Books Constance Wu comes back Trigger warning, sensitive content to follow. Constance Wu has not been on social media for a few years. Not that she hasn’t been working, during her social media absence, Constance has worked steadily and currently stars in The Terminal List with a couple of film projects in post-production. Earlier By Lainey • Jul 18, 2022 11:22 am
Books A (second) Bridgerton prequel book is coming A Bridgerton prequel series has been in the works for the last year, centering on the romance between a young Queen Charlotte and King George, but now there is, in true synergistic style, a tie-in prequel book coming from Bridgerton author Julia Quinn and showrunner Shonda Rhimes. The queen does By Sarah • Jul 08, 2022 03:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Some good Angelina news The recent news about Angelina Jolie has been troubling—at best—as it involves her never-ending split from Brad Pitt and their winery-estate, Miraval, and her share of the wine business that she sold, legitimately and above board, to a liquor company. Well! Enough of that! How about some good By Sarah • Jun 10, 2022 10:27 am
Maple Leaf Simu Liu: acting, singing, hosting, dancing, writing I’m travelling this week so I wasn’t able to watch Simu Liu host the Juno Awards from Toronto on Sunday. I have however watched online clips of his opening monologue and one part where he sings. Let’s start with the monologue which starts with a sketch before By Lainey • May 17, 2022 01:10 pm
Books Intro for March 8, 2022 Dear Gossips, The Academy of Country Music Awards happened last night in Las Vegas, co-hosted by the legend Dolly Parton who joked during her opening monologue that a disco ball fell on top of her. That was just the first of several outfit changes and appearances, including performances. Dolly did By Lainey • Mar 08, 2022 09:05 am
Books Ryan Atwood is a journalist now (sort of) Because we are living in not only the darkest timeline, but also the dumbest, Ben McKenzie, always and forever known as The OC’s Ryan Atwood, is co-writing a book about cryptocurrency with journalist Jacob Silverman. The pair have written articles for Slate about crypto, and are appearing at SXSW By Sarah • Feb 25, 2022 01:13 pm
Books Andrew Garfield’s next moment Andrew Garfield is currently enjoying his relaxed and good-hair awards season, plus a victory lap for Spider-Man: No Way Home, but he will soon be back out promoting a new project, the true crime series, Under the Banner of Heaven. Based on Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name, By Sarah • Feb 24, 2022 12:22 pm
TV Updates Keanu in the White City? There is movement at last on the long-gestating adaptation of Erik Larson’s book, The Devil in the White City, produced by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. This is, indeed, GREAT news to kick off 2022, as true crime aficionados have been waiting for this adaptation since DiCaprio acquired the By Sarah • Jan 04, 2022 11:46 am
Books Riley and Suki are Daisy and Karen Duana and I loved Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Daisy Jones & The Six …hard. We wrote it about it on the site, we talked about it on Show Your Work, and we even talked to Taylor about it on the podcast. That was back in 2019 and at the time, By Lainey • Oct 18, 2021 12:02 pm
Books Angelina Jolie: A Book Signing After Dinner Angelina Jolie was seen leaving dinner with Johnny Lee Miller in LA the other night – you can see the photos here. It’s the second time they’ve had dinner – that we know of – in the last few months. Back in the summer she was photographed heading to his place By Lainey • Oct 14, 2021 02:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck by George Clooney: A First Look George Clooney’s latest film, the adaptation of JR Moehringer’s The Tender Bar, opens in select theatres the week before Christmas and will be available to stream on Amazon in early January. It’s George Clooney, it’s a holiday release, it’s a family and community and coming-of-age By Lainey • Oct 14, 2021 12:39 pm
BFFs The Clooneys and Harry’s True Story The big royal story this week has been the announcement that Prince Harry has a publishing deal with Penguin Random House to release his first memoir. While the official statement from the publisher did not mention a ghostwriter, Page Six, which broke the story, reported that Harry is working with By Lainey • Jul 22, 2021 11:01 am
Top Reads Harry: His True Story The big royal headline of the week landed yesterday afternoon ET – Prince Harry is writing his memoir, to be published through Penguin Random House, “tentatively scheduled for late 2022”. As I wrote yesterday in What Else? , I’m not convinced that they’d always intended to make the announcement when By Lainey • Jul 20, 2021 09:26 am
Books Emilia Clarke wrote a menstrual comic One thing that blockbuster success affords artists is the opportunity to get REAL WEIRD without fear of economic reprisal. Some people use this to create fantastic art without worrying about commercial concerns (Prince, David Bowie, Robert Pattinson), while some people become paralyzed by the thing that made them rich and By Sarah • Jun 14, 2021 11:48 am
Baby and Bump Obsession House Sussex: The Month Ahead It’s the first day of June 2021, Pride Month, and also a big month ahead for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. So while we’re in this brief moment of calm, let’s look ahead to what we might expect from House Sussex in the weeks to come. Meghan By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 11:17 am
Books Intro for June 1, 2021 Dear Gossips, Today is June 1 – it’s the beginning of Pride Month! So let’s celebrate Billy Porter and here he is last week in New York visiting The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in an outfit that is just about as low-key as it gets where Billy is By Lainey • Jun 01, 2021 09:22 am
