Music Intro for February 11, 2025 Dear Gossips, Sorry, I’m a little bit shocked. So I may regret these words later, I may be risking your anger because your experience may not be the same… But I just got Beyoncé COWBOY CARTER tickets and the process did not break my soul, which is why I’ By Lainey • Feb 11, 2025 09:00 am
Award Season Campaigning Eight Virtuosos Monica Barbaro, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande, Clarence Maclin, John Magaro, Mikey Madison, Sebastian Stan, and Fernanda Torres were the eight performers who received the Virtuoso Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival this weekend. Six out of the eight are Oscar nominees so it’s a good year at By Lainey • Feb 10, 2025 04:29 pm
Amazingness Kendrick Lamar: A Halftime of Hate Before we get into Kendrick Lamar’s set at the Super Bowl last night, a word on Jay-Z and his involvement in the halftime show. The initial partnership between him and the NFL was for five years, valued at $25 million. That deal was renewed back in October but By Lainey • Feb 10, 2025 01:19 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for February 10, 2025 Dear Gossips, Coming to you from the nuked remains of Toronto after what can only be described as total annihilation last night – even though the city has no business at the Super Bowl. We’ll get to the halftime show later… Let’s stay in Canada, just on the opposite By Lainey • Feb 10, 2025 09:19 am
Award Season Campaigning Kendrick and Timmy Bob do a duet Whoever came up with this idea… chef’s kiss. It’s genius marketing on multiple levels. First of all, we’re heading into Super Bowl weekend, the most watched broadcast in North America every year and Kendrick Lamar is the halftime headliner. Kendrick is always viral, so between him and By Lainey • Feb 07, 2025 12:14 pm
Top Reads Baiting Taylor Swift Both TMZ and Page Six claimed to have “exclusives” yesterday about Taylor Swift’s relationship with Blake Lively. And both of their “exclusives” say the same thing: that Blake's legal drama with Justin Baldoni has fractured her friendship with Taylor. And that Taylor is distancing herself from Blake By Lainey • Feb 07, 2025 10:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Everything Keke Keke Palmer is in New York today. She showed up to Brandon Maxwell’s fashion show in lilac and also lit up the Empire State Building wearing the sh-t out of a red dress, WOW. Everything is coming up Keke right now. Her new movie, One of Them Days, By Lainey • Feb 06, 2025 04:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Wicked is having all the fun I’m being petty here and I’m not sorry. Because remember when some of you were sick of the Wicked press tour and Wicked in general? Well. With all the chaos and the ugliness of this Oscar race, aren’t you f-cking glad we have Wicked now?!? Today By Lainey • Feb 06, 2025 12:55 pm
Top Reads Angelina remembers her mom Angelina Jolie was at the Santa Barbara Film Festival last night to receive the Maltin Modern Master Award and sat with Leonard Maltin for a Q&A about her career before accepting the honour. On Friday she’s nominated for Best Actress at the Critics’ Choice Awards so we’ By Lainey • Feb 06, 2025 11:16 am
Music Intro for February 6, 2025 Dear Gossips, Big announcement for Blinks yesterday – BLACKPINK announced that a tour is coming this year. The announcement and accompanying promotional materials were updated across the group’s various social media accounts and a teaser was posted to the BLACKPINK YouTube channel. But… honestly? It’s a bit confusing. BLACKPINK, By Lainey • Feb 06, 2025 09:23 am
Style Bridget does layers Renée Zellweger and her castmates, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall, from Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, minus Hugh Grant, were in Rome to promote the movie today. This is one of my favourite outfits on her of all time. It’s Maison Margiela and there’s some excellent layering By Lainey • Feb 05, 2025 04:01 pm
BFFs Billie campaigns for Ari As noted in today’s open, the Karla Sofía Gascón scandal has upended award season. Emilia Pérez is plummeting, Zoe Saldaña’s chances are in jeopardy, and other nominated films and actors are gaining momentum – that includes Ariana Grande. It was once thought that the nomination would be a win By Lainey • Feb 05, 2025 02:12 pm
Shoes Horror and Romance Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller have been in New York promoting a new movie called The Gorge. Hadn’t really been paying attention to it until I saw all the sidewalk runway shots of Anya doing the talk show circuit. We’ll get to the fashion in a minute, By Lainey • Feb 05, 2025 12:30 pm
BFFs The Girls are OK Sometimes the gossip that comes out of an award show is beefy. Two stars refusing to sit next to each other. Actors avoiding each other on the red carpet. Exes and their currents awkwardly walking past. Girl sh-t and boy sh-t and mess. Sometimes, however, the gossip that By Lainey • Feb 05, 2025 11:15 am
Dumbass Another Simple Favor ends another dumb rumour I mean, the dumb rumour should have ended as soon as it was birthed but you know how the internet works now and how people are increasingly incapable of detecting bullsh-t. Sarah addressed this nonsense a few weeks ago when a totally unqualified random on Twitter claimed that Amazon By Lainey • Feb 05, 2025 10:26 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for February 5, 2025 Dear Gossips, As Sarah wrote yesterday in her post about the Karla Sofía Gascón mess, the situation has had repercussions all over the award season calendar – and is definitely shifting momentum in the Oscar race overall. Netflix is reshaping the Emilia Pérez Oscar campaign, minimising Karla’s presence as much By Lainey • Feb 05, 2025 09:15 am
