What Else What Else? There is something so dystopian about turning Squid Game into an actual challenge reality show. (Popsugar) Emilia Wickstead’s new fashion campaign is big on stripes, so expect to see stripes on Princess Kate soon. (Go Fug Yourself) Howard Stern thinks being woke is a compliment. I have been alive By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hot Priest and Connell in a time warp Fall festival season is not quite over, with two more marquee fests coming in October, the New York Film Festival and the BFI London Film Festival. Both take place over the first couple weeks of October, and both will feature Andrew Haigh’s new film, All of Us Strangers. The By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 02:41 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 22, 2023 Busy Philipps knows she is baiting us with Michelle Williams, but Busy is also generous with gossip, so I feel this is a fair trade. Miranda Kerr is doing double promo for a new Kora Organics product and an Erewhon smoothie. (Hailey Bieber has also had her own smoothie.) Lots By Maria • Sep 22, 2023 01:46 pm
Business of Hollywood Schrödinger's strike As Lainey mentioned, the latest word on the strikes is “encouraging yet suspicious”. Suspicious because the only reports are from unnamed sources undoubtedly coming from the AMPTP side—because it’s the same three trades owned by Penske Media, which also owns Dick Clark Productions, an AMPTP member company, publishing By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 01:01 pm
Matt Damon Not the most fascinating dinner There’s been this commercial playing in front of my maritime disaster videos on Youtube for Stella Artois featuring Matt Damon, Ludacris, Jeremy Allen White, and Zoe Saldaña. They sit around a table and pretend they’ve met before and talk about who they would have dinner with if they By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 11:46 am
Sports The ball is in Taylor’s court As mentioned earlier, Taylor Swift went out for dinner with Sophie Turner last night in New York after Sophie filed a lawsuit against Joe Jonas. Taylor is a supporting character in that story. She does, however, have her own story in development which is whatever is or isn’t happening By Lainey • Sep 22, 2023 11:15 am
Break Ups Sophie isn’t hiding On the same day she made headlines for filing a lawsuit against Joe Jonas alleging that he is “wrongfully detaining” their children in the United States, Sophie Turner stepped out to run errands in the afternoon and then later met up for dinner with Taylor Swift and some friends. So By Lainey • Sep 22, 2023 10:46 am
Scarlett Johansson Can you spot Benny Cumbercubes It’s fashion week in Milan, so that’s where all the celebrities are right now. The Prada show brought out some big names, including Hunter Schafer—obsessed with her chunky shoes—Amanda Gorman, Edward Enninful, Rosalía, Letitia Wright, Emma Watson, Scarlett Johansson—with the worst LBD on display at By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for September 22, 2023 Dear Gossips, Sometimes important things happen in the world, and sometimes you find out there’s an insurance company called Chubb. This is the latter instance. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One was one of the better movies of the summer, but it struggled at the box office, barely eking By Sarah • Sep 22, 2023 08:59 am
What Else What Else? As far as I’m concerned, every day is a good day for a Julia Fox fashion show. Are her clothes provocative and polarizing? Of course. Is that the goal? Of course. Is she doing it for attention? Absolutely. Will she allow you to shame her for this? F-ck no. By Lainey • Sep 21, 2023 04:08 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, September 21, 2023 I thought Lucy Hale was turning 25. She’s 34. As mentioned yesterday, Jaime King and Kyle Newman settled their custody issues and then they posted a joint statement. It took a while. Hopefully it won’t take Sophie and Joe this long. OK I love Cameron Diaz and will By Maria • Sep 21, 2023 03:35 pm
Break Ups Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas: No Longer Amicable Sophie Turner filed court documents today in New York asking the court to intervene to arrange “the immediate return of children wrongfully removed or wrongfully retained”. In her filing, she says that Joe Jonas is holding onto their daughters’ passports, preventing Sophie from travelling back to England with them. There’ By Lainey • Sep 21, 2023 02:47 pm
TV Updates Linda Evangelista: The Heart of a Supermodel It’s been so great to see so much of Linda Evangelista lately at the fashion weeks. She was at NYFW, she was at Vogue World, closing the show with the other supers, Christy, Cindy, and Naomi, and she was in Milan yesterday, seated front row alongside Suki Waterhouse, Naomi By Lainey • Sep 21, 2023 01:01 pm
Douchebags Halle Berry: A Royal Reminder Halle Berry’s been a headline for the last few days and if you missed it, here’s a quick summary of what happened. Drake and SZA released a new song called “Slime You Out”. Drake used an image of Halle Berry getting slimed at the 2012 Kids’ Choice Awards. By Lainey • Sep 21, 2023 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine on a boat Chris Pine’s directorial debut, Poolman, premiered at TIFF, and, um, it didn’t go well. The movie isn’t great, and people walked out “in droves” at the premiere (the press screening the next morning was sparsely attended, as most people wrote the movie off after word about the By Sarah • Sep 21, 2023 10:37 am
Music So much *NSYNC Another day, another *NSYNC headline. Yesterday everyone jumped on the story about them recreating a photo from back in the early days. PEOPLE covered it, EW covered it, it was in Rolling Stone, you get the point. Today, it’s Hot Ones. The Hot Ones episode featuring all five members By Lainey • Sep 21, 2023 10:15 am