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This Week In Tabloids: "Desperate" Jen Aniston Finally Gets Laid
Welcome back to Midweek Madness. It's spring, and the weekly mags are all abuzz with a new relationship. In fact, according to In Touch and Us, Jen Aniston and John Mayer spent one weekend together in Miami and now it's LOVE. The other covers deal with Katie Holmes as a
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This Week In Tabloids: Tom & Katie's Issues, Angelina's Doctor Drama, Shiloh's Cute Face
Welcome back to Midweek Madness! The New York Post reports that the celebrity weeklies aren't doing too well — Us, Life & Style and In Touch all missed their rate bases (the amount of circulation a magazine promises advertisers it will deliver each issue). Is it because celebrities aren't acting as crazy as they did last year? Is it because these magazines are lame? We may never know. But the covers this week — two for Tom and Katie, one for Britney, one for Angelina and one for Shiloh — sorta sucked. Intern Sharon assists as we brave the infested pages of Us, In Touch, Life & Style, OK! and Star, after the jump. More »
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This Week In Tabloids: TomKat Split; Ashlee Simpson's Engaged & Pregnant; Mariah Carey Is Slim
Welcome back to Midweek Madness, in which we search for actual gossip in the celebrity weekly magazines. This week, there are two covers devoted to the demise of Katie Holmes' marriage; one featuring Miss Britney Spears; one packed with pregnant chicks and one celebrating super svelte Mariah Carey. A gossip column swears that Tom and Katie are living apart because their home is being renovated; the rags are calling it a "trial separation." With the assistance of intrepid Intern Sharon, we shovel the shit excreted by OK!, Us, In Touch, Life & Style and Star, after the jump. More »
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This Week In Tabloids: Celebs Lose Baby Weight; Britney Relapses
Welcome back to Midweek Madness, in which we search for actual gossip in the celebrity weekly magazines. This week, there are two covers devoted to baby weight, one featuring newlywed BeyoncĂ©, one concerning Jennifer Aniston and Orlando Bloom's fauxmance and one screaming, "Britney Relapses!" Intern Sharon helps us suffer through the burning pain induced by OK!, Us, In Touch, Life & Style and Star, after the jump. Won't you join us? More »
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Magazine Publishers Call For Curbs On Fake Photos
Though American magazine publishers continue to stick their heads in the sand regarding the widespread use of airbrushing and PhotoShopping, the British Periodical Publishers Association has announced that it will be holding a series of summits to discuss the possibility of placing curbs on digital photo enhancement in magazines and advertising. These summits were spurred in part because of last year's Model Health Inquiry, which, according to the Telegraph, "accused editors of acting irresponsibly and promoting a size-zero culture." (Speaking of irresponsible magazine editors, we hear that editors at OK! Magazine used a photo of Britney Spears from 2003 to illustrate a cover story this week about Brit's "No Pills, No Lipo" stunning weight loss.) More »
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This Week In Tabloids: Britney Is Thin, Mentally Ill, & Planning A Trip To Maui
Welcome back to Midweek Madness! This week, Britney Spears is back in the "news," landing 3 of the 5 weekly covers: On OK! she's lost 15 lbs., on Star she's plotting a trip with Kevin Federline and on Us she's living with mental illness. Busy gal! The other two covers are dedicated to superskinny Hollywood chicks who are "refusing to eat" and a "scandal" concerning Angelina Jolie that happened sixteen years ago. Intern Sharon helps us search for a caffeinated jolt of gossip in the week pages of Us, In Touch, Star, Life & Style and OK!, after the jump. More »
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Amy Attempts To See Blake Incarcerated, Misses Visiting Hours
- Amy Winehouse arrived at Pentonville prison for a visit with the hubs wearing a puffy heart-shaped pin that read "Blake." Unfortunately, she was turned away, because she was late and visiting hours were over. These tears dry on their own. [The Sun]
- Rikki Rockett of Poison was arrested on a rape warrant as he stepped off of a flight from New Zealand at LAX on Monday. Can Bret Michaels stop frenching blow-up dolls long enough to help an old friend out? [TMZ]
- Grey's Anatomy hottie Justin Chambers speaks out about his sleep disorder: "It's a biological sleep disorder. Your mind keeps racing, and your body is tired. It wants to go to sleep, but it can't." Hmm, maybe that's why he has 5 kids? [People]
- "I'm not sure I can sing 'Holiday' or 'Like A Virgin' ever again. I just can't. Unless somebody paid me like $30 million or something. [Like if] some Russian guy wants me to come to the wedding he's going to have to a 17-year-old." —Madonna. [People]
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This Week In Tabloids: Katie Collapses, GyllenSpoon's In Love, The "Wedding Of The Century" Is Probably Bullshit
