Gorgessity Angelina and Zendaya at the Gothams As Sarah just wrote in her post about the actress contenders at the Gotham Awards last night, this is one of the most competitive Best Actress Oscar races we’ve seen in years. So many strong performances, only five spots, no clear frontrunner for the win at this point in By Lainey • Dec 03, 2024 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Gotham Gentlemen The Gotham Awards were last night in New York, or as I like to call them, the extremely early Oscar predictors. The Gothams aren’t a great bellwether for the Oscars, but the awards are decided by juries of actors and filmmakers, some of whom are Academy members, so it’ By Sarah • Dec 03, 2024 09:57 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Apple Debuts Le Bal des Débutantes used to be nicknamed the Crillon Ball because it took place at the Hotel de Crillon and this is what I called it years ago on this site when celebrities debuted their children at the event. For some reason, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore’s daughters, By Lainey • Dec 02, 2024 02:24 pm
Music The two Vs V from BTS, aka Kim Taehyung, aka Tae (ARMYs use these names interchangeably) released a new song today. “Winter Ahead” is a collaboration with Park Hyo-shin, a song that highlights V’s musical leanings. Each member of BTS has their own personal style sound and preference. Jin, for example, has By Lainey • Nov 29, 2024 11:55 am
Douchebags Ben Affleck: A Thanksgiving Update Late in the day, PEOPLE posted an exclusive about Ben Affleck and how he’d be spending American Thanksgiving. Maybe they’re rolling out coverage to ensure there’s enough content on the page for the holiday while the staff is off work and given that it’s generally quite By Lainey • Nov 28, 2024 11:28 am
Style Gwyneth Paltrow: A Sweater and a Suspect For over a decade, we’ve been rhapsodising about a cream knit sweater here at LaineyGossip. And it remains the standard by which all cream knit sweaters are judged, Maria and I message each other about it at least three times a year, and every winter for sure. It was By Lainey • Nov 26, 2024 10:18 am
Amazingness The “Glen-terprise” As expected, since the Timothée Chamalet lookalike contest a few weeks ago, the copycats have been relentless. There are lookalike contests popping up all over the place and all of them have been …well… kinda sad and desperate because, of course, everyone in large part is doing it in the By Lainey • Nov 25, 2024 02:19 pm
Amazingness Hugh Grant’s glorious misery It was six years ago, during the Golden Globes, that LaineyGossip became a Hugh Grant fansite. Duana was the one who wrote the post back in 2018 during our Globes coverage – Hugh was there as a presenter, his job was to introduce Dunkirk, one of that year’s nominees, after By Lainey • Nov 25, 2024 12:57 pm
TV Updates Monster Charlie A couple months ago we learned that Charlie Hunnam will star in the third season of Ryan Murphy’s extremely popular Netflix anthology series Monster, which fictionalizes the crimes of some of America’s most notorious killers. We now have our first look at Hunnam gussied up as Ed Gein, By Sarah • Nov 21, 2024 10:27 am
BFFs A Campaign of Friends It’s the final award season push of 2024 for the next three weeks as we get closer to the holidays when Hollywood temporarily shuts down before coming back to business for the Golden Globes on January 5. This means premieres and parties almost every single night and it also By Lainey • Nov 20, 2024 11:25 am
Style Nicole Kidman: “Meme me as much you want” I f-cking love Nicole Kidman’s new interview, written by Ben Allen, with British GQ so much it might be one of my pop culture highlights of the year. Of course the part of the interview that’s getting the most play is what she says when she’s asked By Lainey • Nov 19, 2024 02:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews How Timmy found Bob Through this entire year in the Best Actor Oscar race, everyone’s been leaving a spot open for Timothée Chalamet. He’s widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of his generation. He’s already been nominated for Oscar – and that was six years ago! – it’s only By Lainey • Nov 19, 2024 10:01 am
Award Season Campaigning Icons at the Governors Awards As Lainey mentioned in the open today, the 15th annual Governors Awards were held last night, and if you’re wondering didn’t we just do this back in January, yes, we did. The 14th annual ceremony was bumped because of last year’s labor strikes, so like the Emmys, By Sarah • Nov 18, 2024 11:33 am
Music Beysus at Christmas This is why it’s pointless to speculate on what Beyoncé is doing. Because when we find out what she’s been doing, it always comes out of nowhere and on no one’s bingo card. There have been no visuals. Not for act i, RENAISSANCE, and not for act By Lainey • Nov 18, 2024 10:35 am
Top Reads The Conan Oscars In recent years, it has become accepted fact that hosting the Oscars is a bad gig, and the Academy increasingly struggles to get new, interesting people to host the show. Well this year, that is NOT the case, as they have already landed Conan O’Brien as the host of By Sarah • Nov 15, 2024 10:54 am
BFFs Celine and JLo: Alive and Survive! I can hear my husband upstairs laughing uncontrollably right now as I’m writing this… through tears. That’s what he’s hearing: my sobs. Sobbing through Celine Dion’s performance at the Elie Saab show in Riyadh last night. But if you love her as I do, and I By Lainey • Nov 14, 2024 10:55 am
