Hook Ups Jessica Alba and Alex Edelman?! What’s with the Oscars this year producing all these new couples? Or possible new couples? This is the third couples post of the day – and involves two people no one would have predicted: Jessica Alba and Alex Edelman. But first a note on Alex because I interviewed him last By Lainey • Mar 04, 2025 01:02 pm
Quiveration Teyana & Aaron: An Oscars Hard Launch The Oscars were horny this year! The previous post was about whether or not Ralph Fiennes and Chelsea Handler are horny for each other. And this post is about Teyana Taylor and Aaron Pierre being legit horny for each other and making the rest of us horny for them, and By Lainey • Mar 04, 2025 12:17 pm
Hook Ups Ralph & Chelsea…briefly? I wrote yesterday about Ralph Fiennes in the Adrien Brody post, how much fun he seemed to be having on the Oscars red carpet, how much time he seemed to have for the media, even though he had nothing to gain at that point from doing so many interviews. But By Lainey • Mar 04, 2025 11:05 am
Gorgessity Intro for March 4, 2025 Dear Gossips, Something we didn’t really get a chance to say during our Oscars coverage yesterday – it’s been a consistent trend all season on the carpet: red. So much red. My colleague, Liz Trinnear, was on point. Actually on point on several trends because Liz had the sheer By Lainey • Mar 04, 2025 10:12 am
Style Oscar Best Dressed: Zoë Saldaña (Lainey) I posted earlier today about Adrien Brody’s unfocused, unprepared, and interminable acceptance speech. The opposite of that is Zoë Saldaña whose speeches all award season have been personal and considered, delivered with very few stumbles. While Adrien’s speeches seemed to deteriorate with every award show, Zoë’s have By Lainey • Mar 03, 2025 02:28 pm
Oscars 2025 Oscar Night White Dresses It was announced last fall that Lupita Nyong’o had signed on to become Chanel’s latest ambassador. We’ve seen in the past that Chanel doesn’t work for all celebrities. For every Kristen Stewart, there’s a Margot Robbie. For every Jennie, there’s a Penelope Cruz. And By Lainey • Mar 03, 2025 11:56 am
Gorgessity Selena Gomez and Old Hollywood THIS. DRESS. Selena Gomez has a specific silhouette. This is where she’s comfortable and confident – even when it’s not hourglass there is almost always a snatched waist. What she and her stylist Erin Walsh have been able to do together is keep it fresh, even when there’s By Lainey • Mar 03, 2025 10:37 am
Top Reads Adrien Brody: A Case for Speechwriters If there was another bad speech at the Oscars, I don’t remember it, because Adrien Brody decided to take so much time near the end of a show that was already running long – he erased all recollection of anyone else who was annoying up on that stage with a By Lainey • Mar 03, 2025 08:59 am
Oscars 2025 Timmy & Kylie: The Best Seat in the House for Gen A and Z This is what we’ve been speculating about all award season: would Timothée Chalamet bring Kylie Jenner to the Oscars? And now we know – very much YES. Because if you’re Timmy and she’s there with you, you might as well go all the way. But first, let’s By Lainey • Mar 03, 2025 08:00 am
Twilight All’s Well That Ends Well… in Sacramento A trailer for the film Sacramento was released yesterday. Sacramento is directed and co-written by Michael Angarano who also stars alongside Michael Cera, Kristen Stewart, and Maya Erskine. I like all of these people and I like the vibe of them all together in a movie about two friends who’ By Lainey • Feb 28, 2025 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Anne is Verity Let’s talk about a Colleen Hoover book-to-film adaptation. Not THAT one, for a change, but the next project that is now in production: Verity. As you probably know, Colleen Hoover is probably COVID’s most successful author. She was self-publishing before 2020 and her books were modestly successful, she’ By Lainey • Feb 28, 2025 10:17 am
What Else Conan O’Brien: Bring it on Here are some shots of Conan O’Brien arriving at Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night to talk about hosting the Oscars. And I was juuuust saying that Conan was a bit low key as we approach the big night. Conan was junketing today too so it looks like he’s By Lainey • Feb 26, 2025 04:14 pm
TV Updates The White Lotus Nepo Brothers At the end of Sunday’s episode of The White Lotus season three (episode #2), Jacek turned to me and said, “I would binge the sh-t out of this, whyyyy can’t they drop it all at once?” But the thing is… most of the best shows over the last By Lainey • Feb 26, 2025 03:20 pm
Style Fashion House Keke Keke Palmer’s archival Chanel at the SAGs the other night was one of the best on that red carpet. It was previously worn by Jamie Lee Curtis – although Keke says she didn’t know it at the time. She shared this on Instagram yesterday. JLC seems to have been By Lainey • Feb 26, 2025 02:49 pm
Gorgessity Gabrielle Union: Professional Riff Raff Gabrielle Union was minding her own f-cking business last week when she got dragged into the headlines by Matthew Lawrence running his mouth on a podcast. Matthew was talking about a television movie from way back in 1999 called H-E Double Hockey Sticks and his experience with Gabrielle Union. If By Lainey • Feb 26, 2025 01:00 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Nominees Dinner The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – aka the Oscar Academy – typically hosts an Oscar Nominees Luncheon every year to celebrate everyone a few weeks before the big night. This is where they also remind potential winners about keeping their speeches tight and right and gently ask them not By Lainey • Feb 26, 2025 12:30 pm
