This Week In Tabloids: Someone Put a Microchip in Amanda Bynes's Brain
Welcome to Midweek Madness, in which a small-brained baby who has not looked inside a tabloid magazine for six years takes a deep dive into Star, US Weekly, OK!, Life & Style and InTouch. This week, Bruce Jenner wears a B-cup, Kim worries that Kanye is going to hook up with Cara Delevingne, Blake Lively spits out the first of her litter (her words) and my MFA program revokes my degree.
InTouch
FEARS FOR TERESA: ATTACKED IN PRISON!
My primary context for the face I see on this cover is the IKEA monkey and it seems very unfair that she would be put in jail for going to IKEA, which I think happened a long time ago, let alone getting “beaten senseless for being famous.” It’s not her fault that coat was so cute! Okay: LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian throw away their undergarments once they have become soiled. We know this because their former nanny is suing them for wrongful termination and her lawyer says “they just threw her out like dirty underwear.” Why not wash the nanny? This just in, Bruce Jenner is a B- or even a C-cup. The question of why he is wearing a bra is the magazine’s “mystery of the week.” I bet we can solve this: Brucie just doing Brucie. In animal news, Olivia Benson, not the television detective but the cat of Taylor Swift, is now a Keds model. The specific model of shoe is called “Sneaky Cat.” In the news of that which is beyond repair, Amanda Bynes thinks she has a microchip in her head and would like “a dollar a day from every person who [is] reading my mind.” An anonymous insider has offered InTouch the information that Bynes “does the drug Molly”—you don’t say? On October 5th she got on a CitiBike and rode straight into traffic. In prison, Teresa Giudice will have to do landscaping all day for 12-40 cents an hour. Her husband may be deported back to Italy. THE TWEENS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT: Selena Gomez left Paris two days early after finding out that her boyf Justin Bieber had ditched her to hang out with Kendall Jenner. Apparently Selena already hated Kendall because her sister Kylie had hooked up with Justin this past Coachella. “When I think I’m alone I have God,” Selena said on Instagram. Mariah Carey is referring to herself in the third person: that seems reasonable. Finally, KFC made a keyboard where all the keys are covered with fried chicken stickers and the only visible letters are K, F and C.
Grade: KFC (KFC Fucking Ceyboard)
Star
KATE’S BABY SURPRISE: TWINS!
Someone call the gender police: Bruce Jenner keeps his nails in a French manicure. Someone call the police police: Bethenny Frankel’s boyfriend made her dress up in her four-year-old girl’s pajamas as a sex thing. Someone call the portmanteau doctor: John Mayer is manorexic. I am laughing a little right now at this caption about Katy Perry’s “rumored new boyfriend, DJ Diplo.” I thought that’s been happening, though? They ordered pizza to the club, which is just classic DJ Diplo. Kanye wants to “mentor” Cara Delevingne and Kim’s paranoia is at an “all-time high” about it. The magazine says that Cara has “a life that Kim could only dream of,” because she is “taken seriously by Hollywood.” Gwyneth Paltrow is delaying signing her divorce papers because she doesn’t like that Chris Martin is with Jennifer Lawrence now. Apparently J-Law won’t be photographed with Chris while he’s still married, even technically? Doesn’t that conscious uncoupling press release count? TWINS FOR KATE, TWINS FOR KATE. Twin girls for Kate! Little actual princesses! In this definitely not true story, Kate has known this since August because she has been having dreams of “two tiny babies.” How tiny, like gummy bear size? Kate’s also been chugging kombucha, regaining her appetite, and craving “tuna and sweet corn.” Her mom is moving in with them and the Queen is “furious” about it. Name candidates include Margaret, Elizabeth, Diana, Florence, Charlotte and Alice. THIS IS SO EXCITING I HOPE THEY NAME BOTH BABIES DIANA okay hold on everyone in the chat room just told me that tabloids are fake? WHY AM I READING THEM THEN? Amanda Bynes is going to apply to Columbia and NYU. “I do hope that I too can change the world,” she said, writing her essay with a Black & Mild dipped in foundation. Joe Giudice has a history of getting caught in public with his hand in a cookie jar. “Each time, it was with a sexy, younger brunette.” Pretty big cookie jar to fit two hands in it! You think the cookies were big too or? Ariana Grande wants everyone to die because she is the product of a broken home. Star got copies of her parents’ 2002 divorce papers, including an alimony request with a $1000 monthly line-item for Ariana’s clothes (we must presume that all of that money was stockpiled for fake ponytails).
Grade: Second (same grade as Ariana)
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