Royals The Mysterious Death of Prince Andrew’s friend, Jeffrey Epstein When Jeffrey Epstein died in August, apparently by suicide, there were a lot of questions about what happened, exactly. And there are a lot of people who think that it may not have been a suicide – including members of his family and legal team, who subsequently hired their own forensic By Lainey • Oct 30, 2019 03:45 pm
TV Updates The Men of the Morning Apple TV+ launches on Friday and the big push the last few weeks has been behind The Morning Show produced by and starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon who should get most of the attention and they have. There are, however, other actors on the series like Steve Carrell (Steve’ By Lainey • Oct 30, 2019 01:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Post-Khaleesi Last Christmas I was in New York on Sunday and Monday for the Last Christmas press screening and junket. It was my Christmas 2018 wish come true – last year, I wrote that I really wanted to be assigned to this movie for etalk because, well, everything about this movie checks my boxes: By Lainey • Oct 30, 2019 11:52 am
Relationship Assumption Shawn confirms Camila It’s not like it’s new that Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello are dating. In fact, it’s quite obvious that they’re dating. They just haven’t said out loud that YES WE ARE 100% DATING. But I don’t know why we need it to be vocalised. By Lainey • Oct 30, 2019 10:18 am
Zac Efron Zac Efron in the sauna Before we get to this photo of Zac Efron in the sauna, can we talk about how he was supposed to be an Oscar contender? No, I didn’t just pull this out of my ass – at the beginning of 2019, after Sundance and the premiere of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly By Lainey • Oct 30, 2019 09:35 am
Beyoncé Intro for October 30, 2019 Dear Gossips, Tomorrow is Halloween. I’m never all that excited about Halloween but I am excited about the Queen’s Halloween. Because there is one legend who does Halloween better than anyone else – that would be our Queen, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter. She has now trained us, every year, to By Lainey • Oct 30, 2019 08:34 am
What Else What Else? I forgot to mention something in my Taylor Swift post from earlier. This is because it’s Halloween week, a notoriously busy week for those of us who work in entertainment broadcasting. Somewhere in the mid-2000s, Halloween became A HIGH PRIORITY THING on television because television is a visual medium By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 04:15 pm
Royals Meghan and the 72 MPs Holly Lynch, a British Member of Parliament, along with 71 other MPs, has released a letter in support of Meghan Markle calling out the UK tabloids. They share that they too have been treated unfairly by many of the same newspapers and House Sussex is suing but they point out By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 03:23 pm
Music Taylor Swift gossips …and is coming for Oscar Last Friday in the site open, I wrote about Cats and whether or not Entertainment Weekly and Oscar experts were sleeping on Cats as an Oscar contender. They’d just released a promo video featuring Taylor Swift, revealing that she’d co-written a song with Andrew Lloyd Webber for the By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 12:34 pm
BFFs Selena Gomez: toxic relationships and complicated alliances Big week for Selena Gomez last week with the release of two new singles after a lengthy absence. But as she’s been saying while promoting the music, she was hurting and she was struggling and now that she says she’s moved past it, she’s ready to share By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 10:49 am
Queen Elizabeth II Intro for October 29, 2019 Dear Gossips, The Queen’s dressmaker, Angela Kelly, has published a new book, The Other Side of the Coin, the Queen, the dresser, and the Wardrobe. Excerpts from the book have been published in HELLO! and making headlines today is the story Angela shares about doing a photoshoot with the By Lainey • Oct 29, 2019 09:11 am
What Else What Else? Remember Lady Gaga’s dress from the Golden Globes earlier this year? It was blue, an homage to Judy Garland with some Cinderella vibes. Gaga didn’t get to keep the dress. Or she didn’t want to keep the dress? Something happened and the dress was either left behind By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 04:20 pm
TV Updates Jennifer & Reese’s first reviews Apple TV+ launches in a matter of days and, as you may have heard, the marquee release is The Morning Show, produced by and starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. They’ve been out here promoting the series hard – magazines, talk shows, Instagram, tonight is the premiere in New York By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 02:57 pm
Award Season Campaigning Awkwafina, The Contender As mentioned, if an actor is in the race for the Oscars in the given year, chances are they’ll be at Academy’s Governors Awards – even Eddie Murphy showed up at one of the most critical stops on the campaign trail. So it’s here where we can get By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 01:11 pm
Style JLo’s first official campaign stop The Academy’s Governors Awards happened this weekend. On this night, every year, the Academy hands out its honorary Oscars. It’s the pre-Oscars. And it’s the first major event, the most important early event, on the award season calendar – because this is the ACADEMY. Golden Globes and SAG By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 10:30 am
Royals Prince Andrew’s “forensics” Well I’m definitely not conflicted about writing about this one. This f-cking joker… Prince Andrew, the beneficiary of all the drama between House Cambridge and House Sussex last week, is trying to capitalise on his nephews’ bad press by going back to the “fat fingers defence”, like somehow people By Lainey • Oct 28, 2019 09:53 am
