Bowen Yang Intro for May 11, 2026 Dear Gossips, In the United States, May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. In Canada it’s Asian Heritage Month. This is one month before June which, among other things, is Pride, or gay month. Which is when Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang host the annual Las Culturistas By Lainey • May 11, 2026 09:54 am
What Else Let’s see who showed up to support the ballet During awards season all the dance and opera girlies got mad at Timothee Chalamet for basically calling ballet and opera dying arts (statistics show he’s not entirely wrong, they’re definitely financially challenged on an institutional level). Well, everyone who got mad at Timmy for saying ballet is not By Sarah • May 08, 2026 04:27 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Crime-solving sheep in The Sheep Detectives Advancements in animation and technology means that we can now make photorealistic, hybrid live-action and animated movies about animals going on adventures entirely guilt free. Generations of us were scarred for life by learning of the fates of animals in such films as Free Willy, Homeward Bound, and Heaven’ By Sarah • May 08, 2026 03:13 pm
Top Reads TNT: A Day in London and the Fictional Predictions Taylor Swift has resurfaced with Travis Kelce in London. This is happening five weeks before one of her rumoured wedding dates – June 13, because it’s a Saturday and 13 is her favourite number – and eight weeks before her other rumoured wedding date, July 4, because it’s Independence Day By Lainey • May 08, 2026 03:07 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 8, 2026 I don’t think the Met Gala red carpet is influential in any meaningful way, there’s not a lot of “cerulean” trickle down into regular clothing. And that’s fine, it’s supposed to be one extra night of fashion, not street style. But I am noticing Kate Moss By Maria • May 08, 2026 02:16 pm
TV Updates Ben Stiller and Jessica Chastain’s divorce drama Ben Stiller is in New York filming a new Apple TV+ series, The Off Weeks, with Jessica Chastain and Arian Moayed, which is how I learned that he is not expected to direct episodes of Severance for season three. Instead, Kogonada will take over directing duties. Low key incredible? Ben By Sarah • May 08, 2026 12:58 pm
Lucy Liu Superfake Lucy Liu I always love checking in with Lucy Liu, it warms my Millennial heart to see an Angel thriving. Lucy is in New York, filming a new series called Superfakes. It’s billed as a mystery-thriller and it’s about a working-class mom who sells counterfeits for cash and By Sarah • May 08, 2026 11:28 am
Pedro Pascal Pedro Pascal is warming up Well, I guess here is one middle-aged heartthrob, though I don’t think we really talk about Pedro Pascal in those terms, but he is fifty-one now. He has that certain timelessness that comes almost exclusively for men who don’t get famous until their thirties. Like Mark By Sarah • May 08, 2026 10:10 am
Brendan Fraser Intro for May 8, 2026 Dear Gossips, One of the most heart-warming elements of pop culture over the last few years is all the comebacks we’ve gotten to see, including Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Fraser, both of whom capped off their returns to Hollywood with Oscar wins. Brendan Fraser has been keeping By Sarah • May 08, 2026 09:22 am
What Else Baby Elle, but not Baby Elle The first trailer for the Legally Blonde prequel, called Elle, was released yesterday starring Lexi Minetree in the Elle Woods role made famous by Reese Witherspoon. This story is set in 1995, obviously before Elle went to law school…but the beats are the same. In the original movie, Elle By Lainey • May 07, 2026 04:03 pm
Charlize and Katie: Denim and Suede Yesterday in the site open we posted photos of Charlize Theron wearing a denim zipped shirt and I had a few people ask about it, both over email and DMs and also in the daily chat thread over at our Substack, The Squawk. Then I saw new photos of Katie By Lainey • May 07, 2026 02:57 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 7, 2026 CODE RED. JLo is in the bath, I repeat JLo is in the bath. If you follow the lore, you know that JLo is as devoted to her bath time as she is to her jewellery collection. Ben Affleck proposed to her (the second time) in the bath. I’m By Maria • May 07, 2026 02:09 pm
Dominic Sessa Dominic Sessa returns as young “Tony” Bourdain You know what is so weird is that on Monday night during the Met Gala, I randomly wondered what Dominic Sessa, breakout star of The Holdovers, is up to, and then boom, a trailer for Tony, starring Dominic Sessa, dropped. Tony is a biopic about the late Anthony Bourdain, set By Sarah • May 07, 2026 12:23 pm
Timothee Chalamet The Former Marty Supreme As predicted earlier this week, Timothée Chalamet was not at the Met Gala, not only because he’s not a regular there but because between the Met Gala and the Knicks playoff game, there was no doubt where he’d prefer to be. He was courtside for the Knicks game By Lainey • May 07, 2026 11:27 am
Martin Short The Real Marty Supreme It’s so good to see Martin Short, last night at the premiere of his upcoming documentary, Marty, Life is Short, premiering on Netflix next week. And he was there with his family and so many of his friends. Well now I’m crying already. The film is directed by By Lainey • May 07, 2026 10:37 am
BTS Intro for May 7, 2026 Dear Gossips, BTS will perform the first of three concerts tonight in Mexico City GNP Seguros Stadium and the stop in Mexico felt like a state visit – not hyperbolic. Yesterday they were invited by President Claudia Sheinbaum to the National Palace, where the person who holds the highest office in By Lainey • May 07, 2026 09:31 am
