Music The only two Oscar songs The Oscar nominations happened on Tuesday and the Academy is now moving forward, after several weeks of controversy over hosting and presenter drama, trying to turn the story around as we get closer to the big show. Now another headline that might be problematic – Variety is reporting that “only two By Lainey • Jan 25, 2019 11:59 am
TV Updates The Season 11 Ruveal was a Trainwreck At noon yesterday, VH1 announced the new lineup of queens for the upcoming season of RuPaul’s Drag Race via YouTube livestream. If you haven’t watched it, do yourself a favour and don’t because that Season 11 Ruveal was a trainwreck. Here’s everything that went wrong: 1. By Prem • Jan 25, 2019 11:09 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Shia and FKA twigs in Park City As Sarah wrote in her Sundance preview post the other day, Shia LaBeouf’s Honey Boy (he wrote the script based on his relationship with his father) is one of the most anticipated films of the festival, probably on curiosity. It is, after all, Shia LaBeouf. Ahead of tonight’s By Lainey • Jan 25, 2019 10:30 am
Quiveration Sebastian Stan in Cozy Couture Sebastian Stan has been doing a lot of promotion for Destroyer. He has maybe fifteen minutes in the whole movie, but based on the amount of promotion he’s done, you’d think he was co-leads with Nicole Kidman. I get it—he’s Marvel famous (like internet famous but By Sarah • Jan 25, 2019 10:05 am
Amazingness Angelina sells treats I wonder if this will go viral today… Thanks to those of you who sent this over after seeing it on actress Sarah Ramos’s Instagram. As Sarah explains on her Instastory, back in November, she took her dog to the dog park. And when she was there, she saw By Lainey • Jan 25, 2019 09:38 am
TV Updates Intro for January 25, 2019 Dear Gossips, PROGRAMMING NOTE – PLEASE READ: Rent: Live is happening on Sunday. Duana and Kathleen will be LIVEBLOGGING Rent right here, at LaineyGossip, throughout the show. Old school! The liveblog widget will appear on the main page of the site. So heads up, musical theatre nerds – join them here and By Lainey • Jan 25, 2019 09:01 am
What Else What Else? Pretty much exactly a year ago, Justin Timberlake, during an interview to promote his new album, something something about plaid, that no one f-cking cared about, said that doing a Las Vegas residency was like “planning your retirement”. Then Lady Gaga announced a Vegas residency a few months later, starred By Lainey • Jan 24, 2019 05:07 pm
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Is there a “best” fitness app? Hi Hayley, I am hoping you could do a review of streaming apps and your thoughts on incorporating them (I have recently signed up to obé and LOVE it. But there are also so many options now like Yoga with Adriene, Beach Body on Demand etc). I know it doesn& By Hayley • Jan 24, 2019 04:35 pm
Royals Saying “no” to Prince William Prince William spoke at the Davos World Economic Forum yesterday. This is the annual event with, perhaps, the most exclusive and competitive badge hierarchy. Like even if you have the money, it might not get you the badge you want. Badges represent levels of access. The hologram badge is the By Lainey • Jan 24, 2019 04:16 pm
Business of Hollywood Vanity Fair’s effortless cover As Lainey mentioned earlier, we’ll be unpacking more of our thoughts about the 25th anniversary of the Vanity Fair Hollywood issue as we get through all the features. The cover is GREAT. You know what strikes me most? It’s effortless. It looks so relaxed, so EASY. No one By Sarah • Jan 24, 2019 03:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Is McConaughey even acting? Harmony Korine, who is the filmmaking equivalent to Florida, is finally following up his last feature, 2012’s Spring Breakers, with The Beach Bum, which actually looks like a real movie? At least, it looks about as straight forward as anything Korine has made. This is the guy, after all, By Sarah • Jan 24, 2019 02:25 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 24, 2019 Be right back, my eyes rolled out of my head. View this post on Instagram A post shared by iansomerhalder (@iansomerhalder) on Jan 24, 2019 at 12:08am PST You think they would have used a photo of Prince Harry for this, no? I’d even understand Ed Sheeran. View By Maria • Jan 24, 2019 02:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize without Brad Charlize Theron was also photographed yesterday in LA after lunch but not with Brad Pitt. Because, disappointingly, as we all now know, they’re not dating, no matter how hard the gossip ecosystem tried to make it so. So until we do actually have something legit to talk about, let’ By Lainey • Jan 24, 2019 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad without Charlize As I’ve been saying, it’s the story we all desperately want to be true, but never seemed to have a chance at being true from the start, because of the goddamn source – the Sun. Which is frustrating. I know I’m repeating myself but when the Sun says By Lainey • Jan 24, 2019 12:53 pm
Style Celine at Valentino Celine Dion was at two shows yesterday for Paris Haute Couture Week – RVDK Ronald Van Der Kemp and Valentino. Pepe was with her and, of course, she gave us a lot of good face. Let us never take this for granted. At Valentino, Celine sat next to Valentino and Giancarlo By Lainey • Jan 24, 2019 12:10 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Hollywood Sliding Doors: Beyoncé Rolling Stone published an interview with Michael Caine yesterday that hasn’t yet been widely covered, probably because social media isn’t all that interested in Michael Caine (and many people might not care for his political and social views) but there is an anecdote in there that might pick By Lainey • Jan 24, 2019 11:08 am
