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VOX – News of the cast of Disney’s Little Mermaid live-action remake has been leaking out over the past few days, and now the title character has been unveiled. Halle Bailey is Ariel: the 19-year-old singer, best known for her success with Chloe x Halle, the R&B duo she formed with her sister, will be…

JEZEBEL – The USWNT victory over the Lionesses of England yesterday secured their spot in the Women’s World Cup final this Sunday. Before the match, England had criticized the US for being too showy and generally arrogant. On that note, here’s a photo gallery from the match, including Alex Morgan’s tea sipping celebration after her…

REALITY TEA – After what somehow seemed like an eternal engagement (and honestly a pretty charming one as well), Vanderpump Rules stars Brittany and Jax got married in a Bravo-heavy, reality-tastic ceremony this weekend. And if that wasn’t enough to get you interested, check out the venue of choice: a legit “Kentucky castle” DLISTED –…

THE BLEMISH – After some idiot hacked her Twitter account and threatened to leak Bella Thorne’s nudes, Bella went ahead and released them herself. She also praised the idiot’s intelligence, calling him “obviously smart” as he was able to hack her stuff in the first place, and said she hoped he would become an ally…

THE BLAST – It turns out Justin Bieber isn’t as stupid as he looks REALITY TEA – Vanderpump Rules star Scheana Marie exposed a particularly odious cyberbully who sent her a DM on Instagram advising Scheana to kill herself via overdose DLISTED – The long-rumored pairing is becoming a reality: Quentin Tarantino is indeed working…

JEZEBEL – The Rock, who is often working out, just as often has dick towels at the gym all over his Instagram, leading to a very simple question: What’s the deal with this towel? THE BLEMISH – Drake spent $750,000 on a sex watch you can absolutely order from the back of a MAD magazine…

GO FUG YOURSELF – 2019 Met Gala: Our theme this year is ‘Camp’; it’s going to be so great to see all those big celebrities in such fun kitschy outfits 2019 Tony Awards looks: Hold my umbrella drink LAINEY GOSSIP – Voting for the 2019 Emmys began yesterday. To no one’s surprise, Natasha Lyonne is…

CELEBITCHY – Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger got married in secret over the weekend, going the now-trendy celebrity route of revealing the gorgeous ceremony well after it had actually taken place. The couple, who began dating almost exactly one year ago, have been acting like a married couple for almost that entire time JEZEBEL –…

VOX – Chicago Sun-Times journalist Jim DeRogatis has been investigating the case against R. Kelly for nineteen years. He published the first stories about Kelly’s alleged sex abuse back in 2000; he’s written extensively about Kelly’s alleged involvement in child pornography; and he broke the story of Kelly’s supposed sex cult two years ago. Now,…

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – The long-awaited comeback season of The Real World is almost here, and MTV has revealed the Real World Atlanta cast, along with complete cast bios and the show’s first full trailer. The bios alone make it clear that we should expect plenty of cross-cultural headbutting DLISTED – Forbes has released…

VOX – After thirty-two overwhelming wins, over $2.4 million in prize money, the sixteen highest one-day finishes in the show’s history, and some pretty good Twitter shade, Jeopardy! champion James Holzhauer lost last night. The first thing he did afterward was high-five the librarian who beat him CELEBITCHY – Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk are…

JEZEBEL – First, Trump called Meghan Markle, Dutchess of Sussex another nasty woman (in an echo of his comment about Hillary Clinton at the 2016 presidential debates). Next, he claimed he’d said no such thing. Then, his own PR team tweeted out the audio of Trump saying exactly that thing THE BLEMISH – Ellen Pride…

DLISTED – There are now eleven more R. Kelly felony charges in the still-expanding sexual assault cases against him, and the new ones are apparently the most serious yet. According to several reports, at least four of the eleven new charges carry a maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison — so potentially…

CELEBITCHY – At first, the big story of Robert Mueller’s resignation yesterday was the fact that Mueller was making a public statement at all — but then he offered one big dot-connecting clarification to the Mueller report, saying that if his team had concluded Donald Trump committed no crimes while campaigning for president, “we would…

THE BLAST – Though news of Game of Thrones star Kit Harington in rehab has only just now broken, Harington actually checked himself into a $120,000-per-month Connecticut facility weeks ago. Citing exhaustion and increasing alcohol use as the reasons, Harington’s reps said he’s been under absurd pressure from starring in the most popular show in…

