Jenna Ortega A “Taste” of Sabrina Carpenter Sabrina Carpenter’s album Short n’ Sweet came out last week, like a lot of other people, I had it in rotation all weekend, and it’s expected to contend for #1 on the album charts next week, right before Labour Day weekend, an end of summer vibe, no skips. By Lainey • Aug 26, 2024 03:04 pm
Break Ups The Un-Bennifering Up until quite recently, the unravelling of Bennifer V2.0 has been excruciatingly slow, but also, for the most part, relatively civil. At least on Jennifer Lopez’s part. The reporting about her, and what a pain in the ass it was to be married to her, was no doubt By Lainey • Aug 26, 2024 02:35 pm
Ryan Reynolds Taylor and all her friends Taylor Swift wrapped up the European leg of her tour in London last week and that led to all kinds of frenzied speculation about whether or not she and/or Beyoncé would show up at the Democratic National Convention. In the end, we were all clowns. Taylor returned home to By Lainey • Aug 26, 2024 12:35 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Intro for August 26, 2024 Dear Gossips, Back in February, around Lunar New Year, I wrote a post at The Squawk about the Year of the Dragon and Red String Theory. This particular Year of the Dragon is also known in Chinese culture as a Widow Year (it has to do with calendar math and By Lainey • Aug 26, 2024 09:11 am
TV Updates Anya Taylor-Joy’s killer return Here’s Anya Taylor-Joy out for lunch with a friend yesterday in LA. It’s a perfect summer lunch outfit – striped belted shirt over shorts and flats, Dior tote, and headphones. Proper headphones. It makes me happy to see others who prefer headphones over earbuds because as I’ve said By Lainey • Aug 23, 2024 11:21 am
What Else What Else? So tonight is the night – Night 4 of the Democratic National Convention will conclude with Vice President Kamala Harris accepting her party’s nomination for president, it’s what the entire week has been building towards. And there’s been all kinds of speculation about who will show up. My By Lainey • Aug 22, 2024 04:02 pm
BFFs Everybody at the bar with Zoë There was another Blink Twice screening in New York last night ahead of its premiere on Friday. Reviews are starting to come out now and they’re solid (Sarah’s will be posted tomorrow) – like no one’s calling it a masterpiece but most are saying that Zoë Kravitz’s By Lainey • Aug 22, 2024 12:05 pm
Sports Intro for August 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, Formula 1 has been on mid-season break the last few weeks. Lewis Hamilton spent part of that time in Africa – relaxing, of course, but also learning. He shared some of those experiences on Instagram recently. And now it’s back to work. Lewis is on some good momentum By Lainey • Aug 22, 2024 09:22 am
What Else What Else? The Academy is still looking for a host for the Oscars. It’s August, they don’t need to rush, but at the same time, I’m sure the production team would like to know who they’re working with. And now a volunteer has emerged: RuPaul would like the By Lainey • Aug 21, 2024 04:11 pm
Music Taylor Swift: Home and Rest Taylor Swift wrapped up the European leg of The Eras tour last night with her eighth and last show at Wembley. It’s the first time a solo artist has played the venue that many times on a single tour. And, of course, it was a record with sales, not By Lainey • Aug 21, 2024 01:24 pm
Break Ups The Official End of Bennifer 2.0 After almost an entire summer of divorce speculation, yesterday’s confirmation that Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s marriage is officially over couldn’t have been a surprise. If you’re a regular visitor here at LaineyGossip, you know that we’ve been bracing for it every weekend, wondering if By Lainey • Aug 21, 2024 10:57 am
Style Intro for August 21, 2024 Dear Gossips, The undisputed star of primetime last night was former First Lady, Michelle Obama, who delivered what many consider to be one of the best convention speeches of all time at the DNC in Chicago. I watched it live and then I couldn’t sleep because I kept replaying By Lainey • Aug 21, 2024 09:15 am
What Else What Else? Katy Perry was a fixture at political conventions a decade ago. Now she’s still trying to convince people to care about her new album and, yeah, I get it, this is her work. She should be promoting it. The audience might not be receiving that promotion but she can’ By Lainey • Aug 20, 2024 04:05 pm
Top Reads Beyoncé: Whisky with no “e” Beyoncé has some news today: she’s just launched her own whisky, SirDavis. B’s whisky is a collaboration with Moët Hennessy, she’s been working on it for at least a couple of years, and as she does, there have been hints about it along the way. What’s By Lainey • Aug 20, 2024 02:02 pm
BFFs Twigs and Fox FKA twigs and Julia Fox, this friendship started at least a year ago and I hope it continues, I hope we get more of it, because of how wildly unconventional these two women are in their expression, in all forms – artistic, personal, professional, style, everything. Twigs is readying a new By Lainey • Aug 20, 2024 10:19 am
Reality TV Intro for August 20, 2024 Dear Gossips, “Shambolic”, a word I love and see mostly in British media, but you can’t overuse it. You have to be selective about “shambolic”, so as not to dilute its effectiveness. Not every mess is worthy of “shambolic”. And then, well, there’s season six of Love Island By Lainey • Aug 20, 2024 09:35 am
