Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Demi to The Stage With more than 17 years since the release of her debut album, Demi Lovato has gone through multiple musical chapters. For someone who has always been deeply vulnerable in their work, there’s something to be said about not saying anything. Life is unpredictable, and after countless documentaries, albums, and By MC • Oct 28, 2025 02:55 pm
Style Jennifer Lawrence’s best profile Jennifer Lawrence is back in the Oscar mix this year after the world premiere of Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love in Cannes back in May, where she was praised for her performance as a new mother navigating rage and desire and boredom and Robert Pattinson. That was early in By Lainey • Oct 28, 2025 01:27 pm
Style Ariana Grande: Pink is back There’s been an ongoing conversation over at our Substack, The Squawk, about how quiet Wicked: For Good has been, seemingly. At least in comparison to the overload of Wickeding last year. I wrote about this in our latest mailbag newsletter – that it’s been smart of the studio to By Lainey • Oct 28, 2025 11:14 am
Business of Hollywood Taylor Sheridan flounced on David Ellison In a bombshell report originating in Matthew Belloni’s Puck newsletter, CBS/Paramount golden goose and self-appointed savior of the cowboy way Taylor Sheridan will exit his production deal with Paramount for sweeter pastures with NBCUniversal. Despite new Skydance Paramount CEO David Ellison praising Sheridan as a “singular genius By Sarah • Oct 28, 2025 10:07 am
Sports Intro for October 28, 2025 Dear Gossips, The New York Times/Athletic yesterday published an article about World Series viewership in Canada. The Toronto Blue Jays are setting records this post season. “In a country of 41 million people, here is an astonishing statistic that highlights a shared viewing experience: Game 1 of the 2025 By Lainey • Oct 28, 2025 09:05 am
Maple Leaf Maitreyi gets a degree Shout out to our beloved Toronto girly Maitreyi Ramakrishnan who is having a time! And for you sticklers out there – yes, she’s from Mississauga… which is the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). Maitreyi posted last week that she’d graduated from York University, majoring in Human Rights and Equity Studies. By Lainey • Oct 27, 2025 04:07 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, October 27, 2025 As Lainey noted last week, the All’s Fair cast is not f-cking playing with their press appearances. Outstanding from head-to-toe, for every cast member, at every photo call. For a Hulu series, this has a Barbie or Wicked fashion budget. Snatched all the way around. And By Maria • Oct 27, 2025 03:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hugh and Kate hype train gets going Song Sung Blue, directed by Craig Brewer and starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as a husband-and-wife Neil Diamond tribute band, opens in theatres Christmas Day, the kind of tear-jerker, crowd-pleaser that’s perfect for that time of year. The film premiered at AFI Fest last By Lainey • Oct 27, 2025 02:52 pm
Gorgessity Satine and her underwhelming double It was no surprise that Nicole Kidman, Ayo Edebiri, and Greta Lee walked the runway at Vogue World Hollywood last night at Paramount Studios. All three cover the current issue of American Vogue released in anticipation of the event. And all three are freshly confirmed major fashion house ambassadors – Nicole By Lainey • Oct 27, 2025 01:38 pm
Maple Leaf KP + JT: A Corn and Cheese Birthday Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are playing out basically like fanfic at this point – and I’m not mad at it, LOL. It’s just that these are the most obvious and derivative plot beats and somehow that fits these two perfectly too. Which is why, from the jump, I’ By Lainey • Oct 27, 2025 12:37 pm
TV Updates Keke Palmer’s KeyTV misfire Keke Palmer and her digital network, KeyTV, are at the centre of what has become an increasingly heated discourse online after the release of a show called Southern Fried Rice. The show, which Keke described as a ‘coming-of-age dramedy’, follows protagonist Koko Johnson, a Korean-American woman who By Stephanie • Oct 27, 2025 11:28 am
Style A Saja Boy at the Fashion Show During Paris Fashion Week this past summer, at the Celine show in July, Anna Wintour made a point of asking V (aka Kim Taehyung, aka Tae), within earshot of everyone, to attend Vogue World Hollywood, knowing the impact of an appearance by any member of BTS on any event they By Lainey • Oct 27, 2025 10:42 am
Anna Wintour Intro for October 27, 2025 Dear Gossips, One of the reasons Anna Wintour stepped down as editor-in-chief of American Vogue was to focus on Vogue World, which has become a major priority for her after the Met Gala. After events in New York, London, and Paris, Vogue World took over the Paramount Studios By Lainey • Oct 27, 2025 09:19 am
What Else Bad Bunny, Trendsetter The Latin Billboard Awards were last night and Bad Bunny, who led with a historic 27 nominations, picked up 11 trophies, including Top Latin Artist of the 21st Century, which was presented to him by Rita Moreno. Iconique and icónico! Since the announcement that Benito will be performing the 2026 By Sarah • Oct 24, 2025 04:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon If “theater kid” was personified as a film, it would be Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, a very theatrical imagining of a real moment in time and the conversations that may have been had between people who definitely knew each other. It’s March 31, 1943, the opening night of By Sarah • Oct 24, 2025 03:41 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, October 24, 2025 Lily Allen is a complicated woman and that is something to be appreciated. In a time of conscious uncoupling, let a woman go through it in her art and not pretend her ex is her best friend. John Mulaney appeared on the I Need You Guys podcast and around the By Maria • Oct 24, 2025 02:27 pm