People Magazine has a nice story about how Jamie Lynn Spears, 17, and her fiance, Casey Aldridge, are setting up their new home in Liberty, Mississippi to prepare for their life together and their new baby, due soon. They have a house on five acres and have purchased typical furniture for a new home, including a four poster bed, a leather sofa and a canopy bed. The nursery for the new baby will feature pink, brown, and silver-green, and is being designed with the help of Jamie Lynn’s mother, Lynne.
Their property has a barn on it, because that’s what you typically find on larger property. It’s called a barn, not a garage, when it’s big and features more storage. I grew up in the Northeast and we had a barn. My parents now live in Virginia, and they have a barn on their new property. It’s common and not news.
Instead of covering the story that Jaime Lynn and Casey are settling into their new home and waiting for their baby, TMZ took the small fact that there was a barn on their land and used the misleading and rude headline “Jamie Lynn’s Baby Will Grow Up in a Barn.”
When I first read that, I thought that they were buying a big barn and converting it into a house, something that is more common lately. The results are often striking, with rustic-looking aesthetically pleasing structures that are just as comfortable as a regular home. But no, Casey and Jamie Lynn are just going to have a barn on their land and of course the baby is not going to live there.
If you have nothing funny to say just report the story, TMZ, and not your blatant bias against anyone who doesn’t live in a large city. I know I should just accept that TMZ is tasteless, rude and can be incredibly offensive, but that doesn’t mean they should continue to get away with it.
Update: And there’s also a crack about Asian people not being able to digest alcohol in that same article recapping the news. I don’t know why I even bother.
I agree. Offensive and definitely a pointed, sneering remark. Idiotic stereotyping is alive and well at TMZ.
You’ve covered pretty much everything else worth saying here, CB.
Yet another reason to loathe TMZ. I’m a Southerner & i think its totally offensive. I mean, I get that they were trying to make a joke, but its totally distasteful
I’m also from the south and it’s laughable how people make such white trash/trailer park jokes about the Spears’ when they actually started out a middle to upper-middle class family!
Don’t get me wrong, I’m no fan, but it’s totally biased against Southerners.
The irony? These ‘retarded Southerners’ probably have more money in their couch than the dumbass that wrote that article will see in a year.
It’s not just the South though, it’s anywhere besides L.A., N.Y., or Europe. I grew up just outside Oakland, but had a lot of family in L.A. They were utterly mortified when we moved to Indiana. Considering the reaction I got, you’d think we were moving to Saudi Arabia.
We’re all ignorant rednecks with dogs, pickups (obligatory gun-rack reference), that beat our wives and sleep with our cousins. Which is just fucking hilarious to someone who actually grew up in California. Walk down Sunset and talk to 10 people randomly, and tell me just how much ‘smarter’ these people are than us.
At least New Yorkers actually have something to be proud of, and while being kinda obnoxious, don’t base their entire existence on spray on tanner and picture phones.
She should sue the hell out of TMZ. One big law suit ought to stop these liars!
“The irony? These ‘retarded Southerners’ probably have more money in their couch than the dumbass that wrote that article will see in a year.”
And we all know money means more than anything AND it buys class.
I gave up on TMZ a long time ago, mostly over their nastiness toward anyone over 40, and as we all know here, I’m well over 40.
It’s not just southerners, it’s anyone who isn’t in NY or LA. But the difference is that even the ones in fly-over land look down on southerners. I live in the south, by choice, and yes, there are a lot of rednecks and trash, but there are also many many genteel, well bred, classy people. It’s just like every other area, a mixture of all sorts. Only our winters are more pleasant.
TMZ is just outrageously dumb period, they try so hard to be witty, but if you’ve seen it on TV, and unfortunately I have, they’re all just a bunch of catty half-wits.
We are talking about TMZ here-this should be no surprise. I think it is written by a bunch of 16 year olds.
Scott F., I completely agree with you. We moved to the midwest awhile ago and I am constantly amazed by the stereotypes and snotty comments about people who live in “the red states”. I grew up on the east coast and to be perfectly honest, other than the ocean, I don’t miss it one bit.
TMZ is pure nastiness. Lowest common denominator doesn’t even begin to describe it. All they’ve got going for themselves is their willingness to go where other sites draw the line.
What’s wrong with a barn? I like them. Scott F., you grew up outside Oakland? Me too, in Livermore. On a ranch. WITH BARRRNS.
I stopped going to TMZ after getting fed up with the coverage of Jamie Lynn. I’m no big fan of hers but I do live relatively close to her in Louisiana, in an actual city…we have those here. What bothers me the most are the blatant stereotypes and judgements. They sound so idiotic. Yes, there is a world, much better one in my opinion, outside of Los Angeles.
FYI, in the south, we also have gay people (so shocking), tall buildings, suburbs, and designer boutiques. I’ve traveled the world and wouldn’t live anywhere else.
Wow. TMZ still has a fan. I think CB saves her ‘bitch’ for when it’s really needed and for those who really deserve it. We like our ‘bitch’ tempered with a little bit of objectivity over here on Celebitchy.
Thanks for droppin’ by 🙄
Don’t like it? Then don’t look at it
@ WTF?!?!
Lay off CB. This is the best gossip site on the internet, with the fairest posts and most intelligent, funny responses. We don’t want to change a thing here. If I wanted vicious slander and a bunch of people posting “FIRST!!!!!”, I’d go to Perez Hilton.
That’s a really nice area Elisha. Yeah, I was born in Santa Rosa. I did get to live relatively rustic for a while in Sonoma Valley when my father was working for Corbett.
And yes, we had a barn too – we kept the cars in it like normal people.
