Gossip Nostalgia Intro for March 4, 2024 Dear Gossips, Six days to go now until the Oscars and this weekend was the 10th anniversary of one of the most viral moments in Oscar history – it was the infamous Oscar selfie taken by Ellen DeGeneres: If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic. By Lainey • Mar 04, 2024 08:42 am
Ellen Degeneres James Corden: Kinda Like Ellen If your feed wasn’t blowing up about Olivia Wilde, Jason Sudeikis, Harry Styles, and the nanny, maybe it was blowing up about James Corden. Or maybe they were all blowing up together since James and Harry are good friends. But this is what started the James situation: Keith McNally By Lainey • Oct 18, 2022 11:20 am
Royals Meghan and Ellen The Ellen DeGeneres Show is in its final season and so far, for a final season, there hasn’t been all that much buzz. And it’s showing in the ratings. The number one daytime talk show of fall 2021 is Live with Kelly and Ryan, by an enormous margin By Lainey • Nov 19, 2021 10:08 am
TV Updates Jessica Biel’s True Crime Turnaround This morning, Lainey sent me a clip of Jessica Biel on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and before I watched it, I told myself I was going to write this post without mentioning Justin Timberlake. I thought that with so much emphasis on him, all the time, why not shine a By Maria • Apr 19, 2021 01:31 pm
Ellen Degeneres Intro for August 18, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was confirmed late yesterday that after complaints made public by current and former employees about workplace harassment and toxic workplace culture, three executive producers from The Ellen DeGeneres Show have been let go. On a Zoom call with staff yesterday, Ellen informed her team of the news By Lainey • Aug 18, 2020 08:56 am
Media Manipulation “There’s been love” for Ellen DeGeneres The Hollywood Reporter published an interview with the chief of WarnerMedia, Jason Kilar, a few days ago. He was asked about The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The response: “There’s nothing new there. Ellen’s doing what she does best right now. We’re fully supportive of her. Aside from what’ By Lainey • Aug 12, 2020 10:02 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: The Emmys and Ellen I couldn’t wait to talk to Duana for this week’s episode about the Emmys after the Television Academy and Jimmy Kimmel announced that the ceremony would be virtual. Duana’s produced a lot of live award television and the work that’s happening right now behind the scenes By Lainey • Aug 05, 2020 02:51 pm
Douchebags Ellen DeGeneres responds Almost five months ago, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Ellen DeGeneres was called out in a Twitter thread about how in real life, she is supposedly the opposite of “Be Kind”, which has become her slogan. For years now, these rumours have been circulating in the entertainment industry By Lainey • Jul 31, 2020 09:30 am
Ellen Degeneres Ellen Isn’t Getting It Over the weekend, Ellen DeGeneres weighed in on the protests going on across North America in support of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and the long list of victims of anti-Black crime. In a now deleted tweet she said: “Like so many of you, I By Prem • Jun 02, 2020 10:27 am
Equality Issues Entertainment Weekly’s Pride Cover June is Pride month. And while many of the parades and celebrations have been cancelled due to COVID-19 (and corporations can breathe a sigh of relief because they can stop pretending like they care), Entertainment Weekly’s June issue is dedicated to LGBTQ+ artists that have played a central role By Prem • May 14, 2020 12:58 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews JLD’s First Oscars Julia Louis-Dreyfus is presenting at the Oscars this weekend – for this first time. Sunday night will mark her Oscars debut, as a guest or presenter. You’re surprised, right? Sure, Julia has never been nominated, but she came pretty close during the 2013-2014 awards season with Nicole Holofcener’s Enough By Joanna • Feb 04, 2020 03:11 pm
Royals On House Sussex and Ellen DeGeneres Last week the Daily Mail broke the exclusive that Meghan Markle’s first interview after Sussexit would be with Ellen DeGeneres. Meghan and Prince Harry are the biggest gets right now, by far. Everyone wants to talk to them and obviously most people were thinking that they’d choose an By Lainey • Jan 28, 2020 12:43 pm
Golden Globes 2020 Globes 2020: Ricky, Parasite, Ellen Were you yelling at your TV or your tablet when Ricky Gervais was making all those jokes about Cats because they didn’t cut away from him to show anyone in the audience?! Because they definitely cut to Leonardo DiCaprio when he talked about his film being so long that By Lainey • Jan 06, 2020 04:29 am
TV Updates Sarah Michelle Gellar Doubles Chances of TV Return I’ll be honest – Sarah Michelle Gellar’s career is fascinating to me. In the past, I’ve had trouble understanding why she’s not much, much busier. But the announcement that she’s slated to star in a limited series called Sometimes I Lie, executive produced by Ellen Degeneres, By Duana • Nov 15, 2019 01:59 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bombshell is coming for Oscar…and is MBJ coming for Charlize? Last week at LaineyGossip, we played “Leave Room For” in the Oscar race. Sarah wrote that award season has to leave room for 1917 and in my post about leaving room for Queen & Slim, I mentioned that we also have to leave room for Bombshell. Bombshell comes out December By Lainey • Oct 15, 2019 12:33 pm
Ellen Degeneres Ellen DeGeneres and the limits of nice Last weekend, Ellen DeGeneres was seen at a football game with former US president George W. Bush. The backlash came quickly as many consider Bush to be a war criminal with an abysmally harmful record with the LGBTQ community. It’s a record that has shaped much of the continued By Melayna • Oct 10, 2019 10:03 am
