Royals What will Harry wear? Most of the attention on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding day will be on Meghan’s wedding dress. I posted earlier about her wedding dress auditions. It’ll be months before we find out about Meghan’s designer. Whether or not she goes with a ball gown or By Lainey • Dec 19, 2017 11:28 am
Royals Meghan Markle’s wedding dress auditions Yesterday the Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli designer, Inbal Dror, might be auditioning to be Meghan Markle’s official wedding dress designer and that the label had submitted several sketches to the palace for consideration. Click here to see those sketches at TMZ. A spokesperson for Inbal Dror then confirmed By Lainey • Dec 19, 2017 10:34 am
Star Wars Intro for December 19, 2017 Dear Gossips, No spoilers in this post, I promise, but can we talk about Star Wars: The Last Jedi? Specifically about Rose Tico, played by Kelly Marie Tran? There are some people who weren’t into Rose and Finn’s part of the story. That’s one of the things By Lainey • Dec 19, 2017 09:34 am
What Else What Else? You know what I thought of when I saw this? Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon at the Emmys. Feeling pretty proud of that one, don’t kill my buzz. But also? Our dogs do this all the time…except they’re way less persistent. Usually it only lasts 30 seconds By Lainey • Dec 18, 2017 05:04 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Award season fashion and drama Did you hear last week that many actresses will be wearing all-black for sure at the Golden Globes and maybe through award season as a sign of solidarity to protest sexual harassment in the industry? On the new episode of Show Your Work, Duana and I discuss the implications – this By Lainey • Dec 18, 2017 04:45 pm
Brad Pitt Brad Pitt’s “OK” birthday Today is Brad Pitt’s birthday. He’s 54. Interestingly, PEOPLE posted a story about his birthday today with the title: Brad Pitt Turns 54! He's 'Doing OK' After Angelina Jolie Split and 'Casually Dating' Casually dating? Let’s come back to that in By Lainey • Dec 18, 2017 04:22 pm
Angelina Jolie Angelina Jolie: “There is another” Sorry. I’ve had Star Wars on my mind since Saturday. Can we please talk about it tomorrow? There are some things I need to ask you. You can’t be mad about spoilers after the first weekend, can you? Anyway, Angelina Jolie did a little Star Wars-ing herself this By Lainey • Dec 18, 2017 03:58 pm
Hook Ups Justin & Selena’s puppy love dates I remain the only one repping Justin Bieber + Selena Gomez 3.0 at this site. Emily, our site manager, and Kathleen are resolutely against it because they’re worried for Selena will get f-cked over again. The others claim to be too grownup to care. That leaves me, over here By Lainey • Dec 18, 2017 11:58 am
Scarlett Johansson ScarJost holds hands Scarlett Johansson showed up on the final 2017 episode of Saturday Night Live this weekend to play Ivanka Trump in the cold open. Afterward she joined cast members and host Kevin Hart on the Rockefeller Centre ice rink, standing beside her boyfriend Colin Jost. Everyone skated around as the credits By Lainey • Dec 18, 2017 11:07 am
Royals Happy Christmas from the Cambridges I was hoping that we’d get the Prince Harry-Meghan Markle official engagement portraits today. Looks like we’ll have to wait a while longer for it. What we did get today was the Cambridge Christmas card. Here they are, Prince William, Catherine, Big G, and Charlotte wishing you a By Lainey • Dec 18, 2017 10:26 am
Star Wars Intro for December 18, 2017 Dear Gossips, Did you see Star Wars: The Last Jedi this weekend? Did you love it? Or are you one of those fanboys bitching about it because it was too funny, or something? I LOVED it…but it didn’t start off that way. You know how it starts off, By Lainey • Dec 18, 2017 09:39 am
What Else What Else? I posted earlier about Matt Damon. Now connect the dots between Matt’s mansplaining and man-worries to Russell Simmons and his bullsh-t #NotMe movement. While we’re at it, let’s talk about lie detector tests. Or the “polygraph test”. I listened to an episode of This American Life this By Lainey • Dec 15, 2017 04:09 pm
Taylor Swift Calvin Harris or Tom Hiddleston: who made Taylor hunch? See? As much as she claims to not want to be “part of the narrative”, Taylor Swift is just so great for gossip. Todrick Hall, a good friend of Taylor’s, was interviewed on the Kidd Kraddick Morning Show yesterday – video is below – and he talked about hanging out with By Lainey • Dec 15, 2017 12:47 pm
Lifestyle Carpets & Candids: Laura’s long leather skirt What a year Laura Dern has had. She began the year in Big Little Lies. She’s ending the year in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In between those two posts there’s Twin Peaks and Good Time Girls and Downsizing and she shot the JT Leroy movie this summer. By Lainey • Dec 15, 2017 11:28 am
Top Reads When Matt Damon talks… Between Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, usually it’s Ben Affleck who’s the f-ckup, right? We know Ben to be the sloppy one. His personal life is all drama and he swings between comebacks and messes. Matt Damon, on the other hand, has enjoyed a much better reputation. He’ By Lainey • Dec 15, 2017 10:33 am
Brad Pitt Angelina’s not invited The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released its shortlist of films contending for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar yesterday: Chile, A Fantastic Woman Germany, In the Fade Hungary, On Body and Soul Israel, Foxtrot Lebanon, The Insult Russia, Loveless Senegal, Félicité South Africa, The Wound Sweden, The By Lainey • Dec 15, 2017 09:29 am