On Saturday, at around 8:30pm, Star magazine sent an email blast to blogs and entertainment media types announcing its major exclusive: Earlier that day, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, despite assurances they wouldn't marry until the gays could too, tied the knot in New Orleans. Then industry denier Us Weekly took action, calling the other outlets liars and furiously searching old interviews of the two to print quotes of them talking about marriage. Even People got in on the rebuttals.
And now, when you visit Star's original item, it's been updated to say, "After further investigation, the sources are not standing by their story. Brad and Angelina's reps have not commented." Over at OK!, they're smartly breaking down how the rumor got started, smartly distracting you from any of their own reporting errors.
But the real irony in all of this? That Star magazine got caught up in the "Brangelina are getting married!" game that's been the bread and butter of Bauer's In Touch and Life & Style for months. Neither of those tabloids, however, bothered to confirm or refute the story on their own sites.
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I wonder why they are in no rush to get married…
They are more committed than most married people. I hope they don't get married and I do wonder why the tabloids so want them to get that piece of paper, is it so they could start a divorce countdown? The two staying together this long has already defied the naysayers who gave them a couple of months, meanwhile the so called married solid couples are breaking up everyday while the media is fixated on this two and waiting with bated breath for their breakup, oh the irony of it all.
I lived with my partner for almost 10 years when he decided he really wanted us to get married. I finally agreed and 2yrs later we were divorced! If they are so happy as they are -forget that paper!!