Award Season Campaigning The State of the Supporting Races As Sarah just mentioned in her posts about the BAFTAs, while One Battle After Another and Jessie Buckley are the clearly heavyweight favourites in the best picture and best actress races, the three other acting categories are much more unpredictable at this point where Oscar is concerned. Robert Aramayo’s By Lainey • Feb 23, 2026 05:21 pm
Royals Intro for February 23, 2026 Dear Gossips, Prince William and Kate were in a couple’s outfit last night at the BAFTAs. He showed up in an oxblood velvet jacket while she was in a pink Gucci (that she’s worn before in 2019) with a velvet belt and clutch to match her husband. At By Lainey • Feb 23, 2026 02:41 pm
Callum Turner Callum, Jacob, and all the Bond talk In these parts, per Sarah, we call the conversation about casting the new James Bond “but Dev Patel is right there”. Dev, however, does not seem to be a frontrunner in the current speculation (which is stupid) so we have to keep talking about Callum Turner and Jacob Elordi who, By Lainey • Feb 20, 2026 05:22 pm
What Else Sterling and teal Matching your outfit to the background doesn’t work out for everyone… but it’s working for Sterling K Brown, in teal last night at the premiere of Paradise season two, streaming on February 23. I mean, it looks like teal to me, you might call it something else. But By Lainey • Feb 19, 2026 09:02 pm
Connor Storrie Connor and Hudson: booked and booked Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams have both confirmed their next projects after the smash hit success of Heated Rivalry season one – and in the same week. Connor’s announcement was first, he’s joined the cast of the upcoming A24 comedy, Peaked, about two mean girls at their high school By Lainey • Feb 19, 2026 08:32 pm
Michelle Yeoh Michelle Yeoh: An Empress gets her star So much of my curiosity about Chinese culture and symbolism started when I was a kid growing up in Canada watching Chinese dramas with my elders. Chinese people love costume dramas, throwing it back to the mysticism of the ancient martial arts masters or to the dynastic times, with royal By Lainey • Feb 19, 2026 06:17 pm
Royals Give us the mugshot! Biggest headline of the day for royal watchers and pop culture gossips – months after dropping his royal title, Just Andrew has been arrested in England. And he doesn’t even get a name anymore as the police confirmed that, "…we have today (19/2) arrested a man in his By Lainey • Feb 19, 2026 04:28 pm
Sports Intro for February 19, 2026 Dear Gossips, It’s truly a clash of the titans tonight at the Olympics. The gold medal game in hockey, Canada vs the United States. This is the date many of us had circled on the calendar going in, the marquee matchup in the sport. Or, as Hailey Salvian noted By Lainey • Feb 19, 2026 03:13 pm
What Else Amanda Seyfried: layering and producing Let’s start with Amanda Seyfried’s outfit yesterday in Paris for the premiere of The Testament of Ann Lee and I’m so obsessed with how it’s all been layered. The crop jacket over the long flared shirt over cigarette pants is suuuuchhhh good styling, credit to Elizabeth By Lainey • Feb 18, 2026 09:14 pm
Nicole Kidman Nicole Kidman: was single, is single, and an airport coat The leading candidate for nothingburger story of the year so far goes to TMZ with their report earlier this week that there’s a wealthy man who wants to date Nicole Kidman. I’m sure there are many rich dudes who want to date Nicole Kidman, how is this news? By Lainey • Feb 18, 2026 07:19 pm
Lewis Hamilton Lewis Hamilton: Supportive, confident, and teased Formula 1 is in Bahrain for pre-season testing this week and we’ll get back to that in a minute but first let’s talk about Lewis Hamilton and his most recent social media activity. It was sports related, but not his own sport. Instead Lewis’s mind was on By Lainey • Feb 18, 2026 05:19 pm
Bridgerton Bridgerton now and next Part two of season four of Bridgerton premieres on Netflix next Thursday 26 February so the cast has pretty much just been on a non-stop press tour for a month. Last night there was a masquerade ball in Madrid and it was also Seollal (Korean Lunar New Year) so, naturally, By Lainey • Feb 18, 2026 04:14 pm
Stephen Colbert Intro for February 18, 2026 Dear Gossips, I believe Stephen Colbert when he said last night that “I really don’t want an adversarial relationship with the network. I’ve never had one”. Stephen was addressing the situation over his interview with James Talarico from earlier this week, posted on The Late Show’s YouTube By Lainey • Feb 18, 2026 02:32 pm
What Else Zendaya and Rob are not The Drama Zendaya and Robert Pattinson will appear in three films together this year: The Drama, The Odyssey, and Dune 3. The Drama opens on April 3 and they’ve just done their first interview together to promote the film, covering the new issue of Interview. The accompanying photo shoot for the By Lainey • Feb 17, 2026 06:58 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 17, 2026 It’s a holiday for my people so we’re keeping it light today but not light in this post because here’s where I’m also including quick hits on some of the gossip from the long weekend. We call it Asian efficiency. Efficient, however, is not how I By Lainey • Feb 17, 2026 05:21 pm
Jackie Chan Intro for February 17, 2026 Dear Gossips, 新年快樂! Happy New Year! May the Year of the Horse bring happiness and good health, and do I ever need it. My ma was sick last weekend, I’ve been sick this past weekend, so the most apt Lunar New Year greeting for me right now is… 龍馬精神! By Lainey • Feb 17, 2026 02:42 pm
