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
Hook Ups Justin & Katy’s Two-Parter Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry are now the new most random entry into our celebrity summer of love 2025 – and, I’m sorry, if you’re a gossip, and I assume you are if you’re here, who is complaining about this?! Anyway, for those of us who can readily By Lainey • Jul 30, 2025 11:32 am
Hook Ups KP + JT?! The summer of love continues with perhaps the most random hookup we’ve had, not just in 2025, but in years! TMZ broke the story this morning – Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau had dinner last night in Montreal at a Le Violon. They were there for a couple of hours, By Lainey • Jul 29, 2025 12:48 pm
Photo Assumption Katie & Josh: Weekend Body Language Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson continued to film Happy Hours in New York this weekend and it’s been happy hour for us Xennials who’ve been waiting 25 years for this to happen but not really believing that it could happen. Even though it’s not really happening, at By Lainey • Jul 28, 2025 11:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Katie & Josh: One of the Xennials Not sure about you but the group chat was popping off yesterday over Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson, Joey and Pacey, together again after all these years. Because while we do get the Dawson’s Creek reunions in one or two combinations here and there (most recently Josh was with By Lainey • Jul 22, 2025 11:43 am
Style Annie in cerulean and pinstripes I was just talking about 2000s nostalgia in the previous post about Lindsay Lohan and the imminent release of Freakier Friday and this is how Anne Hathaway is kicking off the week, first with a post on TikTok early this morning as she was getting ready to start her day. By Lainey • Jul 21, 2025 12:24 pm
