Business of Hollywood Intro for August 28, 2023 Dear Gossips, The Venice Film Festival will kick off this Wednesday – you’ll recall, they’d originally announced that the opening night film would be Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, starring Zendaya. Due to the Hollywood strike, Challengers was pulled from the festival and pushed back for release; it will now By Lainey • Aug 28, 2023 09:36 am
Music Miley Cyrus “Used To Be Young” As Miley Cyrus has shared recently, today, August 25, is a major anniversary for her personally and professionally. It was ten years ago on this day that she released “Wrecking Ball”, in my opinion it's her best song, and then she showed up on stage at the MTV By Lainey • Aug 25, 2023 12:30 pm
What Else What Else? I don’t hate Jennifer Lawrence’s wide leg pants but I agree with the Fug Girls that that’s not the right shoe choice. Like, I understand why she wanted some height because this style of pants is long… but the way they’ve been brought back now, it’ By Lainey • Aug 24, 2023 04:01 pm
Music The Justin Timberlake Needs Nostalgia As mentioned the other day, there will reportedly be an *NSYNC reunion for the new Trolls movie as Justin’s bandmates will be making cameos in the movie and a single is on the way. There are also rumours that they might be putting together a one-time reunion concert though By Lainey • Aug 24, 2023 12:03 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) The Best Chris Evans with the puppies Chris Evans is here to save your Thursday. I know the Best Chris debate is old by now and I’m not jumping in on that. But the best version of Chris Evans is when Chris Evans is with dogs. His dog, Dodger, is my favourite thing about him, the By Lainey • Aug 24, 2023 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 24, 2023 Dear Gossips, We are getting closer and closer to festival season. The Venice Film Festival kicks off next Wednesday. The Toronto International Film Festival begins two weeks from today on September 7. It’ll be interesting to see which celebrities show up to support their films – with waivers, of course, By Lainey • Aug 24, 2023 10:00 am
What Else What Else? Next week marks the 20th anniversary of the Britney-Madonna-Christina kiss at the MTV VMAs and several media outlets have published articles commemorating the anniversary. Rolling Stone, however, has the oral history from insiders who worked on the production. (Rolling Stone) We interviewed Sheryl Lee Ralph last week on The Social By Lainey • Aug 23, 2023 04:00 pm
Douchebags Scooter Braun: A Gossip Mystery The Scooter Braun story is a mess… which is why I love it so much. And not for the same reason as the Swifties, who’ve been throwing a Scooter Braun is over party for days, but specifically because it’s so messy, because this gossip is so opaque, because By Lainey • Aug 23, 2023 02:49 pm
Music The Return of Diddy After hinting at it for what seems like five years, Diddy announced yesterday that he’ll be releasing his first album since Press Play in 2006. The Love Album: Off the Grid will drop on September 15… with a LOT of features. We’ll get back to that in a By Lainey • Aug 23, 2023 01:36 pm
BFFs Zendaya: In her erotic era In my post about Jennifer Aniston earlier this week and her profile in WSJ. Magazine ahead of the premiere of season three of The Morning Show, I mentioned how we’re starting to see the rollout of banked press opportunities during the strike. As noted in that interview, it was By Lainey • Aug 23, 2023 11:44 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 23, 2023 Dear Gossips, Let Bartlet be Bartlet! This probably doesn’t mean anything to you if you’re under 30 years old but once upon a time there was a show called The West Wing and it won a lot of Emmys and some of us still cling to it fondly, By Lainey • Aug 23, 2023 09:23 am
What Else What Else? Prince William is still getting sh-t for not supporting the Lionesses in person at the World Cup. Some people are now asking what the point of the British monarchy is if they’re not showing up at events like this with zero controversy. Like if they’re supposed to avoid By Lainey • Aug 22, 2023 04:29 pm
Break Ups The Double Dumping of Scooter Braun There have been rumours the last few days that Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun broke up. So far that’s not confirmed and sources have told multiple outlets that JB is still being managed by Scooter…at least for now. Yesterday, however, both Demi Lovato and Ariana Grande announced they By Lainey • Aug 22, 2023 01:50 pm
TV Updates Jennifer Aniston sleeps with her dog I guess that was a spoiler because many of the teasers that are coming out of Jennifer Aniston’s new profile in the WSJ. Magazine are all about “who she’s sleeping with” which, of course, is meant to be a titillating, considering the fascination with her love life over By Lainey • Aug 22, 2023 01:12 pm
Style Couples Roundup: Lori, Jacob, and Austin Another post featuring celebrity couples from the last few days… We’ll start with Lori Harvey and Damson Idris last night – they were seen leaving Drake’s after-party following their dinner at The Nice Guy, presumably with Justin and Hailey Bieber who were also there last night and Lori and By Lainey • Aug 22, 2023 10:06 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 22, 2023 Dear Gossips, Three weeks ago, lawyers representing dozens of reality show stars sent a letter to NBCUniversal accusing the network of “grotesque and depraved treatment”. It is widely believed that most of these stars are from the Real Housewives and Vanderpump franchises. The initiative is led by Bethenny Frankel who’ By Lainey • Aug 22, 2023 09:05 am
