Not only did this morning's Page Six misidentify Observer party boy Spencer Morgan's girlfriend – she's Alexis Bryan (daughter of Anna Wintour beau Shelby), not Alexis Stewart (daughter of Martha) – but it also repeated a June item, which also happened to spot Maxim deputy editor Chris Wilson and Spencer belting out karaoke at Sing Sing.

Aug 21, 2007 · posted by andrew · Link · Respond

Tina Fey

Do you care who Maxim editors don't want to sleep with? No? Well, they think you do. Which is why they slapped this wonderful list of un-fuckable women on television. Sure, one's a cartoon, another is a teenager, and another is an Amy Sedaris caricature … but that doesn't save anyone from the titles.

Nancy Grace is at number 1, with the rest of the countdown starting at 10. (We don't really understand why they would rather do it with Christiane Amanpour over Tina Fey, but we'll guess it's the accent.)

10. Christiane Amanpour, CNN
9. Pam Grier, The L Word
8. Ugly Betty, Ugly Betty
7. Peggy Hill, King of the Hill
6. Fran Drescher, Living with Fran
5. Jerri Blank, Strangers With Candy
4. Tina Yothers, Celebrity Fit Club 4
3. Tina Fey, 30 Rock
2. Calamity Jane, Deadwood

In other news, most women admit to not wanting to sleep with Jimmy Jellinek or Chris Wilson.

TV's Least Appealing Ladies [Maxim]

Sep 26, 2006 · posted by · Link · 1 Response

Maxim

This just in (we're posting now and asking questions later):

We hear Maxim is continuing to bleed staffers — though this time they're cutting themselves. After last month's axing of four editors (and hiring a butt-load of Stuff editors to replace them), two editors have signed off of Maxim duty.

Eric Gillin, a senior editor at the mag, along with managing editor Laura Silverman, have handed in their resignation from all-mixed-up Maxim. An insider tells Jossip that Gillin, formally of Blacktable, has been lured to "head up Esquire.com," (uh, we think that's probably also a breaking bit of news) while Laura had been in India launching the very controversial Maxim India, and won't return to the pub in New York.

Honestly, we are already tired of resting on the "nobody can work with Chris Wilson" joke (even though it's probably true) so we're just going to turn our attention to Jimmy Jellinek, and the soon-to-be empty frat house he's running over at Dennis.

Sep 11, 2006 · posted by · Link · 4 Responses

Usher does his best to erase the memory of Joey Fatone on Broadway. [Hello!]

Scott Storch goes from being prominent hip-hop producer to having a feud with Christina Aguilera. That must do wonders for his street cred. [Gatecrasher]

• Gasp! Kelly Clarkson dances on a bar. Page Six does not approve. (Mainly because she didn't show any tit.) [Page Six]

Justin Timberlake spews hate on the less-attractive and less-successful Taylor Hicks. JT probably just has a crush. [MSNBC]

• Just in case you've forgotten: Cher is the scariest 60 year old ever. [TMZ]

Eve is creating some space between herself and her sonnuva African dictator boyfriend. [R&M]

Aug 16, 2006 · posted by · Link · Respond

• We met Noelle Hancock. And she definitely doesn't look like a butt.

• We did not blow up this week. Thanks, England.

• We went to this party, this party, and this party. And pictured everyone in their underwear.

Chris Wilson finally goes somewhere where we won't have to pay attention to him. Well, just this once, since he got a bunch of people fired. (We hear they've been drinking since 2.)

• That Joanne Coles has some mad tactics. Jumping in Cathie Black's limo? Bad ass.

• And all this time, we thought Keith Olbermann couldn't get anymore disappointing.

Aug 11, 2006 · posted by · Link · Respond

Maxim

What's a Friday without some mass firings? Today brings rumors of major hackings over at Maxim into our inbox.

This just in — totally unconfirmed, but from a connected source: associate editor John Devore, along with associate editor Steve Mazzucchi, fact checker Bart Morrisroe, and nine year vet and production editor Andrij Witiuk all just got fired from Maxim.

Dude. What's going on over there? Did they need to cut the dead weight in order to support new staffer Chris Wilson's salary?

Update: Stuff staffers ("Stuff-ers" har, har) have been pulled to Maxim, joining Wilson at the ass shaking lad mag. [FBNY]

Aug 11, 2006 · posted by · Link · 3 Responses

Chris Wilson

It's no big secret that Page Six editor Chris Wilson has been preparing to leave the column for quite some time. The big question was, yes, when? … but also, where? Many a media gossip wondered if Wilson would join the boys at Radar, or if maybe he would go the gossip rag route. Well, today the announcement came from the Daily News that Wilson is leaving, and he's going to Maxim.

