Award Season Campaigning Rachel McAdams (barely) campaigns too Here’s something for those who still carry a lot of Notebook gossip nostalgia for Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Is there a chance that they could both show up to the Oscars in March? A small one, but it’s still a chance. And on that note, let me By Lainey • Dec 21, 2023 11:29 am
Award Season Campaigning Ken Kampaigns at Kristmas I hope the team behind the Barbie market campaign this past summer, ahead of the release of the movie and also now, during award season, is getting a holiday bonus. Because the work they produced delivered measurable results (a massive box office) and made a huge cultural impact. Barbie was By Lainey • Dec 21, 2023 10:35 am
Business of Hollywood Another ill-advised merger Today in Thanks, I Hate It news, David Zaslav and Bob Bakish reportedly met (over lunch) earlier this week to discuss a merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global. Zaslav you know as the guy who gets booed everywhere he goes, and Bakish was named CEO of Viacom in By Sarah • Dec 21, 2023 09:46 am
Mariah Carey Intro for December 21, 2023 Dear Gossips, Mariah Carey, the Queen of Christmas, is now at her North Pole…which is Aspen. It’s where Mimi spends Christmas every year. She is there with her children, Moroccan and Monroe. She is not there with Bryan Tanaka and there’s been speculation for a while now By Lainey • Dec 21, 2023 09:24 am
What Else What Else? Kate Winslet is coming back to HBO – this time playing the chancellor of a European country and it’s satire and politics and probably terribly people being assholes so like if Succession and Veep had a baby? (The Mary Sue) The fight I’ve been picking with you all this By Lainey • Dec 20, 2023 04:11 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 20, 2023 OK why did The Hollywood Reporter shade Meghan and Harry so hard? The write up is so salty! THR is owned by Penske Media, which also owns Variety. Variety has been very cozy with the Sussexes so is this a bit of inter-corporation rivalry between the two publications? Class By Maria • Dec 20, 2023 03:45 pm
Cameron Diaz Celebrity couples and personal space Cameron Diaz appeared on an episode of Molly Sims and Emese Gormley’s podcast, Lipstick on the Rim. Cameron, alongside Katherine Power, her business partner for her wine company, discussed healthy living and ideal living situations in marriage. At one point, Cameron suggested that we should all “normalize” sleeping in By Stephanie • Dec 20, 2023 02:11 pm
As Seen on Social Media As Seen on Social Media: K-drama and Law Roach’s Christmas gift K-drama Chanel My first ever K-drama request! This is for a necklace worn by Kim Yoo Jung in My Demon, which I really want to watch now. (Lainey: I just started My Demon and these two leads… it’s stupid how gorgeous they are and it’s literally By Maria • Dec 20, 2023 01:26 pm
TV Updates The Rachel Leviss Comeback Days after the explosive trailer for Vanderpump Rules dropped, former castmate Rachel Leviss dropped an explosive trailer of her own, for her podcast, Rachel Goes Rogue, which is set to premiere in January. The trailer features snippets of her discussing her experience of Scandoval, something she’s remained fairly tight- By Stephanie • Dec 20, 2023 12:51 pm
Top Reads TNT: A Pre-Christmas Gift It’s Wednesday, which means it’s a new episode of the New Heights pod, with so many more listeners over the last three months, all of them tuning into for rom-com crumbs. Which both Jason and Travis Kelce are no doubt aware of – and it’s so interesting By Lainey • Dec 20, 2023 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lulu Wang is back Lulu Wang’s follow-up to The Farewell is (finally) here, and it’s a flashy limited series with Nicole Kidman called Expats. Based on Janice Y.K. Lee’s novel The Expatriates, the series follows three American women living in Hong Kong as their lives intersect around a personal By Sarah • Dec 20, 2023 10:37 am
Legal issues Jonathan Majors is guilty and fired Earlier this week, Jonathan Majors was found guilty on two counts stemming from his domestic violence arrest in March, one of reckless assault in the third degree, and one of harassment, both are misdemeanors. Majors is set to be sentenced in February and could face up to one year in By Sarah • Dec 20, 2023 09:25 am
Break Ups Intro for December 20, 2023 Dear Gossips, It’s supposed to be the season of kindness and forgiveness, right? Supposed to be but, you know, that’s not how it often plays out. And that’s definitely not how it’s playing out between Cardi B and Offset. Cardi confirmed a couple of weeks ago By Lainey • Dec 20, 2023 09:00 am
What Else What Else? As we all well know, Mimi works for about six or seven weeks of the year, starting on November 1. And it’s basically a job she’ll keep forever since she wrote one of the most lasting Christmas songs of all time. The song has made her eternal. If By Lainey • Dec 19, 2023 04:03 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 19, 2023 Andrew Scott’s jaunty knit vest caused me to pause scrolling and these two? They know exactly what they are doing. This is chemistry. This is a good question: if you were friends with a celebrity, would you ask them to officiate your wedding? In one way, I feel like By Maria • Dec 19, 2023 02:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zac Efron in The Iron Claw In the 1970s and 1980s, Saturday nights at the Dallas Sportatorium was the home to a regional wrestling outfit run by Jack Adkisson and dominated by his sons, known as the Von Erichs. Jack himself wrestled as Fritz Von Erich, he had middling success and never won a world heavyweight By Sarah • Dec 19, 2023 01:29 pm
