Relationship Assumption Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner: divorce on hold PEOPLE reported first thing this morning that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have called off their divorce – for now: Though the actors, both 44 — who announced their separation back in June 2015 — aren’t back together, they have decided to keep working on their marriage after going through a recent By Lainey • Mar 08, 2017 11:24 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 8, 2017 Dear Gossips, Today is International Women’s Day. And a “Day Without Women”. Many women around the world are striking, participating in marches, gathering together in support of gender equality, of each other. And wearing red to show solidarity. I am wearing red today. But, to be honest, I still, By Lainey • Mar 08, 2017 10:07 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Life…and here Entertainment Weekly tweeted out a scene from the upcoming Life starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds today. Watch an unbelievably intense extended sneak peek of @LifeMovie, starring @vancityreynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal. 😱 #LifeMovie pic.twitter.com/38ZE5dMUS2— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) March 7, 2017 As Sarah said in her email to me By Lainey • Mar 07, 2017 04:02 pm
Media Manipulation Tom Hiddleston and the Taylor Swift questions Tom Hiddleston was on The Today Show this morning to promote Kong: Skull Island. Savannah Guthrie asked him about Taylor Swift, the GQ article, and he basically says he’s entitled to a private life even though he works in the public domain. We’ll get back to his rationale By Lainey • Mar 07, 2017 01:30 pm
Hair JLO’s long pony The second season for Jennifer Lopez’s Shades Of Blue premiered on Sunday which is why she was everywhere last week on promotion in New York. Here she is yesterday back in LA heading to a meeting. Sorry. I don’t want to talk about her work. Because I want By Lainey • Mar 07, 2017 11:33 am
Royals Harry, Meghan, and the other pictures I was waiting on some additional information which is why I didn’t get to this yesterday so you’ve probably already seen these photos of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in Jamaica at his friend’s wedding. What surprised me though is that some of you have emailed and By Lainey • Mar 07, 2017 10:27 am
Equality Issues Intro for March 7, 2017 Dear Gossips, The two major celebrity interviews/profiles I read yesterday: David Letterman in New York Magazine and Chrissy Teigen in Glamour. Letterman is, as we all know, a legend. He was irreverent when he was on late night and now that he’s retired, he really has no f- By Lainey • Mar 07, 2017 09:22 am
Quiveration Idris Elba: turntables and hotdogs I am not The One. I will not be going on a date with Idris Elba. Instead, the winner of the date with Idris Elba is Sandra Boonton from New Jersey. And she’s pretty f-cking cute, so I’m happy for her…I guess. Congratulations Sandra. Please pound By Lainey • Mar 06, 2017 04:19 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Oscars, Angelina, Jake G’s pivot, and how women diversify Sorry again for missing out on the podcast last week. Duana and I were in LA for the Oscars and our podcast studio (my living room) isn’t mobile yet. But what a week to miss… We’ve had questions about how the Oscar f-ck-up could have happened. By Lainey • Mar 06, 2017 03:26 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Beyoncé, Blue, Beauty & The Beast The Beauty & The Beast premiere happened last Thursday. Emma Watson was the big draw on the red carpet. The biggest draw, however, avoided the red carpet and arrived at the last minute: Beyoncé. With the Blue Ivy Carter. And, of course, the Blessings. Beyoncé has posted the photos from By Lainey • Mar 06, 2017 12:35 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The PM’s wife and Colin Firth’s turtleneck Production on the Love Actually “sequel” continued this weekend. It’s a 10 minute short film that will air on Red Nose Day in the UK on March 24 and the following day in North America. We saw Liam Neeson shooting his scenes a couple of weeks ago and now By Lainey • Mar 06, 2017 11:19 am
Blind Riddles Making good decisions You may have heard that he’s been scaling back on some of his work commitments, major projects that meant a lot to him. These are good decisions. Part of a series of better decisions that he’s been making lately. And the best decision is that he’s been By Lainey • Mar 06, 2017 10:55 am
Douchebags Justin Timberlake’s Trolls song was actually about “inclusion” Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling, named the Worst Song of 2016 by several industry outlets, won the iHeartRadio Music Award for Song of the Year last night, because it was played so much on the radio. Previously – as in when he was campaigning for Oscar – JT explained By Lainey • Mar 06, 2017 10:00 am
Zadie Smith Intro for March 6, 2017 Dear Gossips, Did you read the new Zadie Smith this weekend? And did you LISTEN to Zadie Smith reading her own words this weekend? There’s a new book of photographs taken by Jerry Dantzic coming out next month of Billie Holiday. Zadie’s piece Crazy They Call Me, imagined By Lainey • Mar 06, 2017 08:19 am
Maple Leaf Celine feels the shoulder bow It takes a certain person to wear a certain dress. This particular dress – powder blue, high collar, and a giant bow (is it a bow? I’m calling it a bow) on one shoulder – requires a particular person. A person who can carry a bow as big as her heart By Lainey • Mar 03, 2017 03:41 pm
Royals Meghan & Harry at the wedding Not the one we’re waiting on, but US Weekly says that a proposal is coming by summer. But this weekend Prince Harry is in Jamaica for the wedding of his good friend Tom “Skipp” Inskip and … Meghan Markle has joined him there. So. A few points. First… he’s By Lainey • Mar 03, 2017 01:09 pm