Lurking Paparazzi

Alec Baldwin posted a birthday message to his brother Stephen Baldwin on Instagram this week. The caption read “Happy birthday Stephen.” That was it. Three words. That’s what passed between the oldest and youngest of the Baldwin brothers in public this time around. The Baldwin family has spent decades in the tabloid spotlight, sometimes by…

Bella Hadid typed “Cannes” into her camera roll on May 14 and posted the results on Instagram. Her caption – “When I type in Cannes to my camera roll” – did most of the work. The post landed nearly 250,000 likes by the end of the day. The timing is pretty perfect. The Cannes Film…

Mindy Kaling made it official on Thursday: her Netflix series is coming back for a third season. She shared the news on Instagram in a message that captured her enthusiasm pretty directly. “Season 3 baby!!” Kaling wrote. “So excited to finally be able to tell you that we are officially coming back! Thank you SO…

Jason Collins died on Wednesday from brain cancer. He was 47. The news landed with weight. Collins wasn’t just another NBA center who put in his time and moved on. He was the first active professional athlete in a major North American sport to publicly come out as gay. That happened in April 2013, through a…

Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson linked up with Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield this week. The culture is buzzing with questions about what these two are cooking up together. 50 put it out there on Instagram Wednesday with his signature no-frills delivery. “Detroit mayor Mary Sheffield pulled up on us,” the post read, complete with a bomb…

To paraphrase the famous musical title, a funny thing happened on the way to the upfronts this year. One by one, the four major broadcast network announced their 2026-27 lineups, and each of them featured more scripted series than the current season. The turnaround was so unexpected that the trend went unnoticed by many, including…

One might argue that there’s something symbolic in the fact that the two big Hollywood studio titles screening this year at Cannes can’t be found in the Official Competition but are in the repertory Classics section. The first being The Fast and the Furious, which rode into town on Wednesday night with Universal for an…

Editor’s Note: Trigger & Content Warning – This piece also mentions rape and physical abuse/domestic violence as part of the main characters’ storylines. SPOILER ALERT: This post spoils the Off Campus book series. As with many a book adaptation, author Elle Kennedy didn’t want to get her hopes up too high when her Off Campus…

You can take the villain out of the reality TV show, but looks like Spencer Pratt will always return to his The Hills roots one way or another. To the surprise of absolutely no one, Pratt has signed up for an unscripted series following his bid to be the 44th Mayor of Los Angeles. Deadline…

EXCLUSIVE: After making an impression as one of the major stand-outs of Netflix’s Roast of Kevin Hart, put on at the tail-end of Netflix Is a Joke Fest 2026, comedian Sheryl Underwood has signed with CAA. Underwood first rose to prominence as a stand-up with appearances on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam and BET’s Comic View, before becoming the longest-running co-host of CBS’s The…