips, BTS will perform the first of three concerts tonight in Mexico City GNP Seguros Stadium and the stop in Mexico felt like a state visit – not hyperbolic. Yesterday they were invited by President Claudia Sheinbaum to the National Palace, where the person who holds the highest office in By Lainey • May 07, 2026 09:31 am
What Else Pedro and Grogu green Pedro Pascal, who is no stranger to the Met Gala, was not at the Met Gala this year. He has other priorities – like work. The Mandalorian and Grogu opens in just over two weeks and the press tour is now underway. On Monday, Pedro was with Jon Favreau and Sigourney By Lainey • May 06, 2026 04:14 pm
Rihanna Rihanna & Rocky’s Post-Met Body Language As Duana wrote in her post yesterday about Rihanna and A$AP Rocky at the Met Gala, they were pretty cute together when they arrived. There was that video of him admiring her, as he always does, when she was posing for solo photos… View this post on Instagram A By Lainey • May 06, 2026 01:19 pm
Charlize Theron Intro for May 6, 2026 Dear Gossips, Sarah’s post about the first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated The Odyssey that was released yesterday will go up this morning. For now, let’s talk about Charlize Theron, it's her voice we hear at the top of the preview, in her role By Lainey • May 06, 2026 10:01 am
What Else Hudson Williams: Tonight is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Can you believe that it hasn’t even been six months since Heated Rivalry premiered? So much has happened in such a short time, around and to Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, and we’ve also learned so much about both of them. In Hudson’s case, it was immediately By Lainey • May 05, 2026 04:12 pm
Met Gala 2026 Bad Bunny: Met Gala Best Dressed (Lainey) Back in February, at the Benito Bowl, Bad Bunny wore two Zara custom fits for his historic performance. It was, to use a word I’ve avoided so far today because I’ve been saving it for this post… groundbreaking. Three months later Bad Bunny’s Zara is the cerulean By Lainey • May 05, 2026 03:24 pm
Met Gala 2026 Cardi B and the Met Gala Body (Parts) As I wrote earlier, when the Met Gala theme and its corresponding dress code are so broad, most people just use it as an excuse to turn the red carpet into the Oscars and go for pretty. Pretty over funny, pretty over weird, pretty over bold. Those who take advantage By Lainey • May 05, 2026 01:38 pm
Met Gala 2026 Blake and Barbie 'met' boring again Let me try to avoid landmines and mess in this post, LOL. The fact that I’m pairing Blake Lively and Margot Robbie, though, probably isn’t helping. But I have editorial and narrative justification for it, so can we ignore the internet conspiracy theories and just focus on the By Lainey • May 05, 2026 12:06 pm
