Hung Up

Plus: the deadbeat dad beat, the best Emmys gossip you missed, and a surprising celebrity divorce. More from Hung Up this week: The Emmys! Catch up with the paywalled Hung Up chat here and Substack’s online Emmys watch party here … If I say Shailene Woodley had a point … a personal essay presented by Rothy’s It has been quite a while since we got a truly great celebrity notes app apology.

More from Hung Up this week: The Emmys! Catch up with the paywalled Hung Up chat here and Substack’s online Emmys watch party here … And if I say Shailene Woodley had a point … Rothy’s turns ten this year, and in partnership with them, they asked me to think about how my point of view has changed over the same stretch of time. Here’s the honest answer, ten years distilled into one trip: this summer, in Paris, alone on purpose, I finally stopped treating my own company like a fallback plan.

Shailene Woodley at the 8th Annual AAFCA TV Honors on August 08. (Photo: Brianna Bryson/WireImage) Something that should not come as a surprise to loyal Hung Up readers is that a man is lying in wait to embarrass you. Right now, at this very moment, there is a man who has embarrassed you before, who will embarrass you soon, who will embarrass you again. Sometimes he plans to embarrass you; sometimes he embarrasses you improvisationally.

Jennifer Lawrence at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes in January. (Photo: Chad Salvador/2026GG/Penske Media via Getty Images) On Wednesday, Apple unveiled its latest technological innovation, an iPhone that folds, one that folds easily, as I would’ve, had I been in Anne Hathaway’s position in The Odyssey.1 On Thursday, Jennifer Lawrence unveiled the mostimportant technological innovation: the Oscar-winning actress joined Instagram.

Friday! Shea Serrano and I are going to be talking about all things James Bond casting on Substack Live Friday at 4 pm. Mark your calendars! For this year’s annual B’DAY AMA, no one asked me how I hope The Morning Show ends, so I will answer that for you here and not count it as one of the 32 questions.

The Love Island USA Season 8 reunion premieres tonight at 9 p.m. ET! There will be a paywalled Hung Up chat in the Substack app.

Monday night is the Love Island USA reunion! There will be a paywalled chat in the Substack app. Death, seen here in The Seventh Seal. Dolly Parton died this week. She was 80 years old. Donald Trump ordered American flags to hang at half-staff in honor of the iconic musician. It is just like him to miss the point entirely: Tig ol biddies around the world should be higher and bigger than ever in her honor.

Major spoilers for The End of Oak Street below. Beware! More from Hung Up this week: ‘Am Missing You. How to Fix?’: Six months without Auntie … Two essays from honorable mentions of the Lena Dunham x Girls Write Now essay contest I helped judge … ‘Spare’ Some Change (Meghan and Harry head back to London) Ewan McGregor, Christian Convery, Maisy Stella, and Anne Hathaway.

More from Hung Up this week: ‘Spare’ Some Change … it took me 5 minutes to find this celebrity’s Letterboxd … my essay for Hinge’s No Ordinary Love audiobook. I have been reading the diary I kept in the fourth grade, and it is amusing to see how much hasn’t changed. I complain about my dad, I have a Legally Blonde movie marathon with my mom, I look forward to a sleepover, I detail creative differences with my primary school newspaper. “It’s my third day without Auntie.

More from Hung Up this week: ‘Spare’ Some Change … it took me 5 minutes to find this celebrity’s Letterboxd … my essay for Hinge’s No Ordinary Love audiobook. A photo of Frida Kahlo’s desk I took a few years ago in CDMX. In high school, I won a writing competition named after a local newspaperman. I wrote an essay about wanting a boyfriend, but wanting a boyfriend who wouldn’t distract me from the act of becoming who I was supposed to be.