Oscars 2022 MBJ & Lori and ATJ & Malcolm: Oscar Couple Debuts Oscars gossip this year has obviously been dominated by Will Smith. But there are other much less controversial celebrity gossip storylines that have been overlooked. Like the fact that two couples made their red carpet premieres on Oscar night. Michael B Jordan and Lori Harvey stepped out for the first By Lainey • Mar 29, 2022 11:53 am
Top Reads Will Smith’s Oscars debacle follow-up and the Academy’s dithering “leadership” Fallout from The Slap, as it is now known, continues as the Academy board of governors and leadership had an emergency call on Monday about Will Smith and what to do since he struck Chris Rock in front of 1000+ of his peers and also a live television audience of By Sarah • Mar 29, 2022 11:11 am
Top Reads Kate and Jason: An Oscars Romance?! Before the Oscars, there was all kinds of speculation about whether or not Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet were back together, even though she hasn’t joined him at any recent events, including on Sunday when he attended the Oscars solo. But Jason was actually asked about it there, and By Lainey • Mar 29, 2022 10:30 am
Shout-Outs March 29, 2022 – Shout-Outs This is for Emily – I know it’s been a f-ck of a time right now because of that f-cking asshole who ruined your birthday. At the same time… and I know it’s hard to see now, maybe it’ll end up being the best birthday gift because you’ By Lainey • Mar 29, 2022 09:33 am
Jada Pinkett Smith Intro for March 29, 2022 Dear Gossips, Yesterday in What Else?, I linked to The Cut’s piece on alopecia, the autoimmune disease that “nearly one-third of women experience, in some form, in their lives”. That includes Jada Pinkett Smith. Specifically Jada is living with alopecia areata which “occurs more frequently among Black Americans”. I By Lainey • Mar 29, 2022 09:09 am
What Else What Else? Saniyya Sidney’s first Oscar dress was perfect. I don’t think she’ll look back on this with regret. The colours are so pretty on her, the fit is terrific, and she just looks so happy to be there. I hope she gets to go back someday soon. Also, By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 03:30 pm
Oscars 2022 Liza and Gaga: A Sweet End to a Messy Night And that’s how we’ll wrap it up too – like the Oscars, after a mess of a night, the show concluded on love and joy: CODA won Best Picture and Liza Minnelli and Lady Gaga made the announcement. Maybe it’s because I saw the Liza and Gaga moment By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 02:30 pm
Oscars 2022 The Men and Tiffany Haddish During the show, it was the Men and Regina Hall. For the purposes of this post, it’s the Men and Tiffany, but we’ll start with Timothée Chalamet because… HOW COULD WE NOT. Timmy was one of the men who Regina called up onstage, along with Bradley Cooper, Tyler By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 01:52 pm
Oscars 2022 Just Let Venus and Serena Party I was happy to see photos of Venus and Serena Williams at the Vanity Fair Oscar party last night because, well, can we just let them party?! That’s all we’re talking about here in this post – and nothing else. Just good vibes and good fashion, the end. Serena By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 01:03 pm
Oscars 2022 The highs and lows of Will Smith Obviously, this was not how anyone wanted the night to go. Will Smith has long been admired and beloved by his peers, goodwill you could feel every time he was nominated for and then won an award for his performance in King Richard. This was an “it’s his time” By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 11:56 am
Oscars 2022 Jessica Chastain’s Best Actress Dress Jessica Chastain is finally an Oscar winner – and this is the dress for the occasion. As I always say, an Oscar look is a forever look. A nominee who probably won’t win actually has more opportunity to have some fun with their look than someone who’s expected to By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 11:22 am
Oscars 2022 Zendaya, Olivia, Rachel: Oscar Sparkles There was a lot of sparkle at the Oscars, including Zendaya, my best dressed for the night in a crop-top button down and a high-waisted sparkle skirt by Valentino. It sort of reminds me of Sharon Stone’s Gap button down paired with a Vera Wang skirt at the 1996 By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 10:58 am
Oscars 2022 Kristen, Cynthia, Niecy, and Wanda: Queer Love at the Oscars Look, I wish we lived in a time when it wasn’t particularly noteworthy to see queer couples on Hollywood’s biggest night. I get that dedicating a post to queer love at the Oscars could be interpreted as a form of othering. Because in an ideal world, it’d By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 10:20 am
Oscars 2022 Tropical Fruit Oscar Colours Beyoncé started it, of course. Obviously there’s much more discourse on that elsewhere, and obviously it’s not like anyone knew that ‘tennis ball’ was going to be the colour of the night. But leave it to this, the absolute hands-down weirdest Oscars ever to be the riot of By Duana • Mar 28, 2022 09:56 am
Oscars 2022 Billie and Zoë: The Oscars could use more cuteness Duana texted me right after this happened – Zoë Kravitz and Jake Gyllenhaal presented Best Original Song to Billie Eilish and Finneas for “No Time To Die” and after their acceptance speech, this happened: BILLIE AND ZOË JUMPING UP AND DOWN IM CRYING THEYRE SO CUTE #Oscar pic.twitter.com/4NDmCOlgTn By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 08:16 am
Oscars 2022 The power of anything but Netflix The anti-Netflix bias in the Academy is REAL. Sure, Netflix logs a lot of nominations, but the Academy is reluctant to hand them a Best Picture win. Apple, in fact, becomes the first streamer to win Best Picture with CODA, despite only being in the game for two years. Jane By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 07:45 am
