Hook Ups Sydney & Scooter’s theme song In my post yesterday about the Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun rumours, I mentioned that even though it was only-accurate-once-a-year Star Magazine that broke the story, other more reliable outlets had not yet added to the report, even though for sure they had to have been chasing the story. Then By Lainey • Sep 03, 2025 09:37 am
TV Updates American Love Story: The Fight Paul Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon were photographed today on the New York set of Ryan Murphy’s American Love Story in their respective roles as John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette. The scene they were filming is infamous. Those of us who were/are still obsessed with John and By Lainey • Sep 02, 2025 01:30 pm
Relationship Assumption Lewis and Kaia: Venice official Lewis Pullman and Kaia Gerber have been dating since at least January of this year, which is when they were papped together looking unmistakably together, romantically. And they are still together, quite officially, as she joined him in Venice this weekend while he was there promoting The Testament of Ann By Lainey • Sep 02, 2025 12:05 pm
Style Julia in Venice! There’s an exclamation point in the title here because I’m old and I still get excited about Julia Roberts. Julia is one of the many stars arriving in Venice today for the start of the Venice Film Festival. She is there for the world premiere of Luca Guadagnino’ By Lainey • Aug 27, 2025 02:04 pm
Weddings TNT: The Spokesperson and the Sponcon Travis Kelce’s father, Ed Kelce, wasted no time yesterday after Taylor and Travis’s joint announcement on Instagram confirming their engagement. Ed did an interview with a local Cleveland news station providing answers to some of the pressing questions about the proposal. Cleveland of course is the Kelces’ hometown. By Lainey • Aug 27, 2025 10:36 am
Weddings A Very TNT Engagement Everyone knows this by now because I saw the news on Instagram literally five minutes after she posted and when I checked by eight minutes later (haha that adds up to 13) there were 1.3 million likes. At this rate she might break an Instagram record. It’s Taylor By Lainey • Aug 26, 2025 01:44 pm
Sports V takes over baseball Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers had a very obvious motive when they invited BTS’s V, aka Kim Taehyung, to throw out the first pitch at the game last night. There has always been a relationship between sports and entertainment. Sports is entertainment. Athletes, musicians, actors, models, By Lainey • Aug 26, 2025 10:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dakota Johnson: Splitsville… on and offscreen Dakota Johnson and the cast and crew of Splitsville, which includes Adria Arjona, Michael Angelo Covino, who also directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Kyle Marvin, and Nicholas Braun, were at the premiere and after-party last night in LA. The movie is about a man who finds out his wife By Lainey • Aug 20, 2025 01:29 pm
Music Sabrina Carpenter: Is it Pedro? Sabrina Carpenter’s new album, Man’s Best Friend, comes out August 29. A new billboard showed up yesterday and… the internet has a theory. I was made aware of this at our morning meeting today by some of our younger even-more-extremely-online colleagues whose feeds are dominated by the western By Lainey • Aug 19, 2025 11:28 am
Music A TNT Marathon There was so much anticipation going into the latest episode of the New Heights podcast featuring, of course, Taylor Swift. And my curiosity yesterday about the timing of it was answered because it ended up kinda being like a livestream, albeit a pre-taped one. Which totally tracks with how Taylor By Lainey • Aug 14, 2025 12:52 pm
Sports Taylor Swift’s favourite podcast The most important event on the Swiftie calendar this week is the new episode of Jason and Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast which comes out at 7pm ET tonight (Wednesday). I don’t listen to this show regularly but I do know that I typically see clips from it By Lainey • Aug 13, 2025 11:41 am
Music TNT Tuesday Those clues yesterday did actually lead to something for Taylor Swift. But it turns out, August 12 isn’t just about her. Not only did she confirm that she’s releasing her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl, on Travis Kelce’s podcast, he covers the September issue of By Lainey • Aug 12, 2025 12:28 pm
Music Taylor Swift: What’s Orange? The Taylor Swift metaverse is not a quiet space. Even when Taylor’s silent, her fans are reading into whatever invisible signals they perceive that she’s sending out into the universe. And when she does post, or step out wearing a certain shoe or jacket, Swifties obsessively analyse whether By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 03:07 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Jennifer Aniston: A New Vanity Fair My last essay at The Squawk two weeks ago was about the 20th anniversary of Jennifer Aniston’s Vanity Fair cover story for the September 2005 issue which has become mythological for its place in gossip history. I have a thing about milestones, particularly gossip milestones, and I’m pretty By Lainey • Aug 11, 2025 02:14 pm
Break Ups Jacob Elordi is single, just in time There’s been some speculation the last few weeks about the status of Jacob Elordi’s relationship with Olivia Jade Giannulli, who’ve been together, on and off, since 2021. Then yesterday, PEOPLE with the exclusive that they recently broke up which isn’t all that surprising. She’s 25, By Lainey • Aug 08, 2025 11:30 am
Style Lindsay Lohan: Throwbacks and Tennis Skirts It’s been a week since I posted about Lindsay Lohan at the LA premiere of Freakier Friday and her collaborating with Andrew Mukamal, who vaulted to the top of the power stylist list after working with Margot Robbie on the Barbie press tour. Lindsay’s look for the Hollywood By Lainey • Jul 30, 2025 02:57 pm