Music The Showgirl is Horny and Tyrannical Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, is the dominant story today in pop culture so, like, if anyone wants to bury whatever controversy, now would be the time. Makes you wonder why the people who leaked the Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban divorce were in By Lainey • Oct 03, 2025 11:15 am
Music Is Taylor Swift also the drama? I mean… always, right? Pretty sure no one needs a reminder of what’s happening tonight at midnight – Taylor Swift has been hiding for a few weeks now because she’s about to be all up in our faces. The Life of a Showgirl is hours away from release and By Lainey • Oct 02, 2025 01:24 pm
Break Ups Nicole, Keith, and Maggie The Nicole Kidman/Keith Urban divorce continues to be the top gossip story of the week. Nicole has broken cover and was papped on a hike with her sister Antonia in Nashville. The Daily Mail has those photos but don’t bother clicking because it’s just as described – they’ By Lainey • Oct 02, 2025 11:30 am
Gorgessity Dior: Jisoo and the Oscar winners As mentioned earlier, Paris Fashion Week in and of itself is a big ass deal but there are a couple of key dates this time that might be more heatscore than the other shows because of who the designers are. Matthieu Blazy is making his debut at Chanel in a By Lainey • Oct 01, 2025 03:13 pm
Break Ups Nicole & Keith: No more Babygirl I guess the summer of celebrity romance is over because pretty much as soon as fall arrived, we have our first major celebrity split of the season: Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have been the top gossip headline since Monday when news first broke that they are over after 19 By Lainey • Oct 01, 2025 11:14 am
Sports The Bad Bunny Super Bowl In December 2024, near the end of the 2024 NFL regular season, NPR published a piece by Alan Chazaro with the title: “Latinos are the fastest-growing fanbase in the NFL. What's the league's playbook?” The article is an excellent report on the NFL’s gradual internationalisation By Lainey • Sep 29, 2025 10:22 am
Baby and Bump Obsession A Family of Rs Rihanna has always been generous throughout her pregnancies. Obviously not intentionally for us but in continuing to step out and do her thing, without worrying about being seen, it’s worked out as an update on her status. As of yesterday, Rihanna hadn’t been clearly papped in two weeks, By Lainey • Sep 25, 2025 10:53 am
Style The Gucci Tiger Gucci kicked off Milan Fashion Week and its new brand direction under Demna last night with a short film screening instead of a runway to showcase his first collection for the house. Demna, of course, is coming from Balenciaga where he was for a decade, and credited with huge growth By Lainey • Sep 24, 2025 01:33 pm
Sports Harry Styles: 2 out of 6 Stars Harry Styles made headlines this weekend – and not just in the usual spaces, like pop culture websites. Sports and athletics outlets are reporting on Harry Styles, because he ran the Berlin marathon in under three hours: 2 hours, 59 minutes, 13 seconds exactly, an excellent time for a non-professional and By Lainey • Sep 22, 2025 11:20 am
Top Reads Hailey Bieber: The Queen of Sephora Hailey Bieber’s Rhode launched in stores at Sephora two weeks ago yesterday (the same day Justin Bieber announced Swag II) and it has been nothing short of a smash hit. There’s no overselling it because, well, it oversold. In a piece for Puck yesterday, Rachel Strugatz’s industry By Lainey • Sep 19, 2025 11:09 am
Top Reads Another late-night host is silenced Last night, ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be put on indefinite hiatus effective immediately following “controversial” statements Jimmy Kimmel made in Monday night’s monologue regarding the assassination of right-wing advocate Charlie Kirk. Notably, Kimmel’s comments were not about Kirk himself, but about his alleged killer. Kimmel By Sarah • Sep 18, 2025 11:12 am
Style A Scene from Jen and Colbert As Sarah predicted when it was announced a few weeks ago that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will be cancelled because of alleged corporate f-ckery, the one silver lining to the development is whatever creative freedom Stephen will lean into for over the course of the season – and it’ By Lainey • Sep 11, 2025 11:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jacob Elordi is unsingle, just in time Exactly a month ago, I posted about Jacob Elordi and Olivia Jade Giannulli’s breakup after PEOPLE reported it exclusively. The title of that post was “Jacob Elordi is single, just in time”. In time of course for Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and, in a few months, Emerald Fennell’ By Lainey • Sep 09, 2025 11:33 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Sydney Sweeney changes the subject One of the highlights on the TIFF calendar today is David Michôd’s Christy, a biopic of boxer Christy Martin with Sydney Sweeney in the role. Ahead of the world premiere this afternoon, it was announced yesterday that the film will be released November 7, which means the distributor has By Lainey • Sep 05, 2025 11:32 am
Sports Travis Kelce: Engaged and Relaxed Kansas City and Los Angeles are playing the NFL opener in São Paulo, Brazil on Friday and Travis Kelce was swarmed by fans upon arrival. Pretty sure this isn’t the kind of football that Brazilians mob people over, lol. Let’s not pretend that this reaction is for an By Lainey • Sep 04, 2025 02:52 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Angelina Jolie’s blonde bob Angelina Jolie is in London, seen yesterday on the set of Marc Forster’s film Anxious People, based on Fredrik Backman’s book of the same name. This is an ensemble, with Angelina playing an investment banker, Zara, who ends up at an open house on Christmas Eve with a By Lainey • Sep 04, 2025 01:42 pm
