Hook Ups Ariana has a boyfriend It was just five days ago that Ariana Grande showed up at Wimbledon not wearing her wedding ring resulting in speculation about her marriage. That lasted 24 hours because the next day multiple entertainment outlets confirmed that she and Dalton Gomez have been separated for a while. Ari’s been By Lainey • Jul 21, 2023 10:46 am
Music The BTS Barbie Crossover I just gloated about this during our morning meeting at The Social – the BTS fanbase, aka ARMY, is so desirable to marketers that even the Barbie press tour is trying to engage them. And that’s why Ryan Gosling is trying to talk to Jimin. Ryan gosling send a message By Lainey • Jul 20, 2023 11:34 am
TV Updates Dork Storm Strikes (Back) San Diego Comic-Con starts tomorrow and it’s gonna be a weird one. With actors and writers on strike—and most of the studios already skipping this year even before the double strike started—there is not a whole lot going on, at least in Hall H, where most of By Sarah • Jul 19, 2023 12:15 pm
Break Ups The End of Ariana’s Normie Love Ariana Grande didn’t bother to let the speculation about her marriage go on for very long. After appearing at Wimbledon without her wedding ring, questions about the status of her relationship got pretty loud. Instead of releasing an official statement, multiple sources confirmed with multiple outlets yesterday that she By Lainey • Jul 18, 2023 01:04 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina going east Angelina Jolie has been in New York the last few days with Pax and Zahara. The three of them were seen looking at apartments yesterday and she and Pax had dinner in the West Village last night. Makes sense that she’s looking for a home in NYC since just By Lainey • Jul 18, 2023 12:09 pm
Relationship Assumption Ariana without a ring The Wimbledon final is always a major celebrity draw. And yesterday’s men’s final brought out the stars, including ones who generally keep a pretty low profile. Like Ariana Grande. Ari is very, very famous. And Ari, by the standards of her cohort, having grown up on social media By Lainey • Jul 17, 2023 11:00 am
Music Jungkook’s Horny “Seven” Last Friday, ahead of the release of Jungkook’s new single “Seven”, which dropped today, and all the thirst-trappy vibes he was serving to promote it, I wondered if the song was about JK being DTF seven days a week. Horny is not usually part of the BTS playbook – but By Lainey • Jul 14, 2023 01:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jenna’s last day Fresh off her first Emmy nomination, Jenna Ortega was filming a scene for Beetlejuice 2 this week in Vermont (in the same town where the original film was made in 1987). She’s playing Lydia Deetz’s daughter, and she’s been working all summer along with Tim Burton, Winona By Sarah • Jul 14, 2023 10:21 am
Top Reads It’s a double strike Seventy-two days after the writers’ strike began, the actors are on strike, too. It’s the first time in fifty-three years both guilds have been on strike at the same time. We’ve been watching the increasingly frantic pace of the Barbie and Oppenheimer press tours over the last couple By Sarah • Jul 13, 2023 03:50 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Barbie’s Last Carpet The European premiere of Barbie happened last night in London followed by a photo call at the London Eye – and this just may be one of the last promotional events we’ll be seeing in a while, because SAG-AFTRA is about to vote on a strike and that’s looking By Lainey • Jul 13, 2023 10:24 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom Cruise’s Impossible Mission I was in New York last Thursday and Friday for the Oppenheimer junket. More on that in the coming days because I can’t actually remember if there’s an embargo; I can tell you, however, that Cillian Murphy will probably be nominated for an Oscar for his performance, he’ By Lainey • Jul 11, 2023 12:41 pm
Sports Shakira at Silverstone In my post about Shakira on Friday about her at Paris Fashion Week, I wondered whether or not she’d pop over to London from Paris for the British Grand Prix. And indeed she did – Shakira was in the paddock on Sunday and watched as Lewis finished on the podium By Lainey • Jul 10, 2023 03:45 pm
Quiveration Jungkook’s “Seven” Thirst Traps BTS’s Golden Maknae, Jungkook, will release his new single, “Seven”, next Friday and while it’s not his first solo effort – his song “Dreamers” for example was part of the World Cup soundtrack last year – most people see this as his official solo debut because “Seven” is not associated By Lainey • Jul 07, 2023 11:27 am
Style Margot Robbie: Another Week of Barbie Perfection Because of the holiday in Canada and the United States this week, we’ve missed a few of Margot Robbie’s Barbie looks as she continues to promote the movie, getting ever closer to what’s expected to be the big ass premiere in Hollywood this coming Sunday. Last week By Lainey • Jul 07, 2023 10:06 am
Gorgessity At Valentino: The Returns of Kaia and Son Ye-jin It was Valentino’s turn yesterday at Paris Fashion Week and Pierpaolo Piccioli chose for his latest presentation the Château de Chantilly, a stunning setting for a stunning collection. Look at this runway: As the sun set over a symphony of looks at Valentino “Un Château," the seamstresses joined By Lainey • Jul 06, 2023 10:53 am
Gossip Genie Bennifer, Brady, and Emily As mentioned in today’s open, seemed like everyone was at Michael Rubin’s Fourth of July party this weekend. Before that though Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were in the city with their kids, and on Saturday they were seen on Broadway for one of the final performances of By Lainey • Jul 05, 2023 01:49 pm