Weddings Bennifer Returns Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez went to Italy following their wedding reception in Georgia last week. They were seen in Lake Como, reportedly staying at George and Amal Clooney’s estate, and also shopping in Milan giving honeymooner energy the whole time. Some perspective, though, if you’re interested, on By Lainey • Aug 30, 2022 11:43 am
Style Jodie and Julianne: Before Opening Night The Venice Film Festival opens tomorrow night. Here’s this year’s jury president, Julianne Moore with festival director Alberto Barbera today to kick off the festivities. Julianne’s main focus as the president, obviously, will be to consider all the films in contention and work with her jury counterparts By Lainey • Aug 30, 2022 10:00 am
Will Smith Intro for August 30, 2022 Dear Gossips, Will Chris Rock host the Oscars next year? That’s what we’re talking about because that’s what he’s talking about. At a show in Arizona on Sunday, Chris claims that the Academy asked him to host the 95th Oscars in 2023 but he declined. Chris By Lainey • Aug 30, 2022 09:29 am
What Else What Else? Did not care for Sofia Carson’s movie, Purple Hearts, but I LOVE what she wore to the VMAs last night – and picking up the conversation I was having last week about the hood on JLo’s wedding dress and Lori Harvey’s hoodie slip dress and the right hair By Lainey • Aug 29, 2022 03:59 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 29, 2022 Maria is on holiday so I’m taking over this space this week… Coming out the Sydney Sweeney situation this weekend – which Stephanie will be posting about tomorrow – Zendaya started trending. And, as usual, it was both funny and ridiculous. https://twitter.com/dejadehaan/status/1563621693138288641?s=20&t= By Lainey • Aug 29, 2022 03:04 pm
Music Taylor Swift “at midnight” You had to know, the minute Taylor Swift showed up at the MTV VMAs, that she would win the biggest award of the show, Video of the Year. And that’s exactly what happened. I’m not mad at this. The VMAs aren’t exactly the Oscars, where legitimately no By Lainey • Aug 29, 2022 01:00 pm
BLACKPINK BLACKPINK: A VMA Debut The biggest girl group in the world, and the biggest girl group since Destiny’s Child, made their first appearance at the MTV VMAs last night. BLACKPINK won the award for Best Metaverse Performance and Lisa won the Best K-pop Video award for her song “Lalisa” during the main broadcast. By Lainey • Aug 29, 2022 11:26 am
Royals Meghan & Harry: Salt & Pepper We have long been fans here of Allison P Davis; as I’ve said before I will read anything she writes because she is one of the best culture writers and one of the best celebrity profile writers in the business. Her latest profile, for The Cut, is on Meghan By Lainey • Aug 29, 2022 09:43 am
Britney Spears Intro for August 29, 2022 Dear Gossips, What would the MTV Video Music Awards be without Madonna? It was at the very first MTV VMAs that she performed “Life A Virgin” and writhed onstage in a wedding dress. Madonna would continue to deliver spectacle after spectacle at the VMAs until a successor arrived 15 years By Lainey • Aug 29, 2022 08:19 am
What Else What Else? Cardi B went off on Twitter and between her tweets and the clapbacks and other people chiming in, it’s chaos, as usual when this sh-t pops off but also, some of the takedowns are so sharp, you’re cringing and laughing at the same time, I’m sorry I’ By Lainey • Aug 26, 2022 04:18 pm
Gorgessity Outfit of the Week: Lori Harvey’s Hooded Dress I have a thing about hoods, especially hoods worn formally. Or formal-ish. A woman in a hood on a red carpet is so many things, not all of them the same: mysterious, modest, provocative, secretive, demure, coy, shy and shady… but never, ever boring. One of my favourite hooded looks By Lainey • Aug 26, 2022 02:02 pm
Relationship Assumption Bennifer: The Honeymooners As mentioned the other day, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are on their honeymoon in Italy. They were seen earlier this week in Lake Como, reportedly staying at George Clooney’s house. Now they’re in Milan, and were photographed shopping and walking around town giving big honeymooner energy. There By Lainey • Aug 26, 2022 01:17 pm
Music BLACKPINK: VMA Weekend and That Rumour It’s been a week since BLACKPINK’s new song, “Pink Venom”, was released. This is the first track off their upcoming album, Born Pink, due September 16. Already “Pink Venom” is a smash hit, setting records on YouTube and Spotify: .@BLACKPINK's stunning "Pink Venom" visual By Lainey • Aug 26, 2022 11:05 am
Quiveration Glen Powell’s Big Summer Now that so many of us have seen Top Gun: Maverick, perhaps multiple times, how thirsty are you for Glen Powell? Let’s come back to the thirst in a minute because I don’t think we’ve spent enough time this summer on how Glen Powell even got to By Lainey • Aug 26, 2022 10:17 am
What Else What Else? This probably isn’t a surprise – Barbie Ferreira is leaving Euphoria. There were reports earlier this year that she clashed with Sam Levinson over her character; they did her character, Kat, dirty in season two. You know what’s interesting to me? The timing of Barbie’s announcement. Emmys voting By Lainey • Aug 25, 2022 04:37 pm
Avril Lavigne Shania, So Shania Shania Twain received the Academy of Country Music Poet’s Award last night at the ACM Honors – I mean nobody needs to explain why she deserves this but I just want to point out here that “Man, I Feel Like a Woman” is one of the best song titles, and By Lainey • Aug 25, 2022 02:43 pm
