Music Intro for October 5, 2021 Dear Gossips, Billboard yesterday confirmed the inevitable: .@Coldplay and @BTS_Twt rocket onto the Billboard #Hot100 at No. 1 with #MyUniverse. 💯 https://t.co/mEXavQW7eL — billboard (@billboard) October 5, 2021 It was inevitable because of BTS and their ARMY, currently the most powerful fandom in pop culture. BTS’s collaboration By Lainey • Oct 05, 2021 08:58 am
What Else What Else? I love this suit on Helen Mirren. It looks perfect on her. The tailoring is so good. The Fug Girls are taking issue with the makeup. Like, from afar, it’s bold, it’s dramatic. The closeup shots though… I don’t know that I mind as much as Fug. By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 04:10 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, October 4, 2021 Note: At the time of writing, Instagram is down so this will be an all-Twitter edition of celebrity social media, led by Kiernan Shipka. instagram down — Kiernan Shipka (@kiernanshipka) October 4, 2021 Last week, a reader wrote in to correct my take on Princess Mako, who is set to wed By Maria • Oct 04, 2021 02:51 pm
Outfit of the Week Outfits of the Weekend: Jodie, Charlize, Gabrielle, and Jamie at the polo As we have seen over the last six to eight weeks or so, celebrities are back on red carpets and other events, getting dressed up and showing out again. So we’re getting a lot of fashion coming at us, so much good fashion that Friday seems like too far By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 01:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Bailey’s Black Girl Magic Disney World’s 50th Anniversary event took place on Friday, and it brought us a HEAVENLY performance by our next Ariel, Halle Bailey. Watching this performance made the little Black girl in me glow like she never got to when she was younger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXctZ7RRpWA By Anastasia • Oct 04, 2021 12:48 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews George Clooney and a Taste of Award Season Bennifer? George Clooney’s adaptation of JR Moehringer’s memoir, The Tender Bar, doesn’t open in select theatres until December 17. But we are officially in award season now, and with schedules the way they are, they’re out on the circuit early, with two screenings in LA this weekend, By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 12:12 pm
Business of Hollywood Tom Cruise: Helicopter Life Forever There were reports recently that Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwell, who are still working on Mission: Impossible 7, which may as well be called Mission: Impossible Never-ending, considering how long they’ve been in production for this movie, broke up – even though it’s never been confirmed that they were By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 11:19 am
BFFs Amy and Jennifer March for Women’s Rights “Simply put: we are witnessing the most dire threat to abortion access in our lifetime” – the Women’s March website. Given what happened in Texas recently, this is not an exaggeration. And it’s why tens of thousands of people protested at over 600 demonstrations across the United States this By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 09:29 am
TV Updates Intro for October 4, 2021 Dear Gossips, A week ago in this space I wrote about Squid Game and how it was the #1 show in the world on Netflix, including in North America, even though it wasn’t being talked about, at the time, in North America like a #1 show. In the days By Lainey • Oct 04, 2021 08:58 am
What Else What Else Britney Spears’s father has been suspended as her conservator, bringing her one step closer to being #FreeBritney. To celebrate, she freed herself—of everything—on Instagram. Seriously, though, why are we still censoring nipples in the year of our lady 2021? Popsugar has some pop-culture inspired ideas for your By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 04:05 pm
Outfit of the Week Outfits of the Week: Demi and Scout Demi and Scout sounds like the name of a clothing brand. (I think, my opinion.) Here, though, we are referring to Demi Moore and Scout Willis, in Paris for Fashion Week and seen at the Chloe show. But first, the reason they were there. Scout is releasing a new album By Lainey • Oct 01, 2021 03:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Hardy and Woody Harrelson in Venom: Let There Be Carnage Venom was a mess, so let’s be honest, the bar for its sequel is low. But Venom: Let There Be Carnage not only clears the bar, it actually raises it. It is not a mess, and by leaning into the accidental magic of Venom, chiefly that alien symbiote Venom By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 02:39 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, October 1, 2021 I’m not a close follower of any royals but this story on Princess Mako from Japan is a storyline we’ve heard before (a royal marrying a commoner), but it also gets super messy because Princess Mako allegedly fronted her future mother-in-law money for her fiance’s education and By Maria • Oct 01, 2021 02:14 pm
Jake Gyllenhaal Romance Update: Jake and Jeanne’s Red Carpet Debut We were already updated earlier this week at the Tony Awards that Jake Gyllenhaal and Jeanne Cadieu are still together after almost three years. Both were in attendance, though they walked the carpet separately. On Wednesday though, at the premiere of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter, it was a By Lainey • Oct 01, 2021 01:39 pm
Top Reads Scarlett Johansson and Disney settle And just like that, the tectonic lawsuit between Scarlett Johansson and Disney has settled, just two days before the two-month mark. ScarJo and Disney have brought an end to hostilities, having reached a settlement agreement yesterday. In a statement, ScarJo said: “I am happy to have resolved our differences with By Sarah • Oct 01, 2021 12:35 pm
Gwyneth Paltrow Goop gets scooped Remember that Vanity Fair “hit piece” on Gwyneth Paltrow that was supposed to come out and never did and then they said it was never even in the works? GP’s radar was off with that one and I wonder if she had a heads up on this new piece By Maria • Oct 01, 2021 12:01 pm
