What Else?

The Jingle Ball is still happening and Katy Perry reliably dressed up like an ornament. I don’t hate this liquid silver dress on her but the next dress is offensive. It needs a tug and a yank and even then I’m not sure it would make the cut at an audition for background dancers in a scene from film shot in a Vegas casino circa 2005, how is a look like this even possible?! (Go Fug Yourself)

Speaking of mid… Chris Rock hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend. It’s never going to be a great episode when there’s not much of Bowen. However, new cast member Jane Wickline Sabrina Carpenter bit was excellent. I also loved her in costume in the “office holiday party” sketch with the secret OnlyFans account. (Pajiba)

Those so-called million moms, is it their annual holiday tradition to pick a movie or a series to be mad at? This time it’s Wicked, even though all their kids probably by now know all the words to all the songs and the choreo too. Kristen Chenoweth isn’t having it. (Celebitchy)

Denzel Washington says he had to call Ryan Coogler for revealing that he’ll be in the new Black Panther movie. Pretty sure he didn’t have to apologise since Denzel might be one of the few actors that secrety secret studios, as Sarah calls them, aren’t enforcing gag orders on. At least not rigidly. I wouldn’t want to be the one asking Mr Washington not to talk about the thing I don’t want him to talk about. Put Denzel and Tom Holland on a junket together, see what happens. (Hollywood Unlocked)

Smash burgers weren’t new to 2024 but in 2024 smash burgers went supernova. Smash burgers seem to be on every menu. I will eat a smash burger. I will eat an unsmashed burger. I say about burgers what other people say about pizza. But my burger standard is the one we buy from our favourite butcher (Sanagan’s Meat Locker!) and grill at home. It’s just a really good dry-aged patty that’s perfectly flavoured – and for me, when I say perfectly flavoured, I mean not oversalted. That’s my problem with most food: too much salt. (Eater)