Good for Gossip Jennifer Aniston’s two birthday exes Today is Jennifer Aniston’s 50th birthday. Her party was on Saturday, at the Sunset Tower. And as you’ve probably heard, it was probably the most A list guest list of any party in a long time. It could have been an awards show. It may have been more By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 08:12 am
Award Season Campaigning The BAFTA Favourite Roma and The Favourite have the most Oscar nominations (10) this year. And, since it’s the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, The Favourite was always expected to do well at the BAFTAs. Roma took Best Picture, maintaining its position as the frontrunner with two weeks now to By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 07:50 am
BFFs Beyoncé is her own Grammys Remember the story that Lin-Manual Miranda told about the time Beyoncé came to see Hamilton and what happened when she met Jonathan Groff backstage? She loved his performance. And in particular she loved Jonathan’s King George walk, so much that she imitated him to him, telling him that, By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 07:21 am
Grammy Awards 2019 Michelle opens the Grammys STRONG Well, if you want to start your award show strong, starting with Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is one way to do it. I know that the only First Lady we acknowledge didn’t actually open the Grammys (Camila Cabello did with a performance I forgot about immediately after it happened) By Kathleen • Feb 11, 2019 06:57 am
Music Intro for February 11, 2019 Dear Gossips, There are going to be all kinds of think-pieces today about whether or not the Grammys are still relevant and/or how they can stay or become relevant again going forward. There’s no easy answer to that question. But no one can deny that the talent By Lainey • Feb 11, 2019 06:31 am
What Else What Else? Tori Spelling has a problem with how her marriage is characterised. People keep saying she’s having marriage problems. Apparently everything is fine even though… everything. Do you think she would object to me describing it as “tumultuous”? Or are we just supposed to go with “stable” and call it By Lainey • Feb 08, 2019 04:44 pm
Lifestyle Duana Names: Is the Answer Unfinished? Hi Duana! I am expecting my first, a baby boy on February 11th, and some last minute help would be greatly appreciated. My husband and I can’t seem to get on the page about names (I like unusual off the wall names and he is a lot more traditional) By Duana • Feb 08, 2019 04:18 pm
Award Season Campaigning Richard E Grant: Oscar’s newest fanboy Award season’s best fanboy is a role typically occupied by Timothee Chalamet – at least it was last year and for part of this year. And it’s not even an official “role” since we only made it up for Timmy. Still. There was a vacancy, since Timmy is not By Lainey • Feb 08, 2019 04:01 pm
Lifestyle Sasha Finds: Antonym Baked Blush By now you guys know that I’m a sucker for a two in one product. If I can cut corners and still get the same results I’m down for the cause and that’s exactly why I’m loving Antonym's Baked Blush. It’s a highlighter By Sasha • Feb 08, 2019 03:40 pm
Idris Elba + Spike Jonze Been saving this for today, it’s a Friday thing, came out a week or so ago, but he just posted about it on Instagram – Idris Elba fronting a Squarespace ad that was released in time for the Super Bowl. There’s a regular spot and a short film, both By Lainey • Feb 08, 2019 03:19 pm
Lifestyle Amy Adams in red - Outfit of the Week Without a doubt the best red carpet look on Amy Adams this entire award season and it’s not even at an award show. This is Andrew Gn and she looks amazing. I don’t normally vote for a red dress but this one, on Amy Adams, is undeniable. I By Lainey • Feb 08, 2019 02:56 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 8, 2019 I’m not watching Celebrity Big Brother but couldn’t miss the headlines about Dina Lohan’s “boyfriend”. They have been talking on the phone for 5 years but have never met because he lives in the remote city of… San Francisco. Oh and they haven’t seen each other By Maria • Feb 08, 2019 02:06 pm
Andrew Garfield Andrew…no Rita? In the previous post about Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, I mentioned that this weekend in London is kind of like Oscar weekend in LA – you want to be seen, you want to hit the parties, to catch up with the right people, to line up your next opportunity, to By Lainey • Feb 08, 2019 01:24 pm
Bradley Cooper Bradley BAFTA, Gaga Grammys Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk were seen at the airport in New York, presumably heading to London for the BAFTAs where Coop’s going in with several nominations and could pick up his first win of the season. The BAFTAs can be a good indication of how the Oscars might By Lainey • Feb 08, 2019 12:17 pm
Music Ariana Grande: new album, new video, no Grammys Ariana Grande, just 7 months after the release of her previous album, Sweetener, dropped a new album, thank u, next last night. I thought Sweetener was fine. It didn’t make me want to hit repeat, I wasn’t listening to it on every car ride, so already for me, By Lainey • Feb 08, 2019 11:33 am
BFFs Harry and Meghan’s next trip But first, let’s talk about the reaction to the PEOPLE Magazine cover story this week featuring five of Meghan Markle’s friends defending her anonymously. When I wrote about this on Tuesday, at the end of that post, I noted that “British press will probably not react well to By Lainey • Feb 08, 2019 10:29 am