Music Taylor’s “borrowed and blue” Vogue released the cover of its September issue yesterday featuring Taylor Swift whose new album, Lover, drops in a couple of weeks. During the interview, Taylor allowed writer Abby Aguirre to listen to a few new tracks, including the title song, “Lover”, with the lyrics: My heart’s been borrowed By Lainey • Aug 09, 2019 09:57 am
BFFs Jake & Jeanne: red carpet official…sort of Last night was the Broadway opening of Sea Wall/A Life starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge. Jake and Tom posed together on the red carpet and his MCU friends, Sebastian Stan and Tom Hiddleston, also showed up to support. He wore a grey suit over a t-shirt, no gold By Lainey • Aug 09, 2019 09:13 am
Sports Intro for August 9, 2019 Dear Gossips, Figure skating champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are so good at their jobs that they’ve become the Bella and Edward of their sport. Only, unlike Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, there was never a romantic relationship off the ice. Like Kristen and Robert though, there’s By Lainey • Aug 09, 2019 08:42 am
What Else What Else? Shia LaBeouf wrote a movie about his life and his experience with his dad. It’s called Honey Boy. He plays his dad. This is the first trailer. Here’s what I just wrote to Sarah after watching it: “I wanted to go into it like… does this make it By Lainey • Aug 08, 2019 05:20 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Captain Big G at sea! The Cambridges spent the day on the water today participating in The King’s Cup inaugural regatta to raise money for eight of their patronages. Here’s more on the purpose behind today’s royal involvement: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kensington Palace (@kensingtonroyal) on Aug By Lainey • Aug 08, 2019 04:42 pm
Music Taylor Swift: Daisy Jones Vogue Maria asked the other day if the “haircut” was still happening. Taylor Swift’s wearing it on the cover of September Vogue… so…yes? We’ll come back to the hair in a minute. Let’s talk about the overall styling of this cover. I love it. I love both By Lainey • Aug 08, 2019 01:26 pm
Music Taylor Swift’s Vogue September issue In my post the other day about Angelina Jolie covering the September issue of ELLE, I wondered about the American Vogue September issue and who would be on the cover. Taylor Swift was my first guess, even though she’d already covered ELLE a few months ago. If Anna Wintour By Lainey • Aug 08, 2019 12:20 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for August 8, 2019 Dear Gossips, It was announced yesterday that the Emmys, to be broadcast on September 22 on FOX, will not have a host this year. This is not exactly the same as the Oscars but it may be an “inspired by” situation. The Oscars were supposed to be hosted by Kevin By Lainey • Aug 08, 2019 08:56 am
What Else What Else? Did you watch the documentary The Clinton Affair last year? If not, I highly recommend. It was unfair what happened to Monica Lewinsky. It was unfair how people treated her – and not just the president, but the culture in general. As a participant in that culture, growing up in that By Lainey • Aug 07, 2019 04:08 pm
TV Updates “Wealth, Privilege, and Gwyneth” Is that redundant? Like can’t you just put “Gwyneth Paltrow” in the title and assume that everyone else will know that the words “wealth” and “privilege” will follow? This is the cover of the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter featuring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Platt, the stars of By Lainey • Aug 07, 2019 12:35 pm
Justin Theroux Justin Theroux’s arty, edgy NY bar A year and a half ago, when it was announced that Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux were over, and people were speculating about what led to the breakup, “sources close to Justin” said it was because he wasn’t into Jen’s boring LA lifestyle and he missed the arty, By Lainey • Aug 07, 2019 10:12 am
Maple Leaf Intro for August 7, 2019 Dear Gossips, Variety released its Power of Young Hollywood issue this week with three covers: Camila Cabello, Cole Sprouse, and Stephan James. What a year it’s been for Stephan James. Twelve months ago he was getting ready to premiere If Beale Street Could Talk and Homecoming at TIFF, in By Lainey • Aug 07, 2019 09:06 am
What Else What Else? Fresh Off The Boat resumes production this week which is when Constance Wu will join the cast and the crew and the president of ABC, Karey Burke, at the table read. I already have a stomach ache imagining whether or not that will be awkward. Karey is saying that it’ By Lainey • Aug 06, 2019 04:17 pm
Top Reads Angelina Jolie: a “wicked woman” The September issue is considered the most important issue of the year for most fashion and lifestyle magazines. So everyone works on the biggest “get” for their September issues. Meghan Markle guest-edited British Vogue on their September issue. Kristen Stewart covers Vanity Fair for September 2019. American Vogue has yet By Lainey • Aug 06, 2019 12:13 pm
Weddings Josh & Jodie getting married? Joshua Jackson was seen at LAX a couple of months ago, mid-June, kissing a woman who’s yet to be identified even though he and Jodie Turner-Smith, who he’s been dating since last fall, were together just before. Then he and Jodie stepped out holding hands last month…so By Lainey • Aug 06, 2019 11:08 am
Relationship Assumption Dakota and Chris did not break up Back in June, it was reported that Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin were over even though, up to that point, we’d been hearing that they were getting more and more serious. When I wrote about their alleged split, I made mention of the source. Because the source was the By Lainey • Aug 06, 2019 10:32 am