Star Wars Andor looks very good As previously mentioned, Star Wars Celebration is going on right now, and the biggest reveal of the first day was undoubtedly the teaser for Andor, a Rogue One prequel series centered on Diego Luna’s Rebel spy character, Cassian Andor. I am super f-cking burnt out on Star Wars, but By Sarah • May 27, 2022 10:44 am
Royals Meghan Markle: Surprise trip to Uvalde Meghan Markle made a surprise trip to Uvalde, Texas yesterday to pay respects to the victims and support the community; she donated food and other necessities and spent time talking with some of the volunteers in the area. Buzzfeed has more details about her visit, with commentary from people who By Lainey • May 27, 2022 10:00 am
Star Wars Intro for May 27, 2022 Dear Gossips, Star Wars Celebration kicked off yesterday and will run through the weekend. Feels kinda weird right now, with everything going on, but then it occurred to me that if they had cancelled Celebration and moved it to some other time, there would probably just be a new tragedy By Sarah • May 27, 2022 09:26 am
What Else What Else? What is Tom Cruise’s version of a day off? Doing press for his movies. Which is totally on brand but also off brand for every other celebrity because most of them loathe doing press and now here’s Tom Cruise, one of the last great Movie Stars, talking about By Lainey • May 26, 2022 04:54 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 26, 2022 Lainey’s intro this morning has a few story updates and the one that excited me most was Ingrid Casares versus Sandra Bernhard on Madonna being a long-term friend. Adult friendships are very “a reason, a season, a lifetime” because sometimes you have work friends you are super tight with By Maria • May 26, 2022 04:31 pm
Cannes 2022 IU’s First Cannes Lee Ji-eun, better known as IU, made her very first appearance at the Cannes Film Festival today as one of the stars of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker which is screening in competition. This is a big deal, for a few reasons. First, Kore-eda’s last film, Shoplifters, won the Palme By Lainey • May 26, 2022 04:13 pm
Sandra Oh Another Simu First Over the last few years, Simu Liu has been checking off a lot of firsts. I don’t need to list them here – by this point is should be well-known all the trails he’s been blazing in a short amount of time. And now he’s adding to that By Lainey • May 26, 2022 01:54 pm
Cannes 2022 Cannes loves Elvis Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis screened at Cannes last night and before we get into how it was received and all the reaction, let’s talk about Baz’s outfit because he really served up some TCB energy. TCB, for the Elvis uninitiated, stands for “Taking Care of Business”, which was By Lainey • May 26, 2022 01:13 pm
Beyoncé Blue Ivy at the concert The Blue Ivy Carter is a celebrity in her own right. She is a Grammy winner. She made history last year as the youngest artist ever to win an MTV VMA. And of course she is celebrity royalty – her mother is Beyoncé, the Queen of Culture. She is the Prince By Lainey • May 26, 2022 11:32 am
Music BTS is going to the White House Major announcement today from the White House: K-pop supergroup BTS is coming to the White House next week pic.twitter.com/muC8CJyOeQ — Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) May 26, 2022 RM, Jin, Suga, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook are the most visible Asians on the planet right now. Going to the By Lainey • May 26, 2022 10:48 am
Shout-Outs May 26, 2022 – Shout-Outs This is for Kathryn, a true star, with or without a tiara… Kathryn is an ambassador for the MS Society of Canada. The organisation is hosting walks across the country on May 29 ahead of World MS Day on May 30. On average, 12 Canadians are diagnosed with multiple sclerosis By Lainey • May 26, 2022 09:54 am
BFFs Intro for May 26, 2022 Dear Gossips, A few quick notes to kick off the day – updates on some stories that are unrelated but there’s not enough to put into individual dedicated posts for each. We are now exactly a week away from the Queen of England’s Platinum Jubilee celebration weekend. Next Thursday By Lainey • May 26, 2022 09:29 am
What Else What Else? Her Majesty the Queen has a new ride – like a super duper golf cart that people are now calling the Queenmobile. I wonder how many hours of discussion had to happen before everyone signed off on this as her new form of transportation. They take so long to make decisions By Lainey • May 25, 2022 04:34 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 25, 2022 It’s an horrific, awful day in the real world and social media is reflecting that. For links to community services pushing for change, please see Lainey’s opener from this morning. One of many celebrity couples that couple stans get really weird about is Diane Kruger and Norman Reedus By Maria • May 25, 2022 03:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Top Gun: Maverick brings Maverick full circle Rarely does a nostalgia-driven sequel make a case for itself as well as Top Gun: Maverick does. Picking up 36 years after Top Gun, we find Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) working as a test pilot on a next-gen jet on the brink of being scrapped in favor of unmanned By Sarah • May 25, 2022 03:15 pm
Style Jake and Jeanne in Cannes (and more) Jake Gyllenhaal and Jeanne Cadieu posed together for the first time earlier this year at the Paris premiere of Ambulance. As noted in that post, they’d previously joined Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard in the fall of 2021 but that was for a group shot. In Paris Jake and By Lainey • May 25, 2022 02:41 pm
