Celebrity Social Media Round-Up for October 31, 2024 including Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton can trace their relationship back to Halloween 2015

Halloween is a major hookup holiday and Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton can trace it back to the exact date – the Casamigos party in 2015. Let’s get this out of the way: Blake was in a VERY unfortunate poncho costume that wouldn’t fly today (and probably wasn’t cool in 2015). This also had all the markings of a rebound; he and Miranda Lambert filed for divorce in July of that year and Gwen and Gavin Rossdale filed in August. But once they got together, it stuck.

Going by the lyrics she posted, she had to make the first move - because he was nervous? - which is frankly kind of endearing me to Blake Shelton. But then I remember the costume.

I haven’t read this story about celebrity ghost writers in Vulture yet, but it’s on my to-do list after Halloween. One thing I don’t understand is why ghost writers continue to be a secret when, in many cases, we know they are there. For example, Sam Lansky was a writer on Britney Spears’s book, which was a smashing success. He’s a very well-respected profile writer and it’s a flex to work with him. So many walls have been broken down in celebrity culture – we know their stylists, makeup artists, hair stylists, tattoo artists, trainers, dentists, dermatologists, why is a ghostwriter still so hidden?

Halsey’s album is getting some pretty harsh reviews. Not Katy Perry harsh but in that vicinity. So she took a kind passage from an otherwise not very complimentary review at Pitchfork and turned it into a heap of praise.

There’s layers to this because if you’ve been on the internet long enough, you remember the last time she went after Pitchfork. (And if you don’t, here’s a reminder.)

I’m on Netflix a couple of times a week and I like Laura Dern, but I don’t think I’ve seen this in my feed (or I did see it and skipped past it because the photo choice is a bit generic). There wasn’t a huge marketing push for this movie and it’s still top of the charts. That means Netflix is furiously studying what targets this film hit to see what it can squeeze out of the algorithm, but it also speaks to the “missing middle” Lainey has mentioned. Twenty years ago, this would have had a decent theatrical run.