Thanks to TMZ for pointing out that the latest issue of Us Weekly features two pages full of In Touch’s phony Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston cover stories over the past four years with such gems as “Brad Walks Away,” “Brad Moves Out,” “Pregnancy Joy,” and “The Wedding of The Century.” The title of the piece reads “Brad, Angie & Jen: The Fake News Game. Bogus breakups! Phony Pregnancies! Sham Reunions! In Touch gets the award for most inventive coverage.” I’m not sure if there’s an accompanying article as TMZ just shows the photos of the covers, and they’re damning enough. We pretty much know by now that none of that is true. Brad and Angelina sure sell gossip rags, though, so In Touch probably doesn’t care much that they’re pulling stories out of thin air, fake sources, and outrageous speculation.
Somebody at In Touch must have pissed off US Weekly. In Touch’s comment to TMZ about US Weekly calling them out on their fake stories makes it sound as if they’re slightly amused instead of annoyed:
There’s a new celebrity war raging in Hollywood — except this one doesn’t involve famous people, just the magazines who report on them.
Us Weekly has launched a full-scale attack on their sworn enemy InTouch Weekly — using a two page spread in their new issue to rip their glossy rivals for printing “bogus” and “phony” stories about Brangelina for the last 4 years.
Us printed 21 InTouch covers dating back to 2005 — and then shredded the “fake” stories one by one, killing the mag for running headlines that screamed “Brad Gives Up,” “Brad Moves Out” and “The Fight That Split Brad and Angelina.”
InTouch fired back with a nice snarky statement of their own: “We’re extremely flattered that our competition pays so much attention to InTouch that they were willing to devote a 2-page spread to us.”
We get the tabloids scanned for us by Sammie in Florida and unfortunately In Touch and Life & Style weren’t on the stands in her town for some reason last week. Did any of you read In Touch last week and did you notice anything that US Weekly might have taken offense to? They may have jacked one of their stories, added some new fake details, and presented it as new. That kind of thing happens all the time.
I like InTouch, though, they do have unique content and they often get celebrity interviews that are exclusives. You can trust that when they run an interview they honestly sat down with the person, unlike some of the British rags which piece together old interviews and present them as new. Even Hello! does this. The cover stories are pretty much crap, but they aren’t patently offensive like some of the awful articles in Star and you can easily tell what they’re pulling out of their asses. They’re also a little more interesting than US in that they do get snarky and aren’t above printing gossip. It’s one of the tabloids we have scanned every week because they have more juicy content. US Weekly has more integrity, sure, but sometimes it’s not as much fun to read.
On the other hand, you kind of hope that InTouch and some of the other rags stop making up stories out of whole cloth, as amusing as their fanfic can be. Some people don’t know how to tell truth from fiction, including us at times, and take these cover stories at face value without digging deeper. Maybe USWeekly can nudge InTouch in a slightly more truthful direction.
LOL LOL LOL!! This is hilarious! In Touch need to get with the program, it’s all about Jon + Kate now!
Hilarious!
I hope this spread will encourage other tabs to keep these silly stories to a minimum.
I love gossip as much as anyone on here, but that pic of all those phony covers really shows how ridiculous they are.
Us Weekly is calling out In Touch for fabricating stories? That is like the pot calling the kettle black.
They could do this with all the tabs with similar results. I saw a show on paparazzi on the E channel (yes, I admit I watch the E channel) and one scene was a war room type setting at one of these rags where they’re brainstorming about how AJ could have post-partum depression because other new mothers experience it, and that’s the story. It was kind of funny, yet depressing at the same time when you think about all the people who actually believe this stuff.
haha usweekly is just as bad as intouch or any of the other tabs apart from people magazine in making up fake and silly stories ; this like the case of the pot calling the kettle black lmao
It’s about damn time someone calls InTouch out on their fabricated stories (even if it is US).
Now, can someone PLEASE call STAR to book?
Reminds me of Womans Day. All their stuff is so fake you can see the strings…
Pot meet kettle.
US used to be as bad as In Touch when it came to fabricating bullshit Brangelina items. During the past year or so I noticed they’ve been a lot more circumspect.