DLISTED – OJ Simpson’s former manager Norman Pardo is shopping a documentary in which he claims OJ and Kris Jenner cheated on their spouses by having sex in a hot tub in 1990. Oh, and that OJ further claimed the sex was so violent that Kris had to go to the hospital in the middle…

REALITY TEA – RHONY co-stars and occasional enemies Dorinda Medley and Countess Luann have been “treading lightly” this season, so Dorinda’s public comments in the wake of Luann’s arrest and legal issues are more of the same THE BLEMISH – Wendy Williams stepped out and looked very much the mama hen alongside her son Kevin…

DLISTED – Evidently Rihanna getting pregnant is the next big project the superstar has planned, so fans clamoring for a new album might have to be satisfied with tabloid gossip about whether she has a baby bump instead JEZEBEL – Here’s the deal with YouTube stars James Charles and Tati Westbrook’s ongoing spat over gummy…

REALITY TEA – Bethenny Frankel, whose custody battle with ex-husband Jason Hoppy is beyond nasty, was forced to testify in court that, yes, sometimes reality TV producers fudge timelines or outright make things up. The judge in Bethenny’s case sided with her defense of “No sh!t” THE BLEMISH – “The people responsible for controlling Britney…

CELEBITCHY – Would you be the least bit surprised if you learned that Kim and Kanye named their fourth child Bear West? Would anyone? JEZEBEL – Empire‘s upcoming sixth season — and first without Jussie Smollett — will be its last. Fox CEO Charlie Collier says the final bow will be “a large television event,”…

LAINEY GOSSIP – Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t have one of the worst Met Gala looks of all time — but, given that it looks like she didn’t get the memo about this year’s theme, she definitely topped the Worst list for 2019 GO FUG YOURSELF – Almost everyone who wore Louis Vuitton to the Met Gala…

REALITY TEA – The RHOP Season 4 premiere aired last night, soaking up everyone in the greater television watching audience not invested in Game of Thrones. It was really good! There was plenty of shade! Ashley and Michael continue to be awkward AF! If you thought Season 3 was amazing, there’s a ton to look…

DLISTED – In what’s now more or less officially dubbed Mayochella at the BBMAs, Taylor Swift opened the Billboard Music Awards with a routine pretty heavily inspired by / ripped off from Beyonce’s Homecoming set LAINEY GOSSIP – Also at the BBMAs, Madonna and Paula Abdul drew plenty of raves: the former for the hologram-laden…

REALITY TEA – Evidently Real Housewives of New Jersey co-stars and former friends / newfound enemies Margaret Josephs and Danielle Staub got into a fire-and-water-throwing argument while filming the new season THE BLEMISH – I know it’s the obvious thing to say here, but is it really any surprise that Kanye is considering founding his…

VOX – Now that Game of Thrones has aired and we know the Battle of Winterfell fallout, it’s anybody’s guess as to how the final three episodes will play out THE BLEMISH – After a month-long stay in a mental health facility and plenty of conspiracy theories about being held against her will, Britney Spears…

VOX – Taylor Swift’s new single is out (along with its accompanying music video). It’s called “ME!” — yes, the caps are intentional — and, in case you couldn’t tell, it’s about “embracing your individuality and celebrating it and owning it.” Has anyone who’s ever seen Taylor Swift thought otherwise? CELEBITCHY – Olivia Munn decided…

CELEBITCHY – The most popular Game of Thrones death theory for the big White Walker battle this weekend is that all the Stark corpses in the Winterfell crypt will rise from the dead and attack all the people hiding down there. But it’s hardly the only Game of Thrones death theory involving what will probably…

VOX – With the Mueller Report released and everybody reading like a high school class the night before a final, here’s a primer on some of the major players and instances and other stuff you may have forgotten about over the past couple of years (along with the actual Report itself) LAINEY GOSSIP – Read…

CELEBITCHY – Game of Thrones is back (just a little bit!) and now that the season premiere has aired, The Takes have arrived. What better place to start than with cast member John Bradley — better known as Samwell Tarly — who thinks Daenerys was “psychopathic” in the premiere and will only get worse THE…

CELEBITCHY – It would be amazing if Kit Harington’s description of his last day on the set of Game of Thrones — which, in Harington’s own words, sounds like a “wet fart” — really did turn out to be his last scene in the show. Sometimes, the best secrecy is a mindf*ck of paranoia (plus…

