Jock Smut V takes over baseball Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers had a very obvious motive when they invited BTS’s V, aka Kim Taehyung, to throw out the first pitch at the game last night. There has always been a relationship between sports and entertainment. Sports is entertainment. Athletes, musicians, actors, models, By Lainey • Aug 26, 2025 10:46 am
Jock Smut Serena Williams talks weight loss and stigma The US Open starts on Sunday, and tennis GOAT Serena Williams is making headlines, but not for her sport. She told PEOPLE magazine that she used a GLP-1 drug to lose 31 pounds, and she is teaming up with telehealth company Ro to promote the weight loss drugs. I’ve By Sarah • Aug 22, 2025 04:09 pm
Jock Smut Glen Powell and Eli Manning try to conquer TV As I mentioned the other day, Glen Powell is returning to TV for the first time since starring in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens in the mid-2010s. Starting September 30, he will star in Chad Powers, a football comedy on Hulu based on a character created by Eli Manning. To By Sarah • Aug 21, 2025 10:26 am
Jock Smut Intro for August 18, 2025 Dear Gossips, All seven members of BTS reunited briefly back in June when RM, Suga, Jimin, V, and Jungkook had completed their mandatory military service. But j-hope and Jin still had their solo commitments through the summer. While those two wrapped up their own engagements, the others have been in By Lainey • Aug 18, 2025 09:36 am
Jock Smut Taylor Swift’s favourite podcast The most important event on the Swiftie calendar this week is the new episode of Jason and Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast which comes out at 7pm ET tonight (Wednesday). I don’t listen to this show regularly but I do know that I typically see clips from it By Lainey • Aug 13, 2025 11:41 am
Jock Smut Intro for July 17, 2025 Dear Gossips, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won everything this year: the NBA championship, NBA MVP, NBA Finals MVP, Conference Finals MVP, the NBA scoring title, and as of last night, the ESPY Awards for Best NBA player and Best Male Athlete of the Year. Pretty much a total sweep at the By Lainey • Jul 17, 2025 09:34 am
Jock Smut Megan couples up Celebrity breakups were the headline in the first half of 2025 but as we head into the back half, romance is back on the table and Megan The Stallion is serving up the love. Megan was the best and biggest surprise of Love Island season seven, entering the villa at By Lainey • Jul 14, 2025 01:34 pm
Jock Smut Lewis’s Home Fashion I have missed posting about Lewis Hamilton and am happy to return to posting about him now that it isn’t related to the movie. The British Grand Prix is this weekend so Lewis is at home at Silverstone where he won last year and where he holds the record By Lainey • Jul 03, 2025 04:02 pm
Jock Smut Taylor Swift: The Chancellor’s Girlfriend I don’t know what a Tight End University is, and for our purposes here, just the basics will do: an event where football people do football things founded by football players, the most gossip-notable being Travis Kelce. The reason we are talking about Tight End University is because Taylor By Lainey • Jun 25, 2025 11:06 am
Jock Smut Taylor Swift does that hockey For those who don’t understand the reference, “do that hockey” is a line from one of Chance the Rapper’s best sketches on Saturday Night Live in which he plays “Laszlo Holmes”, an NYC sports reporter who usually does the Knicks games but has to fill in when the By Lainey • Jun 13, 2025 11:14 am
Jock Smut Timmy and a good luck charm? Timothée Chalamet’s job these days is cheering the Knicks. He’s at the road games and he’s at the home games, and he’s obviously not yet prepping for Dune 3 so this is basically how he’s spending his down time. Last night the Knicks were facing By Lainey • May 30, 2025 11:11 am
Jock Smut Timmy, Kylie, Lily: Exes at the Lakers Game The Lakers were knocked out of the play-offs last night by the Timberwolves and now LeBron James’s future is uncertain as he would not answer questions about whether or not he’ll return next season. How is the man supposed to know just minutes after a game he fully By Lainey • May 01, 2025 12:34 pm
Jock Smut Blake and Ryan: Friends, Favours, and the Championship Wrexham FC has been the story for a few weeks now ever since they were able to come down the home stretch in control of their own destiny. We’re talking about English football today, though, because the team is owned by Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds and the run By Lainey • Apr 28, 2025 12:25 pm
Jock Smut Blake & Ryan: Lists and Rankings Blake Lively was named to the TIME100 this year, with civil rights lawyer writing her endorsement. This, though, is really Blake’s only win of the year which is all the more reason she and Ryan Reynolds, along with her mother Elaine, stepped out last night for the TIME100 gala. By Lainey • Apr 25, 2025 11:27 am
Jock Smut JLo & Lewis: The Gossip Genie delivers In a post about Lewis Hamilton last month, I ended on a wish for the Gossip Genie. A member of The Squawk, our Substack community, had mentioned that Lewis talked about shooting his shot with Jennifer Lopez at the Met Gala once, telling her he’d been in love with By Lainey • Apr 21, 2025 10:58 am
Jock Smut Intro for April 17, 2025 Dear Gossips, From the very beginning of her career, when she was just a teenager, Serena Williams has been underestimated, misunderstood, disrespected – by tennis insiders, tennis commentators, tennis players, tennis fans, the media. As an athlete, she’s a lot smarter and more strategic than they ever gave her credit By Lainey • Apr 17, 2025 09:35 am
