Top Reads Julia Takes Paris After a quiet week last week, by their standards, lol, the Kanye West and Julia Fox circus arrived in Paris on Sunday. This is Julia’s fourth tour stop since New Year’s, after meeting Ye in Miami, then stepping out with him in New York, followed by mayhem in By Lainey • Jan 24, 2022 11:03 am
Intro for January 24, 2022 Dear Gossips, Have you read “The Movie Star and Me” yet? There’s the link to it if you hadn’t heard about it online – the story of a young woman who interned a few years ago on a musical starring a big name actor who received great acclaim for By Lainey • Jan 24, 2022 09:07 am
Outfit of the Week Outfits of the Week: Frontier Fashion and Bangs Here’s one we might be fighting about – Katy Perry went out for dinner in Aspen the other night with Orlando Bloom and was in an outfit I call frontier fashion. I know f-ck all about frontier life apart from the analog learning pictures we had in elementary in middle By Lainey • Jan 21, 2022 03:02 pm
Top Reads Matt Damon and the Hack Matt and Luciana Damon stepped out for lunch yesterday in LA. In terms of his work as an actor, it’s been a few months since Matt was on set, but production on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, about the “father of the atomic bomb”, is supposed to start in February. By Lainey • Jan 21, 2022 11:08 am
Hook Ups Bill & Anna: Yep, that makes sense It was a PEOPLE exclusive late yesterday: Bill Hader and Anna Kendrick have been “quietly dating” for a year. This, in my professional gossip opinion, is a sanctioned confirmation. PEOPLE is a celebrity-friendly publication. And PEOPLE doesn’t usually run a story without giving a heads-up to celebrities and their By Lainey • Jan 21, 2022 10:02 am
What Else What Else? Alec Baldwin is in a new mess. This time he’s being sued for $25 million by the family of a fallen soldier. This is celebrity vs civilian, and the story involves Instagram and the January 6 insurrection. Come on, everyone. Are you sure you wouldn’t rather talk about By Lainey • Jan 20, 2022 03:56 pm
Royals Will and Monochrome Kate visit Healthcare Workers Prince William and Catherine of House Cambridge stepped out for the second day in a row today, visiting with staff and patients at Clitheroe Community Hospital. They talked about the impact that COVID has had on healthcare services and heard from patients about their experiences. In particular Will and Kate By Lainey • Jan 20, 2022 01:54 pm
Top Reads Erasing Andrew The Andrew formerly known as HR no longer has a Twitter account. This is now what shows up on the @TheDukeofYork handle: He apparently still has an Instagram but that’s been made private. None of this is surprising. The Crown is protecting the Crown and it is trying to By Lainey • Jan 20, 2022 11:28 am
Top Reads Angelina at the Virtual Rally Yesterday was the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Day of Action as bipartisan lawmakers in the US are “pushing to reauthorise the 1994 VAWA for the first time in almost a decade… [after] it lapsed in 2019 when the Republican-dominated Senate did not pass it”. It is f-cked up to By Lainey • Jan 20, 2022 11:00 am
TV Updates Intro for January 20, 2022 Dear Gossips, Shonda Rhimes is going to get me to April and springtime in North America. Sarah’s got you covered later today on Bridgerton season two which is coming in March. But before that, another Shondaland production, Inventing Anna, drops on Netflix on February 11. Inventing Anna is the By Lainey • Jan 20, 2022 09:10 am
What Else What Else? Fashion lost one of its most original voices in André Leon Talley. He was magnificent – both in presentation and personality. And he wasn’t just an authority on style but also on celebrity. I loved listening to him speak. I loved seeing him react. And his impact on the industry By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 03:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Clooneys are back in Hollywood George and Amal Clooney were in Australia for a stretch there starting last fall while he was working on Ticket to Paradise co-starring Julia Roberts. However, like so many recent productions, they’ve been shut down due to COVID. And shut down for long enough that the Clooneys have returned By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 02:16 pm
Award Season Campaigning Ben Affleck: Batman and Oscar One of the sidebar conversations on social media that came out of that Joss Whedon profile this week was about Batman. As Sarah noted in her post about Joss, for years there has been in-fighting among fanboys about Justice League and Zack Snyder’s version vs Joss’s version and By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B Jordan: Son-in-Law in training Lori Harvey turned 25 last week and she spent it on a yacht, as she’s been sharing photos and video from her birthday trip on Instagram. And yes, Michael B Jordan appeared to be with her as he posted this video on his feed a few days ago to By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 11:59 am
Royals Will and Kate’s 2022 Debut Prince William and Catherine of House Cambridge stepped out together for their first joint engagement of 2022 today, visiting the Foundling Museum which “tells the history of the Foundling Hospital, the UK’s first children’s charity and public art gallery”. The Foundling Hospital was founded in 1739 “to care By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 10:26 am
TV Updates Intro for January 19, 2022 Dear Gossips, Over the last few years, Netflix has been steadily investing in South Korean content – and even before 2021, that strategy was paying off, as the company has attracted more and more global subscribers accessing their services for non-English programming, with Korean programming consistently at or near the top By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 09:16 am
