Top Reads Julia Takes Paris After a quiet week last week, by their standards, lol, the Kanye West and Julia Fox circus arrived in Paris on Sunday. This is Julia’s fourth tour stop since New Year’s, after meeting Ye in Miami, then stepping out with him in New York, followed by mayhem in By Lainey • Jan 24, 2022 11:03 am
Top Reads Matt Damon and the Hack Matt and Luciana Damon stepped out for lunch yesterday in LA. In terms of his work as an actor, it’s been a few months since Matt was on set, but production on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, about the “father of the atomic bomb”, is supposed to start in February. By Lainey • Jan 21, 2022 11:08 am
Top Reads Erasing Andrew The Andrew formerly known as HR no longer has a Twitter account. This is now what shows up on the @TheDukeofYork handle: He apparently still has an Instagram but that’s been made private. None of this is surprising. The Crown is protecting the Crown and it is trying to By Lainey • Jan 20, 2022 11:28 am
Top Reads Angelina at the Virtual Rally Yesterday was the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Day of Action as bipartisan lawmakers in the US are “pushing to reauthorise the 1994 VAWA for the first time in almost a decade… [after] it lapsed in 2019 when the Republican-dominated Senate did not pass it”. It is f-cked up to By Lainey • Jan 20, 2022 11:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Michael B Jordan: Son-in-Law in training Lori Harvey turned 25 last week and she spent it on a yacht, as she’s been sharing photos and video from her birthday trip on Instagram. And yes, Michael B Jordan appeared to be with her as he posted this video on his feed a few days ago to By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 11:59 am
Royals Will and Kate’s 2022 Debut Prince William and Catherine of House Cambridge stepped out together for their first joint engagement of 2022 today, visiting the Foundling Museum which “tells the history of the Foundling Hospital, the UK’s first children’s charity and public art gallery”. The Foundling Hospital was founded in 1739 “to care By Lainey • Jan 19, 2022 10:26 am
Top Reads The Only Fox News After taking over Hollywood for a couple of weeks, Julia Fox was back home in New York yesterday for her son’s first birthday. She and her ex, Peter Artemiev, were papped in Manhattan, having resumed amicable relations after she cussed him out on Instagram just before Christmas for being By Lainey • Jan 18, 2022 11:06 am
TV Updates Joss Whedon takes himself to the woodshed There is a longform profile of Joss Whedon in New York Magazine titled “The Undoing of Joss Whedon” and it is a masterclass in interviewing someone and letting them take themselves out back to the woodshed. The piece is from writer Lila Shapiro, and it could also be titled “Joss By Sarah • Jan 18, 2022 09:29 am
Top Reads Prince Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the Bears Like I said last week when it was confirmed that Prince Andrew has been stripped of his titles and no longer an HRH, the royal family doesn’t get flowers for finally doing the right thing. It was the only thing – they had no other choice. That’s why they By Lainey • Jan 17, 2022 11:28 am
Coincidence or conspiracy Prince Harry’s Security Leak Another example of royal media hygiene and the importance of media literacy and hygiene, period, because there’s the version that the UK tabloids are spinning with this story, and the facts of the situation. The problem here is that, well, so much of what’s out there has been By Lainey • Jan 17, 2022 10:07 am
Top Reads Julia: Still Julia Six months ago, in July 2021, which means well before her situation with Kanye West, Julia Fox was profiled by Naomi Fry in The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” section. It was right around the release of Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move, in which she had a By Lainey • Jan 14, 2022 09:43 am
Royals Prince Andrew: No more titles Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled yesterday that Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s lawsuit against Prince Andrew, in which she alleges he raped her after being sex-trafficked to him by the dead rapist pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the convicted sex criminal Ghislaine Maxwell, can proceed. Andrew’s legal team was pushing to have By Lainey • Jan 13, 2022 02:44 pm
Top Reads Kristen Stewart: Stepping Out After the Snub As Sarah covered yesterday, the Screen Actors Guild announced their nominations yesterday and one of the biggest shocks was that Kristen Stewart was NOT nominated for Best Actress. It’s considered the most major snub of the field – Kristen’s performance as Princess Diana is widely acclaimed, and I’m By Lainey • Jan 13, 2022 12:47 pm
Break Ups The End of Lisa and Jason We started the day with the latest in the Celebrity Couple-Off and Drake’s spicy contraceptive, two romantic comedies to lighten the mood before we get to the romantic tragedy – Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa announced their breakup last night. Were there signs? Lisa didn’t join Jason at any By Lainey • Jan 13, 2022 11:35 am
Famewhores The Celebrity Couple-Off of 2022: Leather Pants Edition On Tuesday night, Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson went out for pizza. You can see the photos at Page Six. The details here are important – because they went to a super casual place where the pizza is less than $20 and for dessert they hit up a Rite Aid, LOL. By Lainey • Jan 13, 2022 09:26 am
BFFs Ben Affleck and Matt Damon chew the fat Ben Affleck is still on the combined promotional trail for The Tender Bar and campaign trail for that movie and/or The Last Duel, neither of which have serious hopes of major awards nominations. He follows his LA Times interview with a new Entertainment Weekly cover story, with an interview By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 12:21 pm
