Just after we went to press with our item about Star and the National Enquirer teaming up to deliver a monster "How Anna Nicole Smith died" story, a well-placed insider informed us that this was certainly not Bonnie Fuller's doing.

In fact, the tabs' editorial director isn't even in the office — she's in Utah, we're told, where she has a home. (Update: An AMI insider chimes in to say Bonnie is in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, not Utah.)

So how'd all this teamwork come about? It was a team up between a pair of AMI veterans: new Star chieftess Candace Trunzo and her former boss, NE editor David Perel. If Fuller had been around, it's likely this group effort never would've happened, or at least never would have been publicized so widely.

"Bonnie has been shoved to the background," says our insider. "Candace has officially taken over."

Meanwhile, we're hearing that Bonnie has added Hearst to her roster of jumping possibilities. While it's been rumored that she wanted to launch a TMZ competitor, or even join TMZ, an insider tattles that she and Hearst scheduled a meeting (that might have already taken place) to discuss her coming on board. Hearst is said to be "very interested" in Fuller. So much so that they'll offer her, oh, we don't know, Marie Claire?