Movie Reviews and Previews Taylour Paige and Riley Keough in Zola Back in 2015, Twitter lit up with a thread—the first official “thread”—from user @_zolarmoon. In it, A’Ziah “Zola” King recounted a fateful trip to Florida with a white friend, her sappy boyfriend, and her friend’s pimp. It was a wild, classically Floridian tale, though it began By Sarah • Jul 07, 2021 01:04 pm
Top Reads Simu Liu: Shang-Chi and Good Will Hunting When I saw that Simu Liu was on the cover of Entertainment Weekly this morning, I felt as emotional as I did when Constance Wu and Henry Golding were on the cover for Crazy Rich Asians. As a pop culture junkie, I’ve been reading EW for a long time. By Lainey • Jul 07, 2021 11:49 am
Relationship Assumption Bennifer and the Bookstore As of yesterday, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were still in the Hamptons where they spent the Fourth of July after taking his son and her two children to Universal Studios Hollywood last Friday. We’ll get to that in a minute but let’s talk first about the new By Lainey • Jul 07, 2021 10:32 am
TV Updates It’s here! It’s here! Succession teaser is here! The current best show on “TV” is one minute and 20 seconds long (including credits). The Succession teaser is here and I know you’ve watched, but let’s watch again: What we are seeing here, again, is Kendall as a man on the precipice of power. Kendall hyping himself By Maria • Jul 07, 2021 09:53 am
TV Updates Kit and Rose and The Time Traveler Kit Harington and Rose Leslie were living in London even before the pandemic because he was shooting Eternals and then when COVID hit, and she was pregnant, they stayed in the UK for the birth of their son whose name they have not released. Now, though, Kit and Rose are By Lainey • Jul 07, 2021 09:24 am
Cannes 2021 Intro for July 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, Like so many other events, the Cannes Film Festival didn’t happen last year. Which means that Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, the 2020 Best Picture Oscar winner, is still the reigning Palme d’Or film, at least for another ten days until this year’s Palme d’Or By Lainey • Jul 07, 2021 08:52 am
What Else What Else? The big royal headline yesterday was about Kate of House Cambridge having to go into quarantine because she was exposed to someone with COVID. Is there a weird timeline situation going on here? Are people being squirrely about it? (Cele|bitchy) This is my nightmare. I once went for a By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 04:03 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 6, 2021 In the intro this morning, Lainey wrote about Gwen Stefani’s gown and how it places Vera Wang, a household-name wedding dress designer, back on top. You know who else’s dress she’s doing? I’ve mentioned this before but it’s a great opportunity for me to do By Maria • Jul 06, 2021 03:18 pm
Liam Payne Liam’s Heartbreak Liam Payne is going through it. On Sunday, he got into his feelings on Instagram stories about relationships and regret. And in one of his cryptic posts, he even tagged his ex-lover. https://twitter.com/Izzychalamet5/status/1411569568401838080?s=20 When I saw these, I felt an interesting mix of By Anastasia • Jul 06, 2021 02:19 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Baby Parents and BTS at Louis Vuitton Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom and Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas all became parents of baby girls in 2020. Their daughters, Daisy and Willa, were born a month apart. Yesterday in Paris, at the start of Haute Couture week, all four attended the Louis Vuitton Parfum dinner. Katy also performed. By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 01:58 pm
Long Reads Britney Spears: The New Yorker report Almost two weeks ago, the world heard Britney Spears tell her story. A story of abuse, exploitation, gaslighting, emotional trauma, resilience, and power. She finally put her own voice to a narrative that did not belong to her. In her own words, she just wanted her life back. Over 20 By Melayna • Jul 06, 2021 01:23 pm
Style Spike, Mati, Maggie, Marion, Adam: Cannes is Back If the theme of yesterday’s postings was celebrity love, today the theme appears to be: back. The Clooneys are back in Lake Como. The stars are back in Paris for Haute Couture week in the front row. And Cannes is happening, a few weeks later than usual, and after By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer, Jessica, Florence and more at Dior As we’ve been seeing, now that many territories have opened up again, celebrities are back to their regular stops on the circuit. In Paris, Haute Couture week kicked off yesterday and … well… I was hoping Celine Dion would make her return to the place where she brings us so By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 10:53 am
Style George and Amal: Back to Lake Como It used to be an annual tradition – if it’s summer, George Clooney would be in Italy, in Lake Como. And when he married Amal, in Italy, this tradition continued. That was paused, of course, last year because of COVID but, as we’ve seen, many celebrities are mostly back By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 09:57 am
Style Intro for July 6, 2021 Dear Gossips, Yesterday in What Else? when linking to a story about Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton’s wedding and her wedding dress in particular, I asked the question…Magazine or Instagram? We now have the answer – it’s Instagram. The designer: Vera Wang. There was a time when a By Lainey • Jul 06, 2021 09:40 am
What Else What Else? Alicia Vikander has kept a very low profile the last couple of years but she’s a Louis Vuitton ambassador and showed up for an LV event and the highlight of this outfit is the belt – in the LV monogram and I like how it’s been styled here like By Lainey • Jul 05, 2021 04:00 pm
