Samantha Leach

Samantha Leach is the Entertainment Editor at Large at Bustle, where she writes cover stories, celebrity profiles, and cultural criticism. In this role she’s interviewed everyone from Charlie Puth to Tina Brown.

Previously, the Pitzer College graduate spent three years on the features team at Glamour and severed as a production assistant on the Netflix documentary, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. Her work has also appeared in New York magazine, Harper’s BAZAAR, ELLE, as well as many other publications.

Her debut book, The Elissas, was published in June 2023 and was heralded by the New York Times as a, “Smart and gripping debut [in which] Leach refreshes a familiar heartbreak by weaving the stories of these three lost young women into a larger, more complicated and ultimately tragic narrative of a nation not so much losing the war on drugs as on a death march every bit as doomed as the last battles in Sparta.”

Entertainment

Lindsay’s Glorious Return

Lindsay Lohan is back. She’s bringing the peace she’s found — abroad and in marriage and motherhood — with her.

By Samantha Leach

Bustle Book Club

Emmeline Clein’s Debut Book Takes A Critical Look At Y2K Pop Culture

In Dead Weight, she unpacks how disordered eating was the norm in many of the mainstream hits.

By Samantha Leach

The Hostess With The Mostest

If Gabriella Khalil Builds It, The Stars Will Come

The hotelier behind the celebrity-approved Palm Heights builds buzz like no one else.

By Samantha Leach

Books

The Books It Girls Are Actually Reading

Step aside, literary fiction. A new genre has rolled into town, and it’s earning fans in high-fashion places.

By Samantha Leach

Bustle Book Club

The Author Of 'Such A Fun Age' Is Back With Another Page-Turner

For Kiley Reid’s second novel, she brings readers to a college dorm room.

By Samantha Leach

Locker Room Talk

Soft Jocks Take The Field

A new crop of athletes are choosing to forgo alpha-maledom and instead embrace sensibilities their teammates might once have decried as “beta.”

By Samantha Leach

Bustle Book Club

With 'The Fury,' Alex Michaelides Learned To Let Go

The celebrated author of The Silent Patient and The Maidens found a new way of working.

By Samantha Leach

Books

Read The First Pages Of Emma Rosenblum’s Highly Anticipated Novel, 'Very Bad Company'

BDG’s Chief Content Officer is releasing the follow-up to her national bestseller, Bad Summer People. Get an early look at the cover — and an exclusive excerpt.

By Samantha Leach

Entertainment

Jake Johnson Is In A Long-Term Relationship With His Fans

The New Girl star’s directorial debut, comedy-thriller Self Reliance, pays homage to the will-they-won’t-they romance that made him famous.

By Samantha Leach

Books

Alix Strauss Still Feels The Joy Of Funerals

Twenty years after the release of her debut book, The Joy of Funerals, Strauss believes there’s more to mine from these ceremonies than ever.

By Samantha Leach

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At 14, Ariana Madix Had Her First Kiss

The Vanderpump Rules star and soon-to-be Broadway actor reflects on her life as a young theater kid.

By Samantha Leach

Entertainment

Glen Powell’s Hot Pursuits

The famously nice star of Anyone But You isn’t afraid to fight for what he wants.

By Samantha Leach

Bustle Book Club

Ottessa Moshfegh Is Writing Out Loud

As a screenwriting duo, the author and her husband have developed a “high intensity” way of working.

By Samantha Leach

Long Live The Livestrong

The True Genius Of 'Saltburn' Lies In Jacob Elordi’s Favorite Accessory

His Livestrong bracelet speaks volumes.

By Samantha Leach

Stepping Out

Danielle Olivera Is Happy To Be Your Ride Or Die

“I’m going to have your back in this, and you know that I’m intelligent enough to do it the right way.”

By Samantha Leach

Bustle Book Club

How Sarah Blakley-Cartwright “Broke Every Rule Of The Universe”

The author explores an unusual dynamic in her new novel, Alice, Sadie, Celine.

By Samantha Leach

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At 14, JoJo Siwa Was Crushing On Zendaya

The performer reflects on her life in her early teens — including the time she spent her birthday in a tornado shelter.

By Samantha Leach

Sami Sheen’s Parents Can’t Be Mad

The model and daughter of Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen reflects on sex work, boob jobs, and growing up in the tabloids and on Real Housewives.

By Samantha Leach

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At 14, Ziwe Related To Steve Harvey For This Crushing Reason

In her debut essay collection, the comedian applies her irreverent wit to the cringey realities of teenagedom.

By Samantha Leach

Boys Will Be Boys

The Rise Of The Lowercase Boys

All confidence, no caps: This is the new reality women are facing in their DMs.

By Samantha Leach