Category: Entertainment News

LAINEY GOSSIP – Wonder Woman Gal Gadot is once again teaming up with franchise director Patty Jenkins for a new movie, but this one’s already generating a bit of controversy. Gal Gadot’s Cleopatra has come under fire with whitewashing accusations, given that “Gadot is Israeli and Cleopatra is, er, we don’t really know”

CELEBITCHY – Dominic West, currently and best known as “a massive douche,” is trying to save his marriage for the benefit of the tabloid cameras parked outside of his house after openly making out and otherwise PDA-ing his mistress Lily James while the two of them were together in Rome

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – Kristin Cavallari is talking about her “hard decision” to end filming for Very Cavallari, saying she wanted to keep her life “somewhat private” and had no desire to “expose [her] divorce on camera and have my kids see that one day”

GO FUG YOURSELF – I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that major movie productions have ramped back up in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, as we’ve had big money sports in some form or another for months as well. And with that: here are some new photos from the sets of both Mission Impossible 7 and The Batman

REALITY TEA – Vanderpump Rules star Brittany Cartwright is asking fans for prayers for her mother, Sherri, who’s in the hospital for the second time in the past several months after going “septic with [her] kidneys”

THE BLAST – The Blast is going semi-Bossip with its headlines: “Demi Rose Flaunts Her Giant Tiki Huts In Sexy Slow-Motion Video”

DLISTED – “Khloe Kardashian Reminded Everyone That She Was Nicole Richie’s Assistant Way Back In The Mid-2000s”

VOX – Here’s something cheerful and necessary to lift you right up as we head into the back half of Halloween month: “The biggest radioactive spill in US history never ended: How the US poisoned Navajo Nation”

JEZEBEL – And here’s a freshly animated classic from Jezebel’s annual scary story contest: “This (True) Scary Story Will Make You Think Twice About Investigating That Strange Noise Outside in the Dark”

REALITY TEA – Cynthia Bailey wasn’t the only Real Housewife to tie the knot this past weekend — there was also the well-timed Kelly Dodd wedding to Rick Leventhal, just days after Kelly ignited a firestorm with her “Drunk Wives Matter” hat. It doesn’t look like the nuptials were filmed for RHOC; it also looks like Kelly made good on her promise to have a small, intimate affair

DLISTED – Bill Burr hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time this weekend, and appears to have “divided the internet” with a monologue designed to mock people who then got upset they had been mocked

THE BLAST – Kristin Cavallari, just a few months after her very public and very messy split with former Chicago Bear Jay Cutler, was spotted in Chicago making out with the Jay Cutler of comedians

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – Flip Or Flop‘s Tarek El Moussa and his fiancé Heather Rae would like you to know that Tarek’s ex-wife is not invited to their destination wedding next summer

CELEBITCHY – Speaking of unsurprising news likely to get petty in a hurry, it’s emerged that Donald Trump wanted to leave Walter Reed in a suit that he would then rip off to reveal a Superman T-shirt. Somehow, Trump’s aides talked him out of it

JEZEBEL – Which is a nice segue into this: “My Brief Hero’s Journey Into the ‘Art of Manliness,’ Which Unfortunately Did Not Teach Me to Chop Wood”

VOX – America continues to make the exact same mistakes where COVID-19 is concerned, and now that the weather is changing and people are spending more time indoors and businesses and schools are opening back up, cases are back on the rise and hospitalizations and deaths are expected to soon follow

LAINEY GOSSIP – “In completely unsurprising news, Pixar’s next film, Soul, will skip theaters and premiere on Disney+. It is shifting back one month from its previously COVID-adjusted release date of November 20 to December 25, when it will be available on the streaming service at no additional cost”

GO FUG YOURSELF – Behold, a photo gallery dedicated to the time three years ago that Ruth Wilson wore crisp white underpants for all the world to see beneath a see-through ankle-length skirt with assorted designs stiched on it

THE BLAST – She’s since apologized for it, but the Kelly Dodd Drunk Wives Matter controversy has already generated a huge backlash and led to gossip a-plenty that the RHOC star is not long for the show

CELEBITCHY – It says something — a whole bunch of things, really — that 15-year-old Claudia Conway’s TikTok videos are a legitimate behind-the-scenes look at the current White House and the people who live and work and get sick in it

