This Week in Tabloids: Khal James Franco to Wed Daenerys Targaryen
CelebritiesWelcome back to Midweek Madness. Every Wednesday, Kristine Gutierrez heads to the newsstand and picks up hot-off-the-presses issues of Ok!, Us, In Touch, Star, and Life & Style, then we flip through the pages of the tabloids, hoping our gossip dreams have come true. This week, Leonardo DiCaprio attempts to break a model-fucking record (category: on a yacht); Reese Witherspoon gets an almost-failing grade in motherhood; and General Hospital star James Franco is proposing to The Mother of Dragons. (Your move, Riff Raff.)
Ok!
“Jessica’s Dramatic Delivery!”
Ok, the dramatic delivery of the headline (and coverline “FAMILY RUSHES TO HER SIDE”) might have you thinking that Jessica Simpson has already had a baby. She has not. However, Simpson’s second pregnancy does sound a bit scary. Jessica will allegedly give birth to her baby early by C-section, which is the same thing she had to do for her first baby. Good luck. Tom Cruise showed up at Connor’s – that is his son – DJ set at a club in LA, and apparently they hit on women together. Next thing you know, they’ll be doing porn together. Some poor intern at the magazine calculated the exact amount of time that’s passed since Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston split – 3,084 days. The more you know. Here’s a quote from Amanda Bynes’ ex-boyfriend, Doug Reinhardt: “She would go crazy for no reason.” Other details about her wanting to kill his bird and wreck her car are from ‘inside sources.’ An inside source claimed Bynes would have bloody, mutilated dolls on her floor. Dear source, how do dolls get bloody?
Grade: F (nightmare involving being buried alive)
In Touch
“Alone In The Delivery Room”
Again: This woman hasn’t delivered yet. And weren’t the mags just condemning Kim Kardashian for being fame-hungry and shallow? Good thing Kanye West came along to boost her image as a sad, lonely woman only eager to have a harmonious happy family. Now we can all pity her! Also, what is up with that picture of her crying in a hospital bed? She is not in labor yet. Moving on: Amanda Bynes has sick, “twisted” obsessions with body image and graphic sex, which are not nearly as sick and twisted as the world’s obsession with Amanda Bynes. Also, the magazine censored the word “vagina” from Bynes’ tweet to Drake. Truly twisted and obscene. Next: Angelina Jolie subconsciously leans left as a sign of femininity on the red carpet and choses dresses that subconsciously point to her boobies as a subconscious way to show her subconscious love for her boobies. OUR HEADS HURT. Kim Zolciak of Don’t be Tardy… is pregnant again, which is funny because do you care? Elon Musk, the genius billionaire, space voyeur, cologne eponym and baby-faced man is apparently getting heated with Cameron Diaz. Breaking: Channing Tatum is “thrilled” to be a father. In an interview with Shakira about motherhood, she shares that she would love to breastfeed her baby until he’s in college (what’s up, Freud?!); her baby loves Baby Einstein movies (because it’s baby crack); and she considered getting plastic surgery. To end it all, Taylor Swift has a third fragrance coming out called Taylor by Taylor Swift. We’ll assume each bottle is filled with the tears of her exes.
Grade: D- (birth nightmare)
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