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Baby Elle, but not Baby Elle

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Baby Elle, but not Baby Elle

The first trailer for the Legally Blonde prequel, called Elle, was released yesterday starring Lexi Minetree in the Elle Woods role made famous by Reese Witherspoon. This story is set in 1995, obviously before Elle went to law school…but the beats are the same. In the original movie, Elle

By Lainey • May 07, 2026 04:03 pm

Intro for May 7, 2026

Intro for May 7, 2026

Dear Gossips, BTS will perform the first of three concerts tonight in Mexico City GNP Seguros Stadium and the stop in Mexico felt like a state visit – not hyperbolic. Yesterday they were invited by President Claudia Sheinbaum to the National Palace, where the person who holds the highest office in

By • May 07, 2026 09:31 am

Charlize and Katie: Denim and Suede

Charlize and Katie: Denim and Suede

Yesterday in the site open we posted photos of Charlize Theron wearing a denim zipped shirt and I had a few people ask about it, both over email and DMs and also in the daily chat thread over at our Substack, The Squawk. Then I saw new photos of Katie

By Lainey • May 07, 2026 02:57 pm

Dominic Sessa returns as young “Tony” Bourdain

Dominic Sessa

Dominic Sessa returns as young “Tony” Bourdain

You know what is so weird is that on Monday night during the Met Gala, I randomly wondered what Dominic Sessa, breakout star of The Holdovers, is up to, and then boom, a trailer for Tony, starring Dominic Sessa, dropped. Tony is a biopic about the late Anthony Bourdain, set

By Sarah • May 07, 2026 12:23 pm

The Former Marty Supreme

Timothee Chalamet

The Former Marty Supreme

As predicted earlier this week, Timothée Chalamet was not at the Met Gala, not only because he’s not a regular there but because between the Met Gala and the Knicks playoff game, there was no doubt where he’d prefer to be. He was courtside for the Knicks game

By Lainey • May 07, 2026 11:27 am

The Real Marty Supreme

Martin Short

The Real Marty Supreme

It’s so good to see Martin Short, last night at the premiere of his upcoming documentary, Marty, Life is Short, premiering on Netflix next week. And he was there with his family and so many of his friends. Well now I’m crying already. The film is directed by

By Lainey • May 07, 2026 10:37 am

Pedro and Grogu green

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Pedro and Grogu green

Pedro Pascal, who is no stranger to the Met Gala, was not at the Met Gala this year. He has other priorities – like work. The Mandalorian and Grogu opens in just over two weeks and the press tour is now underway. On Monday, Pedro was with Jon Favreau and Sigourney

By Lainey • May 06, 2026 04:14 pm

MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Devils, Prada and the Music

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MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Devils, Prada and the Music

The Devil Wears Prada 2 has been all over the place for the last couple of weeks. There’s even a pair of red heels that walk across your screen when you type the film into Google. It opened to a whopping $217 million worldwide in its opening weekend box

By MC • May 06, 2026 03:21 pm

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Blake and Barbie 'met' boring again

Blake and Barbie 'met' boring again

Let me try to avoid landmines and mess in this post, LOL. The fact that I’m pairing Blake Lively and Margot Robbie, though, probably isn’t helping. But I have editorial and narrative justification for it, so can we ignore the internet conspiracy theories and just focus on the

By Lainey • May 05, 2026 12:06 pm

Intro for May 5, 2026

Intro for May 5, 2026

Dear Gossips, It was the screaming that gave it away that Beyoncé had arrived at the Met Gala last night – and she made us wait. Not way past the wrap, unlike Rihanna LOL (as usual), but late enough to be near the end… which is not usually how it works

By Lainey • May 05, 2026 06:55 am

HudCon to the Met Gala

HudCon to the Met Gala

Exactly a year ago at this time, Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie were in Toronto, having just secured their leading roles in a small Canadian-produced drama with a tiny budget, and no one had ever really heard of them before. Now, a year later, they’re invited to everything, including

By Lainey • May 04, 2026 12:05 pm

EJAE, Audrey, and Rei: The Women of the Year

EJAE, Audrey, and Rei: The Women of the Year

Billboard’s Women in Music event was last night in LA and their “Golden” streak continues, because EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami were there to receive the Women of the Year honour which, honestly, not that it’s about me but I’ve been emotional about this since it

By Lainey • Apr 30, 2026 11:10 am

Taylor Swift: Song notes and striped dresses

Taylor Swift: Song notes and striped dresses

She’s been quiet but there’s been all kinds of Taylor Swift news today – starting with the work. The New York Times just published a feature on The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters, an unranked list chosen by over “250 music insiders and six New York Times critics”. I

