Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 20, 2025 Taika Waititi celebrated his 50th birthday this past weekend and he and Rita Ora celebrated it in Ibiza along with a list of celebrity friends that included Matt Damon, Kate Moss, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joel Edgerton, and cigarettes. We’ll come back to the cigarettes shortly. Instead of nicotine, let’ By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo’s new dance partner: Tonatiuh The first full trailer for Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman was released today ahead of the film’s theatrical release on October 10 which, of course, positions it as an award season hopeful. And that also means that Jennifer Lopez will be spending the fall campaigning. But By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson: Splitsville… on and offscreen Dakota Johnson and the cast and crew of Splitsville, which includes Adria Arjona, Michael Angelo Covino, who also directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Kyle Marvin, and Nicholas Braun, were at the premiere and after-party last night in LA. The movie is about a man who finds out his wife By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 01:29 pm
Quiveration Austin, Zoë, and a Canadian Cat Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz were in matching black and white last night in London for the UK premiere of Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, opening on August 29. This casting combo is the selling feature, especially for the internet, which in some corners has been theorising that these two By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 11:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 20, 2025 Dear Gossips, We’re just about a week away from the start of the Venice Film Festival and then Telluride and TIFF right after, so trailers and other promotional materials for projects that will be premiering and, perhaps, kicking off their Oscar campaigns are now being released. That includes Edward By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 09:34 am
Style Gaga and her Labubu Lady Gaga and her fiancé Michael Polanski were photographed in Malibu yesterday picking up coffee. She’s had a few days off from touring and is enjoying her downtime – dressed lowkey and minimal makeup if any. But not without the huge engagement ring. The ring is not the accessory of By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 04:09 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 19, 2025 Nicolandria Nation – are we good?! Keke Palmer released her episode with Nic and Taylor today and it was recorded at least a couple of weeks ago so it didn’t hit, for me, the way I was hoping. Social media is blowing up a few cute moments, like when Nic By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 03:13 pm
BFFs Jen and Jim: Slow Dating Just over a month ago, Jennifer Aniston’s love life made its return to gossip when she went on holiday with Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka accompanied by her new plus one, hypnotist Jim Curtis. Since then she and Jim went on another double with Jason and Amanda in New By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 12:11 pm
Music Sabrina Carpenter: Is it Pedro? Sabrina Carpenter’s new album, Man’s Best Friend, comes out August 29. A new billboard showed up yesterday and… the internet has a theory. I was made aware of this at our morning meeting today by some of our younger even-more-extremely-online colleagues whose feeds are dominated by the western By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 11:28 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for August 19, 2025 Dear Gossips, There were some interesting numbers in the Puck newsletter on Monday for someone who loves numbers and her fans: Taylor Swift. This is related to her appearance on Jason and Travis Kelce’s podcast, New Heights, last week. And the ratings are in. Per Puck: “The NFL brothers’ By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 09:24 am
What Else Weekly Rihanna Update Rihanna stepped out in LA yesterday and her main (and only) goal was to run errands and spend time with RZA but the unintended but appreciated update is to let us know she hasn’t yet given birth to her third child. RiRi did not join Rocky at the Highest By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 04:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 18, 2025 BLACKPINK made history this weekend as the first K-pop girl group to play Wembley. While on tour this summer, they’ve been doing something different every night for the encore, either taking turns singing on each other’s hits or…you know… when in London, paying tribute to the Spice By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 03:22 pm
Style This is for the Comedy and a Fall Trench Coat As mentioned in my previous post about the Emmys, since voting begins today, most of the shows in contention were out on the campaign trail this weekend. We’ve talked briefly about the dramas category, now it’s comedy’s turn and the show with the most comedy nominations and By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 01:49 pm
Style Meryl in the red dress, again Production on The Devil Wears Prada 2 continued this weekend in New York City with Meryl Streep seen once again in the red dress she made headlines in a couple of weeks ago. They were shooting a scene at the American Museum of Natural History that was clearly meant to By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 12:21 pm
TV Updates This is for The Pitts Emmys voting officially begins today so there were wall-to-wall Emmys events over the weekend as everyone’s trying to get into position for the next week or so before people gear way down before Labour Day. Just a heads up that we’ll be gearing down too – we’re all By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 11:24 am
Sports Intro for August 18, 2025 Dear Gossips, All seven members of BTS reunited briefly back in June when RM, Suga, Jimin, V, and Jungkook had completed their mandatory military service. But j-hope and Jin still had their solo commitments through the summer. While those two wrapped up their own engagements, the others have been in By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 09:36 am