DLISTED – An unfortunate Rest In Peace to the legend Eddie Van Halen, who died yesterday at 65 after a protracted battle with throat cancer. Eddie was a profound influence, often directly, on every shredder who came after; it’s not an exaggeration to say that without him, rock music would sound very, very different (and likely a lot less fun)

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – “The Hills: New Beginnings Set to Resume Filming in Two to Four Weeks; Brody Jenner Reportedly Vetoes Filming Outside of Los Angeles”

JEZEBEL – “On Friday, Rihanna put on a virtual Savage x Fenty fashion show and for a fleeting moment, all was well in the world. And then just as suddenly, it wasn’t. One scene from the show featured a track titled “DOOM” by French producer Coucou Chloe, which sampled a highly synthesized and remixed version of a recitation of an Islamic Hadith—a saying of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) which is considered to be sacrosanct within the religion—and once Muslims on the internet identified it, they immediately brought it to Rihanna’s attention with a slew of angry tweets explaining the offense”

REALITY TEA – Newbie Sutton Stracke would very much like to be invited back for the next season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills; are you here for this?

LAINEY GOSSIP – Chris Evans’ return to social media following his accidental dick pic slip is body part worship of a related sort: the time-honored T-shirt removal revealing new tattoos

GO FUG YOURSELF – “You Might Need Grace Jones Today,” says the headline, to which we all respond: What day would not be improved with a little Grace Jones?

VOX – Finally, because it is getting hard to keep up, here’s a comprehensive list: “Everyone in the White House cluster who has reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus” (As of today, the total is fourteen people)

JEZEBEL – Dolly Parton is in talks to reprise her famous 1978 Playboy photo shoot — potentially right down to the black leotard — to celebrate her 75th birthday in a few months. That doesn’t necessarily mean the legend is going to grace the world with Dolly Parton topless shots, though; Dolly says she’ll do it if the shoot can be “in good taste” and “if they [the magazine] want it.” Consider this a done deal

REALITY TEA – Real Housewives of Potomac star Candiace Dillard has “not said a single word to” castmate Monique Samuels after the pair gave us one of the most talked-about fights in Real Housewives history this past weekend

CELEBITCHY – Given her close general proximity to the president, it will likely come as no surprise to hear that Kellyanne Conway also has COVID-19; given her propensity for lying and spin doctoring, it may also come as no surprise to learn that for several days Kellyanne Conway hid her diagnosis from her family, who is now also infected

VOX – On a completely unrelated note: “How to vote by mail in 2020: Everything you need to know to get your ballot on time and make sure it gets counted”

LAINEY GOSSIP – There’s another new rumor about new Adele music coming soon, except this time it looks like the rumor may have some legitimacy to it? And by “coming soon,” we mean “next month”

DLISTED – Modern Family wrapped six months ago, but Sofia Vergara is still the highest-paid female actor in the world after pulling in $43 million dollars over the last year. That’s just a tick under what the highest paid male actor brought in: The Rock earned $87.5 million over the same span

THE BLAST – “Britney Spears Gives A Sneak Peek At Her REAL Life — ‘Instagram Vs. Reality'”

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – “Duck Dynasty Star Sadie Robertson is Expecting First Child with Husband Christian Huff”

GO FUG YOURSELF – Finally, here’s another fun GFY blast from the past: “The Photos from the Premiere of Good Will Hunting Are SO Late ’90s”

CELEBITCHY – Prayers up for Chrissy Tiegen and John Legend, who revealed they lost their unborn son in an absolutely devastating Instagram post. News of the Chrissy Tiegen miscarriage came days after Chrissy said she’d been hospitalized due to complications with her pregnancy, which she confirmed just a few weeks ago.

