Reality TV Reality Recap: Drama, dinner, London The split between Denise Richards and Aaron Phypers just got a whole lot messier after he claimed she failed to file his adoption papers for her daughter, Eloise. Meanwhile, Denise is saying he’s refusing to leave their home in Calabasas despite being evicted. It looks like Drew and Porsha By Stephanie • Aug 22, 2025 12:40 pm
TV Updates Lorne Michaels remains We are coming up on the last week of August and the end of summer, at least culturally, in North America. The turn up will happen pretty much immediately after Labour Day weekend and a new television season, at least on linear, will begin. Saturday Night Live season 51 will By Lainey • Aug 22, 2025 11:43 am
Quiveration Austin + Zoë: Hot in Paris A late summer treat is the Caught Stealing press tour, which is mostly just Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz going around the world, being incredibly hot. Hot in Puerto Rico, hot in New York, hot in London—basically the only person capable of pulling focus from Austin and Zoë is By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 22, 2025 Dear Gossips, The Venice Film Festival begins next week, followed by the Telluride Film Festival over the US Labor Day weekend, and then TIFF launches on September 4. We’re on the cusp of the fall festival season, which means the 2025 awards season is about to begin. To that By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 09:18 am
Hair Winona (Hair) Forever Winona Ryder isn’t exaggerating when she tells ELLE UK that her hairstyle from Reality Bites was how so many of the girls in the 90s wanted to wear their hair. I know because that’s how I wore my hair for a year. I probably watched Reality Bites every By Lainey • Aug 21, 2025 04:02 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Celebrity Social Media, August 21, 2025 Millie Bobby Brown and her husband Jake Bongiovi announced today that they’re now the parents of a baby girl. The normal response to this news would be to congratulate them and wish their family only health and happiness. But since no one can ever be normal about Millie, she’ By Lainey • Aug 21, 2025 02:42 pm
TV Updates My spiney alien queen in Alien: Earth What makes us human? Is it our organic bodies, failing all around us; is it our memories, the building blocks of identity; or is it our heart, that intangible, metaphysical je ne sai quoi that allows us to love, to grieve, to fear, to hope? The greatest science fiction asks By Sarah • Aug 21, 2025 12:09 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession A Big Bold Beautiful Beginning… Without commas. Anyway, you aren’t here to talk about punctuation and clearly I’m the only one bothered by it so let’s focus instead on the kickoff of Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey press tour. He was at the photo call yesterday with his lead actors, By Lainey • Aug 21, 2025 11:16 am
Sports Glen Powell and Eli Manning try to conquer TV As I mentioned the other day, Glen Powell is returning to TV for the first time since starring in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens in the mid-2010s. Starting September 30, he will star in Chad Powers, a football comedy on Hulu based on a character created by Eli Manning. To By Sarah • Aug 21, 2025 10:26 am
TV Updates Intro for August 21, 2025 Dear Gossips, Emmys voting is now underway and will continue until next Wednesday 27 August. As I mentioned earlier this week, this is a competitive year across pretty much all the major categories, including Outstanding Drama Series. In its freshman year, The Pitt has come out to challenge high-profile favourites By Lainey • Aug 21, 2025 09:18 am
Movie Reviews and Previews “Life moves pretty fast…” Some of you should be able to finish this sentence, or add another one to it: “If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Here are Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck in Vancouver, working together for the first time since Ferris By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 04:12 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 20, 2025 Taika Waititi celebrated his 50th birthday this past weekend and he and Rita Ora celebrated it in Ibiza along with a list of celebrity friends that included Matt Damon, Kate Moss, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joel Edgerton, and cigarettes. We’ll come back to the cigarettes shortly. Instead of nicotine, let’ By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 03:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo’s new dance partner: Tonatiuh The first full trailer for Bill Condon’s Kiss of the Spider Woman was released today ahead of the film’s theatrical release on October 10 which, of course, positions it as an award season hopeful. And that also means that Jennifer Lopez will be spending the fall campaigning. But By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 02:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson: Splitsville… on and offscreen Dakota Johnson and the cast and crew of Splitsville, which includes Adria Arjona, Michael Angelo Covino, who also directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Kyle Marvin, and Nicholas Braun, were at the premiere and after-party last night in LA. The movie is about a man who finds out his wife By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 01:29 pm
Quiveration Austin, Zoë, and a Canadian Cat Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz were in matching black and white last night in London for the UK premiere of Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, opening on August 29. This casting combo is the selling feature, especially for the internet, which in some corners has been theorising that these two By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 11:52 am
TV Updates Fallout’s sci-fi escape hatch I really enjoyed the first season of Fallout, Prime Video’s adaptation of the popular video game series. In fact, I like it so much, I will go out on a limb and say that Walton Goggins should have gotten an Emmy nomination for Fallout, not The White Lotus. His By Sarah • Aug 20, 2025 10:34 am
