(picture from TMZ.COM/rights by Getty Images)
Publications: People, OK!, Weekly Life & Style, In Touch, Us Weekly
Date: 26 Sept. 2011

Fresh trash... on Wednesdays? Yes, all but two of The Only Ten Magazines That Matter have online presence, so I can check out the covers today, and one story hit all the covers of the non-AMI mags. Jennifer Lopez and Bradley Cooper were seen dining together, and though their representatives say it was business, the gossip rags are having a field day. Here are the headlines.

• People: J. Lo's dinner with Bradley Cooper
• OK!: J. Lo and Bradley's hot date (only in OK!)
• Weekly Life & Style: Marc can't handle it
  J. Lo and Bradley's hot date
• In Touch: J. Lo and Bradley: Hot New Romance
• Us Weekly: J. Lo and Bradley: Revenge Date
  

Besides this story getting five mentions and two of them implying that Jennifer is only doing this to get back at her cheating spouse, my favorite detail is OK! being delusional enough to think this story is an exclusive. The picture I nicked is from TMZ.com, which published this story back on Sunday.

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Publication: OK!
Date: 19 Sept. 2011

I thought there was a chance Jennifer Lopez would become more of a gossip target once she joined the judging panel on American Idol, but The Only Ten Magazines That Matter don't devote that much ink to that show. Now that her marriage has fallen apart and the rumors are that she was the dumpee and not the dumper, her gossip star is rising.

This week, OK!, usually the nicest of the gossip rags if not the most reliable, lets her cheating estranged husband drag her name through the mud.

Not that she doesn't deserve it.

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Link to the story above.

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Publications: People, In Touch

Date: Sept. 5 2011



Welcome to gossip hell, Will Smith! The actor and rapper gets his first mention in The Only Ten Magazines That Matter in two years in the worst possible way with rumors about the dissolution of his marriage. His wife Jada Pinkett Smith has been mentioned one time before as part of a list in one of those coy "who's gay and who's not" lists the Enquirer likes to print.



The People headline is low key, just the line " Will & Jada marriage drama".

But In Touch really goes to town with the story, taking up most of the cover with pictures and headlines.

• Two marriages destroyed
• Jada steals J. Lo's husband!
• Exclusive photos & interviews
• Will Smith catches Jada & Marc Anthony in his home and runs out crying!
• Humiliated Will fires his staff for covering it up
• Details of their secret separation

Will and Jada are denying it and making public appearances to dispel the rumors, but this has gotta hurt. The idea that a woman is leaving you for Marc Anthony (?!?) is embarrassing to hear even if it isn't true.



As Leslie Gore wrote all those years ago, you would cry too if it happened to you.

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Publication: National Enquirer

Date: 22 August 2011



The Flagship tells us little Marc Anthony is going to get his revenge against mean ol' Jennifer Lopez with the favorite artifact of the gossip world, the tell all book. Here are the headlines.

• J. Lo's worst nightmare
• the ultimate revenge
• secret hookups with P. Diddy
• Butt implants and $100,000 plastic surgery
• Their shocking domestic violence
• Voodoo, witchcraft and animal sacrifices
  
  

While sex with Diddy is kinda icky, the domestic violence and animal sacrifices are the special touches that make this a nominee for Meanest Story of the Week.

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Publications: Us Weekly, Weekly Life & Style, Star
Date: 15 August 2011

J. Lo's divorce is creating a lot of stories for the supermarket gossip rags and her co-star Rodrigo Santoro is now being tossed into the mix. Here are the headlines.

• Us Weekly: He begs for a second chance but…
  J. Lo tells Marc NO WAY!
  Jen takes their kids and vows to make him pay
  How hunky new costar drives Marc nuts
• Weekly Life & Style: J. Lo's revenge romance
  That was quick!
  Steamy nights and nude scenes with sexy Latin co-star Rodrigo Santoro
  Inside her plot to drive jealous Marc crazy
  "I'm happier than ever"
• Star: J. Lo's big lie exposed
  (World Exclusive) Divorce deal blows up!
  Court showdown: questions about cheating and sex tape
  
  

As anyone who reads this blog knows, I have no inside information, barely even any information inside the magazine covers. But J. Lo's statement "I'm happier than ever" when her twins are now going through a divorce as well makes me think she is a seriously self-centered bee-otch.

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A story so big, one set of labels was not enough.

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Publication: Huffington Post
Date: 15 July 2011

Trying to hide a story in the Friday news dump is not just for Washington D.C. anymore. Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez have decided to end their seven year marriage. To recap some of the stories of the past year in the gossip rags, Marc Anthony was allegedly not happy about her taking the job on American False Idol and in January she had an interview with the standard crap line "My kids saved me."

Maybe they saved her a bundle on car insurance. They sure couldn't save this drama queen's marriage.

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