Amazingness Intro for September 3, 2025 Dear Gossips, Cardi B officially won in court yesterday when a jury took less than an hour to determine, unanimously, that she did not assault the security guard accusing her of scratching her face and trying to punch her. But Cardi had already won in the court of public opinion By Lainey • Sep 03, 2025 08:56 am
Style Son Ye-jin’s first Venice Son Ye-jin is one of the most beloved celebrities in Korea. Literally her nickname there is “The Nation’s First Love”. And that was before she got married. But now she’s one-half of, probably, Korea’s top celebrity couple. She and Hyun Bin turned their love in Crash Landing By Lainey • Sep 02, 2025 04:14 pm
TV Updates Seth Rogen on the other side Joanna and I had a quick meeting this morning about TIFF and scheduling and I asked her if Seth Rogen would be coming for Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune in which he co-stars with Aziz and Keanu Reeves. While Seth’s presence in Toronto is tbc, Joanna asked if I By Lainey • Sep 02, 2025 02:44 pm
TV Updates American Love Story: The Fight Paul Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon were photographed today on the New York set of Ryan Murphy’s American Love Story in their respective roles as John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette. The scene they were filming is infamous. Those of us who were/are still obsessed with John and By Lainey • Sep 02, 2025 01:30 pm
Relationship Assumption Lewis and Kaia: Venice official Lewis Pullman and Kaia Gerber have been dating since at least January of this year, which is when they were papped together looking unmistakably together, romantically. And they are still together, quite officially, as she joined him in Venice this weekend while he was there promoting The Testament of Ann By Lainey • Sep 02, 2025 12:05 pm
Hook Ups Sydney Sweeney & Scooter Braun? The summer of romance 2025 continues… but does this one really count? Star Magazine reported exclusively on Friday that Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun are allegedly dating. And this immediately went viral because of both their notoriety. Sydney, of course, is coming off a broken engagement and a racist ad By Lainey • Sep 02, 2025 10:49 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 2, 2025 Dear Gossips, Welcome back from the Labour Day break in North America. We needed it because the next two weeks are a sprint, with film festivals happening in Venice, Telluride, and Toronto and then the MTV VMAs and then NY Fashion Week, and then the Emmys on September 14. But By Lainey • Sep 02, 2025 09:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Gosling: Lightspeed indeed PROGRAMMING NOTE REMINDER: we are dark tomorrow and Monday and returning to regular gossip schedule on Tuesday 2 September. When I posted back in January about the blockbuster news that Ryan Gosling was joining the Star Wars Universe, I called it “lightspeed” because the project, a standalone Star Wars story By Lainey • Aug 28, 2025 04:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t forget about Jesse Bugonia is the big gala tonight in Venice as Yorgos Lanthimos and his muse, Emma Stone, were on the red carpet, along with his other and newer muse, Jesse Plemons, for the premiere. Alicia Silverstone is also a member of the cast. Earlier in the day Team Bugonia was at By Lainey • Aug 28, 2025 02:03 pm
Gorgessity Cate kicks off with a repeat Cate Blanchett was at the Venice Film Festival opening night gala premiere of La Grazia on Wednesday looking spectacular…again. Again because she re-wore a dress she wore not that long ago. She does this often, sometimes changing a few elements here and there on pieces she’s worn before By Lainey • Aug 28, 2025 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, It’s official: Kpop Demon Hunters is now Netflix’s most-watched film of all time pulling ahead of Red Notice, accomplishing in eight weeks what it took its predecessor 13 weeks to achieve. I said it before and I’ll say it again: this means the two top By Lainey • Aug 28, 2025 09:12 am
Quiveration Three Super Attractive People Caught Stealing Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, and Bad Bunny were in New York last night for the premiere of Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing. Sarah’s review of the film will be posted tomorrow. For now, let’s just … admire all this beauty and sexiness, starting with Benito who is taking a By Lainey • Aug 27, 2025 04:09 pm
Style Julia in Venice! There’s an exclamation point in the title here because I’m old and I still get excited about Julia Roberts. Julia is one of the many stars arriving in Venice today for the start of the Venice Film Festival. She is there for the world premiere of Luca Guadagnino’ By Lainey • Aug 27, 2025 02:04 pm
Weddings TNT: The Spokesperson and the Sponcon Travis Kelce’s father, Ed Kelce, wasted no time yesterday after Taylor and Travis’s joint announcement on Instagram confirming their engagement. Ed did an interview with a local Cleveland news station providing answers to some of the pressing questions about the proposal. Cleveland of course is the Kelces’ hometown. By Lainey • Aug 27, 2025 10:36 am
Weddings Intro for August 27, 2025 Dear Gossips, A member of our Substack community, The Squawk, dropped a link in the daily chat yesterday to an article at The Guardian about how everyone from brands to politicians yesterday leveraged Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement to promote themselves or their products. During what was supposed By Lainey • Aug 27, 2025 09:05 am
Style Cardi goes to court Taylor Swift is engaged and she’s sucking up the pop culture oxygen right now which, as I already said in my post about the proposal, would be a good opportunity for any celebrities who have anything to reveal and don’t want people to pay attention. Then there’s By Lainey • Aug 26, 2025 04:10 pm