Music Intro for August 12, 2025 Dear Gossips, Started the day yesterday talking about “Golden”, from the Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack and whether or not it could reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Ended the day with the confirmation: “Golden” has indeed topped the chart, adding to the movie’s ever-growing list of surprise achievements. By Lainey • Aug 12, 2025 09:45 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Rocky’s plus one Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, starring Denzel Washington and Jeffrey Wright, opens in theatres this Friday before streaming on Apple TV+. The cast is doing some press right now ahead of the theatrical release and there will also be a red carpet premiere in New York. This, presumably, is By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 04:09 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 11, 2025 Reasonable Doubt is adding Lori Harvey to the cast, and at least one new viewer. (It’s Jacek.) The Beckhams are on their annual yacht vacation, minus a few members. That doesn’t seem to be slowing down the festivities or the family photos. Meanwhile, the Peltz-Beckhams couldn’t wait By Maria • Aug 11, 2025 03:34 pm
Music Taylor Swift: What’s Orange? The Taylor Swift metaverse is not a quiet space. Even when Taylor’s silent, her fans are reading into whatever invisible signals they perceive that she’s sending out into the universe. And when she does post, or step out wearing a certain shoe or jacket, Swifties obsessively analyse whether By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 03:07 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Jennifer Aniston: A New Vanity Fair My last essay at The Squawk two weeks ago was about the 20th anniversary of Jennifer Aniston’s Vanity Fair cover story for the September 2005 issue which has become mythological for its place in gossip history. I have a thing about milestones, particularly gossip milestones, and I’m pretty By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 02:14 pm
Music Sydney Sweeney & MGK’s non-answer Back in the spring, Sydney Sweeney’s love life was making headlines because she did not end up getting married in May and instead was seen in Vegas flirting with Machine Gun Kelly whose relationship issues are even messier. He and Megan Fox have been on and off for years By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 12:38 pm
Music This Is Real, This Is Demi + Joe The Jonas Brothers kicked off their 52-city Greetings from Your Hometown tour at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey last night and pulled out all the stops you could think of. Jesse McCartney even came out halfway through for a rendition of “Beautiful Soul”. With a rich setlist of 30+ songs By MC • Aug 11, 2025 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Julia Garner in Weapons In 2022 Zach Cregger, alum of the comedy troupe The Whitest Kid U’Know, wrote and directed Barbarian, a horror film with a Big Twist that became a sleeper hit and set the bar for Cregger as not just a comedy guy, but a genre director Of Note. Now he’ By Sarah • Aug 11, 2025 10:28 am
Music Intro for August 11, 2025 Dear Gossips, New week, new check-in on the question I’ve been asking rhetorically for almost two months now: has Kpop Demon Hunters peaked yet? The answer is no, not even close. The movie Netflix’s biggest animated original film of all time. The soundtrack is holding at #2 on By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 09:21 am
What Else Conan O’Brien goes For as famous as he is, and as easily spotted, Conan O’Brien doesn’t get papped much. But he was photographed at LAX today, the photos are labelled in part, “Conan O’Brien channels Indiana Jones” because of the leather jacket/hat combo. I am confused about the weather By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 04:04 pm
TV Updates Wednesday gets a deeper mystery and a bigger cast After an almost three-year hiatus, Wednesday is back with the further adventures of Wednesday Addams at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters Nevermore Academy. The first season has plenty of style and Jenna Ortega’s outstanding performance as Wednesday, but, well, it never really beats the allegations of creative disharmony By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 03:41 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 8, 2025 Gina Carano and Disney have settled the lawsuit, funded by Elon Musk, over her firing from The Mandalorian. I’m sure Sarah has insights into the impact but it reminded me of the last time I was at Disneyland and a guy was wearing a shirt that said, “Gina Carano By Maria • Aug 08, 2025 02:33 pm
Music Take Me Away: The Music of Freaky and Freakier Friday Many millennials are rejoicing today as Freakier Friday has officially hit theatres and unlike most legacy sequels in recent years, this one doesn’t disappoint on multiple levels, from the storyline, the character arcs and most important of all… the music. When Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis’s 2003 By MC • Aug 08, 2025 01:54 pm
Lindsay Lohan Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in Freakier Friday How much nostalgia is too much nostalgia? Answers will vary, but the limit is probably somewhere around “four-way body swap”. Twenty-two years after Freaky Friday, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are back for Freakier Friday, featuring another round of mother-daughter mystic tomfoolery, only this time they’re joined by By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 12:33 pm
Break Ups Jacob Elordi is single, just in time There’s been some speculation the last few weeks about the status of Jacob Elordi’s relationship with Olivia Jade Giannulli, who’ve been together, on and off, since 2021. Then yesterday, PEOPLE with the exclusive that they recently broke up which isn’t all that surprising. She’s 25, By Lainey • Aug 08, 2025 11:30 am
Quiveration Austin and Bad Bunny but no Zoë August is a little bit of a movie doldrums as studios tend to put out anything they think won’t stand up to the expectations of either peak summer movie season or fall awards season, but one movie I am really looking forward to this month is Caught Stealing. It’ By Sarah • Aug 08, 2025 10:25 am
