This Week in Tabloids: Beyoncé and Jay Z's Marriage Is in Crisis
CelebritiesWelcome back to Midweek Madness, in which Callie Beusman assists as we attempt to shine a light into the filthy, dark crevices of In Touch, Ok!, Life & Style, Us and Star. This week: Jennifer Aniston’s haircut sends a secret message; Noah and Allie from The Notebook might be back on; and Bey and Jay have serious issues. Jigga what?
Ok!
PREGNANT & ALONE
First it’s important to recognize that this image was taken in 2009 on the set of The Bounty Hunter. Intentionally tricking readers into believing this is a recent photo of Jennifer Aniston wandering around sobbing because she’s knocked up and single is the Ok! way. Inside, the copy clarifies that “many believe she’s expecting a child.” “Many” being the many editors of this mag. Since Justin is in New York shooting an HBO series and Aniston is in L.A., she is “desperately lonely.” AS USUAL. A sidebar on this story informs us that Jen got her upper ear cartilage pierced in an effort to be edgy like Justin. Same old shit. Kardashian update: Kourtney is pregnant with baby number three, according to an arrow pointing to a flat part of her midsection and text that screams “showing already!” (Fig. 1) Finally, in news from 2007, Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling might get back together now that he’s broken up with Eva Mendes and she’s not with Michael Sheen; a source who must be the NSA says they talk and message each other all the time. Quick, someone greenlight Notebook 2: Cry Harder.
Grade: F (toilet stopped up with diarrhea and used tampons)
Life & Style
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: THEY’RE GETTING MARRIED?
Wow, the editors definitely got their hands on this WORLD EXCLUSIVE story by making it up: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are talking marriage! The fake stories are the best because they always have the most artistic details: “The Viceroy Palm Springs’ pool glistened in the late October sun — but it was no match for the sparkle in the eyes of the couple [Robsten] kissing along its edge” is a real sentence. Also: “Little did Rob know his first gift to Kristen — the book Doomed Love by Virgil — would come back to haunt him.” Amazing! Lovely! Very, very untrue! Fortunately Kristen and Rob got married in a movie so the magazine can include a picture of that and speculate about nonexistent wedding plans (Fig 2). Moving on: the magazine wanted to run a story about Kate Middleton looking old without seeming malicious, so they annotated a picture of her face with quotes from Daily Mail comments. Very smooth. (Fig. 3) In other news, we finally get to the bottom of Jennifer Aniston’s “Extreme Makeover” (she cut like 5 inches off of her hair). It means that she’s never going to get married, duh. One can read Aniston-hair like tea leaves: long = “I’m in love.” Short = “PREGNANT & ALONE.”
Grade: F (sink clogged with curdled milk and slimy raw chicken fat)
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