Media Manipulation Brad Pitt’s “top story” As of 1045am ET on Thursday 10 July, the “top story” at PEOPLE.com, and it had been that way for hours, was the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie legal battle over Miraval, the estate they once shared. Angelina sold her stake after their split and Brad is alleging that By Lainey • Jul 10, 2025 02:42 pm
Media Manipulation Blake Lively makes TIME TIME released its list of 100 Most Influential People of 2025 today… and there was a surprise on the list, at least to me: Blake Lively. The last 8 or 9 months or so have been the lowest of Blake’s career. Since the It Ends With Us press tour By Lainey • Apr 16, 2025 11:47 am
Media Manipulation Glen Powell: Sydney and Sauce Glen Powell has been making headlines all week because Sydney Sweeney was at his sister Leslie’s wedding and she’s single now, having broken off her engagement, and now everyone’s wondering whether or not she and Glen are happening IRL. Turns out the timing, for Glen, couldn’t By Lainey • Apr 03, 2025 10:19 am
Faux Gossip Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner: Not Really But What If? Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were photographed at paintball the other day and one brief moment from that occasion has turned into speculation about whether or not they might be getting back together. In my post about this yesterday I wrote that that moment, that shot of him as he By Lainey • Mar 06, 2025 10:34 am
Faux Gossip Party Angelina The post previous to this one today was about Jennifer Aniston and her appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, during which she and Jimmy joked about some of the crazy sh-t that’s been reported about her, including a cover story in In Touch Weekly about her allegedly making the moves By Lainey • Oct 03, 2024 01:43 pm
Royals Harry and Meghan’s Media Choices It’s been about two weeks since The Hollywood Reporter published a report on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle about “Why Hollywood Keeps Quitting [Them]”. Many took this to be a hit piece, focusing on staff departures, with unnamed sources sh-tting on their leadership style and, in particular, Meghan described By Lainey • Sep 25, 2024 11:02 am
Media Manipulation Blake Lively’s Feelings It Ends With Us opened in theatres a month ago yesterday and has gone on to become Blake Lively’s highest grossing movie. That’s typically an achievement to be celebrated but there really hasn’t been all that much celebration, at least not publicly. Because of the scandal that By Lainey • Sep 10, 2024 01:59 pm
Faux Gossip Dakota and Chris: A Non-Story Why am I posting about a non-story? We’ve been conditioned to be skeptical of celebrities when they’re perceived to be protesting too much and over at The Squawk there have been some questions about the latest pap shots of Dakota Johnson that were taken shortly after those reports By Lainey • Aug 19, 2024 11:23 am
Media Manipulation Controversy at the box office It Ends With Us opened in second after Deadpool & Wolverine at the domestic box office this past weekend with $50 million – a good number next to its budget. According to Deadline, it was outearning D&W at the box office on Monday and Tuesday this week and is By Lainey • Aug 15, 2024 11:03 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Who’s in crisis though? Pretty sure I don’t have to provide a refresher on this It Ends With Us mess but if you missed it, I wrote about the situation yesterday and Sarah’s initial post on it from last week is here. In my (long ass) post yesterday, I started with the By Lainey • Aug 14, 2024 01:57 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
Media Manipulation Brad Pitt gets papped First some gossip nostalgia – I hesitate to say “nostalgia” because usually we associate nostalgia with a fond memory and while the gossip supernova formerly known as Brange is not talked about, now, with fondness, at the time, when this nostalgic moment happened, it was … well… fun. Brange was fun until By Lainey • May 03, 2024 10:56 am
Faux Gossip TNT: Met Gala or nah? This isn’t a post about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s romance although Swifties were losing their sh-t yesterday when a new video from the Mahomes Foundation gala was posted showing Travis kissing Taylor repeatedly on the shoulder. To extend my point from yesterday, when I wrote about him By Lainey • Apr 30, 2024 01:05 pm
Faux Gossip The Media for Brad Pitt Over the last week or so, you may have seen some headlines from the usual suspects. The Sun and the Daily Mail, of course, always on their f-cksh-t, ran a piece a few days ago about how “Brad Pitt scores victory against ex-wife Angelina Jolie” citing a source who said By Lainey • Mar 21, 2024 12:52 pm
Royals A (Fake) Royal Announcement Well, I guess this is the trend now – once a week, the British royals, Kensington Palace in particular, can be depended on to make us smash our heads against the wall in frustration with their incompetence. How is it that a family with this much access, this many resources, this By Lainey • Mar 18, 2024 11:43 am
Douchebags On schedule: Kate Waldo and the deflection Didn’t take long for the British tabloids to get back on their f-cksh-t with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle as everyone continues to be obsessed with playing Where’s Kate Waldo? The big story this week, perhaps even bigger than the Oscars, has been about Princess Kate’s Mother’ By Lainey • Mar 13, 2024 02:05 pm
