Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 12, 2023 Instagram engagement is a mess and it is on the brink of becoming to Zillennials what Facebook is to Millennials (embarrassing digital relic). That’s why there’s a noticeable shift in how celebrities use it. Like Twitter, it has become more formal and much less conversational as celebrities hand By Maria • Jun 12, 2023 03:12 pm
Sports Jake, Jeanne, and Tom at the French Open Jake Gyllenhaal was in a pink shirt yesterday at Roland Garros for the French Open men’s final as Novak Djokovic won his 23rd Grand Slam and became the first man to win all four slams at least three times each. Jake was there with his longtime girlfriend, French model By Lainey • Jun 12, 2023 01:24 pm
Douchebags Tenoch Huerta: Another (alleged) bad man In a depressingly routine development, Tenoch Huerta has been accused of sexual assault. On Saturday morning, María Elena Ríos, a musician and activist, tweeted in response to Poder Prieto, an artists’ collective which includes Huerta, that “they protect the violator and sexual PREDATOR @TenochHuerta” (translation mine, emphasis hers). Though she By Sarah • Jun 12, 2023 12:21 pm
Gorgessity Lupita and Lily: Tonys Best Dressed I’ve been sleeping on Lily Rabe’s style – and that’s a mistake. I first realised this last week when I saw her outfit at the Tribeca premiere of her directorial debut Downtown Owl. This dress is amazing on her. So then I started poking around at some of By Lainey • Jun 12, 2023 11:08 am
TV Updates Timothy Olyphant and A Daughter We are just over one month out from the return of Raylan Givens in Justified: City Primeval. That means Timothy Olyphant is more visible right now than he is usually, and after the ATX TV Festival in Austin earlier this month, he was in New York City over the weekend By Sarah • Jun 12, 2023 10:04 am
Gorgessity Rachel Weisz gets into a cab There’s nothing all that special, really, about these shots of Rachel Weisz on a sunny day in London hailing a cab. It’s just that I happened to see these photos and remember the final line of an article I read a few years ago in The Cut by By Lainey • Jun 12, 2023 09:27 am
Equality Issues Intro for June 12, 2023 Dear Gossips, History was made at the Tony Awards last night as Alex Newell and J Harrison Ghee became the first openly nonbinary actors to win awards. Alex won the Tony for Featured Actor in a Musical for their performance in Shucked and J Harrison won the Tony for Leading By Lainey • Jun 12, 2023 09:03 am
What Else What Else? Shawn Mendes released a single overnight titled “What The Hell Are We Dying For?” It appears to be a breakup track—must be off again, after all, with Camila Cabello—and the opening lyrics are, “Smoke in the air/The city’s burning down”. The artwork for the single is By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 04:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Celine Song’s remarkable Past Lives Playwright Celine Song makes her feature directorial debut with Past Lives, a work of remarkable delicacy and humor about fate, connections, and the narratives we event for our lives. Drawing on Song’s own background as a Korean-Canadian immigrant who ends up a writer in New York, Past Lives tells By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 03:44 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, June 9, 2023 “Jane Fonda! People would call the police,” made me literally laugh out loud. The Wilsons are a very photogenic family. Look how grown up Future is! Every once in a while a tweet about Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s family wealth (her father was a billionaire) goes viral, like “Did you know By Maria • Jun 09, 2023 03:07 pm
Style Outfits of the Week: The Dominique Fishback Show I was in New York last weekend for the Transformers: Rise of the Beasts junket. The movie opened with $8.8 million last night in previews, which is an encouraging start, so it could be a solid weekend at the box office even with Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse doing big By Lainey • Jun 09, 2023 02:19 pm
Sports Shakira and Lewis: Ready for Summer For weeks now there’s been speculation over whether or not Shakira and Lewis Hamilton are on their way to becoming a celebrity power couple. To recap: Shakira lives in Miami now and she was at the Miami GP and then was seen at a restaurant with Lewis and some By Lainey • Jun 09, 2023 01:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Emma Stone is a colorful, cinematic weirdo One month after we saw the teaser for Poor Things, the film reuniting director Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, we now have a full trailer showing off Stone in full cinematic weirdo mode, Willem Dafoe as some kind of Dr. Frankenstein/Dr. Moreau hybrid, and Ramy Youssef and Mark Ruffalo By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 12:25 pm
Succession Alexander after Succession You know a detail I love in the final season of Succession? The way Lukas Mattson keeps insisting that unflattering magazine illustration of Shiv working him like a marionette doesn’t bother him. Just the way he keeps saying, “It’s fine,” it’s so obviously NOT fine, but Alexander By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 11:38 am
Gorgessity Zendaya: As if it’s the backup scramble Have you been on a flight recently? I’ve travelled on average twice a month this year, and over the last three months in particular, it’s been a mess, no matter the airline. When I went to New York in April the flight out was delayed two and a By Lainey • Jun 09, 2023 10:38 am
TV Updates Taika + Rita down under The last time we saw Taika Waititi and Rita Ora was at the Met Gala, but they are now back in Sydney, Australia, which is more or less their home base lately (Rita is a coach on The Voice Australia). Taika and Rita are not exactly a low-key couple—here By Sarah • Jun 09, 2023 09:45 am
