By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | August 20, 2025
Taking a page directly from the “Not Like Other Girls” playbook, Sydney Sweeney decided to pull another “yikes” move by calling out women over the backlash to her Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss that sold out faster than it took you to read this blurb. (Variety)
Wait. Isn’t Austin Butler dating Zoë Kravitz? What did I miss? (Lainey Gossip)
Quentin Tarantino knows which film is his masterpiece. (Celebitchy)
As the manager of Maine, I assume Dustin personally knows this guy and will ensure his victory over Susan Collins. Chop chop. (Wonkette)
Brooke Hogan is not buying her dad’s cause of death. (Page Six)
If you’re a gamer, things are about to get very expensive. (Kotaku)
Oscar Isaac is ready for another Star Wars. (Gizmodo)
Hayley Atwell and Rupert Everett are in for Rivals Season 2. (THR)
Target is now in the FO stage of its FA journey. (Mediaite)
Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd’s Friendship hits HBO Max real soon. (Deadline)
Kid Rock took Gavin Newsom’s bait. (Rolling Stone)
NTE’s disappointment when Sarah MacLean announced that These Summer Storms was neither historical nor a romance didn’t stop her from reading and loving it anyway, but she argues that it is a romance. “I also feel like this ‘absolute f-ing tree trunk of a man just wandering through f-ing sh*t up & going down on (your) girl’ takes the romance from subplot to PLOT. Again, we can argue in the comments, if you wanna.” Which authors will you read, no matter the genre? (Cannonball Read 17)
From Tori: Andy Samberg’s nightmare has ended.
She also disliked him, FWIW https://t.co/aZr5XwemNW
— Seth Meyers (@sethmeyers) August 20, 2025