By Lainey • Apr 28, 2026 04:25 pm

Channing Tatum is going through it

Channing Tatum is going through it

It’s not that I don’t care that Zoë Kravitz and Harry Styles might be engaged, or are probably engaged, since PEOPLE is even reporting it now, but as Maria said in one of her Celebrity Social Media roundups last week, ring-watch is almost too pedestrian for someone as

By Lainey • Apr 28, 2026 11:38 am

The Heartbroken Hottie

The Heartbroken Hottie

Megan Thee Stallion posted on Instagram on Saturday, and then confirmed in a statement afterwards, that she and Klay Thompson are over because he cheated on her. “Cheating” was the first word in her story, and she went on to explain his other shortcomings. “Cheating, had me around your whole

By Lainey • Apr 27, 2026 11:43 am

The Devil is Everywhere

The Devil is Everywhere

It’s not just the cast of The Devil Wears Prada 2, there were so many celebrities outside yesterday promoting various projects in a wide range of looks, but we’ll start with the Devil doing double last night, because right after the London premiere, Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily

By Lainey • Apr 23, 2026 02:08 pm

Rihanna presents Rocki

Rihanna presents Rocki

Rihanna covers the latest issue of W Magazine and she’s not alone. But before we get to the muffin in her arms, let’s talk about this feature because it’s “The Pop Issue” which made me laugh because I can almost hear the clickety clack of her Navy

By Lainey • Apr 21, 2026 02:31 pm

The Owens sisters are back at last

The Owens sisters are back at last

With all these legacy sequels coming out over the next year, I am on tenterhooks, living in Schrödinger’s box of managing expectations. As long as the movies are not yet out, they might still be good, which is very much where I am living with Practical Magic 2. Practical

By Sarah • Apr 21, 2026 11:47 am

MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Devils, Prada and the Music

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MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Devils, Prada and the Music

The Devil Wears Prada 2 has been all over the place for the last couple of weeks. There’s even a pair of red heels that walk across your screen when you type the film into Google. It opened to a whopping $217 million worldwide in its opening weekend box

By MC • May 06, 2026 03:21 pm

Celebrity Social Media, May 6, 2026

Celebrity Social Media, May 6, 2026

Romeo represented Brand Beckham at the Met this year. David and Victoria haven’t been in years and I don’t know if she would, unless she attended as a designer (which means the house would need to purchase a table). Do we think Brooklyn and Nicola (who have attended

By Maria • May 06, 2026 02:29 pm

Rihanna & Rocky’s Post-Met Body Language

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Rihanna & Rocky’s Post-Met Body Language

As Duana wrote in her post yesterday about Rihanna and A$AP Rocky at the Met Gala, they were pretty cute together when they arrived. There was that video of him admiring her, as he always does, when she was posing for solo photos… View this post on Instagram A

By Lainey • May 06, 2026 01:19 pm

Lauren Sánchez: Vibe Killer

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Lauren Sánchez: Vibe Killer

Imagine you work in an office with friendly vibes. You like your coworkers, you think some of them are cool and all of them are competent. Except for one person. It’s not that she’s bad at her job, she’s just a bad person for the collective: she

By Maria • May 06, 2026 12:04 pm

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The iPhone Face Odyssey

Tom Holland and Zendaya are going to have SUCH a huge summer because they are in the two movies expected to be among the biggest, if not THE biggest, movies of the season. Of course, there is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but there is also The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan’s

By Sarah • May 06, 2026 11:07 am

Intro for May 6, 2026

Charlize Theron

Intro for May 6, 2026

Dear Gossips, Sarah’s post about the first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated The Odyssey that was released yesterday will go up this morning. For now, let’s talk about Charlize Theron, it's her voice we hear at the top of the preview, in her role

By Lainey • May 06, 2026 10:01 am

Hudson Williams: Tonight is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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Hudson Williams: Tonight is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Can you believe that it hasn’t even been six months since Heated Rivalry premiered? So much has happened in such a short time, around and to Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, and we’ve also learned so much about both of them. In Hudson’s case, it was immediately

By Lainey • May 05, 2026 04:12 pm

Bad Bunny: Met Gala Best Dressed (Lainey)

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Bad Bunny: Met Gala Best Dressed (Lainey)

Back in February, at the Benito Bowl, Bad Bunny wore two Zara custom fits for his historic performance. It was, to use a word I’ve avoided so far today because I’ve been saving it for this post… groundbreaking. Three months later Bad Bunny’s Zara is the cerulean

By Lainey • May 05, 2026 03:24 pm

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