TV Updates Michelle Williams: Is it time “Fo Shiz”? Michelle Williams has started the press tour for her upcoming series Dying for Sex. I linked to a piece at Vulture about the show last week that’s worth the read if you missed it the first time. This is based on the true story of Molly Kochan who, with By Lainey • Apr 01, 2025 10:28 am
Music Justin Timberlake is still on tour The title was news to me and I’m wondering if it’s news to you. Justin Timberlake released his album, Everything I Thought It Was, pretty much exactly a year ago this week. Not sure if any of the tracks on the record actually did anything because I can’ By Lainey • Mar 20, 2025 09:28 am
Top Reads Justin Timberlake “could have made a different decision” Justin Timberlake appeared in court in Sag Harbour today to plead guilty to a lesser charge of driving while impaired after making a deal with the prosecutors. He was ordered by the judge to pay a fine of $500; his drivers licence is suspended in New York state for 90 By Lainey • Sep 13, 2024 02:24 pm
Equality Issues Justin Timberlake: Pleading and Privileged Vice President Kamala Harris, the presidential debate, and Taylor Swift have dominated the western news cycle this week. Also the VMAs and Shannon Sharpe, LOL. There have been two celebrity beneficiaries of all of these headlines: Dave Grohl (who Maria posted about yesterday) and also Justin Timberlake. White man privilege By Lainey • Sep 12, 2024 02:12 pm
Media Manipulation Justin Timberlake: Back in New York A week ago yesterday Justin Timberlake was the big headline when news broke out of the Hamptons that he was arrested under suspicion of DWI. He then pleaded not guilty to the charges, with his lawyer saying that he would “vigorously” fight the charges and in the days since, there’ By Lainey • Jun 26, 2024 11:35 am
Dumbass Justin Timberlake’s mainstream clowning I just came back to my laptop after a meeting, checked in with PEOPLE.com to see if I’ve missed anything, and was surprised to see this headline at the top of their page, freshly posted at 1135am ET. We covered the Justin Timberlake social media clowning yesterday which By Lainey • Jun 20, 2024 12:55 pm
Top Reads Justin Timberlake’s “do you know my name” My post yesterday about Justin Timberlake’s arrest for drinking and driving ended with a mention of Reese Witherspoon’s arrest for disorderly conduct back in 2013 (!) when she said to the officer “do you know my name?”. Sarah was editing yesterday and because she’s brilliant, she was the By Lainey • Jun 19, 2024 11:43 am
Top Reads Justin Timberlake is arrested Justin Timberlake was arrested in New York last night. According to multiple media outlets, JT was pulled over in the Hamptons and reportedly will be booked today on DWI charges. According to TMZ, at the time of this writing, he’s actually still in custody (9am ET). So they’ve By Lainey • Jun 18, 2024 11:03 am
Music Justin Timberlake has “no heat” Justin Timberlake’s new album, Everything I Thought It Was, is becoming Nothing He Wanted It To Be, critically and commercially performing well below what must have been his expectations. The album is not delivering on the charts, it’s not delivering on social media, and the critics don’t By Lainey • Mar 28, 2024 10:03 am
Music Justin Timberlake, but Travis Kelce is the story Justin Timberlake’s new album, Everything I Thought It Was, drops tomorrow. The lead single “Selfish” was released several weeks ago and another song “Drown” came out shortly after – both have been flops. The tour, however, has been selling well, so he clearly has an engaged fanbase but there’s By Lainey • Mar 14, 2024 11:41 am
Oscars 2024 Witches and Colour at the Oscars As noted in my post about achromatic looks at the Oscars, there wasn’t much colour, not at the awards proper and not even at Vanity Fair, which is why those who did go with colour popped even more. For Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, it was colour and character. By Lainey • Mar 11, 2024 01:18 pm
Douchebags Justin Timberlake in his Villain Era Justin Timberlake celebrated his birthday last night in New York with a performance at Irving Plaza. It was the second of his “One Night Only” concert series which, sorry, but that makes no sense to me because if he already did one in Memphis and did it again in NYC, By Lainey • Feb 01, 2024 02:23 pm
Music Intro for January 26, 2024 Dear Gossips, Fo shiz, fo shiz, homies! https://twitter.com/alex_abads/status/1716814305272950857?s=20 Justin Timberlake is trying to reclaim his place in the culture with a comeback that officially kicked off this week. I know I promised last week that I wouldn’t be covering it because, By Lainey • Jan 26, 2024 09:11 am
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 12, 2024 Justin Timberlake is playing a show in Memphis, the first post since he wiped his Instagram. There’s probably new music coming too. It seems unlikely that a full *NSYNC reunion will happen because I don’t think JT could take being one of five again. I don’t think By Maria • Jan 12, 2024 01:53 pm
BFFs Travis Kelce: Putting Justin Timberlake on the map When news first broke that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were dating, one of the more popular memes in that moment was the “Taylor Swift put Travis Kelce on the map” thing, where mostly women would purposefully irritate the men in their lives by declaring that Taylor Swift made Travis By Lainey • Jan 09, 2024 02:49 pm
Jessica Biel Intro for December 14, 2023 Dear Gossips, Fo shizz! Fo shizz! There were a lot of celebrities in Vegas last night for the grand opening of the Fontainebleau. It’s been the biggest story on the Strip this month and the property does look gorgeous. But my question about Fontainebleau for years has been…if By Lainey • Dec 14, 2023 09:40 am
