Oscars 2022 Will Smith resigns from the Academy We enter week two of The Slap with the news that Will Smith has resigned his membership from the Academy. Facing a potential suspension that could be a decade or more, Smith decided to just resign and not wait for the Academy’s decision regarding discipline on April 18. They By Sarah • Apr 04, 2022 11:59 am
Music BTS at the Grammys: Ocean’s Seven As mentioned on Friday, for most of the week leading up to the Grammys, it wasn’t clear whether or not BTS would be able to perform as a full team of seven members, after the band announced Jungkook’s positive COVID diagnosis last Monday. By Saturday though, it was By Lainey • Apr 04, 2022 11:09 am
Music Harry Styles: “As It Was” Harry Styles announced a few weeks ago that his new album, Harry’s House, is coming on May 20th. As Anastasia wrote at that time, all the clues were leading up to a Harry upside down, a fitting reflection of what life is for us now, after over two years By Lainey • Apr 01, 2022 11:00 am
Top Reads The BTS Grammys The Grammy Awards are happening this weekend in Las Vegas, one of the few times the Grammys are taking place after the Oscars, so this year it’s the rock stars who get to close out award season. Maria mentioned yesterday in Celebrity Social Media that the Golden Globes and By Lainey • Apr 01, 2022 10:24 am
BFFs Will, Bradley, and Leaving the Oscars As Sarah wrote earlier today, the Academy claimed last night that Will Smith was asked to leave the Oscars after slapping Chris Rock and he refused. Sarah was skeptical about this in her post, pointing out that his publicist was seen approaching Will several times after the incident but that By Lainey • Mar 31, 2022 01:18 pm
Dumbass The Slap drags on The story of The Slap continues as the Academy is dragging its feet on doing anything and Chris Rock returns to work on the theater circuit, performing at the Wilbur Theater where he was greeted with a standing ovation and some guy trying to start a “F-ck Will Smith” chant. By Sarah • Mar 31, 2022 10:27 am
Top Reads Bennifer at Bat Oscar weekend was quiet for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. And it’s not like you have to be nominated or involved in an Oscar-nominated film to be part of Oscar weekend, as we saw from the parade of celebrities that were out this past weekend. If Bennifer wanted to, By Lainey • Mar 30, 2022 03:42 pm
Top Reads MBJ Directs His Opponent After making his red carpet premiere with Lori Harvey on Oscar night Michael B Jordan was back at work yesterday directing Creed 3. This is his feature directorial debut and it’s an ambitious project considering that, obviously, he’ll be back as Adonis in the third installment of his By Lainey • Mar 30, 2022 12:47 pm
Royals A Humbled Prince William and a Defiant Prince Andrew You’d think, after the public relations mess of Prince William and Catherine Cambridge’s tour last week of Belize, Jamaica, and The Bahamas, that the British royals would be trying to pivot this week and avoid any more negative headlines, especially on the occasion of the late Prince Philip’ By Lainey • Mar 30, 2022 11:09 am
Top Reads Will Smith’s Oscars debacle follow-up and the Academy’s dithering “leadership” Fallout from The Slap, as it is now known, continues as the Academy board of governors and leadership had an emergency call on Monday about Will Smith and what to do since he struck Chris Rock in front of 1000+ of his peers and also a live television audience of By Sarah • Mar 29, 2022 11:11 am
Top Reads Kate and Jason: An Oscars Romance?! Before the Oscars, there was all kinds of speculation about whether or not Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet were back together, even though she hasn’t joined him at any recent events, including on Sunday when he attended the Oscars solo. But Jason was actually asked about it there, and By Lainey • Mar 29, 2022 10:30 am
Oscars 2022 Liza and Gaga: A Sweet End to a Messy Night And that’s how we’ll wrap it up too – like the Oscars, after a mess of a night, the show concluded on love and joy: CODA won Best Picture and Liza Minnelli and Lady Gaga made the announcement. Maybe it’s because I saw the Liza and Gaga moment By Lainey • Mar 28, 2022 02:30 pm
Oscars 2022 The highs and lows of Will Smith Obviously, this was not how anyone wanted the night to go. Will Smith has long been admired and beloved by his peers, goodwill you could feel every time he was nominated for and then won an award for his performance in King Richard. This was an “it’s his time” By Sarah • Mar 28, 2022 11:56 am
Oscars 2022 Predicting the Chaoscars This awards season has been 1) INTERMINABLE, and 2) CHAOTIC. Dramatic momentum shifts, wild nominations at precursor award shows, races too close to call—these Oscars are so chaotic, they should be called the Chaoscars . Predicting Oscar wins is tougher than usual for a number of reasons, ranging from the By Sarah • Mar 25, 2022 03:02 pm
TV Updates Simone Ashley: The New Bridgerton Breakout Hello are you there? Or are you mainlining Bridgerton? I know season two just dropped today on Netflix but in some parts of the world, today is over halfway over and it’s eight episodes, eight hours, it’s very possible that some of you are done. I say this By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 12:38 pm
Top Reads Will and Kate: At Least Stick the Dismount? Prince William and Kate Cambridge’s tour of Belize, Jamaica, and The Bahamas was supposed to be a “charm offensive”, the term used to describe these trips when British royals go abroad and hypnotise the people with their big smiles and good manners. And for over a decade, that’s By Lainey • Mar 25, 2022 11:45 am
