Relationship Assumption Courtside Bennifer Happy Holidays from Bennifer who’ve been our Gossip Santa all year, giving us the gift of their rediscovered romance and replaying their greatest hits, with a current twist. We just got another one last night. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were at the Lakers game last night. The Celtics By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 10:05 am
Amazingness Intro for December 8, 2021 Dear Gossips, I didn’t even realise it last week when I posted about Norman Lear and Jimmy Kimmel’s Live In Front of a Studio Audience and their back-to-back re-enactments of an episode each of The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes that it was counterprogramming against NBC’ By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 09:06 am
What Else What Else? What’s with all this Kenny G content lately? I’m not mad at it, I’m just surprised. Like last week in this space I linked to a post about playing golf with Kenny G which I really want to do now. And this week we’re talking about By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 04:01 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 7, 2021 Seems kind of silly to talk about something other Succession or Jeremy Strong’s profile in the New Yorker but I will branch out just a teeny bit to Naomi Pierce (Annabelle Dexter-Jones, who was not in Sunday’s episode). Here she is with her siblings Mark and Samantha Ronson By Maria • Dec 07, 2021 03:08 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Ocean’s 11 at 20 Heist movies never go out of style because people LOVE heists. And in 2001, Ocean’s 11 combined everyone’s natural interest in heists with superstar glamor in a moment shadowed by tragedy—Ocean’s 11 premiered three months after September 11th—but not yet touched by post-recession distaste for By Sarah • Dec 07, 2021 02:03 pm
Music Ariana, Meg, and... Jimmy? ‘Tis the season for Christmas songs, and today’s edition of holiday music features a trio I don’t think any of us saw coming. Here’s “It Was A… (Masked Christmas)” with Ariana Grande, Megan Thee Stallion, and Jimmy Fallon. The song and music video were released earlier this By Anastasia • Dec 07, 2021 01:03 pm
Music Billie: New Music Video, New Hair Billie’s newest music video dropped yesterday, and this time around, her self-directed video was for the last track on Happier Than Ever called “Male Fantasy”. This video is one of her more simplistic ones and it feels grown up. The song is about heartbreak (and being frustrated that you By Anastasia • Dec 07, 2021 12:22 pm
Style Ava, Shamier, and Celebrating Black Cinema In the previous post about Drake, I wrote about him devaluing the Grammys and assigning value elsewhere. That’s what Shamier Anderson and his brother Stephan James are attempting to do with The Black Academy, measuring success on new terms, reframing the benchmark of success in entertainment, and who gets By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 11:19 am
Top Reads Drake Devalues the Grammys Drake was nominated for two Grammys this year: Best Rap Album for Certified Lover Boy and Best Rap Performance for “Way 2 Sexy” ft Future and Young Thug. To be nominated for a Grammy artists and/or their record labels must submit for consideration. So when you get a nomination, By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 10:27 am
Award Season Campaigning Nicole Kidman goes for the lead As Sarah and I have been saying, it’s a wide open Oscar race this year across almost all the major categories, including Best Actress. Nicole Kidman has been making a strong push right now with Being the Ricardos. Last week she was in New York, attending multiple screenings and By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 09:50 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for December 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, The Critics Choice Awards television nominations were announced yesterday. In the comedy category, it was really great to see that Reservation Dogs will be competing for Best Comedy Series alongside Ted Lasso, Only Murders in the Building, Insecure, Hacks, The Other Two, and What We Do In The By Lainey • Dec 07, 2021 09:01 am
What Else What Else? I am OBSESSED with Emma Corrin’s outfit here – especially since it involves two colours I don’t normally f-ck with. But with this look, it 100% works. And my mind didn’t go to anus until the Fug Girls mentioned it and I’m still not sure I agree By Lainey • Dec 06, 2021 04:12 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 6, 2021 Lavender and light pink are not typical winter colours but that doesn’t mean they can’t work for heavier pieces. Brie Larson is making a case for warm pastels. We are a long way from new Ted Lasso episodes, so this little update is fun. But was NATE there? By Maria • Dec 06, 2021 04:00 pm
Top Reads Couples Update with Megan & MGK and the Taylor-Johnsons Machine Gun Kelly attended a couple of recent events without Meghan Fox so there may have been some wondering about whether or not they’re still breathing each other. They did however spend Thanksgiving on holiday in Greece with their kids so no one was really firing up an alarm. By Lainey • Dec 06, 2021 03:43 pm
Top Reads Succession: Under the Tuscan Sun Typically I file my Succession recaps on Tuesday or Wednesday but because it was such a major episode with lots of spoiler potential, we are diving right in. As always, MAJOR SPOILER ALERT. I’ll also be reversing the character analysis from hot to cold. Two corrections from last week: By Maria • Dec 06, 2021 03:10 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The best Spiderverse is back Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse is arguably the best superhero movie ever made, and I only say “arguably” because I’m not going to fight with anyone who brings up Batman, Batman Returns, Superman: The Movie, or Spider-Man 2. To me, though, Spiderverse IS the best superhero movie made to date, By Sarah • Dec 06, 2021 02:30 pm
