BTS Intro for January 19, 2026 Dear Gossips, Welcome to a new week which, for some people in show business, is Oscar nomination week. Nominations will be announced the morning of Thursday 22 January and the Academy confirmed a few days ago that Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman will be presenting. View this post on Instagram By Lainey • Jan 19, 2026 09:53 am
What Else Rihanna and Rocky: A weekend in New York A$AP Rocky just dropped his new album, Don’t Be Dumb. I haven’t listened all the way through yet so I’ll leave it to MC to address it next week in his music column, but for now, we’ll just gossip. Because there’s always gossip in By Lainey • Jan 16, 2026 04:11 pm
Style Charlize Theron: Carol Burnett and Trousers The Palm Royale season two finale event was a tribute to Carol Burnett and there were some surprise dignitary and celebrity appearances in her honour. Michelle Obama sent a video message, Bernadette Peters, Rhea Seehorn, and Vince Gilligan were there. And Charlize Theron was in the audience too, at one By Lainey • Jan 16, 2026 02:01 pm
Connor Storrie Fashion Week Hollanov The Hollywood Reporter yesterday published a report on the media impact value of celebrities and brands at the Golden Globes on Sunday, ranking which stars generated the most social media impressions related to their clothing and accessories, a way for fashion and jewellery houses to measure the marketing value of By Lainey • Jan 16, 2026 12:25 pm
Bad Bunny Intro for January 16, 2026 Dear Gossips, We are now just over three weeks away from the Benito Bowl on Sunday 8 February in Santa Clara, California so it’s right on time for a promo. And a new one dropped yesterday. It’s short, but it doesn’t have to be extensive to fuel By Lainey • Jan 16, 2026 10:15 am
BTS ARIRANG BTS already broke the internet earlier this week when they announced the dates for their upcoming tour. ARMY is in full meltdown again today because pre-order information is now available for the new album, which means we now have the album title: ARIRANG I know I’m biased but, like, By Lainey • Jan 15, 2026 04:06 pm
Award Season Campaigning RDJ shows up for Timmy As mentioned several times today, it is Oscar nominations voting week, as Academy members decide on which artists will be nominated for the Oscars, happening on March 15. The nominations will be announced a week today, next Thursday. So the contenders and their various studios are doing what they can By Lainey • Jan 15, 2026 12:31 pm
Jacob Elordi Jacob and Olivia… again and again Back in the summer, it was reported that Jacob Elordi and Olivia Jade Giannulli had broken up. Then she showed up with him at the TIFF premiere of Frankenstein, a whole heatscore in white, and it was obvious that their split was brief. A few weeks after that, it was By Lainey • Jan 15, 2026 11:24 am
Leonardo DiCaprio Intro for January 15, 2026 Dear Gossips, We are now exactly two months away from the Oscars, which are happening on March 15, and it’s also nomination campaigning week, as Academy members are currently voting on the nominations, scheduled to be announced a week today on January 22. This means contenders are out there By Lainey • Jan 15, 2026 10:12 am
What Else Bridgerton begins Bridgerton season four premieres on January 29 with the first installment, followed by the second on February 26, as Netflix hopes to win back some of the horny women demographic from Heated Rivalry. Sarah is our resident Bridgerton expert since she knows the books so well so we’ll leave By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 04:13 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Ben and Matt are not the VIPs Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s film, The Rip, premieres on Netflix on Friday and as Sarah wrote in her post about it recently, this looks like a solid crime drama, an action movie with a real plot starring big name movie stars that’s disappearing from theatres, which is By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 02:52 pm
Heated Rivalry It Is Still Very Heated I am that person who will remind you that I told you, before the holidays and after the holidays and again last week that Heated Rivalry is still on the ascent, as viral as it was around Christmas, that there was more to come because other territories had yet to By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 01:57 pm
Euphoria A Different Euphoria The hottest series on television right now is Heated Rivalry, produced by Crave in Canada and broadcast in America on HBO Max. If there is a series that can rival the virality of Heated Rivalry, it’s another HBO title, Euphoria. When the first images of season three were released By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 01:09 pm
Top Reads Teyana Time As Sarah noted in our post-Globes coverage about Teyana Taylor and the Best Supporting Actress race, up until Sunday night, it was Amy Madigan’s performance in Weapons who was considered the frontrunner in the category. And she still is, I think, but she’s also not running away with By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 11:52 am
BTS Intro for January 14, 2026 Dear Gossips, As promised, BTS yesterday announced the dates for their upcoming world tour. As expected, the tour is massive – 79 shows so far taking them across the planet, with more stops in 2027 “coming soon”. I thought I did what I could do to prepare for the confirmation. A By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 09:17 am
Maple Leaf Connor’s first time It’s been a seemingly endless series of first times for Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie of Heated Rivalry the last few weeks. They are celebrities now, they are more famous than they probably ever imagined. They just had their first award season experience during Golden Globe week. They just By Lainey • Jan 13, 2026 12:07 pm
