Top Reads Tracee Ellis Ross on choice and singledom Tracee Ellis Ross was a guest on the IMO podcast hosted by Michelle Obama and her older brother Craig. During the conversation, Tracee spoke about the “fascinating adventure” of dating and the nuanced grief she experiences at times moving through life without a partner or children of her own. And By Stephanie • Apr 17, 2025 11:55 am
Media Manipulation Blake Lively makes TIME TIME released its list of 100 Most Influential People of 2025 today… and there was a surprise on the list, at least to me: Blake Lively. The last 8 or 9 months or so have been the lowest of Blake’s career. Since the It Ends With Us press tour By Lainey • Apr 16, 2025 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Flo is a world record holder Thunderbolts* is coming out in two weeks this Friday and Marvel has big hopes for this one, expected to be one of the biggest movies of the year. That means that from now until release date, we’ll be seeing the ensemble everywhere. Thunderbolts* is an ensemble but the truth By Lainey • Apr 15, 2025 12:16 pm
Music Gaga Mayhem at Coachella: The 5 Highlights Lady Gaga doesn’t have anything to prove at this point of her career, but just in case someone out there thought she did, this past weekend’s Coachella performance ought to put a stop to any doubt that she is in fact one of the greatest performers of our By MC • Apr 14, 2025 11:42 am
Top Reads At long last, an Oscar for stunts A year after announcing the addition of a new Oscar category to honor casting directors, the Academy has announced they are, finally, adding a category to recognize stunts. The category will officially recognize “stunt design” at the 100th Academy Awards to be held in 2028, honoring the films of 2027. By Sarah • Apr 11, 2025 09:53 am
Top Reads Walton Goggins, the celebrity In my post about Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood yesterday, I mentioned – or proxy-bragged – that Sarah’s been all about Walton Goggins forever on this site. I’m talking over a decade, almost 15 years, and I mention this because I wonder if she could have predicted, when she By Lainey • Apr 10, 2025 12:49 pm
TV Updates Intro for April 10, 2025 Dear Gossips, Netflix is working on a series adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. Deadline reported last fall that the scripts were written (by Dolly Alderton) but noted that the project had not yet been greenlit at the time and “may not make it to screen”. Seems like it’s heading By Lainey • Apr 10, 2025 09:36 am
TV Updates Jon Hamm and Tina Fey: One Good Joke Jon Hamm looked great last night at the premiere of Jonathan Tropper’s Your Friends & Neighbours, premiering on Apple TV+ on Friday. It’s about a successful hedge fund manager who gets fired and ends up stealing from people in his neighbourhood. Amanda Peet plays his wife and his By Lainey • Apr 09, 2025 01:13 pm
Top Reads The Business of Hating Hailey Bieber (and others) As Maria has said many times in her Celebrity Social Media posts, if for whatever reason you’d like to feel even more terrible about the state of the world, cruise through the comments on Hailey Bieber’s social media accounts. The hatred that has been directed at her, for By Lainey • Apr 08, 2025 11:06 am
Amazingness Aimee Lou Wood, the astrologer There’s been a breakout star every season on The White Lotus. In season one it was Murray Bartlett, season two Simona Tabasco, and season three, Aimee Lou Wood, who plays the endearing Chelsea. And the internet is obsessed with everything from her teeth to her hilarious reactions to her By Lainey • Apr 04, 2025 11:41 am
Top Reads Amber Ruffin was cancelled The White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner is later this month and as has been the tradition since 1983, the post-dinner entertainment was to be provided by a comedian. This year, it was supposed to be Amber Ruffin, writer and star of The Amber Ruffin Show and Late Night By Sarah • Apr 03, 2025 01:10 pm
TV Updates Michelle Williams: Is it time “Fo Shiz”? Michelle Williams has started the press tour for her upcoming series Dying for Sex. I linked to a piece at Vulture about the show last week that’s worth the read if you missed it the first time. This is based on the true story of Molly Kochan who, with By Lainey • Apr 01, 2025 10:28 am
Top Reads The Kim Soo-hyun scandal is now global Trigger warning for suicide and underage SA. It has been over two weeks since I first posted about the biggest scandal in the Korean entertainment industry in recent memory involving Kim Soo-hyun, the highest paid actor in Korea, and the late Kim Sae-ron, who died by suicide on February 16, By Lainey • Mar 31, 2025 12:48 pm
Relationship Assumption Glen & Sydney: Art and Life and Art Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney starred in Anyone But You as two people who hook up on a one night stand and end up at her sister’s wedding together. During filming, even though Sydney was engaged at the time, everyone on social media was rumouring that there was something By Lainey • Mar 31, 2025 10:33 am
Style Sydney Sweeney is (almost) single As mentioned in What Else? the other day there have been rumours now for a few weeks that Sydney Sweeney is no longer engaged to Jonathan Davino. The wedding was supposed to be in May and the speculation is that it’s been postponed, if not entirely cancelled. While Jonathan By Lainey • Mar 27, 2025 10:23 am
Top Reads Ben Affleck’s drama-free life One thing you can count on from Ben Affleck: he is verbose. Which, for anyone who’s writing a profile on him, would probably be much appreciated. When Ben talks, he talks. He talks a LOT in his new GQ cover interview with Zach Baron and almost of all of By Lainey • Mar 26, 2025 10:57 am
