You know what you get when you're a celebrity and you sign an exclusive deal with a tabloid? Bad karma from the rest of the magazines.
Jamie Lynn Spears, who signed a $1 million exclusive deal with OK! for her pregnancy story and pics, is getting stabbed by Star with a dramatic cover story exclaiming, "Delivery Room Drama!" Since Spears is prohibited from playing ball with the other celeb weeklies, there's only one thing Star can do: deliver one piece of bad news after another. If only Spears hadn't signed with OK!, she could've scored some protection. CONTINUED »
With Britney by their side, Jamie Lynn Spears and fiancé Casey Aldridge welcomed a baby girl Maddie Briann this morning. This is bad news for brother Bryan, who was enjoying his first 3 minutes of fame. [People]
Actually, that bit of advice didn't even work for Edwin W. Merino, 30, the Los Angeles photographer who's been hanging around pregnant 17-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears a bit too much for her liking. Which is why Spears and fiance Casey Aldridge complained about his stalker-y ways around their home in Liberty, Miss., for which he was arrested. This is not Merino's first claim to fame, however. Working in the paparazzi biz for the past five years, he's also one of the photogs who snapped Britney without wearing any underwear. Which, these days, is about as notorious as having a Facebook account.
Um, so Mike Huckabee and Barack Obama won Iowa last night. But more importantly, Britney Spears had a real meltdown, not just a Life & Style speculated one. CONTINUED »
• Eddie Murphy might get married this weekend.
• Barron Hilton might smoke pot, which is so shocking for a teenager growing up wealthy in Manhattan.
• Johnny Depp may have a bad case of equinophobia. That's a fear of horses, stupid.
• Nicolette Sheridan is maybe the hottest 75-year-old ever.
• Casey Aldridge may not be responsible for Jamie Lynn Spears's baby.
• Lindsay Lohan and Ashlee Simpson may have nipples. JK! They totally have nipples.
• Britney Spears didn't know her sister had followed in her early pregnancy until last night. You know the Spears' motto: Family first.
• Stars aren't so much like us, in the sense that we don't pee on stage and Fergie does.
• 67 percent of Us Weekly readers think Lynne Spears is a bad mom. The rest of them are either not judgmental or idiots. Since judging people is the whole point of celebrity culture, we're going with idiots.
• Breaking: The male stars of Gossip Girl have hit puberty and have body hair.
• Before Jamie Lynn Spears admitted she was pregnant, she lied about not being pregnant a lot.
• Victoria Beckham sends dirty pictures of herself to David's cellphone. Can't wait for that "accidental" leaked.
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STATURORY-RAPED UP? Fuzzy math is the least of Jamie Lynn Spears’s problems right now, but it seems like BF and soon to be baby-daddy Casey Aldridge might have been too old in some states to be impregnating a 16 year-old, even though it was consensual. We’re all for free love, but we might have to agree with Louisiana on this one. [Mollygood]
We weren't there, so we can't be sure, but we bet after OK! broke the Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy story, an editor said, "'Let's keep the birth of this innocent child, which will be a physical representation of Jamie Lynn and Casey Aldridge's love, as well as a person in its own right, classy. Let's send out announcement to our advertisers."
And that's exactly what they did. Tom Morrisy, the publisher of OK! emailed a blitz to advertisers about their scoop on the new national train wreck.
Full pitch after the jump.
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