Category: Entertainment News

LAINEY GOSSIP – Jennifer Lawrence has a new movie coming out; it’s called Don’t Look Up and its trailer will give you anxiety. But we shouldn’t expect to see her doing much publicity for it, what with the just-confirmed Jennifer Lawrence pregnant news (!) Kind of a big day for J-Law, really

JEZEBEL – Speaking of celebrity pregnancies, John Mulaney’s timeline for exactly when he got Olivia Munn pregnant doesn’t quite add up. That isn’t stopping him from going on major talk shows to push it, though

THE BLAST – The new teaser for RHOSLC Season 2 is here, and, given that it focuses on Jen Shah’s arrest on federal fraud charges, the footage is about as bananas as you’d expect. Bravo is banking hard on a courtroom drama season, and it looks like the new episodes won’t disappoint

THE GIST – Ted Lasso‘s second season really has some fans falling hard *out* of love with the show. Truly, this is the cultural flashpoint of our times

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – “Alyssa Giacone – The Real World: Skeletons Star & Fiance of The Challenge Star Tony Raines – Undergoes Surgeries After Sustaining Gruesome Injuries During Hurricane Ida”

REALITY TEA – Apparently Leva Bonaparte from Southern Charm is filming a Vanderpump Rules-esque spinoff at Republic Garden & Lounge, her Charleston club

DLISTED – Ted Cruz shouldn’t come for anybody on Twitter, but he really shouldn’t come for professional comedians. And he *really* shouldn’t come for a professional comedian like Patton Oswalt with some weak beer about how few fans Patton has when Patton has more Twitter followers than him

THE HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP – Jersey Shore‘s sinking ratings might have it on the brink of cancellation after five seasons

CELEBITCHY – No shade, but there is absolutely no way Nikki Reed is working full-time without any professional child care for her preschooler unless she also has “assistants and housekeepers” and professional helpers in other areas of her life. I just wish she had been forthcoming about that side of things, as well

GO FUG YOURSELF – “Ms Katie Holmes is really making the rounds of NYFW so far…and it makes me wonder…what is she promoting? Or is this just one of those jazz hands-y rounds of PR that are designed to remind the public in general and producers/directors in particular that she is ALIVE and she is AVAILABLE?”

JEZEBEL – Somehow, Naked and Afraid of Love manages to be “the one dating show that works.” Maybe that’s because “when denuded and forced to fend with a partner who is a virtual stranger, there might really be a chance at an actual connection”

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – Remember when Johnny Bananas “betrayed” Sarah Rice in the finale of The Challenge: Rivals 3 and kept all their money for himself? Sarah says he cheated with adderall to win the challenge in the first place

THE GIST – How is He’s All That, Netflix’s reboot of the late-90s classic She’s All That? The movie is “a temporary wonderful euphoria like those flared pants you bought at H&M to look cool for a minute but after one wash it’s come undone at the hem just like your dignity. It’s not asking to be taken seriously, so don’t”

REALITY TEA – Tributes to Gregg Leakes are pouring in from across the Bravolebrityverse in the wake of Gregg’s death earlier this week. Cynthia Bailey, Andy Cohen, Kim Zolciak, and a whole host of other Real Housewives have taken to social media to share memories and offer tribute

GO FUG YOURSELF – “Pixie Lott’s name really does sound, to me, like the plucky heroine of a series of kids’ books about a detective. But the only real mystery in Pixie Lott and the Case of the Sparkly Boobs is why she wore it in the first place”

DLISTED – ABBA is reuniting and putting out a new album and playing a concert where they’ll appear as literal holograms of their younger selves? Anybody have that on their 2021 bingo card?

THE BLAST – No idea how the streaming rights to Seinfeld aren’t locked up by NBC for their own streaming services like a princess in a tower. But, somehow, they worked out a deal with Netflix, and Seinfeld will be on Netflix starting later this month

LAINEY GOSSIP – This really shouldn’t be news, because the Delta variant is raging (for reasons that beggar belief). But Paramount just pushed back a ton of major movie release dates to 2022, among them a couple of Tom Cruise joints and the newest Jackass

CELEBITCHY – Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas is becoming a bit of an “international story” (= joke) because he takes too long to use the bathroom between sets #Tsitsipotty

THE HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP – Was the latest Big Brother eviction “the most predictable yet” this season?

