This Week in Tabloids: Khloe Kardashian Is Pregnant! Who's the Daddy?
CelebritiesWelcome back to Midweek Madness! Every Wednesday, Callie Beusman ventures out to the newsstand and picks up the latest issues of Ok, In Touch, Star, Life & Style and Us, so that together we may inhale the aromatic fragrances of gossip. This week: a Defense of Duck Dynasty; Her Majesty The Queen of England weighs in on soup; and Khloe Kardashian is pregnant. The sweet smell of suck-cess!
Ok!
“INSIDE HER NEW HOME”
Someone at OK! has penned the world’s most depressing fan fiction about Kate Middleton and Prince William moving into their new royal home. According to a “source,” “There were balloons and a ‘Home Sweet Home’ banner on the wall.” Prince William popped over to Party City to get novelty moving-in items with which to surprise his royal consort. Sure. Also, he apparently has built himself a mahogany man cave with a flat-screen TV for watching Breaking Bad. I hate this story so much. Nothing else remarkable is contained within these pages: Charlie Sheen called Ashton Kutcher “lame” and also “REALLY lame” on Twitter. Sick burn, Charlie. In other news, Tori Spelling is having trouble trusting Dean McDermott after the recent cheating allegations. The magazine ventures that she deserves an Oscar for maintaining her composure around her children. Moving on: Bachelor Juan Pablo might not have entered himself on a high-rated reality television program set in a hot tub salted lightly with tears because he wants to find pure and everlasting love. UNTHINKABLE. Suspicious sources are split on whether he’s in it for money or because he wants to kick-start a television career.
GRADE: F (Bog of Eternal Stench)
In Touch
“INSIDE KATE’S HOUSE OF HORRORS”
Another Kate, another home to home to be inside metaphorically. And o! what a difference: Kate Gosselin is controlling and isolating her eight children, provoking a great deal of worry in former husband Jon. Apparently, the children are having problems interacting with other kids their age, and Kate doesn’t let them leave her property much, controls their daily behaviors fastidiously and makes them do a lot of chores. It’s probably because she wants to get them back on TV. Gross. In other news, no one kares about the Kardashians anymore and it’s making Kris Jenner very koncerned. Friends joke that she might leak a sex tape with Ben Flajnik. I think the apocalypse would absolutely begin if that were to occur. Moving on: the mag has published a really bizarre spread attempting to justify the homophobic and racist things said by that old guy from Duck Dynasty. “Sources” assure the magazine that noted racist and homophobe Phil Robertson is neither racist nor homophobic. What. Why is this happening now, a month after the scandal — and, more importantly, why is this happening at all? In other news, Justin Bieber faces criminal charges for egging his neighbor’s house, which we all know — but apparently one of the people living in the egged house is a 13-year-old former Bieber fan. Can you imagine the tween angst one would feel upon being egged by their former heartthrob? That is so sad. Finally: A spread entitled “Even Picture-Perfect Stars Get Cellulite!” (Fig. 1), meant to make women feel comfortable with having cellulite or something? We’re all for being less cruel about famous peoples’ bodies, but is continuing to point to cellulite with a message of empowerment the best way to go about it? (Hint: No.)
GRADE: F (the odor from mountain of cat turds topped with dirty diapers)
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