Mariah Carey Mimi’s NYE do-over Every year, our Christmas Angel, Mariah Carey, spends Christmas in Aspen. Bryan Tanaka is with her in Aspen this year, to hold her hand while she tries to navigate the icy sidewalks and the snow. Here are a few photos from Mimi’s Christmas week. As you can see, she’ By Lainey • Dec 29, 2017 10:56 am
Ben Affleck JRod’s first Christmas and New Year’s Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez spent Christmas together, with their families, in Miami. It’s their first holiday season together. And there was some speculation leading up to Christmas that an engagement would happen. Well, it didn’t happen at Christmas, but there’s always New Year’s. JLO and By Lainey • Dec 29, 2017 10:38 am
Taylor Swift Joe arrives for New Year’s Taylor Swift and her family arrived in LA last week where they presumably spent Christmas. Joe Alwyn wasn’t with them and I posted at the time that it was looking likely that Joe was back in England with his family and would likely show up for New Year’s. By Lainey • Dec 29, 2017 09:47 am
Intro for December 29, 2017 Dear Gossips, 2017 will be remembered as a significant year in gossip. Certainly not my favourite year in gossip, but perhaps one of the most important nonetheless, especially because it was in 2017 that so much underground gossip came to light by the women’s whisper network, resulting in the By Lainey • Dec 29, 2017 09:23 am
Book Review Smutty Books Roundup Part 3 - December 28, 2017 If you’ve been visiting this site a while you know my love of YA books. One of my favourite YA books, Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You The Sun is being adapted into a movie for Warner Bros and Jandy is writing the screenplay herself. Sarah just wrote By Lainey • Dec 28, 2017 06:59 pm
Book Review Smutty Books Roundup Part 2 - December 28, 2017 Recently, Madeleine Thien won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, honouring the best in Canadian literature, for her novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing. The book was also shortlisted for the Man Booker. Last month, Madeleine wrote about the writer’s life in Maclean’s; it’s a perspective that I By Lainey • Dec 28, 2017 06:59 pm
Book Review Smutty Books Roundup Part 1 - December 28, 2017 Over the last few years, Hollywood has been challenged to address its diversity problem. For far too long, the majority of the stories told in film and television have been about white men for white men. And those are the same stories that are critically better received and then repeatedly By Lainey • Dec 28, 2017 06:58 pm
What Else What Else? Are you going to tell me I’m dumb for being excited about the Roseanne revival? And that I’m so happy Dan is back? And that I’m confused about how they’re bringing him back? But I also don’t care all that much because, again, I’m By Lainey • Dec 28, 2017 02:22 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, December 28, 2017 It’s been a minute since we talked about Wendi Deng and her fascinating web of friendships and social connections. For the last year, Wendi has been dating Bertold Zahoran, a model. She’s 49, he’s 22. Wendi and Bertold are in St Barts, where the obscenely wealthy spend By Lainey • Dec 28, 2017 12:53 pm
Charlie Hunnam Charlie Hunnam: sick at Christmas Someone sent this to me on Instagram – a holiday message that Charlie Hunnam sent to one of his fan-friends in bed, because he’s sick. And he references Man Flu, that never-ending debate about whether or not men get it worse when it’s either the cold or the flu. By Lainey • Dec 28, 2017 11:56 am
Daniel Craig Rachel Weisz & Daniel Craig are fine While we’re making reassurances before the end of the year, here are Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig arriving in Paris a few days ago on Christmas Eve. These two are rarely seen together and, I guess, because they’re so rarely seen together, people don’t start reporting that By Lainey • Dec 28, 2017 10:31 am
Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Aniston & Justin Theroux are fine Where in the world is Jennifer Aniston during the holidays? We should all know the answer to this by now, right? It’s almost always Cabo. This year, Jennifer and Justin Theroux are presumably spending New Year’s in their usual Cabo retreat with Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka who By Lainey • Dec 28, 2017 10:05 am
Laura Dern Intro for December 28, 2017 Dear Gossips, Laura Dern is dating Baron Davis. US Weekly purchased the exclusive pictures yesterday and everybody online was talking about it as soon as they published. But Vulture also published a piece on Laura yesterday that I’ve pitched to Duana for us to talk about on the next By Lainey • Dec 28, 2017 09:19 am
What Else What Else? Tom Brady made biscuits for Christmas dinner. I also made biscuits for Christmas dinner. Jacek loves my biscuits. If that sounds dirty it’s because he makes it dirty because he’s totally “bad joke guy” and walks around the house smirking about how much he loves my biscuits. I’ By Lainey • Dec 27, 2017 03:10 pm
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, December 27, 2017 Maria’s on holiday until after the New Year so I’m taking over Smutty Social Media. Sorry in advance. An update on Jenny Slate and Chris Evans – they broke up in 2017, they got back together in 2017, and they’re still together at the end of 2017. Looks By Lainey • Dec 27, 2017 01:48 pm
Beyoncé Beyoncé’s Christmas haircut Beyoncé’s twin pregnancy announcement on February 1 was the most liked Instagram post of the year – and of all time so far. Records are made to be broken. The question is… which Instagram post can beat THAT Instagram post? And who will be the one to do it? Selena By Lainey • Dec 27, 2017 11:55 am
