Douchebags James Franco has no idea James and Dave Franco were supposed to be featured in a New York TimesTalk event that was scheduled for today which has now been cancelled because of the recent allegations that have come up about James following the Golden Globes. As mentioned the other day, James won the Best Actor By Lainey • Jan 10, 2018 03:48 pm
Douchebags The Michelle Williams/Mark Wahlberg pay gap Today in Burn It All Down News, USA Today is reporting that for the eleventh-hour All the Money in the World reshoots, Mark Wahlberg was paid $1.5 million, while Michelle Williams was paid less than one thousand dollars. Yes, that’s right, Michelle Williams, who received a Golden Globe By Sarah • Jan 10, 2018 09:35 am
Douchebags Justin Timberlake went to the Golden Globes As mentioned yesterday in my post about Oprah, I decided to hold my post on this jackass because he wasn’t sitting on top of her, not after that speech. We should put Justin Timberlake on a delay more often. On Sunday night, Justin Timberlake went to the Golden Globes By Lainey • Jan 09, 2018 04:38 pm
Douchebags Matt Lauer still sends notes Page Six reported yesterday that even though Matt Lauer has been fired from Today and even though they just announced this week that Hoda Kotb is the new permanent co-anchor, he still sends notes. This is not like a note you pass in class. In TV and film, you get By Lainey • Jan 04, 2018 11:09 am
Douchebags Justin Timberlake and the Women Justin Timberlake presented at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment breakfast yesterday, announcing scholarships to young women as part of the mentorship program. Him? Him. That’s a thing that actually happened. Justin Timberlake. At an event meant to honour women, lift up women, support women. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE. Did By Lainey • Dec 07, 2017 09:55 am
Douchebags Meghan Markle’s friend problem Last week, after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced their engagement, a photo of Meghan and a friend, taken when they were teen tourists in England, outside Buckingham Palace, was published by the Daily Mail. This weekend, that same friend, Ninaki Priddy, made available over 50 photos taken during the By Lainey • Dec 06, 2017 01:41 pm
Douchebags “Upwardly mobile” Meghan Markle Last year, Prince Harry yelled at the UK media by launching a Love Shield in defence of Meghan Markle after British tabloids repeatedly published articles about her being “straight outta Compton” and other gross headlines. Now that he and Meghan are engaged, well, that bullsh-t is starting up again. Here’ By Lainey • Nov 30, 2017 01:34 pm
Douchebags Jennifer Lawrence is an asshole Those are her words, not mine. In a new interview with Adam Sandler for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Jennifer Lawrence says she is purposefully mean to fans who approach her in public. JLaw: Once I enter a public place, I become incredibly rude. I turn into a huge By Kathleen • Nov 29, 2017 02:49 pm
Douchebags Benny Medina too Benny Medina is Jennifer Lopez’s manager. He used to be Mariah Carey’s manager. He produced The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air. The show was based on his life. And now he’s being accused of attempted rape. Actor Jason Dottley told The Advocate on Friday that in 2008, By Lainey • Nov 14, 2017 11:51 am
Douchebags JT’s Oscar suck-up The best thing about the Oscars last year was that Justin Timberlake did not win one. He tried though. He was nominated for Best Song for the Worst Song of 2016, Can’t Stop The Feeling, from the movie Trolls. What JT really wants though, as we know, is to By Lainey • Nov 13, 2017 12:38 pm
Douchebags Up next: Louis C.K. Louis C.K.’s new movie, I Love You, Daddy, opens next week. The premiere was supposed to be tonight. I say “supposed to be”, because it was abruptly cancelled today, apparently because the New York Times is about to run an expose on C.K., about all those rumors, By Sarah • Nov 09, 2017 03:53 pm
Douchebags Ed Westwick under investigation Kristina Cohen shared on Facebook earlier this week that three years ago, she was at Ed Westwick’s house and he allegedly raped her. When I posted about this yesterday, Ed had yet to respond. He eventually did. And this is what he said: A post shared by Ed Westwick By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 09:26 am
Douchebags Chuck Bass too? Like I said yesterday, at this point we need a Daily Sexual Harassment/Abuse/Assault Roundup. Some of the offenders are very powerful men. Some of them are moderately powerful men. Others are relatively powerful. And even B/C list stars are predators. Not all men, sure. But, at the By Lainey • Nov 07, 2017 11:36 am
Douchebags Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner, and more shady connections I briefly considered titling this post “The Daily Sexual Harassment Roundup”. But I worried that that would seem insensitive. And I don’t want to be insensitive. I want to make a point that this is what’s happening now: that the list of sexual harassers and predators in Hollywood By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 01:20 pm
Douchebags Leo is being careful The NY Daily News posted a really interesting article about Leonardo DiCaprio yesterday. Leo was at a Halloween party in New York earlier this week. Here’s how it went down according to the NY Daily News source: Partygoers at a lower Manhattan Halloween bash were left buzzing about the By Lainey • Nov 03, 2017 10:18 am
Douchebags Brett Ratner’s reckoning A month ago, it was announced that Brett Ratner would direct a biopic of Hugh Hefner, with Jared Leto to star as Hef. I said that was a bad idea, partly because of Leto but mostly because of Ratner: “Honestly, Jared Leto playing Hef is an afterthought, mostly just good By Sarah • Nov 02, 2017 08:52 am
