Star magazine's new Web show lets the whole Internet read gossip together! It's like commenting on a regular online video, but you have to find the host, Star editor-at-large Julia Allison, on the streets of Manhattan to have your say on last week's stale celeb snapshots. Imagine what will happen when Allison takes…
Bonnie Fuller, the Canadian mother-of-four who defined both the celebrity weekly and the celebrity magazine editor, is to leave her job. As the demanding editor of Us Weekly, Fuller was the most sought-after executive in the magazine industry; but she traded in her reputation for a richer deal at David Pecker's…
As some of you may have heard, oft-chronicled Star magazine editor-at-large Julia Allison was on CNN's Reliable Sources this morning. Host Howard Kurtz asked, "You've been called the Paris Hilton of the media world. And Radar magazine says you are the third most hated person on the Internet. I don't know how that…
One would think that, by now, there would be no more room on the OMG BRITNEY DID ANOTHER CRAZY THING belt. However, this week's Star cover story proves that there is still plenty of space on said belt for another notch or thirty. The rag claims that Britney is pregnant once again with none other than…
The Star's Candace Trunzo cheerfully admits that the gossip weekly pays for tips. "I make no qualms about it," says the rag's editor-in-chief. "I think all the celebrity magazines do it." Well, in that case... Star magazine promises $100 on up for useful information phoned into their 800 number, though the exact rate…
Anna Wintour's famous bob has been compromised by imitators: Posh Spice, mother-of-the-messiah Katie Holmes and even, lately, the actress' husband, Scientologist preacher Tom Cruise. But we still prefer the original hairstyle, as defined by the legendary Vogue editor, seen here from behind, in a presumptuous shot by…
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.…
Star reporter Ilyssa Panitz is in search of experts to look at a couple of photos—photos of someone admitted to a hospital after "reportedly attempting to slit his wrists in a suicide try. The two photos, taken just eight days afterwards, appear to show no scars, scabs or bandages whatsoever."
What's going on with the Englewood, N.J. celeb weekly? Well! Staffers are leaving for Star, of all places, and In Touch keeps insisting that Brad and Angelina are on the rocks, despite all photographic and other evidence to the contrary. And... they're in New Jersey? Yeah. Today, Keith Kelly reported that two In Touch…
We hear that Star News & Style editor-at-large Jill Dobson—you know her from all her pimping of the magazine on the morning chat news shows—is leaving the magazine, and Candace Trunco and Bonnie Fuller, for the presumably more lucrative pastures of the Fox News Channel. Meanwhile, Star is wasting no time in hiring a…
Maybe she was doing some research for Star's daring online takedown of Us Weekly's cover story, which calls that magazine out for relying on "recycled previously published Jolie interviews from other media outlets." Because Star never does that! They just make shit up.
So Janice Min is busily rebranding Us Weekly as free of the cover story bait'n'switch tactics of other magazines. And on the one hand that's ridic, but on the other hand, sometimes she really has a point. "Brad and Angelina Threesome... SEXY ROMP with Victoria's Secret Model—The truth!" screams this week's Star…
Star magazine and its ilk are always asking "experts" like "New York-based psychologist Dr. Cooper Lawrence" to weigh in on the pressing tabloid issues of the day. With Britney Spears just now apparently checking herself out of rehab, AGAIN, WTF, we wanted in on the action! So we called up Robert Wolski, MD, an…
In the mailbox, a sighting of Star magazine EIC Joe Dolce putting in overtime:
• Charlie Rose — with a new pig-heart valve — returns to TV Monday. [NYDN]
• Congress boosts TV indecency fines, ensuring the Parents Television Council can continue its reign of puritanical terror over the nation's broadcasters. [WSJ]
• CBS's Kim Dozier returns to United States, still in critical condition but "in…
The latest issue of Star reports that the alpha bitch of showbiz moms, Dina Lohan, is writing a tell-all. Aimed at mothers who want to transform their innocent, talented children into floozy cash-cows, the book will be a guide to pimping and pushing your womb into a lucrative brand. Lohan tells Star's David Caplan…
The celeb weeklies have clearly gotten bored with trying to scoop one another. This week they've also started calling each other liars. Yesterday afternoon Life & Style broke news that TomKat is splitting up; later yesterday afternoon Star insisted they're not. This morning Us Weekly trumpeted a report that Jessica…
