Shout-Outs August 15, 2025 – Shout-Outs Meg! Happy Birthday weekend! Heather says you’re the “best of friends” and is requesting for you photos of Marcus Mumford because, in her words, “recently… he’s gotten hot”, LOL. What do we consider to be “recently”? In my opinion he’s been hot since Carey Mulligan. That said, By Lainey • Aug 15, 2025 09:55 am
What Else All night Love Island USA The Love Island USA reunion episode was filmed the other day in New York and so far (it’s been two days, LOL) they’ve been able to lock down most of the tea that was spilled but there are some good teaser details ahead of the episode airing on By Lainey • Aug 14, 2025 04:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Carolyn’s Carpenter Jeans Sarah Pidgeon was photographed in New York yesterday as production continues on Ryan Murphy’s American Love Story. Sarah looks so pretty with her hair pulled back like this and her face made up to look like she’s barely wearing any. Though her hair is more honey blonde than By Lainey • Aug 14, 2025 03:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Leonardo DiCaprio’s spirit age As noted in the open about Emma Stone’s Vogue cover profile and also a couple of weeks ago in my essay about the 20th anniversary of Jennifer Aniston’s Vanity Fair cover story in September 2005 and how we will never see an interview like that again, the cultural By Lainey • Aug 14, 2025 01:58 pm
Music A TNT Marathon There was so much anticipation going into the latest episode of the New Heights podcast featuring, of course, Taylor Swift. And my curiosity yesterday about the timing of it was answered because it ended up kinda being like a livestream, albeit a pre-taped one. Which totally tracks with how Taylor By Lainey • Aug 14, 2025 12:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 14, 2025 Dear Gossips, A few weeks ago I speculated about who would cover the September 2025 issue of American Vogue. September in magazine publishing is the all-important issue, usually the biggest issue, though obviously not as big as before when you’d go to the newsstand and it would feel almost By Lainey • Aug 14, 2025 09:35 am
TV Updates Jack goes for groceries Jack Lowden was seen in London shopping at Sainsbury’s with his reusable grocery bag. This man looks… tired. And it could be for a couple of reasons. First, as Sarah wrote in her post from a couple of weeks ago, production has started on Netflix’s Pride and Prejudice, By Lainey • Aug 13, 2025 04:04 pm
Sports Taylor Swift’s favourite podcast The most important event on the Swiftie calendar this week is the new episode of Jason and Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast which comes out at 7pm ET tonight (Wednesday). I don’t listen to this show regularly but I do know that I typically see clips from it By Lainey • Aug 13, 2025 11:41 am
Only Murders In The Building Intro for August 13, 2025 Dear Gossips, The trailer for Only Murders in the Building season five was released yesterday featuring of course our favourite podcasting trio – Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez – and several Arconia residents, plus a lot of Oscar winners. Double and triple Oscar winners, actually. Meryl Streep has three of By Lainey • Aug 13, 2025 09:30 am
Relationship Assumption Jessica and Danny aren’t hiding Jessica Alba and Danny Ramirez are part of the Celebrity Summer of Love 2025, two famous and very attractive people who decided to turn up the heat, together. Since they were papped returning from holiday in Mexico, and Danny subsequently identified, they’ve been photographed a couple of times here By Lainey • Aug 12, 2025 04:15 pm
Quiveration Zoë and Austin: Sexy, incoming Zoë Kravitz and Austin Butler were both seen in New York yesterday, separately, ahead of the release of Caught Stealing on August 29. I don’t know what kind of impact it will have on the box office considering that’s Labour Day weekend, traditionally not exactly a promising time By Lainey • Aug 12, 2025 03:16 pm
Style Ariana Madix and the best hair clips Ariana Madix is making the rounds in New York right now and so are most of the cast members from Love Island USA S7 because they’re filming the reunion episode this week which will then air on Peacock and Crave in Canada on August 25. And considering how f-cking By Lainey • Aug 12, 2025 01:53 pm
Music TNT Tuesday Those clues yesterday did actually lead to something for Taylor Swift. But it turns out, August 12 isn’t just about her. Not only did she confirm that she’s releasing her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Travis Kelce’s podcast, he covers the September issue of By Lainey • Aug 12, 2025 12:28 pm
Music Intro for August 12, 2025 Dear Gossips, Started the day yesterday talking about “Golden”, from the Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack and whether or not it could reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Ended the day with the confirmation: “Golden” has indeed topped the chart, adding to the movie’s ever-growing list of surprise achievements. By Lainey • Aug 12, 2025 09:45 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Rocky’s plus one Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, starring Denzel Washington and Jeffrey Wright, opens in theatres this Friday before streaming on Apple TV+. The cast is doing some press right now ahead of the theatrical release and there will also be a red carpet premiere in New York. This, presumably, is By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 04:09 pm
Music Taylor Swift: What’s Orange? The Taylor Swift metaverse is not a quiet space. Even when Taylor’s silent, her fans are reading into whatever invisible signals they perceive that she’s sending out into the universe. And when she does post, or step out wearing a certain shoe or jacket, Swifties obsessively analyse whether By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 03:07 pm
