Royals Sussexes in Shorts! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stepped out for their first public in-person engagement this week in Los Angeles since the early part of the pandemic volunteering with Baby2Baby at Knox Elementary School to hand out school supplies and other family items ahead of students going back to school. When Archie By Lainey • Aug 21, 2020 09:37 am
Shout-Outs August 21, 2020 – Smutty Shout-Outs Kara! Happy Birthday with love from your husband who requested Harry Styles for you – enjoy your birthday weekend! And this… 1 year since we got our first glimpse of THIS @Harry_Styles x @RollingStone photoshoot. pic.twitter.com/xakzkkzIzR — Columbia Records UK (@ColumbiaUK) August 20, 2020 By Lainey • Aug 21, 2020 09:15 am
Music Intro for August 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, I’m shooting my part for The Social’s new season show-opener this afternoon at a park; it’s my first field shoot in months and I’m pretty excited – to see the crew, to just be rolling on something outside of my living room, and because earlier By Lainey • Aug 21, 2020 08:47 am
What Else What Else? A couple of weeks ago, I posted some photos of Angelina Jolie and said I liked her outfit and then got yelled at because I didn’t zoom on her feet and didn’t notice she was wearing kitten heels. Fair enough. Everything but the kitten heels. Although her kitten By Lainey • Aug 20, 2020 04:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 20, 2020 Jason Alexander popped into the news yesterday (not the Seinfeld guy) because he attended a #FreeBritney rally and told reporters he is in touch with her regularly, including over text. Hmmmmm. My take on #FreeBritney is that there are kernels of truth from all sides – at one time the conservatorship By Maria • Aug 20, 2020 02:36 pm
Style The Emmys of Zendaya Zendaya has been nominated for her first Emmy for her work in Euphoria and if you haven’t watched it yet, maybe it’s time to get caught up because if you care about the entertainment industry and its talent, Zendaya is going to be one the biggest stars in By Lainey • Aug 20, 2020 01:47 pm
Award Season Campaigning Issa Rae, Emmys, and Hollywood Domination Issa Rae may be the busiest woman in Hollywood, but she continues to take on projects that will open the doors for others. Her latest (gorgeous) magazine cover story has The Hollywood Reporter proclaiming she’s embracing her role as a trailblazer but Insecure, which she created and in which By Cody • Aug 20, 2020 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Wilde got a secret Marvel project Yesterday, news got out that Olivia Wilde has bagged a new directing gig, to develop and make an unnamed Marvel movie for Sony. That means this will be part of the Spider-verse, and speculation is that Wilde will be making a Spider-Woman movie. She seems to be encouraging that thinking: By Sarah • Aug 20, 2020 12:00 pm
Maple Leaf The Biebers and Shawn Mendes Justin and Hailey Bieber and Shawn Mendes were all seen at a home recording studio in LA yesterday leading to speculation that the two will be collaborating. There’s the Canadian connection, of course, but there’s also a gossip connection because, you’ll recall, Shawn and Hailey then-Baldwin went By Lainey • Aug 20, 2020 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sofia Coppola’s Woody Allen movie Unfortunately, it’s not an expose, but Sofia Coppola’s new film, On the Rocks, is emitting steady Woody Allen vibes. On the Rocks finds Rashida Jones playing a self-doubting New Yorker sinking into relationship despair who goes on an odyssey through Manhattan accompanied by a quirky sidekick; in this By Sarah • Aug 20, 2020 10:45 am
Relationship Assumption Ben and Ana: one residence? Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, as we’ve all seen, have been pretty much inseparable since the start of the pandemic. They locked down together – and that was already a Decision. Now they may be moving into a new phase of that Decision. Ben and Ana were photographed moving By Lainey • Aug 20, 2020 10:19 am
Royals Intro for August 20, 2020 Dear Gossips, Back in June, when I posted about Prince Philip’s 99th birthday, I noted that he didn’t get the royal bells from Westminster Abbey, and neither did the Queen. Getting birthday bells from Westminster Abbey is a royal tradition to honour the monarch and their consort and By Lainey • Aug 20, 2020 09:27 am
What Else What Else? I’d like to begin today’s What Else? by showing you how our butterfly angel elusive chanteuse shoots from home. A friend of mine sent this over to me as soon as Mimi posted it and said that we need the same. WE ALL DO. I’m already on By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 04:05 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Dolly Parton and the work of Phone Sex But not at the same time. Duana and I are indeed talking about Dolly Parton on this episode of Show Your Work and we are talking about phone sex but we are not talking about Dolly Parton doing phone sex, relax. That said, I think she’d be good at By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 03:23 pm
TV Updates Netflix killed Patriot Act just in time for the election Perhaps to avoid any potential election-season controversy, Netflix has cancelled Hasan Minhaj’s late-night-style talk show, Patriot Act after six “seasons” (really, three cycles over two years). Minhaj announced the cancellation on his Twitter: https://twitter.com/hasanminhaj/status/1295726954751168517 As Cody has previously noted, Netflix does not have a By Sarah • Aug 19, 2020 02:58 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 19, 2020 An update on Ana de Armas Updates! (To catch up on the deletion, click here. My theory on it being taken down because of pap photos was wrong.) In a statement, the owner of the account said they voluntarily deactivated in order to cool things down for a minute. Ana By Maria • Aug 19, 2020 02:27 pm