Publication: Weekly Life & Style

Date: 5 September 2011



Fresh trash on Thursdays! Weekly Life & Style has a picture of the latest pair from that miserable romantic failure factory The Bachelorette with a baby exclusive.





If this is true and all goes according to form, the child will be just another "bastard in a basket!"

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Publications: OK!, People, In Touch, Weekly Life & Style, Star
Date: 15 August 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays! The gossip rags love the Bachelor franchise, but the weird thing is that they love it after it stops airing. Everybody and their monkey knows this show's track record is dreadful, and why shouldn't it be? At the end, there's three people, somebody gets dumped big time in public and the other two know that the person who made the decision has been shopping around for a long, long time.

Here are the headlines.

• OK: Bachelorette Ashley: In love or in hell?
• People: (Only in People)
  Bachelorette Ashley engaged
  Love after lies
  "I had to follow my heart"
  How she's handling JP's jealousy
  Facing her family's disapproval
  Why she led Ben on: "I know there's going to be a backlash"
  Ben devastated
• Weekly Life & Style: Ashley and JP: Jealous fights already
• In Touch: JP's family: Don't marry Ashley
• Star: Bachelorette Ashley engaged & miserable
  The REAL story
  

Notice that People is holding out a glimmer of hope because they got an "exclusive". Everybody else, even the Pollyanna OK!, is saying this is one of the worst ideas in history.

As Rocket J. Squirrel was quoted as saying many times, "But that trick never works!"

This time for sure.

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Publications: OK!, In Touch, Us Weekly, National Enquirer
Date: 8 August 2011

The stories this week about The Bachelorette either focus on Ashley or on J.P. Here are the headlines about her.

• National Enquirer: Bachelorette was rigged!
  Ashley's fake script and tears
• Us Weekly: Bachelorette Exclusive: Ashley says yes!
  

And the ones about J.P.

• OK!: The Bachelorette: J.P.'s secrets revealed
• In Touch: JP's secret double life
  Ashley fooled again!
  He's still madly in love with his ex, Stephanie
  A shocking celeb hook-up
  The real reason he went on the show
  Why marrying him could be Ashley's worst mistake ever!
  

This is why the gossip rags love the reality shows. They can write whatever they want without fear of losing access.

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Publication: Weekly Life & Style
Date: 1 August 2011

Because the break-up of J. Lo and Marc Anthony took up so much space this week, other stories get short shrift. No Teen Mom, thank Odin, Krishna and the little baby Jebus, and only one update on the latest season of The Bachelorette. Here are the headlines from Weekly Life & Style.

• Ashley says yes in Fiji
• 3.5 carat ring from her dream guy
• She gushes to Life and Style "I'M SO HAPPY"
• JP says "I love you"
• Her romantic date with Ben F.

I can see why she's so happy. She gets to travel, she got a ring from a guy who tells her he loves her, AND she still gets to have romantic dates with other guys.

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Publications: In Touch, Weekly Life & Style, OK!, National Enquirer
Date: 11 July 2011

Four supermarket rags this week are covering The Bachelorette. The only surprise is the Enquirer, which doesn't pay that much attention to this particular show.
Here are the headlines.

• Weekly Life & Style: Bachelorette Ashley betrayed again!
  Still reeling from Bentley's cruel taunts, Ashley has her heart broken again as it's revealed her future fiance has a secret girlfriend back home.
  Heartthrobs turned heart breakers - Ames, J.P., Ryan
• In Touch: Ashley update: caught with J.P.
• National Enquirer: Ashley is a runaway bride
  
• OK!: Poor Ashley discovers she was being used for fame

Maybe I'm just naturally cruel, but I actually laughed at the OK! headline. What "fame" did Ashley have? Oh yeah, she was selected to be on reality TV, and paid a boatload of money to do it, so "poor" is not the best description of the young woman.

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