Sports Intro for June 18, 2026 Dear Gossips, By the time you’re reading this, the Knicks parade will be happening in NYC. The ticker-tape parade was invented in New York City, it’s become a New York City tradition, along the Canyon of Heroes, and today the city’s basketball team will be celebrated By Lainey • Jun 18, 2026 09:44 am
What Else Tomdaya ARE married Tom Holland and Zendaya are on the press circuit for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Today, they’re in Amsterdam. Zendaya looks like she’s got a parade to lead (compliment), Tom looks happy to be there (compliment). I never, ever get tired of these two because of their palpable By Sarah • Jun 17, 2026 04:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hopscotching Shrek Four months after a teaser in which everyone collectively rejected the look of NuShrek, the teaser for Shrek 5 is here and bullying didn’t work this time, Shrek still looks different. The teaser, er, teases a new adventure with Shrek and Donkey, the teaser also shows off Princess Fiona By Sarah • Jun 17, 2026 03:17 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 17, 2026 Suki Waterhouse was photographed outside of Rough Trade record shop and the outfit is giving “Disney Channel high school villain.” Even the pap walk is early 2000s. She’s strutting like the cheque depends on it. View this post on Instagram A post shared by E! News (@enews) Snapchat has By Maria • Jun 17, 2026 02:07 pm
Equality Issues The ethics of influencer accountability Makeup artist and beauty product founder Patrick Ta recently sat down with Emma Grede on her podcast, Aspire with Emma, to address the controversy that’s been surrounding him and his brand for the last several weeks. In an episode called The Accountability Conversation, Patrick reflected on the situation that’ By Stephanie • Jun 17, 2026 12:23 pm
Top Reads The BTS Grammy The Recording Academy announced yesterday that five new categories will be presented for the first time next year, so in the current Grammy cycle. The category I want to focus on in this post is Best Asian Pop Music Performance award, described by the Recording Academy as follows: “This Category By Lainey • Jun 17, 2026 11:08 am
Angelina Jolie Angelina’s unchanging style Last year, I reviewed Alice Winocour’s film Couture, starring Angelina Jolie, at TIFF. The film is fine, mostly notable for Angelina Jolie’s sensitive performance. But Couture is now being released into theaters at the end of the month, so Angelina is outside, doing promotion. She was in New By Sarah • Jun 17, 2026 09:52 am
Taylor Swift Intro for June 17, 2026 Dear Gossips, I’ve been making jokes about Taylor Swift’s Madison Square Garden wedding, because that just sounds made up. Like if someone set a creative writing assignment and the prompt was “pop star mega wedding” someone would run with “Madison Square Garden wedding”. It sounds almost like a By Sarah • Jun 17, 2026 09:02 am
What Else Olivia Wilde’s return Olivia Wilde’s third feature film, The Invite, opens next week. She has started doing press rounds in New York, including a screening event last night, and earlier yesterday she was out in a cool suit ensemble—she is the exact right height and degree of lankiness for a wide- By Sarah • Jun 16, 2026 04:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Greta Lee and Wagner Moura can’t leave The 2018 double whammy success of A Quiet Place and Bird Box has ushered in a wave of “families at home but imperiled” movies. This year we have two prominent examples, The End of Oak Street, which is part of Anne Hathaway’s Big Year, and now we also have By Sarah • Jun 16, 2026 03:28 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 16, 2026 Yesterday, Sarah wrote about the Beckham drama with Harper being followed (purposefully or not) to Brooklyn’s house. Brooklyn is getting blasted by the UK media for appearing in a World Cup commercial because he’s “capitalizing off his last name” and the soccer of it all. I’m hardly By Maria • Jun 16, 2026 02:24 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: A Win for Olivia Olivia Rodrigo dropped her long-awaited third studio album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love last Friday, cementing her as one of the top Gen Z pop-rock stars of the decade. The album has barely been out for longer than a weekend but it has By MC • Jun 16, 2026 01:45 pm
TV Updates The Bear prepares its final meal The Bear’s fifth and final season debuts on June 25. There was an event yesterday with the whole cast in New York called the “Final Family Meal”. I will harp forever on The Bear not being a comedy, but it is a good show, a show that has been By Sarah • Jun 16, 2026 12:41 pm
Top Reads Taylor Swift’s all-nighter Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are supposedly getting married at Madison Square Garden in just over two weeks – on Independence Day weekend, the return of Taymerica in the biggest way. As we have seen over the last couple of months, amid rampant speculation about the wedding, Taylor has not kept By Lainey • Jun 16, 2026 11:14 am
Colin Farrell Colin Farrell, the gossip genie free space Let us now partake in a Cheesy Corn palate cleanser: Colin Farrell, looking handsome as hell, going into Jimmy Kimmel Live! yesterday. He’s promoting season two of Sugar on Apple TV+. I know some people got really into Sugar, ultimately, I couldn’t roll with it, but season two By Sarah • Jun 16, 2026 10:04 am
Katy Perry Intro for June 16, 2026 Dear Gossips, It’s summer, which means it’s celebrity coupling season. It kind of always is celebrity coupling season, but there is something about summer that brings out the celebrity weddings, celebrity date nights, and celebrity pairings that fuel gossip for weeks and months (except in the summer of By Sarah • Jun 16, 2026 09:06 am