Gossip Nostalgia JLo: Hustler, Maid, Wedding Planner, and Boss Remember back in the late 90s/early 2000s, when the word “multihyphenate” became part of the cultural lexicon? It was often used to describe Jennifer Lopez. Of course she wasn’t the first multihyphenate or the last but in that moment, that was how we talked about her: dancer, singer, By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 12:45 pm
Break Ups Brad Pitt Wants You To Know He’s Single It’s been exactly two months since Brad Pitt was photographed arriving in France and heading to Chateau Miraval with model Nicole Poturalski at which point everybody started rewinding and it turns out they’ve been hanging out since at least last November when they sat next to each other By Lainey • Oct 29, 2020 09:46 am
Maple Leaf Celine Dion: The Movie Star of All Feelings As I wrote yesterday in my post about Keanu Reeves, we have to take the delight where we can get it – and you know who’s all about giving? Our Queen of All Feelings, Celine Dion. And she’s making headlines in an unexpected space: movies! It was announced yesterday By Lainey • Oct 28, 2020 10:36 am
Style A New Wedding Dress for Gwen Shortly after I saw the headline about Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton’s engagement, I emailed with Lainey and admitted that, for at least the last year, I thought they were engaged. There’s so much wedding talk around them, but it’s like we skipped the engagement. But here By Maria • Oct 28, 2020 09:26 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Keanu gets a haircut How long has it been since we’ve seen Keanu Reeves without longer, shaggy hair? A while, right? Keanu is still in Berlin working on The Matrix 4 and was photographed on Sunday with a buzzed head getting dropped off at work by girlfriend Alexandra Grant. I’m guessing this By Lainey • Oct 27, 2020 10:55 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Tom and Zendaya Together Again (Soon) It’s a click-baity title, I know, so I just want to be clear that Tom Holland and Zendaya aren’t, like, together in photos right now but they are, presumably, together because both have arrived in Atlanta to begin production on Spider-Man 3. Here are new shots of Zendaya By Lainey • Oct 27, 2020 10:10 am
Top Reads Jennifer Aniston tells her vote Jennifer Aniston over the last few months has used her Instagram account on several occasions to support social causes, like advocating for Black Lives Matter, and public service announcements, like wearing a mask. She’s also left no doubt about where she stands on the current administration in the United By Lainey • Oct 26, 2020 10:14 am
BFFs Selena and Timmy Vote for IG Live Selena Gomez and Timothee Chalamet worked together on a Woody Allen film called A Rainy Day in New York back in 2017. It was released in Europe last year and this summer in the UK but its American release, just two years ago, was … a non-event. For obvious reasons. Selena By Lainey • Oct 26, 2020 09:45 am
Books Matthew McConaughey’s Rogue Relative Matthew McConaughey memoir Greenlights was released this week based on journal entries he’s been keeping for over 30 years. He says he recently went back to these diaries and decided to organise all those experiences and memories into a book – going into the desert by himself to put it By Lainey • Oct 23, 2020 10:36 am
Royals The Royal and Powerful Redactions As mentioned earlier today, 400+ pages of deposition testimony from a now-settled civil suit between Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffery Epstein’s alleged madam, were unsealed and made public this morning. Journalists are now poring over details. Not surprisingly, Ghislaine denies any wrongdoing, denies seeing any wrongdoing, and By Lainey • Oct 22, 2020 02:19 pm
Top Reads Shonda Rhimes and the Disneyland Pass Shonda Rhimes’s new cover story in The Hollywood Reporter is so much Show Your Work and I’ve already pitched it to Duana for our next podcast episode because we could spend the whole time talking about what Shonda gives us here. But the detail in the piece that’ By Lainey • Oct 22, 2020 10:26 am
Royals How’s Buckingham Palace Feeling Today? Rudy Giuliani’s in the headlines right now because Sacha Baron Cohen punked him in Borat 2, now streaming on Amazon Prime, and there’s a scene in the film in which Rudy’s in a hotel room with an underage girl posing as a journalist and at one point By Lainey • Oct 22, 2020 09:17 am
Music BLACKPINK on Kimmel Part of my job as a television presenter is to interview celebrities – and for those of us in this profession, no matter what it is, be it news, or entertainment, or sports, we all have lazy fallbacks. A good example is the “how” question. You hear it ALL THE TIME. By Lainey • Oct 21, 2020 03:01 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Legally Blonde: A Reunion and a New Chapter There’s a reunion around every corner! That’s how we’re trying to get through the pandemic, I guess. With nostalgia – and all kinds of cast reunions. The latest: Legally Blonde, which turns 20 next year which means this year is the 20th anniversary of when the movie was By Lainey • Oct 21, 2020 10:40 am
Maple Leaf Shawn Mendes’s Thirsty Trailer Every time we see Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello together, I debate whether they’re in madly in love, the way they tell us they are, or if it’s a showmance. I’m still undecided, but the trailer for Shawn’s new Netflix doc In Wonder is giving me By Cody • Oct 21, 2020 10:10 am
Top Reads Jennifer Garner Tells Us More Jennifer Garner was on PBS’s Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan this week (thanks to Anna for the heads up and the transcription) and as the title of the show suggests, this is a program where guests open up about …well… more. In Jennifer’s case, these are topics By Lainey • Oct 20, 2020 03:05 pm