Victoria Beckham The Beckhams keep it moving The Beckham family scandal has been the biggest gossip of the year so far after Brooklyn Peltz-Beckham called out his parents on Instagram stories on Monday. It was a gift to the British tabloids and the entire gossip ecosystem because this story has everything: two legacy celebrities, two nepo-babies, wedding By Lainey • Jan 22, 2026 11:10 am
Top Reads The Beckham sideshow is in full swing Since Brooklyn Beckham decided to tell his parents to kick rocks earlier this week, there’s been no official or even unofficial statement from all the other family members. Nicola Peltz-Beckham hasn’t posted, Victoria and David haven’t (obviously) and neither have Cruz or Romeo, not even “subtly.” It By Maria • Jan 21, 2026 12:25 pm
Top Reads The Beckhams: One Battle After Another The Cold War between the Beckhams and Peltz-Beckhams is now a full-blown, boots-on-the-ground battle. If you’ve followed me on this site at all, you know I’m a Beckham stan, I make no excuses there. I’m trying to be as unbiased as possible because whatever the nuts and By Maria • Jan 20, 2026 10:19 am
Hudson Williams Hudson takes Milan A week ago yesterday, at the Golden Globes, Hudson Williams generated the most media impact value among all male celebrities on the red carpet. One weekend later, he seems to be doing the same for Milan Fashion Week with his debut appearance there. As expected on Friday, Hudson walked for By Lainey • Jan 19, 2026 12:02 pm
Name Nerd “Kate” Madden Calls The Shots This story just, it tickles me. For two different reasons, I think: Lainey was amused his morning over the revelation that Nicole Richie's daughter goes by “Kate”, as opposed to her presumed first name, Harlow. “But I guess when you’re a kid you don’t want to By Duana • Jan 15, 2026 01:09 pm
Award Season Campaigning RDJ shows up for Timmy As mentioned several times today, it is Oscar nominations voting week, as Academy members decide on which artists will be nominated for the Oscars, happening on March 15. The nominations will be announced a week today, next Thursday. So the contenders and their various studios are doing what they can By Lainey • Jan 15, 2026 12:31 pm
Top Reads Teyana Time As Sarah noted in our post-Globes coverage about Teyana Taylor and the Best Supporting Actress race, up until Sunday night, it was Amy Madigan’s performance in Weapons who was considered the frontrunner in the category. And she still is, I think, but she’s also not running away with By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 11:52 am
Maple Leaf Connor’s first time It’s been a seemingly endless series of first times for Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie of Heated Rivalry the last few weeks. They are celebrities now, they are more famous than they probably ever imagined. They just had their first award season experience during Golden Globe week. They just By Lainey • Jan 13, 2026 12:07 pm
Golden Globes 2026 Podcasting at awards shows The Golden Globes handed out their first-ever Best Podcast award, a bizarre inclusion for an awards show about film and television. I previously wrote about this category and its suspicious, potentially payola marketing scheme, but in the end, the Globes picked the least offensive person to win their inaugural award, By Sarah • Jan 12, 2026 12:45 pm
Golden Globes 2026 Heated Rivalry Cannot Be Cooled I won’t lie, I had very, very high expectations. After all the excitement and hype of the last month, and the last week, knowing that Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie would appear at the Golden Globes, I anticipated big moments and much celebration. It’s not like it was By Duana • Jan 12, 2026 07:19 am
Maple Leaf Hudson and Connor: A frenzy on both coasts It was impossible to know and/or predict what Heated Rivalry would become – and is still becoming. A Canadian production, made on muuuucchhh less money than an American counterpart would have done, starring two unknown actors in a gay hockey romance, as smutty as its source material is THE pop By Lainey • Jan 08, 2026 01:24 pm
Top Reads Ben and Matt in January A trailer for Joe Carnahan’s The Rip, premiering on Netflix next week, was released yesterday. The movie stars Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Steven Yeun, and Teyana Taylor and as Sarah noted back in September, it’s a cool looking action heist (this combination of talent generally can be counted By Lainey • Jan 06, 2026 11:40 am
Top Reads New Year, New Look - LaineyGossip Relaunch! You may have noticed… Things look a bit different this morning, right? It’s because we’ve moved the site to a new platform. If you’re interested, we’ll get into the Show Your Work of it in an upcoming Squawk newsletter, but the idea behind the change, aside By Lainey • Jan 02, 2026 11:11 am
Style Taylor: A necklace and a dress Taylor Swift was a four-segment guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, not a surprise. The way it used to work, and pretty much still does, on late night talk shows is that only the mega A-list stars take up three or four blocks, if they’re By Lainey • Dec 11, 2025 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Timmy’s Supreme Backlash There’s been merch, and a viral Zoom call mocking marketing brainstorm meetings, an entourage of human ping pong balls, dancing to Soulja Boy at CCXP, an orange blimp, and a double orange couple outfit with a girlfriend who’s no stranger to controversy – an incomplete list of the chaos By Lainey • Dec 10, 2025 01:51 pm
Maple Leaf Katy & Justin: An Olympic Dream fulfilled… sort of We’ve been behind on the Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau situation since I’ve been away the last few days but also kinda timely because… well… first, let’s recap. JT joined Katy on tour in Japan, they were seen holding hands after dinner. That was just the beginning By Lainey • Dec 08, 2025 12:54 pm
