What Else What Else? Ryan Seacrest has a new girlfriend. Before you go check out the story and meet her… guess, just guess what her profession is. Wait! You’ll never guess. It’s totally unexpected. I’m lying. It’s not that much of a surprise. Why isn’t Ryan friends with Leonardo By Lainey • Jul 09, 2019 05:22 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews A perfect “Farewell” Here are Awkwafina and director Lulu Wang last night at the New York premiere of The Farewell. The film opens in limited release on Friday and right now, it has a perfect 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which is not a surprise because people loved it at Sundance. I’m By Lainey • Jul 09, 2019 03:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Judy survive the sea change? A couple months ago, we got the first trailer for Judy, the Judy Garland biopic starring Renee Zellweger. At the time, I called it “hardcore bait” for Oscar. Now we have a second trailer for Judy, and I don’t just think this is Oscar bait, I think this movie By Sarah • Jul 09, 2019 02:54 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 9, 2019 There’s a mini celebrity profile of Stella McCartney in The Guardian to celebrate her new Beatles-themed collection. It’s not as long as a profile that you’d find in Vanity Fair or GQ, but it’s insightful. Stella comes off a little bit of an asshole, but just By Maria • Jul 09, 2019 02:09 pm
Hook Ups Kristen, Stella, Emma, Garrett: couples update Last week I posted about Kristen Stewart heading out of LA on the Fourth of July. She may have been going to New York to join girlfriend Stella Maxwell. Here they are at the airport yesterday so we can now just say, straight up, that they’re back together, right? By Lainey • Jul 09, 2019 01:06 pm
BFFs Angelina & Jacqueline in Paris Angelina Jolie has been in Paris the last couple of days working with Guerlain. She is the brand ambassador and was seen yesterday shooting a new ad presumably for Mon Guerlain, the fragrance. Jacqueline Bisset is with her on the trip. They’ve been seen leaving the hotel together several By Lainey • Jul 09, 2019 12:09 pm
Royals Meghan Markle: no pictures at Wimbledon The big headline over at the Daily Mail at 6am this morning was about how Meghan Markle’s protection officers were warning people at Wimbledon last week not to take photos of her. Meghan was there with two friends to watch Serena’s match. According to a woman in the By Lainey • Jul 09, 2019 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Lion King cast portrait One of my favourite things in life right now is the cast portrait of The Lion King released by Disney yesterday. Beyoncé, obviously, is the focus. She is meant to be the focus, obviously. There is no doubt about it with that placement. View this post on Instagram A post By Lainey • Jul 09, 2019 10:10 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Fast 9: Will the women get to stand up this time? Fast 9, the latest entry in the most improbable franchise in cinema, is currently filming in the UK. Vin Diesel took to Instagram to drop some casting news, confirming that Charlize Theron and Helen Mirren are returning for this installment. Theron was the villain in F8te of the Furious—still By Sarah • Jul 09, 2019 09:50 am
Intro for July 9, 2019 Dear Gossips, In yesterday’s Celebrity Social Media, Maria mentioned Jessica Pressler’s piece in The Cut about the nursery school drama happening in Brooklyn. As my friend Lorella said after reading it, “I ate it like a 7 course meal”. Me too. Like savoured. Everyone comes off as an By Lainey • Jul 09, 2019 08:39 am
What Else What Else? What is it with statues and busts the last few years? Oh and courtroom sketches too. No bust made me laugh harder than Ronaldo’s bust. But my go-to will always be that botched Spanish fresco restoration. It was supposed to be Jesus and it ended up being …well… go By Lainey • Jul 08, 2019 04:56 pm
Name Nerd Duana Names: The H Factor Hi Duana, Love your name column. Hoping you can offer some advice and feedback. We’re expecting a baby and we’re not sure of the gender. We’ve got two girls already, Jiya ( pronounced Gee-ah), Ela (pronounced Eh-lah)... and we’re not sure what name to use for the By Duana • Jul 08, 2019 04:34 pm
Weddings Zoe and Karl on their honeymoon? I put a question mark there because I’m not entirely sure if this is their “official” honeymoon – here are Zoe Kravitz and Karl Glusman, a week after their wedding in Paris, in Positano having dinner with friends last night. According to E! News, Zoe was showing wedding photos to By Lainey • Jul 08, 2019 04:17 pm
Equality Issues Colin Kaepernick and Nike’s value Forbes is reporting that Nike’s stock rose 2% this past week, which is $3 billion in market value, after complying with spokesperson Colin Kaepernick’s appeal to pull its latest shoe. Last week, Nike removed the “Betsy Ross”, a version of their Air Max 1 Quick Strike. According to By Melayna • Jul 08, 2019 03:49 pm
Maple Leaf Celine Dion: first Paris, then London Last week Celine Dion took over Paris Fashion Week. Then she went to London and did the same. Celine Dion performed in Hyde Park on Friday and… it was the only sh-t that mattered. It was clearly the only sh-t that mattered to Sam Smith: CELINE DION CHANGED MY LIFE By Lainey • Jul 08, 2019 02:51 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, July 8, 2019 You guys! You guys. I’m back. I have missed this space – a lot. Lainey has done an excellent job of checking in on my favourites (Breaking Bad, the Beckhams, the Gallagher brothers). Concerning the latter, there was a little feud-within-a-feud last week involving text messages and threats, the usual By Maria • Jul 08, 2019 01:09 pm