Baby and Bump Obsession Festival Season Angelina As mentioned in the previous post about Jennifer Lopez, the Toronto International Film Festival announced its lineup this year and it looks very strong. This is the bounce-back that TIFF and other high profile fall festivals needed after last year because the strike grounded a lot of talent participation. By Lainey • Jul 22, 2024 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo: A Bridgerton Birthday and a TIFF premiere Bridgerton is about finding love in the ton and Jennifer Lopez loves love, so perhaps not surprising that she threw a Bridgerton-themed birthday party in the Hamptons this weekend. Friends and family, including her mother and also Sarah Jessica Parker, were all seen showing up in Bridgerton fits but By Lainey • Jul 22, 2024 12:44 pm
Shout-Outs July 22, 2024 – Shout-Outs Michele! Wishing you the happiest birthday from Staci whose gift to you is vintage JLo. Are we talking Fly Girl days? If so, here’s a compilation. i’m watching #ThisIsMeNow and i’m just so happy to see jlo dancing! yeah fly girl! pic.twitter.com/F9onofvrQM — pleasure president By Lainey • Jul 22, 2024 10:29 am
Reality TV Intro for July 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, I wrote on Friday at our Substack, The Squawk, about the explosive success of Love Island USA which just wrapped up its sixth season. It’s extraordinary for a show to generate this much heat at this point in its run – even the New York Times published a By Lainey • Jul 22, 2024 09:59 am
What Else What Else? Anna Sawai is doing a round of press hot off her fresh Emmy nomination for her performance in Shōgun. She heads to Australia soon to start working on Monarch: Legacy of Monsters so this is a bit of campaign work and, as you can see, and as usual, she looks By Lainey • Jul 19, 2024 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yes, that’s Bridget Here’s Renee Zellweger this week on the set of the new Bridget Jones movie shooting in England. Ant Antstead came to see her at one point, which is sweet, but this is not the love interest that interests me. First though, let’s talk about Bridget, specifically the look By Lainey • Jul 19, 2024 03:04 pm
Shout-Outs July 19, 2024 – Shout-Outs Carolina! Happy Birthday with love from Paula who tells me you’re going to karaoke so now I want to know what your go-to song is? Sing some Celine, that’s my birthday wish/order for you. By request, here are your celebrity crushes, Andrew Garfield and Paul Mescal By Lainey • Jul 19, 2024 10:17 am
Music Intro for July 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, In March 2023 Jimin’s “Like Crazy” from his debut solo album FACE became the first song by a Korean solo artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Nine months later, Jimin enlisted for mandatory military service and he’s not scheduled to be discharged By Lainey • Jul 19, 2024 09:53 am
What Else What Else? Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni have been working together for 25 years. That’s a quarter of a century. So it’s a work marriage. A functional and successful work marriage that has outlasted so many if not most actual Hollywood marriages. They are wonderful together. (Pajiba) Rachel Ulatowski makes By Lainey • Jul 18, 2024 04:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Who else but Glen Powell? I just posted about Manny Jacinto and his popularity surge coming out of The Acolyte and how he knows he still has to fight for opportunities being a person of colour. Manny and Glen Powell are around-ish the same age. Both struggled for years in the industry, it wasn’ By Lainey • Jul 18, 2024 11:40 am
Quiveration Manny Jacinto withdrawal The first season finale of The Acolyte dropped on Tuesday, known for the last few weeks as Horny Tuesday. They’ve not yet announced if The Acolyte will be renewed. But I’m sure they’ve been paying attention to the collective thirst that’s exploded online, especially after episode By Lainey • Jul 18, 2024 10:38 am
TV Updates Intro for July 18, 2024 Dear Gossips, After the Emmy nominations were announced yesterday, there was the usual talk about snubs. Shōgun was the most nominated series overall with 25 total but nothing for Cosmo Jarvis. Is he a snub though? That entire cast could have been nominated – like if you’re going to consider By Lainey • Jul 18, 2024 09:33 am
What Else What Else? Everyone under 25 probably knows Kylie Cantrall because of Descendants: The Rise of Red. She plays red, and her mother, the Queen of Hearts, is played by Rita Ora. Rita was all about red on the press tour and like mother like daughter because Kylie is doing the same thing By Lainey • Jul 17, 2024 04:27 pm
TV Updates Shōgun is the Most In her post, previous to this one, about the Emmy nominations, Duana argued gently that maybe categories don’t matter, which is a conversation that’s been coming up a lot with respect to The Bear. On our Substack today, a member called Miss Mellie said they were tired of By Lainey • Jul 17, 2024 03:51 pm
Relationship Assumption Bennifer: A Silent Anniversary Yesterday marked the second anniversary of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s “Midnight Trip to Vegas” where they were married at the Little White Wedding Chapel before their big wedding blowout in Georgia a month later. They were, however, on two separate coasts. Here’s JLo on a bike ride By Lainey • Jul 17, 2024 10:32 am
TV Updates Intro for July 17, 2024 Dear Gossips, The Emmy nominations will be announced today at 1130am ET/830am PT and we’ll have more posts about that later. For me personally, the Emmys storyline I care most about is Shōgun and how many nominations the series will receive. Shōgun is heavily predicted to lead the By Lainey • Jul 17, 2024 09:32 am