THE BLAST – The new Lion King trailer is here, and it’s mostly what people expected? It definitely delivers the hype, but at 1:42 it’s the longest 30-second teaser trailer I think I’ve ever seen VOX – The Mueller report is going to be released in some form at some point in the next week…

THE BLEMISH – Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin both pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal yesterday. Felicity Huffman’s guilty plea means she’ll almost certainly see a least a little prison time (though she faces up to 20 years, prosecutors are only going to recommend twelve months, plus a fine) DLISTED – In other guilty…

DLISTED – Basically the entire Game of Thrones cast, past and present, got together in New York City for the Season 8 premiere. And the clear winner — for fashion, buzz, poise, everything — was Gwendoline Christie, whose appearance as Brienne of Tarth in a dress that looks made of fire and clouds could have…

JEZEBEL – The bizarre story of Jeff Bezos’ dick, the dick pics he sent his mistress, and his mistress’ brother hacking her phone so he could try to blackmail Bezos just got another wrinkle. Apparently the Saudi Arabian government *also* hacked Bezos’ phone, possibly as a favor to David Pecker, a “staunch Trump supporter” and…

JEZEBEL – RIP Nipsey Hussle: The Grammy-nominated rapper was shot and killed outside his Los Angeles clothing store yesterday afternoon. The murderer has yet to be apprehended. Nipsey was 33 THE BLEMISH – Kanye is bringing his pseudo-church to Coachella this year. I’m still not sure how it’s different from your standard Kanye performance, other…

VOX – Once we actually get the full Mueller report release, a bunch of publishing houses will have the thing churned out in book form in less than a week. That’s because the document is in the public domain and no one has to ask for permission to print it (and is also why you…

VOX – The Us reviews are coming in and they’re basically all glowing. Like this one: “Rife with symbols and encroaching apocalyptic dread, Us is a big, ambitious fable about how a society develops willful amnesia, then tears itself to pieces” CELEBITCHY – On the other end of the spectrum, the first posters and teaser…

THE BLEMISH – Cardi B’s movie debut will come in J-Lo’s upcoming film Hustlers. Cardi, who used to strip in real life before making it on Instagram and Love & Hip Hop New York and then conquering the music business, will play a stripper. The movie is about strippers hustling Wall Street douchebags, so Cardi…

VOX – The Bachelor finale shocker was without question one for the show’s record books. It was also, to put it as gently as possible, juuust a little bit problematic CELEBITCHY – William H. Macy managed to avoid arrest in the college admissions cheating scandal that snared his wife Felicity Huffman for what amounts to…

CELEBITCHY – The FBI busted up a ring of wealthy people and college admissions officers and coaches who conspired to get the wealthy peoples’ kids into elite schools when their subpar grades weren’t enough. It’s more or less becoming known as the Felicity Huffman college cheating scandal because Huffman was arrested for faking her daughter’s…

JEZEBEL – R. Kelly’s CBS interview was a meltdown to make the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings look like Currier & Ives CELEBITCHY – Kylie Jenner is Marie Antoinette-in-waiting for America’s nascent populist upheaval VOX – If you’re like me and had no idea what Special K was beyond a breakfast cereal, Russian Doll makes a lot…

THE BLAST – Turns out that the woman who bailed R. Kelly out of jail in Chicago runs a daycare there. So R. Kelly’s guardian angel paid $100,000 for the privilege of having her business get absolutely overrun with negative press and bad reviews from people who’ve learned about it from the negative press THE…

JEZEBEL – Here’s every 2019 Oscars look, from Billy Porter going neo-Neo-from-the-Matrix to Linda Cardellini’s show-stopper to Charlize Theron’s “dark nun” and all the rest of them. Literally, it’s every single celeb who appeared during the ceremony and a few who didn’t CELEBITCHY – Spike Lee’s reaction when Green Book was announced as the Best…

VOX – It turns out that the “How To Win An Oscar” handbook is lengthy, and detailed, and really only boils down to one thing: You’ve got to spend a ton of money to look like you don’t care whether you win or not DLISTED – You may have forgotten this (I had), but Miley…

LAINEY GOSSIP – This weekend, the Academy Awards are going without a host for the first time in 30 years — that is, unless rumored Secret Oscars Host Whoopi Goldberg swoops in and livens up the ceremony at the last minute JEZEBEL – Speaking of the Oscars, here’s everything you need to know about Green…

