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Desmond Still Sorting Out His OK! Headache
This morning's report of the whole old guard Rob Shuter's return to OK! was wrong (though maybe just premature). He hasn't been hired back. Read on for where things stand now. More »
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Flack Editor Returning To OK! As Kent Brownridge Leaves
General manager Kent Brownridge is following editor Susan Toepfer out the door at celebrity magazine OK!. The publication's overlords are bringing back the old guard — including former celebrity flack Rob Shuter. More »
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Shuter Ankles OK!
We just heard—and Jossip confirms!—that exec editor Rob Shuter is OUT at OK!(.) He says "resigned," we hear "fired." Shuter was the hated lying flack who we accused of destroying an honorable craft when he ascended to head the celeb weekly. His "celebrity-fair" style of coverage made his magazine the friendliest and also least interesting of the tabs. OK!'s new GM, Kent Brownridge, is probably behind the shake-up. Also: we were told former Daily Newser Laura Schreffler got canned too. Can anyone confirm? -
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Creepy Ex-Flack Is A Magazine Role Model
Rob Shuter may be single most well-qualified man for his job in all the celebrity media. His job, of course, is editor of photo-happy, celebrity-friendly, "What interview questions would you like to answer, Britney?" pseudo-magazine OK! But set aside your revulsion at the existence of this pair of celebrity culture warriors, and you come to realize that we can all learn something from the way the man does business. His reputation is (grudgingly) improving along with his personal appearance (pic: old on left, new on right). Shuter told CoverAwards that his magazine is "celebrity-fair." Classic, classic. Break it down: More » -
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Madonna's Rep Added To Prestigious List Of Lying Flacks
All those rumors about Madonna and Guy Ritchie possibly getting a divorce? Not to worry: Madonna's flack, Liz Rosenberg, says publicly that "There are no divorce plans." But wait—is that the same Liz Rosenberg who assured everyone in 2006 that Madonna was not adopting a baby in Malawi? Yes it is! That would be a confirmed lie, meaning that Rosenberg gets added to our always-open list of lying flacks—we've handily numbered seven of them for you, after the jump: More »
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A Superflack Scorned
Earlier this week we gave you a brief history of Rob Shuter, the shameless former celebrity flack whose various transgressions have reduced him to editing OK! Magazine. That post brought back some memories for Michael Lucas, famous gay porn performer and impresario (pictured, on the left). According to Lucas, he once snubbed Shuter's request for love, which sparked a neverending campaign by the uberflack to exact his revenge! Worst of all, Lucas says, Shuter even used poor supermodel Naomi Campbell for his own nefarious ends. Lucas' full, telling letter is below. More » -
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The Creepy Brit Who's Destroying The Honorable Craft Of Celebrity Journalism
OK! is the celebrity magazine that is the most willingly manipulated by celebrity flacks, which is really saying something. So it's perfectly appropriate that the magazine just promoted sleazy former celebrity uberflack Rob Shuter to its executive editor position. That's because Shuter is skilled at doing the two things that OK! is most famous for: lying on behalf of celebrities, and losing other people's money. Even he, the great fabulist, couldn't write a more sickening script than this.
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Rob Shuter
We're in the market for any background on the OK! editor, and former publicist. Shuter, who was fired as Jessica Simpson's publicist after making up an item about her love for John Mayer, is sleazy even by the standards of the debased celebrity weekly industry. So I'm thinking there's plenty of anecdote surrounding him. Email.
