Music AI popstars and digital colonization For the first time ever, an AI-generated artist has made an appearance on the Billboard charts. Xania Monet is an AI singer created by a Mississippi woman named Telisha “Nikki” Jones. Her song, “How Was I Supposed to Know?”, sung by her AI creation first popped up on the Adult By Stephanie • Nov 10, 2025 11:34 am
Style Cynthia and Ariana: High fashion and all the feels It feels like the return of a friend. One of the biggest pop culture stories of 2024 was the Wicked press tour last fall and through the winter, when Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande took over the timeline in green and pink and, together, created some of the most insane By Lainey • Nov 10, 2025 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Meghan Sussex does a movie Now that it’s actually happening, this seemed inevitable, didn’t it? Meghan Sussex was seen yesterday on the set of Close Personal Friends. The film stars Brie Larson, Lily Collins, Henry Golding and Jack Quaid, about a couple on a trip to Santa Barbara and encounter a celebrity couple. By Lainey • Nov 06, 2025 11:54 am
Quiveration Jonathan Bailey is the Sexiest Man Alive! On one of their multiple covers for their 2025 Sexiest Man Alive issue, PEOPLE boasts in the lower corner that, “We know, we nailed it”. And they did, they really f-cking did. Which means their editorial team can be as puffy as it wants in this situation. Because this is By Lainey • Nov 04, 2025 09:53 am
Douchebags Millie Bobby Brown needed protection Lily Allen’s new album, West End Girl, is essentially a diary detailing the collapse of her marriage to David Harbour. She puts his sh-tty behaviour on blast, as she’s working out her own pain and trauma. And she decided to release it just before the final season of By Lainey • Nov 03, 2025 02:20 pm
Relationship Assumption Jen and Jim are Instagram official News first broke in July that Jennifer Aniston had a new boyfriend. She was seen with hypnotist Jim Curtis while on holiday with Jason Bateman and Amanda Anka. Over the subsequent few weeks, at least in public, they continued their slow dating double dates, in both LA and New York. By Lainey • Nov 03, 2025 10:38 am
Douchebags Just Andrew is a regular degular Prince Andrew and Buckingham Palace announced two weeks ago that he would no longer use his title or his honours, and go by Just Andrew. As I wrote yesterday before the big news broke, this was a meaningless gesture. All it meant was that he wouldn’t go around calling By Lainey • Oct 31, 2025 11:38 am
Jock Smut Prince Harry actually doesn’t know her It’s been almost two weeks since Just Andrew and Buckingham Palace announced that he can keep his titles but has agreed not to use them which… is that kinda like owning a car but promising not to drive it? You still own the f-cking car – it’s the most By Lainey • Oct 30, 2025 12:43 pm
Jock Smut Romantic…or horny? There is a line from the film Moneyball that comes up a lot, duh, when we’re talking about baseball: “How can you not be romantic about baseball?” Moneyball is (in part) about using data to build a baseball team, relying on analytics to find unvalued and overlooked players by By Lainey • Oct 29, 2025 12:43 pm
Style Jennifer Lawrence’s best profile Jennifer Lawrence is back in the Oscar mix this year after the world premiere of Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love in Cannes back in May, where she was praised for her performance as a new mother navigating rage and desire and boredom and Robert Pattinson. That was early in By Lainey • Oct 28, 2025 01:27 pm
Maple Leaf KP + JT: A Corn and Cheese Birthday Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are playing out basically like fanfic at this point – and I’m not mad at it, LOL. It’s just that these are the most obvious and derivative plot beats and somehow that fits these two perfectly too. Which is why, from the jump, I’ By Lainey • Oct 27, 2025 12:37 pm
Royals Just Andrew TW for sexual assault It’s been big news the last few days as the loser formerly known as Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, and I don’t give a goddamn if that wasn’t the correct styling, is now just Andrew. He’s not been stripped of his By Lainey • Oct 20, 2025 11:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Gwyneth sounds bothered Gwyneth Paltrow is the November 2025 British Vogue cover star. GP covers magazines all the time, this is not remarkable. What is remarkable is that this particular magazine cover at this time is for an acting project. The film is Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, and there will definitely be By Lainey • Oct 16, 2025 01:07 pm
TV Updates Victoria’s docu-lure Victoria and David Beckham were in New York last night, seen here leaving an event hosted by Vogue to celebrate her Netflix docuseries, which I savoured slowly and finished last night. As I wrote ahead of the premiere, what was most interesting to me is that they spent time on By Lainey • Oct 16, 2025 11:21 am
TV Updates Taylor Swift Shows More Work It was never a question that Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl would be big, it was just a matter of how big. And now we know – 4 million units sold, a new record. And when you consider that over 1.4 million of these were vinyl, in By Lainey • Oct 14, 2025 12:56 pm
Maple Leaf KP & JT: A Cheese Corn Autumn The last time we checked in on Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau, it was late July/beginning of August during the celebrity summer of romance, and these two came out of nowhere to go on a date in Montreal. Justin brought out his fanboy to her show in Montreal and By Lainey • Oct 14, 2025 11:24 am
