This Week In Tabloids: Jennifer Aniston's Former Lover Says He Was "Too Pure" For Her
CelebritiesWelcome back to Midweek Madness! Every Wednesday, we play with In Touch, Star, Life & Style, Ok! and Us. This week: Jennifer Aniston’s ex-fling says she’s into bad boys; Osama Bin Laden finally makes the cover of Ok!; and Angelina Jolie is having hot, steamy, girl-on-girl and girl-on-Brad sex day in and day out.
Ok!
“Justice!”
Look at all the tabloid covers this week, and ask yourself: Which one of these things is not like the other? In an interesting sales technique, Ok! decided not to go with celebrity gossip as the main image on the cover, and chose “Osama Bin Laden Destroyed!” instead. Ok! usually brings us tales like “Leah Dumped By Corey” and “Kim’s Dream Wedding,” but this cover article involves words like: “The gaunt, bearded face of modern terror met his end not in some remote mountain cave but in a compound in suburban Abbottabad, Pakistan.” There are eight pages of this: A recap of what happened on September 11, 2001. A photo of the smoke plumes coming from the World Trade Center. Quotes like, “It helps the healing process,” and “A surgical raid by a small team.” There are also images of crying firefighters and people covered in ash, as well as a map of Abbottabad and a spread called “America Rejoices!” with Twitter messages from Katy Perry, Anderson Cooper and Snoop Dogg. Very weird. Using Ok! as a news source is like asking your gynecologist to set up your wifi. She can probably do it, but you wouldn’t exactly call it her area of expertise. Anyway. Also inside: Brad from The Bachelor and Emily, the lady he proposed to but isn’t wearing the ring, had a “tense lunch” in Austin. Will they be together? No one knows, but a source says, “You can’t rush something that will last a lifetime.” Also, you can’t force something to happen just because TV execs wish it would. Jennifer Lopez started going gray at 23, and has been dyeing her hair every two weeks since then, which the editors have calculated to mean she has touched up her roots 490 times. Scintillating.
Grade: U, for USA. Or Uncomfortable. (death rumors)
Life & Style
“Brad’s Heartbreak”
“Brad Womack was confused,” reads the copy. “He found it hard to work out which Emily was there with him. Was it the sweet girl who had stolen his heart on The Bachelor or the jealous, insecure woman who’d broken up with him multiple times since he’s slipped the diamond ring on her finger?” Girls are sweet. Wimmins be messin’ with your head. Also inside: We learn that William and Kate’s “next big production” will be a baby. Katie Nicholl, author of The Making Of A Royal Romance, says: “Kate will be 30 next year, and her one job now that she’s married to an heir to the throne is to produce another heir.” Don’t come out of your room until there’s a bun in that oven, young lady! Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn are enthusiasts of the old afternoon delight. They’re using the Chateau Marmont for their “romantic rendezvous.” Even though Sean has a mansion in Malibu, he will meet ScarJo at her rented bungalow “at all times of the day.” And! “When the duo aren’t attached at the hip, Scarlett relaxes by reading at the pool and waiting for her man.” The piece titled “My Boyfriend Loves My Pregnant Body” is about Kim Zolciak. Of course. She and Kroy, who we still think might be named for a character from Clan Of The Cave Bear, have a name picked out for their unborn spawn, but they’re not telling. Odds are the name will begin with the letter K. Kim says: “This pregnancy has kicked my butt, and now I’m at the stage where I’m uncomfortable.” Not too uncomfortable to pose bare-bellied, mind you! (See Fig. 1)
Grade: D- (baby rumors)