Royals The Royals Complain…and They Explain “Never complain, never explain” is a familiar royal refrain. This is supposedly the motto they adhere to where the media is concerned – to rise above it, to not acknowledge, and this is what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle said they were told when they were targeted (and still are) by By Lainey • Jun 03, 2021 01:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews “Bring it in for the real thing” – the Wedding Crashers sequel I was just talking about Wedding Crashers a couple of weeks ago in this post about Bradley Cooper and how underrated he was as Sack Lodge. So is Sack Lodge coming back for the sequel? There’s been talk about a sequel for what feels like forever even though Vince By Lainey • Jun 03, 2021 01:03 pm
Jennifer Lopez Rita Ora: New LA Opportunities? Rita Ora’s been in Australia the better part of this year working on The Voice and also hanging out with her boyfriend, Taika Waititi, and all his movie star friends. It’s been the biggest gossip moment of her career so far. And while Rita Ora has had moderate By Lainey • Jun 03, 2021 11:45 am
Top Reads Simu Liu’s Big Day There was a lot of Simu Liu in the headlines yesterday. Here’s how it started – with a Facebook post, ahead of the release of season five of Kim’s Convenience on Netflix, which of course as we all know now is the show’s final season, and not because By Lainey • Jun 03, 2021 10:52 am
Style Intro for June 3, 2021 Dear Gossips, Rihanna covers the new issue of Vogue Italia. There’s no magazine in the world that wouldn’t want Rihanna on their cover – and it’s not like Rihanna hasn’t covered an issue of Vogue before, but there is a special distinction with this cover: Rihanna now By Lainey • Jun 03, 2021 09:18 am
What Else What Else? Taylor Swift’s last ensemble film was Cats which was not the smash hit that the people involved in the project were hoping it would be. She’s now signed on for another ensemble, with another big name director. There will be no singing in this one, and no cat By Lainey • Jun 02, 2021 04:01 pm
Relationship Assumption Multiple Bennifer Reunions When I last posted about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez a couple of days ago, I wondered, after seeing the photos of them together in Miami last week when we’d next get an update, predicting that they might make us wait a couple of weeks. Wrong. In retrospect… how By Lainey • Jun 02, 2021 01:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris and Taika Wrap on Love and Thunder Taika Waititi and Chris Hemsworth have been working on Thor: Love and Thunder for months now in Australia. There’s been gossip during filming but none of it is coming from set – it’s Taika’s offset activity that people have been talking about. Like the fact that he’s By Lainey • Jun 02, 2021 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Leo’s Dog Year It’s been a while since we’ve seen new photos of Leonardo DiCaprio – not since he was photographed on the set of Don’t Look Up with Jennifer Lawrence, right? Directed by Adam McKay and with an all-star, multiple Oscar-winning and nominated cast, it’s one of the most By Lainey • Jun 02, 2021 10:42 am
Music Intro for June 2, 2021 Dear Gossips, It’s official: BTS’s “Butter” is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band’s fourth Hot 100 #1 hit in just nine months after “Dynamite”, “Savage Love BTS Remix”, and “Life Goes On”. They are now the fastest group to reach #1 this many times since By Lainey • Jun 02, 2021 09:38 am
What Else What Else? The Rogue Family Member strikes again! Julianne Hough’s niece is a TikTokker, and you know this generation has no f-cks to give, they will talk, and they will tell! And apparently Julianne’s niece has some sh-t to say about Julianne hooking up with Leonardo DiCaprio and that he By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 04:00 pm
Succession Nicholas Braun: Cousin Greg gets a magazine cover! How impatient are you for the next season of Succession? F-ck! I want it so bad! They’re still filming though, and HBO hasn’t even announced an air date so it won’t be summer, although hopefully they can get enough done for a post-Emmys start. Which would be By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 02:06 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Emma Roberts: New Mom, Back at Work Here’s Emma Roberts arriving in Boston this week likely to begin work on About Fate, reuniting her with Tiffany Paulsen who wrote Holidate, the holiday rom-com that came out last year on Netflix. I never saw it, but the thing about holiday rom-coms and Netflix is that you can By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 12:45 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession House Sussex: The Month Ahead It’s the first day of June 2021, Pride Month, and also a big month ahead for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. So while we’re in this brief moment of calm, let’s look ahead to what we might expect from House Sussex in the weeks to come. Meghan By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 11:17 am
Award Season Campaigning Regé-Jean Page’s carriage upgrade We are now six weeks away from the Emmy nominations and one of the big series contenders is Bridgerton. Bridgerton is one of two high profile drama series considerations for Netflix, alongside The Crown, so Regé-Jean Page’s Variety cover feature, which came out last week, was released just in By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 10:32 am
Books Intro for June 1, 2021 Dear Gossips, Today is June 1 – it’s the beginning of Pride Month! So let’s celebrate Billy Porter and here he is last week in New York visiting The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in an outfit that is just about as low-key as it gets where Billy is By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 09:22 am