DLISTED – News of Mike Richards fired as the executive producer of Jeopardy! spread like beautiful wildfire yesterday. Richards, seen above surrounded by his supporters and allies, had already been fired as host for rigging the audition process, selecting himself as host regardless, sabotaging LeVar Burton, and being a pretty open sexist and misogynist. Ted Lasso should audition

THE GIST – On that note, should Coach Beard and Jamie Tartt start dating? I mean, probably not. But should they at least make out first, so we can get a sense of whether they’d be a good couple? I doubt it. Now, that said — is this article, hoping for both of those things, a delightful exercise in wishful thinking, and worth your clicks & eyeballs? Yes. Yes it is

LAINEY GOSSIP – I, too, am struggling with writing a Reservation Dogs article, because the show keeps getting better and better and defying my attempts to say something about it

CELEBITCHY – Don’t be like the unvaccinated and unmasked teacher who went to school regardless of having contracted Covid, got kids in her class sick, and is responsible for 27 total infections and counting. Be like the vaccinated and masked people who aren’t spreading Covid. Get vaccinated and wear a mask, people. It’s not hard

REALITY TEA – Would you be down for Denise Richards coming back to Real Housewives of Beverly Hills? Because Denise herself might be down for it

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – Cameran Eubanks is going to guest co-host The View while the show tries to sort out its latest hosting departure. It’s mostly due to Thomas Ravenel, but I shudder every time I hear about Southern Charm cast members doing anything, so I can’t see this guest spot becoming permanent

THE HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP – Kim Kardashian is helping Kanye push his latest album, because while they’re nowhere near romantic love they are entwined business partners till death do them part. And part of Kim’s promotional deal is she’ll pose naked to help drive sales

THE BLAST – Sarah Paulson has some regrets over wearing a fat suit to play Linda Tripp on American Horror Story

GO FUG YOURSELF – Really not sure what look Megan Fox is going for here. But maybe she nailed it?

JEZEBEL – “Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the failed blood testing startup Theranos, will reportedly accuse her ex-boyfriend and business partner of abuse during her upcoming criminal trial”

REALITY TEA – NeNe Leakes told a group of people at her Atlanta lounge about her husband Gregg Leakes dying at the couple’s Atlanta home. NeNe added that Gregg is “transitioning to the other side” and chided several customers who called NeNe “rude” when she didn’t come over to wish one of them a happy birthday

THE BLAST – Those rumors about Kim Kardashian dating Van Jones appear to have been put to rest by Van himself. The CNN anchor went on record calling the notion “absurd” — and, as a true good sport, Jones added that the story “was flattering for me, but it probably wasn’t flattering for her”

THE HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP – Someone billing himself as a “royal expert” believes that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will be “forgotten” within a decade

THE GIST – Netflix’s new original series The Chair is “a marvel” that manages to engage with “a number of charged, highly polarizing topics without aligning with any of them or ascribing ‘rightness’ to any particular side.” (Three hours is a pretty steep price to pay for academic drama, but the cast is great, as well)

DLISTED – Kevin Spacey? got cast in a new movie?? and that movie is currently filming him playing a part in scenes and stuff???

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – Anna Cardwell, Mama June’s estranged daughter, says she’s “worried” that her mom’s relationship with a 24-year-old TikTok star might be motivated by that 24-year-old just wanting money. He grew up in a world obsessed with Mama June’s mistakes, many of them financial — of course this guy is in it for the money

LAINEY GOSSIP – “What a time to be Simu Liu,” star of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The Chinese-Canadian actor is popping up everywhere, and somehow “maintaining a level of enthusiasm you’d expect from someone who is taking on this kind of spotlight as his life, literally, is changing in real time, no exaggeration.”

GO FUG YOURSELF – Rachel Zegler, star of the upcoming West Side Story remake, is enjoying the three months until the movie’s release and inevitable whitewashing / colorism backlash. She’s in an amazing red dress on the cover of this month’s Town & Country

CELEBITCHY – Christy Carlson Romano made millions as a child star on Kim Possible and Even Stevens. Now she’s sharing the story of how she lost almost all of it — and almost lost her family to boot — as a cautionary tale for other child actors

JEZEBEL – After reading this article on the “weird underbelly of amusement parks” I’m pretty sure I’m never riding another roller coaster as long as I live

CELEBITCHY – Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are firmly in the “lovey-dovey making everyone around them sick but also it’s kind of cute” relationship stage. Yesterday was her 42nd birthday, so Travis went over the top filling his love’s house with a few gardens’ worth of Kourtney Kardashian’s birthday flowers. Kourtney responded by taking Travis’ left thumb’s flower on his IG story

