Top Reads Olivia Wilde Gives Gold Olivia Wilde covers the new issue of Variety ahead of the Venice Film Festival premiere of her film Don’t Worry Darling. “She’s So Golden” is what it says on the cover, and I see you Variety cover artists because “Golden” is the title of a Harry Styles song By Lainey • Aug 25, 2022 12:58 pm
Ben Affleck Bennifer and Clerks Kevin Smith is promoting his movie Clerks III, the premiere was last night. Guess what he and Jason Mewes kept getting asked about? Celebrities can get weird when you want to talk to them about other celebrities and not their projects. This has not been the case with Kevin and By Lainey • Aug 25, 2022 10:39 am
Music Intro for August 25, 2022 Dear Gossips, The MTV VMAs are happening this Sunday, August 28 with LL Cool J, Nicki Minaj, and Jack Harlow as “emcees”. The reason that’s in quotations is because MTV is making a point of not calling them “hosts”: “This year’s ceremony will take a new and unique By Lainey • Aug 25, 2022 09:31 am
What Else What Else? Sophia Nomvete in one of the best caftan dresses I’ve seen all year, maybe ever. I looooove this black and white print. Makes me want to live out the rest of the summer in caftans only. (Go Fug Yourself) This is an answer to a question that nobody was By Lainey • Aug 24, 2022 04:07 pm
Gorgessity JLo’s Three Dresses I’ve been wondering all week about Jennifer Lopez’s wedding coverage and now we have our answer – her THREE dresses have been featured in both Vogue and On The JLo. Which is… kind of a flex? Vogue is calling it an exclusive, and it is, but it’s a By Lainey • Aug 24, 2022 12:20 pm
Rihanna Rihanna: Ketchup or Makeup? This is the kind of thing that makes Rihanna so… Rihanna. It was announced yesterday that Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty has launched a new drop with art collective MSCHF (like “mischief). Here’s how it works: for $25 you order a box and when it arrives it contains packets that By Lainey • Aug 24, 2022 10:21 am
Olivia Wilde Intro for August 24, 2022 Dear Gossips, Last week when I posted about Harry Styles and the rumoured conflict between Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh, I mentioned that what they have in common is a specific section of their fanbases who are toxically rooting against their partners. As Kayleigh Donaldson said, in Florence’s case, By Lainey • Aug 24, 2022 09:20 am
What Else What Else? Prince William and Kate are taking some heat for acquiring their fourth home – even from royal reporters that usually are way up their ass. Which means, somehow, they’ll find a way to make Prince Harry and Meghan Markle responsible for the Cambridges’s residential surplus. For them, then, Meghan’ By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 04:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Honk for the Jesus Four Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. opens in theatres and premieres on Peacock next week. The story behind it is amazing. The movie started out as a short film, director Adamma Ebo’s thesis project at UCLA, which then attracted attention from Issa Rae, who promoted it on her channels. By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 02:24 pm
Weddings On The JLo …after all? Page Six had all kinds of details about the Bennifer weekend wedding reception in Savannah leading up to the event, including the fact that Jennifer Lopez would be wearing Ralph Lauren and that Jay Shetty would be officiating. They also reported that Vogue would be covering it… Vogue has yet By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 12:49 pm
BFFs Meghan & Mimi, Meghan & Serena Meghan Markle’s podcast, Archetypes, just debuted today on Spotify with her first guests, Serena Williams and Professor Laura Kray from UC Berkeley. The discussion topic is ambition and how it relates to gender. Meghan and Prince Harry signed their deal with Spotify two years ago for a multi-year partnership. By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 10:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt’s search for good luck Brad Pitt is really popular in Japan – they call him “Burapi” there – so interesting to see him promoting Bullet Train there right now, on multiple levels. The film was adapted from Japanese author Kōtarō Isaka’s novel Maria Beetle. There have been accusations of whitewashing with the movie or, as By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 10:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 23, 2022 Dear Gossips, Top Gun: Maverick has now surpassed Avengers: Infinity War to become the sixth highest grossing domestic film in US history. It’s an impressive achievement considering the lead-up to Infinity War, with all those superheroes coming together over the course of the preceding decade or more to face By Lainey • Aug 23, 2022 09:11 am
What Else What Else? Everything in this post is true about Taco Bell. It is much-maligned but also… there’s nothing like Taco Bell at a certain time at night during a certain time of your life. I had a miserable night last night and, no joke, Taco Bell came to mind. It’s By Lainey • Aug 22, 2022 04:37 pm
Brad Pitt Salma pulls up for Angelina Angelina Jolie was making headlines most of last week for her personal life as details from her Freedom of Information Act claim against the FBI were made public, alleging that Brad Pitt abused her and their children during that private flight in 2016 that led to their separation. As we By Lainey • Aug 22, 2022 02:17 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy A Bennifer Wedding, 20 Years Later As I mentioned earlier in the Bennifer wedding guest post, I’ve been checking all morning to see if Vogue has posted any shots from Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s wedding reception weekend – nothing as of 11am ET. And there isn’t anything in my inbox from ON THE By Lainey • Aug 22, 2022 12:49 pm
