Nicole Kidman Nicole Kidman at the club All the magazines are releasing their September issues this week. The reaction that I’ve seen online, in response to American Vogue’s cover story featuring Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere, has been mostly underwhelmed, to put it generously. They are the stars of The Shards, a series with a By Lainey • Aug 13, 2026 11:58 am
Intro for August 13, 2026 Dear Gossips, For Variety, it’s a huge get – to have both Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys on the cover of the latest issue, joint photo shoot, joint interview, and it’s Emmy season. They have five nominations between them, repping The Diplomat, The Beast in Me, and of course By Lainey • Aug 13, 2026 09:28 am
Annabelle Wallis Annabelle is back to work It was reported just last week that Annabelle Wallis and Sebastian Stan are now parents. The pregnancy was pretty low-key, just like the baby’s arrival, at least in terms of publicity. They were papped in April and then they were together in Cannes a month later. And then By Lainey • Aug 13, 2026 11:00 am
Ben Affleck Netflix loves Ben Affleck It feels like Ben Affleck has been really busy as a director, but Air, the last film he directed, came out in 2023. How has it already been three years since the time Ben Affleck made a biopic for a shoe? In other areas, he has stayed busy, acting in By Sarah • Aug 13, 2026 10:05 am
What Else Halle Berry: Multiple 60th Holidays Halle Berry will be 60 years old on Friday. In Chinese culture, the 60th is a big deal, like back in the old old olden days, they didn’t celebrate birthdays until the 60th birthday. As in… 25? Nobody cares. If you make it to 60, everybody cares, the whole By Lainey • Aug 12, 2026 04:05 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 12, 2026 OK, a lot has been said about this Vogue cover (Lainey touched on it in What Else?) so let’s get into it. It’s Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere (yes, their parents were married) and yes, it’s aesthetically dull. Chloe Malle is being blamed but let’s not By Maria • Aug 12, 2026 02:41 pm
Jeremy Strong Jeremy Strong won’t change It’s been almost five years since Michael Schulman profiled Jeremy Strong in The New Yorker. We were all still mostly stuck at home during COVID. And that may have had something to do with the chaos that ensued over that piece. The internet devoured it. And that followed him By Lainey • Aug 12, 2026 01:37 pm
Justin Trudeau Katy Perry and the KatyCat Boyfriend Today’s site open was about the BTS Boyfriend, and Tyler Chin’s piece for GQ about being the partner of an ARMY and the other BTS boyfriends who have been accompanying their girlfriends and wives to see the band. Rather than mocking his girlfriend’s devotion to RM, Jin, By Lainey • Aug 12, 2026 11:41 am
Michael B Jordan MBJ and RAYE’s mixed signals Michael B Jordan and RAYE were seen at Six Flags the other day with some friends and we all assumed, happily, that they are dating. Yesterday, however, there were some mixed signals about whether or not that’s actually true. First PEOPLE reported that their day at the park wasn’ By Emily Huffman • Aug 12, 2026 10:48 am
Nicole Kidman Nicole Kidman at the club All the magazines are releasing their September issues this week. The reaction that I’ve seen online, in response to American Vogue’s cover story featuring Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere, has been mostly underwhelmed, to put it generously. They are the stars of The Shards, a series with a By Lainey • Aug 13, 2026 11:58 am
Jeremy Strong Jeremy Strong won’t change It’s been almost five years since Michael Schulman profiled Jeremy Strong in The New Yorker. We were all still mostly stuck at home during COVID. And that may have had something to do with the chaos that ensued over that piece. The internet devoured it. And that followed him By Lainey • Aug 12, 2026 01:37 pm
Michael B Jordan MBJ and RAYE?! Even their letters look good together. If ever there was a possible new celebrity couple alert that lived up to the expression “the world is healing”, it would be this: Michael B Jordan and RAYE were seen together at Six Flags in California and while there isn’t official confirmation By Lainey • Aug 10, 2026 11:23 am
Tom Holland Tom and Zendaya’s good timing In case you forgot, Tom Holland and Zendaya got married secretly. And that’s literally all we know. It’s truly a secret. No one can specify a time or a place, and the only reason we started talking about it is because Law Roach was strategically sent out to By Lainey • Aug 06, 2026 02:45 pm
A$AP Rocky Rocky & Rihanna: Walgreens and Walmart A$AP Rocky’s interview with Jason Lee was posted yesterday. It’s almost two hours long, I’m still making my way through it, but it’s a great freewheeling conversation about Rocky’s life and upbringing, his career, and his relationships. One part that’s going viral is By Lainey • Aug 06, 2026 01:28 pm
