Good for Gossip Celebrity Christmas Wish List Earlier this week, it was confirmed that Ben Affleck dropped out of Focus, a comedy about an aging con artist and a young sexy apprentice, played by Kristen Stewart. Click here for a refresher. The writing team (they also wrote Crazy, Stupid, Love) originally hoped that Emma Stone and Ryan By Lainey • Dec 21, 2012 02:17 pm
Scarlett Johansson Scarlett as Maggie Previews for Cat On A Hot Tin Roof on Broadway began this week with Scarlett Johansson playing Maggie. As you know, Elizabeth Taylor was once Maggie. And, well, in light of the mess that was Liz & Dick, it’s now even more obvious what a sh-tty job Lindsay Lohan By Lainey • Dec 21, 2012 12:26 pm
Girly Throw Downs Katie on Tom’s weekend Who’s the genius pushing Katie Holmes out so visibly on the weekend Tom Cruise is trying to sell Jack Reacher? If there’s anyone to challenge Blake Lively’s fame game, Jesus, it might actually be Katie Holmes. A year ago, this would not have been your answer. Katie By Lainey • Dec 21, 2012 11:58 am
Lifestyle Duana Names: Oonagh & Ibrahim Hi Duana, I am Canadian of Irish/Scottish ancestry and he is Somali Canadian. Our kids are going to be so good looking (or really odd looking, we will see)! Also, our last name is Ryan Abdillahi. Keeping this in mind, what do you think of Oonagh for a girl By Duana • Dec 21, 2012 11:08 am
Amazingness You can start celebrating Christmas now GOD, did I need her today. Nothing stresses me out more than when I can’t get online. I’ve been cranky this morning. And then... Sunshine. My darling sunshine... Mimi, obviously. As I wrote the other day, it’s not really Christmas until Mimi’s in Aspen squished into By Lainey • Dec 21, 2012 11:01 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Holiday Cocktail Calories Tis the season for holiday cheer but come January all of those liquid calories you consume will probably be found hanging over the sides of your jeans. I would never say do not drink over the holidays but just be wise on what you choose. Here are the calorie contents By Hayley • Dec 21, 2012 10:27 am
Intro for December 21, 2012 Dear Gossips, Every year, near the end of the year, we come to Tofino for a couple of weeks and we stay on the beach at Pacific Sands and it’s beautiful and stormy and comfortable and relaxing away from the city and the wireless is mostly reliable and we By Lainey • Dec 21, 2012 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What to Watch When Christmas Turns You Quaint I live in New York City. I waste hours a day on the internet. I have serious guilt about my Amazon usage. I’m bloggin’. The point I’m trying to make is that I’ve pretty much embraced modern urban life. But something changes every year when the holidays By Dean • Dec 20, 2012 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Baz makes Leo so pretty Leonardo DiCaprio was never so pretty as he was for Baz Luhrmann in Romeo + Juliet. As Dean wrote last week when he eulogised Leo’s sexiness -- click here for a refresher -- that’s the Leo we keep clinging to, the one we see with our memories instead of By Lainey • Dec 20, 2012 01:11 pm
Taylor Swift A sleepover with Mom Duana and I talk about it all the time, as part of the “child of immigrants” experience. I’ve written about this already but the way we were raised, it’s jarring every time we see it. Because in our homes, there was no public display of affection. Maybe on By Lainey • Dec 20, 2012 12:28 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Danes-Dancy, Party Of Three Cyrus Michael Christopher Dancy Weatherby George Dupree Took Great Care Of His Mother Though He Was Only Three This was the first thing I thought of when I heard the Danes-Dancy baby name. Do you remember that poem from “When We Were Very Young”? It’s always entertained me; the By Duana • Dec 20, 2012 11:49 am
Weddings Blake plays us all, again, including Justin Timberlake As I reported yesterday -- click here for a refresher -- Blake Lively’s Martha Stewart Wedding wasn’t exactly as we expected. There are no faces -- not on the cover, not inside, nowhere. The only shot we get of Blake is of her hand holding Ryan Reynold’s By Lainey • Dec 20, 2012 10:50 am
Hook Ups In love for Christmas Renee Zellweger and her boyfriend Doyle Bramhall II arrived back in LA together yesterday after a weeklong trip to New York. They were first sighted together last week on their way out and didn’t mind holding hands, even in front of the paps. Once again, here, Photo Assumption says By Lainey • Dec 20, 2012 10:05 am
Intro for December 20, 2012 Dear Gossips, Quick promo off the top before we get into it... Tonight on CTV, right after the X Factor finale, I’m one of the panelists on Stars & Scandals 2012 hosted by Ben Mulroney, counting down the top 10 entertainment stories of the year...and, well, at times By Lainey • Dec 20, 2012 09:48 am
Weddings Blake’s missing cover You can interpret that a number of ways… If you’ve been reading my blog regularly the last few weeks, you know that Blake Lively’s Martha Stewart Weddings issue is…like Christmas for me. And for some of you too. We can’t wait to see it. We’ve By Lainey • Dec 19, 2012 04:38 pm
Hook Ups Tom Cruise is “for real” Tom Cruise was on Jimmy Fallon last night. They had a water fight. And he talked, again, about go-carting and motorcycles. It was better than the night before on Letterman, slightly, but Top Gun is still, these days, painfully uncool, “for real”. You know those commercials when they dress some By Lainey • Dec 19, 2012 04:10 pm
