Baby and Bump Obsession Festival Season Angelina As mentioned in the previous post about Jennifer Lopez, the Toronto International Film Festival announced its lineup this year and it looks very strong. This is the bounce-back that TIFF and other high profile fall festivals needed after last year because the strike grounded a lot of talent participation. Remember By Lainey • Jul 22, 2024 01:23 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo: A Bridgerton Birthday and a TIFF premiere Bridgerton is about finding love in the ton and Jennifer Lopez loves love, so perhaps not surprising that she threw a Bridgerton-themed birthday party in the Hamptons this weekend. Friends and family, including her mother and also Sarah Jessica Parker, were all seen showing up in Bridgerton fits but we By Lainey • Jul 22, 2024 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Twisters blew away the box office I said it! Did I not say it?! I did! I said Twisters would beat expectations! Very specifically I said it would make $80 million: “…the $50 million estimate for Twisters feels low, I won’t be surprised if that movie hits around $80 million.” Twisters blew away its opening By Sarah • Jul 22, 2024 10:57 am
Shout-Outs July 22, 2024 – Shout-Outs Michele! Wishing you the happiest birthday from Staci whose gift to you is vintage JLo. Are we talking Fly Girl days? If so, here’s a compilation. i’m watching #ThisIsMeNow and i’m just so happy to see jlo dancing! yeah fly girl! pic.twitter.com/F9onofvrQM — pleasure president By Lainey • Jul 22, 2024 10:29 am
Reality TV Intro for July 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, I wrote on Friday at our Substack, The Squawk, about the explosive success of Love Island USA which just wrapped up its sixth season. It’s extraordinary for a show to generate this much heat at this point in its run – even the New York Times published a By Lainey • Jul 22, 2024 09:59 am
What Else What Else? Anna Sawai is doing a round of press hot off her fresh Emmy nomination for her performance in Shōgun. She heads to Australia soon to start working on Monarch: Legacy of Monsters so this is a bit of campaign work and, as you can see, and as usual, she looks By Lainey • Jul 19, 2024 04:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 19, 2024 Another Friday, another afternoon of Bennifer watch. PEOPLE has a cryptic but interesting story that I think is a sign of defense for Jennifer. The sources assert that fame is not the driving factor here, which makes sense. It’s not like Ben Affleck doesn’t know! It’s been By Maria • Jul 19, 2024 03:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Yes, that’s Bridget Here’s Renee Zellweger this week on the set of the new Bridget Jones movie shooting in England. Ant Antstead came to see her at one point, which is sweet, but this is not the love interest that interests me. First though, let’s talk about Bridget, specifically the look By Lainey • Jul 19, 2024 03:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews KiKi Layne in Dandelion KiKi Layne is so naturally luminous on screen that a single closeup of her face can engender audience sympathy for her character. Filmmaker Nicole Riegel, directing Layne in her new film Dandelion, understands this quality in her star, and uses it to both make us care about her character and By Sarah • Jul 19, 2024 02:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones in Twisters Twisters is a rare legacy sequel that is unburdened by the original film’s story and characters. Much as Doug Liman’s Road House treats the 1989 original film as a genre unto itself, so, too, does Twisters, the 28-years later sequel to the 1996 blockbuster Twister, treat its source By Sarah • Jul 19, 2024 12:38 pm
Legal issues Reality Recap: Sandoval's fishy, recanted lawsuit, Ariana's sandwich legal trouble This week, the fallout from Bethenny Frankel’s racist ass comments about the population of the Hamptons continued. The Traitors beat out Survivor for an Emmy nomination. And during an appearance on the My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast, Vicki Gunvalson and Teresa Giudice find out just how much they By Stephanie • Jul 19, 2024 11:30 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Goth Gilmore Girls The first looks we’ve gotten at Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s legacy sequel of the 1980s horror-comedy classic Beetlejuice, really didn’t give away much about the new movie except nostalgia vibes and that Lydia Deetz has a daughter. The new trailer, though, coming just about six weeks before By Sarah • Jul 19, 2024 10:50 am
Shout-Outs July 19, 2024 – Shout-Outs Carolina! Happy Birthday with love from Paula who tells me you’re going to karaoke so now I want to know what your go-to song is? Sing some Celine, that’s my birthday wish/order for you. By request, here are your celebrity crushes, Andrew Garfield and Paul Mescal who By Lainey • Jul 19, 2024 10:17 am
Music Intro for July 19, 2024 Dear Gossips, In March 2023 Jimin’s “Like Crazy” from his debut solo album FACE became the first song by a Korean solo artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Nine months later, Jimin enlisted for mandatory military service and he’s not scheduled to be discharged By Lainey • Jul 19, 2024 09:53 am
What Else What Else? Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni have been working together for 25 years. That’s a quarter of a century. So it’s a work marriage. A functional and successful work marriage that has outlasted so many if not most actual Hollywood marriages. They are wonderful together. (Pajiba) Rachel Ulatowski makes By Lainey • Jul 18, 2024 04:07 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 18, 2024 Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds probably arrange their work schedules so they don’t overlap when on set, but in terms of promotion both of them are doing the most right now (him for Deadpool & Wolverine, her for It Ends With Us). It’s a pretty smart strategy – and By Maria • Jul 18, 2024 03:03 pm
