Top Reads Meghan Markle’s Birthday Video As noted in the previous post, Meghan Markle is celebrating her 40th birthday today and like Jay-Z is doing the 40/40 thing. Obviously not a bar franchise – instead Meghan’s 40x40 club is about asking 40 of her friends to committing 40 minutes of their time to mentor and By Lainey • Aug 04, 2021 12:16 pm
Top Reads Scarlett Johansson v Disney: Hollywood’s next labor battle Last Thursday, Scarlett Johansson dropped a bombshell lawsuit on Disney, alleging breach of contract. The suit claims that Johansson had a theatrical-exclusive guarantee in her contract for Black Widow—which would not be unusual for an actor of her stature—and that by putting Black Widow on Disney+ day-and-date with By Sarah • Aug 03, 2021 11:19 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina’s Venetian Photo Shoot The last time we checked in on Angelina Jolie it was after a three-judge panel ruled in her favour and disqualified the judge who’d been presiding over the Brange divorce because of conflict of interest. As I wrote at the time, it was curious to me how the media By Lainey • Aug 03, 2021 10:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bennifer Summer…to Bennifer Autumn? Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s Mediterranean yacht tour isn’t over yet – at least it wasn’t yesterday. Here are brand new shots of Bennifer in Nerano, Italy, enjoying what appears to be a more low-key day on the boat. As if hanging out on a billion-dollar vessel is By Lainey • Jul 29, 2021 11:38 am
Amazingness Bennifer Summer: A Frenzy in Capri After a few days in St Tropez, the Bennifer Summer tour has touched down in Capri! Here they are, walking through town, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, hand in hand, JLo in all white to show off that glow, that skin, and Ben in a fitted shirt, as fit as By Lainey • Jul 28, 2021 12:19 pm
Top Reads Bennifer Summer: The Necklace It just doesn’t stop with these two…and we at LaineyGossip are here for it. This is a pro-Bennifer space – and if you’re a regular visitor, I’m confident that you don’t mind. Because this story is GOOD FOR GOSSIP. It’s good gossip. It’s guilt-free By Lainey • Jul 27, 2021 10:45 am
Top Reads Issa Rae Gets Married! Issa Rae and her now-husband, Louis Diame, have been together for years, since at least 2012. Unlike Bennifer, LOL, Issa does not put her love life on blast. So even though they’ve attended a few Hollywood events together, like here at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood event in By Lainey • Jul 26, 2021 12:50 pm
Relationship Assumption Bennifer Summer: 33 Again By now, I’m assuming, you’ve seen the photos, right? Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez spent her birthday weekend in St Tropez, on a yacht, and they served up some amazing shots of themselves luxuriating on that yacht that gave us all the Gossip Nostalgia – he’s touching her By Lainey • Jul 26, 2021 11:50 am
Top Reads Bennifer Summer: JLo’s Birthday Weekend This is what you came for, right? It’s what I came for. My phone was probably like yours this weekend, as the group chats were blowing up over Jennifer Lopez’s birthday weekend with Ben Affleck in St Tropez. It’s happy gossip. It’s the BEST gossip. If By Lainey • Jul 26, 2021 09:59 am
Gossip Nostalgia JLo’s Birthday Weekend Jennifer Lopez’s birthday is tomorrow. We’ll get to that in a minute because there’s a lot of great gossip nostalgia when it comes to her birthday. First, though, we have to talk about Leah Remini’s birthday, which was back in June. And just last night she By Lainey • Jul 23, 2021 10:45 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Angelina in Paris Angelina Jolie was photographed in France earlier this week at the French Apidology Observatory meeting with graduates and learning more about their research. You can see those pictures at Page Six - she looks super cute in a beekeeper suit worn with brown suede boots. A couple of months ago, By Lainey • Jul 23, 2021 10:03 am
BFFs The Clooneys and Harry’s True Story The big royal story this week has been the announcement that Prince Harry has a publishing deal with Penguin Random House to release his first memoir. While the official statement from the publisher did not mention a ghostwriter, Page Six, which broke the story, reported that Harry is working with By Lainey • Jul 22, 2021 11:01 am
Relationship Assumption Bennifer covers PEOPLE It’s Bennifer Summer! And PEOPLE has made it official in their new issue as their top story for the week is Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez and their “second chance at love”. In terms of content, there’s nothing much that’s new or noteworthy here, nothing exclusive. But By Lainey • Jul 21, 2021 10:30 am
Top Reads Harry: His True Story The big royal headline of the week landed yesterday afternoon ET – Prince Harry is writing his memoir, to be published through Penguin Random House, “tentatively scheduled for late 2022”. As I wrote yesterday in What Else? , I’m not convinced that they’d always intended to make the announcement when By Lainey • Jul 20, 2021 09:26 am
Top Reads Adele’s Courtside Romance A surprise celebrity appearance at Game 5 of the NBA Finals the other night in Phoenix – and definitely not a celebrity who is a frequent courtside presence at basketball games: Adele. And now there’s all kinds of speculation about whether or not she and Rich Paul, LeBron James’s By Lainey • Jul 19, 2021 11:12 am
Equality Issues Tom Cruise’s Need for Speed It was a sporty weekend for the second weekend in a row for Tom Cruise. Last week he was at Wimbledon and the Euro final, this weekend he was at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix, the home for Formula 1. Which of course those of us who are now By Lainey • Jul 19, 2021 10:10 am