Amazingness Tom Cruise’s Mission: Olympics It’s not like it was a surprise – at the midway point of the Olympics, TMZ had already broken the news that Tom Cruise was planning some kind of stunt for the Closing Ceremony and pretty much described what was about to happen. They hedged a bet about whether or By Lainey • Aug 12, 2024 02:10 pm
Relationship Assumption This is not Tom Cruise’s girlfriend The UK Sun reported this weekend that Tom Cruise has a new girlfriend. The alleged new girlfriend apparently had no idea she was dating Tom Cruise. And that’s not because she was abducted into a cult but because evidently the Sun was making up the story. According to their By Lainey • Aug 06, 2024 01:44 pm
Amazingness Chef de Mission: Tom Cruise COME ON. I’m pretty proud of myself for that title. I’ve been googling, nobody else has thought about this yet, it’s mine! Sorry, sorry, sorry, this isn’t about my ego, but since I’m writing about someone with such a huge ego, might as well borrow By Lainey • Aug 02, 2024 01:06 pm
Jock Smut Olympic Celebrities It used to be, before social media, that summer was quiet in celebrity news. That’s changed over the last decade, there is no break, because celebrities are celebrity-ing every day of the year and we’re seeing them in Italy and Greece on their yachts and whatever. This summer, By Lainey • Jul 29, 2024 02:00 pm
Royals Two Princesses, a Pretty Woman, and a Top Gun Princess Kate made her return to Wimbledon yesterday after Kensington Palace confirmed earlier in the weekend that she would be attending the men’s final. This is the first time we’ve seen Kate since Trooping the Colour and, by comparison, since Trooping is about the king, that was a By Lainey • Jul 15, 2024 12:41 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Tom avoids the Pitt stop? In the previous post to this one, Sarah wrote about Brad Pitt’s new racing movie– basically Top Gun but make it F1. Thirty-four years ago it was called Days of Thunder, although motorsport nerds will tell you in a know-it-all voice that that was NASCAR. Whatever, you get the By Lainey • Jul 08, 2024 11:24 am
Business of Hollywood A Paramount merger is back on (probably) This is starting to feel like Wayne and Garth shouting “game off” and “game on” as cars interrupt their street hockey. I know I am dating myself with this reference, but it feels the most apt for the start-stop nature of whatever the f-ck is happening at Paramount. Just last By Sarah • Jul 04, 2024 12:59 pm
Royals TNT: The London Invasion Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour stop in London for three days, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, was always circled in red on the pop culture calendar. London is a major hub, and there’s the celebrity factor, but also London is where she lived during her relationship with Joe Alwyn, By Lainey • Jun 24, 2024 11:33 am
Amazingness Tom Cruise didn’t need a coffin I’m so grateful to Tom Cruise for getting papped while arriving on his helicopter – probably the only non-active duty person on the planet who is photographed travelling more via helicopter than by car! – in London because I read a story about him that amused me so much I can By Lainey • Jun 17, 2024 01:46 pm
BFFs Tom Cruise’s party trick Tom Cruise was photographed taking his preferred mode of travel – by helicopter! – in London today so it gave me an opportunity to post about what I didn’t get around to yesterday: his attendance at Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday party this past weekend. Katie got Suri in the divorce By Lainey • Apr 23, 2024 12:27 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Katie on her 18th Birthday Today is Suri Cruise’s 18th birthday so I’m posting these pictures of her mother, Katie Holmes, in New York yesterday in a really great shirt over an equally great pair of trousers, plus brand new shots of her from today. But, like, can you believe it’s been By Lainey • Apr 18, 2024 01:21 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise and Alejandro Iñárritu are teaming up Once upon a time, Tom Cruise worked with auteur filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Cameron Crowe, and Michael Mann, pretty regularly, but somewhere in the 2000s he shifted his focus to action blockbusters, and it’s been a long time since he’s made a film that has By Sarah • Feb 23, 2024 11:14 am
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, January 10, 2024 I’m working on theory here, stay with me: Ben Affleck is the happiest man in Hollywood. And you know how I know that? He rarely looks happy at award shows. It’s like social media: the person who brags about being happy is miserable, the person who posts about By Maria • Jan 10, 2024 03:33 pm
Business of Hollywood Tom Cruise saves the day…sort of Since David Zaslav took over the newly formed Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate and started shelving films for tax write offs and bragged about the labor strikes saving his studio money, I have asked one question—who wants to work for this guy? Well, we have the answer, and it’s By Sarah • Jan 10, 2024 01:08 pm
Relationship Assumption Does Tom Cruise have a girlfriend? It has been a minute since Tom Cruise has been in a relationship, at least that we know of. There was a time when Tom loved very, very publicly. Through most of his fame, that’s how it was always was: Tom loved out in the open. Until, of course, By Lainey • Dec 13, 2023 12:11 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom back at work One of the most cursed productions recently is Mission: Impossible 7 and 8. The films were supposed to be shot back-to-back, but COVID happened and shut M:I 7 down for months in 2020, then it was finally released this past summer as Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One after By Sarah • Nov 24, 2023 09:43 am