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Lauren Weisberger, Gawker Heroine
Born in unglamorous Scranton, PA, author Lauren Weisberger started out as the abused assistant of a big bad media mogul, raging at the rigid class and social hierarchy of life at Vogue. (A creative-underclass victim, like our core readers!) She survived. She wrote a book! The Devil Wears Prada became a best-seller and a movie. ("I've gotten some feedback from people saying that their bosses have—directly after reading the book—started asking what their majors were in college, where they live, etc.") Take that, Anna Wintour. She became so successful that she's no longer One of Us: rich. Married well. Wedding in Anguilla. Working on third novel! (Click to see a mean-boss Devil Wears Prada clip.) P.S.: Now we hate you. More »
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The Fameball Game
Last night I decided to play a little game to pass time at the gym: take the treadmill in front of the window, overlooking Broadway, and run until I saw somebody famous walk by. Exactly thirty minutes later, Vimeo-founding Julia Allison-ex and web-boy Jakob Lodwick strolled past, as if on cue. Damn. I was hoping for SJP. Thanks, Internet.
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"What is the difference between a dating expert and a slut with a pen?"
Before Julia Allison was Julia Allison, the TV talking head for Star Magazine, she was Julia Baugher, dating columnist for Coed magazine. You knew that. But what was the younger, naive Julia like, before coming to the big city to make it in media? Answer: even more self-promoting and self-revealing than she is now. Here's a rare tape of an interview on the raunchy talk show, Opie & Anthony. Sample question: what is the difference between a dating expert and a slut with a pen? Answer: "Dating experts have methodology. Whereas sluts with pens just go for it. Probably with alcohol. I only involve alcohol when absolutely necessary." For this, and the young Julia's explanation of how she improved her mediocre blow-job technique, watch the clip. (Thanks, Matt.) More »
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"What is [former Observer staffer and Banana Republic model] Jessica Joffe up to these days?" someone asked me recently and I was like, "Dunno, being Ryan Adams' girlfriend and being mistaken for Kirsten Dunst, mostly?" How wrong I was! She is actually hosting these genius online videos for Vogue where she teaches people about how to have personal style. Her accent! Those little flicks of the eyebrow! I am a lesbian now and I'm moving to England and Germany!
Jessica Joffe Undoes Your Buttons On ShopVogue.TV
"What is [former Observer staffer and Banana Republic model] Jessica Joffe up to these days?" someone asked me recently and I was like, "Dunno, being Ryan Adams' girlfriend and being mistaken for Kirsten Dunst, mostly?" How wrong I was! She is actually hosting these genius online videos for Vogue where she teaches people about how to have personal style. Her accent! Those little flicks of the eyebrow! I am a lesbian now and I'm moving to England and Germany!
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Jakulia Allodwick Back On, Grosser Than Ever
"Every woman in the history of the world, at one point or another, has voiced complaints to the man she's seeing—and it is our collective fantasy (something which almost always remains a fantasy) that said man actually listen to our complaints, take time to reflect upon them, and then—holy crap—maybe... evolve ?!?! This is one of those (tragically rare) instances, and all I have to say is, if every guy so freely admitted his mistakes, no one would get any work done. They'd all be busy having incredibly hot makeup sex," wrote Star editor-at-large Julia Allison about her on and off boyfriend, College Humor millionaire Jakob Lodwick. Guess he got tested for STDs after all! But what was the gallant gesture that finally got Jakob into Julia's good graces and panties? How, exactly, did he evolve? More »
don't hate the thing you've become
Internet Fame Explained By Expert
If there were no evolutionary benefit to fame, no one would chase it—or certainly not as doggedly as they do now. To be well-known gives many people (perhaps most people?) pleasure, and generally things that give us pleasure have their roots in something that at one point helped us. There could be no other reason for the proliferation and (exponentially accelerating) mass obsession with fame.That's Star Editor-at-Large Julia Allison, offering her thoughts on "dynamic fame"—the way the Internet has "created" its own insta-micro-celebs. More »
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Dress Julia Allison
Julia Allison needs your help! The newly single Star Editor-at-Large surely must need help topping last year's Halloween costume—though we're all afraid your suggestions will just be different permutations of 'a vulva.' Oh, Jules, of course they won't! America is your fan. Let's all pitch in and help Ms. Allison find the perfect Halloween costume. It's going to be hard to do better than her previous outfit (a costume made entirely out of Magnum XL condoms), but we're sure one of these choices, if executed correctly, could do the trick. More »
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Jakulia Allodwick Split Sends Internets Reeling
My friend Alice likes to say that we're living in the Too Much Information Age, and you don't have to look further than any breakup between any two people who both have blogs to understand what she means by that. And if those two people are both Internet-created pseudocelebrities, you have the voyeuristically fascinating, oddly revelatory theme park of narcissism that is the Julia Allison—Jakob Lodwick breakup. More »
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Julia Allison Is Partial To David Blaine's Abracadabra
From the mailbag:So here's a super-weird sighting - I saw David Blaine, Leven Rambin and Julia Allison eating dinner together at Koi in the Bryant Park Hotel tonight (Thurs) around 6:30. He seriously had cards out on the table doing a trick and Julia was laughing really loudly. She was wearing a black Chanel dress - it was pretty conservative. Leven was wearing some tan sweatshirt thing. Blaine was wearing sunglasses. When they left Blaine and Leven got on a motorcycle together and Julia took a photo of them.You know what, the more we think about it, the more we're actively rooting for that hurricane to come and completely destroy New York.
