Top Reads Natalie Portman responds to criticism We’ve been talking about Natalie Portman’s Oscar dress for four days now, and not necessarily in the way she intended it to be talked about. Duana wrote about it on Monday after the Oscars and appreciated the effort. Maria mentioned the controversy yesterday in Celebrity Social Media as By Lainey • Feb 13, 2020 12:36 pm
Douchebags Tipsy Taylor and Joe in London You wouldn’t think the NME Awards would be an awards show where Taylor Swift would show up but since she spends so much time in London now, she made a surprise appearance last night to receive the Best Solo Act award and Joe Alwyn was with her. The NME By Lainey • Feb 13, 2020 11:36 am
BFFs Jen talks to Sandy A couple of years ago in The New York Times, Jon Caramanica wrote an obituary for the celebrity profile, declaring it dead after a series of celebrity magazine interviews in which the subjects either interviewed themselves or were interviewed by their friends. We talked about that a lot, about whether By Lainey • Feb 12, 2020 12:24 pm
Royals Return of the Sussexes Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were in Miami last week to speak at the private JP Morgan Summit. Harry apparently talked about mental health, coping with his mother’s death, and his decision to take his family out of senior royal status. There are conflicting reports about whether or not By Lainey • Feb 11, 2020 11:08 am
Royals Harry and Meghan: the Headliners Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have kept it pretty undercover the last couple of weeks. Last night, however, according to Page Six, they were hustling in Miami. "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were the keynote speakers at an exclusive JPMorgan event — in their first public appearance since leaving the By Lainey • Feb 07, 2020 11:23 am
Books Jessica Simpson’s history with John Mayer Jessica Simpson’s book, Open Book, came out yesterday – and as promised, she has been OPEN. This is what you want out of a celebrity memoir: not just the tea but also the context; it has to be more than X and Y was an asshole, it’s better when By Lainey • Feb 05, 2020 01:16 pm
Top Reads Jay-Z tries to explain Jay-Z tried to explain his partnership with the NFL in the days leading up to the Super Bowl. Then he went to the Super Bowl and was seen sitting during the US national anthem. After that Love B Scott reported that he and Roc Nation were pressuring Jennifer Lopez to By Lainey • Feb 05, 2020 12:05 pm
Sports Beyoncé and Jay-Z take a seat Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and the Blue Ivy Carter were at the Super Bowl yesterday in Miami. But first, please enjoy this viz of Blue bossing on the sidelines with her phone. She’s probably playing a game. But in my mind, she’s seeing something that needs improvement and, like her By Lainey • Feb 03, 2020 11:17 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Jodie Turner-Smith: Best Dressed at the BAFTAs No surprise, 1917 won Best Picture at the BAFTAs last night. This was expected and it now goes into the Oscars, with voting ending tomorrow, the overwhelming favourite after taking the PGA, the DGA, and the BAFTAs. But remember, La La Land did the same so Parasite still has a By Lainey • Feb 03, 2020 09:32 am
Music Taylor Swift and the Grammys nothingburger It’s been almost a week since the Grammys. And a week since Variety reported that Taylor Swift had pulled out of an unannounced performance. A few days later, Grammys showrunner Ken Ehrlich clarified that they’d been talking about it but nothing was ever confirmed so characterising it as By Lainey • Jan 31, 2020 10:41 am
Royals Prince Andrew: angry and bewildered Earlier this week, at a news conference in New York, US Attorney Geoffrey Berman who’s been investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case, said publicly that they’ve had “zero cooperation” from Prince Andrew who had previously said he’d be happy to cooperate with authorities about his friendship with the By Lainey • Jan 29, 2020 11:26 am
Royals On House Sussex and Ellen DeGeneres Last week the Daily Mail broke the exclusive that Meghan Markle’s first interview after Sussexit would be with Ellen DeGeneres. Meghan and Prince Harry are the biggest gets right now, by far. Everyone wants to talk to them and obviously most people were thinking that they’d choose an By Lainey • Jan 28, 2020 12:43 pm
Royals The Uncooperative Prince While everyone over at Buckingham Palace is hoping that the Jeffrey Epstein mess will go away, over in the United States, even though they bungled it for a decade (so let’s not give them too much credit), they’re still proceeding with an investigation, and today, there was a By Lainey • Jan 27, 2020 03:29 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Channing Tatum and Jessie J’s Grammys weekend A couple of weeks ago, we heard about how Channing Tatum and Jessie J were spending time together again after breaking up late last year. Last week it was official: they’re back on. As I noted in both of those previous posts, it never seemed like their split was By Lainey • Jan 27, 2020 12:17 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kit and Gemma kiss for Eternals Marvel’s The Eternals is still shooting in London. The movie comes out in November which, yes, is toward the end of the year but it’s not that far away considering how long the post production process can be for some of these projects. And also marketing. Eternals is By Lainey • Jan 23, 2020 12:01 pm
Music Taylor Swift: The Sundance Poster Star The Sundance Film Festival kicks off on Thursday. Sundance is always a clusterf-ck, at least in the years I used to cover it, as celebrities, their entourages, publicists, marketers, party planners, sponsors, filmmakers, and the attendant media jam themselves into Park City for a few days – and this year, since By Lainey • Jan 21, 2020 01:08 pm
