Sports Tom Cruise’s Birthday Weekend Tom Cruise turned 60 years old yesterday. He spent the weekend in London with a full social calendar. First up – the Adele show. Here he is taking a selfie with Luke Evans: #TomCruise and #LukeEvans at the #Adele Concert at Hyde Park. pic.twitter.com/ZEr5VNYw5b — Tom Cruise News (@TCNews62) By Lainey • Jul 04, 2022 10:35 am
Douchebags Lewis gets an excuse, not an apology Former F1 champion Nelson Piquet did an interview last year and, while commenting on race performance between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, used a racial slur in reference to Lewis, multiple times. His racism only came to light on Monday and Lewis addressed the situation yesterday: It’s more than By Lainey • Jun 29, 2022 12:32 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Barbie and Ken’s school run Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling were photographed on the set of Barbie, both done up in tacky-ass Western wear, which is perfect. Robbie-Barbie is sporting a hot pink bedazzled bell-bottom ensemble that wouldn’t go amiss on 1970s-era Dolly Parton. Gosling-Ken is in a black and white fringe outfit that By Sarah • Jun 24, 2022 10:34 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Can Elvis be a Superhero? The box office this weekend will be interesting to watch because so far, at least from what I’ve read, no one really knows which movie will come out on top. Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis is opening alongside The Black Phone but Jurassic World Dominion is of course still attracting By Lainey • Jun 23, 2022 11:15 am
BFFs Angelina and Salma together again Sarah wrote a couple of weeks ago about Angelina Jolie adding Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir to the cast in a new film she’s directing, Without Blood . Filming is already underway and here are some shots of Angelina and Salma together on set. They’ve been close since they By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 01:02 pm
Top Reads Brad Pitt: More Mythology I love an Andrea Long Chu book review. We linked to her piece on Hanya Yanagihara’s writing back in January and she articulated everything that frustrated me about reading A Little Life and her most recent book To Paradise. And it’s not that I necessarily agree with Andrea By Lainey • Jun 22, 2022 11:21 am
Music The Beyoncé Solstice Today is the first day of summer 2022. Because Beyoncé told us. Summer officially started last night when she released the first track, “Break My Soul”, off her upcoming seventh album, Renaissance. Last week we found out Beyoncé is going back to the long roll-out instead of the surprise drop, By Lainey • Jun 21, 2022 10:43 am
Royals Harry & Meghan: Weekend Polo and the Buried Inquiry Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were seen at the polo club in Santa Barbara again on Friday. It’s been a pretty regular occurrence this spring, the most consistently visible the Sussexes have been in a while, though I’m not sure if that will continue since Harry’s team By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 11:52 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Pronouns and a new On The JLo Still don’t regret signing up for On The JLo and whatever it is that Jennifer Lopez will do eventually with my email. Because when a new installment of her newsletter arrives in my inbox, I can’t open it quickly enough – since we know, from experience, that she delivers! By Lainey • Jun 20, 2022 10:06 am
Maple Leaf Drake: Sex and Summer It’s been a good week for Drake. First, he and his team won a second championship. This is the intramural three-on-three basketball league, SBL, that he started with his friends but since it’s Drake, you know it has to be extra. First of all, they play on the By Lainey • Jun 17, 2022 10:51 am
Music Beyoncé: It’s Time As mentioned the other day, we felt the rumbling. And then, overnight, a major tectonic shift. This is what she does to us – we wake up in the middle of the night having felt the vibration only she is capable of sending out into the world. By morning, it’s By Lainey • Jun 16, 2022 11:14 am
Music JLo’s Halftime Hustle Jennifer Lopez’s documentary, Halftime, is now streaming on Netflix, have you watched it yet? I’ve only watched it once so far and I’ll probably be going back for another go tonight, but my first priority the last few days was to see how the Shakira situation would By Lainey • Jun 15, 2022 12:28 pm
Media Manipulation Brad Pitt: Strategic Gossip Nostalgia Brad Pitt’s f-cksh-t on Angelina Jolie has been the reason he’s been making headlines lately – and that f-cksh-t has been going on for a long time. While at this point most people understand that most celebrities manipulate the media to their advantage, the culture holds this against women By Lainey • Jun 15, 2022 10:58 am
Douchebags Rebel Wilson: “A very hard situation” As Sarah wrote last week, Rebel Wilson’s Instagram post about her “Disney princess”, designer Ramona Agruma, seemed like it was just straight up happy news, and during Pride Month too. Rebel was warmly embraced, people celebrated her love announcement…and then over the weekend we found out that it By Lainey • Jun 14, 2022 11:44 am
Weddings Britney’s Vogue Wedding News broke earlier this week that Britney Spears’s wedding to Sam Asghari was set for yesterday, Thursday, June 9, in Los Angeles. TMZ had the initial scoop and then PEOPLE and other mainstream American entertainment outlets followed with their own reporting. Then yesterday, early afternoon LA time, a minor By Lainey • Jun 10, 2022 11:20 am
TV Updates JLo’s New York Halftime Jennifer Lopez was back home in New York last night for the premiere of her documentary, Halftime, to open the Tribeca Festival. I’ve read a few reviews today and most of them say the same thing – this is a celebration of JLo’s tenacity, there are few personal revelations, By Lainey • Jun 09, 2022 01:26 pm