DLISTED – Lenny Kravitz might be 56 years old, but Lenny Kravitz’s abs are timeless (even if they’re also doubtless benefiting just a lil bit from some Photoshop magic)

THE BLAST – Tekashi 6ix9ine may have overdosed on the diet pill Hydroxycut and had to be “rushed to a Florida hospital” after suffering “extreme ‘sweating’ and other symptoms”

JEZEBEL – Melania Trump is on tape complaining about Christmas and grossly misunderstanding the plight of the thousands of would-be immigrants her husband has living in cages on the US-Mexico border

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – “Former Counting On Stars Jill & Derick Dillard Talk About Birth Control, Being Friends With Non-Christians & the LGBTQ Community”

REALITY TEA – Lala Kent confirmed that the Vanderpump Rules pregnancy pact was in fact real, saying she knew it was “cheesy” but that she really wants her kids to grow up at the same time as all of her best friends’ kids, because that’s the way she grew up “and it was so much fun” and honestly, that’s a pretty good reason for a pregnancy pact

LAINEY GOSSIP – Wait, so Channing Tatum maybe isn’t broken up with Jessie J despite reports from six months ago that they were done?

GO FUG YOURSELF – Come for the discussion — ” What Can We Do To Actually Try To Enjoy This Fall Season?” — but stay for the dancing pumpkinhead gif

VOX – Straightaway, here’s one thing you can do to enjoy the Halloween season and creepy creepy autumn in general: “Get ready for Halloween as the Vox Book Club reads Mexican Gothic: In Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel, the real gothic is colonialism”

DLISTED – It’s both surprising and not that there’s a new Borat movie coming out next month. Surprising because Covid still reigns, sure, but also not at all surprising because Sacha Baron Cohen always operates on the DL? The story of how they shot this one is pretty good, as is the news that there’s a deliberately fake Kazakhstan government Twitter account that’s been tweeting out innocuous nonsense for months but that is in fact a promo tool for the movie itself

CELEBITCHY – It’s telling that Joe Biden called Donald Trump “the worst president America has ever had” at the first debate and it would have been the only thing anyone took away from any other debate in any other election year (except maybe 2016) but it isn’t even really getting talked about this year, such was the depth of depravity that America’s worst president brought to the stage

JEZEBEL – There was so much garbage happening during and around the first presidential debate that I didn’t even know about Cardi B doing a live fact check on IGTV. But she did and it was exactly what you would expect, and so now there’s a general call for the folks in charge to get Cardi to do it in person at the second debate, which, there’s no way anyone can convince me that this is a bad idea after the total shitshow that was the first debate

REALITY TEA – Captain Lee Rosbach is back, and he’s brought new people with him: Below Deck Season 8 now has a trailer, a premiere date (November 2), and at least four new cast members

LAINEY GOSSIP – “In the 1990s, The Craft was to Goth girls what Clueless was to popular girls: an acknowledgment that your fashion choices were totally legit, and that choker DOES look good on you. Also like Clueless, The Craft has maintained an affectionate nostalgia over the years, which is now being revisited in the form of a sequel, The Craft: Legacy. Written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones (probably best known as Fawn Moscato on New Girl, but her feature directorial debut, Band Aid, is charming), The Craft: Legacy is a sequel to The Craft, about a new coven of girls using and abusing witchcraft at their high school”

THE BLAST – LeBron James went and upgraded his LA house situation: the Lakers star dropped $36 million for a Beverly Hills mansion formerly owned by soap opera icon Lee Phillip Bell (creator of The Bold and the Beautiful *and* The Young and the Restless). It’s James’ third house in the LA area, and is as impressive as you’d expect…but there’s no basketball court

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – Bear Brown and Raiven Adams from Alaskan Bush People are giving their relationship another try; apparently what did it was Bear getting to meet his son River, who is six months old, for the first time just last week

GO FUG YOURSELF – I’ve been loving GFY’s regular galleries of old fashion magazine covers and this collection of all the Vogue covers from 1941 to 1970 — kind of a significant period! — is no exception

VOX – Finally, don’t believe the hype: There’s a huge difference in time, perhaps as much as six months, between when America will have a mass-produced Covid-19 vaccine (possibly by the end of 2020) and when that vaccine will be mass distributed across the country (likely by summer 2021)

JEZEBEL – One especially “ingenious” idea as regards the RHOBH new cast? “Blow it up and start over,” which OK is maybe not super ingenious but should probably be a mandatory action for every reality show with a season number in the double digits

REALITY TEA – In related and backpedaling news, Andy Cohen apparently thinks Dorinda Medley was an “iconic” cast member who was simply “in a bad place” this past year and will hopefully “rejoin the show at some point”

CELEBITCHY – The headline almost says it all: “Should Bob Woodward have revealed his damaging info about Trump months ago?” Let’s answer that question with another question: if Woodward had come forward last spring, would fewer than 192,000 Americans be dead of coronavirus?