Attention stalkers: Here's where you'll find Star Editor-at-Large Julia Allison during today's Fashion Week events. Be sure to say hi, she's super friendly! [JA]
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Julia Allison Knows: Exactly What She's Doing, The Word 'Dichotomy'
We once posited this analysis of professional talking head, dating columnist, and internet metacelebrity Julia Allison: "The extent of her self-awareness of her persona is a constant source of speculation for me. I think she must know to some extent that the character she has constructed—a hyperstylized vixen—borders on absurd but you gotta admit, she's milking the character for all it is worth." Now we wonder no more! Julia writes: "I've always felt completely self-aware—like, if you don't get that 94% of the things I do are to amuse myself, or because I fear, more than anything else, being boring—how is that my problem?" Snap! Oh, and it gets better. She's written a whole post about her image construction! Sociology grad students, listen up. More »
Legal expert Julia Allison will be on MSNBC today discussing our nation's justice system and how it treats celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie. Expect Linda Greenhouse levels of incisiveness! [Julia Allison]
back to the future
Alexandra, Spiritual/Psychic Counselor of Staten Island
This city is full of psychics, both high-end and low-end. But can any of them actually foretell what's tk? We'll only know when we all go back and reread this occasional feature in twenty years. Do you have a psychic you'd recommend we see? Let us know.
One afternoon at 2:00, which was exactly one hour after she'd said she'd arrive, a busty brunette in a skimpy red sundress burst through the doors of Gawker headquarters and sprinted towards me. It was Julia Allison, of course, coming to take me to a psychic in Staten Island. The kicky rhythm of her four-inch rope espadrilles on the hardwood floor was the loudest thing that had happened in the office all day, but it was quickly one-upped by her voice. "Aren't you SO EXCITED!" she asked-told me as she enfolded me in a candy-smelling embrace. And then she grabbed my hand and the next thing I knew I was beside her in that vaunted convertible Mercedes, speeding as quickly as it's possible to speed down a traffic-clogged street in Soho, accompanied by Whitney Houston ("I Wanna Dance With Somebody"). That's when reality began to blur, so I've had to reconstruct the next part of the afternoon by looking at my sent and received text messages.
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Julia Allison Gets The Best Hatemail
From one "Craig L." comes this missive:
How in the hell are we supposed to care about this bitch Julia Allison? Who is this woman and how did she rise to such notoriety with such little education and or common knowledge of the world around her? The question remains, who among us can't do what she does? This is not simply a latter day Carrie Bradshaw. This is a painted whore who drives a Mercedes off her ill gotten gains. Perhaps because we don't have a 34D chest and a vacant personality we shall never attain such lofty goals. This girl is a menace, a boil on society and I, for one, refuse to accept that she gets a pass just because she has big tits. If people like me are heard then this girl w ill be out of the papers, if not now, eventually. I am sick of this type of New York bullshit. Woody Allen I can take, he is at least funny 10% of the time. This bitch is just annoying 100% percent all the time, every time. Please kill me before you place another post about her.Hey, Julia-haters, doesn't it feel cool to be on this guy's team?
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The Wisdom Of Julia Allison
We bitch and moan about the stresses of this job a lot—mediocre pay (not Observer-bad, but still!), little sleep, getting slapped around by a hot and crabby gay—but perhaps the most frightening aspect of working at Gawker occurs in those random moments when Star Editor-at-Large Julia Allison pops up on the IM to drop some knowledge. So, fine, we're spreading the agony around. More »
Jessica Joffe Strikes A Bloggy Pose In New Ads
Cultural critic and Ryan Adams muse Jessica Joffe continues to work her signature 'inscrutably Teutonic' thang for ShopVogue ads. Big step up from Banana Republic! You go, fraulein.
Spotted: Jessica Joffe [Fashionista]
Cultural critic and Ryan Adams muse Jessica Joffe continues to work her signature 'inscrutably Teutonic' thang for ShopVogue ads. Big step up from Banana Republic! You go, fraulein.Spotted: Jessica Joffe [Fashionista]
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Reliable Source Julia Allison Speaks Out On Lindsay Lohan Story
This weekend on CNN's "Reliable Sources"—one of television's only regular programs to examine how journalists do their jobs and how the media affect the stories they cover— took a look at the very important Lindsay Lohan DUI story. In a strident debate with Parade's Jeanne Wolf, Star Editor-at-Large Julia Allison insists that we're missing the real story: Lindsay Lohan is a reckless driver.
