Media Manipulation Jenny Slate: her boyfriend and her turtlenecks In case there was still any doubt that Jenny Slate and Chris Evans are back together – last week, I posted the video of his dog and you could hear her voice on the background. And this weekend, she posted this on Twitter: My boyfriend does many dreamy&generous things By Lainey • Nov 13, 2017 04:40 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Tom Hiddleston’s great timing As I mentioned earlier in my post about Taylor Swift’s reputation, the song Getaway Car seems to be about both Calvin Harris and Tom Hiddleston. But, mostly, Tom Hiddleston. Basically Calvin Harris sucked and Tom was her getaway car rebound after breaking up with him. Once the getaway car By Lainey • Nov 10, 2017 01:34 pm
Media Manipulation Ben Affleck’s PR angles Justice League is a week away. So the North American press push for the movie should be underway. Here’s Ben Affleck arriving in New York, all smiles with Lindsay Shookus. Back in September, before the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault scandal broke, I had been anticipating that Ben and Lindsay By Lainey • Nov 09, 2017 02:00 pm
Music Taylor Swift redirects Most headlines about Taylor Swift yesterday, just three days before the release of reputation, were about how she tried to legally intimidate a blogger and ended up getting scolded by the ACLU. As Spencer Kornhaber wrote yesterday for The Atlantic, this was a consequence of her “anti-PR campaign”. Taylor has By Lainey • Nov 08, 2017 09:47 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Brad goes out too Angelina Jolie stepped out this weekend and so did Brad Pitt. He was at the LACMA Art + Film gala. Because he’s a major arts patron. Even from the Jennifer Aniston days we heard about his involvement in art. And supposedly he’s been working on his own piece - By Lainey • Nov 06, 2017 11:29 am
Break Ups Selena’s biking jacket Selena Gomez has been papped a couple of times this week out biking with friends. It’s been a high profile few days for her, starting last week when Justin Bieber was sighted at her house. And her interview with The Today Show about the kidney transplant aired on Monday. By Lainey • Nov 01, 2017 09:36 am
Music Intro for October 25, 2017 Dear Gossips, Taylor Swift’s new song, Gorgeous, the third single from her upcoming album reputation, hit #1 on the iTunes sales chart the day it was released. This morning at 6am ET, it was sitting at #5. Ed Sheeran’s Perfect is the current #1, the fourth single off By Lainey • Oct 25, 2017 08:31 am
Media Manipulation Angelina’s supermarket photo shoot Angelina Jolie has been widely acknowledged to be excellent at the game, at the fame game, and they all play the game, it’s just that some are better at it than most. Angelina is one of the best. Usually. But this… have you seen this? On Sunday, Angelina and By Lainey • Sep 27, 2017 09:32 am
Media Manipulation Taylor Matrix: the new commercial Up until about two or three weeks ago, Taylor Swift’s 2017 has been pretty quiet. Up until about two or three weeks ago, the conversation about Taylor Swift in 2017 has been about what she’s been up to, where she is when she goes underground, who she’s By Lainey • Sep 07, 2017 01:16 pm
Music Taylor Swift knocks out Taylor Swift Well. This is getting meta upon meta. Let’s start with Look What You Made Me Do, Taylor Swift’s first single off of the upcoming album, reputation – also, by the way, like mother!, styled in all lower case. Because it’s already not hard enough to avoid typos. LWYMMD By Lainey • Sep 05, 2017 05:08 pm
Media Manipulation Jennifer Garner Will Be Peak Mom on Instagram On Friday afternoon, as the last long weekend of summer was starting, Jennifer Garner decided to join Instagram. Let’s back that up a second: Jen had decided before that. We’ve seen Amazing Amy at work and we know she doesn’t just decide to partake in a new By Maria • Sep 05, 2017 10:27 am
Royals Meghan Markle is “in love” with her “boyfriend” I f-cking love coming back from a long weekend with so much great gossip. There are several big stories to get to. But the biggest story this morning is the new issue of Vanity Fair featuring Meghan Markle on the cover, shot by Peter Lindbergh – and the photos are unreal, By Lainey • Sep 05, 2017 08:47 am
Media Manipulation Gwyneth’s distracting ring A couple of days ago, Robert Downey Jr posted a photo with Gwyneth Paltrow and Jon Favreau on Instagram, confirming that both would be back for Avengers: Infinity War. I posted new photos of all of them on set yesterday, along with Mark Ruffalo. Also yesterday? Goop was making headlines By Lainey • Aug 24, 2017 12:31 pm
Music Taylor’s Reputation Earlier today, Taylor released a third snake video across her socials. Then, a couple of hours later, the announcement that the new single will be out tomorrow night – which goes along with earlier theories that the song would drop on Friday, because if it happens around midnight, she gets to By Lainey • Aug 23, 2017 04:33 pm
Music Taylor Snake Watch: Day 3 Taylor Swift’s socials have been updated for the third day in a row. Previously on Taylor Snake Watch, we saw the tail and then the Snake coiling in over itself. But we’ve yet to see her head. It is now time for the Snake Head. You ready? pic. By Lainey • Aug 23, 2017 10:54 am
Music Taylor Swift: Timeless Snake? Taylor Swift has posted another slithering snake video to her socials. A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) onAug 22, 2017 at 8:00am PDT That’s clearly a snake, non? I say this because a few of you have been emailing with your theories – one theory, actually. About it By Lainey • Aug 22, 2017 12:59 pm
