This Week in Tabloids: Normals Who Dated A-Listers Spill Sex Secrets
CelebritiesWelcome back to Midweek Madness, in which Callie Beusman heads to the newsstand and picks up the latest issues of Ok!, Star, In Touch, Life & Style and Us so that together we may worship at the altar of Tabloid. This week: Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello continue to be hotter than the hinges of Hell; Jen Garner is going to stop Ben Affleck from gambling by giving birth for a fourth time; and Ryan Gosling cried after sex.
Star
I DATED AN A-LISTER!
Star has interviewed several normals who dated A-listers, resulting in some glorious, most certainly fake anecdotes. Some highlights: a guy who went out to dinner with Selena Gomez says she started weeping because the restaurant reminded her of an ex (i.e., BIEBER), and so great was the deluge of her tears that she got mascara “on her arms, fingers and even on her fork.” Even on her fork. Also: man who “dated” Jennifer Aniston when she was 12 says they made out behind the bleachers in 1981. And this sentence about Taylor Swift occurred: “The country cutie has scared away a bevy of Hollywood’s hottest hunks, thanks to a personality that is both superneedy and boring.” We are then informed that she spent an entire date talking about her cat. Other beautiful tales: Ryan Gosling cries a little after sex because he gets emotional sometimes. A lover of Jared Leto’s said that he refused to break character while preparing for Alexander and used a Macedonian accent during sex. Great stuff, Star. In other news, Selena Gomez is in love with another bad boy (pictured riding a jet ski, the most rebellious of watercrafts) who is going to break her heart because he is an Italian heartthrob, plus eh once went to dinner with Lindsay Lohan and also dated Vanessa from Gossip Girl. Uh oh!!!!! Elsewhere in the mag, Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello have a “special bond” because Joe had substance abuse issues and so does Sofia’s brother, which means that he has “a unique insight into the dark cloud over Sofia’s family.” Um, ok! Sure! Whatever! Moving on: Bachelorette winner Josh has “dark side”: specifically, he had an altercation with the police in 2008 when he was drunk and rowdy with friends outside of a CVS; the group then moved to a Starbucks exterior, where they were similarly drunk and rowdy. His associates were taken into custody but Josh was not, because he pleaded with the police officer and then returned 10 minutes later with his mom. His dark side is that he was a sad, whiny nerd who loitered drunk outside of Starbucks in 2008, it seems. Watch out, Andi.
GRADE: D (setting up an altar devoted to Baby Goose)
In Touch
BACK TO REHAB
Selena Gomez’s partying antics are getting the tabloids all worried again. She is “partying every day,” say sources, drinking and using “drugs including marijuana, ecstasy/Molly and more.” By “more,” I’m not really sure what’s meant — quoth a source, “At another party, she was taking swigs of vodka, and as people were rolling and smoking joints, she poured a gray powder into hers… I said, ‘Selena, what are you doing? You’re going to ruin everything!’ She smoked it anyway.” So, uh, apparently there is a mysterious grey drug that kids are smoking in joint form these days. Likely, it’s the ashes of their former innocence. Of note: This cover uses an Instagram photo. In other news, the “obsessive scrutiny of Jessica Simpson’s weight” news cycle has veered towards “DANGEROUSLY THIN” for, like, the hundredth time. An “expert” estimates that she is 99 pounds, which is not her “target weight,” but Jessica Simpson doesn’t care because she “never wants to be made fun for for her weight again,” says In Touch. Huh, wonder why that is? Moving on: Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey, two very busy humans, haven’t stepped out in public to reassure us that their love is alive, meaning their marriage is On The Rocks. UH-OH! Plus, they did not have a lavish vow-renewing ceremony this year, opting instead to throw their kids a birthday party, meaning that their marriage is in shambles, we bet. Ooookay. Elsewhere in the mag, we’re treated to a side-by-side comparison of advice Virtual Kim Kardashian gives you in her mobile game vs. stuff Real Kim Kardashian did IRL. (Fig. 1) They don’t match up! The game in which you can fly from LAX to Las Vegas for $15 in order to pluck wads of cash of the floor is NOT REALISTIC. On the subject of the Kardashians, everyone is worried about Rob (except for Kim, who is selfish, and Kendall and Kylie, who are too busy being attention-hungry teens.) Kay.
GRADE: F (taking ayahuasca while a drum circle does Selena Gomez hits)