Wilson is abandoning the leaking ship by choice for a higher-paying gig at Maxim magazine, sources told the Daily News.

The word is Wilson will go on vacation next week then work another two weeks before he hightails it for good.

The rest of the article goes on to talk about Jared Paul Stern. Anyways, that's the deal. Wilson is going the way of T+A. We guess working at Page Six just doesn't pull the pussy as it once did.

He quits Page Six mess - Post-haste [Daily News]

Aug 10, 2006 · posted by · Link · Respond

Page Six

This just in via the telepathic dreams of Gawker: Chris Wilson is leaving Page Six. Like, officially.

We can't remember all the details but, whatever the backstory, we clearly dreamed that Wilson was leaving P6. Like, leaving now.

Though "now" could mean next week or the week after or in two years, "now" is a good time as any for his replacements, Bill Hoffmann and Sarah Polonsky to actually replace him.

Random, Subconscious Musings on the Future of Chris Wilson [Gawker]

Aug 7, 2006 · posted by · Link · Respond

Page Six

The Page Six scandal continues to chug along, and this time, the feds are getting involved. Richard Johnson, Chris Wilson, and Paula Froelich (which the Daily News spells "Frohelich") will face questions relating to their former fellow gossip Jared Paul Stern.

Post spokesman Howard Rubenstein confirmed that the Page Six staffers would cooperate with the investigation, while one of Johnson's 10 lawyers, Ed Hayes, thinks it's a bit unnecessary — considering JPS hasn't actually been charged with a crime.

Johnson can't be repped by Hayes, though, because Hayes once repped Stern, and while he says it is Murray Richman who will get Johnson's back, Richman denies having any involvement. So, basically, we don't know who amongst the Sixers has a lawyer or who they are.

What we do know is that the word "kerfuffle" is slowly being reintroduced to the vernacular of media gossips.

Next Post scoop: Grilled gossips [William Sherman, Daily News]
We Hear . . . Stern Questions [Geoffry Gray, New York]

Jun 26, 2006 · posted by · Link · Respond

Perez Hiton

The best way for a gossip to ruin his career? Dance all over a town like LA, during an event like the MTV movie awards, singing about who gave you information on Richard Johnson's DUI.

If the following piece of information is true, we would like to see Perez Hilton win the biggest sell-out award.

On the media shuttle bus over to Saturday night’s MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles, another journalist (and ANIMAL’s source for the story) congratulated Perez on being the first to report Page Six editor Richard Johnson’s DUI arrest. Perez accepted the compliment, then boastfully told our mole that Chris Wilson, Page Six's hangover-happy foot soldier, was who he received the tip from just a few hours after Johnson was released from the drunk tank.

Notice how Animal refers to their source as "a mole" and not by name. Smart move. After expressing our shock that Chris Wilson tattled on the boss man, we then moved into the second stage of gossip tragedy. Why spill to Perez?

Not that we're jealous of the scoop, it just makes us wonder if Chris himself had something to hide? In which case, we're totally sure it's completely safe.

Perez Hilton Rats Out Chris Wilson [Animal via Gawker]

Jun 5, 2006 · posted by · Link · Respond

Page Six

Is working for Page Six losing its appeal? In today's Off the Record column in the Observer (which we knew was coming but had to do a little searching for it) we learn that a sleu of bloggers, freelancers, and even Observer staffers themselves have turned down an offer to work at the Page.

According to sources familiar with all or part of the search, people the Post has approached include Jacob Bernstein and Elisa Lipsky-Karasz of WWD, W’s Marshall Heyman, Gawker co-editor Jessica Coen, Us Weekly blogger Noelle Hancock, Christopher Tennant of Radar and 24-year-old freelance writer Derek Blasberg, who was among the young men profiled in an April 23 New York Times Sunday Styles story about New York’s new tribe of “Boldface Men.” Mr. Johnson has also contacted at least three New York Observer staffers.

The article suggests this collaborative "no" may be the result of the Ron Burkle/ Jared Paul Stern "shake-down" or because of the fact that this new full-time staffer will have to take on the partying of both Fernando Gil and Jared Paul Stern combined (a nearly impossible feat).

Whatever, we don't really care why people don't want to work there, we're just wondering if this means the Chris Wilson/Jessica Coen spat has come to an end? Oh, and what exactly is Derek Blasberg writing?

Times’ Siegal Imprinted Invisibly on Newspaper [Tom Scocca and Gabriel Sherman, New York Observer (2nd Item)

May 24, 2006 · posted by · Link · Respond

Fernando Gil

If any of you have been paying attention, you know by now that Jossip has unofficially adopted ex Page Six freelancer Fernando Gil. Mostly because he is a displaced foreigner, doesn't know "who the fuck Jessica Joffe is" and spends time explaining blogs to his friends.

