Baby and Bump Obsession Tom Hiddleston confirms engagement There’s been speculation that Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton are engaged and expecting their first child together ever since the BAFTAs in March. Most people assumed it was true, there were not subsequent denials issued, but it wasn’t official until today. Tom has been doing press for The By Lainey • May 11, 2022 10:02 am
TV Updates Jessica and Justin: Back on the Carpet It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake together on a red carpet. That mostly has to do with the pandemic and the fact that for a while there were no red carpets and the two reportedly spent most of their time in By Lainey • May 10, 2022 12:32 pm
Music Suki and Backstage Rob Suki Waterhouse released her first album a few weeks ago, I Can’t Let Go. This isn’t out of the blue – she’s been releasing a single a year for the last few years, gradually building a dedicated following and told Variety that she’d finally worked up the By Lainey • May 09, 2022 01:59 pm
TV Updates Intro for May 9, 2022 Dear Gossips, A major announcement was made yesterday just ahead of the BAFTA TV Awards – after months of speculation, there’s officially a new Time Lord. Ncuti Gatwa has been confirmed as the new Doctor Who. And the timing could not have been better as Ncuti was at the BATFAs By Lainey • May 09, 2022 09:16 am
TV Updates Moon Knight gets real weird in the end Spoilers Moon Knight came to an end this week, and it marks perhaps the clearest iteration yet of what the MCU will be on television versus theatrical films. Ever since the debut of WandaVision, the MCU series on Disney+ have had pacing issues, and Moon Knight is no different with By Sarah • May 06, 2022 03:18 pm
TV Updates Boyd Holbrook is Justified’s new Boyd The Justified revival, City Primeval, starts filming in Chicago—WHERE I LIVE—next week. The book is set in Detroit, so I guess we’re doubling for Detroit, which I bet Detroit just LOVES. With production so close, the cast is rounding out with new additions Vondie Curtis-Hall, Oscar nominee By Sarah • May 06, 2022 02:50 pm
TV Updates Will you go back to Westeros? House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones prequel series, is set to debut on HBO on August 21. A new teaser has arrived, and this one has dragons (aka, the only three seconds I care about). Is that the dreaded Vhagar? Impossible to tell! But is A dragon, anyway. By Sarah • May 06, 2022 01:33 pm
Top Reads Jason Sudeikis post-serve You know what got buried in all the Met Gala hype this week? TMZ on Monday posted video of the moment that Olivia Wilde got served while on stage doing her job at CinemaCon. Up to this point I think we’d all seen the photos but as we all By Lainey • May 06, 2022 11:49 am
Top Reads Netflix cancelled Meghan Markle (and everyone else) Following Netflix’s bad earnings call and stock freefall, the company is in full slash-and-burn mode, axing programming left and right and no one is safe, not even the Duchess of Sussex. Archewell Productions has a development deal with Netflix, through which Meghan Markle was developing an animated series aimed By Sarah • May 02, 2022 11:15 am
TV Updates Intro for May 2, 2022 Dear Gossips, Last Monday I posted in this space about Heartstopper, the new queer teen rom-com on Netflix. I’d just started watching, as the series was just starting to pick up momentum, and even though at the time I was only two and a half episodes in, I was By Lainey • May 02, 2022 09:04 am
Top Reads James Corden’s Last Year It was big news yesterday – the announcement that after next season, James Corden will be leaving The Late Late Show. One of the major reasons this was a surprise is that the show is considered a success. It’s not like James and The Late Late Show were struggling. Carpool By Lainey • Apr 29, 2022 02:51 pm
TV Updates Russian Doll is slightly less good the second time The first season of Russian Doll is basically perfect, so the bar for a second season is especially high. There is also the Fleabag standard to contend with, in which a one-off limited series is extended to a second season after breakout success, and in Fleabag’s case, the second By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 03:53 pm
TV Updates The After Afterparty So far, 2022 has been AMAZING for comedy shows, and The Afterparty is one of the strongest of the bunch. It’s been renewed for a second season, and the new ensemble has just been announced. Tiffany Haddish is returning as Detective Danner with a new murder to solve, and By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 02:49 pm
TV Updates First Lady Michelle (Pfeiffer) Michelle Pfeiffer is currently starring on The First Lady as Betty Ford. The show has not been getting great reviews, and I don’t want to bag on it because it’s not even bad in an interesting way, it’s just a weird combination of looking expensive but being By Sarah • Apr 28, 2022 11:41 am
TV Updates The Essex Serpent finally shows itself I was JUST asking about a trailer for The Essex Serpent, and lo, it has appeared. Apple dropped the first—only?—look at the historical drama starring Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston yesterday and it looks…fine. It’s very soggy and British and everyone is Victorian and repressed. Hiddleston By Sarah • Apr 27, 2022 03:35 pm
TV Updates Shailene is “done” with Aaron Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers reportedly ended their engagement in February. But then they continued to be seen together, as she travelled with him to Miami when all those rumours were happening about whether or not he’d leave the Green Bay Packers and last time they attended a wedding. By Lainey • Apr 26, 2022 11:10 am
