Top Reads Ghislaine Maxwell bragged about George Clooney Court documents from the Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Roberts Giuffre defamation lawsuit were recently released, including a manuscript from a book that Virginia wrote about how she was allegedly abused by Ghislaine and Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew’s dead rapist pedophile friend. In the book, Virginia recalls that Ghislaine used By Lainey • Aug 11, 2020 10:36 am
BFFs “A System to Protect the Monarchy” Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand comes out tomorrow and more and more of the book’s revelations are being released as media outlets get access to the book. Page Six reports that according to the authors, a summit took place in 2019 to talk about the growing By Lainey • Aug 10, 2020 10:31 am
TV Updates Golden Globe Nominations: Snubs and the End of An Era We’re doing more than one post today about the Golden Globe nominations but let’s start with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association because this is their event. This is a group of 90 or so international journalists known for making odd choices – and not always bad. In the television By Lainey • Dec 09, 2019 10:45 am
George Clooney George and Brie make coffee George Clooney had a relatively quiet summer after promoting Catch-22. Of course he and Amal spent the summer in Lake Como and they entertained their high profile friends, including Barack and Michelle Obama, but for the most part, he was off-radar. During that time their twins celebrated their By Lainey • Sep 25, 2019 01:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 27, 2019 Dear Gossips, It was announced earlier this week that George Clooney will direct and star in the film adaptation of Lily Brooks-Dalton’s book, Good Morning, Midnight … for Netflix. George will play a scientist stationed in the Arctic trying to make contact with an astronaut who’s trying to By Lainey • Jun 27, 2019 09:51 am
BFFs The Clooneys’ presidential weekend Amal and George Clooney summer in Lake Como, Italy, where they famously have a villa. I say famous because they are famous and their friends are famous and they’re always hosting famous people. George has been doing this for a long time – he sounds like an outstanding, master class By Lainey • Jun 21, 2019 11:16 am
TV Updates George Clooney and Baby Sussex After stepping out together for the first time as a three-piece, as expected (and intended), #BabySussex is now trending worldwide on Twitter. Currently in the #5 position and steadily rising. This is what I posted about earlier – the House Sussex PR game on full flex, rolling this out like By Lainey • May 08, 2019 11:18 am
Royals “Meghanomania” “One Year of Meghanomania” is the title of a new dishy piece by David Jenkins published in Tatler yesterday. It’s basically a summary of the last six months of gossip about Meghan Markle – whether or not she’s difficult, whether or not she made Kate Middleton cry, along with By Lainey • Mar 26, 2019 10:53 am
BFFs Intro for March 13, 2019 Dear Gossips, Thanks for all your feedback about our mobile site redesign! We’ve been working on it for months and it’s been exciting to finally see it in operation and your notes have been so helpful. Jacek has added an FAQ section to his introduction the other day By Lainey • Mar 13, 2019 08:59 am
Royals George Clooney defends Meghan Markle George Clooney was at the Winter TCA yesterday to promote his upcoming Hulu series Catch-22. Just a word on the Winter TCA – this used to be my assignment at etalk. I used to spend several days there every January working on coverage for our show. Most of the press By Lainey • Feb 12, 2019 10:37 am
George Clooney George Clooney’s four hour dinner As you know, the Academy’s in a bit of skirmish over Oscar presenters, with the Screen Actors Guild calling them out earlier this week about supposedly giving the stars a “them or us” ultimatum at award shows. I’m guessing the Academy would probably love to secure George Clooney By Lainey • Jan 18, 2019 03:43 pm
Break Ups World War Brange: girl-on-girl crime There’s supposed to be a court hearing today in the Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie divorce case. Previously on World War Brange, a reality show at this point, Brad has made some recent significant gains. The children have been required to spend more time with him and on the public By Lainey • Aug 21, 2018 10:50 am
BFFs The Clooneys host the Sussexes There were all kinds of reports flying around this morning that Meghan Markle is in Toronto. She is NOT in Toronto. But she was in Italy. Prince Harry and Royal Meghan arrived in Lake Como to visit George and Amal Clooney on Thursday. They left yesterday at 6pm. There are By Lainey • Aug 20, 2018 02:56 pm
BFFs Jennifer Aniston & the Clooneys: Upcoming? Jennifer Aniston has been working on Murder Mystery with Adam Sandler in Italy. Here she is shooting today in Lake Como in a dress that’s definitely more her character than her, right? That’s totally a dress that goes with that phone case from last week. Also in Como, By Lainey • Jul 30, 2018 02:17 pm
BFFs Amal Clooney’s loving tribute George Clooney received the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award last night in Hollywood. There were a lot of people who got up on stage to honour him, a lot of famous actors, people who’ve worked with him over the years. But Amal Clooney’s tribute is the one everyone is By Lainey • Jun 08, 2018 12:31 pm
George Clooney Intro for May 31, 2018 Dear Gossips, It was announced yesterday that Julia Roberts will present the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award to George Clooney next week. The show will air on June 21. It’ll be a major movie star event because, even though Julia’s doing the actual presenting, the AFI is a tribute By Lainey • May 31, 2018 09:04 am