What Else What Else? Can you believe that the “Ellen DeGeneres might not be very nice” story happened at the beginning of the pandemic? And now, four months later, it’s still a conversation…because of all the reports that the workplace culture at her show is toxic. So there’s a third party By Lainey • Jul 28, 2020 04:44 pm
Brad Pitt Brad Pitt, masked (and not driving with Tom Cruise) Did you see Ford vs Ferrari last year? The film was an outside Oscar contender starring Christian Bale as race car driver Ken Miles and Matt Damon as Carroll Shelby, the car designer. The other day I read a story about how they’d been working for years to make By Lainey • Jul 28, 2020 01:16 pm
Xenu Leah Remini tells on Tom Cruise Leah Remini has been telling on the Church of Scientology for years now, at great personal risk, if you believe the stories out there about the organisation’s revenge and silencing tactics. Now she’s coming for the Church’s most high profile member: Tom Cruise. All the details are By Lainey • Jul 28, 2020 12:27 pm
Music BLACKPINK in your area…with Selena Gomez? BLACKPINK’s label announced yesterday that the group’s first full-length album will be released on October 2. Given how popular and successful Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa, and Rosé are, it’s hard to believe that they’ve never actually put out a full-length album. That’s also why their fans By Lainey • Jul 28, 2020 11:37 am
Shoes Intro for July 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, Sorry to make it about me but the Daily Mail did it first. So hello to those of you who are visiting this site for the first time because you read a headline referring to me as a “pal” of Meghan Markle. This is not true, which probably By Lainey • Jul 28, 2020 09:30 am
What Else What Else? Four days ago, Taylor Swift fans were wondering whether or not “William Bowery” is a pseudonym for Joe Alwyn who may or may not have co-written some of the songs on folklore. Now they’re deep-diving on the lyrics and worried that Taylor and Joe may have broken up. Spoiler By Lainey • Jul 27, 2020 04:00 pm
Music BTS and the 2020 Song of the Summer When did we start doing this? There’s always been a Song of the Summer, obviously, but it was about a decade ago that debating the Song of the Summer online, and then declaring and crowning it, became an annual summer tradition. I remember back in 2012 when Carly Rae By Lainey • Jul 27, 2020 02:21 pm
Royals Prince Andrew and the Unsealing While most of the British royal headlines the last few days and probably in the days to come will be about the rom-com known as Finding Freedom, about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, don’t sleep on another potential royal story that’s expected this week that is much more By Lainey • Jul 27, 2020 01:00 pm
Royals Finding Freedom: The Harry and Meghan Rom-com Finding Freedom, the upcoming book about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand, is currently the #1 book on Amazon based on pre-orders, helped in part by the advance excerpts published this weekend in The Sunday Times and The Times and the subsequent coverage of those By Lainey • Jul 27, 2020 11:36 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for July 27, 2020 Dear Gossips, In April 2019, before Beyoncé’s Homecoming premiered on Netflix, there were a lot of us trying to find out exactly what time it was happening because we were making our all-nighter plans. April 17 was a Wednesday and Homecoming was one of those events where, for some By Lainey • Jul 27, 2020 09:08 am
What Else What Else? Have you been listening to The Chicks’ album Gaslighter? It’s SO good! And so gossipy, as all great art should be. A lot of the gossip, of course, is about Natalie Maines’s divorce from Adrian Pasdar and whether or not he cheated on her on her boat. And By Lainey • Jul 24, 2020 04:11 pm
Jennifer Lopez JLo’s Hamptons Birthday Today is Jennifer Lopez’s birthday and I only know that because I wanted to post about her today and remembered her birthday is some time in July but didn’t recall exactly when and when I googled, I was like…holy sh-t, what timing! But now I’m surprised By Lainey • Jul 24, 2020 03:09 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Ben-Ana for the weekend! Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas haven’t been on an LA walk together since the beginning of the month. They did go on a trip to Portugal together though and he was the one who took the picture of her with her new puppy, Salsa, so there really shouldn’ By Lainey • Jul 24, 2020 02:46 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s folklore strategy and secrets “I’m doing good. I’m on some new sh-t.” That’s how Taylor Swift’s new album folklore opens, the opening lyrics to the opening track, “the 1”. It’s a promise she’s made before. And it’s a promise she hasn’t quite kept …until now. After By Lainey • Jul 24, 2020 11:58 am
TV Updates Intro for July 24, 2020 Dear Gossips, It’s Friday. And for me these last few weeks, as I’ve been saying the last couple of weeks, Fridays are both relief and high anxiety. Because my favourite series airs on the weekends and it becomes about how to kill the time until Netflix posts the By Lainey • Jul 24, 2020 09:27 am
What Else What Else? “Alright stop. Collaborate and listen. Ice is back with a brand new invention.” A biopic. I had no idea there was one in the works. I had no idea this was an untold story that needed telling – but here we are, it’s happening, and David Silver is not playing By Lainey • Jul 23, 2020 04:04 pm