BFFs Marvel’s Betrayal If you play a superhero, is it gauche to dress as that superhero for Halloween? I think so. I would think less of Chris Hemsworth if he showed up at a party as Thor. Tom Hiddleston and the cast of Betrayal on Broadway have been teasing a Halloween surprise, telling By Lainey • Oct 31, 2019 12:06 pm
Royals Meghan’s Thank You Call Earlier this week, 72 female British Members of Parliament wrote an open letter to Meghan Markle, offering their support and solidarity “against the distasteful and misleading” stories about her in the British tabloids. It was MP Holly Lynch who led the initiative and she was interviewed yesterday about the letter By Lainey • Oct 31, 2019 10:43 am
Weddings Gwen and Blake to marry soon? Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton have been together four years. Apparently their official anniversary is, like, right around now. But it might not be the anniversary they celebrate for much longer because, according to Page Six, they’ll soon be married. A source says: “We’re all expecting a wedding By Lainey • Oct 31, 2019 09:42 am
Russell Wilson Intro for October 31, 2019 Dear Gossips, As of this writing, Beyoncé Halloween 2019 hasn’t happened yet. Last year she posted on the 30th. Is she skipping this year? I’m f-cking sweating. While we wait to find out who or what Beyoncé will be for Halloween, or if she’s even doing By Lainey • Oct 31, 2019 08:54 am
What Else What Else? Last week we had a neuroscientist on The Social who was telling us about brain research and why sometimes, when you think your brain isn’t working, it’s actually doing exactly what it should be doing. The brain is a great editor. Our brains are constantly receiving so much By Lainey • Oct 30, 2019 04:49 pm
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, 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 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 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