TV Updates Escape from the Algorithm As Sarah wrote this morning, Los Angeles is still in flux and that means many Hollywood events are on pause. Safety and containment is of course the first priority for the fires. Then cleanup and the assessment of damage will start. There is a lot of unknown and layered with By Maria • Jan 13, 2025 03:26 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 13, 2025 Anna Sawai is the moment and I am very into her work with stylist Karla Welch. The red carpet looks are great, very fitting for a nominee/winner, but I think my favourite so far is the Moschino look in the first carousel (second photo). From the front it looks By Maria • Jan 13, 2025 02:44 pm
Faux Gossip Blake Lively isn’t to blame for everything Back in 2018, A Simple Favor did moderately well, and over the years—bolstered by streaming—it became a cult classic. This led to Amazon and Lionsgate greenlighting a sequel, which was filmed last year. Based on when it was filmed, I expected A Simple Favor 2 to be a By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 01:26 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben and Violet reunite Normally, I would not have much to say about Ben Affleck standing around outside, but, well, due to the ongoing and very serious wildfires around LA interrupting publicity schedules, it’s this or pictures of B-list celebrities at the farmer’s market, so…here is Ben Affleck with Violet Affleck, By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 12:04 pm
TV Updates Meghan’s delay It’s not just award shows and such being postponed due to the wildfires, a bunch of TV shows that film in LA have paused production, too. In a similar vein, Meghan Markle asked Netflix to delay the launch of her new series, With Love, Meghan, from January 15 to By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 10:37 am
Intro for January 13, 2025 Dear Gossips, As wildfires continue to devastate Los Angeles—an event that looks more and more on the scale of Hurricane Katrina swamping New Orleans nearly twenty years ago—more awards season shuffling is happening. This is obviously not the most important thing right now, but as we observe celebrity By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 09:26 am
What Else What Else? Akaylah Ellison recounts fleeing the fires in LA, and what it’s like to come to terms with (potentially) losing your memories when everything burns. (Popsugar) Notre Dame is a longtime rival of my alma mater, USC, but I like Penn State even less than Notre Dame, so I guess By Sarah • Jan 10, 2025 04:03 pm
Reality TV Reality Recap: Confession, absence, revelation In a devastating week for Los Angeles residents, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Bozoma Saint John revealed in an Instagram post that she lost the home she ‘prayed for’, her ‘EFF YOU I’m here house’ in the wildfires raging through Los Angeles. Former Vanderpump Rules cast member Laura-Leigh By Stephanie • Jan 10, 2025 03:34 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 10, 2025 Kaia Gerber and Austin Butler, and Jessica Alba and Cash Warren, are the first big splits of 2025, but you know who is still, maybe, together? Dave Grohl and his wife, Jordyn Blum. PEOPLE reported that they spent Christmas as a family. After one of the biggest scandals of 2024, By Maria • Jan 10, 2025 02:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jason Statham: Working-class action hero Jason Statham makes a very specific kind of movie. Outside of big-budget studio fare like The Meg and the Fast/Furious movies, a “Jason Statham movie” is best defined as “a blue-collar guy trying to hold down his end gets pushed to the brink and does many murders on behalf By Sarah • Jan 10, 2025 01:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top 10 Films of 2024 As theatrical moviegoing continues to rebound following the COVID shutdowns of 2020, cinema itself is fully back, baby. 2024 was another really good year for film, especially in the lower budgeted ranks, where a number of filmmakers used whatever was at their disposal to realize their visions, from open-source software By Sarah • Jan 10, 2025 12:02 pm
Top Reads How This Hot Bitch is Helping For those of you who are new to LaineyGossip, “This Hot Bitch” is how I refer to Sharon Stone. She’s hot AF, she’s a bitch in the best way, and she’s bringing her best right now in Los Angeles during this unimaginable crisis. Here she is telling By Lainey • Jan 10, 2025 11:08 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meanwhile, in New York As Lainey has mentioned, Hollywood is the nexus of what we discuss here at LaineyGossip, the literal and figurative cross-section of celebrity and gossip, and right now, Hollywood is on fire. Or rather, Los Angeles, the home of Hollywood, is on fire. Which means movie premieres, award season activities, all By Sarah • Jan 10, 2025 10:11 am
Intro for January 10, 2025 Dear Gossips, News that Anita Bryant passed away broke yesterday, and the whole world reacted like this: If you’re not familiar, Bryant was a singer popular for a minute in the 1960s before pivoting to hardline anti-queer crusading for the rest of her life. She is most known for By Sarah • Jan 10, 2025 09:10 am
What Else What Else? Sarah noted the disrespect of the Golden Globes towards Viola Davis in one of her posts on Monday and this is Kathleen’s essay about Viola’s impact on the industry, her incredible body of work, and how she took the opportunity in her acceptance speech to keep shining – from By Lainey • Jan 09, 2025 04:24 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 9, 2025 We are collectively watching a catastrophe unfold online in Los Angeles. It’s an incredibly dangerous, quickly changing situation. Lainey wrote about it this morning and for those of us not in LA, all we can do is wait and see what needs to be done. Hulk Hogan made an By Maria • Jan 09, 2025 03:57 pm