Why do you list TMZ as one of your favorite blogs on your homepage and offer them a link?
TMZ makes Perez Hilton look like Oscar Wilde.
@ Scott:
I lived in Santa Rosa! The North West area. That’s so funny.
@ WTF?!?:
Don’t you get it? C|B IS being bitchy. Just to TMZ, not to the celebs this time.
I saw a VH1 special on the Spears family and middle class was not accurate. Jaime Spears got his cars repoed and robbed Peter to pay Paul back
I grew up in Ohio and moved to CA years ago. As it seems, so did everyone else who lives here! No one here is a native. So it’s the pot calling the kettle black. And you do see elements of it here depending on who you know. It’s funny, Harvey is looking for a new house in a gated community because people keep showing up as his place, I guess you reap what you sow.
I also grew up in Nor Cal (outside Oakland, too) and moved to VA to go to school, and I must say…even though Southerners are different (still don’t like sweet tea), the ratio of intelligent people v. ignorant, naive jackasses is pretty much the same…Stereotypes have surfaced for a reason, but you can’t have an objective, logical conversation based on stereotypes and saying something like “Of course it does” is ignorant and rude.
Res- Go back to TMZ then. I’m the farthest thing from a Bible thumper, although I can bust out the redneck.
They aren’t living in a barn moron.
More Yankee aggression. Will it never end?
Res, all us southerners are glad you never plan to live here too!
Wow res…thanks for showing how manhattanites are so verbose and witty, thank you for giving me something to which, as a Tennessean, I should be so lucky as to which to aspire. I feel the need to sell my truck and single wide, get all the barefooted kids, and head on up your way so that you might imbue in me some culture.
NEWS flash: there are hicks and rednecks in the north, too! I grew up in Maine, and I can affirm this. I have probably been to more shotgun weddings than most of the Southerners here. So when I make fun of hillbillies, please know that it has nothing to do with their geographic location. Whether they say “Y’all” or “Yessah” a hick is a hick. Wear that flannel shirt with pride.
Woot woot!
Mainer rednecks can be scary!!
Comment from “res” deleted due to abuse reports and multiple comments from different nicknames on same ip address, which happened to be from Atlanta, not Manhattan as that obnoxious comment claimed.
Didn’t TMZ really get noticed when they had the footage of Britney in the pink wig? Other than that I have never heard of them…
Oh I get it! In order to compete with other gossip sites they have to use rude headlines and cover someone whose mental state is beyond repairable.
You guys… they are so professional! 😉
i love converted barn styled homes they are, as you pointed out CB, extremely striking. Most are much nicer then any McMansion
I don’t like TMZ — they are cruel. Although I do like looking at that one hot blonde reporter. Even if he seems like a total airhead surfer dude.
I live in Georgia and am proud of it. I have worked close to Atlanta since I was 20 though so I’ve lost alot of my accent.
I live about 20 miles NE of Atlanta and love it. It’s so beautiful out where I live. Across from my n’hood there are horses, etc. The farther East you go the prettier it gets with green grass, big gardens, cows and yes — barns. I love it.
Give me a cathead biscuit and a big ole’ glass of sweet tea any day of the week.
I can also “bust out the redneck”!!!
OMG!!! Cathead biscuits! I haven’t heard that term for years! Thanks for the smile.
i hate TMZ with a freakin passion!!!
TMZ isn’t biased towards anyone, it’s just poorly written and so incredibly not funny. It tries to be satirical and biting but comes across so tired and forced.
And it’s not a bias against anyone that doesn’t live in NY and LA, it writes poorly about them too. It writes poorly about everyone.
@Scott, et all: I started in Berkeley and spent the rest of my younger years in Lafayette (insert eye roll here).
TMZ is like the Dina Lohan of celebrity gossip. Annoying, unfunny, and somehow got a television show.
I spend time between Nashville and Los Angeles. It’s amazing how BOTH cultures have idiots. For example, there are those in LA who think we are all uneducated hicks, and there are those in Nashville who think Californians are all radical left wing nutjobs. Oh, and everyone is gay, too.
The problem is it’s the superficial phony LA types and the redneck mouthbreathing Southern types that get all the press.
what’s wrong with a barn anyway?
Nightbird has it about right – duds and stars everywhere.
Well, trust me, there’s a LOT of money here in Atlanta. Lots. You see nothing but mercedes and bmw’s cruising around.
But, drive out to my neck of the woods and you WILL see your share of toothless rednecks.
Lots of 4-wheel drives and camouflage. 😆
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Well..being from Georgia myself I have to agree with the Atlanta comment. Although I’d never live in Atlanta ever in my life simply due to the gangs. In Warner Robins we know automatically when someone’s from the ATL. The only time thankfully that I deal with Atlanta is when I fly to Shannon, Ireland.
Barns are more expensive to build than a house most times and you have to pay tax on them too.
Bet y’all didn’t know that!
Southern stereotypes are so funny though. I think I’ve been called a Yank more times than I can count in Ireland and I always got SO insulted when my husband’s family would refer to me as that Yank girl from the states. LOL.
I hope Jamie Lynn just laughs at the hatred emitting from TMZ. They just wish they had down south southern cooking everyday. I wouldn’t trade my sweet tea and biscuits for anything! I miss them so much when I go back to Eireann.
So TMZ can kiss my fanny. (Which has a vulgar meaning in Ireland so don’t ever say it there. Fanny means bum here, but it means woman’s nether region in Ireland!)
So there’s a culture lesson from an uneducated unpolitically-correct “redneck” down-south hick cow-wrestling horse-riding mud-bogging gun-toting truck-driving rebel-yelling southern gal. 😉