Books Jessica Simpson tells her stories Jessica Simpson is on the cover of PEOPLE to promote her upcoming memoir, Open Book. She’s leading with a big admission: that she had a problem with pills and alcohol but is now sober. (The PEOPLE excerpt also includes details of her childhood sexual abuse.) View this post on By Maria • Jan 23, 2020 01:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews PK vs JAM I just wrote a post about kissing and kissing has been on my mind all day because the first thing I watched when my alarm went off at 430am was the new trailer for PS I Still Love You, the sequel to To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, By Lainey • Jan 23, 2020 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kit and Gemma kiss for Eternals Marvel’s The Eternals is still shooting in London. The movie comes out in November which, yes, is toward the end of the year but it’s not that far away considering how long the post production process can be for some of these projects. And also marketing. Eternals is By Lainey • Jan 23, 2020 12:01 pm
Relationship Assumption Channing Tatum & Jessie J are back together This was forecast last week when Channing Tatum and Jessie J were seen together in LA with his daughter. As I wrote in that post, when two people who are pretty serious break up after a year, and then see each other again so soon, it’s never nothing. There’ By Lainey • Jan 23, 2020 11:42 am
Music Intro for January 23, 2020 Dear Gossips, For the second week in a row, I’m stressed about waiting online to buy something. Last week it was IVY Park x adidas and getting into the prelaunch and desperately trying to throw money at Beyoncé. This week I’m trying to figure out how to throw By Lainey • Jan 23, 2020 10:10 am
What Else What Else? This is a beef I didn’t know about – did you know that Henry Winkler and Tom Hanks might have been slapping at each other because of some comments that Henry made about Tom and his experience working on Turner & Hooch? First of all, millennials, Turner & Hooch is By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 05:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Miss Americana “feels f-cking awesome” The world premiere of Taylor Swift’s documentary Miss Americana premieres at Sundance tomorrow. Yesterday her new Variety cover was released – her only interview about the project – and she talked through more of what she’ll be sharing in the project and why she decided to do it. As she By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 04:21 pm
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: On Brand With Brad – and with Beyoncé? The SAG Awards didn’t even used to be a thing. Do you remember this? They were industry-only and non-televised, like the Independent Spirit Awards, until super-recently. But now they’re such a factor they might be accurate predictors of the Oscars in a few weeks’ time… By Duana • Jan 22, 2020 03:40 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Team Bond is working hard I have not been super enthusiastic for the latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die, which is partly because the Bond movies of the Daniel Craig era are not dependably good, but also because I did not care for the serialization offered by Spectre—why does everything have to By Sarah • Jan 22, 2020 03:06 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 22, 2020 Whoever wrote this non-story does not have a long gossip memory, because everyone knows that Aspen is the Hawn/Russell/Hudson happy place. They’ve been going there for years (with Melanie Griffith and family). View this post on Instagram A post shared by Oliver Hudson (@theoliverhudson) on Jan By Maria • Jan 22, 2020 02:25 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Sundance Preview 2020: 10 to Watch Sundance kicks off on Thursday, and this year’s slate is VERY stacked with promising entries. I sat down to make up a list of ten interesting titles and immediately had almost thirty films singled out. I had to make some tough calls to whittle the list down to ten By Sarah • Jan 22, 2020 01:03 pm
Media Manipulation The Business of Brad and Jen The pictures of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston greeting each other warmly backstage at the SAG Awards on Sunday pretty much broke the internet and gave the celebrity industrial complex a major infusion. The entire ecosystem benefitted from their moment, including other celebrities themselves who tweeted like fangirls and boys By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 11:09 am
Royals Prince Charles’s private jet to Davos Prince Charles is in Davos today to address the delegation and speak about climate change, urging world leaders and billionaires to get serious about saving the planet. On the Clarence House Instagram page, it says that Charles travelled by electric Jaguar after landing in Switzerland: View this post on Instagram By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 10:20 am
Royals Kate’s eight years of Early Years Big launch for Catherine of House Cambridge today. Kate’s top priority has been early childhood development and she’s on a 24-hour tour of the UK, visiting with parents and childcare workers to get their thoughts on how best to raise the next generation, and understand and hopefully By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 09:47 am
Chinese Squawking Chicken Intro for January 22, 2020 Dear Gossips, Saturday is Lunar New Year. If you’ve been visiting this website over the years, you may be familiar with our annual Lunar New Year tradition: my ma, the Chinese Squawking Chicken, passes on to me to pass on to you astrological readings for each of the twelve By Lainey • Jan 22, 2020 08:50 am
What Else What Else? Courteney Cox’s social media activity is being monitored even more closely than usual because of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s moment at the SAGs the other night. It appears that Courteney has been liking posts on Instagram from people who are Gossip Genie-ing a Brad and Jen By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 04:17 pm