This Week in Tabloids: Beyoncé's in Love With Her Bodyguard
CelebritiesWelcome back! Every Wednesday, we do Midweek Madness, in which Callie Beusman heads to the newsstand and picks up the latest issues of OK!, In Touch, Life & Style, Star and Us so that together we may bathe in the sweet waters of gossip. This week: Kim’s wedding was humiliating; KMiddy is 98 lbs. and pregnant; Beyoncé’s behind the partition with her bodyguard. Let’s do this.
In Touch
HUMILIATED AT HER WEDDING!
Kim Kardashian was humiliated at her wedding, for a variety of probably-gleefully-fabricated reasons. Here they are (glorious side-note: the mag refers to its source as “one of her frenemies”): Kris Jenner got drunk and yelled at Rob for gaining weight, causing him to flee the country; Bruce Jenner was started “crying like a little old lady” while walking her down the aisle (“He was making these noises,” says the frenemy. “It was weird and made people uncomfortable.”); Kim got bad plastic surgery the night before; there were LITERALLY NO A-LISTERS THERE (In Touch cites known non-A-listers, including Ryan Seacrest, Mario Lopez and Eva Longoria as no-shows). Also, being shuttled around in a private jet from Paris to Florence and back again was soooooooo hard on the guests 🙁 Quoth the frenemy: “[The guests] were meant to feel special, but they were herded like sheep and treated like prisoners.” Mmmkay. Next: the editors have come up with an especially cruel and unnecessary article about Tom Cruise’s weight gain, with accompanying diagram (featuring a lil’ blimp icon) (Fig. 1). “He has a gut,” says a source. “It’s startling.” WHATEVER, LET THE MAN EAT LOBSTER AND ICE CREAM IF HE WANTS (the article states that that is, in fact, what he does want). Moving on: Sofia Vergara has dumped her “condiment entrepreneur” fiance, who probably cheated on her a ton and seems like a real dick. Good riddance, condiment entrepreneur! Elsewhere in the mag, a former Bachelor contestant, who was the Resident Villain on Ben Flajnik’s season, “tells all.” Most importantly, she says that several contestants had trouble pooping on the show. Being one of the afflicted, she took a laxative, triggering fears she would “blow” on a date. We love this story so much. And, finally: Selena Gomez is turning to religion in the wake of her breakup and is now a born-again virgin. The evidence for this, mostly, is that she’s been Instagramming Bible verses. Ok.
GRADE: F (washing hair with vomit)
Us
KIM’S WEDDING
Us Weekly has a different (i.e., not “HUMILIATING”) take on the Kimye nuptials: they were expensive, stuff happened, hooray. None of the information included here is new to anyone who’s gazed even momentarily upon the Internet this weekend, but here are the most interesting tidbits nonetheless: all the guests sat at a custom-made $478,000 230-foot marble banquet table; instead of place cards, their names were engraved in gold on the surface; Jay Z and Beyoncé reportedly didn’t show up because Rachel Roy, who may or may not have caused the Elevator Scuffle, was there; Jaden Smith apparently wore his white Batman costume to the actual ceremony (Fig. 2); Baby North West ate vegetable tempura at the Valentino pre-wedding brunch. Fascinating stuff. In other news, Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino are secretly dating now that she’s newly single — “He’s loved her for years,” says a source. There is pretty much nothing else contained in this magazine. There’s a page devoted to the idea that “Prince Charles — He’s Just Like Us!” He blows his nose!! Just like us!!! (Fig. 3)
GRADE: D- (sitting in a bathtub of white cake frosting)