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Paris Hilton Pays 2 Million For Lying To Page Six
Remember the fake Page Six item that Paris Hilton commanded her then-publicist Rob Shuter (pictured in his highlighted glory) to plant back in 2006 about aging heiress and formerStabby NachosParis Latsis flame Zeta Graff getting kicked out of a club while 'Copacabana' played in the background? Yeah, us neither, because Paris Hilton has done about four million other retarded things since then. Anyway, rather than subjecting us all to another circusy trial, Paris has opted to settle out of court, and that reliable source Page Six claims she forked over about $2 million. They're just glad that Richard Johnson won't be forced to recite the lyrics to Copacabana on the stand, "as he did during a deposition." And now it's stuck in your head, and that's the only impact this news has had on the world. More »
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Rob Shuter Finally Finds Job Less Respectable Than Spinning For Jessica Simpson
Back in November, we passed along the word that Rob Shuter - the flack who got fired after trying to turn Jessica Simpson's collegial rimming of John Mayer into The Greatest Love Story of All Time - had found work with D-grade Us Weekly imitation OK!.Jossip moves our ball along a bit, noting that Shuter's two-month consulting stint has landed him the title of Entertainment Editor at the prestigious organ. Congratulations, Rob! We're looking forward to all the fun coverage of Jessica that's sure to spring forth from this promotion. More » -
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Irresponsible Rumormongering: Everything 'OK' With Rob Shuter?
It's the day before Thanksgiving, so we're damned if we're going to bother to do, you know, any real reporting on this one, but a well-placed source tells us that former Jessica Simpson flack Rob Shuter "has been consulting for [marginally less sophisticated InTouch celeb weekly] OK!." We've no idea if the rumor is true, but the current issue includes the following item:It's been a year since Jessica Simpson's split from ex-husband Nick Lachey, and the 26-year-old doesn't seem to be reveling in her singledom. She's been avoiding the party scene. According to several reports, it's because the singer is depressed over her current life status. Her latest album didn't make much of a dent on the pop scene, and her love life has stalled. Jessica also doesn't have a lot of close friends. The short list includes her wardrobe and hair stylists Jessica Paster and Ken Paves, her sister Ashlee and her pet pooch Daisy. "Nothing is lifting her spirits," a source tells OK!..
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Rob Shuter Reduced to Stealing Loaves of Bread
Do you hear that? It's the sound of uncontrollable cackling, and it's coming from the office of every magazine editor in town. The rampant joy comes courtesy of Britflack Rob Shuter, famous for helping Paris Hilton negotiate the murky waters of getting her ass sued by Zeta Graff, who has been dumped by his prized client Jessica Simpson. More »
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Gossip Roundup: Sheen-Richards Death Match TK
• Denise Richards' divorce from Charlie Sheen is shaping up to be the sort of celebrity tempest that could make Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger look weak. Now Sheen's friends are talking to the press — the more nasty opinions, the merrier! [Page Six] More » -
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Paris Hilton Stars in 'To Kill a Page Six Item'
Way back in July, Page Six ran an item claiming that Zeta Graff, the ex-girlfriend of Paris Hilton's then-fiancée Paris Latsis, attacked Hilton at a London nightclub and attempted to steal Hilton's $4 million necklace. Since then, Graff has filed a $10 million slander suit. While we love ourselves a well-monied catfight, this one is especially entertaining because we get to read depositions from Hilton's publicist, Rob Shuter, and now Hilton herself. More » -
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Gawker's Week in Review: Lohan Moves From Punchline to Tragedy
• Lindsay Lohan admits to Vanity Fair that she's used drugs and struggled with bulimia. When we blow rails and boot our brunch, we usually go to Graydon Carter for confessional, too. More » -
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Fighting the PR War With 'Us Weekly' Photos
Using a scientific method we're not quite sober enough to wrap our heads around, Media Orchard has calculated a ranking of celebrities as determined by the number of times their photo has appeared in Us Weekly from August 1, 2005 through January 2, 2006. It's just the sort of useless data you never knew you wanted but, not knowing it's available, simply cannot live without:
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Paris Hilton Writes the Songs That Make Page Six Sing
We had some fun yesterday with publicist Rob Shuter's deposition from the Paris Hilton-Zeta Graff slander suit, in which the high-priced celebrity mouthpiece admits that he did nothing more than pass on verbatim what his client told him — that Graff attacked Hilton at a London club, which Hilton has now admitted never happened — in the manner she told him to. It's a nice tale, in which all the blame falls on Paris's skeletal shoulders, and steadfast Shuter is shown as dutifully doing his job.
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