Break Ups James leads the morning X-Men James McAvoy, senior member of the X-Men, was on Good Morning America today with several younger mutants on the team including Evan Peters, Tye Sheridan, Lana Condor, and Alexandra Shipp, with whom he’s been rumoured to be dealing romantically. He looks hot, right? As you know, James and Anne-Marie By Lainey • May 24, 2016 12:10 pm
Media Manipulation Batfleck Big Homie “Big Homie better grow up” is what Beyoncé sings in Sorry on Lemonade. I compared B’s Lemonade to Jennifer Garner’s Vanity Fair last week – click here for a refresher. And, well, like Jay Z, Ben Affleck might be hugging some ankles before the end of the summer too. By Lainey • May 11, 2016 12:41 pm
Douchebags The Family That Preaches Together Sells Together Did you read a lot of celebrity coverage over the weekend? There were of course the glossy Mother’s Day photoshoots, like the one PEOPLE did of celebs and their moms. Lots of effusive Instagram posts. But there’s an underbelly of sadness with Mother’s Day, isn’t there? By Maria • May 10, 2016 01:05 pm
Music JT trolls for Oscar? Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick are in Berlin today for Trolls. As I mentioned yesterday, the movie doesn’t come out until November so I didn’t understand why we were being told to care about it now. But then I realised they’re on their way to Cannes. And By Lainey • May 10, 2016 12:14 pm
Media Manipulation Kristen Stewart covers Variety before Cannes Late last year, Kristen Stewart made a late campaign push for an Oscar nomination for her work in Clouds Of Sils Maria. As I wrote in January, I liked the move. I liked the strategy. I liked that she was being led by ambition instead of being carried away, airy By Lainey • May 10, 2016 10:10 am
Media Manipulation Ben Affleck’s power play It was reported last week that Ben Affleck is now executive producing the upcoming Justice League movie. Officially it’s because he wants to “support” Zack Snyder’s vision. But some are speculating that this is a power play. According to Birth.Movies.Death Ben was “incredibly unhappy about the By Lainey • May 09, 2016 11:09 am
Music JT’s strategic blurring Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick were in London last night to present at the BAFTA TV Awards and they were out today to promote Trolls. I’m so confused. According to the movie’s website, Trolls doesn’t open until November. Is that how it is now? Is this how By Lainey • May 09, 2016 09:52 am
Music JT’s Feeling is coming Justin Timberlake tweeted yesterday that he’s releasing a new single called Can’t Stop The Feeling tomorrow. 🤔...#CantStopTheFeeling 2 more days. https://t.co/2mquRXMsUy— Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) May 4, 2016 So when he tweeted this last weekend: Everybody... It is ACTUALLY GONNA BE MAY!#canyoumemeyourself Probably not, right? By Lainey • May 05, 2016 12:29 pm
Media Manipulation The Kit Harington Apology Tour Lainey included a video on my recap this week of Kit Harington apologizing for lying for a year about the fate of Jon Snow. You can see it here. And by the way, it wasn’t just us—Harington had to lie to EVERYONE. In the wake of Jon Snow’ By Sarah • May 04, 2016 01:32 pm
Maple Leaf Drake’s biggest week Drake’s new album, Views, dropped on Friday and reportedly sold 630,000 units in its first day exclusively on iTunes. They’re projecting as low as 800,000 for a full week and, possibly, as high as over a million. Which could put him in Adele and Taylor Swift By Lainey • May 02, 2016 08:12 am
Music Taylor Swift’s hidden messages A couple of weeks ago, Taylor Swift posted a photo of herself on Instagram with bleached hair – her best hair ever – from Coachella. Here’s a refresher: BLEACHELLA ⚡️ A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) onApr 15, 2016 at 1:09pm PDT That image on the back of her jacket… By Lainey • Apr 29, 2016 11:25 am
BFFs Kelly Rowland won’t talk about Lemonade We’ve been obsessing over Lemonade all week. Lainey has written about it every day. We won’t stop obsessing. Its importance is not up for debate. I might go back to school just to take all the classes that will inevitably be taught on Lemonade. Anyway, a local morning By Kathleen • Apr 28, 2016 10:43 am
Music “Boycott Beyoncé” She performed Formation at the Super Bowl and they tried to be mad about it by organising a protest at NFL headquarters. The only people who showed up were members of the BeyHive ready to protest the protestors. And there was some talk of a police boycott? This is what By Lainey • Apr 28, 2016 10:14 am
Music Beyoncé is ready As mentioned earlier, Beyoncé kicks off the Formation World Tour tonight in Miami. Tickets would have been considered a major get a few weeks ago. But now? With the release of Lemonade? Well, she knows how to drive up the interest. It’s Beyoncé. It was always planned this way, By Lainey • Apr 27, 2016 03:32 pm
TV Updates Tom Hiddleston is no longer the internet’s boyfriend Tom Hiddleston has been promoting things for the last few months, from I Saw the Light to The Night Manager—which is good—to High Rise, premiering on demand at the end of the month. I commented earlier this year that it seems like, on his current promotional run, we’ By Sarah • Apr 22, 2016 12:05 pm
TV Updates JLO for a nomination? Jennifer Lopez participated in an event for her show Shades Of Blue at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation in LA yesterday. At first, when I was just looking at the pictures, without fully processing the caption, I was like, the Shades Of Blue season is over. Why is she still promoting it? By Lainey • Apr 22, 2016 11:29 am
