Music Katy’s world As Maria alluded to yesterday, Katy Perry is currently getting obliterated in the court of public opinion over her new single, “Woman’s World”. It’s her first song since 2021, the lead single of her upcoming album 143, and Pitchfork deemed it “a monumental catastrophe” and called Perry “pop By Sarah • Jul 16, 2024 10:35 am
Royals Two Princesses, a Pretty Woman, and a Top Gun Princess Kate made her return to Wimbledon yesterday after Kensington Palace confirmed earlier in the weekend that she would be attending the men’s final. This is the first time we’ve seen Kate since Trooping the Colour and, by comparison, since Trooping is about the king, that was a By Lainey • Jul 15, 2024 12:41 pm
Top Reads Intro for July 15, 2024 Dear Gossips, Well before it became mainstream to celebrate the drama queen, before we realised the queer community is always right about bad bitches being the best, there was Brenda Walsh by Shannen Doherty. So many of us from that generation didn’t yet have the language to articulate why By Lainey • Jul 15, 2024 10:18 am
Style Serena and the Sussexes at the ESPYs Serena Williams hosted the ESPYs last night in a total of 16 outfits. I didn’t watch the show, but I did just watch her opening monologue and that’s what she said at one point. A woman doesn’t play about the number of looks, so I believe her. By Lainey • Jul 12, 2024 11:22 am
Gorgessity Winona Winona… and Winona A name you can say three times. A name you want to say more than three times. A name you want to say forever. A name we’ve been saying for almost 40 years because that’s how long Winona Ryder has been famous – almost 40 years. If you’re By Lainey • Jul 11, 2024 02:54 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Cardi B: Birthday and a Babymoon? Cardi B has been in Paris this week to celebrate Kulture’s sixth birthday. You would have seen all of this documented on socials if you’ve been following – it’s a group that includes adults and children, flying over together on a private jet, and there was a day By Lainey • Jul 11, 2024 11:53 am
Top Reads Violet Affleck, the activist I was this morning year’s old when I learned, from Violet Affleck, daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, that there’s such a thing called a … mask ban?! Violet was the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors public hearing yesterday not as a celebrity but a citizen, taking By Lainey • Jul 10, 2024 11:02 am
Style Zoë Kravitz and the Pussy Problem Zoë Kravitz’s feature directorial debut, Blink Twice, opens in August. She co-wrote the script and while she had previously been adamant about not changing the name of the film, originally called Pussy Island, we learned earlier this year when the trailer was released that the title has indeed changed By Lainey • Jul 09, 2024 01:48 pm
Music The Tears of TNT? Travis Kelce was at Taylor Swift’s show in Amsterdam on Saturday and, well, just as it’s been for weeks during The Eras Tour, there’s a moment that’s gone viral between the two of them. It feels like we’re back on TNT episodic television again. It By Lainey • Jul 08, 2024 01:20 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Tom avoids the Pitt stop? In the previous post to this one, Sarah wrote about Brad Pitt’s new racing movie– basically Top Gun but make it F1. Thirty-four years ago it was called Days of Thunder, although motorsport nerds will tell you in a know-it-all voice that that was NASCAR. Whatever, you get the By Lainey • Jul 08, 2024 11:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ryan Reynolds's Korean Appreciation The Deadpool & Wolverine press tour has kicked off in East Asia. As mentioned yesterday in What Else?, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, and director Shawn Levy were in Shanghai and today they’ve stopped in Seoul where Ryan, at this point, is no stranger to the entertainment system. As we By Lainey • Jul 04, 2024 03:28 pm
BFFs A Turd in the Baccarat Crystal Punchbowl When Lainey and I were texting about me writing this story, I said I would do it in the voice of Lady Whistledown but honestly, who has time for this sh-t? And I truly mean “sh-t”! About three weeks ago, I received a letter from a dearest gentle reader that By Maria • Jul 04, 2024 11:53 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Bennifer Independence (Day) It is Independence Day in the United States. If I was home tonight I would hit play on Will Smith fighting aliens because I will always and forever f-ck with that movie! Anyway, on this Fourth of July, it would appear that Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are on different By Lainey • Jul 04, 2024 10:23 am
Amazingness Travis wanted the ball The biggest moment from Taylor Swift’s first run at Wembley on The Eras Tour happened on the last night, of course, when Travis Kelce joined her on stage at the start of “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart”. Now, on the season two finale of the New By Lainey • Jul 03, 2024 11:25 am
BFFs Big body… but is it a crime? Every time Taylor Swift performs on The Eras tour, there is something that goes viral. Swifties, as we know, are intense. And of course there’s the whole TNT factor so when Travis Kelce is in the stadium, whether it’s a kiss or a look or whatever, people will By Lainey • Jul 02, 2024 12:52 pm
TV Updates Only Murders on Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel is taking the summer off, like he did last summer, which means for the next couple of months, every week there will be a different celebrity guest host taking over for him, starting with Martin Short this week. These days, Martin Short comes with an entourage: all the By Lainey • Jun 27, 2024 11:14 am
