Met Gala 2023 Shai’s Big Week and a Ken at the Met Gala Two Canadians in one post… Let’s start with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander who showed up at the Met Gala in Thom Browne and people are still talking about this fit. As we covered yesterday, Thom Browne was one of the big winners of the Met Gala 2023 because almost all his By Lainey • May 03, 2023 12:38 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Simu is in LOVE Simu Liu and Allison Hsu publicly confirmed their relationship not even a month ago at the premiere of Violent Night when they wore matching holiday sweaters on the carpet. Prior to that, Simu revealed back in September that he’d broken up with Jade Bender. But now it sounds like By Lainey • Dec 21, 2022 10:58 am
Movie Reviews and Previews We’re in our Barbie Era For a lot of us, Barbie is one of the most anticipated movies of 2023. It’s not even that we’re all fans of Barbie, it’s the sheer combination of unlikely factors—that a Barbie movie exists in the 2020s, that it’s directed by Greta Gerwig, that By Sarah • Dec 16, 2022 10:56 am
Style Robert, Suki, and Simu: First and Quick Carpets Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse have been together since at least the summer of 2018, so it’s been four years or more. They were already quite serious before COVID, spent much of lockdown together when COVID started, and while they’ve never been super public about their situation, they By Lainey • Dec 05, 2022 10:19 am
Break Ups Simu Liu: A Breakup and a Win The last few times I’ve posted about Simu Liu it was about his love life. He and Jade Bender made it red carpet official this summer which is newsworthy because Simu is newsworthy – he’s been newsworthy now for over a year, ever since the release of Shang-Chi and By Lainey • Sep 27, 2022 01:08 pm
Maple Leaf Simu Liu & Jade Bender: Red Carpet Official Simu Liu presented at the ESPY Awards last night and he walked the carpet with Jade Bender from Senior Year, making their relationship official. There have been rumours about Simu and Jade for a few weeks now after they were seen together a couple of times over the last month By Lainey • Jul 21, 2022 12:21 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for July 11, 2022 Dear Gossips, We are still two months shy of the one year anniversary of the release of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which means it hasn’t even been a year yet since Simu Liu became a star. And as we have seen, he hasn’ By Lainey • Jul 11, 2022 10:00 am
Simu Liu The Simu palate cleanser Alright, it’s Friday, enough of that heavy sh-t. Here is Simu Liu in a great print with a great grin going into Good Morning America to promote his new memoir, We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story. I picked up Simu’s book at the airport a couple By Sarah • Jun 10, 2022 09:25 am
Style Intro for June 9, 2022 Dear Gossips, The Time 100 Gala happened last night in New York as Ariana DeBose continues her remarkable year. She is the reigning SAG, BAFTA, Critics’ Choice, Golden Globe, and Oscar winner, basically running the table during award season. So of course she’s on the list of the 100 By Lainey • Jun 09, 2022 10:07 am
Sandra Oh Another Simu First Over the last few years, Simu Liu has been checking off a lot of firsts. I don’t need to list them here – by this point is should be well-known all the trails he’s been blazing in a short amount of time. And now he’s adding to that By Lainey • May 26, 2022 01:54 pm
Maple Leaf Simu Liu: acting, singing, hosting, dancing, writing I’m travelling this week so I wasn’t able to watch Simu Liu host the Juno Awards from Toronto on Sunday. I have however watched online clips of his opening monologue and one part where he sings. Let’s start with the monologue which starts with a sketch before By Lainey • May 17, 2022 01:10 pm
Oscars 2022 The Men and Tiffany Haddish During the show, it was the Men and Regina Hall. For the purposes of this post, it’s the Men and Tiffany, but we’ll start with Timothée Chalamet because… HOW COULD WE NOT. Timmy was one of the men who Regina called up onstage, along with Bradley Cooper, Tyler By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 01:52 pm
Top Reads The 2022 Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue Every year around this time, just before the Oscars, Vanity Fair unveils its annual Hollywood Issue and it can often be controversial for who is featured, who isn’t featured, who’s featured on the front and who lands on the folds, and that conversation can say more about Hollywood By Lainey • Feb 17, 2022 10:44 am
Maple Leaf Simu, the host Simu Liu had a GREAT 2021. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was a smash hit. The sequel has been green-lit. He hosted Saturday Night Live. He’s booked all kinds of endorsements, including a recently released commercial for Google Pixel 6. He has two upcoming projects scheduled By Lainey • Feb 04, 2022 01:51 pm
Sandra Oh Intro for December 14, 2021 Dear Gossips, Simu Liu was at the Hollywood premiere of Spider-Man: No Way Home last night. That’s not a surprise. Shang-Chi is part of Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it’s assumed that Peter Parker and Shang-Chi will eventually unite in some way for a new By Lainey • Dec 14, 2021 09:49 am
TV Updates Simu Liu: Tuesday night before Saturday night Saturday Night Live is all about tradition. There’s a schedule to the week that, by now, is probably familiar to pop culture enthusiasts. On Tuesday night, the week’s guest host goes out for dinner with the SNL team. Simu Liu is the host this coming Saturday and last By Lainey • Nov 17, 2021 02:31 pm