So when he agreed to sit down with us for a Q+A, we just had to get the goods on what it's like being a gossip who hesitates to call himself a gossip.

He does not hesistate, however, to bash President Bush or the New York Times. An artist and non-scenester party hopper at heart, Gil went from NYU to Page Six and barely noticed the difference. After the jump, he reveals his affection for Midget Kiss Bands, Chris Wilson, and hypothetical gossip relating to Bush Twins and coke.

(**Please note that the opinions in this interview solely reflect those of Fernando Gil are are by no means supported or unsupported by his foster parents.)

CONTINUED »

May 8, 2006 · posted by · Link · Respond

Jared Paul Stern

Well, if the freelancers at the Post have been let go, at least one now notorious gossip is unawares. Though today's Daily News story claims that Page Six contribs Fernando Gil, Lisa Marsh, Christopher Tennant and Jared Paul Stern are being "sacked," staffers may not have actually received their memos yet.

"I haven't heard anything from the Post," Stern told us.

Even though Chris Wilson put a price on our head, we're still nosing around looking for more details. Have you got some? Are you a (just announced) former Sixer? Tattle our way, baby: tattle@jossip.com.

Update: Fernando Gil tells us of his formal "firing" via the always classy out-of-office reply.

As you may have read in the Daily News, the Post has decided to hire a full time person from outside the column to be the 4th full timer along with Chris, Paula and Richard, which leaves myself and several other part-timers out of the picture. I'll still be working on the Page Six magazine, due out in September, and other parts of the paper (hey - I hear "Tempo" digs itself some Latin American writers). If you do have anything that is Page Six worthy, and would like me to pass it along to one of my peoples at Page Six, by all means send it along. Now that my Fridays are free, I'm happy to report I can take up that 53-year-old rich nerd on his long standing lunch offer (Mahmoun's falafel in ten, guy?) In any event, I look forward to seeing you all soon.

Update 2: Chris Tennant writes in to tell us he formally quit the Post two weeks ago, and the Newsies will be apologizing.

I stopped freelancing at The Post two weeks ago on my own volition to focus on other projects full-time. I've spoken to The Daily News and they've agreed to run a correction.

Earlier: Four Freelancers Axed from Page Six

Apr 21, 2006 · posted by · Link · Respond

You know that old scenario where one guy ruins it for everyone? Well, this just in, courtesy (like you had to guess) of the Daily News: Jared Paul Stern ruined it for everyone.

Along with JPS, all of Page Six's freelancers have been let go. The News is calling it a "housecleaning" and despite lack of comment from the competition, it's needless to say this all goes back to the "scandal."

Hints of a cleanup came last week when Post Editor in Chief Col Allan said in a published report: "We are going to tighten ship."

Freelance reporters Fernando Gil, Lisa Marsh, Christopher Tennant and Jared Paul Stern are the byline staffers who are being sacked.

While these four contribs shared the "fourth chair" spot over at P6, behind Richard Johnson, Paula Froelich, and Chris Wilson, they also worked with Page Six The Magazine … which is still moving forth full speed ahead without its editor.

The fate of the crew is yet to be determined, but as for for Stern, we're sure he can fall back on his fab clothing line, commission from Zink magazine, and contributors check from Nick Denton. Not to mention any other extraneous cash that may have exchanged hands.

Post cans four gossip scribes [William Sherman, New York Daily News]

Apr 21, 2006 · posted by · Link · Respond

Have we misidentified the Jaguar junket crapper? As new details come streaming in, we received notice that it was not Page Sixer Chris Wilson, but former Complex magazine freelancer Guy Cimbalo responsible for the incident that went down last June. We hear the Jaguar team fired off a stern letter to the magazine after the fracas. Cimbalo is now, of course, the web editor of ShockU.com, Hachette-owned Shock magazine's laddy site.

Update: The latest we hear is Jaguar's letter notified Complex the car company contacted police over the "soiled the sheets, then burned them" incident and that they wanted to be imbursed for the damages they had to pay the hotel. Meanwhile, they also suggested Guy needed serious mental help. In the end, Complex did not have to reimburse Jaguar for damages – it turns out the destruction was actually pretty minimal (chimney clogging?), not falling in that $6k to $22k window – and, Guy never did receive mental help. Or criminal charges, for that matter.

Update 2: Putting this story entirely in the crapper, so to speak, we're told there was actually no report of anyone shitting the sheets. Guy merely (and allegedly) tore up a pillow for reasons nobody is quite sure. And now we've completely lost interest.

(Until we get confirmation one way or the other, let's keep in mind all of this is alleged, shall we?)

Earlier: Chris Wilson's Little Napa Accident

Apr 20, 2006 · posted by David Hauslaib, Jossip · Link · Respond
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