Award Season Campaigning Brad Pitt’s charm offensive Well sh-t. When’s the last time you saw Brad Pitt on a talk show? Not doing a bit like the weather or a bit with Colbert when they’re looking up at a fake sky or yodeling with Jimmy Fallon or walking across Jimmy Kimmel’s stage for a By Lainey • Sep 13, 2019 10:34 am
Royals Will Prince Andrew be deposed? Buckingham Palace and Prince Andrew may have thought that they’d put this Jeffrey Epstein business behind them. Even after Andrew was seen with Epstein following his jail sentence on “charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution”, he managed to not have to account for his By Lainey • Aug 20, 2019 10:21 am
Ellen Degeneres Taylor Swift drinks white wine Taylor Swift is on The Ellen Show today, her first interview in two years or so. The clips are all over the place – you can find them all here. As we’ve seen, this is accessible Taylor, and it’s supposed to feel like a sharp pivot from reputation Taylor By Lainey • May 15, 2019 11:10 am
Ben Affleck Ben is his tattoo Ben Affleck’s new interview with Ellen DeGeneres to promote Triple Frontier on Netflix will air today. He looks good, relaxed, acknowledging his troubles of the past couple of years and the work he’s put in to move through them. So much so that he’s ready to take By Lainey • Mar 14, 2019 09:55 am
Ellen Degeneres Intro for January 4, 2019 Dear Gossips, Big weekend! It’s the Golden Globes on Sunday! The Golden Globes do not have a hosting problem. It’s the Oscars that have a hosting problem. Which is why the Oscar host dilemma is making headlines today, just two days before the Globes. With only 7 weeks By Lainey • Jan 04, 2019 09:10 am
Quiveration MBJ’s DMs We knew that Michael Bae Jordan checks his DMs thanks to MBJ stan hero Sylvia Wilson. For the uninitiated, Sylvia slid into Michael’s DMs in May and got to meet him. At the time, I thought it was very kind and selfless of MBJ to answer a fan’s By Kathleen • Nov 21, 2018 12:12 pm
Quiveration Naomi Osaka’s Birthday Bae Naomi Osaka turned 21 on Tuesday. What do you get a 21-year-old who beat the GOAT at the US Open? If you’re Ellen DeGeneres, you get her crush– MY Michael Bae Jordan—to send her a shirtless photo. I stan a generous King. The last time I wrote about By Kathleen • Oct 19, 2018 03:17 pm
Music Missy’s “funky white sister” You probably don’t know Mary Halsey by name. You probably have seen the video of her rapping to Missy Elliott’s “Work It.” I’ve tried to do this song at karaoke and it is HARD. Mary doesn’t make it look hard. Mary’s got the funk. Mary’ By Kathleen • Sep 13, 2018 03:18 pm
Break Ups Jenna Dewan: a month later I just had to check how long it’s been since Jenna Dewan and Channing Tatum announced their separation. It was actually a month ago yesterday. A month. Has it felt like a month? Just a month? Because I was thinking it happened in February. For some people, when the By Lainey • May 03, 2018 10:27 am
Douchebags It’s Gonna Be May I’m sorry. I had to. *NSYNC reunited yesterday and this gif has never been more relevant. Anyway, Justin Timberlake almost made it. He almost made it a full day without hijacking *NSYNC's moment. The boy band was given their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and By Kathleen • May 01, 2018 02:05 pm
Girlcrushes Dependable Kelly There are a few things in life that we can depend on: death, taxes and Kelly Clarkson being a goddamn delight. Kelly is currently bringing joy weekly on The Voice. Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, and Alicia Keys all seem like they’re kinda over it and Kelly is literally jumping By Kathleen • Apr 26, 2018 04:09 pm
Scandal Scandal’s victory lap The cast of Scandal has yet to film their final episode but they are already promoting it. They did a small promo tour at the beginning of the season, when it was first announced that the show would be ending, so this round almost feels like a pre-emptive victory lap. By Kathleen • Mar 01, 2018 12:26 pm
TV Updates Tiff and O About 20 minutes after I watched the PURE JOY that is Tiffany Haddish meeting Oprah Winfrey for the first time, I saw this tweet from my favourite ex-Grantland writer, Rembert Browne. i'd watch 100 episodes of the show "Oprah Surprises Famous Black People Who Never Thought They& By Kathleen • Feb 23, 2018 11:31 am
Ellen Degeneres Mary and Tiffany Yesterday was Tiffany Haddish’s birthday. On Saturday night she was hanging out with Mary J Blige at DJ Khaled’s birthday party which I think was also a promotional event for The Four, the new talent competition show starring Khaled, Diddy, Meghan Trainor, and Fergie. Mary, as we’ve By Lainey • Dec 04, 2017 10:30 am
Music BTS world domination And now for the biggest news of the week so far… BTS ON ELLEN! Our new fave boyband has commenced their plan for world domination. First stop was the American Music Awards. Lainey and I both decided to give up our lives and devote them to the ARMY after their By Kathleen • Nov 28, 2017 09:29 am
Ellen Degeneres Joshua Jackson’s single life Joshua Jackson is on Ellen today to promote The Affair. Duana wrote about the new season a couple of weeks ago. And she wrote yesterday about how the Golden Globes didn’t give any love to The Affair yesterday even though they have in the past. And maybe for them, By Lainey • Dec 13, 2016 03:37 pm