Amazingness Reese Witherspoon gives good gossip January 2025 is almost over and this month has been a F-CK. Monsters in power, disasters and destruction, and a lot of celebrity gossip but, like, not really the fun kind – sorry but sexual harassment and counter lawsuits that set off right-wing pile-ons and wild and crazy conspiracy theories that By Lainey • Jan 31, 2025 09:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Harris Dickinson and the new actor Beatles Fifteen years ago there were four actors from the UK and Ireland who happened to have once lived together and seemed to be in all the movies, taking over pop culture: Jamie Dornan, Andrew Garfield, Robert Pattinson, and Eddie Redmayne. All of them continue to have big careers. Just before By Lainey • Jan 30, 2025 10:42 am
Movie Reviews and Previews JLo: New Year, New Luck Hello there, if you are new to this site, you might be thinking… it’s January 28, why is this bitch talking about the new year? Well, this bitch is Chinese, and on the lunar calendar, the new year begins tomorrow. So this is your last minute reminder to clean By Lainey • Jan 28, 2025 02:17 pm
Style Tuesday in Paris Paris Fashion Week continues today and Chanel is the main event, but let me just back it up because there are some looks from yesterday that I didn’t get a chance to cover. Like Gabrielle Union at Schiaparelli because… This is a showstopper! The perfect combination of dress to By Lainey • Jan 28, 2025 10:52 am
Music Timothée Chalamet: Completely Singular I’ve been writing for months during this press tour for A Complete Unknown, how thrilling it’s been as a student of pop culture to watch Timothée Chalamet resist doing celebrity by prescription. Maybe even describing it that way is a disservice itself to his celebrity and the way By Lainey • Jan 27, 2025 11:41 am
Break Ups Sutton supports Hugh Hugh Jackman’s residency at Radio City Music Hall began on Friday night. Lainey previously wondered if Sutton Foster would show up to support him, and the answer is yes. She was there, as was Ryan Reynolds, who was featured in a bit during the show. But back to Sutton, By Sarah • Jan 27, 2025 10:40 am
BFFs Benny C in Variety It feels like it’s been forever since we’ve talked about Benedict Cumberbatch, a 2010s staple. Maybe because it’s been a few years since his last big film (2022’s Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, since then, it’s been shorts and indie stuff), but maybe By Sarah • Jan 24, 2025 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Mikey Madison, an Oscar mystery Mikey Madison was making the press rounds in New York yesterday just after it was announced that she was nominated for Best Actress at the Oscars for her performance in Anora. This, too, is part of campaign strategy – make sure to get the candidate right out there, front and centre, By Lainey • Jan 24, 2025 11:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Oscar nominations are finally here (someone stop Emilia Pérez) After a couple of weeks of delays and fire-related chaos, the nominees for the 97th Academy Awards are here, and I am in a VERY “I told you so” mood because Monica Barbaro snagged that Best Supporting Actress nomination that I’ve been saying she could get since last fall. By Sarah • Jan 23, 2025 10:22 am
Douchebags Blake v Justin: The Video Assumption move In my post last week, after Justin Baldoni formally filed his lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, I called it a “Lawsuit for Gossip” and here’s how I ended that article – sorry to quote myself: “… prior to the Depp-Heard trial, audio recordings were leaked online that were then By Lainey • Jan 22, 2025 11:35 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Holland: What “the lead” means Tom Holland was trending on socials yesterday after some accounts picked up a story about him being “the lead” in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, The Odyssey. The assumption was that he would be playing Odysseus, and from there the ensuing reaction ranged from complaining to confusion. Let’s back By Lainey • Jan 21, 2025 02:30 pm
Relationship Assumption Andrew Garfield and Demi Moore – Nancy Meyers are you listening?! I’ll preface by saying we don’t know if this is real, that this might just be overzealous shipping, that there is no legitimate sourcing… but again, the theme of the day is fun gossip, gossip as relief from darkness, so with all that in mind, this is the By Lainey • Jan 20, 2025 12:11 pm
Douchebags A Lawsuit for Gossip Justin Baldoni, his partners, and associates have filed a countersuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds accusing them of civil extortion, defamation, and invasion of privacy. Justin and his cohort are seeking $400 million in damages; this is in addition to the $250 million they’re suing The New York By Lainey • Jan 17, 2025 12:07 pm
Gorgessity Welcome Back, Cameron Diaz When I first started LaineyGossip, Cameron Diaz was one of our main characters. Because she was one of Hollywood’s main characters. Cameron was at the top of the Hollywood hierarchy in the early 2000s, the queen of rom-coms, during the Charlie’s Angels era, and prestige work in films By Lainey • Jan 16, 2025 11:35 am
Break Ups Jessica Simpson: Not your usual breakup statement Probably not a surprise, right? There was speculation through the back half of last year about Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson’s marriage. They hadn’t been seen together pretty much all of 2024. She wasn’t wearing her ring. She was hinting that heartbreak was fueling her return to By Lainey • Jan 14, 2025 10:25 am
TV Updates Meghan’s delay It’s not just award shows and such being postponed due to the wildfires, a bunch of TV shows that film in LA have paused production, too. In a similar vein, Meghan Markle asked Netflix to delay the launch of her new series, With Love, Meghan, from January 15 to By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 10:37 am