This Week in Tabloids: Jaden Smith & the Jenner Sisters Join a Cult
CelebritiesWelcome back to Midweek Madness! Every Wednesday, Callie Beusman and I “read” the celebrity weeklies so that you don’t “have” to. Guess what? Not one single magazine had Beyoncé/Jay Z/Solange as the main cover story today. Instead? Unsolicited Uterus Updates for Angelina Jolie and Selena Gomez and cult activity from the Smiths and Jenners. Tabloids avoided the black people. Interesting.
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MY LIFE WITHOUT TOM
Katie Holmes divorced Tom Cruise two years ago, and now she’s doing great. That’s it. That’s the whole story. In other news, Will and Jada Smith are “under fire” as parents because of that photo of Willow lounging on a bed beside a shirtless 20-year-old who used to be in Hannah Montana. The mag points out that one time Willow wore socks with pot leaves on them, which means that this is part of a Dangerous Pattern (of the media scrutinizing a 13-year-old and making a bunch of big deals out of nothing). Elsewhere in the mag, Angelina Jolie told Elle that she never thought she’d fall in love or have children, which has been labeled a “shocking confession,” because every woman is supposed to obsess over her inevitable fairy tale ending, I guess. Whatever. Moving on: Taylor Swift won’t stop copying her friends. She calls Lorde all the time for advice on being alt, and she STOLE Karlie Kloss’ (very standard) haircut. It’s creepy, says a source, adding, “If she doesn’t stop, she’ll have no one left to copy.” Um. There are like 7 billion people on the planet. Don’t see her running out any time soon, if that’s what she’s doing. And, in the most stunningly made-up rumor in the entire issue: Gwyneth Paltrow, Cameron Diaz, Reese Witherspoon and Chelsea Handler — all of whom are around 40 years old — have formed a clique of mean girls bent on excluding Jennifer Garner. LOL OK. Each has their role in the Mean Squad (Fig. 1), and they victimize her because “they just think she’s so lame.” Sure.
GRADE: F (sitting through 48 hours of Scientology sermons)
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PREGNANT AND ALONE!
Selena Gomez has received the highest tabloid honor: that of the erroneous “pregnant and alone” cover story. How false is this story? Let us count the ways: first of all, the claim is that she was pregnant with Justin Bieber’s child in 2012, while they were dating, and suffered a miscarriage — so she wasn’t ever simultaneously “pregnant and alone.” Also, she wasn’t pregnant in the first place: her rep calls the story “completely false.” Oh well! In other news, Miley Cyrus was very drunk at a nightclub in London (Fig. 2), so the editors contacted a doctor who never treated the singer, who says that she should be resting. Ok, mom. Elsewhere in the mag, we’re treated to some Bachelorette predictions, as well as this fun lil tidbit: Bachelorette Andi Dorfman and whomever she chooses to wed after 4 weeks of dating are contractually obligated to profess their love to one another to placate the teeming masses. Romantic! Moving on: Kim and Kanye are going to make $21 million off their wedding and they’re getting tons of wedding-related stuff for free. I think we’re supposed to be outraged? (This story is literally filed under a section entitled “Greed News.”) But, like, this is Kim’s entire deal, so… Next, the magazine shamingly dubs Hilaria Baldwin “Social Media’s Biggest Show-Off” because she posts photos of herself doing yoga. SHE’S A YOGA INSTRUCTOR. LEAVE HER ALONE. (Fig. 3) And, finally, Bruce Jenner and Cher are maybe starting a hot romance. They’re “texting and talking nonstop,” says a source. This is the best rumor of the year, guys.
GRADE: F (“sitting” through a 24 hour rectal exam)