Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 3, 2023 Maria isn’t back until next week so I’m handling celebrity social media duties… Barbara Walters had a long career and over the course of her career, for sure, she said some f-cked up sh-t and asked some crazy ass questions. She also asked a lot of great questions. By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 03:11 pm
Amazingness Leonardo DiCaprio 2023… but no Gigi? Same time last year, the start of 2022, Leonardo DiCaprio was dating Camila Morrone. She was 24 at the time. Six months later, in June, she turned 25 and a few weeks after that it was confirmed that they’d split, resulting in Leo getting widely mocked for the aging By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 01:20 pm
Music Beyoncé 2023 What will Beyoncé give us in 2023? I don’t want to ask for too much. We got a whole album in 2022, and it was another masterpiece, naturally. Renaissance made practically every “best” list of the year, with excellent sales and streaming numbers, and all kinds of nominations… although By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 12:24 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Brad Pitt’s Romantic Deflection Early last year, as we approached award season and contenders emerged one after another, critics always left room for Babylon, understandably. For the last decade Damien Chazelle has been regarded as Hollywood’s wunderkind filmmaker, with the Oscar Academy making him in the youngest ever to win the Best Director By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 11:33 am
Xenu Where is Tom Cruise’s Best Friend? 2022 was a good year for Tom Cruise, professionally. One of his best years in a long time. Top Gun: Maverick was the biggest movie of the year, and by now we all know the story behind it – that Tom insisted on holding the picture through the pandemic because he By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 10:48 am
Royals Prince Harry: One week to Spare In one of my last Prince Harry posts of 2022, I wrote about promotion for the release of his upcoming memoir, Spare, and the publisher’s presumed expectation for him to go out and drive sales. A book deal is a business deal. They paid him a lot of money, By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 10:02 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 3, 2023 Dear Gossips, Happy New Year! New year, new gossip…and also the same gossip. After all, Leonardo DiCaprio is still hanging out with under-25 year old models. We’ll get to that soon. For now, let’s focus on the Golden Globe Awards because they’re happening exactly a week By Lainey • Jan 03, 2023 08:58 am
What Else What Else? As mentioned in today’s site open, today is our final gossip day of the year. Unless something major goes down, like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle crashing royal Christmas at Sandringham or Michael B Jordan eloping with Selena Gomez…which… would make me actually want to work over the By Lainey • Dec 22, 2022 03:30 pm
Gorgessity JLo’s Holiday Glow I know this isn’t the case for everyone but Bennifer was one of my celebrity highlights of 2022. As I have said, repeatedly, since they got back together in 2021 – we didn’t appreciate them enough the first time around, and then we got nostalgic about what we’d By Lainey • Dec 22, 2022 09:14 am
Keanu Reeves Keanu 2022 As mentioned earlier in today’s open, today is our last posting day of the year, barring any major gossip developments, and look – it’s Keanu Reeves, coming through for the occasion, generous as ever, so that we can include him in our final gossip session of 2022. No one By Lainey • Dec 22, 2022 09:00 am
Models Leo’s date with (another) Nepo Baby? Leonardo DiCaprio started 22 with a girlfriend – Camila Morrone who he actually started dating around five years ago at this time of year back in December 2017. Camila, however, turned 25 in 2022. And just a couple of months after her 25th birthday, it was confirmed that she and Leo By Lainey • Dec 22, 2022 08:41 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 22, 2022 Dear Gossips, For Ke Huy Quan, the end of 2022 has been a win, literally. He’s been winning a lot of awards. He won the Gotham Awards a few weeks ago; the New York Film Critics Circle named him Best Supporting Actor; and of course he’s considered a By Lainey • Dec 22, 2022 08:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Miss Flo makes the list For their February 2023 issue, just in time for the BAFTAs which are happening on February 19, and just three weeks before the Oscars, Empire Magazine has released its list of the 50 Greatest Actors of All Time based on readers’ votes. Two years ago, the New York Times put By Lainey • Dec 21, 2022 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu is in LOVE Simu Liu and Allison Hsu publicly confirmed their relationship not even a month ago at the premiere of Violent Night when they wore matching holiday sweaters on the carpet. Prior to that, Simu revealed back in September that he’d broken up with Jade Bender. But now it sounds like By Lainey • Dec 21, 2022 10:58 am
What Else What Else? Speaking of Nepo Babies, Brooklyn Beckham says he’s working on opening a pub in LA and… I actually think this is a good idea for him. (Cele|bitchy) Matt Damon was supposed to be in Avatar but had to back out because of scheduling and because of that he By Lainey • Dec 20, 2022 04:04 pm
Relationship Assumption Lori Harvey’s Top Priority is Lori Harvey This is Lori Harvey’s first time on the cover of ESSENCE and it’s for their Black Love issue. The Black Love that Lori is representing is self-love. Because Lori puts herself first. As she tells the magazine: “It’s not about being arrogant or about feeling like I’ By Lainey • Dec 20, 2022 02:54 pm