Movie Reviews and Previews Mission: COVID Delay? Here’s a masked Tom Cruise looking thoughtful the other day in Venice with director Christopher McQuarrie. Also Hayley Atwell going for a run. They’ve been working on Mission: Impossible 7 but two days ago The Sun reported that 150 extras were told not to report to set because By Lainey • Oct 30, 2020 10:02 am
Weddings Mr & Mrs ScarJost Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost are married. They started dating in 2017 after getting to know each other when Scarlett hosted Saturday Night Live. They got engaged last year. And now it’s official….they are ScarJost. The announcement is what’s most interesting, to me. It was Meals on By Lainey • Oct 30, 2020 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 30, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was announced yesterday that Sandra Oh and Awkwafina will star together in a new comedy for Netflix…which… YES! Sandra Oh will play a loner and Awkwafina her mess of a sister who decides to fix their broken relationship by helping her get on her favourite game By Lainey • Oct 30, 2020 08:53 am
What Else What Else? Gemma Arterton wore a purple dress back in 2008 that is doing a lot. And I don’t think I mind it. The colour is lovely on her. And yes, it’s two dresses that can’t make up its mind about what it really wants to be which… I By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 04:09 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Shonda Rhimes…and Borat’s Crimes In my experience, all television screenwriters who started their careers in the 2000s have a PhD in Shonda Rhimes. This, of course, includes Duana who is a TV writer and a total nerd and can probably give a Ted Talk on Shonda because Shonda is the standard. So we’re By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 01:15 pm
Gossip Nostalgia JLo: Hustler, Maid, Wedding Planner, and Boss Remember back in the late 90s/early 2000s, when the word “multihyphenate” became part of the cultural lexicon? It was often used to describe Jennifer Lopez. Of course she wasn’t the first multihyphenate or the last but in that moment, that was how we talked about her: dancer, singer, By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 12:45 pm
Aging Gorgessity Ben Affleck’s 2020 Glow-up Here are some new pictures of Ben Affleck yesterday out with his son (not pictured). A couple of weeks ago, when I posted about Ben and Matt Damon’s new Omaze campaign video, I noted that… he looks really good. Like super fresh in the face – and not the fresh By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 11:46 am
BFFs Adele Wants You To Know She’s Single Over the last few months, Adele has been linked to Skepta. The British tabloids have been reporting on it since at least the summer and yesterday, PEOPLE reported that “things have been heating up” between them. They’ve known each other for a few years and apparently have mutual friends By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 10:16 am
Break Ups Brad Pitt Wants You To Know He’s Single It’s been exactly two months since Brad Pitt was photographed arriving in France and heading to Chateau Miraval with model Nicole Poturalski at which point everybody started rewinding and it turns out they’ve been hanging out since at least last November when they sat next to each other By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 09:46 am
Beyoncé Intro for October 29, 2020 Dear Gossips, Today is Ivy Park day. Drip 2 will be available online in North America starting this afternoon but in other countries around the world it’s already sold out. In Australia, for example, I heard it only took 20 minutes. So… Where Is Your Park? And are you By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 09:02 am
What Else What Else? This is the story of a sculpture on a lawn on a property on a hill and some very rich assholes petty-offing with each other their view. Which is what rich petty assholes do. Somewhere in there, “fart spray” makes an appearance alongside a Picasso. Who do you think these By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 05:03 pm
TV Updates Shonda Invents Anna Today I’m wondering about writer Jessica Pressler. Every year or so, Jessica Pressler produces a piece for The Cut that becomes a cult thing in and of itself alongside its subject(s). Back in 2015, her article on “The Hustlers at Scores” was one of the best investigative essays By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 02:47 pm
Maple Leaf Celine Dion: The Movie Star of All Feelings As I wrote yesterday in my post about Keanu Reeves, we have to take the delight where we can get it – and you know who’s all about giving? Our Queen of All Feelings, Celine Dion. And she’s making headlines in an unexpected space: movies! It was announced yesterday By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 10:36 am
Royals Prince Andrew’s “Level of Maturity” The Sunday Times reported a few days ago (via Vanity Fair) that Prince Andrew, less than a year after he announced that he was stepping down from royal duties, not over his friendship with the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein but because they were mortified by his shambolic performance during By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 10:02 am
Nicole Kidman Intro for October 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, My Halloween tradition here at LaineyGossip is to complain about Halloween. I hate it. That doesn’t mean I’m not good at it, because I’m actually very good at Halloween – I am a professional, goddamn it! – but it’s such a pain in the ass. Here’ By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 08:53 am
What Else What Else? Earlier today I posted about Chris Evans and earlier this week he posted about his dog, Dodger, who is very popular. Dodger was part of Chris’s thirst trap backflip video a few weeks ago. Dodger is now lying on top of a shirtless Chris in a double thirst trap. By Lainey • Oct 27, 2020 04:01 pm
