Bad Style Katie Holmes’s style throwback Katie Holmes showed up at the Jingle Ball on Friday in an outfit that seemed to be a style throwback to the early 2000s when people were wearing jeans under dresses. It wasn’t a great look then and I’m not sure it’s a great look now. But By Lainey • Dec 12, 2022 02:09 pm
Royals Meghan & Harry: On the “Freedom Flight” from “Institutional Gaslighting” Back in late November, Merriam-Webster announced that their Word of the Year for 2022 is “Gaslighting”. Let’s give credit where credit is due though because the word really started picking up cultural use exactly around this time six years ago, in December 2016, with Lauren Duca’s piece in By Lainey • Dec 12, 2022 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Austin and Elvis join the campaign Award season, we’re in it now, in the thick of it as everyone jockeys for position. Oscar nomination voting begins in exactly a month today, on January 12, and there are tight races across the board, which means everyone is out on the campaign trail. For Austin Butler and By Lainey • Dec 12, 2022 10:47 am
Gorgessity Bennifer: Winter Catalogue Season Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were papped outside a Starbucks yesterday looking close and cute and very, very happy. They are, after all, still newlyweds. Finally newlyweds. This will be the second holiday season in a row in the time of Bennifer 2.0 and their first ever holiday season By Lainey • Dec 12, 2022 10:10 am
Intro for December 12, 2022 Dear Gossips, This time of year is all about lists as we review the twelve preceding months and most entertainment outlets and review boards and critics associations come up with what they consider to be the best in culture: film, television, books, music, and more. At the top or near By Lainey • Dec 12, 2022 09:14 am
Style Outfit of the Week: Sanaa Lathan’s very good belt This is an example of how a good accessory can elevate an outfit. Sanaa Lathan was at the premiere of The Best Man: The Final Chapters in LA this week. The pieces here are simple: black leather thigh-high boots over black leggings, and a long blazer. The addition of the By Lainey • Dec 09, 2022 01:43 pm
TV Updates Harry & Meghan: Volume One and Villain One Volume One of Netflix’s docuseries Harry & Meghan targets the British media, particularly the tabloid media in the UK, and the relationship between the royal institution and the royal rota, which is the press pool that covers the royal family. It’s a more detailed explanation of the “invisible By Lainey • Dec 09, 2022 10:11 am
What Else What Else? The Fug Girls are right – Margot Robbie is getting celebrated a LOT. And, as they note in this post, they will probably get some angry emails about this comment, and I’ll get some too because I’m commenting on her comment. But I agree with them in that, of By Lainey • Dec 08, 2022 04:00 pm
Maple Leaf Celine Dion: A Very Sad Update Over the last year and a half or so, Celine Dion has maintained a pretty low profile. She’s also cancelled shows - and not just because of Covid. Celine had previously revealed that she’d been having some health issues but today is the most specific she’s been By Lainey • Dec 08, 2022 12:56 pm
TV Updates Harry & Meghan: Rom-Com-Drama-Reality I’m writing this at a desk while, a few feet away, my husband Jacek is in bed with his iPad, headphones on, watching Harry & Meghan on Netflix. It’s because I got up earlier than he did today to stream the first two episodes and now he wants By Lainey • Dec 08, 2022 09:58 am
Girl Sh-t Intro for December 8, 2022 Dear Gossips, The last time I posted about the Amy Robach and TJ Holmes scandal it was from the media-on-media angle, and how it was curiously the Daily Mail that broke open their romance with multiple exclusives. As noted, the Daily Mail had to have been tipped off by someone By Lainey • Dec 08, 2022 09:16 am
Royals Another Royal Tiara Night King Charles, Camilla, Prince William, and Kate had another occasion last night to bust out the tiaras. Tiara nights always make headlines because crowns and tiaras are classic royal props. The British royals have had a couple of tiara moments lately and I wonder how many tiara nights we’ll By Lainey • Dec 07, 2022 11:21 am
Royals Harry and Meghan’s New York “Date Night” As expected, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped out in New York last night to accept their honour at the Ripple of Hope Gala hosted by the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights organisation. They both joked that it was “date night” for them, with Harry quipping that they don’t By Lainey • Dec 07, 2022 09:57 am
What Else What Else? I’m one of those old bitches who loves watching the Kennedy Center Honors every year. It’s been a few years though because there was a criminal living in the White House. The event is back this year though and George Clooney was honoured and Julia Roberts showed up By Lainey • Dec 06, 2022 04:00 pm
TV Updates Naomi, Simone, and Suki in Silver The looks last night at the British Fashion Awards, overall, were outstanding. And if the upcoming award season is anything like it; we’re in for some really fun carpets. That said, the Fashion Awards are for fashion people and generally fashion people show up for fashion events in more By Lainey • Dec 06, 2022 02:55 pm
Style Miss Flo in Party Season Florence Pugh has been on a lot of red carpets lately. More red carpets than when… well… you know. But are we ready to move past that gossip yet? Because it’s party season and Miss Flo is showing up to the parties. She was at the British Independent Film By Lainey • Dec 06, 2022 12:56 pm
