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
TV Updates Shonda Invents Anna Today I’m wondering about writer Jessica Pressler. Every year or so, Jessica Pressler produces a piece for The Cut that becomes a cult thing in and of itself alongside its subject(s). Back in 2015, her article on “The Hustlers at Scores” was one of the best investigative essays By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 02:47 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, October 28, 2020 JLo in a perfect fall outfit (if any of us were actually getting dressed right now) with a knit tucked into the long skirt. It’s Dior, which is not usually her go-to (because of her collaboration with Coach, she’s been wearing a lot of their pieces). But we By Maria • Oct 28, 2020 01:47 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece, Memories of Murder, returns in gorgeous, ghastly 4K (Lainey: A Halloween recommendation that isn’t Hocus Pocus or Practical Magic…) Bong Joon-ho’s sophomore film, Memories of Murder, is a masterpiece of the crime drama genre, and is arguably still Bong’s finest film to date. Loosely based on the Hwaseong serial murders—South Korea’s first recorded By Sarah • Oct 28, 2020 12:57 pm
Maple Leaf Celine Dion: The Movie Star of All Feelings As I wrote yesterday in my post about Keanu Reeves, we have to take the delight where we can get it – and you know who’s all about giving? Our Queen of All Feelings, Celine Dion. And she’s making headlines in an unexpected space: movies! It was announced yesterday By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 10:36 am
Royals Prince Andrew’s “Level of Maturity” The Sunday Times reported a few days ago (via Vanity Fair) that Prince Andrew, less than a year after he announced that he was stepping down from royal duties, not over his friendship with the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein but because they were mortified by his shambolic performance during By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 10:02 am
Style A New Wedding Dress for Gwen Shortly after I saw the headline about Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton’s engagement, I emailed with Lainey and admitted that, for at least the last year, I thought they were engaged. There’s so much wedding talk around them, but it’s like we skipped the engagement. But here By Maria • Oct 28, 2020 09:26 am
Nicole Kidman Intro for October 28, 2020 Dear Gossips, My Halloween tradition here at LaineyGossip is to complain about Halloween. I hate it. That doesn’t mean I’m not good at it, because I’m actually very good at Halloween – I am a professional, goddamn it! – but it’s such a pain in the ass. Here’ By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 08:53 am
What Else What Else? Earlier today I posted about Chris Evans and earlier this week he posted about his dog, Dodger, who is very popular. Dodger was part of Chris’s thirst trap backflip video a few weeks ago. Dodger is now lying on top of a shirtless Chris in a double thirst trap. By Lainey • Oct 27, 2020 04:01 pm
