Award Season Campaigning Tom Cruise’s Hollywood Homecoming It’s an Oscar tradition: the Nominees Luncheon, where the nominees gather to congratulate each other and ostensibly put a pause on their campaign activities (as if) and take a class photo. But even in a room full of stars, one star seemed to be the star that everyone wanted By Lainey • Feb 14, 2023 10:54 am
Top Reads The Bennifer Super Bowl Co-Pro It wasn’t a secret that Ben Affleck would be doing a commercial for Dunkin’ as the news was already reported weeks ago when he was seen working the checkout back home in Massachusetts. It’s just amazing that it took this long, considering how long he’s been culturally By Lainey • Feb 13, 2023 01:25 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Rihanna Handles Halftime How about that run of hits? Hit after hit after hit. Someone online said it was anthems – and that’s a great word for what Rihanna delivered last night at the Fenty Bowl: an endless and explosive set of anthems, songs that were made for huge stadiums, for singing along By Lainey • Feb 13, 2023 11:25 am
Music Rihanna: Feel It Coming In The Air It wasn’t hyperbolic when I posted yesterday about the Rihanna concert that’s happening on Sunday. Securing her appearance has already been a huge win for the NFL, Apple Music, and betting sites as prop bets related to her performance are wildly popular, ranging from first and last song, By Lainey • Feb 10, 2023 11:34 am
Music What Will Rihanna Say? Rihanna’s Halftime Show is now just three sleeps away and today is the day – it’s press conference day, which is happening at 6pm in Arizona. This will be the first time we’ve seen Rihanna in a few weeks, and certainly since she’s been in final preparations By Lainey • Feb 09, 2023 11:54 am
Top Reads Next to Bennifer Body Language We’re still talking about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez at the Grammys. Yesterday afternoon Page Six did the body language thing with an expert assessing their relationship based on what we all saw during the show on television. Sure. But what was it really like sitting beside them? Because By Lainey • Feb 08, 2023 10:50 am
Amazingness Tom Brady’s Retirement Briefs It’s been almost a week since Tom Brady announced another retirement. I guess now he has to find new sh-t to do so he’s turning his attention to his various businesses, like BRADY, his line of apparel. I’d never heard of BRADY before yesterday but I definitely By Lainey • Feb 07, 2023 11:39 am
Music Beyoncé Makes History Beyoncé is now the most decorated artist in Grammys history with 32 wins. Which, of course, is a major achievement and she graciously acknowledged those who have supported her and guided her and collaborated with her, both onstage and in a message posted to Instagram: Beyoncé, as we know, doesn’ By Lainey • Feb 06, 2023 12:22 pm
Music Hip-Hop and Bad Bunny: The Grammys High Points Last night’s show wasn’t without its problems – one MAJOR problem, in fact, and I’m pretty sure you know what that is – but it would be unfair to say that there were no highlights, that it wasn’t really great at certain points…because it was, at a By Lainey • Feb 06, 2023 11:09 am
TV Updates Physical: 100 gets a HUGE boost Yesterday in the site open, I wrote about my new series obsession, Physical: 100, Netflix’s new physical challenge reality competition show produced in Korea. The show is bananas. The production value is bananas. The competitors are hot AF. And the competitors beat the sh-t out of each other but By Lainey • Feb 03, 2023 11:59 am
Music Missy and Wayne Kick Off Grammys Weekend The Grammys are on Sunday which means that the music industry will be the main story this weekend. Last night the Recording Academy and the Black Music Collective presented its Global Impact Award, now renamed after Dr Dre, to several recipients including music executive Sylvia Rhone, Missy Elliott, and Lil By Lainey • Feb 03, 2023 10:56 am
Break Ups The Gisele Bundchen School of Goodbye Tom Brady announced his retirement (again) yesterday. Immediately after his post went up on his social media channels, everybody on the internet thought about Gisele Bundchen. Because as we all know, his fake retirement last year resulted in their divorce. And since then Gisele hasn’t looked back. She kicked By Lainey • Feb 02, 2023 01:09 pm
Aging Gorgessity Paul Rudd doesn’t drop the skincare routine Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is a couple weeks away, so the press tour is in high gear now. Accordingly, Paul Rudd is on the cover of Men’s Health. First and most importantly: does he drop the skincare routine? NO. But his ageless looks do come up. I make By Sarah • Feb 02, 2023 10:08 am
Royals Princess Kate’s Early Years Shaping Us: Intent & Impact Princess Kate kicked off a new project this week. Shaping Us will raise awareness about the importance of the first five years in a child’s life. There were public appearances and even a “landmark speech” during which Kate said that: "The campaign is fundamentally about shining a spotlight By Lainey • Feb 01, 2023 11:17 am
Gorgessity Paris goes wild for Angelina Angelina Jolie was in Paris yesterday to do some work with Guerlain. She spent two hours at the flagship store reportedly doing a photo shoot. Angelina showed up in a beautiful long coat, carrying a white Dior bag, and when she initially arrived, there wasn’t all that much activity By Lainey • Jan 31, 2023 01:07 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Riseborough Affair Can we have ONE Oscar season without controversy? Just ONE! I am asking so little! I just want pageantry and glamor, dammit, and I keep having to talk about slaps and voting rules! This year’s fresh hell is the surprise Best Actress nomination of British actor Andrea Riseborough for By Sarah • Jan 30, 2023 10:08 am
