Us Weekly's big cover scoop this week is that married country star Leann Rimes is having an affair with Eddie Cibrian, her costar in a Lifetime movie. For those of you not intensely interested in the love lives of country stars or unknown TV actors, there's another angle: both Leann Rimes and Us Weekly are represented by NYC PR firm Dan Klores Communications. A conspiracy-minded type might wonder if any shenanigans took place to land Leann on the cover of Us—the magazine gets a scoop and she gets all up in the news, at the minor price of an exposed affair. Or, a PR firm could theoretically sell out one client to a more important client to curry favor. Totally unsubstantiated idle speculation, people! But DKC was the firm where Rob Shuter worked when he was Jessica Simpson's publicist, and got in trouble for leaking a story about a Jessica-John Mayer fling just to get her a magazine cover. Of course, they showed him the door for that. So who knows what goes in in the Byzantine world of PR? Idle speculation is fun!