What Else What Else? Alec Baldwin is in a new mess. This time he’s being sued for $25 million by the family of a fallen soldier. This is celebrity vs civilian, and the story involves Instagram and the January 6 insurrection. Come on, everyone. Are you sure you wouldn’t rather talk about By Lainey • Jan 20, 2022 03:56 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 20, 2022 You know how sometimes a star-studded cast can flop? On paper the chemistry should be amazing but in practice, things don’t work. I bring this up because a new Apple TV+ show, The After Party, has the makings of a great comedy: it’s about a murder at a By Maria • Jan 20, 2022 03:17 pm
TV Updates Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway are WeWork’s garbage power couple Continuing the current trend for limited series about scams and/or bizarrely overvalued pseudo-tech companies that crashed and burned in the 2010s, here comes WeCrashed, an Apple TV+ series starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway as Adam Neumann and Rebekah Neumann, WeWork’s garbage power couple. He was the CEO By Sarah • Jan 20, 2022 03:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Fallout, a Gen Z movie While scrolling through Twitter the other day, I came across the tweet below which revealed the trailer for the upcoming movie, The Fallout, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. A raw and honest coming-of-age story for this generation. @jennaortega and @maddieziegler star in Megan Park’s directorial By Anastasia • Jan 20, 2022 02:46 pm
Royals Will and Monochrome Kate visit Healthcare Workers Prince William and Catherine of House Cambridge stepped out for the second day in a row today, visiting with staff and patients at Clitheroe Community Hospital. They talked about the impact that COVID has had on healthcare services and heard from patients about their experiences. In particular Will and Kate By Lainey • Jan 20, 2022 01:54 pm
Top Reads Erasing Andrew The Andrew formerly known as HR no longer has a Twitter account. This is now what shows up on the @TheDukeofYork handle: He apparently still has an Instagram but that’s been made private. None of this is surprising. The Crown is protecting the Crown and it is trying to By Lainey • Jan 20, 2022 11:28 am
Top Reads Angelina at the Virtual Rally Yesterday was the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Day of Action as bipartisan lawmakers in the US are “pushing to reauthorise the 1994 VAWA for the first time in almost a decade… [after] it lapsed in 2019 when the Republican-dominated Senate did not pass it”. It is f-cked up to By Lainey • Jan 20, 2022 11:00 am
TV Updates The Bridgerton countdown has begun Bridgerton season two arrives on March 25, and a trailer must be coming soon because Netflix dropped a batch of first look photos, conveniently giving us high-res images of all the main characters, new and old. There is Daphne, looking like she’s giving Anthony a late-night dressing down, and By Sarah • Jan 20, 2022 09:34 am
TV Updates Intro for January 20, 2022 Dear Gossips, Shonda Rhimes is going to get me to April and springtime in North America. Sarah’s got you covered later today on Bridgerton season two which is coming in March. But before that, another Shondaland production, Inventing Anna, drops on Netflix on February 11. Inventing Anna is the By Lainey • Jan 20, 2022 09:10 am
What Else What Else? Fashion lost one of its most original voices in André Leon Talley. He was magnificent – both in presentation and personality. And he wasn’t just an authority on style but also on celebrity. I loved listening to him speak. I loved seeing him react. And his impact on the industry By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 03:54 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 19, 2022 Rob Lowe is on the cover of PEOPLE this week, a safe January cover after a tumultuous few weeks in celebrity news. Rob has been around the block several times and I seriously wonder what would happen if the sex tape scandal happened today. He hasn’t hidden from it By Maria • Jan 19, 2022 03:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Clooneys are back in Hollywood George and Amal Clooney were in Australia for a stretch there starting last fall while he was working on Ticket to Paradise co-starring Julia Roberts. However, like so many recent productions, they’ve been shut down due to COVID. And shut down for long enough that the Clooneys have returned By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 02:16 pm
Award Season Campaigning Ben Affleck: Batman and Oscar One of the sidebar conversations on social media that came out of that Joss Whedon profile this week was about Batman. As Sarah noted in her post about Joss, for years there has been in-fighting among fanboys about Justice League and Zack Snyder’s version vs Joss’s version and By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B Jordan: Son-in-Law in training Lori Harvey turned 25 last week and she spent it on a yacht, as she’s been sharing photos and video from her birthday trip on Instagram. And yes, Michael B Jordan appeared to be with her as he posted this video on his feed a few days ago to By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 11:59 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Pocket Prince Daniel Radcliffe to play Comedy King Weird Al Today in Short King News, it was announced that Daniel Radcliffe will star as Weird Al Yankovic in a biopic of the seminal comedian, musician, filmmaker, and polka legend for, of all places, the Roku Channel. (Did not know that Roku has a channel, but you learn something new every By Sarah • Jan 19, 2022 11:00 am
Royals Will and Kate’s 2022 Debut Prince William and Catherine of House Cambridge stepped out together for their first joint engagement of 2022 today, visiting the Foundling Museum which “tells the history of the Foundling Hospital, the UK’s first children’s charity and public art gallery”. The Foundling Hospital was founded in 1739 “to care By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 10:26 am
