Publication: National Examiner
Date: 19 Sept. 2011

The low rent Examiner goes for nostalgic gossip that doesn't quite meet my standard for Hey Old Timer Gossip, which is to say someone has to have a claim to fame before I graduated high school. Melissa Gilbert's first big break as a child star is in 1974, so she just misses the 1973 cutoff date.

In any case, she is getting a divorce and her younger sister Sara is breaking up with her partner. The low rent Examiner figures this is the kind of news their readers can use.

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Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 4 July 2011

The Flagship takes up most of the cover trashing the marriages if entertainers. One couple is making their first visit to the front pages, another is making only its second visit and first inkling there is trouble, and the third one is no surprise at all.

Welcome to gossip hell, Bruce Boxleitner and Melissa Gilbert! Just for a change of pace, the headline "All Melissa's Dirty Secrets & Lies!" makes it look like the wife is to blame.

This is also the first gossip rag mention of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill have a "troubled marriage".


And last but certainly least in terms of the surprise factor, we have "Maria's Plan to destroy Arnold forever".

Best of luck, hon.

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