Top Reads Succession: Under the Tuscan Sun Typically I file my Succession recaps on Tuesday or Wednesday but because it was such a major episode with lots of spoiler potential, we are diving right in. As always, MAJOR SPOILER ALERT. I’ll also be reversing the character analysis from hot to cold. Two corrections from last week: By Maria • Dec 06, 2021 03:10 pm
Top Reads Adele in the makeup chair You know what we haven’t talked about enough through this Adele album release cycle? Like, of course, we’ve covered what the songs are about, how she went away for so long and has come back with what I personally consider to be the strongest album of her career, By Lainey • Dec 03, 2021 10:54 am
Relationship Assumption The Right Excellent Rihanna is not pregnant After spending several days at home in Barbados earlier this week to mark her nation becoming the world’s newest republic, witnessing the moment the country broke up with the Queen, and being declared a Bajan National Hero, Rihanna has returned to New York; she was seen shopping yesterday with By Lainey • Dec 03, 2021 09:47 am
Top Reads Ben Affleck says Bennifer is a GREAT story To promote The Tender Bar, opening in limited release on December 17 and wide on December 22 before heading to Prime Video on January 7, Ben Affleck has done an extensive, very personal interview with The Wall Street Journal. He is asked directly about Jennifer Lopez. He does not answer By Lainey • Dec 02, 2021 11:35 am
Royals Meghan Markle’s Double Win An appeal court in England has just ruled against the Mail on Sunday, upholding the summary judgement that was decided in the High Court earlier this year in Meghan Markle’s lawsuit against the tabloid newspaper for publishing the contents of a letter she wrote to her father. Byline Investigates By Lainey • Dec 02, 2021 10:17 am
Top Reads Rihanna: “Bajan to the bone” Rihanna was named a National Hero in her home country Barbados, the world’s new republic, the other day. Yesterday she was presented with her medal during a ceremony attended by, among others, Prime Minister Mia Mottley, and introduced as the “Right Excellent Robyn Rihanna Fenty”. Right and Excellent is, By Lainey • Dec 01, 2021 12:24 pm
Equality Issues Sandra Bullock’s Red Table Talk Look, I know that Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are a LOT. Especially lately with all the revelations coming out from his book, and on top of the whole “entanglement” thing that they told us about last year. At the same time, we can also talk about the influence of By Lainey • Dec 01, 2021 10:42 am
Royals The Right Honourable Robyn Rihanna Fenty Barbados officially broke up with the Queen yesterday and became the world’s newest republic. It was an amicable split as Prince Charles was there for the ceremony and was presented the Order of Freedom award by Dame Sandra Mason, now Barbados’s first president. A gracious way to end By Lainey • Nov 30, 2021 09:53 am
Gossip Nostalgia Bennifer’s Thanksgiving Warmth We already knew last week that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were both in LA for American Thanksgiving. It was just a matter of whether or not they’d give us a Bennifer Thanksgiving. And they did. Here are two sets of Bennifer out in LA, heading into a studio By Lainey • Nov 29, 2021 10:39 am
Top Reads Bennifer Thanksgiving Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez returned to LA together last Friday on a private jet from Vancouver where she’s been working on a movie . On Monday he was seen driving away from her place and yesterday he and his mother were out with his kids. JLo, meanwhile, went right By Lainey • Nov 25, 2021 11:55 am
Top Reads BTS returns to James Corden I remember just before the pandemic hit in North America, early 2020, when BTS did James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke, how many people I heard from, both friends and strangers, because that was their introduction to the band that they’d heard or read me obsessing over for years, and By Lainey • Nov 24, 2021 12:36 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Andrew Garfield makes us cry Andrew Garfield is promoting tick, tick…BOOM!, now streaming on Netflix. Sarah’s review of the film was posted yesterday just in time for Thanksgiving television time. As Sarah wrote, Andrew gives an exuberant performance carrying the movie, and it’s why he’s contending for a Best Actor Oscar By Lainey • Nov 24, 2021 09:38 am
Top Reads Jennifer Lawrence’s Pay Gap Ahead of the release of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up next month, Jennifer Lawrence covers the new issue of Vanity Fair, her first magazine profile in a long time. Over the last couple of years, almost every time I’ve posted about JLaw, I’ve written about her By Lainey • Nov 23, 2021 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu Reeves: “Just trying to have a career” LOL at that quote, from Keanu Reeves’s new profile in Esquire, as part of the promotional push for the highly anticipated The Matrix Resurrections. This happens during the part of the article where it’s mentioned how much he works, how he went from shooting The Matrix to John By Lainey • Nov 23, 2021 10:50 am
Relationship Assumption Jaden and Phoebe: one ends and another begins As Anastasia just posted, Shawn and Camila are no more, and Kaia Gerber and Jacob Elordi are no more. Young Hollywood love, however, isn’t running low. When one love ends, another possibility comes to take its place. Jaden Smith and Phoebe Dynevor are hanging out now. At the start By Lainey • Nov 22, 2021 01:18 pm
Top Reads The AMAs of BTS Back in 2017, BTS performed for the first time on a North American award show. And it was at the American Music Awards. It is not an exaggeration to say that they blew the roof off the place – much to the surprise of the western music industry, including the celebrities By Lainey • Nov 22, 2021 11:48 am
