What Else What Else? This article at PEOPLE made me laugh yesterday. I get it that these magazines want to ingratiate themselves with royal family members, whether or not they’re in UK. But a post about Princess Kate’s curtsy proficiency is … infantalising. She’s the future queen of England, she’s been By Lainey • Dec 04, 2024 04:05 pm
BFFs Cynthia, Ari, and Drew I will never not love the way the Wicked press tour took a life of its own. This, by the way, is what movie studio marketing departments want to happen, and some are more successful than others. The Barbie press tour, for example, was widely praised for its, well, Barbie-ness. By Lainey • Dec 04, 2024 01:24 pm
Break Ups Sabrina & Barry: A TikTok Breakup? There’s been speculation about Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan’s relationship since her final shows in LA (before she resumes her tour in Europe next March) because of his absence. She instead was flirting with Marcello Hernandez aka “Domingo”. A few days ago, DeuxMoi posted a rumour about a By Lainey • Dec 04, 2024 12:00 pm
Style Zoe and Selena keep pushing Prior to the release of Wicked, Emilia Pérez was holding on to some good momentum up to its release on Netflix. And, as we saw, the stars of the film, Karla Sofia Gascon, Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz were everywhere promoting it. And then came Wicked, also a By Lainey • Dec 04, 2024 11:04 am
Music Intro for December 4, 2024 Dear Gossips, Billboard has spent the back half of this year counting down the greatest pop stars of the 21st century. This week was the official confirmation, or coronation, if you will, even though the reveal came last week when the artist in the #2 spot was announced. Naturally, everybody By Lainey • Dec 04, 2024 09:30 am
What Else What Else? Jodie Turner-Smith’s hair at the British Fashion Awards last night is my favourite. Joe Jonas’s facial hair at the same event is pure comedy. I don’t know what’s going on with his aesthetic right now but I don’t think it’s doing what he hopes By Lainey • Dec 03, 2024 04:01 pm
TV Updates Award Season Jake? Jake Gyllenhaal had two pretty big wins this year. Road House, despite Sarah’s hesitations about it prior to the release, turned out to be a good movie (you can read her review here) and at the time became Amazon’s biggest streaming debut. Presumed Innocent was also well received By Lainey • Dec 03, 2024 01:29 pm
Gorgessity Angelina and Zendaya at the Gothams As Sarah just wrote in her post about the actress contenders at the Gotham Awards last night, this is one of the most competitive Best Actress Oscar races we’ve seen in years. So many strong performances, only five spots, no clear frontrunner for the win at this point in By Lainey • Dec 03, 2024 12:20 pm
Style Intro for December 3, 2024 Dear Gossips, Sarah sent Emily and me a note yesterday about the upcoming sprint to the holiday break because basically for the next two weeks, there are celebrity events, premieres, galas, carpets, and/or award announcements every day which means a lot of coverage. Take last night, for example. The By Lainey • Dec 03, 2024 09:17 am
What Else What Else? Jacob Elordi has grown out a full beard and what the beard is trying to say is that he’s a serious actor, please don’t just think of him as a tall, handsome man, because what you’re missing is that he is a Serious Actor who wants to By Lainey • Dec 02, 2024 04:01 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Apple Debuts Le Bal des Débutantes used to be nicknamed the Crillon Ball because it took place at the Hotel de Crillon and this is what I called it years ago on this site when celebrities debuted their children at the event. For some reason, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s daughters, By Lainey • Dec 02, 2024 02:24 pm
Award Season Campaigning Cynthia Erivo: Elphaba’s Victory Lap Sarah posted earlier about the American Thanksgiving weekend box office – between Moana 2 and Wicked, it was a record-breaker. And here’s Cynthia Erivo this morning in New York for an appearance on the CBS Morning Show, a little victory lap and more work! Because even though the press tour By Lainey • Dec 02, 2024 11:23 am
Taylor Swift TNT’s First Thanksgiving PEOPLE’s big Taylor Swift exclusive is about how she spent American Thanksgiving. She and her family were in Nashville and they hosted Travis Kelce and his family. Jason and Kylie were also there with their kids. This marks the first TNT’s first Thanksgiving because last year, during American By Lainey • Dec 02, 2024 11:00 am
Jeremy Renner Intro for December 2, 2024 Dear Gossips, In all the time we’ve been doing this website which, crazily, is over 20 years now, I can’t remember ever posting about the Hollywood Christmas Parade, even though the tradition itself has been happening for 92 years. This year’s event was yesterday and scrolling through By Lainey • Dec 02, 2024 09:17 am
What Else What Else? Sounds like Meghan Markle’s American Riviera Orchard will probably not launch in time for the holidays and will be pushed to 2025. There have been trademark issues and at this point, I wonder if it’s better to just go with another name. Other celebrities have done it before By Lainey • Nov 29, 2024 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Three JLos and a Turkey And partridge in a pear tree. Did you just groan? I’m sorry! I just couldn’t bring myself to the delete that sentence. Anyway, in my post yesterday about Jennifer Lopez, I noted that 2024 has been a tumultuous year for her but that it’s ending on a By Lainey • Nov 29, 2024 12:38 pm
