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
Award Season Campaigning Kristen Stewart’s voice Kristen Stewart’s feature directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, opens in limited theaters this weekend before expanding nationally in January. The film’s distributor, indie outfit The Forge, is also mounting a little-engine-that-could awards campaign for the film and Stewart. Serving both the film’s release and the trophy By Sarah • Dec 05, 2025 12:56 pm
BFFs Gwyneth aims to please Gwyneth Paltrow is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment issue as this year’s recipient of the publication’s Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. GP was also at a morning event yesterday celebrating the women who’ve been recognised by the trade. By Lainey • Dec 04, 2025 11:09 am
Maple Leaf Justin Bieber: Strangers, birthdays, and golf Justin Bieber is heading into the Grammys this year with four nominations, including Album of the Year. Over the course of his career, while he’s been nominated many times, he has two wins. Both of those wins, however, for “Where Are Ü Now” and “10000 Hours" are not By Lainey • Nov 25, 2025 01:23 pm
Style Kate Beckinsale and the two eggs Kate Beckinsale is promoting a movie called Wildcat that opens today in select theatres. As you can see from the poster and the trailer below, she’s in her action bag, playing a character who might have been a former assassin and her daughter gets kidnapped and maybe there are By Lainey • Nov 25, 2025 11:51 am
Royals Fashion Meghan Meghan Sussex’s With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration will premiere on Netflix on December 3. Typically, for a show like hers, which is about hosting, the usual promotional strategy would involve the talk show circuit, daytime in particular. There’s always hosting content on daytime – cooking and decorating and crafting, By Lainey • Nov 20, 2025 11:22 am
Quiveration The Vanity Fair All-Men Hollywood Issue Up until last year, Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood issue was always released in February-ish timed for around the Oscars. Last year, a scheduling departure – the Hollywood issue came out in November, joining all the other “of the year” issues that other magazines put out around the season. One of By Lainey • Nov 19, 2025 02:29 pm
Style Cynthia goes home I knew nothing about Wicked before I saw the movie last year – and I went with the best possible person, the most theatre kid in my life, Duana. For many of us, loving something means wanting to share the thing that you love with people you love. For a theatre By Lainey • Nov 19, 2025 11:51 am
Quiveration Just Josh O’Connor Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery opens in theatres November 26, in time for American Thanksgiving, and starts streaming on Netflix on December 12, just in time for Christmas. The LA premiere was last night and director Rian Johnson was joined by cast members Kerry Washington, Cailee Spaeny, By Lainey • Nov 18, 2025 02:38 pm
Music Taylor’s 13 Trailer Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour docuseries premieres a month tomorrow, December 12, but 13 is her favourite number, and today is November 13. So a gift for Swifties – she shared the first trailer for the series today. And, well, it has everything. Because she says in the preview, her By Lainey • Nov 13, 2025 12:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Return of the Fashion Devil: a teaser and the Met Gala? I’ll tell you this right now, six months ahead, and I’m confident I won’t change my mind: I will love the sh-t out of The Devil Wears Prada 2. Even if some people think it’s sh-t, there is no way I will hate it. I am By Lainey • Nov 12, 2025 02:51 pm
Break Ups Nicole Kidman: Another Day, Another Job It’s been six weeks since news broke that Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban had split, and that it was Keith who wanted out of the marriage and Nicole who was trying to save it. And since then, the overwhelming reaction has been… Keith, you fool. On so many levels, By Lainey • Nov 12, 2025 12:48 pm
Music AI popstars and digital colonization For the first time ever, an AI-generated artist has made an appearance on the Billboard charts. Xania Monet is an AI singer created by a Mississippi woman named Telisha “Nikki” Jones. Her song, “How Was I Supposed to Know?”, sung by her AI creation first popped up on the Adult By Stephanie • Nov 10, 2025 11:34 am
