Top Reads Ben and Matt in January A trailer for Joe Carnahan’s The Rip, premiering on Netflix next week, was released yesterday. The movie stars Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Steven Yeun, and Teyana Taylor and as Sarah noted back in September, it’s a cool looking action heist (this combination of talent generally can be counted By Lainey • Jan 06, 2026 11:40 am
Music Intro for January 6, 2026 Dear Gossips, Six days into the year and we have our first sort of unexpected mashup of two celebrities you wouldn’t have predicted to collaborate: Winona Ryder and A$AP Rocky. She co-stars with him in the new video he just dropped for a track called “Punk Rocky” and By Lainey • Jan 06, 2026 09:47 am
What Else BTS 2026 On the first full posting day of 2026, we must begin with the biggest music story of the year so far and nothing’s really happened yet. But just the announcements have set off expectations for what will be a massive story over the next 12 months, guaranteed. And it By Lainey • Jan 05, 2026 04:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 5, 2026 Ooooh Ashley Tisdale dropped a little nugget for The Cut, writing about breaking up with her “toxic” mom group. In December of 2024, PEOPLE ran a story about Hilary Duff’s mom group which included Mandy Moore, Meghan Trainor and… Ashley Tisdale. Early 2026 tea involving legacy teen-to-adult stars, this By Maria • Jan 05, 2026 03:02 pm
TV Updates Stranger Things: Watchable Nostalgia Bait The final season of Netflix's Stranger Things is still watchable despite its empty narrative and excruciating exposition-driven plot By Sarah • Jan 05, 2026 02:00 pm
Award Season Campaigning The Pitt crew at the CCAs Let The Pitt’s reign begin, after winning multiple Emmys, including Outstanding Drama Series, The Pitt picked up more trophies at the Critics Choice Awards. Noah Wyle won Best Actor in a Drama Series, Katherine LaNasa won Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, and the show itself won Best By Sarah • Jan 05, 2026 12:44 pm
Relationship Assumption Tom Brady: QB1 to cliché Is there any single celebrity man who is more DIVORCED than Tom Brady? And has anyone ever been more fun to be embarrassed for than Tom Brady? Embarrassment, typically, isn’t an enjoyable emotion. But being embarrassed for Tom Brady kinda feels… good. Here’s a recap of Tom Brady’ By Lainey • Jan 05, 2026 12:01 pm
Keri Russell Date night at the CCAs Something I’ve always wondered about is how bad or good an awards show is as a date night. For us regular degulars, we get to really dress up maybe a few times in life—prom, weddings, maybe a work event depending on careers. But actors get to dress up By Sarah • Jan 05, 2026 11:12 am
Award Season Campaigning The Critics Choice Awards set the tone Welcome back from the liminal space, everything is a nightmare, let’s talk about awards shows! The 31st annual Critics Choice Awards were held last night in Los Angeles, the first heavyweight awards show on the trophy trail. The big winners were Sinners and One Battle After Another, with The By Sarah • Jan 05, 2026 10:22 am
Award Season Campaigning Intro for January 5, 2026 Dear Gossips, Happy New Year! This is our first official gossip post of 2026 but you may have noticed… we did what celebrities do during the break: we tweaked our face. And some other backend body parts. The swelling has mostly gone down, we think, but there may be some By Lainey • Jan 05, 2026 09:19 am
Top Reads New Year, New Look - LaineyGossip Relaunch! You may have noticed… Things look a bit different this morning, right? It’s because we’ve moved the site to a new platform. If you’re interested, we’ll get into the Show Your Work of it in an upcoming Squawk newsletter, but the idea behind the change, aside By Lainey • Jan 02, 2026 11:11 am
What Else Friday Funday with Jack and Paul Programming note: We will be dark beginning Monday, December 22, and will return on Monday, January 5, 2026, with our coverage of the Critics Choice Awards. In between, daily chats at The Squawk will be open for holiday hangs. Off to the liminal space! To wrap up LG’s 2025 By Sarah • Dec 19, 2025 04:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Will Arnett in Is This Thing On? Inspired by the dad-to-comic life story of British comedian John Bishop, Will Arnett and his writing partner, Mark Chappell, penned a film called Is This Thing On? about a sad dad turned stand-up comedian who gets his groove back on the stages of New York’s comedy scene. Director Bradley By Sarah • Dec 19, 2025 03:11 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 19, 2025 I’ve been going on and on about it all month so why not one more post about the Tom Cruise coconut cake; yes, I have major gift envy. Truthfully, I despise white chocolate and am not crazy about coconut, I am not a dessert person really. It’s not By Maria • Dec 19, 2025 01:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue Hello, it’s me, back on my grinchy bullsh-t to review Song Sung Blue, a treacly jukebox musical about Neil Diamond and the power of love. Written and directed by Craig Brewer and based on Greg Kohs’ 2008 documentary of the same name, Song Sung Blue chronicles the lives of By Sarah • Dec 19, 2025 12:02 pm
Tom Cruise Tom Cruise: A dark comedy, but still stunting Ever since it was revealed that Tom Cruise was starring Alejandro González Iñárritu’s new film, there have been Expectations. I’ve been saying since at least back in May, well before the title of the film or even a release date had been announced, that there would be an By Lainey • Dec 19, 2025 10:59 am
