Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: January 14th 2025 We are officially two weeks into the new year, and the biggest news in music today was supposed to be Beyoncé’s announcement today which has now been postponed out of respect for the ongoing situation in Los Angeles. B is the It Girl all the it girls aspire to By MC • Jan 14, 2025 12:10 pm
Break Ups Jessica Simpson: Not your usual breakup statement Probably not a surprise, right? There was speculation through the back half of last year about Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson’s marriage. They hadn’t been seen together pretty much all of 2024. She wasn’t wearing her ring. She was hinting that heartbreak was fueling her return to By Lainey • Jan 14, 2025 10:25 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for January 14, 2025 Dear Gossips, It was a week ago today that the Palisades fire broke out and it remains largely uncontained. High winds over the next few days are challenging the progress that firefighters have made as another fire, the Auto fire had burned through 56 acres as of this morning. As By Lainey • Jan 14, 2025 09:33 am
What Else What Else? Keke Palmer in two outfits, one okay, one…deeply questionable. So much bad fashion is coming into style! What are we even doing! (Go Fug Yourself) If you feel like screaming until you pass out, Mark Zuckerberg went on Joe Rogan’s podcast. If you only want to scream a By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 04:06 pm
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 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- 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 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 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
