Reality TV Reality Recap: Programming, dating, walkout Vanderpump Rules star (or former star?) Scheana celebrated her 40th birthday this week and all her new co-stars from The Valley were in attendance. Married to Medicine fans are rejoicing after Sweet Tea confirmed she will not be returning next season. Bravo released the mid-season trailer for Real Housewives of By Stephanie • May 09, 2025 02:00 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Don’t argue with Tom Cruise (about stunts) Now that the Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning press tour is underway, we’re starting to get some stories out of Tom Cruise and one of them, amazingly, isn’t just about how he’s here to ENTERTAIN, which is the thing he keeps saying over and over again. Here’ By Lainey • May 09, 2025 12:57 pm
Style A Triple Crown and a New Wig Keith Urban was honoured with the ACM Triple Crown Award last night in Texas – the distinction is reserved for those who have previously been named New Artist of the Year, Artist of the Year, and Entertainer of the Year. Keith has held all three titles and it’s a pretty By Lainey • May 09, 2025 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Finally, The Old Guard 2 Back in 2020, The Old Guard broke out as one of Netflix’s actually good movies—they do sometimes make good ones—and in short order, a sequel was greenlit and was in production in 2022. And then…nothing. Years passed, time marched on, we moved inexorably closer to death, By Sarah • May 09, 2025 11:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Love Triangle of the Summer If this is a trend, I like it: a pop culture love triangle every summer. At the movies. Last year it was Tashi, Art, and Patrick in Challengers, played by Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor. This year it’s Lucy, Harry, and John played by Dakota Johnson, Pedro By Lainey • May 09, 2025 10:38 am
Harry Styles Intro for May 9, 2025 Dear Gossips I posted yesterday in this space about the hottest show of the week – a live reality docuseries which, in the end, lasted just two episodes, or four if you count each round of voting. The conclave attracted a large audience around the world and also in person outside By Lainey • May 09, 2025 09:14 am
What Else Rocky and Anna on Late Night A$AP Rocky and Anna Wintour were on a Met Gala victory lap last night with a stop at Late Night with Seth Meyers where they recapped the event, weighed in on some of the looks, and shared other behind-the-scenes details. What’s most fascinating to me about the overall By Lainey • May 08, 2025 04:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 8, 2025 Daily Mail has Ben Affleck looking “tense” while smoking a cigarette, which is my favourite kind of Ben Affleck photo. But then they f-ck it up by equating the tenseness to Ana de Armas and Tom Cruise. Ben and Ana were a COVID relationship that burned out pretty quickly. And By Maria • May 08, 2025 02:42 pm
Equality Issues Doechii’s Met Gala controversy While attending her first Met Gala, Doechii went viral as social media debated over whether she was out of line in her treatment of staffers at the event after a video of her demanding umbrellas to hide her outfit from the paparazzi started making the rounds online. In the video, By Stephanie • May 08, 2025 02:04 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Margaret Qualley and Aubrey Plaza get their flirt on The Coen brothers continue on their solo artist paths, and while Joel is taking his sweet time with a follow-up to his first solo effort, 2021’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, Ethan is now onto his second solo project, a neo-noir called Honey Don’t. It follows Drive Away Dolls By Sarah • May 08, 2025 12:41 pm
TV Updates Walton Goggins is doing the most Remember when I said that Walton Goggins seems to be very comfortable in his celebrity skin? Look at the way he showed up at the Met Gala, fully embracing the fashion moment, and bringing all his Baby Billy chaos to that carpet. The Thom Browne jacket and skirt looked great By Lainey • May 08, 2025 11:07 am
Style Timmy and Kylie’s first red carpet It was only a matter of time. After all, when you’ve already been front row and tactile at major award shows, including the Oscars, and sporting events, what’s a red carpet, right? The only question was… which red carpet. Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner had the opportunity at By Lainey • May 08, 2025 10:24 am
Intro for May 8, 2025 Dear Gossips, A new show just debuted this week, with an unspecified number of episodes – it is unscripted, like a live docuseries, immediately attracting millions of viewers and it can’t just be my feed either because it’s a crossover story between entertainment and politics and religion with a By Lainey • May 08, 2025 09:32 am
What Else Meryl & Marty: On and Off Camera Meryl Streep and Martin Short were shooting scenes for Only Murders in the Building season five today in New York. You wouldn’t really know, though, if the cameras weren’t there, right? Because, of course, they hang out off camera too. They hang out often off camera. At this By Lainey • May 07, 2025 04:02 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, May 7, 2025 “Separating the art from the artist” is one enduring debate that I don’t think will ever get dropped, or should ever get dropped, because it’s such an interesting interrogation of the morals around creating and engaging with art. But what I’ve been thinking about lately is not By Maria • May 07, 2025 03:00 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Miss Independent “Miss Independent, Miss Self Sufficient” – those were the words that opened Kelly Clarkson’s first official non-American Idol top 10 single “Miss Independent” in the spring of 2003, so it really is a full-circle moment that 22 years later, she actually is independent, not just in her personal life but By MC • May 07, 2025 02:12 pm
