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
Sports Travis Kelce: Wedding Expert Not really, but someone approached Travis Kelce like he was a wedding expert and I’m here to say, all in good fun since we need some of that right now (because these Swifties get real sensitive over this sh-t), that he is unqualified. It happened on this week’s By Lainey • Jan 09, 2025 02:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Pam and Jamie Lee: Showgirls in New York Following her appearance as a nominee at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, Pamela Anderson received a big boost to her Oscar campaign when the Screen Actors Guild announced their nominations earlier this week. She’s in as a Best Actress nominee for her performance in The Last Showgirl which By Lainey • Jan 09, 2025 01:32 pm
Break Ups Jessica Alba: The Mid-Week Divorce Drop Lainey sent me a text before I saw the Jessica Alba story but wasn’t super surprised to hear it. There haven’t been a lot signs one way or another but it’s more the shift that seems to be happening in Jessica Alba’s life, a common theme By Maria • Jan 09, 2025 11:42 am
Break Ups Catching up with JLo Haven’t posted about Jennifer Lopez all week – how did we go nine days into 2025 without a mention?! This changes now because there’s actually been some news about her, but we’ll jump back and forth between timelines. First, the biggest headline, is that the first full week By Lainey • Jan 09, 2025 10:53 am
Intro for January 9, 2025 Dear Gossips, Like many of you, everyone on our team here at LaineyGossip has someone or someones they care about in the Los Angeles area. Many of you who’ve been longtime readers of this site are based there. Hoping you are safe and staying safe. The Critics Choice Awards, By Lainey • Jan 09, 2025 09:10 am
What Else What Else? The NAACP Awards were also affected by the Los Angeles wildfires as they too cancelled their plans for announcing the nominations in favour of a press release. The Piano Lesson is leading with 14 nominations and Ayo Edebiri and Keke Palmer have four nominations each! (Essence) Jennifer Coolidge has a By Lainey • Jan 08, 2025 04:02 pm
