Award Season Campaigning First Man’s Oscar paradox From its first trailer, First Man looked like a surefire Oscar front runner. Damien Chazelle, Ryan Gosling, period piece, Great Man biopic—it appeals to several Oscar fetishes. But the box office for First Man has been lackluster, stalling out just below its break-even point. And with that lack of By Sarah • Dec 11, 2018 10:30 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Royal Meghan’s extreme belly-cupping I mean, I thought the belly-cupping during the royal tour in Australia, Fiji, Tonga, and New Zealand was extra. Turns out, for Meghan Markle, that was simply entry-level belly-cupping. Last night at the British Fashion Awards, Royal Meghan took it beyond extra to extreme. If you’ve been following this By Lainey • Dec 11, 2018 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for December 11, 2018 Dear Gossips, In 2005, filmmaker Ameesha Joshi was at a World Press Photo Exhibit when she came across pictures of Indian girls boxing on the beach. Ameesha is a first-generation Canadian born to Indian parents and she understood immediately the social pressures the boxers would face, on top of all By Lainey • Dec 11, 2018 09:02 am
What Else What Else? HEADS UP PLEASE READ: as mentioned last week, we are doing a relaunch of Sasha’s podcast, premiering in early January. We are looking forward to showing you the new artwork and all up in your business. We can’t wait to get up in your business. So send us By Lainey • Dec 10, 2018 04:09 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Go With The Golden Hi Duana, I am pregnant with my second child which I am hoping so badly is a girl, due in December. I have a 2 year old son William who we call Will or Wills for short. I have always loved the name Olivia for a girl but it is By Duana • Dec 10, 2018 03:57 pm
Award Season Campaigning ScarJo works for Black Panther Black Panther is the first Marvel movie with a real shot at a major Oscar nomination. As such, Disney is backing an actual, proper award campaign for the movie and key craftspeople involved, particularly Ruth Carter, the costume designer. I attended an event with Ruth Carter a couple months ago By Sarah • Dec 10, 2018 02:09 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 10, 2018 Courteney Cox is going against a trend – most people are trying to get off Facebook, and she just joined. Maybe she’ll be working with Facebook Watch? Just joined Facebook! Better late than never!https://t.co/huioHNhJvl— Courteney Cox (@CourteneyCox) December 7, 2018 Now onto Jennifer Aniston, who is By Maria • Dec 10, 2018 01:28 pm
Break Ups Cardi changes the lyrics Cardi B performed the other night in Chicago and during the song “Motorsport”, she changed one of the lines to update her relationship status: The original lyric is "I get up set off. I turn Offset on. I told him the other day. Man, we should sell that porn” By Lainey • Dec 10, 2018 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Spider Surprise Spider-Man: Far From Home comes out next July, which means its press machine is creaking into gear. Jake Gyllenhaal joined Instagram to help with the effort, and this weekend, he, Tom Holland, and Jacob Batalon made an appearance at Comic Con Experience Brazil, where the trailer debuted (though it has By Sarah • Dec 10, 2018 12:21 pm
Douchebags Thomas Markle’s early Christmas gift Thomas Markle always strikes on a weekend. With two weeks to go before Christmas, he decided to send his daughter an early gift – speaking to the UK papers yet again to share exclusive family photos and letters Meghan wrote to him in the past, details about her first wedding, confirming By Lainey • Dec 10, 2018 11:38 am
Style Chris and Annabelle going strong Chris Pine and Annabelle Wallis are still dating. As far as we know, they’ve been together officially since March. They started the ‘showing up to events in coordinating outfits’ phase of their relationship in July. Chris and Annabelle are still in that phase. Here they are in London leaving By Kathleen • Dec 10, 2018 11:02 am
Music Beyoncé in India Beyoncé doesn’t perform at parties on the regular. Beyoncé isn’t showing up at bat mitzvahs or birthdays or pre-wedding festivities for just anyone. So, what does it take for Beyonce to show up? You just have to be the heiress to the richest man in India, a successful By Kathleen • Dec 10, 2018 10:43 am
Shout-Outs December 10, 2018 – Smutty Shout-Outs Michelle! Happy Birthday from your sister and partner-in-crime Allison! By request, here are Henry Golding and Dan Reynolds. Also Brad Pitt in A River Runs Through It – see below: By Lainey • Dec 10, 2018 10:11 am
Ken Jeong Intro for December 10, 2018 Dear Gossips, The LA Film Critics Association has named Roma their best film of the year. Does that mean the Oscars will finally include a Netflix film in their Best Picture nominees? Well, that’s not the Oscar priority right now. They’re still trying to figure out who will By Lainey • Dec 10, 2018 09:50 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Updates of Elation Okay, so it’s true - I’m on vacation, and the bliss of the sun and the weather has become even more delightful since I realized I can use geotags to find the people who are posing as hard as they can in all-day photo shoots. But if I By Duana • Dec 07, 2018 04:33 pm
What Else What Else? Today was Kathleen’s last day as a producer on The Social and she produced our year-end primetime special which airs later this month. Which is why she’s been quiet this week and that’s also why we were quiet today. I was focusing on making her cry as By Lainey • Dec 07, 2018 04:17 pm
