What Else Sydney Sweeney: a good end and a better beginning Last year was up and down for Sydney Sweeney. Started off great, ended her engagement, then controversy in the summer, with a string of flops at the box office, but then a rebound at the end of the year with The Housemaid which did very good business during the holidays. By Lainey • Jan 06, 2026 04:06 pm
Style Sydney Sweeney: Hair regrets? Back to back premiere nights for Amanda Seyfried which, in her case, only helps her Oscar campaign. Amanda is contending for a best actress nomination for her work in The Testament of Ann Lee but also co-stars in The Housemaid, one of the most popular titles on BookTok. This movie By Lainey • Dec 16, 2025 11:47 am
Style Amanda + Sydney, round 2 Last night, Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney stepped out together for the premiere of The Housemaid, today, they’re making press rounds together, stopping by The Today Show. Once again, I do not hate Sydney’s outfit, a belted black dress, though I assume she’s cold. I think being By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 04:04 pm
Style Sydney and Amanda glam it up Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney hit the red carpet last night for the premiere of The Housemaid, a new film from director Paul Feig. It’s described as a psychological thriller (and is based on a book by Freida McFadden), but the trailer gives me A Simple Favor vibes, and By Sarah • Dec 03, 2025 10:37 am
Style All the Best Actresses As noted, if there is a so-called must-attend event on the award circuit, it’s Governors Awards. This is the Oscar Academy’s event to hand out honorary Oscars, so many voters are in the room, there is no campaign strategist who wouldn’t be encouraging a contender to be By Lainey • Nov 17, 2025 12:59 pm
Style GQ’s Men of the “Year” Another week closer to the end of the year—I am TELLING you, it’s the SUN’S FAULT—another “of the year” red carpet. This time, it’s GQ’s Men of the Year (men of the “year”, I dispute this passage of time), which also includes some women. By Sarah • Nov 14, 2025 10:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney’s weekend box office Sydney Sweeney was all over New York last week, making the rounds at all the talk shows, getting papped in a variety of outfits outside the studios, and also, hilariously, canoodling in the park with Scooter Braun, LOL forever. Like somehow, even though all media outlets knew she was in By Lainey • Nov 10, 2025 12:36 pm
Sydney Sweeney Sydney Sweeney shrugs it off Sydney Sweeney has been in New York the last couple of days, on a final push for Christy, which opens this weekend. As Sarah noted earlier this week, Halloween weekend was the worst weekend at the box office this year and the industry is desperately hoping that this coming weekend By Lainey • Nov 05, 2025 11:47 am
Style Ingenues grown up The Variety Power of Women event happened last night, honouring Jamie Lee Curtis, Wanda Sykes, Aly Raisman, Nicole Scherzinger, Kate Hudson, and Sydney Sweeney. What stood out to me was the group shot – and specifically the way they’ve been positioned. Sydney in the middle, and Kate on one end. By Lainey • Oct 30, 2025 03:22 pm
Jock Smut Romantic…or horny? There is a line from the film Moneyball that comes up a lot, duh, when we’re talking about baseball: “How can you not be romantic about baseball?” Moneyball is (in part) about using data to build a baseball team, relying on analytics to find unvalued and overlooked players by By Lainey • Oct 29, 2025 12:43 pm
Gorgessity Best Actresses Wickedly Quiet The Academy Museum Gala happened over the weekend. This is a major event on the awards circuit calendar because it’s literally the Oscar Academy fundraising for their museum and so a huge draw for those in contention to get in front of voters and campaign. And it’s especially By Lainey • Oct 20, 2025 03:00 pm
Emmy Awards 2025 Ladies in red While things didn’t exactly work out for Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti capped off her run for The Penguin with an Emmy win. She showed up in a STUNNING red gown by Danielle Frankel: I sort of wish she’d worn red lipstick, too, but maybe that would be a By Sarah • Sep 15, 2025 10:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Sydney Sweeney in Christy TW for domestic violence Christy Salters, known for much of her career by her married name, Christy Martin, put women’s boxing on the map, and was the first “lady fighter” to grace the cover of Sports Illustrated and compete in a Pay-Per-View match. She was a champion and a By Sarah • Sep 08, 2025 11:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney changes the subject One of the highlights on the TIFF calendar today is David Michôd’s Christy, a biopic of boxer Christy Martin with Sydney Sweeney in the role. Ahead of the world premiere this afternoon, it was announced yesterday that the film will be released November 7, which means the distributor has By Lainey • Sep 05, 2025 11:32 am
Hook Ups Sydney & Scooter’s theme song In my post yesterday about the Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun rumours, I mentioned that even though it was only-accurate-once-a-year Star Magazine that broke the story, other more reliable outlets had not yet added to the report, even though for sure they had to have been chasing the story. Then By Lainey • Sep 03, 2025 09:37 am
Hook Ups Sydney Sweeney & Scooter Braun? The summer of romance 2025 continues… but does this one really count? Star Magazine reported exclusively on Friday that Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun are allegedly dating. And this immediately went viral because of both their notoriety. Sydney, of course, is coming off a broken engagement and a racist ad By Lainey • Sep 02, 2025 10:49 am