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – “Collin Gosselin Accuses His Dad Jon Gosselin of Physically Abusing Him, Prompting Investigation; Jon’s Ex-Wife Kate Gosselin Speaks Out”

VOX – A headline to precipitate panic: “A third of Americans might refuse a Covid-19 vaccine. How screwed are we?” Followed by the ever-important subhead: “There’s still time to get this right”

DLISTED – You will no doubt be shocked to learn that Lori Loughlin is having a hard time grasping with the concept of spending the holidays in prison

LAINEY GOSSIP – Coming in hot from the frozen north: Canada’s Drag Race just crowned its First Ever Drag Superstar, and here she is in one of her first interviews since winning the big prize

GO FUG YOURSELF – Selena Gomez looks kind of like Christina Ricci in The Addams Family, and kind of like Selma Hayek playing Frida Kahlo — no shade in either instance; those were both iconic roles — but yes, she does indeed also look “lovely on the cover of Allure

THE BLAST – Savannah Chrisley would very much like you to underestimate her

CELEBITCHY – There’s an impossible amount of religious, social, and political intrigue to unpack in the still-unfolding story of Jerry Falwell’s pool boy, Jerry Falwell, and Becki Falwell. But let’s all remember that, since the three are consenting adults, the real scandal isn’t that Jerry liked watching the pool boy have sex with his wife; instead, it’s the Falwells’ massive hypocrisy now crashing down all around them like a set piece in a Christopher Nolan movie

JEZEBEL – Remember the time Denise Richards brought up being chased by a “mysterious car” that Richards said had something to do with “Big Pharma”‘s intimidation of her husband, who’s apparently conducting groundbreaking research into cancer cures? How come that only ever came up one time?

REALITY TEA – Speaking of Denise Richards and the ongoing RHOBH implosion of her storyline: “Teddi Mellencamp Says Brandi Glanville Texts ‘Point Out A Pattern When It Comes To Denise Richards’; Kyle Richards Slams Denise For Being ‘Censored Version Of Denise’ That She Wants People To See” (aren’t censored versions of oneself the whole point of reality TV?)

THE BLAST – According to Tamra Judge — who maybe has no idea what she’s talking about, and maybe has ulterior motives for spreading gossip, she’s a Real Housewife after all! — NeNe Leakes’ contract renewal talks broke down and NeNe won’t be coming back for RHOA Season 13 when the show resumes filming late this year or early next

THE ASHLEY’S REALITY ROUNDUP – “Season 12 Premiere of Alaskan Bush People Shows Bear Brown Disappearing Days Before His Wedding to Raiven Adams”

LAINEY GOSSIP – “The first trailer for Netflix’s upcoming movie Enola Holmes has dropped, and while Henry Cavill is trending because people are thirsty, I am here for Millie Bobby Brown as a spunky teenaged detective. Based on Nancy Springer’s YA mystery series, Enola Holmes is about Sherlock Holmes’s younger sister, who must find their missing mother. Pop culture used to be lousy with spunky teenaged detectives (the Hardy boys, Nancy Drew, the Boxcar children, the Goonies), but it seems like the spunky teenaged detective has faded from view a bit—even Nancy Drew got remade as a Riverdale-esque mopey drama. Just give me precocious children solving mysteries while their parents ignore them!”

DLISTED – Halle Barry is so fed up with her five-year-old-and-still-ongoing divorce from husband Olivier Martinez that she’s actually filed to represent herself instead of retaining an attorney for the remainder of the proceedings

GO FUG YOURSELF – “The VMAs debuted with a performance that instantly made them famous: Madonna singing “Like a Virgin” in the iconic wedding gown and thigh-highs, tousled hair extra-tossed. No one had ever seen anything quite like the writhing and the underpants, or so it’s told”

VOX – This should be helpful in sorting out future controversies: “Republican National Convention speakers, explained for people who don’t watch Fox News”