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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 Beyoncé, 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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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 »
...Or Maybe Not
Us and People are reporting that there was not, in fact, a Brangelina wedding. A source tells Us the story is "complete and total bullshit." Sigh. Star is still claiming that there was a small ceremony on Saturday afternoon. Is it true? Or is it that sometimes when you want something badly, you'll do anything to make it true? [People, Us, Star]
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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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Wait, What? Do That Many Men Really Prefer Women Pretty & Poor?
A recent poll of 66,000 men in the UK has found that the ideal female is 133 pounds, has blue eyes, long blond hair and doesn't earn too much. (That rules ScarJo out, notes Telegraph.) In fact, UKDating.com says that 54% of males would not date anyone who earns more than £25,000 a year. Interesting, since an Elle/MSNBC survey showed that only 12% of men would be resentful of a wife who out-earned them. Unfortunately, the pay gap means that women get paid 16% less than men for the same work on average, according to a new report from the International Trade Union Confederation. That's worldwide: In some countries (China, Japan, South Korea) it's as high as 33% less; in Europe it's around 14% less. More »
Death & Cellulite
When it comes to best-selling covers, the weeklies win with fatalities and flesh, reports the New York Post. Aside from special issues, like "Sexiest Man Alive," People magazine's best-selling issue in 2007 dealt with the apparent suicide attempt of Owen Wilson. So far, their best selling issue of 2008 was the memoriam to Heath Ledger. Star's best-seller? "Best and Worst Beach Bodies." (Meanwhile, over at Us, editor Janice Min is "breaking news" with revelations about Hilary Clinton's wardrobe and Barack Obama's love of hot sauce, The New Yorker points out.) What does it mean that the American public craves information about corpses and corpulence? [New York Post, The New Yorker]
When it comes to best-selling covers, the weeklies win with fatalities and flesh, reports the New York Post. Aside from special issues, like "Sexiest Man Alive," People magazine's best-selling issue in 2007 dealt with the apparent suicide attempt of Owen Wilson. So far, their best selling issue of 2008 was the memoriam to Heath Ledger. Star's best-seller? "Best and Worst Beach Bodies." (Meanwhile, over at Us, editor Janice Min is "breaking news" with revelations about Hilary Clinton's wardrobe and Barack Obama's love of hot sauce, The New Yorker points out.) What does it mean that the American public craves information about corpses and corpulence? [New York Post, The New Yorker]
