Movie Reviews and Previews Miss Americana “feels f-cking awesome” The world premiere of Taylor Swift’s documentary Miss Americana premieres at Sundance tomorrow. Yesterday her new Variety cover was released – her only interview about the project – and she talked through more of what she’ll be sharing in the project and why she decided to do it. As she By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 04:21 pm
Media Manipulation The Business of Brad and Jen The pictures of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston greeting each other warmly backstage at the SAG Awards on Sunday pretty much broke the internet and gave the celebrity industrial complex a major infusion. The entire ecosystem benefitted from their moment, including other celebrities themselves who tweeted like fangirls and boys By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 11:09 am
Royals Prince Charles’s private jet to Davos Prince Charles is in Davos today to address the delegation and speak about climate change, urging world leaders and billionaires to get serious about saving the planet. On the Clarence House Instagram page, it says that Charles travelled by electric Jaguar after landing in Switzerland: View this post on Instagram By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 10:20 am
Royals Kate’s eight years of Early Years Big launch for Catherine of House Cambridge today. Kate’s top priority has been early childhood development and she’s on a 24-hour tour of the UK, visiting with parents and childcare workers to get their thoughts on how best to raise the next generation, and understand and hopefully confront By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 09:47 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for January 22, 2020 Dear Gossips, Saturday is Lunar New Year. If you’ve been visiting this website over the years, you may be familiar with our annual Lunar New Year tradition: my ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken, passes on to me to pass on to you astrological readings for each of the twelve By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 08:50 am
What Else What Else? Courteney Cox’s social media activity is being monitored even more closely than usual because of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s moment at the SAGs the other night. It appears that Courteney has been liking posts on Instagram from people who are Gossip Genie-ing a Brad and Jen reunion. By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 04:17 pm
Relationship Assumption Rihanna: Drake or Rocky? It was reported late last week that after three years, Rihanna and Hassan Jameel had broken up. Rihanna spent time with Hassan and his family. She spent time with him in London. She mentioned him in interviews – not extensively but she did acknowledge that she had a “boyfriend” and seemed By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 03:55 pm
Music Taylor Swift: The Sundance Poster Star The Sundance Film Festival kicks off on Thursday. Sundance is always a clusterf-ck, at least in the years I used to cover it, as celebrities, their entourages, publicists, marketers, party planners, sponsors, filmmakers, and the attendant media jam themselves into Park City for a few days – and this year, since By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 01:08 pm
Royals House Cambridge’s first party Prince William and Catherine hosted their first reception for the UK-Africa Summit at Buckingham Palace last night on behalf of the Queen. Her Majesty’s schedule is typically lighter in January and Prince Charles is preparing for a tour. So she decided that it was time for House Cambridge to By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 11:06 am
Royals Diana in Harry’s words Prince Harry left England yesterday after what many are calling his final royal engagement and was seen arriving in Canada last night to rejoin Meghan Markle and their son Archie in Victoria, British Columbia now that Sussexit is a done deal. We’ll get to some of the other updates By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 09:47 am
Jennifer Aniston Intro for January 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, All of the talk about Jennifer Aniston following the Screen Actors Guild awards the other night was related to Brad Pitt. I get that. Whether they actually get back together or not, they’re Hollywood’s Prom King and Queen, both going home with trophies recognising their work. By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 09:19 am
What Else What Else? I really liked what Phoebe Waller-Bridge wore at the SAGs last night. Because I like that she tried it. That she was open to it. Some of her looks, to me, have been on the conservative side – and if you’ve watched Fleabag, you know this is not exactly a By Lainey • Jan 20, 2020 05:02 pm
Jessica Biel Justin & Jessica 2020 It’s been just about two months since Justin Timberlake was photographed in New Orleans, very drunk, humiliating himself and his wife. Immediately afterwards his team tried to play it off like it was nothing. Then he posted a sh-tty apology that ended with him PROMOTING HIS MOVIE. Good look. By Lainey • Jan 20, 2020 04:09 pm
Royals Prince Harry: “there was no other option” Prince Harry spoke for the first time last night since Sussexit started making headlines a couple of weeks ago. He did not do it in the presence of the royal rota, aka “the Cartel” – he would never give them that – but rather at the Sentebale dinner, at an event to By Lainey • Jan 20, 2020 12:38 pm
Royals The Queen: Sussexit complete and… Prince Andrew The Summit at Sandringham (which I’m told we’re supposed to stop calling a “summit”, but certain things stick, you know?) happened a week ago today. Late Saturday, Buckingham Palace released a statement from the Queen confirming that the deal was done on Sussexit. This statement is not as By Lainey • Jan 20, 2020 10:46 am
Top Reads Brad & Jen: the award season gossip orgasm Anticipation for the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston “red carpet run-in”, as we call it in the business, has been building since the Golden Globe nominations were announced back in December with both receiving nominations. It did not happen at the Globes, although Brad was asked about it and he By Lainey • Jan 20, 2020 09:35 am
