Music Lady Gaga is a Blink Lady Gaga has pushed back the release of her new album Chromatica because of the global health crisis. Chromatica was supposed to come out on April 10 but instead of spending her energy promoting it, over the last few weeks Gaga has instead been hitting up CEO's of By Lainey • Apr 22, 2020 04:21 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: A Celebrity Lockdown Report Card Now that we’re five weeks or so into sheltering at home, we thought we’d do a report card style discussion on three celebrities and assess their work during this time. Who gets a barely passing grade? Who’s meeting expectations? And who’s trampling over the expectations and By Lainey • Apr 22, 2020 03:50 pm
Top Reads BangBang Con, Jungkook, Obama, and Simone Biles This past weekend, BTS streamed almost 24 hours of past concert and fan club performance footage on YouTube for an event they called BangBang Con, meant to be an alternative to their Map of the Soul: 7 tour which was supposed to have kicked off this month. BangBang Con generated By Lainey • Apr 22, 2020 02:31 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, April 22, 2020 Another day, another Anna Kendrick pilot. Yesterday I wrote about Dummy, her new show on Quibi. Today it’s Love Life for HBO. It doesn’t look very good. The “young woman in the city balancing career/love while being quote unquote a disaster” is familiar rom-com territory, as are By Maria • Apr 22, 2020 01:47 pm
Self Care TV Recommendations TikTok isn’t just for dancing What am I doing during quarantine? Spring cleaning? Working on the plethora of projects I’ve put off for years? Catching up on some of the latest TV and movies? No. I’ve been on TikTok. In the past week, my phone tells me that I’ve spent a total By Prem • Apr 22, 2020 01:15 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Best Chris is The Saint Default Best Chris Pine has a new project on the horizon. He will star in a reboot of The Saint for Paramount, taking on the role of Simon Templar previously played by Roger Moore and Val Kilmer. I LOVED the Val Kilmer movie in the 1990s, and in the spirit By Sarah • Apr 22, 2020 10:28 am
TV Updates Friends will wait to reunite This week, WarnerMedia announced that HBO Max, their proprietary streaming platform, will launch on May 27. However, not unlike Peacock missing the summer Olympics, HBO Max will launch without a signature piece of programming: the Friends reunion. Like so many other projects, the Friends reunion is caught up in the By Sarah • Apr 22, 2020 09:48 am
Top Reads Harry and Meghan call the Queen: why we know Queen Elizabeth’s real birthday was yesterday, she turned 94 years old, and even though it was her day, she had her team post a message to her social accounts to send love to the people of Nova Scotia and to all Canadians after the worst mass shooting in our By Lainey • Apr 22, 2020 09:16 am
Intro for April 22, 2020 Dear Gossips, Do you remember what happened a year ago tonight? April 22, 2019 was the Hollywood premiere of Avengers: Endgame. So many members of the MCU showed up on that carpet to close out an era. Some of them were unexpected – and then it all made sense later, in By Lainey • Apr 22, 2020 08:44 am
What Else What Else? Everyone seems to be getting in on the gossip nostalgia these days, even celebrities. Jon Cryer is reflecting on Charlie Sheen's “warlock” era, which reminds me that during that time, Duana and I were working out daily with Colin Farrell. I’m making that sound a lot longer By Lainey • Apr 21, 2020 04:12 pm
TV Updates What’s on Peacock Last week the new streaming platform Peacock opted for a soft launch with an exclusive, VIP guest list of Comcast Xfinity subscribers getting access to their platform first. The rest of us sloppy-mouthed plebes will get to check out Peacock on July 15, but thanks to the worldwide disruption of By Sarah • Apr 21, 2020 03:02 pm
Top Reads Team Shang-Chi! If you’re a regular visitor to this site, you know that Marvel business is usually Sarah business, unless of course it’s a post about us crying over missing the Avengers. And she probably would be writing this post if not for the fact that she’s so chill, By Lainey • Apr 21, 2020 02:33 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, April 21, 2020 Another day, another Quibi trailer, this time for Anna Kendrick’s Dummy. It’s about Anna hitting the road with her boyfriend’s sex doll, who speaks only to her. The joke is that the doll is a feminist, so it’s a comedy meets blow-up Thelma & Louise. Tom By Maria • Apr 21, 2020 01:33 pm
Amazingness Kenny vs. Teddy – The Rematch I cried laughing. I tweeted. I cackled. I cried crying. I Felt My Spirit. I watched last night’s Babyface and Teddy Riley rematch on Instagram Live. To be absolutely truthful, I went over to Questlove’s IG Live and watched it there. He was bootleg livestreaming, which turned out By Duana • Apr 21, 2020 01:00 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Joshua running errands Joshua Jackson stepped out yesterday to run some errands. At one point he was photographed waiting while physically distancing to get into one of the stores. Josh is of course on his own doing the shopping because Jodie Turner-Smith is pregnant. Or was pregnant. There’s been no announcement about By Lainey • Apr 21, 2020 11:32 am
Hugh Jackman Making Lemonade with the Marvel In-Laws Yesterday, Lainey wrote about Gwyneth Paltrow’s contribution of “great sentimental value” to the All In Challenge, following Drake and JBiebs. The All In Challenge is a charity sweepstakes where people can enter to win amazing prizes. Celebs are being asked to go “all in” and provide either a “cherished By Prem • Apr 21, 2020 11:11 am
