Intro for December 23, 2019 Dear Gossips, Time for one of our favourite holiday traditions here at LaineyGossip: the Gingerbread House throwdown! For those of you who are new to this, click here to browse through the history of this annual event. To recap: my friend LB’s family participates in a gingerbread house competition, By Lainey • Dec 23, 2019 10:05 am
What Else What Else? Heads up because we’ve received a few emails about this … Every year, I post about my friend Lorella and her family’s Ginger Bread House competition and it’s been a popular regular feature here at LaineyGossip.com. The 2019 edition will be posted this coming MONDAY. We will By Lainey • Dec 20, 2019 03:58 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: Wherein French Food Is My Albatross Hi Duana, Have LOVED the column for years and worried that my decision not to birth any more humans might mean I never get to seek your advice. However, the time has come to add to our family in puppy form, and I have 1) a philosophical question and 2) By Duana • Dec 20, 2019 03:47 pm
What's Your Drama Podcast What’s Your Drama: Sister Posing and V-Cards It’s the last episode of the decade of What’s Your Drama and we are closing out it with our special guest, Duana! She’s digging into all your drama and dropping some serious advice gems. But first I have to get to the bottom of this weirdo trend By Sasha • Dec 20, 2019 03:29 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 20, 2019 Jia Tolentino’s The Age of the Instagram Face is only a few weeks old, but it’s already a reference point for me. It’s about women (mostly) who reverse engineer their features to look like a filtered version of themselves, with a strong celebrity influence (think the Kardashians, By Maria • Dec 20, 2019 02:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Best Films of the Decade (2010s): Part II For Part 1 of The Best Films of the Decade, please click here. The final half of the best films of the decade. As always, this list is alphabetical, not ranked. The Love Witch (2016) A film of singular artistic vision, The Love Witch is produced, written, directed, edited, AND By Sarah • Dec 20, 2019 01:46 pm
Gorgessity Outfits of the Week: Keri Russell Keri Russell wore the first Outfit of the Week we started doing almost two years ago. And since then, I’ve tried to not repeat people, because there are some people who could easily be OOTW all the time, like Zendaya and Tracee Ellis Ross. So I waited all week By Lainey • Dec 20, 2019 12:53 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bombshell doesn’t quite work Bombshell tells the story of Roger Ailes’ ouster at Fox News amid a sexual harassment scandal. In hindsight, it’s a proto-#MeToo story about a predator felled when enough people listened to enough women recount horror stories of harassment and abuse, and it happened at one of the most By Sarah • Dec 20, 2019 12:18 pm
Camila Cabello Camila Cabello’s past and present How do you go from promoting your new album and publicly declaring your affection in one of the most followed relationships to becoming embroiled in a huge controversy? Earlier this week, a Twitter thread shared screenshots from Camila’s old Tumblr account exposing several instances where she said the n-word By Prem • Dec 20, 2019 11:38 am
Music Mimi just keeps giving It’s five days until Christmas! And our generous Christmas Butterfly just keeps giving! This, after all, is the season of Mimi. Mariah Carey IS Christmas, a fact. As we know, Mimi’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first By Lainey • Dec 20, 2019 10:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews What is Tenet? Christopher Nolan is one of the last big-name directors who can get butts in seats based on his name alone. He doesn’t have to tell us what his movies are about or even, really, who is in them (although he attracts star-studded casts, so Nolan casting announcements are always By Sarah • Dec 20, 2019 09:48 am
TV Updates Intro for December 20, 2019 Dear Gossips, I’m so excited about Eddie Murphy’s return to Saturday Night Live this weekend, it’s almost pathetic. But I can’t be the only one. SNL is excited. And I wonder if they’re actually planning two shows – the main show, obviously, but also a show By Lainey • Dec 20, 2019 09:15 am
What Else What Else? We’ve had a few emails come in about the Ruth Wilson situation and why she left The Affair. Duana and I want to hold it for Show Your Work because we’re wondering if there’s going to be a response. And we want to have all that information By Lainey • Dec 19, 2019 04:56 pm
Break Ups Channing & Jessie are over Us Weekly reports exclusively that after over a year of dating, Channing Tatum and Jessie J are done. According to their source, the split is amicable and they’re still good friends. If this is true, because Us Weekly is not what it used to be and they don’t By Lainey • Dec 19, 2019 04:28 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, December 19, 2019 As Sarah wrote yesterday, Adam Sandler still has a chance at a nomination for Uncut Gems, even if it’s a slim chance (read her take here). Here is a photo of Adam Sandler at a screening, in a Disney World fleece. This is the kind of jacket buy in By Maria • Dec 19, 2019 01:42 pm
Quiveration Sebastian Stan Year In Review: Hotness Maintained Sebastian Stan caps off his Year In Hot by appearing in Men’s Health. He is there, ostensibly, to talk about The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which is filming now and due later next year on Disney+. But he is also looking extremely hot, in what is, I must By Sarah • Dec 19, 2019 01:02 pm