Top Reads The allegations against Brad Pitt TMZ posted a story last night about Brad Pitt’s alleged behaviour on a private plane with Angelina Jolie and their kids that supposedly went down last week. He was allegedly “wasted” and was shouting and getting “physical”. TMZ says it happened last Wednesday, at 8pm, the night before the By Lainey • Sep 22, 2016 12:54 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Marion Cotillard is not the one Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet have a child called Marcel. Marion is in a movie about married spies with Brad Pitt called Allied due out in November. Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt. Marion is pregnant. The easy gossip here was to assume that Marion came between By Lainey • Sep 22, 2016 10:19 am
Brad Pitt Intro for September 22, 2016 Dear Gossips, Tom Cruise has a movie coming out a month from tomorrow. It’s the Jack Reacher sequel, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. That title. Why is that title? Because Tom Cruise still lives in the 80s. The 90s were great for him too, actually. And the early part By Lainey • Sep 22, 2016 10:04 am
Brad Pitt The Clooneys didn’t know and a Brange podcast Amal and George Clooney have been in New York this week at various United Nations meetings. Amal recently announced that she will be suing ISIS, explaining to NBC News that, "ISIS can just be reborn under a different name if you don’t actually change the narrative and change By Lainey • Sep 21, 2016 04:38 pm
Break Ups Jennifer Aniston’s happiest day I mean, the cover of the NY Post today: Today's cover: Jennifer Aniston knew Brangelina would end one day https://t.co/JvMlGzXP0A pic.twitter.com/uwVam0Glr1— New York Post (@nypost) September 21, 2016 I laughed. It’s funny. It’s so f-cking bitchy which is probably why By Lainey • Sep 21, 2016 12:59 pm
Break Ups Brange’s performative parenting I was asked last night why I thought Brange was so once in a lifetime, beyond the obvious: their looks, their matched mega-fame as individuals, the scandal that marked the inception of their relationship, and the internet. Also their family. The children. The Brange children were introduced to the world By Lainey • Sep 21, 2016 11:48 am
Break Ups Brad Pitt’s PR As I reported yesterday, Angelina Jolie got the jump on Brad Pitt. She filed for divorce. Laura Wasser is repping her. And her side of the story about Brad Pitt’s alleged drinking and “anger issues” was posted on TMZ first, before noon ET, which meant that Brad had to By Lainey • Sep 21, 2016 10:08 am
Media Manipulation Capitalising on the end of Brange As you know, Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in Allied, due out November 23. That’s around US Thanksgiving. That’s a favourable movie release date. It means they have some hopes for it at the box office and, perhaps, for awards consideration. Allied is about two spies who By Lainey • Sep 21, 2016 09:13 am
Break Ups Intro for September 21, 2016 Dear Gossips, Exactly a week ago today, I opened the blog on Vanity Fair’s Hollywood divorce piece featuring commentary from Laura Wasser about why celebrity splits get played out in the media. She claimed that, “Most of my clients, for better or for worse, are not interested in that By Lainey • Sep 21, 2016 08:30 am
Break Ups Brange’s bad stretch So it’s been bad for a while, well before my post in June. Brange have always maintained a sexy kind of tension between them. It was a passionate relationship. They fought, they made up. All these years my sources have never worried that that was a problem, because it By Lainey • Sep 20, 2016 03:53 pm
Break Ups Brange over Brad’s anger? Angelina Jolie is being represented by Laura Wasser. When Laura Wasser was handling Johnny Depp, it seemed like TMZ had minute-by-minute updates on the situation from Johnny’s perspective. So far this morning, they are also coming hard with exclusives about the Brange split. The latest is a quote from By Lainey • Sep 20, 2016 02:17 pm
Faux Gossip Marion, Guillaume, and Brange Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet were photographed with their son and some friends last week in France. Fortuitous that these photos were released just yesterday. Because now that Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt there will be a lot of speculation about whether or not Marion had By Lainey • Sep 20, 2016 12:01 pm
Break Ups Brange. Done. This is Angelina Jolie telling Taylor Swift and Kanye West’s wife that their pathetic excuse for Gossip Christmas was BARELY Gossip Christmas. So, in case you haven’t heard, TMZ broke the news that Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt. Her lawyer is Laura Wasser – and By Lainey • Sep 20, 2016 11:18 am
Brad Pitt Brad Pitt & Marlon James Brad Pitt on the cover of T, The New York Times style magazine, interviewed by reigning Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James. The last time we talked about an acclaimed author interviewing a movie star for T, it was Jonathan Safran Foer and Natalie Portman exchanging super-try emails. Since Marlon By Lainey • Sep 08, 2016 03:45 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard are inhumanly beautiful I don’t want to stir sh*t up, but the teaser for Allied, the World War II movie starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard, is out and Pitt & Cotillard look unbelievably gorgeous in it. It’s shades of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, when you couldn’t believe two By Sarah • Aug 15, 2016 12:04 pm
BFFs Gwyneth’s old boyfriends Gwyneth Paltrow showed up for her friend Mario Batali at a dinner in New York the other night. Vanity Fair was one of the media outlets invited to cover it. Have you listened to this week’s episode of the Sasha Answers podcast yet? We begin with Sasha’s Gwyneth By Lainey • Jul 22, 2016 02:19 pm