In other celebrity tabloid insider news, in addition to Us Weekly’s Joey Bartolomeo jumping to People, we hear In Touch just removed David Thompson, their West Coast bureau chief, who was described to us as “very strange” and one with “no people skills,” and simply wasn’t up to the task at hand.
He came aboard at the end of November from OK! (and, before that, The Globe), replacing Martin Gould (now at Star). Gould’s deputy at the time was Ashley Dillahunty, who remained the No. 2 on the West Coast as news director when Thompson took over.
Now, it’s her turn to shine: Dillahunti has been elevated to the bureau chief spot, while former Us Weekly staffer and 944 Vegas editor-in-chief Abby Tegnelia, who’s credited with breaking stories like Angelina Jolie giving birth to Shiloh in Namibia, and someone who’s been described to us as “talented” and “unassuming,” returns to In Touch to grab Dillahunty’s old post.
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Has an alien snatched Thommos body. I am pretty sure he was not strange and had good people skills.
I’m pretty sure that Angelina giving birth to her daughter Shiloh in Namibia is not a story that was exclusive by any means or stretch of the imagination, but nice try
I’m pretty sure that Angelina giving birth to her daughter Shiloh in Namibia is not a story that was exclusive by any means or stretch of the immagination, but nice try
Mr. Thompson is one of the brightest journalists I have ever met — tabloid and non tabloid — and has more people skills in his pinky finger than most have in their entire being. He is charming, funny and talented in the way any employer would be grateful for. Sometimes jobs do not work out, but that is no reason to print a load of tripe about him. If he is strange, as his critic says in your silly piece, then his colleagues are from Mars. If you are going to disparage people’s reputations on line and have it stay there, don’t you think you at least have an obligation to ask more people about your victim’s skills and behavior? What bad reporting!