Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 12, 2020 New York Fashion Week is on, and it’s a strange one. The shine has considerably dimmed; Vogue Business points to the decline of New York City as a fashion and design hub. I think it became a magnet for hanger-on brands positioning themselves around the big shows (but not By Maria • Feb 12, 2020 01:54 pm
BFFs Jen talks to Sandy A couple of years ago in The New York Times, Jon Caramanica wrote an obituary for the celebrity profile, declaring it dead after a series of celebrity magazine interviews in which the subjects either interviewed themselves or were interviewed by their friends. We talked about that a lot, about whether By Lainey • Feb 12, 2020 12:24 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews PSISLY: Are you ready to get your heart broken and put back together? As of this writing, it’s 1030am EST, so not all that deep in the day. And To All The Boys: PS I Still Love You, which dropped today on Netflix, is already trending in the #2 position. It would be #1 not for the biggest band in the world By Lainey • Feb 12, 2020 11:17 am
Child Stars Macaulay Culkin still has It Macaulay Culkin is not someone I gossip about, but every once in a while, he sticks his head above the waterline and it’s worth observing, like Punxsutawney Phil checking for his shadow. The last time we heard from Mack was almost exactly a year ago. He and Devon Sawa By Sarah • Feb 12, 2020 10:13 am
Beyoncé Intro for February 12, 2020 Dear Gossips, You know that photo of Adele at Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Oscar party, which has become the Oscar party that everyone most wants to get into? It was posted to Instagram by a Polish television host called Kinga Rusin who, in addition to sharing her picture with Adele By Lainey • Feb 12, 2020 09:00 am
What Else What Else? I have read this several times and, maybe it’s because I’m fried right now but I still have no idea what Tyra Banks’s Modelland is. So it’s not a fashion runway theme park? Is it a modelling school? Is it a photo studio? Like basically a By Lainey • Feb 11, 2020 04:18 pm
Oscars 2020 Brad Pitt doesn’t have speechwriters, just friends One of the questions many of us were asking leading up to the Oscars had to do with Brad Pitt’s acceptance speeches; they were so sharp, the jokes so precise, that we wondered whether or not he’d hired a speechwriter – and there were some reports that his team By Lainey • Feb 11, 2020 03:56 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 11, 2020 If you haven’t seen, Presley Gerber (son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber) got a face tattoo. “Misunderstood.” And maybe, at 20, he does feel misunderstood. Face tats have definitely worked for Post Malone’s image – people dress up like him for Halloween. As many people point out, Presley By Maria • Feb 11, 2020 03:14 pm
Equality Issues Taika shares Taika Waititi is an Oscar winning screenwriter now, and his first official move as an Oscar winning screenwriter is to hire another writer to collaborate on Thor: Love and Thunder. Many auteurs would have you believe that filmmaking is a solitary craft and great films result from a single voice, By Sarah • Feb 11, 2020 01:30 pm
BFFs Timmy at the Oscar parties When it was announced that Saoirse Ronan was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Little Women and that Timothee Chalamet would be presenting, the corner of the internet that lights up for their friendship (Joanna is one of them) was expecting that there’d be at least a By Lainey • Feb 11, 2020 12:39 pm
Royals Return of the Sussexes Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were in Miami last week to speak at the private JP Morgan Summit. Harry apparently talked about mental health, coping with his mother’s death, and his decision to take his family out of senior royal status. There are conflicting reports about whether or not By Lainey • Feb 11, 2020 11:08 am
Break Ups Clarence and Cambridge United It hasn’t been a good start to the new decade for the British royal family. Their biggest problem right now – or at least it should be – is Prince Andrew. Andrew was friends with Jeffrey Epstein, the dead rapist pedophile, and he apparently hasn’t made himself available to help By Lainey • Feb 11, 2020 10:23 am
Oscars 2020 Intro for February 11, 2020 Dear Gossips, For the last few weeks, we’ve all been thirsting for the least thirsty person – which is probably why we can’t get enough of her. You know who I’m talking about: it’s Sharon Choi, the filmmaker and interpreter who’s been showing the sh-t of By Lainey • Feb 11, 2020 09:14 am
What Else What Else? Thanks for reading our post-Oscars coverage today! Duana claims that most of her mail is about Ray Romano and is basically telling me to suck it. Seriously? Are we sure? In non-Oscar news from the weekend, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had dinner with Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez when By Lainey • Feb 10, 2020 04:48 pm
Maple Leaf Sandra Oh: The Heavenly Angel & The Black Swan – Oscars Best Dressed (Lainey) I came across an outlet that had Sandra Oh on their Worst Dressed List because it was “too much”. Um, in what f-cking world?! Her golden peach Elie Saab dress to the Oscars proper was, quite simply, her best red carpet outfit Of All Time. And yes, I had the By Lainey • Feb 10, 2020 04:33 pm
Style Janelle Monae: Oscars Best Dressed (Duana) Last year, at the Emmy Awards, Lainey and I made the difficult decision to retire Zendaya from competition in any sort of fashion capacity. It was this epic green dress that did it, but to be honest, she’d been problematically excellent for some time, and we risked a can’ By Duana • Feb 10, 2020 04:22 pm