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
Amazingness They call him Spider-Man We can disagree about movies and TV shows, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, Drake and Kendrick, Taylor Swift’s footwear, Ed Sheeran’s music… but you know what brings us all together? Zendaya and Tom Holland. I know they bring the internet together. All they have to do is walk By Lainey • Feb 04, 2025 10:32 am
Amazingness Queen of All Culture, Mother of the Meme You’ll note in my previous post about Beyoncé today, I did not address her reaction to winning the Grammy for Best Country Album. That post was meant to focus on her tour announcement and the Album of the Year Grammy that had eluded her up to this point. But By Lainey • Feb 03, 2025 03:15 pm
Music Beyoncé All Weekend There was already so much Beyoncé to talk about even before she won all her Grammys last night. So we’ll start there and jump around the timeline. Beyoncé was supposed to make an announcement on January 14 which she ended up postponing due to the wildfire situation in LA. By Lainey • Feb 03, 2025 12:03 pm
Relationship Assumption Kaia Gerber isn’t moping When it was confirmed a few weeks ago that Kaia Gerber and Austin Butler had broken up, I wrote that it wasn’t all that surprising given their ages. She’s 23 years old, in a totally different phase of her life. And after three years together, there might not By Lainey • Jan 31, 2025 11:33 am