“You can trust that when they run an interview they honestly sat down with the person”
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Um, ‘scuse me??
In Touch has run more interviews than I can count citing unnamed “friends” and “sources”, which usually means that the entire interview is fabricated claptrap.
How many “baby bump” stories have they run on Jennifer Aniston in the past year? It seems like every other month she was pregant, according to In Touch. What happened to all those bumps?
Regardless of who’s actually had more phony brangelinaston covers, this is HILARIOUS.
Stop buying the mags. You’d be surprised what a decrease in readership will do to “journalism” (and I use that term with the sarcasm).
I just wish they would move on. I hate all three people in the triangle. They have received so much attention for a stupid 5 year old divorce. Meanwhile, decent actors get ignored because they are unwilling to exploit their love life for the media.
maybe they weren’t all fake, maybe when jolie and pitt realized the tabs were honing in on their plans, they abruptly changed course to prove them wrong… hmmmmm *scratches chin thoughtfully*
Exclusive celebrity interviews? Who considers interviews with Octomom and Heidi and Spencer exclusive? If they quote celebrities it’s usually just from a junket or press release.
Thinking like a publisher…
This is a way to get all the Brangeloonies to stop buying In Touch. I imagine with the explosion of celebrity gossip magazines in the last few years–they were the only ones gaining ad $$, last I heard–it must be difficult to create product differentiation. So attack the competitor. Like an ad for a household cleaner, you know? “Other window cleaners leave streaks…”
(Ugh, I sound like a professor at some marketing college haha.)
Brad and Angelina fans do not buy tabloids other than People. Well most of them don’t. Why would they buy stories that are all about fights and that are completely negative? Duh.
Us has done this to InTouch twice before; it must be something to do with Janice Min.
really, ryo? have you taken a scientific poll about what mags Brangeloonies read and don’t read?
puh-leeeez.
“Why would they buy stories that are all about fights and that are completely negative?”
let me draw a parallel for you. there’s a scene in “Private Parts” where the radio people are discussing how long Howard Stern fans listen to his show vs. how long his haters listen to his show.
the haters listened, on average, for 2 hours LONGER than his fans did. In both cases, the main reason for listening was “I want to hear what he’s going to say next”…
wouldn’t be such a stretch to say that even Brad and Angie fans will read WHATEVER story they can find on the two, positive or negative.
I used to by those magazines but not anymore, why spend so much money? I prefer to read celebrity gossips right here.
I DON’T THINK BRADNGELINA’S FAN STUPPID TO BUY THOSE CHEAP MAGAZINES.MAYBE JENIFER ANISTON’S DOES.STOP READ THOSE FAKE NEWS THEN YOU DON’T HAVE HEADACHE
How can you guys like InTouch? All they do is lie! Even before I ever scoured the Internet for gossip, before I was even a gossip junkie, I knew they were lying. So who gives a damn about them?
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While the headlines are screaming, if you actually read the stories, there’s less of an actual “story” there. Just fluff gossip. For example, I read the latest “Jen and Brad together again”-and the story never claims they’re actually together. It just suggests the rumor that they’ve been talking more lately. Far less dramatic than the headline. I don’t necessarily believe all this stuff, but most of the stories only indicate that brangelina is fighting. And honestly, what couple doesn’t fight?
Regardless of whether there is ANY truth to these stories–that goes for ALL of them, including us weekly–hollywood is a sad game, and sooner or later, this couple will split. Maybe not because of Jennifer, but because they’re both pretentious snobs who get off on pretending to be really concerned about the affairs of the world. Seriously, buying billion dollar homes and flying jets all over the globe? They’re no different from the rest of the pigs in hollywood. How a decent human being can accumulate all that wealth, yet have the gall to preach is beyond me. They’re egotistical, self-centered, and self-serving. And relationships don’t last in that environment.
P.S.–I love how Us Weekly conveniently printed the headlines about the couple’s fights. (Cuz if you read the stories in full, they only indicate that the couple is fighting.) Because no couple fights, right? Especially a couple who got together under the pretense of adultery and lies. And also, conveniently, the covers about the twins and everything that ended up being TRUE about this couple was left out. There are huge gaps between when these covers were run. Face it: sometimes they get sh!t right.