TV Updates The Crown: Girl Power! A couple of weeks ago we saw a teaser for The Crown season four, which promised Diana Drama! and only hinted at Gillian Anderson’s turn as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Well, the full trailer dropped yesterday, and it is a much more even-handed preview of the season, balancing the By Sarah • Oct 30, 2020 11:08 am
Break Ups Tiffany and Common: Unfollow and Follow Tiffany Haddish and Common have been dealing with each other for a while now. And they’ve both been more public about their relationship in recent months. Back in August, she was on Steve-O’s podcast Wild Ride and said that – via Vanity Fair: “This is hands down the best By Lainey • Oct 30, 2020 10:25 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mission: COVID Delay? Here’s a masked Tom Cruise looking thoughtful the other day in Venice with director Christopher McQuarrie. Also Hayley Atwell going for a run. They’ve been working on Mission: Impossible 7 but two days ago The Sun reported that 150 extras were told not to report to set because By Lainey • Oct 30, 2020 10:02 am
Weddings Mr & Mrs ScarJost Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost are married. They started dating in 2017 after getting to know each other when Scarlett hosted Saturday Night Live. They got engaged last year. And now it’s official….they are ScarJost. The announcement is what’s most interesting, to me. It was Meals on By Lainey • Oct 30, 2020 09:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for October 30, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was announced yesterday that Sandra Oh and Awkwafina will star together in a new comedy for Netflix…which… YES! Sandra Oh will play a loner and Awkwafina her mess of a sister who decides to fix their broken relationship by helping her get on her favourite game By Lainey • Oct 30, 2020 08:53 am
What Else What Else? Gemma Arterton wore a purple dress back in 2008 that is doing a lot. And I don’t think I mind it. The colour is lovely on her. And yes, it’s two dresses that can’t make up its mind about what it really wants to be which… I By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 04:09 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: CLOCK IS TICKING..! Hi Duana, I am desperate for your insight and perspective... and am being induced to have my baby tomorrow! This is my third boy, and I feel like all I have left are rejected names from already having to name two boys: The TL, DR version: My top name is By Duana • Oct 29, 2020 03:10 pm
TV Updates Anya Taylor-Joy in The Queen’s Gambit There is a certain type of character who appears in television shows, you know her when you see her: a lead character, pretty, almost always white, and the object of every other character’s fascination and sexual desire. She is interesting! So charming! A marvel! The show will insist this By Sarah • Oct 29, 2020 02:36 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, October 29, 2020 Lainey has been grousing about Halloween all week, which is understandable. I would too if I had to dress up. And she makes a good point: who are the elaborate costumes for at this point? How many Tiger Kings and Carole Baskins do we need? But one thing I can By Maria • Oct 29, 2020 02:07 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Shonda Rhimes…and Borat’s Crimes In my experience, all television screenwriters who started their careers in the 2000s have a PhD in Shonda Rhimes. This, of course, includes Duana who is a TV writer and a total nerd and can probably give a Ted Talk on Shonda because Shonda is the standard. So we’re By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 01:15 pm
Gossip Nostalgia JLo: Hustler, Maid, Wedding Planner, and Boss Remember back in the late 90s/early 2000s, when the word “multihyphenate” became part of the cultural lexicon? It was often used to describe Jennifer Lopez. Of course she wasn’t the first multihyphenate or the last but in that moment, that was how we talked about her: dancer, singer, By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 12:45 pm
Aging Gorgessity Ben Affleck’s 2020 Glow-up Here are some new pictures of Ben Affleck yesterday out with his son (not pictured). A couple of weeks ago, when I posted about Ben and Matt Damon’s new Omaze campaign video, I noted that… he looks really good. Like super fresh in the face – and not the fresh By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 11:46 am
BFFs Adele Wants You To Know She’s Single Over the last few months, Adele has been linked to Skepta. The British tabloids have been reporting on it since at least the summer and yesterday, PEOPLE reported that “things have been heating up” between them. They’ve known each other for a few years and apparently have mutual friends By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 10:16 am
Break Ups Brad Pitt Wants You To Know He’s Single It’s been exactly two months since Brad Pitt was photographed arriving in France and heading to Chateau Miraval with model Nicole Poturalski at which point everybody started rewinding and it turns out they’ve been hanging out since at least last November when they sat next to each other By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 09:46 am
Beyoncé Intro for October 29, 2020 Dear Gossips, Today is Ivy Park day. Drip 2 will be available online in North America starting this afternoon but in other countries around the world it’s already sold out. In Australia, for example, I heard it only took 20 minutes. So… Where Is Your Park? And are you By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 09:02 am
What Else What Else? This is the story of a sculpture on a lawn on a property on a hill and some very rich assholes petty-offing with each other their view. Which is what rich petty assholes do. Somewhere in there, “fart spray” makes an appearance alongside a Picasso. Who do you think these By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 05:03 pm