Aaron Pierre The “insatiable curiosity” for Aaron Pierre That’s the polite way of saying it: “insatiable curiosity”, a euphemism for the, um, drip that materialises whenever Aaron Pierre shows up. He can be the classy one, I’ll be over here in the gutter. The expression is his own, “insatiable curiosity” is how he’s chosen to By Lainey • Aug 05, 2026 12:54 pm
Hudson Williams The Hudson (Skin) Factor We probably all knew it was only a matter of time. Last December, just as Heated Rivalry was blowing up, and became the present that everyone opened for the holidays in 2025, Hudson Williams did an interview with The Cut about his skincare routine that went viral immediately – credit to By Lainey • Aug 05, 2026 11:46 am
Tom Holland Tomdaya’s new record I saw Spider-Man: Brand New Day on Friday afternoon, loved it so much. Loved it so much I behaved like Duana, a theatre kid, in the theatre during certain key moments – gasping (I am not usually a gasper) and sighing audibly and also deep breathing at parts, plus at By Lainey • Aug 04, 2026 12:44 pm
Bradley Cooper Bradley and Gigi: Matching rings, matching everything Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid have been in Paris together the last few days. And quite visible, as the paps have photographed them several times walking around together, including when they were walking back from the gym, with matching water bottles… and also rings. Rings on the gossip finger, which By Lainey • Aug 04, 2026 11:11 am
Zendaya Coleman Tomdaya: at home at last? My bad, I was wrong, I’m the problem… when I said that the LA premiere of Spider-Man: Brand New Day would be the last because I actually thought they were already in London, and they were, but for The Odyssey, three weeks ago. There have been so many By Lainey • Jul 29, 2026 03:54 pm
Michael B Jordan MBJ and RAYE’s mixed signals Michael B Jordan and RAYE were seen at Six Flags the other day with some friends and we all assumed, happily, that they are dating. Yesterday, however, there were some mixed signals about whether or not that’s actually true. First PEOPLE reported that their day at the park wasn’ By Emily Huffman • Aug 12, 2026 10:48 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Is Verity a secret comedy? We are two-thirds of the way through Anne Hathaway’s Big Year. Her penultimate film of 2026, The End of Oak Street, opens this Friday, and in October comes her final film, Verity, Michael Showalter’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel of the same name. A new trailer By Sarah • Aug 12, 2026 10:03 am
BTS Intro for August 12, 2026 Dear Gossips, GQ published a great piece yesterday, written by Tyler Chin, about BTS ARMY Boyfriends. Excellent pitch, such a good story idea, and from his own POV because Tyler is, himself, an ARMY boyfriend. That is – a companion to a fan of BTS who supports their partner’s devotion By Lainey • Aug 12, 2026 09:30 am
What Else Rihanna and Tomdaya: More Lore Rihanna’s been at home in Barbados for over two weeks now, and it’s been a full schedule. She’s been seen at state events, she was at Crop Over, she went to the club, there was a birthday party for Riot (we’ll get back to that in By Lainey • Aug 11, 2026 04:10 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, August 11, 2026 This tweet asks the right question – what is Brad Pitt getting at with this press run? He doesn’t need to submit to in-depth profiles, very few actors do. He could do the hot wings circuit and be fine, but he chooses this route instead. Why? He has an By Maria • Aug 11, 2026 03:03 pm
Music MC’s MUSIC LOUNGE: Karol G Has No Regrets It’s been a great year to be KAROL G. She’s already headlined Coachella, won the International Artist Award of Excellence at the AMAs, is in the midst of headlining a stadium tour and now has released her sixth studio album. No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto comes just By MC • Aug 11, 2026 01:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews ScarJo’s comedy crime wig We are weeks away from the Venice Film Festival kicking off fall festival season, and one of the big question marks this year is “is it finally James Gray’s time?”. James Gray, an American filmmaker who is more appreciated in Europe than he is at home (two Cesar nominations By Sarah • Aug 11, 2026 12:17 pm
Anne Hathaway Anne Hathaway: A Menace to Makeup Dennis the Menace is an old person’s reference and nobody under 30 knows what this is, but it’s the nickname our makeup artist, Shaby, has given to me and Liz Trinnear at ETALK because we are the two faces who cannot be trusted to protect her work once By Lainey • Aug 11, 2026 11:48 am