If it's Wednesday, it's time for Midweek Madness, in which we suffer the indignity of reading the weekly tabloids so you don't have to. It's a sad week in Hollywoodland, people, because NOTHING is going on. Oh, the covers — which are all over the place — make it look like something is going on. But Reese and Jake in love? At home with Nicole and Joel? Shiloh and Suri are big girls now? Brangelina's imagined "wedding of the century"? These are not actual newsy stories. Sure, Katie Holmes felt dizzy and made a cover, but even that is pretty weak. In any case, find out what Intern Sharon and I learned after we endured the mistreatment heaped upon us by Star, Us, OK!, Life & Style and In Touch, after the jump. More »
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This Week In Tabloids: Suri's Missing, LC's Been Stabbed, Jennifer Aniston Is Thin
Another Wednesday, another Midweek Madness! The best headline (and visual image) this week comes to us courtesy of Star: "Lindsay's Lesbian Tug-Of-War." But of the five weekly tabloid covers? The same old players are featured: Two for Jennifer Aniston; one for Brad and Angelina; one for Suri Cruise and one for Lauren Conrad. Maria-Mercedes Lara and I have a field day with the gossip inside of Life & Style, OK!, Us, In Touch and Star, after the jump. More »
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This Week In Tabloids: Stars Are Bare-Faced, Britney Is Bored, Ashlee Simpson Loves Her Nose Job
Welcome back to Midweek Madness! Every Wednesday, we slog through the weeklies in search of good celebrity gossip; this time around we found Ashlee Simpson instead. She's on the cover of Us and inside Life & Style, OK!, In Touch, and Star. Must be a slow week in Hollywood news! In fact, it's been a slow year for Life & Style, In Touch and OK!: circulation numbers are down, reports MediaWeek. (Star is doing fine, Us has yet to post numbers.) Invaluable Intern Sharon helps us read and rate the tabloids, after the jump. More »
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This Week In Tabloids: Britney May Have Been Brutalized; Angelina Doesn't Want Aniston At Her Wedding
Another Wednesday, another Midweek Madness! The covers of the weeklies are all over the place today; one for Britney, one for Heidi Montag, one for the Cruise clan and two for Angie and Brad. Rape (!) rumors, wedding arguments, Scientology and betrayal; it's all here. With the help of Intern Sharon, we take a deep breath and inhale the toxic vapors emanating from In Touch, OK!, Us, Life & Style, and Star. How badly do this week's tabloids stink? Find out, after the jump. More »
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This Week In Tabloids: Britney & Katie Knocked Up, Brangelina To Wed
Welcome back to Midweek Madness! Today three tabloid covers feature celeb pregnancies: Two covers for Britney Spears and one for
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This Week In Tabloids: Juno Lynn Spears Is Giving Up Her Baby
Every Wednesday, we get lost in the wild weekly tabloids that we call Midweek Madness. Most of the magazines close their issues on Monday night, so People will have the only celeb weekly cover dealing with the shocking death of Heath Ledger. In the other mags, the Spears family continues to dominate the covers: Jamie Lynn scores two, Britney and her spawn score two as well. (Clean teen Miley Cyrus rounds out the pack.) Intern Sharon helps us navigate the dense thicket of gossip inside of OK!, Life & Style, In Touch, Us and Star. Come with us, after the jump, and don't forget to bring your sense of direction. More »
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This Week In Tabloids: Britney Might Want A Baby & A Burka?
Every Wednesday we're plagued by Midweek Madness, the malady that comes from exposure to the weekly tabloids. This week, the covers are all over the place: Britney and Angelina are trying to get pregnant; Trista's body looks great now that she isn't pregnant; Kevin Federline's got a tell-all book and Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt continue to stage photo-ops reminding the world that they exist. Someone's buying this crap: In Touch, OK!and Life & Style are are reporting higher ad revenues and ad pages. After the jump, we risk social diseases from OK!, In Touch, Life & Style, Us and Star. Editorial assistant Maria assists! More »
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This Week In Tabloids: Katherine Weds; The Jolie-Pitts Continue To Exist
Welcome back to Midweek Madness, the debauched party at which we liberally imbibe in celeb gossip. Hollywoodland was rather quiet this week, which is great, since we're still hungover from New Year's Eve. Two of the five tabs want us to lose weight; two feature Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (now and in the '90s) and the last one has all the details you never wanted to know about Katherine Heigl's wedding. Too bad no one is newly knocked up, since that's the real cash cow these days. With the amazing Intern Sharon as an enabler, we suffer through the veisalgia of OK!, Life & Style, In Touch, Star and Us, after the jump. More »
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This Week In Tabloids: Preggers Britney Plans To Elope; Angie & Brad Are Couple Of The Year
If it's Wednesday, then this must be Midweek Madness! Does any one still believe that Britney Spears is pregnant? The editors at Bauer Publishing sure do. Brit wins 3 of 5 covers this week, although she shares Life & Style with J. Lo and Nicole Richie. After the jump, we check out the pesky Hollywood pests known as In Touch, Star, OK!, Us and Life & Style. More »
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