Royals George Clooney defends Meghan Markle George Clooney was at the Winter TCA yesterday to promote his upcoming Hulu series Catch-22. Just a word on the Winter TCA – this used to be my assignment at etalk. I used to spend several days there every January working on coverage for our show. Most of the press events By Lainey • Feb 12, 2019 10:37 am
Gossip Nostalgia Intro for February 12, 2019 Dear Gossips, After wrapping the site yesterday and recording a new episode of Show Your Work with Duana, I saw a tweet that changed my plans for the night. Maybe I was extra raw from the Grammys/BAFTA/Aniston 50th all-nighter but I really felt it. I really felt the By Lainey • Feb 12, 2019 09:38 am
What Else What Else? Help me out with an analogy here. I haven’t slept in a long time and I’m having a hard time nailing down if there even is one. But when a scammer goes on a reality show and then creates the potential on that show to get on another By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 03:56 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Lily Collins is BAFTAs Best Dressed I knew it from the minute I saw her, this was the one. This look on Lily Collins could challenge any of the looks we’ve seen during award season so far. It’s exquisite. Even though navy blue is not usually my jam. Even though a sheer skirt isn’ By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 03:47 pm
Grammy Awards 2019 Taylor’s BAFTA weekend Taylor Swift was not at the Grammys last night. She didn’t win any either. And her fans are pissed because it means that the reputation era is Grammy-less. Apparently some of them are threatening a Grammys boycott. Ohhhh kayyyyy. I get it. We’re all mad when our faves By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 03:26 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Laura Harrier’s relaxed BAFTAs If there’s a criticism of this look on Laura Harrier, it would be that it’s probably on the casual side. I don’t have a problem with it at all. I love the pleats. I love how it flows off her body. I like that she was for By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 01:14 pm
BFFs Jennifer Aniston’s Vanity Fair Like I said earlier in the post about Brad Pitt and John Mayer being at Jennifer Aniston’s 50th birthday party, it was the most impressive A-list guest list of any event this year, more than any award show. Her birthday party was what the Oscars want to look like. By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 12:56 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Amy Adams’s BAFTA taffeta Last Friday, Amy Adams’s red dress in Paris was the Outfit of the Week. It was her best dress of this award season. And I was surprised. Because the dress was so good, so much better than anything she’s worn on any carpet this year, that I wondered By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 12:06 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Margot’s BAFTA Chanel This one is polarising. Margot Robbie is a Chanel ambassador so she probably gets a first look at whatever’s the freshest. This is from the recent Couture collection, presented in January. I get why some people have a problem with it. This is not “pretty”. This is not “safe” By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 10:47 am
BAFTAs 2019 Bradley’s two wins and first acceptance speech Bradley Cooper was honoured at the Palm Springs International Film Festival back in January and he gave an acceptance speech there but those awards are pre-determined. As we’ve seen, he hasn’t been up on stage very much this award season – until last night when he won two awards. By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 10:29 am
Royals The Cambridges and the stars Prince William is the President of BAFTA so this of course is a regular event for him and Kate. They seemed a lot more engaged this year than they were last year at the event, but that’s probably because she was pregnant and did not want to extend their By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 09:37 am
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Cate’s stone dress We are definitely missing some Cate Blanchett this awards season. With Cate, it’s almost never boring. Even when you don’t like it, it’s not boring. Ugly is better than boring. This dress is not ugly, not at all. It’s Christopher Kane. Hilariously some people online are By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 09:17 am
Douchebags Thomas Markle’s weekend dump I mean, it’s not like you weren’t expecting it, right? I was expecting it. Last week, when PEOPLE’s “The Truth About Meghan” cover story dropped, with comments from five of her friends advocating on her behalf, I wrote that: The upside is that Meghan’s circle is By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 08:53 am
Good for Gossip Jennifer Aniston’s two birthday exes Today is Jennifer Aniston’s 50th birthday. Her party was on Saturday, at the Sunset Tower. And as you’ve probably heard, it was probably the most A list guest list of any party in a long time. It could have been an awards show. It may have been more By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 08:12 am
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTA Favourite Roma and The Favourite have the most Oscar nominations (10) this year. And, since it’s the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, The Favourite was always expected to do well at the BAFTAs. Roma took Best Picture, maintaining its position as the frontrunner with two weeks now to By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 07:50 am
BFFs Beyoncé is her own Grammys Remember the story that Lin-Manual Miranda told about the time Beyoncé came to see Hamilton and what happened when she met Jonathan Groff backstage? She loved his performance. And in particular she loved Jonathan’s King George walk, so much that she imitated him to him, telling him that, “You By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 07:21 am