JEZEBEL – The podcast Your Own Backyard may have helped catch the person responsible for Kristin Smart’s 1996 disappearance. Two people — a former classmate of Kristin’s, plus the classmate’s father — have been arrested for murder and accessory to murder, thanks to new information the podcast unearthed in 2019

REALITY TEA – “This is it folks! The last regular episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta has arrived. The season started out rockier than ever, but things have picked up in a big way lately. Somebody pray for LaToya Ali because according to Drew Sidora, she has committed the ultimate sin. She’s openly accusing her of sleeping with Prophet Lott. Why is whatever relationship they may or may not have any of her business? Make it make sense”

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – Jinger and Jeremy Vuolo revealed they’ve stopped posting photos and videos of their kids online because their youngest has health issues and because they want “to give them a bit more privacy while they’re so young.” Normally this wouldn’t have caused a fuss, but because it’s a Duggar family member, and Duggars post endless proof that they’ve been breeding, the kids’ absence from social media became A Thing

GO FUG YOURSELF – I have to say that while the actors in the House of Gucci paparazzi shots all look like beautiful glamorous actors, the locations themselves look…drab? Maybe because it was winter when we started getting on-set pics?

THE HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP – Speaking of social media normality, Kailyn Lowry has been caught more or less “creeping” on Briana DeJesus’ Instagram page, thanks to what we can only assume was a little pre-caffeine slipup

LAINEY GOSSIP – “…We are here to discuss one thing and one thing only: Hot Tig Notaro. After the trailer dropped the internet was ablaze with flame emojis as #HotTig started trending. Because Tig, who has always been quite foxy, popped up in the Army of the Dead trailer looking like this”

VOX – Here’s why “routine traffic stops” — also known as “pretext traffic stops” — are such a nefarious thing, and why they likely don’t do anything to make roads safer

DLISTED – I have no idea what is happening with this headline or the thing in this photograph, which doesn’t look like either thing the headline suggests it looks like

THE BLAST – Johnny Depp is scraping the bottom of the rum barrel

CELEBITCHY – Congrats to everyone who had Colton Underwood comes out on their pandemic bingo cards. The former Bachelor star told Good Morning America that the past year has given him the chance to really reflect and come to terms with some things about himself, and that he’s now ready to announce he’s gay

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – Former #PumpRules stars Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright revealed that Brittany gave birth to their first child this past Monday. Cruz Michael was born Monday afternoon in Los Angeles; mother and son are both healthy

THE BLAST – Courtney Stodden has to wonder about timing — the evening before Colton’s big GMA interview, Courtney took to Instagram to announce that they’re gender non-binary and their preferred pronouns are now the ones we’ve been using in this sentence about them

REALITY TEA – Marlo Hampton says the current season of Real Housewives of Atlanta was a “snoozefest” and the show needs Phaedra Parks back. Not sure about the latter but the former is definitely true — especially considering all the buzz and build-up and male stripper dicks we were teased with

LAINEY GOSSIP – Apparently, the Oscars are going to be “more like a cocktail party” this year, but the producers are also “focus[ed] on making this thing feel like a film”? I can’t picture those two things together, necessarily, but I have to say it sounds intriguing. And there’s at least one movie I’m excited to see before the ceremony itself!

VOX – This is the second glowing review for Gold Diggers, the debut novel by Sanjena Sathian, that I’ve seen in a week. And frankly, a story that “uses heists and alchemy to deconstruct immigrant ambition, striving, and sin” sounds pretty terrific

JEZEBEL – Gonna let the headline speak for this one: “Did Usher Tip Strippers With Fake Money With His Face Printed On It? An Investigation”

GO FUG YOURSELF – Elton John’s classic song “Rocket Man” came out 50 years ago yesterday. But William Shatner’s iconic rendition — brought to the attention of a new generation thanks to Stewie Griffin’s cover — is still only 43

DLISTED – I really do wonder what young celebrity marriages are like. If Justin Bieber thinks his first year of marriage to Hailey Baldwin was “tough,” I wonder exactly how much your emotional relationship (and maturity) is complicated by having to be in different places all the time and never getting to spend that much time together just doing simple boring wonderful stuff?

THE HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP – Another strong headline: “Lauryn Shannon: I Can’t Get a Job Because Mama June Smokes Crack!”

