Intro for July 31, 2026

Dear Gossips,The Shards, a Ryan Murphy-produced adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel of the same name, is coming to the FX/Hulu/Disney+ conglomerate next week. Lainey wrote about it here, it’s notable in part because the series stars Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere, the children of Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere, who used to be married. Ryan Murphy loves a nepo baby, and he loves messy gossip, and The Shards casting is the confluence of his passions.I’ve been thinking about nepo