This Week in Tabloids: Cunnilingus Enthusiast Justin Bieber Gives Head for a Full Hour
CelebritiesWelcome back to Midweek Madness, in which we swap your regular news with gossip crystals from the tabloids: In Touch, Us, Ok!, Life & Style, and Star. This week, Angelina Jolie is knocked up with baby number seven; Anne Hathaway is working on a “killer” Oscar speech; and Justin Bieber got fucked up on weed and purple drank and went down on a random nursing student and ate on and on til the break of dawn.
Ok!
“Inside Kim’s Baby Shower!”
Don’t be fooled by the images on the cover and inside the magazine, in which Kim is looking joyous at some kind of event: The baby shower has not yet happened. It should take place this spring, and Kim has allegedly already chosen the colors: Silver, white, cream and pale yellow. Zzzz. Also inside: Taylor Swift is having a “revenge romance” with 21-year-old musician Ed Sheeran, who sings that sad Top 40 song about an agoraphobic crack whore and weather-sensitive seraphim. They’ve been texting a lot. Megan Fox is having her turrible Marilyn Monroe tattoo removed and it sounds turrrrible: “When the laser hits the ink on your skin it kind of explodes and looks like little kernels of popcorn popping up. It’s traumatic and incredibly painful,” she says. In OH HELL NO news, Daniel Craig thinks Robert Pattinson would be a “brilliant” James Bond.” Finally, in case you’re keeping count, Catelynn from Teen Mom has lost 30 lbs and has 12 more to go before her wedding.
Grade: F (powdered milk)
Life & Style
“Worst Week Of My Life”
Khloe Kardashian is a wreck because of “the spread of reports claiming that Robert Kardashian wasn’t actually her father.” Guess who spread those reports? Life & Style and sister publication In Touch. Blerg. Also inside: Britney wants to do a residency in Las Vegas, but a source warns, “She’ll be tempted by all of her vices,” and an “insider” who could also be called an underminer says: “I can definitely see her cracking in Vegas.” Thanks for the vote of confidence! Here’s a LOL: A piece about Naomi Campbell titled “Nobody Knows The Real Me” is accompanied by a photograph in which Naomi has been Photoshopped to hell and back and looks unrecognizable. (Fig. 1) Last, but not least, Jessica Simpson is “95% sure” her unborn fetus will be a boy, and there’ a 50% chance the mag is getting that gossip correct.
Grade: D- (instant coffee)
In Touch
“Exposed!”
Apparently the editors bought — sorry, “obtained exclusively” — some of Robert Kardashian’s handwritten journals from 1989 and 1990. The seller slash giver? Ellen Kardashian, his widow. Klassy! The mag prints private never-meant-to-be-read sentences from beyond the grave like: “She left kids & screwed all nite. Great state of caring.” And “I was home alone w/ 4 kids.” The passages, written at the end of Robert’s marriage to Kris Jenner, are all about how Kris is having an affair with a soccer player named Todd Waterman and how Kris is being a bad mom and kicking and beating Kim and telling her she was going to kill her and whatnot. All in all, disgusting story using the words of a man not here to defend himself. Moving on! Tom Cruise thinks he has paranormal powers and can move an ashtray with his mind. Coco wants a baby with Ice-T — specifically a girl. “We already have the name — Chanel. I want her to be a lawyer,” Coco says. And: “I want a little doll of my own! I could teach her to walk in heels and do her hair.” Though the two have had some issues lately, Ice says: “We don’t need no therapy. My lady and I can work things out.” Surely. Let’s see, what else? Kim Richards got a nose job. (Fig. 2) Marissa Tomei is engaged to Tom Hardy doppelgänger Logan Marshall-Green, aka Trey from The OC. Taylor Swift, Kate Bosworth, Jennifer Connolly, Anne Hathaway, Rachel Zoe, Victoria Beckham and Allison Williams are “stressed and skinny.” (Fig. 3) Never forget the tabloids want you fat so you can be a Worst Beach Body™ or thin so you can be Wasting Away™. Finally: Jessica Simpson’s sweater is on award tour with muhammad my man, going each and every place with the mic in its hand. (Fig. 4)
Grade: C (instant split pea soup)