Award Season Campaigning The Youngest and the Youngest: We Have a Race! Coming into the SAG Awards, we thought that the most competitive acting race left would be Best Actress, between Demi Moore and Mikey Madison. We’ll get to that in another post, but we’re focusing on the lead actors here because Adrien Brody has won almost everything. Still, remember, By Lainey • Feb 24, 2025 10:16 am
Style Rihanna and Rocky: Tailored to Trial Courtroom fashion is not a recent preoccupation. For starters, it’s about presentation and respect for the court. Even regular degulars are told by their lawyers to be mindful of what they wear for trial. Conversations, then, about courtroom fashion aren’t new. They were happening in all the mob By Lainey • Feb 21, 2025 11:54 am
Style Wicked in Japan Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jon M Chu were in Japan yesterday to promote Wicked. The movie opens there on March 7 and this was the last possible week that they could have travelled there because of course it’s been non-stop and now they pretty much have to stay By Lainey • Feb 21, 2025 10:53 am
Top Reads As Ever: The Tig… 3.0? I had a whole piece written and at 6:30pm last night as I was enjoying my turkey curry (Bridget Jones coded), Lainey sent me an As Ever post. My first thought was that Meghan Markle dropped a new photo but, no. It’s a post from a brand. Called By Maria • Feb 19, 2025 10:55 am
Music Jessica Simpson’s… Craving Jessica Simpson has long been teasing new music. She’s now single, she’s motivated, and the new EP, Nashville Canyon: Part 1, is coming March 21. The first single from the EP, “Use My Heart Against Me” drops this Friday. She posted a preview last week. And today, an By Lainey • Feb 19, 2025 10:21 am
TV Updates A Roundup of Couples and Non-Couples Starting with Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively whose appearance on Sunday night at the SNL50 was not announced ahead of time. Both have hosted before, but not since 2009, although you’ll recall, Blake was supposed to be the first host this season until she backed out when all the By Lainey • Feb 18, 2025 01:51 pm
Style Jeremy Strong cares about everything Jeremy Strong is now an Oscar nominee. He earned the first Oscar nomination of his career for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Apprentice. Kieran Culkin is the favourite in that category and this has been one of the internet’s favourite Oscar storylines – the Brothers Roy going By Lainey • Feb 13, 2025 01:15 pm
Music Vogueing, Popping, and Punning with Sabrina Carpenter Sabrina Carpenter covers the new issue of Vogue, not a surprise. She’s had a massive year, and just won two Grammys, has leaned in hard to a certain look – and Vogue is all about looks. This look, however, is familiar but also fresh. Sabrina is the pinup for the By Lainey • Feb 12, 2025 02:06 pm
Award Season Campaigning Timmy had to pee Let me just say, again, because I haven’t said it yet this week so it’s only been three days since you’ve read it from me, that I consider Timothée Chalamet’s current Oscar campaign-non-campaign as one of the best, if not the best, of all time. Because By Lainey • Feb 12, 2025 10:46 am
Royals Princess Kate and the Unnecessary Nothingburger Unnecessary and nothingburger are redundant but take that for emphasis. Exactly a year ago at this time, the internet was popping over Princess Kate’s whereabouts. She’d cancelled all public appearances and was dealing with health issues. The palace was not forthcoming with details. In the absence of information, By Lainey • Feb 11, 2025 01:25 pm
Top Reads TNT: The Boos, the Bros, and (perhaps) a Proper Holiday Before we get into the TNT of it, a minute first on Taylor Swift getting booed at the Super Bowl. If you haven’t already, I recommend Stephanie McNeal’s piece for Glamour. Stephanie was at the game, and has excellent insight on that booing moment and why it’s By Lainey • Feb 11, 2025 11:41 am
Amazingness Kendrick Lamar: A Halftime of Hate Before we get into Kendrick Lamar’s set at the Super Bowl last night, a word on Jay-Z and his involvement in the halftime show. The initial partnership between him and the NFL was for five years, valued at $25 million. That deal was renewed back in October but when By Lainey • Feb 10, 2025 01:19 pm
Top Reads Baiting Taylor Swift Both TMZ and Page Six claimed to have “exclusives” yesterday about Taylor Swift’s relationship with Blake Lively. And both of their “exclusives” say the same thing: that Blake's legal drama with Justin Baldoni has fractured her friendship with Taylor. And that Taylor is distancing herself from Blake By Lainey • Feb 07, 2025 10:29 am
Top Reads Angelina remembers her mom Angelina Jolie was at the Santa Barbara Film Festival last night to receive the Maltin Modern Master Award and sat with Leonard Maltin for a Q&A about her career before accepting the honour. On Friday she’s nominated for Best Actress at the Critics’ Choice Awards so we’ By Lainey • Feb 06, 2025 11:16 am
BFFs Billie campaigns for Ari As noted in today’s open, the Karla Sofía Gascón scandal has upended award season. Emilia Pérez is plummeting, Zoe Saldaña’s chances are in jeopardy, and other nominated films and actors are gaining momentum – that includes Ariana Grande. It was once thought that the nomination would be a win By Lainey • Feb 05, 2025 02:12 pm
Dumbass Another Simple Favor ends another dumb rumour I mean, the dumb rumour should have ended as soon as it was birthed but you know how the internet works now and how people are increasingly incapable of detecting bullsh-t. Sarah addressed this nonsense a few weeks ago when a totally unqualified random on Twitter claimed that Amazon had By Lainey • Feb 05, 2025 10:26 am
