TV Updates Miley’s First NYE Miley Cyrus’s New Year’s Eve special on NBC was about building a new annual institution with a performer who will likely be an entertainment institution. Miley is almost 30 years old now, which is a trip in and of itself, and like so many other female popstars before By Lainey • Jan 04, 2022 10:15 am
Top Reads The Rock shuts down Vin: Boy Sh-t to End the Year Back in November, Sarah posted about Vin Diesel’s public appeal on Instagram to get Dwayne The Rock Johnson back for Fast 10. Vin called The Rock “my little brother Dwayne” (LOL forever) and brought his kids and the late Paul Walker into it. Now The Rock has responded, closing By Lainey • Dec 30, 2021 11:34 am
Top Reads Bennifer 2021: One Last Gift Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez kept their love pretty quiet during the Christmas break – no sightings, no appearances on social – but they’re sending us into 2022 with a final 2021 update, at least on this site. It’s still possible that we’ll get more Bennifer content tomorrow for By Lainey • Dec 30, 2021 10:49 am
Royals Ghislaine is Guilty and What About Andrew Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty on five of six sex trafficking charges after the jury deliberated for five days. It is very likely that her legal team will mount an appeal. But still, Happy New Year to Ghislaine and also Happy New Year to Prince Andrew. Because now it’s By Lainey • Dec 30, 2021 09:40 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Top Ten Films of 2021 After last year, 2021 feels like a more normal year in film. Just a reminder that for 2020, we adjusted to the extended Oscar eligibility calendar, so there are some films from early in the year that are on the 2020 list, like Barb and Star. So, if you’re By Sarah • Dec 28, 2021 11:12 am
Top Reads Meghan Markle’s Christmas Victory At the beginning of December, an appeal court in England upheld a previous court’s decision in Meghan Markle’s lawsuit against the Mail on Sunday. Which means that TWO courts found in her favour that the Mail had violated her privacy and breached copyright. As part of the judgment, By Lainey • Dec 28, 2021 09:26 am
Top Reads Happy Holidays from the Sussexes, including Lilibet! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have released their holiday card. And it didn’t just come with a photo – the Sussexes included a list of charitable organisations that they are supporting to go along with their family portrait, which obviously is the big headline right now. A simple but meaningful By Lainey • Dec 23, 2021 10:50 am
Top Reads Ben Affleck talks and talks Like I said yesterday, all of the attention that was paid to the Ben Affleck controversy over what he did or didn’t mean about his divorce overshadowed the real tea that he spilled with Howard Stern. And it’s not necessarily the kind of gossip that you can sum By Lainey • Dec 17, 2021 12:47 pm
Top Reads Bennifer at Kimmel A day after his comments on Howard Stern went viral, Ben Affleck was scheduled for an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! It was both good timing and bad timing. Bad timing because, typically, when celebrities are in some heat, they want to avoid the spotlight. Good timing because he had By Lainey • Dec 16, 2021 04:40 pm
Top Reads Aline will haunt us forever Moonfall is already the dumbest movie of 2022, but you know what the most INSANE movie of 2022 will be? Aline. There is no doubt in my mind that NOTHING will top Aline for sheer, jaw-dropping scope of absurdity. Aline, an official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, is written By Sarah • Dec 16, 2021 11:17 am
Top Reads Broil it like Beckham As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day and that’s me. I’m the broken clock. I’ve been going on about Brooklyn Beckham launching a cooking show for a while and it is indeed coming, announced with a shiny piece of press in By Maria • Dec 15, 2021 01:33 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Olivia Wilde can’t turn down a dare Olivia Wilde covers the January 2022 issue of Vogue, which surprised me because it seems like this is in service of the next project she’s promoting, her sophomore directorial effort, Don’t Worry Darling, as she appears in several of the photos alongside cinematographer Matthew Libatique – and the film By Lainey • Dec 10, 2021 11:00 am
Top Reads Denzel and MBJ: Two Sexiest Men Alive on a Red Carpet Denzel Washington and Michael B Jordan were in New York last night for the premiere of A Journal for Jordan, which opens on Christmas Day. Denzel directs, MBJ stars, it’s a blockbuster combination of two artists who for years have been culturally connected as king and successor and who By Lainey • Dec 10, 2021 09:44 am
Top Reads Sienna Miller: A settlement not by choice Sienna Miller has accepted a “substantial settlement” from Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers after claiming that one of their publications, the Sun, hacked her phone and intercepted voice messages about her pregnancy in 2005. Sienna flew from LA to London and made a statement about the situation today. I’ By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 01:10 pm
Business of Hollywood Jennifer Aniston, the “late bloomer” Yesterday she covered the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter as this year’s recipient of the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award. Last night Jennifer Aniston was at THR’s Women in Entertainment event to accept the honour, presented to her by her The Morning Show co-star Mitch Kessler. (Speaking of By Lainey • Dec 09, 2021 09:38 am
Top Reads Jennifer Aniston: “Can’t We Do Something Else?” In today’s open, I mentioned Jennifer Aniston last night on Live in Front of a Studio Audience, and playing Blair in The Facts of Life episode, how great it was to see her as part of that ensemble, and what Duana said about how much f-cking fun she’s By Lainey • Dec 08, 2021 02:00 pm