THE BLAST – Evidently Jussie Smollett’s story gave some media outlets pause even before the current speculation that he may have faked his own hate crime attack. According to producers for Good Morning America, Smollett gave them pause during his interview with Robin Roberts, and as soon as he left the room they thought “something…

VOX – It will probably come as no surprise to learn that Paul Manafort lied (again), this time to members of Robert Mueller’s team after Mueller offered Manafort a plea deal in exchange for cooperation last year JEZEBEL – A Floridian rapper named YNW Melly — real name Jamell Demons — has been arrested on…

LAINEY GOSSIP – Is anyone surprised that Cardi B stole the Grammys in terms of fashion if not entirely? Invasion of Privacy made her the first solo artist to win Best Rap Album, and her red carpet outfit somehow managed to channel Bjork and “The Birth of Venus” DLISTED – Here’s the rest of the…

CELEBITCHY – We’re two days removed from the 2019 State of the Union Address, and Nancy Pelosi’s hate-clap reaction continues to gather viral steam JEZEBEL – Enjoy this podcast intended “to help figure out what is so appealing about content about grisly murders and serial killers” and basically why there’s such a true crime boom…

THE BLAST – The lawyer for the woman accusing Chris Brown of raping her in Paris is confident that the Chris Brown rape investigation “will continue” despite the fact that Brown is no longer in custody and has left the country entirely CELEBITCHY – Kevin Hart tried to send a message of compassion to Jussie…

THE BLEMISH – Apparently the thing that got Cardi B and Offset back together was simple forgiveness, plus the quarter-million dollars Offset dropped on Christmas presents JEZEBEL – Michael Jackson’s people are not happy with Leaving Neverland, a four-hour, meticulously detailed documentary alleging that the icon was also a child molester. Jackson’s estate and family…

THE BLEMISH – There are now even more Bryan Singer allegations, after four men have came forward to claim the director had sex with them or sexually abused them when they were teenagers. One of the four says he was thirteen when the encounter took place VOX – Here’s how Nancy Pelosi won her staredown…

CELEBITCHY – Here are the 2019 Oscar nominees, notable because this is the first year since the ceremony began that everyone has agreed 100% on all of the movies up for every award LAINEY GOSSIP – Speaking of the Oscar nominations, Melissa McCarthy was nominated for Best Actress for playing a woman “who’s trying —…

CELEBITCHY – You’d think all celebrities would know by now not to @ Cardi B with a hot take, but apparently Tomi Lahren didn’t get that memo. The occasional political pseudo-commentator is now the butt of a million “Cardi B walks the dog” memes after coming for Cardi over her IG story & suffering the…

VOX – Michael Cohen vs. Donald Trump, already the biggest political boxing match of our time, just went into a new round with a potentially bombshell report claiming Trump personally ordered Cohen to lie to Congress about Trump’s ties to real estate development in Moscow JEZEBEL – Michelle Obama’s Becoming is the best-selling book in…

CELEBITCHY – No reaction to the government shutdown and the real consequences it’s having for people has resonated quite as much as Cardi B on Trump. Her take — complete with colorful, Cardi-familiar language, went viral, because that is what Cardi does; the more fun part is all the Democratic politicians worrying about whether they…

CELEBITCHY – The richest man in the world is “madly in love” with his mistress-turned-public girlfriend, and the feeling is mutual, so it sounds like the Jeff Bezos divorce drama is only getting started. Bezos’ PR team got a gushy article into People Magazine, which isn’t surprising; what is is that it kind of makes…

CELEBITCHY – Everyone out there who figured we’d see Chris Pratt engaged to Katherine Schwarzenegger by Christmas 2018, you were only a few weeks off. Chris popped the question to Katherine at some point over the holidays, because they’ve now announced their engagement and she’s sporting a ring fit for a Hollywood Wife DLISTED –…

JEZEBEL – Jeff Bezos apparently sent dick pics to his mistress — and they’re now in possession of at least one tabloid. So we can all rest assured that if his divorce saga gets ugly enough, the Jeff Bezos dick pics will be unleashed upon the world by whichever party stands to benefit the most…

THE BLAST – Dorit Kemsley’s money woes don’t look like they’ll be over anytime soon — her husband Paul is being sued over a $1.2 million loan he made seven years ago and has yet to repay any of. And the RHOBH star’s husband is still struggling to pay off nearly $4 million in casino…