Sports 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 By Lainey • Jul 17, 2025 09:34 am
Sports 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
Sports 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
Sports 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 By Lainey • Jun 25, 2025 11:06 am
Sports 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
Sports 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
Sports 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 By Lainey • May 01, 2025 12:34 pm
Sports 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
Sports 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
Sports 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
Sports 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
Sports Rob and Ryan go for three Ryan Reynolds's career over the last decade or so, at least until recently, has been a non-stop streak of wins across multiple industries from acting and producing to liquor to marketing and also football. There haven’t been a lot of good news headlines for Ryan in By Lainey • Apr 08, 2025 02:53 pm
Sports Lewis Hamilton: Ferris and the First Paddock “Lights out and away we go!” It’s round one this weekend at the Australian Grand Prix and, as usual, the main character is Lewis Hamilton. This is the case every season but especially this season because, as I’m sure you know, even if you don’t follow Formula By Lainey • Mar 13, 2025 10:50 am
Sports Lewis and F1’s Big Show Formula 1 marked its 75th anniversary at the O2 in London yesterday – a huge spectacle showcasing the teams and drivers. I can’t wait to see how this plays, like the behind the scenes madness and (possible) drama on Drive to Survive… next year. F-ck! The wait is too By Lainey • Feb 19, 2025 04:05 pm
Sports Intro for January 27, 2025 Dear Gossips, I waited to write this intro to see who won the AFC championship game, the Buffalo Bills, or the Kansas City Chiefs. Not because I have any personal investment—these are not my teams—but because I wanted to know how much misogyny would be projected into the By Sarah • Jan 27, 2025 09:16 am
Sports Playoff TNT is back Is it TNT that you need today? For some, it’s TNT all day every day. Playoff TNT is probably my favourite TNT too. Taylor Swift’s outfit at the Kansas City game is definitely my favourite game day fit in a while. All Chanel – oversized jacket, black romper, pearl By Lainey • Jan 20, 2025 02:53 pm