Douchebags Are Dax and Kristen trolling? Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell are a controversial couple. As much as their publicist wants to yell at me over email or the phone about this, it’s an undeniable fact. Duana tells me there are corners of the internet, specifically on TikTok, dedicated to theories about this relationship. And By Lainey • Nov 26, 2025 04:14 pm
Douchebags Millie Bobby Brown needed protection Lily Allen’s new album, West End Girl, is essentially a diary detailing the collapse of her marriage to David Harbour. She puts his sh-tty behaviour on blast, as she’s working out her own pain and trauma. And she decided to release it just before the final season of By Lainey • Nov 03, 2025 02:20 pm
Douchebags Just Andrew is a regular degular Prince Andrew and Buckingham Palace announced two weeks ago that he would no longer use his title or his honours, and go by Just Andrew. As I wrote yesterday before the big news broke, this was a meaningless gesture. All it meant was that he wouldn’t go around calling By Lainey • Oct 31, 2025 11:38 am
Douchebags Teasing Brad and Tom Tom Cruise showed up at the London premiere of F1 and he and Brad Pitt tried to break the internet by hanging out together on a red carpet for the first time in decades. The movie became Apple’s first box office hit. So, naturally, there’s already talk of By Lainey • Jul 04, 2025 01:00 pm
Douchebags Blake Lively’s temporary relief Blake Lively stepped out last night with her niece, Kate, at a Chanel event in New York just hours after news broke that the presiding judge in the legal dispute between her and Justin Baldoni had dismissed Justin’s countersuit against her. He was suing her for $400 million defamation By Lainey • Jun 10, 2025 11:58 am
Douchebags Walton Goggins’ “off the rails” interview Walton Goggins is in the fourth decade of his career, and thank to The White Lotus, he’s finally a full-blown celebrity. As observed, he’s been enjoying his newfound fame, a “that guy” no longer, but with this kind of scrutiny comes speculation. Chiefly, speculation around his relationship with By Sarah • May 02, 2025 11:52 am
Douchebags Shannon Sharpe accused CW for intimate partner violence, discussion of sexual assault Last week, Shannon Sharpe announced he would be stepping away from his role at ESPN over disturbing allegations outlined in a hefty lawsuit being levied against him by an ex-girlfriend, who, despite being named as Jane Doe on court documents, had By Stephanie • Apr 28, 2025 01:26 pm
Douchebags Cardi B is still dealing with That Man Cardi B is revealing just how bad things have become between her and Offset, who she filed for divorce from last August, before the birth of their youngest child, which Lainey wrote about here. Over the weekend, in a rant on Twitter, she spoke at length about being the victim By Stephanie • Apr 02, 2025 01:24 pm
Douchebags Brittany Cartwright is done We’re a few weeks away from the highly anticipated season premiere of season two of The Valley – and in anticipation of it, Jax Taylor spoke at length in an exclusive interview about the changes he’s been navigating lately, which include his recent admission to a long-standing struggle with By Stephanie • Mar 27, 2025 11:16 am
Douchebags Blake v Justin: The Video Assumption move In my post last week, after Justin Baldoni formally filed his lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, I called it a “Lawsuit for Gossip” and here’s how I ended that article – sorry to quote myself: “… prior to the Depp-Heard trial, audio recordings were leaked online that were then By Lainey • Jan 22, 2025 11:35 am
Douchebags Spencer Pratt’s (latest) heel turn Spencer Pratt is no stranger to drama, he’s a former reality TV star, and arguably one of the most provocative. So it should come as no surprise that he’s found himself in yet another spat, this time with Call Her Daddy’s Alex Cooper. He withdrew his support By Stephanie • Jan 21, 2025 11:26 am
Douchebags A Lawsuit for Gossip Justin Baldoni, his partners, and associates have filed a countersuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds accusing them of civil extortion, defamation, and invasion of privacy. Justin and his cohort are seeking $400 million in damages; this is in addition to the $250 million they’re suing The New York By Lainey • Jan 17, 2025 12:07 pm
Douchebags The Fox Sports lawsuit and mess Fox Sports has been rocked by a recent lawsuit filed by a former hairstylist, Noushin Faraji, which includes damning allegations about some of the network’s most well-known on-air talent and high-ranking executives. Noushin is seeking unspecified damages from former host Skip Bayless, Fox Sports and Fox Corporation after alleging By Stephanie • Jan 08, 2025 11:31 am
Douchebags Ben Affleck: A Thanksgiving Update Late in the day, PEOPLE posted an exclusive about Ben Affleck and how he’d be spending American Thanksgiving. Maybe they’re rolling out coverage to ensure there’s enough content on the page for the holiday while the staff is off work and given that it’s generally quite By Lainey • Nov 28, 2024 11:28 am
Douchebags Intro for October 22, 2024 Dear Gossips, Sometimes my folks ask me about movies to decide if they want to bother finding and watching them, such as asking if I’ve heard of “Concave”, aka papal thriller Conclave. So when they asked me about a new Clint Eastwood movie, for which they had seen a By Sarah • Oct 22, 2024 08:35 am
Douchebags Don't make it about that man Just when we thought the allegations against Diddy couldn’t be any more heinous than the claims brought forward in the past by women like Cassie in her 2023 lawsuit, something new comes up. To Lainey’s point made yesterday in What Else?, I, too, have no interest, nor the By Stephanie • Sep 18, 2024 02:23 pm