CELEBITCHY – Prince Philip’s death has a whole bunch of monarchical knives coming out, some of them in pathetic ways. Like this one: Prince Andrew, who was basically exiled from public life in 2019 after it became clear he was in some sort of cahoots with Jeffrey Epstein, is now leveraging his father’s death to make himself look like a savior for coming to his mother’s side

JEZEBEL – Also piggybacking on Prince Philip’s death: racist media outlets on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Stateside, Fox News is more or less accusing Oprah of murdering Philip, since it was her interview with Meghan and Harry that led, directly and unequivocally, to the 99-year-old ailing man’s death

VOX – Meanwhile, tabloids in the UK are using Philip’s passing to accuse Meghan Markle of the same thing. And once again, in case it’s not clear, that “thing” is straight-up murdering a 99-year-old man in failing health with the deadly weapon of dark skin

DLISTED – But there’s another mystery in headlines this morning: it seems JLo’s engagement ring has gone missing. Just a month ago, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez’s engagement was reportedly off, until it was immediately back on. But in her latest social media pics, JLo isn’t wearing her engagement ring…

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – Speaking of healthy relationships, Jax Taylor’s companion of choice is, in his own words, keeping him “with my wife.” That’s right: if it weren’t for weed, “I probably wouldn’t be with” Brittany Cartwright “right now,” said Jax, in the process confirming Billie Lee’s gossip from last week

GO FUG YOURSELF – If you’re anything like me, you’re a complete and total sucker for obvious-yet-entertaining Speed references. And if you’re not, rest assured that this gallery has an abundance of photos of Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock looking way too young and gorgeous at the movie’s 1995 premiere

REALITY TEA – Never get tired of this back-and-forth: “Hannah Ferrier Says Captain Sandy Yawn Was Competitive And Wanted Her Gone From Below Deck Mediterranean From The Beginning; Captain Sandy Says She’s A Real Captain And Hannah Was Just There For The Camera”

THE HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP – I guess it’s a good thing any time a member of the Duggar clan puts some genuine physical distance between themselves and the rest of the family’s Arkansas tentacles

THE BLAST – Nick Cannon is going to have twin babies by a 30-year-old DJ named Abby De La Rosa

LAINEY GOSSIP – Here’s why the upcoming Hollywood version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning debut musical In The Heights is so important

CELEBITCHY – It seems the Duke of Hastings was always going to be a one-shot: the rumors of Rege-Jean Page moving on from Bridgerton after just one season are in fact true. Page said he knew all along that his character would only be present in Bridgerton‘s first season — partly because producers told him so, partly because the Duke’s storyline is really only present in the first book the series is based on — and that he’s totally fine with it

THE BLAST – According to several new reports, DMX’s heart actually stopped three separate times after his alleged overdose this past weekend, and paramedics had to revive him “three different times,” including once after he’d arrived at the hospital via ambulance

REALITY TEA – Below Deck Mediterranean star and general MC Captain Sandy Yawn is dishing on the best chefs in the Below Deck universe. It’s really refreshing to have what would be fightin’ words in any other reality franchise — “X is better than Y, full stop” — be just kind of standard information, because the captain is the captain and who’s challenging her?

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – Jax Taylor says it’s his bookkeeper’s fault he owes $1.2 million in back taxes (probably not inaccurate) and also that Bravo “made a good decision” firing him from Vanderpump Rules (wait, what?)

JEZEBEL – Objectivity is too complicated a concept for readers steeped in 21st century partisan fighting to appreciate, let alone understand. Which is to say the promise of objective journalism was never a sincere one

THE HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP – One of Khloe Kardashian’s assistants accidentally posted an un-Photoshopped bikini pic of Khloe to her social media. Now, Khloe’s team is scrambling to get the picture off of the internet — though it’s really not clear why they would even try, since a) that’s impossible and b) untouched Khloe pics are going to endear her to way more people than will mock her for them

GO FUG YOURSELF – Viola Davis is now the Best Actress Oscar frontrunner, for her performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; and, if there was any doubt: yes, she does look good playing the awards circuit

VOX – Don’t use Amazon

DLISTED – The opening sentence says it all: “Joss Whedon is a dick.” And now there’s even more proof of it

LAINEY GOSSIP – Is it that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is kind of a grind to get through, or is it that everyone was so blown away by WandaVision that the next thing was always going to seem unsatisfying by comparison?