When you read a tabloid magazine article you may wonder, where do they get their information? You would think there are diligent reporters pounding keyboards fielding phone calls from sources, and vetting those sources, but the reality is much different. The majority of info given to magazines like People come through publicists or the celeb themselves. But publicists and their famous clients don't trust the tabloids, so Star 'reporters' are busy trolling the web, reading gossip blogs, looking at paparazzi photos, doing what any of us can do to get info. If you are a 'source' for these tabloids, you will know that what you've told them will end up in an upcoming issue. "How did [X] know that? [X] must be right!" Or you may just know that the lazy reporters have trolled your blog and will inevitably take the info --this doesn't make the information correct or the blogger prescient. Someone reading a blog could phone that info into a tabloid in the hopes of making some quick cash, it doesn't make it accurate. This issue of Star [below] had two major errors, the fact that LeAnn Rimes does not live in the Hollywood Hills, and the fact that Jake Cibrian's first name is not Austin. Is this from editorial laziness, or from sources who don't really have their facts straight? The 'drunk in a closet' stuff is inevitably from a Star reporter reading a blogger's blind item, and the $50 million is a fantasy and highly inflated version of LeAnn Rimes' actual wealth. Who wants to read about a $1.2 million divorce? BIG numbers get BIG attention. While we do believe Mr Ed is in a living hell of his own making with the country crooner, we don't believe he's throwing in the towel--yet.
Tom Cruise is suing In Touch magazine for a cover story where they say he 'abandoned Suri.' His taped deposition revealed he didn't see his daughter for 110 days after Katie Holmes left him, so the In Touch story is pretty spot on. Now other mags get to crawl all over the juicy details of the deposition, and our favorite Star is doing just that...
Turns out In Touch was being conservative with the '44 days' thing, it was more than TWICE that!
Someone is mad at Star! Tori Spelling has banned them from using her latest money making scheme, staged pics from a birthday party on November 3rd at Underwood Farms for Finn & Hattie. HUH? Finn turned 1 on August 30, and Hattie turned 2 on October 10, 2013. NOW they get parties? Startraks pays Tori a percentage of the profits of photos so they had to invent some dog and pony show to keep the media interested... Read in red in photo cap: Exclusive/No Star Magazine
We think Eddie Cibrian would have to have a J-O-B before he dumps his horse-faced wife, but who knows? And the $50 million is way off, LeMann is lucky if she has a few million in the bank. Oh, and get ready for the staged, "We're SO HAPPY!" pics...
Last Christmas, Bruce and Kris Jenner were mad that Star magazine had figured out they were separated, so they decided to stage a photo op with Splash photo agency. Well, in actuality, Bruce could have probably cared less, but money grubbing Kris thought the true story threatened her empire and future story lines for their reality show. So, they went to a Christmas tree lot and posed up a storm for $plash (who cuts them in for half the sale of the photo), and even answered questions on video fed to them in a clipped British accent. Bottom line is, the more ridiculous the photo op the truer the story.
"F*ck you STAR magazine!"
This is the cover that sent Kris Jenner running to the Christmas Tree lot, dragging Bruce behind the car...