Royals The Kate Waldo Photo: Meta Data and the Mother Card It’s been 24 hours since Princess Kate’s unprecedented public apology and admission that she doctored the photo that she released on Mother’s Day in the UK, a backfired effort to shut down rampant speculation about her … existence. Seriously not kidding about the word “existence”. There are some By Lainey • Mar 12, 2024 12:33 pm
Royals Eyes on Kate Waldo It was just a week ago that Princess Kate became Waldo, after Prince William tapped out of his godfather’s memorial service for “personal reasons” and social media lit up over speculation as to Kate’s whereabouts. She’s not been seen in public since Christmas, and certainly not since By Lainey • Mar 05, 2024 12:44 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy The Cyrus Family Soap Opera Us Weekly started it all last week with their exclusive about Noah Cyrus, her mother Tish Cyrus, and Tish’s husband, Dominic Purcell. A source told the magazine that Noah and Dominic were actually dealing with each other before Tish stepped in and “stole” him from her daughter. Dominic is By Lainey • Mar 04, 2024 11:30 am
Music Taylor Swift: A Flex and a Fumble I posted about this on Sunday – most experts were already predicting that Taylor Swift’s Midnights would win the Grammy for Album of the Year, making her the only artist in history to win the Recording Academy’s highest honour four times. One more than Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon, and By Lainey • Feb 05, 2024 12:23 pm
Media Manipulation Glen and Sydney: The #2 Rom-Com Many, many months ago, back when they first announced that Anyone But You, starring Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney, would be a December release, counterprogramming against the big budget and/or prestige films at the multiplex during the holidays, it was thought to be the only romantic comedy of the By Lainey • Dec 12, 2023 09:44 am
Style Timmy’s Hollywood premiere (with Kylie) PEOPLE.com had a story last week about how Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner were showing up for each other at events and as I noted in my post about their report, it felt like a heads up. They labelled it as an exclusive and they posted another exclusive yesterday, By Lainey • Dec 11, 2023 11:00 am
Media Manipulation Adele being Adele At The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Women in Entertainment event yesterday, Adele received the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award for her career achievements and for her advocacy. Much of Adele’s philanthropic work is not publicised, by choice, but per THR, she “has been associated with organizations including Grenfell Foundation; Sands, By Lainey • Dec 08, 2023 10:03 am
Jock Smut Taylor and Travis: Two for Two Taylor Swift was in the suite for the second weekend in a row to watch Travis Kelce and Kansas City’s Chiefs win over the New York Jets on Sunday Night Football. It was the first time I’ve tuned into SNF, or whatever they’re calling it now, in By Lainey • Oct 02, 2023 11:26 am
Media Manipulation Travis gets the Taylor Bump There’s no overstating how big the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce situationship is right now. Taylor is Taylor so anything related to Taylor automatically generates big headlines. And Travis is a two-time Super Bowl champion widely expected to one day be in the Hall of Fame – in America that By Lainey • Sep 26, 2023 10:15 am
Break Ups Sophie and Taylor go on a pap walk Can we not waste time and just agree, because COME ON!, that this was fully intentional and CELEBRATE IT?! This is harm-free gossip. This is the kind of gossip performance we need more of. Nobody will be doing a documentary about this in ten years and regretting that we all By Lainey • Sep 20, 2023 11:11 am
Media Manipulation Pacifist Good Samaritan, a short film starring Jonathan Majors Jonathan Majors’s publicist and legal team probably don’t want me to be calling this video a short film. But life is art, and in our times we live our lives on screen. Sure, there’s a possibility that this was indeed an unscripted, totally spontaneous event but the By Lainey • Sep 15, 2023 10:30 am
Break Ups Joe Jonas backpedals This is Joe Jonas hanging out with his brothers the other day. Joe was a big story last week after filing for divorce from Sophie Turner and all the reporting that was coming out suggesting that she was wasn’t present for her kids. And then that story in TMZ By Lainey • Sep 12, 2023 01:59 pm
Break Ups Joe's spin is backfiring Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner’s divorce is proving to be top of mind for people not just on social media, but in Hollywood, too, especially following a new report from TMZ about Joe allegedly pressuring Sophie to go to events after the birth of their second child, calling him By Stephanie • Sep 08, 2023 03:17 pm
Break Ups The Kyle Richards divorce shill Kyle Richards recently got candid with fans about how she’s coping with her separation from Mauricio Umansky, her husband of 27 years. During an Amazon Live session, a fan asked how the couple were doing, to which she responded: “That’s a very loaded question. You know this has By Stephanie • Aug 31, 2023 02:13 pm
TV Updates Nick and Vanessa's love shill Nick and Vanessa Lachey are making headlines, for, once again, gushing about their marriage. Toward the end of the most recent season of one of their Netflix shows, The Ultimatum, Vanessa became emotional describing some of what the couple has endured in their marriage. "Nick and I have been By Stephanie • Aug 30, 2023 01:15 pm
Media Manipulation Timothée, Kylie, and the Missing Article Vogue published an article yesterday asking “Are Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet in love…for real?” I’m not imagining it. Lots of other people read it, and it was funny. https://t.co/3qupo2xwyb — Pop Base (@PopBase) August 28, 2023 But if you click on that link now, it’ By Lainey • Aug 29, 2023 03:30 pm
